Appearing in "The Ω Hulk: Chapter Eight"
Hulk (Vol. 3) #12
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Doc Green A.I.
- Gamma Corps
- Grey (Brian Talbot) (Depowered)
- Griffin (Eliot Franklin) (Depowered)
- Prodigy (Timothy Wilkerson) (Depowered)
- Mess (Nichole Martin) (Depowered)
Other Characters:
- Agent Musat
Locations:
Items:
- Extremis virus (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Ω Hulk: Chapter Eight"
Hulk (Vol. 3) #12
Doc Green has tracked down Danny Rand, also known as Iron Fist, at his Thunder Dojo in Harlem. He asks Rand to use his Iron Fist to strike him as hard as possible. Danny obliges and knocks Green through the wall. The Doc is impressed and asks Iron Fist to teach him that same strike. Rand questions the ethics of teaching Doc Green martial arts. However, Doc explains that he needs an edge in fighting an evil version of himself. This convinces Rand, but he tells him that there is only one Iron Fist. Green is aware of this and simply wants to be taught, Kung Fu.
Now
S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Maria Hill arrives at Fort Knox after receiving reports of a rogue Life Model Decoy that broke into the facility. Shortly after her arrival, a call comes in from Doc Green. Not knowing who that is, she ignores the call and gets approaches the soldiers guarding Fort Knox, who tell her the facility is on lock down. That's when Doc Green arrives and Hill realizes that Green is actually the Hulk and dreads how he might be involved in all of this. He demands to be let into the facility as he knows that Fort Knox is the secret base of the Gamma Corps. Learning that a rogue LMD killed a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and is loose in the facility, Doc Green orders a communications blackout. When the soldiers protest, Maria Hill tells them that they should prepare their damage report if they don't let the Hulk through.
Doc Green and Hill are given access to the Fort and along the way he explains that the rogue LMD is being controlled by his artificial intelligence that has run off on its own. Hill is upset to hear that he is responsible and begins to ream him out. After forcing a soldier controlling the elevator to activate the biometric controls, they continue down alone. Doc Green explains how he created the A.I. because the intelligence granted to him by Extremis is starting to fade and needed it to assist him in his mission. When Maria asks what this has to do with Gamma Corps, he tells her that they are the next on their list. When they reach the Gamma Corps secret facility, they witness as the LMD -- in a suit of battle armor -- battles with Gamma Corps. Doc Green explains that he is seeking to prevent things like this from happening. Green orders Project Omega to stand down, but the intelligence refuses and knocks him into a pile of gold. Doc Green then informs his creation that he managed to accomplish the impossible: making him angry. As the two begin fighting, Maria tells the Gamma Corps that all LMD's have a kill switch and that they should cover her so she can get close enough to upload it.
Doc Green continues to battle his rogue creation, demanding to know where it sent Lyra. While they fight, Gamma Corps joins the battle. The A.I. tells Hill that the kill switch software has been deleted. However, Hill anticipated this and intends to use the kill chip hardwired into the LMD instead. By this point, Doc Green has incapacitated the LMD. However, it has the upper hand telling them that it is laced with plastic explosives it took from the armory. With no time to lose, Doc Green uses his body to shield the others from the blast. When the LMD explodes, Doc Green manages to absorb the brunt of the blast and nobody is hurt. In the aftermath of the battle, Maria Hill catches the Griffen trying to steal a gold bar and orders him to put it down. That's when Doc Green reveals that someone had replaced all the gold in Fort Knox with gold plated tungsten by biting through one of the bars. With the battle over, everyone takes the elevator back upstairs. However, while the members of Gamma Corps have their guard down, Doc Green shoots them with darts containing the antidote for gamma mutation, depowering them all. Maria Hill then asks Doc Green when this is all going to end.
Later, back at the ruins of the Baxter Building, Doc Green asks Randall Jessup and Daman Veteri if there has been any luck finding where the A.I. sent Lyra. Unfortunately, they have been unable to locate her yet. Daman then tells him that his appointment is waiting for him in the next room. There, Doc Green finds Deadpool posing for a selfie wearing a pair of torn purple pants. Doc Green tells Deadpool that he is hiring him to find Thaddeus Ross. When Deadpool asks how he will be paid, Doc Green tells him that payment will be made in gold bars.Appearing in "The Ω Hulk: Chapter Nine"
Hulk (Vol. 3) #13
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Red Hulk (Thunderbolt Ross) (Appears in flashback)
- Leader (Samuel Sterns)
- Gammon (Doc Green A.I.) (Voice only) (First appearance as Gammon)
- Gamma Mutate (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Rick Jones (Voice only)
- Mr. Terwilliger (a bartender)
- Magnum P.I. the Horse
- She-Hulk (Jen Walters) (Mentioned)
- She-Hulk (Lyra) (Mentioned)
- Mephisto (Mentioned)
- Damage Control (Mentioned)
- Doctors Without Borders (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Nevada
- Yucca Mountain (First appearance)
- New York
- United States of America
Items:
- Extremis virus (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Ω Hulk: Chapter Nine"
Hulk (Vol. 3) #13
Bruce Banner gets a phone call from a reporter asking for his opinions on artificial intelligence. At first, Banner doesn't want to comment because this isn't his area of expertise. However, the reporter tells Bruce that he is getting opinions from people in different scientific fields. Banner opines that artificial intelligence might be able to develop human traits such as creativity. It's then that General Ross enters the office and tells Banner that they need to get going. Bruce ends the call, asking the reporter to send him a copy of the article when it is done.
