Bruce Banner in a hellish wasteland
broken by green lightning faces the demon who resembles his father
Brian Banner. Banner tells him that Bruce is home there, the source
of gamma, an emanation of the divine. And he adds that he isn't alone
there and then Bruce spies his late mother walking away; Bruce calls
to her but she does not turn. His cries awaken...
...the Immortal Hulk, finally healing
from the damage caused by the new Abomination and the Red Harpy (last
issue), and he beats the Abomination to keep him from harming Betty,
the Red Harpy. Betty tears out Rick's stomach to prevent him from
using its acid as a weapon. Hulk asks reporter Jackie McGee why she
is there. She explains that she came to interview Betty and
everything went crazy but that's just the Hulk's world. Two war
wagons dispatched by General Fortean arrive and open fire on Hulk who
protects McGee while Abomination tries to tear Red Harpy's head off.
She flies into the sky and tears him open, dropping onto a war wagon
just as it is about to deploy bright lights to trigger Hulk's
transformation. Hulk then punches that war wagon into the other one,
causing them both to explode. McGee mentions Amadeus Cho's theory
that Bruce Banner was always subconsciously preventing Hulk from
killing anyone; Hulk responds that it makes sense...for the other
Hulks. He rips open Abomination to discover a skeletal Rick Jones in
a fetal position. Then Alpha Flight arrives, leading Fortean to order
his men out of there. The Canadian team (Sasquatch, Puck, Titania,
Absorbing Man) joined by Doc Samson surveys the wreckage and tries to
determine what happened. Doc Samson spots the Red Harpy on a distant
rooftop....
An emaciated Bruce Banner stands on a
tiny asteroid where the angel Metatron asks who he is and what he
will become....
Coda: General Fortean is summoned by
his monitors who show him that Thunderbolt Ross' grave has been torn
apart—from the inside....