Two weeks after the defeat of Red Onslaught, Captain America (Sam Wilson) and Hulk meet with Nick Fury (Jr.) and Maria Hill aboard the Helicarrier to talk over the next steps in recovery. Hill demands that the Avengers turn over the powerless Red Skull to them; Cap refuses. Tempers flare, Cap slugs Fury and stomps out with the Hulk in tow….
In Brooklyn, the Squid and his gang are holed up in a house surrounded by police after a botched robbery. They plan to kill the hostages but suddenly Carnage crashes in…. When Spider-Man arrives and learns who is in the house, he rushes in and is surprised to find the mad symbiote gone, the baddies bound, the hostages unharmed, and a note from "your friendly neighborhood Carnage"….
Iron Man jets down just before a game at Giants Stadium in San Francisco. Tony announces that he has downloaded the Extremis virus on everyone’s smart phones for free and they can now achieve their perfects lives. He then celebrates with a glass of champagne….
At the Jean Grey School, Storm and Havok address the entire student body, calling for mutants to stop fighting among themselves and join forces to go to war against the real enemy—the human race—with Apocalypse as the new leader….
At Avengers Tower, the heroes, knowing that the X-Men will be coming for the Skull, plot to kill him to keep him out of their hands. When they arrive at the cell, their faithful butler Jarvis tries to talk sense into them but the Scarlet Witch casts him aside with a spell. Hulk stands up to his comrades but Luke Cage punches him out. The saddened Hulk transforms into a bigger, meaner, blacker Hulk called Kluh, slaps them around for not being rotten enough, and crashes out, ready to go on an orgy of destruction. And then they discover that the Red Skull has escaped….