<P> On the planet Mars, John Carter and Gullivar Jones have assembled an alliance of Martian races to combat an invading race of non-Martian aliens called "Molluscs" (the aliens from H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds). After a fierce battle, the Martian alliance successfully force the Molluscs off Mars . As they leave, however, Carter worries they may be going to Earth . </P> <P> On Earth, in the year 1898, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (consisting of Allan Quartermain, Dr Henry Jekyll, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo and Hawley Griffin) arrive in Horsell Common, where a Mollusc spaceship lies at the centre of an impact crater . </P> <P> The League meet with MI5 Agent Campion Bond, and debate about what the mysterious craft is and where it came from . A tentacled alien emerges from the craft, and a group of men carrying a white flag descend into the crater to make peace with it, only to be incinerated by a powerful heat - ray from the craft . As the heat - ray kills the onlookers gathered around the crater's edge, Dr Jekyll turns into Mr Hyde, who threatens the alien with violent death . Mina manages to calm Hyde down, and the League retreat to the nearby Bleak House Inn . </P> <P> Later that day, the British armed forces arrive in the area, and Griffin sees another spaceship falling from the sky towards Woking . Mina checks on Hyde, and they have a compassionate conversation about their friendship, which is something Hyde does not feel he shares with the other League members . However, he politely asks Mina to leave, believing he will kill her at the slightest provocation . Meanwhile, Griffin returns to the crater on his own and encounters the aliens . Communicating with them by drawing pictures on the ground, he tells them he wishes to be their ally . </P>

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