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Warbound Part one
Jen Walters slowly gets up. She thinks of her cousin, Bruce. She really screwed this one up. She is the She-Hulk, but she’s also Jen Walters. Which means she believes in truth and justice and law and order and rainbows and pretty unicorns. So she fought for the government during the superheroes civil war…
Flashback:… and took the job when SHIELD called. She fought the Hulk’s old villains like the Abomination while the Hulk was off the map. Keeping appearances up for the Hulk family. She believed in what she was doing. She believed in her friends. She believed in herself. And then she found out what they did.
A little group of them sat down and decided that Bruce was too dangerous for the planet Earth. No trial, no jury, no justice. They shot him into space.
But he would have been proud of what happened next. Jen smashed (namely, she hit Iron Man). But, of course, Tony Stark was expecting that. He injected her with some kind of nanobots power inhibitor They turned her back into Jennifer and dropped her off the heli-carrier somewhere out here in Jersey in the middle of nowhere.
Present:This must be how it feels, she figures, comparing her situation to her cousin’s. She can practically hear the theme music.
She walks up the road and holds out her thumb to hitch a ride. Need a lift? a young boy on a scooter asks, Amadeus Cho aka Mastermind Excello, kid genius on the run from the law.
He’s the smart kid, Jen remarks. So they tell him. He doesn’t seem too smart to her, she points out. SHIELD’s been hunting him for months and he stops to chat to a woman in a SHIELD uniform… who just took a swing at Iron Man, he adds. Quit the agency, got dumped out here in the wilds of Jersey and would probably dig a change of clothes and a bottle of Grape Nehi? He holds out a parcel with clothes and Jen’s favorite beverage.
The Baxter Building, New York where Reed Richards is tracking Amadeus and is in contact with Dr. Leonard Samson. Cute, Samson remarks, but anyone who’s read that Vanity Fair profile knows Jen’s favorite soda. But only someone who cracked the SHIELD mainframe could have pinpointed her location so quickly, Reed points out. Samson replies, if he’s so mindboggingly smart, why doesn’t he know Reed is tracking him? Well, he’d like to say that’s because he’s just the seventh smartest person on the planet. But, he assures Leonard, the boy knows he is being tracked. On the screen Amadeus winks at him. He probably even knows Reed wants him to know he knows. You just lost me, Samson sighs. Let’s just say Samson has his work cut out for him.
Samson is flying in one of the FF’s flying bathtubs. Samson scoffs. He’s gone head-to-head with the Hulk more than once. He doesn’t plan on letting this boy scare him. Reed reminds him the boy’s smart enough to top a tank with one well-placed pebble. And over the past three weeks he’s noticed 233 flash frames of Samson’s face inserted into the Colbert Report which he watches as often as his schedule allows him to, as anyone who’s read his Vanity Fair profile knows. Cho wants Reed to send Samson.
Reed explains that Amadeus knows what they’ve done to the Hulk. He probably thinks Samson is a likely recruit for whatever retaliation he has planned. The kid is certainly confident, Samson admits. He has every right to be, Reed points out. Samson can’t beat him intellectually, probably can’t touch him physically, but emotionally… He’s given Samson his file. He’s young and his whole world’s been shattered these past few months. He’s lost his whole family. He has nothing to lose… That makes him dangerous but vulnerable. Make use of it. Samson admits he doesn’t like this. Neither does he, Reed agrees.
Somewhere in a diner are Amadeus and Jen. He can sure put a lot away, Jen remarks. All that thinking burns a lot of energy, Amadeus admits and offers her a burger. Maybe later, comes the reply. First things first. She doesn’t works for SHIELD anymore, but she’s still a lawyer and an all around good citizen. And Amadeus is a known fugitive. So he has three minutes to explain himself before she calls the cops.
The coyote puppy Amadeus keeps in his jacket growls at her tone. Nice puppy, she remarks. Actually he’s a coyote, he corrects her. A wild animal. Illegal to keep as a pet. She wants to trust him too. She’s not interested in…
He continues. They say coyotes carry rabies. Does she know what they’d do to test him for rabies? Cut off his head, she replies. That’s right, he agrees, which is exactly what her cousin Bruce Banner wanted to do.
Amadeus’ narration:When he was on the run, Banner, sitting at another table in the diner, told Amadeus to give up the pup to the cop who was demanding him, stating they had a rabies alert on Tuesday.
But Amadeus wasn’t feeling it and so got away on his scooter. Neither was the Hulk, who soon threatened the cop.
Present:You don’t run out on a friend just ‘cause some jerk in a uniform says he is dangerous!
He’s not her friend, Jen points out. He’s not talking about himself. He’s talking about the Hulk. And he’s quickly gathering from their little chat that she doesn’t have the guts to help him. Shut up. Listen. Learn, Jen instructs him.
Jen’s story:She nearly died because of a bunch of self-righteous idiots like him. Hercules, Angel, Iceman, Black Widow and the rest of the so-called Champions. They were at UCLA, about to get honored by the president for saving the world but they heard the Hulk had been sighted in a traffic jam on the 405. So, of course, they attacked. Froze him in ice. Hit him with gas. Punched him in the gut. Because the Hulk was a monster and they were the freaking Champions!
But the Hulk wasn’t there to fight them. She was in the car he was carrying, with a ruptured appendix. The Hulk was just trying to get her to the hospital.
Present:She’s proving his point, Amadeus insists The Hulk deserves better treatment. She’s not talking about the Hulk, Jen interrupts. She’s talking about him. He’s making the same mistake the Champions, made.
What is she talking about? All they could see was a monster. And all he can see is the hero. Amadeus caught the Hulk once on a good day. But he has no idea who the Hulk really is, what he is getting into.
Well, if that’s the way she feels, he replies and gets up, he guesses she’ll be fine when they pump him full of stupid pills and cut out his frontal lobe. What is he talking about? Jen protests. Nobody is going to… Man, she really is a piece of work! he scoffs. They inject her with nanobots to strip her of her powers and she’s still defending him. She runs outside after him. Him, who?
The dude he’s been waiting for, Amadeus replies, her shrink. And indeed, Leonard Sampson is already waiting outside.
Samson spreads his arms as though welcoming them and then claps his hands. Hard. The ensuing shockwave hurls Jen and Amadeus away. Samson himself seems surprised at the effect. Jen runs to the side of the injured teenager. Angrily she shouts at Len that he’s just a kid.
Looking startled, Len explains that Reed said he had a device. It would emit a counter shockwave to block the brunt of his thunder clap.
Miss Walters, can you… Amadeus moans and pokes at the zipper of his jacket. Jen helps him open it to see the injured coyote puppy. Does she get it now? Amadeus asks her. She’s working for the bad guys. So no more fooling around. Here’s why he came. The Hulk needs help. And no matter what he’s done or what they’ve done, they are still his friends.
Samson replies that Amadeus doesn’t understand. It’s precisely because he’s the Hulk’s friend that he’s doing this.
Amadeus talks to Jen. How does she think they figured out how to get Banner into that shuttle? And who gave Tony Stark the psych report that said he had to be depowered? Ol’ Doc Samson always knows what’s best.
So what’s his solution? Samson asks. Tear everything to pieces, just like the Hulk? That won’t do a thing to address what’s really tearing him apart. Amadeus is angry because he’s helpless. For all his intelligence he hasn’t been able to find the people who killed his family. He offers his help.
Amadeus looks at the crouching Jen and replies with a grin. Their hour’s up.
Jen hulks up and smashes Samson into a car that explodes. She walks towards him. They shot Bruce into space! They shot her full of nanobots! Len t ells her to calm down. He’s her doctor. He always acts with her best interests in mind. He lifts a car while telling her he disapproves of violence.
Snarling like an animal, she runs at him. He throws the car at her and asks her to look at her behavior. This is exactly the kind of acting out they feared they’d see if she were allowed to become She-Hulk again so soon after her fight with Tony. Now he knows she’s disappointed with him…
She’s not disappointed, Jen stresses. She’s mad! She slugs him sky high.
All right, kid, she announces, she’s sorry she… kid? Amadeus is gone. But the phone in a phone booth nearby is ringing. Big ‘n’ green ‘n’ mean, Amadeus greets her. How did he do it? she asks. A few strands of replicating code bonded with glucose temporarily gums up the nanobots. The grape nehi, she realizes.
He’d have given her the permanent fix, but first he had to know if she was in. So, is she in?
She turns back to Jen Walters. She just did about half a million dollars worth of property damage. And she punched one of her best friends into the next county. Felt good, huh? he asks. She can’t go with him she tells Amadeus who is somewhere in the wilderness. This isn’t a game. Look what happened to his dog. That’s just the beginning.
He’s a coyote, Amadeus corrects her. And all that happened was a little thing called “playing dead.” He doesn’t let his friends get hurt. Show a little backbone! he urges her.
That’s exactly what she’s trying to do, Jen replies. But she has to do it her way. And that means law and order, rainbows and unicorns. Just one thing: There’s something she didn’t tell him. About the time the Champions fought the Hulk. When the Champions found out what the Hulk was really trying to do, they were sorry. Does he understand what she’s saying?
In front of Amadeus stand Hercules and the X-Men’s Angel. Hey, he’s the smart kid, remember? Amadeus retorts.
Not quite smart enough, Reed Richards, joined by Doc Samson, remarks, as he watches the goings-on on his camera.


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Warbound   – part two
The Hulk’s spacecraft:His allies, the Warbound, watch holograms of the Iron Man’s Illuminati, specifically those who sent the Hulk into space: Reed Richards, Iron Man, Doctor Strange and Black Bolt. These are the four that destroyed their world, Miek announces. These are the four who must die!
But there will be others, one of them, Korg, suggests, like the yellow-haired god Thor who smashed his brothers.… Or the X-Men, who destroyed the homeworld of its people, the Brood states.
Doesn’t matter, the Hulk decides. They are all just puny humans. But they have to remember this: Because they are so small and stupid, they are scared. If the Warbound will stand with him, they will be called monsters. The humans will hunt them down to the ends of the universe! And they will kill anything and anyone they’ve ever loved.
They are Warbound, the red-skinned woman Elloe reminds him. The others all put their hands together and finally so does the Hulk.
They are interrupted and told they will arrive in three hours. Korg asks the Hulk, before they strike, are there any among the humans who might help them? Any friends? The robot’s files mentioned a few. If they are humans, comes the reply, they’re Banner’s friends… not his.
