➢"𝗠𝗬 𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗠𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗚."➢

『 𝐓  𝐇  𝐄    𝐄   𝐅   𝐅   𝐈   𝐂   𝐈   𝐄   𝐍   𝐓   𝐒  』

𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟏 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟒: 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐒. 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝

『 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜: 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢, 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭'𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐄. 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧. 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 』

𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭©

𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭©

𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐲... 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭©

-𝚂𝙴𝙿𝚃𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁 𝟷𝟾𝚃𝙷, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹-

𝙻𝙾𝙽𝙳𝙾𝙽, 𝚄.𝙺.

The crispy air of London cuts like a knife, not too humid though lacking any frost as a very temperate atmosphere overtakes.

The Big Ben still is undeniably present, and straight yellow lines with labeling 'CAUTION' tape string across the rustic and abandoned building of FORCE.

FORCE Headquarters... the location of experimentation for exactly 124 Experiments.

Six of them have survived, survivors.

Five escaped captivity and went into hiding on the evening of the FORCEFIELD Experiment.

One was acclaimed as the Success. One that was actually born into such an intoxicating environment by her parents who were the evil scientists behind such an inhumane experience. A traumatic childhood.

All have gathered to take it back, to put an end to the very Headquarters that is the reason for them to be classified as 'different'. Enhanced individuals.

Not Avengers.

Though, regardless of either side, blood will be spilled on this day. Uncontrollably or with total function. This day, though years later, still will result in much turmoil―bring out a significant amount of power... potential.

Because this is a wild game of survival, one in the lives of the Experiments, and one Dani Rockland-Rogers.

Who is about to face every single one of her demons and past ashes.

Will she end them once and for all?

That yellow caution tape is torn.

Inside the dark and barely-lit building of the FORCE Headquarters, hidden presences run. Unidentifiable figures storm through and down the halls of the white-walled and anxiety-inducing environment that unarguably was their home, and used to be their prison.

The plan is set into motion, and the Efficient's each do their part in obtaining and destroying the necessary items that acquire the status of 'shutting down' FORCE.

Jackson and Kayla are seen first.

Running past and down an underground hallway, blonde hair and an expansive figure reach the glassless chamber where the FORCEFIELD Experiment was conducted. Where Danielle Mairead Rockland, at the pitiful age of five, was forcibly injected with pieces of a sustainable and unparalleled energy source―the Tesseract. The Space Stone.

Faint, ghost-like screams somewhat echo as all are reminded, as a reminder, and both Experiments #04 & #07 are efficient in unplugging the many wires and cables still active although it had been years―most of the equipment is fried. Though recalling the newer prototypes mentioned, Jackson and Kayla do not leave their designated area until they are full-handed with new rays.

Then they run away, to avoid being caught, and not far off is the second part of this 'operation'. One of these crazy kids.

"Go, go, go!" Allison gives a slight shove to Marcus, both Experiments firmly nodding at the others near the large chamber as they subsequently maneuver down the hall―to the testing rooms.

Past the testing rooms that remain with scratched out and faded numbers, rememberings of the many failures, the lives lost, but that is then and now the syringes need to be collected.

Enhancing illegal needles must be stolen and then burned to disregard future tampering, as no one needs to turn out like any of the Efficients or Success ever again. No one should turn out like them... though they seem to be using their abilities for a good cause when disruption arrives.

Unexpectedly.

Allison and Marcus reach the end of the hallway, to the one and only wooden door of the facility―where Joseph Rockland once found out that his wife Deborah was expecting, that they were to be parents, and argued about the state of their organization. Whether they should shut it down or not.

Obviously, they didn't, hence the current infiltration by the Efficients.

Rummaging through unopened drawers and dusty cardboard boxes, Experiments #23 & #102 are successful in obtaining as many needles and injection tubes as possible―deciding to toss them all in one and Marcus carries the supplies as they quickly run out.

Not even realizing, that they are being followed.

A young male scientist extends his taser. Kayla turns around rapidly.

