Note: This story is merely a work of fiction, any resemblance to real life is coincidental. This is not intended to harm or be offensive to anyone. This story is intended to entertain, please don't take this too seriously.
Vetri sat at his small desk playing Minecraft chatting with Aidan and Jake, as the class had progressed Bruce Thomas has progressively gotten more and more unhappy with his and others off topic discussions. Until he had reached his breaking point, Vetri let off a loud and obnoxious laugh while proclaiming something about a Minecraft world the group had been playing on. Bruce stood up in anger and marched over to Vetri while yelling heatidly at him, “You think your disregard for my class is funny Vetri?” He stomped to Vetri and hoisted him into the air by the front of his shirt, “You're going to get it this time Vetri! And I mean it” yelled Bruce with enough force to push Vetri back slightly. Bruce slung Vetri backwards before throwing him across the classroom and through the back wall and into the small tree area behind the classroom. Vetri stumbled to get up after the impact from the tree but managed with the help of Damien and William. Bruce attempted to charge at Vetri once more with extreme rage. He turned bright red and his eyes became bloodshot, Cooper and Connor grabbed onto the back of his massive shirt holding him back momentarily before it snapped sending Bruce flying face first into the ground. Bruce stands up, full of uncontrollable blinding rage and jumps over the centre table and onto Connor. Cooper punched Bruce in the head allowing Connor to shimmy his way out, Bruce painfully stood up and began glowing, more and more until he exploded into a sonic boom sending students flying and crashing into the walls. Dust fills the room and nothing can be seen, until 2 red dots appear through the shadows. Vetri steps into a clearing and lasers Bruce’s head. But instead of it simply exploding or even showing signs of injury it just stays their completely intact. Bruce’s head snaps around unnaturally to look at Vetri. Bruce wobbles himself back and forth until he bounces upward into a fighting stance. Vetri swings a punch at Bruce but Bruce grabs hold of it crushing it under the sheer force of his hand. He drops Vetri to the ground and turns to his computer screen. He sees a group chat featuring a mairead of students from his class. Bruce turns around and hoists Vetri in the air by his hair “Hands up Vetri. What’s in the chat.” Bruce says menacingly. Vetri spits in his face which infuriates Bruce, Bruce charges up a jump and jumps up through the roof into space still holding Vetri.
The other students stand up from the walls and look around at one another. Some attempt to help those who are wounded but others trek to the centre of the room. Damien, William, Aidan, Ella, Connor, Cooper and Jake all stand together in a circle. “What do we do now?” asks Aidan, worryingly shaken by the event, “We have to delete the group chat!” yells Damien and everyone seems to nod. Jake drops down from the top of the desk and opens Vetris barely working computer, he hovers over the delete button with the mouse cursor when suddenly Vetri comes flying back through the ceiling and through the ground, the hole extends for miles and the computer is completely destroyed. Bruce flies vertically downward behind Vetri creating a massive sinkhole in the middle of the classroom that begins pulling students in. The group standing around the table grab onto the now disconnected computer cables extending from the ceiling and swing onto a safe area. Jake attempts to swing but fails and narrowly misses falling thanks to Connor grabbing onto his hand moments before he was about to fall. Connor pulls him up and they nod at each other momentarily before sprinting out of the classroom.
Vetris' heavily damaged body lays at the bottom of the massive sinkhole. Bruce’s foot lies across his rib cage compressing his breathing, “Do you take me for some kind of fool Vetri?” questions Bruce angrily, Vetri just stares back at him unable to speak, only letting out light groans. Bruce releases his foot and begins to walk away before returning backward quickly and slamming his foot down on Vetris head, killing him on impact. Bruce attempts to wipe the remains of Vetris' head off of his giant foot but falls backwards and struggles to get up. Eventually he does and he attempts to fly away but Vetri grabs him. Bruce looks back at Vetri, seeing him standing with a very destroyed face. Bruce watches in horror as Vetris' face regenerates and his jaw reforms back into place. “Maybe you should pay attention to my heuristics. I. Don’t. Die.” Said Vetri smugly. Bruce regains his composure and grunts angrily at Vetri before super jumping out of the hole ripping off Vetris arm as he jumps. He lands at the top and yells down to Vetri, “I’m fucking Bruce Thomas. I shall collect the Ardronian Stones and return to kick your fucking ass.” Bruce super jumps away as Vetri reconnects his arm, the bone and muscles grow back together. He looks up angrily and pulls out a Red Stone. “Sure you are Bruce. Sure”, Vetri says smugly as he returns the Red stone to his pocket and super jumps out of the pit onto the DGT rooms ruined floor.
