Late one night,
Deathlok breaks into a government waste management facility, dodges the guards,
and locate Machine Man as he is about to be dropped into a furnace….
Red
Hulk is imprisoned in a vault that he is constantly testing but he makes no
progress in trying to escape. He gives up and transforms back into Thunderbolt
Ross. First Sergeant Tamika Bowden visits him in his cell and has him don an
inhibitor collar. She takes him outside for some fresh air, which Ross realizes
is likely against her orders. He determines their location in the Blue Ridge
Mountains, then tries to overpower Bowden who stops him easily and shows him
her metal exoskeleton. She gives him a warning then takes him along to his
meeting….
At
an auto body shop, Deathlok does his best to repair Machine Man, while
explaining how he escaped from custody. MM has detected where Red Hulk is
likely being held by some intense seismic readings. They jump in a car (MM
driving) and take off down the highway….
As
they head for the lab, Ross sees a huge tank full of shark people. At the lab
he is met by General Simon Ryker, who was last seen being electrocuted in the
mountains of Latveria. Ross deduces that Ryker, formerly a prisoner, has cut
some kind of deal with Doom. Ryker reminds him that he (Ross) is the traitor.
Ross hits him and Ryder issues a warning in the shape of transforming into the
War-Wolf, an armored lycanthrope….