Doctor Strange finally catches up with a magic-powered being, his face devoid of flesh, who has been robbing banks and burning people to ashes. What Strange doesn't realize is, is that the fiery magic-user is a decoy to keep Strange away from a ceremony to be led by cult leader Jonathan White to induct its twelfth apostle into its circle so that the cult can get on with whatever horrors it has planned for the world. The mystic-powered Topaz has fallen under the sway of the persuasive Dr. White and has seemingly joined the cult.