"Jackson!"

The boy lands a harsh punch, dropping the cables he had momentarily and from his other side, Kayla approaches.

A long-haired and legged Jackson grabs hold of the wrist of the white lab-coated individual and holds it in place roughly, restraining the electric device in his hand while his partner does the rest.

A blonde and tall Kayla sends a sharp kick into the male's abdomen, eventually stepping back and allowing her boyfriend to use all his strength to physically push the scientist down with his body.

The mid-length black straight hair belonging to a dark-eyed Allison whips around instinctively at the cry emerging from her friend's lips, and a wincing Marcus clutches his abs when this time a female scientist stabs him with a cow prodder.

The girl's eyes glow a sharp purple for a second, the color of her designated aura. She attacks.

Leaping up and extending her own leg, Experiment #102 kicks down the female scientist and uses that same foot to get rid of the stick in her hand. She takes the syringes from a healing Marcus.

They continue to run, pumping their legs faster as the realization that they are most certainly not alone―presumably being watched from above considering there were assigned individuals to come and 'capture' them, and the Efficients get the hell out of there.

On nearly the other side of the Headquarters, and also unaware of this recent revelation, are the two Experiments that coincidentally have the most chemistry up until this point―the coincidence part including that they were experimented on one after another. 

#123 & #124.

Dani and Dante have been keeping a keen eye out for any intruders, though it is hard to do so in the dim lighting. Matthew has stayed quiet as a mouse whilst his body hides behind the two, knowing his human strength can only do so much compared to them.

Emphasis on 'human'. Not very much.

It isn't long before they are ambushed too.

But there is no need to worry. The higher the number in Experimenting, the stronger... especially when one is facing the leader's own daughter.

A robust-built man hits Dante in the side, pulling him away from Dani and Matthew, and the nineteen-year-old is quick to fight him off. Putting both hands on his shoulders, the Experiment uses the momentum gained to bash this man into the pipe-lined wall where they are at, a loud clanging sound in the result.

The eighteen-year-old girl pushes her best friend behind her even more, when Dante is suddenly separated from them, and when another strong man appears holding a china electric stick―Dani lowers her brow before diving forwards.

She yells out, striking the male across the face to get his attention and when he prods his hand holding his weapon, Danielle counters it with a strong kick with her right foot, sending him back.

Blue aura trickles out of her skin and formulates out of her body, cooperating nicely with her close combat attacks to give more of an 'oomph' behind her already naturally enhanced strength. This was the most essential part of learning to control her powers.

Something that up until now, she'd felt comfortable with, relied on... didn't ever think it was dangerous.

That man and the one from earlier try to corner Dante, but Dani steps in. Twisting both their arms over while simultaneously dodging two prods from the electrified weapons, the high pony-tailed teenager uses both her arms and calls upon her abilities to physically shove one individual unconscious to the ground.

The power behind her pull really is what shines here. The energy source around her.

Stripping the other well-built man of his weapon, Dani grits out another yell while doing the same, and both Matthew and Dante watch her as the Success takes down these humans... without breaking a single sweat.

She breaks one immediately when one cow prodder that hadn't been discharged yet strikes her right in the abdomen. Dani howls, rolling over, and above her stands a bright-eyed dark-skinned woman.

"You just wait till you see what we got in store for you kids..." Lawkin seethes, dark wavy hair resting against her black jacket as she seizes Dani's, and the sweaty girl shivers in recoil from electric shock.

She, with more custom and skill, blocks a punch Dani Rockland sends her way and promptly elbows her back down when raising her gun.

"Operation 125," the woman insists darkly, holding a gaze, and she sneers the last part lowly, "the end of all your friends' lives―"

"YOU BITCH!"

CLANG!

"OW!" Lawkin takes the brunt of a discarded metal pipe sent into her back by the one and only Matthew Framingham, and she herself is knocked to the ground momentarily as a wave of pain crosses over her.

Dani simply looks up in shock, crawling away as her best friend shortly helps her stand.

