Waking up to realize she really was gone made the horror of the accident all to real, the tears were real as he awakes from another night of the way things used to be. Even going to work seemed tough, as they'd both worked side by side at the Culver Institute of Technology. Before the tragic wreck takes place David always remembers the good times first, as if to remind him he once was a happy man. Upon watching the car tumble as if he hadn't been inside, in his dream he'd just be watching the accident, then he'd always try to help Laura out of the burning wreckage. Pulling on the door with all his might to try and free Laura, but he couldn't get the door open, the window wouldn't break, the flames become more intense as the fuel ignites the 1974 Pontiac Grand Am. The empty feeling seems to tear him down every morning as he wakes up in the bed they once shared.
The small things she meant to him seemed to always be the things David missed most of all. The hair cuts, the breakfast before work, the passion that seemed to be gone from his life. Working with one of her best friends didn't make it very easy to go to work, but the fact that he and Elaina Marks had gone to had been in Med School together made her a friend he could confide in. She understood the heartache he felt inside, she made the best of efforts to comfort him. Laura and Elaina had become the best of friends. David had know Elaina since the first year of medical school at Cornell. They had become separated for seven years, David had gone to work in the new disease control laboratory in San Diego California. Elaina had stayed on the east coast working for a military science program. David had written two books on the revolution of new medicines, which had become popular among those in the scientific medical fields. His articles written on the advancements in modern medicine had become a tool for teaching students in the field of medicine.
He'd fallen in love with Laura a professor a Cal Berkley, she had invited David to speak to the students. David and Laura got married and, both took a job with the Culver Institute. Elaina who had kept in touch with Dr. Banner since med school was persuaded by David to move to California to take the job in the lab. He could still remember those happy days as if they'd been no more than the day before. The project assigned to David and Elaina was the "Super Soldier" project, this had been a military project put on ice for lack of progress in figuring out where the strength comes from. It had only been eleven months since the accident, it had become hard for David to focus on the new project when his mind always seemed to go where it wanted to, and it always wanted to think about Laura. The memories were so real he'd have to hold back from crying in the middle of the day. Elaina who had know him for so long tried to comfort him as much as she could, but she remembered how he had been when his mother had died in med school. David had a way of keeping everything inside him, not willing to just share his fears and problems with others.

2
The day David met Mrs. Maier his dedication to find out where the strength came from matched no project he'd ever worked on. "I came off the exit ramp the car started to shake, the tire had blown out, It happened so fast after that I really can't remember what caused the car to tumble off into the grassy embankment. The car it burst into flames, all I could think of was little Andre trapped inside of the burning car." Mrs. Maier began to cry, and get choked up a little.
" Somehow...I picked the car up and pushed it over, that's when the say..I, got, the..the burns on my face. I got Andre out of that car though, and I thank God everyday for that."
"You're my hero" Andre said to his mother.
" I don't know about that Andre." His mother replied to her sons praise.
David got up walking out on the interview, but this one wasn't like the guy who kicked down the steel door, or the guy from Nam that saved his platoon after having his arm blown off. This was the same way David had lost Laura, and hearing how she was able to free her son while David watched Laura die was more than he could stand. Elaina came through the doors. "Do you want to explain what just happened back there?" She asked.
"I can't e plain it." David replied
" She was able to free her son while I watched Laura die in the burning wreckage on the side of the road." David couldn't keep his feelings from coming out, he almost began to cry in front of Elaina.
"Look somehow these people found the strength you weren't able to find, but your lucky that we have a project that is geared towards finding out why." Elaina could tell that David was hurting.
David's devotion to find where the inner strength comes from when a person is in distress. David wanted to know why he didn't have the same strength when he needed it most. He couldn't get the image of that 120 pound woman lifting a car, when he couldn't even get the glass to break.
David was looking into Mitochondria from blood samples each person gave that day. "There's nothing different in any of the samples given, the only thing that these people had in common was severe emotional distress." David explained to Elaina.
"Maybe we should look deeper." Elaina recommended.
"What? The DNA?" David asked.
"Why not, we have nothing else to look at."
"Ben has been modifying all the equipment, do you know if he has modified the electron microscope?"
As the began to look at blood samples from the subjects under study they noticed an abnormal cellular structure in the people who found the inner strength. The adenine and thymine content was abnormal. They began to check all 78 patients records to find they all had the same abnormal adenine-thymine deviation.
"We might have found it." David said excitedly.
"How does it work David?" Elaina asked.
"One thing at a time, we must not get ahead of ourselves.
"The one thing we know for sure is all the subjects were different from me." David said.
"No we don't." Elaina replied.
