Doctor Robert Bruce Banner was born the son of an alcoholic, who deeply hated him. Banner's mother showed much affection for her child, who returned her love, but this only served to fuel his father's rage. Dr. Brian Banner was an atomic physicist who worked on producing clean nuclear power as an energy source, but he was afraid his exposure to it mutated his son's genes. Bruce showed signs of high intelligence at an early age which strengthened his father's belief. Brian became abusive to Bruce and when his mother intervened, Brian murdered her. He frightened Bruce to keep quiet, but his own bragging landed him in a psychiatric institute.
As a child, Bruce was withdrawn, possibly developing a split personality to cope with his pain and rage. His only happiness came from spending time with his cousin; Jennifer Walters. Bruce found it hard to develop friendships and often found himself on the receiving end of physical abuse at the hands of school bullies. One such incident sparked Bruce's idea of planting a bomb in the basement of his school. The bomb was a dud, and Bruce was expelled, but the Atlesian military took notice of his genius. Eventually, Bruce earned a doctorate in nuclear physics and started a career with them.
Supervising the trial of an experimental gamma bomb that he designed for the Atlas Defense department at a nuclear research facility in New Mexico, Bruce selflessly rushed to the rescue of an ignorant teenager who had wandered onto the testing field as the countdown ticked inexorably to zero. After shoving Rick Jones to safety in a nearby ditch, Bruce was struck full-force by the bomb blast. He survived, but was irradiated by the deadly gamma energy.
At first, Banner would transform into the brutish grey Hulk only at sunset, and revert to human form at dawn. Eventually, his change into the childlike green Hulk came to be triggered by the release of adrenaline when he was intensely excited, no matter what time of day. The green Hulk possesses little of Banner's memory and intelligence, and is easily angered; making him a menace to society.
Since Banner's initial transformation into The Hulk, military forces commanded by General James Ironwood -Bruce's one-time benefactor- have hunted him continually, despite being warned about such behavior several times by colleague and headmaster of Beacon Academy; Professor Ozpin. Director Fury believes that he can put an end to this charade once and for all. I hope he's right.
A/N: I know, I know; three chapters a day?! Why not? Wonder if Hulk's gonna be in the story soon? Or if it'll just be Bruce...