16186/Seeing Red: Hulks Gone Wild

Seeing Red: Hulks Gone Wild
Date of Scene:	29 October 2023
Location:	A small town in New Jersey
Synopsis:	The Avengers are called to investigate a town that suffered a catastrophe. They find evidence it was caused by the Hulk, and find Bruce Banner nearby, just waking back up.
Cast of Characters:	Steve Rogers, Greer Grant, Tony Stark, Sara Pezzini, Scott Lang, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanoff
Tinyplot:	Seeing Red

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Steve Rogers has posed:
It has been a busy day. First there were bombs planted around the East Side of New York, which a few Avengers, including Tony, Natasha, Janet and Sara, helped to hunt down. Two bombs were detonated, the first down the street from the Daily Bugle, which preceded the bomber calling into J. Jonah Jameson's show and stating he'd planted 5 more bombs to wake up the city to how they were being dragged down by undesirables.

Though after those five bombs were found a sixth, unannounced bomb, was detonated another couple of blocks outside of the East Side. There were a number injured in the two explosions, though no fatalities despite the size of the blasts, thankfully.

After those events, one would hope for a little peace and quiet, whether back at the Avengers Mansion, in one's outside home, or really wherever one might choose. However, that wasn't meant to be.

The alert comes in late, at nearly 1 am the next morning. Calls for help coming from a tiny town of just a few hundred in a rural area of New Jersey. The people calling said things like first the power went out, and then houses and businesses were being destroyed and fires were breaking out. The power completely out making it difficult to see what was going on.

So it is the Avengers assemble, flying out together, those who don't have their own flight capabilities taking a Quinjet. Captain America is piloting it. "I'll drop everyone off just outside of town. Iron Man, can you send up some flares to light the place up?" Up ahead, there are bright lights a distance from the town, where it looks like there is a gap in the large towers carrying powerlines. The lines are sparking amidst the wreckage of the towers.

Up ahead they can spot the town not by electric lights, but by a few large fires. A gas station has gone up and the flames from it are climbing high into the night. By its grizzly light can be seen that some of the buildings in town are just rubble. Many of them have suffered damage, some severe. One house looks blown completely off its foundation. While another that still partially stands, there are a pickup truck and sedan sticking out of the wall on the first and also second story. A brick business on main street has a large hole on one wall, while the other side has collapsed completely. Some people can be seen on foot. Civilians, moving away from town having fled.

Cap brings the jet down nearby and opens up the rear hatch to let everyone out. "Let's fan out, search for survivors and injured, not to mention whatever caused this," Cap says.

Greer Grant has posed:
Not being a flyer, or even a pamphlet, Tigra's in the quinjet, strapped in carefully and looking out on the scene of destruction as they approach it. "Dammit," she whispers softly. "Just when you start to take this business a little too casually, see something like this, and remember how dangerous some people can be." No names named, even as she sees the wreckage of a truck carrying a load of Hostess fruit pies. Knowing Iron Man's likely to be dropping flares, she makes a note to keep her gaze more street level to protect her night vision, and when the hatch drops she's slip out quickly. There's a brief pause as she tilts her head up, eyes closed, nostrils flaring as she gets a first scent of the area. It will be a bit before she can differentiate anything, but it's the equivalent of a quick look around for her. Eyes open, she does a literal quick look around, crouches a bit and takes off at a jog towards damaged buildings, listening and sniffing for survivors. Her first stop is the building turned improvised second story car park.

Tony Stark has posed:
    After Cap's request for flares, Tony walks to the rear of the jet, lowers the ramp and tosses Cap a casual salute before jumping out backwards while the jest is still in midair. Repulsors power him into the sky as he raises both arms and launches a pair of flares. Yet another Stark invention, the Dayglo 4500(tm)'s light up the town like the sun at midday, revealing the destruction fully.

    <<Oh, well, this doesn't look good. Something or someone did a real job on this place. I'd hate to be the insurance company for the area, they're gonna go bankrupt.>>

    Inside the suit, He says "Homer, check in with Pepper, I seem to recall something about diversifying Stark Industries' portfolios. Make sure we're not doing insurance, it's just way too risky these days."