David looked at her with a look that indicated he didn't understand.
"When is the last time you had your blood magnified 3,000,000 times?
David took a blood sample of his own blood, compared it to the others, to find he too had the same abnormality that the others had. His was actually more abnormal than the other subjects. Both scientist agreed that something external working in conjunction with the metabolism. There was something speeding there's up enough to make them stronger.

3
David approached the west side of the lab he wanted to get the DNA results analyzed. Ben who was the engineer of the x-ray unit attempted to get the information David wanted, but the microwave transmitter wasn't working properly. David just let his head fall down in disappointment.
"I'm sorry David it must be sun spots or gamma activity from the sun." Ben said.
David looked up at Ben, "The sun affects those things?" He asked.
"It's solar flare activity, yeah happens all the time." Ben assured him.
"Has the solar activity ever affected the biological activity in humans?"
"I don't know David, I really don't know." Ben hated to have to tell David.
"I bet it has, Ben can I get a print out of the Solar and gamma activity?"
"Sure give me a minute to go to the office and get it." Ben was glad to be able to help David.
Just as Elaina had said there must be something external working. David realizing he might have just stumbled into it decided to call Elaina, while he waited for Ben. She didn't pick up the phone, David hung the receiver up then walked back over to the desk. Ben was walking back down to the meeting room where David awaited his return. Here is a graph that will show you day by day for the past two years when the solar activity was high. David had a feeling he'd just hit on something, again going to his office to call Dr. Marks.
"Come on pickup the phone." He was talking to the ringing phone.
As David looked closely at the graph, to make sure he hadn't made a mistake. In every situation the subjects found the inner strength the gamma activity and solar spots were present. Also the day he couldn't free his wife the activity was extremely low. He picked up the phone ringing Elaina one more time, but again it rang with no answer. He wanted to try a small dose of the gamma ray injection. When Dr. Marks didn't answer David decided to give himself a small dose of radiation.
David walked to the east end of the lab to the radiology department. The sign on the door said {Authorized Personnel Only} David was authorized to be there but, the things he wanted to try wasn't authorized in any form. However he had become narrow minded about a scientific approach. He only thought about not being able to save Laura. He turned the start timer on the machine, he allowed himself 15 minutes to get ready and in position. Then fifteen for second inject himself with 30,000 units. There could be the side effects from it, but this didn't stop him from experimenting with what could be the answer not only he wanted to know, the military wanted to know too. He sat in the huge chair, it began to rotate back to the proper position. The timer nearing zero under the words {Countdown to Event} written beside the other knob that had a piece of white tape on it. The white pieces of tape where machines being calibrated by Ben. He had taken on the duty of running the radiology department, as well as upgrading the old equipment.
{Countdown to Event} 0:00 - The light was bright even though David had closed his eyes, his forehead became warm, a tingling sensation began to increase on the surface of the skin. The bright light seemed to turn green. His head and finger tips were tingling, he walked over to a bed used to transport patients to the lab. He picked up on it as much as he could, but the three hundred pound bed wouldn't move. Angry he slammed his hands down on the bed railing. The hit reverberated throughout his hand, but his fingers still continued to tingle. After a minute the feelings started to go away, except the burning of his eyes. He felt as if he had sand thrown into is eyes, even that tapered off as he walked out of the lab around midnight. The rain was coming down in layered sheets hitting the cement building like tiny bombs exploding against the hard surface. When the hit David he pulled his jacket over his head as he ran for his car, the only one in the parking lot.
The car door was blowing against him in the high winds. The fall storms in northern California were often intense during the fall months. The lightning flashed bright, showing the angles of the odd shaped building. The thunder echoed through the mountains, David attempted to start the car but, it wouldn't seem to start. Just before he was about to get back out into the rain storm the Maverick started up. David pulled out of the parking lot turning left around the mountain to his home, the rain was hitting the windshield so hard the wipers could barely keep up on full speed. David knew the roads well, but was afraid of wrecking the car off the side of the mountain side. Around the curve in the road he only drove thirty-five miles per hour. In the road was a broken piece of a barricade a car had hit earlier. He could feel the tire blow out as the car hit the debris, he sat there angry that he was going to have to exit the vehicle in the rain, but also happy that going under the speed limit saved his life. His mind went back to a time when a life wasn't spared, the day he lost Laura. It wasn't a day like this one it was a beautiful day warm with a light breeze. He could hear the rain belted the car with a horrible impact, as David got out into the rain he was soaked in a matter of seconds.

