The GIANT-SIZE Traitor Game: War Of The Exiles!

[Indigo Al]

"Mr. Immortal - the Eternals? Did your monster kill them too? Their molecular powers...man, the things those powers could do for this Earth..."

[The Purple Skull]

"Mr. Immortal - the Eternals? Did your monster kill them too? Their molecular powers...man, the things those powers could do for this Earth..."

"Truth be told, buddy, once Maelstrom activated that doomsday doo-hickey, everyone else was pretty much screwed. And even if the Eternals did make it, their powers wouldn't be able mold or shape the ground at all. Believe me, I've tried. Honestly, before you guys came, I've just been sitting here. Man, I'd give anything to be able to sit with my friends again and just play some cards.

Anyway, as far as how the Hulk could've survived...who knows? He's always been a stubborn guy with the whole 'wanting to be left alone' gimmick. Maybe he thinks I pose a threat to him.

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What? It's possible!"

[Froggy]

The Hulk? figures the not so jolly green giant would be around. Question is this a stake out, and if so how are we gonna address this?

Logan looked at the assembled group before him. A Hulk is a Hulk, and that meant this thing was tough as all hell. They'd all need to put in the work to get the thing to stick around, and he meant everyone.

"Blink" Logan piped up, walking around and finding a piece of rock to sit down on. "Mr Immortal said this thing FINDS him right? Let's think about why he does that folks. Now for those of us who've dealt with a Hulk-know a hulk like thing-what would you say is it's main trait besides the fact the *#)#er is angry as all get out? Or maybe it's not ole' Green Genes after all?"

[Joe Acro]

"But the Hulk's a living creature too... he's not immortal-- there's no way even he could outlast something like Galactus... or... or... the Celestials!

"What is a 'Hulk'?" Jack asks. "I don't know all these names that keep getting mentioned."

[Froggy]

"What is a 'Hulk'?" Jack asks. "I don't know all these names that keep getting mentioned."

"Well, let me describe The Hulk for ya. A little nerdy scientist fella works on something called gamma radiation, the project ending up a weapon. Some punk kid runs out to the test site, guy goes out there to save him and gets caught in the blast, but doesn't die" Logan tells Jack, drawing in the dirt with a stick to simulate the explosion. "Anyways, after that, turns out that instead of dying, he becomes a giant green mass of rage whenever he gets angry, and the angrier Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets. He's also damn near impossible to kill so him and Mr. Hollis sahre a little something in common. That good enough for ya Jack?"

[Joe Acro]

"Well, let me describe The Hulk for ya. A little nerdy scientist fella works on something called gamma radiation, the project ending up a weapon. Some punk kid runs out to the test site, guy goes out there to save him and gets caught in the blast, but doesn't die" Logan tells Jack, drawing in the dirt with a stick to simulate the explosion. "Anyways, after that, turns out that instead of dying, he becomes a giant green mass of rage whenever he gets angry, and the angrier Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets. He's also damn near impossible to kill so him and Mr. Hollis sahre a little something in common. That good enough for ya Jack?"

"It is. Thank you," Jack replies politely.

"So all we need to do to get his attention is to make him angry?"

[Froggy]

"It is. Thank you," Jack replies politely.

"So all we need to do to get his attention is to make him angry?"

Logan nodded. "Pretty much, even the tiniest things can piss off the big fella. I can tell ya from experience it don't take a lot bub" Logan thought, remniscing on one of his encounters with the creature


he had been called to Gamorra Island by SHIELD to rescue Bruce Banner with the help of John Lynch, and was surprised to find not Bruce banner, but the raging rampaging skin so impenetrable Incredible Hulk standing in front of him. He heard Lynch mutter something weakly from a hole in the wall before he passed out, telling Logan "It's Banner..." before passing out.

Logan's ear drums would be drowned out afterwards with the phrase HULK SMASH! before diving out of the way of two massive meat hooks that were the creature's fist. As soon as he got out of the way Logan took a headshot on the creature, or well two and nailed it. The beast slowed down......for a second before sprinting towards him. Logan evaded the creature time and time again, blasting at it and playing keep away, until the creature got him. He tried to get Lynch and move out of there, but the creature made a sonic boom by clapping, blowing Logan back and Lynch out of his arms. Before Logan could get up, the creature already smashed his fists into our hero's solar plexus once, twice, three, four times, continuously pounding Logan. He looked up as he was being beaten on to see if Lynch was far enough for what he planned to do next to not effect him, and decided to work through the pain. He took one of his guns, and jammed it in the creature's mouth as it threatened him, then shot at it, causing an explosion in the beast's mouth. This allowed him to halt the creature...for a short time, until Lynch telepathically calmed the beast with the sound of waterfalls.

