West Coast Avengers #53

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An ACTS OF VENGEANCE crossover! The West Coast team is ambushed by the Hulk's deadliest enemies - the dread U-Foes! And watch out for what happens between the Vision and Wonder Man!SummaryMagneto and a disguised Loki discuss the current events of the world as unfamiliar villains take on heroes. Loki is eager for the defeat of these heroic individuals, but Magneto is furious at this suggestion. He only wants to use this situation to reclaim his place among mutants. Loki feigns subservience, but as soon as Magneto is gone he laughs to himself that Magneto is only a useful tool in his own, much larger scheme. He looks in on the West Coast Avengers.Henry Pym and Iron Man are watching over the comatose Scarlet Witch with Wonder Man, Wasp and Vision, baffled about her condition. Wonder Man recaps the horrific recent events in Wanda’s life. Turning to the Vision, Wonder Man decides that it would help Wanda if Vision‘s original personality were restored by re-copying his brain patterns into him, since Simon’s were the original ones the Vision had been given. The Vision responds by saying he is not at all sure this would restore him to the form he had when he and Wanda were married. He would be nothing more than a copy of his former self. He refuses Simon’s offer and states that he wants to return to the East Coast team.In a flashback to the 1500s, at the Tower of London, Queen Elizabeth confronts her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. Elizabeth is about to be executed and Mary made Queen instead. Immortus appears behind Mary. Content that he has thus altered the timeline to his liking, Immortus teleports away. Next, he goes to view the subject of his next scheme: the Scarlet Witch.Meanwhile, the other West Coast Avengers plead with Vision not to leave, if only for Wanda’s sake, but he believes the balance of team members would be better if he were with the East Coast squad. A strange green-clad woman with brown hair (Vapor) suddenly materializes in the room and tries to...