In his underground
lair beneath New York City, MODOK Superior muses on his new form and decides to
postpone world conquest and concentrate on destroying Red Hulk/Thunderbolt
Ross. He modifies himself so that only he controls Zzzax, eliminating the
electrical monster’s mental connection to Ross. He is also intrigued at Black
Fog, who was detected while spying on Ross….
In
Avengers Tower, Jarvis is giving medical care to the wounded Mockingbird when
Hawkeye arrives. They are still unaware of much of what is going on in the
Serpent’s invasion of Earth. They track the mystery objects which have fallen
from the sky and discover that Nazi war machines are attacking Washington D.C.
where most of the other Avengers are fighting them. Red Hulk arrives, having
been dispatched by Commander Steve Rogers; a skyscraper falls and Rulk leaps
over there. On television, Hawkeye and Mockingbird see that Thing has been taken
over by a hammer and become Angrir, Breaker of Souls….
Aided
by his LMDs, MODOK Superior studies the events on the surface and discovers
that the invaders are Nazi war machines led by Sin, Red Skull’s daughter,
powered by an Asgardian source. As MODOK watches, Red Hulk attacks Angrir and
is seriously beaten. MODOK wonders why Rulk is not using the energy absorption
ability that MODOK gave him; he deduces that Ross has learned that using that
power would burn out his ability to turn back to Thaddeus Ross, which MODOK did
not think would matter to him….
Also
watching the duel between the two behemoths is Zero/One in her stealth ship
with Jacob Feinman; they see Angrir topple Avengers Tower onto Red Hulk. And
now that her enemy is trapped, she dispatches Black Fog to destroy him. MODOK
detects this other ship and heads to Red Hulk’s location to witness his end….