Ch 8 Favela Escape

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After lunch, everyone returned to the viewing room and took the same couches as before in the same positions.

"So it's me we're watching this time?" Bruce asked again.

"Yes, my friend." Odinson said.

"Well, Banner, it's your time to shine now." Thor clapped Banner on the back.

"Good thing." Rhodes said.

"Yeah, I think watching too much of you, Mr. Stark, might make them sick." Benjamin said as everyone chuckled and Tony had a look of mock offense.

"I will try not to take that personally." Tony said sarcastically.

"Bruce is your science bro though, right?" Pepper asked.

"Right." Tony said as he looked at Bruce, "It's gonna be awesome to see you on there."

Bruce just nodded politely.

"Now you will see why poking him is not the best idea." Loki told Tony who simply sighed and looked away.

"So Ross is this too?" Steve asked and Logan nodded.

"Yeah. And he's as bad as William Stryker." Logan said.

"Who's William Stryker?" Bucky asked.

"I think I've heard of him." Natasha said.

"An old military scientist." Fury said, "I heard he did some deep shit."

"Yes. Something about mutations." Hill said too.

"I'll tell you about him later." Logan said with a sigh.

"So let's get started." Xavier said.

"Yup. With pleasure." Professor Hulk said as he started the recording and everyone started watching.

Someone pushed a switch. There was another brain scan, and in a chair attached to a large machine sat a man, who was Bruce Banner himself. Everything was coming and going in flashes.

"So we're watching this." Bruce said.

"Your origin story?" Peter asked and Bruce simply nodded.

"Your hair's short in this." Scott said randomly.

"Actually, I think you look very different in this." Hope said.

"Yeah." Clint said, "You look very different now."

"What happened to you?" Tony asked, "In this recording, you look like you could be a member of a fight club or something." [1]

"I have no idea how my appearance changed so much over the years." Bruce simply said.

"At least he doesn't look like that Hector guy from the "Troy" movie Jane showed me when we were together." Thor said off-handedly. [2]

A woman in a white lab coat stood watching behind a glass panel.

"Betty." Bruce whispered as he remembered her. Thor put a hand on his shoulder in support and he nodded in appreciation.

From the chair, Bruce gave Betty a wink. The chair tilted into position for the procedure. Someone pushed a button. A green light shone into Bruce's eyes. Betty pushed another switch and a button. A red 'Danger' sign began to glow. The green light grew brighter. The irises of Bruce's eyes glowed green. Betty stared through the glass, clearly worried.

"Uh-oh." Tony said.

"This doesn't look good." Aunt May said.

"Not good at all." Sam agreed.

"Here goes." Bruce sighed as he almost didn't look.

"I still remember that day like yesterday." Professor Hulk sighed.

There was a roar. The white shirt Bruce had been wearing ripped. A mass of green rose from it. The chair was knocked on its side, steaming and smoking. Behind the glass, Betty ran forward, staring in horror. A huge green hand appeared in the corner, reaching for some part of the machine that dangled from the ceiling.

Bruce cringed and looked away again.

"Oh God!" Sam said.

"Bruce!"

Bruce turned to see Natasha looking at him.

"It wasn't your fault." She told him. While she had moved on from him and loved Bucky, with whom she was happy, she still cared for Bruce as a friend.

He simply nodded as Thor put a hand on his shoulder again.

"I know that now." Professor Hulk said.

Through the eyes of the newly released Hulk, they saw dimly the form of the man who was none other than General Ross, as he had then been. There was blood on his face, and he seemed to be utterly horrified.

Wanda gulped in fear on seeing him as Vision put an arm around her again.

"Ross." Clint growled darkly, thinking of ways to kill him.

"So he was involved in this accident." Steve muttered.

"Worse." Banner said.

"He is definitely covering something up." Tony said.

"To save his own ass." Fury told everyone.

"I call him "General Jackass."" Logan said and everyone laughed.

And then they saw Betty lying on the floor among the wreckage of the machines, unconscious, bruised and battered. The shadow of the Hulk loomed over her, and a great green hand reached down toward her.

