At the Nightmerica sanctuary, the mutates gather around a
table for a meal of TV dinners; only Stu is excited. And then Mohamed Simensky
and his troops, along with Stealth, burst in and take them all captive. But
Bruce Banner has gone up to ground level and captured Ken Sayles, Simensky’s
right hand man and returns with him to the group. Simensky knows Bruce is not
going to shoot anyone and punches him. Result: Bruce does not turn into the
Hulk, proving that the cure (last issue) works. And it is revealed that Eduardo
has been working for Simensky all along, having seen the coming horrors of the
world and only Simensky believed in him and he is determined to use his powers
to stop evil. The Wright-Armstrong staff go through the drawers containing the
bodies of the failed experiments, looking for anything of value. Chrissie
approaches Stealth and we learn they are sisters and Simensky does not know
about Stealth’s homicidal urges, previously kept in check by therapy. Stealth
demands that Chrissie not tell him about her killing the two cops in issue #4….
Bruce and Chrissie ask Simansky what his big plans are. The
big shot outlines a program of creating an army of the mutates created by
Wright-Armstrong to battle terrorists. Bruce brings up the matter of the cops
killed by Stealth and Simasnky is surprised and dismayed, denying it. He offers
Bruce the position of heading up this new program, being experienced with
monsters. Deadbird catches Stealth listening in on this conversation and she
slashes his head off. She bursts into the office and carries off Bruce Banner,
slashing the guards who try to stop her plus Ken Sayles and slicing Stu in half
lengthwise, which doesn’t kill him. Simansky apologizes to Ken as the scenario
he assured him would not happen has just come to pass. Stealth tells Bruce that
she is merely doing what she was programmed to do: kill her enemies. Eduardo
sends Chrissie to destroy the morphogenic field generator and once again he
transforms into the Hulk. But Chrissie yells at them to stop, her anger burning
through her disguise and revealing her to have a winged metal body. Hulk fights
Stealth and she is revealed to be a tiny alien creature piloting a human-sized
robot body. Hulk curses Chrissie as a freak and hits her. Fed up with freaks
Hulk departs. Mrs. Gray presses Stu’s two halves together and he repairs
himself. Chrissie tells Simansky not to look at her….
Bruce Banner awakens in the desert. Thinking about the clues
that Chrissie wasn’t human and how he should have realized it, he leaves his
two photos of them together and walks off. Then, changing his mind, he
retrieves the phots and walks away….