4
David got out of the car walking around towards the trunk, he realized he left the keys in the ignition. Frustration had set in as he walked back around to get the keys, the wind blowing hard against the door. When he grabbed the keys he just moved and, the wind slammed the door close. The spare tire was locked into place with a bracket David had difficulty removing it. His fingers had again become numb and tingly, he struggled to free the tire, but found a way to handle the easy but, yet difficult task. He got the jack under the car, he raised it just enough to stabilize the jack, holding itself in place. He moved around to the blown out tire, popping the hubcap off the rim. Thunder in the background made him uneasy about his surroundings. The lug nut was on there real tight, David put all one hundred-fifty five pounds of his body weight against the tire tool pushing with all his strength. David's had slipped off the wet metal surface sending his had crashing into the pavement. Hurting, angry and ready to get out of the rain he gave it another try. He pushed against the tool with everything he had inside him. The same bloody hand slipped off the tire tool again hitting the gravel covered cement. Suddenly in the cold rain David could feel himself warming up, he could feel the anger inside him building, everything seemed to turn red. The same light from the radiation flash covered his eyes, he pushed harder against the very tight lug nut. His forehead began to swell out, holding his breath he could feel his shoulders begin to grow inside the loose space in his jacket. David was no longer in control, the sounds of tribal screams covered his hearing, there wasn't the sound of rain, or the loud crashes of thunder following the lighting strikes.
No longer cold in the pouring rain he stood above the car, he towered above the car angry with his hands tightly clenched he roared like a vicious lion. Lightning strikes revealed his large muscles as he smashed his fists into the car over and over, glass shattered from the windows as the roof was caved in. Somewhere inside the beast was David, but the monster he'd metamorphosed into wasn't him. Still extremely angry he grabbed the wheel ripping it off the car the lug nuts just popped off like they weren't really even holding the rim against the hub. The jack fell dropping the car into his legs, he reached down grabbing the car from under the bottom, then rolled it over pushing it off the side of the road. It tumbled to the bottom of a twenty foot drop off, then hit the ground exploding into flames. The beast began to roar still angry enough to destroy another car, but not sure what to do. He walked away from the debris all over the road, with what were once the clothes of David Banner hanging in shreds, dangling from the massive beast.
He didn't know where he was, he just knew he was thirsty and trying to find some water. He pushed his way through the heavy wooded area leading to the campgrounds. He spotted a little girl fishing beside the pond, thirsty he walked down behind the child. When she pulled back her fishing pole she hit the large muscular chest of the green skinned monster, as she turned around she saw the beast. It looked like something her parents told her didn't exist, it was smiling as if to let her know it wasn't mean. She began to scream as loud as she could, the beast became confused as to what was happening. She jumped into the small flat bottom boat and, began paddling away. Her father was just off to the back side of the hill when he heard the screams, he had his rifle making sure bears hadn't moved into the camp site over night. He thought his daughter had seen a bear, the bears were known to interrupt camping trips in the popular spot on the lake before. When he saw what it really was he almost couldn't draw his rifle on it. He put the thing in his scope, not really sure what he was shooting at. He took one shot hitting the beast in the shoulder, it grabbed at it's arm then took off running after the man who'd just shot him. The man couldn't have run from the beast if he'd wanted to his legs where stuck in place. The beast standing eight foot tall ripped the hunting rifle from his hands smashing it over his knee, he then picked the man up above his head then threw the man into the lake. The thing was angry the man could still hear it's growls from the water as he swam to his little girl. It might not have been a bear but it destroyed the camps site just the same. Angry he'd been shot he just wanted to tear something apart as he bolted off into the heavily wooded area. Holding his bleeding shoulder he walked through the brush, briers and trees to a small pool of water feeding into the river. Looking down into the water his reflections startled him, the tribal voices began to scream inside his head. His reflection showed his green skin turning back to the pale colored skin of Dr. Banner. His back muscles began to relax as his shoulders began to feel a relief of the intense strain. His body started to become cool, the morning air with no clothes on was cold. His shoulder was hurting he looked at what appeared to be a bullet wound that had been in the advanced stages of healing. Worried, afraid and not sure what had happened he hurried out of the woods with nothing on but the clothes that were torn to shreds.

5
Jack McGee sat on the plane wondering why after twenty years he was still chasing the UFO, Sasquach kind of story. Reporting this kind of story wasn't ever what he set out to do, but his job with the National Register paid better than other legit reporting jobs would. He did have the highest following of any other column for as long as he could remember. Knowing law enforcement probably damaged the scene he tried to wrap his mind around the claim of a large green beast ripping through a camp site. If the trip to California didn't bring about anything to go on Jack knew the ropes, it becomes the best piece of believable fiction you can write based on the facts that people you with no proof. What ever happened to the old Big Foot stories, or the UFO that landed in a corn field in Iowa?
