Re: "Mortal Danger" in Marvel
[The second (third? fourth?) roar tapered off, and Hulk stood there, hunched enough that his hands touched the ground, breathing heavily as his head drooped. He was alone, everyone else leaving while he tried to shout away the hurt at seeing no glow. Alone. Alone except for the water that had begun to swirl around his feet. Head still hanging low, he watched the pattern of it around toes, ankles, calves. And though his thoughts were slow and jumbled at the same time, he knew (with a lift of his head toward the murky water on the other side of the glass) what was happening.
It hurt too much to think of Kitty, and he didn't know Lady or Shiny well enough to think of them. Somewhere in the chaos of his thoughts, he might have remembered someone else, blonde and young, but she was quickly washed away by the next tumbling thought of no glow.
He needed to go. He needed to not be where the no glow had been. Away. AWAY!
He wasn't going to be using any elevator, any constructed shaft to carry him to the shore again. Even if he could fit in it, he didn't have the presence of mind to think that part of the journey through. He crouched down, not thinking of the others that might still be there, tension bunching in his legs and back, and then jumped. Through glass, into the high-pressure water of the bottom of the bay, and then made his way up up up until he found ground to jump again.