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

to change the tire on his car. The thought of becoming a large green monster that was fueled by rage was scary but, yet scientifically what they'd been searching for with the project. David could identify with the rage, because after the loss of his lovely wife Laura he seemed to have moments were sorrow turned to rage.
"What's the matter you don't like the sandwich I brought to you? Elaina ask noticing David wasn't eating.
"No...I'm not all that hungry, just tired." David had let his mind wonder and ruined his appetite. He began to thin about all the primal rage humans have inside them, then on to the reason his unleashes a beast. Somewhere inside his five foot nine inch body there was a beast within. He tried to imagine what the beast looked like, he couldn't quite grasp the idea of human skin turning a greenish tinge, unless decaying from death. Would it have been triggered the day Laura was trapped inside the car. He tried to imagine the beast flipping the car over, but the fact was like all the test subjects had indicated, it really wasn't possible. He began to think of how long he might have to stay in the hyperbaric chamber, what if the transformation was only going to happen that one time?

"Dr. Banner is now sleeping, EEG is normal." Elaina spoke into the hand held recorder.
Elaina was curious as to what the thing might look like from a scientific stand point, but she feared that David might have done something to permanent to himself. Monitoring his vital signs before the X-Ray reversal was important to insure levels of radiation didn't get to high. The gamma injection he had taken was already too much radiation intake. She wondered if not seeking treatment in a hospital if he might die, she didn't want David to die he had been a part of her life for a long time. She realized how valuable friends were after Elaina's death in the accident. She had fallen in love a couple of time but, since she had come to the Culver Institute she hadn't dated much. Before Laura died she and David had made her not feel alone, while she adjusted to a new city in California.
"Dr Banner's EEG is starting to show rapid movement." She said into the tape recorder.
David could see himself be thrown from the car, as it continued to tumble with Laura inside. David ran over trying to flip the car over, tried to kick out the windows, the flames were growing the heat becoming more intense. No, somebody help us, HELP US!
The EEG needles stopped, "Dr. Banner appears to be having a nightmare..." She heard the growl from inside the chamber as the large green arm crashed through the control window, which was three inch thick glass. He doubled his hands together and smashed the control panel, wires were shocking the beast, as he tore the electrical junction box off the wall. The monster took a direct two-hundred sixty volt charge of electrical current. His huge muscular arms hit the water pipes making the electric charge bolt through his body as if he were being electrocuted. The beast began smashing his fists into the sixteen inch thick walls, the pounding of his incredible blows was reverberating through out the building. The steam pipe busted as the angry hulk tried to escape the captivity of the chamber. He broke off the handle that spin locked the hatch, he growled as he kicked the steel door, it broke at the hinge, he kicked it again knocking it down. He then began pounding the outer shell, bending the steel with every hit, the rivets began to pop out from the top. The angry green beast began to rip the lose top portion open, realizing he could get out he tried even harder to escape.
The gas line busted driving both Elaina and the Hulk away from the fumes. The beast ran back through the chamber crashing through the torn metal of the wall. There it stood growling as every muscle under the green skin was bulging out. Elaina noticed the blood on his hands dripping on the floor. It stood at least seven foot tall, the hair texture had become thick and bushy. His forehead protrude with thick eyebrows.
"I am not going to hurt you." Elaina assured the huge angry beast.
It tilted it's head as if to try and understand her. Then it began looking around as if to check for things hiding inside the lab. It looked at her and, began a low trembled growl. as it moved under the light Elaina got a chance to see the cuts on his hand, "Can I get blood sample?"
The beast again looked as if trying to understand her. As she reached for his hand, he handed it to her understanding she wasn't a threat to him. The cuts were healing fast, his metabolism was moving really fast to repair those kind of cut so rapidly. As she held his hand she noticed his eyes were closed. David could hear the tribal screams inside his head, Elaina could see him beginning to change back, she lead him over to the black leather couch beside the wall. The light growls turned into heavy breathing as the girth of the beast's chest beast began to shrink in overall mass, his lungs exhaled the extra air as his internal organs began to change. His forehead was still large as his facial features began to be going back to those of David. His eyes came open exposing the large white pupils with a bright blue rings around them. Observing the change she spoke lightly into the tape recorder, she noted he seemed to go unconscious through the metamorphosis. Slowly over a minute process the beast became David Banner.

