The villains of the Intelligencia are
plotting the takeover of the world when they are interrupted by Red
Hulk, ridiculing them for overlooking the will of people to fight for
their homes. He is blasted by an angry MODOK for his
insubordination. Rulk continues to mock the monster, who continues to
fire mental blasts at him until M.O.D.O.K. is growing weak while Rulk
is still standing so M.O.D.O.K. is forced to leave to attend to his
health. Rulk warns Leader that any plan that doesn't take the Hulk
into consideration is doomed to fail....
The Intelligencia succeed in their
plot: the AIMarines have conquered Washington, Skaar and Korg are
dead; A-Bomb transformed back into Rick Jones and shot by the Leader,
the Hulk himself, body pierced by multiple spears, lies dead at the
bottom of a crater, the hardest of all to kill. And then the Hulk
rises, downs Leader's aircar and grabs his enemy by his misshapen
head—and the Leader is outraged, frustrated that once again the
computer simulation has the Hulk winning....
Later, the Mad Thinker controls his
Awesome Android, sending it to locate the time machine concealed by
Thundra in its desert hiding place. The Intelligencia watch via a
huge monitor as the machine looks one year into the future and
sees...a domed paradise in the desert with Samuel Sterns ruling half
the world, his head reduced to normal, engaged to marry Betty Ross.
Rick Jones is catatonic over having killed Hulk, the other villains
rebuilding the ruins of the USA, M.O.D.O.K., his head shrunken and
attached to a human body, ruling the other half of the world, with
Victor von Doom the court jester, and all of this thanks to the Red
Hulk returning to their side. They are all satisfied...and blissfully
unaware that it was a simulation planted by Bruce Banner and Red
Hulk....