Moments before the Gamma bomb blast that would change his
life, Bruce Banner has a telephone conversation giving his opinions on
artificial intelligence. It scares him but he is certain AI will never exhibit
creativity...
...and his contact is revealed to be the Hulk a/k/a
Doc Green, calling from the future. Doc then goes to a bar for a meeting with
Steve Rogers, the aged former Captain America. Steve wants Hulk to stay away from
Jennifer Walters, the She-Hulk on Green's list of Gamma people to be depowered,
underlining his point with an electrically-charged cane....
Out west, Deadpool is searching for Red Hulk, hired by Doc
Green. D'pool calls Steve Rogers to report on Doc's activities....
Doc's assistants Daman Veteri and Randall Jessup continue to
search various realities for Lyra and Doc has to rescue them from a tentacled
monster they accidentally call up. He admits to making mistakes and releases
the guys from any obligation to him....
Doc Green shows up at the Leader's secret lab but the villain
has already anticipated this call, having created a huge mutate to fight him.
Doc easily defeats the monster and injects Leader with the antidote restoring
him to being ordinary Samuel Sterns. Later, it is revealed that the Hulk AI,
now calling himself Gammon, had earlier provided the Leader with
countermeasures and Sterns is restored to his original green form....
Doc Green steps though a portal to meet with Deadpool who has
tracked Red Hulk/Thunderbolt Ross to Yucca Mountain, America's largest
reservoir of nuclear waste. Doc makes a call to Rick Jones, knowing that his AI
will hear him; he offers a deal: if Gammon will reveal the whereabouts of Lyra,
Doc will leave him alone. Doc then explains Deadpool's next task: handing him a
bullet and telling him to fire it into Red Hulk's eye or ear; it will prevent
him from absorbing radiation and growing stronger. Doc then crashes into the
building and picks a fight with Red Hulk....