Godzilla|Marvel Saga Book 1: WORLDS COLLIDE

Part 10: Hulk vs. ???

NEW YORK CITY
SHIELD STORAGE FACILITY

In the underground hanger, dozens of SHIELD agents and scientists bustled through the spaces, offices, and catwalks that spanned the bunker. An elevator hummed and chimed as it lowered itself down a shaft, passing one level after another. Two people rode inside, standing in awkward silence.

Bruce Banner held his files at his side, his eyes darting to his right at the woman next to him.
"It's nice to see you back at work Betty."

Elizabeth Ross regarded him carefully, their long and painful history not easily ignored in such a small space.
"Given my experience with... extraordinary cases, they actually called me. How'd you wind-up down here?"

The elevator shifted, jostling the pair inches closer to each other. Diffusing the tension by averting his gaze, Bruce adjusted his glasses.
"I uh, I was in the city for a consultation, and-"

"That wouldn't be anything to do with that radioactive skyscraper that leveled SHIELD would it?" She asked accusingly.

"In a peripheral manner yes, but-"

"Jesus, Bruce." Betty Ross put a hand across her face. "Of all people to get involved with something like that, it had to be you."

"Hey!" Bruce faced her and pointed a finger in her direction. "That's not fair! All I did was some research due to the radioactive nature of Godzilla, the whole plan was Reed's idea."

"So that's its name huh? Where's he from, Poland?"

Banner straightened himself out and held his files over his stomach. "A parallel universe actually."

The elevator came to a stop and the doors opened, revealing to the pair the reason for their involvement. The battered bodies of Giganto and Megataur lay side-by-side on platforms in the enormous hanger. Catwalks that spanned their prone forms held dozens of scientists who took notes and pointed to the various wounds both exhibited.

Adjusting his glasses, Banner was unmoved by the sight. "If I didn't already know what put these two creatures on slabs, I'd be a little bowled over right now."

"Not more so than they were I bet." Betty said as they set out for their work station

"Mmm."

The pair walked out over the grotesque remains, it was unnerving, even for Bruce Banner to see such powerful creatures reduced to such pitiful states. Giganto's torso blackened to a crisp from the atomic beam that punched it into a building. Megataur's skeletal structure crushed, its form a misshapen and bloody mess carefully collected off of the Manhattan pavement.

"It'll take days to document all the injuries." She remarked "And I'm not sure what good an autopsy would do."

They walked on a pathway that took them beside the behemoths "Nonetheless I'd like to run a full battery of tests, get blood samples."
As he spoke the words, a bulge on Megataur's right thigh burst, spilling gallons of blood and yellowish pus onto the floor.
"Seems like that won't be too hard. I'd also like to get data on the residual radiation left by their contact with Godzilla."

"I don't know if I want you anywhere near radiation Bruce."

"I'll wear a protective suit, don't worry. It's not like the Hulk stops me from
being a scientist, I've been working for SHIELD for years."

Giganto's head, cradled by steel cables attached to a crane, was raised up and brought at an angle to gaze out over its body. The eyes rolled to the back of their sockets, its tongue lolling to the side and nearly severed in half, the former hench-monster looked as if its face had been used for a punching bag.