I've done some crazy stuff in recent months but this may be the craziest yet. After Fury disappeared I came back to check on Fang, he was hurt pretty bad but when I came back to the green house was licking his wounds. I gave him a few scratched for love and started to head toward Madison Square garden.
Adrian had ditched his mask as he jumped over the rooftops and swung onto the broken ceiling of Madison Square Garden. The roof had been caved in like a modern day colosseum, he saw Sakaarian guards patrolling the rooftop with Deathshead robots scanning the rooftops. He broke into the nearest vent and started to climb down into the bowels of the arena, New Yorkers were pouring into the stadium cheering the Hulk's name as the Sakaar soldiers didn't do anything to stop them. Up above the Hulks flagship was standing guard above the city stopping any air support or attempts to retaliate by the Us Army that surrounded the island.
The Hulk had turned the entire city against the Avengers, they were treated him like a great green messiah, none of them even seemed to care that he was just like the rest.
He slipped out of the vent somewhere in the second level seats that weren't yet full, a large metal box was parked in the corner and next to it saw Dr. Strange returned to human form wearing an obedience disk like Iron Man, Black Bolt and Mr. Fantastic. Not that far away were the Avengers and other heroes who had dared to try and fight the Hulk. The other members of the Fantastic Four, Iron Mans Avengers and Luke Cage's Avengers too. Adrian even saw his own father next to She-Hulk, the Black Panther and his queen held prisoner by the Hulks slave devices. He crouched behind the giant metal crate looking out at the heroes squeezing the metal corner tightly.
Dad, I know what you'd say. You'd tell me to run, to get as far away from here as possible to run, but I can't run from this not when I think I might be able to win.
No, we will win.
We'll win.
Spider-Boy saw some of the Hulks soldiers coming, he got out of sight and started to crawl toward a few civilians in the stands there was an old woman with silver white hair and pale skin in a blue shirt, a young African American man wearing glasses and a white button down with a woman who had platinum blonde hair and green headband around her head in the color of the hulk, "Ruin I need a disguise." Adrian whispered before any of them saw him.
The symbiote quickly made a sweat suit of black cloth with red lines on the sides with a hood that Adrian pulled over his head letting him blend in with the mob of Hulk followers "Nice." Adrian said as he stood behind the civilians.
"You there?" A rocky voice said behind him, Spider-Boy turned around to see Kong the Kronan standing over him.
Oh no.
"Child, do you wish to testify against the accused as well?" Korg asked him, Adrian froze "Testify?" He asked.
Korg nodded at him as the three civilians looked at him "Indeed, each one of your fellow humans wish for justice against the accused, Clarissa Roberts lost a husband to Black Bolts failures as a King, Tome Fosters uncle was murdered by Richards monstrosity and this woman claims to have grief against the sorcerer tell me, to whom do you wish to see brought to justice."
"Iron Man he… he ruined my life." Adrian said suddenly, "Very well, you will have it soon."
Korg left Adrian to look at a spotlight shine down and one of the Warbound walk out, in the middle of the arena stood the golden armored Elloe Kaifeng of the Hulk's Warbound, she was standing in front of a microphone "WELCOME TO THE GREAT ARENA!" Her voice carried up out of the arena and into the city.
"You who followed the hulk from Sakaar, you who came to celebrate his victories on earth and you who dared to raise your fists against him." She said to the audience off aliens, mob and fallen heroes who were held prisoner.
"Now bear witness!" She said as she turned to the four heroes who were on trial for the death of the Hulk's wife and the world he ruled.
She looked at the accused "Black Bolt, Mr. Fantastic, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, these are the four whose shuttle exploded destroying the Crown City of Sakaar." She said as Reed stiffened standing up.
"We didn't plant any bomb we'd never-" his disk shot an electric surge into his body making Reed Richards yell in pain.
The Thing also wearing a disk fought against his own restraint "Enough with the obedience disks already!"
"Let him speak Elloe!" Sue barked at the red woman.
Elloe didn't even turn around to look at Reeds spouse "Why Sue Storm? They didn't let the Hulk speak before they shot him into space. They didn't let my mother speak before they incinerated her and a million others."
God, hearing her, she sounds just like me only wanting to cast blame not wanting to let the other side speak.