"Jack McGee...Of the National Register." He said to the people surrounding the area.
"Is this where the big green hulk was spotted?"
"Yes, this is the spot." One of the men from the group answered.
"He threw my friend Bud into the river." He said with his voice getting louder.
"Where is your friend?" Jack shot the important question on him.
Jack never liked the second hand information but, even he had to admit it often made for a better story than the truth. Jack walked up the hill to look for evidence there was a huge monster in this lake front camping resort, it didn't take long as he spotted the huge foot impression on a bare foot human, a rather large human. He took pictures of the of the foot print, Jack began to wonder what happened, the print was there but, that didn't mean it was real.
"Look I'm going to take a plaster cast of the footprints on the hill, but if those aren't real I'm sure nobody here would tell me."
Jack could tell from the initial expression the men there hadn't made those prints. Jack got his things up on the hill and, began preserving the foot print before it became history.
"Now let me get this straight, none of you guys seen the thing that made this print?"
Again as long as Jack had been in the business he knew when someone wanted the spot light on them or their town, but that wasn't the case here there was a genuine fear among these people. They had not the first clue as to what made the prints but, wanted it found like anyone would. Jack had his doubts at first still he remained open minded, with his recent findings he had reason to believe it was at least a man who made the prints.
David cold, afraid, and had already walked three miles in the rough California terrain with no shoes on. Inside he realized something happened to him, but he had no clue what had occurred over the course of the night. If he went home there might be policemen there waiting to take him to jail. His clothes were torn to pieces, his car was missing, and he actually felt better than he ever had before. The bullet that went through his shoulder hurt, but not like he'd been shot. He rang the doorbell over and over again, he needed Elaina more now than he ever had before. As she opened the door still in her night gown she noticed David's clothes were torn and, he was bleeding from the shoulder.
"My God David, what happened to you?" Those seemed to be the only words she could find.
"I have done something to myself, and somehow over night that got me shot." David tried to explain. " She walked toward the phone.
"I'm calling the cops." No David said quickly.
"Let me just figure out just what happened to me." David asked her.
"Well let's get that wound fixed up, and try to figure out why someone would want to shoot out you."
"Last night when you left the lab I hit on it, or at least I thought I had." David was cut off.
"Why didn't you call me." Elaina asked, but knowing she had been gone the past night.
"I tried to call you but, you weren't home."
"What did you do?"
"I went to the lab to get the the DNA results from Ben. Only there was gamma ray activity interfering with the machines. I began to think what could the external force working might be gamma activity in our case too. So I checked the gamma ray activity on the days they found the superhuman strength, in every case it was the same high gamma activity. So I went to the lab and, gave myself an injection."
"My God David, how much did you take?"
"I went all the way and took three hundred thousand units.." Again he found himself cut off.
"Oh my God David."
"I only took it for thirty seconds, and nothing happened at least at first. When I was going home I had a flat tire, I stopped to change it, I was angry because I thought the experiment hadn't worked. Then something happened to me."
"What!"
"I'm not sure my eyes they were white. Yes white, then something came over me. I felt this enormous amount of strength, then I seemed to have just been taken over, taken over by something primitive, but yet still human. I don't know maybe it's what we were before we were human. Then I woke up northeast of the lab like this."
"David we need to get you to the lab, to figure out exactly what you did." Elaina recommended.
"Yes we should do that.
"OK, The southwest lab, is there anyone there?"
"No, I don't think so why?"
"I just feel it would just feel more safe there."

6
David and Elaina walked through the front door, in the southwest lab there was the hyperbaric chamber. The decision to use the chamber was easy as it was the only way to contain the beast harbored deep inside of David. Realizing this project was going to take the entire night they started to prepare for the night. David continued to set up the machines while Elaina went over to main building to get supplies they didn't have in the southwest marine biology lab. They had no real permission to use the lab, but under the circumstances they found it necessary to go there.
Jack McGee sat down at the police station with the sheriff, explaining to him there were foot prints down by the lake. The sheriff tried to explain to Mr McGee there wasn't anything down by that lake. He presented the plaster cast as proof there was, but his credibility came into question because of the integrity of the newspaper he worked for.
"Listen to yourself McGee, a green monster."
"Well it's what your locals are claiming."
"Listen to me, there isn't a green beast down by the river. Jerry is one of my best friends, but he wasn't thrown into the lake by a green monster, blue or any other kind."
"His daughter saw it too, are you going to ignore two eye witness accounts of what is being reported."
"No McGee, because if not for you there would be nobody reporting that fiction."
"Everyone deserves to know what's in there own backyard."