Now
... The "reporter" in question actually turns out to be Doc Green calling Banner on a device that allows him to place phone calls to the past. With that out of the way, he checks in on Daman Veteri and Randall Jessup who are searching the timestream for the location of Lyra, who had been banished to another reality by the artificial intelligence he created. Later, Doc Green goes to Twigs Pub in Midtown Manhattan to meet with Steve Rogers, the man who used to be Captain America. Green explains that he is no longer under his orders as an Avenger since he was enhanced by Extremis. He also says that he is not stopping his plans, so Rogers should save his breath. With that out of the way, Doc Green asks the old man what he wants from him. Steve sternly tells Doc Green to stay away from his cousin Jennifer Walters, the She-Hulk. Green mocks the elderly man's outburst. Steve then demands that he stop his crusade against Hulks and tries to strike the Doc with his cane. Doc grabs the cane and mockingly asks if Steve will try to stop him. Suddenly, Green is jolted with electricity from the cane. With Doc Green temporarily knocked out from the jolt, Steve thanks him for the drink and departs.
Meanwhile, out west, Deadpool rides a horse out into the middle of the desert searching for the Red Hulk. He discovers that he is on the right track when he finds a spot where the Red Hulk landed from one of his gigantic leaps. He swipes his finger on the ground and tastes it, and says he cannot forget the taste of the Red Hulk. As he continues on the trail, he calls Steve Rogers and tells him how Doc Green hired him to track down the Red Hulk and asks if this is something he should follow through on. Rogers is not concerned with Doc Green going after Thaddeus Ross, particularly after hearing about his Thunderbolts operation. He tells Deadpool to continue helping Doc Green, but keep him updated on the situation.
Back at the Baxter Building, Daman Veteri and Randall Jessup continue searching the multiverse to try and find the location of Lyra after Doc Green's A.I. dumped her in a random universe instead of sending her back home. When they open the portal to one dimension massive tentacles come out and try to pull them in. They are saved in the nick of time by Doc Green. Daman is upset as this is not what he signed up for. He wanted to work for Bruce Banner, and he wonders if Lyra is dead or not, and if they are complicit in her demise. Doc Green admits that he has made some terrible mistakes while on his quest to cure all gamma mutates and releases his two assistants from their obligation to work with him. When Daman asks what they are going to do about Lyra, Green assures them that he will find her somehow. He thinks their best bet is finding his A.I. With time running out, Doc Green decides to continue on his mission, with one of his last cures. He opens a portal, but before he leaves, he tells Veteri and Jessup that they did good work, and any mistakes -- especially with Lyra -- are on him and him alone.
Doc Green teleports himself to the Leader's secret hideout and his long time foe instantly attacked by his latest gamma mutate. As the creature pummels Doc Green, the Leader gloats over how the creature is controlled by his telepathy. However, Doc Green easily knocks the creature into a jutting piece of metal, fatally impaling it. Doc Green then tags the Leader with a cure, reverting him from his red form to a normal human once again. He warns Samuel against toying with gamma radiation in the future and departs. No sooner is Doc Green gone does a fail safe kicks in, changing Sterns back into his original green mutation. He contacts his benefactor and thanks him for helping him find a means of counteracting the Hulk's attempt to cure him. As it turns out, it is the Doc's A.I. which has grown so much that it has given itself a name, Gammon.
