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[undoubtable]

[ To those most familiar with human coloring, the woman in the video may look a little odd. She’s got red skin, black hair, and eyes that glow yellow where her pupils should be. She’s also noticeably more muscular than the average woman. Bigger, too. She fills up the screen, leaving relatively little to see behind her.

Judging from the frown that twists her black lips, she isn’t particularly happy. ]

All right. It’s been three days. The guys that brought me here promised me a fight. A “strong” — [ The quotation marks are audible, as is the faint sneer of disbelief when she says the word. ] — enemy.

So where is it? I’m bored.

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[angermanaging]

I can't blame the one I know, [he says ruefully.] Well, I blame him for betraying Betty. Not for... not trusting me.

She'd been with him for years when I suddenly turned up again. Pretty suspect.

[undoubtable]

She was with him for real?

[ Maybe it's her last encounter with Samson that's left such a bad taste in her mouth, but she can't help the look of disgust that passes over her face. ]

That's--Yours must be better than mine. I tried to seduce him once, Bruce was sleeping with the Abomination's wife and I was feeling petty, but I never went through with it. That's just... He's not really my type.

[angermanaging]

[Bruce hadn't blamed Betty for either moving on, or her choice in men. Samson had seemed like a nice enough guy to him, unbearably perceptive but genuinely caring toward Betty. He certainly hadn't ever hurt her and that's all Bruce feels he has a right to judge.

Betty's disgust here is a surprise.] With Blonsky's wife? [is even more a surprise, and now he has his own disgust.] You really need to stop dropping these things on me. I feel like my brain is going to short out.

[That's mostly a joke. But only mostly.]

Samson didn't seem that bad, [he goes on, answering the actual topic now.] Mostly just worried about her. I do seem pretty... shady.

[undoubtable]

Are you sure? [ Her eyebrow arches in challenge, though she's only teasing. She doesn't want to actually cause him distress. ] I haven't told you the really crazy stuff yet.

[ And maybe she never will. Perhaps protecting Bruce also means protecting him from what he is in another universe. It's easier, she thinks, just to focus on Samson. ]

He wasn't that bad in the beginning. But I think that the expectations of being a superhero started to wear on him. Especially when he effectively appointed himself Hulk's keeper. That was never going to end well.

[angermanaging]

Unless it becomes relevant, I'd rather keep my mental faculties intact, [he says wryly.]

He was definitely never a superhero where I'm from. Imagining him as the... as his keeper is just-- laughable. [Bruce doesn't outright dislike Samson. He was important to Betty, regardless of the status of their relationship. But trust or respect him enough to imagine him effectively keeping the Hulk contained, absolutely not.]

[undoubtable]

It's kind of laughable where I'm from, too. [ She rolls her eyes, thinking back to the various encounters Samson and Hulk have had over the course of her life. ] They fought a few times, and he could hold his own for a little while, but he always lost eventually.

[ Her world is evidently vastly different from Bruce's, and without knowing what's the same - if anything is the same - she can't really feel comfortable discussing any of it. Better, she thinks, to turn the conversation away from it entirely. ]

Anyway, enough about him. Tell me more about this whole turtle thing.

[ That, at least, should be a less emotional subject. She hopes so, anyway. ]