Chapter 1
An Escape and a Dilemma
It started at 2:15 during the bi-daily security sweep of Amityville prison, when security guards confirmed that Vlad Masters/Plasmius was still in his ghost-proof jail cell. One minute later, however, a thunderstorm hit the area; a minute after that, the power went out. During the next three minutes, the security guards got worried, for the only reason Vlad's cell was ghost-proof was because of a ghost-shield or two inside of it. At 2:21, the lights came back on, but with no feed from the cells. A minute later, the cameras, including an infrared one in Vlad's cell, came back on, showing that he had escaped!
Three days later, the US was a buzz of activity, for they all remembered how Vlad had nearly taken over the world. The Phantoms had been called in to search for him, but everyone was still worried. Everyone, including a semi-exiled man with a dark secret; his name was Banner, Bruce Banner, aka, the Incredible Hulk. Although he had never encountered ghosts himself, he knew their strengths, such as overshadowing, and weaknesses, such as ecto-ranium, which he coincidentally had found a stash of inside the cave he regularly hid in.
Even though he had a literal ton of ecto-ranium in storage, he was still a little worried. For one thing, he wasn't sure how to get it all to Vlad's position, which he didn't know yet. Second, he wasn't sure if he would remember to use it in Hulk-form. Thirdly, what if even the Hulk couldn't resist overshadowing? Truthfully, there was only one way to find out theanswers of these questions, but he might need the help of the Phantoms, just in case.
First, however, he would have to find them. It was at the moment he decided to leave the safety of his compound, however, that Bruce heard his proximity alert go off, indicating that there were multiple people outside his decently constructed hiding place. Against his better judgment, the leading expert on Gamma radiation went to check it out.