"The most dangerous thing here is you McGee spreading these tabloid accounts of a green monster."
"I owe it not just to the readers of my newspaper, but to the locals here to find out what they saw. I would love to hop back on the first plane to Chicago right now but, that isn't what I am going to do. I am going to stay here until I figure out what they saw out by the lake."
"I will be watching you McGee, and if you so much as cross the line in the slightest way I will have you a nice little spot in the county jail."
"Well may I remind you that I know all of my press related rights, I fully intend on using them to the greatest extent to figure this situation out."
"What are you going to do about that car flipped off the side of the road, sheriff ?"
"We have identified the owner of the car we failed to catch him at his residence so we'll be driving over to his place of employment to speak with him."
"When, I want to go with you. I think the man who was in that car saw the creature, I found the same foot print near the location of the wrecked vehicle. I don't think it's a coincidence myself."
"McGee for the last time if you so much as tip toe out of line, you will be in jail."
Jack waited outside the police station, waiting for the time he thought the sheriff was going to the workplace of the individual who owned that car.

7
{Dr. Banner...The police are here and they'd like to speak with you.}
Why were the police there? David began to feel his stomach tighten up on the inside. "Send them around Scott, will you? {Sure Dr. Banner} The intercom fell silent as did the words coming from David's mouth.
"I think I should go with you David." Elaina said.
"God knows what I might have done, I may have even killed someone."
"David calm down you don't know that for sure."
The officer from the sheriff's department stood on the cement steps waiting to speak with Dr David Banner about the mysteriously wrecked car.
"Yes, how may I help you?" Asked Dr Banner.
"Dr. Banner we found a car registered to your name wrecked off the side of route 10, do you know how it got there?"
David couldn't tell the officer what he thought had happened, and really didn't want to commit to giving too much of a statement.
"Well see there is this friend who has a spare key to my car, when I woke up to find it missing I figured he had taken it."
"Your friend wouldn't happen to wear a shoe about this size would he?" McGee had walked up exposing the plaster cast of the extremely large foot.
"What is that?" David asked.
Mr McGee, we have no authoritative proof those prints are real, and we don't need to start a panic attack around here." The deputy said.
"Oh, there real alright...There are more down by the lake. A little girl and he father saw the thing, a big hulk, with a greenish tinge to the skin. Scared the little girl the threw he father an estimated thirty yards into the lake."
"Mr McGee, that is enough." The deputy said.
"Mr Banner you have forty-eight hours to get the wreckage cleaned up, then the county will clean it up, and you'll be billed for it.
"Yes sir, I understand." David realized at least for now the police weren't after him. David and Elaina watched the officer walk back to his car.
"Come on Doctor, you must know something about these footprints, they were found near your car." Jack again started prying for information.
"You said a little girl and her father came in contact with the creature, was anyone hurt?" Elaina had tossed the question in Jack's lap.
"No, nobody was hurt" Jack replied.
"Come on, let's go inside and discuss this situation." Jack realized they seemed to know more than they were letting on.
"No, absolutely not." David firmly told Jack.
"Okay, I can tell when I'm not wanted. I also know when someone has something to hide, call it a hunch or whatever, but I know you two know more than you're telling me. I don't give up easy, and I will find out what happened.
Jack walked away knowing he got the last word in. He loved to be the last one to speak in a conversation, but he wasn't just talking, he had ever intention on making their lives a living hell until he found out just what had happened. His years of being an investigative reporter lend him the knowledge of sensing certain things, and he felt the beast had come from the Culver Institute of Technology.
David and Elaina realized they needed to figure out just what did happen to David quickly before McGee became more of a problem. Elaina immediately began taking blood samples from David to compare to some samples he'd just given.
"We need to start the X-Ray reversal." Elaina recommended.
"We can always start the X-Ray reversal, but perhaps since we have the chance to study this thing in a controlled environment, where we can control it." David pleaded his case from a scientific stand point.
"I think you might be letting your emotions interfere with the situation. That McGee fellow isn't going to go away.
The fact was they had no chance to examine the inner beast without the interference of the tabloid reporter Jack McGee. They both knew he wasn't your average reporter, he had a way about him that indicated he was a seasoned pro at digging out the good story. What they didn't know was that Jack had been on somewhat of a dry spell, although his articles were still most read among the Register's readers still there had been the rough times. Jack eagerly awaited the chance to put those rough time in the past. He knew this story would do just that but, he didn't want to give his readers the story he had up to that point. He really didn't feel the need to embellish with what he had either, Jack realized the story was right there for the taking. He also realized it might take some tough investigative work on his behalf.
