INFERNAL HULK: THE GREEN DOOR
Chapter 1: The Geometry of Chaos
The bunker was buried three hundred feet beneath the Nevada desert, lined with lead and pulsating with the hum of containment fields. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) sat in the center of the clean room, his face illuminated by the sickly green glow of a dozen monitors.
“I’ve been studying gamma radiation for twenty years,” Bruce whispered into his recorder, his voice trembling. He looked at his hands; they were steady, but the shadow on the wall seemed to twitch independently. “The monster inside me… I thought that was the worst it could get. I thought the rage was the ceiling of my nightmare.“
He paused, glancing at a graph that showed a frequency spike not from a nuclear source, but from a void. “I was wrong. Something’s crossed over from another dimension. The readings… they’re off the charts. It’s not from our world. It’s an ancient evil, and it’s coming for all of us.“
Bruce wasn’t just tracking energy; he was tracking a scent. A smell of sulfur and rot that only the Hulk could perceive. The “Green Door”—a metaphysical barrier between reality and a dimension of pure gamma-decay—was standing ajar.
Chapter 2: The President’s Gambit
In the Oval Office, President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (Harrison Ford) stared at a satellite feed of a growing black tear in the sky over the midwest. His hair was silver, his face etched with the weariness of a man who had seen too many wars.
“I took an oath to protect this nation,” Ross said to the empty room, his voice a gravelly rumble. “Forty years I served. I’ve spoken at funerals, I’ve signed death warrants. But words have failed.“
He looked at a small, lead-lined vial on his desk, filled with a swirling, crimson fluid—a concentrated blend of Banner’s blood and a jagged, extraterrestrial catalyst.
“The enemy wants extinction,” Ross continued, his grip tightening on the desk. “So I made a choice no president should make. I became what they fear most. Something between man and God.“
He injected the serum. His veins didn’t turn green; they turned the color of cooling magma. His skin thickened, his eyes burning with a fire that wasn’t just rage—it was authority. “If I’m damned,” he growled, his voice deepening into a monstrous roar, “I’ll drag every threat to hell with me.“
Chapter 3: The One Below All
The tear in the sky finally broke. It didn’t bring ships or soldiers. It brought the Infernal—a hive-mind of shadows that stripped the flesh from anything they touched. At the center of the vortex was the Herald of Decay, a towering entity of smoke and bone.
“From dimensions of decay, I have crossed the void,” the creature’s voice echoed directly into the minds of every living soul on Earth. It was a sound like grinding teeth. “I am plague incarnate. Death eternal. I will feast on your reality until nothing remains.”
The world’s conventional weapons were useless. Missiles passed through the shadows like stones through fog. The only thing that could touch a creature made of gamma-hell was a creature born from it.
[Image: Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner mid-transformation, his skin tearing to reveal a Hulk with glowing cracks in his chest, looking like an Infernal entity himself.]
Chapter 4: The Red and The Green
Bruce Banner met Ross in the ruins of a small town in Kansas, now a “Dimension-Leak” zone. Bruce was no longer the “Smart Hulk.” He was something more primal—the Infernal Hulk. His muscles were corded with black veins, and his eyes were pits of swirling emerald fire.
The Red Hulk (Ross) landed with the force of a meteor. He was a titan of heat and muscle, steam rising from his shoulders.
“Banner,” Ross growled, his voice vibrating the very air. “You’re a liability. But you’re the only weapon I have left.“
“This isn’t a fight you can win with a uniform, Ross,” the Hulk replied, his voice a subterranean rumble. “This thing… it’s the ‘One Below All.‘ It doesn’t want to rule us. It wants to be us.“
The two Hulks, once bitter enemies, stood back-to-back as the sky rained shadow-demons. The Red Hulk unleashed a nova-blast of heat, incinerating the darkness, while the Green Hulk tore through the physical manifestations of the void with a strength that broke the laws of physics.
Chapter 5: Into the Void
The battle moved from the physical world into the “Green Door” itself. Bruce and Ross realized that the only way to stop the infection was to cauterize the source. They entered the dimension of decay—a hellish landscape of green suns and mountains made of bone.
“I can feel it,” Ross roared, his crimson skin bubbling from the intense radiation. “It’s trying to get into my head!“
“Stay awake, Ross!” Bruce shouted, his Infernal form growing larger as he absorbed the surrounding energy. “If you fall here, you become part of the plague!“
They reached the core of the entity—a pulsing, black heart that fed on the life-force of universes. Ross grabbed the heart with his burning hands, pinning it down, while Bruce gathered every ounce of gamma-energy in the dimension.
“Do it, Banner!” Ross screamed, his body beginning to disintegrate from the sheer heat he was generating. “Drag it to hell!“
Chapter 6: The Aftermath of Damnation
A week later, the sky over Kansas was clear. The black tear was gone.
Bruce Banner woke up in the middle of a massive crater, miles wide. He was human again, shivering and covered in ash. Next to him sat Thaddeus Ross, his suit in rags, his arm charred black but still human.
They didn’t speak. They had seen the bottom of the universe. They had looked into the eyes of the One Below All and survived, but they were no longer the men they once were.
“I’ve been studying gamma for twenty years,” Bruce whispered, looking at the sunrise. “But for the first time… I’m afraid of the light.“
Ross looked at his trembling hands. “We saved the world, Banner. But at what cost?“
In the distance, the shadow of a massive, green-cracked door flickered in the morning mist before vanishing. The war with the void was won, but the Infernal Hulk was still waiting in the dark, and the Green Door would never truly be locked again.
