"The Heiress" 
Written by: Barbara Eckles
David Banner had been walking down Route 168 for at least a day and a half in 
the hot late spring sun. His leather gym bag was extremely hot to the touch, and 
he was running out of clothes and shoes to wear due to his transformations. Gad, 
those awful transformations! he would say to himself. When will I stop turning 
into the creature? 
David had been exposed to a massive dose of gamma rays over two decades ago, and 
now whenever he got angry or outraged he would turn into a big, hulking 
creature, a creature who was blamed for the death of his assistant and for his 
own death, but David couldn't prove that he was still alive, not with a rogue 
National Register investigative reporter on his tail. 
Just then, David heard a car coming in his direction. He turned around and saw 
it, then stuck out his thumb. The car stopped right in front of David, and at 
the wheel was a fairly young woman with blonde hair and brown eyes.
"Where're you headed?" she asked.
"East." said David. 
"And you're walking in this heat?" asked the woman. "Get in or you'll fry to a 
crisp."
"Thank you." said David, and he got into the car. "I'm David Benjamin, by the 
way." David could not tell anyone his real name because the world thought he was 
dead. 
"Jenny Drew." said the girl. "So where are you from?"
"Uh...The town I just left." said David.
"You're from Mandelson? Cool!" said Jenny. "We used to live there, my family 
did. When Mom died, our father moved me and my older sister Janice to Lawrence 
City. That's the city we're headed to."
"Lawrence City?" asked David.
"Mmm-hmm." said Jenny, and she started to move down the highway. She next turned 
on the radio, where the news was just beginning to come on.
"...And the Mandelson police are still searching for the suspect, a suspect 
witnesses describe as nearly seven feet tall with pea green skin, white eyes, 
and with the appearance of that as a very large and muscular Neanderthal man." 
said the first news report.
David cringed when he heard that report. He knew what had happened to him in 
Mandelson, and he wished it had never happened. He just looked out the window at 
the passing scenery. Jenny went "Mmm-mmm-mmm" and turned the radio to a golden 
oldies station.
"People see everything in this heat!" she exclaimed. "Imagine! A big green 
muscular creature!"
"Yeah," said David, looking over at Jenny. His heart began to pound. Now McGee 
will come looking for me. he thought. It's a good thing I left Mandelson.
Ten minutes later, Jenny and David arrived in Lawrence City, an oceanview city 
with a population of 500,000. Jenny pulled into a local self-serve gas station 
to get some gas for her car. When the car stopped at a pump, David got out to 
stretch his legs. He noticed a newspaper that said on the front page: Green 
Creature Destroys Car Compactor in Mandelson. His skin turned pale white when he 
read those words.
"Hey!" yelled Jenny. "Come on! My sister is expecting me at our place!"
"I'm coming." said David sulkily, and he climbed back into the car.
"What did you see that made your skin turn white?" asked Jenny as she pulled out 
of the service station and back onto the highway.
"Oh, it was nothing important." said David, wiping sweat from his forehead. 
"Tell me about your father and your sister."
"Not much to tell about Janice." said Jenny. "Dad was in the oil business in 
Mandelson for thirty long years. He struck oil one day and it was worth a 
whopping three million dollars! He moved us girls into this very large mansion 
right after Mom died. Janice and I are heiresses, and we both get 1.5 million 
from an inheritance. Dad unfortunately died last week of a heart attack."
"I'm sorry to hear that." said David. "It must have hurt you and Janice really 
bad."
"Oh, it completely FLOORED me!" said Jenny. "I don't know how it made Janice 
feel. She's probably more hurt than I am."
At Drew Manor, the home of Jenny and her older sister, Janice Drew was busy 
talking on the telephone to an unknown person. "Don't worry." she said in a 
devilish-sounding voice. "I plan to get rid of her shortly, and then my father's 
fortune will be completely mine!" She hung up the phone and laughed.
At that same time, Jenny pulled up into the driveway, and David got out of the 
car first. He looked at the large four-story house and then over at some houses 
that could have been guest houses.
"Do you plan to stay for a while?" asked Jenny. "We sure could use a man like 
you around here."
"It wasn't my intention to," said David, "but I guess I can stay for a couple of 
days and do some garden work if you'd like me to."
"Who is that?" David heard a female voice ask behind him. "Is that a commoner or 
a rich man in commoner clothes?"
David looked around and saw Janice standing on a balcony wearing a real fancy 
robe. Jenny smiled.
"This richness has gone to her head." she said to David. "No, Janice, this is 
David Benjamin, a man I picked up on the way home." she said to her sister.
"A hitchhiker?!" Janice was astonished. "Oh, that is the worst kind of commoner, 
Jennifer!"
"He seems real nice to me." said Jenny, smiling. "Can he stay for just a couple 
of days? He said he would do some garden work for us, and we need some garden 
work done around here."
"Well, okay, he can stay," said Janice, "but just for a week."
"Thank you." said David. "Which guest house can I stay in over there?"
