Story continues from WEAPON X #6.
In the Weapon X facility, Dr. Alba
has released H-Beta, a Hulkverine, combining the powers of Hulk and Logan, to
fight Domino and Warpath….
Elsewhere in the facility, Old Man Logan,
Lady Deathstrike, and Sabretooth turn on Hulk (Amadeus Cho), letting him
know he failed to rescue Bobby Andrews (H-Beta) by trying to stop them from killing
the bad guys. He clobbers the three of them and heads off to rescue his (other)
teammates. Hulk crashes through the wall to engage the monster but is surprised
by his claws, taking some injuries to his hands. Hulk tries to appeal to Bobby
inside the monster but Alba tells him Bobby no longer exists: H-Beta has no
brain beyond that which powers emotional responses, like anger. She exhorts
Hulk to give it all his strength so she can see what her creation is capable
of. As the two battle, the ground above cracks open and Warpath and Domino have
to save people from falling in. And then Amadeus lets Hulk out of the trunk and
he hurls H-Beta to the surface, following him to continue their fight. At this
point, H-Alpha is ready and Dr. Alba frees it to join the other two above.
H-Alpha, a gray Hulk with retractable claws and Adamantium rods sticking out of
his back, faces Hulk and H-Beta. Rev. William Stryker halts his escape to watch
what happens next. And what happens next is that H-Alpha decapitates H-Beta
with a single swipe of its claws, as Alba had programmed it to destroy the
greatest threat it faces—and that was H-Beta. Alba tries directing it to attack
the Hulk but it balks and, remembering what had been done to it, it goes after
Stryker and his group. Stryker’s guards open fire but Hulk seizes the monster,
allowing the bad guys to get away; there is a brief fight which trashes the
rest of the area, with the team rescuing civilians (and Domino lamenting the
destruction of the bank). Hulk and H-Alpha face one another, then the monster
retracts its claws and leaps off into the distance. Hulk is angry that the
monster got away but Logan plans to track it down—but Amadeus doesn’t want to
hear it, quitting the team. Sabretooth looks at his teammates and announces
that they are the new Weapon X….