Invincible and his allies are battling against
Omni-Man and the
Viltrumites on Earth, but begin to suspect something is wrong, noticing their foes are acting out of character. Briefly glimpsing a strange enclosure after taking a heavy blow, Invincible begins purposefully injuring himself until his surroundings disappear, finding himself in a
high tech facility. When he is attacked by Robot, Rex Splode, and new hero Ella Mental, he realizes they all have implants causing them to experience hallucinations. Determining that damaging the implants is the only way to shut them off, Invincible defeats the others in battle, overloading their implants and restoring them to normal. Unsure where they are or how they arrived, the heroes venture further into the facility, discovering several others undergoing implantation in suspended animation chambers. The facility releases the implantees, forcing Invincible and the others to battle them and return them all to their senses. Robot's analysis determines that the facility is on an asteroid near the Earth, but the group are unable to find a way to escape. Cecil begins accusing Ella of being an imposter, but Invincible notices he has no implant and attacks him, damaging his holographic disguise and revealing him to be a Technician. As he is pursued by the group, several other Technicians appear and explain that they abducted the heroes and villains to harvest the energy expended from their battles, planning to keep them all contained to act as a power source. The Technicians force the captives into a holographic battlefield and use their disguise technology to assume the appearance and powers of the Viltrumites. The captives attempt to fight them, but discover the Technicians' disguises make them impervious to damage. During the battle, a tower is exposed that causes the Technicians' healing abilities to temporarily malfunction. Realizing the tower is the facility's power source, Invincible flies through it, disrupting the hologram but leaving the Technicians' disguises intact. Ella deduces that the power source extends throughout the whole asteroid and begins using her powers to tear it apart while the others keep the Technicians occupied. The destruction of the power source causes the Technicians' disguises to fail, allowing the captives to eliminate them one by one. Determining their experiment has failed, one of the Technicians sends the heroes back to Earth, which they discover has already been taken over by the Technicians in their absence. ==Development and release==