    He swoops over to the twisted metal that used to be one of the main electrical towers routing power into the town and looks things over.

    <<I could probably make some temporary repairs, but with all the other damage, I don't want to do it before we make sure it wouldn't kill anyone.>>

Sara Pezzini has posed:
To make life easier, and to save an outfit, Sara had armored up before boarding the jet. Witchblade failed to ruin a suit, but he complied to the request to save time. He may be an ancient entity not entirely certain of this current times social skills, and at times a complete asshole, but saving human life was part of his calling so if Sara said it was best, he listened at least eighty percent of the time.

Upon reaching the small town, both Sara and Witchblade began searching the area from the area with their eyes. The most dangerous situation was the gas station fire, so even as Cap was moving them into position, she was collecting containers of foam. Usually part of a system in a fire truck, Witchblade used tendrils of metal to wrap around the containers and hold them in place on Sara's back to ensure she had enough.

<"We will start taking care of the bigger fires,"> she informs the team. <"If we're needed for something else, just let us know.">

Even before the jet moves to land outside of town, Sara leaps out the back making a B-line for the gas station fire. In spite of the containers on her back the wings spread out beneath them first as tendrils of metal that form up into the metal feathered objects, making it very clear they aren't really needed to fly but apparently are all for show.

Scott Lang has posed:
"Someone can point out survivors to me. I can go Giant Sized for recovery efforts and snag small water towers for sudden fires," Ant-Man says from his spot on the jet. He's completely in costume and serious, for once. Quips can come after every is control. "I just don't have infrared or anything better in these lenses," although he thinks about upgrading these things.

When it's time to go, Ant-Man just waits for a spotter to point something out. Even if Iron Man send out some drones to help point him in the right direction. The size shifting can prove invaluable right now.

Once the hatch opens, Ant-Man focuses with a blue disc, "Click" he presses the button and the man starts to increase in size. <"Fires are like a triangle. A spark, a burning source, and oxygen. If you overload the oxygen part, or bring in a new element, you can disrupt the triangle.">

He's not sure whether Hank told him that or if it came from one of Cassie's textbooks. However, he will steal a page from Hulk's playbook and do a few claps and handwaves of hs own. Trying to snuff out flames with oxygen before trying to help out in other ways.

Bruce Banner has posed:
It's not an unusual thing, Banner wakes up somewhere he isn't used to. He has a headache and missing most of his clothes. He shakes his head and starts to sit up. Shattered clothes? Check. Secret card stitched in his pants? Check.

When he stands up, things are a little loopy and he drops back to his knees to shake a little. Holding his head, he tries to shake things off and slowly stands to stagger out of the building he finds himself in.

Looking around the area, he suddenly wishes he hadn't,"What?" he mutters,"When?"

Steve Rogers has posed:
Steve Rogers goes through the town's wreckage, looking about. <<Antman, have a man calling from under the rubble here,>> he calls from beside the remains of a brick building on the tiny main street. The whole place is just a little central area and then three or four streets with houses on them around it.

Cap shades his eyes from the light of the flares a bit as he looks at the ground. The sight of Hulk-sized bare footprints make Steve's heart feel like a tight band is gripping it. He turns and looks around. A spot that cars are rolled over and even leaves striped off all the foliage. Very consistent with a Hulk thunderclap of his hands.

<<This is looking familiar. Too familiar,>> Steve says in a pained voice. He pauses as he hears a voice from a house. He finds an exterior double door to a basement with debris on it, small enough he's able to shoulder it aside and open the doors. "Come on out. We'll have medical aid here soon," he tells the family that was hiding out in there before being trapped.

Steve moves on. <<Seems like it started on the side nearest the electrical towers. I've got footprints, big ones, leaving town to the west. Greer, can you track them?>> he says, asking the Avenger with the sensitive nose and great eyesight.

