A woman sits dazed in an small dust filled shed, seemingly looking into the distance she may actually have fallen asleep while upright sitting.
"How? Why?" she finally says after who knows how long
I- I cant tell people the future? only things I can reasonably find out with my powers?
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
...How am I supposed to warn people now? I need proof of Thanos? How the hell am I supposed to get that? I guess talk to Thor or something? but how would I even speak Thanos's name to begin with....
So.. I need to basically do this by myself... Or atleast be there when the Avengers fight Thanos so.. I guess just being there is gonna be my motto?
Hmm.. its not like I need to be alone... I can maybe get a team together...
I should have known Stark wouldn't let me help him... Maybe I can help him during the drone attack? that will complete the quest.
I also need help with my powers.. I can probably still train by myself as I have not reached my limit easily.
Considering I need practice if Stark will let me take the shrapnel out I need to be able to move matter out of people... god that sounds dangerous as hell now that I think about it, where would I even go about that?
I honestly don't even remember how I got out of stark expo... too dazed and distracted by how much my plans have fell apart...
hmm can I even do anything right now?
"Quests"
[QUESTS]
[KINGSLAYER]
Wilson Fisk is the King of New York
Ruling the criminal scene even the hand doesn't dare disrespect him
[Put Wilson Fisk in Jail either before Daredevil does or with Daredevil]
[Success 2000 EXP, Rep with all New York heroes, +1 STR]
[Failure -1 STR, Possible Death and or coerced into working for Kingpin, -REP with heroes of New York]
[HAND MEET FIST!]
The Hand is a criminal organization who's primary goal is immortality
[Defeat the Hand and disband its organisation before they destroy Manhattan]
[Success 5000 EXP, +1 AGL +1 WIS, Minor Chi Defense]
[Failure Manhattan is destroyed, countless deaths, -2 INT, locked from EXP gain for 6 months]
[INEVITABLE CONFRONTATION]
You know Thanos is coming...
Stop him from killing half of all life
[Success Saving half of all life while grant unimaginable EXP]
[Failure You get snapped, and are the one person who doesn't get brought back.]
[SAVE JEWEL]
Jessica Jones hasn't been through the torture of Kilgrave yet
Make absolutely certain she doesn't
[Success 500EXP Rep with Jessica Jones and slight pheromones immunity]
[Failure - Rep with Jessica Jones, Possible mind control, Possible Jessica's Death.]
[WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER]
Justin Hammer breaks out Ivan Vanko and endangers everyone at the Stark Expo!
Prevent Hammer from making the drones
or prevent the drones from killing civilians!
[SUCCESS REP WITH IRON MAN AND SHIELD +3XP FOR EVERY CIVILIAN SAVED]
[Failure Possible Pepper Potts Death, -Rep with Ironman.]
[HELP TONY STARK]
Tony Stark is going through a crisis! he thinks hes going to die and is taking steps for his legacy
Help Tony deal with his chest problem and meet a hero!
[SUCCESS [200 XP + REP WITH IRON MAN]
[FAILURE Locked subsystem until a penalty quest is completed, possibly kill iron man, -REP WITH IRON MAN]
Wow... now that I look at it that first quest I got back then [HELP TONY STARK] Is so not worth the exp the penalty is insane!
Well I don't even have subsystems yet... so I guess it doesn't really matter if its locked...
I do need to level up... but that requires fighting thugs and saving civilians...
WAIT saving civilians! I guess I can work in a hospital or maybe as a firefighter? I don't really need to be a vigilante... yet...
I guess I can try and find Jessica Jones and recru- wait... Like Tony Stark will Jessica even want to- Wait what do I even want from Jessica?
My Quest is too save her so what I tell her if she ever gets mind controlled to text me? I mean... I guess I could have her join my "Team" but what will my team even do? hmm I could use help against Kingpin and The Hand... hmm Okay I will try and find her through Trish before I need to go back for the drone attack...
I guess I can maybe find a surgeon or something to help me control my powers to not y'know kill people when I am trying to save them... I-I guess I can do that with Strange?
Yeah no fuck that he is basically as bad as Tony Stark's ego right now... Hmm how about Christine Palmer? she seemed like she would be open to helping me if it saved lives...
Okay! 1st go to Metro General Hospital and locate Christine Palmer.
2nd Find Trish and get in touch with Jessica from her.
3rd Practice my powers so I can actually help and not be a liability on the drone attack.
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"H-hello? can I talk to Mrs Christine Palmer?"
The large black woman gazes up from the computer and looks me up and down, giving me some shivers (I am obviously not in my costume) But I am wearing my typical hot topic attire with sunglasses in doors... yeah okay maybe she is justified in looking at me with such distaste.
