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[ Bruce drags a hand over his face before eying the feed carefully. Usually he wouldn't even touch a computer, because there's the problems with being traced and found and then there's the whole slew of problems that come out of that, but. He just got dragged out of an ocean by some entirely new and fascinating lifeforms after dying or he's just hallucinating something spectacular while the other guy goes and deals with whatever he's dealing with. He's not sure which is actually happening, but.

Either way. Can't hurt, right? ]

So... Uh. [ A deep breath as he tries to blink himself into more alertness but. There is a reason he's looking as raggedy as he does, and that was without an entre vous to turtletopia. ] L-look, I'm not trying to go and be, you know, rude or ungrateful or a-anything like that, but. This place is j- It's way, way too much for me, and. I mean, there's a swimming pool. Right in the next room over. And th- I'm not that guy.

[ He's rambling and he's tired, and. Shaking his head, he rubs at the back of his neck. ]

Anyway, er. If I could maybe downgrade, or... Point is, this is all a little more-- More than I'm used to. Thanks.

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Nick knew what he was doing.

Nick always knows what he's doing.

Sure he does. Down to when he's using cosmic cubes to go and start a stockpile of WMDs, right.

I didn't say he always did the right thing, or the smartest thing.

But he always knows what he's getting into.

Some of us don't have the luxury of running away from our problems. Or the world's.

Yeah, that's. He's perfectly aware he's sitting on an alien-inspired arsenal and just... Doesn't tell anybody.

[ ...Ow, Clint. ] Y- Luxury. Right.

Spies are kind of screwed up that way, Banner. Didn't anyone tell you?

_{( KANYESHRUG )} I prefer facing things head on.

Found that out quickly enough.

[ You're a dick. ] Yeah, well. Sometimes circumstances don't allow for it.

Obviously not that quick.

_{( pretty much, yeah. )} So damn the circumstances.

Never had occasion to know any before now.

That easy, huh? Wow. If I'd only known. [ So. Deadpan. ]

Lucky you.

The way I heard it, you kind of made your own in the first place. _{( 8||||||||||||| )}

[ Gee, don't feel like you have to pull those punches. You know. At all. ]

Th- I didn't know what I was getting into. Which was part of my mistake, yeah.

But that helped you stop an alien invasion. So you win some, you lose some.

[ And now for fun with canon points!! ]

We didn't stop it, th- It was right in the middle of things when they went and pulled me out. I just figured we died.

Natasha said we won.

_{( natasha is always right didn't you know banner god why are you trying to break the feeble sanity he has constructed for himself!! )}

The captain, too.

[ No, Natasha always lies. AND HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW FEEBLE YOUR BRAIN IS OKAY HE DOESN'T KNOW YOU THAT WELL. And so - slightly skeptical... ]

Hadn't heard that. I don't know - didn't seem like it was the probable outcome.

She. Said. We. Won.

Well, no offense meant, but. ...Her job is pretty much to lie. Sorry.

To you, maybe.

Honest people don't really go for that kind of profession.

No, they don't. What, did she get you? Is that why you're upset?

This? isn't upset. [ You would know if he were upset, Clint. ] She was S.H.I.E.L.D.'s front man. It's not like I was expecting anything else, so.

She's good at those things. Bending the truth.

But not with me. Maybe you died, and she just forgot to mention.

There's bending and there's bending, which... Isn't bending at all.

[ rubbing at his eyes. ] Also possible.

Nothing you say really makes any sense.

But if you can't believe her _{( his tone makes it obvious that this a stupid move )} ask the captain.