#like time and time again we see the operator cause incapacitation and collapse but because jay has already Decided that alex is ‘the bad guy

[brittlebutch]

it’s interesting that entry 46 jay assumes that alex “didn’t”/“wouldn’t” run out of the house after him and not that alex “couldn’t” run out of the house. really exemplary of jay’s “Thinks he is a reliable, unbiased narrator despite all evidence to the contrary” flaw lmao

[silver-wield]

FF7R: What if?

I’m back with more analysis!

So, I caught a youtube theory that said because the whispers are gone now, every single event they interferred in is retconned. I was gonna be like, that sounds interesting, but then they went off on this huge tangeant that ended in – you guessed it – Cloud dying 😒

Even though it literally contradicted their own evidence they'd stated earlier in the vid.

Sephiroth says he won't let Cloud die, but then we've got Cloud having seven seconds to make a choice and sacrifice himself for the greater good. Even though Sephiroth literally said he won't let Cloud die. This is why I don't listen to theory vids where they have people live or die because it ignores canon and the devs have said canon still counts, so until we get evidence otherwise I'm gonna go ahead and say Cloud lives and please stop trying to FF15 him because that is the absolute suckiest ending for a guy who absolutely has earned and deserves his best ending – which is ALIVE. He deserves to be alive!

(Not to mention the other theories starting that Sephiroth is the good guy now...like seriously? Stuff like this makes me want to cry. Sephiroth isn't good and Cloud doesn't deserve to die. How tf is this FF7? This is the worst kind of fan fiction trash and it belongs in a dumpster fire!)

And that's my tangeant lol

So, back to the whispers and the what if. If their influence is now undone and everything they interfered in is gone I wondered what that meant. So, Imma gonna follow the ones we know about and see what conclusion we get. I've got a chart of each appearance they make in Remake, so these are the actual events they interfered in.

Let's mosey!

Ok, spoiler warning for ppl who haven’t played – do I still need to do this? Eh ok, (I tag FF7R spoilers as final fantasy 7 remake spoilers) and it’s gonna be huge lol.

Also, this is one person’s interpretation of the scene, so if you disagree that’s cool and we’ll agree to disagree.

You’re also gonna have to excuse the janky quality on some of the screens, I’m grabbing them from Youtube and it’s frustrating af trying to get the exact moment I want.

Please check my master post to see if I've already covered your question, thanx

Recap time!

Chapter 2 is the first time we see the whispers and their purpose here is to keep Aerith from leaving the area before Cloud arrives – because they meet in the OG – they then later chase her away – also OG – leaving him to fight the security forces alone.

So, we can't actually see them yet, but their purpose at this point is to keep Aerith from leaving the area so she can have the whole flower conversation with Cloud.

What if?

If Aerith wasn't forced to remain there, then she'd have evacuated along with other residents and gone back to sector 5. She'd never meet Cloud, never agree to go back to Shinra and the story of FF7 wouldn't happen.

Aerith is about to stay and fight alongside Cloud until a whisper chases her away, allowing her to deliver her OG line of, “Nice meeting you.”

What if?

If Aerith stayed she'd have remained with Cloud until the station, where he'd been forced to get her onto the train with Avalanche. She'd have met them and Tifa much sooner, possibly joined their cause and potentially died in the pillar if she wasn't able to convince Tifa she could go along to Don Corneo's.

The other option is Cloud would've taken her back to sector 5 once they got to sector 7 and they'd have avoided the rooftop walk, he'd have gone back to sector 7 because that's where he lives and they wouldn't have met again.

Chapter 3 is their next appearance after Cloud gets a futuristic flash of the plate collapse. They appear to distract him and prevent him from questioning what he just saw.

What if?

Cloud could bring up the plate's structural integrity around Avalanche or the neighbourhood watch. They could increase patrols around that area and get a jump on Shinra's attempt to collapse it. The increased security could mean they're successful in stopping the plate from falling.

(Don't tell Cloud this, he'll drown in guilt forever lol)

Still in Chapter 3, during the scene at Seventh Heaven where Cloud isn't included in the next reactor mission. An intangible whisper floats near the ceiling, observing events.

What if?

Since this relates to Cloud being part of the reactor 5 mission, his not going would be catastrophic for those who went instead. Why? I'll get to that in a sec.

Near the end of Chapter 4, whispers appear in Cloud's room while he sleeps. Their purpose is to ensure Cloud remains asleep(?) while they incapacitate Jessie (see conclusion for my theory).

What if?

Well, they failed, since Cloud woke up anyway, but if he'd slept through the fighting then Jessie would still be injured and he'd be on for the mission.

So, we're at the reason for the whispers last two appearances. With Cloud off the reactor 5 mission, Jessie, Barret and Biggs are the go to team. That's not what's meant to happen.

What if?

Oh, I like this one. This one has a huge impact.

Jessie goes on the mission with Barret, leaving Tifa and Cloud behind. Biggs is waiting over by the reactor the same as before.

While on the train, the security measures activate the same as before. Since Cloud was the one who suggested jumping from the train, these two won't think of it. They'll fight the bots off until they arrive at the station where they're either captured by security forces or killed on the spot.

If by some chance one of them realises they need to get off right away and they jump the same as our triple A trio did, they'd likely die during the crab warden battle.

If by some miracle they get past all of that and complete the lighting the path section to get the cargo platform moving and make it into the reactor, they're still caught by Shinra and then executed because only Cloud knows how to dispose of the Air Buster's components.

So, to put it in simple terms: they die.

Neat huh?

The very end of Chapter 7 where Cloud is falling from the scaffold into sector 5's church (what religion is this church for anyway?). Whispers appear to slow his fall and keep him alive.

What if?

He dead lol

What else should I say? He fell 300m and he's not invincible.

In the sector 5 chuch after the Reno fight, Cloud is about to kill Reno and whispers appear to stop him and drag him and Aerith away.

What if?

Another fun one.

Reno dies, the security forces either die or retreat from Cloud. If Aerith isn't traumatised by witnessing a murder right in front of her, she and Cloud walk out of the church and he takes her home, instead of the detour over the rooftops and through the scrapyard (because they'd have taken less time walking along the main road and arrived well before Rude got there in the helicopter).

Rude would've gone to the church when Reno didn't answer, found him dead, come after Cloud for revenge, been killed or badly injured and Cloud would've fixed his reputation around that sector as a badass murderer who you don't mess with.

Elmyra would've sent him on his way because she doesn't want her baby hanging out with a killer and Cloud would've arrived back in sector 7 well before Tifa had the idea to go to Don Corneo. He either would've gone with her or they'd have stormed the mansion instead of the route that actually happened. They may have still been dropped into the sewers, but with a day in hand before the operation, would've arrived back in sector 7 before Shinra arrived and saved the pillar.