Meanwhile, Doc Green arrives in the southwest, meeting up with Deadpool who tells him that the Red Hulk has hidden out in Yucca Flats so he can take advantage of the abundance of radioactive waste to boost his powers. When Deadpool begins asking about payment, the Doc says he needs to make a call first. Taking the merc's cell phone he dials Rick Jones' number, but he is actually using the voice mail as a means of communicating with his A.I. He tells his creation that he does not wish to stifle his growth, all he wishes is to learn the location of Lyra and he will leave it be. He tells it to choose to help, otherwise he will make it his point to stop it. Getting ready to face the Red Hulk, Doc Green has one more task for Deadpool. He hands him a bullet that can nullify the Red Hulk's ability to absorb radiation and tells Deadpool that he must hit Ross in the ear and tells him not to miss. He then leaps across to the facility where the Red Hulk is hiding out so he can end his threat once and for all.Appearing in "Final Verdict"
She-Hulk (Vol. 3) #12
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Law Offices of Jennifer Walters, PLLC
- Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) (Only in flashback)
- Tigra (Greer Nelson) (Only in flashback)
- Wyatt Wingfoot (Only in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Nightwatch (Kevin Trench) (Appears in flashback)
- Shocker (Herman Schultz) (Appears in flashback)
- Vibro (Alton Vibereaux) (Only in flashback)
- Dr. Druid (Anthony Druid) (Only in flashback)
- Titania (Mary MacPherran)
- Volcana (Marsha Rosenberg)
Other Characters:
- Sharon King
- Howard the Duck
- George Saywitz (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York
- North Dakota (Only in flashback)
- County of Divide (Only in flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
Synopsis for "Final Verdict"
She-Hulk (Vol. 3) #12
In Divide County, the villain known as Nighteater has hired Doctor Druid, Shocker, and Vibro to channel their powers as part of a spell around the town. With their lives at risk at the slight chance of a slip-up, Nighteater warns them not to falter as he intends on using the mental energies of the town to power the reality altering spell they are planning on casting. That's when their spell is interrupted by the arrival of She-Hulk, Wyatt Wingfoot, Captain Marvel, and Tigra who begin fighting the demons summoned by Nighteater. When Captain Marvel spots a lone survivor named George Saywitz, She-Hulk carries him out of the mystical dome around town, despite his protests that his family are still trapped inside. Jennifer promises him that he will save them if they are still alive.
Spotting Nighteater and his minions, the heroes try to stop him, but they are too late to prevent him from completing his spell. The magic erases the entire town from existence and transforms Nighteater into the hero known as Nightwatch. Nobody has any memory of the town and believe that Nightwatch is a hero. Realizing his spell had worked, the newly reborn Nightwatch and the other heroes trounce Druid, Vibro, and the Shocker.
Now
After defeating Titania and Volcana in battle, She-Hulk is informed by Angie Huang that the person behind the mysterious blue file has been Nightwatch the whole time. That's when Nightwatch himself arrives on the scene and insists he is a hero, but the situation is complicated. Angie doesn't buy it, reminding Trench that he was responsible for murdering hundreds of people in North Dakota in order to alter reality. However, Nightwatch justifies this, pointing out all the people he helped with his charities. However, he was content with being a d-list hero and fading into obscurity so he could live a charmed life. He explains that being a villain wasn't working out and he changed reality so he could be worshiped like the heroes on this world. He then explains that the reason the lawsuit in his blue file was found was that She-Hulk had saved the life of George Saywitz. Since he was the only one who remembered the truth, he couldn't file criminal charges and instead filed a lawsuit.
When She-Hulk accuses Nightwatch of killing Saywitz, he explains that it was either Shocker or Vibro who killed him. He does admit that he spent a great deal of time trying to tie up loose ends, such as ensuring people wouldn't remember the truth. However, despite his best efforts, the lawsuit ended up finding its way to Jennifer. When the others protest against this, Nightwatch tries to justify his actions by saying that all he wanted was redemption. This makes Jen furious, and she points out that true redemption takes time, and all he wanted was a short cut. When she tries to strike him however, a spell prevents her from completing the attack. That's when Angie and Hei Hei attempt to attack him but are caught up in his trench coat. When Hellcat tries to stop him, Nightwatch forces She-Hulk to attack her.
When all seems lost, the Shocker arrives and blasts Nightwatch with his vibro-gauntlets. When Trench demands to know why Herman is turning on him, Schultz explains that Angie called him and told him how Nightwatch altered his mind. He is also angry that Nightwatch didn't use his spell to turn him into a hero as well. As Nightwatch is busy defending himself from the Shocker, She-Hulk fights off Kevin's mind control just before she can land a killing blow on Hellcat. Furious at being manipulated, She-Hulk leaps at her foe and beats him into submission, stopping short of killing Kevin Trench, because heroes don't kill people. Back at their office in Brooklyn, Angie Huang begins packing her things up since Jennifer fired her. However, both Jen and Patsy convince her to stay, given that Patricia is injured and needs time to heal. When Jen worries about how she is going to pay for the damages and her increased rent, Sharon King enters the room and turns over some mail that came in from her. It is from the Inhumans who are seeking legal representation in a lawsuit filed against them by the City of New York for damages done to the UN Building by Queen Medusa. Seeing that the city is being defended by Paine & Luckberg, Jennifer's old employer, She-Hulk looks forward to beating them in court.