A fistful of Infinity
The mightiest Being in the Universe
She was full of nervous energy since Friday. When she had finally been back from the camp. Even her father had looked better. The hug he had given her as she stepped off the bus warmer and more energetic in a way he hadn't been in months. He even baked some cookies and made pudding for dessert that evening!
He was in such a good mood that she pushed back on telling him about what had happened during camp in that cave. Instead promising herself she would do it Saturday morning during breakfeast.
The note she found on the fridge in an already empty house dampened her spirit considerably though. A problem at the DWU had him heading out two whole hours earlier. And also reminded her to tidy up her "chaos containment zone of books, cape merch and clothes", which she did begrugingly. Taking until the early afternoon as she lost herself rereading sections of books she was putting away.
She found no opportunity to tell him that day either as he came back late and exhausted.
Clenching her fist under the sheets she promised herself to let nothing obstruct her tomorrow. She was going to surprise her Dad and turn him back to the man he had been.
They would be a complete family again tomorrow evening.
Her alarm clock almost made her jump out of bed like a scared cat. Rushing down after getting ready she ran into her father sitting at the kitchen table with a small mountain of paperwork nursing his third coffee of the day. She was almost out through the door before he yelled and made her stop dead in her tracks. "Where are you going this early, Taylor?...Out?...not without breakfast little owl! And no; not this early!"
It was 10:19 am when she finally stepped through the main entrance of Evergreen Cemetery. Wind rustling leaves as she walked over the wet grass towards her destination.
Sixth row, thirty-first grave.
Annette Hebert
1969-2008.
"Hi, mom." Her right hand trembled so hard was she making a fist. Which she only slowly opened as tears welled up in her eyes. "I've come to bring you back. I promise!" Surpressing a sob and rubbing the tears away she stared at the back of her hand and the six brightly coloured spots only she could see.
Taking a shaky breath after making sure she was completely alone she turned her focus inward. Towards the six brightly coloured gems hovering before her in her mind's eye. Trying to grab them all at the same time. Face scrunching from effort as they slipped through her metaphorical fingers. As if she was herding kittens that only liked two others each and always jumped away when they were placed next to one they didn't like. Resorting to trial and error she started with one and began to arrange them in a circuit. Having to start over twice before she finally moved the last one into position.
Now she just had to....
With a nearly mind shattering intensity pain overcame every fiber of her being as she completed the Infinity Circuit and the six Singularities of the Stones
opened up.
She shattered into six synchronized almost seperate versions of herself with her viewpoint rapidly expanding beyond the planet, the solar system, the entire observable universe until she experienced all of Creation on every level. An experience that would have utterly annihilated any higher developed lifeform.
Thrumming Cosmic Energies rushed out as if a dam had burst. Rising and rising till they would violently tear her apart.
And without her as their container they would tear the Universe asunder. The fires of Creation relit and sweeping all which was away in a new beginning.
All of her perspectives seeing it unfold as all she knew would be destroyed.
With a desperate cry she threw all of herself against the Infinity Circuit. Her struggle perceptible to all those developed enough at the same time all over the universe. A faint cry of anguish until finally one of the Stones moved and the whole thing broke apart. The energies diluting across the Universe as the Singularities closed up again.
In a backwater solar system, on the not very developed planet called Earth, in the city of Brockton Bay sat on her knees hunched forward a human girl. Holding her right hand in pain as cries and sobs of anguish and loss left her. Bitter tears falling into the grass at the foot of her mother's tombstone.
Here wept Taylor Anne Hebert, the mightiest Being in the Universe
and yet unable to do this one small
thing.
//Who still thinks this is a powerwank/trip?