Torn Between Lies

Chapter Twenty~Bruce!!!

Thor and Bruce needed my help, I wasn't going to sit here all day. Even if the Grandmaster said I had to, in the same dress from last night. Do I really care anymore, NO!!!! I wasn't putting up another day with all this shit!

I stand and leave not having a care in the world and after a little bit find Thor and Bruce's room? "I'm going to stop her." I hear Thor say.

"Alone?" asked Val who was with them.

"Nope. I'm putting together a team. It's me, you, the big guy, and her." says Thor pointing to me as I walk in "What?" I ask walking over "No team. Only Hulk." says Hulk.

"It's me, her, and you," says Thor.

"I think it's only you," says Val leaning on my shoulder, was she drunk again?

"Wait. Just listen. The Valkyrie are legend, elite warriors of Asgard. You are sworn to defend the throne."

I look at Val "You're Asgardian?" I ask.

She sighs "I'm not getting dragged into another one of Odin's family squabbles."

"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Thor.

"Your sister. Her power comes from Asgard, same as yours. When it grew beyond Odin's control, she massacred everyone in the palace and tried to seize the throne. When she tried to escape her banishment, he sent the Valkyrie in to fight her back. I only survived because... Look, I already faced her once back when I believed in the throne, and it cost me everything. That's what's wrong with Asgard. The throne, the secrets, the whole golden sham."

I grin "I agree."

"This isn't about the crown. This is about the people. They're dying and they're you're people, too." says Thor.

"Forget it. I have," says Val.

"Good. Great. Thank you."

"For what?"

"For this." Thor has lifted the fob device off Val's belt! He presses the button and all the obedience disks embedded in his neck and belt power down. Confident smirk. "There... that's better. You know, go ahead. Stay here and get drunk and enslave people for that lunatic. Keep drinking. Keep hiding. But me...I choose to run toward my problems and not away from them. Because that's what..."

Thor hurls a ball at the main window. It bounces off, hitting Thor in the face. He stands, facing us. "Because that's what heroes do." Thor then smashes through the window and slides down the building into the junkyard.

Val begins to leave and looks at me "You coming?" I shrug and back up "Someone has to make sure thunder boy doesn't get shocked." I say and sprint jumping out the window making a shield under me and use it to slide down into the junkyard.

I run down aisles of crushed and stripped spacecraft, a giant smelter, and then into what looks like a used car lot. And then I see a Quinjet!? And see Thor enter and rush to the controls. I walk him and hear him struggling with the access.

I take his hand and press it against the pad "Point Break." I say. "Welcome, Point Break." says the Jet. Thor glares at me and I smirk.

CAH-RUNCH!

Hulk barges in through the Quinjet door! The Hulk approaches, scowling. Any metal that stands in his way peels back. As Hulk enters, he destroys the hull of the Quinjet. Thor triggers a message on the flight console making me jump. "Nice work, big guy. We don't know where Ultron's headed, but you're going very high, very fast," says Natasha's message.

Hulk stops short. His whole demeanor changes.Thor steps out of the way so that Hulk can see a recorded message from Nat on the console. "...So, I need you to turn this bird around, okay? We can't track you in stealth mode...So I need you to help me out. Okay? I need you to..."

Hulk drops to his hands and knees. His whole body warping. Hulk roars and grabs at his face, shaking his head, trying to fight this back. But he can't help it......HE'S TRANSFORMING BACK INTO BRUCE BANNER!!!

The transition is rough and chaotic, it's as if Banner is fighting to get out of the Hulk. Throughout the process, Hulk is wrecking the Quinjet. And then, calm. I rush to Bruces's side to help ease the transition. "Bruce? You okay?" I ask.

"....Illisha?"

Bruce is groggy, disoriented. Thoughts, memories, and observations begin to flood his brain randomly. "What happened to Thor's hair? Where are we? How's Nat?" asked Bruce.

"Nat is good, I'm sure," says Thor.

"And what about Sokovia?"

"Sokovia?" I ask.

"The city, Sokovia. Did we save it?"

"Bruce, listen. Sokovia. Ultron. That was two years ago."

"What are you saying? I've been Hulk for two years?" asl Bruce trying to process this information. He rushes to his feet. Thor follows. I look over to see a box with my name on it and clothes in it! Quickly I duck out of sight and change into a Steinfeld T, black workout pants, and sneakers.

"It's bad news, bad news today." says the Grandmasters's voice, I rush over to the windshield with the boys. Through it we see Grandmaster, his hologram projection towering over the city.

"Sakaar, hear ye. Attention, please. I have some bad news. My beloved, exalted Champion has turned up missing. Take to the streets. Celebrate my champion."

"Who's that?" asked Bruce.

"Kinda runs the place, pervert." I grit.

"You actually lived in his house," says Thor.

"I did?" ask Bruce.

"Yeah. Quite a lot's happened. You and I had a fight recently."

"Did I win?"

"No, I won. Easily."

"Doesn't sound right."

"That's cause it's not right," I say.

We turn back to the hologram "It seems that that criminally seductive Lord of Thunder has stolen him away as well as a certain sweetheart is missing."

I grit my teeth "I'm gonna kill him! We need to move." I say, moving away.

"Oh, no. This is bad. This is really, really bad. Thor, I think I'm freaking out." says Bruce, thor throws him clothes "No, no, no. Don't freak out. You're okay. Put these on."

"These are Tony's clothes."

"I know, come on."

"Is he here?"

"No, he's not here. But listen. We need to get out of here and back home, Bruce trust us okay?" I ask, he nods before going to change. Were we leaving without Loki? I guess. Apart of me felt bad but the guy always turns up one way or another we'll be fine.