Story continued from INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK SPECIAL #1.
Dr. David Jude has just been unmasked as the villain and he
explodes the helicopter carrying Spider-Man (Otto Octavius) and the young X-Men
(Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman); Spider-Man calls out to the kids with
suggestions as to how they can use their powers to arrest their falls. But Jean
is too inexperienced and Bobby and Scott are unconscious. So Spider-Man dons
Doc Ock’s tentacles, scoops up his allies and lands with the tentacles
absorbing the shock….
At Dr. Jude’s secret lab, Beast (Hank McCoy) and Molly
discover a journal full of scientific notation. They also discover prototypes
of the Dr. Octopus and Abomination robots, which scare the two when they
suddenly come to life and flee the lab through the hole in the ceiling.
Spider-Man telephones the lab from the rural area they have landed in, warning
Hank that Jude is probably on his way to the Xavier School to reach the time
machine. He also tasks Hank with finding out about Jude’s powers and how to stop
him. Spider-Man and Iceman travel into town via Bobby’s ice sled, while
Spider-Man puzzles out Jude’s scheme: the robot villains were to make the X-Men
think their time machine was malfunctioning so they would take Jude to it so he
could travel into the past for some unknown objective. Spider-Man and the X-Men
catch up with Dr. Jude in town, finding him giving off dangerous levels of
gamma radiation and trying to commandeer a truck. The X-Men and Spider-Man
attack him but he responds with an explosion of light. Then the prototype
robots arrive….
Hank and Molly head to the football field where they find a
naked Bruce Banner and ask for his help examining Dr. Jude’s journal. But first
they need to find him some clothes….
Spider-Man quickly destroys the robot Doc Ock but the X-Men
are having trouble with the Abomination one. Spider-Man notices the robot’s
power source is visible between its “ribs” and tells Cyclops to shoot it—but he
can’t narrow his eye beam that small. Spider-Man asks Iceman to create an ice
lens that would do the job but Bobby says he can’t; he tries and the result is
good enough so Spider-Man holds the lens against the robot’s body and Scott
shoots at it and it works, the robot is put out of commission. Spider-Man
praises their courage and their ingenuity in coming up with creative ways to
use their powers. Then the makes plans to fight Dr. Jude….
Meanwhile, Bruce, Hank, and Molly are coming up with a plan
to fight Dr. Jude. The problem is his gamma radioactivity which he can use in
various ways. They need to find a way to siphon the radiation from him. They
build a chamber to contain him. Now, a way to get him into it….
Back to the battle: Jude defeats the X-Men and has Spider-Man
at his mercy, monologuing on how his expertise in gamma radiation lost favor
when gamma became associated with monsters like Hulk so he made himself a
monster too. Spider-Man reveals that Jude emits radiation across the spectrum,
powering a small radio receiver which notified Banner and Hank where they are.
And then Hulk drops from the sky, containing Jude within the chamber. The
device converts radiation into mechanical energy, powering a device playing
“Young Turks” by Rod Stewart (an earlier joke by Hank McCoy). Scott takes Bruce
Banner aside and asks him why he doesn’t kill himself because of all the bad
things Hulk has done and is likely to do. Bruce tells him of the water
purification system he has devised for Africa, saving many more people than
Hulk has hurt. His new motto is “Hulk smashes, Banner builds.” And he advises
Scott to be the same sort of hero. Hank invites Spider-Man back to the school
to see their time machine; perhaps they can find a way to avert some disaster
but Spider-Man (Otto Octavius) declines, expressing confidence that the young
X-Men will quickly learn how to be heroes….
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