5 Chapter 4: The Price [RAW]
New York
Abandoned Building
Location, Banner's Home
After he sent Natasha out of his new home Bruce return to his Anime Marathon, no longer having any desire to continue watching.
He turned it off and went to bed thinking about what Natasha said.
During his earlier research, he was aware of the feats of Captain America which was through experimentation. Something he could easily accept since his last world was not that far off from such things especially, Orochimaru.
Having front seat of Ironman and his buddy fighting a bad guy with the same technology was also believable and something he can easily accept.
But Thor? the Norse mythology being real and that they visited earth? Was that even possible?
Were they connected to the one who sent him here?
He, with great effort and will, was able to hide his thoughts from that entity. He wasn't idle during those numerous times he reincarnated and talk with the entity, which he will now call Michael.
So, Michael, although quite powerful with the feats he showed was not omnipotent.
Because if he was, then he would have been able to know his real hidden thoughts on top of his hidden thoughts which was below his normal thoughts which was covered by his surface thoughts.
It's a trick of the mind he developed to be able to learn how to wield various weapons, mainly to kill.
He remembers the first time he realized he was doing a bad thing labeled by society. He was able to realize, he was a bad guy according to the society.
What did he feel about how they saw him as?
For him, it was all an excuse of the weak. If they truly want their thoughts to matter to him, then they have to be stronger than him.
Ending this kind of thought, Bruce got up and went to the nearest window glass where the city illuminated the sight of New York City.
He might be at the outskirts but that doesn't mean he can't look at the city especially with the building he staying at being taller than regular buildings.
Bruce was at a dead end. He was aware that Michael who sent him here, can't exactly peek on what he was doing and that, Michael most probably already assumed him dead with the way he sent him away as fast as he could.
He remembers the only reason he was able to hold for as long as he could before he ran out of Jutsu to learn.
"I miss you, Tsunade." tears ran through his face as it coincidentally rain outside. It made him able to look at his face in the mirror.
'I need to get my strength back as soon as possible. I need to train.' And so with new conviction in mind, Bruce had a goal to follow, for now.
6 months later
SHIELD tried and failed to track Bruce's actions. The only time they were able to check on him is when he is at home.
But when he goes outside, he literally disappears from their technical and personal surveillance several times that they gave up on it.
It was now normal for them to be able to check Bruce's schedule when he is at home. He was only around in the evening from monday to friday.
Meanwhile on the weekends, he ends up relaxing while watching anime on Saturdays while he walks around New York on Sundays.
Luckily, they were able to follow his tracks during his walks. Well, sometimes they were unable to.
Bruce POV
It's been months since I got here. I'm glad that training was still effective as I was able to cross the Kage level of chakra reserves.
My Sharingan is still in three tomoe but I was able to recover one of the bloodlines I experimented myself upon.
I have all five elements affinity as expected since I've been a Sage six paths. I will only grow stronger as time passes.
All of this, and I would give it all up in a heartbeat just to be with the both of gou again. Sigh.
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[AN: If you don't like Naruto characters appearing, you are welcome to drop at this part. It was nice knowing you read up to here.]
New York
Stark Tower
0900 hours
It was a bright day for the people of new york and people were living the their normal daily lives in repetition.
Then suddenly, the skies turned Dark. Wind blew hard yet not strong enough to be called a storm.
There was no rain but lightning lit up the skies each passing few seconds while thunder followed closely, so close that the people below were all having a foreboding feeling.
Soon the clouds turned red in color for exactly 2 minutes before it disappeared completely. Leaving people baffled as to what it means.
Out of all the people living on earth, Only one person was able to know the meaning of what exactly happened.
As soon as the people relaxed that it was nothing, it precisely in that moment that the clouds cleared up and spat out a dark light with a hint of red, into the roads of New York City.
Once the dark light dissipated, two individuals wearing cloaked robes in black with red clouds design were seen by almost everyone on the scene.
On one side was was a blond guy with his hair tied into a pony tail while he's front hair hides the implanted lens on his left eye.
On his side was a rather short but huge man who looked hunched. He was wearing a straw hat to hide his head while white strips of clothing covers his face except his eyes.
"Where am I?" the blonde guy asked and looked around and saw his partner.
"Sasori? Is that you?" he asked the other one beside him who also looked back to him.
"Hmmn, Deidara. Yes it is me. Do you know where we are?"
"I honestly don't know man. All I have is a ringing voice inside my head telling me to kill a big green guy."
"I feel the same command. Whoever it is that's giving us this command is probably the one responsible for bringing us here."
"So, what do we do?"
"First we clean up the witnesses, regroup and find out where we are."
"I don't see a problem with that besides the fact that all of this people around us are too weak for me to use my precious clay."
"I'll take care of it." Before Sasori could do what he was planning, a new group of people surrounded them from their glowing and noisy vehicles.
These annoyed the blonde guy, whom was Deidara.