When Elaina had arrived back at the lab with somethings they'd need over night, David was pouring over some test results of his blood. There was something different about his DNA. It was somehow altered during the gamma injection, which Elaina found out wasn't the three hundred thousand units David though he'd taken. The machine had yet to be calibrated and it hadn't been marked three million yet. The labs capabilities were suppose to be cutting edge technology, doing medical research that was new at the time.

8
"Elaina I think you should close the hatch now." David said as the evening grew older.
As the big steel door closed David began spinning the lock on the hatch on the inside of the hyperbaric chamber. The thought of him injecting himself with three million units terrified him. There was some kind of transformation that had taken place, and he realized something had physically happened to him as he attempted to change the tire on his car. The thought of becoming a large green monster that was fueled by rage was scary but, yet scientifically what they'd been searching for with the project. David could identify with the rage, because after the loss of his lovely wife Laura he seemed to have moments were sorrow turned to rage.
"What's the matter you don't like the sandwich I brought to you? Elaina ask noticing David wasn't eating.
"No...I'm not all that hungry, just tired." David had let his mind wonder and ruined his appetite. He began to thin about all the primal rage humans have inside them, then on to the reason his unleashes a beast. Somewhere inside his five foot nine inch body there was a beast within. He tried to imagine what the beast looked like, he couldn't quite grasp the idea of human skin turning a greenish tinge, unless decaying from death. Would it have been triggered the day Laura was trapped inside the car. He tried to imagine the beast flipping the car over, but the fact was like all the test subjects had indicated, it really wasn't possible. He began to think of how long he might have to stay in the hyperbaric chamber, what if the transformation was only going to happen that one time?

"Dr. Banner is now sleeping, EEG is normal." Elaina spoke into the hand held recorder.
Elaina was curious as to what the thing might look like from a scientific stand point, but she feared that David might have done something to permanent to himself. Monitoring his vital signs before the X-Ray reversal was important to insure levels of radiation didn't get to high. The gamma injection he had taken was already too much radiation intake. She wondered if not seeking treatment in a hospital if he might die, she didn't want David to die he had been a part of her life for a long time. She realized how valuable friends were after Elaina's death in the accident. She had fallen in love a couple of time but, since she had come to the Culver Institute she hadn't dated much. Before Laura died she and David had made her not feel alone, while she adjusted to a new city in California.
"Dr Banner's EEG is starting to show rapid movement." She said into the tape recorder.
David could see himself be thrown from the car, as it continued to tumble with Laura inside. David ran over trying to flip the car over, tried to kick out the windows, the flames were growing the heat becoming more intense. No, somebody help us, HELP US!
The EEG needles stopped, "Dr. Banner appears to be having a nightmare..." She heard the growl from inside the chamber as the large green arm crashed through the control window, which was three inch thick glass. He doubled his hands together and smashed the control panel, wires were shocking the beast, as he tore the electrical junction box off the wall. The monster took a direct two-hundred sixty volt charge of electrical current. His huge muscular arms hit the water pipes making the electric charge bolt through his body as if he were being electrocuted. The beast began smashing his fists into the sixteen inch thick walls, the pounding of his incredible blows was reverberating through out the building. The steam pipe busted as the angry hulk tried to escape the captivity of the chamber. He broke off the handle that spin locked the hatch, he growled as he kicked the steel door, it broke at the hinge, he kicked it again knocking it down. He then began pounding the outer shell, bending the steel with every hit, the rivets began to pop out from the top. The angry green beast began to rip the lose top portion open, realizing he could get out he tried even harder to escape.
The gas line busted driving both Elaina and the Hulk away from the fumes. The beast ran back through the chamber crashing through the torn metal of the wall. There it stood growling as every muscle under the green skin was bulging out. Elaina noticed the blood on his hands dripping on the floor. It stood at least seven foot tall, the hair texture had become thick and bushy. His forehead protrude with thick eyebrows.
"I am not going to hurt you." Elaina assured the huge angry beast.
It tilted it's head as if to try and understand her. Then it began looking around as if to check for things hiding inside the lab. It looked at her and, began a low trembled growl. as it moved under the light Elaina got a chance to see the cuts on his hand, "Can I get blood sample?"
The beast again looked as if trying to understand her. As she reached for his hand, he handed it to her understanding she wasn't a threat to him. The cuts were healing fast, his metabolism was moving really fast to repair those kind of cut so rapidly. As she held his hand she noticed his eyes were closed. David could hear the tribal screams inside his head, Elaina could see him beginning to change back, she lead him over to the black leather couch beside the wall. The light growls turned into heavy breathing as the girth of the beast's chest beast began to shrink in overall mass, his lungs exhaled the extra air as his internal organs began to change. His forehead was still large as his facial features began to be going back to those of David. His eyes came open exposing the large white pupils with a bright blue rings around them. Observing the change she spoke lightly into the tape recorder, she noted he seemed to go unconscious through the metamorphosis. Slowly over a minute process the beast became David Banner.