The obedience disk forced Reed Richards down onto a knee his elastic powers starting to make him stretch without his control "Listen, we don't— AAAHH" the disk shocked him again silencing his protests of innocence.
Miek the bug suddenly approached in front of the hulk "No, now you will listen."
Guess he made it, the four of us were pushed toward the mike with me hiding behind Tom Foster and whoever this other woman was as Clarinda spoke. Each one of them had lost someone to the Illuminati members; Clarinda had lost a husband to an Inhumans who committed a massacre at a theater, she new Black Bolt was innocent but wanted revenge. Tom Foster was the nephew of Goliath, the same Goliath who the clone of Thor killed, he wanted to see some law hold Stark and Richards accountable even if it was the Hulks law. Lastly whoever this hippie woman was, she called out Strange for making a deal with the demon. Then she said something that you'd read on the back of a heavy metal album then it was my turn.
"You child, it's your turn." Korg said to Adrian who froze at first before he walked forward.
I'd come this far, no turning back now, as I walked toward the microphone I wondered why the Hulk hadn't killed any of them yet. He said he wanted revenge, he wanted justice so why not just kill them and be done with it, why the humiliation unless… unless he never planned to kill any of them… oh my god….
Adrian lowered the mike down to him before he removed his hood, all the heroes who new him shared looks of surprise. "No!-aaaaahh!" Spider-Man tried to jump out of the holding area but his obedience disk held him back, Adrian noticed Elloe was holding a trident that seemed to be controlling the obedience disk.
Energy triton, it's the control for the disks need to remember that.
"My name is Adrian Parker, I've got grievances against all four of these men but none more than Tony Stark the Iron Man." Adrian said looking at Tony then at the Hulk "Green King, he destroyed your world and murdered the only family you had or so you claim, so do I."
"Tony Stark caused a Civil War between the superheroes that cost the lives of men and women who I admired, his actions tore apart my family and forced me to become a criminal when I refused to go along I want justice for that… or at least I did." He said looking back at Tony.
The Warbound looked at one another sensing something was amiss "I see now I was wrong Tony, like always you just tried to do what you thought was right like Captain America did."
Adrian looked back at the Hulk who glared down at him, "But you Hulk, Banner, Green King or whatever the hell you call yourself?"
"You call burning a city, killing innocents and this whole giant damn arena justice?" He asked "Careful how you speak child!" Elloe snapped at him raising an obedience disk gun.
"No, let him talk." Hulk said stopping her.
"Ever since I could remember, everyone always told me the Hulk was the strongest there is that nobody could beat him, not even Thor or Ms. Marvel." Adrian said as the Hulk and Adrian locked there green eyes.
"You could have killed all of them any chance you want, we know your strong enough and I also know when someone's putting on a show to make a point I watched Tony Stark do it for three years now." Adrian said as the Hulk was quiet for a few moments.
Hulk started to walk toward him "So what are you getting at kid?"
"I'm getting at that I know that Hulk is still a hero, or at least he thinks he is." Adrian said turning to him "Nobody is ever the bad guy of there story, I thought I wasn't when Tony Stark turned me into a criminal but I was wrong and I was wrong about you." Adrian said.
"You're no hero, your not even a King, your just playing the blame game so you don't have to take responsibility for anything." Adrian said.
"Insolent child!" Miek screamed, the alien held up an obedience disk gun and shot one at him, Adrian caught it with one hand and ruins symbiote covered his and crushing the disk before it could shock him into submission. The Warbound who weren't wounded surrounded Adrian as he spoke.
"You've done it Hulk, you beat them you exposed them and now you've humiliated them so please if you'd still think you're the hero… end this."
The Warbound surrounding Adrian looked at the Hulk "Never, never stop making them pay get this kid out of here." Hulk said.
It was worth a shot, guess we do it Fury's way.
Good
Korg walked toward Adrian "Come child or we will be forced to-" Adrian looked up at Korg his eyes covered in red symbiote before Ruin came out. The black and red symbiote goo covered Adrians head and body expanding till he was the size of Korg and the Hulk. Korg backed up in shock before Ruin curled up his arms and let out a blood shattering roar as a hundred spiked tentacles they stabbed right into Korg, Elloe, Miek and all the Hulks death head robots and shields of the Hulks soldiers sending them flying out of the way between Ruin and Adrian's way to the Hulk.
