Ultimates#8(2025)

On January 1, 2025, Doom (via a floating drone) take Captain America, America, Wasp, Giant-Man, She-Hulk, and the Human Torch to a cornfield for a temporal event that will occur in this location after it was detected by the Triskelion's tachyon-detection array. The temporal event appears before the Ultimates in the form of a vessel, a time-machine crewed by the Guardians of the Galaxy of the 61st century. The Guardians are Star-Lord, Ultimate Nullifier, the sentient canine Cosmo Starstalker, and their leader Captain Marvel. They came to this exact spot and time for America, who is one of their missing members. Captain Marvel in particular wants America to be saved from a "broken past". But America is confused and does not know them much to Marvel's surprise. Marvel tries to make America remember her time with the Guardians until Rogers intervenes and tells Marvel that she is being a little "aggressive". Marvel is left annoyed with Rogers and she responds by blasting him away with her Omni-Bands. The Ultimates does not take too well to Marvel's aggression and a battle ensues between them and the Guardians, as Doom exasperatedly watches their "pointless fight". But the Ultimates quickly realize they are utterly outmatched by the Guardians and their very unorthodox powers while Marvel tries to continue to make America remember who she is. When America protests the Guardians are hurting her friends, Marvel replies that the Ultimates are "sad mockeries of what should have been" before ordering Cosmo to use his telepathic powers to help America regain her memories. Cosmo does so but he is shocked to discover America's mind had been tampered with "primitive" psychic instruments by America's captors; America's memories cannot be retrieved. Cosmo's intrusion in America's mind causes her to lash out and attack Marvel. Meanwhile, Star-Lord confronts Doom and tells him not to interfere. He notices that Doom is not the Doom he and the Guardians know, but senses something familiar about him and as well being something dangerous. Star-Lord then notices the comatose Tony Stark and he then remembers that either Reed Richards or Tony will be responsible for untold suffering and deaths of trillions, and the other could have saved everything. Marvel tries another way to make America remember by sharing her memories into her mind. America is from the 61st century, a member of the Guardians, and Marvel's lover. In this future, it was a utopia of 400 million inhabited worlds protected by the Guardians which consisted of 250,000 members. The Guardians saved the universe on a monthly basis for millennia until their present began to unravel due to the temporal machinations of the Maker, also known to the Guardians as the "Unmaker". Unable to stop the Maker in the distant past, the Guardians attempted to survive the rewriting of reality by piloting a Century-Ship containing the entirety of their time period and escaping into the Superflow, the information space between universes. However, the Guardians encountered a mad, brilliant conqueror and his super-soldier army of clones. The Guardians engage the conqueror's army while their most powerful members attempt to maintain the cohesion of reality long enough. But it was all in vain. The 61st century collapsed which forced Captain Marvel to pilot the Century-Ship to return to their rewritten time period. As a result, the Century-Ship crashed, ending centillion lives and hurling a few surviving Guardians (including America) across the timestream at the speed of light. The Guardians were scattered in different time periods. Marvel landed in the prehistoric past where, despite all odds, she used Stone Age tools to construct the Guardians' ship, the Apokatastasis, out of the broken fragments of the 61st century and began the search for her fellow Guardians. The Guardians precisely came to January 1, 2025 for the missing America because the Maker had created a "hard time" from 1963 to 2024 that made it impossible for the Guardians to travel into that period. America had fallen into that period and it was until the year 2025 came that Cosmo was able to catch her scent. Marvel elaborates that once the Guardians gather all their surviving members they will then find a way to undo the Maker's work and save their rightful future. Star-Lord reassures the Ultimates that the Guardians have methods to make sure their present is not erased. America, despite learning who she is, stuns Marvel that she is not ready to rejoin the Guardians. She still does not have all her memories and does not know Marvel. Furthermore, she is committed to help the Ultimates and save their present and world from the Maker. Marvel is left incredulous and tries to make America realize that there is no chance to win against the Maker because the Guardians already know Earth's future. But America is undeterred. Now realizing that she can not convince her lover, Marvel reluctantly departs with her team to continue their search for the other missing Guardians before giving America a temporal flare that she can call the Guardians for help whenever she needs them. Ten months remaining.