Chapter Three
Buffy reacted and leaped out of the way before a gigantic fist smashed in the floor.
She rolled to her feet, aiming her crossbow, "Okay.um.Mr. Hulk. maybe this is all a misunderstanding. Why don't I just leave you alone.to, um, yanno, to smash things."
Hulk? Buffy thought, What kind of name is that?
"Stupid Crossbow Girl thinks Hulk is stupid. Tries to trick Hulk, like all puny humans, but Hulk stronger than girl."
"Hey! Crossbow Girl?" Buffy yelled indignantly, "Take that back!"
The Hulk growled and charged at her, and Buffy, in Slayer mode, fired the crossbow, but all the arrow did was break off as it hit the Hulk.
The Hulk kept charging at Buffy as if he didn't notice the arrow, except he seemed to be madder now.
"Great," Buffy mumbled, "That's all I need, one seriously pissed-off monster after me."
But the Hulk heard what the girl said, and snarled, now even more mad, "Hulk is not monster. Hulk is Hulk!"
Buffy dodged just in time as the Hulk smashed through the wall she was up against.
Buffy rolled back onto her feet, taking her ax out, just as the Hulk appeared from the hole he just made. Much to Buffy's chagrin, he didn't look like crashing through the wall didn't even faze him.
Hulk kept ranting, "Crossbow Girl is the monster, not Hulk! Girl attacked Hulk, Hulk did not attack girl! Puny humans attack Hulk. Hulk does not want to fight them."
Buffy cringed. Obviously someone had attacked him first, and he sounded like he wasn't too trusting.
Buffy put the ax down, and held her hands up, "Okay, wait, Hulk, maybe you're right, maybe we did attack you first. can we just, um, start over?"
The Hulk paused in his attack, seeming to consider the proposal.
"Maybe we can, uh, be friends?"
The Hulk only snorted, "Hulk has no friends, girl. Friends leave Hulk. Friends die and leave Hulk."
Buffy just shook her head. Has it always been that way for this poor creature?
"Maybe." Buffy cautiously approached the green giant, "Maybe it doesn't have to be that way, Hulk."
The Hulk just stood there, looking at the girl, still considering her words. Somewhere inside the monster, the child desperately wanted to believe her, but he's heard those words before. And the humans who said them to him betrayed him.
Just then they heard sirens approaching, and the Hulk growled, then snarled at the girl.
"Girl tried to trick Hulk. Puny humans are coming to attack Hulk! But Hulk is tired of running away! Now HULK FIGHTS BACK!"
The Hulk prowled through the front of the tavern, oblivious to Buffy's protesting words.
"No, Hulk! I didn't--!" Buffy silently cursed the cops. Why did they have to show up? She was so close to reaching him!
The cops, needlessly to say, were shocked to find a seven foot, green skinned monster smashing his way out.
They had expected to find a couple of guys getting rowdy, but they had never expected. THAT.
They did the only rational thing in a situation like this.
They panicked.
And started firing their guns at the green monster.
The bullets only bounced off, for all the good they did.
"Hulk hates stupid guns. Puny humans shoot stupid guns at Hulk. They think guns can hurt Hulk."
The Hulk swatted the cops in front of him away with a wave of his arm.
"But all they can do is make Hulk MAD!"
The Green Goliath picked a nearby police car, further scattering the cops and civilians, "And the madder Hulk gets,"
He held the car above his head like it was made of paper, and then.
KA----BOOM!!!!!
The Hulk brought it down, crashing on another police car!
"THE STRONGER HULK GETS!" The Hulk finished, roaring.
Buffy snuck out of the tavern before the Hulk noticed her, still cursing the idiots and their bad timing.
Just then she saw a Greyhound bus coming at the Hulk. But she also saw. "Xander! No!"
Xander had seen what the thing could do, and figured that trying to fight him was stupid and suidicial, but then Alexander Harris never did claim to be smart.
So he got onto the bus, and started driving it at full speed, trying to ram the big thing down.
The Hulk saw it coming and growled.
"Okay, big green." Xander nervously smiled, trying to fight down the big lump in his throat, and trying to stop himself from wetting his pants down, "You want it, you got it!"
At the last moment, Xander jumped out of the bus, just before it approached the Hulk.
The Hulk merely stood as the bus came at him.
KKKKAA----BOOM!!!
And then there was silence.
Nothing for a few long minutes.
Xander picked himself up, still hurting from that jump off.
