Bruce Banner is still trapped Below by the Leader….
On the Gamma Flight station, Henry Peter Gyrich berates the
team (Puck, Titania, Doc Samson) over their failure to capture Hulk,
threatening the absent Absorbing Man with arrest if he does not return soon. But
when Gyrich starts talking about torturing Doc Samson for information, Doc (in
Sasquatch’s body) threatens to cut a hole in the space station wall with his
nails. Gyrich, unwilling to call his bluff, allows them to go then sends for
the back-up team….
A reorganization at the Arizona Herald means
Jackie McGee is busted to writing listicles for the paper with a pay cut. Returning
home, she is surprised to find Dr. Charlene McGowan there, having translocated
in the apartment. McGowan is looking for Gamma mutates and reveals that Jackie
is one. McGowan tells her she has been Gamma since Georgetown. Jackie is
skeptical—until she starts seeing bizarre creatures before her….
Bruce is hooked up to a biological machine which, according
to the Leader, should be circulating a flow of Gamma energy from the other
Hulks down to where they are, in the presence of the One Below All. The ghost of
Brian Banner tells him that the missing bond is between Leader and the One—which
then absorbs him, endowing him with great power….
On the space station, Henry Peter Gyrich addresses his new
team, giving them free rein to do whatever they have to to capture the Hulk—the
U-Foes (Vector, Vapor, X-Ray, Ironclad)….