Chapter 3
The First Battle
Ducking away from the punch, Vlad tried to reason with the Hulk, in his own special way. He calmly stated, "Look, I'd love to fight you, but it wouldn't be fair for you to fight someone who can't be touched." "Is that so?" stated the Hulk, taking out the ecto-ranium from his pockets. In the struggle that followed, the Hulk had somehow turned off the bomb (to the Phantoms' relief) and destroyed his remote so he couldn't turn it back on again, Vlad stated, "Since you ruined my plans, Bruce, I going to uproot your chances of ever gaining control of this monster by controlling you!" At that, he started to fly, in intangibility mode, straight at the Hulk!
Unfortunately, it was all for nothing. It seemed that, even though Vlad got inside Bruce/Hulk's body, the Hulk formof all things, simply tore the evil that was Vlad Plasmius out of him! As he landed two feet from the ecto-ranium, Vlad said with a laugh, "It seems that I can't overshadow you in this form, but that is no matter. You see, true power is still on my side and against all my enemies!" This was, of course, proven wrong by an all-out assault by team Phantom. Suddenly, as Team Phantom and the Hulk decided to join forces, they were knocked out by a mysterious ghostly wail, only noticing that it wasn't Vlad who used it and that they heard guns readying (and Vlad laughing, again) just before the "team" passed out.