Greer Grant has posed:
Striped legs get Tigra up to the second floor and claws dig in to the exterior to hold on. She pauses briefly to listen to the building, for sounds of supports failing, walls collapsing. For the moment it seems safe enough, and she squeezes in between the side of the pickup and the not very cartoonish outline it made in the upper story wall. "Anyone in here?" she calls out, hearing a weak moan in response. As careful as she can, well aware of the risk to neck and back injuries vs the danger of leaving someone here, she forces open the driver's side door and eases the teenage driver out of it. "Easy, friend, just think about explaining this to insurance," she suggests to distract him from his injuries.

The stairs down are blocked by rubble, and she's not going to be able to squeeze out the way she got in while carrying the kid. "If anyone hears what sounds like a Dodge Ram dropping from a second story, that's just me," she calls out, then braces herself and starts shoving the truck. It resists at first, but clawed feet get stronger purchase and with a groan of protesting metal it shifts and then comes free, dropping to the ground outside in a smash, allowing her to scoop up the driver and get him to an aid station.

Tony Stark has posed:
    Iron Man swoops in low over the town, scanning for trapped citizens amongst the rubble and destruction. Seeing how Cap and Ant-Man seem to have the main street handled, he circles the outskirts, helping one or two people out from under fallen walls and the like. Fortunately, as this is a small town, most of the houses are only a single floor and usually made of lighter materials. He pulls an aluminum roof off one family, then finds a more injured older gentleman under a pile of bricks. He removes enough bricks to free the man, advises him to remain there until medical help arrives and marks him as a medical request on the HUD in his suit, which sends the request to the Quinjet as well.

    <<Ok, this is all looking a little too familiar to me. Anyone heard from Big Green in the past day or so?>>

    He hovers over the area, sending up another pair of flares when the first two finally go dim. <<I think we can call in first responders at this point, doesn't seem to be any present danger, but these folks need assistance.>>

    Matching action to words, he opens channels to several nearby town's fire and ems, calling them in to help the people here.

Sara Pezzini has posed:
Foam was a wonderful material. I starved the fire of oxygen while neutralizing the flammability of the chemicals, in this case gasoline. Sara wastes no time at all unleashing streams of foam at the fire, working from the outer most edges inward toward the building.

In her head Witchblade is whispering about the injured people that were now being reported by the other Avengers. When he wasn't in 'maim everything' mode, his need to take care of human beings took control.

<"I rarely hear from him," she offers before turning the spray toward a flame attempting to get larger. "We need an area cleared for the walking wounded to go to, as for those buried or seriously wounded, do not move them. Tell me where they are and I will go to them. Witchblade can't heal dead.">

Moving the other nozzle around, she starts up the second container of foam as well, spraying both as she flies around the fire in an attempt to get it put out more quickly. <"Fire is almost out here, then I'll start finding the wounded and tending to them... do we have any first responders on the ground from near by towns?">

Scott Lang has posed:
Ant-Man will go from giant sized to regular size when a drone starts to guide him. He'll move toward a building and then slip inside. Once there he'll alternate between regular and small until he makes it to a person. A constant whirl of "VRRSH" "VRRM" between sizes. He'll get t the first person, "I'm here to help you!" The regulator on the mask actually doubles as effective helmet for fiery situations, "The Avengers are here," and then he will shrink down those he found, keep them that way and go through the motions again. When he comes out Ant-Man will return them to normal size and yell, "Run!" and point toward a clearing they can go. <"How bad is it?"> he says knowing that someone has to have a really good idea of the full picture here.

Bruce Banner has posed:
Banner walks out of the building and the light of day is not really a comfort. He looks at the footprints on the ground and the shattered clothing on his body. Leaning against the wall of the building for a moment he talks to himself,"When?"

Shaking his head and tries to gets the cobwebs free and figure out how he got here,"There were bombs. Another that went off close." he continues,"Out in the crowd..." He stops and looks around,"...and now I am here." Quieting again he looks at the damage,"Who?"

