A trip to Nevada

“You see Emma, you need to treat our mother the Earth with respect, because it’s her who is giving us everything we need to live.”

“What about the white men?” the young girl asked. “Are they treating the Earth good?”

The old man sighed, his gaze turning toward the mountain standing several miles in front of them. For thousands of years, Yucca Mountain and the lands around it were the Soshone’s sacred land. The Paiutes and Shoshones tribes used this place for their religious celebrations, always paying great respects to the Earth’s spirit. But the white men had come, and now they’re using the mountain as a deposit for their most toxic wastes. For what he understood, the radioactive wastes stocked under the mountain will be dangerous for thousands of years, a poison so dangerous even their creator feared it. But unfortunately, no one is afraid of the Earth’s wrath anymore.

The old man daydream was interrupted by four sonic bangs, followed by loud crashing noises coming from the mountain. Grabbing his binoculars, he searched for what he thought were military jets crashes. But it wasn’t.

“What’s happening Grandpa?” the young girl asked.

“The Earth’s wrath is finally coming.”

***

“Damn’it, why are these tunnels so narrow?” Jennifer Walters said as she moved into the underground tunnels of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

“Because they never thought of your big ass when they built this place,” Betty answered cattily. Jennifer didn’t respond, the 25 feet tall gamma-powered woman had more important objectives. She could feel the radiations all around them, coming from hundreds of large armored containers. Enough radiations to finally give her the edge in their bet, although she was now craving the sensations coming from the changes, as well as the incredible feeling of power she now had. The others had the same thoughts, bulldozing into the underground facility in search of radioactive materials. Even the Hulk wanted the radiations, although his simpler mind only saw it as food.

Meanwhile, the facility’s guards and technicians ran away as fast as they could, unable to reason the Quatuor of rampaging creatures. Several new alarms began to ring, signaling that they had reached the storage chambers.

“YES! FINALLY!” Betty roared as she stood in the middle of a huge chamber filled with containers. Their lead and concrete protection were no match for her incredible strength. Flows of radiations poured out of the destroyed containers before being absorbed by Betty. With every passing second, her muscles were pulsing, growing more defined under her red scales. Her body began to swell larger, the sensations making her shiver with pleasure as she became even more powerful.

“YES! BIGGER! STRONGER! MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE OTHERS!” Betty Ross screamed, not even worried than her swelling body was getting too big for the underground chamber.

Moans and roars could be heard all over the facility. In another chamber, Lyra screamed as her claws grew longer and sharper. Tearing into a container, she began to eat large slabs of it, her strong teeth crushing the radioactive material, its greenish glow barely visible into her belly. She briefly stopped her feast when she heard a loud noise coming from a nearby wall. A green, saurian head burst out of it, chewing parts of the wall to make the hole bigger.

“Jennifer? Hey back off, these are mine,” Lyra said defiantly. And it looks like you already have enough.”

“Pfff, you’re just jealous,” She-Hulk answered, unphased that she was losing more of her humanity.

“Jealous, Me?” you’ll see,” Lyra answered before diving her head into a liquid-filled container, drinking the luminescent content like a smoothie.

She finished by licking the last drops with a longer, reptilian tongue which was visibly too big for her mouth. But not for long. She grunted as she felt her face begin to change, her nose merging with her expanding jawline, her face gaining a komodo-like muzzle filled with sharp teeth . A pair of horns grew alongside her head, its sharp tips extending from her mane of red hairs.

“AH, look at my horns, you didn’t have any of these you…” Lyra said, her words dying in her throat when she saw Jennifer’s own set of horns burst from her skull.

“Damn’it,” Lyra thought, “It’s not over, far from it.” With a grunt, she began to bite into a forklift, her tail slapping against the walls as it grew longer.

***

It was a sight to behold, a large part of the mountain bursting as four gamma-powered monsters emerging from the large crater that used to be the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. They didn’t stop their destructive path here as they began to eat the buildings and vehicles outside. A greenish glow was visible under their growing bellies, their stomachs now mutated into small nuclear reactors, fueled by the radiation they were absorbing. And in this region where nuclear waste was stocked and where hundreds of nuclear devices were tested, radiation was permeating everything.