"Oh God!" Aunt May said in horror.

Bruce turned away from the screen in shame as Thor said, "It wasn't your fault, Bruce."

"I know it wasn't but I still feel some guilt for it." Professor Hulk said.

But then there were flashes of a gun, of a military man standing by Ross and shooting. The Hulk seemed to roar, and he reached for Ross and shoved him aside before tossing the man with the gun out through the door of the lab. Ross, bleeding and obviously badly wounded, crawled across the floor and flung himself on top of Betty. His hand was outstretched and his mouth open in a silent scream of No! The room seemed to spin, and then another image of a scan appeared. Then the door of a hospital room slid open, and there lay Betty, still unconscious and looking terribly battered.

"No!" Bruce groaned as he put his head in his hands.

"I'm sorry." Thor said to him to offer sympathy.

Bruce's hand tenderly caressed the woman's face. Then came a glimpse like another memory of Betty with a radiant smile and bare shoulders lying under a sheet. Then Bruce was sitting by Betty's bedside, and now a hand clamped down on his arm. A thunderous-looking Ross loomed over him, and shoved him roughly from the room.

"The whole thing was your fault and you blamed me like a cowardly hypocrite." Professor Hulk snarled.

"He cared more about himself than anyone else." Bruce said.

"If I knew what he had done, I would never have listened to his proposition of the Accords at all." Steve said.

"That thing was shady anyway." Scott said.

"Agreed." Hope said too.

"Now I feel like idiot number 1 for signing them." Tony said to himself.

"It's okay. We all make mistakes." Pepper told him comfortingly.

"That man is not coming after my boy, is he?" Aunt May asked Peter.

"No. I made sure of that." Tony said and she relaxed.

"Thank you." She said to him.

"Thank you, Mr. Stark." Peter said too.

"General Jackass, always saving his own ass." Logan said and everyone laughed.

Betty's eyes opened, but Bruce was already gone and her father was staring stonily through the glass at her. At the door of the facility Bruce turned briefly to see Ross speaking to a private, then he turned back around and pushed out of the building. Newspaper headlines about first sightings of the Hulk flashed by; then an image of a house in ruins; then a crushed car. Military men stormed into another house, armed to the teeth, but seeming to find only traces of their quarry - books, papers, test tubes.

"You were good." Hill noted.

"But I still won't be a SHIELD Agent." Bruce said and everyone chuckled.

Ross stood in front of a table, peering intently at some report. A set of blinds in an upper story window twitched as someone looked out of them down at two armed soldiers outside. Two helicopters whizzed through the air; shadowy forms of more soldiers moved through a back street. Once again they were met with defeat; an empty cot and a pile of dishes greeted them. Ross spun in a chair, cigar smoke surrounding his head. Another newspaper headlines flashed past, followed by images from helicopter windows and another image of Ross. He seemed to be monitoring yet another pursuit.

"What does he want you for?" Scott asked.

"Don't ask." Bruce and Professor Hulk said at the same time.

"It must be something horrible." T'Challa said.

"I can always find records of that if I want." Vision said.

"I hope you do." Wanda said as she glared at Ross in hatred.

A page showing a Requisition Request: US Army Stark Industries - Approved notice appeared, followed by plans for some rather awful-looking device. Ross puffed at his cigar again while looking through a number of fingerprint scans. A plane touched down at a military base. An intercepted email from Bruce to Betty flashed across the screen.

Bruce looked at the screen angrily as Xavier told him, "Calm down Dr. Banner."

Bruce calmed down and sighed, "Meditation helps."

There came the briefest glimpse of the name Nick Fury, followed by a few images of Bruce. Ross seemed to have lost track of him. And then- remembered images went by in flashes - then a truck went up a snowy hill in Alaska, with Bruce Banner sitting in it. The driver dropped him off and he continued to climb and trek his way.

"So this was flashbacks?" Peter asked.

"Appears so." Bruce said.

"It was intense!" Aunt May said.