Matthew winks when he catches her gawking at him, "Nobody touches my best friend."

A smile starts to leak through her teeth before groaned noises are made, and Lawkin is not finished yet. Though now Dani is not caught off guard.

In fact, the former "Lawyer" from the Sokovia Accords era is right in Agent Rockland's limelight.

She cancels her arm over, Lawkin trying to get a jab at her but instead―unintentionally, due to the hate surging through Dani at the recollection of a difficult time―she is sent back wildly with a blue amount of energy. One that puckers her skin.

The top of the woman's neck is scarred as she screams out in pain, and Dani emits one as well. Of anger.

Her face falters, and Matthew comments, "Damn."

Eventually, they meet up with the others. All are slightly sweat-faced and maybe a little tired but Dani is none of the sorts. It can be trusted that she is only getting started... there is more for her to do, to see.

"Do we have everything?" Dani asks her group, the Efficients standing in a circle, and they are about to make sure when an alarm goes off.

Sirens blare in the FORCE Headquarters, and Jackson shakes his head, "How the hell do those still work after all these years?!"

"Maybe they knew we were coming?" Kayla suggests.

"Or maybe they know where we are..." Allison corrects, and she and Marcus' intuitions are right when smoke fills the air in a grenade-type of explosion.

The same one that Deborah used mysteriously to disappear, meaning that she is somewhere nearby.

All are somewhat scattered.

White puffs of smoke linger in the air as Dani Rockland coughs up what she had swallowed. Her seafoam green eyes seem pale when finding herself on the ground, back facing up to the white ceiling and insanely bright light.

Pulling herself up to her feet her position is ultimately vulnerable, left without anyone watching her back let alone expecting incoming threats―so instead Dani relives the ones inside her head.

Walking down a white hall is similar to her non-emotional stance on the way to the FORCEFIELD Experiment. She wears a brown dress.

Then she's in a higher state of mind, in pain, she's screaming as her legs drag along the floor, hospital gown on―and Dani screams for her Dad.

Blue energy swirls around in the air until it plunges through everyone and everything, breaking the sound barrier and the glass that was keeping the little girl confined. Shattering sounds are heard.

The teenager needs someone to ground her before it's too late, the anxiety builds, and Dani starts to live in fear again...

She panics as if she cannot wake up from a nightmare. A PTSD-visionary, related nightmare.

She needs someone to hold her, to convince her that everything is okay now.

She needs Steve.

She needs him.

She doesn't get him, instead two familiar hands run into her, "Ahh!"

"Dani!"

Dante's fingers rub soothing patterns into her arms, brown eyes searching hers amidst the disappearing smoke and from there he latches onto her, embracing her with the big hold he has and she reciprocates it instantly. She holds onto him.

He grounds her. He is there for her.

He tells her that it's okay, "Everything's okay, Dani. We did it."

"We did?" Her voice is muffled from in his sweatshirt so he gently peels her back, and meanwhile rubs a thumb over her damp cheek.

Dante nods intuitively, and Dani asks, "Is everyone safe?"

"Yes," there's a bit of uncertainty in his voice, but for the most part it goes unnoticed, "We have everything. We're gonna haul ass back to the apartment now, let's go."

He laughs in contentment about their upcoming achievement, though to the boy's immense shock, the girl resists, "No."

"What?" Dante asks, astonished.

Dani enlightens him, "There's still something I have to do," her throat is clear from nerves when articulating, "Deborah's still out there."

He bites down on his lip, letting a few seconds of contemplation pass by before insisting, "I should go with you."

She shakes her head, not lacking an ounce of confidence, "I'm leading this mission, and this is how it's gonna end."

"She's my mother, and I gotta be the one who takes her on. I'm the only one who can."

Dante stares at her for the longest time again, in silence. There is worry present in his brow. Always worry... for Dani. For the one he cares about most.

