: Flashback to the
youth of Thaddeus Ross, playing soldier with his friends until his mother
confiscates their BB guns. Most of the guys are happy that with the end of the
war, their fathers are coming home but Thad’s father is a career man so he
won’t be home until much later. A fighter plane flies overhead and crashes in a
nearby clearing; young Henry sees that the dead pilot is his father who wanted
to come home early to surprise his son. Red Hulk must explain the matter to
Zero/One as they watch the events unfold….
Red
Hulk has Annie drive him to his family’s abandoned farm in New Hampshire; they
talk about his attacker from the other night. The scientists at Gamma Base have
sent pictures of a possible identification, an Indian serial killer called
Black Fog. Rulk recognizes him and by his movements links him to Omnisapient
Systems. They are being monitored by Zero/One and Jacob Feinman who now know
he recognized them. Rulk and Annie enter the house to find water so Rulk can
take his inhibitive-stimulant to keep him from changing to his Ross form, which
would be fatal. They find a photo of Ross with his vintage airplane and head
out to the barn where it resides as Rulk reminisces about his late wife Karen
and the time they lived in this house. Then something strange appears in the
darkened barn: Omegex. The monster punches Rulk hurling him into the sky. Uravo
the Watcher arrives, surprised that Omegex did not kill Annie. The giant robot
leaps after Rulk, following him to Bar Harbor, Maine. Red Hulk is disappointed
that the fearsome robot was able to knock him only one state over. Rulk returns
the punch and Omegex unleashes a tractor beam to pull Red Hulk along with it.
They land in Boston, Massachusetts (two states over) and start fighting as the
police try to deal with the chaos. Then Black Fog appears and stabs Omegex
through the back….