@starsorted
Bruce woke up to the sight of an alien sky above him, a mosaic nebula of blues and purples and yellows and pinprick stars peeking through the clouds. It was like nothing he’d ever seen before, and in his drugged out state it was the most beautiful, ethereal sky he’d ever laid eyes on. The first coherent thought he managed to form then was a feeling of serenity. He felt as if he could lay there staring up at the sky forever, and time would cease to be. The serenity didn’t last long before an unpleasantly familiar face leaned over him, sneering down at him, and his first coherent thought was, ‘Oh, shit.’
Memory started to return to him after that. Ross had cornered him at long last, had managed to snipe him with a sedative before the Other Guy had a chance to come to the party, and- everything had turned hazy. His limbs were heavy and unresponsive, and most certainly restrained. Whatever it was they had drugged him with was clearly enough to keep the Hulk down, because even as he bleary tried to pull him to the forefront he was met with an equal amount of bleary confusion and disorientation.
Time passed, though in this state he wasn’t sure how much. There were faces and voices, blurred surroundings with fantastic colors that he couldn’t focus on no matter how hard he tried. Vague lucidity returned to him in what appeared to be some sort of antechamber. He was surrounded by soldiers with guns, with Ross standing over him. Bruce blinked up at him once, twice, trying to make sense of what he was saying.
“-married off to some alien prince in the name of peace,” Ross hissed at him, “Don’t screw this up, Banner. Or- do screw it up. They’ll put you down like the mindless beast you are, and then you won’t be anyone’s problem.”
And then he was being shoved through a door with an armed guard masquerading as an honor guard, mind still trying to process what was even happening. A marriage- his marriage, to an alien, apparently, and he had no idea where he was or how he’d gotten here apart from knowing Ross had something to do with it. The door lead out to a hallway, and the hallway opened up into a grand opulent chamber of gold and marble, full of people who all turned to look at him as he entered.
At some point, he’d even been dressed in rich purple robes, apparently the standard wedding garb for gamma monsters who’d been drugged and kidnapped to be married off. ‘Shotgun marriage on an alien planet,’ Bruce thought to himself hysterically as they marched him down what was most definitely an aisle to a dais with a golden throne, where his apparent fiance awaited. ‘Did not see this one coming.’
There was no mistaking the panic and confusion in his eyes.