A/N: Hello again, Mighty Med fanfiction. For whatever reason, I was watching a Skaz YouTube video, A Thousand Years, and I noticed the complication of the INormo episode. Since Skaz is my favorite pairing, and I felt as if that story line should have been different, I am rewriting the Mighty Med episodes and adding all the Skaz moments I can think of.
I'm basically following all the episodes, most of them I will be getting from YouTube. Updates will be sporadic because of the time and effort to watch all the episodes and write them out. I will still have what I want to happen in each episode. The original episodes might be a pain, but fortunately, I've dealt with them before. In addition, I am going to be extending some episodes, such as There's a Storm Coming, from one chapter to two. Be on the lookout.
Disclaimer – Jim Bernstein, Andy Schwartz, and Disney XD own Mighty Med. I make no claim to ownership; I'm just playing in the sandbox whilst I write out this story. I only own the OC's, one of which is Skylar and Oliver's son.
Notes: Bring tissues or forever hold your piece. Flashbacks are italicized.
Our One Thousand Moments – Prologue
Year: 2035
Kaz shielded his face as the window shattered into thousands of pieces. His heart constricted into a knot once he realized the cyborg sent to kill him was none other than his best-friend-turned-cyborg, Oliver
"Kaz, look out!" Skylar Storm's son, Terrence cried, diving and tackling Kaz to the ground right as Oliver fired a flamethrower at Kaz's exact spot. The intensity of the heat would have burned Kaz alive had Terrence not tackled him to the ground. Instead, the heat merely burned away Terrence's clothes, which healed automatically.
Terrence Storm was Skylar Storm's son with the powers of gyrokinesis, ionikinesis, super speed, portal creation, healing factor, and a strong force field. Oliver and Skylar Storm were in a fierce relationship shortly before Megahertz took over the world. However, a last ditch effort to stop Megahertz failed. Afterwards, Megahertz took Oliver and turned him into a cyborg. With Oliver's knowledge of the superhero world, and the machinery to allow him to create whatever he wanted, Oliver was Megahertz's secret weapon.
Skylar ended up pregnant shortly after the fight, and with Oliver gone, Kaz and the hospital took care of Skylar and her upcoming child. Shortly before Skylar gave birth, Oliver and an army of cyborgs attacked Mighty Med. Kaz and a pregnant Skylar took the escape pod and since have been on the run. When Skylar returned to Mighty Med hospital, there was nothing there. Rubble was everywhere.
With nothing but themselves and a child to take care of, Kaz and Skylar fled the state and raised the child in the New York suburbs. The two survived and Terrence soon learned of Oliver, his biological father.
Oliver fired another flamethrower at Terrence, but Terrence rolled out of harm's way. Lunging forward, Terrence threw a punch at Oliver, only to realize that Oliver's armor was made of hard iron. While Terrence grimaced in pain, Oliver took the time to hit Terrence in the stomach and fling him across the room where the impact broke a table in two.
Oliver turned his gaze to Kaz, a malicious grin appearing on his face. Kaz gulped and started to crawl backwards. He soon found himself against the wall.
"This isn't going to hurt a bit," Oliver lied, turning on his robotic missile launchers and aiming it at Kaz's head.
Right before the missiles fired, Skylar Storm sped into the house, grabbed Kaz, and sped him to safety. Seeing her son lying on top of a broken table, Skylar Storm's eyes narrowed and she faced her evil husband. "There's a storm coming," Skylar growled. "Skylar Storm."
After he sent the missiles back into his arms, Oliver chuckled ominously. "Well, well, well. I have been expecting this fight for so long. I've ran every analysis of your fighting skills and I devised a perfect counter strategy. Prepare for your annihilation!"
"Using The Annihilator's phrase won't help you, Oliver."
Instead of answering, Oliver fired his flamethrower at Skylar's feet to which she flipped over effortlessly. Placing herself into a fighting position, Skylar used her ionikinesis to draw electrical whips, which she thrust at Oliver. Much to everyone's surprise, Oliver drew up a magnetic shield and deftly countered the strike.
Oliver frowned. "Going to your ionikinesis early I see. And I thought I was getting a fight!"
Skylar didn't know what Oliver was talking about, so she continued her assault. Electricity crackled and sparked as the whips continuously hit the shield.
"Sure is a pathetic effort you're giving," Oliver commented as he retreated.
"Look who's talking," Skylar replied icily.
Oliver eventually decided to stop defending and let Skylar hit him. Speeding over to her husband, Skylar let loose a flurry of punches at light speed. However, Oliver was expecting this and unleashed a plasma ball that hit Skylar and sent her flying backwards.
Finally, Oliver was on the offense as he sent flying shurikens at Skylar. She dodged them all and then sent an energy blast at Oliver; he dodged just in time. Deciding that her ionikinesis was her best offense right now, Skylar drew an electric bow staff and whirled it around gracefully.
"I'm still not impressed," Oliver commented, pressing a button on his wrist.
"Maybe this will shock some sense into your brain," Skylar mused as she struck Oliver's robotic shoulder. Much to everyone's surprise, nothing happened. Oliver just looked at himself and smirked at Skylar.
"You were saying?"
Skylar dumbly tried again, only for the same thing to occur. Skylar looked to Kaz who shrugged, indicating that he was equally as puzzled as she was.
"I nullified your ionikinesis. Pretty clever, eh, Sky?" Oliver commented, using Skylar's nickname that he had come up for her. Turning one of his arms into a sledgehammer, Oliver nailed Skylar in the chest. While Skylar was airborne, Oliver fired two shurikens at her, both of which missed Skylar by an inch.
Skylar crashed into the already broken table. Every part of Skylar's body and her head ached. Ignoring the screaming, protesting muscles, Skylar slowly rose to her feet. She barely saw the shuriken fly toward her and brush past her head. Feeling something red and oozy trickling down her forehead, Skylar held a hand to the area and pulled back. What she saw was something she had never seen before.
It was blood.
"Kaz, what is going on?" Skylar asked, her eyes telling the entire story.
"He just nullified all of your powers! The shurikens had coal on them! With your healing power gone, you could bleed to death!" Kaz explained horrified.
"Correct! And that's not even the added bonus!" Oliver cackled.
"So not helping!" Skylar informed, glaring at her opponent and trying to hide her fear.
Oliver stopped laughing and glared at her. "Very well. My next attack will be shocking!" Oliver warned.
Skylar's eyes widened in horror when she realized that Oliver's next attack involved high-powered electricity. Her suspicion was confirmed when Oliver, the human cyborg, threw an electrical ball directly at her. Skylar brought her hands to create a force field, only to remember that she couldn't use her powers because they were nullified.
"Oh crap!" Skylar explained right before the electrical ball connected with her chest and sent her flying into the wall where she rolled off the sink and collapsed on the ground.
"SKYLAR!" Kaz shouted, running to Skylar with Terrence.
Whirling his attention to Kaz, Oliver created an electrical cage that stopped Kaz and Terrence in their tracks. Oliver then stalked towards Skylar, ready to kill her.
Pain that Skylar had never imagined filled her body. Every fiber of her body was numb immeasurably, and Skylar found herself struggling to even breathe or move. 'What happened to me?' Skylar thought as footsteps approached her lying form.
"You should be thanking me," Oliver sneered. "If it was up to Megahertz, you wouldn't even be alive right now. You're lucky I used so little voltage to begin with. The ball that hit you was 90 volts of pure electricity. It was originally 30, but your ionikinesis strikes tripled the voltage power." Oliver knelt down so he was next to Skylar's face. "Now Kaz and your partner have a front row seat as I kill you," Oliver whispered, his cold, murderous eyes scaring Skylar.
"Mom!" Terrence cried, creating a portal and walking through it.
'When did Oliver get this good?' Kaz asked himself as he stared at Oliver who had punched Terrence in the gut while he was looking at Skylar.
"Hold up," Oliver announced as Terrence hit the stove and crumpled to the ground, "Mom? Skylar has a son? Well, you and Kaz are getting serious."
"We never made out!" Kaz shouted from his cage.
"Any last words before I kill you, Skylar?" Oliver asked as a claw that looked like adamantium appeared from his wrist.
"Just two things," Skylar panted. "One, you and Megahertz will be stopped. Someone will take you two down. Second, if you want to kill me, go ahead, but know that you're killing your wife and leaving our child without his mother. Okay, I'm done."
Oliver raised his adamantium-like claw to strike. "SKLYAR!" Kaz cried.
The claw stood in midair, and Oliver stared into Skylar's eyes. For moments, it looked like Oliver was not going to strike. Then he lowered the claw and thrust the claw into his chest.
Kaz gasped in surprise as Oliver fell to the ground right besides Skylar. The electrical cage disappeared, and Kaz ran to tend to a wounded Oliver.
"Oliver, please man! Stay with me!"
Oliver turned his head to me and croaked out, "Kaz."
"You're going to be okay," Kaz found himself saying.
"No, I'm not. I—"
"You got to listen to me. You're going to be okay! Skylar," Kaz called.
Oliver held up his hand. "Don't. This is the way things should be. I need to tell you something. First, I'm sorry, Skylar." Oliver turned and his dying blue orbs met Skylar's terrified hazel ones, and the love literally warmed up the entire room. "I'm sorry, Skylar," Oliver mumbled, "that we missed the first ten years of our child's life. Ten years! We missed ten years together, and now he's about to lose his father. Megahertz has won, but there's a way to stop him."
