*Bruce Banner*
"Well, I guess I should start with putting something straight. To give me privacy you all were given a file of me that was altered because I asked for it. You all, except for Percy of course, think that I injected myself with a needle containing a concoction that I believed would be like the Super Serum used in Steve, and the end result was the Hulk. In reality it was my father, David Banner, that injected himself. He experimented on himself with mutagens at a genetic level to let the body heal itself, and passed it onto me by blood. At the young impressionable age of three, he drilled into me that emotions were dangerous, that if I let my emotions rule me, people would get hurt, bad things would happen. Before this, because of the genetic passing down of the mutagens, I had already started to show signs of changing, morphing into something else whenever I got angry. So because of the incident at three I pushed my emotions away, grew up without them, and didn't develope very good social skills. I also didn't ever morph or change until I was in my late twenties because of that incident.
"He then blew up the Desert Base he worked at because he was caught testing on human blood against orders, and he was fired and told to shut it down. He blew it up by turning off the cyclotron, a cyclotron has a long process to turn it off, by turning it off immediately it caused the cyclotron to explode. This caused me to lose my memories of my early years of life. I was put into the care of Monica Krenzler, who I grew up to believe was my mother. Therefore I thought that my name was Bruce Krenzler.
"I went to college, became a scientist, and worked in Lawrence Berkeley labs. I met a woman named Betty Ross and we started dating. We broke up one day in a cabin in our late twenties. It was because she wanted me to let her in because I was distant, didn't show emotions or pick up on emotions well, didn't let her know me as well as I knew myself. She told me that was part of being in a relationship. I replied that I guess we didn't have a relationship. She asked me why I couldn't let her in. I told her it wasn't about letting her in, it was about letting me out. She didn't understand and neither did I." I took in a deep breath and let it out slowly to calm down. Everyone was staring at me, throughout talking nearly everyone tried to open their mouth to comment, but I kept on going so I could get out what I could before I had to calm down and shove the anger back.
"Anything need explaining before I continue?" I asked
"Who was your birth mother, you never said." Natasha asked.
"Edith Banner." I replied. "Anything else?"
"Thor, Tart me, blueberry if you have it." Percy said. Thor rummaged through the Pop Tart box he had, found a blueberry, tossed it to Percy. Percy then nibbled on the corner of one, then he suddenly turned ravenous and basically inhaled them. "Well, that had to be the best thing I've eaten since I had that cheeseburger two days ago."
"Was this Pop Tart the only thing you've had to eat since that cheeseburger?" I asked, concerned.
"Psshh, no." Percy said. "I had... a part of a brownie in my pack and they are the equivalent of a meal, among other things that they do. I had that yesterday. It's not unhealthy, it's survival, and I'm not about to steal and become a criminal for actually doing an illegal thing."
"What do you mean by 'actually'?" Steve asked.
"That's for my story time, not Bruce's." He replied. "Continue on." He directed at me.
"Right. So, later the labs in the desert base got rebuilt, and I got a job there. Betty and her father had what you would call a falling out. He wanted her to marry some guy of his choosing and do what he told her. Betty, ever a stubborn woman, refused, and pushed away from her dad, and got a job at the desert base as well. They didn't talk again for years.