Natasha Romanoff has posed:
Natasha Romanova would go in a quick defensive position, following the team. She's focused not necessarily as much on search nd rescue as she is for signs of an ambush. SHe's expecting that they're going to be hit with something. At the very least a rear guard operation. It's the way she would go about it. Missing comrade divides their attention, team splits up and is engaged in conversation while searching..

Natasha is quiet, and in 'hunter' mode as she waits for what she thinks is a counterattack in the waiting.

Steve Rogers has posed:
Replying to Antman, Captain America says over comms, <<Pretty bad. Though I haven't seen any signs of anyone killed yet, at least. Let's have those needing medical care gather on the south side, away from the fire. I'll call in for medical teams now it looks like the threat is passed.>>

Steve takes care of putting in that call, and then calls over to Greer. "Looks like Hulk-prints moving this way. Can you track them?"

He gazes up into the sky briefly, shading his eyes but gauging how long those flares have left before they reach the ground and their light is lost. "I'd like to find out if he's still in the area, or if there is anywhere else that might be at risk."

<<Tony, can you keep an ear out for sightings or calls for help anywhere else in the area?>> Cap sends.

Greer Grant has posed:
After dropping the injured driver off, Tigra turns towards Cap when he calls to her. "On it," she says with a brief nod and then a brief scramble up some rubble to get a higher vantage point. Fortunately she doesn't have to get higher, considering the damage to buildings. She spots the nearest prints, and gets a bead on the next set. "Heads out this way," she points out, then starts following the foot prints, leaping from one to another as she traces their path, tail flicking in agitation.

Tony Stark has posed:
    In the air above the ravaged town, Tony is already working on routing fire and medical response to where they are most needed as they begin to arrive from nearby towns. <<Already on it. We should get someone to do this kind of thing when there's no combat involved, kind of a search and rescue arm of the Avengers or something.>>

    Another two flares replace the two that are dimming. <<That's the last two flares I keep loaded, once these are out, we're back to flashlights. Hopefully some of the responders will have searchlights. I think we can leave this to the pros while we go looking for the architect of all this destruction.>>

Sara Pezzini has posed:
The last of the gas station is smothered in foam before Sara removes the packs and drops them on the ground... one tank is completely empty, the other half. Witchblade continued to nag in her head, a constant drone over the wounded, and with the fire out she lifts herself in the air to start searching out those who might be buried in rubble.

<"Gas fire out and I've begun looking for people trapped in the rubble,"> she reports, letting Witchblade's magical eye search for life among the debris by holding the Gauntlet up.

She spots Ant-Man shrinking in size among his search through the buildings so says directly to him, <"Hey Ant, if you can determine the stability of those you find, take them to the south and I'll meet you there, other wise please announce your location and Witchblade will come to them.">

Scott Lang has posed:
Ant-Man pauses and responds back to Sara, <"Got it. I may need assistance if a building is unstable. IF I clear a path in those situations, can you assist with the evacuation?"> Ant-Man will move with those he saves and then rush toward the nearest set of flames or smoke that anyone can point out and he'll repeat again. Going small, he'll slip inside, being careful of flames or heat. Luckily there's enough of a heads up that extra discs are on his person, but those are a limited supply, still. Eventually he will start to run out.

One of the differences between Hank and Scott, Hank's body can handle the transformations naturally. Scott's needs a little push. Maybe one day his body will become more like his predecessors, but there's not much he can do about that in the moment. <"Is everyone else on the team alright?"> he'll ask just to have his own mind focus as the heat starts to get to him in this next house. The question is a distraction he can mentally cling to.

Bruce Banner has posed:
"Did I die?" he mutters and looks around,"No. It wouldn't be night time if I woke." Reasoning this can make a sane man mad, let alone someone in Bruce's condition,"If it was Fixit, I'd still be him and probably getting ready to eat heavy sedatives in a few hours."

This isn't helping, mental gumnastics. He shakes it off once more and he staggers away from the building with intention to find his way back to the mansion and try to figure out what is happening.

