Chapter 8: The Bathroom
He woke with a start, his eyes burning with tears as his mind recalled the blood, gore and violence he witnessed during The Hulk's rampage.
He wiped his eyes and stood up before looking around the room he found himself in, it was a bathroom. The bath was dirty and the toilet still standing though its multiple cracks shows it won't be standing much longer, the white small tiles on the walls peeling off revealing a plain white wall underneath.
The window of the bathroom was intact but left wide open, leading to him closing it with a creak as it was moved for the first time in a long time.
He turned around seeing the door he laid against last night, he pushed against it finding it to be quite sturdy before finding a lock on the top of the door. He tested the lock finding it to be reliable enough before using the toilet as a seat.
He thought about the tigers he summoned against the hulk. 'can I do that again?' He jumped in surprise as the tigers quickly summoned themselves at his line of thought.
The tigers quickly approached him before rubbing themselves against him, he could feel their fur? it just felt odd and quite uncanny. He noticed one had a jagged scar on its neck and the other with its own scar on its face cutting across its eye.
He continued stroking the giant tigers, they must reach to his shoulder when he's standing up. He's seen tigers at zoos before and they only reached to his stomach, as he's rubbing the tigers he could feel the densely packed muscle hidden under the coarse fur.
These guys are beasts he thought to himself with a pinch of fear hidden within his awe, he remembered how fast these things were, how they even ripped the hulks legs apart.
"You guys want names? So I can tell the difference between you" they didn't take much notice of his voice but he pretended to himself that they nodded.
"Okay! Alright so you" he pointed at the one with the scar on its face quickly gaining both of their notice "can be Shere and you" he pointed to the other "can be Khan" he said with a proud look on his face.
The proud look quickly dropped as the tigers didn't seem to be impressed with the names. "Ah I know it's not too original but well I'm not sure what you want from me? I'm not a bloody name generator" he said with a huff.
His eyes widened at a sudden thought 'Are these tigers like summons or creations of mine? Are they like the creation of some energy manipulation powers like green lantern!' He stood up excited before trying to pull energy into his hands, nothing happened.
'That's uh disappointing' he kept trying for 20 minutes before giving up, 'okay no energy powers then' he thought to himself while standing up and starting to stretch.
The tiger's green glow reflected in his eyes as he saw them laid on the dirty bathroom floor clearly judging him for waving his hands about and shouting 'energy blast' for the last 20 minutes.
He shook his head, stepping over them, unlocking the door and pulling it open. He stepped into the living room of this apartment seeing it completely destroyed, not one thing left fully intact, mould obvious in the corners of the room.
The smell was revolting as he covered his nose with his mask that was still around his neck. He looked around further before deciding that was a lost cause, but he still needed to secure this bathroom so he could sleep there and not pay a single penny rent.
He walked around the living room coming across a disgusting kitchen where the worst of the smell came from, he pulled a destroyed dishwasher out from the kitchen slowly dragging it around to the entrance of the apartment.
He started to place things on the windows, boarding them with dirty cardboard he found around the building. He closed the old dusty brown curtains before then blocked off all the entrances except the bathroom window he left accessible for himself.
'The cardboard should help insulate this place, I'm also going to need to clean out that kitchen soon before it gets even worse' he thought with a shudder.
He left, climbing out the bathroom window leaving it open enough so he could climb back through, as he dropped to the ground he knew he needed to find a supermarket.
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He returned an hour later awkwardly climbing through the window with a bag full of goods in one hand and a heavy blanket he was awkwardly holding with his teeth.
He got up quite easily and recalled how hard it was for him to get here last night, he pulled his jacket and T-shirt off revealing his arm to be perfectly fine, he knew for a fact it was all bruised last night from his wrist to his shoulder.
He grinned he's got a healing factor, nothing like wolverine more like Spider-Man's which is amazing, he most likely wouldn't get sick often and would also heal overnight as he slept.
He shook his head before getting back to the task at hand. It appears his tigers had disappeared while he left which either made it so they had a distance limit or they could just leave themselves if they were bored which was interesting.
He pulled the cleaning supplies out of his bag before getting to work.
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'Gods' he thought in pure exhaustion laying down in the newly cleaned and sanitised bath looking around at the still in bad shape but now clean bathroom.
He stood with a groan, his arms aching after all the elbow grease that went into this. He grabbed a couple spare locks he bought, placing them on the door with a screwdriver and screws he picked up at the store.
The extra locks gave him a sense of security he hadn't had since he got to this universe before he went out into the living room placing some more locks on the doors making sure he was as safe as possible from intruders.
He got back to his bag that was now on the toilet seat as he went through pulling out duct tape, he pulled the taps out of the bath before putting at least 20 layers of duct tape over the hole and then did the same to the plug making sure nothing would fall down there or crawl out of there.
He placed his giant blanket in the bath before pulling a pillow out of his bag, placing it in the bath before he laid down in the surprisingly comfortable bath bed.
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As he heard the beeping and commotion of the fast food place he was eating at, he smiled at the smell of hot food, yes it was cheap but it was also the first hot meal he had gotten in a while.
He was happy as he ate the cheap burger and looked at the rest of his meal, another 2 portions of fries and 3 more burgers. He would never usually eat this much but right now he couldn't resist and he felt ravenous.
'It might be an increased appetite due to all the energy my body used healing itself last night and also fighting the hulk would add onto that appetite im sure" he winced in remembrance of that monster's punches, the pure strength and speed that thing held was unbelievable.
He heard the restaurant quieten as the tv got louder.
His head raised to the tiny T.V in the restaurant as it started blaring 2 emergency stories, the first one being the Hulk's rampage; it seems that this is the Hulk's first public appearance with the reaction of the news.
The second story was an update on Tony Stark who had been found about 2 days ago, Kieran perked up 'okay so Tony is bound to become iron man any day now'.
And as Kieran ate the greasy burger he couldn't help but think things are looking pretty good from here on.
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