Intelligent Re-Design

Disclaimer: All familiar characters belong to Marvel or Sunbow Entertainment. I own Leon/Crisis, Eve Willows, and Farrah/Persiana. L1701E owns his OCs.

Chapter 2: It all Started

The East and West Coast Avengers were now sitting in a large board room with Nick Fury looking at each of them. Many of them could not believe the idea that a red Hulk could exist. Greer managed to pull Farrah away from the operating room to listen in on the meeting. Fury looked at each of them,

"I know how this looks, but hear me out."

Falcon stood up,
"Hear you out? You sent Leon to the meat grinder!"

Hercules, the brown-haired teen god of strength, nodded,

"Aye, friend Falcon. 'Tis truly a dishonor."

Captain America looked at the two teens,
"I make not like it, either, but I've known Fury longer than all of you here put together. He had a reason to do this."

Farrah was still numb from the memory of seeing her boyfriend in the condition he was in, and was tuning out most of what was being said. Fury shook his head,
"Don't defend me, Steve. I knew the risks."

Kid Razor grumbled,

"Leon didn't."

Fury looked back,

"Yeah, he did. He knew too, and so did Spider-woman."

Carol rolled her eyes,

"Oh, great. She's in on this too."

"Hey! I got the short end of this. Don't blame me!"

A black-haired woman in a red and yellow costume was hanging on the ceiling, watching the meeting below. Her name is Jessica Drew, the Spider-woman. A former high school drop-out, she now works for SHIELD as a spy and infiltrator.

Jessica looked down at everyone,
"Hey, gang."

Kid Razor adjusted his glasses and grinned,
"Whoa. Nice."

Spencer Burton, the armored speedster Sonic Blue, shook his head,

"Spider-woman, is that really necessary?"

The former Hydra spy shrugged,
"What? It gives everyone a great view of my butt. I have been working out."

Razor grinned,
"And, it shows."

Hawkeye wanted to acknowledge, but a scornful look at the archer from Black Widow quickly disrupted the notion.

Fury cleared his throat and explained,
"A few weeks ago, several scientists had begun to disappear. Now, many of these scientists worked with gamma radiation, similar to the scientist Dr. Bruce Banner, whom turned into the Hulk."

Hawkeye asked,
"So, what's the story? Why haven't we heard from the not-so-jolly green giant lately?"

Fury said,

"We think he's been captured."

Thor, the god of Thunder, was surprised,
" 'Tis not an easy feat."

Hercules flexed his muscles,
"For me, it would be."

Natasha shook her head, returning to the conversation,

"Colonel, is this Red Hulk Dr. Banner?"

Fury shook his head,
"I don't think so. Crisis is the only one that can answer that."

Jessica added,

"We separated. I stayed behind and downloaded their files. Leon went to find some sort of lab sample to use."

T'challa, the Wakandan prince Black Panther, nodded in understanding,

"And, I take it that is when this Red Hulk came into being."

Fury continued,

"Right. Somehow, all these scientists were working to replicate the abilities of the Hulk, but came into a problem. Whatever test subject they used, though it gave the strength of the Hulk at much higher levels in the initial transformation, the body heat generated by this Red Hulk would get hotter the angrier he got."

Monica said,

"And Crisis was the only person to witness the transformation, and he's the only one that can tell us who it is."

Fury nodded,
"Yeah, that's right. We've been able to identify several of the scientists involved in this. Two of them are Dr. Leonard Samson, and Eve Willows."
At this, Farrah was snapped out of her trance and looked at Fury,

"My mother is involved in this?"

Jessica nodded,

"Yep. Saw it with my own two eyes. Her and this other guy Egghead were talking after I got the files."

Yellow Jacket was surprised,

"Egghead? He's involved in this?"

Fury nodded,
"I take it you two know each other."

Hank nodded,
"He's a maniac. I fought him before I joined the Avengers. Traitorous bastard."

Iron Man looked at Spider-woman,

"Is there anything that could tell us about this experiment?"

Jessica shrugged,
"That's it. Oh, and they were talking about kick starting some robot, but I don't know much about it myself."

Fury said,
"The most we know is Leonard Samson is some sort of psychiatrist, dealing especially with super-powered clients. We sent a few agents to sweep his office and we're waiting to hear back from them."

Farrah looked at Fury and said,
"How could you do this to him? How could you put my boyfriend in harm's way like that?"

Fury rubbed the bridge of his nose, tired,

"It's more complicated than that."

Persiana slammed her fists on the table and shouted,
"Don't give me that! I need to know!"

Fresh tears started to well up and Fury said,

"Persiana, you need to-."

Just then, there was an alarm. A garbled radio report came in,

"Sir…HIELD…un…der…attac…Hulk…sir…"

Captain America stood up,

"We'll finish this conversation later. Avengers, move out!"

Hercules cracked his knuckles,
"Hah! This Hulk will be a worthy adversary and I, Hercules, shall defeat it!"

Thor stood up, raising his hammer,

"Nah, Hercules! The prince of Asgard shall saw the beast!"

She-Hulk rolled her eyes,
"And they start fighting even before the real fight begins."

Next Chapter:
Not all is what it appears to be with this Hulk! Stay tuned, fellow readers!