They see people on the streets below but Strange tells them that they’re not real. Reed parks the ship on the Baxter Building and the team gets out to look around.
The entire island of Manhattan has been duplicated and is floating in the asteroid belt. The ship moves up and they see what he’s talking about. Strange grows weak, saying that something unnatural is going on. The group takes a stolen Skrull ship that Namor says they should have destroyed, and flies to the asteroid belt where Xavier detects The Beyonder. Namor says that they won’t have to do anything, that Beyonder will bow before Black Bolt and beg forgiveness. Xavier says he knows where Beyonder is but the others don’t know what they’ll do once they get to him. Strange asks Black Bolt, king of the Inhumans if he knows who The Beyonder is, but Black Bolt has no idea. Namor asks why Xavier is bringing this up now and Professor says that he’s recently been feeling that The Beyonder is close again so they should “handle” him before he gets to them.
On the moon outside Attilan, Professor Xavier explained to the other members of The Illuminati (save Iron Man who was away) that the Beyonder was a mutant who had Inhuman that had been exposed to the Terrigen crystals. Not only that though, he was also a mutant. Inside, he discovered that the alien was not the cosmic being it pretended to be, but really an Inhuman. He had felt something in the Beyonder’s mind though, something “almost mutant in nature.” He mentally reached out and found himself pulled inside of the Beyonder’s consciousness. He remembers that he had thought about using his psychic powers to put all the heroes and villains to sleep, but had reconsidered out of fear that Beyonder would retaliate if he interfered.
Professor Xavier recalls the events of the first Secret War and appearance of The Beyonder. What powerful connection does the Beyonder's true origin have to one of the power players of the Illuminati? Another stunner from Bendis (NEW AVENGERS, MIGHTY AVENGERS) Reed (MS. Now, finally, after decades of mystery, the TRUE origin of this powerful creature is revealed when the Illuminati try to stop the Beyonder from interfering with the Earth once more. THE MEGA SMASH MINI SERIES IS BACK!! Years ago a mysterious creature called the Beyonder gathered the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe for an epic called SECRET WARS.
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