The Below-Place is the second Quest in the third Chapter in the Story Event The Immortal Hulk.
It is preceded by The Devil Hulk.
Dialogue[]
Iron Man: What just happened? When we beat Hulk... there was a green flash in the sky...
Sasquatch: Like... like a door opening. A green door. I recognized it.
Hawkeye: Anybody think the Battlerealm's looking a little different?
Hulk (Immortal): Because we're not in the Battlerealm any more. We're somewhere else. Hulk (Immortal): A shadow realm under the floorboards of reality, below everything there is. The source of gamma -- where it's always been from. Hulk (Immortal): You can call it hell, if you want -- but that's thinking too small. It's below that -- below everything. Hulk (Immortal): Something from here learned how to open the Green Door and reach through it. To get in the head of anyone who's ever been touched by gamma. Hulk (Immortal): That's what brought me up from the depths of Banner's mind -- like an antibody fighting an infection. Banner's ultimate protective measure. Hulk (Immortal): I was using Banner's brains and all that tech to close the door -- stop this happening. Thanks to you interrupting me, it opened all the way instead. Hulk (Immortal): Now we're all through it, along with a chunk of Battlerealm itself. Trapped in the Below-Place. So... congratulations, Summoner. Hope you're having fun...
- Transmission #1 - Upon starting the Quest
Black Widow: So what's our way out of this? Hulk (Immortal): The only way out is through. We find whoever controls the Green Door and smash them until they stop. Hawkeye: Some plan. I thought you were a super-intelligent Hulk? Hulk (Immortal): Sometimes the smart thing is working with the tools you have, Barton. Except in your case, obviously.
Mephisto: Oh, how cruel a serpent's tongue! Truly, this is a Hulk after my own heart! Iron Man: Mephisto! So this is your realm... Mephisto: I wish. This is below even that. I feel like I'm behind the velvet rope in the VIP area. Mephisto: But I know of the being behind all of this. One of the great primordial powers. I came to give you information on what you face -- for a price, of course.
- Transmission #2
Mephisto: You all have such fascinating souls... heroic, but with just a hint of tarnish. They'll burn beautifully. So here is my deal, mortals -- Hulk (Immortal): No. Here's the deal -- talk or I tear you apart. Mephisto: I... I don't think you understand, Hulk. I'm Mephisto. Even if you rend me agonizingly into the teensiest pieces... all you can do is inconvenience me. Hulk (Immortal): Fine by me. Get ready to be inconvenienced.
- Transmission #3 - Before fighting Mephisto
Mephisto: That... that was horrible! To be beaten so humiliatingly... this is a lower deep than mine indeed! Hulk (Immortal): You ready for the rending part? Mephisto: No... I'll talk, for all the good it'll do you. As I said, this realm is not mine -- it belongs to an older, darker power... the One Below All. Mephisto: The very opposite of creation itself -- a force of pure destruction. Gamma... the kind that makes Hulks... is the primal emanation of this being. Iron Man: And somehow it found a way into our world... Sasquatch: Through the gamma bomb... and other gamma experiments, like the one that created me. Mephisto: Learning to possess gamma creatures was in service of the true goal... opening the Green Door wide, to obtain the one thing it didn't have access to. Mephisto: PHYSICAL MATTER!
- Transmission #4
Black Widow: I think I see. This evil force... it needs a physical body to work through, to really affect our world... so it has to build one. Mephisto: And now it has all it needs. It is building the ultimate form -- an Immortal Abomination -- that will grow to smash whole worlds... even universes. Hulk (Immortal): So it's got a weakness. If it's got a physical body... that means it can be smashed. Right now -- before it gets any more powerful. Hawkeye: Smash an immortal cosmic demon -- sure, why not. Not short of confidence, are you? Hulk (Immortal): I don't shoot arrows. Let's go.
- Transmission #5
Abomination (Immortal): I AM THE ONE BELOW ALL. Abomination (Immortal): WITH THESE HANDS, I BREAK. WITH THIS MOUTH, I HOWL. Abomination (Immortal): I HAVE ALL THE POWER YOU HAVE GIVEN ME. Abomination (Immortal): EXISTENCE FRIGHTENS AND DISGUSTS ME. I WILL DESTROY IT. Abomination (Immortal): I WILL END ALL THAT SPEAKS, WALKS, CRAWLS, BREATHES, LIVES. I WILL REND THE SEA FROM THE SKY. Abomination (Immortal): I WILL MAKE ALL AS DARK AND DEAD AS I... AND WHEN THE LAST WORLD IS BROKEN AND THE LAST LIGHT HAS DIED... Abomination (Immortal): ...I WILL FINALLY BE ALONE.
- Transmission #6 - Before fighting Abomination (Immortal)
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