No doubt he knows how powerful she is, not underestimating her in the slightest, she is the Success after all... However, it's because she means what she means to him, now, that the thought of possibly never seeing her again breaks his heart. Damages his already damaged heart.

The boy pulls her close and they lean into each other, foreheads brushing together.

Then he confirms, or well, agrees, "All right."

Forcibly, "Promise me I'll see you out there?"

His eyes close as Dani's reopen, the word 'promise' ringing―sticking―with her a moment longer.

No, she still doesn't believe in those... a shame.

The girl's lips turn upwards, and she takes Dante's hand, squeezing it, causing him to refocus his gaze on her.

Dani's parting ways is with a smile, and a sweet, wholesome tone, "See you when I see you."

And she takes off, off to face Deborah Rockland.

Rockland VS. Rockland. Mother VS. Daughter.

Only biological.

Only biologically...

✰

Dani Rockland is done running from her past. She is done being afraid and feeling vulnerable, all from circumstances that cannot be changed.

Circumstances being, that she is who she is now, finally has a purpose, and now the girl knows why.

Why does she exist? Why is she alive? To end. 

To end all her past ashes and to rise from the smoke, from the ground, burn to emerge is her true calling. Whatever form her true calling takes. 

And with that and more in mind, down to the core, Dani is a survivor. One out of six, out of over a hundred, and today she is going to prove that and herself by officially putting an end to the FORCE Headquarters. Forever.

Fists clenched tightly together as she walks down the dark alleyways, teeth sealed away inside a closed jaw, the eighteen year old's stride is one with meaning as her long dark hair sways with her body's movements and walk.

She reaches a sectioned-off non-white walled area, when a strong unrecognizable―though yet discoverable―force plows through her and redirects her body straight into a wall.

Dani releases a short groan and soon is met face to face with her attacker. Her mother.

"Did you really think that whole little 'show' at the gravesite was supposed to intimidate me? Scare me?" Deborah Rockland has her biological daughter pinned, elbow pressing into her neck, and the woman through gritted teeth manages to laugh during a time like this. 

Manically, and evilly.

"Well," her grip grows tighter, causing more painful gasps to emerge from Dani, and the blonde continues―this time with a flicker of extra vibrant green to her eyes, "You know I'm the one who's supposed to strike fear into you! Isn't that right, Danielle?"

Dani is not gonna stop. She's not gonna give up. She is only going to work harder.

She is done running away and being scared.

So she is neither. Simply breaking herself free from Deborah's hold, the two begin fighting, both trapping one another in a brief headlock that results in Deborah throwing Dani over her shoulder, and the girl's back hits the ground.

Dani is unaffected. She uses the opportunity and position to also take Deborah off her feet in the process, gripping onto the jacket of the woman and flipping her over and onto the ground as well. The mother and daughter tussle on the ground for a few moments in a physical fight.

One that Dani quickly gains the upper hand, in strength.

She sits up and grabs hold of her mother's arm, preparing to twist it, but that's when she forgets that Deborah had performed some experimenting on her own, had been enhancing herself―and to Dani's bewilderment, she is able to signal a blast that knocks the eighteen-year-old off the current balcony they confront each other at.

Dani hits a few railings before almost plummeting harshly to the ground if her abilities had not stepped in.

Looking up, Deborah starts to run away again but Dani chases after her. She, of course, needs to get back on her level, so she extends her palms flat.

The enhanced teenager's body levitates into the air, a blue aura circulating around it. She lands right down on the same platform she was just knocked off of and then she breaks into a sprint. To find her mother.

Deborah.

As she's running, the girl senses a presence from above and suddenly stops for a moment.

Her mother jumps down and lands atop her shoulders, some sort of strangling device wrapping around her neck.

Dani's fight-or-flight response kicks in, and she furiously makes grabby hands at Deborah's that try to subdue her, eventually turning sideways and ramming into a wall while her mother still is on her―the blonde woman is protected by her Force Field.

The eighteen-year-old remembers to do the same. Her whole body lights up blue.

