Number of the Beast Vol 1 7
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Reap what you sow. Change or die. 
- -- Reapers
Appearing in "Verse Seven: The Greatest Generation"
Featured Characters:
- The High (Also in flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Fuji
- Jackson King (Also in flashback)
- The Paladins
- Black Anvil (Also in flashback)
- Engine Joe (Also in flashback)
- Mago the Magician (Also in flashback)
- Midnight Rider
- Mite
- Neandra
- Private Warr
- Petrified Girl
- Johnny Ray-Gun (Also in flashback)
- Redeemer (Also in flashback)
- Urumi
- Thrush (Also in flashback)
- Tumbleweed
- Wallflower
- Hotfoot (Also in flashback)
- The Authority
- General William Somerset
- Slyxx
- Lieutenant Welles
Other Characters
- General Zebulon McCandless (First full appearance) (Also in flashback)
- Jenny Sparks (In flashback only)
- Crime Corps
Villains:
- Reapers
Locations:
- Number of the Beast Bunker #1
- Washington D.C.
- Skywatch III
Items:
- None
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Synopsis for "Verse Seven: The Greatest Generation"
In a flashback of late 1945, a Daemonite spacecraft crashed landed in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. General Zebulon McCandless and the American army have already arrive, as McCandless quotes from the Book of Revelations in comparing the spacecraft to the star Wormwood as an omen of the "End Times". McCandless then states to an officer on planning to have the spaceship leave where it is and buried. This was the beginning of the Number of the Beast program.
In the present, in a telepathic conversation/vision between Jackson King and the High, recall everything that has happened from the High's death in crashing into Skywatch I. Switching over to another vision by Jackson, showing and explaining that after the High's death, his genetic remains were recovered by the American government and were used for cloning super soldiers based on notes from Dr. Jacob Krigstein. Though many of the experiments suffered many incidents, the United States Army Corps have succeeded in the process under the "Reaper Initiative", creating multiple clones of the High and have each of the clones weaponized, creating the "Reaper Ballistic Missile Arsenal". After having used the genetic materials, The High's remains were then purposely contained in the Number Of The Beast bunker like nuclear waste storage. And since the Paladins and the Crime Corps have escape from their prison, the government have launched the Reapers in response, in which the High sense them.
On Earth, the Authority and the Paladins begins battling each other in a misunderstanding. In the midst of the conflict, Jenny Quarx and the Doctor teleport into the NOTB bunker in looking for answers and finds a brain damaged Welles.
Back on Skywatch III, Jackson King is probing through a retired McCandless and informs the High that the general had been over-zealously feared of a End of Times and for that reason he have kidnapped many of Earth's generation of post-humans (such as the Paladins) in preparing for the worse, and that the Daemonite technology have manage to preserve their age. King is surprised of how McCandless was able to obtained that sort of technology.
In the NOTB bunker, the Doctor have easily healed Welles' brain damaged state. Recovered, she surprisingly realize about the Paladins and the Crime Corps' escape and the eventual result of it.
On Skywatch, the High has ultimately decide himself in stopping the Reapers, while ignoring Jackson's insistence of having only Stormwatch to handle the situation, and immediate speeds to his clones. As the High travel to a Reaper missile and tries to punch through to his clone, Jackson telepathically reason to him that the only way to stop the Reapers is to head for the "shooter", given that the Reapers are controlled by General Somerset and others in the Pentagon.
As the Authority and the Paladins continues to fight, some members of both sides realized of their mistake, but let the fight continue until it stop as given by Tumbleweed: "[the Paladins] blowing off a little steam after so many decades in captivity". Everyone then notice the incoming Reapers. The Doctor and Jenny Quarx are inform by Welles about the Reapers and that stopping them, including with the Doctor's magic, will trigger a fail-safe that will cause a massive nuclear explosion. As Welles flee back inside the bunker for safety, the Doctor strongly suggest of having everyone retreat to the Carrier, in which both the Authority and the Paladins are then teleported through the Carrier's Shift-Doors.
Back in 1945, the military are constructing the NOTB facility over the Daemonite spaceship. McCandless was brief on the ship's "sleeping berths" and then zealously and ominously greets a Daemonite survivor held prisoner.
In the present, outrage of the superpowered beings absent from the bunker, Somerset then orders the Reapers into finding the Carrier, in which it is in the Bleed. The Reapers then change a single Reaper into a dimensional conduit gateway and begins traveling through it.
On the Carrier, some of the Paladins, more specifically Redeemer, are unhappy of being 'contained' on the shiftship. Mago then remembers about Zebulon 'Zeb' McCandless and plans on having a "talk" with him. The Authority then introduce themselves to the Paladins and informs of the current situation. Suddenly, the Reapers breach and board the Carrier.
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