The Incredible Hulk by John Reeves (free reads txt) 📖

Waking up to realize she really was gone made the horror of the accident all to real, the tears were real as he awakes from another night of the way things used to be. Even going to work seemed tough, as they'd both worked side by side at the Culver Institute of Technology. Before the tragic wreck takes place David always remembers the good times first, as if to remind him he once was a happy man. Upon watching the car tumble as if he hadn't been inside, in his dream he'd just be watching the accident, then he'd always try to help Laura out of the burning wreckage. Pulling on the door with all his might to try and free Laura, but he couldn't get the door open, the window wouldn't break, the flames become more intense as the fuel ignites the 1974 Pontiac Grand Am. The empty feeling seems to tear him down every morning as he wakes up in the bed they once shared.
The small things she meant to him seemed to always be the things David missed most of all. The hair cuts, the breakfast before work, the passion that seemed to be gone from his life. Working with one of her best friends didn't make it very easy to go to work, but the fact that he and Elaina Marks had gone to had been in Med School together made her a friend he could confide in. She understood the heartache he felt inside, she made the best of efforts to comfort him. Laura and Elaina had become the best of friends. David had know Elaina since the first year of medical school at Cornell. They had become separated for seven years, David had gone to work in the new disease control laboratory in San Diego California. Elaina had stayed on the east coast working for a military science program. David had written two books on the revolution of new medicines, which had become popular among those in the scientific medical fields. His articles written on the advancements in modern medicine had become a tool for teaching students in the field of medicine.
He'd fallen in love with Laura a professor a Cal Berkley, she had invited David to speak to the students. David and Laura got married and, both took a job with the Culver Institute. Elaina who had kept in touch with Dr. Banner since med school was persuaded by David to move to California to take the job in the lab. He could still remember those happy days as if they'd been no more than the day before. The project assigned to David and Elaina was the "Super Soldier" project, this had been a military project put on ice for lack of progress in figuring out where the strength comes from. It had only been eleven months since the accident, it had become hard for David to focus on the new project when his mind always seemed to go where it wanted to, and it always wanted to think about Laura. The memories were so real he'd have to hold back from crying in the middle of the day. Elaina who had know him for so long tried to comfort him as much as she could, but she remembered how he had been when his mother had died in med school. David had a way of keeping everything inside him, not willing to just share his fears and problems with others.

2
The day David met Mrs. Maier his dedication to find out where the strength came from matched no project he'd ever worked on. "I came off the exit ramp the car started to shake, the tire had blown out, It happened so fast after that I really can't remember what caused the car to tumble off into the grassy embankment. The car it burst into flames, all I could think of was little Andre trapped inside of the burning car." Mrs. Maier began to cry, and get choked up a little.
" Somehow...I picked the car up and pushed it over, that's when the say..I, got, the..the burns on my face. I got Andre out of that car though, and I thank God everyday for that."
"You're my hero" Andre said to his mother.
" I don't know about that Andre." His mother replied to her sons praise.
David got up walking out on the interview, but this one wasn't like the guy who kicked down the steel door, or the guy from Nam that saved his platoon after having his arm blown off. This was the same way David had lost Laura, and hearing how she was able to free her son while David watched Laura die was more than he could stand. Elaina came through the doors. "Do you want to explain what just happened back there?" She asked.
"I can't e plain it." David replied
" She was able to free her son while I watched Laura die in the burning wreckage on the side of the road." David couldn't keep his feelings from coming out, he almost began to cry in front of Elaina.
"Look somehow these people found the strength you weren't able to find, but your lucky that we have a project that is geared towards finding out why." Elaina could tell that David was hurting.
David's devotion to find where the inner strength comes from when a person is in distress. David wanted to know why he didn't have the same strength when he needed it most. He couldn't get the image of that 120 pound woman lifting a car, when he couldn't even get the glass to break.
David was looking into Mitochondria from blood samples each person gave that day. "There's nothing different in any of the samples given, the only thing that these people had in common was severe emotional distress." David explained to Elaina.
"Maybe we should look deeper." Elaina recommended.
"What? The DNA?" David asked.
"Why not, we have nothing else to look at."
"Ben has been modifying all the equipment, do you know if he has modified the electron microscope?"
As the began to look at blood samples from the subjects under study they noticed an abnormal cellular structure in the people who found the inner strength. The adenine and thymine content was abnormal. They began to check all 78 patients records to find they all had the same abnormal adenine-thymine deviation.
"We might have found it." David said excitedly.
"How does it work David?" Elaina asked.
"One thing at a time, we must not get ahead of ourselves.
"The one thing we know for sure is all the subjects were different from me." David said.
"No we don't." Elaina replied.
David looked at her with a look that indicated he didn't understand.
"When is the last time you had your blood magnified 3,000,000 times?
David took a blood sample of his own blood, compared it to the others, to find he too had the same abnormality that the others had. His was actually more abnormal than the other subjects. Both scientist agreed that something external working in conjunction with the metabolism. There was something speeding there's up enough to make them stronger.

