Exiles in Elseworlds

It figures, a megalomaniacal freakshow like the Mad Thinker would set up shop beneath an actual landmark. Thankfully, it's not really a high priority to actually save the bastard's life.

The Hulkbusters arrive under cover of a darkening sky, carrying with them some extradimensional castoffs. They have an elaborate siphoning system prepared that they hope to be able to set up, to stall the Maestro long enough to incapacitate him, and with any luck, kill him.

Banner knows this is really just a delay tactic, to give the secret team time to work their espionage and destroy the machine crucial to Maestro's plan. Far too much to hope that they could engineer a way to reverse it.

Their aircraft approaches the mountain cautiously.

The smoldering remains of Roosevelt's face is not a good sign.

That's the headline people are trying to avoid.

The Hulk doesn't care. His gait brings him ever closer to the populated city, and so far, nothing seems to stop it.

There's hope that the sandstorm that just kicked up might buy them more time. A sandstorm that's the doing of Crusader, the new girl carrying Thor's hammer and Captain America's shield, who's crazy enough to try to face the Hulk without the help of her team, who have been held up by dealing with some other U.S. agent.

The storm doesn't stop him. It only slows him.

Slightly.