ISLAND OF CHAOS

At the Bikini Atoll, a place that was heavily demolished due to nuclear testing, all seemed relatively quietly. That is until the green frame of the Hulk is seen falling from the sky like a comet and ended up crashing into Bikini Island, causing a massive cloud of sand to go flying everywhere upon making an impact. As the Hulk shook his head to try and recover, he looked up and saw the individuals that put him here. It was that of the team of four that often caused him more problems than the Leader or General Ross...the U-Foes. And just as he did with any of his enemies, the Jade Giant growled at them with anger.

The U-Foes, however, are not the least bit intimidated by the now seething Hulk. Especially Vector, who crossed his arms and looked just as smug as ever. "Now Hulk, why so glum?" Vector asked sarcastically, as he secretly used his telekinesis to quietly lift up a piece of a wrecked jeep located within the bushes not far from the beach. "We figured you would appreciate being brought to such a beautiful place," Suddenly, Vector commanded the floating jeep to zoom in and literally crash into the Hulk, which stunned the Green Goliath enough to bring him down to one knee, and giving Ironclad to opening he needed to run in and give Hulk a hard uppercut, sending him a few feet into the air crashing hard into the beach once more. "Well, formally beautiful anyway," Vector continued as he, as well Vapor and X-Ray hovered towards the fallen Hulk. "Until it was destroyed by nuclear testing and ravaged by radiation. But hey, when you look at it like that, it seems like a fitting place to put a gamma fueled monster like you down for good."

As Hulk tried to get up, he saw Ironclad pulling his left fist back and attempts to punch him while he was still down. Thus the Jack Giant fought back by using his left hand to catch the steel fist and successfully stop the punch. As Hulk pushed Iron Clad back to stand up, he tightly clenched his giant green fist and delivered a right hook to Ironclad's right cheek, sending the metal-based U-Foe flying three feet and crashing down into the sand as he did.

Vector, on the other hand, just stood there with his arms crossed and shook his head in annoyance on how Ironclad was defeated so easily. "More brawn than brains as usual," he muttered, then looked up at the fuming Hulk. "And you, still sore? Geez, I guess there's no pleasing some people."

One of the U-Foes, Vapor, looked at the Hulk with a sly smile. "Maybe I can change his attitude," she remarked, then quickly flew over and rapped her ghostly being around the Hulk, until stopped to face him. "How about a kiss, big guy?" At that moment, the gassy U-Foe actually kissed Hulk right on the lips, and in the process, her ghostly body entered his body through his mouth, and seconds later, she began to squeeze his heart, causing the Hulk to clinch his chest and gasp for air.

This brought a smile to Vector's face as he watched the suffering Hulk be brought to his knees. "Ah, Vapor sure does know how to get to a man's heart, doesn't she?"

Seeing the Hulk in a vulnerable state, X-Ray fires a blast which hits the Hulk in the face, forcing him down to the ground. With his face burning from X-Ray's blast and Vapor squeezing his heart like a stress ball within his chest, the pain-stricken Hulk did not anticipate Vector using his telekinesis to lift him up a few inches of the ground.

For Vector, picking up someone as massive as the Hulk was like picking up a train, something which caused the U-Foe's leader a tremendous headache. But despite the throbbing pain, Vector held the Jade Giant up long enough for Ironclad to run in and give the Hulk a hard left hook, sending the incapacitated Green Goliath flying, then plow threw a few trees and crashing into an old abandoned building, causing the structure to fall on top of him.

One ould think that a building falling on top of him, as well as a gas composed woman literally crushing his heart from the inside, would be more than enough to kill an average person. But Hulk was nowhere near normal, for he managed to rise from out of the rubble, but goes back down on one knee and fighting to breathe, curtesy of Vapor. To make matters worse, Ironclad comes falling from up high in the sky and plants both of his feet on top of Hulk's shoulders, pinning him chest first into the rubble.

It wasn't long before both Vector and X-Ray came into the scene, looking down at the fallen Hulk. "Well, I got to admit, I was expecting more of a challenge, Hulk," said Vector in his usual cocky tone, enjoying seeing the weakened Jade Giant being pummeled. "Oh well, a job is still a job. And by killing you, we can show the world, especially Osborn, that the U-Foe's are now the strongest force on Earth!"

Suddenly, hearing Vector's arrogant statement caused a storm of fury to ensue within the Hulk, so much so, that his eyes began to glow a gamma fueled green. And, despite Vapor killing him from the inside and Ironclad pinning him down, Hulk appeared to be trying to say something. "H...H...H..."

For Vector, seeing Hulk trying to recover did not sit well with him, and like his teammates, was caught by surprise by the green powerhouse's resolve. "What?"

"H...HULK...IS STRONGEST THERE IS!" screamed the now enraged Hulk as he finally mustered up enough strength to stand up and push Ironclad off of him. Furthermore, as the Jade Giant cried, he also was able to force Vapor out of his body, which in turn, caused her to fade into nothing.

Both Vector and X-Ray were horrified to see the Hulk recover and quickly acted with X-Ray charging up his fists to fire another blast and Vector telekinetically lifting an old but large oil tank to throw at the Green Goliath.

The furious Hulk spotted this, and thus lifted his open hands up and clapped his massive palms together, thus creating a huge sonic boom that knocked Vector and X-Ray off of their feet and on to the ground out cold. This left only one U-Foe left, and Hulk turned and spotted Ironclad fully recovered and charging towards him at full force. As such, he waited for the giant U-Foe to get close enough, and once he did, he through a hard right uppercut, nailing the steel skinned brute in the and sent him flying into the air and off the island. With the U-Foes now dealt with, the Hulk took a moment to breathe in and out to calm himself slowly. "Still nothing but a bunch of wimps," said the Green Goliath. "Once that even Grimm and his Fantastic Four buddies can handle." The now victorious Hulk turned around to face the ocean, then leaped into the air and splashed into the water, where he began to swim away from the island. It was a task he had no problem with, seeing is how there have been instances where he has swum from one island to the next a few times, all without tiring. And in this instance, he now swam to his next destination, back to the United States, all so he could continue his search for Norman Osborn.