[The whisking actually leaves Bruce turning in helpless circles for a few seconds because what he wants to do is get out of there like now, like yesterday, like to have never been here in the first place. What he does is place a call to SHIELD and gets a ride back to the tower in one of their blacked-out SUVs once enough hard-eyed men and women have cordoned off the whole block.
You know, Fiji's nice this time of year. How hard could it be to get there with no resources he hasn't borrowed from a rich friend? Thoughts of Fiji aside, he still ends up at the tower, where FRIDAY kindly lets him know where to find his friend.]
Hey, how's the head and... [Squinting.] ...what are you looking for?
[Tony’s smile is deceptive, it doesn’t hit his eyes. There’s not somewhat cruel north there born from knowing he’s better than the vast majority of people. Smarter and richer too.]
You maybe? I suppose you do not usually reside in such small spaces. But now that you are here, I think that, yes. It was you that I was seeking.
[And Tony is going to smile that weird smile again, as if nothing at all is wrong and he’s a terrible actor with camera fright. He’ll just let Banner lead the way, and not because he doesn’t know the way, even if it seems like that. He’s very normal. More than normal. So normal it hurts.]
How are my neurons? They feel perfectly all right. Perhaps a little numb.
[Joke? Loki? Wanda Maximoff showing she’s still on the dark side? Something like the Tesseract maybe? All thoughts running through his head when Tony says that last.]
Good question. Why don’t you just lie down over on this table and we’ll get a scan going.
[He didn’t choose this table in particular because it can extrude restraints with a button push. Nor is he heading over to this screen to start putting in an override so Tony can’t order FRIDAY to unlock him. Nope. All totally above board and innocent here.]
[It is just so good when friends can be open and honest and never try to conceal anything from each other. Especially when there is nothing to conceal so there’s no reason to prompt anything that might be suspicious. Tony is just more than happy to comply. He is very careful with how he lays down and he even crosses his legs at the ankle. His hands fold neatly over his chest with his elbows bent.]
Has anyone told you that you have the most beautiful eyes?
[The smile is more genuine now. See? He’s not a pod person. Everything is so above board! And comments like these? Absolutely usual. Also, who the heck gave Banner permission to fiddle with his stuff? Tony is going to be so unhappy to learn he’s been outgeniused!]
Really? Hm. Well, it seems only proper. Someone ought to tell you.
[Hey, he has issues when it comes to being picked for teams. It’s really nice to be picked first for once for something that isn’t like a science bee or a mathlete completion.]
Do I also remind you of the softness of your hands?
[Because for a guy that’s a grower, they’re pretty damned soft. And well manicured. When do you find the time?]
I would be more comfortable in a bed I should think. You could join me easily.
[Spend enough time waking up strange places naked, cold, and dirty and you learn to appreciate your body when it’s yours. Self-care is all part of that appreciation.]
That’s um... That’s something. Let’s take care of this first. You know how I’m a worrier.
[No fight on getting an arm on the table means he’ll just circle around and guide Tony’s other arm flat.]
[You know? She’s been so nice to you. Like really nice. She picked this idiot because you looked so sweet and she just wanted to be nice to you! But now, Banner? Now you’re not being nice at al. She tests her restraints with a frown.]
I am... I am your great friend! Why would you do this to me? This hardly seems friendly....
[But this beautiful thing isn’t relenting.]
All right. All right. My name is Kiara. And who are you?
[Yes, he is, and Bruce is kind of pissed off about it.]
He’s male, I’m male, and it’s considered bad etiquette to take over someone’s body without their informed consent.
I’m not like you, and I’ve never met or heard of anyone like you and I’m starting to be really worried by what you said about this one not having exploded yet. I don’t want my friend exploding.
[Oh sure, she just wants him for Hulk. That would work out not at all for anyone involved.]
Are you saying that he's going to explode when you leave him? Because I'm not on board for that.
