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[hulkbusted]

[Video feed flicks on momentarily to show the face of a tired man, brow furrowed in concentration before a thumb sweeps over the camera input and the video feed cuts out. What follows is a series of text only messages.]

Director Fury, I know you're scanning. I don't know where I am, but I know you have the tech to trace this. I think you owe me a rescue. Keywords: S.H.I.E.L.D., chitauri, Hulk Bruce Banner

Attn: Tony Stark, if you can read this, I'd appreciate a ride. Keywords: Candyland, shawarma, chitauri, Iron Man, \Gamma(n) = (n-1)!\, for all positive integers n.

[ooc: Bruce was dumped outside of town upon his (re?)arrival and lost half a day while the Hulk vented some spleen for them both.]

Comments

[infernoandhearth]

Very mysterious. Keywords: vague, inexplicable, the City, hallo.

[hulkbusted]

I was trying to get the attention of some people who should be looking for those keywords. Doesn't this place have more name than "the City?"

[justamessenger]

Candyland? Where?

[hulkbusted]

It's kind of an in-joke thing.

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[godoftricks]

Ah, Dr Banner. I see you have returned to us. [ Quite pleasantly. ] Are you lost?

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[hulkbusted]

What are you doing out of your cage?

[yourbestguysgun]

stark isnt here. didnt think you were still kicking around. dr banner right?

[hulkbusted]

Yes, but I don't know you.

[awildhulkling]

do u remember anything of the city dr banner?

[hulkbusted]

I know I have memory problems sometimes, but I don't tend to forget whole cities where winged women appear with clothing deliveries.

[punchedhitler]

Bruce?

You're back!

[pause]

What's Candyland?

[hulkbusted]

Cap! [Finally something familiar, but...]

What do you mean I'm back? And Candyland's just this thing with Tony and Stark Tower. Don't worry about it. But what do you mean back?

[hexuality]

I know a labrador named Fury. I don't suppose that helps.

[hulkbusted]

I think labs have a better temperament than the man I'm thinking of.

[text]

[riches]

Late reply here, but are you okay?

[text]

[hulkbusted]

Okay's kind of relative. I have all my limbs and I don't think I've done anything unforgivable, so we'll call it okay.

better late than never, right?

[debrief]

Dr Banner. I'm afraid Director Fury isn't here.

But of course

[hulkbusted]

Agent Coulson? Cap told me you were alive around.

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[bettercallit]

I hate to be the one to break it to you, Banner, but Fury can't be reached here. And since you already knew that, I'm thinking you left us for a while.

P.S. Stark's a bad influence on you.

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[hulkbusted]

If Cap hadn't been the one to tell me I'd been here, I wouldn't even entertain the idea of believing it.

I've already set the record for being a bad influence on myself.

How did I miss this? WEEPS ::Permavideo::

[doeswhathewants]

Unnerving all the people who can claim acquaintance that you cannot remember, is it not?

[hulkbusted]

Are you going to tell me you're one of them?

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[asofwar]

Have you forgotten where you are?

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[hulkbusted]

I'm getting a lot of that. Let's table the forgetting and just say I don't know my way around.

Sorry if this is late, but we can pretend?

[threeolives]

Bruce? [ Pepper's face and voice are concerned. She was wondering where he'd disappeared to. ]

Where did you go? Tony's... Tony's not here, remember?

We sure can! especially since I've been gone for a week for con

[hulkbusted]

Assume I have a New England Journal of Medicine-worthy case of amnesia. [But he squints at the screen, because it isn't as though Pepper's face hasn't been in the news enough for her to be at least kind of recognizable in her own right] Your face is ringing a bell, though.