The "Hulkbuster Plan" designed specifically for the Hulk was never as simple as using some drug or device to control him—that would be far too optimistic.
In reality, the complete Hulkbuster Plan attacked both mind and body separately, employing more than thirty different methods. One of them even involved Batman using Bruce Banner's former girlfriend, Betty Ross, to strike at Hulk's heart on a psychological level. (See Chapter 75)
Of course, Batman would never stoop to taking Betty Ross hostage or harming a single hair on her head. He had a far more direct way of piercing the soul.
Unfortunately, the same trick was useless against Abomination. Emil Blonsky probably didn't even know who Betty Ross was.
"Stop hiding!"
Abomination lunged past Batman and slammed into the floor. The playful, cat-and-mouse smirk that had been on his face gradually twisted into something uglier.
One clean punch—that's all it would take. Abomination was confident he could snap Batman in half like a twig. Yet in the span of seven or eight seconds he had already thrown more than fifty blows, and not a single one had landed.
The distance between them stayed locked at roughly three meters. If Abomination's fists were just a little longer, if his reach was just a little wider, he would have made contact.
But those three meters might as well have been a canyon. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't touch the Dark Knight.
The angrier he got, the more the roles reversed. The cat catching the mouse had become the mouse, while Batman turned into the cat toying with him.
Batman had no time—or interest—in playing games with Abomination.
The only reason he kept dancing this close was to lure the monster to a spot he'd scouted earlier, the perfect place to spring his layered containment.
As for why he maintained that three-meter distance…
CRASH!
A tremendous boom erupted overhead. An almost elliptical Bat-Pod-like capsule smashed through the base's roof and slammed down squarely onto Abomination's skull. The impact of bone against metal let out a dull thunk. The capsule, accelerated by a free-fall from nearly ten thousand meters, not only punched straight through the ceiling but drove Abomination face-first into the ground.
Before even entering the gamma bomb research facility, Batman had instructed the Oracle AI to drop the Bat-capsule exactly three meters in front of his position.
Besides using the equipment inside the capsule to execute the Hulkbuster Plan, the nearly one-ton pod itself was part of the opening attack.
While Abomination's brain was still rattling from the impact and he was trying to push himself up, another device activated without a sound.
On the Batcycle parked outside the facility, a composite-spectrum emitter Batman had prepared beforehand hummed to life. A specific frequency blanketed the entire above-ground portion of the base, momentarily paralyzing Abomination where he knelt.
The falling Bat-capsule split vertically into three segments the instant it landed. With Abomination at the center, each segment fired high-density alloy stakes into the floor, forming a perfect equilateral triangle around him.
At the same moment, Batman finally made his move.
The batarangs he'd scattered earlier activated. High-frequency shockwaves flooded the interior, while fast-expanding gel explosives detonated and hardened, pinning Abomination in place once more.
Batman flashed to Abomination's side. Venom's tentacles lashed out from beneath the cape, driving diamond-tipped syringes filled with tranquilizers and gamma suppressants straight through the monster's hide.
But the chain of control wasn't finished. Getting close wasn't just to give Venom time to inject the drugs—Batman was multitasking.
"Barbara, drop the second Bat-capsule."
As he spoke—smack!—he slapped a micro-bat-mine directly onto Abomination's forehead.
BOOM!
The mine detonated under three tons of precisely controlled force, snapping Abomination's head to the side.
Batman planted a boot on the monster's torso and leaped backward, firing a web-line that yanked him right back toward Abomination—this time landing on his back, where he slapped down another mine.
Amid the nonstop explosions, the Bat-capsule continued its work at blinding speed.
The top section of each of the three split segments housed an infrasound emitter. They rapidly cycled through frequencies until they found the exact resonance of Abomination's internal organs.
Under the effects of that internal vibration—combined with the repeated concussive blasts to his skull—waves of nausea and vertigo swept through Abomination's mutated body.
Simultaneously, the capsule sprayed massive quantities of fast-hardening gel into the triangular zone, concentrating on Abomination's lower half.
The moment his movements slowed from brain trauma and organ resonance, the gel piled up and solidified, locking both legs in place.
The remaining structure of the capsule unfolded and reconfigured with a deafening hydraulic hiss, forming a giant industrial clamp that snapped shut around Abomination's torso and arms. Combined with the hardened gel below, it immobilized his entire body.
Before Abomination could even twitch, Batman jammed yet another micro-mine against his face and triggered it.
While all this happened, Batman—using both his own hands and Peter Parker's borrowed superhuman senses—was mapping the precise anatomy of Abomination's body.
Then he began to move again, circling the monster and hammering different spots with punches that each carried over fifty tons of force.
At a glance, it looked like the blows weren't doing lethal damage.
They weren't meant to. Batman wasn't trying to beat Abomination to death with his fists.
Hidden inside the hydraulic spikes that had pierced Abomination's flesh were dozens of injection needles. The moment the clamp locked on, they pumped enough heavy-duty tranquilizer and suppressant to stop the hearts of several blue whales into his neck, shoulders, and arms.
Batman's punches were simply accelerating blood flow, spreading the chemicals throughout that monstrous body even faster.
Everything—from the capsule dropping out of the sky to the layered restraints being applied—took exactly five seconds.
Inside the equilateral triangle formed by the capsule segments, more than half of Abomination's scales had cracked and fallen away. The grotesquely hypertrophied muscles were visibly shrinking.
A few breaths later, under the influence of the suppressants, the towering monster shrank back to human size, revealing the face of Emil Blonsky once more.
Only then did Batman let out a long breath. He stepped over to the capsule and manually pressed a button.
Five or six more needles extended. This time they delivered neurotoxin, sending Blonsky into deep, irreversible unconsciousness.
From the moment Abomination charged until he was completely subdued: thirty-six seconds.
When Batman finally looked around, the entire base was unrecognizable. Not a single patch of floor remained level. Every visible wall had collapsed. Countless severed cables and ruptured pipes sparked and hissed.
The metal cage that had once held the stone gargoyles had taken several stray punches during the chase and was now nothing more than a crumpled heap of scrap.
Even the thick steel plate that sealed the entrance to the underground levels had been warped beyond recognition, a deep crater punched into its center.
Batman didn't linger. After a few controlled breaths he walked to the plate and kicked it aside like it weighed nothing.
Instead of immediately jumping in, he glanced up at the gaping hole in the ceiling.
During the fight with Abomination, the second Bat-capsule had come crashing down exactly as planned, punching through the roof a second time and dropping straight into the underground access shaft.
Only then did Batman follow, leaping into the pitch-black passage after it.
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