Vengeance Is Mine! By the time Alicia, Captain Scott, and Colonel Williams arrive at the site of the Solar Shuttle crash, NASA firefighters have just about extinguished the blaze. One of the firemen reports that they have gone through the wreckage but have not found Ben Grimm's remains. Not even the Thing could have survived the inferno, he says. Scott, however, orders the men to keep looking. Then he asks Alicia to let someone escort her back to the NASA base. She declines, saying she wants to be present when the men searching the desert for Ben return. Ben, meanwhile, is lying on the sand, stunned but far from deceased. As he stands up, he recalls that Diablo was responsible for the mishap, along with the demon named Darkoth. When the energy beam that caused the crash stopped, he says to himself, he managed to pinpoint its source before he impacted. Then, as his strength returns, he strides purposefully toward Diablo's bunker.
In his Texas desert bunker, Diablo gloats over the Thing's demise, while Darkoth grieves for his friend.
