So True of Aim With His Marshmallow Laser

[lil_hulk]

Jay had less of his senior year in front of him than he thought. He was behind on his senior year job shadowing. Most of his fellow students on the rez had access to all the Keewazi technology businesses and labs to do theirs in. He was in New York City and had fewer options.

He knew he could have gone to the Future Foundation and gotten credit for it. However, him showing up at Pier 4 would have been a signal for Mary to prank him somehow. Rather than deal having to redo somethings due a prankster shapeshifter, Jay got some suggestions from his school for some science-based businesses in NYC that he could get credit for.

Jay currently stood outside a nondescript building housing several businesses that could fit his science job shadowing requirement. He checked the slip of paper once more to make sure he had the right address. If he had not been specifically looking for this building, he doubted he would have even noticed it.

Shrugging to himself, he headed toward the front doors. He had an appointment with one of the businesses inside. He was dressed in a light jacket over a button-down shirt, his cleanest pair of jeans, and his pair of green Chuck Taylor All Stars on his feet. Not very science-y, but comfortable to him.

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[lena_essex]

"May" just grinned and ran faster, pulling away from Jay. At the base of the hill, a not-very new car pulled up, the exterior coated with dust. The windows facing Jay rolled down, and he could see Marcus behind the wheel, with Bruce riding shotgun. "May" whooped with delight, and jumped in to the back seat through the window.

[ngm_villains]

In the exam room, tubes snaked off of the metal cylinder that held Jay, each one pulsing with green light.

Dr Green stood nearby, monitoring a bank of panels and controls. A faint smile quirked the corner of his mouth. He had a theory, that was proving true, that the energy released to trigger the transformation in a gamma irradiated individual who had been effected strongly enough, could be harvested directly. Harvested, and used to heal his Lenore.

The problem was, Hulks weren't known for being cooperative, especially not in the middle of a change. And that's where his old associate's lovely... and telepathic daughter came in.

[lil_hulk]

May had an easier time pulling away as Jay slowed to a thoughtful trot. He didn't feel in danger, but there was a mounting sense of something. Something familiar tickling the back of his brain.
He peered into the car as he came down the hill.

His friends. They had his back, right?

"What the hell, safety brain? Why would Marcus get rid of his Jeep for that... hunk... of... shit."

[lena_essex]

The car took off before Jay could join his friends inside. They laughed and called out to him as the car sped away. It went a few hundred feet, then spun around in the dirt, heading back.

Outside, a smile crept across Lena's face...

[ngm_villains]

...but Dr. Green frowned slightly, checking his readings.

"I need a higher concentration, at least for this first run. You can play with him as much as you like later, my dear."

[lena_essex]

That smile turned into a snarl. He wanted more? Fine. She'd give him more.

She reached into Jay's brain, using her telekinesis this time, and gave his amygdala a little squeeze.

The car headed towards Jay, the skies darkening, and the rocks at the base of the hill growing jagged.

[lil_hulk]

"Wait! No!" Jay reached for the car as it sped away. He ran after it. "No!"

He didn't understand this. He was safe here. He was supposed to be safe here. There was May and Marcus...

As the car came back at him, he waved his arms frantically. The landscape around him was going Wes Craven, but Jay's attention was on the car. He knew what would happen here. He knew it. "Stop! Please!"

[ngm_villains]

"Excellent."

Dr. Green nodded with approval at the rising gamma levels.

"Whatever you're doing in there, keep it up."

[lena_essex]

Lena smiled, showing her pointed teeth. She kept jabbing at Jay's amygdala with her telekinesis, each time triggering a bolt of greenish lightning across the sky in the scene he was trapped in.

The car kept heading for Jay, his friends laughing and carefree inside.

Lena started moving around Jay's brain, prodding random areas, setting off a flood of strange sensations and physiological responses. Then, she noticed a little area in his frontal cortex, behind his eyes. It seemed to be crackling with activity. She gave it a sharp twist.

[lil_hulk]

"Stop! Just stop! Get out of here!" Jay felt like his throat was going raw from screaming.That this was all happening in his mind escaped him. A flash of green and the car was still coming at him.

Why weren't they listening to him? Why doesn't anyone listen to him? Jay felt the Hulk rise inside. He grit his teeth and hunched over to hold it back. He needed to hold it back. The Hulk couldn't help him. It only ever made things worse.

