Dr Charlene McGowan looks back on her life working for the Kingpin,
making mutant growth hormone from a mutant named Glowboy and turning it into a
party drug. Then she was moved into black-market hormone replacement therapy
which went well—until Daredevil broke up the operation….
Now she works for the Hulk and Xemnu the Titan has descended from
the clouds to save the day from the monstrous parasites released by Hulk (or so
the news media understands it). Savage Hulk remembers his enemy who claims to
have been the original Hulk and attacks him, fulfilling Dario “The Minotaur”
Agger’s dark scheme. In the battle, Xemnu plays to the cameras with his
hypnotic vision, reminding everyone that he was once a beloved children’s
television star and hurling a parasite at the news chopper that comes too close.
Red Harpy saves the copter but scares the crew by ordering them to land….
Jackie McGee pleads with Rick Jones to stop the Hulk from defeating
Xemnu or the parasites will escape but there’s nothing Rick can do. Gamma
Flight is also there and Puck has Crusher Creel absorb the plane’s metal and
engines to fly down and battle Hulk; as Hulk turns to fight back, McGowan
teleports him back to the base. McGowan tries to explain that Hulk was fighting
an apparent good guy on live television but Savage Hulk doesn’t understand—and McGowan
doesn’t understand why he keeps saying “Hulk.” Devil Hulk surfaces, surprised
that Savage Hulk could keep him away—but he doesn’t recognize the word “Hulk”
either. McGowan sees fear in the big guy’s eyes for the first time and then she
remembers where she has heard of the Hulk: her capture by a superhero—but it wasn’t
Daredevil, it was Xemnu, the Incredible Hulk….