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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[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk suddenly not being held aloft crashed down onto the sidewalk feet first. The Hulk made a slight crater since the cement was not ready for a sudden half ton person on top of it.

The Hulk sneered as the two people who had been trying to contain him were trying to save a building. It didn't notice or care if anyone was in that building. It just wanted these people away from it.

The Hulk charged the one in purple and chrome armor. It reached out to grab and fling her. It aimed for dropping the metallic suit in a nice arc into the Hudson River.

[vincent_amora]

..oh for the love of... That armor doesn't look very buoyant

Vincent invests as much of his energy as he can to keep the shields in place, and then he simply runs. He heads straight for the water and dives in, swimming as fast as he can for the sinking armor. He hooks his arms around it, and starts pulling it back to the surface.

[poorgirlsarcee]

Okay now Mira knew she had no problem with the speed bit, but flying... Yeah kind of a problem with her suit... Seeing where she was about to fall, yeah that was making her yelp a little more.

She managed to twist in mid air landing on her back before going under the water. Mira almost screamed, after all all her experiences in water deeper than she is tall... Never had ended well.

She struggled to get to the surface, With the water pulling her under it was a struggle to try to get to the surface, if she was a little calmer she would have thought about dropping the armor.

By the time Vincent grabbed her her struggling was weaker.

[vincent_amora]

Trying to rescue someone from the water with a broken arm was a new adventure in pain for Vincent, but he managed to get her to the surface and drag her towards a pier, locals helping him haul her out, then himself. He collapses on his back onto the surface of it.

[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."

[lil_hulk]

It was not sure who this tiny woman dressed in Spider-motif was. It hesitated a bit as it remembered the little spider in its safe place. But then the mask was lifted.

The young Hulk's angry features softened. It knew her. It tentatively reached its unencumbered hand toward her, forefinger shakily reaching to try brush her cheek. This was May...

... who thought it was a monster.

Its gentle motion stopped, and the Hulk yanked its hand back. Its eyes narrowed. Its mind showed it how uncomfortable she was around it, her shying away from its touch, and the empty space left after she moved out of state to get away from it.

"I. Am. A. Monster." Each word came as a forced rumble out of its massive chest. It roared and slammed the car in its hand down beside her.

[girlspider]

The smile was nervous because... she hadn't been apart of his life for so long. That she might be utterly useless in helping Jay. But neither she nor the young Hulk were telepaths, it was never apart of the stars when it came to that.

But the smile grew hopeful, bright, true when she sees the expression soften and she clutches her hands together so she doesn't reach up and touch his hand. He might see that as an attack, and there's a tiny delighted voice that sings in the back of her mind, he still likes me.

The discomfort hadn't been due to Jay's strength. May long knew she was durable, perhaps in some ways more durable than her father had been. It had been a simple fear of size rather than being crushed when Jay was transformed. For all her snark, he had been her only boyfriend (porn lied about what women wanted, they liked smiles). She had moved out of state (and hating it) because of a degree, for a fresh start for everyone.

"Jay no-" She began softly before her eyes widened in alarm and sprung to the side before the car could come down. "Jay, please!"

[asgardian_angel]

Nicky had seen the bright, blazing A in the sky, and though he'd been sidetracked on his way to the area where Jay was (it was surprising how many people needed saving between where he'd been and where Jay was) but now he hung in the air, directly behind May, his hands up, his weapon sheathed.

"Hey buddy," Nicky said, his voice warm, friendly, and comfortable. "You're not a monster at all."

Yes, Nicky was using his usual pacifist ways to try and talk Jay down.

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk huffed a hot, angry breath through clenched teeth. There was a slight screech of metal on metal as the hand holding the smashed car clenched harder.

The Hulk looked at May. It thought about trying to smash her again, but its arm didn't move.

Then there was a floating pacifist behind her. The angered jade giant tore its eyes away from the petite redhead and stared balefully at Nicky. Its mind couldn't register who the Asgardian was.

So, it decided he was another one of Dr. Green's stooges.

