The Avengers (Thor, She-Hulk,
Black Knight, plus Spider-Man) are battling a giant robot in downtown New
York. The Alternating Bug-Bot (for so it is called) grows to three
times its size and swats Thor several streets away, toppling a
building. Then Spidey manages to crawl inside the robot's mouth to
the control room and shuts it down....
The traffic jam surrounding the
superhero adventure threatens to make John Porter late for his new
job so he dashes through the streets to the Flatiron Building and the
offices of Damage Control, the firm that repairs what gets broken by
super-heroes and -villains. The chatty (and sexy) receptionist Anne
directs him to the big boss Mrs Hoag. In the lobby John meets the
villain Thunderball who lost his signature wrecking ball and thinks
D-C may be able to get it back for him; Bart Rozum the intern takes
Thunderball to the lost and found department. Mrs Hoag gives John a
tour of the office, turning him over to traffic manager Robin Chapel,
hostile since she wanted his job. Robin introduces John to his first
client, Robert Washington of the Port Authority; the problem in that
the giant robot toppled by Spider-Man is now draped over multiple
buildings, head and shoulder resting against the World Trade
Center....
Meanwhile, Thor, She-Hulk, and Black
Knight are having trouble extracting Spidey from the robot's head.
Dr Druid arrives to tell them that the robot is the work of the
Terrible Tinkerer and they rush off to apprehend him, leaving Spidey
to fend for himself....
Back at D-C, Anne informs a worried
Jarvis that the destruction will go on the city's account, not the
Avengers'. Comptroller Albert Cleary tells Washington the city's
account is overdrawn and Mrs Hoag will have to approve the deal.
Figuring there must be an easier way to deal with a giant robot than
cutting it up and hauling it away, John goes to Gene Strausser in
Tech Support and has him come to the work site. Robin calls head
foreman Lenny Ballinger (who has just seen one of his workers touch a
glowing sphere, gain super-powers and fly off to find his destiny)
and asks him to go to the WTC damage site. Robin, thinking John
doesn't know what he's doing, and Lenny start making plans to airlift
the robot to their New Jersey warehouse, when John surprises her by
using a device created by Gene to make it stand up and walk away from
the WTC and then fold up into a Volkswagen Beetle (with Spidey in the
trunk). They release the hero and drive the car to Jersey....
Later, Robin stops by to apologize to
John and they go out for a drink. Elsewhere, Lenny has put the WTC
not quite back the way it but decides it's close enough....
PS In case you were worried,
Thunderball got his wrecking ball back.