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South America. Dr. Bruce Banner is in hiding, helping the indigenous peoples of the forest with health care. But the local guerilla forces are not happy with the meddling gringo. They decide to pay him a visit.
Despite his pleas, the guerillas drag Dr. Banner away, kicking and screaming. They are just outside the village when he begins to transform into the Hulk.
The guerillas step back in bewilderment as Banner turns green and begins to contort and writhe in pain. One guerilla then notices the triple color of a laser sight on his comrade’s chest. Before the guerilla can mouth a warning, a bolt of plasma rips into the spectating guerilla, killing him instantly.
Then the Hulk is upon them.
In the tree line, the Predator stops his attack, bewildered by the massive, glowing and radioactive humanoid. It watches with curiosity as the Hulk batters his attackers, hurling them into the forest with the merest of backhands.
Sensing a great kill, the Predator moves in quietly as the Hulk sends the last guerilla flying over the jungle canopy. A net gun blasts out at the Hulk’s back.
Hearing the sound of the net, the Hulk turns around- and is snared in the constricting net. Alien filaments begin to cut into the Hulk’s flesh as the net constricts around him. The Hulk bellows in rage, growing larger and shredding the net off him.
The Predator, still cloaked, opts for a different weapon. His spear lances out of the tree line, into the Hulk’s chest. However, the gamma-irradiated flesh is far denser than the xenomorph-killing spear, and the hurled weapon bounces harmlessly off.
Even with his brain dulled by rage, the Hulk knows where the spear came from. With an easy leap, he is into the tree line, flattening a large tree and sending the Predator flying.
The Predator hits the jungle floor hard, his invisibility cloaking field crackling on the impact. The Hulk sees the crackling and leaps again, even as the Predator scrambles to it’s feet.
A huge, green hand grabs the Predator by the legs. With one easy motion, the Predator is plucked from the ground and hurled into a tree.
Cloaking field collapses under an impact that shatters wood. The Predator spits out green blood under its mask, but recovers quickly as the Hulk charges forward.
A spinning throwing blade slashes through the air at the Hulk. The green menace tries to bat the disk away, and roars in pain as it slices open even his green skin. Amounting to little more than scratch, the wound enrages the Hulk, causing him to bellow and swell in size again.
The Predator, now on its feet, presses the attack, unleashing the plasma caster on his shoulder. A single ball of plasma strikes the Hulk in the chest, burning flesh and sending the Hulk into another rage of anger.
The Predator now fires in quick succession, bombarding the Hulk with blast after blast.
Arms crossed in front of his face, the Hulk charges forward, swelling in size and rage. The Predator is knocked off his feet by a green fist the size of a small car.
The impact shatters bones in the Predator’s body, cracks armor and throws it up through the canopy. The Predator, somehow still alive, arcs up over the jungle, then finally lands nearly a half mile away.
The Predator gasps in pain and reaches for it’s control panel. As it flips open the controls, the Hulk lands nearby, his immense weight shaking the jungle floor. The Predator keys the self-destruct in it’s gauntlet even as the Hulk charges over and begins pounding the broken body of the alien hunter.
Green fists, charred, smoking and bloody from the plasma barrage smash repeatedly into the Predator. It is killed swiftly, but the Hulk continues to hammer the alien corpse in his pain-filled rage. Alien armor cracks and shatters under the terrific blows even as the Predator’s remains are hammered down into the jungle floor. All the while, the self destruct counts down.
The Hulk eventually halts his attack, realizing his foe is defeated. The Hulk steps back from the smeared green remains on and in the ground. He looks at the alien blood on his fists and arms. Then the blinking red count down timer on the Predator’s gauntlet catches his attention.
The Hulk is transfixed by the low chime of the device. He begins to calm. Then the Predator’s remains self-destruct.
The micro-nuclear explosion detonates with a fury that levels trees and burns the Hulk’s flesh. But despite the intense heat and fury of the blast, the Hulk’s body is not completely obliterated. Instead, a blackened husk of charred flesh falls backward in the aftermath. Twitching.
Gamma radiation flares within the cells still living. The Hulk begins to regenerate.
But far overhead, in a spacecraft of unearthly origins, others watch. For an Elder Predator, the thrill of the Hunt is once again kindled even as the blackened remains of the Hulk begin to stir.
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