[IC] Hooked on a Feeling

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Guinevere Stark

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"So what you're saying is I am an Avenger, but for legal reasons you can't make it official until I'm eighteen," Guin responded. She actually liked the sound of the name Starkette. Even though she had no intentions of becoming a superhero, she had been wanting to change up her online handle for games and stuff. "Also, I think the politically correct term is we have a massive fucking Hulk on our hands that could be killing my best friend - and to make things worse, F.R.I.D.A.Y. hasn't put on the next banger yet!" Guin then sped up again, noticing a huge hole smashed in one of the buildings in Harlem. The destruction seemed to stop there and F.R.I.D.A.Y. did a scan for heat signatures, pulling up an image of Lance and the Hulk. "Uh, Dad - or as an Avenger, should I call you Iron Man now? Anyways, looks like Hulk isn't letting go of him...Like fucking Godzilla...What's the plan?"

"SON?!" the Hulk roared questioningly, walking further into the lab and smashing things as he went. He loosened his grip on Lance, finding what looked like a bank vault and barricading himself inside there with Lance. He set Lance down and grabbed a huge several gallon jug of water, handing it to Lance so he could hydrate himself.

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Lance Banner

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Lance didn't know what to do, but was glad when the Hulk loosened up his grip again. He couldn't just run away or something, after all, it was near impossible for him to outrun the freaking Hulk of all people."Uh... Hulk?" Lance started to say as he just took the jug of water that he was being handed. The vault was weird, and he was still having difficulty breathing. "Look, can Puny Banner be put into control again? Please?" he asked as he coughed a little.

"You are not an Avenger Guin, no matter what! The only reason you were brought along was to get Lance out so I could deal with the Hulk, that is it! Besides, I don't think the Hulk would deliberately hurt Lance, from what I know, the monster thinks that Lance is his kid, and not Banner's. It is really weird, don't ask," he asked as they approached where Lance and the Hulk were, not saying much of anything to Guin anymore.

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Guinevere Stark

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"Bit rude to call him a monster, Dad," Guin pointed out as she landed her suit on the sidewalk outside of the building. "You don't call Uncle Thor a monster - or Uncle Steve - and they're kinda like not angry versions of the Hulk that aren't green or gigantic." F.R.I.D.A.Y. was sending them updated maps of the building, showing that the Hulk and Lance were in the back. "They're in a secure vault, boss. Going to take a lot of power to cut through that reinforced steal," F.R.I.D.A.Y. explained. "The Mark XLIV doesn't have the laser for it," F.R.I.D.A.Y. then added, referring to the Hulkbuster.

"Wow, tragic there isn't a new Avenger here wearing a suit that does have the right equipment..." Guin pointed out, before kicking off and flying into the building, getting the precision laser ready that she'd need to cut away the vault door. F.R.I.D.A.Y. helped her to target the hinges properly, that way Tony could tear it away with the Hulkbuster armor's added strength. "Hinge is broken, boss," F.R.I.D.A.Y. announced as Guin moved back, that way Tony could tear off the door.

Inside the vault, Hulk glanced over and saw the sparks coming at the hinges, letting out a roar. He didn't want anyone else going anywhere near his son - especially not Puny Banner! "NO BANNER HERE!" Hulk shouted, punching the wall and causing the building to tremble slightly. He set Lance down on a pile of boxes. "PUNY BANNER HURT SON!"

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Lance Banner

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"Hulk, please... You need to calm down, no one is going to hurt me alright?" Lance said, and he was getting scared now. The Hulk was not someone most of the Avengers wanted to mess with, and he was stuck in a room with him. He was used to his dad hulking out, but this time it was pretty bad, for him anyway. His chest was still hurting, and he knew that he probably could do with a trip to the clinic or something. Looking up, he saw the door being cut through, and he was guessing that it was Tony and maybe Guin.

"Hulk?" Tony called through the door before he opened it, letting them in. "Lance, you ok? You hurt or something?" he called out to Lance, who shook his head. "I'm alright..." he replied with a cough. His ribs were hurting a lot, but there wasn't much he could do. He wanted to help, he wanted to calm the Hulk down, but he didn't know how.

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Guinevere Stark

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The Hulk screamed, grabbing a chunk of the wall he ripped out and he flung it at Tony. The wall didn't do much to Tony, given the strength of the Hulkbuster Suit. It was designed to the sole purpose of being able to defeat the Hulk and even if part of it were to be damaged, Veronica could send in replacement components to Tony. Guin smirked a bit, remembering how her father had come up with the name. She found that the more she distracted herself, the less terrified she felt about the prospect of fighting the Hulk. Veronica, of course, had been chosen after the Archie comics - as Bruce's old girlfriend, Betty, wasn't around anymore, Veronica had to be called in.

