[indent][u][b]October 28th, 4:08 PM
Hope Springs, West Virginia[/b][/u][/indent]

When the Vine Stalker slammed into Bubba, the towering man was knocked off his feet. Sailing back through the air, he smashed into the much smaller form of Pa Buford. With a scream, the elder Masterson was crushed beneath his kin, the flamethrower falling to the ground. Shaking his head to clear the brief feeling of disorientation that had resulted from his collision with the creature, Bubba looked down to instantly see his unconscious Pa on the ground.

"W-wo-no!" He cried in distress, checking over him in a panic. "I'm s-sorry, Pa! It wu'nt my fault, it was that there Bug Man!"

Bubba was many things, but a doctor wasn't one of them. In his unconscious state, bleeding from a clearly broken nose, it was impossible for his simple mind to tell whether the patriarch of the Masterson clan was dead or merely unconscious. The very idea of the former brought tears to his eyes...and rage to his heart.

"NGHYYAAAAAUUHH!" Bubba Blue roared to his feet, raising his arms to the sky. Already massive, his muscles began to ripple and expand to the point where the arms and legs of his blue checkered shirt and overalls began to tear. Soon, the buttons of his shirt popped open and his overalls fell to reveal his muscular - and hairy - chest. Something was burning inside of him, the same strange feeling that started about a year ago when he began changing.

Slamming his booted foot down onto the ground with enough force to cause a small tremor, Bubba swerved on the vine stalker. He now seemed smaller than before, even though he thought he saw him grow. It didn't matter: he was going to pay for making him hurt his pa!

"IMMA WHUMP YOU TILL YOU NO LONGER MOVE, YA DURN MONSTER!" Bubba charged at him with startling speed for a being of such size - well over eight feet now! - and bulk, swinging his tree trunk-like arms at Harris with an even greater force than before. While he wouldn't be winning any awards for technique, he more than made up for it with his sheer power and ferocity.