"Are you family and what room where you told she was in" -Megan says (as I now see her name tag)
"Uh no sorry I think she works here maybe" I whisper out...
She looks at me like she thinks I am an idiot which with my massive INT I find terribly offensive!
"You don't know she works here?" She sits back looking at me while now filing her nails..
clearly I am not getting more info if I don't give her some answer. So I use my massive brain to think of an reasonable excuse!
"She um uh helped me with something before and I want to thank her" YES NAILED IT
She just rolled her eyes "yeah whatever kid this was kinda amusing at the beginning but I need to get back to work so shoo off okay?" -Megan drones out while now taking off the snarky look of her face switching to a more professional look.
"Please! I really need to see he-" I say while almost begging
"Um kid can I talk to the nurse?" -Some old man with a big belly and white in his beard says with a helpless smile
"Absolutely sir, what can I help you with" -Megan talks over me to him
I finally huffed out and got out the queue... so frustrating being a child! What is wrong with these people? hmm I guess I can practice my sight and if (when) I get a splitting headache maybe that will get Christine Palmer to me? well... not my worst plan...
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As I look at everyone I look at their bodies and try to fix my sight from going either straight through the clothes to a naked body or straight to their skeleton... Also No I am not peeping on people... seriously the average people who come to a doctors reception... you REALLY don't wanna see them naked... I am trying to look at certain skin layers it requires extreme focus and its not like they are standing still I.. have almost got it I can make out the veins and as I am about to follow them to the layer of skin I can feel the incline of the headache but if I can just get this it will be easier nex-
AGH
Wow that... was different... usually the pain I get is for getting too much information for my brain too handle so I just get a headache but its different this time because it was more focusing my eyes... so its not a splitting headache but my eyes are sore as hell and is this? blood? Oh I thought I was just crying... and nooow Megan is looking at me with worry...
"Honey come here you should have said you actually had a medical issue, fill out this form then give it through the window over there"Megan says as she points over to a different receptionist.. She looks at me and raises her eyebrows with slight worry as I don't take the form
"Ca-Can I just speak to Mrs Christine Palmer please?" -I say kinda meekly its honestly quite hard to keep my eyes open right now but I can assume how she is looking at me...
"Girl what's wrong wit chu? you bleeding out ya goddamn eyes and you are still yapping round bout dat?" -Megan rattles off real fast I honestly wish I could see her face but honestly it hurts too much right now its quite bright here...
"Please?" - I say with some finality and not a small amount of meekness
There was some silence for a good couple of seconds and then a big sigh and then some clattering on some keyboard keys.
"Thank you!" -I say with a smile I chance a peek by opening my eyes and- nope nope still cant see much without my eyes hurting even more.. Yeah Ill just pop my sunglasses back over them
"Yeah yeah weird white girl go sit down wit cha bleeding ass eyes" -She says and I feel like she is just so done with me and my bullshit.. Yeah I gotta agree this isn't exactly normal...
I stumble my ass to the chair I was sitting in before as I was probably about to walk into a wall or something an old woman I think says "Come here sweetie let me help ya" she puts her arm over my shoulder and sits me down
I try and face towards her and I say "thank you"
"Ah no problem sweetheart here is a tissue let me get the blood off ya face honey" as she dabs a tissue onto my face and honestly she spends alot of time on my face... wow that's probably alot of blood...
"Ah... thank you its not as bad as it looks... I think." I say with some confusing and not alot of confidence...
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"Hey! White girl!" Megan shouts over "What do you want with a 2nd year surgeon, I aint no doctor but I imagine you would want an optometrist" After about 5 minutes she shouts out and I am glad to get a reason to get out of this grandma fussing over me and about how I remind her of her son who is similar to my age by the way...
"Please I just want to see- I mean talk to her..." I say pleading with her
"Hmm Fine you are lucky shes still on shift.. oh a 15 hour shift and she has another in about 8 hours..." -Megan says muttering to herself as she pages a number that I assume is Mrs Palmer
After some more probing questions about why I need to talk to her and the grandma asking if I want a candy or if I need help filling out the form...
Finally a door opens at the back of the room leading to the hospital and a tired and strained voice says" I am Mrs Christine Palmer you needed me?" -She asks with some confusion in her tired as heck voice.. Oh man maybe I should have somehow got her when she had a break...
Megan looks up Mrs Palmer up and down and goes "Hmm." -Megan finally says after a couple of seconds... I really cant make out more of that they are basically just humanoid shapes right now...