He was walking down towards Buffy, calling out, "Is he. dead?"
Buffy's only answer was a shake of her head. Just before a big, green hand appeared, covering Xander's viewpoint of Buffy.
He didn't resist from wetting his pants this time.
The hand dug into the bus's side, and the bus was being lifted off the ground, showing a very, very much alive and well Hulk.
He was also angrier.
"Stupid bus thought it killed Hulk, but Hulk is STRONGEST ONE THERE IS!"
The bystanders, including Buffy and Xander, simply stood there and watch in mounting horror and awe as the Hulk crushed the bus, and compacted it into a really big ball with his bare hands.
"Now stupid bus is stupid ball. Now stupid bus won't ever hurt Hulk again."
The Hulk then threw the big ball through the tavern, causing the entire building to collapse.
The cops and civilians all scattered as the building collapsed onto itself.
"Now puny humans won't attack Hulk. Crossbow Girl won't attack Hulk."
With that, the Hulk braced his legs, and he leaped away, his leg muscles propelling him away.
For the longest time, Buffy and Xander just stood there.
"Ah," Xander stammered, "Did. I. see what I thought I saw?"
"If you mean," Buffy replied, "you saw a really big green monster trashing a bar, fighting cops and guns which about meant as much as peas to him, and crushing a bus, which had to weigh 2 or 3 tons, into a ball and threw it into the bar, and just jumping away like he was flying, then yeah, you saw what you thought."
"Just what I thought." Then Xander turned to Buffy, "Did he just call you Crossbow Girl?"
Buffy glared, "Shut up, Xander."
In the shadows, unknown to the couple, stood Glenn Talbot and Drusilla.
Talbot smiled at the rapidly diminishing sight of the Hulk departing, then turn to her.
"So what do you think of him, love?" He grinned.
"Ohhh," Dru purred, "He is chaos, rage and raw power incarnated. He has the power to open the Hellmouth itself."
"And the key to it is you, Dru," Talbot replied, still evilly grinning, "And all you have to do is wrapping him around your finger, and he'll be all ours."
"Ooh," Dru cooed, "I can just see it now, death and destruction, the world bleeding."
Dru's face transformed into its vampire form, as she finished, "Green."
To be continued.
THAT was for you guys who loves cliffhangers! :D
Buffy reacted and leaped out of the way before a gigantic fist smashed in the floor.
She rolled to her feet, aiming her crossbow, "Okay.um.Mr. Hulk. maybe this is all a misunderstanding. Why don't I just leave you alone.to, um, yanno, to smash things."
Hulk? Buffy thought, What kind of name is that?
"Stupid Crossbow Girl thinks Hulk is stupid. Tries to trick Hulk, like all puny humans, but Hulk stronger than girl."
"Hey! Crossbow Girl?" Buffy yelled indignantly, "Take that back!"
The Hulk growled and charged at her, and Buffy, in Slayer mode, fired the crossbow, but all the arrow did was break off as it hit the Hulk.
The Hulk kept charging at Buffy as if he didn't notice the arrow, except he seemed to be madder now.
"Great," Buffy mumbled, "That's all I need, one seriously pissed-off monster after me."
But the Hulk heard what the girl said, and snarled, now even more mad, "Hulk is not monster. Hulk is Hulk!"
Buffy dodged just in time as the Hulk smashed through the wall she was up against.
Buffy rolled back onto her feet, taking her ax out, just as the Hulk appeared from the hole he just made. Much to Buffy's chagrin, he didn't look like crashing through the wall didn't even faze him.
Hulk kept ranting, "Crossbow Girl is the monster, not Hulk! Girl attacked Hulk, Hulk did not attack girl! Puny humans attack Hulk. Hulk does not want to fight them."
Buffy cringed. Obviously someone had attacked him first, and he sounded like he wasn't too trusting.
Buffy put the ax down, and held her hands up, "Okay, wait, Hulk, maybe you're right, maybe we did attack you first. can we just, um, start over?"
The Hulk paused in his attack, seeming to consider the proposal.
"Maybe we can, uh, be friends?"
The Hulk only snorted, "Hulk has no friends, girl. Friends leave Hulk. Friends die and leave Hulk."
Buffy just shook her head. Has it always been that way for this poor creature?
"Maybe." Buffy cautiously approached the green giant, "Maybe it doesn't have to be that way, Hulk."
The Hulk just stood there, looking at the girl, still considering her words. Somewhere inside the monster, the child desperately wanted to believe her, but he's heard those words before. And the humans who said them to him betrayed him.
