7 - Incredible Hulk Library

“Incredible” Chapter 7
The Hulk Library (www.hulklibrary.com)
The morning sun felt damned good on Bruce Banner’s face as he turned the jeep
onto the access road. He lifted a hand in farewell to Woodgod, who stood on a
large boulder, haloed in the light of the rising sun. Then he turned and simply
disappeared into the forest. Bruce blinked in astonishment. The leaves of the
dense foliage hadn’t so much as rippled. He’d had some pretty bizarre
adventures in the time since that fateful day when he had been caught in that
gamma blast but the last couple of days had been right up there in the top five.
But now he had fresh clothes, a vehicle with a full tank of gas and his skin was
normal, enabling him to be able to operate without restrictions. And now he
would most certainly be able to find The Leader in no time at-
Bruce slowed down, peering at the road ahead of him. There was a mist ahead
and while early morning mist wasn’t anything to get excited about, the fact that
this mist was a deep, sinister crimson certainly was. Bruce stopped the jeep and
rubbed his eyes. His vision wasn’t anything to brag about without his glasses but
there was no mistaking the fact that there was a crimson mist obscuring the road
ahead of him. Bruce wondered if this was the result of one of Woodgod’s
experiments…but no, surely Woodgod have mentioned it to Bruce if that were
the case.
As if it had been waiting patiently for him, the crimson mist hungrily extended
tendrils of gossamer consistency that nonetheless wrapped around Bruce’s body
like semi-transparent tentacles that seemed to possess the consistency of steel.
Bruce thrashed and fought in the grip of the mist that was slowly engulfing him
as if it were a living thing hungering to devour him alive. The world was
vanishing in a crimson haze and Bruce’s panic did its usual job and flooded his
gamma radiation saturated cells with adrenaline and the roar of The Hulk made
the trees vibrate.
And then there was silence.
Only the jeep remained, its engine quietly idling and there it would stay until it
ran out of gas and shut itself off. It would be found five days later by Woodgod
who would then spend two whole days searching for some trace of Bruce Banner
with no luck.
The crimson mist was gone and whatever it was had taken The Hulk and Bruce
Banner with it.
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