In a remote part of Georgia, Betty Ross
Banner is found by soldiers evacuating the area because of the Hulk;
she hulks out, becoming Red She-Hulk to toss around some military
vehicles. She is approached by a man in Roman costume and at first
mistakes him for Bruce. He isn't....
At the research facility in Gammaworld,
New Mexico, Bruce Banner and Amadeus Cho are following Red on their
monitors and realize that with her energy spikes, after three or four
more transformations, she won't be able to change back. Bruce decides
to track her down and warn her. After picking up some gadgets a
tuxedo-clad Bruce Banner arrives at an art museum in Rome with
Amadeus back home on the other end of a comm-link. There he finds
Betty at a lavish party, looking quite beautiful. He sweeps her away
from her admirers and tries to warn her about her transformations.
She rebuffs him and goes off with her escort: Tyrannus, Lord of
Subterranea. Bruce's jealousy causes him to turn into Hulk but
Amadeus persuades him to leave before he can trigger a similar change
in Betty. But when he sees Tyrannus carrying an apparently
unconscious Betty he dashes back into the museum and rips open a
vault where he thinks the villain has trapped her. Surprise: the Hulk
was duped into opening the vault; Tyrannus takes what he came after
and Betty, as Red She-Hulk, clobbers the big green guy and they
depart. Amadeus asks museum director Dr Sofia Di Cosimo what was in
the vault. She replies “Pandora's Box....”