AVENGERS #351

The mighty assemblers learn the awful pain of...
"RETRIBUTION!"
Writer: Bob Harras | Guest Penciler: Kevin West | Guest Inker: Bud LaRosa
Colorist: Gina Going | Letterers: Oakley & (sic)
Editor: Ralph Macchio | Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco

The Plot: As Hercules threatens to kill Raza, the remaining Starjammers, Avengers, and Cyclops and Professor X arrive in the hangar. Ch'od attacks Hercules, bursting through an exterior wall in the process, then he and Raza escape while Hercules lays stunned. Quicksilver and Lockjaw fetch the Inhumans' royal physician from the Moon to tend to the Black Knight, while a group of Avengers, joined by Corsair and Binary, sets out to find Ch'od and Raza. Hepzibah remains behind as a willing hostage of the Avengers.

Hercules, Thor, Vision, and Sersi catch up with Ch'od and Raza in an alleyway and attack. Corsair and Binary arrive, and Binary goes to reason with Raza. Back at Avengers Mansion, the royal physician and the Starjammers medic, Sikorsky, tend to the Black Knight. Meanwhile, Raza confides in Binary that the Kree promised to give him his son, and shows her the boy's medallion. Binary claims the medallion is a Kree memory implant device, which created for Raza the memory of a son he never had. At the mansion, Black Knight is stabliized and expected to make a full recovery. But later in the night, Hepizbah sneaks into his room to finish him off. She is interrupted by Black Widow and Crystal, and then by the returning Avengers and Starjammers.

With no one quite certain what Hepzibah was up to, and with Raza's actions explained, the Avengers let the Starjammers go. Aboard their ship, Raza tells Hepzibah that he really does have a son, and that Binary lied to the Avengers for him in order that he might go free and search for the young man.

AVENGERS #350

"REPERCUSSIONS"
Writer: Bob Harras | Penciler: Steve Epting | Inker: Tom Palmer
Colorists: Tom Palmber & Sarra Mossoff | Letterer: Bill Oakley
Editor: Ralph Macchio | Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco

The Plot: On a remote planet called Seti Tatola IV, a former Kree admiral meets with Raza and Hepzibah of the Starjammers. He convinces them to travel to Earth and kill the Black Knight as revenge for the assassination of the Supreme Intelligence. On Earth, Professor X and Cyclops of the X-Men, as well as Quicksilver and Doctor Valerie Cooper from the U.S. govenment's X-Factor, visit the Avengers. Xavier warns the group that Magneto's Acolytes are back in action, and they may be targeting Luna, daughter of Quicksilver and Crystal. Meanwhile, in space, the Starjammers elude Shi'ar patrols and set course for Earth, with Hepizabah and Raza having convinced the rest that they need to check on Carol Danvers.

Absent from the X-Men meeting is Black Knight, who skipped it for a workout session. Afterward, he heads to the roof, where he bumps into Sersi and the two witness the arrival of the Starjammer. Soon, the Avengers, their guests, and the Starjammers gather in a reception room -- but Raza slips away and sneaks up on the Black Knight, repairing the Avengers' skycar in their hangar. Raza attacks and duels the Knight, until the nursemaid Marilla enters with Luna. Raza grabs Luna and holds her hostage, until the Knight lunges at him. Raza runs the Avenger through. Seconds later, the remaining Avengers respond to the sound of battle, arriving to find Black Knight seemlingly dead.