In a secret Roxxon
lab far beneath the streets of New York, Dr. Jonas Harrow is experimenting on
the sedated form of Dragon Man, seeking to discover its secrets and create an
army of synthezoids….
Ben Grimm, the
Thing, is sitting on a subway platform in disguise when two TV news anchors,
Brent Scarsdale and Beth Duncan walk by and he hopes they don’t recognize him.
Scarsdale hits on Beth and leaves and a gang of punks come by and start harassing
Ben, who tries to ignore them; Beth comes to his rescue and they turn their
nasty attentions on her. So, Ben comes to her rescue, leaving the punks piled
in a heap. After this, he can’t refuse her request for an interview on the
train….
On a different
platform, Jen “She-Hulk” Walters rushes for a train and drops the pile of legal
briefs she is carrying. A trio of boorish construction workers start making
lewd remarks about her looks (and color) while a little girl named Danika
recognizes her and expresses her admiration. Jen shuts up the guys by stealing
their clothes and tying them up and going back to her young fan….
Farther below the
surface, a band of Arthopyr, semi-insectoid vampires, led by Lord Bonham,
awaken from their long sleep and plot to prey on the human world. They plant
explosives in the subway tunnels to trap their prey and detonate them, wrecking
the trains Thing and She-Hulk are on and damaging the underground Roxxon lab.
Roxxon’s Chief Compton orders her team to evaluate the damages when Dragon Man
breaks loose and escapes. Meanwhile, Ben and Jen are holding up the roof while
the people evacuate the separate damaged trains. The three construction workers
don’t trust Jen and run off on the own, only to be crushed by a collapsing ceiling.
Leading their groups to safety, Jen and Ben encounter each other and team up to
escape. And then the Dragon Man arrives, sending the people into a panic. But
Jen gets the monster to settle down, at least until Roxxon soldiers arrive and
shoot it. When Jen and Ben are hit by gunfire, Dragon Man goes into a rage and
tears into the Roxxon agents. Elsewhere, other Roxxon soldiers fall prey to the
vampires. Deciding that dealing with Dragon Man is the first priority, Ben and
Jen bring the ceiling down upon it and Ben suggests that Jen try to charm it
into docility, which idea she doesn’t like. Dragon Man recovers and breathes
fire on Ben. Jen moves on and is caught by Lord Bonham; he fastens onto her
neck while she thrashes him around. Ben sics the monster on the vampire and it smashes
Bonham around. And now the tunnels are filling with poison gas from the lab and
Jen, fed up with how things are going, has Ben launch her through the ceiling,
tearing a hole to the surface. While the heroes help the passengers climb to
safety, the Arthopyr come to the aid of their master and swarm over the Dragon
Man. Reaching the surface, Thing and She-Hulk are swarmed by the media,
interrupted by Dragon Man, flying through the hole, dragging the vampires with
it, and the rising sun burns them all to ash. The media chases after Dragon
Man, the police arrest Harrow and Compton, and Ben and Jen go out for coffee.