The group begins running through the T block hallway, Cooper lags behind and looks into T5 to see an unconscious Grant Miles. Cooper slams into the door but it doesn’t budge, Damien runs back to Cooper and slams into the door too, busting it open. They run past some desks and see an unconscious Dylan, they completely ignore him and run to Grant's side. Cooper and Damien shake him awake, “Mr! We’ve gotta get you out of here!” yelled Cooper at Grant. Grant opens his eyes and looks grumpily and Cooper and Damien, “Get your folders and your work out” he says in a clear deluded state. Cooper and Damien suppress a laugh and turn back to Grant and look at him seriously. “Mr, we're serious you NEED to get out of here! Bruce is attacking everyone!” explained Cooper seriously. Grant looks pissed off, “I’m not going with you two you are both shitheads!” says Grant. Cooper and Damien look at each other, clearly annoyed. They both stand up and walk out, “Fuck your a dick head” says Cooper as they leave and shut the door. Cooper and Damien run to the end of the hallway and meet up with the others. “What took ya so long?!” asked Ella angrily. Damien and Cooper look at each other with an annoyed face, “Grant” they say grumpily in unison. Suddenly a gigantic thud can be heard on the roof. A foot goes through revealing it to be Bruce stomping on the roof to attack them, “Here’s Brucey!” Yells Bruce manically as he stomps furiously onto the roof jumping higher and higher each time. The group scrambles out of the building and all vault over the bar outside, Connor and Cooper fail and fall over the bar and onto the ground below. Bruce lands in front of them and pushes the ground around him, Connor is hidden behind a shattered bit of ground and is trapped behind it and the wall. Bruce confronts Cooper but he slides between his legs and begins running off to the others “Scamper!” Yells Cooper and everyone runs off in different directions. Bruce turns around angrily and looks at who to follow but can’t make a decision. He hears a noise behind him and his neck snaps around unnaturally to look at what caused it, “Ah! Grant! What a well warranted surprise!” Says Bruce manically as he non-humanly crawls towards Grant. Grant trembles in fear as Bruce’s massive form looms over him. “How about I cut you a little deal?” Say Bruce. Grant nods his head quickly in terror at the monstrosity above him, “You make me a gauntlet to hold the Ardronian Stones and I spare your puny little life!” Grant nodding slows as he looks on in fear. “But-but Bruce.. that’s incredibly dangerous!-“ Grant says in fear before Bruce grabs him by his throat and holds him up against the wall “OKAY OKAY I'LL DO IT!” Says Grant in pained yells. Bruce releases him and drops him to the floor, “Well, let’s get going then”, says Bruce as his arm twists unconventionally to point at the construction area in T Block.
Damien runs into the weights room and falls against the wall, his heart pounding at a million miles an hour. The door creaks open and Damien tries to recoil in fear but can’t, he pushes harder against the wall and falls backwards into a hidden room behind the weights room, Damien falls backwards in relief. The wall spins and clicks back into place as if it hadn’t moved at all, “Damien? I saw you.” says Jake somewhat annoyed. Clearly it hadn’t been as effective at a hiding spot as he expected.
Damien pushes the door open a little bit and lets Jake inside, they both look around the room. It seemed to be a service or storage room of some sort, they look around and find a little cupboard, Damien opens it to look for supplies to fight against Bruce with but ends up finding a little hole with a ladder, “Jake, come look at this!” yells Damien at Jake, Jake walks towards Damien and Damien shuffles aside to show him the hole. “What do you thinks down there?” asks Jake, Damien shrugs and enters down the ladder and beckons Jake to follow. They both descend into an underground tunnel system, expanding into multiple different pathways and turns. Damien and Jake look at each other before walking to the right and into the central school pathway.
William ran to C block and began fortifying using supplies from the art room to board up the windows, on accident he punched through the glass damaging his hand severely. William screams out in pain and drops to the floor, bloody gushing from his cut hand. He lies in agony for a moment before passing out. He laid motionless for a moment before a mysterious figure entered into the art room, a dark green cloak that dragged along the floor, giant black boots and gloved hands. The cloaked man walks over to William and picks him up, blood still gushing from his hand begins to stain the man's cloak, the man makes a disgusted noise but continues to carry William. He carries him into the hallway and begins walking straight towards a wall, instead of stopping he simply phases right through it. He continues until he has phased through enough walls to not be able to be seen. Ella finally breaks through William's defences and dashes into the art room, she looks at a smeared trail of blood on the floor in confusion, she thought she heard William screaming but she must’ve been mistaken. She looks to the whiteboard to see a small diagram of C block, her eyebrows raise and she finds a large roll of paper that she begins to draw something on. She hangs up the finished drawing, a simplistic map of the school, she looks at the shattered window and then back to the map. She rolls up the map into a tube shape and finds an art holder to store it in, she straps it to her back and leaves the room into the hallway.
