TimeBreakers

• Writer - Tony Bedard
• Artist - Mizuki Sakakibara
• Colorist - JC
• Lettering - Dave Sharpe
• Cover Art - James Calafiore
• Ass't Editor - Sean Ryan
• Associated Editor - Nick Lowe
• Editor - Mike Marts
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Summary

  Hyperion is glad for a real fight, and he matches one of the good Hyperion, eye-blast to eye-blast, while the other rams him through the crystal wall. Good Hyperion tells Beak to find a place to hide; Clarice note they saw him frozen in the wall, and he says one of the bugs woke him, expecting him to defeat Hyperion, which is the whole reason they made him an Exile (iss. 46). Calvin, still hurting, says it was a good solution, and the bugs saw something in Beak they didn't. Beak just hopes they take the battle outside, as they're smashing the crystal walls.

  Beak asks where the others are, and Clarice points out the desert room, and the ocean room, where Namora is, but she may not have survived (last iss.). Beak sees her in the water and asks Clarice to blink her out, since he can't swim; just then the Hyperions smash up through the floor and into the wall, tilting the Panoptichron, and the ocean floods in. Beak, underwater, swims toward Namora but sees her face is half-burnt away; she's dead.

  Clarice blinks them out, and crystal shards are flying all around. The bugs complain that Beak made things worse; Clarice asks why they didn't know it, since they can see the future, but they explain they only see probabilities, and if they knew this was the outcome, they wouldn't have chosen Beak. Beak and Clarice agree they need to learn a little gratitude.

  Hyperion knocks off the eyeshades of one of the good Hyperions and sees he doesn't have flash vision; Calvin grabs his leg, distracting him long enough for the good Hyperions to slam him through the wall. Clarice wonders what happens if they breach the hull; the bugs explain they're outside space and time, but they can still die here, and the monitors say implosion is imminent. They can send the Hyperions to another reality, but only from the Excursion Platform. Clarice doesn't want to unleash them on another earth, but she has a better idea.

  In the desert room, Creed tries to revive Kevin but isn't sure he's alive. He sees Clarice blink in with all three Hyperions and rushes him to cover. Hyperion confronts Clarice, vibrating so she can't blink him again. She tosses a shard into a sand dune, blinking a half ton of sand into Hyperion's body. The good Hyperions attack quickly, before he recovers.

  Calvin watches from the monitors and realizes they're going to kill him. He has the bugs activate the Timebroker simulacrum, so he can talk to Clarice; he says they don't have to kill him to stop him. Clarice explains to Creed that Calvin swore never to kill again (iss. 37), and the good Hyperions agree they'd like a non-lethal alternative.

  They put Hyperion back on his home world, where the inhabitants refused to surrender to him (iss. 45) and left it a nuclear winter. When he realizes where he is, he screams in rage.

  Clarice has the bugs turn the sound down on the monitor; Creed hopes he never escapes, since he knows where they are; Calvin is more concerned about whether he'll be able to walk again. The good Hyperions are reluctant to leave the Panoptichron in the Exiles' hands; Clarice says they've saved dozens of worlds, but that doesn't convince them. They do trust Beak, however, and when he promises to make sure the Panoptichron isn't misused, they are comforted that "at least one true hero" is there, and they let the bugs teleport them away.

  Clarice thinks Beak plans to stick around, but he just said that to get rid of them; he wants to get home to his girlfriend and her big, beautiful butt. Creed laughs, saying he's the only one there with his head straight.