On Earth, Amadeus Cho is relieved to see Hercules and the Angel actually came. Indeed, Hercules agrees, ‘tis not every day the Prince of Power receives an email as compelling as his. He gets email? Angel asks incredulously. Yes, Hercules deadpans. Shockingly enough, he has also mastered the intricacies of the flush toilet. But the three of them met here in the wilds of Jersey on more serious matters… the boy wishes to talk of the Hulk.
Amadeus reminds the two former Champions of the instance when they wrongfully fought the Hulk, only to learn he was just trying to get his cousin into hospital. And long has he hoped to right that wrong, Hercules agrees. He grabs Amadeus and pulls him up. He looks at the boy critically. These are strange days, filled with fear and hate. Friends betray friends. Amadeus Cho says he is a friend of the Hulk. How do they know that’s true? ‘Cause he’s got all the right enemies, the boy replies with a smirk.
That moment, a SHIELD airship appears. Commander Gabe Jones addresses them, telling the heroes that they are harboring a dangerous fugitive. His name is Amadeus Cho and he’s the seventh smartest person on the planet. He’s also a sociopath who destroyed a SHIELD helicopter, endangering the lives of twelve agents. Do not believe a word he tells them!
Amadeus angrily shouts they are trying to kill him because he knows they shot the Hulk into space. Jones continues that since Cho is still a minor, they are offering him amnesty in exchange for registration and rehabilitation. Hercules and Angel are asked to stand back and let their agents collect him.
They’ll probably gas his puppy too! Amadeus continues. Warren tells him the war’s over. SHIELD doesn’t go around, executing unarmed teenagers and their dogs for the fun of--
Amadeus secretly pushes something inside his pocket, then yells to look out. His device overrides the SHIELD airship’s weapon systems and missiles are fired at the heroes. Hercules immediately reacts angrily and tears into the ship. He’s starting to hate that kid, Gabe Jones swears.
A little later, the three of them are hiding in a small town’s internet café, both Hercules and Warren wearing civies. Hercules advises Warren that he should learn the keystroke commands. Much more efficient than all that pointing and clicking. He’s got it, all right? Warren replies annoyed. Damn, he swears, looking at a report of their deeds with pictures. This is bad. Aye, as in bad meaning good, Herc replies. Herc smash.
Warren is not amused. He taps some more. Yesterday, he was a beloved millionaire philanthropist. Now he’s a traitor and fugitive who can’t get ten bucks out of any of his twelve frozen bank accounts.
Dude, chillax, Amadeus tells him. He hacked into Worthington’s banks last week and transferred six hundred million to an offshore account and don’t worry… He invested it wisely, namely into an amphibious flyer.
A little later, as they dive down in said vessel, Warren remarks sourly that he now owns a fifty million dollar Cosby M-43 amphibious flyer. And one hundred million dollar of New Mexico desert, Amadeus informs him. He explains the Hulk was born in the desert. It’s where he always returns. Last year, the government downsized the military base where Banner’s original gamma test took place. So Amadeus bought the surrounding land. They are going to create a sanctuary for the Hulk.
A sanctuary? Hercules asks. All he ever wanted is to be left alone, Amadeus clarifies. He’s starting to understand the feeling! Warren spits out angrily, getting into Amadeus’ face. He ruins his good name, steals his money and blows a hundred and fifty million of his dollars on some harebrained scheme, to build a wildlife park the Hulk? What gives him the right?
Dude, what gives you the right? Amadeus shoots back. He’s a trust fund baby. It’s not like he earned a dime of--
Suddenly, the ship comes to a cracking halt. Great, another trick! Warren moans. No, it’s a tidal wave, Amadeus replies. But it doesn’t make sense… Sure it does, Hercules replies, assuming he was looking for Atlantis. Outside are a group of armed Atlanteans…
They are led to prince Namor. Amadeus thanks him for seeing them and continues he knew that with his history with the Hulk, Namor’d be the first to help—
Namor orders him to be silent. He brought them here to listen, not to speak. Their plan, he scoffs, is utterly moronic. He’ll tell them what he told Iron Man and the others. When the Hulk returns, he’ll kill them all and no power on Earth can stop him!
Amadeus protests that he doesn’t think so. The Hulk is never the aggressor. Namor is his friend. He should know!
Namor calls him a fool. The Hulk has no friends! He’s a maniac. Beyond reason or honor. The tidal waves that rocked their ship as they approached? He didn’t cause that. The moon did. Because of unprecedented gravitational aberrations….
Princess Namor joins them, announcing there is a transmission from the surface world. It is a transmission by the Hulk, the same that is shown in New York City. He tells the world how Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic, Dr Strange and Black Bolt shot him into space… sent him to a planet called Sakaa where he could be cut… even killed. Where the emperor made him a slave and then a gladiator. They sent him to die. But he survived with his Warbound: Korg, Miek, Elloe, Brood and Hiroim. They made a world. He was the Green King. And Caiera the Oldstrong was his Queen.
But Earth’s heroes sent a bomb. Killed a million people. Now this city will fall. They have twenty-four hours to evacuate. When he returns, he wants to see Mr. Fantastic, Iron Man and Dr Strange. And if they are not here, he’ll do this to the whole stinking planet (this referring to the badly injured Black Bolt)!
In the ocean, the heroes are shocked. Namor calls them fools. He told them they were dead! But now it’s far worse. The Hulk’s ready to kill the entire planet!
He keep saying that, Amadeus protests. But the Hulk’s never killed anyone in cold… Is he blind? Namor snarls and grabs him. What is it with them and collar-grabbing? Amadeus points out.
The Hulk found a queen, Namor continues, who loved him. Loved the Hulk. And they killed her. Hercules announces that this is why the Prince of Power will stand beside the Hulk to the end. Angel asks him what he is talking about. The Hulk’s gone nuts! Herc shoves him aside.
What the heck is going on? Warren asks, confused. Mythology 101, Amadeus retorts. Hercules was driven mad by Hera, his own wife and children ended up dead. He knows how the Hulk feels.
Namor warns him. The humans may call Hercules a god, but under the seas nobody can match his strength. Except her, his cousin Namora announces as she steps between them. When he acts surprised, she angrily reminds him that she was frozen in ice for fifty years. Forgotten. These heroes don’t forget. They go to help a friend. And she will stand with them.
He cannot raise a hand against his cousin, he decides. But if she helps these humans reach the Hulk, she could bring doom upon Atlantis. So… Quickly, he damages the ship, then leaves with his guards.
Man. He really is a #$%&, Amadeus states.
The Hudson River:Amadeus has managed to fix the ship and, accompanied by Namora, they’ve arrived to see the evacuation of the city is almost done. Where is the Hulk? Hercules asks. He should be here in five, Amadeus replies. As soon as his ship is in range, he’ll hack into the communications unit.
Wrong way, folks? Angels shouts at a group of people on a raft and in small boats. They’ve gotten turned around he tells them and offers to tow them to Jersey. They tell him to get out of the way. They know where they are going. What are they talking about? he asks. The Hulk is coming.
Yes, to heal them, one man replies. No, to rescue them, another corrects him. With him they shall ascend to the stars. Another tells them they are both nuts. He’s coming to do just one thing: Give those superpowered &%$§% exactly what they have coming to them. He’ll tear them down from their golden palaces, another laughs.
Heads up, Amadeus warns them. He needs six seconds. They don’t have six seconds, Angel urges. Dude this is alien code, Amadeus retorts. A hundred government cryptographers would take ten years to figure it out. So the fact that he’s gonna crack it in one more second…. Aw nuts, he swears as they see the Hulk jumping down from the ship and towards a being in a battle-suit. The shock impact causes waves.
Namora and Angel begin to help the people in the boats. Amadeus tries to reach the people aboard the spaceship.
Does anyone want to talk to this human? one of the Warbound asks.
Amadeus insists that they have to tell the Hulk he has friends down here. Friends? Miek asks. Amadeus insists that the Hulk helped him. He knows he is not a killer. Let him talk to him. Miek interrupts the communication. Great, Amadeus mutters the next moment as they are hit by an EMP effect.
Moments later, they crash into the pier. Two men from the boat run into the other direction. Where are they going? Angel asks them. What’s wrong with them?
The young African-American teenager angrily tells him his name is Tom Foster. His uncle was Bill Foster; those heroes blew a hole through his chest. So now he’s gonna go watch the Hulk rip Iron Man in half.
An explosion rips up the ground beneath them. Amadeus figures it’s a gas leak and tells Herc to hit the ground at a certain point. Those cracks came from the impact of Iron Man’s fight with the Hulk and they are just getting started. The heroes begin to evacuate people and save lives. Tom finally asks them to be quiet. It’s stopped.
They find the Hulk amidst the debris. Amadeus calls out to him, asking if he remembers. They met at that diner in Jackalope, New Mexico. Those dudes in black helicopters wanted him to work for them. When he said no, they killed his parents and his sister Maddy. And they were about to kill him. But the Hulk helped him. So now he is here to help him. Help him? the Hulk snarls. With his army of puny humans? He screams at him in rage.
Hercules orders Amadeus back. He steps in front of the boy when the Hulk gets ready to hit him and takes the blow. Namora tries to hold his arm back, so the Hulk tosses her into the air and into Angel.
Hercules tackles him with renewed strength. Then he makes pacifying gestures, asking him no more. In response, the Hulk hits him again. No more, Hercules asks again and again. They are here to help. He points at the crowd that has gathered. They’re all here to help. Will he let them?


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New York City:Didn’t they hear him? the annoyed and confused Hulk addresses the singular crowd. He’s a monster!
The battered Hercules, who has become the people’s spokesman, retorts that, if that were true, his skull would be as broken as his pride. The Hulk could have killed them but, when he learned that Hercules, Angel, Namora and young Amadeus Cho came to help, not fight, he stayed his blows. So stop playing tough, he suggests and points toward the crowd, and meet the rest of his fans!
Some people step hesitatingly forward, among them young Tom Foster, nephew of Bill Foster, the deceased hero Goliath.
Who are they? the Hulk asks. “We’re you”, an elderly man dressed in a sheet replies surprisingly. He is the big monster. Strong. Angry. Dangerous. They are the little monsters. Sick, poor, crazy. The “heroes” sent the Hulk to die on a savage planet. They left them to rot in their slums and asylums. So when he tears down their golden palaces, he gives them hope.
Umn, Archangel intervenes, just for the record: Not everyone here is automatically for the destruction of the country’s social, economic and military structure. “Speak for yourself!” Tom Foster snarls. Okay, Warren tries to calm the young man. He blames Mr. Fantastic and Iron Man for what happened to Goliath during the Civil War—
“Don’t dance around it!” Tom shouts. They killed his uncle!
