Bruce shook his head. "I think you're going to regret this."
Tony jetted a little way up into the air and hovered in front of Bruce. "I never regret anything, it's a life choice decision on my part."
Steve shook his head. "Famous last words if I ever heard them."
Bruce's lips thinned. "Alright, you asked for it."
The others watched as Bruce's frame tensed, muscles straining and quickly taking on a green hue as they grew at an incredible rate. Bruce's transformation into the Hulk only took a couple of seconds, his body bulging out into knotted muscles and pure instinct.
Tony watched him transform, unable to help being amazed every time he saw it happen. The Hulk towered over him, a heaving mass of green muscle and mindless destruction. Tony smiled up at him. "I'm not going to lie, Bruce, every time you do that, I get a little bit moist."
The Hulk made a guttural sound and swatted at where Iron Man was bobbing in front of him. Tony made it out of the way just in time, but that only seemed to infuriate the Hulk. He roared and charged at Tony. Again, Tony just managed to get out of the way in time. Not so the wall, which took the brunt of the Hulk's instant rage. Concrete and metal shattered and spewed everywhere and the whole room shook as it absorbed the impact from the Hulk's charge.
"Okay, buddy," said Tony, hovering in the air behind him as the Hulk lumbered to his feet, "we all know it's not easy being green, but how we find you a happy place to go to, hm? Some place you feel safe and secure and less homicidal."
"Stop talking, noisy man," the Hulk warned him with a low growl, eyes narrowing as he watched Tony dance around his head. He snarled and picked up a block of fallen concrete and hurled it at Tony, who blasted it into smithereens with his hand blaster.
Tony held up his hands. "Come on," he cajoled the rampaging beast, "you must have some kind of happy place, a sandy beach, a babbling brook, an enormous green woman? Just go to that place and breathe. Out with the red, in with the blue."
The Hulk gave an ear splitting roar, the force of his breath blowing Tony back against the far wall while Steve and Thor were forced to grab onto the observation railing as the platform rattled beneath their feet. Steve widened his stance and called out some advice to Tony. "Just a thought, Tony, but that breathing thing isn't your friend. Don't use it again."
Tony shook his head to clear the ringing in it and was just in time to see a huge, green fist heading directly for him.
"Hulk kill!" screamed the monster as he looked to grind Tony into the concrete.
Tony jetted out of the way to avoid the Hulk's fist but his opponent was too quick for him, using his other hand to grab at Tony's leg. The Hulk started to swing Tony around and around so fast that he became a red and gold blur until he let go and Tony hurtled into a wall.
Steve grinned. "Now, there's the price of admission right there."
"Are you hurt, Tony Stark?" Thor called out. "Do you require our assistance?"
Tony's head was still spinning violently from having essentially just participated in a hammer toss competition with him being the hammer. "No, I got this," he said unevenly.
"Are you watching a different fight then we are?" asked Steve sceptically.
"Move, Tony Stark!" Thor barked at him.
Tony still had trouble focusing but the Thunder God's urgent command had him engaging thrusters and blasting upwards. The Hulk had charged at him while he was lying there and once again Tony had narrowly avoided being crushed by the brute force of his fellow Avenger. The wall, already damaged from Tony's impact gave way and a huge section gave way and fell into the joining room.
Tony grimaced to see the sight. "Oh man, Pepper is going to be pissed." It was the room Pepper had dedicated to showing a sizeable portion of Tony's highly expensive art collection in.
The Hulk stood up in the brightly lit room with its walls littered with priceless artworks and shook his head, dislodging concrete dust and metal shards.
Tony fired a couple of distracting blast at the Hulk's shoulders and chest. "This way, Jumbo, we don't want you in there."
The Hulk batted at the blasts as they bounced off him, the action seeming to only make him angrier. He picked up the entire wall which he'd just broken through and raised it above his head, not caring about the expensive artwork hanging off it. "Hulk smash stinging man!" he raged, preparing to throw the tonnes of metal and concrete at Tony.
Just then Pepper stepped out of the elevator into the scene of utter carnage. She gave a little gasp of surprise as she saw the destruction and then another one when she saw the Hulk, practically standing over her with a huge wall raised above his head.
"Pepper!" said Tony urgently, his whole body tensing. "DON'T MOVE!"