At Gamma Base,
Annie and the other Life Model Decoys are awaiting the return of Red Hulk from
Arabia. They hear a jumping sound that doesn’t sound quite right and Annie goes
up to investigate. It turns out to be an angry Red She-Hulk, demanding to see
her father. When Annie says he isn’t there, she seizes her by the neck and
threatens to destroy her. Red Hulk and Machine Man (X-51) arrive and the latter
fires an electrical bolt at her to make her release Annie. The two Hulks start
fighting with RSH insisting it was Betty, not her, who wanted to meet with her
father. Rulk argues that Hulk and human are not two separate people: Hulk is
the part of yourself you want hidden. Rulk asks to see Betty; RSH punches him
and leaps off into the distance….
Rulk
turns back into Thunderbolt Ross and Annie shows him the journal given to them
by Jacob Feinman, assistant to the villain Zero/One. In it, Feinman reveals
that Zero/One has turned her ocean platform into a floating base, enlarging it
by adding to it ships she has captured, killing the crews and turning them into
a drone army. Her base is called Ogygia….
The
team goes into the Pacific in search of Ogygia. Machine Man is fitted with a
jetpack and flies reconnaissance over the sea. Annie goes below where she meets
Red She-Hulk whom she had detected as a stowaway. Annie advises her to clear
the air with her father. X-51 calls them to say he has located the villain’s
base….
Zero/One
has detected X-51 and Ross and can’t understand why they have come after her. Jacob
tries to explain retribution to her so she decides to send Black Fog and
another experiment. Red Hulk and X-51 board the craft and they encounter her
massive army plus the killer Black Fog. Rulk tells her that she is channeling
her old life as a scientist though her disordered artificial brain and he is
here to stop her. So she calls out her latest experiment: microscopic sea life
raised to a deadly giant size….