He couldn't stop the anger. He was angry at himself for being a Hulk. He was angry at his friends for not listening and not getting the hell out of there. He was angry at his parents for cursing him this way.

"Rrr." He needed to do something before rocks fell and everybody nearly died. Jay staggered on the road, kicking up dust with his feet.

[ngm_villains]

"These levels are incredible!"

The lights from the control panel and the gamma collection tubes danced across the doctor's face, accentuating the slight green tinge to his hair and skin.

"At this rate, I'll have to order more batteries to store everything he's putting out."

Then Dr. Green frowned.

"These cardiac readings are slightly anomalous..."

[lena_essex]

Lena wasn't really paying attention to what Dr. Green had to say. She was enjoying herself too much.

In Jay's mind, the car sped faster and faster, his friends' faces taking on expressions of horror and fear.

[lil_hulk]

He had to save them. Somehow. Without Hulking out. Though he was running into the problem that avoiding Hulking out was fast becoming not an option.

Jay sank to his knees in the road and clutched the front of his shirt to try to keep from changing.

"Get... get off the road."

[lena_essex]

A rain of rocks fell from the sky, tiny ones pelting Jay, larger ones bouncing around the car. The windshield cracked, obscuring Marcus's face, then one of the tires blew out. The car veered crazily, out of control. Large dents appeared in the hood and fenders. Then, a cluster of jagged rocks bloomed from the road directly in front of the crippled vehicle. It hit, and soared up into the air, flipping, and landing with a sickening crunch.

Small flames licked the crumpled hood from within the engine compartment. A pool of black oil, greenish anti-freeze, and red blood spread out from the wreckage, trickling towards Jay.

[ngm_villains]

Dr. Green looked alarmed.

"Cardiac and respiration are off the charts! Be careful, I don't want to kill him. Not when he's producing so well..."

[lil_hulk]

Jay looked up from trying to keep himself in check when tiny rocks bounced off his head. He saw the car coming through the rain of rocks. Jay couldn't breathe. He didn't want to see what was coming, but he couldn't make himself look away either.

He expected a boulder to come down onto the car. He jumped when the rocks burst forth from beneath. He tried to shout something, push some sound past him lips. All he got was a gasping sound.

He saw the spreading pool of things he'd rather not consider. He didn't want to think about it. He tried to shut his mind down, get out of this 'safe place.' Except it was too late.

He could feel the white hot anger he kept at bay rush passed the tragedy battered guards. The hand hold his shirt like it was holding him up instead ripped the clothing from his body.

"NnnooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Jay had only felt a change this primal and terrible once. His friends were dead. His fault. He didn't fight it as the Hulk took over completely.

[lena_essex]

Lena jumped back, her eyes looking wide and almost human as the pupils dilated.

She looked at Dr. Green.

She looked at the rapidly turning green teenager in the suddenly flimsy looking restraints.

She looked at Dr. Green.

"Toodles!"

Lena muttered a few words under her breath, then vanished in a burst of hellfire and a cloud of brimstone.

[ngm_villains]

Dr. Green backed away, swearing in several different languages. He slammed his hand against an alarm button on the wall.

"Alert Condition Green! I repeat, Green! Get down here, heavy armor, bring all the tranq gear we have!"

He took a few steps further back.

"Now! Everyone!"

[lil_hulk]

"Rrrr." What would be Jay if he were not raged out of his mind woke up in a metal tube. It looked up. It looked down. It did not like being in a puny tube.

The eight-foot tall Hulk punched one fist through the side easily. Once there was a hole there, it stuck its other hand into the hole and tore the big, metal tube in two.

It bellowed from deep in its chest as it lumbered to its feet.

[ngm_villains]

Dr. Green rapidly backed his way to the door. Once outside in the hallway, he punched in a code that sealed the room. It wouldn't keep Jay in for long, but it would buy some time.

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk looked around. Blinky lights and a shiny box. That's what it had with itself in this puny box. Though the box was bigger than the metal tube.

The Hulk roared and charged at a wall, putting its shoulder down to bust through. It bounced off the wall making a dent since it didn't put hits full strength behind the charge.

That made the Hulk angry. It charged the wall again, ready to smash through earth if that's what was necessary. No puny white man's earth was strong enough to hold a Hulk.

It burst through the wall in a shower of metal, drywall, cement, and wood.