Aidan runs past H block, furiously trying to escape Bruce's line of sight. He runs onto the field and into some seriously muddy grass, he falls down and begins to sink into the ground. He struggles but eventually the mud claims him and he sinks through. Aidan lands in a dimly lit sewer-like tunnel. He stands up and begins walking back the way he just came from unintentionally, the fall had knocked his sense of direction out of whack. Aidan turns the corner at the end of the tunnel and bumps into Jake. Jake throws a punch at Aidan before realising who he was, “Aidan?” Jake says in confusion. “Yeah, what is this place?” Aidan asks, Damien pipes in “It's some kind of teacher travel tunnel.” Aidan looks down the tunnel towards the end and sees some kind of fully lit room, “You wanna investigate that?” asks Aidan. Damien and Jake nod and they begin walking through the tunnel, its dim light wasn’t helping but they manage to make out a fully open door. They push forward and arrive at the door, they walk into the room and see supplies set for surviving an apocalypse. They all look at each other as a figure moves into the room. The group looks terrified as the figure moves closer.
Grant slams his hammer against the hard metal of the gauntlet. Sweating profusely while Bruce watches him intently from behind. Sparks fly from each hit, with one final slam the final finger of the gauntlet was complete. Grant moves aside and allows Bruce to view the unfinished gauntlet, he begins sweating harder every second Bruce looks over the parts. “Finish it” says Bruce before falling back into his chair. Grant quickly dashes back to the workstation and pulls down a welding mask and begins welding the parts together. Bruce begins increasing his general size, he grows more and more, his clothes expanding with him. By the end of his growth he towers massive 5 feet over Grant. This does not help ease Grant's nerves, he continues sweating profusely and begins trembling. The final sparks fly and Grant holds up the gauntlet for Bruce. Bruce inspects it momentarily before sliding it onto his hand, sizzling can be heard as the still burning hot metal chars his hand. Bruce flexes his fingers and attaches an orange stone to the thumb of the gauntlet, the gauntlet glows orange momentarily. “Is it good sir?” says Grant trembling as he awaits Bruce's response, Bruce looks at Grant, “How's about we find out?” says Bruce as he points the gauntlet at Grant, Grant attempts to run but Bruce unleashes an orange lazer from the tip of the thumb on the gauntlet. That begins to shrink Grant's right arm, it shrinks to a miniscule size and Grant winces in pain before the arm inverts its growth and grows back to normal size inside Grant. Forcing his arm inside his body, Grant screams in agony and falls to the ground. Bruce stands up from his chair, “And here you were being glad I wasn’t going to kill you”, says Bruce condescendingly to Grant. Bruce jumps up out of the building and flies into the air. Grant writhes in pain on the ground screaming in pain, Cooper runs in carefully. He runs to Grant's side and sees as his shirt's buttons pop off to reveal a moving hand beneath his skin, Cooper falls to the ground in fear and crawls back. Grant's hand finally breaks through the skin and his arm leaves his bodies inside and attempts to grab at Cooper. Grant stares into Cooper's eyes in agony and Cooper feels a tear roll down his face knowing what he had to do. Cooper picks up the hammer and raises it above his head, tears roll down his face. He knew what was best was to kill Grant, put him out of his misery. Cooper swings but gets startled and misses, “STOP!” yells Vetri. Cooper looks in shock as Vetri runs over to Grant, Vetri places his hand on Grant, his arm begins to heal back to its original and his chest reseals, Grant screams in agony. Vetri looks at Cooper for a long moment before running off into the distance and super dashing through the hall.
