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For reasons yet known, Misty Knight and Bruce Banner don't ‘return’ around midnight, unlike most prior shift weeks.
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For reasons yet known, Misty Knight and Bruce Banner don't ‘return’ around midnight, unlike most prior shift weeks.
Maya Knowles and Brandon Bataille attend Declan and Celine Ward's Night of the Living Wed wedding party.
The evening culminates into chaos as villains crash the wedding party...
...triggering Bruce's native survival instinct and kicking his consciousness into gear—only for him to find himself in unfamiliar surroundings, among unfamiliar faces, shit hitting the fan, none of his usual escape plans on hand (or wrist...), and Misty nowhere near. Between the surging, crazed attackers and the blood baths and the Misty Knight separation anxiety, Bruce is very calmly freaking out.
Misty, similarly triggered once she returns from an untimely restroom break, has no idea what's going on either but isn't liking it. Immediately, her main objective is to get away—after locating Bruce via the tracking device he had implanted into her cybernetic arm in August, a device that's soon detecting his rising-off-the-scales radiation emissions to signal that they kinda had to leave a few minutes ago.
From the opposite end of the event hall and with her bionic arm's repulsor shield up, Misty attempts to make it to the signal's location, every couple of steps forward getting delayed by more chaos and whether or not to snap necks or just bruise them.
Meanwhile, Bruce flings Sambuca shots.
Presumably, he's under the impression that they're Molotov cocktails for the ten minutes or so that it takes for Misty to arrive.
Though, mostly, he's taking cover behind a kindly assisting, physiologically enhanced stranger who happens to be a friend of Brandon's—and also Deadpool.
As Misty and Bruce play their socially responsible part and make their prompt escape from the venue, Bruce bumps literal shoulders with Black Widow...
...somehow finding the time to have his personal James Bond moment to make up for all his testicular disappearances of the evening thus far.
She's mid-warfare; he's near-Hulk Out; they spin around; she points a gun to his face; time pauses all Matrix-y; and he says something to the effect of "Hey, Nat. I'm in a bit of a rush, but, we still on this week for peppermint tea?"—effectively dropping his much prolonged 'Joe Black' cover to whom else but a Russian super-spy.
Racing against the ticking timebomb of a Hulk episode, Misty absconds with Bruce to a nearby safehouse...
Things tide down at the safehouse till something goes bump in the night...
An appearance by a mysterious creature has Misty's host suddenly spun back into the fray.
Back at the cave, Bruce and Maya have to reach a consensus on what to do with Zombie!Mom.
Vomit. Everywhere. And not the romantic kind that their hosts seemed to have made a joke of; rather, accidents on the porous flooring yet again, which were really starting to bring up considerations for an Extreme Cave Makeover.
Bruce is less than thrilled despite the more than understandable circumstances, and he attends to the mess after assuring Maya not to worry about it, leaving her to wash up in the bathroom's privacy. Relieved, frankly, to have the girl off his watch for the short while as he begins to receive live footage from the drones that had arrived at the site of their recently abandoned safehouse.
His initial intentions of simply monitoring the uncanny creature is soon thwarted by Maya, who's torn about them having left z!mom out on the streets, fearing that something would happen to it—'cause it’s not her mom but it’s wearing her face, an eerie parallel to the man she now has to cooperate with.
Upon quick consideration and despite his disdain for sentimentality in times of the undead reanimating, Bruce concurs, rationalizing that leaving it to haplessly roam would likely be a public safety hazard as well. He suggests holding it in the containment chamber till further developments—at this point still presuming the case of z!mom an isolated incident and not a city-wide epidemic.
Hesitant about the proposed close quarters to her younger sister, Maya nonetheless concedes.
Decked out in precautionary BannerTech, Bruce returns to the scene of the crime...
...with the fairly straightforward plan to relocate zombie!mom into the containment chamber via the highly scientific point-and-shoot application of their teleporter gun.
Things go without a hitch, though he can't shake the feeling that he wasn't alone with the creature on the street. Tasking a pair of drones to patrol, he shrugs off his suspicions and settles back at the cave where Maya is found fast asleep.
Having not slept at all since before the wedding party, when Maya crashed it was accidental and hard, exhausted from the night's emotional rollercoasters and curled up in the single bed with Simone.
Simone wakes and wanders into the cave's lab where Bruce has been documenting a handful of disturbances in the city.
Amusingly, the child seems completely unperturbed by the abrupt late-night relocations; and after engaging in a continuation of their prior q&a sessions regarding the lab's modest offerings, they decide to leave a note for Maya/Misty before making a quick trip out to Carlsbad, NM, for IHOP and the week's fresh groceries. (Bruce Banner's stockpile of supplies, apparently, doesn't include the 'right' cereal. The ones with the marshmallows...)
Misty finally revives after leaving Bruce to entertain a six-year-old for an entire day.
Simone feeds her cereal for dinner (with marshmallows), telling her ALL! about the SO! FUN! day she had making things go BOOM! (Bruce can explain...). Misty soon concludes that she would need to avoid the containment chamber entirely to keep the whole thing from happening again.
“The deceased are ready for their revenge.
The San Francisco Bay Area, currently a hub for supernatural, odd, and unexplainable, is seeing a new problem: faces thought to be long gone appearing once again, albeit looking very...different.
These creatures are fallen friends, foes, strangers, and family. Some are faces that are long gone while others were recently lost. None are themselves, as they have been transformed into shells of their former selves thanks to the power of the Black Lantern ring, a ring that exists outside of the emotional spectrum and thrives on death and destruction. Though they are creatures of destruction with a lust for death, they are not mindless hordes. They're sentient beings who possess normal speech patterns, and the Black Lantern ring grants them a certain type of "life," even if they're not actually, properly alive. They've been reanimated and have all the memories and abilities of those deceased. Some of these corpses come dangerously close to looking alive while others appear mostly decayed...” — excerpt from @multiverses
Unsurprisingly, Misty Knight and Bruce Banner return this month to yet another round of unforeseen challenges, as the week progresses with the dead continuing to rise from their graves and in their increasingly initiated numbers.