Hot tempers.

The riotous cheers and whistles from the crowd were music to Jen’s ears as she and Susan made their way over to a portion of the gym that held a table with a pair of handles to grip. The thing was used for arm wrestling and assisting in weight lifts. Standing about 4 feet tall and made of solid metal with bright orange padding on the surface and edges for comfort.

Some of the gym patrons helped move the table out for the crowd to circle around, and the pair of muscular women moved to stand at opposite ends and face each other. Staring back at her opponent, Susan never actually realised how much she had grown until she found herself staring eye to emerald eye with her friend Jennifer. The green skinned giantess of a woman wore purple gym shorts and a matching work-out top, the fabric clung to her toned physique and ample chest and curves just like she wanted to show off her body. Bending at the waist almost provocatively and resting her elbow on the table, Jen smirked back at Suzie with a wink.

“Ready to give these boys a show Suzie?” She asked, pressing her chest against the table, and showing off her bust as the flicker of camera phones went off all around them.

Sharing in Jennifer’s smile, Susan made the same gesture, bending at the waist to show off her long athletic legs and heart shaped rear while resting her elbow on the table and clasping her hand with Jen’s, her smile almost predatory as she pushed her chest against the table to show off her own chest. The two kept eye contact amongst the cheers and hollers around them, as Greer stood just a couple of feet away and raised her hand for everyone to pay attention.

“Okay folks, the rules are simple, the first one to hit the table loses. Ready?” Greer called out, her feline tail snapping behind her as she watched the two women eye each other and stiffen their stance. Leaning in close, Jen whispered so only Suzie could hear. “Don’t worry, I’ll go easy on you, gotta keep it interesting for the fans.” She winked, making Susan smile more just as the two listened in on Greer counting down for them to start.

“Three, two, one… Begin!”

Leaning into their shoulders and struggling against each other’s strength, Jen’s smirk evaporated when she found that the pale skinned woman she fought back against, actually held her own against her incredible strength and even started to bring her arm back before Jen showed genuine effort to push back. Blinking in surprise, Jen began to use her full strength to fight against Susan’s grip, the pale woman breathing hard and sneering as to everyone’s surprise, she matched the jade giantess in strength. Finally taking the match seriously as Susan was, Jen leaned into the arm wrestle and gripped the handle she used as balance with such **** she squeezed the metal brace as if it were made of hollow tin. Her and Susan’s arms shaking as Jen struggled and fought back. Seconds felt like minutes as the two women fought and struggled, the cheers and cries of encouragement around them all but ignored as Jen slowly made headway and brought her arm back up.

Growling under her breath, Susan struggled and fought back, her own grip in the handle squeaking in protest as it crumpled in her hand. By now their arms were both back up where they originally started with Jen regaining her footing and pushing her arm forward, forcing Susan to slowly lean back as the two women fought harder and harder. Lookup to her friend’s face, Jen was taken back by Susan’s blood red eyes and hateful glare, her teeth almost looked fanged when she sneered back at Jen and growled. “I’m… Winning… This…” She hissed, her corded muscles twitching as she fought against the She-Hulk’s inhuman strength.

Slowly, Jen’s arm pressed down, the table creaking and splintering as their combined strength treated the tempered steel and foam lining like cheap plastic and carboard. When Jen finally brought the back of Susan’s hand to the end of the table, she quickly let go and stepped back from the table, breathing out a sigh and caught her breath after the effort, raising her arms over her head for the crowds. With that, the crowd exploded with cheers, the green woman shaking her head and resting her hands at her sides.

“Damn girl, what the hell have you been taking?”

“AGAIN!” Roared Susan, gripping the sides of the table and leaving imprints of her fingers into its sides as easily as molding warm butter. “I KNOW I can beat you, you’re not so tough. Again!”

Leaning back and looking over to a confused Tigra and back to Susan, Jen shrugged, looking concerned. “Look Suzie if you want to go again sure, but I think we need a new table.” She smiled and nodded over to the thing, crumpled, and twisted from their combined strength.

“FUCK THE TABLE!!!” Susan roared out, grabbing the table by its edge, and tossing it across the entire gym, causing several gym patrons to panic and leap out of the way before it crashed into an empty cycle 20 meters away. “I don’t NEED a fucking table to take you out you big green hussie! COME ON!”

“Whoa now!” Jen called out with her hands up, backing away from the pale woman still looking back at her with an intense look of rage. “This was just for fun and attention, no need to take things that seriously.”

“Yeah Suzie, what’s gotten into you?”

“STAY THE FUCK OUT OF THIS!” Glaring back and staring daggers at Greer, the tiger woman backed away when she made eye contact with the Invisible Woman, glaring back at her and growling under her breath as her eyes shifted and darted back to the crowd keeping their distance between them and her, whispering under their breaths.

The FUCK are YOU all whispering about, huh?” Turning her attention to the crowd, the woman breathed hard, her rage building by the second as she developed tunnel vision. Then her frown turned to shock when her stomach growled, loud enough for everyone to hear. Staring down at her flat stomach over her chest in embarrassment, her pale cheeks turned red.

“Got a bit of the munchies?” Asked one of the people in the crowd, instantly regretting speaking up when Susan lunged for his throat, **** and hatred in her blood red eyes but before she could get her hands on the man, Tigra and She-Hulk had grappled and pulled Susan back, the woman actually snapping her jaws at the man like a rabid animal before giving off a guttural roar that would have been better found from a bear than a woman.

“SUZIE! What the hell has gotten over you?!”

Still blind with rage, the pale skinned amazon woman thrashed and struggled against the two until she managed to pull herself free of Tigra’s grip and grab her by the front of her work-out top. Glaring back into Greer’s eyes, Susan suddenly snapped out of her rage and gasped in shock, looking around to find the entire gym terrified of her while Jen continued to hold her back. Blinking back tears, Susan lost all the will to fight in her and slumped back into Jen’s arms. “I… I am sorry… I don’t know what came over me…”

“I can’t believe I’m the one who has to say it but try to keep calm Suzie. Lets just call Reed and…” Feeling an elbow strike her in the stomach, Jen released the grip she had on Susan just as the woman went invisible and stormed out of the gym, shoving people out of her way before barreling out the front doors.

“SUZIE!” Cried out Greer, unable to spot the invisible woman after she disappeared out of sight out on the streets. Looking back to Jen, still recovering from her gut check, the two scrambled for their things to find a phone to call Reed.