"The red house is empty; you can stay there." said Janice. She then turned to go 
back in. "I'll see both of you at dinner, which will be in twenty minutes or 
so."
"Okay, Janice." said Jenny. "I'll take David over to the guest house."
Janice went back inside, and Jenny walked David over to the red guest house. 
"Don't mind Janice." she said with a smile. "She is just acting like a rich 
snob. Money is on her mind."
"I could tell." said David, opening the door. "Well, I'll see you later at 
dinner."
"All right." said Jenny, turning to leave. "It's a good thing I found you on the 
road. I wouldn't be happy right now if I hadn't."
David smiled and went inside the guest house. At that same time, Janice was 
talking to their master chef, and she was not talking about good things.
"Be sure to put enough poison in that fish the waiter will serve Jenny." said 
Janice. "I want her to die a slow but painless death."
The master chef nodded, took out some poison from the cupboard, and doused a 
piece of trout fillet with the poison. Janice snickered and walked out of the 
kitchen. Just then David came into the house, and Janice noticed him and 
sneered.
"What's for dinner?" he asked.
"Trout." said Janice. "The very best."
"May I ask why you gave me a sneer just then?" asked David.
"Oh, did I give you a sneer?" asked Janice cunningly. "Oh, I must have thought 
you were one of the servants I don't like around here. How stupid of me. I 
wouldn't give a sneer to a person Jenny liked." 
David then walked down the hall, and Janice looked at him. You have to be rid 
of, too! she thought. She went back into the kitchen and told the master chef to 
douse another trout fillet with poison, which he did.
A few minutes later at the dinner table, Jenny and David sat beside one another 
while Janice sat across from them. She looked over at the chef and the waiter 
bringing out the trout. The waiter slowly nodded at Janice, and David had seen 
him nod out of the corner of his eye. He's acting very strange, that waiter is. 
he thought. 
"Now let us take in this wonderful trout fillet," said Janice as the waiter 
placed poison-doused fish in front of Jenny and David. "Why don't you take the 
first bite, Jenny?" 
"Don't mind if I do." said Jenny as she took a very impressive piece of fish and 
put it in her mouth. A few minutes later, Jenny started to gag and vomit. David 
got up out of his seat to help her, but the waiter sneaked up from out of 
nowhere and hit him across the back of the head with a candlestick holder. David 
collapsed on the floor and the waiter kicked him under the table. Jenny, at the 
same time, dropped her head onto the table.
Under the table, David slowly came to, but unbeknownst to the people above him, 
his eyes were white! He was undergoing his cursed transformation into the 
Incredible Hulk!
First, his skin began to turn pea green. Second, his body began to get bigger 
and bigger until his shirt ripped apart. Third, his pants began to rip up the 
sides. Fourth, big feet ripped out of his shoes. In a matter of moments, David 
had turned into his angry alter ego! The Hulk then flung his ripped shirt off 
and pounded his mighty fist into the table which also tore the tablecloth. 
Janice and the waiter, who was about to finish dealing with Jenny, turned to 
look. The Hulk came out from under the table growling and flexing, and it caused 
Janice and the waiter to scream and leave the room. The Hulk then picked up the 
table and flung it into a wall, completely destroying it. He then roared like a 
lion and ran after Janice and the waiter, whom he managed to catch and throw 
right into a bookcase in the main library. Janice managed to escape from the 
house.
The Hulk then came back into the dining room and found the master chef with the 
rest of the poison about to pour it into Jenny's mouth. He growled angrily and 
flexed, causing the master chef to drop the poison and run out of the room. The 
Hulk then found Jenny lying on the floor and bent down to pick her up, which he 
did. He then took her to the living room and placed her on the sofa. Just then, 
the Hulk transformed back into David, and he noticed Jenny lying on the sofa. He 
examined her and concluded that she had been poisoned by something she had 
eaten. He suspected that it was the fish, and he was right.
"I have to find something to counteract the poison." he said to himself. He then 
realized that he had no shirt on, his pants were ripped to shreds at the sides, 
and that he was barefoot, but that didn't matter to him. Jenny mattered to him 
right at the present moment.
Soon David found an antidote to the poison and gave it to Jenny through her 
mouth. Jenny then started to come around.
"W-What happened?" she asked weakly.
"Someone tried to kill you by poisoning you." said David. 
"Not again." said Jenny, placing her hand on her forehead.
"What do you mean by that?" asked David, surprised.
"Janice is trying to kill me every which way she can because she wants my half 
of the inheritance Dad gave me." said Jenny. "First she ordered the gardener to 
burn down the guest house I happened to be cleaning at the time, but I escaped 
just before it caved in, then she ordered some strange man to run me down with 
his car. I got out of the way in time."
"She should be charged with attempted murder!" said David.
"Hey, what happened to you?" asked Jenny, noticing David's latest predicament. 
"It looks like you got into a real bad fight."
"Well, I..." David couldn't explain about his transformation. "Do you have some 
spare clothes lying around?"
"There could be some spare clothes in Dad's old room." said Jenny. "Go and see 
if there are."
