Yellowstone – A Borrowed Calm
Yellowstone was old.
Older than nations.
Older than laws.
Nina liked that.
The geothermal vents hissed like sleeping beasts, the forests thick with life and territorial silence. She kept her power sealed tight, wrapped in layers of suppression fields and ki-control techniques Broko had refined for civilian worlds.
The twins walked beside her.
Bala stared at everything like it was prey.
Tehm stared like it was a challenge.
They were two years old.
And already for action.
The Bear
They found it near dusk.
A young grizzly, injured one leg caught in an illegal snare, breathing heavy but alive. Its eyes tracked movement instinctively, nostrils flaring.
Bala stopped.
Tehm crouched .
Their ki flared tiny, sharp spikes Nina walking elsewhere, felt immediately and appeared next to the boys .
"No," she said softly but firmly. "We don't take wild things."
Bala tilted his head.
"Mine?" he asked.
The word wasn't innocent.
The bear growled weakly.
Tehm smiled and said .
"Friend this?"
The Hunters
Gunshots shattered the moment.
Three men emerged from the trees illegal hunters, camo-stained, adrenaline high.
The bear was their trophy, wounded earlier and tracked for hours.
One laughed.
"There it is."
Nina moved instantly, stepping between the twins and the men.
"Back off ," she said.
They didn't.
They never even looked at the children.
The rifle fired.
Not at Nina.
At the bear.
The sound echoed across the basin.
The bear collapsed.
Dead.
For half a second nothing happened.
Then Bala screamed.
Not like a child.
Like something remembering itself .
The Instinct Awakens
The air compressed.
Thermal vents buckled inward as gravity spiked locally. Trees bent. The hunters stumbled, ears bleeding as pressure crushed sound itself.
Tehm's eyes glowed faintly.
Nina shouted, aura flaring as she wrapped the twins in containment ki—but she was half a second too late.
The twins' kill-instinct activated.
Not thought.
Not emotion.
Pure Saiyan dominance response.
The hunters were lifted off the ground by invisible force, pinned mid-air like insects in amber.
Weapons crumpled in their hands as metal screamed under pressure.
Bones cracked and snapped slowly .
They screamed.
Nina snarled.
"ENOUGH!"
Her power slammed down like a hammer.
The pressure vanished.
The men fell alive, broken, unconscious, bodies already swelling with internal trauma.
The forest was silent.
.....
The twins stared at the fallen men.
Bala frowned.
"Why stopped?" he asked.
Tehm frowned too.
"They broke bear, I break them ."
Nina felt ice crawl up her spine.
...
They weren't alone.
Park surveillance drones experimental, quiet. had recorded everything.
Pressure anomalies.
Localized gravity distortion.
Children at the epicenter.
Within minutes, alerts rippled outward.
Agencies Took Notice
ARGUS
"That wasn't meta-human."
DEA Satellite Ops
"Those kids caused the event."
LexCorp Black Science Division
"Get me tissue samples. Hair. Blood. Anything now!!!!."
Containment Attempts
Within forty-eight hours, "wildlife researchers" arrived.
Then "medical outreach."
Then men with too-perfect posture.
Nina felt it instantly.
She left Yellowstone that night.
But not before they tried something stupid .
A drone swarm descended silently at dawn sampling lasers, micro-needles, atmospheric sniffers.
The twins woke.
The drones didn't survive.
They didn't even explode.
They simply folded inward, compressed into fist-sized cubes by Nina and dropped harmlessly into the dirt Annoyed.
That footage never reached the public.
But it reached everyone who mattered.
....
Justice League – Emergency Session
The Watchtower was tense.
Batman didn't sit.
Superman looked troubled.
Wonder Woman's jaw was tight.
Amanda Waller (via secure link)
"These children are alien weapons."
Captain Atom
"They're walking WMDs."
Batman
"They're the offspring of dangerous people ."
The Split
Sanction Faction
Amanda Waller
Captain Atom
Hawk
Government-aligned metas
Position:
Contain. Study. Neutralize if necessary.
"Broko is an existential risk multiplier."
Integration Faction
Superman
Wonder Woman
Flash
Zatanna
Position:
Contact. Monitor. Negotiate limitation.
"they haven't attacked this world yet."
Batman
Silent.
Running simulations.
Every outcome ended the same way.
"If we move against him," he said finally,
"we lose control of the narrative and possibly the planet."
Political Fracture
The vote split evenly.
No mandate.
No unified response.
Which meant someone would act anyway.
Back to Nina
She held the twins as they slept during the transit back to the island.
They dreamed violently.
Power spiked even in sleep.
Nina whispered to them softly, instinctively using old lullabies meant for war-born infants .
"You are not wrong," she murmured.
"You are just early."
Final Note
Yellowstone was declared a natural disaster zone.
The hunters survived but never spoke.
The footage vanished.
But the truth didn't.
The world now knew:
Nina and Broko's legacy wasn't coming.
It was already here.
End of the chapter