Destroy all Monsters

• Writer - Tony Bedard
• Penciler - James Calafiore
• Inker - Mark McKenna
• Colorist - JC
• Lettering - Dave Sharpe
• Ass't Editor - Sean Ryan
• Associated Editor - Nick Lowe
• Editor - Mike Marts
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Summary

  Barnell has a bug break Heather out of crystal stasis, and he rushes her to the infirmary they just set up. Calvin is bent and torn and afraid to revert to human flesh, but he can't stay metal forever. Kevin hasn't moved ore responded since being burnt by Hyperion, but Heather says that may be normal for his physiology. Namora's dead. Creed introduces himself; Heather notes he's wearing the Tallus, but Creed says it's just a trinket now, and Clarice is in charge. Heather needs a second opinion and asks Barnell to use the dimension-hopping equipment again.

  Strange finishes heart surgery on the Hulk when Heather and Barnell pop in; he's the top superhuman specialist they found in 1500 worlds. In the Panoptichron, he analyzes Kevin. There's mitochondrial activity, and he wants to remove the carbonized tissue to let him heal on his own. He asks Heather if she's also a metamorph; not any more. She asks if he's mystical; he says no, but he once cancelled a vacation to Tibet.

  Calvin's a trickier case. He's badly smashed up, and even with Wolverine's healing factor, he'll die quickly if he converts to flesh. They need to look for ways to boost his recuperation. Creed offers to let him mimic his healing factor too, but Kevin's been trying without his knowledge. His power must be too similar to Wolverine's. Heather has a temporary solution nobody will like: she puts him back in crystal stasis. Heather and Strange compare notes on fast healers. Strange wonders if Calvin can mimic any superpowers, or only mutants.

  The Timebreaker bugs aren't innovators, but Heather helps set up a better search engine, while Strange operates on Kevin. Heather has three candidates: the Red Skull, but he has the Cosmic Cube, which they can't get past; Mr. Sinister, but he's on too hostile a planet; and Connors, who successfully regrew his arm in one reality without becoming the Lizard. Barnell worries there may be trouble in any reality they visit, and the Timebreakers' predictive equipment is broken now, and they agree it's dangerous; Clarice tells them to keep quiet: Calvin needs them.

  The Timebreakers admit the Exiles' home realities aren't really altered, so they can all go home, but there is still much damage to fix; Creed yells at them, saying that's their problem. Heather doesn't want to leave the Panoptichron in the Timebreakers' hands, but they don't know what would happen if they destroyed it, and Strange says it's a unique scientific resource. Kevin enters, half-regenerated, and breaks up the quarrel, saying the first priority is to help Calvin and any others who are trapped alive in the crystal wall, and then there are dozens of whole realities which may die if they don't help, so they can't just go home.

  First things first, and he takes Mariko's body for burial on the Vi-Lock world with her last lover, Spider-Woman (iss. 20), who says she would have buried her on her own home world, but Kevin insisted on this. She tell him Mariko returned alone, for 39 days (iss. 34), a gift. She thanks him for loving her, and it's a comfort to have someone who shares the hurt.

  Sakata radios to the Science Squad that they're approaching the power spike, but the GPS readings keep shifting. The Squad knows sometimes a "Kaiju" can be mistaken for an island, but Krakoa atoll is definitely real. It was used by the U.S. for atomic tests in the Fifties. Their jet approaches, and when they see the island is now a green monster, they fire missiles, ineffectively. Krakoa grabs them and is about to eat the jet whole when it blinks away. The Science Squad is surprised to find the Exiles aboard their jet.