“Jen,” K.E.V.I.N. began. “Are you sure this is just about getting rid of big spectacle endings with bad guys?”
“What do you mean?” Jen asks, confused.
“I understand that you want this to be your story, and not the story of cameo characters, or another standard MCU ending, but consider this.”
K.E.V.I.N. turned to the screens in the room, and began playing various scenes.
“He may have been your father boy, but he wasn’t your Daddy.”
“If you were here, I’d even hug you.”
“This? This isn’t freedom. It’s fear.”
Various scenes began to play from the past fifteen years. But there wasn’t any fighting. It was people talking.
“While it is true that we do like to have action-heavy finales, we also mean to present our characters facing real struggles, coming to terms with their place in the multiverse, being changed by it,” K.E.V.I.N. explained.
“That doesn’t mean that I have to do it the way they did it!” Jen exclaimed.
“Are you sure that’s what you’re trying to avoid? Or do you mean to keep escaping your difficulties, keep running from the question of who you are?” K.E.V.I.N. asked in his kind, but assertive voice.
Other scenes began to play.
“So call me, anytime,” Bruce and Jen hugged each other.
“My daughter gets attacked, and I’m supposed to do nothing?” Jen’s father.
“What that incredibly attractive man said in there...you deserve better.” Mallory giving a genuine compliment, not something she gave to everyone.
“Come on! Civic duty, remember?!?” Nikki urging Jen to transform in the courtroom.
“Or do they have a duty to protect those without it?” Jen was practicing her closing. “They did this, because they believed their power would shield them, from very real consequences.”
Jen looked over at K.E.V.I.N., indignantly. “Not cool, bro. Using my own lawyer speech against me. What are you trying to say?”
“What is it that you are trying to say, Jen?” K.E.V.I.N. asked. “Are you sure that Jen Walters has nothing to answer for?”
They were back outside. Todd Phelps winced and prepared for the She-Hulk to obliterate him. But instead, Jen was explaining that he would be going to court.
“Jen!” Nikki and Pug ran over. “So, everything is cool now?”
“I made a mistake. I misused my power, and I let someone bait me, like Mallory said,” Jen told them. “It doesn’t feel right that I’m out there trying to make people with superpowers pay for crimes when I won’t even face my mistakes. Matt said both Jen and She-Hulk can do some good. But they both need to help themselves first.” In a move that shocked her friends, Jen turned herself into DODC, allowing herself to be transferred to a high-security cell.
“Yeah, it feels weird from the other side,” Bruce nodded, standing outside her cell. “How long do you think you’ll be in here?”
“Mallory Book is sorting that out, she thinks they can work something out, but it won’t happen overnight,” Jen shrugged. “But that’s okay.”
“Are you sure?” Bruce asked, concerned.
“You know...I kept calling you ‘Smug Hulk’, but I’ve been the smug, cocky one ever since this started. I’ve been running from having these crazy hulk powers and going green, while I could have been doing a bit more to help. You were right,” Jen admitted with a frustrated smile. “But that’s okay. No more running from my problems. Some things you can’t smash our way out of, right Bruce?”
Bruce just nodded, giving a proud grin. “I’ll be here if you need me.” He began to walk away. “Winning the battle with yourself, that’s the real villain.”
Jen looked on with a satisfied look. Then picked up a book they allowed her to have in the cell and began reading.
She was calm and confident. Not cocky, and not in crippling self-doubt, either.
She was...herself. And she was finally starting to figure out who that was.
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