Sure enough, David did find another shirt and some shoes that he could wear in 
Jenny's father's old room. While he was putting on the shirt he could hear 
Janice talking to someone outside the house. Lord, don't let it be McGee! he 
thought.
But Janice was not talking to Jack McGee. She was talking to a very strange man 
and someone that looked like a gardener instead. David breathed a sigh of 
relief, but he also listened to the eerie conversation between the three 
possible evil people.
"We almost got her this time," said Janice, "but that creature came out from 
under the table and rescued her before the chef could finish giving her the 
poison."
"Any more ideas, Miss Drew?" asked the man.
"How about I dig a real deep hole and throw her in it, then bury her alive?" 
asked the gardener.
"That is a wonderful idea, Jasper." said Janice. "She will suffocate in mere 
seconds under a pile of dirt. You go and dig it while I go and talk to her." 
Janice then left the two men and started to come back in.
David quickly left the room to find Jenny and tell her what he had heard, but 
just then Janice came into the house. She completely went berserk when she saw 
David.
"So!" said Janice. "The waiter didn't take care of you, did he? You have 
interfered enough already, David, and it is time to get rid of you and Jenny 
once and for all!"
She then pulled out a gun, and David held up his hands. He walked backward while 
Janice approached him with the gun aimed at his head. Just then the master chef 
and the waiter came up from behind and grabbed David by the arms. Janice then 
knocked him out with the gun and David fell unconscious to the floor.
"Take him to the hole." said Janice. "I'll go and get Jenny."
The waiter and the master chef took David to where the gardener and the man was 
digging a very large hole. The four men threw David into the hole, and 
fortunately for David he was still out cold. Just then, Janice pulled a 
screaming Jenny out of the house by the arms, and poor Jenny was in tears.
"How could you do this to me, your own sister?" she asked.
"Shut up!" yelled her sister. "That money of yours will soon be mine, right 
after you die in your little grave there."
She then pushed Jenny into the hole, and Jenny fell right on top of David, who 
was slowly starting to come around again. Janice and the four men looked down 
into the hole at Jenny.
"No one can help you now, Jennifer." said Janice with a sneer. She then ordered 
the four men to start filling in the hole with dirt.
"Nooooooo!" cried Jenny as a mound of dirt fell on top of her head. She then 
turned to look at David, who was just about to come around. When he did, Jenny 
gasped.
"David!" she cried. "What's happening to you?" She had just noticed that David's 
eyes had suddenly become white, signaling the beginning of his transformation 
into the Hulk once more.
Jenny then watched nervously as David's skin started to turn a pea green color. 
His shirt went RIPPPP! as his muscles got bigger and his body changed 
dramatically. Next his pants ripped up the sides and big feet popped out of his 
shoes. Jenny sat silently as David, now the Hulk, then stood up growling and 
flung his ripped shirt off.
"David? Is that you?" asked Jenny nervously.
The Hulk looked down at Jenny and softly growled at her, as if he knew who she 
was. He then looked up and heard voices above him. Just then, a large pile of 
dirt came from above and completely hit the Hulk. He growled so loud that the 
men who were filling up the hole stopped what they were doing and put down their 
shovels to look inside the hole and see what was going on. When they saw the 
Hulk, who growled and flexed, they panicked and started to run away. The Hulk 
then leapt out of the hole and began to chase the four men. He found a steel 
pole and wrapped it around them. Just then Janice came out of the house, saw the 
Hulk, and pulled out her gun. The Hulk growled and snatched the gun right out of 
Janice's hand and crushed it into a million pieces, then got a water hose and 
threw it over Janice, who fell to the ground. The Hulk then leapt back into the 
hole and brought Jenny, who was covered in dirt, back to the surface. 
Suddenly, the Hulk heard a police siren. Someone who had seen him fight the men 
had called the police. The Hulk looked over at Jenny, who smiled nervously at 
him, and then ran out of sight. At that same time, two police cars pulled up 
right behind Jenny. Did she have a story to tell them, but she was not going to 
tell them about David or the Hulk.
Two days later, Jenny let David out of her car at a bus stop a few miles out of 
Lawrence City. David got his gym bag out of the back seat and placed it on his 
shoulder. He then went over to Jenny's window.
"It's nice to hear that Janice has been booked on attempted murder charges." 
said David. "She won't bother you again for at least ten years."
"Maybe then she'll appreciate her half of the inheritance." said Jenny. "By the 
way, they booked the whole staff on charges of conspiracy to attempt murder."
"What are you going to do till then?" asked David.
"Hire some friendly people to do work around the house." said Jenny with a 
smile. "I hope they all are as friendly as you." 
David smiled. "You take good care of yourself, Jenny." he said.
"You, too, David," said Jenny, and she turned her car around and drove back to 
Lawrence City, not before blowing David good-bye.
David then started down the highway towards yet another town on his way to a 
cure to his transformations. For now, though, the next few days or even weeks 
would be uncertain for him. 
The End