"We made this recording in such a way so as to not show all of that. It might cause the Other Guy to come out." Professor Hulk said, "Of course I don't have that issue."

Bruce nodded at that.

Eventually, Bruce stopped and stood in the middle of the snow. He took off his glasses and cap and looked at the sky, which looked a little greenish. An image of a battered and bleeding Betty in the lab flashed in his head and he closed his eyes sadly.

Bruce and Professor Hulk both cringed on seeing Betty and remembered what they were about to do in that moment.

The flame of decision forming in his eyes, Bruce took out a gun and holding it out, turned off the safety.

"What?" Peter said in horror, not expecting this.

"Even I had a hard time remembering I almost did that." Bruce said. [3]

"Oh my God!" Aunt May said as she covered her mouth.

"I'm sorry, Bruce." Steve told him sadly and he nodded.

"We are here for you, Banner." Thor assured.

"Thanks." Bruce said.

"That was one of the worst days of my life." Professor Hulk said.

Before Bruce could turn the gun on himself, his eyes suddenly glowed green. The screen then changed to Bruce's point of view and through his eyes, his hands could be seen getting bigger and greener as the Hulk crushed the gun.

"You put a bullet in your mouth." Tony said as he remembered what Bruce had told them all in the Helicarrier.

"And the Other Guy spit it out." Bruce finished.

The enraged Hulk punched the ground and a quake was caused, followed by an avalanche that brought mountain down.

"What the hell?" Natasha said in horror.

"That is why I wanted everyone to stay away from me." Bruce said.

"This incident was detected by satellite." Fury said.

"Yeah. I remember that." Hill said too.

"Oh no!" Tony said too.

Then, an unspecified amount of time later, metronome ticked incessantly and a hand clamped down on the metronome, and a shirtless and sweating Bruce Banner stared at it, panting. Bruce was sitting on a mat on the floor of a very bare-looking room, and had just moved the metronome from beside the mat. He pushed the ticker into place as the words "Days Without Incident: 158" appeared in white on the lower right corner of the screen.

"Just over five months." Vision noted.

"That was probably the best I ever reached." Bruce said.

"Impressive, buddy." Tony said.

"Yes. Your concentration to prevent that must have been impressive." Thor said too as Banner nodded.

There was a wide shot of the crowded ramshackle buildings of a shantytown, one that spanned many steep hilltops.

"The Rocinha Favela?" Clint asked.

"Yes." Bruce nodded.

"Really, nowadays I wonder why I didn't have an incident on there." Professor Hulk said, "It was one crowded place."

"Yeah. Last I heard, the place had two hundred and fifty thousand." Hill said.

"That's one big slum." Steve commented.

"Biggest in Brazil." Natasha said.

"And I lived there." Bruce sighed.

Bruce stood on a hilltop with a soda in his hand, looking out over the district. The scene changed and Bruce was cooking some meat with a wooden spoon. He paused to feed a bit of it to his black dog nearby.

"You have a dog?" Peter asked.

"I used to." Bruce said.

"Dogs." Thor commented, "Very loyal."

"Yes. If they were as big and fast as horses, things would be easier." Odinson agreed.

"I don't know what happened to him." Bruce sighed.

"I do. Professor Hulk said sadly and everyone realized from the tone of his voice that it was nothing good.

Bruce dished out the rest of the meat on a plate, and went to turn on a little old television, picking up a worn black English-Portugese dictionary resting on top of it. He flipped past a weather channel, a soccer game broadcast, a drama series, and paused on a Sesame Street segment.

"Cookie Monster!" Tony said with a smirk.

"C is for 'cookie', that's good enough for me!" Sam said in a sing-song voice and most of the people laughed at fond memories.

Bruce sat down in a chair in front of the television with his breakfast and his Portuguese dictionary. He opened the dictionary with one hand, glancing at the television as he ate. He flipped to the word he was looking for, which was 'hungry', and said it over a few times as he ate. The dog blinked its round brown-rimmed eyes at him, and Bruce scruffled it affectionately behind the ears.

"So he knows what I'm saying." Bruce said with a smile.

