It made the Hulk mad this goo or whatever it was It was alive somehow It seemed to think It kept coming after the Hulk It wanted to hurt him Why couldn't the stupid goo just leave Hulk alone He had been fighting like this for what hours now Maybe longer than that The battle began in a remote California desert where Bruce Banner had been working on an important renewable energy project for S.H.I.E.L.D. During a test something strange had happened something attacked the laboratory What it was exactly Banner couldn't say he had never seen anything like it before Given time Banner could have studied it found out exactly what the thing was But all the excitement caused his pulse to race His heart beat faster and faster In a matter of seconds Banner underwent a startling transformation Where once stood a mild mannered scientist there now stood a seven foot tall green man monster that the world called the Hulk
As the Hulk roared he slammed another impossibly huge fist into the mysterious goo that had suddenly disrupted Banner’s experiment The substance flew apart where the Hulk hit it and little clumps of it flew all around him The Hulk snarled turned and saw the various bits of goo slowly flow back to each other coalescing as a whole What was this stuff Whatever it was the goo reared upward and somehow towered over the towering Hulk It seemed to move with a mind all its own Like a tidal wave it flowed toward the Hulk enveloping him completely If you were there in the desert at that precise moment you would have heard the Hulk’s roar muffled through the thick layers of glop The substance stretched over and around the Hulk and started to squeeze his body all over It constricted his rib cage No matter how the Hulk expanded his chest the goo kept on getting tighter and tighter No matter how the Hulk clawed at the substance with his fingers the goo clung to his skin The Hulk wasn’t big on realizing things while he
was in the middle of a fight But something started to dawn on him He couldn’t breathe He could survive for a while without oxygen He was the Hulk after all With his gamma-powered lungs he could survive underwater or even in the vacuum of space But only for a while This made him angry And the madder the Hulk gets the stronger he gets The green behemoth began throwing punches toward the sky trying to smash his way out of the glop He kicked too His mighty legs nearly broke through but somehow the goo managed to stick to the Hulk The more he struggled the more stuck the Hulk seemed to become He was gasping now desperately trying to draw oxygen that wasn’t there into his gamma-powered lungs It was getting hard to see and his world was becoming dark He had faced Ultron The Abomination Loki The
most powerful beings in the world and other worlds for that matter And this was how it was going to end Not with a bang but with a glop The giant thought he heard something then a noise coming through the ooze that had wrapped itself around his head It sounded a lot like someone saying Get down And that’s what the Hulk did Not that he had a choice really He was on the verge of collapse and collapse he did With a deafening thud the behemoth slammed into the desert floor With one eye now open he saw her A young red-haired woman dressed in crimson wearing a black overcoat She shouldered what looked like a shotgun pointed right at the Hulk No not at the Hulk At the creature Hulk heard the shotgun blast and another sound A scream Was he screaming No the ooze was screaming The woman fired another blast at the ooze and
