CHAPTER 43 - TRAINING MONTAGE I

Though he was aware of it, Vision's stunt in the meeting was under the scrutiny of a lot of influential people in different circles of life.

Those who wielded real power were suddenly cautious of the changes the new member of the Avengers would bring upon his arrival, while others merely scoffed at the naïve words of a robot whose only knowledge was the accumulated information derived from a Google's search engine. 

Sublime frowned as he remembered what had transpired in the meeting he had conventionally not attended due to the overwhelming psychic presences that had shrouded the entire vicinity where the meeting was held. 

Though he was immune against such tricks, he was not in any way allowing himself to be perverted in such a sickening manner by telepaths. 

"If the President is still on the corner about making the decision after the outcome of that farce, then we just have to give him a little nudge." He spoke into the phone lodged against his ears. 

"Norman's project is under heavy pressure from the government after Ross' death and the nature of the experiments known. Don't worry about it, even if he fails, we still have Trask and Buckman."

He listened to the other voice coming through the speaker on his ears and hummed in agreement with some words said or just remained silent. 

After ending the call, his once impassive face morphed into a scowl for a brief moment before he schooled them back to its normal charismatic smile. 

"Since I can't get rid of him, I'll just have someone else do it for me for free." Saying that, he rang a specific number and waited a few seconds before it was picked up. 

"Hello, Mr. Buckman…"

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[Vision POV] 

The place I took Banner to was a deserted area where we could both exercise with less restraints to ourselves. Honestly I was quite eager to see how I stack up against the Hulk in a brutal slugfest. 

If we were to be grouped by specific definitions then I would be a hax-style character that was at the peak of a centered field, and mine would be my energy manipulation that allowed me to do a lot of things like telekinesis, technopathy, light manipulation and host of many new things I could do. 

Unlike my intended thoughts, Pietro and the all too excited Davis had managed to convince me to bring them along, and since Wanda was busy with Laura I didn't need to carry her along too. 

"So how are we doing this? I just need to… Hulk out?" Banner was still a bit apprehensive, and rightfully so, since he was unsure how strong my claims of being able to keep him at bay should he go on a rampage stood. 

Well that and I also convinced him not to tell Natasha or anyone else for that matter what we were about to do. The last thing I needed was a worried audience when doing what I had in mind. 

"Well Banner, I am going to attack you and then proceed to test my strength against an angry Hulk if that's what you are asking."

"'Test'… Quite the word you are using there." He chuckled and rubbed his hands together as if he was feeling cold. 

"That's what we are doing, so I guess it fits." 

Pietro and Davis were quite off the distance, watching with rapt attention at our every motion. 

"How about we start?"

"Wait-" Before he could say anything else, a blast struck his chest and threw a long distance away till he was a tiny dot in normal eyesight. 

I watched with little amusement as I finally saw the Hulk transforming for the first time in front of me, muscles growing absurdly large and fast with his skin changing colors just as fast if not faster. 

He landed on the ground, fully transformed in a hulking green of insurmountable rage, and even with over 500 meters of distance between us, his eyes were firmly locked to my form. 

With a loud boom that raised a cloud of dusts, he quickly closed the distance in one leap, all done in the space of a few seconds. 

[Threat identified – Target: Hulk] 

[Activating laid down protocols designed for the Hulk] 

'Let's see how I fair against the real thing.'

He was up in front of me in the blink of an eye, with his fist already smashing towards me. 

I threw a fist of my own, multiplying my base strength and increasing its density and also covering the entire arm with a repelling barrier. 

The dunes of sand between us was cleared away as our fists connected with each other and I actually staggered back a few steps. 

I could already feel the Hulk's rage increasing by the moment and blanketing tens of kilometers from our focus point. 

The feeling was further boosted when he saw I could actually withstand his punch and the grin he sported was not one of comfort, nevertheless I was far from being afraid…. Because just like the Hulk, I had an emotional multiplier of my own, and not only that, with my control of my body's biomass and density, I could match him punch for punch unless he started breaking his dreaded limits. 

Despite the rage he was emitting, the killing intent he exuded was at an all time low, not even compared to what he showed during the Battle of Sokovia which led me to believe that the Hulk really was increasing his sentience based on Banner's IQ. 

He appeared before me in the flash of a second, fist cocked, as he struck from overhead aiming to pummel me down into the ground but this time I was ready for him. 

Instead of just applying the repelling field around my arm like last time, I directed it towards the earth and magnified its effect by a thousand fold causing the Hulk who had his fist centimeters away from face to shoot upwards as the Earth rebounded him fiercely, directly in opposition with the force he was carrying.

Shooting off a few blasts to annoy him further, I shot upwards towards him, overtaking him easily and then came crashing down on him with my weight increasing by a ton with every centimeter I fell downwards. 

Pietro might have sensed the danger as he took David and ran them both kilometers away from ground zero…. 

… where it looked as if an atomic bomb had been dropped. 

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