Even if that were the whole story, Warren insists, you don’t really want to kill them in return. He doesn’t know what he—
Warren interrupts. Look at Tom, and Amadeus too! They are bourgie kids from the suburbs. They want justice. Not anarchy. Not murder!
Warren turns to the Hulk. The point is he states, that they want justice. For the Hulk. For everyone. So they’ve come to meet him halfway. To see if they can’t figure out a way to make it happen.
Get away from him! the Hulk orders coldly. Or they’ll all die! Amadeus insists he is bluffing. Now! the Hulk shouts and stomps the ground, the shockwave making everyone around him lose their footing. Still Amadeus insists. They know him and he doesn’t kill.
Moments later, missiles and helicopters home in on the Hulk and fire at him. Everybody down! someone shouts. The Hulk is hit and shouts in pain. Amadeus wants to ask how he is. The Hulk snarls in pain and rage… and attacks the choppers. Amadeus exclaims that they were talking to him and the military go and shoot him full of adamantium shrapnel?
Archangel tries to help the pilots. General “Thunderbolt” Ross replies to Amadeus, guessing he’s the smart kid. So they say, Amadeus replies and tells him to call off his troops, or—
Or what? General Ross asks. He knows about Amadeus’ big brain and how he downed Gabe Jones’ SHIELD transport, so his birds are flying one hundred percent manual. No fancy computer systems for him to hack! Amadeus swears.
Ross continues that the Hulk’s crew has scattered and all hell’s breaking loose, so why doesn’t Amadeus get his band of renegades out of his warzone now? Why doesn’t Ross get his war zone out of Amadeus’ bunch of renegades? Amadeus shoots back.
Hercules warns Amadeus and Amadeus cuts short the conversation with Ross, seeing as how the Warbound have just arrived with one of Ross’ stupid missiles on their tail.
Amadeus jumps across one alien and tosses the Adamantium shrapnel he salvaged up at the missile. It damages the controls and it flies into a building. Sweet, Amadeus triumphs as Archangel flies him away. Confused, the Warbound wonder if that extremely puny human just saved them?
Namora replies he did and it just happened again, as she repels another missile (though she is hardly puny and only marginally human). The Brood drags her down out of the way of another missile and hisses. Namora saved the hivelings, so today she lives, it tells her. But tomorrow it might eat her. Unimpressed, Namora retorts it saved her, so today it lives. But tomorrow she will gut it alive for insulting a princess of Atlantis!
Hey, you guys, Amadeus shouts. Falling building at ten ‘o clock! Hercules asks the rocky Warbound Krog how strong he is. He guesses he is strong enough, comes the reply as both hold up a falling building.
Holy cow! Rick Jones exclaims from a nearby rooftop. Suddenly, he is attacked by a green-haired masked woman calling herself the Scorpion. She is joined by her employer Gabe Jones of SHIELD.
In the meantime, as things have calmed down below, another Warbound explains who they are. They fought by the Hulk’s side in the old empire’s arenas of death. Now they stand by the Green Scar to the end.
Amadeus introduces his group as the Renegades. They heard what happened to the Hulk. They are here to help. One of the Warbound, Hiroim, shakes Amadeus’ hand. Amadeus suggests they find the Hulk before things get too--
A moment later, the Hulk lands. He guesses he found them, Hiroim remarks. Taking apart the rest of the missiles, the Hulk grumbles about stupid puny humans. Aw, snap! Amadeus mutters a moment later as another missile attacks.
Namora orders the people to take cover as she and Archangel fly up to face it. Not again! the Hulk shouts. He jumps up, moves the two heroes aside and catches the missile -- which explodes right in front of him. Hurt, he falls down. Rick Jones, Scorpion and his Warbound run to him. Rick reaches him first. The Hulk order him to leave him alone, as he walks away, with the Warbound following.
Rick and Amadeus both try to call him back. Hiroim suggests they don’t. He saved their lives. Now they should honor his wishes. He doesn’t understand, Amadeus insists. They came to help! And he did, Hiroim replies. They who stand here have proven themselves. Of all the human “heroes” only they may walk free in this city. They honor their puny people with their strength. So stay and protect them. But the Hulk has warned them. Those who join him are doomed. Follow the Warbound and they will surely die!
But-- Amadeus protests to be interrupted by Gabe Jones of SHIELD. As far as he can tell he is the highest-ranking military officer on the ground. And they are the bunch of Renegades who’ll probably get hung as traitors when this gets sorted out. But right now, they have an alien threat to confront and civilians to protect and so he is unofficially deputizing each and every one of them!
Amadeus begins to protest and is ignored as Gabe Jones turns to Rick Jones. He tells him to find the Hulk and try to talk some sense into him. Rick agrees. To hell with that! Amadeus shouts. He’s going! Jones reminds him that he’s spent ten minutes with the Hulk. Rick’s spent years with him. Amadeus tell him who has a better chance of reaching Banner? Who said anything about reaching Banner? Amadeus retorts, surprising Jones. He came the to help the Hulk, Amadeus continues.
The Hulk’s insane, Jones scoffs. Are they blind? Amadeus retorts. The Hulk just saved a hundred people. Banner saved them, Rick corrects him. Is he high? Amadeus scoffs. Banner had nothing to do with this. The only skinny white dude he’s seen today is Rick.
So he thinks the Hulk is the hero? Rick asks. The Hulk hit him three times in the first three days he knew him. He tried to kill Rick on the fourth. Yeah well, Rick looks pretty healthy to him, Amadeus points out. Dude, he broke his back, Rick protests. Whatever, Amadeus replies. He came here to help the Hulk and that’s what he’s gonna do. And none of them can stop him.
Surprisingly, Gabe Jones agrees. Amadeus brain is so big he’s probably figured out how to ditch them all and tape a “kick me” sing on his backside on the way out. Yes, that he could, Hercules agrees jovially and nudges Archangel.
But the big brain is exactly why he needs Amadeus s here, Jones continues. The battles in this city have created hundreds of impact points. Any one of which could lead to gas explosions, flooding electrical fires, chemical spills or structural collapse. He can let Rick Jones go. He’s just semi-smart. Thanks a lot, Rick replies sourly. But Amadeus is the only one who can hack these logistics fast enough to prevent a total disaster. Now, is he gonna play the hero or be one?
Rick gets ready to go and he and Amadeus respectfully wave at each other.
Sometime later, Gabe Jones joins Amadeus, Archangel, Namora and Hercules on a rooftop and congratulates Amadeus for helping save a couple hundred lives and about sixteen billion dollars of Manhattan real estate.
What’s the word from Rick Jones? Amadeus asks. Nothing, comes the reply; what are they looking at? See for yourself. My God, Jones exclaims as he sees what they are seeing, the Hulk building an arena within Manhattan. All right, Jones decides. If anybody ever asks, they never had this conversation. If Amadeus really thinks he can stop the Hulk, he’s on.
What did Hiroim say? Archangel recalls “Arenas of deat?” It’s a bluff, Amadeus figures, he’s just making a point. He doesn’t know, Hercules muses. If they’d killed his family, he’d be happy to watch them tear each other to pieces. Namora agrees. Well, Amadeus points out, Herc is from Olympus and Namora from Atlantis. But Bruce Banner is from Ohio. They thought Amadeus wasn’t interested in Banner, Warren points out. Whatever, the boy replies.
Each of them gets a beeper. If it starts buzzing something has gone wrong. That’s their signal to grab every civilian in sight and get the hell out of Dodge. No, Hercules, corrects him, that’s their signal to come save his skinny mortal behind. No, Amadeus replies, he’s serious. If the Hulk really loses it, none of them can stop him. So they should leave him to die? Namora asks. Yeah, it makes sense, the boy replies.
Warren laughs that nothing they’ve ever done together makes sense. No point in turning reasonable now! Hercules remarks Amadeus may have tricked them in following him. And they may never recover the friends and fortune they’ve lost as a result. But he regrets nothing. Because everything they four have done they’ve done for the right reasons. He’s proud to stand with them, his fellow Renegades. He puts out his hand, the other two heroes grab it, as finally does a sniffing Amadeus.
Nighttime: Amadeus tries to sneak into the arena. Scorpion behind him takes out an alien guard and explains Gabe Jones figured he could use a shadow. He orders her not to get in his way. Fine she agrees, taking out another alien.
Hang on! he tells her and stops to devour a chocolate bar. Can’t that wait? She asks impatiently. Gotta feed the brain, he explains, and the brain wants chocolate. He’s weird, she sighs. He’s not the one in the ninja belly dancer suit, Amadeus retorts.
Suddenly, they hear a scream of pain. He ready for this? she asks. Let’s do it! he agrees. His opinion changes a moment later when they stare downward their balcony to see imprisoned heroes. Namely Luke Cage, Doc Samson, Ms Marvel, the Thing, the Invisible Woman, the Torch and She-Hulk… and aliens torturing Thunderbolt Ross.
This isn’t… this isn’t… Amadeus stammers. He’s afraid it is, comes a voice from behind. Amadeus turns around to see the speaker. Reed Richard in a cell. They meet at last, Mr. Fantastic remarks wryly, before adding they haven’t got much time, referring to the disks bonded to him. Those are obedience disks, pretty self-explanatory. Whenever they try to do something the disks don’t like they blast them with unbearable pain.
He refers to Tony Stark, lying unconscious in the neighbor cell. He passed out an hour ago but his disk is till sparking. He thinks Tony is fighting in his sleep. He should have saved his strength. Apparently, back on Sakaar the Red King used these disks to force slaves to fight in the arena to the death.
Amadeus replies he’s come to find the Hulk. He’ll talk to him. Sort this out. Talking won’t work, comes the weak voice of Stark. The heroes have failed. The military can’t strike. All they have left are the nukes and that’ll just make him stronger. It’s up to Amadeus now. He knows Amadeus idolizes the Hulk, but he’s the smart kid. He knows Amadeus has thought about this. He has a plan! He has to end this. Or the Hulk will kill every hero here.
No, Amadeus insists. The Hulk’s not a killer! Hmpf, comes a voice from behind him. The Hulk towers over him. Wanna bet?


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New York City:Day two of the Reign of the Green King:The Renegades, Angel, Namora and Hercules, are standing on a rooftop, looking at the Hulk’s newly-built arena from afar. So, their supposed buddy, the Hulk, has captured the Avengers and Fantastic Four and now he is turning Madison Square Garden into a hellhole straight out of “Spartacus,” Angel summarizes. Anyone starting to wonder whether they picked the wrong side in this fight?
Namora stoically reminds him that his “heroes” massacred the Hulk’s people. He should slit them gullet to chin and ring the city with their spiked heads. Okay, don’t take this the wrong way, he replies… but every time she opens her mouth, she totally freaks him out!
