On
Hulk Planet, Hulk has agreed to join a game of godball, despite being the
smallest one there. On Hulk’s team is a huge but very nice guy named Pave while
the leader of the other team is Brutal, who disdains Hulk. The object of the
game is to pick up the godball, a ball hundreds of feet in diameter, made from
the core of a planet and hurl it into the sky to hit pieces of the encircling debris,
scoring points; there is a “goalie” up there to deflect the other team’s throws.
Monolith watches, certain that, despite his brain tumors, Hulk is in no danger.
Hulk is given first shot: he hurls the ball into the air but Brutal smacks it back
so that it slams Hulk to the ground, crushing him. At the controls, Bruce Banner
decides to increase Hulk’s strength to Level One: the Military. Hulk’s
second try goes better but Brutal seizes Hulk and beats him up. Banner orders
Level Two: Fin Fang Foom. Hulk uses Brutal as a baseball bat to smack the
godball into space and score three points with one hit. Pave is so excited that
he slams his fists down on the godball, cracking it in half; everyone else is
mad at him for destroying the last ball they had left. But then…
…a
portal opens and members of the Alternate Universe Timeline Hazard Operations
Response & Intervention Team Y (AUTHORITY) emerge, searching for Hulk who
killed their team from an alternate dimension. They send Hulk and Pave to a
remote ice planet for punishment. Monolith brings up the recording of the
incident from Hulk’s helmet, demonstrating that it was an accident. The
response team agrees but before they can bring Hulk and Pave back, they are
attacked and killed by Kuss the goalie, who misunderstood the situation, being
in space. More portals open and alternate versions of the rescue team emerge
and Monolith slaughters them all in battle until they surrender, having just
seen the logs (with a time lag) and sue for peace. Monolith suggests that in
the future they stay away from Hulk. They dispatch a team to retrieve Hulk and
Pave from the ice planet—and discover the planet is gone, the two prisoners
having smashed it down to its core to yield a new godball. Hulk and Pave return
home as heroes and the game resumes…but Level Two Hulk is brooding….