Deborah whines when she realizes she must let go of her daughter if she doesn't want to be electrocuted, so she does so momentarily, but not without sticking something onto the side of her neck.

Dani doesn't initially notice. She intends to continue fighting, but one step forwards and things start to become foggy. She sweat-panics.

"Yes, my diversion worked." The woman reveals her pearly whites, in content, voice silvery and smooth, "You're not going anywhere, Doll Face."

"You're staying right here. With me."

This is bad. Dani's vision goes black, but before it does her left-hand pulls out the syringe kept in the pocket of the woman, out of her neck―a strong tranquilizer meant for only her kind. Plus that and the energy-reducer built into the smoke machines. Shit.

The eighteen-year-old stumbles, a hand extended, "Wait," her mind flutters as millions of scenarios play out in her head, but none of them are compared to what she is about to see, to endure.

Dani passes out.

✰

And wakes up later on the rooftop belonging to the FORCE Headquarters. She had never been here before, for she would've remembered the burning fires that supplant themselves in random places―or maybe that's just now.

When she is about to die. Well, at least everyone else is safe and outside, away from here.

Dani's irises crackle to life with a certain amount of fluttering, and her body feels entirely heavier than it should, as a result making it quite difficult to pull herself up. She can barely get on her knees.

Her head pounds in waves of pain and her squinting eyes eventually settle on the tall, thin presence of her biological mother.

Deborah has a large gun aimed right at Dani's forehead.

There is a look of somewhat agonistic features that overwhelm her face as if she is reluctant to pull the trigger, and she is.

"God, this should be easy."

Dani means nothing to her.

The eighteen-year-old is in a crouched position on the ground, forehead brimmed with sweat and breathing somewhat heavily, with anxiety 

She shortly contains herself, speaking in a tone just as threatening, full of malice, and Dani means it, "I'll see you in hell."

Deborah mocks her psychotically, "You'll be there a long while before I get there."

The daughter locks her matching eyes with her mother's, sneering, "I can wait."

"Only for you."

BANG!

Dani takes a shot to the gut, the wound splattering blood onto the neck and face of Deborah Rockland, and the teenager finds herself rolling flat on the ground again due to external bleeding that extends the healing process. That will occupy the use of her abilities as the regeneration process occurs, and during that, Deborah talks.

The flames still engulf structures behind her, "You know, for what it's worth, I gotta give you some credit. You... stood up to me, you... gathered these idiot teenagers together... acted like the brave leader you certainly think you are but I'm here to tell you, my Dear, that it isn't enough."

"You see, you were the perfect weapon, vessel. A being capable of destruction."

Deborah's boots step around Dani's brunette head, and she shrugs in acknowledgment, "Now, you still are incredibly dangerous, way more than a potential threat, but now, it's even worse."

Her words ring the truth in the reality of the life lived by Danielle Rockland, an orphan, an Avenger. A runaway.

Someone with unspeakable abilities only intended to be a dangerous weapon, but yet, went through so much more.

Deborah enlightens, in disgust, "You are humanized. You have emotions, and they are strong."

"That makes you weak."

She refers to the girl's extreme sensitivity.

"You're weak, Dani, because no matter how hard you try to control your powers they will control you. Your emotions weaken you."

It isn't comprehensible to the girl just yet, of her emotions being powerful and untamed, maybe even more so than her own unparalleled abilities. Ones that are greatly impacted by the emotional state of mind. Can... lose it. Just like that.

The eighteen-year-old groans as she props her elbows up and then uses the last strength to maneuver herself to a staggering upright position, barely standing.

Though she says with conviction, to Deborah, "You're wrong. My emotions, my fear, they don't make me weak... they give me my strength."

"Strength to finally understand why I exist. My real purpose."

"And that is?" 

There is intrigue in Deborah's eye.

"To stop you." 

Dani's glow a bright blue as the healing process finishes its doings.

And the psychotic woman's irises flush to her specific force field color as well, derisively, "Bold words," she tells the girl, then starts to back up, asking daringly, "But will you be able to live up to them?"