Hercules advises him to lighten up. They are the Renegades now. Talking trash is practically a requirement of the job. Fine, Angel replies stubbornly. He just wants to make sure that they all know eviscerating people for whatever reason is a very bad thing. Aye, Hercules agrees, in this millennium anyway.
Namora tells him not to worry. Amadeus Cho should reach the Hulk any moment now. And when he speaks reason to the Green King, the lives of Angel’s precious heroes will no doubt be saved. That’s a lot riding on one kid, Angel muses.
He has the heart of a lion, Hercules proclaims of Amadeus, and he is the seventh smartest person on the planet. He’ll know what to say.
Oh &%$&! is what the seventh smartest person on the planet utters, having been surprised by the Hulk in the dungeon, talking to Reed Richards and Iron Man. Amadeus said he was on his side, the Hulk remarks, but now he finds him here in his dungeon, talking with his enemies?
Reed Richards tells Amadeus to run. Chillax, Amadeus tells him. He’s not gonna-- In response the Hulk begins to draw his sword. He’s going to kill him! Reed shouts. Run now! He’s not running because the Hulk doesn’t kill! Amadeus insists, even as the Hulk throws his sword at him which tears the side of his jacket but doesn’t actually hurt Amadeus. “T-told ya,” he states.
“Jackass!” Scorpion shouts and drags him away before the Hulk’s fist pulverizes him. He’s trying to prove a point, Amadeus insists as the shockwave makes them both fall into the sewer. Scorpion orders him to stay back. Look, he tells her annoyed, she may have a poison arm, an exposed belly button and a summer job at SHIELD but she is not the boss of him, so--
The Hulk follows. Scorpion get ready to use her poison arm on him but, before that can happen, Amadeus hits her over the head with a rock as a guard robot discovers them. The robot is about to attack Amadeus who uses a pebble he gathered earlier throws it on the pipe the robot is stepping on, causing the robot to slip, shoot at a water pipe above and be shorted out by the water.
Okay, Amadeus turns back to the Hulk, as he was about to tell him… he drags Scorpion out of the water and explains that she is packed with a cocktail of new toxins intended by SHIELD to destroy the Hulk’s gamma powered physiology. Which means, before the Hulk’s robot pal arrived, Amadeus had already saved his big green can. Just in case, he needed more proof that Amadeus was on his side.
He takes out a plan of a map and puts a Hulk action figure on it. Amadeus explains he stole 1.2. billion dollars from Warren Worthington III and bought a few thousand acres near a downsized military base in the New Mexico area, including the old atomic test site where the Hulk was born. He’s been working on this device. It creates a green energy dome above the map. This is just a tiny version. The completed machine would project a shield over the entire area. Any non-gamma powered creature that tried to enter would pass out. And any technology that entered would get shorted out, so they couldn’t bomb there. It’ll be the Hulk’s place where they’ll finally leave him alone. He’s calling it Gammaworld. What does he think?
The Hulk hesitates, then replies that Amadeus has it all figured out. Just one thing: Why would he hide from the humans when he came here to kill them? Whatever, Amadeus snorts, clearly disbelieving. The Hulk grins nastily. Cho doesn’t know him at all. There used to be a town called Stoneridge, New Mexico. The Hulk tore into it. News reporters said hundreds died. But he doesn’t remember a thing, does he? Amadeus replies surprisingly. ‘Cause he wasn’t even there. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about, the Hulk shoots back. ‘Course he does, Amadeus replies. The Hulk’s body was there, but there was no mind inside it. Doc Samson had separated Banner from the Hulk’s body. The mindless Hulk w s the one who killed those people. Samson is the one who’s been losing sleep over this for years, not the Hulk.
How does he know that? the Hulk asks. He’s read every document about the Hulk in every government base imaginable, Cho explains. He’s studied every recording and report of every fight he’s ever been in. So he knows what’s happening. He’s figured out how the Hulk’s brain works. He’s like Amadeus. He can see the mathematics of every object around him. As long as his brain isn’t tampered with, there is a part of him that’s always running the numbers. He knows where the innocent are and how to save them. How many times has he fought the military? How many tanks and helicopters has he smashed? And not a single soldier has died. Yesterday he brought down the Sentry’s Aerie. He smashed the top of the Baxter Building. He pulverized all those heroes and hasn’t killed a soul.
Hmpf, the Hulk replies, nonplussed. Couple of years ago he killed a guy named Trauma. Twice. In self-defense, Amadeus points out. How’d he know that? the Hulk asks, taken aback. He guessed, Amadeus grins. Gotcha!
Few years before, he killed an alien named Filana. He’s seen the files, Amadeus replies. He was an assassin sent by Lord Visis of K’ai to rub out his girlfriend, Jarella. He killed half a dozen American soldiers, then blew up a big array of machinery… He snapped his back over his knee, the Hulk interrupts. And then a year later he smashed the castle of Lord Visis himself. Just as he smashed the Red King of Sakaar. Yeah, and Captain America killed himself some Nazis, Amadeus replies unimpressed. Big deal. This was war.
“War?” the Hulk asks grabs Amadeus by the lapel and jumps outside. He shows him the devastated grounds. So is this. Reed Richards, Iron Man, Black Bolt and Doctor Strange destroyed his world! Now maybe they’ll know what it feels like! Yeah, Amadeus replies unimpressed. His little speech about that got broadcast to every corner of the world. He’s already won! No matter what happens now, everyone knows what those guys did. So let’s get out of here--
He still doesn’t understand, the Hulk replies. Then why hasn’t he killed them already? Amadeus insists. Because he knows it isn’t their fault, he replies himself. Yeah, they are lying, incompetent morons but he hasn’t seen any evidence they deliberately killed all those people. So the Hulk is not going to kill them. He is right, the Hulk agrees. They are gonna kill each other.
They look at the stadium. The audience is on the one hand made up of bloodthirsty hero haters and “the end is near” freaks on the other. Amadeus is at a loss for words. He isn’t kidding, is he? The Hulk doesn’t reply. Okay then, Amadeus adopts a fighting stance. Just remember, you brought this on yourself, he warns the Hulk who asks what is the matter with him. He’s the smart kid, remember? Amadeus replies. He can stop a rhino with a grape. So, he knows exactly where to hit him to cause the maximum— He hits the Hulk in the torso and shouts out in pain. Okay, he knew this was gonna happen, he insists. He was just testing to see if the Hulk knew. He grabs a wrench and hits the Hulk’s knee. Unimpressed the Hulk asks what he is doing. Stalling, comes he surprising reply.
“Hey Amadeus, you paged? Angel calls and tosses Scorpion at the Hulk’s back Immediately she injects him with her poison. He swats her aside. He sinks down clearly in agony as a reaction to the poison.
He thought she was only going to stun him, Angel protests. He thought wrong, Scorpion replies coolly. This is the end! Hercules, Namora and Angel are horrified. Angel promises the Hulk help. Wait, Amadeus asks. Incredulous, Namora reminds him they turned their back on everything they hold dear to follow Amadeus because he convinced them the Hulk’s cause was noble. And now he tells them to stand by while he is killed? Amadeus asks them to trust him.
Turning to the screaming Hulk, he sarcastically congratulates him. He tells him in a low voice he’s convinced himself and them he is a killer. So now they’re gonna let him die. But before he goes Amadeus wants him to know… everything he blames on everyone else… it’s all his own fault! His girlfriend Jarella… his wife Betty and his queen Caiera. They died because of him. All his fault. ”Suck it up, you monster!”
What did he say to him? Scorpion asks. He’ll tell them later. Right now he thinks they better run, he shouts as the Hulk’s rage overcomes his pain. Angel flies away Scorpion while Hercules steps between the Hulk and Amadeus. The Hulk uses a rock to smash him aside, then looks down at Amadeus. He emits a cry of pure rage. Whatever, Amadeus replies. The Hulk raises his fists and brings them down. Then, without a word he leaves the crater and walks away.
The Renegades fear the worst. Hercules begins digging for Amadeus amidst the debris to find him unhurt. The Hulk didn’t lay a finger on him. He could have killed him, Hercules points out. But he didn’t, Amadeus retorts. And he’s not gonna kill anyone else. He pushed the Hulk as hard as he possibly could and is still alive. The Hulk is no monster!
He believes him, Hercules replies, he just hopes the Hulk does too. Alongside his Warbound, the Hulk is entering the arena…


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Mayan Rule, part I: Bloodletting
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, where a very special gathering of super heroes is taking place. ‘Holy gee…I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Northern Lights so clear from down this far!’ exclaims Eugene Milton Judd a.k.a. the diminutive Puck of Alpha Flight, when suddenly, from the brilliance appears his teammate, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora, who declares ‘I prefer you call it the aurora, Puck. I promise I won’t get confused’, before adding that this has to be the place, and she tells their teammate Dr Michael Twoyoungmen a.k.a. Shaman that he was right. ‘I knew I was’ the aged hero replies, adding that the sky spirits were too strong for this not to be. In amongst the dense bush, Alpha Flight’s leader James “Mac” MacDonald Hudson a.k.a. Guardian steps forward and states that he might call it ionic disruption, adding to the effect of the Earth’s magnetic field. ‘You would, Mac’ Puck remarks.
Motioning to the large glowing temple amongst the forest, Guardian states that it is still not half as strange as the Mayan temple here in the Canadian Rockies. ‘Is this what you expected to find?’ Mac asks, turning to General Thunderbolt Ross in his guise of the Red Hulk. ‘Wasn’t sure what it would be’ Red Hulk replies, before announcing that they need to tear it down. He starts to move down the cliffside towards the temple, accompanied by Guardian, Aurora, Puck, Shaman and the rest of Alpha Flight - Dr Walter Langkowski a.k.a. Sasquatch, the goddess Narya a.k.a. Snowbird, and the alien with attitude, Marrina. Joining them are Rick Jones, in his form known as “A-Bomb”, and Aaron Stack the Machine Man.
Snowbird flies behind the group in the form of the ookpik, while Guardian and Aurora fly overhead. ‘Whatever it is, I hate it!’ Marrina declares as she leaps alongside the Red Hulk, and Sasquatch, his mind in an alerted state, exclaims ‘Sasquatch smash with Red Hulk’, while the Machine Man announces that his scans have returned inconclusive structure, suggesting it is a hologram, but that it is affecting the wind around it. Aurora announces that she will go in for reconnaissance. ‘Give me five seconds!’ she tells everyone as she flies ahead, while A-Bomb warns everyone that this is quite a force they have got here, ‘But so are the things we’re up against’ he adds.
