Hey ya'll! I hope you guys had a good 4th of July, if you celebrate it! I know I did, let's just say someone broke out my weakness- Champagne. I Looooove Champagne! I also learned, if you start the night out drinking Champagne, it's best to end the night drinking Champagne. Don't mix it with other types of drinks, it doesn't end well. If you are like me however, and have to figure this out the hard way, a bean rice and cheese burrito and a red bull are pretty much the cure to a hangover.

Aaaannnnnyways, all that fun stuff aside, here's what some of you have been waiting for! I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Avengers, or Bruce Banner, Hydra, HAMMER, or SHIELD. I'm not making money, I'm just making people happy. Enjoy!

Bruce Roberts sat in his room every day for lunch. Everyone knew that, he didn't go to the teachers' lounge, he didn't particularly care to socialize with most of the people around. Most people just brushed it off as a science teacher type of thing, even though the assistant principal always brought new teachers around to meet him.

Mr. Clorozzo was of the belief that Bruce needed to be friends with at least one teacher, he needed someone to be able to report back to him what it was the quiet chemistry teacher thought about, talked about and did with his spare time, but each person for it harder and harder to get through to him. Not that Mr. C gave up.

Bruce was sitting in his office chair, typing up the lesson plans to send to the principal when there was a knock on his door. He stood up and opened it, a woman who looked to be around twenty five was standing there looking embarrassed. "Hi," she smiled at him, "I um, I'm looking for the Chemistry one lab?"

"Right across the hall." he pointed to the door down the hall and across from his a little.

"Oh my gosh, thanks so much." she smiled.

"First day?" he joked and she shook her head.

"No- Well, kind of, it's my first day substituting." she sighed.

"Ah." he nodded.

"I went to the teacher's lounge for lunch, and, I don't know, this school is so different then the high school I want to." she followed him into his classroom, making him looked back at her with a little surprise. He figured she was just a substitute who wanted someone to talk to before lunch was over so he didn't say anything. "Nice classroom."

"It's just like yours." he shrugged.

"Oh, but you have a better view of the woods, mine is over the parking lot." she chuckled. "I'm Leona, Leona Hiss."

"Bruce Roberts." he shook her hand.

"You wouldn't believe some of the jokes the kids come up with." she sighed.

"Pretty obvious huh?" he asked with a small smile.

"I'd like to think I was a little more creative with insults when I was a high schooler." she sighed with a small laugh. "What about you Mr. Roberts?"

"I finished early." he nodded. "I was more focused on my studies than insulting teachers." he shrugged with a small smile.

"Is this your family?" she asked as she picked up a picture from his desk.

"Uh, yeah..." he said a little thrown off by her straight forwardness.

"Your wife is very pretty." she said as she ran her finger over Minnie's face. She looked up at him, the playfulness now replaced with a cold, calculating look. "Such a shame, what we were forced to do to her." she said, an accent slipping into her words. His face hardened as he looked at the woman, then he stood up, grabbing her, he swung her into the wall next to them.

"Who are you?" he asked and she looked up at him.

"I think you know."

"Hydra." he growled. "I swear, if you hurt my family-"

"What will you do? You couldn't do anything to protect them. What do you expect to accomplish by avenging them?" she practically purred. He backed away from her, letting go of her arms. She grinned as he stumbled back, to his desk, and turned away. "It is a shame though," she continued. "The little one really didn't need to see that. She is young enough though... I suppose, she could come to think of me as mother." she moved close to Bruce who was looking away.

He looked at her sharply, his eyes were bright green, his breathing was heavy as he groaned, screwing his eyes shut, and looking down with a grimace as his skin started to turn green. The woman, Leona Hiss, if that was her name, grinned sadistically as he grew in size and stature, tearing right through his clothes, his glasses fell off in a broken mess of metal and glass.

"Liar." he growled, his voice a mixture of his own and the Hulk's as he continued to finish the transformation.

"Your wife is dead." she said to him lowly. "Your daughter is with us." she grinned at the Hulk. I wonder about that young mutant girl as well. I supposed she could be an asset to us. It was so nice of you to put her with her own kind. We may even take a few of them. You can't protect them, just like you couldn't protect your family. And there's nothing you can do about it." He let out a piercing roar before moving towards her.

A month after Amanda had left for the school in New York I walked into the house, looking through the mail. Kayla was in the living room, coloring a picture while Dallas lay on the floor next to her on his side. "Don't even think about it." I said as she leaned over, a bright blue marker pointed towards Dallas' white stomach. She giggled and quickly turned back to the picture. I smiled seeing a letter from Amanda and opened it. "Amanda sent us a letter."

"Can I read it?"

"You can try." I said as she ran over. She tripped on the floor, but quickly picked herself back up. I picked her up and put her on the counter to sit. Bruce and I had taught Kayla baby sign language before she was able to talk, and with that came finger spelling, which in my belief was making it easier to teach her to read. "Here you go Pumpkin." I said and looked up as there was a knock on the door.

"Oh my god honey," Erin said as she walked into the house.

"What's wrong?" I asked noticing her troubled look.

"There's something at the school." she said and my heart dropped.

"Wha-What do you mean?"

"I mean there's something at the school, it's like a- a- a alien or something! They're evacuating everyone right now and calling in the SWAT team!"

