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
suddenly the Hulk was breathing again The goo had fallen away from his face and air rushed into his oxygen-deprived lungs Who asked the Hulk as the woman continued to blast the strange creature With every blast the ooze fell away from the Hulk until at last he was free Something about the shotgun blasts was causing the creature pain and at the same time was also shrinking it Hulk wasn’t sure of much but he was sure that was no ordinary shotgun Get on your feet and help me contain it the woman shouted Normally the Hulk wouldn’t react kindly to someone yelling at him but considering that this person had arguably saved his life he ignored it The Hulk hefted his massive form getting to his feet The goop tried to slide away from the woman but the Hulk smashed the ground with his left fist blocking its path The vibrations sent the goo scattering She fired yet another blast at the goo And suddenly it stopped moving
Was it dead I’m Elsa Bloodstone said the woman nodding in the Hulk’s direction And you have to help me get that thing into this thing She nudged her shotgun toward a metal container it looked like a giant thermos The Hulk scooped the inert goo off the desert floor and put it inside the metal container When he was done he handed it to Elsa who promptly clamped a lid on top screwing it shut What was that thing the Hulk asked Elsa stood quietly for a moment as she placed the metal container into a pack she had slung along her back I’m not exactly sure she said I’m still in the process of determining its origins But it’s dangerous I think I figured that out already Hulk said Elsa laughed Elsa Bloodstone said her good-byes to the Hulk as the giant coiled his massive legs like springs Releasing his muscles the Hulk jumped into the air disappearing into the sky with a mighty leap
