Cross-Training

Avengers Mansion, joint exercise between the Avengers and Avengers West Coast.

"You lose, West Coast!" The immense power of the She-Hulk's punch whistled past Tigra'sface.

"Stop trashing my team!" Tigra's superior agility allowed her to land a kick to her opponent's back, which the emerald goddess hardly noticed. The She-Hulk hadn't missed a chance to talk about the Avengers being superior to their West Coast counterparts since the cross-training exercises had started, and Tigra was getting sick of it.

"Stop your team from sucking!" She-Hulk retorted, grabbing ahold of Tigra'sleg.

"Uh-oh."

With nearly no effort, the She-Hulk dangled her West Coast opponent by her ankle, two feet off the ground. "Kiss your butt goodbye," She-Hulk chuckled, winding up to snap Tigra like a wet towel.

"MATCH OVER!"

Steve Rogers" voice boomed, stopping the She-Hulk in her tracks. The leader of the Avengers sure knew how to give orders, even when he wasn't in costume as Captain America.

"We're not trying to cause any serious damage, Jennifer!" Cap admonished. "Part of this training is to learn our allies" abilities, not smash them."

"Hulk like smash," She-Hulk stuck her lower lip out in a mock pout, but lowered Tigra to the ground.

"Musclebound loony," Tigra grumbled.

"And to respect our allies, also," Cap looked at Tigra. "I hope you"ll be able to work together, Greer."

"Uh, yeah! Of...of course, sir!" Tigra stammered, a little startled that Captain America remembered her first name.

"Good. I hope you two spend some time together later."

The two Avengers eyed each other.



"Why do you take everything to heart?!" Jennifer snapped.

"Why do you keep digging at me?!" Tigra almost yelled.

The two women exchanged nasty looks, emphasized by the more than one foot difference in their heights.

"Shrimp," She-Hulk said.

"Behemoth," Tigra replied.

"At least I don't go into fits when Steve talks to me," She-Hulk scoffed.

"I don't know what you mean," Tigra snapped, blushing
under her fur.

"Yeah, right. You were all, 'holy crap! What the fuck do I say?'"

Tigra folded her arms and looked away. "Okay, yeah. Maybe
you see him all the time, but to me, he"s still really intimidating. So what?"

Jennifer smirked. "You think that feeling goes away over
time? I get it every time he talks to me. Better get used to it."

Greer's eyebrows raised. "Seriously?" She said.

"Seriously." Jennifer folded her arms to match Greer's pose.

"How do you deal with it?" Greer asked, consciously forcing her posture to relax.

Jennifer cocked her head, regarding Greer for a moment before answering. "Well," she started "mostly I just don't let it show. There"s another part to it, too."

She-Hulk walked over to the bleacher-style seats that ran along the sides of the gym inside the Avengers Mansion and sat down, leaning back as far as she could. Tigra stayed standing.

"When I'm really shaken," She-Hulk continued, "I think about the time just after the Secret War...were you and Avenger then?"

"Yeah," Tigra said flatly. "I stopped the Molecule Man from destroying the world about that time."

"Oh, yeah. Uh...thanks for that." Jennifer looked a little sorry about her insults. She"d forgotten that Tigra had some skills which went beyond simple combat. "Sorry."

With a nod, Tigra slowly sat down next to She-Hulk. "No problem," she sighed. "It's what I do."

After a quiet moment, Jennifer continued. "Anyway, it was about six months after the Secret War, right after Cap saved us all from Doctor Doom. Nothing had been threatening the world for a while, and I just happened to be at the Mansion at the same time as Cap.

"I looked out into the courtyard, and he was sitting there, alone. He had his shield on the ground in front of him and his face up at the sky, just looking into the blue."

She-Hulk stopped talking. For a while, Tigra wondered if that was the whole story.

"So whenever Cap really intimidates me, that's what I think of." Jennifer looked into Greer's eyes. "When he isn't saving us all, he"s alone. Nobody with him except a big, empty sky looking down on him."

"But he"s..." Tigra caught herself. She"d been about to say "he"s Captain America", but she knew that She-Hulk would answer "but you"re Tigra. But I'm She-Hulk". All of them had myths that made people forget that there were human souls under the costumes.

"...I see..." Tigra looked down. "...that's really pretty sad, isn't it?"

She-Hulk shrugged. "For all of us, I guess. I mean, the world isn't crawling with big green chicks or cat people."

"It's different for us," Tigra said. "I love being Tigra. You love being She-Hulk. And we became what we are by accident. He asked to be Captain America because he wanted... to be a hero. And it cost him everything. He has no place to go back to."

"Jesus Christ," Jennifer reeled. "Don't make it sound like
he"s trapped in some festering Hell. Everybody loves Cap! He"s the hero that other heroes look up to!"

"So, we look at him the way normal people look at us."

Jennifer let that sink in, then smirked. "So you want to get naked and do really filthy things with him?"

Tigra smirked back. "You get those letters too?"

"Shoot, that's like, ninety percent of what I get," She-Hulk chuckled. "They say stuff like "I wish you'd fuck the Hulk and put the pictures in Hustler". Sick! He"s my cousin!"

"Ewww," Tigra laughed.

"What kind do you get?" Jennifer asked.

Tigra looked a little embarrassed. "Well, I'd say it's more like thirty or forty percent of my letters, but they usually ask what it feels like to touch a cat-girl"s tits, or if I can fuck myself with my tail."

"Can you?" She-Hulk grinned.

"Oh, fuck you," Tigra chuckled.

Jennifer leaned in, putting her face close to Greer's. "Fuck me?"

Tigra shrank back a little. "What are you doing?"

Dark emerald lips touched Tigra'sface, just above her lips. "You want to?" Jennifer whispered in a husky purr.

Greer's heart raced. She could feel breasts pressed against her which were full and firm, and felt warm breath brushing her lips. Tenatively, she kissed back.

One kiss was soft and tender, the next one was deep and wet, Jennifer's tongue roughly sliding over Greer's teeth. On the third, Tigra's hands squeezed her partner's left breast.

She-Hulk broke the kiss, breathing hard. Tigra was flushed under her fur, feeling excited and also a little frightened at the new experience she was entering into. "Have you done this before?" She asked.

Jennifer smiled and bit her lower lip. "Uh-huh," she nodded. "You'd be the first since I got green, though."

Tigra giggled nervously. "I never have," she admitted. "Not with another girl."

"Well," She-Hulk breathed, "maybe we'll bring in a guy to make you more comfortable."