Flashback, two weeks ago:Chichen Itza, Yucatan, where a bus of tourists drives through the lush landscape. The tour guide thanks everyone for their patience, and explains that they are limiting tours until some work is completed at the site. ‘And you’re the last one of the day!’ he adds. ‘Look, Ray, monkeys!’ a rather plump woman inside the bus exclaims to her husband, who is trying to turn the flash off the camera. ‘Where’s all this “work” that’s being done?’ Rick Jones asks, sitting towards the back of the bus, when suddenly, the tour guide announces that it is all inside.
The tourists and Rick pile out of the bus, while the guide announces that this is the Temple of Kukulkan, which he has been referring to as the Castle. As Rick looks around at the various artifacts and totem poles, the tour guide states that the first stage of the temple was built in the 19th century. ‘Most of you heard me talk about feathered serpent gods and how it works as a calendar on the way over’ he adds, remarking that for the past few years, their government has restricted public access to the pyramid. ‘But I have a special treat for you today!’ he exclaims, leading the group down to an opening on the side of the temple, he declares that since this is such a small group, he is going to let them see something only their archeologists are allowed to view.
‘Wow!’ someone gasps as they make their way down the narrow opening. ‘Aren’t there any lights in here?’ someone else asks. The tour guide reports that the Mayans would have used torches, and holding up a small light, tells everyone to stay close to him, and reports that they are about to start heading upwards. Rick pulls out his mobile phone: ‘Jen.. Lyra. I’m in El Castillo, Jones-mode’ he says into a video-link up with Jennifer Walters and Lyra, both known by the same alias of She-Hulk. Lyra reports that they are at Uxmal, and that they have stopped doing tours, so she and Jennifer are going in green. Jen tells Rick that they will all check in together in two hours, and wishes Rick luck. ‘You too’ Rick replies.
The tour guide leads the group into another part of the temple, ‘Cool!’ one of the tourists exclaims. ‘I thought we were going to the temple up top’ another begins, while the guide explains that this is the inner temple, and calls everyone inside, telling them that they don’t want to lose anybody. ‘Now, you heard me speak earlier about Mayan sacrifice…’ the tour guide begins, when suddenly, the door to the chamber slides closed. ‘Huh’ Rick mutters, while the tour guide holds a small dagger up over his own head. ‘Why did this entrance just seal up?’ Rick enquires. The tour guide ignores him, instead stating that sacrifice was usually done with enemies, as they might imagine, so among their own people, the Mayans would accept bloodletting.
The guide then slices the palm of his hand open with the tip of the blade, drawing blood. ‘Ha! That looks so real!’ someone gasps, while the guide lets the blood drip down onto a statue. He explains that the sharing of the blood transferred energy, making lasting bonds, adding that nothing delivered the power of complete sacrifice, for they would not let the life force return to the world. The eyes on the statue light up, and the guide reveals that it all went to the gods. A scantily-clad woman emerges from the statue, and green energy glows around her. ‘Ooooh!’ ‘Hey!’ ‘Awesome!’ ‘This is worth the extra money!’ the guests cry out, while the guide exclaims ‘Rise from the chac mool, Rider!’, and the exotic woman utters ‘I…need…more…’, and so the guide tells her that she will have more. He touches a button on a panel, and two of the tourists are engulfed in beams of energy.
‘What is this!’ one of them gasps. ‘Hey - HEY!’ the other exclaims, while the guide tells the mysterious woman that these should return her in full. Rick Jones suggests to everyone that they try and escape, as this isn’t a show. ‘Mom, I’m scared!’ a boy calls out to his mother, while Rick tries to help one of the tourists trapped in the beams of energy, but he is knocked backwards. ‘You’re right, young man. This is not a show!’ the tour guide declares, as his costume changes, from civilian clothing, into traditional Mayan garb. He continues, announcing that it is the dawn of a new age, and the two people trapped in the energy beams begin to wither, their bodies shuck inwards, until nothing remains but bones and clothing.
‘No!’ ‘Make it stop’ ‘Let us out of here!’ ‘NOW’ the remaining tourists plead. The woman smiles, ‘YES! The life is in me and I am one!’ she exclaims, glancing at the trapped tourists, while the guide looks at Rick and tells him that there are more Riders yet left before their thirteenth katun begins. ‘And your life force will bring them back!’ he exclaims. ‘No, they won’t’ Rick replies, his eyes glow yellow and he mutters that he knew this tour was going somewhere bad. ‘But you didn’t know this temple had an A-Bomb in it!’ Rick booms as he transforms himself into his alter-ego of A-Bomb. ‘It is him!’ the mysterious woman gasps, while the transformed guide declares ‘He has a human aspect now!’
The guide congratulates Rick on making it into one of their chambers, and the woman casts some energy above her, while A-Bomb tells them that he is going to drop it on their heads. ‘You people are going back into the ground!’ he warns them, while the woman tells him that his mind waves show confidence that they cannot hurt him. ‘This is true’ she declares, and her energy strikes some of the civilians, ‘They do not have your armor’ she points out as the tourists are disintegrated. ‘NOOO! Stop, dammit. Stop!’ A-Bomb pleads, only for the woman to tell him that his gamma-enhanced power cannot harm them on their own ground. ‘Please don’t do this!’ A-Bomb tells her, as more of the tourists are vaporized. ‘Richard!’ one of the women gasps, while a boy calls out to his father. A-Bomb suddenly grabs the civilian woman and her son, ‘Tuck in! We’re going…out!’ he exclaims as he hurls himself through the side of the temple, bursting out into the open.
They land away from the temple, ‘Are you all right - stupid question. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry’ A-Bomb tells the woman and her son, who calls out for his daddy. ‘Going to be okay’ the woman whispers to her son. The mysterious woman calls down to Rick, telling him that they were actually grateful to him, as he could have had a place in their new world. ‘Now there will be nowhere for you in it. Nowhere you can hide from us’ the transformed tour guide warns Rick. Rick watches as the mystery Mayans tell him that they know his human form now.
Flashback, one week ago:Gamma Base, New Mexico, a monitor depicts someone approach from the south, someone with clearance, riding a motorcycle. ‘The file is coming up’ a voice reports, but General Thunderbolt Ross exclaims ‘No need. A motorcycle? It’s Rick’ he declares. ‘Identity: Richard Jones’ states Machine Man as he and the Life Model Decoy called Annie follow Thunderbolt Ross down a corridor. Machine Man states that Rick Jones trespassed on Gamma Base test site as a teenager, during the prime event blast, and later played a key role in bringing together the Avengers, while, for a time, fought alongside Captain America. Machine Man continues, adding that Rick Jones was recently subjected to experimental DNA from a hostile known as the Abomination, resulting in gamma-absorption ability.
Machine Man continues, stating that in his transmuted form, Jones is known as A-Bomb, with the following physical qualities - level 100 strength, near impervious armor and complete camouflaging cell structure. ‘Like I said, Rick’ Thunderbolt Ross declares. Rick enters the corridor, ‘Ross? I’ve screwed up’ he announces, adding that he has unleashed something horrible on the world. ‘Figured you’d know some things about that’ Rick adds, causing Ross to frown.
Present:Red Hulk turns to A-Bomb and exclaims ‘You said when you first encountered these people, they were trapped in crystal underground. But they could still make you see them like they were free?’, to which A-Bomb replies that the Mayans tricked him into letting them out, and while the She-Hulks tried to stop him, he kept seeing them as monsters. Machine Man projects a recording from Rick’s Bannertech phone, which recorded the incident, showing She-Hulk and Lyra trying to keep A-Bomb at bay. ‘Thanks, Aaron. I’d like for everybody to see exactly how stupid I can be’ Rick mutters, while the recording shows She-Hulk telling A-Bomb that he was unleashing an ancient evil.
‘They have serious mental powers. You’ve opened Pandora’s Box’ Aurora remarks, while reminding him that he said the She-Hulks were helping him track the immortals, she asks where they are now. Rubbing his head, A-Bomb replies that he has no idea, for after the pyramid vanished in front of him, he tried to call them, but the temple they went to investigate is also gone, and the women with it. Puck leaps up into a tree, and asks ‘How’s we know this thing isn’t some big illusion, then? Or is moving pyramids thousands of miles only weird ta me?’ The heroes look towards the temple, which has a bright light glowing atop it. Red Hulk reports that at their base, they scanned satellite images looking for density and weight, and announces that it is real enough. ‘But if you’re saying it might be a trap, you’re right’ he adds, declaring that he and Rick will go in first.
Before Red Hulk and A-Bomb can move in, however, Guardian drops down in front of them, ‘I appreciate the gesture…and you following international protocol by informing us of action within our territory. But I want real intel on this before things go down’ Mac announces. He adds that if they want this scouted out, then there is none better than Aurora. ‘This will not take long’ Aurora replies as she once again flies ahead. Machine Man reports that he is reading erratic temporal fields from this, and shows an image of the Earth, suggesting that the pyramid occupies several temporal junctions around the world at once, and shifts focus between points. He adds that it may have even existed in Egypt for a while.
‘Then Thor Heyerdahl was righter than he knew’ Guardian remarks. ‘Where Thor?’ Sasquatch asks, but Snowbird, who has transformed into her default form, explains ‘Not that Thor’, to which Sasquatch exclaims ‘Not make fun at Sasquatch!’, but Guardian assures his old friend that no one is making fun of him. ‘But we may need you to switch back to Walter to help us analyze this situation’ Mac explains. However, the next voice that comes from Sasquatch is not that of Sasquatch, or Walter Langkowski. ‘I think you know all that you need to about us, Dr Hudson’ the voice utters, before Sasquatch roars, and knocks Guardian and Puck backwards, through rocks and trees. ‘Walter, no!’ Snowbird gasps.
‘They’ve gotten to him!’ Red Hulk exclaims as he and A-Bomb rush towards Sasquatch, while Snowbird begins to morph into a Wendigo, and tells Walter to turn human, to cast the evil ones out. But Sasquatch just growls at her, and prepares to strike her, until A-Bomb lunges in-between them, ‘Don’t hit the pretty morphing lady’ he exclaims, before Sasquatch punches him aside. ‘Calm down, Bigfoot. I’ll knock those invaders out of you!’ Red Hulk exclaims, smashing Sasquatch backwards against a tree. Shaman steps forward, ‘That will not free Sasquatch!’ he exclaims as he casts a spell, announcing that he can draw out the possessors.
