Issue #4: Day 4
Bruce
Bruce was busy working when Natasha Burst into his lab,
"You may wish to remove yourself from here now doctor"
Bruce was confused,
"Firstly I was in Calcutta so I was pretty well removed and secondly I heard what Loki's plan was and I can assure you that you don't have to worry about me"
Natasha didn't seem to be convinced, Schooling himself Bruce walked closer to her, He placed his overly bandaged hand on her shoulder and looked her directly in the eyes.
"Please trust me on this, its people constantly telling me that i cant control it that makes me angry, And then people being afraid of me, I hate it, so please trust me"
The words seemed to calm her down and Bruce was relieved.
"Plus I'm not going anywhere when where this close"
Grabbing the monitor he swung it around so that Natasha could get a good view of the Data "Where currently scanning for the tesseract and in any moment we will get a reading of where it is within half a mile"
Natasha pointed at the screen and looked worried "Whats that number going down for"
Bruce turned the screen back to himself and cross checked all the data as quickly as he could, He was reading a heat signature that was to low to be the tesseract yet to high to be something that wasn't at least powered by the tesseract or something like it, Reading The graphs once again he came to the only logical conclusion, Barton was on his way.
As though on Cue the sound of an explosion echoed through the Helli carrier, Grabbing Natasha to stop the blast from harming her, Bruce began to fall to the ground, Making sure Natasha landed on top of him the heat of the explosion engulfed his back and the ground gave way, Feeling that Natasha was no longer on top of him he was scared for her not because the explosion might have killed her but because he could feel the other guy coming.
Bruce
The smell of burning flesh entered his nose, The sound of shallow breathing seemed to fuel the anger that was growing in him and the fear that came from Natasha's voice when she spoke almost tipped him over the edge
"Bruce listen to me, Everything is going to be OK" He was glad that she still referred to him as Bruce, but soon he knew all she would be doing was running.
"Bruce I swear on my life I will get us out of here" The threat against herself caused the other guy to come out for a moment
"Your Life!" He screamed back at her, Bruce was able to get a good look at her for the first time, Her lip was bleeding and her leg was stuck under a metal pylon, The fear on her face was double what it was when he first met her in Calcutta.
The transformation was almost complete, His arms expanded to three times their normal size, and the world around him seemed to shrink.
One last time Bruce looked back at Natasha, He could feel the Face of the other guy relax and as worry crossed over it, OK that was new But as soon as it was there it was gone and anger once again took over, Forcing himself, Bruce was able to get the other guy to move away from her.
After slamming his fist into a Water tank several times, he was now gone.
Bruce was screaming for the other guy to go away yet nothing he did helped, He could feel his skin re-growing on his back and the broken ribs he was sure he sustained snapped back together, the cut on his hand however wasn't heeling and Bruce didn't understand why it wasn't, Looking around him the world was turning red, Everything was frightening to the other guy which is ironic considering everything else is afraid of him.
He was running now and everything in his path was being destroyed, It was then that Bruce could hear breathing behind him, He thought of something else so the other guy wouldn't clue on to the fact that Natasha was behind them.
It hadn't worked, Turning around the other guy was able to find where Natasha was hiding fast, Luckily for both her and Bruce she was nimble, Jumping from where she was she grabbed a railing from one of the metal Stairs and swung herself up out of harms reach.
Now stuck the other guy began to prowl on her, Bruce was screaming as loud as he could for the other guy to stop yet nothing was working, Jumping up to where Natasha was The other guy made chase, Bruce had never seen someone run so fast, Making her way through glass panes, the other guy easily followed, Shards of glass entered into the other guys body and each one caused more and more pain.
The glass was easily shot back out causing the other guys strength to skyrocket.
They had finally caught up with Natasha, Turning she looked at him dead in the eyes, What the hell is she doing, Bruce thought as she tried to talk The other guy out of what he was doing, She had no luck, with one foul swoop she was gone, He could hear her body smacking against Metal and the ringing it produced echoed around them.
Bruce was angry now himself, The other guy had made his way to where she was slumped, Bruce could tell she was alright yet she had no plans to move, She was still except for the fear that was running through her causing to shake.
The other guy raised his hand and was about to strike, Bruce, afraid of what was going to happen decided to try something he had never done before
"Do it!" He screamed at the other guy, Immediately Bruce could feel the hand begin to lower, Bruce telling the other guy to actually harm seemed to make him stop what he was doing.
"Go towards her" He spoke, The other guy once again did the total opposite of what he asked.
From nowhere A shooting pain rang through his side and The other guy was thrown through a wall, regaining his footing Bruce saw that it was Thor who had struck him, Now pissed off Bruce said one thing
"Don't Hurt him"
Bruce
Walking through the streets in nothing but a strangers pants was a Humbling experience for Bruce, It also made the journey to get to New York ten times longer as he realized he was nowhere near there to begin with.
Bruce entered into a Bar to find out exactly where he was and whether or not he would be able to get a ride out of there, The Bar TV was playing a news story about the destruction in new york, The image of a hole in the sky with thousands upon thousands of aliens pouring through it was a frightening sight.
