6 Months Later: the Avengers

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[comic_awareness]

Bruce had taken the dissolution of the Avengers hard. He felt like he'd let them all down, like he'd let Uncle Steve down, that he'd let the name he was trying to hard to live up to, down.

They were too dangerous, they said. They attracted too many powerful enemies, they said. And as much as they had advocated for themselves, for all the voices that had risen up in support, a dozen more shouted them down.

Almost as soon as the ink was dry on the order to disband, SWORD had approached him with an offer.

Now, he was living up on one of their space stations, acting as a first response against extraterrestrial excursions. Along with the occasional super-villain.

It felt like he was doing something, at least. Plus, it gave him time to work on his art.

He hadn't seen Sara face to face in a while, but he did keep in touch. Usually by text. Cell signals didn't exactly work real well from space.

Saw the X-Men in the news today. Glad to hear things are going well.

[summersspawn]

Sara was relaxing on the quad between classes when her phone played a few bars of an old song. Her face brightened and her thumbs danced over the screen.

Hey! Things have been, well, weird. I swear some guy was following me and Angel this morning taking pictures on his phone.

How are you doing?

[comic_awareness]

Bruce frowned for a minute. He didn't much like the idea of someone following Sara like that, but he knew both she and Angel could take care of themselves.

Did you have to EMP his phone?

Doing all right. Turned back a Badoon warship this morning, but nothing fancy.

Got a three day vacation coming up next weekend. You free?

[summersspawn]

Nah, not this time. If I see him again, his phone might suddenly develop a little overheating problem, though.

I am totally free. You coming down? I can take the Blackbird if you want to stay up there.

[comic_awareness]

Well, if you need me to, I can make some calls, have somebody look into him.

Definitely coming down. Be nice to be in gravity without having to worry about Skrulls or Kree.

[summersspawn]

Will do, babe. But after I melt his phone and Angel bamfs him to the top of the flagpole. If he shows up again.

Can't wait to see you.

[comic_awareness]

Now that's the girl I love.

Miss you so much.

[summersspawn]

Miss you too, babe. I'll be counting the days until next weekend. You be careful, and don't have too much fun swatting Badoon.

[comic_awareness]

You too. Nuke the guy one for me if he bothers you again.