Story continued from ALL-NEW X-MEN
SPECIAL #1.
Hulk has just completed his latest mission for SHIELD, destroying
super-tarantulas in the desert, and SHIELD agents have set up a large box to
capture him. Hulk approaches the box and it pops open, releasing a flock
of…puppies. He is so delighted that he immediately reverts to Bruce Banner;
Bruce is told he is needed urgently elsewhere and he is put aboard a helicopter
and delivered to Empire State University. There, Spider-Man (Otto Octavius) and
Dr. David Jude greet him and he meets the young X-Men (Cyclops, Marvel Girl,
Beast, Iceman); together they bring him up to speed on the current problem.
Hank McCoy’s hypothesis is that somehow, when the X-Men were brought through
time, Dr. Octopus was accidentally brought with them, which hypothesis
Spider-Man (who, remember, is Dr. Octopus) rejects. Bruce asks if they would
like to move the investigation to SHIELD’s facilities but neither Spider-Man
nor the X-Men want the government to become aware of their situations. And
so…the scientists get to work, while Scott, Jean, and Bobby sit around, bored.
Spider-Man seethes over the villainous Doc Ock, Bruce wonders how Dr. Jude has
come down in reputation, Hank flirts with Molly, and then they are interrupted
by a roar Bruce recognizes. They head to the football stadium upstairs to see
Cyclops, Marvel Girl, and Iceman fighting the Abomination. Bruce asks
Spider-Man to take the X-Men to safety then transforms into Hulk and the two
green giants throw punches. Spider-Man suggests they find the X-Men’s time
machine as he is now more open to the time travel hypothesis and they depart
but the ground opens up under the ruckus and Molly falls in; Hank stays behind
to rescue her. Spider-Man, Dr. Jude, and the X-Men fly off in a helicopter;
Hulk tears the head off the Abomination, revealing it is a robot; Hank and
Molly discover a secret laboratory under the field. They discover that Dr. Jude
built robotic versions of Doctor Octopus and the Abomination and Hank contacts
Spider-Man with this revelation. Seeing that he has been exposed, Dr. Jude’s
eyes light up and the helicopter explodes….
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