Natasha Romanoff has posed:
Natasha is quiet. Not commenting along the radio network. She's not quite in full stealth mode, but trusting the others to secure the area and rescue civilians. She's on perimeter duty. Her weapon out in front of her as she's going to sweep about for signs of the attackers or evidence for whomever did this in the firs tplace. IF she's called back to help she'll join them.

But for her mind, they're in a probable active conflict zone, and they have to be ready to engage whatever's coming after them.

Steve Rogers has posed:
<<Tigra and I are following what looks like Hulk's footprints,>> Captain America sends over the comms. <<West side of the town leading away from it.>> He turns and flips his shield over backwards, letting the light from the flares reflect off the underside better than it would off the colored part, using it like a mirror to signal back to Iron Man where he's flying overhead. <<Witchblade, let us know how the injured are doing. Glad to have you along with your healing abilities.>>

He turns back, following the Avenger's resident cat totem, until finally: "Look, up ahead!" he says, pointing to where they can see Bruce Banner moving unsteadily out from some small outbuilding that someone once built out here. "Bruce, are you ok?" he asks, walking over to the man who is probably holding his pants up. <<We found Bruce.>>

Greer Grant has posed:
Tigra's tail gets a bit more mobile as she starts being able to pick out Banner's scent. "Think I can smell him, Cap," she says over her shoulder. "Couldn't pick him out with all the smoke and everything." She clambers atop a recreational vehicle that will never see Montana and points ahead, helping mark the way that Rogers is signaling. She stays there up there, twisting a bit to let the wind brush past her with different scents, not trusting herself to be close to what was obviously a recently Hulked Banner.

Tony Stark has posed:
    Iron Man is currently feeling a bit like a 911 operator as he routes fire trucks and EMS to where they are needed. Once they have an incident HQ set up, he passes the reins to the fire captain and checks his HUD for the team. Nat, circling the area in a normally paranoid manner, check. Ant Man and Witchblade working on search and rescue, also check. Cap and Tigra finding Banner - that needs watching.

    Repulsors flare in the sky as Iron Man switches from hover to flight, arrowing in the direction of Cap and Tigra. Coming in to land beside Cap and Banner, he shakes his head. "I thought we had a long talk about breaking other people's toys, Bruce. What happened?" Below his normal level of snark is actual concern, this kind of scene hadn't happened in some time.

Sara Pezzini has posed:
<"If you tell me where they are, I can help evacuate them. My primary concern is keeping them motionless until Witchblade can ascertain the extent of their wounds," Sara states back to Ant-Man, already flying toward south. Even as she is going, the spiky and sharp aspects of the armor melt away to a more sleek, less frightening and deadly looking covering. The Gauntlet itself goes perfectly smooth though an intricate design covers the back of the hand up to the elbow... Witchblade still likes to be fancy.

The healing comes directly from Witchblade, in fact Sara must place the Gauntlet that encases her right hand on the person to allow the ancient god to share his energy with them and heal their wounds. That said however, before touching anyone she speaks softly to them, offering assurances and comfort, and only when they seem comfortable does she lay the fingers of the Gauntlet on them.

There is no visible flash of light, no fancy sparks or dancing lights. The red stone on the back of the Gauntlet glows for a moment, and the person being touched can feel a warmth spread over them. The entire process takes seconds, a little longer for more seriously injured, but Sara is able to move from person to person more easily as the citizens can visibly see the healing take place. Black eyes, broken bones, cuts, scraps, deep lacerations... there isn't a wound that he can't heal, and Sara ensures that she moves from the very worst injured to the minor injuries.

Scott Lang has posed:
Scott will begin the motions going back into the next place. Granted, he will pull them out as best he can. If the man can't move without without them being flat, he'll shrink them down. This is needed at least once.

Quickly over the coms, he'll set the person down and stretch them out.

<"Medic!"> he says not wanting to move them more than he did and he'll lip inside to work on more. Everyone is up to the elbows, or more, in variious dangers so Scott doesn't wait for Sara to show up before diving back in. Breathing out, he'll try to assess what he can. See if people are good enough to walk before bringing them out.

