Doctor Bruce Banner stared up at the stage as the presentation went on. With one part of his mind he listened to and analyzed the information, eve as another part allowed him to monitor his surroundings, though that part of him was much smaller. He loved this! Pure science was what he lived for... what he had lived for that is, before his accident.

Breaking the presentation's hold on his attention, he glanced around casually, running a hand through his temporarily blonde hair. He had sneaked aboard the shuttle to the newly completed Estarde Station, modified and retrofitted from an abandoned Shi'Ar starship left over from the several year-old Kree-Shi'Ar War. It had taken a few years, even with the smartest minds working on it, for American scientists to figure out enough of the technology to get it habitable. And that's where they had discovered the Anti-Matter technology.

That's why he had risked coming to an enclosed situation, masquerading as an old friend. He wanted to be on hand for the Anti-Matter Engine Expo, where the newest example of adapted alien(read stolen) high tech was being shown off and would be started up for the first time publicly soon. He loved this science and also he had another mission. The one given him by the Monitor.

According to the Monitor the engine would fail. Not only would it fail, but the resulting explosion would kill everyone here, and damage the entire planet. Unless, of course, someone(read Bruce and the Hulk) managed to stop it by removing the engine, post-activation, from the station.

He had spent time in the last week with his friends, the Hulk's Harriers(he rolled his eyes at the name chosen by the 20-somethings running the group again) and managed to get blueprints to study. He knew the straightest line to the Escape Transporter. He had even gotten Samson to send him inside his mind and forge an agreement with his Hulk selves. They had a vested interest in the Earth surviving, just as much as he did. So they would assist him, in the form of the Professor.

A shuttle was cloaked and waiting outside the station, within Hulk's range, where Betty, Samson, Jennifer, Rick, and Thunderbolt all were waiting for him. He chuckled at the thought of how Thunderbolt had reacted to the Monitor's words. Recently retired, the man had unwound some.

The back of the shuttle they had acquired was configured into a containment area, where Hulk would hold the Engine until they got it to the sun. There Hulk would pitch it in and the small explosion would be absorbed by the anti- anti-matter drones planted there millennia ago by the Celestials.

Bruce squeezed his eyes shut. He could feel his other selves, especially Grey, Green, and Professor, eager for release, even as all but the Professor were crowded back, knowing they had to wait this one time. It was a strange life he led with multiple personalities sharing his mind and existence and each with immense power.

He heard a muffled rumble and opened his eyes as the presenters moved aside and the stage opened to show the small-looking Anti-Matter Engine, it began to hum and vibrate and the crowd seemed to hold it's breath. Bruce sighed, wishing this could work. The world needed this kind of power, but... he shook his head.

The hum became a rumble again and then there was a weird shriek to the vibration and the scientists at the controls started to show their alarm. Then the first lights went down, and the emergency siren sounded. And people being people, despite their intelligence, the crowd panicked and began to pound for the exits. That was his cue. He looked at the wristpatch he had on with the clock the Monitor had set for him, seeing it counting down and knew time was now.

And with that he shifted, with a cry and a ripping sound, his clothes ripped away. He felt his mind shifting too and he was thrust aside, losing himself as he screamed and felt triumph in the other mind as it swept past him and shoved him into the waiting room of his mind. The Hulk rose and roared in victory. He stretched his arms for a minute, a grin coming across his face.

"About time I got out. Now let's get this over with. Time is wasting."

Hulk ran across the room, causing even more shrieks and cries of fright. He reached the Engine even as security reached him and with a grimace and no attempt at gentility, he swatted the security men across the room.

Grasping the Engine at it's base, he flexed and with a tearing, groaning sound, the Engine came up from it,s mounting. He grasped it under one arm, staggering at it's weight even as it rumbled there with growing vibrations.

"oh my god, he's stealing the Engine! The Hulk is stealing the Engine!"

"You idiot! The engine is going to blow up! Let him have it!"

He heard the scuffling behind him and glanced back seeing the Scientists arguing in loud voices. he shook his head and turned back to the business at hand. He leaped a shallow leap to the doors, kicking them open as he began to run. He scanned the map in his mind and dodged down one corridor after another.

Security showed up at one point but they presented no problem and with a salute and a "Down, Boys!", he bowled them over and kept moving. Finally he was at the airlock and then through it. The shuttle was there, decloaking twenty feet away in a rippling move, and with a breath, he punched the opening switch. Hulk felt his skin reacting to the airlessness of space and leaped quickly. He covered the gap with that one leap and the door slipped open. His lungs starting to swallow him for lack of air, he clung to the door and hauled himself to it. He fell into the airlock of the shuttle and even as it began to move the outer door shut. He slapped the Comm button even as he heard Betty's voice, making him smile as he collapsed to breathe. Air was slowly moving in then faster.

"Hulk, Bruce, are you there?"

"I'm in, Betty. Let's move this ship!"

Air quickly filled the room and he gasped it in painfully until it reached standard. He rose, his healing factor quickly repairing him. He strode into the back cargo area to the huge chair made for him as he felt, just barely the ship move as high speed towards the sun. He sat and operated a switch, seeing Betty's face on one screen and the sun coming closer on another. Betty blew a kiss to him as she operated one of the piloting controls and he grinned at her. She is a beautiful woman, he thought fondly. She always was one to impress him. He smiled then rose again, donning his suit.

He picked up the Engine and waited at the 'lock for the signal. As they coasted into a close orbit of the Sun, he heard the breep of the signal and Betty's voice came over the Comm.

"Okay, Bruce. We are here where you plotted it out and the Monitor's beams indicate."

Thunderbolt's voice came over the line.

"Everything is green Banner. You are a go for Skinwalk."

Hulk grinned at the grudging sound of approval in General Ross's voice. He and the old man had been enemies for a long time and only ion recent years gained any true relationship that was more than enmity.

He stepped forward and pushed the door button and waited while the airlock opened, letting him in, then cycled through the air cycle and then the outer door opened. He carefully climbed out and onto the ship's skin, donning the glasses he had specially prepared for this moment. He stared out at the majesty of the Sun, and then smiled. Time to get it done. he hauled back his arm with the Engine in and then flung it forth, immediately dropping back over the lip of the airlock and slapping the close door. As the air cycle began, he ripped off his helmet and punched the Comm.

"It's done and I am in. Full shields and Brace yourselves."

As soon as the door opened inside he raced in and flung his suit off and then sat down, strapping in. He watched the screens as the others braced and the forceshield came up.

"Shields at 100 . All systems go. package delivery in 35 seconds."

Betty's voice came over the line deliberate and sure and he braced himself and watched as the Engine vanished from sight.

"Package delivery in 20...15...10...5...Delivery complete."

Hulk watched his screens as the Engine exploded into the sun and the energy caused a small flare. Even as the anti-matter was sucked away by the Celestial devices the flare of incredible power flung out at them and the ship was enveloped and...

Bruce Banner groggily awoke in a room he recognized as being on the Orbiter. Once more in his own form, he bounced up from the bed and went to the door to seek his friends...