The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century - Chapter 3. Let IT Come Down

Chapter 3. Let It Come Down

In 2009, Britain is involved a disastrous war taking place in Q'mar. The currently-male Orlando, now a British soldier, is about to receive a medal after apparently surviving a massacre. Before being sent home, however, he gloomily confesses to a fellow immortal soldier that he actually ran amok and committed the massacre himself. Arriving in a dystopian London, Orlando returns to the empty League headquarters and finds himself turning female again. She is then contacted by Prospero, who states that the Antichrist has been born and must be stopped.

In despair, Orlando goes to the secret intelligence headquarters in Vauxhall - ostensibly a Freemason venue - and asks to speak with the new M, who is revealed to be Emma Night. Night remembers her previous experience with the League and now considers the League to be trustworthy. Orlando agrees to give Night the secret to immortality in exchange for Mina's whereabouts. As Orlando goes home, she runs into a homeless man who she recognises as a heroin-addicted Allan Quatermain. Allan panics and flees.

Orlando finds Mina in Rosa Coote's Disciplinary Psychiatric Ward, run by Coote's descendent. Mina, who was interned back in 1969, is hopelessly drugged and confused. Upon being retrieved by Orlando and taken off the drugs, Mina remembers that the only one who will be able to find the Antichrist is Norton. They also try to speak to Allan once more, but he rejects them. Mina and Orlando find Norton, who guides them to King's Cross, a nexus of fiction. He takes them into a secret platform in the railway station housing a wrecked magical steam-train and the decaying results of a massacre. Norton states that the train will take them to the school the Antichrist came from, though he himself cannot go with them.

The two embark on a nightmarish journey into the magical dreamworld of Britain, eventually finding themselves in the ruins of an "invisible college" teaching magic. As they investigate the school, the reader learns that it was razed in a rampage by the Antichrist, a student marked as a baby by Haddo with a distinctive scar who was subsequently manipulated into accepting his destiny through various adventures against an arch-nemesis portrayed by Haddo himself, only to be driven mad upon learning the truth. As they investigate the ruins and discover the beheaded corpse of Haddo - the Antichrist having taken the still-living head with him - Orlando and Murray contemplate that this magical world's devastation is reflected by the real world's. Mina says the reverse is also possible.

Mina and Orlando return to London and speak to Prospero, who orders them to confront the antichrist, and use Excalibur to signal for reinforcements. Mina and Orlando make love as they dreadfully await what is to happen next. Meanwhile Allan buys a gun and tries to commit suicide but cannot.

Mina and Orland confront the antichrist who emerges from a concealed house in the form of a giant covered in eyeballs, and begins to trigger the end of the world. The sword Excalibur reacts to this by bringing forth a light in the sky. The light is seen by all in the world and causes arch-terrorist Jack Nemo, the original captain's latest descendent, to abandon his terrorist actions in Pakistan and return to a mysterious project at Lincoln Island. Allan arrives and blasts the antichrist with a futuristic weapon, but the monster is unfazed by this and kills Quatermain with magic lightning discharged from his penis. Mina, hysterical at this loss, accepts doom until out of the sky comes an enigmatic woman who destroys the antichrist, explaining that she is the mother of all fiction and she has dealt with rotten boys before. As this is occurring, Haddo proclaims that Armageddon shall still happen as Murray is now destined to usher it. The Woman takes Haddo's head before Murray can find an answer to his words.

As they mourn the death of Quatermain, Night arrives accompanied by three women who have all left MI6, as she has now. They promise to escort Mina and Orlando to Africa to bury the body of Allan Quatermain as Night seeks to become immortal. The women bury Allan Quatermain in an existing grave dating from the time he originally faked his death. When Night inquires how one is able to cope with immortality, Mina states that one has to keep on living.