Transmutations The She-Hulk has finished her battle against the Earth-Lord on the estate of the mysterious mobster known as Shade. To her surprise, she is shocked to see Earth-Lord de-evolve into his past foes, Torque, Radius, the Seeker, the Brute until he finally reverts to Ralphie Hutchins, one of Zapper's classmates at UCLA. She-Hulk recalls how, Hutchins and his employer captured her for a blood sample and how the man known only as "Doc" injects Hutchins with a mutagenic brew that first turned him into the Brute. She then recalls all the battles with Raphie's other forms and how she narrowly defeated each of them. Suddenly, Ralphie begins to stir and mutate back into the Brute. She easily smashes the Brute to bits, but he comes back as the Seeker. She-Hulk then fights through all of her foes various evolutions until he stops at Torque. Torque explains that he is in the process of evolving into a higher being and has no desire to fight the She-Hulk anymore, just her mutual need for revenge against the Doc and Shade. She-Hulk reluctantly agrees to work with her one-time foe, but as they approach Shade's mansion they are surrounded by his hired thugs. She-Hulk tells Torque to go on without her as she deals with these thugs. Meanwhile, in a cavern below, Lou Monkton awakens after being captured by the Doc's mutates. Seeing that there is one guard, Lou knocks the creature out and recovers his gun. As he finds his way out of the cave, Lou Monkton decides that if he ever makes it out of this situation alive, he will go straight.