"Yes. He does." Professor Hulk said.

Bruce walked down a staircase that sloped down the hill on which his very high apartment sat alongside a wall decorated with red tiles. Later, In a martial arts studio, the instructor flipped Bruce over his back and then practiced the move again more slowly. He told Bruce in Portuguese to work on his breathing as he finished. He sat on the floor facing Bruce, and put his hand on his chest just under his collarbone. He told Bruce to control his emotions. And Bruce puffed in and out, brow furrowed in concentration.

"Did it help?" Thor asked.

"Yes." Bruce said, "For a time."

The instructor told Bruce to use his diaphragm and demonstrated it too. He told Bruce to control his pulse and then struck him across the face.

"Bad idea." Rhodes said.

"If he had known, he wouldn't have probably." Wanda said.

"Yup." Bruce agreed.

"Good thing I wasn't around at the moment." Loki said and everyone glared at him, making him shut up.

Bruce's head was thrown aside, and his heart monitor began beeping wildly as he was struck again. He glanced down at it in some alarm, seeing that his heart rate had climbed dangerously high. He breathed a little and it lowly started climbing down.

"Phew!" Peter sighed in relief.

"Don't worry. It was fine." Bruce assured.

"For a while." Professor Hulk said.

Later, Bruce was changing in a locker room when a bald coworker bumped into him on purpose, making him almost hit the locker. Bruce glared at him and sighed, calming himself down as he took off his cap.

"Bad idea." Peter told the coworker.

"What's his problem?" Tony asked.

"Xenophobia." Bruce said and everyone gave a collective "Oh!"

Later, Bruce was wheeling some bottles around as they moved up on a conveyor. Workers were filling up the bottles with liquids and stacking them up. Bruce stopped to give a package to a female coworker of his called Martina. As he walked off, she looked after him with a smile.

"She likes what she's seeing." Tony commented and everyone snickered.

"I liked what I saw too." Bruce said as everyone turned to him.

"But because of everything going on, it would never have worked out." Professor Hulk said and they all nodded.

"I can understand." Steve said in sympathy as Bruce nodded.

The Plant Manager called Bruce upstairs to fix some broken machinery and he nodded. Bruce then worked on the damaged controller of a part of the conveyor with the manager next to him and managed to make it work as the belt started again. Bruce explained the problem as the manager joked that he needed a new factory. Grateful for how much Bruce had helped him in the past few months, the manager offered to put him on payroll. Just as Bruce finished putting the machine back in place, he sliced open his finger accidentally and two large drops of his gamma-infested blood fell down somewhere in the bottles.

"Shit!" Sam cursed.

"The world always makes everything tough." Scott said.

"Even impossible." Hope sighed.

"Yup." Bruce agreed, remembering what had happened after that.

"This is going to go downhill real fast." Benjamin said to prepare everyone.

Horrified, Banner ran down, demanding to stop the conveyor. The manager quickly had it shut down as Bruce looked around for his blood. He sighed in relief when he saw it had fallen between two of the bottles. He quickly cleaned it, making sure no stain was left, and closed up his finger with the crazy glue. He then told the manager to start it again. The manager shrugged and the conveyor was started. What nobody noticed was that the other drop of his blood had fallen at the opening of one of the bottles that was now being moved up in the conveyor.

"Uh-oh." Rhodes said as everyone paled.

That bottle, along with all of the others, was filled up and packed in a shipping container which was marked for the USA.

"And now the time for trials has come." Xavier said.

"General Jackass is coming." Logan said and everyone snickered.

Later, Bruce was walking off for lunch when he saw the bald coworker who bullied him trying to ask Martina out, though she refused. At first, he ignored but the man touched her face and Bruce returned, marching towards him. The man and his friends turned to him as Bruce asked Martina to have lunch with him. The bald man called him Gringo and told him to get lost. Bruce asked Martina to come with him again as the bald man tried to shoo him off. Bruce told him not to make him angry, but because he wasn't fluent in Portuguese, he ended up saying 'hungry', confusing everyone.

Everyone laughed at that.

