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As Woodgod and the Hulk menacingly approach Spider-Man, they are observed on a viewscreen by Major Del Tremens and his troops. Wearing protective clothing, several soldiers approach the three figures and tell Spider-Man to get out of the way so they can throw an electro-mass net over Woodgod and the Hulk. Snagging the cornice of a building with his webbing, Spider-Man web-swings out of the way, and the troopers toss the net. One of them explains that the net is designed to increase its mass in direct proportion to the resistance-strength of whatever it ensnares. Thus the more someone struggles to get out, the tighter it will grip him. With a crackle of electricity, the net wraps around the Hulk and Woodgod, and they begin to writhe in pain. Spider-Man takes a dim view of this operation. it seems as if the soldiers are trying to kill them rather than simply subdue them. He demands answers from Tremens, but Tremens replies that Spider-Man is in a restricted area under martial law. When Tremens raises his gun, Spider-Man knocks it out of his hand and web-swings toward a soldier. His spider instincts, he says, tell him that the men are involved in some kind of cover-up. Tremens calls in two hovercraft, Floater 2 and Floater 7, to capture Spider-Man, but Spider-Man attacks the soldier holding the mass-field activator that controls the eiectro-mass net and smashes it. Tremens shouts that Spider-Man will ruin everything. Every moment of delay brings the government that much closer to sending an inspection crew to investigate why Liberty, New Mexico was wiped out. if that happens, says Tremens, they are all finished. Just as the Hulk and Woodgod tear out of the deactivated net, Tremens orders a flight of missiles launched from one of the hovercraft. The Hulk is pleased that Spider-Man freed him and Woodgod, and when Spider-Man warns him about the missiles, the Hulk simply stands in front of Spider-Man and shields him from the explosion. When the smoke clears, the Hulk stands entirely unharmed, and then he, Woodgod, and Spider-Man advance toward Major Tremens and his troops. Tremens explains that this is government business. He wants the two monsters for their own sakes, he says, because they have inhaled enough nerve gas to destroy a city. He wants to help them before it is too late, he adds. But Spider-Men does not trust him. He says that Tremens probably caused whatever happened in Liberty, and he is going to find out how. Then Tremens accuses Spider-Man of complicity in these threats to internal security, and he orders his men to open fire. The Hulk, Woodgod, and Spider-Man are suddenly sprayed with a noxious purple gas, and in a few seconds the Hulk and Woodgod keel over. Spider-Man is astounded that he remains unaffected, but suddenly he feels himself blacking out as well, and then he joins his two companions in the street. When Spider-Man regains consciousness, he finds himself shackled in a suit of armor to the floor inside a large military complex. His hands and feet are completely enclosed in manacles. In front of him stands Major Tremens, who identifies himself as the commanding officer of Tranquility Base. Through thick glass windows, Spider-Man can see Woodgod and the Hulk imprisoned in separate chambers behind Tremens. Tremens charges Spider-Man with being in a restricted area without authorization. Spider-Man demands to know what Tremens has done to Woodgod and the Hulk, and the soldier replies that they have been temporarily neutralized. A warhead has been removed from an ICBM, he continues, and the missile is being prepared to carry Woodgod into outer space. Spider-Man replies that Tremens's plan to blame him and the Hulk for the destruction of Liberty will not work, because he has photographed their operation with his belt camera. Tremens says that his film will never be developed, and he orders two men, Brenner and Howes, to obtain the camera. But in order to do this, they must open the body armor that imprisons Spider-Man, and when they do, he quickly knocks them out and escapes. He knows he cannot get far, because his hands and feet are still stuck in the heavy manacles. Tremens knows this too, so he orders his men to hold their fire. Spider-Man hobbles as fast as he can down a corridor, until his spider-sense discloses the door to Woodgod's chamber, and then he slams his shackles into the door and gets inside. Woodgod is happy to see the "bug-man," and he uses his superhuman strength to break Spider-Man's manacles. As Spider-Man and Woodgod continue around the corridor, Spider-Man asks him what "Scream" means. Woodgod replies that Scream is what killed his father and mother. It brings pain and drives men mad. From this description, Spider-Man realizes that Scream is Woodgod's name for the nerve gas. Shortly, Spider-Man's spider-sense tingles, and Woodgod smells the Hulk behind a metal door. Spider-Man and Woodgod peel the door back and find the Hulk shackled, his head in a transparent globe filled with gas. A tap from Spider-Man's finger breaks the globe, and when the gas disperses, the Hulk quickly breaks loose. Happy to be free, he promises to help Spider-Man and Woodgod and asks what he should do. Suddenly Tremens and three troopers appear behind them, operating a large atomic cannon. Aiming the weapon, Tremens orders them to step backward. Then the floor abruptly drops away and the walls retract, revealing the missile that Tremens is trying to force them to enter. Three "test animals" can be shot into space as easily as one, he says. But the Hulk has no intention of giving up, and when he advances, the soldiers turn the atomic cannon on full strength. But the discharge leaves him unaffected. Tremens orders the cannon recharged, but it is too late. The infuriated Hulk slams his hands together, sending a tremendous shock through the weapon. Unfortunately, the shock also causes the floor to collapse beneath the Hulk's feet, and he falls into the bottom of the missile silo. By digging his fingers into the silo's wall, he brings himself to a screeching halt. Enraged by this new Scream, Woodgod leaps onto the cannon and begins hammering it with his fists. The weapon explodes, throwing Woodgod into a well and knocking Spider-Man into the missile. Spider-Man's head hits a bulkhead, and he is knocked out. As Woodgod clambers down the wall toward Tremens, the soldier quickly hits a switch that slams shut the missile's hatch and initiates its launch sequence. Its engines ignite, and the Hulk, at the bottom of the silo, has only seconds to leap onto the rocket to rescue Spider-Man. The rocket blasts off, but when its first stage is jettisoned, the Hulk falls back to Earth with it. With the shock of his fall absorbed by his tremendously powerful legs, the Hulk watches the missile leave Earth, and he sadly bids farewell to his friend. Back at Tranquility Base, Tremens aims a pistol at Woodgod and tells him he will kill him, just as the nerve gas killed Wood-god's father. Woodgod ignores the threat, punches Tremens in the jaw, knocks him out, and departs. He will return when he is ready, he says, and then all will know "the Scream of Woodgod." All, that is, except Spider-Man, whose oxygen supply is rapidly running out.