Released April 2006

New Avengers #18

Synopsis

THE COLLECTIVE PART 3 Daisy Johnson used her abilities to cause tremors, so she could read peacefully. Agent Sharon Carter, came to get Daisy back into S.H.I.E.L.D. At the Avengers Tower in Manhattan Edwin Jarvis was giving out food to the Young Avengers, while they discussed Rick Jones. Iron Man contacted them, needing Vision's help. He threatened to have the other Young Avengers arrested if they went after Vision. Back in Cleveland, The Collective had grown to colossal sizes, and was tearing up the city. The Avengers Jet landed, Wolverine, Cage, and Captain American went to meet up with Stark. Spider Woman, took Spider-Man down to the nearest S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ. Iron man scanned the Collective's near limitless energy signature's, sending them to S.H.I.E.L.D. The Collective used Magnetic Manipulation to tear Stark's armor off. Ms. Marvel came and flew Stark to safety. She resumed her battle with Collective, but he easily defeated her after using a combination of SEVERAL powers. The Sentry arrived knocking Collective out of orbit, and the two began a battle in outer space. Captain America, Cage, and Wolverine went over to the downed Ms. Marvel. She briefly lost her recent memories, but told the group about her reactivated Binary powers, and all the powers Collective wielded. Captain America, used a secrete code to reassemble the Iron Man armor. The armor located Stark, and took Captain American to his location. The Collective managed to defeat Sentry, and flew back to earth. At the S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ, a confused Spider-Man was looking for an objective. He met with Director Hill, Stark now back in his armor contacted Spider-Man. Spider woman had already left to pick up the other Avengers, while Stark was heading into space to help the Sentry. Vision had arrived at the HQ, and then showed Spider-Man and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents the footage of Collective's activities in Alaska. S.H.I.E.L.D. tracked down Michael Pointer one of the people, Collective might be. Vision searched for him in the Avengers files, however matched his energy signature's to all the mutants depowered in M Day. While Collective prepared to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.