Dani snarls out a response, "We'll see."

A small but noticeable smile suddenly appears on Deborah's face, one that is un-identifiable in its purpose, and the woman briefly disappears from being right in front of Dani in order to bring out the one that couldn't escape from the smoke-filled hallways. The one who couldn't―wouldn't―get away.

The... the... The best friend.

One who was powerless in the face of the enhanced individuals stemming from the FORCE Headquarters. Who could die right here and now.

Who will die here and now...

Dani's eyes are ablaze with shock, fear laced onto her tone as desperately―instantly―she shouts, her face melting in horror, "Matthew!"

"Deborah, don't!" She orders with a crack in her voice, the audible sound making the woman laugh evilly again as she holds the curly-haired human boy directly in front of her, hand gripping the back of his shirt.

Matthew is just as scared, though for the sake of his friend he tries to stay strong, "I love you, Dan."

"No, Deborah, please! You don't have to do this!"

The blonde woman explains while her gun points at the back of the boy's head, "I need to see just how strong you are, Dani. How much power you really possess, other than the actual pieces of an Infinity Stone inside you."

Something inside the girl switches, and she looks up, "You knew?"

She knew how dangerous it was?! How dangerous installing pieces of power from above was, inside a human being? Let alone her own daughter?!

Deborah doesn't directly respond to the claim, though, she instead insists, "We had a goal. There... there was an oath."

Her mind represents one of an insane person, especially when the referral to this 'we' stirs something inside Danielle. She remembers and recalls, then attempts to conjure up a pattern of words that will hopefully settle her psychotic mother down. Avoid her killing Matthew... the same way Dani's biological father was murdered right in front of her eyes when she was only five.

The eighteen-year-old gulps before her speech is impactful enough to stunt Deborah's expression, and she's earnest, "Joseph wouldn't have wanted this."

Speaking of the cowardly man seems so foreign on her tongue, someone who did not deserve to have the title of biologically being her father, though for once the woman displays humanistic-looking features. 

Treading carefully, yet with a lot of strength, Dani proceeds, "I remember from when I was little, he wanted to put a stop to your organization―because you had a child to raise."

"It doesn't matter if you wanted me or not, cared for me... because you loved him. I know you did."

"You only loved him, Deborah. Which is why you need to stop this."

Her voice emphasizes in question, everything the woman has done to date, "Do you really think Joseph would want to see you like this? Doing this?"

"Please," Dani begs for her own life, for her best friend's life, and tears coat the back of her throat.

 "Stop."

Silence fills the air for a few moments, the only sounds being the crackling of fire around on the rooftop of the FORCE Headquarters, and the slight wind current. Danielle has already taken a hand off her abdomen, the gunshot wound all healed up, and her eyes are large and eyebrows raised in wondering if her phrasing had gotten through to her mother. Surprisingly.

And it looks like... it did.

Deborah ever so slightly lowers her gun, lips coming together.

 "Okay." She says.

Dani's green eyes then meet Matthew's brown ones, the boy sweating pure anxiety, and he manages to flash one last smile.

One last smile... before a bullet pierces through his skull.

He dies.

His body falls to the floor with no restraint, similar to Pietro, similar to Joseph... and something inside Danielle Rockland just... shatters. Breaks.

Her jaw―also without restraint―drops open, hands not able to cup over her mouth, and the extension of her facial features allows tears to leak from her eyelids, marking lines down her face.

Deborah blinks back her own FAKE tears, and the side of her lip twitches as she says with much spite, "That was pretty smart, using my dead husband on me... seems like I could do the same with the people you care about."

"With that pretentious Captain America or Black Widow. How does that sound?"

The air current has shifted, in fact, there is none at all. 

Dani's doing and Dani's doing only.

Something has snapped. She lost it. And now, whoever is in the direct limelight is about to pay for it.

Deborah... her mother.

Dani loses control.

Dani no longer... is in control. 

Her emotions of grief ultimately overpower her. 

