Previously at the Heist…
Tenno POV
I never felt anything even remotely like this before. I can almost taste its energy, the power emanating from it. My hands are already trembling with anticipation just from thinking about it. How much more when I finally see what lies inside and is reaching towards me?
And then I suddenly am there, standing right in front of the Vault, and my hands start shaking even worse than before. It feels like an eternity till the Vault finally opens and reveals the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Then I feel a deep suction force. I get pulled out of my Warframe right toward it, and it snaps onto me. As suddenly, I feel the same sensation all over again, the one I felt when I got sucked into this universe in the first place. And the next thing I see is the inside of the Orbiter.
Carol Danvers POV
Pure Blackness fills my Vision as I look around, finding nothing but my own body floating in the big nothingness I now was in. I reach for the Worldmind with a thought I've made ten thousand times or more, and wait. The thought reaches out and meets… quiet. I reach for the Nova current, nothing. I try my own Powers, also not working. "Last resort" I thought, as I tried to activate my Negabands, only to make them shine slightly more than before, being my only light source in this endless seeming darkness.
Many Ribs were sore, teeth started buzzing, my tongue tasted metallic. "It was a long time ago, I felt this Mortal" I thought sarcastically. "But at least my Suit sealed shut" I thought in ease, as I looked at my arm. Emergency glyphs glowed in a tired red along the screen. "Helmet detached, pressure not able to be stabilized".
I just looked stunned. Then slowly, my hands went to my face and touched it. "There really is no helmet, how is that possible", I panicked for a second before finding inner peace again, like we were trained in the academy.
I try to turn slowly, but like in space, seemingly no up, no down, nothing to push away from.
"Move," I command the Bands, but nothing happens.
After some more time, the cold slowly starts to get to me and an old instinct catches me off guard.
My wrists know the old motion before the mind finishes the thought. My arms cross, the bands touch, like back then when my partner was still alive.
Then suddenly, the world skiped a beat.
And suddenly, around me, something materializes. A capsule forms around me, clean curves, pale rails, glass canopy. A chair cradles my body and clamps the shoulders, forearms, wrists. The harness stops me from moving, while the Bands get pulled apart, resting on my legs.
"Emergency Systems online, Operator vanished from live support, intruder detected, activating Security protocols"
Suddenly, a robotic female voice sounded in my ears.
"Hello, who is there?" I asked, incredibly confused and also a little scared.
The air tasted thin and filtered, like in some of the Corpus ships I was in, just some hours ago. Emergency light painted the room, outside the chair I was in, in a red light. The ship seamed to have a hole in the right wall, while outside of it, the blackness from before shined through. "Seemingly a stranded ship" I Thought in shock, not comprehending how someone would come here, wherever here was, by their own free will.
"Alright," I said to the quiet. "Pilot, I demand to see the Pilot" came out of my mouth, now slightly more at ease with the situation.
"Intruder is given one last warning, do not waste precious life support, once the Operator is found, our programming allows us to change your places, you are using his life support, if you decide to waste it further, I am allowed to end the imprisonment and will expel you into the Vacuum" I heard as an answer.
"Well" I thought "The Captain seams to not be on board then, I guess I will wait"
Tenno POV
After I got into contact with these Arm-bands, I suddenly found myself back in the Orbiter, on my Operator Chair. A new kind of Power swept through me, and I felt as powerful as never before. I tried to meditate, but my Void Powers seamed to suck up, or rather combine themselves with the power of these artifacts from the Time-Vault. I don't know how they came back with me, but that is progress made for good, that is proof I can leave, wherever I am right now. Or, at least, I hope it is. But then I felt something coming from these bands, like they received a signal and deciding to answer on their own, because somehow they began to heat up.
Then suddenly, the world skiped a beat.
And then, around me, everything dematerializes. The capsule faded around me, my chair cradled my body no longer or clamped my shoulders, forearms, or wrists. The harness that normally stopped me from moving, gave way and eventually Pure Blackness filled my Vision as I look around, finding nothing but my own body floating in the big nothingness I was now in.
There I was, floating around, still on the high of my new powers merging, while not really comprehending what was going on and why the Orbiter was gone now.
After some time I started to adjust to the energy, that filled me and then went into the bands, while also slowly drifting into my meditation technics, while breathing slowly in and out.
"Wait, I'm breathing" I thought suddenly and looked around, hoping to somehow having left this cursed place, but nothing had changed, nothing, "except maybe for the fact that I could now fucking breath in space" I thought enraged, while trying to get back into my meditative state.
"Maybe I can access my Warframe somehow" I thought while getting slowly the hang of the meditative state again.
Then a red light shined through my eyelids and I looked up, clearly annoyed. Whatever that was, now finally broke me out of my state of mind, while also not being able to comprehend that something happening here, in the vicinity of my real body, for the first time.
As the red waves touched my bracelets, Bright golden streams started coming out of them, seemingly responding to the light.
"What are you?" I asked, but got no response.
A ring of force rolled outwards my bracelets, as the black shifts away and Something old and clever seemingly feels for me through the dark.
Light flared at the edge of my sight, red and gold started to combine all around me, creating a ball of energy that encompasses me completely. A voice, snaps a word in a language I can't understand, while another voice, warmer, answerd him.
The bracelets began to burn, while the energy previously stored within, now seamed to be sucked out of them, again through my body as the world yanks.