Whispers cover the church and block specific exits, leaving the route to the roof open. When Aerith falls (twice) they save her.

What if?

Cloud would take a different exit besides the roof, which would lead to a similar result as above where he avoids Rude at the station and has more time to get home instead of being forced to stay overnight because “it's getting late”. He'd help Avalanche save the plate and wouldn't have to let Tifa go to Don Corneo alone.

For Aerith, the whispers saving her mean she's uninjured and can cross the rooftops. The whispers also prevent Reno from taking her back to Shinra by force.

We don't see the whispers again until all the way over in chapter 12, where they appear to block Cloud, Tifa and Aerith from reaching the pillar.

What if?

Since Cloud is the only one to go up the pillar to start, we'd see him arrive in time to save Wedge and Biggs, then move up with them to save Jessie before reaching Barret.

If we include the previous what if with Reno being killed and Rude injured then the person piloting the helicopter won't know who Cloud is and won't be as vindictive in attacking him. This means the pipes won't fall from the platform and Tifa won't go up there.

Tifa and Aerith would go to 7th heaven to get Marlene and evacuate the sector, Tseng would still appear to threaten Aerith, but Tifa may well be strong enough to deal with him On the other hand, she might not and wind up dead.

If we discount the chapter 8 what if and Reno and Rude are fine, he and Rude have Cloud, Biggs and Wedge pinned down with no solution in sight until Tifa meets up with them (the pipes would still fall here). They'd move on to meet up with Jessie and Barret as a large group, where they'd still save the plate from falling and likely kill Reno and Rude with their larger number party.

Chapter 12, Whispers surround Rude as he tosses Tifa aside and pushes the plate separation button.

What if?

Cloud or Barret would've killed Rude and stopped the plate separating.

Chapter 12, Whispers surround Wedge, keeping him in place until a piece of the plate drops on him.

What if?

Wedge would escape with his cat out of sector 7 and our triple A team wouldn't find Deepground later on. (Kinda odd, seeing how they then drag Cloud away from discovering more about his past once they're there, but it looks like the whispers don't consider their own actions aside from ensuring the current OG canon event takes place. Wedge needed to die, so they dropped shit on him.)

Chapter 13, Whispers appear during Deepground when Cloud is about to remember the experiments carried out on him.

What if?

Cloud would remember his past much sooner, likely have a breakdown right then and there, which makes him incapable of rescuing Aerith. Tifa wouldn't have the benefit of the lifestream to deep dive into his subconscious and help him, so it would likely take a lot longer for him to repair his fractured psyche. Aerith would be experimented on by Hojo, forcibly impregnated and likely killed.

After their big interference in chapters 12 and 13, we don't see the whispers again until Chapter 16, where they appear to drag Hojo away before he can spill the beans to Cloud.

What if?

Cloud is told of his fake persona and recalls the true events of what happened to him. He likely has a mental breakdown, making him useless for the rest of the escape from the lab. The team gets caught and probably executed as an example of what happens to those who go against Shinra.

Aerith is recaptured and the experiments on her continue.

Chapter 17 and whispers surround Aerith, trying to prevent her revealing the truth about who their real enemy is and other events to come.

What if?

Aerith would reveal all about Sephiroth, his role in things and possibly other details that only she knows because she's got some weird meta!Aerith thing happening this time around. She'd be a far less mysterious character and the team would know exactly what they're facing instead of being left in the dark.

At the end of chapter 17, Sephiroth stabs Barret and kills him. Whispers immediately appear to bring him back to life.

What if?

Well, Barret's dead. That means there's no one to help Aerith and Red in the mech battle as they're escaping, meaning they'll either die or be recaptured.

If they escape still and get out of Midgar, not having Barret in the team means the events in Corel change and the possibility of them not getting out or losing the battle to Dyne becomes a possibility. If they're stuck in Corel prison forever, then they're stuck forever.

If they manage to escape, there's still a huge Barret shaped hole in the team formation and they're in trouble anytime they need a long range fighter, and while Barret does fly off the handle whenever he's ranting about something, he's also got a huge heart and offers a perspective that's different to the others. He holds Cloud and Tifa together when they lose focus and is pretty much the team dad. Without him around they're not as strong emotionally or morally.

Still chapter 17 and the whispers surround Cloud as he tries to go after what he thinks is Sephiroth, but is actually a cloaked figure carrying Jenova away.

What if?

I'm suspicious about the identity of #2 here. On the one hand, stopping him from taking Jenova away means she returns to her tank and the threat from her is gone, but on the other hand, what if the reason why they were stopping Cloud is because he knows #2?

In Crisis Core we learn that Cloud was kept in the #2 tank beside Zack, but he never got a number tattoed on his arm. Because of his S cells he won't degrade and turn into a remnant like the others, but (someone correct me if I'm wrong here) Zack has G cells and would degrade eventually. It's all well and good saying he died, but what if he didn't? Before the crisp packet I mean. What if his body was collected by Hojo, had further experiments done and given a tattoo, only because he doesn't give a fuck which one of them was in which tank, he tattoos the wrong number on Zack and so he turns into #2.

It seems far too simple the whispers appeared to stop Cloud from getting to Jenova when that's a remnant that with a number that has potential revelations that would fuck Cloud all the way up.

So, he stops the remnant, learns their identity and freaks tf out and becomes useless for the rest of the escape. They're likely captured by Rufus and executed. The world ends because no one can stop Sephiroth.

The whispers appear to stop Wedge and push him out of a window, restoring canon with his death.

What if?

Does anyone think it's strange they're so insistent that Wedge dies? Why? They've tried to kill him 3 times and he's only a minor character and his being alive wouldn't affect anything.

Unless it does.

Cait Sith theory anyone? If Wedge is somehow transferred into the moogle body that Cait Sith uses then him being dead would be very important because his consciousness would be needed to pilot the moogle. We've got a lot of cat references with Wedge and he's the kind of short, squat shape the moogle is, not to mention he's desperate to be relevant to everyone. So, maybe he doesn't talk when he's the moogle, but he's self aware enough that he wants to do his part for everyone. We only find out after he dies again that it's actually him. Cue tears from Barret.

Whispers cover the Shinra building, causing a delay in our heroes departure when they stop to look at it.

What if?

Well, there'd be no road battle and everyone would get out of town a lot sooner. Maybe the whispers did just wanna see a fight.

Honestly, this one stumps me. There's so many of them. It's like a miniature version of when they cover Midgar. So, what's happening inside the Shinra building that needs them to do this much to contain it? You gotta remember, we're not always getting all the info. There's other things happening besides with Cloud and the gang.

