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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[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.

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk startled slightly at the whinny, but it did not shy away from Aether. It reached its hand out, palm flat and up, to allow the winged horse to sniff its palm. Though the tentative attempt at trust was cut short when Bruce flew in beside Marcus.

The Hulk snatched its hand back. It growled and bared its teeth. It was not liking this new trick by Dr. Green. It had to be Dr. Green, the Hulk could feel itself start to weaken. He was here. It just had no idea where the nefarious doctor was.

"I'll kill you, Green. YOU'RE DEAD." Though the Hulk had no idea where the evil doctor was hiding. It just knew it had to get out of there. It turned more toward Nicky, which was away from the horse. Then it leapt. Not at Nicky but upward to get some distance to get away.

[comic_awareness]

"Green...?" Bruce said. "Wait. Like that Doctor that kidnapped him before?"

He looked over at Sara. "You all right, babe?"

[summersspawn]

When Jay leapt, the displaced air knocked Sara back a few yards. She steadied herself, and flew over to Bruce and Marcus. The green glow faded from her eyes as her body processed the gamma radiation.

"I'm fine. Not so charged up I can't draw some more off of him when he lands again."

[the4thblackknight]

"Can you do it from a distance? He seemed to be calming a little when Aether was near him." Marcus didn't wait for her answer as he took off after Jay. She either could or couldn't... regardless, he had to follow his friend.

[poorgirlsarcee]

Mira had left Vincent back with the doc and was currently speeding back into the fray, her armor in bike mode, if she needed the armor again... Well she was S.O.O.L.

Okay... She wasn't expecting to come up on Jay jumping over Nicky... in her direction.

"Take it got back at the wrong moment," She threw the bike down skidding with it, just in case she wasn't going to make it riding under not-so-jolly-green.

[asgardian_angel]

Just because his wrist was broken didn't mean that he couldn't do something else exceedingly not-smart. Once everyone who could be pulled away safely was pulled away, Nicky leapt into the air, intent on smashing his shoulder into Jay and knocking him off-course.

[girlspider]

"Jay, you gotta turn... North. Turn... that way!" She points in the direction of where Central Park is. Sure, it might get ruined, but better than him knocking down buildings.

And then she caught Nicky out of the corner of her eye before springing off Jay's back onto the ground and yelling, "Nicky! Being a red-head in a red suit is eye searing enough. Don't make me wear gay-glow orange in my new costume!"

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk was knocked off-course from the park it was heading toward. It crashed down less than gracefully into an apartment building.

It landed in someone's bathroom. It struggled with a shower curtain that wrapped around its head. "Rrr."

[comic_awareness]

This... was not going well. They were getting in each other's way, and all of them were holding back. This was a friend. Family.

Bruce zoomed in closer. He really didn't want to have to the force bubble around the head trick. But if he had to...

"Nicky! Get him out of there!"

[summersspawn]

"I don't have to touch him, but I can't do it from across the cit... nevermind."

Sara muttered at Marcus's back. She looked at Bruce.

"If I can get in closer, I can draw it off a little faster." She frowned. "I could also send a focused microwave pulse into his head, that would set off a seizure.." Or worse. A lot worse in someone who wasn't gamma enhanced. "...but I don't want to hurt him unless we've got no choice. This isn't his fault."

[asgardian_angel]

Nicky flew after Hulk, stopping to see a teenage girl in a Red Sonja t-shirt staring blankly into her bathroom. Nicky gave her a winning grin. "Uh. Tell your parents to bill the Avengers," he said, before going back in after Jay.

...How he was going to get him out of there, though, with one broken wrist, Nicky had no clue.

[poorgirlsarcee]

"Okay hm..." Mira glanced at Bruce to see what his orders for her were. "Where we leading him? Central Park?" She was pulling her bike back up right. "Or should I follow Nicky?"

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk really didn't think a baby blue shower curtain was its thing. Also, it was not very sturdy compared to its strength. The plastic ripped when the Hulk reached up and grabbed the curtain and yanked it off of its head.

The Hulk didn't notice the teenage girl behind it. The girl was not a threat or a goon for Dr. Green.

Nicky, however, had already attacked the Hulk and cemented in its rage-filled mind that he worked for Dr. Green along with most of the other Avengers present. The Hulk grabbed the claw-footed cast iron bathtub behind it. One easy yank and the tub came free.

The Hulk threw the tub at Nicky to get him out of the way. It followed up that with jumping out of the bathroom and toward a small park.

[asgardian_angel]

The force with which Jay tossed the tub at Nicky, well...

Nicky felt a few ribs crack.

Heard them, too.

This fight, he thought, as he went sailing out of the apartment, could have gone a lot better.

The last thing he noticed before he blacked out was the girl in the Red Sonja t-shirt running far away from the building.

[girlspider]

Okay. So they needed those communicators again to plan it out. Knocking Jay upside the head wasn't going to work and while she recognized what Sara was trying to do, Jay wasn't going to stand still without the horse.

It really was sort of dealing with a child at the moment. A three year old who was fixated on horses. "Too bad I didn't bring my little pony dolls." She muttered before turning around and hoping to see Bruce. He was head honcho. He had to know how this teamwork thing went, right?

"Yo, boss-man! We need our groovy night as his beautiful horse. Trust me on this."

[the4thblackknight]

"Yes, I think at this point, following Nicky would be a brilliant idea." Marcus answered Mira as he watched Nicky sail through the air. He was torn by the urge to help his injured teammate and the urge to chase Jay down and try to prevent anymore damage.

Ultimately, he dug his heels into Aether's flanks and followed after Jay. A park was a good location. Hopefully not many people were out having picnics.

[comic_awareness]

"Spider-Girl's right," Bruce said. "So here's the plan. I'm gonna go check on Nicky. The rest of you, follow Jay, but keep your distance. Marcus and Aether can try and calm him down. If that doesn't work... then we let Sara go to work again."

[poorgirlsarcee]

She was already on the move when she realized he was falling not flying back. Getting to his side she transformed to the armor biting back how much that hurt, so she could shove the tub off him.

"Come on Nicky," She tore off one of the gloves reaching over to check his pulse. She was wishing the bike was a little more than a power suit now because an x-ray would be helpful.

[summersspawn]

Sara nodded at Bruce's plan. She rose up to get a better view of who was where, and where they were herding Jay.

[lil_hulk]

The young Hulk landed in a small but empty park. Its landing wasn't particularly graceful as it came down on a swing set, mangling the metal structure without a flinch. It stepped off the carcass of the playground equipment and checked to make sure Dr. Green did not have more goons coming after it.

The Hulk just wanted to be left alone and not hunted.

[comic_awareness]

Bruce landed next to Mira and Nicky.

"How is he?"