Résumé: A meteor makes an impossible turn in midair and crashes into the marshes of Brooklyn's Jamaica Bay. The rocky shape changes, hatches, and transforms into a stone behemoth and begins marching toward Manhattan.
In the Manhattan courthouse, the Avengers arrive for a Senate hearing into their activities. Their NSC liaison Henry Gyrich has declared the team to be a security threat and is demanding their dissolution. After fighting their way through a mob of reporters, they enter the hearing chambers and find Gyrich awaiting them, smugly confident that he will get his way. Matt Murdock acts as the team’s legal counsel.
In a Brooklyn subway station, the rocky behemoth smashes through the ticket booth and jumps down into the darkness of the subway tracks. It continues its unstoppable march to Manhattan.