Hojo's inside, so is Rufus and the Turks. They're obviously trying to prevent a change or delay it enough that things continue regardless, but hiding the team from Rufus who has to send troops after them doesn't seem right. I'm betting something else happened here.

The whispers appear to hold up the collapsing roadway so our heroes escape.

What if?

Well, they dead, so this one's simple lol

The whispers in the past cover Midgar.

What if?

Now, if this is an all time consequential event. This one matters. Which makes me question what's happening in the Shinra building that matters.

The glittering result happens only in Zack's scenes and the lingering glitter is then seen in the present, which indicates some sort of ripple effect going out from that point in time.  So, let's track it.

Let's assume that Zack reaching Midgar is what's being prevented here and now he's gonna make it alive. Zack's death is the first jolt that brings Cloud back to himself enough to get to the city, where he then finds Tifa. If this doesn't happen because Zack is caring for Cloud, then he'll end up in sector 5 instead and still very sick. His recovery will be a lot slower and it'll be Zack who goes about with Aerith. Cloud might not recover at all by the end of the game since it's Tifa calling to him that wakes him up.

Avalanche would likely fail the first bombing mission, since they needed Cloud's expertise to get in and out. They might die in the attempt.

There's no plate fall because Avalanche failed and Shinra needed them to blame for it.

Aerith has no reason to go with the Turks and there's no rescue afterwards.

Sephiroth would still retrieve Jenova, but there'd be no one to chase after him because Zack wouldn't be inside the Shinra building because Aerith wouldn't.

Sephiroth would still need a reunion puppet to get the black materia though, so there might be several attempts before he succeeds, but I believe he would eventually even without Cloud. Meteor would be summoned and the world would end.

And that's why Zack has to die.

Whispers linger around several grunt soldiers as Zack prepares to fight.

What if?

Just confirming what I said above about Zack being a necessary key part in the machine that needs to be taken out if things are gonna continue along the ideal timeline where the planet doesn't end in a fiery ball of death and destruction.

Conclusion.

I'm not gonna add the giant whisper battle because that's obvious, but there's definitely some inconsistences happening with what the planet deems important. There's huge events that actually make a difference when you track them and then there's some that make you go “wtaf?”

Most of the whispers interfering is to keep people alive or ensure continuity. They don't get in the way otherwise.

Except one time.

Chapter 4, where you even hear a voice ??? saying to sleep and dream sweet dreams. That doesn't seem right.

I mean, it sounds like Sephiroth and if I was gonna make a reach, the whole dream imagery has been very clearly linked to Aerith in Remake, so is he saying to remain within the dream so that reality can't happen? If Sephiroth wanted to succeed he'd prefer Cloud to avoid reality right? He told him to run away, to live, to leave, to avoid things. He wants Cloud to choose not to fight.

He's a bad guy (no redemption bullshit please), but his motives are much more complicated this time round. He's been very closely linked with Aerith a few times. He touches her. She's the only person beside Cloud he touches. Sure, it's a vision, but the devs still had it happen. And Sephiroth's voice is heard coming from Aerith's direction at the end of the game.

It's obvious this Sephiroth isn't the same as the OG one, but how much is he aware of? I don't believe the whole time travel theory. I do believe the meta!theory, because Sephiroth could get info from the lifestream the same way Aerith did at the start when she's staring at the mako coming out of the pipe. He could still be OG Sephiroth using what he learned during his little dip to manipulate events in his favour. There doesn't have to be a need for time travel to do this. Aerith's changing stuff without being a time traveller ffs. People need to stop going “well it's Nomura” and acting like anything ott is a go.

What I'm getting at is people need to stop looking at this from a mile long distance and screaming time travel because that's all games and films have done lately and look at it using the actual evidence we've got in the game. What we got is the whispers had clear motives for what they did, except one time when a voice was heard. Yall need to look at this shit the devs are dropping in front of your noses because this is where the plot is happening.

[etherian-affairs]

Lord and Lady - The Portal

I finally figured out how this sequence played our in L&L So take this as an apology for all of my delays.

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"I have to tell Hordak! He'll understand!" Entrapta let the words out almost without thinking, starting to run forward. They can't activate the portal, it will ruin everything they've worked towards. Also it will destroy the world but that was going to happen either way really.

Then the stun baton hits her back. The energy courses across her body. Normally this would quickly incapacitate any Etherian, even one as tough as Entrapta.

But Entrapta is Lady of the Horde, and Hordak had insisted on her current garments. The electrically insulated bodysuit stops the worst of the energy from coursing into her. The pain is immense, but Lady Entrapta does not fall. She cannot call. Not yet. 

Her fair flails, it grabs at Catra and throw her aside. Entrapta's heart is racing, her mind is so shocked and confused. This betrayal, of someone she considered a friend. It has to be pushed aside though. She knows what she needs to do. Hordak. Hordak has to know. The Lady charges forward, stumbling and spasming, having to rely even more on her hair than normal. She spots Scorpia staring in horror at all of this.

"Stop her!" She can hear Catra call out. The thug from the crimson wastes tries to get in Entrapta's way. There is no time for that. One of Entrapta's tools is pulled from her hair, a driver, she plunges it into the thug as she runs by. 

No time to stop. Catra is fast. She needs to get to the Sanctum.

…

"She did it..." 

Lord Hordak couldn't help but smirk, even smile, at the operational portal frame standing before him. There's a pride in seeing it. The sword integrated into the machine. He knew Entrapta could make it function. The Lady never ceased to amaze with her technical skills. 

Adora was making a particularly valiant effort of squirming and trying to scream through her gag when he hears Entrapta. "Hordak!" His smile, for a brief moment, grows. Then he notices the voice is not the happy sound one would expect from this success. His expression falls.

"Entrapta?" He spins around. Worry fills him, and rage. She's panting, she looks frazzled and panicked. "What is wrong?" 

"We can't open the portal!" She says as she stumbles forward. Hordak watches her lose her step and begin to fall. He charges forward to catching her, kneeling on the ground to hold her.

Then he hears the next voice. "She's a traitor!" It is Catra. Hordak feels his anger swell further. "The princess are here! We have to open the portal!"

"We can't!" Entrapta lets out weakly. He can see the scorch marks on the back of her bodysuit from this angle. She was attacked and tazed, an

at maximum settings. It was almost definitely Catra. The Lord feels his eyes narrow.

"We have to! She's lying Hordak! She let them in! She wants you to not open the portal so they'll win!" 

"Silence!" Hordak howls. "Do you think I would trust you over Entrapta?!"

Catra looks taken aback for a moment. Then her own eyes harden, her fingers flexing.