"Nurse I need to know soon I still have 2 hours in the ER and then I somehow have to do another 15 tomorro-" Christine begins to start a rant but is interrupted by Megan
"Teenage girl eyes bleeding asked for you specifically, she didn't fill out the form and said it could only be you that examines her, Doctor." - Megan says with some relief in her voice as I assume shes happy to pawn me off on someone else..
"Hmm? Me?" Christine says as she picks up a clipboard and walks my way with some intrigue? on her blurry face...
"Doctor Palmer can we talk in private?" I say smiling as I have finally found someone that can most likely help me! Strange and Stark almost certainly are too big of Egos to help little old me.
"Uh sure come with me" Doctor Palmer says as she picks me up and walks me past the door and into a room? I guess a private room for diagnosing or something...
As I think about what to say Doctor Palmer is apparently not patient after a 15 shift as she picks up a little flashlight and says "Open your eyes and follow the light" -Doctor Palmer says with some irritation probably wondering why shes here..
"I- I need your hel- I mean I can give help! I ha- have powers and can be of use and I want to help save lives I could probably do some vigilante stuff but I figured helping at a hospital would be good and it would help loads of people - I also wanted to be a firefighter maybe helping people out of buildings but im not entirely sure I can walk in fir-" I start rambling and Doctor Palmer finally stops me
"Stop." - She says with some anger lacing her tone
"I- I am not joking! I swea-"
"STOP" -Doctor Palmer says as she finally lets loose her anger "Who put you up to this? is it strange? Of course it was hes the only one who can do this and waste hospital time and not fear the consequences" -She looks away from me as she starts muttering at the end
"No!
LOOK!"
I say while phasing through the hospital bed I am basically standing through the entire bed.
She turns around and her eyes go wide as she just stares at me with her eyes flicking to the bed every now and then.
I take off my sunglasses and show her my eyes
"I-I can become intangible... and I can also see through stuff.. that is why eyes are this color and also why my eyes are bleeding I used it too much... I don't have much control yet.. so I won't really want to do it on other people yet I can almost certainly phase stuff out of people but obviously I don't need to explain to you how dangerous that is... I would like to help people with my eyes maybe save some lives? I know hospitals have x-ray machines but surely my power could still be usef-" I begin to ramble again but a pointing and stuttering Christine lets out a little scream
"Yo-You can... WHAT?!?" -She beings and starts circling me while I am still through the bed not quite unlike what Tony Stark did...
"As I said I can phase through objects and see through... basically anythin-" I begin again but get cut off by throwing the clipboard at me gently as she gapes as it just falls through me to the floor
"Ho-HOW?!?" She says after blinking a bunch and wiping at her eyes... oh yeah she has literally been on a death shift for god knows how long she probably thinks shes seeing stuff...
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"I-I don't think I can say honestly" -My mind flashes back to not being able to tell Stark anything.. but that was all future knowledge I couldn't use but I might be able to explain about my system? not entirely sure anyway I can risk it later.
"Uh wow okay.. this is alot... sorry" She says after I see her pinching herself I walk out of the bed and put my sunglasses on
"Can you help me help others?" I say as I look in her eyes
She looks back at me and slightly down as even if she is quite small she isn't as small as me...
"Why me?" She finally says after a couple of seconds of silence.
NO the question I was dreading... how do I explain why I picked her specifically... if I can't mention my future vision.. I rack my brain to come up with a reasonable explanation...
"I think you want to save lives" I begin but she interrupts
"You are literally in a place chalk full of people who want to save lives" She says with a smile tugging at her lips
"I-I know but some people are different... I don't know how to explain okay! I just I want you." I say while muttering the end but it seems she caught it as she looks contemplative...
"Okay." She says
"Wa-wait okay?"- I say with some confusion? was it supposed to be this easy?
"Yes... Okay. If you can do what you can say you can save so many lives... basically skipping the diagnosing phase and straight to treatment.. not to mention if you can make specific VERY SPECIFIC things intangible you could be the best surgeon ever." She says while smiling like she has an inside joke that I don't understand near the end
Honestly I-I am just glad I finally have someone in my corner huh she looks worried now almost pity crosses her face...
Oh I am crying... and its not blood this time.. "I-I-I am sorry I don't know what come over m-" I fluster out something incomprehensible and she just pulls be into a hug and we stay like that for a bit...
"I am sorry.." I finally say after who knows how many minutes.. "I just really have no one who believes in me.. actually I have no one at all..." I say and a sad realization finally comes over me at the end there..
"That's okay honey you have someone now, but don't be getting to happy! ill be testing you and molding you into a mini surgeon!" -She says as she looks somewhat flustered.. I guess taking care of a literal child isn't what she thought today was...