"Hey big guy, sun's getting real low!" Guin called out, aiming for Lance and putting her thrusters at max power, managing to grab him and narrowly avoid getting flung across the room by the Hulk. The Hulk then tried to grab at Guin again in order to get Lance back, only for the building to begin to collapse around them. "Hey Dad, this isn't good..." Guin muttered, as F.R.I.D.A.Y. was trying to find a safe escape route out of the collapsing building.

"Here's the next banger, lass," F.R.I.D.A.Y. announced.

"That really a priority right now?!" Guin scoffed and the A.I. didn't respond.

"GIVE BACK SON!" Hulk roared at Guin, pushing aside pieces of rubble that were coming down on top of her. He didn't even seem to notice Tony there in the Hulkbuster anymore, more focused on the pesky little girl that had grabbed his son from him right when Lance was in grave danger. He wanted nothing more than to rip that shiny suit apart and blame Puny Banner for anything that happened to Lance.

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Lance Banner

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"Uh... Guin? We might want to get out of here, now!" Lance said as he saw the building collapsing around them. The Hulk looked like he didn't even notice the building, or Tony at all, and it kind of scared him. He knew his dad could survive a building collapsing down on top of them, Tony probably could too in that armor and Guin to some extent in her armor. Lance was the only one who would be in any immediate danger of death should the building collapse on top of them, and he did not want to die today.

Tony sent a punch slamming into the Hulk, if he had been ignoring him before, the Hulk couldn't ignore him now. The punch had been a direct hit to the head, and it sent him crashing into a wall with the force of the blow. He was hoping to be able to turn him back into Banner, but he knew that might not happen. "Guin, get him out, this building is coming down and if it does, it'll probably kill him," Tony said to her, as he prepared to continue to fight the Hulk if necessary.

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Guinevere Stark

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"Damn it, Lando, you just revealed my secret identity!" Guin exclaimed. "Your anxiety levels aren't stabilizin', lass," F.R.I.D.A.Y. informed her, since the suit was monitoring Guin's heart rate. Her words didn't reveal how panicked and scared she was, but it wasn't like that was something she could easily hide from F.R.I.D.A.Y. And as if the A.I. thought it would soothe her, the song started to play even louder - loudly enough for Lance to hear it outside of the suit. F.R.I.D.A.Y. pulled up a map of an escape route for Guin and the younger Stark tried her best to take deep breaths, ignoring the brief flashes of running through the woods with a Ginger that were coming to mind. This was not going to be like that. She'd heard that Ginger was in the hospital for months. She wouldn't let that happen to Lance.

Guin started to fly the escape route that F.R.I.D.A.Y. had charted for her, narrowly missing a swipe from the Hulk as she cleared the building. With the little more annoying target gone, the Hulk only had Tony to concentrate on. The ceiling of the building was barely holding up at this point. "GIVE BACK SON!" the Hulk roared in rage once more at Tony, picking himself up and quite literally throwing himself at Iron Man, trying to pummel him into oblivion.

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Lance Banner

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Lance held onto Guin as she flew them out of the building, with rubble falling all around them. The Hulk was starting to freak him out a little. The fact that he had changed into the Hulk to basically "keep him safe" or something was really dumb, at least in his opinion. This whole situation could have been avoided had his dad just left him alone for once in his life, but that was not something he would ever do, and it was starting to annoy him.

"Go to sleep go to sleep go to sleep," Tony started yelling at him as he started punching and wrestling with the Hulk some more. If the building collapsed on top of them, so be it, but at least the kids had gotten out. He knew that after this, when Banner switched back, one of the first things he'd ask was if anyone got hurt, and he wanted to make sure that no one was seriously injured from the Hulk's rampage.

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Guinevere Stark

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"Congratulations, lass, you were 88% successful," F.R.I.D.A.Y informed Guin as she got out of the building with Lance. Guin didn't have time to question the A.I. as the multistory building collapsed, the rubble sliding forward and threatening to engulf them. Swearing under her breath, she held onto Lance as tight as she could, putting the maximum power into the thrusters. They didn't manage to clear the rubble, but Guin used her suit as a shield for Lance, creating a small little pocket under about twelve feet of rubble.

"Hey, Dad? So we're trapped - and I don't think I can move, the suit is the only thing keeping us from being crushed alive," Guin said. The comm systems seemed to be working fine and she popped open her visor, looking down at Lance. Her suit had taken all of the damage from the near avalanche of rubble. "You okay, Lando?" she asked him, hyperventilating a bit herself. F.R.I.D.A.Y. didn't even need to alert Guin that her anxiety levels were rising. They were buried underneath the remnants of a building, while the only person who could help them was busy fighting the Hulk. "God I wish I had a joint right now..." she then muttered, forgetting Tony could hear everything she said.

