Prologue has Bruce Banner advising
Amadeus Cho that he will make a good Hulk, noting that while Bruce’s sin is
anger, Amadeus is motivated by pride….
In Austin, Maddy Cho is enraged
that Amadeus just made their monstrous foe stronger. Black Panther and Jake Oh
arrive and plan to capture Hulk and send him to the Negative Zone. Instead,
Maddy convinces them that the important matter is rescuing the lady’s baby from
the monster. Panther promises the woman he will bring back her son. The team
follows the monster’s tracks and discovers he has transformed back into his
human shape to slip into a crack in the sidewalk, one wide enough only for
Amadeus and Maddy to enter. T’Challa supplies them with tracking devices and
they descend into the sewers. Amadeus confronts the bad guy (name revealed to
be Christian Sung) who enjoys the strong emotions displayed by Amadeus when he
threatens to drop the baby off a precipice. Sung intends to kill as many people
as possible while feeding on Amadeus’ fear and panic. Then he drops the baby
but Panther is on the scene to catch him. Amadeus and Sung both transform into
their monstrous alter egos and Hulk calls out to Jake Oh to send them both to
the Negative Zone. Maddy overrides the system and faces the monster herself.
She lures it away from Hulk and then gives the order to transport the monster
to the Neg Zone. Maddy then announces that she’s leaving her brother to be Hulk
on his own since he never listens and he never learns; despite his
pronouncements he always does what he feels like. Returning to the surface,
Hulk is hailed as a hero by neighbors….
One week later, Hulk arrives
at a diner in Topeka, Kansas. Clint (Hawkeye) Barton is sitting there. Neither
he nor Hulk is sure what Hulk wants but, in the end, he turns back into Amadeus
and says “I just want my friend back.” The two grieve together….