Wait... testing? "Testing?" I say with some confusion she knows I can see through stuff right?
"Absolutely! Do you even know what diseases or bone dis-figuration even looks like?" she beings wiping the tears off my face and pinching my cheeks
"W-well no.. but I can probably see weirdness in the bodies and I can see skeletons so bone stuff should be easy to see.." I say with some frustration as she pinches my cheeks I WENT THROUGH COLLEGE! I would be around her actual age! actually I have no idea what my age actually was.. wait what did I study in college? Seriously? I just have vague memories of college but nothing about what I did...
Okay ill put that in the existential crisis bottle for later...
""Weirdness"" she says while emphasizing her point with a big pinch of my cheeks "Isn't good enough when it comes to saving lives okay?" -She almost goes on another rant but I knock comes at the door "Hey anyone in there?"
"YES!" she shouts back as she turns to me "We gotta get outta here.. I can get you some scrubs and you can shadow what I am doing... just y'know dont say you are a doctor... or a nurse... actually you look way too young to pass as even a med student... Ah whatever just follow me and if someone asks just say you are waiting for your family that should work for about 2s of ER" She says while it seems she is convincing me and her at the same time.
"There is nothing on the chart, if you are sleeping in there just come out and go to another room I need this on-" As the male doctor in his mid 50s was about to open the door Christine beats him to it and walks out with me in tow. "She turns to me and says all good! now follow me please."she faces the old doctor "All yours Mackenzie" -She says with a professional smile
"Hmm youre happy about your death shift.. you shouldn't let people see that or they may stack some more on ya youngin" -Doctor Mackenzie says with what looks like a fatherly smile.
"Noted Mackenzie now if I may?" Christine says as she points past him
"Ofcourse Doctor Palmer" -He says switches his fatherly smile to a professional one
"Thank you Doctor Mackenzie" -She says with a similar professional smile as she leads me to the ER room.. as we get there its like pandemonium... "hmm its quite quiet tonight" Christine says.. thi-this is quiet? as I see 2 different stabbing victims pooling blood on chairs arguing about who started it... maybe I should just start punching criminals.. it would be simpler...
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As Christine's (she said to call me that instead of Doctor Palmer) shift comes to an end we leave the hospital "You did pretty well! about 30% accuracy!" -She says quite cheerily... Yeah as it turns out just because you can see well... Everything doesn't necessarily mean you can identify whats wrong.. what's just symptoms or what is what is actually causing it.. I also seen a phone in places I don't think would be possible...
"So hey Katherine (She made it a point to call me this because apparently Kitty as a name just made her laugh and pinch my cheeks again) do... you have a place to stay tonight?" she says with not a small amount of worry in her tone
Oh right I am homeless.. and a small pretty girl... she is probably worried about me...
"Ah.. Don't worry! I live in this abandoned school's janitors closet that can only be accessed basically with my powers or like a car running into it!" I say sounding maybe a little too upbeat as she looks even more worried..
"Ah don't worry! its in hell's kitchen but honestly the gunshots are really not that bad!" I say annnnd yeah she looks even more worried bordering on horrified...
"Yeah noooo. noo come stay at mine its in a shitty place but significantly better than hell's kitchen." -She says with finality.
"Ah I wouldn't want to impose-" -She cuts me off
"Katherine" she stops walking to say this... that can't be good...
"You may have powers but you don't have complete control of them and I don't think you can act faster than a bullet, so until you grow into your powers you are staying with me okay?" I could certainly argue against her... I mean what does she think people just shoot at kids in hell's kitchen? I mean even if I do get mugged or someone with less than pure intentions comes at me unless they quite literally shoot me in the back of the head I can quite simply walk away without anyone stopping me... But.. would it really be so bad to live with someone else? it also stops the commute and we can work on my powers more...
"Okay!" -I say with a smile
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As we are driving to her place and listening to the radio talking about how good a private shower will actually feel after about a week of nothing but public gym showers... I am staring out to the absolutely terrible state of the streets.. garbage pilling up on every corner... not to mention the scanty clad women on the corners without garbage... "You... live in this area?" I ask with some skepticism she is a surgeon right?
"I know what you are thinking what is a doctor doing in a place like this.. well new york rent is insane.. and I want to knock out my student loans within this or next decade.. so yeah I live around here.." -She says with a slight grimace.
"Oh" I say because honestly I don't know what else to say...