Meanwhile for the Hulk and Tony, the building did sway forward as it fell but they were buried in rubble as well. Between the force of the punches and the collapsing building, the Hulk actually passed out, but not before he fell on top of Tony. He then shifted back into tiny Bruce Banner, clad only in pants. "Did I hurt anyone? Where are the kids?" he asked quietly.

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Lance Banner

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Lance looked at Guin, and put his hand to the back of his head, where there was a little blood coming from where he had hit his head when they went down to the ground. "Yeah, for the most part anyway..." he said to her, looking at where they were. "Looks like we didn't clear the building before it went down..." he said, before his body started to glow slightly, as he was panicking. Then he got an idea, and sent out a blast of light straight up, to make sure they could find them.

"Don't worry about it," Tony said as he got up and got them out from underneath the pile of rubble that they were under. "I heard that Guin! Just send up some sort of signal or something so we can find where you two are," he said, right when Lance started to create the light. He saw the area glowing, and went over to unbury the two of them. Eventually, he pulled the two of them out of the rubble. "You guys ok?"

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Guinevere Stark

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"Yeah, figured that part out," Guin muttered to Lance, hyperventilating still. While Lance looked like a lightbulb when he got nervous, Guin pretty much looked the same. F.R.I.D.A.Y. kept on playing music in an attempt to keep Guin calm, her suit sparking occasionally even once the rubble started to shift and Tony got them out of there. She nodded, managing to catch her breath slightly. "Yeah, Lando's got a head injury but I think we're okay..."

Banner slid down to where Lance was, picking up his son and giving him a slight hug. "Sorry about that, buddy..." Banner murmured. He then was quickly looking Lance over, wincing when he saw Lance's extensive injuries. The only bright side was that Lance wouldn't be able to run off very easily, meaning he could move Lance to a secure facility until this entire thing with Kilgrave and Hammer blew over.

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Lance Banner

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Lance winced slightly when his dad hugged him. His body was bruised and battered, but he'd live, now if only he could convince his dad to leave him alone. "Whatever, I'm alright, don't freak out about it... Sheesh, you are being a little ridiculous," Lance said, shooting a glare at Guin for mentioning his injuries. Odds were that his dad was not going to let him out of his sight. "I still don't want to go to some secure location or something..." he muttered.

"Well, we should probably head back to Stark Tower," Tony said, looking at them. Lance was perfectly fine heading back to Stark Tower, as long as his dad didn't try to send him away again, since that conversation had resulted in what was currently going on, and the building collapsing around them.

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Guinevere Stark

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"Dad, we should probably see about buying the building we just destroyed - or at least leaving an IOU," Guin pointed out. They were lucky that no one else had been inside during the fight with the Hulk, as they likely would've been killed in the process. She half expected that Spider-Man guy to show up and try to help out, only to get swatted away like a fly. It would have been terrifying, but hilarious at the same time. She had been waiting for the day Spider-Man showed up and tried to join the Avengers, since she was a bit curious about who he was - but mostly because she wanted to see him fight Ant-Man.

"Yeah....Guess I destroyed Harlem again," Banner mumbled, looking around sheepishly. He half expected them to try and kick him out of New York at this point. He knew that Tony had an entire legal team largely dedicated to stopping actions like that, but still, he couldn't help but wonder again if he really should be living in a big city. The main reason he lived in New York was because of all the opportunities it had for Lance. A third world country didn't exactly have the best STEM resources - though Serbia wouldn't have been too bad.

"And it'd probably just be an Avengers facility upstate, buddy," Banner reminded him. "Guin, Tony, and I would go there too."

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Lance Banner

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"No, I'm not going anywhere. I don't want to get put in some weird building or whatever, even though this problem would probably be easier to try and fix if we didn't basically just barricade us somewhere... It is a little ridiculous," he said, looking away from them. The idea of them just sitting there, doing nothing, instead of trying to solve the problem at its source was insane.

"Well, we can talk about it when we get back to the tower. JARVIS, see about buying this building, so that way we don't owe someone something. We really need to stop breaking things all of the time, but whatever, you get used to it. Also, the kid does have a point Banner..." Tony said, glancing around at the destruction that had been caused in the area.

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Guinevere Stark

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Banner gave Tony a look, as if to say et tu, Tony? He didn't like the idea of leaving his son out in the open, especially with Hammer and Kilgrave attempting to warp Lance's mind. He'd be a terrible parent if he allowed that to happen. And sure, Banner already knew he wasn't a fantastic parent by any standards - Tony Stark seemed to have a better job at parenting than he did. "Tony and I will handle this. Lance Gabriel Calrissian, you are not going anywhere near these people or so help me, I will drag you to a facility in Antartica and your classmates will be penguins."

