The alien proves able to counter their best attacks with a time-displacement field, and then activates his machinery, causing an eerie silver light to blanket the park.

As he converses with Mary Jane and Aunt May, they suddenly transform into silver-skinned aliens, telling Peter that merging with the H'Mojen is a positive step for humanity, and warning him not to fight it.

Racing home to check on their family, the Fantastic Four (with Spider-Man in tow) discover that Franklin, Valeria and Alicia Masters are unchanged.

Johnny and Spider-Man travel to the Sanctum Sanctorum to find Doctor Strange and Wong have been merged, and the Sorcerer Supreme is now only able to perform card tricks (which to his own mind are astounding).

When the heroes regroup, Reed declares that he will use an experimental shuttle to travel to other galaxies that have been previously merged with the H'Mojen to see how they have dealt with their new lives.

Shortly after, the remaining Four are confronted with the Imperator and the assimilated Governor of New York, who send three massive Triax creatures to stop their interference.

Seeing that the aliens are striking at Mount Wundagore, she realizes that the H'Mojen must consider the High Evolutionary's work to be a threat to their invasion.

Ever eager to prove his genius, Doom quickly figures out the device and creates a larger version that will blanket the entire hemisphere with rays to prevent the merging.

Taking the original version to use as a weapon, the Four track the Imperator to the African Serengeti, where they save a group of men from being merged.

The Imperator begins planning his countermeasure when Spider-Man, who has been growing steadily sicker through the course of the story, suddenly vomits up a cloud of purple plasma that seems to bear the Impossible Man's face.

Back on Earth, as Peter and Mary Jane walk by, a cat hacks up a little piece of green glop that "pops" up into the Impossible Man.