Bruce Banner has posed:
Bruce looks up at the sound of his name in a familiar voice. He raises his hands in a shrug and admits,"I have no idea. No idea. I wasn't anywhere near the fight." he explains and starts to make his way to Cap. What time is it? Has it been 24 hours since the explosions?" He is grasping at straws for sure, trying to sort it out.

Natasha Romanoff has posed:
Natasha Romanova would speak calmly as it's announced that they've located Bruce. <<Stark, wide spectrum scan of the area. Five kilometers. Search for other life forms that are conscious or electrical activity consistent with drones or mobile units>> By that she means robots. <<That will have to do until we can get satellite coverage>> Even as they locate Bruce and go with the rescue, no matter how little reason to indicate there's anything else present beyond pepole needing to be saved..

Natasha waits for the enemy to strike. It is simply how she is. How she was raised and how she was forged as a weapon.

Steve Rogers has posed:
Over the comms, Cap checks on Scott's progress. <<Antman, how is it going? Do you have everyone out there? There should be paramedics arriving now in addition to Sara.>>

Though after checking in on that, Steve's attention is falling more fully on Bruce. He does glance to Tigra briefly, Steve's eyes showing concern. "It's about 1:30 in the morning. In a town on the west side of New Jersey. There were explosions in New York this afternoon, about 3 or 4 PM," he offers.

There's empathy in Steve's face. "We have a Quinjet back... back that way," he says, not wanting to bring up the town that was destroyed. As if thinking it won't do Bruce any good hearing about it. "You're ok?" he asks Bruce Banner.

Greer Grant has posed:
Tigra looks up as Tony Stark makes even just showing up an act in style. Her brief moment of amusement is quashed as she meets Captain America's gaze, and then she looks back to Banner, watching how he reacts to the more senior Avengers. She crouches down at the edge of the RV's roof, keeping a watch but again, not getting closer. "Maybe we should bring the jet over here," she suggests quietly, catching Rogers's brief hesitation. No sense rubbing Banner's face in it. Or possibly exposing him to the citizens, or them to him.

Tony Stark has posed:
    In order to make their resident spook feel better, Tony opts to let Cap handle Bruce. The First Avenger is a lot more diplomatic, even Tony can admit that. Rising back up into the air, he starts doing sensor sweeps over the area, looking for anything unusual for a small town - robots, nuclear reactors, high explosives, you know, the normal supervillain stuff.

    <<So far nothing out of the ordinary. Other than the obvious question of how there hell he got out here in the middle of nowhere, it looks like a fairly normal green episode. We might need to find more things to throw him at to keep his smash levels in the right place.>>

Sara Pezzini has posed:
Hearing the call from Ant-Man, Sara finishes healing the person Witchblade is presently touching, takes a few steps back and jumps into the air. <On my way now!> she replies, even as she is headed toward the location. <Cap, I think I managed the most serious at the triage location, have the paramedics start assessing those that remain while I help Ant-Man.>

Meeting up at Ant-Man's location, she remains hovering while laying the Gauntlet on the wounded man. Witchblade focuses his attention there while she looks around. <Is this the last building to be checked?> She asks Ant-Man, hearing him inside the building looking for others. She can hear the other conversations taking place, but for the moment she is focusing on the task at hand figuring that if she is needed, they will call. Yes, she's worried about Banner, he was a friend and clearly something had happened, but that worry needed to take a backseat to other things for the time being.

Scott Lang has posed:
<"Let me clear out this one and I can head to the last. I'm just still doing sweeps and i got more wounded,"> Ant-Man admits honestly. Although, if he can, he would ask Sara out for a beer. Right now, he thinks it's just good to have a first responder on the frontlines. It keeps them all focused in his mind. So, he's just happy to have this teammate that can help them band together in a rescue situation. Similarly, he thinks highly of Captain in Strategic information. Same for Widow, and others, that have lead groups into dicey situations involving death and combat.