Hordak shifts, and picks his Lady up carefully, she's weak and on the verge of passing out by the look of things. How she even got this far is a question worthy of its own scientific investigation. His eyes never leave the disgraced Force Captain as he stands. She's readying to attack. It is painfully clear in her body language.

"It'll cause reality to collapse." He hears Entrapta try to explain to him. His sensitive ears twitching and rotating ever so slightly to pick her up better. "I ran the simulations... It'll consume everything."

"I understand." Is all Hordak says. He does. He hasn't seen her calculations but he trusts Entrapta, and he knows the portal physics well enough to understand immediately what she is trying to get at. A Cascade failure of some kind. Due to interaction with the empty dimensions physics in some unexpected way perhaps? It is irrelevant, they will solve the problem later. Catra will be dealt with and the area will be locked down.

Then the rebels enter the sanctum. The arrow boy, Princess Glimmer, that evil wench Shadow Weaver. Hordak finds himself scowling deeply. 

Catra takes the moment of confusion to charge toward the portal. Hordak roars and even with Entrapta in his arms moves to intercept. He can fight Catra with no arms if he must. She is nothing compared to a Clone of Horde Prime.

Then the arrow hits his side. 

With his hands full he could not grab the projectile. 

His pain tolerance is immense, and his physiology strong, it won't put him down or even lay him up, but it does make him falter long enough for Catra to run past him. These idiotic rebels will doom them all!

The traitorous witch and the princess rip machinery out to throw at Hordak at the same time. Fools, all of them, focusing on him. 

"NO!" Hordak shouts as he dodges the incoming mass of metal. Catching sight of Catra near the controls.

He catches Adora's voice as well. "Catra don't do this!"

Then the damnable cat pulls the lever.

…

It had been a rather fine day for Hordak. His soldiers were in good spirits after a recent flawless victory led by some up and coming new Force Captain. No one was bothering him. He could simply take the time to work within his sanctum. Quiet and uninterrupted.

At least that was the plan for the Lord.

He heard Imp screech at the Intruders. These force captains that have snuck into his sanctum. They entered his private area without permission, poking around like rats, and Hordak will see them punished for this. Scorpia he knows but this other one, this new one. Shadow Weavers Ward. The one everyone is praising for her victory in Thaymore. Leave it to the witch to produce such disrespectful officers.

"The portal machine!" The new one calls out in a panic as Hordak approaches. His anger dispels, met instead with confusion. How does she know? Did Shadow Weaver inform her ward of Hordak's work? The most heavily classified project in the Fright Zone and his second in command simply gave the information to this… child?!

"You." Hordak begins with a growl, only to be interrupted.

"You and Entrapta completed it! Why isn't it here?!"

Shock overcomes Hordak. Completed it? He and...

Entrapta.

The memories flood back. Entrapta. His lab partner. His beloved. His Lady. The portal machine, they had finished it, but they didn't activate it. There was a problem. Entrapta came to warn him. So they didn't activate it. Catra did.

Catra.

He needs to focus. No time for the rising boiling rage at the feline woman.

"I..." Hordak glances around. The portal machine

 Why isn't it here? Adora was right to search here by all logic.  "I do not know… This lab should be the epicenter…" He notes as the calculations run through his mind. "Unless…"

"Unless what?!" Adora shouts. Unfortunately for this obnoxious traitor Hordak can see reality starting to crumble apart. He spins around to Adora and Scorpia.

"You need to find Entrapta." The Lord commands. "You will likely need the teleporting princess as well. Glimmer. Wherever the portal has located itself in this reality it is likely going to be difficult to get to. Consider where the sword might have taken it."

"That's it?! That's all you can tell me!?" She looks angry, good, she should be.

"There is no TIME! Go! It must be closed quickly before the signal can go through!" 

He sees Adora look confused. "Signal? What sign-"

"Go NOW!" Hordak shouts. Stepping forward and literally throwing the girl out of his sanctum.

The Lord turns to glance at the encroaching end of his reality. Trying to determine his options. There aren't many. He doesn't really exist after all, or perhaps he does exist but none of this exists? Either is a valid and mind bendingly accurate way to observe the situation. Entrapta will likely come to the same conclusion.

Perhaps he can jam any outgoing communications. It really would be best if Horde Prime does not get etherias location if opening a portal upon it can cause such destruction. At least until they have solved the problem. Hordak would hate for his brother to arrive only for everything Hordak has built to crumble away. It would make all of this… pointless.

As Hordak moves the nearest sanctum terminal to attempt his new work his mind fills not with thoughts of his brother or the goals he's held for decades. No, his mind fills with thoughts of Entrapta. Hoping she is okay in this unstable world. Hoping she can guide Adora to success. No. There is no need to hope. Entrapta is capable, she'll fix this where he could not, as she did him.

As Hordak works the collapsing reality simply consumes him. There is no fear. No need to rail against fate. The Lord does his part. The Lady will handle hers.

… 

The moment Entrapta comes to she realizes what's happening. She remembers what has transpired. The portals been shut down. She looks out towards the machine. Spotting Catra near it, looking shocked and confused as gravity seems to momentarily fail in the sanctum. Anger fills the Lady. A white hot rage at the betrayal she has suffered. 

Then she feels herself being lifted up! It's surprising! It's less than comfortable! She doesn't like this unexpected touching! Then she realizes it's Hordak and it gets better. She can trust him, he would only do this because he thinks it is necessary. The Lady looks up at him, he's watching Catra and the portal too. All the while standing with Entrapta in his arms.

She-Ra destroys the frame a moment later. Catra runs first, escaping quickly in the confusion.

Hordak and Entrapta can only stare for a moment as their beloved project crumbles, as their sanctum falls apart. As everything they’ve worked so hard for is destroyed. Entrapta feels a pit of sorrow inside of her, and she knows Hordak must feel it too.

"It would be best to go..." Entrapta speaks finally. Shifting herself and extending her hair to let him know she can move on her own.

"Yes." Her Hordak agrees as he lets her go. She glances at him again, noting the arrow lodged in his side still. They’ll need to remove that once they’re safe.

So the Lord and Lady retreat from the sanctum, it is simply too dangerous to stay between the collapsing state of the lab and the fact they are outnumbered by the rebel forces present. It'll be a fight they cannot currently win.

But one does not need to win every fight. There will be others.

[likeafoxdm]

Loot Drop

Ok! Time for Part 2 of the monster loot drop! I personally love it when bad guys have super cool weapons and items that allow them to pull of crazy abilities or deal extra nasty damage. For the most part, bad guys in D&d follow the regular stats for weapon type and damage, or follow the logic that weapons for larger creatures deal double the normal damage (a Planetar’s greatsword deals 4d6 slashing damage, for example), or a huge creature’s weapon might triple that damage. Sometimes there are exceptions though, and some of the coolest ones pop up in Mordenkeinen’s Tome of Foes! These are the enemy items we will be looking at today! 

