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[greenscientist]

Technically...I am on both sides.

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[stark]

Huh.

[greenscientist]

Yeah, yeah, I know, you've got that look.

[Stark of course would want Bruce on his side. Sorry, but he's staying on the fence for this one.]

[zealots]

Only cowards hide behind neutrality.

[greenscientist]

[arms crossed]

Better to keep the war going then?

[zealots]

Yours is a strength that could end the war.

[He doesn't budge from where he stands, his own arms crossed, stern and uncompromising.]

[greenscientist]

Yeah, no. I'm not going to be used as a weapon in this.

[That's been done before.]

[zealots]

No, you will instead cower on the sidelines as your friends fight and perhaps even kill one other. All because you have been running for so long you have forgotten what it means to stand and be a man.

[He doesn't even try to hide his contempt now.]

[greenscientist]

[Ouch.]

Destroy my friends, yes that sounds like a great idea.

[You're not baiting him into this.]

[zealots]

You have the power to save your friends.

[His tone is incredulous, as though unable to believe he is even having to explain this.]

You are the strongest among them. That bestows upon you a responsibility, regardless of whether you choose to accept it.

[greenscientist]

No, I don't. They start throwing punches, what's to stop me from....from...

[Bruce can't go on from there, he doesn't want to hurt them. Can't you understand that? He wouldn't be able to control the Other Guy in a fight that big. The best thing he could do was stay out of it.]

[loveisnotenough]

Waiting to see who comes out on top?

[greenscientist]

Not exactly. More hoping they can reconcile their differences.

[Skeptical on that happening but hey it happened once before. Maybe it will happen again.]

[loveisnotenough]

On their own? Or are you planning to mediate?

[greenscientist]

Its...better if I don't get caught in the middle. It might make things worse.

[loveisnotenough]

Yes, letting your companions kill each other off is much smarter. Less work for when you do get involved.

[She's probably being sarcastic. Mostly.]

[greenscientist]

They'll figure it out.

And I'm not getting involved.

[Maybe him and Thor can get some popcorn and commiserate from the sidelines.]

[loveisnotenough]

You are entirely too trusting.

[greenscientist]

Of them? Maybe. They're the only people I really do trust.

[advancedprosthesis]

Nope. Sorry. Not an option.

[greenscientist]

....sure about that?

[Third option is not-being-in-at-all]

[advancedprosthesis]

You know better than anyone why this is important.

[greenscientist]

True... [He's in agreement over the needing to monitor argument Tony puts out. That's why they made Veronica after all.]

However [a really big however] splitting the team? Fighting amongst yourselves? Not going to solve anything.

[advancedprosthesis]

[ Says the guy who was the first to split.]

I'm not the one who threw the first punch.

[greenscientist]

[Hey. He did that because he didn't want to hurt any more of the Avengers than he already had. That little bout with Wanda really did his confidence in.]

Doubt that it'll matter much who started it. [Civil War was never a good idea for either side of the fight.]

[advancedprosthesis]

[ Sure it was Wanda and not Natasha? ]

What matters is that we do the right thing with the abilities we have. [ He's tired of justifying this. He's tired of fighting.] Stay out of it if you need to, but don't kid yourself about being able to walk the line.