3
David approached the west side of the lab he wanted to get the DNA results analyzed. Ben who was the engineer of the x-ray unit attempted to get the information David wanted, but the microwave transmitter wasn't working properly. David just let his head fall down in disappointment.
"I'm sorry David it must be sun spots or gamma activity from the sun." Ben said.
David looked up at Ben, "The sun affects those things?" He asked.
"It's solar flare activity, yeah happens all the time." Ben assured him.
"Has the solar activity ever affected the biological activity in humans?"
"I don't know David, I really don't know." Ben hated to have to tell David.
"I bet it has, Ben can I get a print out of the Solar and gamma activity?"
"Sure give me a minute to go to the office and get it." Ben was glad to be able to help David.
Just as Elaina had said there must be something external working. David realizing he might have just stumbled into it decided to call Elaina, while he waited for Ben. She didn't pick up the phone, David hung the receiver up then walked back over to the desk. Ben was walking back down to the meeting room where David awaited his return. Here is a graph that will show you day by day for the past two years when the solar activity was high. David had a feeling he'd just hit on something, again going to his office to call Dr. Marks.
"Come on pickup the phone." He was talking to the ringing phone.
As David looked closely at the graph, to make sure he hadn't made a mistake. In every situation the subjects found the inner strength the gamma activity and solar spots were present. Also the day he couldn't free his wife the activity was extremely low. He picked up the phone ringing Elaina one more time, but again it rang with no answer. He wanted to try a small dose of the gamma ray injection. When Dr. Marks didn't answer David decided to give himself a small dose of radiation.
David walked to the east end of the lab to the radiology department. The sign on the door said {Authorized Personnel Only} David was authorized to be there but, the things he wanted to try wasn't authorized in any form. However he had become narrow minded about a scientific approach. He only thought about not being able to save Laura. He turned the start timer on the machine, he allowed himself 15 minutes to get ready and in position. Then fifteen for second inject himself with 30,000 units. There could be the side effects from it, but this didn't stop him from experimenting with what could be the answer not only he wanted to know, the military wanted to know too. He sat in the huge chair, it began to rotate back to the proper position. The timer nearing zero under the words {Countdown to Event} written beside the other knob that had a piece of white tape on it. The white pieces of tape where machines being calibrated by Ben. He had taken on the duty of running the radiology department, as well as upgrading the old equipment.
{Countdown to Event} 0:00 - The light was bright even though David had closed his eyes, his forehead became warm, a tingling sensation began to increase on the surface of the skin. The bright light seemed to turn green. His head and finger tips were tingling, he walked over to a bed used to transport patients to the lab. He picked up on it as much as he could, but the three hundred pound bed wouldn't move. Angry he slammed his hands down on the bed railing. The hit reverberated throughout his hand, but his fingers still continued to tingle. After a minute the feelings started to go away, except the burning of his eyes. He felt as if he had sand thrown into is eyes, even that tapered off as he walked out of the lab around midnight. The rain was coming