IN WHICH, THE WORLD WAS WIDE ENOUGH for a man out of his time and a girl out of her universe, and now History has its eyes on both of them.
𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞
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INFINITE ━ CHAPTER SIX ✧ HEROES ✧
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Every life was worth saving. Everyone deserved a second chance.
Brooklyn Natalie lived by this philosophy. This philosophy is why she became the person she was. Being a hero meant abiding by the philosophy.
Never mind if one were driven by courage or selfishness, vigilance or vengeance — a hero saved lives.
But reality is often disappointing. Heroes, no matter how super, cannot save everyone. Victories always came with loss. Brooklyn was no stranger to that reality. She had seen death, faced it, cheated it, and welcomed it. She and death had long history, but that did not dampen the guilt and the grief death continued to leave behind.
Director Fury tossed a handful of bloodied cards on the table, representative of Agent Coulson's dream of working with his lifetime idols.
"These were in Phil Coulson's jacket," Fury uttered, breaking the silence. "Guess he never did get you to sign them."
Steve gravely picked up one of Coulson's Captain America trading cards. Brooklyn eyed the cards sadly from her seat. Tony, who was two seats away from her, could not bring himself to even look in its direction.
"We're dead in the air up here. Our communications, location of the cube, Banner, Thor... I got nothing for you," Fury relayed. He sighed, pacing around the center table. "Lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming,"
"Cards on the table, Director," Brooklyn spoke up. "What was this really about?"
Fury looked at the archer. She said nothing more, but he knew very well that she wanted the truth about the mission, one that he claimed was merely an extraction mission for Agent Clint Barton.
"Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract," He admitted. "I never put all my chips on that number though, because I was playing something even riskier...,
"There was an idea, Stark knows this, called The Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, fight the battles that we never could... Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea, in heroes,"
Tony stood up and walked away, unable and unwilling to listen to any more.
"Well, it's an old-fashioned notion," Fury muttered.
Meanwhile, Brooklyn sucked in a breath as her chest tightened. Everything she hoped this mission would not be was true. This Initiative was the League reincarnate— a pit she prayed she would never fall into, a life she tried to never return to, and a burden she wished never to carry in this new life.
