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[sublimating]

[Bruce has skipped his jog in the morning to sleep in a little; there's no point in going on a long run to work himself up and wear himself out when the whole day is basically a long expanse of serene idling and keeping active. he's always tired when he goes to bed, which is the goal.]

[and he wakes up with a start at what sounds like a cannon going off, and then another, and there's sounds of alarm all around him; and his heartrate shoots up, so fast and so hard that he thinks he might lose it, and he thinks: use it, don't get used by it.]

[which is why a giant green manlike figure comes bursting out of what used to be one of the shelters, tearing it apart; the Hulk roars, earth-shaking though the earth is already shaking, arms wide and in a ready stance for whatever may come at him. and then pauses.]

[there's nothing to fight but a volcano.]

Comments

[onehotpepper]

[Pepper isn't in the shelter when this happens, but she's close enough to see it and have to dodge debris. it's effortless, her body moving almost of its own accord, and if it weren't for the volcano erupting, she might spare a moment to be impressed. as it stands, the Hulk is something-- someone for her to focus on.]

[cautiously, she approaches him, staying just out of his reach]

[tentative] Bruce?

[howbigcanitbe]

[Hellboy was in the area and heard the big boom and the alarm. Adrenaline and excitement over finally getting to do something keys him up. His first instinct is to look for what caused the noise, but instinct pushes him in the other direction when he hears a roar that can only be monster. His hand goes to the giant gun in the holster at his side and he runs toward the roar, skidding to a stop on the sand when he sees the green monster that he's only heard about.

He wanted something to fight, didn't he?]

Yeah, yeah the lack of fruity drinks with umbrellas is startin' to piss me off too.

[cleanedslate]

[ he was up. still one of his better night's sleep, but he was heading back to the shelter with a small cache of probably-poisonous berries to show to someone who knows about these things while pretending he fully intends to eat them.

and then the rumbling, which honestly wouldn't have bothered him, because California, but he lives pretty damn far from gang warfare and what sounds like gunfire cranked up to 11 is more startling.

then, you know, it's a fight for his attention between the now-visible volcano and the much more visible Hulk.

he'd approve of the strategy if he knew, but as it is he just goes stalk-still, trying to process way too many things at once. ]

--Damn it, seriously?

[ he said, to no one, in an undertone ]

[antiapocalypse]

[ here's another girl who was sleeping in the shelter, enjoying what, in her second year of college, still feels like the rarest of pleasures: being able to sleep in, because she didn't schedule any classes before noon. ]

[ but, of course, that pleasure is short-lived this morning, and the next thing she knows everything is exploding and the shelter walls are coming apart all around her and okay it's not like they were made out of reinforced steel or brick or anything but-- ]

I was really hoping to go through life without ever knowing how the three little pigs felt.

[ she's working on getting outside, where it's safe, and so unprepared for the sight that greets her when she turns to face the shelter on her left and--

--and sees this big towering green monster, just standing there, and then he roars and she can feel it in her bones and that is just -- so not okay ]

[waytobreakithero]

[ Volcanoes and now giant green maybe-monsters.

There are worse ways to wake up in the morning.

In a second, Hawke will, of course, help out and try to not undermine the efforts of the people trying to keep others from panicking. But for just a brief moment, she is standing on the beach with a massive grin on her face.

These are the days she loves. Days of action and adrenaline. ]

Shame there aren't any dragons, isn't it?