Hydro-Man would skulk about in the shadows for a while until the Wakandan criminal Nakia would turn up in New York City. Hyrdo-Man was spelunking around an abandoned A.I.M. base when running into the former Dora Milaje, she quickly used her jufeiro herb to enthrall him, leaving Bench to guard over the base to cover her tracks in the event her old colleges managed to follow her. When the rest of the Adored Ones accompanied by Spider-Man did infiltrate the undersea facility where a potential WMD of the wives in waiting's design was kept. Hydro immediately set about his preprogrammed task, but was quickly dispatched by Okoye's quick thinking and useful Wakandan Tech engineering. At some point, Hydro-Man was captured and imprisoned in Atlantis. Somehow, Namor managed to siphon Hydro-Man's power over water into himself in order to aid Namor's latest war effort on the surface world.