[Over to one of the computer screens to start the scan that had been the pretext for getting not!Tony in here and restrained. He's not going to have one of his favorite people possessed and/or exploded today. (He really, really hopes.)]
[Well you could wait until tomorrow? Also. Tell him he’s one of your favorite people if you get him back, Bruce. It will make his day. Potentially. If he ever sees another one. Luckily, Tony’s best girl FRIDAY is on the case and doing everything she can to show Bruce how this alien’s brain scans and Tony’s don’t match up.]
Then I shall not leave him, even if he is not the right gender. Some species can accommodate love in that respect. What species am I currently inhabiting? Is it possible for two males to love?
[Actually, Tony is going to be okay with never coming back. This chick is ruining his reputation!]
[He's too busy studying the scans to give Kiara his full attention right that moment. He ends up absently answering in between pauses and mutters to himself about hyperstimulation.]
Homo sapiens, and it varies by individual, but it doesn't matter because you aren't using his body to go looking for love.
[After a few more minutes he casts around for where he set his phone (stupid too tight jeans, Tony,) makes a call and pokes at the scans of Tony/Kiara while more and more intensely insisting to the phone that he has to have that jar delivered to the tower.]
Homo sapiens. I have never encountered one of your species! This is so wonderful.
[Guess who doesn’t care what you tell her. You might have beautiful eyes to an alien but you are not her dad! She’ll do what she wants!]
I do not know how I arrived. I wake up when someone comes near. No one has been a proper vessel for me until this one. Release this body. I have many things to see and explore. You can come with me.
[FRIDAY informs Banner that SHIELD is on the way. There are questions, but there always are. Especially when it comes to the Avengers. Luckily, Bruce has other things on his plate. Like trying to disrupt an alien’s delta waves.]
[He finally stops and gives Kiara a hostile glare.]
Do you even care that you're taking over the life of a person with his own wants and needs? That maybe he'd like to control his body and not be banished to the back of his own head by someone who has no right to the space? That you don't have a right to be there and maybe you should just get out!
[Well, that apparently came a bit too close to home and that whole repression and compartmentalization thing broken down long enough for green to creep in at his fingertips before he turns away to collect himself, breathing harshly and hugging himself while he slams shut a door in his head on the pounding urgency of heavy steps walking and then running toward the threshold. Two years of being in the driver's seat has made Hulk much more demanding about control.]
You aren't getting up. You're going back in the jar and I'm getting my friend back. We can do it the easy way or the hard way, but we're doing it.
[Lady/Tony watches Bruce with both sadness and interest. She’s see the way his fingertips had turned as from what she knew of this body, it did not have the chromatafors to do such interesting things. She takes a moment to turn her host green or blue or gold but it does not work. How sad. What is sadder still is his rant.]
But this is how my species lives. We are born to the jar, as you have referred to it and in order to become an adult, to find a partner and to love, we must take a host. I do not understand why you say things to be so cruelly.
Have I not the right to live and to grow as well?
If you discard me, will I not perish?
[Tony’s voice is capable of so many interesting things. Including sounding like a lamb. Real creepy.]
I do not wish to die when I have only just been born.
If your host doesn’t consent, you have no right to their body, and regardless of what stupid thing came out of Tony’s mouth, he didn’t give knowing consent.
[FRIDAY is very helpful for isolating the delta waves that indicate a sleeping Tony. At least she wasn’t lying that he was asleep. After a murmured consultation with FRIDAY and some drawing of something that looks rather like a crown on another monitor, manufacturing bots wake up in another part of the tower and start designing to Bruce’s specs. Between that and waiting on SHIELD, he has a little time to kill, so he pulls up a stool and sits next to the table where she won’t get a crick in Tony’s neck trying to watch him.]
What happens to you if you go back into the jar? Do you die or do you wait for the next opportunity for a body?
(ooc: ugh this weekend is so long. Thanks for sticking with me this far! Your Bruce is amazing!!!)
[Kiara made a faint humming in thought sound through Tony vocal chords.]
I just do not know. I would rather not find out.
