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Tweak says, "so you played me"

Bruce Banner (notjustbiggreen) wrote in avengers_logs,
@ 2018-04-01 20:06:00

Entry tags:

-complete, -gamewide plot, -open thread, bruce banner, ellen brandt, gamora, loki odinson, peggy carter, pietro maximoff, sif, stephen strange, steve rogers, thor odinson, tony stark, valkyrie, wanda maximoff

Who: The Hulk & Open to Tony, Valkyrie, Wanda, Dr Strange & Anyone else who wants in on the fun
What: Game-wide plot: the Hulk is on a rampage
When: Sometime after this
Where: NYC
Rating: Warning: Definitely not easy being green

The Hulk was angry. No, not just angry, pissed. Somebody had fired at puny Banner and that moment of complete and utter horror follow by an overwhelming surge of panic and ultimately fear had been all that was needed for the Hulk to roar ferociously into being.

They had intended to harm him but all they had managed to do was make him stronger and driven home the point that his sentiments of earth hating him were still very true. The missile had done absolutely nothing to the Hulk but it had caused a lot of collateral damage and probably taken lives, but the Hulk wasn't exactly concerned for that.

Not when he was busy ripping apart what remained of the missile before letting out a sudden loud guttural cry which if anything just seemed to increase his size until he barrelled down the street. Cars stood absolutely no chance under him and the street didn't fair much better, giant holes were ripped into the tarmac as the Hulk's anger was blindly aimed and subsequently damage was to be expected. Holes were ripped through buildings and all the while the Hulk continued forward, the only sign he'd been fired at was the large dark mark on his chest. He was completely unstoppable and caught up in blind undiluted rage, a primal reaction to an attack that had been unprovoked and unwarranted, he was the thing of nightmares, he really was.

It didn't help that the authorities had no idea on how to handle the Hulk so resorted to the thing they knew how to do and that was open fire and all that did was make things worse, so so much worse. Blockades were ripped apart like they were made of paper and the Hulk continued to wreak complete and utter havoc.

The familiar, "HULK SMASH" echoed for all to hear.

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the_iron_man
2018-04-01 07:31 pm UTC (link)

Iron Man heard that 'Hulk Smash' and Tony replied with a darkly muttered "Oh boy" under his breath, just as Veronica mark 2.0 arrived from orbit. He doubted anything short of a cage made of foot-thick vibranium walls was going to keep Hulk in one spot. With the Hulkbuster armor augmenting over his suit, he zoomed in on where the rampage clearly started. It looked like a bomb went off, and not the Hulk type of damage. A literal bomb. He just got through answering Val with the location, before muttering to Friday, "Timestamp that fly-over so I can come back to it later."

"Of course," Friday replied. "Time has been stamped on the feed. Do you want the cage deployed?"

"Nope," Tony said, popping the p on that as he rocketed down toward Hulk at full thrust. "Bruce said he was more talkative so gonna try to reason with big mean and green first."

A plan that might not work, but it was worth a shot. The last time they tried caging him, after Wanda got into Banner's brain, there was even more damage left afterward. And looking at the swath of destruction? Not a great idea.

"Open outbound comm," he ordered, gritting his teeth as the Hulkbuster armor slammed into Hulk in what suspiciously looked like a bro hug that carried them both into the side of a building and rolling back out into the street. Now that the outbound communications were opened, Tony cheerfully told his now green buddy, "Hiiiii! It's Tony. Remember me? Gonna get super insulted if you don't."

He hoped like hell that somewhere past all that blind rage, Hulk might remember saving him after falling from a space sphincter, and not the time he robo-punched him repeatedly in the face.

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stonecolddrunk
2018-04-01 07:38 pm UTC (link)

It was the stupidest thing in the world to have to take transportation to battle. Legitimately, Valkyrie was pissed off, and it was more about having to hail a car service to move to where the action was happening - armor on and weapons in their hilts.

By the time she got there maybe the Big Guy would have done things he might regret, or maybe she'd find a dazed and confused Bruce Banner in need of a dignity blanket. She'd offer him her cape.