"It's not like all of you know Portuguese." Bruce said.

"Yeah. I don't think they do." Professor Hulk agreed.

"Doesn't meant we can't laugh about it." Odinson said.

"We have the Allspeak though." Thor pointed out and both the Thors nodded.

"Lucky you." Loki told him.

The bald man attacked him but he dodged. The manager arrived and broke up the fight. Bruce quickly led Martina away.

"Nice save." Clint said, impressed.

"That was very noble of you, Dr. Banner." T'Challa told him.

"She was my friend." Bruce said simply.

Later, Bruce met a man he had hired to get something for him- a special kind of flower. The man held the flower up and Bruce hugged him happily. He returned the hug. Bruce later returned home and showed the flower to his dog, telling him it was their ticket out of the place. He then plugged in his laptop and also took out a picture of Betty, staring at it. He entered an encryption into his laptop and started chatting with someone called Mr. Blue, while referring to himself as Mr. Green. Mr. Blue told him to try the flower.

"Who's Mr. Blue?" Bucky asked.

"You will see." Benjamin said.

"I believe he is a scientist of some kind." Vision said.

"Right you are, Viz." Professor Hulk told him.

Bruce cut off the flower's petals and slowly synthesized its ingredients into a chemical concoction. He then cut his thumb and put the blood on a glass slide before pouring the concoction over it and placing it under a microscope. He could see his red blood cells, with greenish glowing energy over them. The greenish glow slowly faded away and he smiled happily, thinking he had found the cure. But then suddenly the greenish glow returned and the red color of the RBCs vanished, making them totally green again. Bruce shook his head, visibly deflated.

"And it didn't work." Tony said.

"I wanted to cure it badly back then." Bruce said.

Bruce messaged Mr. Blue again, telling him he had used the entire flower and that it was a failure. Mr. Blue told Bruce to meet but he said it wasn't safe. Mr. Blue retorted that living with Gamma poisoning wasn't safe and requested a blood sample, saying he couldn't help Bruce if he didn't let him.

"I know how much you wanted to help." Bruce said with a glare.

"What happened?" Thor asked.

"Looks like the man was a fraud." Loki said.

"You will see." Professor Hulk told them.

Bruce took a blood sample and labeling it Mr. Green, he packaged it, labeling it to Mr. Blue, before having it shipped off the following day. In Arlington, Virginia, Ross was signing some reports when Major Kathleen Sparr handed him a file and told him that a man had drank some kind of soda in Milwaukee and it gave him gamma sickness. The scene changed as Sparr's voice was heard to show an elderly man trying the soda and dropping it as the gamma blood affected him.

"Him again!" Steve said as he recognized the old man from Tony's party in the previous recording.

"Who is this guy?" Tony wondered aloud.

"I still think he was my neighbor." Peter said.

"And I still don't remember him." Aunt May said.

"So the watcher drank my blood." Bruce said.

"And got sick from it." Professor Hulk said.

"So sick that he cut off my hair." Thor said and everyone laughed.

"And General Jackass is coming again." Logan said and everyone tensed.

At Port Johnson, Everglades, the soldiers got ready as Ross stood with General Sam Greller, who told him about a special ops commando known as Emil Blonsky. Said commando stepped out of a helicopter.

"Blonsky." Bruce growled.

"He is an asshat." Professor Hulk said.

"General Jackass and an asshat." Logan said and everyone laughed again.

The transport plane took off as Sparr told the soldier about their mission, handing them photos of Banner. Blonsky asked if he was a fighter, to which Ross told him about everything Bruce had been charged with, telling Blonsky not to tranq him as soon as possible.

"You will find out soon enough." Bruce growled at Blonsky.

Bruce was lying in his home when his laptop beeped and he quickly entered an encryption, with Mr. Blue telling him he had reduced the gamma concentration in his blood. Bruce asked if it would cure him, to which Mr. Blue replied in the positive but asked for more data. Bruce told him he had no data. When Mr. Blue asked where the data was, Bruce looked at Betty's picture again and typed "HOME." He then shut the laptop.

