TITLE: Perihelion: The Music of the Spheres (Part Two)
WRITER(s): Matthew Sturges
PENCILER(s): Chard Hardin
INKER(s): Dan Green
COLORS: Dan Brown
LETTERS: Steve Wands
EDITOR(s): Joey Cavalieri; Stephanie Buscema

CHARACTERS: William Hanson; Crispus Allen; Plastic Man (Eel O'Brian); Eclipso (Dr. Bruce Gordon); Creeper (Jack Ryder); Dove; Mona Bennett

PLOT:
Bruce Gordon tries to hurl himself into the surface of the sun but is unable to overcome the gravity. He crash lands on the surface of Mercury where he meets up with Crispus Allen and William Hanson (whom Gordon can see) but they refuse to help Gordon kill himself. After realizing that he is unable to simply toss the cursed stone into a black hole, Gordon gets a wild idea - he takes off for Mertvayagrad, Russia.

Mertvayagrad, a city taken off the map after a particle acceleration experiment went horribly wrong is also still home to the largest Synchronotron ever created. It is here that Gordon plans on finishing the work he begun at Vicara Labs to prove that he was right all along. Once entering the research facility the trio find a group of horribly mutated former citizens waiting for them. Bruce tries to control the powers of Eclipso but is unable to. The brief battle brings Eclipso to life who knocks Crispus unconscious and proceeds to kill every last mutant there. When Bruce comes to he finds his ex-wife, Mona, chained up and left for him to find by Eclipso.

In Washington DC, the Eclipso infected heroes (Plastic Man, Creeper and Dove) are on infiltrating a storage facility on a mission from Corrotto. Their target is something that Corrotto plans on using to make Eclipso the most powerful being on Earth and they've just found it.