The Devil Made Him Do It

[lil_hulk]

The eight foot tall Hulk wandered the streets, not really knowing where it was. Its heavy footfall sometimes making things shake just a little. Most people and things gave it a wide berth. Those that didn't got growled at; then they gave it an entire sidewalk to itself.

It wasn't sure where it was going. It had just destroyed the building that had captured it. Or destroyed the building over the mad doctor's lab who had captured it. Either way, there was rubble behind the Hulk, on its shoulders, and in its hair.

It walked down the street, looking around. It was trying to figure out where it could go to have some peace. To get away from the doctor it had left behind in the rubble.

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[vincent_amora]

The rumble in the street drew Vincent's gaze up from the book he'd been reading as he walked down the sidewalk. He scowled slightly, then sighed as he saw Jay. He walked straight towards him.

"Is there something you need help with?" He put one hand on his hip as he stopped in front of the viridian behemoth.

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk had been looking around at its own eye-level and wasn't aware of Vincent until the smaller man spoke.

"Rrr." The Hulk looked down at Vincent. Its eyes held no recognition.

[vincent_amora]

Vincent blinks at the mindless, well, more mindless than usual, countenance.

"...Walters?" He keeps his voice low. "What are you doing?"

[lil_hulk]

What was Jay, buried under the rage and gamma radiation was trying to pull his psyche back together.

Though what was facing Vincent wrinkled its nose at the low talking book-toter in front of it. It leaned over to look Vincent straight in the eyes with a fiery green glower. Its lips curled.

[vincent_amora]

"Words cannot do justice to how little time I have for this..." Vincent mutters, pulling out his phone to call the Avengers, making the somatic components for a spell with his other hand. "Just go to sleep, you." He attempts to pacify the behemoth, before turning him over to the people whose problem he really is.

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk was even less impressed with the man in front of him than Vincent was with it. It gave a guttural roar in the spellcaster's face.

It felt something tingling along its mind. Which made it think that whatever wavy fingers this guy was doing was triggering something implanted by Dr. Green. The Hulk hated Dr. Green with every fiber of its massive green being. Rather than go to sleep, the Hulk got angrier. It lashed out, trying to swat Vincent off the sidewalk.

[vincent_amora]

The strike connects, Vincent being hurled bodily across the street, barely avoiding traffic before colliding with a building on the opposite side. His demigod constitution prevents any harm from having come to him, unlike the wall, but his phone is smashed. It takes him a moment to collect his wits, then his lip curls back in a snarl.

"That was a mistake." He narrows his gaze on Jay, and gestures again. If he won't go to sleep quietly, he'll simply choke the beast out. From a distance, of course. A sphere of force forms around Jay's head, cutting off his air.

[lil_hulk]

Once the two armored people the young Hulk felt were Dr. Green's goons were gone. The eight foot tall green giant seethed. All these people. Every last one of them, they would put it in a box and experiment on it. They would turn their backs on it. Make it go back to the one man it hated.

The young Hulk started rampaging down the street. Buildings, cars, light poles, and anything in its way were not safe.

[girlspider]

The news all but flew. It wasn't hard to know who the Hulk could be.

She's not with the Avengers right now. not formally anymore. But she knows well enough she can be a help.

She just hopes Jay won't knock down the poles she's swinging on. "Jay!"

[lil_hulk]

It didn't respond to the name called out. Nor did it take out the poles Spider-Girl used for purchase. It did not seem to notice the girl hero swinging its way.

At that moment, the young Hulk picked up cars and threw them down the block because they were in its way. The cars were lodging in a building at the end of the street, making people run for their lives even farther.

[girlspider]

She went faster down the poles, the webbing left behind her. She cried out his name again. "Jay Wingfoot! You've got to stop this! They're not doing anything to you!"

No, she couldn't land on him. She's not that stupid, she's not silly enough to think his once fondness for her could make the world better or safer.

[lil_hulk]

That name...

It heard Spider-Girl this time. The chucking cars down the road momentarily abated. It turned heavily, a car still in one hand.

"Rrr?" It didn't attack the wee Spider. It was trying to figure out why she seemed familiar.

[girlspider]

She waves energetically despite her heart hammering a zillion miles an hour. She watches from under the mask the cars bouncing down the road before looking back at Jay.

She lifted her mask, "Hey, Wingfoot."