"You loved her a lot, didn't you?" Natasha asked and Bruce nodded.

At night, a military vehicle arrived at the favela as some soldiers took their position outside Bruce's house. As Bruce slept, his dog sensed the intruders and woke up, making Bruce wake up too. The soldiers snuck a snake camera though the door and started looking for him. The dog saw it and bit it, making them retract it.

"Good boy." Bruce said with a smile.

A soldier put an explosive near the door and at Ross' order, Blonsky pressed the detonator, blowing the door open. They entered as the dog barked at them and shot tranqs into the sleeping form of Bruce. They removed the covers, only to see pillows and a Styrofoam head with a cap and wig on it.

"Smart." Natasha commented.

"I know you would say no, but you definitely are a potentially good SHIELD agent." Clint told him.

"But he wouldn't want to be." Fury said.

"Too many headaches." Bruce said simply.

Blosnky told Ross that Bruce was gone and annoyed by the dog's barking, shot him and a whimper was heard as the dog fell unconscious.

"No!" Bruce cried in agony out as Thor put a hand on his shoulder in support.

"Oh no!" Peter said sadly as he heard the dog's whimper while Aunt May put a hand on his head.

Wanda had tears in her eyes as she remembered the death of her dog on hearing the whimper when she was a kid and Vision put a hand around her for support.

"Bastard." Thor cursed.

"Even I wouldn't hurt defenseless animals." Loki snarled.

"What did he get by shooting the dog?" Steve said aloud.

"Nothing." Tony said.

"He was an asshat. He did bad shit." Logan said, "He thought shooting the dog made him powerful."

"I wish I could have taken him with me." Professor Hulk said.

"I should have taken him with me!" Bruce said as guilt flooded through him.

"Do not blame yourself, Dr. Banner. You were in a panicked state back then." T'Challa told him and he nodded.

"He's lucky I'm not getting my hands on him anytime soon." Sam said.

"Same here." Rhodes said.

"Trust me. You don't want that." Benjamin told them and they tensed.

"Hope he gets what's coming to him." Clint said.

"I am waiting to see that too." Natasha said.

"I have a feeling we will." Fury said.

"Same." Bucky said too.

"Can't wait." Hill said.

"You will see." Banner and Professor Hulk said at the same time.

"At least he didn't kill the dog." Pepper said and everyone relaxed at that.

Blonsky looked out of the window to see a rope. Banner climbed out and jumped into Martina's house, who was getting dressed. She screamed but he quickly shushed her. Blonsky and the other soldiers ran past the unconscious dog towards the streets as Bruce kissed Martina on the lips and thanked her.

"And that was the last time I saw her." Bruce said.

"She was a kind woman." T'Challa noted and everyone nodded.

Bruce put his hood over his head and ran across the street, only to stop on seeing Blonsky and another soldier. He hid his face under a hood and tried to walk away but Blonsky had recognized him and the two started running after him, making him take off in the opposite direction. In his vehicle, Ross ordered all soldiers to pursue Banner.

"And it's on." Sam said.

Bruce ran across Rocinha as the Blonsky and the others ran after him. He ran through some children playing with a ball. Blonsky and the soldiers ran after him and the kids screamed in fear on seeing the military men.

"A normal day in all of their lives ruined by uninvited guests." Bruce sighed.

"I would love to meet this Ross." Thor growled darkly.

Bruce continued to run across the confined space of the favela as Blonsky and the others ran after him. Blonsky aimed at him but Bruce ran into a corner and the soldiers ran after him as Blonsky took a shortcut. Bruce ran over at a rooftop, pushing the hanging clothes out of his way as his cap fell off. One of the soldiers ran after him but when the clothes were out of his way, he ended up falling off the edge to the ground.

"You had the entire place memorized." Natasha commented.

"For a time like this." Bruce said.

"And it paid off." Professor Hulk said, "Mostly."

Bruce continued running and jumping around on rooftops as one soldier fired at him but missed. Bruce leapt down from that roof but realized his heart monitor was beeping wildly. He staggered near a box of "Coca Cola" bottles and stopped there, breathing heavily. Blonsky saw him from the other side of the box and started aiming.

