her. She looked so small now. He slowly walked up to her and bent over and nuzzled the side of her neck. As he did she did the same. Immediately he felt a change only this time he was shrinking in size. In seconds he was his old self again. Faline looked afraid and ready to flee for her life.

“It is still me,” he told her. The glowing rock changed me and taught me many new things. It also showed me how I can change into a bigger deer to keep Man out of our forest. When I am like that Man cannot harm me.”

He knew she did not understand. There was only one way for her to know. He motioned for her to follow him and he led her to the place he buried the rock.

“This is Faline, my mate and mother of my children.”

“I know,” came the voice. By the way Faline almost jumped out of her skin he knew she heard it also.

“I am afraid,” she said.

“Do not be,” the voice said. “I did not hurt Bambi and I will not hurt you.”

Just then there was a huge roaring noise from overhead. Bambi looked up and saw at least four large flying metal birds go over them. From his new knowledge he recognized them as helicopters. They were heading for the open meadow no doubt to land.

“They are coming after me again,” the voice said. “They will not be able to find me with the interference I am putting out. They may see the moved dirt and look for me here.”

“They do not belong here,” Bambi growled. “I will make them go away.”

“There are many this time,” the voice told him. “They have also brought special Men with them. You will need to be careful.”

“They have come to destroy the forest, I will not let them do that,” Bambi said and started walking toward the meadow. As he did he felt the anger build up inside him again. In seconds he started to grow. His legs turned wide, his body was larger than a brown bear and he was green as the leaves on the bushes.

He moved slowly and cautiously toward the open clearing. Sure enough the four helicopters were there. At least twenty men all with large guns were surrounding the location. What caught his attention was the group of men coming out of one helicopter.  One was tall and thin and was darker in skin than the other three. He also had a patch over his eye. By his standing and the way others deferred to him, he knew that man was in charge. The Man next to him looked mild, meek, yet alert. He was holding some instrument. The third person was flying like a bird and was completely purple in color. He had never seen a Man like that. The last one was old and stayed back as if studying the entire situation.

“YOU DID NOT LISTEN,” he yelled out so loud the trees shook.

The twenty men all pointed their guns toward him. Some looked ready to shoot. The tall thin black man motioned for everyone to lower their weapons.

“We have come for the stone,” the tall man said. “If you do not oppose us, then there will be no need for trouble.”  he called back loudly.

“I told your other Men, the stone is not for you,” Bambi yelled. “If you get it, that stone will bring ruin and utter destruction upon all of us. I cannot allow that.”

“How do you know this?” the tall dark man asked.

“It was shown to me, by the stone.” With that he walked out into the meadow. Instantly all the men pointed their guns at him. Two of them fired at him. He felt the bullets hit his side and bounce off.

“Stop,” the tall dark man yelled out.

He was not listening. He charged the two men shooting at him and hit them with his side. He hit them hard enough to knock them senseless on the ground, but not to kill them. He then went after the others who we now all starting to shoot at him. He scooped them up in his antlers and threw them aside. He stomped on their guns with his feet wrecking them. Then something unexpected happened. The meek man next to the tall dark man took a step forward and started to change. In seconds he was big and green also and almost as large as he was. The green man leaped at him, landing next to him and striking him on the side with his huge green fist.  The impact threw him back. He went through several trees, before he stopped. It was like the time Kregis had hit him in his side. He was dizzy, but he soon got back to his feet. He put his head down and charge. He caught the green man in the front and an instant later he went flying over the trees. A few seconds later he saw the figure leaping back through the air coming to rest near him with a loud crash.

“Hulk SMATCH!” he roared.

“Go ahead and try,” he yelled back and put his head down.

Just then there was a flash of light between Hulk and him. It stopped both of them in their tracks.

“Please stop,” the purple man said flying in the air, his cape flapping in the wind.

Both he and the Hulk stopped. The purple man slowly descended to the ground and looked at him.

“You said if Man gets the stone it will destroy all of us. Can you show me how you know this? The Mind-stone I carry allows me to see your thoughts.”

The purple man looked sincere. Unlike for the others his senses told me he was in no danger from him. “You may look,” he told him curtly.

He brought the memories of what the stone showed him to his thoughts. There was a slight tingling in his head for a few seconds and then it stopped. The purple man flew back in the air and faced everyone.

“What is says is correct. He has been given these powers by an extraterrestrial intelligence. He believes what he says to be completely true. From the clarity of the vision he has, I can tell the source of the intelligence believes it to be true also. If we take this source of knowledge, it will bring our doom.”

That brought everything to a halt. The tall black man came over and looked at both of them. “Very well, I will back off for now until I get more information about this.” He then looked at the Hulk. “Hulk I need Dr. Banner again. Can I talk to him, please?”

“Puny Banner,” the green behemoth uttered and then in a few moments went back to the meek looking human he was before.

He also calmed himself and in seconds went back to his normal self.

“You are a normal deer?” the black man said looking at him strangely.

“Not completely normal,” he said. That seemed to surprise all around him more than when he was Stag.

“So I see,” the meek human said. “Gamma radiation induced mutation, same as me.”

“Yes, but normal humans can talk, whitetail deer do not,” the tall dark man said. “Very well I will seek advice from Richards and Stark before coming back. I still do not buy the fact that this knowledge we cannot have.”

“Oh I do,” the old man in the back said. “Nick, think about it not just for here, but in the other eight realms as well. If we gather this knowledge, others may fear us and attack before we can possibly harm them. It has happened before as we all well know. This deer may be right. We should leave the stone alone for now.”

The human called Nick nodded his head and spoke calmly. “Very well, Stan, we will pull back and leave until I get a better understanding of this new power and you,” he said looking at him.

“You know you hit fairly hard,” the meek human said.

“So do you,” he added.

“We have this organization called the Avengers. We protect all of Earth from attack. You might fit in well there.”

 

The End

 

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Faline hurried back toward the place she heard the voice before. She had watched from the edge of the clearing. She did not think any Man or Bambi had seen her. She got back to the place with the fresh earth.

“Bambi chased them away,” she tried to say.

“Yes I know,” the voice told her.

There was one thing on her mind. Something that both scared her and made her anxious.

“Can I ask you a question?” she said.

“Of course,” the voice told her.

“Can you make me like Bambi?”

“Is that what you truly want?” the voice asked showing some concern.

“Yes,” she said.

The ground rumbled a bit and in the middle of the cleared area the ground broke away and there was a place filled with green light.

“Lie down on the green light,” the voice said.

“Faline calmly did what she was told. She fell asleep instantly.

 

The End

For Now

 

 

 

 

 

 

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