/slowly schedules dentist appointments...

[dragony]

WHO: Bruce Banner (hulkkeysmash), Rua (strongest_tool), and Ruka (gallitrap) ((post order))
WHERE: Moonybase → Cold Stone
WHEN: Monday the 8th of March
WARNINGS: Look at the characters. Now look at the location. Now look at the characters.
SUMMARY: Ice cream and monsters.
FORMAT: Words.

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It took some convincing to get her brother (only not really her brother; she still didn't quite understand it) to agree to let one of her new/old friends visit and subsequently take her out into the world for ice cream, and even then it was with a condition: he was going to go with them to make sure nothing bad happened to her again! So she agreed, a little surprised, and the two of them waited for the mysterious Doctor Banner to arrive.

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[hulkkeysmash.livejournal.com]

"Stay behind me," Bruce said in Japanese, struggling to keep his tone even. He was afraid for them, angry at this situation, and neither did well with his notoriously weak self-control.

He weighed the pros and cons very carefully. If the men got agitated, their actions would be unpredictable. If he got agitated, he'd lapse into a state that could end terribly. When he was too angry, too upset, casualties didn't bother him. Meat was meat and humans were just that; there could be fallout from a Hulk episode that he'd regret.

There were three guns to consider. Frightened children. Too many---too much that could go wrong.

Bruce wiped his sweaty palms on the thighs of his slacks, taking off his glasses and folding them neatly. He held them out to Ruka with a thin smile.

"Would you hold these for me, please?"

The bent old frames were big in her hands, but she took the glasses obediently. Turning to the men again, he let himself relax, ripple, and contort. Bruce's shirt and pants shredded, shucking off clothes like old snakeskin, but at least he'd had the forethought to start wearing the unstable molecule shorts underneath. Big, green, and dignity intact, he presented a massive obstacle between the men and the patrons.

Hulk's nostrils flared. Hulk rumbled, baring his teeth.

I'M BLAIMING NOTIFS.

[dragony]

Not-her-Rua's arm was tight around her, stronger and more protective than she would have anticipated, and at his answer—bad men, bad people with evil intentions—she felt a sparking of fear in her chest, even without knowing how bad, or what they were capable of.

When Bruce handed her his glasses, she held them very carefully, but quite nearly dropped them when she saw what happened next. While seeing one monster released and exchanged for another, stronger one wasn't uncommon in Duel Monsters, she had never seen anything like that happen to people.

For that matter, the person Bruce had been replaced with did look like he'd walked straight out of someone's deck, so where most children would be terrified by something as large and green and threatening as even the back of the Hulk, Ruka felt oddly comforted.

[strongest-tool.livejournal.com]

Rua wasn't sure what was about to happen when he saw the doctor give Ruka his glasses. But he had a gut feeling that something was about to happen. If you had asked him what he would've guessed it was, he probably would've made the logical conclusion that the doctor would use his power to somehow deal with the bad guys. If pressed, he would've guess that, obviously, the doctor's power was to shoot beams of some kind from his eyes (cause, c'mon, why elese would he remove his glasses).

One thing was for sure, never in a hundred years would he have guessed the preceding transformation. Even as Doctor Banner's words to stay behind him hung in his ears, he was backing away, holding Ruka's arm tighter than ever. Maybe it was the fact that he had remembered them at all that stopped him from just bolting, or maybe he was too scared to move his legs that fast.

It didn't seem he was the only one that was shocked - one of the muggers turned to the apparent leader of the three.

"Hey, man, you didn't say anything about this, this guy's built like a fuckin' tank!" The way they were shifting, it looked as though all three were considering running right then. Then, something caught the eyes of the one who had spoken up. The two little kids that had come with the freak-transforming guy had moved out from behind him. He acted before he thought on it, practically jumping across the room and reaching out, grabbing the boy's arm. He yelled out, both in surprise and protest, pulling away as he was dragged closer.

"Don't try anything or the kids get it!" He roared at the Hulk, trying to swing Rua around and put him in a headlock while he pointed the gun at him and his sister.

Rua's arm shot out, his hand brushing against the gun. Now both enraged in addition to panicking, he screamed "GET AWAY!" as blue sparks flew from his hand. The man backed away instinctively, but the sparks that hit him didn't do anything. The effect on his gun however, was almost instantaneous. It went off, exploding in his hand and sending a deafening BANG throughout the store. The bang muffled the mugger's scream as he was thrown to the ground by his own weapon.

Rua spun his head. He saw the other two still had guns. Were they gonna try and shoot him now? He flung both his arms out, throwing more of the sparks at both of them. One, at least, was smart enough to throw his gun away before the same thing happened to it. The other suffered the same fate as the first.

Nothing left that he could do, Rua went back to holding on tightly to his sister and...gradually tried to make his way back behind the doctor.