WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Gamma Flight #4, available now from Marvel Comics.
The heroes of Gamma Flight knew they were in for a tough time when they came together to help the Hulk, but they never could have prepared for the situation they now find themselves in. Green Spring, the shadowy operation being run by Abomination in the body of General Reginald Fortean, has amassed an army of Gamma Zombies just waiting to be awakened from their irradiated purgatory. Luckily, one member of the team knows just how to stop the threat before it can be unleashed. Though it would likely work, it's also the worst plan the team could have possibly come up with.
Dionne Fortean, the latest member of Gamma Flight who just so happens to also be the daughter of the man heading up Green Spring, has quickly become the biggest asset to the team. Her intimate knowledge of Green Spring's operation has given them valuable insight into what they're up against, as well as how it came to be so quickly. The irradiated supplement known as Fortify coupled with Abomination puppeteering the General as a fearmongering A.M. radio host to drum up support has led to an entire town of unwitting Gamma agents awaiting activation. On the surface, it seems like more than Gamma Flight alone can handle, with Absorbing Man even wondering if now is the time to call in a favor from Peter Gyrich. Rather than making a deal with the devil, Doc Sasquatch thinks he knows how to cure Abominations army of what ails them, mainly because he's the one who helped create them in the first place, even if he didn't know it.
The Cathexis Ray was designed and developed by Doc Samson, making its first appearance alongside its creator all the way back in 1971's Incredible Hulk #141 by Roy Thomas and Herb Trimpe. In a bid to save Betty Ross from the glass form she was trapped in thanks to a blood transfusion from Sandman, Bruce Banner allowed Samson to use the Cathexis Ray to strip him of his Gamma and psionic energies. While this did cure Betty's condition, Samson turned this same technology on himself to become the musclebound super scientist fans know him as best.
Just like how the Cathexis Ray once took the Hulk out of Bruce Banner, so too could it be used to remove the sleeping Gamma Zombies from their human hosts, effectively ending the fight before it begins. Doctor Charlene McGowan even remarks that they could use high power broadcast equipment to broadcast the pulse and cure everyone at once. Of course, all of this hinges on them getting to the Cathexis Ray without being killed, and that means going through an entire town of Gamma Zombies backed up by both Abomination and the son of the Hulk himself.
It's a daring plan without question, even if it is little more than a suicide mission. After having already been lost to living teleporters gone haywire and being pinned between two sides of a single battlefield, that might just be par for the course going forward as far as Gamma Flight is concerned. If nothing else, they have all managed to survive so far, not to mention having picked up a couple of new recruits along the way. With any luck, neither of those trends will run out before their time does.