Following the stock theory, Helda contacts her stock broker. Bob tells her that stock regulators may have the kind of information she’s looking for, but he does not. Helda fires Bob on the spot.

Helda contacts her administrative assistant, and her assistant attempts to get information from the regulator. The assistant is wholly incompetent at doing this, and in the end offers herself in exchange for the information. The regulator states he is reporting Helda for bribery.

Dr. Weird, meanwhile, returns to the group. He is easily able to find Dr. Hulme and the Swarm. He controls Dr. Hulme’s mind remotely; in the meantime, Hemp man slows down time for the group, and they fly the M7 Jet to the lab in Colorado where the two are stealing equipment.

While controlling the doctor and attacking the Swarm, they are able to easily apprehend them. They are handed over to the police.

M7 returns to the their tower. After discussing what to do next, Dr. Weird is confronted by the three blue creatures which he unleashed at the mental health center for Supers. This time, however, Sage is able to translate what they are saying. They are asking for their next commands, as when Dr. Weird released them, he had unwittingly became their master.

There former master, however, wants them back. She is Tiadora, a demon 16 feet tall with hair and a whip made of fire. She demands the servants back, which Dr. Weird has no problem with. The rest of the group decides they should not just give them back to an inherently evil creature. Once again, with the assistance of the Enforcer bot, they are able to destroy her relatively easily. Sage searches the thoughts of Tiadora, and sees a future where demons and another type of creature control the Earth and it’s people. She also discovers that Tiadora actually belongs to Earth, so her death would be final. Sam Troyer delivers the final blow.

As Dr. Weird cannot speak to the blue demons, he temporarily hands control of them over to Sage.

Art prepares to leave for the Creator’s ship… leaving Helda in charge as she is the most reliable and morally responsible.

While discussing what to do with the Samus suit, a large robot lands on the roof of M7 Tower. It identifies itself as Enforcer Unit 7, and orders Repair Unit 4 (Artificer) come along with it to the creator’s ship. All robots are being evacuated from the planet. The creator’s have had a ship near Earth for 16 years, and a decision has finally been rendered as to what to be done with the humans.

The decision is one of these four, but Enforcer-7 does not have data on which was the final:

1. Destroy all life on Earth.
2. Allow super-powered humans to live on earth in camps (policed by normal humans).
3. Move super-powered humans to another planet (policed by the creators).
4. Modify human DNA.

The creators and other robots have not contacted Art via data communication, as they fear he has a virus or some other programming malfunction.

While this is being discussed, the remainder of the Rough Riders appear on hover bikes. The fast-thinking Apollo places a wall made of light, causing two of them to crash. M7 is able to easily dispatch them.

Art agrees to leave with the enforcer, but Viera transforms into her shadow form and starts attacking the enforcer. She states that she cannot allow Art to leave. Art and the rest of the team side join in attacking the enforcer. They are able to damage the enforcer enough to temporarily shut it down. Art creates a data link and retrieves several pieces of information. He then reprograms the enforcer to accept commands from him.

Viera reveals her codename, Umbra, and that she was sent to M7 to monitor the Artificer and make sure he was not going to side with the creators. She leaves via a aircraft hidden near the tower.

M7 gets a call from the police that there’s been a strange incident in the IHOP headquarters in Kansas City. They go to the boardroom, where four board members have disappeared. Instead, they find a baby. They also find two computers (a Mac and a PC) as well as a printer that are inhabited by the minds of the other board members.

Helda searches the room and discovers that there are no fish in the aquarium. This makes her very curious. By communicating to the devices, they discover a man fired a ray upon them and revered time on their bodies. M7 contacts a former member, Hemp Man, and asks him to take them back in time to when the incident happened, an hour before.

Hemp Man takes Helda back in time, a process which liberates the entire contents of Helda’s stomach. They witness a man, with a ray gun, and a woman, whose body is composed of shadowy bats, attack the board members. Their plan is to cause IHOP’s stock price to drop, and presumably short sell the stock. Helda also sees the fish hit by the path of the ray, and their age reversal makes them disappear.

Hemp Man and Helda return to the present. Art surmises the woman calling herself “The Swarm” is probably “Der Schwarm”, a super on the side of Germany in World War II.

While returning from Alaska, M7 finds themselves followed by another jet. The jet flies into range, and by radio M7 is ordered to land. The other jet is 13 Duplicator-X duplicates, led by #51 who calls himself Xanos.

Thinking quick, Art calls Gravatar, who gives Art enough info to be able to bypass the computer security on the empty prison cell. The original Duplicator-X, although weak from hunger, is alive and inside.

M7 and the duplicates battle on the ground. Duplicator-X absorbs several of his duplicates to regain his strength. M7 is eventually able to knock out Xanos, and Duplicator-X is able to absorb him without resistance.

M7 re-boards their jet, and Sage is able to tow the other jet behind using Telekinesis.

At Duplicator-X’s request, M7 drops him off at the Carver Mental Health Institute in Minneapolis, to have his mental health evaluated and to prevent future rogue duplicates.

