Ben is in an alley, burning up, feverish and dizzy from his exposure to Virus X last issue. A group of street thugs decide to beat up on him since he's obviously out of it, but are stopped by Captain America, who happened to be in the neighborhood. Cap gets Ben back to the Baxter Building, where Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) calls in Bill Foster (a.k.a. Giant-Man) to help as an expert on radioactivity.
Ben wakes up and storms out, even as he continues to mutate into an even uglier form. Giant-Man goes with him, feeling Reed doesn't need his help but Ben does need a friend. The two go to a launch facility, where a morose Ben talks about the accident that turned him into the Thing.
Meanwhile, Captain America has been out chasing down leads on A.I.M., and soon thinks he has something. He calls Giant-Man and the Thing, and the three of them rampage through an A.I.M. facility. They soon find what they've been looking for, a teleportation device that takes them to an active A.I.M. base. They are more than expected, however, and pop into the middle of a horde of armed men, MODOK, and a robot synthoid modeled after the Thing...
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