WHO: Betty, Bruce and SERIOUSLY SHIELD PEOPLE COME OVER HERE!! WHAT: Bruce finds a ride out to SHIELD HQ with a very big idea. WHERE: The Helicarrier! WHEN: Oh, about the same few hours that THIS is happening too.
Fear was a funny thing. All his life, Bruce devoted himself to the mental disciplines without bothering to connect them to issue of the heart as well. Before... well, what seemed like everything, it was a lot easier to ignore emotions and their connection to actions because that simply made the world more cruel. Logic ruled and in logic there was a set answer for everything in the universe.
These days, Bruce Banner's logic faith has been shaken. Maybe there wasn't an answer to everything. Maybe there were just whole worlds of understanding he simply will not see. Sitting in a room full of the most powerful people alive, his mind had wandered from their lofty goals and settled for the grounding truth. And, with a sudden soul searching epiphany, he knew that the truth would set him free. He wasn't afraid, not anymore.
Other people were, but for once it worked to his advantage. "Really? I have some work still within SHIELD premises and I would like to get it back," he had told the agents. "In fact, it would really, really upset me if it's, I don't know, taken away from me? Can you even do that? The legality of that just... man, it just really pisses me off..." The agents got the idea quickly and soon he was on the deck of the helicarrier with a wide berth around him. Yep, fear was a funny thing. Made you crazy.
"Is... is Dr. Ross still here?," he asked someone, they relayed it to the bridge, and Bruce was given a direction.