"So I'd be his classmate?" Guin interrupted, only to get a look from Banner. "Sorry, Dr. Banner..." Guin then mumbled. "Please don't turn green and beat me into a pulp. I'm really not ready to die yet." Banner gave her more of a look, letting out a frustrated sigh. Once they were back at the tower, he managed to get Lance patched up. The recovery would take a few weeks, unfortunately. Guin was sitting in medical with the others, her fingers twitching as her withdrawal symptoms appeared again.

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Lance Banner

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"Really? Saying my middle name? Thanks for that," Lance muttered, still not looking over at his dad. The guy was being really ridiculous in his opinion, but he did like the fact that his dad had used what his last name actually was, as opposed to what everyone thought it was. It was annoying when people called him Banner, but he never had told his dad that, and he didn't know if he ever wanted to tell him that.

"Penguin, maybe you shouldn't say those sorts of things around Banner alright? He's got enough to deal with without you saying things like that," Tony whispered to Guin when they headed back to Stark Tower. Lance was not too thrilled to basically be stuck in medical, for what has felt like the hundredth time in his life, and that is not generally a good thing. He was hurting, a lot, but it wasn't like he could do much about it now.

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Guinevere Stark

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"Try not to run off again for a while, buddy," Banner said, as he gave Lance some painkillers to help with the partially crushed ribs. "This isn't going to be a fun healing process...So don't do anything that will aggravate it," he then added. He really didn't want to have to treat Lance for any complications that could have arisen. He was doing a pretty good job of ignoring Guin, not really wanting to deal with her at the moment, as he blamed her for whatever ideas Lance had gotten in his head. He doubted that they had gone to the event and this happened to them by chance.

Guin was sitting on one of the chairs in medical, her fingers twitching more and more. Kilgrave's pheromones in her system had set her sobriety back a few days and she looked a little bit pale. To make matters worse, she kept having little flashbacks to the incident at her boarding school with the Brotherhood - of Ginger looking so battered and bruised, of that irritating speedster trying to pull her out of the tree. And then her mind drifted to the aftermath of the events there. She thought about the first time she ever used and she started to scratch at her wrist.

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Lance Banner

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"Whatever... There isn't really any place I would be able to go, so I am kind of stuck here anyway... No matter what I could do, it is so annoying..." Lance muttered, not looking at Banner. He was still getting seriously annoyed because of what was going. He was fidgeting, not really wanting to sit still, he hated it when he was stuck in medical, it happened a lot more than people would have thought. It hurt, a lot, every time he got an injury, but it couldn't be helped at all.

Tony was out of his armor now, and he walked over to Guin. He noticed her scratching at her wrists, and he let out a sigh. "Guin, stop scratching at your wrists," Tony said, as he looked at her. He didn't want her relapsing, and she looked like she might be heading that direction.

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Guinevere Stark

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Banner sighed, sitting down on a chair next to Lance's bed. There wasn't really much he could say to his son anyways. His injuries had been his fault, given that he let the Hulk out. And it wasn't like he could wave a magic wand and suddenly heal Lance in a matter of seconds. Sure, there were whispers of some mutants and inhumans out there who could do stuff like that, but none of them had been credible as far as he was aware. "Let me know if you need anything to eat or something, buddy," Banner then said softly.

"It's the only alternative I have at the moment," Guin muttered, scratching at her wrists even faster. Her mind was practically screaming out for some sort of stimulant and she didn't want to relapse. Tony had raided her stash anyways, so the best she could do would be to steal some of the painkillers from the medical ward. Of course, she doubted her dad was going to let her out of his sight again. She'd be lucky if he didn't send her back to rehab for a few weeks and the threat of Kilgrave was probably the only thing stopping that. But even as she scratched, she didn't find any sort of relief. Her wrists had begun to bleed lightly.

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Lance Banner

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"I'm not hungry... Leave me alone," Lance said, now going back to ignoring him again. His dad in his opinion was now being like a pesky fly that won't leave you alone no matter what you do, even after you swear you had swatted the fly away, it just keeps coming back. He just wanted his dad to leave him alone, to not bug him so much, but he knew that it was going to be impossible, especially with Kilgrave after them. Lance had thought his dad was bad before, but it seemed like it was going to get a lot worse.

"Guin, stop!" Tony said, before he grabbed her by the wrists, stopping her from scratching. "You need to calm down alright, it'll be ok," he said, before he started to wrap bandages around her wrists to stop them from bleeding. He was worried about her, ever since Kilgrave controlled her, it was like she had gotten worse, and he didn't know what to do about it.