M7 finally returns to Kansas City. Helda finds that her business arch-rival, Alex Wright, has put slanderous commercials about her on the TV and radio. He has also stolen one of her contracts.

Art decides to invite Helda and Sage to formally join M7. Samus is uncertain that she wants to join.

The next day, Samus returns to M7 and asks to look at Dr. Crandall’s diagrams. After she inspects them for a while, Helda notices that Samus’ posture is different. She punches Samus and knocks her out. When Samus wakes up, her helmet is removed, revealing who is really in the Power Suit armor: Riot Girl. M7 questions her, but Helda then knocks her out again. Somehow, someone in the Rough Riders were able to capture Samus, or at the very least, give her location to some men who were very interested in her. Riot Girl was allowed to keep the suit as a reward, and Samus was hauled away, possibly to another planet.

After a short meeting, Art prepares to fly to the moon to hide the armor…

The group, going by just M7, gather at Worlds of Fun. There, they see Gigantor in all of his 100 feet, 30 IQ glory. Most of the heroes, including Samuel Troyer and Jake Donna, attempt to knock out Gigantor; Artificer concentrates on rescuing 10 people stuck on a roller coaster, while Viera goes to get ice cream.
During the battle, Samuel is knocked out, but is woken up by lightning strike. Jake makes a tree-based copy of Helda that is quite effective in battle. Viera, however, seems uninterested in superhero antics. Although tough, Gigantor goes down after about 30 seconds. After going unconscious, Gigantor returns to his normal size. Gigantor is allowed to go, to return to Iowa with Samuel’s father.

M7 return to the tower. After having a moment to catch their breath, Sage remembers to check the notepad on Duplicator-X’s desk. She’s easily able to find the impression of numbers written down. They are GPS coordinates to a location in Alaska. Art recalls making a request to Gravatar Industries for a transport jet many years ago. He calls Gravatar, and finds the order had a number wrong in the original request (they sent floppy disks instead). Gravatar says he’ll send the jet the next morning.

On Friday morning, Martha (technically, M.A.R.T.H.A.) finally makes her appearance. She passes out upon first seeing Art; after “rebooting” she scolds Art for leaving for so long and not telling her. Martha agrees to answer the phones and perform other duties at M7 Tower. Their conversation ends with an awkward hug.

M7 travels to Alaska and begin to search. Helda picks up the smell of bacon. They find an underground base, where Duplicator-X, or one of his clones, is cooking breakfast for thirteen. They take him into custody. They also find the missing prison cell that was stolen three months ago, with someone inside.

While this is occurring, the teenagers and Apollo decide to take the transport jet for a spin. Zamus, however, hears the jet and proceeds to stop them with extreme prejudice. M7 then heads home.

At the bottom of M7 tower, the Rough Riders prepare to attack the heroes. However, the Rough Riders end up being just holograms, and proceed to give a preview of a song from their upcoming album.

Three of the real villains, Riot Girl, Woodman and Sage, teleport to the location of the “broken” device left behind after the bank heist. However, the device is in the police chief’s office, where Sage happens to be. Sage takes out Riot Girl with a mental blast, and the other two escape (apparently through the same portals they entered in). Riot Girl is taken into custody, and her personal items including her baseball bat weapon are confiscated.

An attorney, Mr. Modicum, comes to the police station to represent Riot Girl. He wears an outdated 50’s suit and hat, and speaks very deliberately. He accuses the heroes of infringing on his client’s legal rights, such as interrogation and using using a mind-affect power on her while jailed. He also accuses them of kidnapping Steel.

The heroes return to M7 tower, and focus on getting more information on the disappearance of Duplicator-X and the death of one of his duplicates. They contact and have Officer Amber Hain flown to Kansas City to try to get more information. Sage and Dr. Weird explore her memories and find that it appears that during the theft of one of the prison cells three months ago, the duplicates appear to intentionally miss the thief. They find that, while five duplicates left to go on that mission, only four were present during the theft. Finally, they observe when the duplicate assumed to be the dead #17 was attacked, he dropped a piece of paper on bright pink paper.

Three unexpected guests then arrive at the tower.

Samuel Troyer, an Amish teenager, comes to the tower with his father and a botanist driver. Samuel’s father requests he be left with the heroes for week to help decide if he is staying with the Amish village. The botanist, Wesley Merriweather, also declares he has super-power: he can become very large and strong, but at the expense of his intelligence.

Power Girl then arrives, in a jet, with her daughter Viera. Power Girl is going on a interstellar flight and requests leaving her daughter with the heroes.

Finally, Jake Donna arrives, claiming to be the son Electron never knew he had. He has lived his live on an artificial island created by his mother, Bella Donna.

The teenagers are treated to pizza by the heroes, but then they receive the call. Wesley Merriweather apparently decided to go to Worlds of Fun, and is wreaking havoc!

