Modern world, Essex Corporation.
"Welcome to Essex, Captain. I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Mister Sinister, dressed in a spotless white lab coat, took the X Terminal that Miles had left behind. Looking at the group before him, he said with a light chuckle, "Looks like little Miles has already gone to the past, right? Ah, as expected, Earth's troubles still need you people to clean them up."
"Sokovia Base has also been relocated." Steve Rogers spoke to Mister Sinister. "We'll launch our counterattack from New York. Miles suggested that we come find you before that..."
"Oh, yes, yes!"
Mister Sinister nodded exaggeratedly, as though he were hearing something perfectly obvious. "As a law-abiding, taxpaying businessman in New York, I want this war to end sooner than anyone. Miles wants me to provide some 'necessary' support, right? That's no problem at all."
As he spoke, he tapped the X Terminal a few times with his pale fingers.
"Aurora, can you hear me? Tell us, how much intelligence on 'Kang' can we currently uncover?"
The terminal immediately projected an enormous holographic screen displaying a three-dimensional map of all North America. More than a dozen crimson dots flashed across the map, each representing the location of a Kang.
Meanwhile, in a stretch of the North Atlantic, densely packed red dots had nearly merged into a bloody patch of light. Hundreds of Kangs were surrounding and attacking the completely out-of-control Four-Armed Hulk.
In the mere seconds they had been talking, two more red dots in that bloody patch dimmed and vanished completely.
"Fifty-seven percent of North America's network has currently been paralyzed." A calm electronic female voice sounded. "Some Kangs are using future technology to deploy an entirely new network system. We do not have much time."
Aurora's voice paused