"Y'couldn't have done that when he was tenderizing my a$$ Lynch?" Logan asked lighting up on the plane as they had Bruce Banner safe and sound, quiet as a mouse

"I didn't get much of a chance to since he hulked out right when I saw him, so I needed someone to delay him and I figured you'd be up for it, 'Lucky' Logan" Lynch said, smiling at the masked man

Logan grinned under his mask before placing the cigar in his lips, then replying "Yer lucky I was so lucky this time. Who'da thought mr 90 pound weakling turns into muscles the color of brusselsprouts? and what does SHIELD want with him?"

What SHIELD wanted with him is a story for another time, another place

[Deadpooligan]

"Blink" Logan piped up, walking around and finding a piece of rock to sit down on. "Mr Immortal said this thing FINDS him right? Let's think about why he does that folks. Now for those of us who've dealt with a Hulk-know a hulk like thing-what would you say is it's main trait besides the fact the *#)#er is angry as all get out? Or maybe it's not ole' Green Genes after all?"

"Whether the Hulk is smart or dumb, there's two things he wants at his core. One, to prove he's the strongest one there is, and two, to be left alone.

While I've don't think he typically goes out looking for trouble, maybe he's aware that Mister Immortal's the only other person-- reason enough, though extreme, to beat on him."

"So all we need to do to get his attention is to make him angry?"

Logan nodded. "Pretty much, even the tiniest things can piss off the big fella. I can tell ya from experience it don't take a lot bub" Logan thought, remniscing on one of his encounters with the creature.

"Since we know the Hulk's hostile, we should definitely expect a fight when we come across him. I know some of us, maybe most of us, aren't exactly equipped to take him on, but we have to try."

"I could lead y'all to where he last got to me. It ain't too far from here, and fortunately there's even a landmark, so I know where I'm going."

[Chris Lang]

"We don't... always improve worlds for the better, but most times we do. A few times, we've had to come to terms that some realities are just 'bad'-- and sometimes a mission was finished by the actions of a native person, and not us. Fixing realities is really more a neutral process, the original version of Weapon X-- not the guys who took over the Panoptichron-- used to fix realities by outright murdering people and their own teammates. They thought that might expedite their chances of going home, but it just made them more psychopathic. Still, they ended up putting realities back on their 'track' despite their methods."

She also replied back to everyone, except Craig, telepathically.

Some of that may be a classic story or legend, Evaine, but it's impossible for two people to repopulate the Earth alone. Mister Immortal said that's he destined to see the end of the universe, and he seems at least complacent with it. Sooner or later, he's bound to find this monster, but none of us want to wait for it to just happen.

Irene nodded.

"It does not look like there is much we can do for this reality." she said in a somber tone. "All we can do is help arrange a meeting between Mr. Immortal and the Hulk, it seems, and that would have happened on its own sooner or later. It is unclear what difference our presence can possibly make, aside from giving Mr. Immortal someone to talk to besides himself for a short time."

"Whether the Hulk is smart or dumb, there's two things he wants at his core. One, to prove he's the strongest one there is, and two, to be left alone.

While I've don't think he typically goes out looking for trouble, maybe he's aware that Mister Immortal's the only other person-- reason enough, though extreme, to beat on him."

"The Hulk..." Irene mused. "We have a large file on him at home. Raven and I even successfully thwarted an attempt to 'weaponize' the process that created the Hulk in the first place. It is a long story, involving corrupt military-industrial corporate executives. But that is a digression."

"The Hulk has gone through several different incarnations. Whether or not he can be reasoned with, and what it will take to subdue him, depends on the incarnation. We have yet to meet the Hulk of this world, so I cannot say what will be the right approach in this case."

[Anodyne]

"Unless there is a greater purpose to this Tallus's commands, it seems a cruel master, to send you on missions beyond your ability to fulfill. And 'tis also cruel to Master Craig, that we have brought him false hope of rescue."

She also replied back to everyone, except Craig, telepathically.
Some of that may be a classic story or legend, Evaine, but it's impossible for two people to repopulate the Earth alone. Mister Immortal said that's he destined to see the end of the universe, and he seems at least complacent with it. Sooner or later, he's bound to find this monster, but none of us want to wait for it to just happen.

"'Twas but a thought" Evaine said, smiling ruefully. "Although after the wonders I have witnessed during this venture, I would hesitate to call anything 'impossible.'"

