Three weeks after the last incident in Manhattan everything was finally back to normal at the Xavier Insitute.
Hank McCoy, Beast, was currently in the process of teaching the New X-Men how to fight within close quarters.
" Impressive shapeshifting, Mercury; Your controls improving." Hank told the Metalic girl, as she avoided burst of electricity from Noriko. He then turned his attention over to Rockslide and Laura. " That's five points deducted for destroying the Lamp shade.
" Dang! How come we aren't sparring in the danger room?" Santo asked Hank. He took a swing at Laura and missed, destroying a light stand with his fist.
" Because when you're full-fledged X-men, your battles won't happen in a reinforced sub-basment. Many will occur in public." Hank explained. " You need to learn how to fight without harming civilians."
" Easier said than done, especially when some of us are made of giant rocks." Santo replied.
"Oh hush, Santo. Besides, this isn't so bad. Just stop swinging around like a giant toddler and you might do better." Ian joked.
" Hey, you wanna come fight the little psycho ninja chick?" Santo asked the man.
Ian looked over to Laura and nodded. He jumped forward and grabbed the girl by her arm.
" Okay, let's switch. Have fun Julian!" Ian shouted to the boy. He tried to toss Laura over his shoulder, but the girl escaped with ease, twisting her arm free of Ian's grip and catching herself on his shoulders.
She leaped back over him and took a swipe at his eyes with the claws on her feet.
" Whoa, easy Laura!" Ian shouted at the girl. " What the hell?"
Laura took another swipe at Ian. This time Ian caught her arm and pulled her close to him.
" What the hell is going on, Laura? First you won't talk to me, now you try to actually hurt me. What's going on? Talk to me." Ian told the girl. " Laura, please."
He begged the girl to speak with him, but all she did was look away and grunt.
Ian wanted to try and get her to open up, but suddenly the ground, no the entire mansion, started shaking.
" Earthquake!" Julian shouted.
" No, look outside!" Hank spoke.
Everyone in the room quickly looked out the window and saw each and every single one of the sentinels surrounding the mansion taking off.
" The sentinels... They're taking off." Hank spoke.
" I thought their job was to keep an eye on us." Cessily asked.
" It is. For the office of National emergency to call them away..." Hank spoke.
" Something bad must be happening." Ian muttered. " Did we not break the Tv? We need to see what's going on."
Hank and the team quickly ran over to the Tv in the room and turned on the news channel.
Every single station was flooded with images of the Hulk holding onto Black Bolt's bloody body.
" You have twenty-four hours to evacuate the city, when I return, I want to see Mr. Fantastic, Iron Man, and Doctor Strange. And if they're not here... I'll do this to your whole stinking planet." The Hulk exclaimed. His message then cut out and the News station returned to normal.
" Dear god." Hank muttered.
" I don't think he can hear us, Hank." Ian told the man.
All of the teens and Hank were staring at the screen in disbelief.
One of the earth's mightiest heroes just openly declared war on them all, and even decimated someone, who most would say, is one of the strongest heroes on earth. Black Bolt.
" That was the scene in Manhattan, just a short while ago. The Inhumans' kin, Black Bolt appeared unconscious or worse." The Anchor man stated.
" We have to go there and take him down." Julian spoke up.
" Julian are you crazy?1" Ian asked the boy. " Julian this isn't a sentinel, or some crazy scientists. This is the Hulk. And he took down Black Bolt with ease." Ian stated.
" So? What's so special about him?" Julian asked.
" Julian, Black is one of the strongest heroes on earth. He's strong enough to trade blows with Thor, or Namor, even Hulk. And that's not talking about his voice. With one whisper Black Bolt could level an entire mountain range. The force of his Quasi-Sonic scream is devastating. A hyper sonic shout capable of destroying planets. A lot of people believed he was easily the second strongest man on the planet. And yet, Hulk brutalized him, like a child, or at least it appears that way. This isn't a fight we can win." Ian exclaimed.
He was panicked. And understandably so. The Hulk is one of the strongest fighters the planet had ever seen, and now he appeared to be bigger and stronger than he ever was. Wherever he had been, he had become drastically more powerful.
" Exactly! You all are going nowhere." Hank exclaimed. " I'm alerting the other teams, they're already in the field. They'll handle-"
THOOOOM!
It sounded like an explosion had just gone off. The house shook once more and Hank went running back to the window.
" Was, was that the sentinels again?" Santo asked.
" Oh.... Oh no." Hank exclaimed.
Ian and the others joined hank, looking out into the front lawn of the institute and there he stood.
THE HULK.
" Xavier. I want Xavier, now!" The Hulk exclaimed.
Suddenly, just as hulk arrived, Josh and David came bursting into the room
" Dr. McCoy, did you see?"
" I saw Elixir. I already sent a mayday call to the others." Hank told the boy. " Prodigy, round up the student's and take them to the sub-basement. Get them out through the old Morlock tunnels. Tell the Professor what's happening. The student's safety is priority one understand?" Hank told the boy.
