Max and the guardians travel to the center of longitude and latitude to stop Skullmaster's lackey, Warmonger who betrays his master, from destroying the balance of nature. But is there a grander scheme at work?
It is the day of the Winter Solstice. With Norman and Virgil both destroyed, Max faces the evil of Skullmaster for the last time alone. However, things are about to come full-circle in a way that no one could have ever fathomed.
Skullmaster reforges the Crystal of Souls and launches an all-out assault against Max and the guardians, hunting them relentlessly across the globe for the Cap, which is the key to a ritual that will make him all-powerful.
Max and co travel throughout the world, recruiting various heroes to join them in their crusade to destroy Skullmaster and the Crystal of Souls. Max also battles his own terror at the prospect of facing the deadly Skullmaster once more.
Virgil summons Max to inform him that he may not be the real Cap Bearer, and that they may have found the real Mighty One. Virgil devises a test to decide who is the real chosen one, a test that proves to be disastrous for the world.
In Los Angeles, an ancient, super-powered Sabretooth is disturbed from it's rest by construction workers and only a similarly powered caveman, with Max's help, can stop it.
Evil aliens who can only survive in freezing temperatures take over an Arctic research facility and assume the identity of the researchers in order to carry out devious plans to create a new ice age.