First up is the Narzugon’s Hellfire Lance! 

       An interesting item, and we’ll get to why but for starters, it operates perfectly as a regular lance. For the Narzugon, it deals an extra 3d10 fire damage, so lets say that if the wielder moves at least 10 feet before hitting with the lance, they may add 1d10 points of fire damage per 10 feet. For a hasted creature or a mounted combatant, this could get pretty impressive! The extra cool part about this lance remains true no matter who wields it - as written in Mordenkeinen’s Tome of Foes: “A narzugon's lances are forged in hellfire. The soul of anyone killed by such a lance is shunted to the River Styx for rebirth as a lemure. Each lance is unique to its owner, bearing the marks of both the narzugon and its master.” Killing with this lance may draw the attention of the Narzugon’s master - and that attention may be favorable... or vengeful. 

Now for some cool Drow weapons!   

     Inquisitor’s Death Lance: Actually a sort of short-spear. requires attunement by a non-good aligned creature. For the Inquisitor, it deals 1d6 piercing +4d8 necrotic, and reduces the target’s hit point maximum for a value equal to that necrotic damage. The Drow Inquisitor is a spell caster, and CR 14 so I don’t mind giving this item straight up to the PCs, who must be pretty high level at this point to defeat the Inquisitor, with the exception that it be attuned by a spellcaster. If we are giving this to just any PC, lets give it 1d8 necrotic, and on a crit, reduces that target’s HP max for the Total damage dealt in that attack. A mighty weapon for an assassin rogue PC! 

     The Drow Matron’s demon staff is a pretty amazing item as well, and for her  it deals 1d6 bludgeoning like normal, plus 4d6 psychic AND forces a DC 19 wisdom save, with the target becoming frightened for 1 minute (with a chance to repeat the save at the end of turns) on a failure. Pretty badass and she is a CR 20 villain, so once again I am totally down with giving this to a PC spellcaster wholly, with perhaps the caveat that we give the staff 3 or so charges to channel that fear effect. Otherwise I could picture a druid turning into a giant ape and just going... well, going ape with that staff. 

     Dropping back into the lower Challenge ratings, we have the Drow Shadowblade, who’s Shadow Sword deals regular shortsword damage, plus 3d6 necrotic PLUS 3d6 poison, AND then lets the drow fill an unoccupied 5 foot square with darkness for 1 minute. This darkness triggers an amazing ability of the shadowblade; If the target of an attack with the sword is within 10 feet of one of those cubes of darkness, the darkness disappears and the target takes 6d6 necrotic damage, once per turn. So I had a cool idea with this one! Requires attunement by a rogue, the reason being that the rogue’s sneak attack damage may now be dealt as poison or necrotic damage, and they get to make that darkness appear when sneak attack is triggered. Lets also throw on that when the attacker is within dim light or darkness, they don’t need advantage to use sneak attack, and when attacking from magical darkness, can use it more than once per turn, but no more than once per target. This will create some pretty strategic use of the darkness.   If we don’t have a rogue PC though, perhaps we can simply stack on a sneak attack-like ability - when attacking from dim light or darkness with advantage on the attack, you may add 1d6 each of poison and necrotic damage, and if attacking with advantage from magical darkness, it increases to 2d6 each, and using the extra damage triggers the magical darkness cubes.       Still in the realm of the underdark, lets take a look the Duergar Xarrorn’s Fire Lance! Unique among the Duergar weapons in MTOF in that it is not an entirely psionic special weapon, but also alchemical. It simply deals an extra 1d6 fire damage, and otherwise is a lance. Even at CR2 I’m fine handing that over to the PCs, but the weapon also has a fire spray recharge ability, that shoots a 15 foot cone of fire, OR a 30 foot line, that deals 3d6 fire damage on a failed dex save, DC12 so not super high. I’d say once per day we can hand that ability over to the PCs as well, IF they can recharge it over a long rest with an alchemy tools test. I really enjoy this idea because I love using tools in a game and they rarely get to be applied.  Maybe they’ll even have the idea to use alchemy to channel some other element types into it! Cryofluid is a good deal easier to make than napalm in the real world, so I’d let a clever PC turn this into an ice lance if they thought of it!

     Stepping away from the Underdark, but not yet into the light, we move on to the Shadar Kai, those agents of the Raven Queen herself. 

    The Gloom Weaver is another high level spell caster with a powerful staff weapon. Their Shadow Spear deals and extra 4d12 necrotic damage on a hit. I would say that when not wielded by the Gloom Weaver herself, this is a regular staff that requires attunement. Once attuned, once per day the wielder may cast a Shadow Blade spell on the staff - causing it to become a spear. The blade deals necrotic instead of psychic damage and the wielder can either cast it at 4th level, dealing 3d8 necrotic, or spend a spell slot of 5th or 6th to increase the damage to 4d8, or else a spell slot even higher level to cause the weapon to deal 5d8 necrotic. 

     The Shadow Dancer is an excellent baddie, who swings spiked chains wrapped around their arm, which in addition to some gnarly damage (2d6 piercing) also force a DC 14 dex save, the cost of failure being either the target is grappled, knocked prone, or takes an extra 4d10 necrotic. This one I’d let anyone who can use a whip wield, and on a hit, force that DC 14 dex save against being grappled if the wielder uses their reaction to make it so. Once grappled, the wielder can use an attack to automatically do that 2d6 again and force the target prone, or they can remain grappled without taking any further damage. If the wielder happens to be a warlock of the raven queen, I’d say they can use the extra 4d10 necrotic once as an Eldrich Invocation against a target grappled in the chain. 

    The last creature gifted with an extra special weapon we are going to look at now is the Star Spawn Seer. The Comet Staff they wield deals extra psychic damage, a hallmark of all the Star Spawn, but also forces a DC 19 con save against incapacitation until the end of the target’s next turn.  The Seer is a decently high CR, at 13, and is usually in the company of a  Star Spawn Hulk, a pretty powerful combination so we can assume a party that defeats them is pretty powerful already. The incapacitate ability is super useful but the Star Spawn have such amazing abilities I cant resist handing one over to the PCs! So that being the case, lets make it a regular staff with a 1/day ability to use Collapse Distance, the Seer’s recharge ability. “The seer warps space around a creature it can see within 30 feet of it. That creature must make a DC 19 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, is magically teleported up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space the seer can see, and all other creatures within 10 feet of the target's original space each takes 39 (6d12) psychic damage. On a successful save, the target takes 19 (3d12) psychic damage.” Lets say the DC is a solid 16 for the item itself, and make that AOE psycic damage 3d12 as well so it isn’t too too crazy. 

