Marvel Disassembler

Chapter 201: MD-Chapter 200 The Complex Relationship



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The moment Hulk saw the weapon, he was startled and raised his hands in a defensive posture. 

Arthur blinked, and after a moment, Hulk realized that the expected pain was not coming. He then focused on Arthur's face and the gun in his hand.

Hulk's expression changed from calm to angry. Just as he was about to roar, he saw Arthur place the gun on the ground and push it toward him.

The large figure scratched his head, looking somewhat confused.

He pinched the weapon with two fingers and, in a fit of rage, crumpled it into a ball and threw it violently away.

Boom!

A black iron ball embedded itself in the wall.

After that, Hulk laughed heartily.

"Hahahaha!"

The laughter was hearty, and he clapped his hands as he continued to laugh.

Arthur blinked again and looked at the Disassembler Space but found nothing new to use. The weapons were still there, but he couldn't keep using them to entertain Hulk, could he?

Before he could finish the thought, Hulk, who had been clapping and laughing, visibly shrank and returned to Banner's form.

Banner took a deep breath and looked around in confusion, "What happened?"

"It went better than I had expected," Arthur said. "At least he didn't destroy the place..."

Banner looked at the chaos around him and said, "Are you sure?"

"There's not much I could do; Hulk would pound the floor when he was upset," Arthur sighed and added, "And this time the transformation was quite brief. I thought we'd have more time to communicate with him."

"Is he communicable?" Banner asked.

"Yes, but he seems to need some learning," Arthur thought for a moment and said, "He has not yet mastered speech. If he could learn to speak, it would certainly yield different results."

The two left the underground warehouse where Tony and Dr. Connors were waiting outside.

When they came out, Arthur was unharmed, while Banner was left with only a pair of pants. Both were relatively pleased with the outcome.

"Actually, I always thought it would be a giant green monster coming out," Tony looked at Banner's pants, "just like the legends, amazing pants."

"Let's not mention the pants and we can still be friends," Banner said with a somber expression on his face.

The worst moment of his life was probably when a masked idiot stole his only pair of pants one day in New York.

And now that idiot was standing right next to him, he had almost forgotten that grudge.

"Not mentioning… pants…" 

Arthur pondered and felt that the topic might get rather unpleasant, so he said, "By the way, Hulk seems to care a lot about pants as well."

"So he didn't kill you after all?" 

Tony asked in surprise, "If it was me..."

"Why not try?" Arthur looked at Tony's pants as he spoke.

Tony quickly grabbed his belt and pointed a finger a finger at him before speaking, "No, that joke is not funny at all!"

Dr. Connors was more concerned with the outcome, "So what actually happened?"

Arthur glanced at his hand, where a previously empty space now had an arm that looked perfectly normal.

In fact, it was a prosthetic.

The high-precision component from Stark Industries, designed by Tony, used neural links to achieve seamless control, and the outer layer was made of highly realistic materials, making it virtually indistinguishable from a natural arm...and Dr. Connors thought it felt the same.

"Let's talk about this later," Arthur said as he and Banner got into the car.

...

...

Their destination was the Stark Tower, but before they could get back, Arthur had already discussed what had happened earlier in the car.

After hearing this, everyone shared their opinions.

Dr. Connors speculated, "It seems likely that Hulk might be another intelligent entity spawned from Banner, similar to a form of dissociative identity disorder? There is some degree of mutual influence, and if Hulk were to be considered the dominant personality, his mental state might still be... like that of a child?"

"So Banner essentially gave birth to a child!" 

Tony's view was rather unconventional.

Banner's mouth twitched as he completely rejected this explanation.

Arthur said, "Although Tony's comment is rather exaggerated, it's not far off. Hulk is a volatile child who needs soothing and patience. Right now, everyone is just attacking Hulk... When he saw the weapon I pulled out, his first reaction was not to attack but to defend himself..."

Banner fell into a deep silence at these words.

Dr. Connors and Tony exchanged glances, with one driving while the others gazing out of the window.

Arthur patted Banner on the shoulder, not knowing how to comfort him... Is this what new parents go through? He'd never been a parent himself, so he had no idea what a parent's mind was like. Banner's situation was different from that of an average parent, with no real interaction between 'father' and 'child' possible!

Besides, saying this out loud might cause Banner to become upset and bring out the Hulk again, which would be quite problematic...

The group remained silent. After Tony drove Banner and Dr. Connors home, he looked in his rearview mirror and saw that Arthur was gone.

As he was about to turn around, Arthur's voice came from the passenger seat, "What are you looking at?"

"If you keep disappearing like this, you're going to give me a heart attack sooner or later," Tony sighed heavily.

Arthur looked at the device on Tony's chest, which had turned into an upside-down triangle.

The plan for the perfect serum had ultimately become a fleeting dream. Its only real use had been to bring together people who were otherwise unrelated.

Although Arthur believed he had reached a high level of understanding in genetics, it was still not enough to address the fatal flaw in the perfect serum.

He had previously discussed this with Connors and Banner, and the consensus was to temporarily shelve the project.

If a future opportunity or new discovery arose, they could revisit it.

But definitely no Tesseract!

Banner was especially adamant about this.

Arthur, who had previously also kept his distance from the Tesseract, now found himself more inclined to ask Fury for the Tesseract. He was very curious about what had triggered the Tesseract's power to such an extent that even though he was so far from it, it still sent him flying into space.

There must be a connection.

"Let's find a larger space; I need to discuss something with you," Arthur said, setting aside his thoughts as he spoke to Tony.

''(End of Chapter)''


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