Tending Toward Becoming a Certain Mustached Rejected Art Student

Stark Industries began an emergency evacuation within a twelve-mile radius of the Ark Reactor. General Ross, stationed at a military base on New York's western outskirts, swiftly coordinated with Nick to deploy troops and impose a military lockdown.

Within just a few days, towering barricades of steel, wooden panels, and poured concrete had been erected, along with signs declaring it a restricted military zone and strictly forbidding entry.

Bruce Banner remained stationed at the Ark Reactor, observing the changes in the Cosmic Cube.

Tony Stark had been secretly tasked by Nick Fury with locating the aircraft carriers.

Aside from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, which Hulk had damaged so severely that it had a massive hole and could not be concealed, remaining openly exposed, the other aircraft carriers had each hidden themselves across the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean.

The carriers possessed humanity's most advanced stealth technology. Hidden upon the ocean, they could not necessarily be detected even by radar satellites.

Even now, S.H.I.E.L.D. had only confirmed the locations of seven aircraft carriers. Four more remained untraceable.

Those four carriers alone still held at least twenty nuclear bombs. S.H.I.E.L.D. and numerous military personnel did not dare let down their guard, continuing their search while secretly infiltrating multiple carriers to restore their crews to their senses.

There were also nearly twenty-seven major military bases whose Mind Controlled personnel needed to be brought back to their senses.

Those generals were either hiding in air-raid shelters over a thousand meters underground or had vanished to unknown locations, greatly increasing the difficulty of restoring them.

Ever since the last time he lifted the worldwide Mind Suggestion and became a presidential candidate, He-El had temporarily compromised with Loki to prevent him from launching every nuclear missile aboard the aircraft carriers, agreeing to play