9
"How do you feel David? Elaina had witnessed something to marvel.
"I feel rested, and real thirsty." David sat without his shirt, the leather surface of the couch was sticking to his skin.
"How did I get out of the chamber?" He looked over there noticing it had been torn open like an aluminum can.
"Oh my God Elaina, are you alright?" David knew she had come face to face with the huge green monster.
"David it was extraordinary, the large muscles, the super fast metabolism, the strength and determination to escape the chamber. David I have a sample of the blood while you were changed."

They began looking at the deviation of the cellular structure of the monster's blood. It was different to that of the unchanged Banner, but the blood taken prior to the gamma injection is different from David's current cellular structure. His DNA didn't match his old samples, he seemed to be a different man even while he is David. There is a dormant cell located in the DNA structure that creates the beast in moments of intense rage. In the first case Banner could remember being angry when he had changed into the creature, the second time while dreaming of Laura he got angry, not being able to help her out of the burning car. David didn't feel any different besides feeling fresh as if he'd slept in getting plenty of rest. David and Elaina had worked through the night trying to find a way to duplicate the strength of the radiation without killing Banner in the process. Jack McGee was waiting for them to come out, but not to talk with them. Jack had decided that the beast came from the Culver laboratory. With Jack's best guess they'd had an experiment go wrong creating the monster. He realized how strange it was for a grown man to believe such a thing could exist but, he believed the stories of the local people on seeing the seven foot beast. As there car pulled away Jack hurried across the parking lot as fast as he could. He began walking around the building looking for an open door. He didn't want to resort to his old ways of jamming the locks open on doors, but in this case he was going to make an exception to ethical journalism. He wanted to get inside and, was willing to do almost anything he had to do to achieve that goal.
Jack worked his way through the back of the lab, where he had picked a locking device on the door he'd never seen before. The building had an alarm system but, it wasn't on so Jack was able to infiltrate the building without having to be in a hurry. As he came around the corner he could see the hyperbaric chamber destroyed, he could see the metal torn, thick chunks of glass on the floor. His eyes were wide knowing he'd found the place the beast had been, he had a strong feeling it did still knowing he might be wrong. He wasn't wrong everything in front of his eyes indicated the beast escaped the two doctors restraints, and they were probably out in search of the thing. Jack had remembered his camera was in the car, he'd stepped out of the busted chamber and, heard the door open up stairs above him. He saw a door marked storage then hurried to get inside. The doctor were back, and through a slightly cracked door Jack listened to them talk to each other. "I will get more tape out of the closet." David said.
Jack knew he was coming inside were he was, still as he opened the door Jack stumbled backward into a shelf holding explosive chemicals, bags of sodium nitrate were stacked neatly on the floor, the busted bottle of sulfuric acid ran towards the Sodium nitrate.
"How would you like to go to Jail?" David asked Jack
"That's it, call the cops...I'm sure they'd love to see this." Jack pointed to the busted chamber.
David became angry, grabbing Jack by the arm escorting him out of the building. "Get your hands off of me." Jack shouted as he was being removed from the institute.
"Look the public has the right to know if something threatens their lives." Jack said as David walked him out the double glass doors.
"Mr McGee you're letting your mind get away from you, there isn't any creature."
"You'll have to forgive me doctor, but I'm calling you a liar."
"Mr McGee don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
The dangerous chemicals mixing together put off an oder that Elaina sensed quickly, but by that time it was too late. She called out for David one time before the lab exploded blowing David and Jack off the steps in front of the building. The top floor above the chamber partially fell as the concrete pillars holding it gave in. The glass on the front of the building blew out hitting Jack and David. Elaina was trapped inside the destroyed lab under a piece of the top floor.
"Elaina, Elaina!" David yelled out as loudly as he could.
"Banner No!" Jack shouted trying to stop David from assisting Elaina in the dangerous situation.