Air slamed into my lungs like water. Wood, stone, velvet, I could finally feel something again, not just floating. The fresh air mixed with Incense and dust, while Candles made small suns along a balcony rail, as my eyes slowly adjusted again to the brightness of my surroundings. Sigils hung in the air as I tried to take the next breath, like I had forgotten how to do that in that strange place.
Hands caught me before the floor did. One set me steady and surgical onto a bed, while the other one, tried to comfort me by brushing along my head with her hand, with a soft tremmor she hid poorly.
Darkness started to take the edges of my eyes first, but then I reach for the bracelets, while a voice murmurs "Kid," and something in it makes my body incredibly sleepy.
Observer POV
"Hold him," Wanda ordered Strange, while rushing to a side table, starting to mix some herbs into a potion. "Draw the rest of the surge energy, but make it easy, he's just a Kid, the spell was crafted for her specifically, his body is not meant to be sucked of that much negative energy in an instant, it's a Wonder he is still alive." She said, while letting her red energy strings plug more and more ingredients from the walls, while she was proofreading out of a book.
"I know all that Wanda" Steven said, while also looking confused at the boy they pulled out of the Void and not their Carol, who's surge of Negative energy they mistook for Nova Prime.
"Here, drink this" Wanda said, finally finished with her concoction, who the boy just looked at suspiciously, but then decided to drink either way. Wanda began to massage circles around his back, breathing life into his cold body, while casting a warming charm as he finally fell asleep in her arms.
Tenno POV
The Ceiling was made of carved wood. The Walls were covered with book spines and wards shaped like constellations that I knew from my home system. Light pooled warm on thick rugs, while on the table stood an old relic, once called a carafe holding water and next to it, a bowl of fruit and some cookies.
A face leaned into my view. A Handsome face, jaw square, eyes kind. He knelt to the bedside the way one would to scared kids or old people.
"Hey," he says. "I'm Steve Rogers, head of the Nova Corps and temporary Nova Prime. You're safe here." He said with practiced ease.
"Safe is a word people hand you when they want you to speak" I rehearsed the teachings of one of my teachers in my head, slowly getting a clearer sight and mind.
"What's your name?" he asks, voice pitched low.
"Tenno," I answer.
"How old are you, Tenno?" Steve asked again, gentle but with a watchman's measure. "You look young."
A shrug followed. Letting them decide was mostly beneficial for me. People fill blanks with the picture they already carry, after all. The Womans gaze softens as she steps closer and looks at me with a worried gaze.
"You're in the Sanctum Sanctorum," Strange said from behind. "New York. Earth. We pulled you from a place we call the Void. We expected someone else. Carol Danvers, do you know her?"
He asked while looking strangely into my eyes, but I just shook my head and he nods.
"Thirsty?" Wanda asks and I nod after which she held the glass while I drunk.
Steve watches all of this and files it away. "We'll have questions. Not all at once." He stands up, then glances at Strange. "Let him rest."
They move toward the door. Wards brighten and dim as they pass. Wanda lingers. "I'll be right outside," she says. "Call if you need anything" she said and also left.
I waited until the voices settled to a low murmur in the hall, then angled my head toward the door, as the words arrived like a whisper through the wood, but somehow not understandable.
"I'm just happy I'm out of that hellhole" I thought while after some time, finally falling asleep.
Observer POV
Strange started speaking first, seemingly agitated, "We overclocked the ritual because we read Nova Prime's energy. He isn't Carol, the bands match the signature we chased though, but the wielder attached to them isn't her, maybe he killed her, we know nearly nothing about that place."
Steve retorted, not believing into these hypotheses, "He's a kid. Treat him like one."
Strange retorted angrily, "We don't have the luxury. The breach in our defenses widens, the Corpus pushe harder every hour. They just bought time to jump lanes we patrol, someone with pull in the senate is definitely smoothing paperwork."
Wanda answered quiet, fierceness in her voice, "Mister Knife."
Papers rustle suddenly as Steve's voice tightens, and he stands up from his desk in rage. "Quill's father is the main problem here. The King of Spartax buys the Corpus Tech and with it, sympathy in three Systems. He shakes hands on the Council and probably signs contracts in back rooms. If he wraps Corpus merchants in his political scemes, we'll spend weeks untangling while the Corpus war front anchors new stations on new worlds."
Strange seams not interested, "He's moving capital and pulling strings, so what. We have a missing Nova Prime to worry about, and now we also have a boy with a pair of artifacts nearly the same as hers. I think this takes more importance than these political matters. I say, we put him back into the void, where he came from and can't be a potential risk, or use him somehow to find her."
That seamed to be the tipping point and Stece suddenly jelled. "ENOUGH. We protect the kid, We keep the Nega-bands in our vicinity, and keep them from becoming a key in the wrong hands. We all know what we imprisoned in the Negative Dimension with the other pair. If the boy's power activate by accident once we put him back and that thing lands in the Void as they switch places, like the Nega-bands love to do as we all know from the first time Carol disappeared, no one knows what might happen. I think we should rather think about the possibility that we just found a third pair and that carol is somewhere recovering from her injuries and will come back soon enough. There is no way there is such a coincidence, that especially a human child is at the place she was supposed to be. She is probably already on earth where she changed places with him and has her reasons for not coming out of hiding. The Meating is over" Steve finally ordered, while they tried to retort, after which Vanda and Steven reluctantly left his office.
"What have you got yourself into Kid" Steve thought sadly as he finaly sat down and started reading reports again.