The Hulk wasn't impressed "Heh, seems like the world made a new monster after it got rid of me."
Ruin looked up at the Hulk who strode over to the metal box that the accused were standing next to "So let's see if you got what it takes."
Hulk opened the giant box and out of it came a creature five times the hulk size with long spiked tentacles with razor sharp teeth, a dozen black eyes that looked right at Ruin and Adrian.
Kill it now.
Gladly.
Ruin raised one of his arms and a tentacle spear shot out skewering the creature right in the mouth before pulling out making it fall dead at the Hulks feet.
"No more Hulk, no more of this hiding for us, we aren't Avengers, we aren't the Government-" Ruin/Adrian started to walk toward the Hulk picking up the triton and snapping it like a twig.
All the obedience disks on the Avengers and prisoners fell off or shattered "We arne't some abomination sent to put you down like the mad dog you are, we don't care about your rage, but we… are… your Ruin."
Hulk rolled his neck "Bring it on punk."
Hulk and Ruin/Adrian ran at one another kicking up the sand of the arena drawing back their fists and connecting with each others face causing a massive shockwave to knock almost everyone who wasn't superhuman off their feet. Those who were human started to run for the exits. The Avengers watched as Hulk and Ruins fists smashed into one another.
"Avengers, assemble!" Both Luke Cage and Tony Stark yelled at the same time as they attacked the Sakaar invaders.
Spider-Man web zipped over the battling Heroes and Aliens coming face to face with Elloe all of a sudden "Spider_Man this is the last ti-"
"OUT OF MY WAY!" Spider-Man said roundhouse kicking her into some of the boxes as the Hulk grabbed Ruin and smashed him into the ground.
Before he could get close to his son and the Hulk, Mr. Fantastic wrapped his arms up around him "Peter wait."
"No, Let me go I have to-" "You can't you'll be killed." Tony said as he was holding one of the alien soldiers spears.
Ruin/Adrian suddenly slipped through the Hulks grasp with his liquid form around to his flank "Slippery little thing, aren't you?"
Now!
Ruin/Adrian leaped onto the Hulk and sunk his teeth into the Hulks neck, the Hulk growled through his teeth and tried to pull him off. But Ruins tentacles and spikes started to sink into the hulk "Graa damn brat!" Hulk yelled as the red in the symbiote veins started to turn green as it began to suck the Hulks energy out of him.
Drain it all, every last drop.
"Graaaaahhh!" The Hulks grip on the symbiote started to tear the creatures alien flesh but it slipped out of the Hulks hand like water before returning to the main body. Ruin's tentacles grew claws sinking into the Hulk's skin sucking out more gamma radiation.
"The monster is sucking the life from the Green King, kill it!" Miek yelled as he wrestled with Ronin and Hawkeye.
Suddenly the Thing appeared to body slam him "Not happening."
"Mieks right, whatever Adrians symbiote is doing it's absorbing the Hulks energy." Reed said as Spider-Man was fighting Elloe.
"Tony do you have a plan?" Spider-Man snapped at him "There are a series of satellites up above, I'm trying to get them in orbit they can siphon the rest of the hulks energy."
"What?" Spider-Man asked.
Tony grabbed Spider-Man by the arm "That's gamma radiation, if he keeps absorbing that much it'll kill him!"
Take it… take it all- it's to much- can't contain it-
Aaaaaaaahhhhh!
Ruin's body started to tear at the seams from the amount of gamma radiation started to melt the symbiote from the inside.
Ruin whats happening?
The power… to much… burns… it burns us…
Hold on just a bit longer Ruin, we almost got him.
The heroes continued to fight against the Hulks legions as Reed covered the Tony as he started to hack into the satellites in the stars above.
"What's taking so long?" Spider-Man asked as he could only watch as Adrian and Ruin tried to hold back the Hulk.
"The stone ship, its blocking my attempts." Tony said back to him.
The behemoth was already down half his size as Ruin kept draining him, when Ruin and Adrian suddenly let out a shriek.
