BIOGRAPHY - page 14
As the fallout rained down around her, Jennifer tortured herself over how trying to do the right thing had cost her everything. She could no longer practice law, so instead she got a job with Freeman Bonding, Inc. as a bail enforcement agent catching criminals who skipped out on their court hearings. FBI was associated with GLK&B, making it the only bonding agency willing to risk super-villain clients. Shortly after becoming a bounty hunter, Jennifer encountered a Skrull named Jazinda in a similar line of work. On the run from her own people, Jaz was willing to form a partnership with Jennifer and share the profits in their bounty work. As a shape-changer, Jaz often 
diverted their perps by appearing as “Jennifer Walters,” while the real She-Hulk was active elsewhere. The duo went skip tracing in their personal R.V., parking it at Dona Little’s Trailer Park in Brooklyn when they were between jobs. “Jennifer Walters” had failed She-Hulk and so she was once again hiding in her gamma identity almost full-time.
Playing jaded and hard-boiled didn’t come easily to She-Hulk, who nevertheless still had a hero’s instincts to help despite all she had lost. She got into a fight with Titania and Absorbing Man while 
chasing a different bail jumper, and later chose to pursue a man named Bran after he blew up a building in her presence. Getting involved in situations where people needed help only created more problems, such as when a man named Larry Ryan was arrested for his wife’s murder after she died in the crossfire between She-Hulk and an alien fugitive. Jennifer was forced to swallow her pride and allow Mallory and Iron Man to help her prove Larry’s innocence, since she could no longer appear in court herself. Tony left her an apology before departing the courthouse, but Mallory was still furious with Jen over the incident with Dark Art and claimed she only came to make Jennifer squirm. [She-Hulk (2nd series) #22-27]
She-Hulk’s pursuit of Bran led her to Bran Murphy, a private security contractor working out of Cleveland, Ohio. She was shocked to find him at a Cleveland Browns game, providing security for Arthur Moore of all people. With his restraining order and Jen unable to find evidence to tie Bran to the bombing directly, she ended up under arrest. As it happened, Bran Murphy was host to Bran the Blessed, one of the Celtic Gods. He revealed himself by murdering Arthur Moore, turning into a giant and stomping through downtown, letting She-Hulk off the hook for her accusations. Jennifer teamed up with a passing Hercules to defeat the Blessed, decapitating him and severing him from his human host. In the afterglow of battle, Jennifer finally gave in to her long-delayed fantasy and slept with Hercules. What she failed to realize was that Bran the Blessed killed Dark Art on behalf of their mutual employer, a mysterious organization responsible for hiring Arthur Moore to get her disbarred in the first place. [She-Hulk (2nd series) #28-30]
Despite her issues with both of them, She-Hulk was called in by Doc Samson and Iron Man when a new Hulk emerged. Bruce had been in extreme lockdown ever since his Worldbreaker rampage, raising questions about the identity of the new Hulk who killed the Abomination. This Red Hulk attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, apparently killing Clay Quartermain, crashing the ship and tossing Jennifer around like she was nothing. He went after Bruce as well, only ensuring the escape of the dumb green Hulk from the Gamma Base where he was incarcerated. [Hulk (2nd 
series) #1-6] Looking for payback, She-Hulk volunteered to bring “Rulk” in for S.H.I.E.L.D., assembling a new team of Lady Liberators for the assault. Thundra and Valkyrie joined her for the initial raid, attacking Red Hulk at Mount Rushmore. A half-dozen other super-heroines followed and they seemingly beat Rulk unconscious. However, he was only playing opossum and soon escaped, leaving the Liberators with nothing. [Hulk (2nd series) #7-9]
Tony also assigned Jennifer to the New Jersey branch of the Initiative, the Defenders, without asking her permission. He left it to her new team leader Nighthawk to handle recruitment. Kyle only managed to draw She-Hulk onto the team with reverse psychology, suggesting Tony was setting her up to reject his offer. Iron Man had envisioned the Defenders as a reserve unit of heavy hitters for New York’s Avengers and assigned Colossus and Blazing Skull to the team in the interests of power, not group synergy. After a rough start against the Sons of the Serpent, Stark pulled the plug on the Defenders without a backwards glance. Nighthawk and She-Hulk continued on without authorization to finish the mission they started. Kyle even received a vision of the “last” 
Defenders of the future: She-Hulk, Krang, Hellstorm and a new Nighthawk overseen by him. He managed to assemble this team in the present, with a tacit agreement to work together outside the Initiative for the greater good. However, the independent personalities of this unit of Defenders meant they only served together as an occasional alliance, not a formal team. [Last Defenders #1-6]
