Bruce Banner turns into the Hulk and fights the Abomination.
As Doc Samson hurries General Thunderbolt Ross to safety (“It’s the Hulk
against the Abomination, Samson. There’s no such thing as ‘safety!’”) Samson
recalls the first meeting of these two foes….
It took place on a crowded New York Bridge. They smacked each
other with cars, while Abom mocked Hulk for not having the intelligence to
match his power. Then Abom threw Hulk into a tanker truck of oil, following it
with a car battery and igniting an explosion. Abom gloated but only for as long
as it took Hulk to jump out of the flames and carry him over the side of the
bridge and into the river….
As the two antagonists smash each other in the present, Doc
Samson wonders what Abomination meant by “Mercy” (last issue). Then Mercy
(Abigail Wright) appears to Samson, startling him and confusing Ross who cannot
see her. Mercy tells Samson that she brought Bruce Banner there because the
Abomination needs to die and only the Hulk can “get the job done….”
Flashback: On the river bottom, the battle continued, Abom
trying to strangle Hulk with a discarded anchor chain. Hulk threw Abom out of
the water to the reservoir and Abom demanded they end it there...
…but they didn’t and now Hulk and Abomination are fighting in
the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Hulk holds his foe’s head under the
water. Both Ross and Mercy tell Hulk to let Abom die while Doc Samson tries to
stop him. Ross says that Blonsky needs to be put down like a dog. Hulk ponders,
then says, “Hulk likes dogs” and releases his foe. As the army binds
Abomination, Hulk leaps off and Samson points out that Blonsky is more of a
monster than Bruce Banner ever could be….
The Secretary tells Ross that he was right, that the
Abomination is too unstable to make a government operative and he will be
quietly disposed of. Then the Secretary visits Abomination in his cell and
shows him a file on Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea….