Authors note:
So this little story was kinda inspired from some wishful thinking and another story idea revolving around Taylor turning into a giant space ship and sucking half of Winslow High into her hull to her the crew... Instead I ended up writing this which felt a little more cheerful than I thought at the time. I noticed theirs's like zero fics out their where Noelle is the main character or has a happy ending, so I made something I felt fixed that problem and offered a rather lighter note to the Worm universe which is generally OP power's, more straight forward win situations or dark stuff.
Let's add some laughs to the air hehehe, anyway enjoy this little thing I started writing week before it got steam rolled by other projects.
Amongst the bright blue sky and swirling waves of rolling clouds, a long boat shaped city slowly flew across the sky. Its rocky keel carving a smooth gash through an ocean of clouds, while it's pulsing blue engines at the rear of the ship glowed softly with power. Gently pushing the mass of buildings and landscape through the sky and keeping it aloft against the forces of gravity below.
The city was almost carved out in the form of a giant aircraft carrier, with a bank of rolling hills making up the citadel of the vessels. While it's flight deck was bristling with a maze of buildings and streets.
There was even a large bay of salty water on the far section of the vessel, the water held inside by a rocky outcrop of earth bristling with more buildings and structures.
The flying vessel looked as if someone had just torn the city right out of the ground, taking with it giant mountains of earth to comprise the ship's hull which bulged outwards around the middle and slowly narrowed down to a point at the front half of the ship.
While the mass of rocks looked simply like rocks, it was clear they were arranged in a manner to mimic the overall shape of a proper ship.
Near the bow of the ship, slowly rising steadily to her feet and gazing about in confusion. Stood a monstrous mass of warped flesh and writhing creatures all fused into a single revolting entity. As large as an African elephant, the creature was bulky and unwieldy looking, with a surplus of twisted limbs and snapping jaws the monster looked fit out of a horror movie.
All except for the small form of a young girl protruding from the top of the twisted flesh.
The girl's body seemed to be connected to the monstrosity from the hips down, leaving nothing but her upper body visible to the outside world. Unlike the wristed flesh of her lower form, the girl looked rather harmless in appearance, with a simple yellow t-shirt covering her body and long hair tied back in a ponytail.
The girl looked generally confused as she rose up on her multitude of limbs and gazed about upon her surroundings.
She appeared to be in some kind of Small Park, with twisting paths of pavement winding across the landscape beside fields of rolling green grass and soft flowerbeds flourishing with plant life. Tree's jutted outward from the area, slowly disappearing as the landscape gave way to the mass of a city trailing into the distance.
Glancing over her shoulder, the girl stifled a gasp as she noticed she was just a few meters away from a set of small rails surroundings the edge of a cliff, a cliff cutting through a sea of fluffy white clouds.
The girl turned around looking baffled, her monstrous body slowly inching its way forward with a level of surprising coordination despite the awkward nature of her body.
Slowly, the girl known as Noelle reached the railing separating the ground from the sheer cliff face below. The wind blew against her face, gently caressing her flesh with its cool damn touch as waves of cloud slowly slithered past the cliff below her.
A smile pulled on Noelle's lips. Her body relaxing and dropping into a sitting position as the girl just stopped to enjoy the tranquillity of her surroundings.
For the first time in years, Noelle didn't feel her emotions boiling with rage or sadness. For the first time in what felt like an eternity, Noelle felt…
Normal.
A faint glow ebbed from Noelle's body, the gently golden light pulsing from her flesh, while her lower body began to shrink upon itself.
A gasp left her lips as Noelle notice herself growing shorter, the monstrosity of her lower form turning from a mass of flesh to something that eventually resembled a pair of normal human legs.
"Bu….But how?" she murmured, tears slowly rolling down her cheeks in joy as her new legs slowly took form.
Eventually, Noelle was no longer a giant monstrosity as large as an elephant. Now she looked to be a perfectly normal looking middle age woman wearing a skirt, which reveal leg's bristling with monster like tattoo's that consumed every inch of exposed skin in an artistic manner.
"It's a dream… this must be a dream it's not possible" Noelle whispered her expression losing its joy and being replaced with sorrow.
She collapsed to the ground, hands covering her face as she sobbed loudly in distress.
Her cries of sadness did not go unheard.
"Hey are you okay?" called out a voice, causing Noelle to slowly look upwards her face wet and eyes bloodshot from crying.
Floating in the air a few meters away, hovered the form of a young teenage girl with locks of golden hair that seemed to sparkle in the soft breeze. The girl was dressed in simple high school uniform, with a backpack slung over her shoulder and a funny aura encasing her form.
But that wasn't what made Noelle blink in confusion, no it was the factor that the girl actually looked like she belonged straight out of a anime TV show that really made Noelle's head spin in confusion.
Now that she thought about it, the entire landscape seemed to be fluctuating in a mix of realism of magna style reality.
"You okay ma'am, you're not hurt are you?" asked the hovering teenager in worry, her body floating closer so she could examine Noelle for signs of injury.
"This is a dream… this must be a dream" muttered Noelle, her head turning left and right as she examined her surroundings trying to make sense as to what was going on.
The girl laughed awkwardly, dancing about the air with an nervous expression on her face as she slowly spoke once more.
"Nope this is all real, some new Cape in the region used their powers and done this to the city… it's kind of happened everywhere" informed the teenager as she floated about.
"New cape?" Noelle looked at the girl "I've never heard of someone with this kind of power before, have you?"
The girl rubbed the back of her head nervously and offered a reassuring smile to try and calm Noelle's nerves.
"Well theirs this one girl called labyrinth who has a power to alter reality in her own image… But I never heard of her doing something on this scale" admitted the girl as she gestured at their surroundings.