Bruce Banner has posed:
Still oblivious to the carnage for the most part, Bruce's brain is on something,"If heart stopped, I'd still be the other one. Not the one you know." he comments,"If it was Fixit, things would be worse because he'd be halfway to Vegas by now and preparing a cocktail of sleeping pills and whiskey to keep me asleep all day." To most that probably makes zero sense, but Bruce says it like all makes perfect sense,"Nothing I remember could have triggered the change..."

Steve Rogers has posed:
The suggestion from Greer about bringing the jet to Banner instead of letting him see the village, seems a good one to Cap. <<Nat, can you bring the Quinjet to our position, please?>> Steve asks over comms.

When he gets an affirmative, he turns back to Bruce. "I didn't know you were anywhere near the explosions. Haven't heard from you all day," he says. "Seems like if are remembering though, you were in the thick of some mayhem. I was out of town but I've seen the footage already," he says, resting a hand gently on Bruce's shoulder to console him.

The jet comes in before too long, landing in a clear space nearby. Cap will make sure they fly away from the village instead of over it when they leave, staying low enough Bruce won't notice it. <<Team, we've got the jet over here. Soon as the fire and paramedics and police are ready to take over, let's get Bruce back to the Mansion.>>

Greer Grant has posed:
Tigra stands back up as the Quinjet is on its way, helping provide a visual reference point for their location, not that Natasha likely needs it, but it's one of those small things one does to try to help when one can't really do anything meaningful. She'll keep quiet, but listens to Banner and Cap, wondering where the whiskey and sleeping pills comes from. A slow look around the town, what's visible to her, and a drooping of her tail.

Tony Stark has posed:
    Iron Man hovers for a moment, then drifts over to the small group. "If you guys have things handled here, I'm gonna make my own way back. I'm having a thought or two I want to work on before I get distracted. Give a yell if you need anything from me, otherwise I'll be at the Tower."

    Seeing that Bruce is trying to work things out, he's fairly certain the others can deal with him, as he's not in the kind of mood then ends up with him turning green. Despite his exterior, Tony does actually care about his teammates, so he does add, "Take care of him, ok? We'll figure it all out."

    With that, repulsors flare and Iron Man shoots into the sky, curving around onto a path that will carry him straight to Stark Tower and vanishing into the night.

Sara Pezzini has posed:
<You've been amazing Ant-Man, thank you. I couldn't have found all these people by myself, even if Witchblade believes he could have.> Sara states once the man Witchblade healed is starting to stand up, confused, looking around.

Her attention turns back to him, offering a comforting tone as she helps him up by literally lifting him above the damaged building. It wouldn't do to just set him down in the middle of the carnage, so she takes him south to the triage area where the citizens of the town have all begun to gather.

Once she had him safe, she flies back previous building to look around for more people, then moves to where she last saw Ant-Man to help him with the last injured person buried in the rubble.

Once they have the person free, and Witchblade has healed them, she takes them to the south just as she had the other. On the ground she starts walking through the wounded with an EMT, telling him what was wrong with each person. Having seen to the majorly wounded already, those with minor wounds would now have to rely on modern medicine to recover.

<I've passed the injured over to the paramedics but can report no one died, and everyone who required it was extracted from buildings. I'm going to remain in the area to assist as best I can, will get myself home from here.>

Bruce Banner has posed:
Bruce makes his way towards the, aware of the huge footprint, but not much else as he is stuck in his own mind,"Five explosions distant. One close. Next thing I know, I am in that building." He frowns at looks at the clothes this time, studying the pants and any tatter of the shirt.

Steve Rogers has posed:
Cap walks with Bruce and the rest of the team who are departing on the jet to it, making sure Banner gets situated. He's not unused to seeing Banner struggling to deal with one of his episodes with 'The Other Guy'. The most the team can do is be there for him.

As the jet lifts off finally, Cap's mind is returning to the memory of the sights of the destroyed village.

He hopes this is not going to end up causing them problems.