Everybody Wants to Rule the World...
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Jun. 11th, 2009 @ 08:42 pm
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His thoughts darken and race down a kind of black hole singularity in his mind as he watches Thunderbolt leave the room with the only thing that makes his life around here bearable. He hates that man he hates this bed and this base and the sun lowering in the sky.
Banner loses sense of his own body, but Rick Jones can see what's happening.
"Doc?" Rick asked, quietly, uncertainly. "You're... what... what's going on? You... you're changing!"
He wants out NOW! Gray green skin replaces Banner's sickly white and brown eyes change to an inhuman yellow, but as extraordinary as that is his sheer mass is the true wonder. Bigger and bigger, past well-muscled, past body-builder, past Frankenstein's monster. The rage builds and he builds until the room is filled with the aura of rage and pain and it's too small to contain it.
"Hulk want OUT!" The reinforced wall of the quarantine room powers like talc.
Rick just stared open mouthed for a moment, not believing what he had just seen. Doctor Banner had turned into some kind of... Hulk and...
And...
And it was all his fault.
"Wait for me!" he cried, as he ran after Banner. "You need me!"
Rick Jones exits this life and enters another - a life filled with the sounds of gunfire, tanks, and deafening roars. It is a life which becomes a blur of rage and with oases of calm and self-loathing.
A monster is loose. Pray he is on our side.
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