Battleworld: In Gamma Lake, The Captain (Steve Rogers)
battles something with tenacles while Doc Green swims away from the giant sea
monster. Devil Dinosaur arrives and attacks the sea monster. Devil emerges
victorious as Steve and Green reach the shore….
Doc Green reconnoiters and tells Steve they are off course:
they can double back which will take them three days or go straight through the
Barrens, a savage wilderness occupied by the Tribal Hulks. Steve insists on
taking the direct route. Steve recalls his days as a Super-Soldier with Bucky,
fighting a radioactive villain resembling Holocaust.…
Steve, Devil, and Green walk through the Barrens, beside a
long wall made of skulls. Again, they debate ideas of morality; Steve claims to
serve the greater good while Doc Green says there is no “greater good” there
just gamma burning everyone into a obsession with war and violence. Steve
reveals he has no intention of trying to kill the Red King, his only concern is
with freeing Bucky. This, Doc Green tells him, will only allow the Red King’s
reign of terror to continue and if Steve does kill him, he’ll only be serving
Doom. A storm breaks out, the travelers are separated in a canyon and Steve is
captured by a band of Tribal Hulks….