I just continue staring out the window practicing my sight choosing to do something Christine told me to do to stop my eyes hurting after a couple minutes of use, its too use my power within proximity, she obviously meant if I was looking at an arm I did not need to see the entire skeleton just the arm of the person and I could focus on that seemingly indefinitely, so I try to apply that to walls just within a couple of yards of me... its slow going and I do have a killer headache when I amplify the range too much and see too much...
But that is when I see it...
In a abandoned filth filled alley a woman no a girl really is struggling against two lust filled guys tearing at her clothes saying something as she cries and puts her hands up and lets them cut her bra off with a knife..
THATS IT
"STOP THE CAR" -I say as I take off my seat belt as I am already one step through the car door and out of the car as it continues to go at about 15mph luckily its new York and you don't really get anywhere in this city.
"Wha-Whats going on are you crazy? get back i-" Christine starts to shout but I can't deal with her right now.. someone needs my help.. the police wont get here fast enough.. as I think of her situation I feel myself losing control... I almost. lose consciousness but I think about the woman I need to SAVE.
"STAY IN THE CAR" I snarl out
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"Yeah bitch that's some good shit! how much you pay for these tits huh?" Greg says as he gets a handful of flesh. Paul looks up at him as hes taking his knife to her jeans "Quit playing around yo we can get a piece here and now then give her to Bill for hmm 1G? or 5 bens?" Paul ponders for a second
This scares the woman as she starts struggling now and Paul accidentally stabs into her leg, Greg smacks her across the face "Hey BITCH this will go MUCH better if you stop struggling... cause if you keep struggling then we gonna have to smack you up real good and Bill hates damaged goods."
Paul starts after grabbing at her clothed crouch "YEAH BITCH IF YOU COST US MORE MONEY WE GON GET REALLL ANGRY"
He says as they both start laughing when she beings crying, Greg starts going for fly, "I get her first you know you owe me this for covering you for that thing"
Paul glares up at Greg still on his knees while deciding just to start cutting the jeans off no matter if it nicks her "Fuc-FINE but that is it! sick of you using that shit agains-"
He doesn't get to finish as a woman a kid really kicks him in the back of the head with enough force for him to hit the ground
"What the fu- Greg begins as he turns around to see a small fist coming at him... Where did this little shit even come from? there is only two ways in here he wonders as he bats the fist away...
The woman screams as she falls against the wall as Greg isn't holding her up, as Greg gets a good look of his ambusher he begins to laugh
"What is this kid? playing hero?" as he ironically begins to undress her with his eyes
"LET HER GO" the kid says with some kinda voice effect going making it have reverb?
"You think some kind of scary voice is gonna do anything to me kid?" Greg says as he waves the knife around...
"I should slice ya up... but hey ill forgive ya for giving US a 2 for 1 deal"
The girl looks like she knows something is coming as Paul stabs at her from behind it seems he got her as the knife comes... completely through her? its certainly cut apart of her clothes on it and not a small amount of blood but he obviously didn't just cut her in half so what happened?
Greg can't wrap his head around it as Paul falls over from his crouching position as he did not expect to go though someone the kid angrily stomps on Paul's face before he rights himself.
"You will pay for that freak!" Greg says as he charges her
As he stabs at this kid aiming it right for her face as honestly aiming lower than that is quite hard for Greg as he is a heavy set 6'4 man it looks like its about to skewer the kid but its goes through her as she runs closer and punches him just at his chin. She had too jump to reach. as Greg's head almost snaps back.. this kid... has some power in her punches... but he lives on the streets if he went down after 1 punch he wouldn't make it in this life. as she begins falling back to the ground he throws a quick jab with his knife less hand going through her again AGHHH he screams as he goes to bear hug her to death as she lands. He goes straight through her falling in the process, except he does land on her feet as she grunts and a mini scream breaches her lips.. *AGH* Probably remembering what happened to his friend he scrambles to get up as quick as possible but as he does that he is almost on all fours as a kick comes... through his back and hits his chin knocking him out.
As her kick hits the guys chin all she feels is PAIN using her already damaged feet probably wasn't a smart idea she concludes
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I don't know how much time has passed the girl is gone and I see Christine running towards me from the alley... thankfully these two are still knocked out... what a shit debut...
As that thought goes through me...
* [CIVILIAN SAVED +1 EXP]
* [2X THUG DEFEATED +2 EXP]
...Huh...
that... is SO NOT WORTH
[Level 1 0003/1000]
[KITTY PRYDE/0002304-0B AGED 14]
HP 030/200
EXHAUST 7/10
Stats
STR:2
CON:2
DEX:3
AGI:2.5
INT:4
WIS:3
PER:6
CHA:2(cannot be raised by normal means)
LCK:4(cannot be raised by normal means)
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