We are
nearing the end of the story and it’s fitting that one of the final origin
stories is that of Machine Man/Aaron Stack/X-51 himself. After learning about X-51’s origin, we join
him on Earth where Reed has apparently informed Ben Grimm of the very grim future
ahead of them all. To save his family
from the impending Doom, Ben has decided
to send them into space, to the moon to be exact, using the technology that
brought X-51 to Earth. 
Cap
continues his recruitment drive by going to Wakanda to try and get Black
Panther on his side. T’Challa, being the
douche that he is, not only refuses to help Cap (who did wind up recruiting
Captain Britain after all) but also refuses to give him the cosmic cube, which
Cap left to T’Challa for safekeeping. 
Back in
New York, Reed finds out that Black Bolt released the mists that mutated the
human race, that this predicament was not his fault after all. Reed then asks Black Bolt to do something for
him, but we don’t hear what it is, then Medusa confronts Black Bolt and sees
something when she takes off his mask, but we are not privy to that
either. What are these stunning
revelations? We only have a few issues
left to find out. In another part of New
York, we find out that The Wizard, one of the Skull’s minions has gone crazy,
literally crazy, and therefore the skull is unable to control him anymore. With that info in mind, he has the Wizard
killed. We also get to learn the true
extent of the Skull’s power. He doesn’t
control his victims as much as he has command of them. Their minds are their own, as evidenced by
the fact that Iron Maiden gets all sassy, but they will literally do anything
and everything that he asks. 
We then
get the full-court press from Cap as everyone in the army he has amassed so far
attacks at once. None of the Skull’s army
fights back though as he is mad at Iron Maiden for saying that she would rather
be insane than under his control, a true indication that he is still just a
petulant child, one with immense power, but nothing more. Eventually, conveniently just as Hulk enters
the fray, he decides to take command of his army again. He makes short work of everyone and finally,
Cap is bowing in front of him. 
We then
get the big reveal that Black Bolt is the one who blinded Uatu, preventing him
from seeing the release of the mists on earth, all part of a giant plan to
thwart the Celestials’ plan for Earth.
The short explanation goes like this:
The Kree hate the Celestials, for whatever reason, and they also know of
the alliance that the Celestials have with the Watchers. The Kree are who provided the Terrigen Mists
that are the reason Inhumans exist at all.
Black Bolt, feeling a sense of duty to his people, blinded Uatu in order
to help stop the Celestials, and he is one of the only beings with the power to
do so. We learn this as we see him
flying to space to confront the Celestials.
In the
appendix to this issue, Reed and Uatu argue about Black Bolt’s true
motivations, and Uatu has turned into a little bitch lately, that’s for
sure. Reed believes that Black Bolt knew
about the Celestial within the planet and has set a plan in motion to not only
destroy that Celestial, thereby saving the planet, but all Celestials. We’ll see how well that goes.
Next Issue: It’s a showdown between Black Bolt and the
Celestials, and what about Cap versus the Skull, is there any way for Cap to
win?
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