Stories of the MCU

Chapter 1: the Red Hulk

I was inspired to do this after seeing A Bigger Universe by Lu4409. This one is about someone who is up there with Loki and Arnim Zola (I actually wish he was the main villain of the Winter Soldier movie) as among my fave of the Marvel Cinematic Universe villains (hey before Blonsky became the Abomination he was the closest the Incredible Hulk had to a main bad guy). Also spoilers for all the movies and shows, depending on what I use and reference for a particular chapter.

United States military general Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross glared hatefully at the photograph on the wall displaying the six so called 'Heroes of New York', the Avengers. He had his own separate thoughts on each of them:

Captain America- the living legend from World War II, the one he was trying to replicate with his bio enhanced soldiers program. It was unfortunate that SHIELD found him and not the military; someone like him should be serving his country's military like he did back in the war or at least giving his blood so they can make more of him.

Iron Man- he remembered the last encounter he had with Tony Stark, they had met in a bar when he came on behalf of SHIELD to request that they hand over Blonsky over. Stark annoyed him especially when he bought the far and scheduled it for closing.

Thor- the so called God of Thunder. It was his brother that brought the aliens to New York and no one tried to think that the man with the thunder powered hammer was bringing that giant robot in New Mexico and those elf like beasts to this planet.

Hawkeye and Black Widow: two agents of SHIELD who he knew little about. He knew the Black Widow had history as an assassin for the KGB as revealed when the truth of HYDRA went to public so he did not think she could be trusted.

And of course the one he hated the most- Bruce Banner the one they called the Hulk. Banner was working for him trying to replicate the serum using gamma radiation (though Banner did not know it) which ended up creating the Hulk as well as injuring the Hulk. He spent so much time trying to track him down and now Banner was enjoying some publicity and fame as a celebrity superhero. It was a disgrace, he hoped to keep that monster under lock and key as well as trying to see if they can make weapons out of his DNA but now he would not be able to do that. Right now all he could do was think of his sorrows now that the bane of his existence was adored by the public and his hunt for Banner destroyed his relationship with Betty.

He looked at a table which held a vial containing a sample of Extremis, it had came from when the military has confiscated the resources of Advanced Idea Mechanics when it turned out their leader Aldrich Killian was behind the series of explosions that was blamed on the Ten Rings as well as the accompanying videos of the so called 'Mandarin' terrorist leader that followed them. His mind thought of the potential power that was stored in the vial and what something like that could do for him.

He went into a secret drawer and pulled out a vial of Banner's Blood, when his men had stormed Sterns' apartment after Banner's fight with Blonsky after he gave himself a sample of Banner's blood they found that most of Sterns' research had disappeared. He had no evidence to back it up but he was pretty sure that SHIELD had turned up and took away Sterns' research as well as Sterns himself away so that he could not get to it. However he himself had found a vial of Banner's blood underneath the debris of the apartment, he kept it hidden just in case his scientists might one day manage to do something with it. A grin appeared on his face as he got an idea on just what to do with both of these vials.

He was now in the same room and strapped to the same table where Blonsky had been given that low dose of a soldier serum all of those years ago so that they could have at least one soldier who would be able to fight against the Hulk and he had ordered a military scientist to inject him with both Banner's blood and Extremis. Maybe then he would have the power to take his frustration out on Banner. The godlike strength of the Hulk as well as the fire power of Extremis, he could only imagine what he would be able to do with such power.

The scientist nervously began injecting the Extremis into his muscles and then the sample of Banner's blood. "I knew this was a mistake..." the scientist at the screaming that Ross made. After the process was complete, Ross had managed to tear off the straps off the table and he was now grinning as he seemed to be growing to Hulk size. Not only that but his skin had turned fiery red and his hair turned black.

"Let's see if Banner can take me on now." Ross laughed and he ran through the wall of the room destroying it, as the scientist saw the creation of this new red Hulk he had to wonder if he should have done more to try and talk General Ross out of this.

I have high hopes that when they manage to get a second MCU Hulk film made (apparently Mark Ruffalo said a reason why it has not happened yet is because Universal has the distribution rights for a solo Hulk movie) that Ross will become the Red Hulk. When I saw Iron Man 3 and saw the fired powered Extremis guys, I thought that could help become the MCU Red Hulk's origin. I must admit that I mostly like Red Hulk as a villain (like in Avengers EMH) and I have mixed ideas about the fact that he is in the Avengers in the comics. I think the two things that I liked that had the Red Hulk in a hero role would be the Thunderbolts comic series (though so far I have only read the first volume) and the Hulk and the Agents of SMASH show (and I just alienated most of my reader say saying I like the show, didn't I?) One more thing, isn't the Red Hulk just like Eiling in the JLU episode Patriot Act?