Just then they heard sirens approaching, and the Hulk growled, then snarled at the girl.
"Girl tried to trick Hulk. Puny humans are coming to attack Hulk! But Hulk is tired of running away! Now HULK FIGHTS BACK!"
The Hulk prowled through the front of the tavern, oblivious to Buffy's protesting words.
"No, Hulk! I didn't--!" Buffy silently cursed the cops. Why did they have to show up? She was so close to reaching him!
The cops, needlessly to say, were shocked to find a seven foot, green skinned monster smashing his way out.
They had expected to find a couple of guys getting rowdy, but they had never expected. THAT.
They did the only rational thing in a situation like this.
They panicked.
And started firing their guns at the green monster.
The bullets only bounced off, for all the good they did.
"Hulk hates stupid guns. Puny humans shoot stupid guns at Hulk. They think guns can hurt Hulk."
The Hulk swatted the cops in front of him away with a wave of his arm.
"But all they can do is make Hulk MAD!"
The Green Goliath picked a nearby police car, further scattering the cops and civilians, "And the madder Hulk gets,"
He held the car above his head like it was made of paper, and then.
KA----BOOM!!!!!
The Hulk brought it down, crashing on another police car!
"THE STRONGER HULK GETS!" The Hulk finished, roaring.
Buffy snuck out of the tavern before the Hulk noticed her, still cursing the idiots and their bad timing.
Just then she saw a Greyhound bus coming at the Hulk. But she also saw. "Xander! No!"
Xander had seen what the thing could do, and figured that trying to fight him was stupid and suidicial, but then Alexander Harris never did claim to be smart.
So he got onto the bus, and started driving it at full speed, trying to ram the big thing down.
The Hulk saw it coming and growled.
"Okay, big green." Xander nervously smiled, trying to fight down the big lump in his throat, and trying to stop himself from wetting his pants down, "You want it, you got it!"
At the last moment, Xander jumped out of the bus, just before it approached the Hulk.
The Hulk merely stood as the bus came at him.
KKKKAA----BOOM!!!
And then there was silence.
Nothing for a few long minutes.
Xander picked himself up, still hurting from that jump off.
He was walking down towards Buffy, calling out, "Is he. dead?"
Buffy's only answer was a shake of her head. Just before a big, green hand appeared, covering Xander's viewpoint of Buffy.
He didn't resist from wetting his pants this time.
The hand dug into the bus's side, and the bus was being lifted off the ground, showing a very, very much alive and well Hulk.
He was also angrier.
"Stupid bus thought it killed Hulk, but Hulk is STRONGEST ONE THERE IS!"
The bystanders, including Buffy and Xander, simply stood there and watch in mounting horror and awe as the Hulk crushed the bus, and compacted it into a really big ball with his bare hands.
"Now stupid bus is stupid ball. Now stupid bus won't ever hurt Hulk again."
The Hulk then threw the big ball through the tavern, causing the entire building to collapse.
The cops and civilians all scattered as the building collapsed onto itself.
"Now puny humans won't attack Hulk. Crossbow Girl won't attack Hulk."
With that, the Hulk braced his legs, and he leaped away, his leg muscles propelling him away.
For the longest time, Buffy and Xander just stood there.
"Ah," Xander stammered, "Did. I. see what I thought I saw?"
"If you mean," Buffy replied, "you saw a really big green monster trashing a bar, fighting cops and guns which about meant as much as peas to him, and crushing a bus, which had to weigh 2 or 3 tons, into a ball and threw it into the bar, and just jumping away like he was flying, then yeah, you saw what you thought."
"Just what I thought." Then Xander turned to Buffy, "Did he just call you Crossbow Girl?"
Buffy glared, "Shut up, Xander."
In the shadows, unknown to the couple, stood Glenn Talbot and Drusilla.
Talbot smiled at the rapidly diminishing sight of the Hulk departing, then turn to her.
"So what do you think of him, love?" He grinned.
"Ohhh," Dru purred, "He is chaos, rage and raw power incarnated. He has the power to open the Hellmouth itself."
"And the key to it is you, Dru," Talbot replied, still evilly grinning, "And all you have to do is wrapping him around your finger, and he'll be all ours."
"Ooh," Dru cooed, "I can just see it now, death and destruction, the world bleeding."
Dru's face transformed into its vampire form, as she finished, "Green."
To be continued.
THAT was for you guys who loves cliffhangers! :D