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greenscientist ([personal profile] greenscientist) wrote in [community profile] sixwordstories2016-03-19 06:22 pm
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Technically...I am on both sides.
stark: (yeah okay no)

[personal profile] stark 2016-03-19 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh.
zealots: (With a mighty hand)

[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-19 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Only cowards hide behind neutrality.
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[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-19 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yours is a strength that could end the war.

[He doesn't budge from where he stands, his own arms crossed, stern and uncompromising.]
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[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-19 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
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.]
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[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-20 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-20 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
From killing them with your own hands? Do you truly have so little faith in yourself?

[Exodus has been trying to keep his mental distance, but Banner's distress is almost palpable now. He barely even has to probe the man's mind, the image haunting him all but shouting to a telepath of his stature.]

Ah. Of course. I suppose you are not entirely to blame, Wanda Maximoff's mutant gifts are most potent. She struck you where you are weakest, not your body but your spirit.
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[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-20 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[His brow furrows as he considers this new information. Originally he had just come here to confirm what his people already suspected, that this man would not be a player. But if Banner's self-imposed exile was caused by one of his genetic kin, that means he has a responsibility here too.]

It does. [His voice is firm again, though no longer disdainful.] You were a hero once, as much as you want to run from it now. Your strength was needed in New York. It is needed again now.
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[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-20 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Exodus isn't offended. He knows of the General and in some ways the comparison is not without merit. But...]

Weapons come in classes. There is a difference between a sword and a shield.

[That was General Ross's mistake, in his opinion. Trust a man with the nickname 'Thunderbolt' to be shortsighted.] Were you only a sword in the battle of New York? I recall footage of your alter standing between the Chitauri leviathans and their prey. I recall him following the orders of a better man than General Ross, a man who understood that weapons can protect as well as destroy.
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[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-20 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
It's only tactics. Captain Rogers would likely tell you the same were he not presently... occupied.

[An impassive shrug.]

You did more than "smash the bad guys". Did you know all the damage from the battle was confined to a six block radius? That was you, when you trusted yourself enough to be part of a team. You not only engaged the enemy, you kept them from spreading. You saved lives that day, and you have it in you to save them again. If you are willing to stop running and face yourself.

[He can't help but feel the slightest twinge of sympathy for Banner now. What he had thought to be simply cowardice has turned out to be something much more complicated.]
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[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-20 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[He's used to seeing this kind of fear, but usually it comes from confused young mutants grappling with their powers. He is used to taking those youth and teaching them his way, but Banner is a grown man who has already chosen his path. He will never make a soldier of him, but that doesn't mean the man is beyond his help.]

It was not, it only appears so from your currently-limited perspective. Since Wanda Maximoff's tampering with your mind you no longer trust yourself as you did that day.

[Bluntly:]

I cannot promise you mastery over yourself, Bruce Banner. Even my mastery of my abilities is not complete. But... I can teach you what I have learned about controlling a power that seems too great for any man to handle. If you are willing. You needn't fear harming me, my mutant gifts make me far better equipped than most to face your alter.
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[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-20 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[He meets the smile thinly, unperturbed by Banner's skepticism.]

Do you? I wonder if your friends would agree.

Or the General's daughter, for that matter.
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[personal profile] zealots 2016-03-20 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Of course he's pushing your buttons. It's unfortunate but necessary than an object lesson is needed before Banner can trust in his ability to survive an encounter with the Hulk.

And if he is being entirely truthful with himself, it is not entirely unfortunate that he test himself against the strongest of the Avengers either. Indeed, the highly uncharacteristic smirk he is now wearing is not fully feigned.]


I would wager I know more of what I speak of than you. How long has it been since you saw her last Banner, seven years? Eight? Not a call or even a letter since the Harlem incident. Do you wonder if she has moved on yet, reconciled with that doctor friend of hers perhaps? You know better than most what absence does to the heart.
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[personal profile] loveisnotenough 2016-03-20 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Waiting to see who comes out on top?

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