Abominations by Jason Henderson

Author:Jason Henderson [Henderson, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jason Henderson
Published: 2011-12-22T23:01:46+00:00

Morgan leaned-against his desk and sighed. This was turning into the worst week of his life. ‘What the hell went on out there, Jo?’ ’

“He downed a plane,” said Jo. She shook her head as if she couldn’t believe it.

“Mhm,” he nodded. He looked up at the screen across from the desk, which showed the Hulk jumping into the air. ‘ ‘He gets past Gamma Team, without, I might add, too much difficulty. He jumps for the plane. It’s fuzzy there. ’ Morgan noted. The video was grainy, but Morgan could see Banner leaping up, arm outstretched. The angle of the shot was such that he disappeared behind the nose of the plane. Then the explosion.

“That’s not right, ’ said Morgan, shaking his head.

“Sir. S’ " ~

“I can’t tell if he even touched it,” Morgan snapped.

“What else can we believe?”

Morgan turned around and circled his desk, and sat down. He picked uj his coffee cup and studied it. “Jo, you’ve been trained lo follow gamma threats and study them and catch them. If the Hulk were going to down a plane, is this what it would look like?”

She stared at him, then back at the video. Jo picked up a remote and ran the video back and froze it at the blast. The plane sat in midair, the >iose flying apart. “An explosive?”

“That’s what I’m asking, shouldn’t we be seeing the Hulk tearing through the fuselage or an engine or something?”

“Maybe he’s not that predictable.”

Morgan stared at his desk. “No, he’s not. Becausc an hour later he crawls out of an evacuated building with a nine-year-old in his arms and hands him over to the po-

lice. And the Abomination was there. Witnesses say Blonsky tore the place down and the Hulk was there to help stop him.”

“Others are saying it was the other way around.” pii'And how much sense does that make?” Morgan snarled. “He’s supposed to be working with us. This is a mess.”

Jo cleared her throat. “What are you going to tell the President?’ ’

Don’t even ask.” He studied her for a moment, running through the events in his mind. She was watching him. She looked wary, afraid he was going to demote her, most likely. He just might. SAFE hadn’t been around very long, but they’d accomplished the few missions they’d had so far. They couldn’t afford this kind of screwup this early in their operational life. “I think Gamma Team needs an overhaul.”

Jo shriveled a bit. “I understand,” she said. “I can move to—”

“Not you,” he said. “I want your peopie to go over everything we know and go over it again. Learn to use those weapons. Friend or foe, the Hulk should have been stopped. ’

“With all due respect, sir, that’s a tall order.’’

He nodded. After a moment he said, “What happened with the call, Jo?”

“The call?”

“Banner called you,” Morgan said. ‘And Tom said half the world heard the conversation. Tell me about that.”

She shrugged. “I received a phone call from Dr. Banner. He made a reference to Senator Hill’s plane and then clicked off.

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