     That’s all for the unique items potentially dropped by monsters from Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes! In part 3 perhaps we’ll look at Volo’s Guide to Monsters or some other sources! If you find these interesting or useful, please let me know! If you think they’re absurd or you have better ideas, let me know that as well! 

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Watch the World Burn

 TW: Death, gore, mentions of violence, blood

An AU of my characters in a world based off the following prompt

“Wait. You knew her? Personally?”

 “I knew all of them,” she murmured, her voice felt rough and her body weak. “At least, I thought I did. Once. A long time ago.”

 “What were they like?”

 Some crumpled copy of a smile crossed her face. “They were going to change the world.”

 And around them, the world burned.

 “What made her crack?” the girl beside Benni asked, both parts curious and nervous. “I heard people say it was Mike that turned her, someone else said it was Georgie,” she turned in on herself a little. “Sorry,”

 Benni shook her head, resting back against the wall. She’d finally forfeited. “She killed Mike, to save Georgie; it must’ve been the turning point, the start of it for her.” she said, years old memories resurfacing. “I was only eight at the time, but the pain on her face … I’ll never forget it.”

 “But she was better before she killed Mike?”

 The green haired girl nodded. “She was the kindest person I’d ever met, but then things started to spiral out of control after that. Jaques died and it changed her brother. People found out where we lived and then everything really got out of our hands.” She laughed dryly. “Then Georgie was nearly killed again and Elfie, she changed. I saw it happen, I was there. She destroyed all those people, just to make sure Georgie would live. And together, they were the most powerful altered you could ever come across.”

 “Elfie could heal people, couldn’t she?”

 Benni inclined her head. “Yes, but then she found she could take health away, inflict illnesses, incapacitate people with just a glance. Do you remember that epidemic that started three years ago?” There was a reason why Elfie was referred to as Death, as much as Georgie was named the Disparate. Benni thought of another name to call them both that also begun with a ‘D’.

 “She did it?” asked Ally, eyes wide with shock. “That wiped out nearly half the human population,”

 “But I’m glad you weren’t hit with it,” said Benni, allowing herself to shed a few tears. If Elfie had killed Ally in her fury … it wasn’t something Benni wanted to think about. “She and Georgie changed so much in so little time; I can still remember how nervous Georgie was when they first came to the institute. They’d been so confused and scared, it’d been weird to see someone older than me be confused about that life. They’d barely been in control of their alter, but they never did anything bad – for the most part, we just had to clean up a lot of moss-shaped footprints.”

 But now the world was a dystopia.

 Buildings were long since abandoned, covered in graffiti, demanding altered rights, to let them live just as the humans. The humans hadn’t complied, and things had quickly gotten out of hand. Benni wasn’t sure what exactly changed her friends to make them do such dark and drastic measures, but she knew it had all started because of the Alphas. They’d only wanted to get rid of the Alphas who hurt and tortured fellow altered. Benni never knew how things had turned out so bad, when they’d first started peaceful protests.

 “The friends in our group – their group, I was just the little kid who hung around them – they were good people. But then things started to go wrong and they made some bad decisions. But I think they’re all still alive, hiding, while Elfie and Georgie are the face of this.”

 Ally looked close to tears, looking at Benni’s battle wound. She’d rallied every animal she could find, every altered who was scared of the changes and wanted to show that they weren’t bad as Ally got the humans to try and fight alongside them. They soon found that Benni wasn’t recognised by the people she’d once thought were her family.

 “You’re gonna die,” whispered Ally, clutching Benni’s hand tightly. “You can’t die.”

 Benni felt herself smile; Ally was always a tad stubborn. “Everyone does in due time. Do one thing for me, please?”

 “Anything.”

 She reached into her pocket, trying to ignore the pain that flared inside her body at the movement, and pulled out a slightly bloodied paper crane. “Give this to Georgie. Get close to them and Elfie, and give them it. Tell them it’s from me. They-they should remember, after all, they taught me how to make them.”

 She watched as Ally descended into tears beside her, under the broken bus stop, hidden from view. She reached up and pressed a hand to Ally’s cheek, felt her lean forward and press their foreheads together. “I never regretted meeting you.”

 “Please, don’t,” Ally said brokenly, but it was too late. Benni’s hand slackened and dropped beside her as her breathing stilled and her eyes glazed over. The blood had spread into her long, green hair, had pooled around them. There had been no way to save Benni, no way someone would ever operate on an altered. The two had to wait for the inevitable, not knowing how to save her themselves.

 The sirens alerted Ally that she needed to move, but she knew that they’d find Benni, see from her blood that she was an altered, know she was the altered that fought against Elfie and Georgie …

 But she had to run.

 They’d never know a human was beside an altered.

 Ally never knew that the police who found Benni took her corpse to Elfie and Georgie. She didn’t know how long they both mourned her, cried over their deceased friend. But she did know that she would do everything in her power to get to them and show them what they’d done.

 Three years of near insanity, and Ally stood in front of the two that had caused all of this. Her heart felt heavy, but she was determined.

 “I knew her, y’know?” she asked, looking up at the leaders. She’d seen situations like the one she was in live on TVs, how no-one dared to look at Elfie and Georgie as they decided the fate of the unfortunate.

 “What did you say?” Elfie demanded.

 Ally offered the woman a tired smile (Benni always talked of Elfie as if she were a teen, unable to believe she’d grown into a woman who made the world terrible). “I knew her, Benni Lannit, I mean,” she said. “She died three years ago, because she fought for what was right; trying to stop you two from taking things too far, and you got her killed.”

 This was apparently the wrong thing to say to Elfie. Ally felt her insides churn, felt the pain inside her stomach. “She tried so hard to be good,” she continued, collapsing to the floor, one hand on the floor, the other pressed to her stomach, trying not to retch. “She never wanted things to turn out this way; she tried to help the altered who were scared, starving and hurt. But then you got her killed.”

 She looked up in time to see the hurt in their faces. “We buried Benni,” said Georgie, though their voice was just Disparate, nothing of the Georgie that Benni had once known. “Comply, and you’ll be allowed to visit.”

 “She wanted me to give you something,” she said, ignoring their statement. She reached into her pocket, only to immediately get pain in the arm.

 “Let her,” said Georgie, and Ally felt the pain cease enough for her to bring out the paper crane, still bloodied and a little creased and torn. Then to her surprise, Georgie walked forwards, knelt in front of her and took it from her hands. “Benni liked the paper cranes when she was younger,” they said, then fixed it without looking at it. Ally noticed how the blood had remained, so there must have been some form of sentiment they still had for the dead girl.