"Can't hold it- we can't hold it to much anger- to much hate- AAAAAHHHH!" Adrian and Ruin both let go of the Hulk falling back grabbing onto the sides of his head, the symbiote smooth form began to go rigid turning more sharp and tentacle like as the gamma radiation surged inside them. Lifting its head to the sky Ruin opened its mouth when the gamma radiation it stolen from the hulk shot out like a geyser up into the air directly into the Hulks stone ship above tearing it in half.
"Yes!" Tony said as his cybernetic link the satellites began to hack and rewrite the codes in his brain.
"ADRIAN!" Spider-Man broke off from the main heroes any Sakaar soldiers in his way were given no quarter, he smashed through their shields, shattered there weapons until he landed right in front of Adrian.
The boy looked up at his dad who took off his mask "Adrian, Adrain can you hear me?"
"Dad… did we.. did we stop him?" Adrian asked as they looked up to see the Hulk was gone in his place with rags around his waist knelt Bruce Banner. The true man behind the monster that was the Hulk he was panting looking at his hands both eyes slightly glowing green, "Bruce?"
Adrian looked up to see a man with brown hair wearing a red long sleeved shirt over a white one with jeans approach him.
"Who-" "Rick Jones, a friend of the Hulks." Peter said to his son as he held Adrian up while Rick Jones walked up to Bruce Banner extending his hand to help him up.
"Where's the Hulk?" Miek asked as Hiroim stood next to him and the other heroes who had all stopped fighting, seeing the Hulks true form "You look upon him, within each of us live the world breaker, who destroys all and the sakaarson who redeems the world. Today finally the Hulk knows who he is."
"Bruce, welcome home." Rick said as Adrian looked over at Miek sensing the incoming danger and rage inside the alien.
"NO!" Miek suddenly shouted running toward the Hulk with his spear "You're not done yet, come back to us Hulk!"
"Bruce Look out-" Rick Jones shoved Bruce out of the way before Mieks spear could stab the Hulk in the back only to land right into Rick's chest.
"Come back Hulk!" Miek barked at Bruce who knelt over Rick Jones body, Rick was barely breathing as he looked up at him "Bruce… no."
Banners eyes burned green suddenly "Yesssss." Miek hissed before The Hulk returned in all his fury to smash his arm right into Miek "GRAAAA!"
SKOOM
The Hulk attacked Miek and all of the Warbound rushed forward "No Hulk! We are Warbound we stand together to the-" Korg tried to intervene but the Hulk grabbed the golem and hurled him into Hiroim.
"Hulk wait, Miek was your first friend, you can't!" Brood suddenly flew up behind the Hulk but her pleas fell on deaf ears as Miek was still alive "No. Rick was the first, so he can and he will."
"GRAAAA!" Hulk roared stepping on Miek once more "Haakk!"
I new rage did terrible things to people, but this was more than I could bare, the Hulk was killing his friends without a single thought.
Even as the Hulk continued to kill him "Because this—"
SPLURRP
"— is what you were made for." Mieks said as the Hulk tore out his guts even as the Warbound tried to hold the Hulk back "Don't let them stop you Hulk, 'Never stop making them pay'. Thats what you taught me, thats why I *kik* killed them. Thats why you'll kill me then—"
"Them?" Hulk asked stopping in confusion, even broken and near death Miek was still able to speak.
"Ha. Now you see I always have to remind you, because you always forget. Like when you found your *kik* queen, all you wanted was peace." He said as the Warbound started to let the Hulk go to hear what Miek was telling them "But thats not who you are, you *kik* conquered Sakaar *kik* killed the red king, we should have slaughtered his people but you let them live, so I watched them load an old warp core ont others shuttle they thought it would kill you, but I knew… it would just remind you… of what you were made for-"
Suddenly Brood drew back one its blade like appendages and sliced Miek across the face "The ch— children, your own brother hivelings, a million souls!" She hissed.
It was him, all of this was Mieks doing no the Hulks, not Starks none of them just a man consumed by rage and then Miek did the strangest thing. He started to cry.
We all must die… all this passing so the next thing can come…" Miek said clicking between his words "So the world breaker can finally make an end…"
The ground started to shake then, a deep rumble coming from "Hulk?" Korg asked but he couldn't hear him.
Both Spider-Man and Spider-Boys spider sense flared "Adrian I… I…" "I know dad." Adrian said as he felt his dad hug him maybe for the last time.
"Bruce its alright, we'll help you this time." Reed said trying to calm down the Hulk but it was to late.