On the third red light, Valkyrie had gotten impatient, gotten out of the car and knocked down a pizza delivery guy to steal his shitty scooter. She told him he could find it near Broadway and Fifty-second later, and sped off. Dodging and weaving through traffic was more "her speed", it felt more like the prelude to a real battle than riding the back of an Uber.

The noises were unmistakably Hulk-like in nature well before she had gotten within view of him, so Val parked the scooter on the sidewalk where the street signs signaled exactly what she had told the man - first collateral damage of the day - and ran the rest of the way against the direction of most other people. Screaming, panicking people.

It wasn't surprising but it was infuriating to find a large group of some kind of authorities shooting at the Big Guy. Val stomped over to one of them, pulled his gun off his hands with ease and broke it over her knee. "Stop doing that. It only makes it worse! Focus on getting people out of here, you can't shoot him down you pisspot!"

"I'm only following the Captain's orders!" Squealed the gun-less man, pointing to the large man barking orders behind the firing squad. Val pushed the guy away and stomped again over to their leader.

"Hey! Tell your men to stop shooting it'll only make him angrier, stupid! That's the problem in the first place!" The man didn't seem convinced, so Val punched him in the stomach, twisted his arm and bent him over a vehicle. "Do it."

In a second a few of the confused soldiers had turned the guns onto her, which was...progress. Val knelt down behind a car door, pulling the Captain with her and whispering some serious threats at him as she shoved a bullhorn into the man's chest.

"Do it!" She screamed, to no avail. "Get the people away from here you fucking lunatic that's the best you can do leave the big one up to us!"

"And who's us? A bunch of outlaws is who! You're toast, missy." Snarled the Captain. Valkyrie's nostrils flared, and she punched the man so hard he'd take a while to even sit back up. Getting up, she pulled and kicked at the car door until she was using it as a shield, holding the bullhorn in front of her face with her other hand. "Stop fucking shooting him you'll only make it worse, get the citizens away and let the Iron Man stop him, we can reason with him, you'll only cause death! If you don't I will legitimately surf this car door into each and every one of your fuckin' faces!"

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notjustbiggreen
2018-04-01 08:54 pm UTC (link)

The Hulk's head swivelled as if it were on an elastic band as the infamous Hulkbuster armor made an appearance and the roar that accompanied its arrival indicated that actually the Hulk did remember that armor. Vividly so. And it was not a pleasant memory nor one he wished to revisit anytime soon.

Bruce hadn't been lying when he'd told Tony that the Hulk was more talkative but that was under much different circumstances. Circumstances that didn't involve being shot at not just by the missle but by annoying little men with annoying little guns that stung at him like swarms of hornets.

And then the Hulkbuster armor slammed into him with all the force of a small rocket and the pair of them went barrelling through a nearby building and into a street or rather what was left of the street. There was for a fleeting moment what looked like a flicker of recognition on the Hulk's face as he heard Tony's voice but then it was coupled with the armor and honestly all the Hulk saw was something else to get through.

"HULK NOT WANT TO TALK" was the response Tony got before sure enough a large green foot landed a substantial kick to the chest of the Hulkbuster armor and the Hulk followed this up by surging forward, arms wrapping around the armor and loud booming roar accompanied the nothing less of a football tackle.

Once down the Hulk drew his fists back and began to pummel the crap out of the Hulkbuster armor until he suddenly leapt into the air. It might have seemed like he was retreating but the truth was he was simply leaping high enough to escape the reach of the armor and sure enough he made ground on an adjourning building.

"EARTH HATE HULK. HULK HATE EARTH" And with a further jump he came crashing down into the midst of the soldiers and authorities, hands swatting the vehicles as if they weighed nothing at all.

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the_iron_man
2018-04-01 09:16 pm UTC (link)

"Ok, well. Shit?" Tony said, after being battered around like a rag-doll inside two layers of titanium armor. By this time, he had gotten his cage rattled further from Karen's message, multitasking enough to text Steve, answer a group text, and frown at a notice from one of those suspect Twitter accounts. Today was looking like a super hot mess all around. Time to walk it off now and have a meltdown later. "Friday, hit my lower right arm with the numbing injection."