The Skrull invasion proved a trying time for She-Hulk and Jazinda. Jaz sensed the arrival of the Talisman, a demigod of sorts who provided the Skrulls with spiritual support and motivation for their attack. Jaz claimed capturing the Talisman would severely hamper the Skrulls’ efforts on Earth. Even after securing Nogor the Talisman, though, the duo was forced to face Jaz’s father – Kl’rt the Super-Skrull. Kl’rt felt his daughter had betrayed their race and had already denounced her before she attacked Nogor. In the end, however, the Super-Skrull could not kill Jazinda. He expelled Nogor from the battlefield and told Jennifer to look after the unconscious Jazinda, while still promising to kill her the next time he saw her. [Secret Invasion crossover]
Jennifer found herself in the surprising position of wrangling with Bruce’s children, a new generation of gamma mutates. The first was Lyra, a genetically-engineered child of the Hulk and Thundra of the Lady Liberators, created as a symbol for Thundra’s people the Sisterhood in the future of Earth-8009. Her incursion into the present was detected by the Alternate Reality Monitoring and Operational Response agency, and A.R.M.O.R. hired She-Hulk as an outside contractor to oppose this all-new savage She-Hulk. Jennifer fought with Lyra at first but, when the 
young woman made an enemy of Norman Osborn and H.A.M.M.E.R., the sensational She-Hulk eagerly assisted the savage She-Hulk against them. A.R.M.O.R. also sided with Lyra and Jennifer arranged for Lyra to have a home in the present timeline as an agent of A.R.M.O.R. [All-New Savage She-Hulk #1-4] Around the same time, Skaar, Son of Hulk, arrived on Earth from the planet Sakaar. The Hulk’s lost son had survived as a feral child in the wilderness of his homeworld and now sought the father who abandoned him. She-Hulk and the Fantastic Four were the first to encounter Skaar, but he escaped them and a H.A.M.M.E.R. dragnet to pursue his own agenda. [Planet Skaar Prologue #1]
Running low on bail jumping clients, She-Hulk got the itch to be heroic again. She reassembled the Lady Liberators to aid relief efforts in the Middle Eastern country of Marinmer after a deadly earthquake. The President-for-life and his repressive government were sabotaging outside efforts to help the religious minority struck hardest by the quake. Jen and Jaz brought together Valkyrie, Thundra and Invisible Woman to forcibly redistribute the Red Cross supplies piling up at the ports. Although Jen hoped to force an international response, what she got was superhuman intervention by the Winter Guard, representing Russia’s friendly relations with Marinmer. Even the Guard couldn’t refuse to aid people in need when they were staring them in the eyes, though, and joined in the relief. President Darqon Par invited She-Hulk to his palace under the pretense of negotiating a treaty, but instead he drugged her and was prepared to rape her. Jazinda saved her but Jen wouldn’t let Jaz kill Darqon in the end. Instead, Jaz posed as Darqon for a public address, opening his borders and denouncing all power before seemingly shooting “himself” in the head. The real Darqon was left alive but deposited deep into the Australian Outback. [She-Hulk (2nd series) #34-36]
As good as all that felt, even the publicly known bits of She-Hulk’s incursion into a foreign nation meant she violated the terms of the Initiative and international law. Once she got home, Jennifer was arrested by the Justice Department to face charges. Mallory Book came to her rescue again, having Jen released from custody. Mallory had a plan to leverage Jen’s popularity in the public eye during the relief crisis and use it to get her law license back. She brought She-Hulk back to 
GLK&B, where she reconnected with Two-Gun and her other friends at the firm. Jen was trying to decide how serious Mallory’s offer was when Jaz called about a new bounty from Freeman Bonding, Inc. While Jennifer struggled to choose between her old life and her new one, one of her oldest foes attacked the trailer park while she was out. The Man-Elephant, having been upgraded as the Behemoth, wanted revenge and assaulted Jaz while she was posing as She-Hulk. When he knocked Jazinda out with a blow meant for the much stronger She-Hulk, Jaz was revealed as a Skrull and Behemoth looked like a hero for uncovering another “nefarious Skrull” after the invasion.
Jazinda had implanted a receiver in She-Hulk without her knowledge and psychically called out to warn Jennifer to denounce her. Jaz had been captured as an enemy combatant and the only way for Jennifer to escape charges as a traitor and collaborator was to claim she had no idea her partner had been a Skrull. Jen went along with it at first when Mallory brought special agents from the DNS to interview her, and the two of them were driven out to a government black site to see the prisoner. She-Hulk was unable to stand by as her friend was being tortured as an “alien specimen,” and she fought Behemoth and the military to break Jaz out. The Lady Liberators arrived to support their friends and Jazinda was freed from custody. Mallory Book decided to 
cover for them, and She-Hulk and the Liberators seemingly got away without any legal trouble from attacking the government and military. (Unbeknownst to Jen and the others, Mallory Book and her shadowy associates of Fourth Wall Enterprises had been behind all of Jen’s problems dating back to Dark Art. Once they failed to manipulate Jen further down a dark path by denouncing Jaz, Book ordered FWE to “push the reset button,” expunging Jen’s record and apparently restoring her law license in the process.) [She-Hulk (2nd series) #37-38]