several hundred feet below. Tomi and the Hand attack the Circle, the aircity headquarters of China's intelligence-gathering agency S.P.E.A.R on their dragon mounts but are repelled by S.P.E.A.R. superhuman response team, the Ascendants. S.P.E.A.R director Xian Zheng deduces that Gorgon is flying the Mandripoorian dragon to Shanghai, hoping to destroy China as a stepping stone for his empire. Despite S.P.E.A.R and the Ascendants best efforts, the Master Ninja is able to reach Shanghai and observes from his temple while the dragon and the Hand's forces fight the Ascendants and Avengers in the city. However, Shang-Chi (who survived his encounter with the Gorgon and was rescued by S.P.E.A.R) uses Pym Particles supplied by Zheng to grow to the size of a giant and defeats the dragon in combat. As payback for his earlier defeat and the destruction caused by the Gorgon, Shang-Chi tears off the Hand's temple (with Gorgon screaming still trapped inside) from the dragon's head and throws it several miles away. Gorgon is part of the Hydra High Council that the new Madame Hydra is collecting to assist Steve Rogers who had history altered to be a Hydra sleeper agent for years. During the "Secret Empire" storyline, Gorgon and Hive were in Madripoor at the time when the Underground arrives looking for cube fragments. Before being knocked down by Hercules, Gorgon managed to briefly turn him to stone. Shishido was later behind the Hand's Regenix operations. He is served by Scarlet Samurai who is actually Mariko Yashida resurrected. The two led an attack on Old Man Logan who was investigating the Hand's operations. When the Silver Samurai assisted Old Man Logan, Silver Samurai fought Gorgon while Logan confronted Mariko. After Gorgon got away, Silver Samurai used some nanites to break the Hand's control on Mariko. During the "Spider-Geddon" storyline, Arnim Zola creates a bio-duplicate of Gorgon who accompanies some Hydra agents to Los Angeles in order to repossess Superior Octopus' services. The Gorgon bio-duplicate fought Superior Octopus and his blindfold-removal had him turn Superior Octopus to stone. After shattering it on Zola's orders, Superior Octopus emerged and beheaded the Gorgon bio-duplicate. Gorgon is later one of the villainous mutants invited by the Quiet Council of Krakoa to live in their new mutant island nation, provided he no longer holds any grudges against his fellow mutants. The Hand grandmaster accepts and later even drinks a beer with Wolverine during a