"Not going back!" The Hulk picked up the car that had not-tried to smash May and tried to shove its grill into Nicky's as hard as possible.

[girlspider]

Well, at the least he wasn't tossing things at her, May noted. Or not breathing the angry breath on her. She stood her ground, hands clutching together. Her smile returned, nervous but true.

And then Nicky landed. And May swore softly under her breath. She ducked, "He's not going to harm you Jay." Not yet, anyway, "And he won't take you back."

[comic_awareness]

Bruce was pretty sure the Avengers signal was not really a thing, but he was beginning to think maybe it should be. A red and blue figure flew across the sky, leaving a golden glowing trail behind him as he flew.

He landed in time to see Nicky and Jay, but having missed Jay's bellow.

"All right guys, what's going on?"

[poorgirlsarcee]

Once she was out of the water, and not hacking up the Hudson (ew) she glanced at Vincent.

Trying to shift her bike back into the bike mode she realized she fried some of the systems. Tearing off her helmet she forced herself to move closer.

Mira could hear the sound from where the Hulk had gone, trying her phone... She found it was dead.

"Okay, going against him... Bad idea, you'd think they'd put that in the handbook..." She let go of her helmet letting it fall. "You okay mister?"

[asgardian_angel]

Nicky sighed and deftly unsheathed his axe. He swung it in front of him, cleaving the car in two. "Hulk not happy," Nicky replied. "Though that's all I've been able to glean from this so far."

[vincent_amora]

"Not... even... remotely." Vincent tries to catch his breath, desperate to focus on anything other than his arm. "Need... to call... for assistance." He swallows hard, jaw tensing as the adrenaline rush of the dive begins to subside, leaving the pain at the fore again.

[the4thblackknight]

Marcus also answered the summons, showing up on Aether's back not long after Bruce. He stayed out of the way of flying cars and car halves as best he could as he surveyed the situation. Once the projectiles ceased long enough, he pushed in a little closer to his green friend.

"Tell me all the car destruction is just a clever commentary on the greenhouse effect..."

[lil_hulk]

The Hulk looked momentarily confused by the car being cut in two. It still held half of the vehicle as it had been going to shove the car and Nicky through a wall. It got flung the half car away, right toward Bruce.

It jumped at a flapping horse being nearby. The Hulk looked at Aether and then at Marcus. Its brow furrowed. More mind games. This was still a mind game by the Doctor. Somewhere deep down, the Hulk knew not this many people would come to save it. Only two came last time.

The Hulk bellowed something inarticulate and turned. It started to run away. It aimed for the building across the street.

[poorgirlsarcee]

Mira held up her dead phone. "Seems I'm not the only one who doesn't do well int the drink. Though you should get that dealt with first." She knelt looking at his arm.

"I can't switch it back to bike mode, the circuits aren't working right, but should have enough juice to help you to the nearest clinic. As soon as I have you there I'll try to get damage control. The sounds of damage aren't as bad now." She wasn't sure if that was because of the distance though.

"I'm hoping that my phone call went through before it was fried."

[girlspider]

"Are you two okay?" May asked quickly looked at the wreckage for half a second and gritted her teeth. It wasn't the quips and she was hardly one to tell someone to not make quips. But she could explain what she knew.

"Jay's not listening... or just can't understand what's going on. He seemed to recognize me for a second..." So he might not get the humor or take it the wrong way.

She then sprung forward Jay as he began to run away, they didn't have to worry about cars, right?

[comic_awareness]

Bruce fired a blast of photonic energy, blasting the piece of car into tiny pieces that were too small to harm anyway.

This... he didn't like this at all. He'd been worried that Jay was getting more and more inhibited in Hulk mode, but never would he have expected anything like Uncle Bruce's rampages...

"Okay, we need to contain him before he does any more damage. Preferably without hurting him."

[vincent_amora]

"Clinic won't do any good." Vincent growls, pushing his hair out of his face. "My constitution is difficult for normal medicine to deal with.

I've got a guy who can help... even if I'm never going to hear the end of it..."