[vincent_amora]

A short time later, Vincent and his temporary assistance arrived back at the apartment. He knocked on the door with his good arm. He was still able enough to let himself in, but he wanted to give Kristoff the chance to appraise the newcomer before letting her in.

[ngm_adults]

Kristoff opens the door and appraises both his brother and the young lady. "Good afternoon. Vincent, I happen to already know where Audhild is, so I am going to keep the questions minimal. Is there anything besides the arms that needs immediate attention?"

[vincent_amora]

"Magical exhaustion, and we both swallowed some of the harbor. Beyond that, nothing I can discern." Vincent responds. He nods toward his arm. "A mishap with a shield spell... and a Hulk.

This is Mira."

[poorgirlsarcee]

"He dove in after me... I swim like a rock." She did lower her head at that, it was something she'd have to fix. Preferably without being airborne first.

She did wave a little when Vincent introduced her. "Just staying long enough to make sure he'll be alright. Should check in with the others to see how they want damage control worked. Jolly Green's not so jolly at the moment though pretty sure it's not Slim's here's doing." She jerked her thumb at Vincent.

[ngm_adults]

"Good to meet you, Miss. Wingfoot has lost control? Considering previous experience, your presence was probably unfortunate, Vincent. Please come inside." And after he closes the door behind them, Kristoff starts by...adjusting his gauntlets, actually.

[vincent_amora]

Well of course he's adjusting them. Why wouldn't he be? Vincent exhales and dismisses his armor, appraising his bloodied sleeve, before ripping it off, carefully. Oh... my but his arm isn't supposed to look anything at all like that. Distraction now please.

"Is it a clean break?" He chews his bottom lip, looking away from it. "Regarding Jay, he... he wasn't himself. Not in a full-blown gamma-rage, but... I don't think he was seeing reality in the same manner as the rest of us. Moreso than usual for Jay."

[lil_hulk]

The leaping Hulk barely felt Spider-Girl land on its back. As she did not impede it getting away, the Hulk paid her little mind. It was more determined to get away from the men trying to capture it.

The Hulk landed in the middle of a street, causing a small crater. It went to leap again but only did a small hop as a knight on a flying horse swooped into its way. It made a soft (for it), inarticulate sound and looked around for a direction to escape that was not through Marcus and Aether.

[girlspider]

May held on tight, used to this position with Jay though perhaps not quite the speed. But her abilities to cling against any solid surface would serve her well in the next few minutes as she began to observe the chaos.

And then she caught the sound, her head turning to see Marcus and Aether and dimly realized the Hulk should have attacked. But Jay always did have a soft spot for horses and--

Her eyes grew wide. Aether wasn't being attacked. "Marcus! Follow us, I need to see something!"

[the4thblackknight]

"I'm not going anywhere," Marcus confirmed, staying close while Jay looked around for an escape. Jay had two opportunities so far to attack them and he didn't take them. Marcus was confident that he wouldn't.

Well. Pretty confident.

He nudged Aether closer and the horse whinnied at Jay.

[comic_awareness]

Bruce pulled into the air alongside Marcus.

"I've got Sara on the way. I think she can help."

Yes. He just admitted he needed to call on his girlfriend for help. His girlfriend was a)awesome and b) probably powerful enough to nuke the western hemisphere.

[asgardian_angel]

Nicky worked fast, awkwardly tearing his crimson cape apart and working it into a sling to hold his wrist.

Once that was done, he started moving innocents out of the way. He was currently going to be useless towards helping the others stop Jay, considering that Nicky was operating at a third of his usual strength and that Jay seemed to be operating at more than his usual strength.

"That time of the month," he joked weakly. "Gamma radiation and teenage hormones are a bad match."

[summersspawn]

Sara flew into the city. When she got closer to the area Bruce had given her she concentrated on seeing energy patterns instead of images.

She spotted Bruce first. She knew his energy signature well, and that cosmic power meant he glowed like a star. She smiled for a moment, before getting back to business.

The double infrared signature next to Bruce had to be Marcus and Aether, unless there was another flying horse in NYC. Sara couldn't see magical energy, so they looked like an ordinary man and horse. Except for the flying, of course.

She looked down and saw Jay immediately. He looked like a simmering green nuclear furnace, occasionally flaring out like a sunspot. She held up her hand and let off a few quick strobe pulses to let Bruce know she was there, then she circled down behind Jay and hovered about 50 feet in the air, hands outstretched, concentrating on drawing off as much of that gamma radiation as she could.

Her eyes glowed green.