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    My pride stings a little at being so underestimated by a species that couldn’t even outrun a particularly determined turtle if their life depended on it. Look, I’m no Sha’Carri Richardson, but I’m pretty proud of my seven-minute mile. I worked hard for it. I haven’t been able to handle myself like this since I was... well, since I left Earth.

    “Y’know what? Let’s settle this once and for all. I could use an endurance test anyway. Good for my cardio.”

    Dr. Bones perks up. “You’ll do a demonstration?”

    “Absolutely. Give me two rest days and a warmup, then I’ll show you what the average human athlete can do.”

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    AKA, Grace doesn't consider himself much of an athlete, but he's no slouch either. And he's got the physical prowess of his whole species to represent!

    The xenobiology team, on the other hand, is horrified to learn what a 'persistence hunter' is.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    “Would you ever do it?”

    “Do what?” She responds, lining up her next shot.

    “Get married to stay?” Bob clarifies.

    The cue scratches the table hard enough to rip the felt lining.

    With Yelena's visa about to expire and her impending return to Mother Russia approaching, Bob offers her a way to stay with her sister. All she needs to do is marry her best friend for a year. It's a nearly perfect solution once all their friends agree to keep the secret. Now, all they have to do is avoid falling in love with each other.

    Or the marriage of convenience between Bob and Yelena that no one asked for!

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    29 May 2026

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    When Walker and Ava hadn’t heard back from Yelena and Bob for a week, they knew something was off. Even though they had moved out two years ago from Watchtower to start their happily (disgusting) married life in Yelena’s quiet Ohio childhood home, it wasn’t like them to go radio dark like this without a snarky check-in or emergency piggy-sitting request.

    So, they decided to check.

    What they found instead was a feral-child version of Yelena, with her knife skills intact, a pint-sized Bob that looked like a cornered pup, and a house that screamed: “failed experiment gone wrong.”

    Now it’s up to these reluctant Thunderbolts to play child protection services until they figure out how to reverse it while trying to stay one step ahead of a Red Room child assassin who wants them dead and whatever catastrophic power might still be buried inside the other one.

    Or: Reluctant Thunderbolts* turned reluctant nannies to 8-year-old child assassin Yelena and terrified Bob, who follows Yelena like a puppy.

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    27 May 2026

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    After Yelena’s desperate, foolhardy attempt to get her older sister to stay out of her love life by claiming she has a boyfriend, six months later finds her desperately scrambling to find a suitable fake boyfriend to bring home to meet her family and convince her sister that she doesn’t need the interference. Problems arise when Yelena realizes that her carefully, constructed façade to protect herself is slowly being stripped away as she falls deeper and deeper into infatuation with her fake boyfriend Bob. Only she could screw it up this well.

    Bob’s broke, plain and simple, so when a beautiful and mysterious woman asks him to be her fake boyfriend for a week and a good chunk of cash, who is he to say no? The situation only devolves when he realizes that his feelings for her extend beyond what they should, and knowing that she doesn’t deserve to be on the receiving end of, well, him, he begins to pull away to spare her from the void within him. Only he could screw it up this well.

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    26 May 2026

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    Bob has struggled most of his life with feeling unwanted and like a burden to most. And now he's afraid of hurting others because of the dangerous power lurking inside of him.

    To make things worse, Valentina has not given up on having control over the most powerful ‘weapon’. After all, it would make her untouchable.

    Of course, Bob’s new found family isn’t going to let anyone or anything get in the way of his happiness.


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