Joe Fixit, inhabiting Bruce Banner’s body, is living on the
edge in New York City, surviving by scams. He picks a rich man’s pocket, uses
the credit card to buy expensive jewelry, which he pawns for cash. He muses how Bruce would never stoop
to such dishonest methods to stay alive because Bruce always wants to be the
good guy….
On the Alpha Flight space station, Henry Peter Gyrich has the
U-Foes (Vector, Vapor, X-Ray, Ironclad) practice for taking on the Hulk by using
their individual powers to tear up a robotic stand-in for the Big Green Guy. They
are tracking Hulk and can’t find him while he is in human form but once he
transforms, they’ll have him….
Meanwhile, Doc Samson (still in Sasquatch’s body), Puck, and
the newly recruited Shaman arrive at Shadow Base Site G on the original Gamma
bomb testing site in New Mexico. They are hoping that Bruce Banner is hiding
there but they can at least recover Samson’s own body and put his mind back in
it. And then the horribly mutated form of Rick Jones bursts from the ground to
surprise them….
In New York, Joe Fixit witnesses a pair of cops chasing down
and beating a teenager in a “Hulk Smash” hoodie and wants to stay out of it but
the Hulk inside comes out. The emaciated monster hurls the police car at the
cops, who flee in terror. Then Hulk is blasted from behind: the U-Foes have
arrived….