"STOP" the Hulk bellowed his voice full of radiation, of power, of rage.
CHWOM
A burst of Gamma radiation blew out of the Hulk without him even having to move sending everyone off their feet, shattering the very earth around them "WITHOUT YOU-"
I never said it
Said what?
How grateful I was for you giving me life, for letting me share your body, your mind and spirit.
The Hulk took a step and started to break New York like it was made of glass "— NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED." Hulk screamed glowing with bright green gamma energy, waves of the radioactive power turning Madison Square garden into rubble.
We're happy even though we've only been here for a short while.
Ruin… I don't understand what you mean?
We can stop it, we can end this but it's a one way trip
"I'LL HATE YOU FOREVER" The Hulk took another step and the ground broke under his feet sending shockwaves across the eastern seaboard.
KRAAAAKKOOOOOOM!
"ALMOST AS MUCH AS I HATE MYSELF!" Hulk yelled, Adrian looked out from under his father's arms while.
We couldn't contain the energy, we'll die if we try again.
But everyone else will I've, yes.
I'd say thats a fair trade.
"STARK, RICHARDS STOP ME PLEASE BEFORE I BREAK THE WORLD!" Hulk begged his body a giant gamma battery about to blow and take all of them with it.
Peter cupped Adrians cheek "Close your eyes son, it'll be over soon."
"Not for you." Adrian said breaking the grip his father had on him and running to the hulk as Ruin's form armored up around him, "ADRIAN NO!" Peter yelled after him, another blast of Gamma rays sent Spider-Man back into Tony who was trying to calculate the satellites to fire on the Hulk but Spider-Man's body hitting him interrupted his hacking. Adrian inside of the symbiote Ruin ran right toward the translucent Hulk and wrapped his arms around him digging his claws and tentacles into the Hulk as his radiation was out of control.
Ruin, it's been fun.
Yes… thank you Adrian
The symbiote started to absolve the toxic gamma rays into is own body sucking the power, it filled up the symbiote around Adrian's body, the armored shell of the symbiote began to crack as the Hulks power kept growing to a boiling point.
I'll see you on the other side Ruin.
We will one day, but not yet, not for you
Wha-
Suddenly, Ruins back opened up exposing Adrian it spat him out into the air for another one of the gamma blasts to blow back into the dirt of the ruined stadium. Adrian looked up to see he couldn't tell Ruin or the Hulk apart anymore because of how bright and hot the gamma radiation was.
"Not, again, not again please Ruin!" Adrian yelled running toward him about to loose another brother like he'd already done.
Goodbye Spider-Boy
"RUUUUUUIIIIIIINNNN!"
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When the dust had settled all that remained was Bruce Banner, on his back looking up at the sky above him arms still as if holding the hulk was Ruin, his body had been turned to stone somehow before it cracked. Adrian and the heroes who were standing around Banner and the statue saw Ruin turn into ash being blown away by a strong wind like he'd never existed at all. Spider-Woman, the Thing holding the unconscious Sentry, She-Hulk and Doc Samson looking after Rick Jones, the other members of the Fantastic Four. , Iron Fist, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Wonder Man and Ares. Even the Warbound who were still alive were looking at him.
Adrian fell to his knees looking at the spot where Ruin and been, he couldn't save him, he'd failed again to save someone or something he cared about. The Avengers looked over at Adrian who slowly got up his face was blank, there was no emotion on it he looked as if he was dead.
"He saved us?" Tony said in astonishment as Adrian turned around "It was the symbiote?" Reed guessed correctly.
"What the hell is that kid?" General Ross said dread.
Then, Adrian got up and turned around heading toward the exit, "Adrian, you did you-." Peter called out running over to him "Adrian are you okay are you-" Spider-Man cut himself off when he saw something he hadn't seen Adrian ever do before, for the first time in the history of them being together Adrian was crying.
"D-dad-hic… I-hic…" he tried to talk through the tears "I just wanna go home hic-" he hurried is head into his father's arms. Spider-Man picked up Adrian cradling him in his arms walking away from the Avengers who started to secure the Hulk, all while Spider-Woman kept her gaze sharply on Adrian.
"It's alright, let it out, I'm here." Peter said as Adrian cried "It's over, it's finally over."