It's been a strife-filled search for the Evil Eye, a powerful weapon of the mythical city of Avalon which both the Defenders and the Avengers* have engaged in battle over. The Defenders wish to recover and reassemble the Eye's six segments in order to use the completed device to restore the Black Knight to his human form--while the Avengers have been led to believe by Loki that their foes want to use it in their bid for universal conquest. Yet both teams are unaware that the Defenders have been manipulated into recovering the pieces of the Eye by Dr. Strange's other-dimensional enemy, the Dread Dormammu, who will use the reassembled weapon to absorb our dimension into his own.
*It's about time the Defenders received first billing over their opponents, don't you think? After all, they currently lead the Avengers a whopping 5-0 in recovered Evil Eye pieces. Hopefully none of you bet the farm on the Avengers--Dormammu doesn't accept I.O.U.s, you know!
Only one piece of the Eye remains to be found--and the only team members we haven't seen mix it up thus far happen to also be those teams' heaviest hitters. That's a subtle way of saying that if you live in Los Angeles, you may want to seek shelter.
In fact, just to be on the safe side, EVACUATE.
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