Grant begins to calm down and Cooper begins leaving him, Grant says nothing and just lies there. Cooper looks back through the doorway and smiles at Grant before leaving the room and walking into Grant's private office. Immediately as he enters he sees a set of custom made battle gear, Cooper looks at this for a moment and then rushes to put it on. Once on, the armour feels light but incredibly protective, with lots of straps and pockets. Shoulder guards and some kind of circular bumped area in the middle of the chest, it was coated in metal but very clearly had something in there. Cooper shrugged it off and walked out into the open area with a feeling of sudden gained hope and courage, Bruce was nowhere in sight and Cooper felt confident walking out into the main yard. The area outside had clearly been devastated by Bruce, students bodies lay dead and decaying next to rubble and fire. Cooper runs over to where Connor lays and he attempts to pull off the stone and rubble covering him but he can’t. Cooper feels more strength running through his body as he pulls but the rubble doesn’t budge. He gives up and runs in the direction that Damien ran in. Cooper enters the PE block and walks to the main gym area, Bruce is seen floating in the air with blood and bodies surrounding him on the walls, floor and ceiling. Cooper retreats out of fear and luckily Bruce seems to not have noticed him and Cooper moves into the river gym where a massive gaping hole has formed in the centre. He pears over the edge and he sees some sort of tunnel, he decides not to investigate and leaves the gym.
The door creaks open and the silhouetted figure reveals himself as Luke, Luke pulls out a pistol and riot shield and instinctively shoots the closest person in front of him. Aidan falls to the ground and begins bleeding from his shoulder, Aidan screams in pain. Luke quickly rushes to a survival pack on the wall and begins wrapping Aidans arm. “I didn’t expect you guys to be alive! I barely got out safely!” Luke moves himself away from the shield revealing half of his face to be burnt and charred from the explosion from Bruce, “Preston didn’t make it, I don’t know how I did…” says Luke sorrowfully. Luke sprays Aidans arm with ice and stands up, he reaches for weapons on his shelf and hands them to Jake and Damien. Luke reaches higher on the shelf and grabs a sword and gives it to Aidan, “Sorry about the arm” says Luke sincerely. Aidan takes the sword and stands up grumpily. Luke walks over to another metal door in the room and bangs on it, “I’ll be back soon” yells Luke. Luke walks past everyone and back into the tunnel but pauses briefly, “You coming or what?” he says as he continues to walk down the tunnel. The others look at each other and begin walking alongside Luke as he walks deeper into the tunnel. Luke walks up a staircase and up to the surface, the exit is in one of the old now destroyed gardens. The group looks around and sees the destruction Cooper saw earlier. They walk past B block and immediately get attacked by some grotesque humanoid looking creatures. A group of 4 pounce on the 3 of them, Luke shoots and kills them without hesitation while Damien, Jake and Aidan attack lightly not really sure if killing them is alright. Luke runs beside the creatures and charges with his riot shield and flattens them against the wall, “They aren’t human, you're all good to kill them” says Luke seriously. Damien walks up to the wall and picks up a hat from one of the squished creatures, it is damaged but an Upper Hutt College logo can be seen, it's worn out and well used. It's coated in blood but the label can still be read, ‘Property of: Cody S.’ Damien looks a bit terrified but puts the hat on in solidarity, the group continues moving.
As Cooper is leaving the PE block Bruce bursts out of the roof and torpedoes into the central school area landing near Luke, Aidan, Damien and Jake. Cooper begins running over and runs to the group, “Guys!” exclaims Cooper at Luke and his friends. They barely acknowledge him and stare locked in shock at Bruce floating above the central area. Ella also runs towards the group and joins in on the shocked onlooking. Bruce shoots out dark tentacles from his body that connect to the ground and pull him closer. As the sun reaches the horizon Bruce brings himself down and pushes himself into the ground, he closes his eyes and seems to gain a hard exterior over top of himself. Everyone looks at each other in complete and utter shock before Cooper lets out a battle cry and jumps extremely high onto top of the dormant Bruce, he slips and stumbles as he didn’t expect the jump to be so high. The others charge in and attempt to crack the shell of Bruce. All they get is clinking sounds and their weapons do nothing to affect him. “Do you think he's like… asleep?” Aidan questions. Everyone looks at each other, “Might as well set up a little camp for ourselves in the meantime” Ella says as she hops off the top of Bruce. Everyone follows her action and walks towards the right B block lower breakout space, they enter and begin finding sleeping gear and Aidan sticks around outside to start a fire. Jake comes out and sits next to Aidan, Jake offers his help to light the fire and Aidan accepts. Jake lights the fire ablaze on the first try and chucks the ignitor onto the now lit campfire. Jake falls onto Aidans shoulder and Aidan wraps his arm around Jake and places it on his shoulder comforting him. Vetri watches at a distance, perched on the top of C Block. He briefly looks at his friends, then Bruce before leaping into the night sky. To find some way out of this mess.
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