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.