"Just kill them all already Sasori they are annoying and loud. What's that guy doing with that thing?" Deidara asked as he saw one of the people went out his car and held a speaker.
"Uh, Freeze! You are in the city of New York. Identify yourselves , are you aliens?" The police officer was unsure what to say to the., so he asked as honestly as he could.
The hunched guy's reply however was by opening his mouth that threw out poison coated senbons at the police officer.
The police officer was unable to say anything upon being hit and was slowly experiencing pain he's never felt before.
Sasori's actions earned him the NYPD's retaliation as they fired their guns at the two, who vanished from their position, and was soon slaughtering the people around them who didn't bother evacuating from the start.
Cries of agony and screams of fears was accompanied by small scale explosions and sounds of metal ripping meat apart. Blood bathed the roads of new york as bodies were littered every where. Corpses blown to bits can be found in every building and all of this was done by only two people while increasing in range.
Deidara was controlling small scale grasshoppers of his clay and have them explode where in a group of people so he can take out more.
While Sasori was controlling Hiruko's metal tails as it swung left and right beheading bystanders or literally splitting them apart in half from the waist down.
For the first time in New York history.
A mass genocide was happening in broad daylight. Not even the NYPD who kept coming in batches were spared. The people of New York City are slowly getting eradicated mercilessly.
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SHIELD HQ.
"Sir, people are dying! Are we not going to do anything?" asked a balding man to his superior who replied in anger.
"You know full well I have already issued an order to send in help! Hill, what's the delay?"
"The council." A woman replied while frantically pushing buttons on his desk.
"Fuck the council! Coulson!"
"Sir!".
"Gather up a few teams as much as you can and use phase 2, bring Hawkeye then call Widow. Tell her that her vacation is cut short. We need the big guy, agree to any and all demand of compensation as long as he cooperates on taking care of the problem." Fury is aware that they were not the only beings in the universe.
But this beings who visited earth today is not something he expected from the list of aliens he knew.
They don't look like humans but they don't act like humans either. Their fast enough to dodge bullets and have some weird powers.
"Yes, sir." Coulson went ahead and did what was commanded of him.
"Sir, the council are asking for you." Fury sighed,
"Call out Stark. This is just my gut telling me we need all hands we can and my gut is normally right." he commanded Hill as he went to a room and accepted the call from the council.
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Malibu, CA
Stark Mansion
It was a very normal day for Tony and he was upgrading his Mark VI and VII Armor. He was already successful in creating the Hulk buster 2 months back. Then he heard JARVIS'S voice.
[Sir, Agent Maria Hill of SHIELD is on the line.]
"Huh, Hill? I don't know who that is, but I know SHIELD. Still, doesn't mean I want to talk to them. Just send it to voicemail JARVIS." Tony dismissed but the screens in his workshop turned on, showing the genocide that was happening in New York City.
[I'm afraid you need to take the call sir.] Tony had his eyes wide open as anger filled his heart. Who the hell dares to openly commit such a crime?
"Run the upgrade on Mark VII as fast as possible JARVIS and patch Hill in."
"Stark? are you there?"
"What do you got for me agent?"
"Two unidentified individuals in a dark cloaked robe with red clouds design suddenly appeared in the center of New York. Both are fast enough to dodge bullets, one is controlling some kind of small scale bombs while the other has a large metal tail on his back. We need your help, the team we sent might not be enough."
"Don't let them engage, focus on evacuating the rest of the civilians. What else you got for me?"
"Good luck, and Hulk is also being convinced as we talk."
"Good, I'll warm them up for him."
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Banner's home
Bruce was startled upon sensing two individuals with huge chakra suddenly appearing from a distance.
Looking over from the rooftop of his building using his Sharingan, he immediately recognized Deidara and Sasori.
'Is this the gift Michael spoke about? Will more of them come? Or are they the only ones?'
'Until I am sure, I will not show my cards even in front of these two. The power of the original owner of this body is enough. I can understand why he treated his power a monstrosity, it was something he has no knowledge of. It's always the unknown that humanity fears. Little did he know the feats that he could do with this power.' Bruce's red Sharingan eyes turned bright green as his vision improved a lot.
He watched, as the people of New York City were being murdered. Somehow he felt nostalgic. Was it wrong to feel that way?
He could feel the disturbance in space behind him but he didn't move and let it be. Soon orange energy sparked in circle as a bald woman came out of a portal.
"Are you not going to stop them Dr. Banner?"
"It's not my Job. Probably yours?"
"Indeed, yet I was helpless in preventing them to enter our world."
"You might be getting old. You should start planning your retirement." That earned him a smile from the woman but he was unable to see since he was still observing the genocide.
He can see Ironman on his way to the scene now while Natasha he's friendly tracker is on her front door.
"Sounds like you have company. We will meet again Dr. Banner." The woman in yellow robes said as he entered the portal again and closed it.
"Hopefully so, I'm intrigued by your way of transportation. But still not as cool as mine." He said as he too disappeared.
End of Chapter 4