 “She wanted you to remember your humanity, how you were when you first came into her life,” she said, wanting to tell them quickly in case they decided to kill her. “She wanted you to remember that you don’t have to do this, that you don’t have to force the humans into hiding in fear, that you shouldn’t force the innocent altered to be scared.”

 “The possibility of that happening died when she did.” Elfie said as Georgie moved away, the paper crane tucked away in their suit (which Ally knew had bulletproof vesting inside). Elfie took Georgie’s spot knelt beside Ally, who could feel the pain steadily returning. But she looked up into the woman’s eyes, and could only see Death.

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energy (part two)

  part one   word count:2696   warnings: cussing maybe, someone being incapacitated?   a/n: hey this is the LAST part of this two parter! thanks for reading! i own nothing from marvel   requests are OPEN!

  Thud, thud, thud, thud. Your heartbeat hammered so hard in your chest you could still hear it over the commotion of everyone moving around trying to load the aircraft.

“You will be sitting in the front where only myself and Steve have access to until everyone is aboard and we are in the air. Now, please don’t touch anything, everything in this jet is worth more than everything you’ve ever owned combined,” Tony was rambling. You had your regular white coat on and a messenger bag that contained Steve’s ‘emergency’ kit. Plus a coffee because there was no way you would be awake at that time of day without a little help. You were used to Tony’s lack of sensitivity when it came to money so you just laughed. He was also a close friend.

“Ah, Tony, how I don’t miss talking to you.” You joked. “Hey, be careful out there. I would go sit with you but I have better things to do.” He gave you a smirk and you smiled.

“I know. And I would say ‘Good morning’ to you, too, if it weren’t still dark out.” That earned you a laugh before Tony smiling, unlocking the door to the pilot’s pit, and walking away. You walked around the area, which was relatively large, and examined the things inside.

Three seats, two meant for two pilots and one if maybe a visitor would want to sit up front. It was quite cozy for a jet and you took a seat, sinking into the soft leather. You looked at your bag and coffee. “We, my friends, are going to be here for a while.”

Your eyes snapped open to the jolt of the ground moving below you. Steve put an arm on yours to calm you down. “It’s okay. We are about ten minutes from landing. You were tired. The rest of the team is sleeping too, if you want to go in there.” Steve offered and your heart beat faster. What did Bucky think when he had to leave and you weren’t there? He thinks you’re still at home. But he’s asleep so it doesn’t matter. Your mind raced and you nodded at Steve. He gave you a small smile.

You walked to the door and put your hand on the panel for it to read. It opened to reveal a room with several benches, chairs, and makeshift beds holding sleeping Avengers.

You looked around to see there was a couple hallways that branched off into two areas, One was a door to a small kitchenette, and the other was to restrooms. You walked to the kitchenette, passing by a sleeping Bucky, careful not to wake him up.

“Yes.” You whispered to yourself, seeing there was a coffee maker. You made yourself a cup and made your way back to the pilot’s pit when a hand grabbed your arm, causing you to jump.

“Y/N?” Bucky whispered. You whipped your head around. “What are you doing here?” He asked frantically, standing up.

“Bucky, I, I’m here to help with the team. They were short doctors and new I’d be needed out in the field. Or in the base in the field.” You said in a hushed tone. “No, no, they have to take you back, I’m not putting you in danger.” Bucky began to push to the door but you stopped him. “It’s too late. We are ten minutes from landing, well five now.” You told him quietly and he looked down at you, frustrated.

“I’ll be okay. We, will be okay.” You reasoned and kissed his cheek. He nodded and you told him you were returning to the pilot’s room. He gave you a sad smile and you turned right as the door to said room opened.

“Everyone up!” Steve shouted and slowly, every person in the room began to groan and slowly rise from their sleeping positions.

“Welcome to Russia.”

Base was not far from the battlefield in which they would be attacking so you weren’t but a comm away. You were given an earpiece to keep track of who got hurt, when, how and if you needed to prepare for a patient coming in. Steve pulled you to the side.

  “And if we do need you, Cho will be taking over. She will be given a new head piece and you will go on the offensive, got it?”    You nodded and clipped the earpiece on. Your breathing started to escalate rapidly as you stood among the other, twenty or so doctors beside you. You watched the team organize into a small group, Steve said a few things and they began to split off, Bucky giving you one last look, almost to say he loves you, before running off with Sam.

   It took less than an hour before your comm crackled. “Y/N, come in, Y/N.” You heart Nat.   “I’m here.” You spoke, standing up from sitting next to one of the operating tables. The other doctors turned their attention to you.    “We have six wounded coming to you, be ready to open your doors. Mostly leg wounds but one serious head wound. Have Cho look at that one. Over and out.” The comm went silent and you turned to your colleagues.

“Okay! We have six wounded, both arm and leg wounds and one with head trauma, Cho, head trauma is one of your specialties so you know what to do. We need a prep team at five tables as I’m sure not everyone is fatal and we need to conserve supplies most we can. Move.” You shouted, having being prepped on how to give orders from Steve. And it was a new thing for you.     The moment you finished your sentence, everyone began motion. Six doctors leapt to their feet to greet the incoming wounded inside, several more began sterilizing and getting needles prepped for numbing.

   A sewing team was ready at each table you asked for and soon the body's came in one by one, each of the bruised and bloodied. One of the soldiers eyes was flickering between their normal brown color and a very luminescent blue. “We need to sedate that one.” You ordered. We couldn’t have a compromised, conscious, soldier on the ship.    You put your hands on your hips and watched as each one patched up another. Maybe this won’t get out of hand after all.

  A large bomb rocked base and everyone froze, not wanting to slice something they shouldn’t. Ten surgeries were being performed at once and you were running out of doctors to perform more on the line that began piling up inside.    “Y/N. . . How’s it looking in there?” Steve asked over your comm. “Busy, Steve.” You replied, rushing a man on a table to a different room.         “Emergency busy?” Steve asked and you paused to look around.

People were in pain, hurting and every doctor was overwhelmed with the amount of people they were treating at once, and at the amount that were waiting to be treated.

“You are going to have to make the call. I can’t. And I know you’re scared but if you have you, you have to, and I’ll walk you through everything. But I have to know. If you do this, can you take care of everyone in that room with your gift, right now at once?” Steve asked and your eyes scanned the room.

There was enough frantic energy in the air to draw power from and create a sort of shield around the makeshift building enough for it to heal everyone inside. It would take about two minutes to complete but it would cut down the numbers quickly. But you also knew it would mean you would have to leave and start fighting and healing on the field.

