Crash Landing- Betty's Debut

[hulk_whisperer]

The floor shook beneath Betty's feet and everyone stumbled from side to side uneasily as they tried to claw their way around the inside of the helicopter. Her light blue eyes were wide as she watched the two massive men hanging from the aircraft's base struggling against each other. Another shake brought her to her knees with a small shriek and she

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[whoneedsadream]

Anatoly was starting to wonder if the Island was trying to tell him something. He'd only been here for a few weeks, yet he seemed destined to come across new arrivals every few days or so.

"They call this place Tabula Rasa," he answered as soothingly as he could. "Are you alright?"

[hulk_whisperer]

Betty stumbled to her feet, her mouth open as she tried to collect herself, but failed. She had been in New York just a minute ago, and now... what happened? With nothing else to cling to, she turned to the voice and found a man approaching very slowly.

"I--" she wasn't sure how to answer that. She'd just crash landed, hadn't she? "I think so."

Shock wasn't allowing her to feel much at the moment. Nothing except the constant sinking feeling that plagued her stomach.

[whoneedsadream]

Anatoly held a hand out to her, in case she needed the assistance. "I know it's overwhelming. I felt the same way when I arrived."

[hulk_whisperer]

"This isn't New York," she said simply, taking his hand and still managing to stumble as she got to her feet.

[waltsnothereman]

Another day, another walk along the beach, trying to learn if Wanda really was just immune to tanning, seeing as she'd been there over a month and was barely a shade darker than when she'd arrived. She saw a lot of people this way, although not too many of them looked as confused as the woman currently laying in the sand a few paces in front of her. The woman who she was fairly sure hadn't been there the last time she had paid attention to where she was walking.

"Let me wager a guess, were you just somewhere else?" Or did she just not know what sand was?

[hulk_whisperer]

A voice. Talking to her. Betty shook her head to either side, trying to clear it, but the buzzing wouldn't go away. The woman was blurry in her vision until she managed to focus, but she didn't look familliar at all. At least she wasn't alone here.

"New York," was all she could manage to say, and then she realized that there was sand in her mouth. She cringed.

[waltsnothereman]

The apparent newcomer looked to be in fairly rough shape, so Wanda set aside her curiosity at seeing firsthand the phenomenon of arrival and bent down to help her up.

"Come on, you're fine. Can you stand up, kid?"

[hulk_whisperer]

Looks up at the woman confused, "Kid? I wish I was that young. How old are you?"

Slowly stands and glances around herself; there is water, and sand. Trees are inland, but she was fairly certain that the islands in New York were not this green.

[lawyered]

Marshall had been building a sandcastle and definitely not moping about the island's lack of Lily when suddenly Liv Tyler appeared out of thin air. Dropping the large conch shell he'd been using for a shovel, Marshall gaped over at her.

That. Was. Awesome.

He opened his mouth to say, "Welcome to the island, Liv Friggan' Tyler," but then thought better of it. What was the likelihood this was actually Liv Tyler? Well, from the looks of her, she wasn't Arwen -- and that was as far as Marshall got as narrowing down which movie character this was.

After a sufficient amount of gaping, he grinned and said, "Hey, how's it hangin'?"

[hulk_whisperer]

Sitting up in the sand, Betty glanced over at the man who was talking to her. The sun glared in her eyes, and she had to squint, but it seemed that he had been building a... sand castle?

"Not so well?" she replied awkwardly. Her social skills didn't extend much past science geeks -- much less all the way out to beach bums.

[lawyered]

The grin faded a little. Yeah, Marshall remembered when he'd shown up here unexpectedly. While the surprise tropical paradise sorta-vacation thing in and of itself was awesome, it was not awesome being yanked from home and leaving everything you cared about behind. Like Lily. And Ted. And, dammit, even Barney.

"I'm Marshall," he said, and then gestured to their surroundings. "This is Tabula Rasa. It's this island that's sorta magical, like on Lost, and it pulls people here from all kinds of different times and places. I know, it sounds crazy, right?" Marshall grinned again, which was supposed to lend a comforting effect. However, it probably made him look more enthusiastically crazed than anything else.

[hulk_whisperer]

"Like Lost?!" she repeated to herself, and then glanced around the beach. "Meaning we can't get back?"

What if that was the case, and the Hulk couldn't find her in the helicopter back in New York? What would he do to all of the people there? Who would Bruce turn to for help with Mr. Blue out of the picture? She pressed her face into her hands, as the multiple worries that she had gathered over the past week finally broke the gates and flooded over her.

[im_a_toughguy]

After awhile on the island, it kind of got into Freddy's head that he shouldn't be surprised when people appeared out of thin air. That it happened all the time, that it was, in some weird twisted way, normal and really shouldn't have been any kind of a surprise. And yet, even after about a year and a half, he still stared like an idiot whenever it happened. He was just happy that more often than not they appeared a ways away, not directly in front of, or right on top of. That would scare the crap out of him, island weirdness now being normal or not. Just walking along the beach and then thud, new person running straight into you after appearing a milimeter away.

Being the nice guy he was though, he couldn't just turn the other way and pretend he'd seen nothing. As tempted as he was to just do that on some occasions.

"Hey!" He called, walking towards the woman who'd appeared. As he got closer he thought she looked like that girl he'd met once, Death, but shrugged the thought off before it settled. "You okay?"

[hulk_whisperer]

The man approaching Betty looked familliar, and not in a good way. In fact, the closer he got to her, the more she was sure that this was none other than Emil Blonsky. And that would be Bruce was here, too, right?

Frantically, she scrambled to her feet and began to back away from him, stumbling in the sand a bit as she went. She wasn't sure how she got here, on this island (of which New York didn't have any still plentifully populated with trees), but she did know that if she and Emil has crashed here, than surely her father and Bruce had, too. She had to find him and make sure he was alright.

Holding up a hand between them, Betty managed to choke out, "Stay. Away. From me."

[im_a_toughguy]

That was a bit more defensive than he usually expected from a new arrival, but if he'd been a hot chick suddenly alone on a beach with a strange guy, he figured he'd have been cautious too. Instead of pressing, Freddy just held up his hands, which were clearly empty, and watched the woman with a flat and hopefully helpful expression. He wasn't even sure if helpful could be an expression, but it was worth a shot.

"Woah." He said, standing exactly in the same spot and not moving forward. He didn't need her getting any more on edge, after all. "It's okay. Let me take a guess, about five seconds ago you were someplace lacking in the palm tree department and now don't know where the hell you are?" He He waved his hands vaguely, his eyebrows raising expectantly. "Ringin' any bells?"

[hulk_whisperer]

"Yeah, that's right," she said, still on the defensive.

"But then, you were there, too, Blonsky. You crashed with me. You were hanging on the bottom of the helicopter. Don't play mind games with me. Now, where's Bruce?"

Why was he pretending to be nice? He didn't think of her as anything but a piece of meat; her father's prize scientist daughter. Something he could try to take from the gaint green Hulk, which he and the General feared and Betty loved.