[There’s nothing else to say because FRIDAY interrupts to tell Bruce that the container has arrived. He’s just not gonna like whose delivering it. A certain redhead? She smiles just a little a Bruce and then glanced down at Tony. Kiara is not impressed.]
[ooc: Not to worry. I never begrudge people for having lives. I’ve been delighted by this unexpected turn a TFLN thread has taken and very much enjoying your Tony.]
I’m not planning to give you a choice.
[Natasha’s arrival just adds to the awkwardness of the situation, but he gives her a faint apologetic smile. It’s been two years for her and... days for him.]
She’s a friend. Natasha, I’ll explain later, I promise.
[He takes the jar and sets it on a nearby table before trying to escort Natasha to the door. She’s not really open to that when Tony’s just restrained in a lab and apparently has no idea who she is. She’s definitely not forgettable.]
[Kiara isn’t likely to forget her either, if only because she suspects that Bruce is fond of the other person and her body type is different from those that the others brought to her vessel had been. A female? Likely. But too late now. She has no idea how to transfer bodies. It’s not instinctual the way that taking over another had been. She’s tried to enter many but Tony is the only one that hasn’t immediately exploded from holding a few ounces of her essence. He’s special. And even if Bruce is attractive and had her original vessel, she isn’t going without a fight]
Do not do this to me. I beg this of you. You must have a kind heart. I will not hurt your friend but surely he would not give me up to potentially die.
He does not remind me of a cruel person. And he was selfless enough to invite me in!
[Yeah. She doesn’t know Tony at all. There’s none of his personality seeping through.]
I can make you happy, Doctor.
[And that’s probably creepy coming from Tony. Especially with the eyelash batting.]
[Bruce would agree that he's special, but even if Tony weren't special, Bruce is one very raw nerve when it comes to losing control of his body.
He manages to convince Natasha to leave, though he'd be surprised if she didn't bug the room, or maybe just him personally, before she's gone. It's still a relief; if Kiara gets evicted, he won't allow Natasha to be targeted next. Can't allow it.]
Kiara, I don't want to kill you.
[He pulls the table with the vessel over against the table where Tony's restrained and asks FRIDAY to start a scan to see if there's anything he can trigger to pull this entity back inside. After another check of when the cap will be completed and finding he still has a little time left before it can be delivered to him, he drops down on the stool at Tony/Kiara's side.]
What you're doing would be killing my friend if I let you stay in his body. I don't think you get it - I don't have many friends, and none of them are like Tony. So what I'm going to do is force you out, and if I can, I'll put you back in your jar. I don't want to kill you, but if it's a choice between you or him, you lose.
[Bruce tries to be a good person, but he's more than halfway convinced that he isn't a good person. It's times like these that illustrate why he feels that way about himself.]
So make me happy by getting out of him without turning this into a fight.
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You know, Fiji's nice this time of year. How hard could it be to get there with no resources he hasn't borrowed from a rich friend? Thoughts of Fiji aside, he still ends up at the tower, where FRIDAY kindly lets him know where to find his friend.]
Hey, how's the head and... [Squinting.] ...what are you looking for?
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[Tony’s smile is deceptive, it doesn’t hit his eyes. There’s not somewhat cruel north there born from knowing he’s better than the vast majority of people. Smarter and richer too.]
You maybe? I suppose you do not usually reside in such small spaces. But now that you are here, I think that, yes. It was you that I was seeking.
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[Up until that, he’s been thinking it was the zap, but now... he has no freaking idea what to think.]
Why don’t we head down to the lab. Let me give you a looksee and make sure no neurons were harmed in the making of this weird afternoon.
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[And Tony is going to smile that weird smile again, as if nothing at all is wrong and he’s a terrible actor with camera fright. He’ll just let Banner lead the way, and not because he doesn’t know the way, even if it seems like that. He’s very normal. More than normal. So normal it hurts.]
How are my neurons? They feel perfectly all right. Perhaps a little numb.
[And he’s looking st his fingers.]
