Ignoring Peter's antics, Kraft picked up cucumber Hulk and held him in front of him.
"Come on, Hulk, let's make a deal. Cooperate with our experiments, and I'll turn you back from a cucumber."
"Hulk! Never gives up!"
"I'm not asking you to give up. This wasn't a contest to begin with, was it?" Faced with Hulk's stubbornness, Kraft patiently tried to persuade him. "You don't like fighting Dr. Banner over the same body, do you? If the experiment succeeds, you might not have that problem anymore."
"Hulk doesn't like you! Hulk will smash you flat!"
Unfortunately, Hulk simply wasn't someone who considered complicated questions like that. As far as he was concerned, Kraft had cut into his body while he couldn't move, so he had to beat Kraft up in return.
"All right..." Kraft scratched his cheek and casually set cucumber Hulk on the table. "We'll talk about it again once you've thought it through."
"Hulk! Will smash you flat!"
Even as a cucumber, Hulk kept bellowing restlessly. Finding him far too noisy, Kraft flipped him over.
"#@%￥&...!"
With his face pressed against the tabletop, cucumber Hulk let out muffled roars. Kraft scratched his head, then found a glass jar and placed it over him. At last, things were much quieter.
"Huh? Why are you all looking at me like that?"
Having dealt with cucumber Hulk, Kraft looked up to find Tony Stark and the others staring at him with expressions that were hard to describe.
"Well... I can understand what you just did..."
Stark had more or less figured out Kraft's intentions: while Hulk was a cucumber, he wanted to settle the question of his cooperation once and for all. It would certainly make future experiments much easier, but...
"...Don't you feel even a little guilty?"
"Why would