Noelle took a moment to digest this new information, her eyes slowly wondering from the flying teenager to the passing cloud's rolling past the scenery.
Just then something clicked in Noelle's mind, something she should have noticed immediately when she met the flying teenager with golden hair.
"You're Glory Girl aren't you?"
Noelle's question was answered by the teenager dancing through the air before striking a heroic like pose in the air and the light around her body flaring brightly.
"The one and only… huh that's new" Glory Girl waved a hand in bewilderment at the glowing aura around herself then seemed to notice her sparkling hair.
"Weird but cool" she stated bluntly, then suddenly hovered down to Noelle once more.
"Anyway it's actually Victoria outside of costume, Vickie also fine by the way it's nice to meet you" Victoria stuck out her hand in a polite gesture, causing Noelle to recoil upon reflexes and move away from the super powered teenager.
A hurt expression crossed Victoria's face and her arm fell by her side.
"Please don't touch me… please nothing good happens if I make skin contact with other people" stammered Noelle in fear as she hugged her own chest to keep her exposed arms away from Victoria.
Silence passed between the two girls, until a look of understanding crossed Victoria's face and she gently landed on the ground in front of Noelle.
"You have power's don't you… one's that activate on skin contact" it wasn't a question but a well deducted statement, one that made Noelle flinch violently and shy away from the teenager in fear.
Victoria stared at Noelle for a few minutes, watching the older girl cowering in fear and sadness as she hugged herself in a foetal position. An idea slowly crossed the girls mind, causing her to glance at her hands then smile softly as the brilliance of her own idea.
Without warning, Victoria grabbed Noelle by the arm and dragged her to her feet. Ignoring the horrified expression that crossed the girl's face, Victoria using her super human strength to stand Noelle upright and support her. Keeping her hands on Noelle's arms with a reassuring smile on her face.
Slowly, confusion flashed across Noelle's face as she stared at the offending's limbs touching her. Instead of the normal desire's she felt when touching another human being, her power's seemed oddly content to remain inactive and not force her body to produce a clone replica of the girl touching her.
Upon closer inspection, Noelle noticed the girl's grip was just a few millimetre's from touching her exposed skin. Yet Noelle could feel force being applied to her flesh.
"I'm constantly surrounded by an indestructible force field" beamed Victoria with a triumphant smile.
Noelle's wore an expression of disbelief for an entire 2 seconds, until something inside her broke and she flung her arms around Victoria in a surprisingly powerful hug.
Victoria looked uncomfortable from the suddenly embrace, awkwardly patting the girl on the back until she reluctantly released her and stepped away.
"I..." Noelle blushed softly "I needed that…. I haven't been able to touch anyone for years."
"Wow, you really got a rubbish super power… are you alone?" Victoria looked around quickly "is there anyone I can take you to or anywhere?"
Noelle gasped as a look of fright crossed her face.
"My friends!"
"We need to find them they must be worried sick about me" mumbled Noelle as she hugged herself once more looking upset.
Victoria didn't reply, simply staring past Noelle at something in the distance.
Swirling around, Noelle was met with the sight of a holographic projection floating in the air. Forming several simple words that made Noelle blink in surprise.
'Your friends are this way!'
The words vanished as an arrow formed in the air, pointing towards the city streets in the distance.
Victoria was the first to speak, a hint of amusement in her voice as a smile slowly formed on her face.
"That's convenient"
Noelle just simply nodded in reply, looking at a loss for words as the holographic projection dissipated into thin air.
To be continued…
Start of the next possible chapter:
Walking around in the streets of Brockton Bay was a memorable experience, something Noelle hadn't had a chance to enjoy in a long time since she and her friends had gained their super powers.
The city itself was rather strange, partly due to the aspects of magna style artwork decorating the design of several buildings and partly because despite all that was happening nobody seemed to be panicking. Didn't these people notice their home was flying through the heavens like some fictional city, or was the entire population under some kind of Master control from whoever was using their power's to make the city fly?
All this rushed through Noelle's mind as she walked along the sidewalk with Victoria floating by her side, an ice-cream cone nestled cosily between her hands and a look of utter bliss decorating the girl's face as she licked at her sugar filled treat.
Victoria had been rather generous enough to by her an ice-cream cone when she noticed the poor girl staring at a vending stand for several long minutes, while it may seem childish Noelle was over the moon with joy. Originally her powers had limited her diet to a strict carnivorous intake of food, but whatever was suppressing her abilities was allowing Noelle to enjoy the ice-cream for the first time in years.
"You okay?" asked Victoria cautiously as she flew along, snapping the older girl out of her sugar induced stupor and back to the moment at hand.
"Oh sorry… I haven't been able to eat something like this in a long time" apologised Noelle nervously.
This earned her a rather odd look from the super powered teenager, one that made Noelle want to shrink into the shadows and just fade from existence. Noelle could practically hear the gear's grinding in the girl's head, her mind working over something with malicious intent.
"What did your powers do? If you don't mind me asking out of curiosity" asked Victoria in a rather professional manner that took Noelle by surprise for a moment, a flash of fear rushed through her as she wondered how the super hero would react to hearing how dangerous her powers could be.
After a moment of consideration and much glancing around to make sure nobody would over hear them, Noelle decided to give a rather half-truth version of her abilities.
"I'm a brute, a high powered one at that almost Alexandria level I think… but my powers have a few problems that fuck with my head when I use them" Noelle sighed and stared longingly at her ice-cream.
"My ability causes the lower portion of my body to mutate into a monstrous mass of limbs and jaws, their powerful yes but I don't have fine control over their movement…." Continued Noelle as she wriggled her bare toes, taking a moment to examine her elaborate tattoo's decorating her flesh depicting some of the monstrosities that use to be part of her body.