"Well, let me describe The Hulk for ya. A little nerdy scientist fella works on something called gamma radiation, the project ending up a weapon. Some punk kid runs out to the test site, guy goes out there to save him and gets caught in the blast, but doesn't die" Logan tells Jack, drawing in the dirt with a stick to simulate the explosion. "Anyways, after that, turns out that instead of dying, he becomes a giant green mass of rage whenever he gets angry, and the angrier Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets. He's also damn near impossible to kill so him and Mr. Hollis sahre a little something in common. That good enough for ya Jack?"

Evaine too had been listening attentively to Logan's account. "Clearly we can rule out my suggestion of a beautiful woman," she observed wryly.

[michalecs]

"Whether the Hulk is smart or dumb, there's two things he wants at his core. One, to prove he's the strongest one there is, and two, to be left alone.

While I've don't think he typically goes out looking for trouble, maybe he's aware that Mister Immortal's the only other person-- reason enough, though extreme, to beat on him."







"Since we know the Hulk's hostile, we should definitely expect a fight when we come across him. I know some of us, maybe most of us, aren't exactly equipped to take him on, but we have to try."

"I could lead y'all to where he last got to me. It ain't too far from here, and fortunately there's even a landmark, so I know where I'm going."

"And me without my Abomination-Buster armor. What is a girl to do when she's limited to just one outift?" Emma commented. "The Hulk of my world ended up curing himself. Goes by Doc Samson now. He tried curing the Abomination too, and ended up leaving the world with a smart but utterly insane engine of destruction instead of himself. Well, enough memory lane. Let's get this done. I want to get to a world where I can get my hair done..."

[Froggy]

"I'm liable to taking up the thought process that this Hulk is as ornery as a Hulk can be Destiny, from the sounds of things but you're right, we don't know WHAT incarnation he's in, or if it's one we've encountered before" Logan replied, standing up and nodding his head to Mister Immortal. "C'mon bub, show us where he last stomped a mudhole in your a$$"


He then heard Evaine and Emma's accounts. "Yeahhhh, no lady is gonna want to go through THAT here, and Doc Samson was the Hulk? Things just keep getting wilder and wilder with you folks"

[Superheroic]

Like a Star and Striped God, the Super-Adaptoid, OMAC, smote its worlds oppressors.

We won.

Another victory.

Another quantum leap.

We are on a dessicated husk of an Earth--with one remaining human.

Mr. Immortal.

I know of him--of the GLA--they tried to recruit me once.

Apparently we're here to help him confront the Hulk.

Peachy.

[Deadpooligan]

"It does not look like there is much we can do for this reality." she said in a somber tone. "All we can do is help arrange a meeting between Mr. Immortal and the Hulk, it seems, and that would have happened on its own sooner or later. It is unclear what difference our presence can possibly make, aside from giving Mr. Immortal someone to talk to besides himself for a short time."

"If the Hulk could survive the same thing the killed everybody else, he's just as immortal as Craig. And it's not like we have to make them be friends, the Tallus said--"

Blink looks down at her wrist, suddenly, "Oh, you have got to be kidding me--!"

The look on her face says it all. They have to help Mister Immortal and the Hulk to get along.

"Unless there is a greater purpose to this Tallus's commands, it seems a cruel master, to send you on missions beyond your ability to fulfill. And 'tis also cruel to Master Craig, that we have brought him false hope of rescue."

"There hasn't been a mission yet that hasn't gotten solved somehow, Evaine. Mr. Immortal knows that he has to live to see the end-- maybe that is a cruel task to force on someone, but he's just dealing with what he's been given, like we have."

"'Twas but a thought" Evaine said, smiling ruefully. "Although after the wonders I have witnessed during this venture, I would hesitate to call anything 'impossible."

"You know, you're right! I've got to start thinking with more... quantum optimism."

Evaine too had been listening attentively to Logan's account. "Clearly we can rule out my suggestion of a beautiful woman," she observed wryly.

"Don't say that too loud, Morph'll pop out of the Tallus and start ranting about the Hulk's cousin-- the She-Hulk. She's a lot nicer; more a smasher of bad guys in a court of law... and out!"

"And me without my Abomination-Buster armor. What is a girl to do when she's limited to just one outift?" Emma commented. "The Hulk of my world ended up curing himself. Goes by Doc Samson now. He tried curing the Abomination too, and ended up leaving the world with a smart but utterly insane engine of destruction instead of himself. Well, enough memory lane. Let's get this done. I want to get to a world where I can get my hair done..."

Blink fluffs out the ends of her own magenta locks.

"Tell me about it. Although, I'm just glad to have gotten Weapon X out of my hair. I probably have whiplash from how many times I've looked over my shoulder while you guys were out saving worlds."

[TheWriterOfStories]

Kraven-- or rather, Black Panther, listened to the conversation but didn't pitch in until he was called on, remaining the large figure in the stoic black suit.