9
"How do you feel David? Elaina had witnessed something to marvel.
"I feel rested, and real thirsty." David sat without his shirt, the leather surface of the couch was sticking to his skin.
"How did I get out of the chamber?" He looked over there noticing it had been torn open like an aluminum can.
"Oh my God Elaina, are you alright?" David knew she had come face to face with the huge green monster.
"David it was extraordinary, the large muscles, the super fast metabolism, the strength and determination to escape the chamber. David I have a sample of the blood while you were changed."

They began looking at the deviation of the cellular structure of the monster's blood. It was different to that of the unchanged Banner, but the blood taken prior to the gamma injection is different from David's current cellular structure. His DNA didn't match his old samples, he seemed to be a different man even while he is David. There is a dormant cell located in the DNA structure that creates the beast in moments of intense rage. In the first case Banner could remember being angry when he had changed into the creature, the second time while dreaming of Laura he got angry, not being able to help her out of the burning car. David didn't feel any different besides feeling fresh as if he'd slept in getting plenty of rest. David and Elaina had worked through the night trying to find a way to duplicate the strength of the radiation without killing Banner in the process. Jack McGee was waiting for them to come out, but not to talk with them. Jack had decided that the beast came from the Culver laboratory. With Jack's best guess they'd had an experiment go wrong creating the monster. He realized how strange it was for a grown man to believe such a thing could exist but, he believed the stories of the local people on seeing the seven foot beast. As there car pulled away Jack hurried across the parking lot as fast as he could. He began walking around the building looking for an open door. He didn't want to resort to his old ways of jamming the locks open on doors, but in this case he was going to make an exception to ethical journalism. He wanted to get inside and, was willing to do almost anything he had to do to achieve that goal.
Jack worked his way through the back of the lab, where he had picked a locking device on the door he'd never seen before. The building had an alarm system but, it wasn't on so Jack was able to infiltrate the building without having to be in a hurry. As he came around the corner he could see the hyperbaric chamber destroyed, he could see the metal torn, thick chunks of glass on the floor. His eyes were wide knowing he'd found the place the beast had been, he had a strong feeling it did still knowing he might be wrong. He wasn't wrong everything in front of his eyes indicated the beast escaped the two doctors restraints, and they were probably out in search of the thing. Jack had remembered his camera was in the car, he'd stepped out of the busted chamber and, heard the door open up stairs above him. He saw a door marked storage then hurried to get inside. The doctor were back, and through a slightly cracked door Jack listened to them talk to each other. "I will get more tape out of the closet." David said.
Jack knew he was coming inside were he was, still as he opened the door Jack stumbled backward into a shelf holding explosive chemicals, bags of sodium nitrate were stacked neatly on the floor, the busted bottle of sulfuric acid ran towards the Sodium nitrate.
"How would you like to go to Jail?" David asked Jack
"That's it, call the cops...I'm sure they'd love to see this." Jack pointed to the busted chamber.
David became angry, grabbing Jack by the arm escorting him out of the building. "Get your hands off of me." Jack shouted as he was being removed from the institute.
"Look the public has the right to know if something threatens their lives." Jack said as David walked him out the double glass doors.
"Mr McGee you're letting your mind get away from you, there isn't any creature."
"You'll have to forgive me doctor, but I'm calling you a liar."
"Mr McGee don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
The dangerous chemicals mixing together put off an oder that Elaina sensed quickly, but by that time it was too late. She called out for David one time before the lab exploded blowing David and Jack off the steps in front of the building. The top floor above the chamber partially fell as the concrete pillars holding it gave in. The glass on the front of the building blew out hitting Jack and David. Elaina was trapped inside the destroyed lab under a piece of the top floor.
"Elaina, Elaina!" David yelled out as loudly as he could.
"Banner No!" Jack shouted trying to stop David from assisting Elaina in the dangerous situation.
Jack ran out away from the building, behind him another explosion. He turned around quickly to see debris flying into the night air, the flame glowing so bright it almost looked day light outside. David running along the side of the building to try and get in stopped in front if a small rectangular shaped window where he could see Elaina on the floor with a large section of the floor above laid across her legs, Elaina!