There was a pinch and a tingle as some of the pain died down to a dull roar.
It was only enough to dull it and not hinder movement. And Tony knew he had to move fast. He was barely making a dent and they were going to run out of island at this pace. Still, there had been that split second where Hulk paused, just a moment, where Tony swore he might be able to talk him down out of a very shaken tree. He put the pedal to the metal on the thrusters, getting the suit back on it's feet out of a large pit of broken asphalt.

"Hey, oh no you don't!" he shouted over the outbound comm, "Remember Tony? Tony likes Hulk! Put that damn car down, c'moooooon!"

The car came flying at him and Tony had to bat it out of the way, so it landed halfway lodged into the side of a building.

"Craaaaap," Tony said, with a miserable wince. He knew Val was doing what she could to get the soldiers to stop shooting, but it appeared they were shooting at her now, which was a dumb move on their parts. "Ok, well...here goes nothing."

The Hulkbuster armor took off into the air in pursuit of Hulk, but Tony guided it down in a high speed descent, landing on Hulk's back and locking both arms around his throat.

"Wait wait wait wait, slow that roll," Tony was saying on the outbound com. "Hey, big guy? Can we talk this out, so the pea-shooting stops? Wanna nice cup of fuzzy wuzzy calm time tea? We can hang out. Watch some Netflix. Order a pizza. Or fifty pizzas."

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stonecolddrunk
2018-04-02 12:05 am UTC (link)

Things had more or less been brought to a good port where Val and the soldiers were concerned, with her successfully explaining that unless they could put him down, which they couldn't, it was visibly evident that they were only making things worse. Some of them had started trying to form barricades between the destruction and the people.

Some others kept shooting at her, and at the Hulk, and Val no longer had the patience to argue; she left her plea with the recently recovered Captain and decided to respond to Tony Stark's own request for help. She climbed over multiple military vehicles, bringing the bullhorn with her. As the Hulk swatted at a line of vehicles, Val decided to go with it and grab onto one, then jump on over to a nearby building, hanging off a balcony at the Hulk's face level. Bringing the bullhorn to her face, she cleared her throat.

"Hey Big Guy! I missed you!" She threw a potted plant at his head playfully. "Wanna fight?"

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notjustbiggreen
2018-04-02 11:54 am UTC (link)

The Hulk was less than happy when the Hulkbuster armor landed on his back and this much was evident in how his mouth opened into a loud booming roar that would have burst anyone's eardrums. He also made distinct grabby hands for the arms locked around his throat though it stopped the moment Valkyrie appeared.

"ANGRY GIRL?" He queried, for a moment the out of control beast was seemingly quietened as he recognised a familiar and friendly face. And then he got smacked in the face with a potted plant and his lips pulled apart into a grin that was nothing short of childlike and playful.

Maybe just maybe this would work.

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stonecolddrunk
2018-04-02 06:19 pm UTC (link)

Val grinned, cape blowing in the wind as she hooked her arm around the railing of the balcony a little better. She was elated that he had recognized her and seemed happy to see her; it had even paused his rampage for a moment. "Come on, leave these boring things behind and come have a real fight! No cars or buildings, just you and me."

Without warning Val shot off of the balcony and made a grab for the closest lamp post, one of the old ones with plenty to hold onto and a little more flair, if you asked Val. She climbed up to its top and stood on the iron bar that held the lamps, one foot in front of the other turned to the Big Guy, still grinning. "I'm comin' atcha!"

Discarding the bullhorn, Val flexed her knees and jumped, aiming to grab onto the Hulk's arm. Everything was going well, a bit of a dash added to the jump so she could reach her destination, the wind in her face, a fun romp with an old friend in the horizon. Hopefully, one that wouldn't cause even more destruction.

Mid-air, however, Val felt something strange. A hit to her lower abdomen, more to the side if she thought about it, that knocked her off course enough that she was... falling? Backwards, relentlessly down; suddenly everything burned in ways she couldn't comprehend but all Val could think was of how similar this felt to when she'd fallen backwards away from her beloved, who had died in her place while she fell. Val reached for the Hulk then, confused, halfway into a flashback while the foreign concept of horrible pain took over her body enough that she held her breath. She almost had him, dammit. She almost had him.

Hitting the floor, Valkyrie felt removed from reality for good, eyes wide but mind gone, the only sensation breathlessness and burning and deep down some hope that maybe Goldie would be along shortly to take her home.

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