Once again the strange voice inside Sasquatch speaks out: ‘Can you work the ancient forces? You must die above all’, before Guardian flies up towards Sasquatch, who Shaman has tangled amongst the trees with his mystical power. ‘Who are you people? Why are you here?’ Guardian calls out as he fires an electromagnetic blast of energy at Sasquatch. Sasquatch frees himself from the tangle, and drops to the ground, he rips a tree from its roots, and uses it to smack into the side of a cliff, causing large rocks to fall towards the heroes. ‘Before we were buried by traitors…we learned how to move across the world. You Northern Gods have power of the Earth. Your life is power’ the voice from within Sasquatch calls out.
Red Hulk struggles to hold a massive boulder back from striking the remaining heroes, and tells them to quit holding back with Sasquatch. In her Wendigo form, Snowbird lunges at Sasquatch, the voice within exclaims ‘You should listen to the Red God. Now your toy wants to battle’. Snowbird latches herself on to Sasquatch, while Machine Man raises a weapon and replies ‘If I am a toy, then I must require adult supervision’ as he begins firing - but the possessed Sasquatch throws Snowbird into the weapons fire, striking her in her Wendigo form. ‘Snowbird!’ someone cries out, concerned, while Red Hulk rises from the rubble of the boulder and asks Machine Man ‘What’s with your aim?’, to which Machine Man replies that they are coordinating the attack psychically, that unseen others are at work here.
‘They’re bringing us in closer!’ Red Hulk snarls, narrowing his eyes. Suddenly, ‘Hang on, team. I’m back!’ Marrina declares as she emerges from some rubble, while Red Hulk sees A-Bomb grab Sasquatch, and tells him to let go. Machine Man agrees, and announces that Sasquatch’s possessor is pulling them to the pyramid. Snowbird has recovered and still in her Wendigo form, latches on to her teammate, ‘Let us help you!’ she exclaims, while A-Bomb tries pulling Sasquatch away from the temple. Red Hulk lunges forward, ‘Rick! It’s a trap!’ he shouts, while a voice calls out ‘Pull them in…bring them all in!’. Sasquatch and Snowbird enter the temple, while Red Hulk manages to pull A-Bomb back by his leg. ‘Let…go!’ Red Hulk exclaims, while A-Bomb asks him what he is doing. ‘I’m not giving them what they want!’ Red-Hulk replies, as both behemoths are knocked to the ground.
An astral projection of the mysterious woman appears overhead, ‘Very perceptive, Hulk. Yet we have almost all we need now. And you brought them’ she exclaims, announcing that he put them ahead of schedule, and that the gamma race has been instrumental in their return here. ‘We have no more need for these…’ she adds, and A-Bomb looks down to the ground, ‘NO!’ he booms as the withered forms of She-Hulk and Lyra lay motionless before him….


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Mayan Rule, part II: Reunion
San Miguel, El Salvador, where civilians flee in a panic. ‘Get to safety!’ someone exclaims, as the sky turns dark, lightning strikes, and a massive wave of water rushes towards them down a busy street. A voice from above calls out to them, ‘It hurts me to have to do this, my people. But as much as it does you, but my pain is more important’ the voice exclaims, as a scantily-clad woman, whose revealing outfit is comprised of jaguar-print animal skin, drops down, and walks on the water, ‘I hear your fear. I hear your respect. Soon I will hear y our love again’ she exclaims. Clouds thicken in the sky above, and more lightning strikes, while people, vehicles and buildings are tossed about in the raging waters like a children’s toys in a bathtub. The woman holds her left hand into the air, metallic claws attached to her fingers, she tells the people ‘Your ancestors once worshipped us. They knew me as Ixchel, the Jaguar Goddess. In the thunderstorms, you hear me voice. When I want to move you, the floods come. The time of the Mayapan is now. You will come to greatness with us’.
Meanwhile, at Gamma Base, in Death Valley, Rick Jones, in his form known as A-Bomb and General Thunderbolt Ross stand before a monitor, linked up to a hospital where three members of Canada’s premiere super heroes, Alpha Flight, are recovering from injuries. James Macdonald Hudson a.k.a. Guardian lies in his bed, while Dr Michael “Shaman” Twoyoungmen sits up in his. Rick reports that Doc Hudson has a pretty nice concussion from the slam he received from Sasquatch, while Shaman is a little better, and starting to eat. Suddenly, Eugene Milton Judd a.k.a. Puck appears on the monitor, his broken arm in a sling, he exclaims ‘Look, where are you guys? I’m patched up here, I want to go after these people! They’ve got most of Alpha Flight!’
A-Bomb tells Puck that they are taking in a lot of stuff now, and will move on it right away. ‘I promise I’ll let you -’ he begins, but Puck interrupts him, ‘C’mon, Jones! I don’t even know how to contact you, don’t tell me to wait! Where are you? I’ll take a transport there now!’ Judd declares, but A-Bomb quickly announces that he has to check some stuff and will get back to him, before ending the transmission. Rick tells Thunderbolt Ross that he hates this, that he knows Puck is worried. ‘But his friends might still be alive’ he adds. ‘Maybe not just his, Rick. Let’s go to the lab’ Ross replies.
Entering the lab, they see Jennifer Walters and Lyra, both known as She-Hulk, in tanks of fluid, hooked up to monitors. Machine Man explains that their metabolisms have been slowed down to a near imperceptible point, and that his equipment perceived it, though he immediately put Jen and Lyra into a nutrient bath, and has been using electro-stimulus.
‘You mean…there’s still a chance - they’re alive?’ A-Bomb asks, to which Machine Man tells him that it depends on his definition of living, which seems to come up a lot around here. ‘I’ve made no progress with this, but as the saying goes…it couldn’t hurt’ Machine Man remarks. General Ross touches the tanks and asks ‘How did they do this to…Hulks? And why?’, adding that if he doesn’t get Lyra back in shape, her mother, Thundra, will come through time and kill him. The LMD called Annie puts a hand on Ross’s shoulder and reminds them that they asked her to run down any reference to Mayan gods, and explains that it wasn’t necessary, as all she had to do was turn on the telemundo. ‘To the briefing room, please’ she tells them.
Everyone gathers in the briefing room, and observe the recordings of what is happening in El Salvador. Annie explains that the first to appear was this character calling herself Ixchel, and that last night, she flooded several hectares of El Salvador. Annie reveals that the name is of a figure in the Mayan Pantheon, and she had the aspect of a jaguar, and controlled storms and waters. ‘That’s the woman!’ A-Bomb exclaims angrily, adding that she lured him out and got him to free them from the crystal prison. ‘Okay, that may help’ Annie remarks, before changing the recordings to another: ‘This handsome devil’ she begins, as a monkey-like being appears on screen. Annie declares that he was spotted in Guatemala, calling himself Camazotz, and went straight for more prominent figures and leaders, helping himself to their necks. ’They’re not turning into vampires or anything, generally just falling over dead from a lack of blood’ Annie adds, while the monkey-creature snarls, it’s deadly teeth bared, ’Soon we all return! Remember your loyalty, your gods!’ he snarls.
‘What is it with these people? No wonder someone locked them away’ A-Bomb exclaims. ‘They finally get out again and start killing and destroying?’. General Ross decides that it is “shock and awe”, that they are shaking up the populace and upsetting order, and then they will provide their own order, and people will accept t. Annie explains that Ixchel and Camazotz only stuck around for a few hours, but that after the encounter yesterday, a temple returned to Chichen Itza. ’The pyramid, good! The other Alpha Flight members are in there. Let’s go crack it open!’ A-Bomb suggests. ‘We don’t just show up and hope hings break right. But we have a few hours to plan in flight’ General Ross orders, asking Annie to warm up the war bird, and tells Rick to power down so they can fly light.
Soon, the plane streaks across the cloudy sky, with Annie piloting, General Ross, Rick Jones and Machine Man gather around a map. Machine Man explains that on a hunch he has been monitoring Middle East and North African news, and that there has been another development with the Mesoamerican pyramids, revealing that the pyramid from Uxmal in the Yucatan has now appeared in Western Egypt. ‘This is not gloating, but I did hypothesize this just yesterday’ Machine Man states. Rick announces that is the pyramid Jen went to, while General Ross points out that it is not far from Sharzhad, and adds that Dagan Shah will probably blame him for that. Machine Man states that he believes they are rebuilding a network that allowed for this level of teleportation, while Annie announces that they are coming within range, thirty miles from Chichen Itza, and that there is enough room for her to land. ‘That‘s what they‘d expect us to do. Show up hitting. That‘s why we‘re going to launch‘ General Ross replies, as he fires a missile from the jet down towards the temple.
‘What are you doing, Ross? The captures are probably in there!’ Annie exclaims. General Ross replies that it is just a wall buster, not enough to nuke the place, as he wants to see what they are up against. Machine Man detects no countermeasures, and an instant later, the missile strikes the temple, directly - before vanishing. ‘What happened? Did they disintegrate it?’ General Ross asks. Various images flash before him, and Machine Man announces that he has tracked the missile, to Egypt, and that it has emerged from the Uxmal pyramid and detonated. ‘A portal defense. Flawless’.
Suddenly, a massive fiery form appears to rise up from the temple below. A large face can be made out in the fiery form, and a voice booms: ‘You trespass in the world of the Maya!’, to which Annie tells her companions that they got someone’s attention. The fiery form boasts that no military in the world will stop them from taking back the land that is theirs. ‘All who come will burn in the infinite fires of Tohil, God of the Flame!’ he booms. The jet flies towards Tohil’s gaping mouth. ‘Whoa-heck! Ross!’ Rick calls out, while Thunderbolt Ross fires another missile, this time into Tohil’s mouth. But, Tohil reaches up and strikes the side of the jet. ‘We are compromised!’ Machine Man exclaims as he falls to the floor. ‘Really?’ Thunderbolt Ross mutters as he transforms into the Red Hulk. He then seals off the cockpit, leaving Annie inside it, and telling her to separate the ship.
Rick turns into A-Bomb, while Red Hulk asks Machine Man how fast he can make the fuel tanks explode. Machine Man, alias Aaron Stack, replies that he may need upwards of five seconds. A-Bomb looks out the window as the part of the ship they are in has been separated from the cockpit, and informs Red Hulk that Tohil is reaching out for Annie, indeed, the cockpit is dangerously close to his gaping, flaming mouth. Red Hulk leaps from the ship, and tells Machine Man to get clear so he can do his thing. ‘I’ll deal with Toenail or whatever’ Red Hulk adds as he attempts to punch the flaming behemoth. There is a mighty boom, as the plane explodes over Tohil. ‘Three seconds…good work, Machine Man’ Red Hulk calls out as he drops to the ground below. ‘Keep going, Annie…’ Red Hulk calls out, and proceeds to make his way through the dense bush, ‘Now I can -’ he begins, only for a tree-like Mayan god to appear in front of him: ‘Now you can feel the wrath of the forest!’ the god exclaims.