"Oh my God!" Oh my God!" Peter was saying repeatedly as everyone watched with held back breaths.

The heart rate managed to climb down as Bruce noticed Blonsky aiming at him and picked himself up. He saw Blonsky trying to aim at him and he ducked before running out of the way as people screamed in fear. Blonsky fired but Bruce avoided the dart. He continued running until the military vehicle stopped in front of him. And out stepped Thunderbolt Ross. The two made eye contact and the hatred for each other was visible in both of their eyes before Bruce took off again.

"General Jackass meets his quarry." Logan joked to lighten the mood and it worked as everyone chuckled lightly.

"He really is trying hard." Tony said.

"People try their best to save their asses." Fury said.

"And he managed to cover up his shady actions." T'Challa sighed, reminded a bit of his father.

Ross ordered the soldiers to find him as he continued running while Blonsky and the other soldiers were on the lookout. Eventually, Bruce found himself in a crowded area. As he looked back to see if anyone was following or not, he accidentally bumped into a man. He turned to see the man and his friends glaring at him. It was his bald, xenophobic coworker and his friends.

"As if things weren't bad enough already." Bucky sighed, remembering the chase in Romania.

"He had to be there." Sam said too.

"I handled it." Bruce said, "For a while."

"This guy was giving me bad vibes right from the start." Tony said.

"And Ross wasn't?" Steve asked and Tony sighed.

Bruce tried to diffuse the situation but the bald man attacked. Bruce dodged and flipped him over his back, just like the instructor had taught him. He managed to crush the second one's foot and pushed the third one off before running away again.

"So that did help." Thor noted.

"Brazilian jiu-jitsu." Natasha noted, recognizing the fighting style.

"The best I could get back then." Bruce said.

"If I still got into fights, I could combine that with Hulk' strength." Professor Hulk said and everyone nodded.

Bruce ran towards the bottling factory as the bald man and his friends chased him too. Bruce managed to sneak into the factory. Blonsky noticed the bald man and his friends sneaking in from his vantage point and informed Ross before moving in himself.

"And this is just getting worse and worse." Rhodes said.

"The universe hates everyone in this room." Hill sighed.

"Yup." Tony said in agreement.

Bruce once again stopped and took deep breaths to lower his heart rate before noticing shadows, causing him to move away again. As Blonsky and the soldiers looked around for him, Bruce ran up and opened a door, only to reveal the bald coworker and two of his friends on the other side. He turned around, only to see the bald man's other friend.

"Shit!" Sam said.

"And this is where it truly goes to shit." Bruce said.

"It's not gonna be pretty." Professor Hulk said too.

One of them grabbed him and the other one snatched his backpack. Bruce elbowed the one grabbing him and tried to take it back but they threw it off. The two friends then grabbed him and pinned him to a wall as the bald one taunted him. Bruce tried to explain the situation as Blonsky and the soldiers arrived. Bruce's heart rate was climbing now as he told the man to not make him angry, to which the man mocked him. Blonsky fired a dart and it hit one of the man's friends, making him faint as the leader punched Bruce down. Bruce's heart rate was very high at this point.

"Now that was a bad idea." Fury said.

"More like bad coincidence." Pepper said.

Bruce's eyes glowed green in the dark.

"Oh no!" Peter said as everyone tensed.

"Here it comes." Professor Hulk said.

"You might not like it." Bruce said.

The heart monitor fell on the floor as Bruce started spasming and the soldiers noticed it. The bald leader was annoyed by the noise and kicked Bruce, only to scream in pain as his foot broke.

In spite of the situation, no one could help their laughter at that.

He was pulled into the shadows by a huge figure as the two friends tensed. Blonsky noticed that too. As the two moved into the shadows, their leader was suddenly hurled away and he crashed through two windows before hitting a wall and falling down, dead.

Bruce and Professor Hulk both winced. While the man was a jerk, he didn't deserve to die.

