Having escaped
from his cell in Doctor Doom’s dungeon and destroyed the inhibitor collar, Red
Hulk gives in to his anger and smashes all of the Doombots, marching on Machine
Man next but his stored energy runs out and he returns to his General Thunderbolt
Ross form. He needs to be exposed to another source of energy to become Red Hulk
again. A damaged Doombot blasts Machine Man, seriously damaging him and Ross
bashes the ‘Bot with a severed Doombot arm. A trio of Doombots arrive and
execute Hugo Perez. They move on to Deathlok but one among them is Ross wearing
a Doombot’s armor; he smashes a couple of them then gives Deathlok the microchip
to remove his power inhibitor. A Doombot then prepares to execute Ross but
Machine Man blows its head off. Deathlok is restored to full power and tears
into some Doombots on his own. The Doombots change tactics and pour poison gas into
Li Wan Tang’s cell, killing her. Gas is them poured into Simon Ryker’s cell but
Deathlok rescues him in time. Pursued by the gas, the group runs to a door
which conceals an elevator shaft; Deathlok smashes through the door and they
discover there is no lift inside so everyone clings to Machine Man who flies
them straight up, crashing through the roof and landing in open country at
night. A giant bust of Doctor Doom carved into a cliff face reveals they are in
Latveria. Then hundreds of Doombots come flying up from underground to assemble
into a giant version of Doctor Doom, demanding they surrender or die….