WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Gamma Flight #3, available now from Marvel.

The heroes of Gamma Flight have made it their mission to help their fellow Gamma Mutates wherever they might be and no matter the circumstances. Unfortunately, that exact same drive to do what's right has just landed them in the second-worst place they could have imagined. At the very least, they have succeeded in rescuing the young woman who they had come to help in the first place -- though doing so has also revealed her own heartbreaking connection to the Immortal Hulk saga as the daughter of one of its own architects.

When the Absorbing Man pushed his powers to their limit and transformed himself into a living teleporter, he never planned on landing his team in the middle of a Gamma Purgatory. And yet, that is precisely where they have found themselves after narrowly escaping a fight with Skaar as well as the military. Amidst the irradiated wreckage of this landscape adjacent to the Below-Place, the heroes have discovered the Gamma beings that reside in the bodies and minds of those touched by that form of radiation. Once the team has found shelter, they are given a moment to reassess the situation at hand. Thankfully, there is someone else in this place who can offer them the answers they seek. Not only that, but the sight of General Reginald Fortean is even worse for the team's newest member than it is for those who have fought against him in the past.

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First introduced in 2011's Hulk #30.1 by Jeff Parker and Gabriel Hardman, General Reginald Fortean was brought in to act as an aide and partner to General Thunderbolt Ross in the latter's quest to hunt down the Hulk. When Ross became the Red Hulk, Fortean mistook this for the Red Hulk having murdered his fellow officer, and with that Fortean became obsessed with putting an end to that threat. This unrelenting ambition has brought Fortean into conflict with Gamma Flight more than a few times, and on one of these occasions, he stole the remains of the Abomination only to be transformed into the latest iteration of the villain. When Fortean and the Hulk finally came face-to-face in their respectively monstrous forms, the two ended each other's lives in the process. And when Fortean tried to step through the Green Door into his own body again, he discovered that the Abomination was already waiting for him. Now as revealed in Gamma Flight #3 by Al Ewing, Crystal Frasier, Lan Medina, Antonio Fabela and Joe Sabino, the Abomination is still in the driver's seat, a revelation that has broken Fortean's daughter.

Dionne, the Gamma Mutate better known as Stockpile who Gamma Flight has only recently rescued, is apparently the General's daughter herself. Being able to speak to her father is a cathartic moment for Dionne, but a revelation for the rest of the team as well. As General Fortean explains, the Abomination has been using his body to prepare an insurrection of Gamma irradiated beings in the real world, and so far, there has been no way of fighting back on his own. It's a shocking revelation for the heroes, and a devastating one for Dionne herself -- although it does give them at least one leg up on the competition.

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Upon returning to their base of operations, Dionne collapses under the weight of what has happened to her father before gathering herself up and committing to the fight at hand. Alongside the rest of Gamma Flight, there is no doubt that she will be able to strike back at the dark forces which have been manipulating her and her loved ones for so long. The sight of Fortean's mangled corpse being puppeted around may be gut-wrenching, but the fact that the heroes now know what the Abomination is up to could be just what they need to put an end to everything the villain is working on before it spills over into the real world.

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