"Oh shit." I said softly. "Oh shit, oh god." I put my hand to my forehead, I couldn't believe it. "Uh, I- I need to get there." I looked at Kayla who was looking at me with a worried look on her face.

"Mommy?"

"Baby, please, stay here with Erin," I looked at Erin and she nodded.

"Go, it's fine, I'll watch her." she said and I nodded as I went to the garage.

"Jarvis, open the emergency locker." I said and the emergency door opened. I pulled a backpack I had put in there put and threw it into the car next to me.

I got into the car and drove towards the school, rather than going to the front of the school I drove around to the woods in the back. I could see the school had been evacuated to the front and parents were freaking out trying to find their kids. The police were around the front, and hopelessly outnumbered.

If he wanted to, Bruce- The Hulk, could take them all down without an effort. I moved across the back parking lot and moved into the back of the school. It was quiet, quieter than I would have expected, and then- There was a loud shout, one I hadn't heard in a long time. I ran towards it, unlike anything any sane person would normally do.

I could hear shouts, and someone screaming in a language I didn't know. They repeated it a few times, and then I heard people running. I ducked down a hallway and frowned as a group of five or six people went running down the hall, away from me, a woman with long black hair was leading them, she didn't look away, and she just kept running.

I turned and ran in the direction that they had come from; the evidence of a struggle was evident. I moved around, trying not to trip over the things on the ground, before I heard heavy breathing coming from a room to my left. I went to the room and found myself in the school gym. A large lumbering figure was kneeling on the ground, breathing heavily. I could see green blood dripping down his left arm as I moved around him slowly.

"Hulk," I said softly and he looked up quickly, his green eyes focused on me and I moved forward slowly. "Honey." I moved forward.

"They Kill you." he said and I shook my head.

"No honey, I'm fine." I said softly as I moved closer to him. I gently cupped his large green face. "What happened?" my eyes flickered to his arm, he looked at it and his face darkened. "Hey, hey, Hulk, look at me." I said softly. "Look at me." he looked at me. "It's okay. You need to turn back."

"Makayla, okay?" he asked and I nodded.

"Makayla's fine." I said "We're both fine, she's with Erin." I said as I smoothed my hand over his cheek. "But, we need you. We need you to come back to us." I said. The Hulk lifted his large hand and moved it towards me, I smiled as he shrank down to his normal size, his hand cupped my face as I stared at him. He pulled me in and kissed me deeply.

"I- I thought-"

"Don't worry about me." I said softly. "Don't worry." I handed him the bag and he shook his head with a small sigh. I kissed him quickly and he quickly pulled on the clothes.

"I- they told me they-"

"I know." I said softly. "But I think we have a bigger problem." I looked to his arm, and he followed my gaze.

"No... No, they…." he groaned, shutting his eyes. They opened again and I stepped forward when I noticed them turning green.

"Honey, don't. Don't, we need you right now. SHIELD needs you, the Avengers are going to need you, and your family needs you. There's a whole mess of SWAT members ready to take you out, right outside, and I know you could easily take them all on, but I'd rather we get home, and try to figure something out. He took my hand and started to pull me toward the front of the school.

"No, this way." I said as I pulled him to the back. I grabbed a handful of paper towels from the kitchen and handed them to him. He shoved them up the sleeve of his shirt, and then led me out of the school. "I parked in the woods." I said as I grabbed his hand again.

"Stop!" a voice shouted and we both turned quickly. It was Aaron, our neighbor, and the deputy Sherriff in Nadine. "Jesus you two." he sighed as he lowered his gun.

"Thank god you're here." Bruce said suddenly and Aaron looked at him. "I think I heard them in the school Gym, they were saying something about using the tunnel out of the school under the stage to get to the other side of the school while you went in from the front."

"Okay." Aaron said and then looked at me. "Emily, don't be so reckless." he said as he shook his head before leading a team of officers into the school. We went to the woods and got in the car.

"What do we do?" I asked softly as he started the car up. We drove away from the area, circling around before we went home. "Bruce, what do we do?"

"I don't know." he said in frustration. "We get in touch with SHIELD."

"They haven't been able to stop them yet honey, what are they going to do now?" I asked in frustration.

"They'll keep you safe." he said as he looked over at me. "I'm having them reinstate me."

When we got to the house he told Erin a story about how I found him in the parking lot, and he didn't know what was going on at the school, but that everyone was ordered to go home and lock up. Erin left and he went to the central computer.

"Jarvis, activate lock down." he said as he typed on the computer.

"Dr. Banner, is everything alright?"

"No Jarvis, it's not." he said. The sound of moving metal made me jump, and nearly sent Kayla into a fit as metal shutters slid over the windows.

"What the hell?" I asked as I picked Kayla up. "When did those-"

"It is a SHIELD safe house." he said and I nodded, Kayla clung to me and Dallas barked at the window closest to him before he tore across the house, barking at all of them.

"Shh," I whispered to Kayla as she hugged me tightly. "Shh, it's okay."

"I want Bo-Bo." she whined. I went to her room with her and got her the bright green blanket she had named Bo-Bo. I brought her back downstairs as Bruce talked in the phone for a moment. He hung up and looked at me.

"Honey, what's going on?" I asked.

"Call Amanda." he said. "They're sending someone to pick her up."

"And us?" I asked and he moved over to me.

"Welcome back to SHIELD Mrs. Banner." he said softly, before he turned and walked away, rolling up the sleeve of his shirt to address his cut.