Hulk
has finally found a place where he can be happy being himself. Monolith suggests
he can stay forever if they remove the Bruce Banner persona from his mind. Hulk
declines, rather rudely….
Bruce
visits his Doc Samson therapy protocol, worried about the Titan lurking in his
mind, ready to erupt at any time. Samson suggests dismantling the Mind Palace
and going back to normal but Bruce refuses, feeling in control of himself for
the first time. But is he in control? In his deeper psyche, Hulk is being
beaten by the much larger Titan. Samson suggests it is time he face his demon,
in the form of his abusive father, Brian Banner. Samson guides him toward the
father and he ends up on the Starship bridge to discover all of the other
Banners in the crew have been slaughtered. Bruce closes the Samson Protocol….
Monolith
enters Hulk’s room, offering to help and finds him preparing to leave the
planet, concerned that he is endangering the place by remaining as Titan grows
stronger. She informs him of the nuclear devices implanted in his brain; Bruce/Hulk
reveals that he put them there so that when Bruce dies the Hulk will not live
on forever but will be killed (he hopes). Hulk then flies off but Pave and
Brutal restrain him and drag him to the operating room to cut the Bruce
Infection out of him. Inside Bruce’s psyche, Titan is growing and Bruce only
has time to send an SOS before he is seized and beaten by Brian Banner, who
takes control of the Starship….
Receiving
the SOS on Earth, Doc Samson (in Sasquatch’s body) contacts Doctor Strange at
the Strange Academy, asking for help in rescuing Bruce—and Samson discovers that
Strange is not the one who created the Mind Palace as he had assumed….
Brian
Banner increases Hulk’s power levels while Bruce is able to keep Hulk calm,
leading to Brian’s frustration. As surgery ensues on the now-quiet Hulk, Brian
pushes the power level to Nine, shattering the controls and resulting in a
massive explosion destroying the city….