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Letting, or rather, having no choice in the matter, the sustainable blue abilities pound against her skin and heart due to strong emotion. She simultaneously creates a barrier around the FORCE building that illuminates the sky.

She opens a hole in the sky, one leading to Space.

Some up there are alerted by the sustainable energy source.

From there all the aura levitates Danielle into the air, and she walks toward Deborah, who has a stance ready.

Her own green Forcefield projected. The eighteen-year-old raises her hand, and gently...

Dani absorbs it like it's nothing.

Deborah falls back in shock, forcibly crawling away against the pavement as she eventually finds the roles reversed in their long relationship.

Dani is the one scaring her now, Deborah is afraid. Afraid of her own daughter.

Whose entire body, veins, and organs are lit up blue, an unexplainable amount of power currently circling and being wielded by her. Including the absorption of the green energy from earlier... now makes things dangerous.

Dangerous... for Dani.

Deborah is first, in danger, her voice weak but truthful in admitting, "You're... you're too powerful."

"You'll never learn full control, you'll just die."

She is right, for now.

This is too much for Dani's body to take, too much power on a genetically enhanced human body, though nonetheless all the energy previously surrounding Dani Rockland is sucked into her, before LOUDLY expelled out of her with no restraint... sending a wave much like the one that will cloak a small town later and completely reduces anything in it's way to ashes. Dust.

Deborah Rockland, although not a victim of the 'Snap', is instantly turned into dust, face, and body dissolved by an extremely powerful amount of energy.

Dani screams out all the pain she is in, not in any sort of control at all, and all of sudden a strong and fast-beating heartrate is picked up... It is heard inside the body of the individual wielding pieces of the Tesseract.

A heartbeat... that starts to get fainter, and fainter, and everything fades to black.

Her emotions did make her strong, too strong.

She stopped Deborah Rockland, ended... Deborah Rockland.

She lived up to her word. But it was going to kill her.

It already did ...

https://youtu.be/IJQXEpAFTCo

『 𝐓 𝐇 𝐄   𝐄 𝐅 𝐅 𝐈 𝐂 𝐈 𝐄 𝐍 𝐓 𝐒  』

𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟏 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟒: 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕.𝐒. 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝

𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭©

━━━✰━━━

Rest in Peace, Matthew Framingham ❤️

Yikes... Well, unfortunately not everyone will make it out of this little heist by the Efficients (as mentioned before), and not only for justice is Deborah no longer with us... but for the sake of Dani finally being able to realize the decisions she's made, and what she's done... neither is Dani's best friend, Matthew. Gosh, so sad.

Contrary to popular belief, everything that happens and just happened is for a reason, especially the whole Dani freak-out scene at the end, which by the way is something she did not have any control over, nor realize she was doing it. She is not aware of the damage about to be done around here, as well as... to herself, stay tuned for more info on that because it's important.

I always thought that having pieces of one of the Infinity Stones inside a human being, even with much perfecting and experimenting on the body itself, is just not enough to ensure nothing will happen. I mean, that power is attached to every organ of her body, bone, muscle,  including her heart, which will become a huge factor in saga two of this book... maybe even be detrimental to her.

It could be detrimental to her now... kill her... is she dead omg can't tell you that lol cliffhanger.

No but all jokes aside, I hope this chapter was enjoyable, and just know that there is only one more before it's back to our regularly scheduled programming... aka Avengers: Endgame FIVE YEARS LATER Edition. Ugh, so excited to write that.

A lot of stuff is about to happen next chapter so I ask that you just hang on even if you just wanna read what happens past this but for my longtime Dani fans, you're about to get some good and meaningful stuff that you probably were wondering if it was ever gonna get addressed... haha, get it? Addressed? 

Here's a hint:

K that's all, for now, hehe see you later!

Oh, btw as of yesterday I officially graduated hs so expect me to be more active on here. I hope. But HEY I finished High School so hurray!

xxxooo, Alessandra (dreamkept)