Dr. Weird makes another attempt to place the bank module back in it’s building, and is successful. The bank president is mostly happy to see the bank returned, despite the front doors being completely demolished. Artificer and Helda go inside with the president, and Helda is able to smell the faint perfume of another person in the bank. The scent is coming from the open vault. Art is able to find her by sound and she turns visible; this woman is also made of metal and can discharge electricity. She is carrying a case, taken from one of the safe-deposits in the vault. Helda plunges the room into darkness, and Art is blasted with electricity.

Sage and one of Dr. Weird’s duplicates attempt to find the a missing police car and the occupants: two officers and Teletran. They are able to find a crowd that saw the car disppear, and track where Teletran ran into the basement of building. There, the trail grows cold.

Samus, meanwhile, returning from “dropping in” at Royals Stadium, enters the vault. A strange child also wanders into the bank. The heroes are able to stun the metal woman, and Dr. Weird places her in his dimensional pocket. They ask the bank president who the safe-deposit with the stolen case, and find that it is Dr. Crandall, also known as Omega Man.

One of Dr. Weird’s dpulicates spots the two missing officers, bound on the top of a building. The recount their story of the car disappearing, and ending up at a farm house, seemingly nearby although the officers were not sure. They were taken by the same group that robbed the bank, and dropped back off unharmed.

The heroes finally return to M7 tower, with the metal woman (still in the dimensional pocket), the broken device that Riot Girl dropped, and the body of Duplicator-X’s copy. Sage attempt to perform an autopsy but knows nothing of the subject. Art calls Dr. Morgan, a doctor specializing in the study and treatment of super-powered humans. He concludes that the duplicate died from being blasted by concussive light. The heroes find that this is the power that Duplicator-X himself has, leading them to believe there might have been some kind of civil war amongst himselves.

The case from the lockbox is opened. They find schematics for several inventions. They also find a disc, with a hole in the center, of unknown purpose. Helda comments that it smells like Electron (Mr. Sparkle). Art calls Electron and he arrives at the tower, he declares that the disc generating and storing a fantastic amount of energy. Art asks Electron to check on Omega Man in prison, to make sure he is still incarcerated.

Art hears a ticking sound from the next room, and finds that the device dropped by Riot Girl is ticking. Sage concludes that it is trying to send out dimension coordinates. Art places a field around the device to stop the communication, and Sage is able to talk the machine into stopping. They get the dimension coordinates of where the device was created (by asking nicely). One of Dr. Weird’s duplicates takes the device to the police station, and another teleports to the coordinates they found. The dupe arrives at a farmhouse that looks like the one described by the two kidnapped officers.

The heroes leave the building, to find the Rough Riders ready for them.

After travelling in space for four years, the Artificer returns to Earth. He arrives in Kansas City, and finds the M7 base and tower essentially abandoned, only maintained by Mike (the mechanic) and M.A.R.T.H.A. the android.

The only member of M7 in the last year, Duplicator-X, has been missing for three months.

Mike gives the Artificer the bios of five local independent crime fighters. The Artificer invites four of them (Helda, Dr. Weird, The Sage, and Zamus Aran) to help him track down Duplicator-X. Remarkably, the four arrive at M7 Tower in down-town Kansas City within the half-hour and agree to help Art.

Art is puzzled by Dr. Weird, who claims to use “magic”. Dr. Weird agrees to be submitted to a power analyzer, which indicates whatever powers he has can’t be defined.

They start searching for Duplicator-X, and Dr. Weird is able to ESP to locate a body. Everyone travels to King’s Park, about five miles north of M7 Tower. There, they order citizens out of the pool, and Helda digs up a body from the pool cement. The body has a Duplicator-X uniform, and also bears a badge showing “#17”.

They are on their way back to M7 Tower when Mike contacts them on the radio to alert them to a bank robbery in progress. They arrive at UMB bank, finding police officers outside, and four robbers inside. The bank was constructed about six months prior, and is actually a sealed environment constructed out of metal that resists super powers.

Mike provides information on two that are known: Woodman (mainly a power house) and Teletran (who has teleportation powers). Riot Girl pokes her head out of the bank every few minutes demanding that someone open the vault. The five heroes make their way into the bank using their own separate methods. Although calling herself Riot Girl, she ends up being non-confrontational. Riot Girl has an electronic device which seems to be able to control parts of the bank, but not the inner vault. Also inside is Sade, who obviously gets thrills from inflicting pain on others.

Once the five heroes are inside, the four villains exit the bank through a portal left open by Dr. Weird (but not before Zamus nearly vaporizes Riot Girl). A few seconds later, still sealed inside, the heroes find themselves in free-fall.

The Artificer attempts to use a plasma torch to cut out, but the metal is resistant. Sage works on trying to talk the vault into opening itself. Zamus runs to the back of the bank, runs full speed and with some sort of wall-breaking power bursts through the front doors of the bank. Zamus then floats lazily back to land. While falling, Dr. Weird thinks fast and puts the entire bank into a pocket dimension. The heroes land, and Dr. Weird is able to re-insert the bank unit back into the building… although upside down.

The bank is safe, and no civilians were hurt. Will this strange new group of heroes replace the original Magnificent 7?