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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[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk huffed at the absence of anyone to smash. There should have been someone to smash for putting it into that metal tube. It looked up and down the hall to figure out which way to go.

Until men in body armor stepped into the hallway. The young Hulk turned toward them, lips distorted into a snarl. It charged them an angry bellow.

They had came out of an exit. The young Hulk would go right through them to get out of here.

[ngm_villains]

The men stood their ground, but only because Dr. Green had threatened to make them spend the night with Iguanalina if they didn't.

One of the men stepped forward, and raised a rocket launcher to his shoulder. It fired off a giant tranquilizer dart.

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk's eyes were locked on the men as It came rushing down the hall. It saw the rocket launcher go up. It bellowed and hunkered down lower to come at the men.

The giant tranq came at it, and it batted the missile away. The massive dart imbedded into the wall next to the Hulk. The dart quivered in place as massive green legs ate up the distance between the Hulk and the men quickly.

[ngm_villains]

The first man, the one with the rocket launcher, stood frozen at seeing his missile batted away like a toy. Behind him, the other two minions began spraying gas at Jay from the tanks strapped to their backs.

[lil_hulk]

As the first man stood rooted to the spot, the young Hulk batted at him like he did the large tranq. Though the Hulk was now standing in a cloud of gas that made his nostrils sting. It was not a minty fresh sting. Which made the Hulk angrier.

"Bad POO GAS!" That might have sounded funnier had the young Hulk not grabbed a section of wall as wide as his chest and thrown it at the two men spraying him with gas.

[ngm_villains]

The first man flew into the wall with a crack, his armor further damaging the expensive wood. The second man ducked, letting the third man take the full impact of the thrown wall. It knocked his incompletely fastened visor off, and he immediately succumbed to the powerful sedating gas.

The second man frantically raised the nozzle on his tank and sprayed the gas directly at Jay's face. It had to work... had to!

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk made deep throated disgusted sounds at what was being sprayed into its face. It turned its head and slapped blindly in front of it.

"Poo gas taste BAD. HULK NOT LIKE." The gas was not slowing the Hulk down; it was only making the behemoth angrier.

[ngm_villains]

The slap connected, and there was another minion shaped dent in the wooden paneling. The second man stayed down, unlike the first one, who was creeping up behind Jay with his rocket launcher raised, to use as a club.

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk ignored the puny men with their puny weapons. It looked for the hole they had come out of. His massive eight-foot frame might be able to squeeze into the area and get out.

Which left his back wide open for the club rocket launcher.

[ngm_villains]

The man brought his rocket launcher down with all his strength on the back of Jay's head... and watched it shatter into spare parts all over the devastated corridor.

"Oh, shit."

[lil_hulk]

It felt something bounce off its head. The young Hulk looked up. Acoustic ceiling tiles were relatively unscathed and not on his head. It wheeled around to look behind.

It saw the man formerly with a rocket launcher. It roared at the top of its massive lungs in his face. Then it tried to flick his head with its middle finger.

[ngm_villains]

There was an acrid smell that mixed with the clouds of sedative gas, and a trickle of fluid from between the leg joints of the man's armor. He fainted into a crumpled heap before the massive green finger had a chance to touch him.

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk flicked the air. It looked at the empty space where a head used to be. The massive green man looked unimpressed.

He turned back to try to find the hole in the wall. Not seeing it straight away, his patience ended. It crouched to get some power, then the Hulk jumped toward the ceiling to punch through.

[ngm_villains]

Dr. Green's laboratory was at the bottom of 3 hidden sub-basements, reinforced with titanium steel, an elaborate system of electrical conduits and pipes for drainage, and separated from the "public" sub-basement and basement by thirty feet of packed dirt. Otherwise, Jay's leap might have taken him all the way into the tenant offices above ground. As it was, he found himself in the first of the hidden sub-basements. Dirt and rocks poured down from above, where he'd broken the ceiling.

Surprised and frightened laboratory workers looked up from their petri dishes, microscopes, and computers. Over to one side, a vaguely reptilian looking woman with improbably large lips let out a hissing shriek.

"My walls! My beautiful Italian marble terrazzo flooooooors!"

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk rubbed the top of its head. This was not out. But this... this was more to smash. People need to be smashed.

... and maybe that thing with the lips. That was on the smash list, too.

The Hulk roared at the scientists molesting petri dishes and starting toss thing things like equipment and parts of the wall at them.

[ngm_villains]

The scientists scattered, some screaming and running around, others diving under tables and desks. They were all researchers, after all, and not fighters.

Iguanalina shrieked, and hissed, and sobbed, growing in size, and becoming more reptilian. Her nails grew into talons, the polish flaking and peeling off, but bizarrely, her lips stayed the same.

One of the scientists was of a slightly cooler-headed disposition... or perhaps she was just a long-time employee and veteran of Jay's last stay with Dr. Green. She ran over and activated yet another of the ubiquitous dark green glass panels. This one set off a fire alarm, and opened a hidden fire escape.

The woman scrambled up the revealed metal ladder, followed by a handful of the other researchers.

[lil_hulk]

As the scientists made their escape, the Hulk was distracted by the racket caused by the lipped lizard. It turned to face the taloned monstrosity. It grimaced at the not pretty face to look at.

Then the young Hulk charged at it. It went low and with his shoulder to try to avoid any contact with those weird lips.

[ngm_villains]

Iguanalina hissed, and frantically slapped at Jay's back and shoulders as they went barreling into a server rack.

A piece of metal fell down next to them. Iguanalina caught a glimpse of her reflection in it, and began to wail.

"Nooooooo! NOOOOOOOO! Greeeeeeeen! Doc-tor GREEEEEEEN!"

She curled up into a ball and rocked back and forth.

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk made an unsure grunt and staggered back at the noise the lizard-with-lips made. It looked around and toppled more shiny things around the green ball of scales.

That would keep her out of the way. The young Hulk turned and looked for a solid bit of flooring to not crumble under its feet at the next leap. It was not concerned about packed earth above. It would leap, claw, and punch its way out of here. And then maybe topple the building down for impeding its freedom.