#issue 3.1

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You open your eyes

The blackness of space before you- illuminated

Illuminated by your own light.

You are glowing, glowing with new power

A new species created, transformed

What are you? What has occurred?

So many questions swirl around your brains

But one thing, one thing solidifies in your minds

You are still all here, together. Together

Callisto6.  

Oya

I see into time. Into space.

Into all possible universes, all possible times

Gaze down at my hands, all of my hands, spinning

I am here, I am not here. I am everywhere.

I see it all, I hear it all, I now know our enemy’s name

Vun’Kaus

You will die again. This I swear.

Anton

I feel my body twist and turn, changing

Changing once again. I stretch into eternity

This is unreal, more power than I have ever felt

Are we glowing? Is that earth below us?

I cannot process this, but I can see my friend, slowly disappearing

Not again, I’m not going to leave her alone.

We’ll never be alone again. Not one member of

Callisto6.

And as you realise you’re still alive

Still alive, and more powerful than ever.

It all shifts. All distorts

What is real? What is not?

Where are your friends? Your enemies?

How many questions have you gathered up to this point?

Questions upon endless questions

And no answers in sight

Until now.

Until Her.

Cass

It’s too much to take in. Too much

I can fly?! One, that’s awesome. But no time to take it in

Oya gone and her grandmother now here before us.

But not her? I cannot fathom this. As the answers wash over us...

So many answers, so many more questions. But just one thing sticks

Vun’kaus

So he’s still alive? Well not for much longer.

Luma

Keep it together, keep the team together.

That’s what you’re good at Luma. You know them

You know their fears, their worries, their joy, their sadness

Feel it all, take it in, and breathe it out. It will all work out.

You know, as time swirls around you. You know you’ll be okay.

They’ll be okay. You’ll find them. They won’t be alone.

No, so much closer than family now.

Callisto6.

She gives you answers

So many answers that you have been searching for

Finally it all makes sense, and it doesn’t at the same time

But that is a comfort. We can’t know all

We can’t understand all.

There comes a time to just trust.

Her love, her absolute trust

It flows through all of you,

And you know you will succeed

Callisto 6.

Lacy

I watch them exalt in their powers

And they’re all so beautiful and amazing. They can’t know

Can’t know, the thoughts running through my brain

How easy it would be, how easy to just let go and ascend.

But she saw, she saw right through me. She knows though, knows

I would never give in to that urge. Not while he still lives

So many hurts and injustices caused. Not one second longer

Vun’kaus

Meet Honey Lacy.

Cobalt

I feel it, feel it course through my body.

I am whole, I am complete. It feels glorious

No more fear, no more shame that I am not as powerful

I float, hover, disappear, phase. Revel in it all.

This is power, and with that comes responsibility

But I can help now. I will help now.

I am one of you, truly now.

Callisto 6.

Hopps

Anton gone before my eyes, again. But I have to trust.

Trust that he is okay, that he will be okay.

But so much energy builds up in me, Rage at this situation

Rage at where we have been put against our will again

Rage at so much choice being taken away, never again

I unleash. Let the lightning rage from my palms

Yes, first you Fawn. Then you

Vun’Kaus

This Lightning is coming for you

So answers in one hand, resolve in the other

A new species is born.

A new people are created.

They have powers yes.

They have more knowledge than anyone else, yes

They are beyond humanity, yes.

But that is not what makes them super

That is not what keeps them human

No, they are family, bonded forever

Avengers #3.1

Another cool issue here.  I’m starting to see what Waidis doing.  Every other issue is a Present and “Past” issue, until something inevitably collides via time [and most likely Kang.]

But in the meantime, this issue was really cool to see how Wanda, Quicksilver and Hawkeye proved themselves to the public eye, bye stopping a major incident from The Thinker within a very short amount of time.  Whoever that Cressida person is, that they met in the last issue, she severely powered them up to epic proportions.

But in this issue, we find out that those power ups come at a major price.  And I’m very curious to see how Cap and the rest react to that, when they find out.  One major piece of continuity here is that Cap & the rest are referring to her as “Avenger X” and they’re keeping her a secret from the public.  [Maybe THATS why she wasn’t originally in the comics in the 60′s...] =P

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