In a mysterious world of metal and
trees, young Anatoli heads into the forest on his coming-of-age quest
to see Mother. A hull rupture delivers the Hulk to the forest and he
discovers he is in a space station. Hulk fights off a cyborg bear and
they find Mother, a dead female astronaut in a depressurized room.
Later Hulk joins a band of youths by the fireside as the “Old One”
(a boy only a few years older than the others) relates their history.
At the height of the Cold War, Soviet Russia launched a top secret
military/science space base, dedicated to creating cyborg bears,
super-soldiers, and other weapons. With the fall of the USSR, the
station was forgotten, the inhabitants formed tribes and fought each
other, leaving only the kids, the bears, and the last super-soldier,
whom they call Father....
Elsewhere, Father detects the presence
of a hated American aboard the craft and cuts the gravity. Hulk goes
out and fights the bears in zero gravity then battles Father. The
kids suddenly restore gravity, Hulk and Father drop, putting a hole
in the hull and Father is frozen in space, with Hulk shattering him
into pieces....
Free of their enemy, the kids pilot the
station through the solar system, giving Mother a space funeral, and
launching Hulk in the escape craft toward Earth. Hulk realizes he
doesn't know how to fly the ship so he passes out, ceding control to
Banner and happy (wrongly) knowing Banner was not able to achieve
whatever goal he had there....
When Hulk next awakens, he is staring
down the barrel of a weapon wielded by Kraven the Hunter....