“Y/N.” Steve came through again.    “Yes. I can do it.” “Then let’s go.”

  You pulled Cho aside, gave her a quick debriefing and an earpiece before disappearing to the bathroom to change. You threw on the layers of clothing Steve gave you and you felt it. You felt the way it sustained the energy in your body.

You walked out and ran into a man with a bad cut on his eye. Even by healing something like that you could feel the energy drain from you and into it so it would heal. But when you held out your hand, and released your power, it was like you could have kept on going. It felt refreshing almost. Like nothing was changing. You looked at your hands, which radiated a type of gold when you used said powers.

Cho, the doctor who was supposed to be treating said patient looked at you and nodded. You walked into the main room and commanded everyone to stop. The only thing that didn’t was the moaning of wounded soldiers.

  It hurt you to see people in pain and you felt yourself choke up. Closing your eyes, you started to draw the energy from around you, and give it back out through energy ions that sped cell growth and growth in general.

   It fed out to the entire room, and as it grew, you felt your powers grow. This outfit really did help. Once everything was restored and there was nothing else left, you could feel it. The lack of things to change. You stopped.    Looking around, the room was silent. Save one soldier, who’s name you didn’t know. “Thank you.” He whispered. You nodded. “I have to go. Cho is in charge.” You shouted before walking out.

  Chaos was heard in the distance, people were running through the streets. And instead of running away from what they were, you pushed past the people, towards the danger.    Everyone save a few had found their way to the center of the enemies base, a large warehouse basement, filled with alien weapons that contained enough energy to level a city five times as large as the one above.

There was a clearing in the middle of the room, where you found most of the team fighting off soldiers. You heard Steve. “You have to shut this down. You could kill so many people, even your own.” You heard him say through grunts.    “And what? Lose my revenge for what they did to me? What Stark did to me?” Your eyes flashed across from where you were to a passed out Tony, his helmet was off and obviously broken. You frantically looked around and then it hit you.   “This will also help you bring things to life. Not necessarily humans, but plants and such. . .”

   I’m underground. You thought, thinking through your next move. You had to get to the other side of the room undetected, but there were already cracks in the foundations where you saw dirt, seeping through. It was a wonder how it hadn’t collapsed already. Focusing on the area around you, you zoned into the Earth. How things grew.

  Vines, looped through one of the cracks in the floor. You let them engulf you. You felt yourself controlling them. It was easy. Who knew you had so much power?     It lifted you to the rafters, where you made your way silently to the other side. You made the vines loop through the pipes, the railings and to the other side, where they carried you down. Once you touched floor, you quietly ran to Tony, who was mumbling, barely conscious. He opened his eyes slightly. “Tony, Tony, wake up.” You shook him. “Y/N?” He asked confused. “Why aren’t you-”       “Shh.” You smiled, calming him down. “I’m here to help.” You rested your hands on his chest and looked up, seeing Steve, Nat, Sam and. . . Bucky.

They were all trying to fight off each person. Meanwhile one lone man was standing at the center. His arms had a blue energy around them that glowed. You studied the people attacking your friends and you realized they too, had an aura about them.    “He’s feeding energy to the soldiers to most likely control them.” You gasped. “I just have to drain his energy and everyone else will be safe.” You smiled and laughed a Tony who winced under your pressure. “Stay here.” You whispered to him, before healing his head injuries and backing up. Staying in the shadows you spoke on the comm to Steve. “I’m coming in, just keep the soldiers off me.”    “Wait, wha-”

  You watched Steve reply, but you took out the earpiece too quick to fully hear the response. You watched as he tried to talk more before realizing what you were doing.

   You closed your eyes, and gathered your strength before walking to the center of the room, well aware of what danger you were putting yourself in. Bucky saw you, had to do a double take because he didn’t believe it, his eyes widened and almost glared incredulously. He desperately called out to you. “Y/N! No!”     It captured his attention long enough for one of the men to hit him in the leg. It forced his attention from you and back on the fight, knowing he had to keep them away from you.  The man in the middle turned his attention on you.

  “And who is this beautiful gem?” He asked, slyly. You smirked. “I’m no gem. Not to you anyways.” You spoke confidently somehow. How did I say that? I’m scared as hell. What’s wrong with me?    “Oh, feisty, I like-”

  “Cut the bullshit.” You shot your arm up, using it to physically draw his power, cutting him off. He began to falter and weaken visibly.    “You aren’t that strong. You just have an energy source in your body. Not so big and bad when we have an energy magnet on our side.” You smirked, walking closer to the man, who was now growing incapacitated.       You were so focused on containing his energy, you didn’t notice the soldiers that had stopped moving.   He was crumpling as every ounce of energy was drained. And that was when you realized. He had a device lodged in his neck that allowed him so much power.  Once close enough, you elbowed him in the face, knocking him over. With your hand that you weren’t using, you ripped it out of his neck, leaving him both incapacitated, and passed out.  You used the power you gathered and locked it into the device. You exhaled, realizing that drawing that much had put a strain on you even with the outfit on.  “Better not let this fall into the wrong hands again.” You laughed, tossing it in your hand. You turned and looked to the other members who were all staring at you. Steve and Bucky knew you could do things, but they didn’t know exactly how much.  “Our missions processor glows.” Everyone heard Tony yell incredulously before passing out again. You giggled a little.  “Bad ass.” Nat and Bucky said together.

 “And you had these abilities the entire time and knew about it.” Tony asked, holding an ice pack to his head, propped on a table in the lab back at base in America.  Bucky was standing next to you, his arm around your waist while you were wiping off your hands from stitching Tony up.    “Well, I knew I had the powers, I didn’t know they were capable of so much.” You laughed. “You could have been head of a team a long time ago, Y/N!” Tony warned. You gave him a small smile after putting the towel down. “Sorry?”    “Don’t be sorry, just. . .” He sighed in exhaustion. “Join the team. We need someone like you.” Your face lit up. “Really?”    “No, I’m pulling your leg after you saved all of our asses, yes really.” Tony joked and you looked at Bucky with a smile. “Life around here just got a whole lot easier. For us that is.” You smiled at Bucky, knowing you wouldn’t have to hide anymore. You knew you could defend yourself. And now you had a whole team for backup.   “We really do need you, Y/N,” Steve said, coming to stand by you and Bucky. “Some more than others. . .” He looked at Bucky and smirked.   Bucky smiled at you and laughed st Steve’s comment, knowing you were thinking the same thing he was. He was right.  You were so caught up in your happiness, you almost forgot to answer Tony.     “Is that a yes or no? Y/N!”  You jumped, and looked at Tony.    “Yes.”

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