Sea Serpent

Chapter 61- Downtime

Third Person

It was strange, all the people who were affected were scattered across Atlantis, but whenever someone asked them about what happened, they would eventually say the same thing.

There was Professor Pikalus, currently in the hospital and waking up to find his sister by his side. He grinned, soon getting one from her too. When he tried to move, he winced, finding he was a lot weaker than he remembered. It took him five seconds to figure out why.

"Hulk-Be-Gone serum?" He guessed. She nodded and he sighed, letting his head fall back against the pillow. "Remind me to make some sort of detox for when I wake up later, that stuff is strong."

Nadine snickered. "I told you you didn't need that much poison in it but no, the scientist knows best apparently."

"Okay, okay, I was cocking, sue me! I created the concept of the Gauntlet that day too, I didn't think I'd get anything wrong!" Professor responded.

They both laughed at the memory, before it stopped and neither could avoid the topic any longer. "So..." Nadine started, lightly messing with the bedsheets. "What was it like?"

"Hmm?"

"Being Hulk. I mean, you've told me before but this time..." Her voice trailed off and she met his eyes. "Niall, you were really different. You were actually taking orders from someone and you didn't really have an object of anger, you were just angry! Normally, there's no reasoning with the Hulk and he always goes after something, so what happened?"

Professor went silent for a moment, choosing his words.

Then there was CannibalCrab, Selena, Sam and Blooper all back at the lab and sitting around the table. Cody sat at the head of them all, and had more than a few questions. However, he couldn't quite ask them yet.

CannibalCrab was stuffing more crab than Cody thought someone could ever eat down his throat and eating it quickly. He kept mumbling about trying to get a taste out of his mouth and how dirty Atlanteans tasted. Besides Cody, Sam, who sat besides him, was giving him a look and silently wondering how much crab he was planning on eating before he stopped.

Selena and Blooper were on the other side of the table, chatting endlessly. Every once in awhile, Blooper would find out he had another hidden weapon on him that he didn't find before and put it on the table before resuming the talking. The table was now filled with a pile of various weapons, mostly guns but some explosives and one chainsaw as well.

Cody waited a moment before he cleared their throat to catch all of their attentions. "Uh, guys? Can we just talk for a moment about the whole "Everyone going bananas" thing or are we just going to pretend it never happened to make us all feel better?"

Selena immediately dropped her gaze to the table and CannibalCrab looked away. Blooper just sucked in a long breath and Sam couldn't find the words that worked for her so she stayed silent.

Cody sighed. "Come on guys, what happened out there?"

Selena and Sam both exchanged a look. Selena decided to be the one to speak. "I don't know about everyone else, but the mailwoman came by our house and I lost myself as soon as she touched me. Then, I just couldn't control myself."

The others murmured in agreement, but only Sam would say something she clearly wasn't proud to admit. "One more thing... About when we changed."

Then, all the way over in the Fourth Sector and heading for the lab was Tanith, walking besides KrakenKid, and now as she moved about, she was realizing how very sore she was.