A Ghost Of Stone! Iron Man, Yellowjacket, and the Beast are alone in the control room of Avengers Mansion when suddenly the wall is smashed through by the the stone statue of the Black Knight. The three heroes are easily subdued before they learn who their attacker is. Speaking to the defeated foes, the statue of the Black Knight explains that after months of being inert in the basement of Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum a strange being reanimated him and since then he has gone a mission to get revenge on those he believes responsible for his current condition: The Avengers.
Going to the upper level of the mansion it finds and defeats both Captain America and Wasp in battle. After the fight, it has a sudden recollection following the last encounter between the Avengers and the Defenders wherein the Black Knight was turned into stone, in that the group deduced that they were tricked into fighting each other by Loki the god of mischief. The Black Knight statue would soon consider the idea that the Avengers had abandoned him.
Elsewhere, the Scarlet Witch is out with Wonder Man doing some Christmas shopping, during their walk back to Avengers Mansion, Wonder Man jumps into action to prevent an out of control bus from crashing and causing casualties. They arrive at the Mansion to find a ravaged Jarvis who warns them of the Black Knight statue that is on a rampage. It easily defeats both Wanda and Simon in battle.
The Vision then shows up and proves to be a more difficult match to face, in that the Black Knight statue cannot hurt him due to the fact of the Vision's density powers. It forces the statute to remember the events wherein Dane Whitman sacrificed being turned into stone to save the Defenders from being trapped in the past, and that his soul had left it's body and now currently inhabits the body of his 12th Century ancestor. Unable to accept this the furious statue attempts to attack the Vision once more. However, since the Vision had converted his body into the density of diamonds, the statue only succeeds in destroying itself, ending its threat.
