The Knights of Rome are flying through
the air carrying the captive Tyrannus and Dr Sofia Di Cosimo, plus
Pandora's Box, when they are challenged by General Gladwell in a NATO
flying base and ordered to surrender. The Knights respond by shooting
the craft out of the sky, sending it plummeting to the crowded
streets of Rome. Fortunately Hulk and Red She-Hulk are on the scene
to catch the craft and lower it gently to the ground. The Knights
take Sofia and Tyrannus to their flying fortress where they reveal
themselves to be decayed monsters, continuing their mission using
pagan magic to combat pagan enemies—and they want to know what is
in the urn called Pandora's Box....
Hulk and Red, still bickering, are
launched by the NATO base toward the Knights' fortress but find it
protected by a web of mystic energy. They quickly change back into
Bruce Banner and Betty Ross and slip through the spaces in the energy net,
reassuming their Hulk forms to land. Entering, Hulk is attacked by a
giant force in the form of an eagle, powered by Zeus—who had
defeated Hulk earlier. By comm link, Amadeus Cho advises Red and
Tyrannus to insult Hulk, hoping his anger will give him the strength
he needs to defeat the eagle. It does, with a bit of aid from Red.
While the two Hulks share a romantic kiss, Tyrannus conks the head
Knight on the bean and hits the switch that converts the flying
fortress into a massive monstrous stone machine that he controls—and
has the two Hulks captive....