Asking several people if he could get a Ride to New York he received the same response each time "No Fricken Way"
Defeated Bruce sat and watched the Broadcast for a while, Seeing that The Avengers where having no luck Bruce had had enough, He was about to exit the bar when it appeared.
A giant Whale like creature floated through the Hole and immediately began to destroy the Surrounding buildings, Enraged Bruce ran from the bar, Focusing all of his rage into one place he was once again the Hulk, Jumping as far as he could, Bruce was able to see the skyline of new york in no time.
Finally making it to where everyone was he stopped and calmed himself down, Telling the other guy to stay the hulk he became Bruce once again.
Racing through the streets of new york he searched for where the team was, Finally he Spotted Natasha.
"Natasha, Behind you" he screamed as an alien flew behind her, Turning she blasted it from its flying machine causing it to roll in front of where Bruce was now standing.
Bruce watched as Natasha's expression turned from relief to embarrassment, Bruce finally caught on to the fact that he was Naked.
"Doctor its good to see you, I guess." she turned her head and stared at the ground
"You probably weren't expecting to see so much though where you"
Natasha shook her head,
From out of nowhere Rogers slammed in between them, He seemed slightly embarrassed as well though he was able to school himself quicker then Natasha was.
Placing a finger to his ear he spoke "Stark banner just arrived"
After a moment Rogers turned to Banner and ordered him to "Suit up" And with that the Hulk was Back.
Natasha
Each explosion sounded less impact full then the last, The ringing in her ears was ebbing the sounds around her,
The Chitari seemed to have no formation whatsoever and Natasha knew that, That would work to the Teams Advantage, Standing from where she was once again crouched she spotted The hulk tearing through an entire group of Chitarian Soldiers.
Natasha was wondering if Bruce had finally found a way of controlling the other Guy, Running she made her way to a small building yet to be destroyed.
Inside, People where cowering, huddled together and unmoving bar from the shakes that had ravaged all of them,
"Every body needs to get out of here now" Natasha screamed to all of them, only one person moved after spotting Natasha's Gun.
He began to grab the others in order to get them out of the building safely, Stopping he turned to Natasha, his voice was shaky.
"Where can we go, I mean if its not safe in here then out there its ten times worse right"
Natasha needed to think fast if she where to save everyone, "Is there a basement" She asked he nodded and escorted everyone to where Natasha guessed the basement was.
Exiting the building, Stark flew over head with a trail of chitari hot on his tail, aiming her gun she fired hitting one directly between the eyes, The sight of there falling comrade alerted some of the others to her location, Turning they dived towards her,
Natasha was running at full speed, Looking back The Chitari where starting to gain on her and quick.
The roar was loud, Her ears rang and her heart stopped as The hulk slammed down in front of her and began to run towards her, Scooping her up she was pressed against his chest and cocooned in his arms as the chitari opened fire, She could feel the heat from the blast wrap around her and The hulks arms started to expand, he dropped her and with all of his force attacked the several chitari that where after her.
With all of them now gone The hulk jumped away, Natasha made a Mental note to thank Bruce when he returned.
Bruce
It was the Middle of summer yet Bruce was cold, Luckily he had found a blanket to wrap himself in in order to spare the team from seeing him naked once again.
Natasha had been the first to come to Bruce with help, her hands where full of clothes, A blue button down short sleeve shirt, A pair of black jeans socks and white shoes.
He was about to leave to get dressed when she pulled out the final piece of clothing, A pair of Hulk green underwear, She was smiling from ear to ear as Bruce went red with embarrassment.
"A thank you for saving me out there" Snatching the underwear he walked off leaving Natasha in a hysterical laughing fit.
Finally dressed Bruce met up with the team in the swarma restaurant Tony had talked about, He noted that Fury and Maria had also joined them, Spotting Natasha Bruce motioned for her to come talk with him, She stood and followed him to the back of the restaurant
"Hey" Natasha spoke first "I'm going to start by saying thank you, Back there you saved me, I mean can you control him now or, What happened"
Bruce scratched his head before he spoke, Figuring out exactly what to say "It was because of you, Kind of."
He looked down embarrassed "When i first turned on you i did what i would always do, tell the other guy to stop, When you where cornered i thought, what if i go along with it, i told him to do it and then he stopped"
Natasha looked confused "So you wanted to kill me"
Bruce became annoyed at how badly what he was trying to say came out "No its just that, With the other guy he's kind of like a little kid, You tell him one thing he does the complete opposite, The entire time we where battling out there i was going for the Aliens"
Natasha smiled and drew Bruce into a hug "What ever the reason, Thank you again" She released the hug before Bruce could join in, Returning to her seat, Bruce sat between Thor and Tony, The most amazing thing about today for Bruce wasn't that fact that he now knew how to control the Hulk, It was that this restaurant was still open.
Authors Note: This is the end of the Avengers stuff, Next chapter is completley origninal so hope you guys enjoy :)