A giant lava-like monster arises
from a city street, forming into a giant lava man who calls to the X-Men’s Glob
Herman…
…and many others have similar visions. Quentin Quire is stunned by the sight; he asks Glob if he saw it too
but Glob hesitates and denies seeing anything….
At an empty mall in the American
Midwest, a band of Morlocks is gathered to eat their dinner when Infernal Hulk
enters, killing Hoss in the process. He has come to take Leech with him; the
others fight back but are easily subdued. Infernal Hulk picks up Marrow and
calmly crushes her between his two hands, takes Leech and departs….
The next morning at their Alaska
Base, the X-Men gather, some remotely; Cyclops announces that everyone at the
base and mutants worldwide have had visions of mutant grandeur in ruling the
world. Beast adds that many mutants are feeling an instinctual pull toward
Infernal Hulk’s fortress Golgothia in the Appalachian Mountains. Emma Frost is
trying to counter Hulk’s call while Quentin Quire is shielding the Alaska base
from psychic attacks. Glob has a question: why is Hulk trying to draw mutants
to him? Mutants aren’t monsters. Beast reiterates that they are protecting
their own….
As they leave the meeting, Jubilee
asks Wolverine what he saw in a vision; Logan replies that it doesn’t mean
anything. As they head to a restaurant, he asks what she saw. Jubilee replies
that it doesn’t mean anything….
That night, Infernal Hulk arrives
in Alaska and releases the mind-controlled Leech toward the compound. Inside, various
X-Men ponder what would happen if the Hulk wins. Glob leaves the room and they consider
Glob’s claim that he did not have a vision and wonder what delusions of
grandeur Hulk could offer Glob. Then Infernal Hulk crashes in and the X-Men
jump to action as they realize that Leech is a power dampener so their defenses
are all down. Hulk announces he has come for only one of them and dispatches
Bridger to find that person. Magneto summons a Sentinel to fight Hulk; Hulk
smashes it to pieces in a single page. Hulk fights the others, dropping them
then plucking Magik’s sword from his chest, proposing to see what would happen
were she to be decapitated with her own weapon. But Bridger returns to report
he has found the quarry and Hulk announces that the mutants of Earth as his by
right, “as you will learn.” And departs. Then Quentin realizes that Glob is
gone….
At the Baxter Building, Reed
Richards has assembled some of the Avengers and explains that Infernal Hulk is
constantly mutating everything to his own ends, having no upper limit, and all
of the standard methods for fighting a gamma-powered monster will not work.
Then Bruce Banner enters, apologizing for being absent all this time but he
reminds them that the only way to take down a Hulk is by building a better
monster….
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