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Good question. Why don’t you just lie down over on this table and we’ll get a scan going.
[He didn’t choose this table in particular because it can extrude restraints with a button push. Nor is he heading over to this screen to start putting in an override so Tony can’t order FRIDAY to unlock him. Nope. All totally above board and innocent here.]
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Has anyone told you that you have the most beautiful eyes?
[The smile is more genuine now. See? He’s not a pod person. Everything is so above board! And comments like these? Absolutely usual. Also, who the heck gave Banner permission to fiddle with his stuff? Tony is going to be so unhappy to learn he’s been outgeniused!]
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Only you. Every day it’s, “Banner, you have the most beautiful eyes.”
[Override completed, he comes back over to the table and takes one of Tony’s wrists to guide him to lay his arms on the table’s surface.]
Make yourself comfortable and I’ll get the scan started.
[If he can get Tony to just comply that much, he’s one button away from some answers.]
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[Hey, he has issues when it comes to being picked for teams. It’s really nice to be picked first for once for something that isn’t like a science bee or a mathlete completion.]
Do I also remind you of the softness of your hands?
[Because for a guy that’s a grower, they’re pretty damned soft. And well manicured. When do you find the time?]
I would be more comfortable in a bed I should think. You could join me easily.
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I don’t think it’s ever come up before.
[Spend enough time waking up strange places naked, cold, and dirty and you learn to appreciate your body when it’s yours. Self-care is all part of that appreciation.]
That’s um... That’s something. Let’s take care of this first. You know how I’m a worrier.
[No fight on getting an arm on the table means he’ll just circle around and guide Tony’s other arm flat.]
I just have one quick question for you.
[Pushing that button]
Who are you really?
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I am... I am your great friend! Why would you do this to me? This hardly seems friendly....
[But this beautiful thing isn’t relenting.]
All right. All right. My name is Kiara. And who are you?
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I’m this guy’s friend. You’re from that jar we found? What are you and have you hurt my friend?
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Male? This is what is considered a male to your species? But there is so much facial hair.
This is a disappointment. I have come to seek others like myself. We are so few.
Your friend sleeps.
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He’s male, I’m male, and it’s considered bad etiquette to take over someone’s body without their informed consent.
I’m not like you, and I’ve never met or heard of anyone like you and I’m starting to be really worried by what you said about this one not having exploded yet. I don’t want my friend exploding.
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Will you teach about this planet? I did not lie about your eyes. I find them extraordinary. There is something strange within you.
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[Oh sure, she just wants him for Hulk. That would work out not at all for anyone involved.]
Are you saying that he's going to explode when you leave him? Because I'm not on board for that.
[Over to one of the computer screens to start the scan that had been the pretext for getting not!Tony in here and restrained. He's not going to have one of his favorite people possessed and/or exploded today. (He really, really hopes.)]
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Then I shall not leave him, even if he is not the right gender. Some species can accommodate love in that respect. What species am I currently inhabiting? Is it possible for two males to love?
[Actually, Tony is going to be okay with never coming back. This chick is ruining his reputation!]
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Homo sapiens, and it varies by individual, but it doesn't matter because you aren't using his body to go looking for love.
[After a few more minutes he casts around for where he set his phone (stupid too tight jeans, Tony,) makes a call and pokes at the scans of Tony/Kiara while more and more intensely insisting to the phone that he has to have that jar delivered to the tower.]
How did you end up on Earth?
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[Guess who doesn’t care what you tell her. You might have beautiful eyes to an alien but you are not her dad! She’ll do what she wants!]
I do not know how I arrived. I wake up when someone comes near. No one has been a proper vessel for me until this one. Release this body. I have many things to see and explore. You can come with me.
[FRIDAY informs Banner that SHIELD is on the way. There are questions, but there always are. Especially when it comes to the Avengers. Luckily, Bruce has other things on his plate. Like trying to disrupt an alien’s delta waves.]
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[He finally stops and gives Kiara a hostile glare.]