Jack ran out away from the building, behind him another explosion. He turned around quickly to see debris flying into the night air, the flame glowing so bright it almost looked day light outside. David running along the side of the building to try and get in stopped in front if a small rectangular shaped window where he could see Elaina on the floor with a large section of the floor above laid across her legs, Elaina! Elaina! David continued to call her name as loudly as he could. He could hear the tribal screams louder than he could shout, his voice growing deeper as he shouted her name. E-L-A-I-N-A. David had said for the final time before he no longer approached the situation as Dr. David Banner. His clothes hit the ground as they stretched to the limit before ripping away from the large beast. The blows against the building while he was Banner, became blows from the extraordinary strong hulk. The side of the concrete began to crack, the beast shoved his foot into the wall crushing his way through the cement wall of the laboratory. Jumping twenty feet to the ground as he landed his feet cracked the floor of the lab. The creature grabbed the large piece of the floor above lifting the solid piece of cement off of Elaina, he shoved the huge piece of floor away from the injured Elaina. The contaminated air around her was toxic to inhale, the fire was burning off fumes that were deadly. With his muscular arms he reached down picking Elaina up like a baby running with he out the backside of the building. His crashing foot cleared the way through walls and, other obstacles in his way. There were two small explosions before one massive blast the sent the building to the ground. The beast walked slowly in the wooded mountainous landscape behind the burning laboratory.

10
The hulk held Elaina in his arms, as if even he could see how beautiful she was. He watched her mouth move as she told the beast what she hoped David could hear.
"I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying but, David I love you, I've always loved you."
Her eyes tired and weak closed, the cement had damaged her internal organs as it landed on her stomach. The hulk watched her die in his arms. He didn't understand what she said to him but, he understood she had just died in his arms. The tears rolled off the green face of the creature, it began to sob before letting out a growl that echoed across the mountains.
The morning sun is the next thing David remembered as he woke up laying on the gravel bed by the creek that fed into the river. He closed his eyes trying to remember how he got where he was, Elaina was the first thing that came into his mind. He remembered the lab fire and, her being inside. He remembered running around the building wanting to save Elaina just as he'd wanted to save Laura. He knew he'd changed but, he didn't know if Elaina had been saved in the process. Then McGee came to mind, he wondered what happened to Jack McGee. David walked through the wooded area with no clothes on, he tried to figure which direction the beast within took in leaving the lab. As he came to the clearing he could see the lab completely destroyed. There were cars all over the parking lot. Not sure what had happened he ran back through the forrest as fast as he could run. It was so cold his body seemed to be stinging, his bare feet were hurting as he continued to run, tears rolled down his face he knew on the inside that Elaina died in the massive blast, but the fear of not really knowing cut into his heart worse than if he just knew one way or the other.
Things had changed for Jack McGee as he sold the story to the readers of the National Register. His header read - The Hulk Kills Two In Lab Fire
Jack didn't claim the hulk had killed the two scientists to cover his own tracks. Jack had no idea he actually caused the fire in the lab. He'd seen the hulk crushing the wall in with his foot, he knew the green beast was real and, he been there that night. There was a feeling in his gut Elaina and David had been afraid of the monster. He knew they'd had something to do with the beast, though he also realized their efforts to contain or control the hulk. It was Jack's full intent on not having to fabricate the story as he conveyed it to his readers. In the end he told it like he thought it had been, he openly said in his first article on the green skinned hulk that more details would be available as more information behind the investigation was uncovered in the rubble.
As the funeral was being held for the two scientists Jack felt obligated to get the story, but in another way he felt something for both of them, he felt they were good people stuck in a bad situation. Had they created something to large to handle? Admittedly Jack had no idea, but it was there it was as real as he was. Jack stood there holding the first edition of the Register with his story on the cover. He stood beside Bill, hoping he'd get something from him about what happened in there.
"Did you really have to print that garbage?" Bill asked.
"Well it's true!" McGee replied.
"No it sales newspapers." Bill said walking away.


-The Lonely Man's Walk-

With a tear coming down the side of his face David walked towards his would be grave, to pay his final respects to Elaina Marks who had been more than just a friend to him. He loved her though he never said it to her, he wished he had the chance to tell her but that time was gone. Had it not been for Laura's death, he might never had gotten so close to Elaina, but she had made him feel good again. Though at the time he didn't realize it he had been falling in love with her all along. That maybe he had loved her as far back as medical school, though he never recognized the feelings.
"I loved you Elaina, and I think you loved me too." David put his hand on the headstone that read Elaina Harding Marks.
David took the most lonely walk away from the freshly covered grave. He didn't know where to go, or what to do next. Those concerns weren't on his mind, the thoughts of Elaina the only person to understand him was dead. She was the only person to ever see the creature he becomes and, know that somewhere inside the monstrous beast there was actually some on human who had feelings like everyone has.
He felt it all to deserving that he had a headstone right beside hers, because there wasn't going to be a David Banner anymore. Everyone believed that David too had been killed in the fire and that the beast created that explosion. David realized he must keep the beast a secret until he could find a way to control it.

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