"It wasn't your fault, Bruce." Thor assured him, summing up everyone's thoughts.

The two noticed a huge, green figure. It let out a terrifying and bone-chilling roar, making them run off. The sound was heard by Ross too via comms and the people there had to momentarily take off their earpieces for the sake of their ears.

"Uh-oh!" Sam said, summing up everyone's thoughts.

"It appears they have unleashed the Hulk." Vision noted.

Blonsky moved past the dead leader towards the source of the roar. The two friends of the leader were running off when the huge figure grabbed one of them. The other looked back but didn't break stride as the one who was grabbed was pulled into the shadows. A second later, his shoe fell on the ground.

"Is it just me or does anyone else think we're watching a horror movie?" Peter asked.

"Almost feels like a Japanese horror movie." Sam said and everyone chuckled lightly in spite of the situation.

The other friend ran past the soldiers as Ross told them to use everything they had got. Blonsky and the soldiers fired their darts at him but they deflected off his impenetrable exterior as he turned around and charged, throwing machinery around. He grabbed two of the soldiers, startling Ross as Blosnky fired again, smashing some bottles. The huge figure hurled the two soldiers away and they hit a pillar and fell down, dead. The alarms of the factory started blaring at this point and the conveyor belt started.

"And now this has gotten even worse." Aunt May said.

The bottles smashed into each other at the belt and fell down as the soldiers fired at the fleeing figure. They ran after him, trying to fire at him but only hit giant clotheslines of steel. One of them threw a grenade and it fell at the feet of the green goliath. It exploded, lighting up the place temporarily, revealing the huge figure's size to the soldiers.

"Oh boy!" A visibly terrified Peter said.

"These soldiers are in over their heads." Scott noted.

"Prevents me from feeling bad for them." Hope said.

As the smoke started clearing, the soldiers realized something was moving towards them. It was a giant clothesline, pushed by the figure at them. They ran or ducked to avoid as Blonsky fired at the floor under it to make it fall down but to no avail. He sidestepped to avoid as it crashed into the wall and green soda showered Blonsky.

"How do you like that, huh?" Tony said and everyone snickered.

"A bath in the middle of a job." Peter said and everyone snickered again.

"A green one." Bruce said and this time everyone laughed.

"I bet he wasn't expecting that." Professor Hulk said.

Blonsky was the only soldier not incapacitated now and followed the figure from above, firing at him to no avail. The figure stopped as Blonsky reloaded. The figure stepped out of the shadows, revealing its face- a huge green monster gritting its teeth angrily at Blonsky. The commando actually paled at the sight and lowered his gun.

"Oh boy!" Peter said in fear as everyone tensed.

"Is it just me or did you look more scary back then?" Tony asked and everyone wondered about it. [4]

"I think I agree with you, bub." Logan said.

The green goliath lifted a pitchfork truck and threw it at Blonsky, who barely avoided it as the floor broke and he had to hold onto the tiles for dear life. He watched in horror as the monster roared and smashed through the factory wall. Ross screamed in terror as more soldiers ran up behind Blonsky. A terrifying roar was heard across the whole favela and in the nearby forests.

"That was-" Sam started.

"Intense?" Steve asked and he nodded.

"I can't imagine how bad it would have been for you." Bucky said as Bruce and Professor Hulk simply nodded.

"Well, at least I got out of there." Bruce said.

"Under those circumstances, it was the best that could be done." Professor Hulk said.

"I concur." Tony said.

"Yeah, I think you did your best, Bruce." Natasha said.

"Well, I can't wait to meet Ross again." Clint said darkly.

"All this." Wanda snarled, "And he had the audacity to put me in a collar!"

"I will enjoy meeting him." Clint said. The man had threatened his family and treated Wanda like she wasn't human. He considered her a part of his family too. She was like his daughter.

"Take me with you." Thor said.

"Well, Ross should start counting his days." Loki said.

"I am with you lot on this." Tony said.

"Me too." Steve agreed.

"Let's continue watching." Peter said.

"Yeah." Logan said, "You will get more reasons to hate General Jackass."