‘Another one of you? Good’ Red Hulk declares, while tree roots suddenly wrap themselves around his legs. ‘There are many more to come, red devil. We will replace all of your gods of this age’ the Mayan god adds, as he extends a tree-like hand and wraps it around the Red Hulk, who roars. ‘Why would we be replaced by obsolescence?’ Machine Man enquires, as a chainsaw extends from one of his arms, and he cuts away at the tree-like god, in an attempt to free Red Hulk - but an instant later, Tohil appears, and breathes fire down on Machine Man, knocking him backwards. Tohil tells the tree-like god, Yum Kaax, that he could always be withstood, only for A-Bomb to leap into the air, and bust through Tohil’s flaming body, ‘See you got yourself back together - but you shrunk a little in the process!’ he exclaims, suggesting they keep going that way.
At the entrance of the temple, Ixchel and Camazotz appear, alongside a ghoulish figure clad in rags. ‘They still have not brought back our noble sacrifices?’ Ixchel remarks. Taking flight, Camazotz suggests that ages of imprisonment have dulled their warrior skills. ‘Even in the time of our rule…we rarely had to face other gods in battle’ the ghoulish being points out. Annie is crouched behind a tree and watches them. When they leave the area, she rushes into the temple, and makes her way down one of the corridors.
‘Holy hell…what are you supposed to be?’ Red Hulk asks as the ghoulish figure appears over him. A skeleton can be seen underneath the flowing rags, and the god introduces itself as Ah Puch, explaining that the Mayan people would see him at the end of life. ‘They would feel my touch’ Ah Puch adds as he touches Red Hulk on the shoulder. Red Hulk cries out in pain, to which Ah Puch asks ‘It feels no better to you, little god?’, when suddenly, Ixchel arrives on a stream of water, telling Ah Puch to stop. ‘You would waste one the founder needs!’ she exclaims. ‘I am inevitable, I do what I do’ ah Puch replies. ‘You do what is good for the pantheon!’ Ixchel declares, reminding Ah Puch that his touch saps life without storing what is needed.
Ixchel, Tohil, Camazotz, Yum Kaax and Ah Puch now surround Red Hulk, A-Bomb and Machine Man. ‘We have them!’ Tohil announces. ‘Surround the gods of the northern lands, Mayapan!’ Ixchel declares. ‘They are powerful, but we have the numbers!’ she ads. Red Hulk picks up a large rock, and tells Ixchel to stop calling them gods. ‘We may be freaks of nature, but we’re not delusional, like you’ he adds. ‘They wish to hide their nature from us!’ Camazotz exclaims, while Yum Kaax asks ‘Who can hide from the earth itself? All must return to me!’, while Machine Man wraps a tendril around Yum Kaax’s wrist, and as A-Bomb breaks through some tree roots, Ah Puch looms over him and declares ‘All must feel the final embrace of Ah Puch’.
‘Embrace? If I’d known it was going to be that kind of party…’ he begins, before clenching his fists. He shouts ‘You think you’ve got enough? Bring it! I’m going to make you look worse than you did Lyra and Jen‘. A-Bomb asks the Mayan gods what they did to his friends. At the same time, Annie raises a torch in the temple as she continues her search. Suddenly, Machine Man pulls A-Bomb away from Ah Puch and tells Rick and General Ross that they need to get away from here. ‘No way, Aaron! These fools are going down!’ A-Bomb replies, while Red Hulk asks him what is going on. ‘I just did simple math’ Machine Man replies. Looking up at Camazotz and Ixchel, Machine Man states that they arrived when the two She-Hulks went missing, then the pyramid vanished with three of Alpha Flight, and now, there are three more - Tohil, Yum Kaax and Ah Puch.
At that moment, inside the temple, Annie comes across the withered bodies of Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora, the goddess Narya a.k.a. Snowbird, and Dr Walter Langkowski in his form of Sasquatch. The three founding Alphans are laid on slabs and are unmoving. ‘They’re draining lives to resurrect themselves!’ Tohil tells Machine Man that he is right, but that with modern gods such as the hairy one, they can revive two. ‘It always takes loner for Jacawitz to arrive, as he comes from so far down’ Tohil declares, as the ground beneath Red Hulk, A-Bomb and Machine Man suddenly splits and cracks, and there is a mighty rumble, as a huge god rises from below, ‘He is the brother of Tohil…Volcano Lord of the Maya!’ Ixchel declares , while Red Hulk, A-Bomb and Machine Man plummet to the flowing lava beneath them….


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Mayan Rule, part III: Kukulcan
Chichen Itza, where Annie the LMD is currently exploring one of the mysterious temples. There is a loud rumble, and she is knocked off her feet, landing against a slab where three members of Alpha Flight are being held prisoner. ‘What’s happening out there - it sounds like a volcano!’ Annie exclaims, before seeing Snowbird’s withered form lying on the slab. ‘Oh, please - let me know have damaged anyone!’ Annie exclaim as she looks down at Snowbird, who suddenly whispers ‘Hhhhelllp…’. Annie looks at Snowbird, shocked, before another rumble begins.
Outside, Rick Jones a.k.a. A-Bomb, General Thunderbolt Ross a.k.a. the Red Hulk, and Aaron Stack a.k.a. the Machine Man fall down towards a raging river of lava, opened by the volcano god, Jacawitz, who looms above. ‘These are the ones who brought us the sacrificial gods?’ Jacawitz enquires. Standing on ridge down below is Ixchel the Jaguar Goddess, who tells the Volcano Lord that he must not bury them, as they need their essence. ‘Caution! He’s opened an active lava vent!’ Machine Man exclaims as he manages to extend his arms and hang on to the edge of the ridge. Red Hulk clings to the side of the ledge, while A-Bomb splashes into the lava, ‘Yeah, I caught that, Machine Man!’ A-Bomb exclaims, and as he begins to sink, Red Hulk calls out to him, concerned.
‘I may be able to reach him with minimal damage - can always replace this arm’ Machine Man points out as he extends one arm towards the lava, but Red Hulk remarks that there is no need, as A-Bomb rises from the lava, ‘Guess what’s hot. Whew. I know it doesn’t look pretty, but I highly recommended armor plates if you’re ever going lava-diving!’ A-Bomb exclaims. He climbs out of the lava and asks ‘So now we’re up against six of these bruisers? Guess we better get started smashing’. Red Hulk reminds Rick that they didn’t have enough intel on this before, and that hasn’t changed. He grabs A-Bomb by the wrist, and leaps away from the ledge, pulling A-Bomb with him. Machine Man flies alongside them, while A-Bomb declares that they should go back, as they can take them. ‘We’re doing something different’ Red Hulk replies, despite Rick’s protests.
At that moment, ‘-could kill them now, Ixchel…’ one of the returned gods exclaims as several of them enter the temple. Annie hears them, and as she stands near the withered Sasquatch and Aurora, quickly hides behind another wall. ‘…to not pursue the northern gods was a mistake!’ one of the Mayan gods exclaims. Their forms are strikingly human as Ixchel, Ah Puch and Camazotz stride down a corridor. ‘No, Camazotz. Greater opportunity presents itself in El Salvador. All gathered together, we can bring back nearly the whole pantheon at once!’ Ixchel states. They are joined by Tohil, as Camazotz remarks that it seems too good to be true, as this power-building took them decades in the past. Tohil asks him if he needs more proof that this is their time. He adds that the ods of this age, their power, and their people, give them all they need to become rulers of all creation. Annie hears this, and closes her eyes.
Outside, Machine Man reports that the Earth is thinnest at this point, that there is just six meters to the surface. ‘Follow me’ Red Hulk declares as he smashes a tunnel in the side of a cliff. Examining his new surroundings, he is pleased that they can still see the pyramid from here. ‘All I see is something I never thought I would. General Thaddeus Ross, running from a fight!’ A-Bomb exclaims. Red Hulk turns to Rick and tells him that he is not going to pull his head off and drop kick it because he knows Rick wants to pay these Mayans back, but that he best shut his ugly mouth right now. ‘Have you not heard anything Machine Man said? They’re bringing their kind back by using people like us’ Red Hulk explains. Looking through a pair of magnifying goggles, Machine Man explains that it is just a theory. ‘An extremely sound theory from me, and I’m rarely wrong. Look’ he adds, as a bright light bursts from the top of the temple, he suggests that the gods are leaving. ‘Let’s get over there!’ Red Hulk orders.
A short time later, the trio are at the temple. Red Hulk asks Machine Man what he is finding, and Machine Man reports that the gods are not here, and that the energy readying was similar to what he saw when they moved the pyramid back to this location. He adds that he thinks they teleported themselves this time. Red Hulk asks if they have fail-safes operating, to which Machine Man replies that normally, as with last night when any of them are inside, the structure is an impenetrable hyperactive mega-device, so as soon as they are gone, the pyramid is completely inert, meaning they can enter.
Coming to another part of the temple, the trio finds a large crystal, held in position over a square hole in the floor. Red Hulk remarks that it might be for focus, like a laser, while Machine Man peers down the darkness of the hole and announces that he is convinced the main functions of the pyramids’ long distance teleportation was to expand the Mayan gods’ influence, before reporting that he is detecting Annie at the bottom of the hole. Red Hulk looks shocked, and calls down to her, before leaping down the hole. ‘What happened to all the not-charging-in?’ A-Bomb enquires.
Red Hulk lands, and unsettles the dust on the temple floor. ‘You’re back!’ Annie exclaims as she shines her flashlight at Red Hulk. ‘And you’re here’ Red Hulk replies, reminding her that he asked her to stay out of the action. ‘You were making a perfect distraction for me to check out the pyramid. Lives are being lost, I had to’ Annie tells Red Hulk, who tells her that it is her life that concerns him here. Annie asks Red Hulk if he remembers when he wasn’t sure she even counted as being alive. ‘I’m still an android, designed for missions. A war machine like Aaron, but different’. Annie reminds Ross that they are called Life Model Decoys - expendable, to take the place of real people. ‘Then take this order, lady. Never call yourself expendable again! You’re…as real as it gets’ General Ross tells Annie, who smiles up at him.
