Sitting in the armed helicopter, General Ross gazed down at Hulk with a complicated expression. The monster he had pursued for years was now trying to clean up the mess he had made.
Before Bruce Banner became Hulk, he had been not only General Ross's best scientist but also the son-in-law Ross had chosen for his daughter. Then the experiment changed everything. Bruce Banner became a wanted criminal, and Ross's daughter became estranged from him.
Unwilling to accept defeat, Ross had then created Abomination. In his plan, Abomination was meant to be a warrior who could take down Hulk.
But now everything had been turned upside down. Banner had finally managed to suppress the Green Giant through an experiment, and Ross had captured him. Meanwhile, Abomination, obsessed with his newfound power, had injected himself with Hulk's blood and become another powerful monster.
And now the only one who could stop him was Hulk. That left General Ross, a man who had always been unyielding, feeling lost. Had he really made a mistake?
"Father, help him, please," Betty Ross begged beside him.
His daughter's plea brought General Ross back to his senses. He gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind. "Provide covering fire!"
"Cover whom?" the soldier asked, turning around.
"Obviously the green one, you idiot! Take out the other one!" General Ross shouted, grabbing the soldier.
"Yes, General!" The soldier raised the Gatling Gun and opened fire on Abomination.
Depleted uranium shells weren't ordinary bullets. They contained a small amount of radioactive uranium, which ignited the instant a shell hit its target. The resulting heat could even melt steel. A single depleted uranium shell could easily penetrate an armored tank.
But even so, the shells only inflicted a little superficial damage on Abomination, enough to make him feel pain. With his regenerative abilities, the wounds healed almost instantly.
That only enraged Abomination. Watching the armed helicopters dart between the skyscrapers, he suddenly leaped into the air and bounded from building to building like a gorilla.
"Get down here!" Abomination reached out, ripped off a section of wall, and hurled it at one of the armed helicopters, smashing it.
Then he charged toward another armed helicopter. Ross was sitting inside it.
"Die, Ross!" Abomination pushed off with one foot and leaped toward the helicopter. Just as it was too late for the helicopter to evade and his hand was about to grab its tail rotor—
Abomination suddenly felt a weight on his foot. The Green Giant had caught up with him.
His father-in-law was on that helicopter. All right, his father-in-law really was a terrible person. He'd driven a wedge between him and his girlfriend, and he was always trying to get his hands on Hulk's body to satisfy his own selfish desires. He was practically the most despicable man imaginable.
But! Did he even know who Hulk was? As the Forgiving Giant, Hulk would of course forgive him.
Besides, his wife was up there too. There was no way Hulk would let Abomination have his way.
With a roar, Hulk yanked Abomination down. The two giants grappled as they fell from the sky.
Boom! The ground split and caved in, shaking violently. The windows within dozens of meters shattered.
Roar! Hulk, who had landed on top of Abomination, was the first to come to his senses. He clenched his fist and punched Abomination hard in the face.
With Hulk's strength, even a ten-centimeter-thick steel plate would probably be punched through by that blow. But Abomination merely turned his head to the side and spat out a tooth.
"Is that all you've got?" Abomination taunted Hulk.
By rights, Abomination was only a monster created using Hulk's gamma-ray-contaminated blood. At most, he was a knockoff, so he should have been weaker than Hulk.
Unfortunately, Bruce Banner had previously conducted an experiment to suppress the Green Giant, and it had worked surprisingly well—almost enough to keep Hulk from coming out at all. Even now, Banner had forced Hulk out by threatening him with death, but Hulk was still more or less in a hangover-like state. His strength was far below normal for the moment, so he was actually losing to Abomination.
Of course, if you insisted on hearing the real reason, it was actually because Hulk had a thick head of black hair, while Abomination had gone completely bald to get stronger. He didn't just lack hair—there wasn't a single strand anywhere on his body. That was why Abomination looked so much stronger.
Hmm... That did seem to make a certain amount of sense.
"Hulk, you don't deserve this power." The Bald Giant sneered as he grabbed Hulk and kicked him away with all his strength.
Unable to control his body, Hulk slid and rolled across the ground, smashing through a perimeter wall and then crashing through the wall of a low building before finally coming to a stop.
Not far in front of Hulk, a woman in her fifties was cowering in the corner, trembling as she held several children in her arms.
Director Emma was clutching the youngest child at the Orphanage tightly, praying for God's protection. She had seen the news on New York TV Station, of course. She knew it was dangerous here, but she had no choice. There were so many children, and without a bus to pick them up, she couldn't get them out.
So she could only tell the children to hide in their rooms and not come out, praying that the two monsters wouldn't make it to their street. After all, the battle had started some distance away. But the poor, kind woman had clearly underestimated the extent of the destruction the two monsters could cause.
Hulk shook his head and stood up. After glancing at Ms. Emma and the children from the Orphanage, he turned and walked away.
But just then, Abomination suddenly threw two cars at them.
"Ah!" One of the seven- or eight-year-old children screamed in fright. At the sound, Hulk's pupils contracted. In that instant, Bruce Banner's personality seemed to gain the upper hand.
Hulk didn't dodge. Instead, he raised both arms in front of himself and chose to take the two cars head-on.
Boom! The two cars bounced away and crashed into the nearby houses.
"Hulk, you're no match for me!" Abomination roared and charged at Hulk, unwilling to let the opportunity slip by.
But as time passed, the negative effects of the earlier experiment began to fade. And with Abomination constantly taunting him, Hulk started to lose his temper. At last, he prepared to unleash his ultimate move.
He clenched both fists and raised them sharply, about to slam them into the ground.
"Hulk Slash!" Hulk shouted the only line he had for his ultimate move. It was a simple, crude skill name, but at least it sounded better than Hulk Smash.
But just as his hands were about to hit the ground, another slender, delicate hand caught them. That's right—Hulk's ultimate move had been stopped by a hand that looked perfectly ordinary.
"The Green Giant really is the Green Giant. I guess I shouldn't expect your brains to be working. You can't just punch the ground with all your strength—your attack will hit the innocent people behind you, too." Standing in front of Hulk was an utterly ordinary-looking young man. On his face was a Smiling Poker Face Mask with a goatee and a mustache painted on it.