Epilogue

This is the Raft. Raft Davos hasn't budged from it. And word on the street-or the closest thing to it, considering that this is the ocean-is that the Raft's got five new inmates. Three are isolated in cryo-cells, due to their superpowers.

In the human ward, however, they're having a meal. A band's playing blues music. Carson stands on the stage, with his back to the crowd, swaying back and forth to the song's intro. On cue, he spins around, and starts singing "Jailhouse Rock" into the mike.

This is a good opportunity for him to try out his new prosthetics. Alas, they're not like Deathlok's or Misty Knight's; these are relatively ordinary, and meant to keep him from escaping the Raft during his stay here.

At one of the tables, Helmut Zemo is sitting near the stage. After he can't stop sitting and tapping his toe anymore, he jumps up on the table and dances-like Joe Walsh in the Blues Brothers.

Many others leap up on the tables and dance: Justin Hammer, Adrian Toomes, Sonny Burch, Jack Rollins, and Davos, to name a few. Davos happily follows Carson's lead-having no memories of his adventures with Mordo's Illuminati, for he wasn't the Davos who helped him take down Nightshade in that Chinese botanical garden.

Wilson Fisk, too, gets up on a table and dances. Some of the other inmates stop and watch, worrying that he'll break one of the tables while dancing atop it.

Murakami, now resurrected, sits for as long as he can. Both the resurrection and the elixir have hardened him more than ever-and not just sexually. Nonetheless, the human wing's influence is overwhelming. He eventually gets up on the table and dances too. He inadvertently shows off some of his ninja techniques while doing so. He accidentally injures some of his inmates-which will later prompt the government to add time to his sentence.

Deep below, Mordo, Sterns, and Owlsley are locked up in cryo-cells. They can barely move. But they can, at least, tap their toes to the music upstairs. So they do-even Mordo, who has the least cause to be happy right now.

Owlsley's arrow/cybernetic ammo wounds have just about healed. Alas, his grudge against Daredevil never will...

Speaking of whom, Murdock's gone back to his law practice. He's reunited with his law partner and BFF, Foggy Nelson. And Karen Page comes back to them, returning from her trip to Amsterdam/New Asgard with Frank Castle. No time to rest, though; Murdock and Page must help Nelson prepare for his magnificent wedding to the majestic blonde businesswoman, Marci Stahl.

Reyes goes back to Los Angeles-but not before going on a date with Johnson. But he doesn't stay long; he'd hate to upset Bishop, after all. SHIELD hears about his valor, and commends him for helping them capture Carson and recapture Sterns. For both parties, the war against secret foes continues.

Johnson goes back to practicing with her herbs. She returns the Nighthawk wings to Rand Enterprises, and offers to redeem herself for having borrowed it without permission. The folks at Rand Enterprises are impressed as to how well the wingpack has survived her fight with the Illuminati. Its developer even admitted he didn't expect the wingpack to get through armed action...

Bishop goes back to the Barton family. Her mentor's kids sure seem to enjoy it when she teaches them archery... Ronin, as her mentor now calls himself, is still busy helping the Avengers take down Thanos. With luck, he won't come back to his family-or his protege-on a slab...

Maverick has returned to a homeless life on the run. Only this time he's not alone; Johnson's with him, accommodating him with both herbal and non-herbal company along the way-wherever that leads, as long as Thunderbolt Ross isn't there.

Korg and Miek happily lock Schmidt up in the New Asgardian dungeons. The cell is perfectly wraith- and supersolider-proof. Korg naturally reminds Schmidt, best he can, that when and if Thor returns to the throne, he'll want to talk to Schmidt about commuting his sentence for having helped his girlfriend on Beerenberg. Schmidt moans, and his mind goes numb as everything Korg says both bores and confuses him.

Brunnhilde proudly returns to the throne, and awaits her boyfriend's triumphant return. As the time passes, she gradually starts to wonder if she made a mistake, rejecting Frank Castle's application to join the Einherjar...

Batroc and Walker have both hit the road. At some point, the duo just might run into Maverick and Johnson...

Wing and Knight, the Daughters of the Dragon, are back on the streets of Harlem and Chinatown. Whenever faced with an inhuman threat, or otherwise, Wing just summons her qi, Knight just arms her prosthetic, and the doubles match is on-but only in the instance when they attack two targets, rather than one or three or more... And, they patrol the Newark docks more often, too. Wong might not have been a villain, but his actions did invite a dangerous dragon from another reality and Black Ant dangerously close to a lot of companies' shipyard-boarded stock...

Jones shakes hands with Wong, AKA Beyonce, and apologizes to him for any trouble she might've caused him. Wong smiles, and apologizes that his own trouble was necessary.

Jones apologizes to Zola Thompson by driving her back to Buffalo, where she'll return to Canada. Her arm's still broken. At least there are fewer hard feelings than before. And thankfully, Jones was the source of most of them all along.

Thompson admits that she's learned a lesson or two ("or several," as she says) about committing crime for money. She just really wanted to ride a dragon, and mind-control it at the same time.

Jones tells her to not feel bad about those fantasies. She's had a few of them of her own-including a seemingly extreme one that prompted her to make a deal with Turk Barrett to get a weapon specifically designed for taking them down. Alas, Jones STILL doesn't know what it is or how it works. She hasn't even opened the case since Brock left it for her.

Thompson's been thinking about that Quebec speedster she kept avoiding back in Canada. She's thinking about asking him out when she gets back home...

At long last, Thompson crosses the border, and is back in her sweet home Canada. Although Jones doesn't understand what's particularly sweet about Canada. Mallow plants in the bogs, maybe, but... Didn't marshmallow mills stop using mallow plants to make marshmallows a long time ago?

After a long drive back to the Big Apple, Jones is back in her apartment. It now seems empty, with Wong, Murdock, and Johnson long gone. At least she'll get some peace and quiet now. She grabs a bottle of booze, and pours it into the Wild Turkey mug she got from Lieberman.

She's long forgotten the nano-cam eyes that the mug's "turkey head's" got loaded in it. These eyes deviously spin around and survey Jones's magnificent curves, every time Jones lowers her guard...

At least Lieberman's married. But for his family's sake, let's just hope his wife doesn't find out what's going on behind his closed doors.

Jones opens her closet door, looks inside, and sighs. The case with the futuristic dragon-slayer inside it is still there. Every now and then, she thinks about returning it to Barrett. But she just can't...

Someone knocks on her door. She closes the closet, and sets the Wild Turkey mug down on her desk.

She answers the door, expecting a client. It's Arocho.

She beams, and romantically embraces him. Athena knows they've missed each other.

They sit on a blanket, in the middle of Oscar's apartment floor, with the windows open. A nice breeze comes through them. Jessica tells him of everything she's been through since he left. Oscar's just glad she's alive.

Vidito, his son, is away on a trip. That should give Oscar and Jessica plenty of time to make up-assuming that they were broken up before...

Jones admits, under Jim Beam's influence, that she's thinking about forgiving Trish for killing her mother. But she warns Oscar not to get his hopes up.

They lie down on the blanket, and cuddle. Outside, the breeze blows a natural lullaby that tempts them both off to sleep.

Back at the Scene Contempo Gallery, the statue of Athena still stands. All around the gallery, the janitors are still cleaning up after Jones's and Owlsley's mess.

Jones didn't get to fight Athena this time. But one day, when Midgard and Olympus ever manage to find a connection, Athena just might trespass Jones, or vice versa, and when and if that ever happens, the catfight-or owlfight, rather-that ensues just MIGHT be epic...