Doctor Strange is before a Congressional hearing, testifying
how he sent the increasingly dangerous Hulk into the Crossroads. SHIELD Agent
Bercerra, an expert in the mystic arts, questions Strange’s competence in
making such a major decision, a question echoed by the Committee members.
Suddenly, an insectoid being, the Sorcerer Supreme of his dimension, emerges
into the Chamber and accuses Strange as the one who sent the Hulk to them,
leading to genocide. He accompanies Master Ebbing though the gateway to meet
the Puffball Collective but finds also finds Agent Bercerra has accompanied
them. She refuses to go back to Earth, insisting on seeing for herself what
Strange has done. They enter the other dimension, a planet called Decopodia, to
be greeted by Ebbin’s pupil Korv. Ebbin takes Strange and Bercerra on a flight
over their advanced city surrounded by a huge wall. Strange insists he sent
Hulk where he would not be a threat to any dimension with sentient life. They
watch as a huge armored robot is sent out of the city into the mountains where
Hulk attacks it and smashes it to pieces, while the citizens watch via giant
telescreens. Strange doesn’t know why Hulk hasn’t triggered the fail-safe spell
to return to the Crossroads; Ebbin points out that the Hulk seems to be
enjoying this. He also doesn’t see any evidence of genocide; Ebbin weakens and
dies, his last words being “Beware my success” which Strange can’t interpret.
Strange and Bercerra follow the Hulk into a cave—one strewn with multiple
corpses of the locals and Hulk is hungry….