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Chapter 55: Symbiosis Part Eight

Nairobi, Kenya - 18:37 PM

Since they know that Daniel is connected to his Hulk, they plan to fight in a way that doesn't kill the Hulk but slow him down or tire him out, and so the Hulk doesn't kill them in return since they know that the Hulk will find out that they're going easy and try to terminate them just not to waste time. As they wait in the quinjet, they planned to let Bruce's Hulk take care of Daniel's for as long as he can.

Bruce transforms, appearing out of nowhere, into his Hulk mid-air in seconds and faces Daniel's who is already ready to pound him. Both Hulk's charge at one another. Bruce's overpowers Daniel's and pummels him to the ground. He grabs a car and slams it into him.

Bruce punches rapidly and Daniel's hits back at a much slower pace, but Bruce has one foot firmly planted on Daniel's chest. Then Bruce's freezes for a bit, realizing that this is the first time he's getting a good look at his son's Hulk. Although he knows that Daniel isn't in there, the identical features in the two could convince him differently.

Daniel's Hulk uses this to his advantage. He grabs Bruce's ankle and throws him off. Bruce crashes through a fire hydrant and into a building. Daniel's Hulk walks up to Bruce's, marching right through the spraying water only to see that Bruce's Hulk has shrunken back into Bruce and is lying on his stomach on top of the wet glass shards. Bruce looks back up at Daniel's Hulk and takes a deep breath.

"I'm too old for this…" Bruce mutters to himself, shaking his head.

Daniel's Hulk punches Bruce again, knocking him back. Bruce scoots back along the road, watching Daniel's Hulk walk up to him slowly, using big strides in an attempt to mock him. He snarls as Bruce gets back up. Before Daniel's Hulk could head bash him, Bruce holds him in a choke with his elbow, building pressure with his bicep as Daniel's Hulk swings punches at him, roaring.

Daniel's Hulk takes hold of Bruce's fist, getting a strong grip and hoisting him over his head to slam him against a building.

-o-

"When do we go in?" Angela asks, reloading her guns.

"On my mark," Xavier responds, watching the fight from below. They're on a rooftop, able to see and hear Daniel's Hulk and Bruce go at each other's throats. Luckily, before they got here, they evacuated civilians but they had to do a rough estimate on the perimeter.

"But when's that?"

Xavier sighs, looking away from the fight for a moment. He turns to his friends who are more armed up than normal and it frightens him that going against Daniel's Hulk is their biggest battle to date. Against one of their own. Admittedly, he's never been this scared before. He doesn't ask but he can see the same in his friends. Angela's asking of when they're leaving, Merida fiddling with her bow, and James's legs shaking in his seat as he's hunched over with his head in his hands.

It's not a fight of good versus evil. It's good versus uncontrolled.

"What if Daniel's Hulk goes too far?" Angela asks softly. "What if it's about to kill one of us and another one of us has a final shot to end it all? What happens then?"

Xavier doesn't respond. It's a question of picking Daniel or the others which isn't a choice he ever wants to make and he won't let that happen.

Xavier looks back below before grabbing a weapon he's never used before and standing at the edge of the rooftop. He looks through the scope, aiming directly at Daniel's Hulk.

"Get in position," Xavier orders grimly.

-o-

Daniel's Hulk charges up to Bruce and jumps, punching him across the face on the way down. Bruce stumbles back and Daniel's Hulk kicks him right in the knee to knock him over again. When Bruce falls, Daniel's Hulk slams his elbow into Bruce's chest. Bruce doesn't get up. He stays on the ground, lying on his chest. He turns around and sees Daniel's Hulk standing above him, snarling with hands balled into fists, ready to finish him off.

Instead, Bruce shrinks back into himself, holding his hands above his head. Daniel's Hulk looks at him confused, especially when Bruce puts his hands over his ears. Daniel's Hulk is about to end him before an intense sonic pressurizing sound hits him. He roars in an attempt to drown the sound. Once it's gone, he notices that Bruce has disappeared, probably ran off.

Daniel's Hulk looks around. When he looks up, he sees Xavier holding a satellite gun pointed at him and leaps towards that rooftop.

Xavier drops the gun and dashes across the roof. He stumbles a bit once the Hulk lands. Xavier turns around and sees an even more angered Hulk ready to kill him. He roars before running towards Xavier. Xavier picks up speed and leaps onto the next rooftop. He turns around and sees The Hulk gaining on him.

Knowing that his team is at their locations, he has to get back on the street. Xavier can't leap off the building. He won't survive the fall and there's the chance the Hulk would leap after him, catch him mid-air, and rip him in half.

Xavier smiles when he sees a narrow gap between the current building he's running across and the next one. Once he's close enough, he dives through, quickly flipping in the air until he's straight up again. As he falls, he hears The Hulk roar in frustration from above.

To brace himself from his current fall, Xavier holds his forearms out against the sides of the buildings, rubbing against them to slow down. His arms burn like hell but once he's close enough to freefall, he drops his arms and lands on his feet.

Xavier shakes his arms, getting ready to run out into the open and finish this fight.