thelighting

The screech of tearing metal and the blare of the invincible variants fighting were the last things i registered before the world dissolved into a blinding white. One moment,i was fighting one of insane and blood thirsty variants along side mark. The next, i was tumbling through an impossible void, the familiar G-forces replaced by a nauseating disorientation.

I felt sick and unsure.

I landed with a jarring thud, the impact driving the air from my lungs and rattling her teeth.

I groaned. It wasn’t as painful as I expected, I had a broken arm from before so adrenaline still pumped in me though it slowly trickled away.

My head spun and the world around me rattle, light flickered and everyinf shifted.

My once tore hero costume flickered into a matching pair of pjs like the once I wore back home and the blood that stained the floor magically vanished, the pain didn’t though.

Groaning, i pushed myself up, my limbs aching with a dull protest. What the hell had just happend and where the fukc did levy send me?

Slowly my surroundings slowly swam into focus. I was in a room? Rich, dark wood paneling lined the walls, interspersed with what looked like intricate tapestries.

This was it? I thought he had sent me to a dimension that had dinosaurs or aliens?

A fire crackled softly in a grand hearth, casting flickering shadows that danced with the dim, ambient light. The air was heavy with the scent of old books and something faintly floral.

Smelled like mold and rich people.

This was no military hangar, no alien planet i recognized. This was… somewhere else entirely.

I need to assess my surroundings, find out more about the place he’d sent me and that where my eyes landed on a video filled with light.

Around were family pictures of me? Standing with people I had never meet before. It looks like family photos yet I don’t remember taking them. Along with what seemed like school achievements platsted all around the wall. You could barely see the plain oak walls.

The hell?

I walked closer to the window, still feeling wierd wearing a sleeping outfit when just 10 minutes ago I was fighting for my life.

Crunch.

“Huh”?. My eyes landed on the floor and lifted up my foot.

“ fuck fuck fuck” I panicked, picking up the small metal and electronic pieces from the ground.

Weren’t these thing made to be invincible?

Damn it.

My comm was on the ground, broken. My hope of contacting Cecil or even mark desipated.

“Just great. Il try to fix it later.” The stuff the tiny pieces in an empty drawer near by.

I groan in annoyance taking in the soft perfume smell before being hit by a wave of cold air by the window.

Outside was a city. A plain city, slightly far away as if detached from where I stood but still a normal city.

Where was I ? Could it be I’m still in the same earth as mark? no. that couldnt be the case right? Levy would never make it that simple.

My costume was gone, my comms dead or better broken into pieces and I was tired, real tired. I was stranded, utterly and irrevocably.

Just as I panicked a soft, deliberate knock echoed through the room. Three firm raps, followed by a pause. I froze, my heart leaping into my throat.

I was in no condition to fight being I was worn out and civilian clothes, no mask in sight.

Still I readyed my fist and inched closer to the door.

Who could that be? A rescuer? A captor? Before i could formulate a plan, or even a coherent thought, another knock.

This one sounded more… expectant.

“Miss [name]?” A muffled voice called out.

They knew my name? Who the hell is this.

“ what do you want from me?” i yelled out, cuasis and ready to fight at any moment.

Getting a motive or explanation from him was needed before attacking.

A small sigh could be heard from the other side of the door.

“I was awakened by the ruckus you had made in your room. Are you alright in there”

“………”

I said nothing. What was going on. It’s like he didn’t even know—.

That when it me.

The photos.

The room.

Even the pjs and city below.

Could it be I was in another dimension, in a different life maybe.

“ yes?”

I say. Did he believe I was a different person. If so maybe until I could find a way home I should pretend to be someone else.

If they expected someone, perhaps i could be that someone, at least for a little while. I cleared my throat, my voice a little rough. "Yeah I’m fine just tired." I reassured , my tone hopefully sounding more regal.

terrified.

The voice on the other side paused before speaking again.

“ no worries ms[name]. Luckily for you master Bruce and the others aren’t home yet. Make sure to be ready by 8am, I’m expecting you to be at the family breakfast ” He said before walking away.

I confirmed once more as heard his footsteps slowly fade away.

Family breakfast. Sureeee. I panicked. I was mindwave, or wave for short. My best friends were mark and eve. I worked with the teen team before being moved with them to becoming the guardians.

And for now, I was Madam Whoever-They-Thought-I-Was.

Thank god I had the same name here as well as most dimensions or I would be doomed.

I layed back down on the very very soft bed and stared at the ceiling just hoping another portal would take me away.

It never came.

It was night so For now il sleep too tired and muscle aching( almost broke arm too) and maybe il wake up from the weird nightmare.