Do you even care that you're taking over the life of a person with his own wants and needs? That maybe he'd like to control his body and not be banished to the back of his own head by someone who has no right to the space? That you don't have a right to be there and maybe you should just get out!
[Well, that apparently came a bit too close to home and that whole repression and compartmentalization thing broken down long enough for green to creep in at his fingertips before he turns away to collect himself, breathing harshly and hugging himself while he slams shut a door in his head on the pounding urgency of heavy steps walking and then running toward the threshold. Two years of being in the driver's seat has made Hulk much more demanding about control.]
You aren't getting up. You're going back in the jar and I'm getting my friend back. We can do it the easy way or the hard way, but we're doing it.
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But this is how my species lives. We are born to the jar, as you have referred to it and in order to become an adult, to find a partner and to love, we must take a host. I do not understand why you say things to be so cruelly.
Have I not the right to live and to grow as well?
If you discard me, will I not perish?
[Tony’s voice is capable of so many interesting things. Including sounding like a lamb. Real creepy.]
I do not wish to die when I have only just been born.
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[FRIDAY is very helpful for isolating the delta waves that indicate a sleeping Tony. At least she wasn’t lying that he was asleep. After a murmured consultation with FRIDAY and some drawing of something that looks rather like a crown on another monitor, manufacturing bots wake up in another part of the tower and start designing to Bruce’s specs. Between that and waiting on SHIELD, he has a little time to kill, so he pulls up a stool and sits next to the table where she won’t get a crick in Tony’s neck trying to watch him.]
What happens to you if you go back into the jar? Do you die or do you wait for the next opportunity for a body?
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(ooc: ugh this weekend is so long. Thanks for sticking with me this far! Your Bruce is amazing!!!)
[Kiara made a faint humming in thought sound through Tony vocal chords.]
I just do not know. I would rather not find out.
[There’s nothing else to say because FRIDAY interrupts to tell Bruce that the container has arrived. He’s just not gonna like whose delivering it. A certain redhead? She smiles just a little a Bruce and then glanced down at Tony. Kiara is not impressed.]
And who is this?
[jealous? Maybe.]
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I’m not planning to give you a choice.
[Natasha’s arrival just adds to the awkwardness of the situation, but he gives her a faint apologetic smile. It’s been two years for her and... days for him.]
She’s a friend. Natasha, I’ll explain later, I promise.
[He takes the jar and sets it on a nearby table before trying to escort Natasha to the door. She’s not really open to that when Tony’s just restrained in a lab and apparently has no idea who she is. She’s definitely not forgettable.]
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Do not do this to me. I beg this of you. You must have a kind heart. I will not hurt your friend but surely he would not give me up to potentially die.
He does not remind me of a cruel person. And he was selfless enough to invite me in!
[Yeah. She doesn’t know Tony at all. There’s none of his personality seeping through.]
I can make you happy, Doctor.
[And that’s probably creepy coming from Tony. Especially with the eyelash batting.]
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He manages to convince Natasha to leave, though he'd be surprised if she didn't bug the room, or maybe just him personally, before she's gone. It's still a relief; if Kiara gets evicted, he won't allow Natasha to be targeted next. Can't allow it.]
Kiara, I don't want to kill you.
[He pulls the table with the vessel over against the table where Tony's restrained and asks FRIDAY to start a scan to see if there's anything he can trigger to pull this entity back inside. After another check of when the cap will be completed and finding he still has a little time left before it can be delivered to him, he drops down on the stool at Tony/Kiara's side.]
What you're doing would be killing my friend if I let you stay in his body. I don't think you get it - I don't have many friends, and none of them are like Tony. So what I'm going to do is force you out, and if I can, I'll put you back in your jar. I don't want to kill you, but if it's a choice between you or him, you lose.
[Bruce tries to be a good person, but he's more than halfway convinced that he isn't a good person. It's times like these that illustrate why he feels that way about himself.]
So make me happy by getting out of him without turning this into a fight.
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