Doc Green vows that there is one possible future
which he cannot allow to happen: one in which the Red Hulk, Thunderbolt Ross,
wins....
Doc Green and his assistants Daman Veteri and Randall Jessup
have taken up residence in the abandoned Baxter Building where Daman and Randall
have finally gotten the temporal gauntlet to work, sending a shackle ahead in
time. Doc is unimpressed as he is 3-D printing a giant toilet to replace the
one that was destroyed. While waiting for the shackle to reappear, Doc fills
the guys in on what happened to Melinda Leucenstern (see issue #8). And now Doc
Green is ready to hunt down his daughter from the future, Lyra....
Lyra is in Kansas, trying to stop a Roxxon fracking operation
by smashing machines and chasing away workers. Doc Green arrives and they
fight; he clamps the shackle onto her arm and she is drawn into a vortex back
to her homeworld—except she calls out that it isn't as she vanishes. Doc heads
back to the Baxter Building where his AI alter ego explains that he had Lyra
teleported to a more uncomfortable place [and here we see Lyra fighting a giant
tentacled monster] to neutralize her threat. Green AI tells him that Extremis
is failing and Doc's intellect has begun to diminish so the AI is the one who
needs to make the decisions. Doc discovers the AI was building a synthetic
version of Bruce Banner as a fail-safe. Doc destroys the fake Banner and the AI
departs to another body...
...which turns out to be a Life Model Decoy aboard the SHIELD
Helicarrier....