" Yes sir." David replied.
" We'll buy you as much time as we can." Hank told the boy.
Meaning that He and the New X-Men were about to battle the Hulk, alone.
Ian sighed when he heard Beast speak, knowing full well, even as strong as he was. Fighting the Hulk was a completely different beast he wasn't ready to tackle.
" Buy? Awwww YEAH! I'm gonna fight the Hulk!" Santo exclaimed.
Ian shook his head at the boy, he understood a little why he was so excited to fight the Green Behemoth. But at the same time, Ian couldn't help but feel that Santo didn't truly understand the danger they all really were in.
" This is not Awesome!" Hank spoke up. " This is not a game. I've fought the Hulk before. Several times and I've never seen him like this. This is not the wounded child Hulk who just wants to be left alone. This is not the Barroom Brawler Hulk. This is a Hulk fueled by so much rage he could destroy everything in his path." Hank explained. " This building houses one-quarter of the mutants left on earth. ON EARTH! We're not fighting for fun, or to prove who's stronger, or to bring a villain to justice. We're fighting to prevent Genocide." Hank exclaimed. " I'll try to talk to him. But the Hulk's never been one for talking, so we need a plan. I'd never ask this if the stakes weren't so high, and the other instructors weren't away. If anyone doesn't feel-"
" Dr. McCoy... We get it. And we're in." Cessily was surprisingly the first to speak up.
Ian looked over at Noriko and grabbed her hand.
" Can't say I'm excited about all this. But I've never been one to run from a fight. And I won't start now." Ian stated.
Hank looked at all the students and smiled.
" You're all going to make wonderful X-Men." He said to the kids. " All right, here's what we're going to do. I'll try to talk him down, but if that fails, I want all of you behind me ready to attack if things go south. Onslaught and Rockslide up front. You two hit him first and hit him hard, stun him. Sooraya, Noriko, And Julian you three distract him, keep him moving. Use your powers to obscure his vision and give the others a chance to get close to him. Laura, Cessily, if you can, try to use your powers to keep Hulk in one place, that will give me a chance to get Josh close. Once we're close enough Josh, I want you to hit Hulk with your death touch. Everyone got it?" Hank asked.
" Yes sir!" They all replied.
" Okay, here we go." Hank stated.
He walked up to the front door and answered Hulk, who was knocking on the door hard. When he did, the green Goliath, dressed in his war attire, stood over him and glared down at Hank.
" Aw, Hello Bru.... Hulk. What." Hank spoke.
" Xavier. Bring him here." Hulk told the man, cutting him off.
" You know I can't do that." Hank told Hulk.
" Out of the way. I'll find him myself." Hulk told the man.
Ian felt his hands start to sweat and his stomach start to churn. He was nervous. And from the tone Hulk was speaking, he knew that all chances at things ending peacefully were completely out of the window.
" I'm afraid I can't do that either." Hank told the Hulk.
With that said, Hulk decided enough was enough.
" Wasn't asking." Hulk told the man. He raised his arm and back handed Hank out of the way.
" Hit him Hard!" Ian shouted. Ian brought his hands together and slammed them into the Hulks face, along with Santo.
The combined strength of the two boys sent Hulk stumbling away from the mansion.
Ian and the others rushed Hulk together.
Julian used his telekinesis to restrain the Hulk's arms, while Ian, Cessily, Santo, and Laura started attacking him up close together. Noriko, used her electricity to blast the Hulk in his face, and Sooraya used her sand to blind the man.
They all attacked together and yet even doing that they only seemed to irritate the Hulk, who only grunted as they attacked him.
" McCoy! You got two seconds to call these kids off, or what happens to them is on you!" The Hulk exclaimed.
" This ain't the first time I've punched it out with guys bigger'en me Hulk. It ain't the first and it won't be the last. Mrs. Sinclair's green-eyed boy never runs away from a fight." Ian told the brute. He landed a solid blow straight to Hulk's jaw and watched as the man simply looked down at him and spit out a glob of blood from his mouth. " Well hell."
Ian lunged at the Hulk, hitting him first in his stomach, then right in the center of his face.
Hulk leaned back, blood dripping from his mouth, he grabbed Ian by his face, his whole hand completely covering the boy's face, and slammed the boy as hard as he could right into the ground.
Ian sat there in the ground, bleeding from his head and looked up at the hulk.
' Dear god.' He thought to himself.
The Hulk moved past the boy and continued to face the others, Meanwhile Hank and Josh prepared to execute their plan to stop the Hulk.
" Ready, Josh?" Hank asked the boy.
"It's.... It's just my death touch." Josh spoke.
" Can't kill the Hulk." Hank finished for the boy. " It's an overdose of your healing touch, so I am hoping it'll overload his healing factor, which is the only way we stand a chance." Hank explained to Josh. He then leaped back out of the house and made a B-Line straight for Hulk.
" What if you're wrong? What if I do kill him?" Josh asked.
