Reading some old drabbles @djinmer4 made about this ship and the fact marvel did a crossover with DC (it wasn't that good, if the reviews) and it makes me reminiscing about my own version of amalgamation marvel/DC. I know the ask here are about my consequences au (I did share a small idea of how the first chap would be, my guys if I ever make the fic it will easily be 100 chapters)
Forgive me for the grammar (I will tomorrow take a better look).
Notes of Mun: I made this AU ages ago, and I vibe with the idea of making an amalgamation with Lovecraft themes (more or less). This is, hm, a remix more or less.
The sweet aroma of black coffee hovers in the small coffee shop. The colors are even remote to a big cup of coffee, which is either genius or lazy. Kitty Pryde is leaning in her chair, watching the window and counting in her mind 1...2...3...
"There you are!" Lorna says with a gruff voice, sitting in front of Kitty and not surprised by the cup of coffee. "What a day!" Her expression is anything but cheerful.
"It's your favorite," Kitty promises as the other nods and drinks the beverage; Lorna smiles for the first time. The absurdity of what happened to them 6 months ago seems lost on everyone but them. The coffee shop seems too mundane...how can a mere coffee shop like this one exist when 6 months ago...
Suppose the down side of being a seer, Kitty muses, is how you never get the full scoop. You see a peak and hope you can make the best decision.
"Do you wonder...about how it all happened?" Kitty asks, resting her face on her right hand. Lorna stares at her for a solemn moment.
How did you act when you were abducted by the government?
How do you act when the said facility you were put in ...vanishes and the world moves on?
"The how is new to me...." Lorna puts her cup down. "If you are talking about...that thing, no, I can't forget...Can I ask now what the hell was that?" There's sarcasm in her voice, of course, but it barely hides her shaking fingers.
Kitty tapes her hand gently.
"I don't know the entire how; Jupiter and Cosmo are veryâŚ" Kitty's lips thinned for a moment. "Shall we say tight lips about the creature and its name? But they told me enough, I hope."
Lorna arched one eyebrow. "Be for real right now, did you ever think you would be bossed by a cat and dog?"
"One time." Kitty doesn't elaborate. "They said its name...the crawling god. The government of the US would be stupid enough to summon something like him?"
Lorna gives the most tired sigh of her life.
"The idea was to make a weapon..." Kitty can see Lorna facepalm hard enough to make a mark on her face. Kitty, don't censure her. "Of course it failed...."
On the runway, 6 months ago, no one was in the headspace to talk, but now... Kitty can bring the obvious.
"There are only women there for a reason..."
"Kitty, do you want me to commit manslaughter?"
"No, please, just hear me out, ok?" Kitty pleads. Resuming her thoughts. "The plan of controlling that thing." Kitty would love to say she didn't shiver, but it would be a fat lie. "Failed; it left, having no interest in us, thank God." It's not a lie, exactly; Jupiter has warned how if she is not careful IT can pull her to his nightmares.
"I ask him not, but he seems to think you are an interesting ant...He won't hurt you, but be careful." And later Jupiter asks why Kitty has to take sleeping pills.
"But I was really thinking, who would want that power? Assuming IT wanted to play along, Kitty whispers a small anecdote: you don't control IT, IT controls you. Her fingers are tapping on the table now.
Lorna is mulling about this. Who would be insane enough to want IT on their team?
Lorna sees how Kitty is tapping louder on the table. Lorna holds her hand for a moment, and the other woman can only sigh.
"Not even Wanda Maximoff, the White Witch, is powerful or insane enough to want that." Kitty commences, but Lorna interjects.
"But her enemies certainly are...." Lorna can see the picture now. "Should we...inform Justice X?" On a good day, Lorna would mock their choice of name. "Justice X" is something an edgy lord would do. Today is not a good day.
Kitty now looks tired. "We don't have proof. The facility was destroyed and then erased; it's like all these people didn't exist..." There's a twinge of sadness. Cosmo said how death is kind; it is a kind fate for those who dealt with IT.
Kitty stops talking as she starts counting.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOSH!" On the other side of the cafe, there is a group of people celebrating with the one called Josh.
"Besides...we aren't on the right side of justice." Kitty gives a pointy look at Lorna. "Yeah, I know...you killed him."
"A project as big as this one had the support of rich people. Extremely rich people, once again...meddling with what they don't understand and letting us take the burn," Lorna hisses and inhales for a moment.
"It wasn't just one, right?"
"Do you know the billionaire Charles MacDonald?" Kitty inquires as she has to whisper now, leaning her head closer. "He was, key word, the owner of channel 5...he committed suicide one month ago."
"Many billionaires linked to streaming and communications were associated with that...projected. Oh, hm, I bribed my cat and dog..." Her bosses, as they like to say...can be bribed to get information for her. "Anyway, MacDonald was the owner and the current one, his son. Is not very pleased with Kurt Ryder."
Kurt Ryder, the most arrogant man, is also one of the most popular journalists on Channel 5 and a host. Kitty frowns as his show is more sensationalism than anything, but the man, for all his pride and arrogance, does value truth above all.
"Ok... I'm not following."
"Have you heard how MacDonald's son and Kurt are in a feud, to put it mildly?" Kitty comments, and Lorna nods, stating how if even someone like her heard about their fights...it was big. "He is also seen in many reunions with important figures that work for those billionaires. Some, if not all of them, helped doing the ritual, and ...what if we try again?" Kitty shivers at the idea.
"My point is: how big is the circle of those who finance this villain? No, I don't have any way to bribe my furry bosses to give me my info." Kitty looks away as she has a thousand-mile stare.
Her bosses are furry babies...out of this world.
"If we were near Channel 5...if we could just talk...mingle, if you will, we could get more proof or...take care of ourselves." Kitty proposes, and Lorna is catching the idea.
"Wouldn't it be better to call...the heroes?"
"Then let's admit the murders we did as well...and tell about all the other laws we broke. Think they will understand? Think Gloriana and the White Witch will understand?
"...Fair enough, but how do we work there? We have no way or experience. I don't know how to make a coffee," Lorna laments as she takes a nice dip of her own beverage.
Kitty smiles. "We will get a show for us. And then we snoop." Kitty plans with a big smile.
'"...Ok, did you lose your mind? I ask sincerely here."
Kitty ignored the jab. "The MacDonald son is very vocal about wanting new channels even if it is to rival Ryder." Kitty smiles brightly.
Arching her eyebrow, Lorna has to ask. "Sis, hate to burst your bubble, but we have nothing...and even if we had any way to pilot or whatever, why would he pick us?"
Kitty forms a pretty smile. "For the same reason we can't ever ask for the heroes. Lorna, sis, do you want to scare a billionaire and blackmail him?" Kitty asks in a sing-song a la "Do you want to build a snowman?"
Lorna has a big grin. "Now we are talking!"
