SHIELD Director Maria Hill sends an
agent named Goddard into the time-stream in a protective suit but he
dies anyway, his body a mishmash of multiple different stages in his
life. She decides she needs Bruce Banner...
...who as the Hulk is hitching a ride
on the back of an airliner—when they discover that the airport has
vanished. Hulk lands on the ground where an equally confused band of
Sons of the Serpent is also looking for the airport that is no longer
there. Hulk subdues them but they claim the disappearance is not of
their doing. Suddenly a WW2-era plane materializes out of nowhere and
Hulk has to stop it—but the crew look like they have suddenly aged
the through the decades.
With various places and things
appearing and disappearing in time, Hill takes Bruce down to the
secret splinter group of SHIELD called T.I.M.E. (Temporal
Ireggularity Management and Eradication) where Bruce discovers his
lab assistants (Daman Veteri, Randall Jessup, Melinda Leucenstern,
Patricia Wolman) are working there. Bruce is introduced to their
prisoner, Zarrko (Tomorrow Man), who predicted this splintering of
time caused by all the temporal adventures of various heroes like the X-Men and the Avengers. Now a group of time travelers called the
Chronarchists are messing about in space-time and trying to change
history and make it stick. Zarrko has built a suit that will take
someone to face the Chronarchists but only one person is tough enough
to survive time travel at this moment: the Hulk. Bruce thinks this is
ridiculous and suggests they get Red She-Hulk—who doesn't exist in
this timestream and is slowly vanishing from Bruce's memory. Zarrko
explains that the variations in the Hulk's intelligence and demeanor
are the result of this tampering with time and soon he may vanish
altogether. Bruce agrees to the adventure, so he suits up in the
special timestream armor and all the info he needs is downloaded into
his brain. A duplicate of Banner's consciousness is installed in the
robot ROB to accompany Hulk, as long as he stays Hulk. Then when they
are ready to go, Hill slugs Banner summoning Hulk. “Bruce” and
Hulk are sent back to Arizona in the 19th century where a
trio of western heroes—Two-Gun Kid, Kid Colt, Rawhide Kid—are running from a tyrannosaurus Rex....