" Son.... They'll probably give you a medal." Hank told the boy.
" Time's up!" Hulk exclaimed. He smashed his hands on the ground and caused Noriko and the others to falter, sending them stumbling away from him. He then hopped up and tried to smash Hank and Josh with his fists.
Thankfully, Hank managed to avoid the Hulk's attack and Got Josh close enough to the Hulk, where the boy could touch him in the chest, and when he did the Hulk screamed in pain.
" You may want to Rethink this, Hulk. Do you understand what we just did?" Hank asked the man.
" Yeah. Made me Madder." The Hulk exclaimed.
" Attack formation Sigma!" Hank shouted.
Ian pulled himself out of the hole in the ground and joined the others as they surrounded the Hulk.
" Stupid mutants. Don't need my healing factor to beat these punks!" Hulk exclaimed. He ripped a pillar off of the mansion and slammed it down on top of the students.
Ian tried to catch it but was quickly and very easily overpowered by the Hulk, resulting in him being buried under the pillar.
Hulk then turned towards Julian.
" Telekinetic right? Try focusing with ruptured ear drums." Hulk told the boy. He clapped at Julian as hard as he can and Julian dropped to the ground, bleeding from his ears.
" Monster! Get away from him!" Sooraya yelled. She hit the Hulk over his head with a wave of Sand, but the Brute shrugged it off. Instead of falling, like Sooraya hoped, the Hulk ripped the ground up and pulled the water pipe out. He pointed it at Sooraya and sent her flying away.
" Doesn't surprise me, Xavier's hiding behind his students." Hulk stated. " Surprises me, you're all dumb enough to go along!"
" Damn, you Banner! They're kids!" Hank told the man. He jumped at Hulk and kicked him right in his chest.
" Don't talk to me." Hulk spoke. He then punched Hank right in his chest and sent him flying. " About Kids!"
"Porcoi?!" Santo exclaimed. He rushed Hulk and tried punching it out with him. " I can't believe I used to pretend to be you when we played superhero battles!" Santo exclaimed.
" You're the one who can control his body when it's in pieces. Question?" Hulk asked the boy. He grabbed both of Santo's arms and ripped them off. " Can you still control them, when they're in Connecticut?" Hulk asked the boy. He then tossed his arms far off into the distance. " Come on, who gets crippled next?" Hulk asked the remaining students.
" Holy, what is he doing?" Noriko exclaimed.
She looked at Ian and the others and suddenly, the situation began to sink into her mind.
Laura, however, readied herself. Popping her claws and lunging at the Hulk.
Hulk grabbed Laura's arms and laughed.
" Who're you? Wolverine's sidekick?" Hulk asked, taunting the girl. " You're a couple of claws short."
" No, I'm not." Laura told the man. She popped the claws in her feet and surprised Hulk, cutting his eyes out of his head.
" GAAAAH!" The Huk yelled. He dropped Laura and fell to the ground.
" He's hurt!" Hank exclaimed. Seeing the chance, they've been fighting for. Hank and the others leaped at Hulk. " Hit him Hard! Don't let up!" Hank yelled
Hank, Noriko, Cessily and Laura began laying it on Hulk as much as they could, hitting the man with everything they had. but it wasn't enough.
Their attacks only succeeded in making the Hulk angrier.
Hulk got up from the ground and punched them all as hard as he could., knocking out Noriko and Cessily and dropping Hank and Laura.
" Nic try! But my eyes just grew back. whatever that gold kid did finally wore off. He's not gonna do it again." Hulk explained. " As for this one." Hulk picked Laura up and held her over his head." You better hope she heals like Wolverine." Hulk stated. He then threw Laura straight through the entire mansion.
" NORIKO! LAURA!" Ian yelled for the women as he pulled himself off the ground again.
"LAURA!!!" Cessily also gave a shout. She got up quickly and jumped on Hulk in a rage., clawing against the man's back.
" It didn't have to be like this. I just wanted Xavier. But no one makes me weak." Hulk exclaimed. he grabbed Cessily and tossed her to the side with ease.
" YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Ian leaped at the Hulk, with all of his strength and punched the man in his face repeatedly.
Hulk managed to catch the boy's fist and then headbutted Ian and dropped him.
" I think I remember you now, kid. You're the one who punched it out Blonski. You're stronger than the others, I'll give ya credit for that kid. But you ain't stopping me!" Hulk told the boy. Hulk raised his hands over his head, ready to slam them down on Ian, when suddenly Hulk yelled out in pain and grabbed his back. " GRAAAAAAHHH!"
" You're real impressive beatin on kids, Bub. But it's grown-up time." Logan drove his claws across the Hulks back and cut him open deep.
Hulk turned around and watched as the rest of the X-men landed the X-jet on the front Lawn. Wolverine, Shadowcat, Colossus, Emma Frost, And Cyclops together confronted the green goliath.
" Finally! This is the fight I was expecting! Bring it on!" The Hulk exclaimed