(AU that takes place after X-23. Has nothing to do with my Brotherhood fic whatsoever. I was watching the Incredible Hulk, the recent one, movie and thought what would happen if Toad drank from that soda bottle instead of Stan Lee. This was the answer.)
Toad's day just turned into a very bad one. One minute he was looking through garbage cans looking for anything good, the next minute he bumped into Duncan and his friends and bolted. The jerk and his buddies chased after Tolensky, shouting various profanities as they did.
Toad finally managed to escape from them by jumping up to a fire escape that his pursuers couldn't reach (Sometimes it's nice to have superhuman feet). "We'll get you later frog breath." mocked Duncan as him and his buddies moved on.
Todd was sick of this. Sick of being weak, sick of being picked on. Whether it was Duncan, the X-Men, even other members of the Brotherhood. Pietro constantly made fun of him and Wanda was tougher then walnut to crack when it came to any of Todd's advances. Not to mention he was taking orders from Magneto who has kicked Toad to the curb before and probably would do it again just for a ham sandwich.
Toad just wished he was strong, so strong that people would stop messing with him. Then he would fight back, he'd make them pay. He would decimate the X-Men and he wouldn't join Magneto's main crew, he'd just spit in the Magnuto's face and maybe crush his head too.
He made his way back home, a deteriorating halfway house that no one over the age of eighteen lived in. Everyone here had to scrounge up whatever food they could find or steal. Toad entered through the front door and leaped into the kitchen.
He opened the fridge and found one final bottle of gerana soda sitting there. Thinking why not to himself, Todd grabbed it. After all, it was better then nothing.
He popped it open and chugged it down quickly. It had quite a kick to it but Toad didn't mind. He threw the empty bottle away and headed into the living room where Pietro was sitting on the couch and watching some tv show.
The daddy's boy was now in charge of the Brotherhood because Magneto said they needed to be whipped into shape and that Pietro was going to do it. Personally, Toad thinks that Magneto put Pietro back here just so he could get rid of him.
"Get lost slime breath. Your stench is making me sick." said Pietro, being his usual smug self. Suddenly, Toad began feeling a bit uneasy. His stomach was starting to bother him. He felt a wave of nausea inside of him.
"I don't feel so good." moaned Toad. "You don't look good either. Then again, you never do." chuckled Pietro. Toad stumbled onto his feet, he felt like his whole body was in pain. His head felt like it was in a vice, his stomach felt like it was going to explode, and his legs felt wobbly.
He staggered to the stairs. "I'm going to bed." moaned Toad. "Whatever." muttered Pietro, not taking his eyes off the TV. Toad made his way into his room and collapsed onto the bed. He began to sweat horribly who he took off his clothes but that didn't seem to help.
What felt like forever, Toad's eyes finally managed to close.
Toad found himself in some sort of city, only it was in ruins. Every building was in pieces or barely standing. Fires burned everywhere. Corpses lied on the ground. He flinched when he heard a monstrous roar behind him. Todd slowly turned to see a massive horrifying humanoid creature behind him. "My dear Todd. Don't be afraid, I'm here now and nothing can ever stop us." it said with the most terrifying voice Toad has ever heard.
He screamed as the creature laughed. He tried to run but it grabbed him. "You cannot run from what you are. I am you without limits. I am everything you wish you were but could never hope to be." it laughed.
Toad tossed and turned on his bed, grunting and growling. "Shut up Toad! We're trying to sleep!" yelled Lance but Toad couldn't hear him. He got to his feet and leaped out his open window. He began running into the nearby forest, his eyes filled with rage.
The rage built up inside of him, consuming his every thought. Then Toad felt himself change, his body began to harden and turn darker, growing larger. His face distorted, morphing with different facial features. This thing was no longer Todd Tolensky, it was something else now. It let out a monstrous roar into the night.
(Cool intro huh? Expect plenty of Hulk Smash and Toad Smash in the coming chapters. Reviews are always nice even if it's constructive criticism. So let know how it is. Don't worry fans of my Brotherhood fic, I'm still working on it.)