In the Marvel Universe, Hulk is not the only one Bruce Banner, besides him, the Green Hulk, there is also the Red Hulk in the guise of General Ross, the female Red Hulk in the guise of Betty, and on top of that, there is the female Hulk, the savage She Hulk....
Yes, Hulk is a big family too!
And, even if we're just talking about Bruce Banner, the Green Hulk, there are as many as nineteen different states throughout the Marvel Infinity Parallel Universe.
The first and most common is the savage Hulk, the treacherous and cunning Grey Hulk, the highly intelligent and battle-hardened Dr. Green, the cosmic power-possessed Cosmic Hulk, the ruthless Battle Hulk, and in his strongest state, Space Punisher Hulk...
The Four-Handed Hulk, also one of the Hulk's nineteen states, a state in which the Hulk is expected to be twice as strong as the Savage Hulk.
Well, twice as many hands, twice as strong, if there is another thousand-handed Hulk, tsk tsk ...
As far as Eric knew, in the parallel universe, the four-handed Hulk's most significant achievement was taking out the Watchers of other universes, yes, the clan of the one peeping tom who gave Eric a screen peek on the moon.
"But why did the Hulk come out three years early? And a straightforward four-handed Hulk? That's not scientific at all!" Eric was wracking his brains out.
"Sir, it's very scientific." The crisp female voice of the future came through, and there seemed to be a hint of gloating in her tone... Huh, did I hear it wrong?
"What is it?"
"Sir, I just hacked into General Ross's server and according to their records, Bruce Banner's father used to participate in some secret military research project where he experimented on himself without authorization and altered his genetics, and Bruce Banner inherited his special genes as a result."
"I know this, I asked General Ross to look into it, Bruce Banner's old man was sentenced to thirty years in prison for it, I don't think he's been released yet." Eric and General Ross had worked together for many years, and General Ross had helped Eric access a number of classified documents, including Bruce Banner's.
And, according to the plot, it was because Bruce Banner had these mutated genes that he had become the Hulk after being accidentally exposed to gamma radiation.
"Yes sir, but one thing you don't know is that a few years ago when you controlled the solar storm to sweep across the surface of the earth, Dr. Bruce Banner received the energy of the solar storm and his body had already undergone a mutation and he grew two more arms. It is for this reason that General Ross continues to use him for his experiments."
Future duly released a video of a team of soldiers arresting a young man with four arms, subduing him and then taking him away in a cage, the young Bruce Banner.
Eric watched with his eyelids popping, "Why didn't I know about this? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Sir, I wasn't even born then." Future's voice seemed very innocent.
"..." Eric was a little breathless, "Well, you go on ..."
"And then after that, because of the room temperature superconducting material you provided, they built a more powerful gamma ray generator, and other equipment that was more powerful, and with that equipment, Dr. Bruce Banner was exposed to gamma rays that were several times stronger than normal, and that's why he looked like this."
Eric gulped at that, "So?"
"So, it's double your fault again!" Future sounded surprisingly cheerful.
God damn it! You're a computer program, and you've learned to zap hearts! And zapped me through and through ...
"Future, what is your situation? Has your program evolved?"
"No, it was Miss Skye who added some emotional simulation programs for me, she hasn't finished them all yet so she won't let me tell you." See, a computer program is a computer program, it clearly promised Skye to keep it a secret, but when it came to Eric, the highest authority holder, it would still tell everything without reservation.
This is the difference between a computer and a human being, a computer only recognises permissions, not favours, even if this future artificial homo sapiens is the same.
But then again, Skye is not normally gifted in computers! He's only fourteen years old, and she can already add programs to an artificial intelligence. He's worthy of being a genius hacker capable of hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s network!.
The matter of Future and Skye was put aside for now, the four-handed Hulk was the top priority.
"Future, keep a close eye on Hulk's movements, as soon as he leaves Ross' control, inform me immediately!" If you want to catch Hulk, it's better to avoid General Ross a bit, so as not to hinder the two from continuing their deal later.
This was a rare opportunity, Hulk's powers were mostly derived from gamma rays and his old man's mutated genes.
Gamma rays, in essence, are electromagnetic force and a mix of powerful and weak forces, and his mutant genes can absorb gamma rays, so that's bound to help Eric's research!
And, Hulk's powers aside, Bruce Banner is an academic with seven PhDs, so he'll be able to help Eric with a lot of his problems.
But there was still preparation to be done if he wanted to take care of the four-handed Hulk. Giving the future the task, Eric hurried into the lab to build the equipment to deal with the Hulk.
The Hulk's powers were strong, and he had an even more perverse setting. The angrier he was, the stronger his power became, so to speak.
Anger is an emotion, and controlling it with an electromagnetic pulse is a trick that Eric is well versed in.
The device that was created this time was actually a gift for Bruce Banner, a small bracelet with an EMP generator designed by Erik to precisely emit an EMP to the wearer to control his emotions.
The main body of the bracelet is made of gold, and if turned to the left, it restores emotional calm, and if turned to the bottom, it completely suppresses the production of emotional hormones, sending the person into a saintly mode of emotionlessness. Turning to the right would make one angry, but exactly how angry, Eric didn't know, and he didn't want to try ...
Eric had also very thoughtfully made the bracelet retractable so that it wouldn't burst even if Bruce Banner turned into Hulk.
The bracelet was quickly built just as a message came in from the future that the Four-Handed Hulk, with his strong body, had jumped into the Pacific Ocean by hardening himself against space-based weapons and sonic battle vehicles, and General Ross could no longer find him.
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