Author's Note

Takes place in Pinkie's/Thor's journal, and in Twilight's/The Hulk's. Spoiler if you haven't seen it!

Thor: Ragnarok

I met someone new today. He had magical powers of some sort--I think Twilight would've liked him. His name was Strange.

Well, that's not very nice. All your names are strange to me anyway!

No, no. I mean Strange was his actual name--Doctor Steven Strange.

Huh, weird. Where'd you meet such a... Strange guy?

Is that what they refer to as a 'pun'?

Yeppi-doodles! But really, where'd you find him?

On Earth, actually. I was visiting to look for Odin. Would you believe Loki was impersonating my father this whole time?

What? Loki? I thought he died!

I thought so too.

I... I don't know how to feel about that. I know he's your brother, and I guess he helped you save the universe earlier, but... he was also a big meanie who tried to conquer the world.

To be honest, I don't know how to feel either. He's my brother, and I love him, but he has a tendency to make things complicated.

I'll write later, when we find my father.

Pinkie... So much has happened since I wrote, I hardly know where to start.

Start at the beginning, silly!

Okay... It turns out I have a sister.

Great!

But she's evil.

Oh.

Her name is Hela, and she calls herself the Goddess of Death. She destroyed Mjolnir, then cast Loki and me out of Asgard. I landed on a strange planet where they force people to fight in an arena. The only way to get home is to defeat their champion, who they say is extremely powerful and terrifying.

Yikes! What are you going to do?

Defeat him, obviously.

I'm going in now. I'll write you again after the fight.

You'll never guess who I met!

Ooh! Ooh! Was it Discord? Thanos? A gelatinous cake monster?

Um... no. I don't even know who Thanos is. No, it's Banner! Only, he's the Hulk, and seems to have been for a long time. I don't know how I'm going to get Banner back out of him.

Ooh! That's great news! I should tell Twilight!

Please don't. Not until I figure out if I can get him out of the Hulk. I don't want to get her hopes up.

Okay, that makes sense.

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Uh... Thor gave me this journal and said that writing in it would somehow communicate with Twilight? His explanation wasn't very clear, but Twilight, if you're there... hi?

Bruce?

Twilight? You are there!

I am! I can't believe Thor found you! Are you okay? What was that? You just took off into space!

I don't know, Twilight. According to Thor, I've been the Hulk for more than two years. I don't remember anything. I didn't even remember the fight in Sokovia, or how it ended. Twilight, I'm... I'm scared. I'm afraid that if I turn into the Hulk again, I might never come back.

Don't worry, Bruce. No matter what happens, we'll find a way to bring you back. I promise.

I don't know if you can, Twilight.

Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye. We will find a way. Okay?

Okay. I trust you, Twilight. But you better be right. I might have to count on that.

Wait, what does that mean? What are you going to do? Bruce? BRUCE?

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Sorry I couldn't write before. Things were getting too busy. I've got more time now. I had to evacuate all the Asgardians and letting loose an ancient enemy to destroy Asgard, and Hela along with it. There was nothing else to do. We've lost our home, but at least we're together.

Oh, Thor, I'm so sorry! You lost your hammer, you lost your home... I wish I could just reach through this book and give you a hug.

Also my eye. You forgot my eye.

You lost your EYE?

Hela cut it out. But the hammer isn't such a big deal anymore. I learned to harness the lightning without it.

Oh, good. At least you didn't lose anything else.

...I guess I forgot to tell you. Odin died.

You lost your dad, too? Now I REALLY want to give you a hug! This has to be the worst week in the history of worst weeks!

Don't worry. I know what to do. The next time I see you, I'm going to throw you the BIGGEST PARTY EVER!

That might be a while. The Tesseract was in Asgard, remember? Who knows where it ended up now?

I don't care if I'm a little old lady in a wheelchair when we see each other next! You are going to get the party of your life!

Thank you, Pinkie. You always make me smile.

It's what I do best.