Machine Man and A-Bomb appear, ‘Good to see you are well, Annie’ Machine Man announces as he shines a bright light on Annie, before asking her if she has discovered anything here. Annie reports that the bodies of Alpha Flight are down the corridor, and starts to lead her companions to them. Machine Man remarks that if the Mayans return, this building will become active again, and Ross and Jones will have their own essences added. ‘Then hurry, this way!’ Annie exclaims. Arriving in the room, Machine Man turns his hands into spotlights, lighting up the room. A-Bomb stands over the withered form of Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora, while Annie goes back over to Snowbird a.k.a. Narya, and informs the others that she could actually hear Snowbird speak, before pointing out that Snowbird has moved her hand since she left the room.
Standing over Dr Walter Langkowski in his Sasquatch form, Red Hulk asks what the Mayans are doing with Alpha Flight, and why Snowbird is better off than the rest. ‘I would say she’s that well off’ Annie mutters, while A-Bomb looks down at Aurora and asks ‘Alpha Flight, they’re all mutants, aren’t they? I mean, that’s essentially what we are, but we’re not…natural’ he adds. Accessing his files, Machine Man reports that Snowbird is not a mutant, though her shape shifting abilities are supernatural. He explains that her file suggests this derives from another pantheon, that of the Inuit.Machine Man suggests that Snowbird’s connection to that power system is helping her fight against the Mayans. Red Hulk suggests they get Alpha Flight out, and then level this place. ‘Now you’re finally talking!’ A-Bomb exclaims.
Annie picks up Snowbird and wraps her in her cape, ‘They’re gods out there, but when they enter the temple, they look as human as anyone’ Annie explains, while A-Bomb remarks ‘The Mayans kept referring to us as gods, too…I don’t get it’. Red Hulk puts Sasquatch over his shoulder, while A-Bomb picks up Aurora, and as they walk down the corridor, Machine Man shines the lamps from his hands ahead of them, while asking ‘How else would people thousands of years ago have seen you?’ He points out that these figures accept the status, and use it. ‘While they seem to be demanding worship, I don’t get the impression they consider themselves deities of creation’. Red Hulk frowns, and declares that, either way, he is going to be their devil.
Shortly, Red Hulk, A-Bomb, Machine Man and Annie load Snowbird, Aurora and Sasquatch into their jet, while A-Bomb asks where the Mayans went. ‘Because if no one has any objections, I’m going to turn that pyramid into a rubble pile’ he declares, telling Annie that she can have the big jewel when he is done. Suddenly, Machine Man announces that he is receiving a secured line message on a private transmission from Captain America. ‘Make it fast, Rick!’ Annie calls out to A-Bomb, while a panel rises from Machine Man’s head and a small monitor depicts Captain America. ‘Red Hulk team, come in. Did you get my earlier calls?’ Captain America enquires. Machine Man replies that he didn’t, and points out that it is possible they were blocked.
Captain America announces that he requested a status report on the Central America situation, and adds that Puck from Alpha Flight has been messaging him non-stop. Red Hulk informs his fellow Avenger that they have had their hands full with the hostiles behind the situation, and reveals that they are about to destroy one of their bases here in Chichen Itza. ‘From what I’m seeing, all the destruction is in El Salvador at the moment’ Captain America replies, adding that the Avengers are still getting a situation under control, but will be able to assist soon. ‘That would be a mistake, sir!’ Red Hulk announces. Cap tells Ross that if he is outnumbered, to accept help, as this isn’t just a Hulk matter, it affects everyone. Cap reports that a group of Avengers affiliates has formed and moved in to help with the flooding from yesterday, and they are now on the scene. Red Hulk is concerned though, and urges Captain America to send them back, but Cap assures him that these are seasoned fighters with considerable power-sets, and they can handle themselves.
At that moment, in amongst the debris and destruction that has struck El Salvador, several heroes have indeed gathered and are rescuing locals and assisting with the clean-up. Amongst the heroes are inactive Avengers Silverclaw and the Living Lightning, who currently serves with the Rangers, as well as the young mutant Velocidad, and local heroes Toro and Junta. ‘How’s it coming?’ Silverclaw asks Living Lightning, who replies that he has started the generators, so the medicos have operating power once again. ‘Wait until I find who did this’ Toro exclaims as he lifts up a car. ‘Move it over here, Toro!’ Velocidad calls out as he speeds about, and rescues someone from beneath the car.
Lights begin to appear in the murky sky overhead, and Junta tells Living Lightning to rein his lightning in, as it is interfering with his gravity field. ‘That’s not me!’ Living Lightning exclaims. Clouds form around the lights, as images of four of the Mayan gods appear - Ixchel, Tohil, Ah-Puch and Camazotz. ‘Sooo…many!’ Ah-Puch marvels. ‘You see? Let’s not make the mistake of earlier. What would the feathered serpent say now?’ Ixchel remarks. ‘That fighting only delays us’ Tohil points out, but Jacawitz exclaims that they must take sacrifice. ‘Bring the temple!’ he declares.
Back in Chichen Itza, Captain America informs the Red Hulk and his friends that local media are broadcasting the confrontation, to which Red Hulk announces that they are going to make the situation a hundred times worse. Explaining the situation, he declares ‘The Mayan gods are building themselves back…using us!’ and asks Cap not to let them come down here. Annie realizes that Rick has gone back into the pyramid, and rushes towards it as a glow emits from the top. Inside, there is a humming noise, and A-Bomb remarks that he hates to destroy historical stuff, but that he doesn’t think tourism is going to help anymore. He slams his first against the floor, and there is a loud BOOOMM, but energy glows, and he is knocked backwards.
‘They pyramid! It’s activated!’ Annie gasps as the glow increases. ‘Now they’ve got Rick!’ Red Hulk exclaims, adding that Rick is all the power the Mayans need. Machine Man shows the situation in El Salvador taken from his scfans of network and phone video. ‘The affiliate Avengers are fighting hard. But the Mayan gods have the clear edge’ Machine Man reports.
Indeed, the destrution continues as Jacawitz destroys some buildings. Silverclaw confronts Ixchel, but is knocked back by a wave of water. Camazotz tosses some of the local heroes about with ease, while Toro slams a car against Ah-Puch, trapping the ghoulish god against a wall. Living Lightning hovers overhead, but Tohil blasts him with fire, and Yum Kaax has spread tree roots throughout the area, capturing Junta and other heroes, although some manage to blast him with their energies. The pyramid appears, and the Mayans start to pukll some of the local heroes inside, while luring other heroes right into the chamber of sacrifice, where they will be used as Alpha Flight were. Machine Man reports that there is no sign of A-Bomb on the video he is receiving.
‘I can be of help here, Ross!’ Annie protests as Red Hulk loads her into the ship. ‘You’ll be more help if you get Alpha Flight back to Gamma Base. Figure out what’s happened to them. It’s the key to fighting these things’ Red Hulk tells Annie, while ordering her to clear the rest of Alpha Flight to be brought in. ‘You’re going to let outsiders into our base?’ Annie asks, surprised. ‘Blindfolded from a drop-off point so they can assist. Okay?’ Red Hulk declares. He smirks when Annie kisses his cheek and tells him that he is learning to let people help, and that she thinks this is her influence. ‘Hm’ Red Hulk mutters. Shortly, Annie takes off, and Machine Man asks Red Hulk if he thinks there is a way to reverse-engineer Alpha Flight‘s condition, or whether that was solely to manipulate Annie to move out of harm’s way. ‘What do you think?’ Red Hulk replies.
Machine Man reports that he is now unable to receive any transmission from the epicenter of the battle. ‘Assume that’s not good’ Red Hulk declares, before asking how far away six hundred miles is, adding that they can get there if they “haul ass”. Suddenly, a voice can be heard from the trees above. ‘I wouldn’t bother, red one!’ a brown monkey declares. ‘You’ll just tire yourself, and it is almost over’ a dark monkey declares. ‘Who is that?’ Red Hulk calls out. ‘Two life forms, in the tree!’ Machine Man points out. Red Hulk begins to shake and topple the tree, ‘Get down here, whoever you are!’ he booms. ‘Rude!’ one of the monkey’s shouts. ‘Brother, I lose my grip!’ the other declares. Machine Man states that his radar shows the life forms are not large. ‘I can apprehend them…’ he announces as he extends his arms and takes hold of them, bringing them out of the tree, Machine Man identifies them as Howler Monkeys. ‘The puppet found us!’ the brown monkey exclaims.
‘Release Hunahpu and you will have my gratitude’ the brown monkey exclaims, while the black monkey, Hunahpu warns Machine Man to release Xbalanque, otherwise he will do something unfortunate to him. ‘Let ‘em go’ Red Hulk tells Machine Man, who sets the monkeys onto the ground. Machine Man assumes that they are also ancient Mayan entities, as monkeys generally do not speak, and that they do so in a way all can understand, as the other Mayans did. ‘Look, Hunahpu, the big toy addresses us!’ Xbalanque exclaims. ‘What an incredible age’ Hunahpu remarks. Xbalanque asks if the red god made it, to which Red Hulk tells the monkey not to worry about what he did, and asks the monkey how they are connected to those “freaks”. ‘Were you freed from the crystal cave with them? Answer!’ Red Hulk demands.
‘Ha! The red god thinks we spend eternity with bad ball players’ Hunahpu exclaims as both monkeys climb up the Red Hulk’s arm. ‘No. Big red fool! We sleep in El Castilo. We protect the world as Huracan tell us!’ Xbalanque declares, and stroking the Red Hulk’s face, adds ‘We lure them behind the crystal of no escape until they trick your friend’. Hunahpu then adds ‘That Bomb-A let them free! They have one thousand years to grow their minds!’ ‘You two imprisoned them?’ Red Hulk asks as the monkeys drop to the ground and wrap leaves around themselves. ‘The twins not always monkeys’ Hunahpu explains. ‘All Mayans man, no matter what you see. But others not see us, long as we have tails’ Xbalanque points out.
The monkeys climb back up into a tree as Machine Man asks ‘They are people? How did they become as they are?’ Xbalanque laughs and exclaims ‘The toy talks again!’, while Hunahpu explains ‘We drank the water, toy. Never drink the water!’ There is a glow in the dense forest, ‘Them am back!’ one of the monkeys exclaims. ‘Sense the serpent - NO!’ the other declares, as they swing through the trees, away from the light, which reveals a pyramid materializing nearby. ‘Your Bomb friend, they use him!’ Hunahpu declares. ‘Now the gods have the god king!’ Xbalanque declares. ‘What god king - who?’ Red Hulk calls after the monkeys. Red Hulk and Machine Man turn around, to see a massive winged serpent with arms looming over them. ‘The time of the calendar has come. The new age begins now. The Mayan gods return to rule. Kukulcan leads them all!’ the Mayan god king hisses. ‘That god king’ Machine Man utters….