"How?" Kaz asked.
"I made a time machine," Oliver panted. "It's…" Oliver started to close his eyes.
"Don't die on me, Oliver, god damnit!" Kaz shouted, shaking Oliver. Kaz knew that if Oliver died, he could never go on. Besides, Oliver held info that could probably prevent Megahertz from taking over the world, and prevent his own death. The earth would be back to normal.
"Basement in an abandoned building on 7th at 61st Avenue. Passcode is 5531." Oliver took a deep breath, knowing that he was bracing himself for death. "Kaz, you're my best friend. Send things back to what they used to be, and I love you, Skylar," Oliver breathed, closing his eyes and falling into a sleep that Kaz knew he would never wake.
Kaz closed the eyes of his best friend, biting down on his knuckles to avoid from crying.
"Kaz, I… I can't move," Skylar whispered, bringing Kaz back to the present.
"What do you mean you can't move?" Kaz asked horrified. "The coal's effects should have been gone by now!"
Skylar shook her head, the only body part that could move. "Kaz, you've got to get me out of here," Skylar whispered. "You're the only one strong enough; you're the only one with me."
Kaz turned to look around the endless faces around him, and realized Skylar was right. Oliver was dead as can be and Terrence still had not woken up yet. As much as it hurt him to have to leave, things were out of his hand. Shortly before Oliver got captured that lead to the events of Megahertz taking over the world in 2025, Kaz had promised Oliver that he would take care of Skylar if Oliver ever went missing, and Kaz was not going to break that promise anytime soon.
"Okay," Kaz mumbled. He knelt down and wrapped Skylar's arms around his neck while supporting her legs in his arms. Kaz took one last look at Terrence before he ran out of the house and into the desolate, battle-scarred neighborhood.
'I know it's hard to leave Oliver behind. It is hard for me as well,' Skylar's voice echoed in his head.
'Then why did you leave him?' Kaz shouted.
'Because it would have been too hard for me to stay, and to see him as he's about to do something silly like that, I know that if I stayed with him, Megahertz would have taken his life then and there. But he won't now. He needs Oliver, and I think you know why.'
'That doesn't mean I like it!' Kaz snapped.
'I don't either, but Oliver's knowledge is what will save him. He and I chose to take different paths, but I know that no matter where I go, he's with me in his heart, and that's good enough for now,' Skylar commented, looking Kaz straight in the eye. "Kaz? Kaz? You can put me down now."
"What? Huh?" Kaz snapped out of his flashback to realize he was still holding Skylar bridal style.
"You can put me down now," Skylar commented. "The effects have worn off, and I feel up to moving again."
"Oh, right." Kaz let go of Skylar, and turned away in hopes that she would not catch him blushing.
"Kaz, are you ready to see that time machine?" Skylar asked, a big grin appearing on her face.
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"Wow!" Kaz breathed as he caught sight of the time machine. "Is it done?"
"It appears so," Skylar replied. "Kaz, you've got to be the one to get into the time machine."
"What? Why?"
"Because you are the most knowledgeable person I know, and I have to stay here to defend this building just in case."
Kaz thought it over. He could die while travelling back to save Mighty Med and Oliver, but he could save many lives, including Horus Diaz, the aging doctor and his biggest mentor that had been stabbed to death by Oliver's cyborg outfit. With that in mind, Kaz knew there was only one answer to that. "I'll do it."
"Good. Let's turn this thing on," Skylar ordered, a smile appearing on her face since she and Oliver first fought.
"Wait, I just thought of something. What am I supposed to do when I run into my old-self? Or what if this machine was buried underground and I die before-?"
"I have no idea. Just go with the flow, I guess. Make sure that you hide the machine so no one can do time travel, and try to make sure that you sneak out without anyone noticing. Things could get downright interesting if someone caught you."
"Totally!"
Skylar turned on the time machine. "All right. I don't know much about time travel specifics, but I can tell you this: type in the date you want on that keyboard over there. Second, when your past self discovers Mighty Med, yes I want you to go back to the day you discover Mighty Med, Kaz. Anyways, try to find a disguise and meet up with the two of you at The Domain. See if you can expose Wallace and Clyde and get their store run down. Third, if you can avoid it, don't tell this to anyone. No one. Lastly, good luck. I hope we can make a better future."
"You too!"
Right before Kaz went into the time machine, Skylar grabbed his hand. "Wait, Kaz."
"Yeah?"
Instead of answering, Skylar kissed Kaz's cheek. Kaz felt his cheek, felt the static, and smiled dumbly. "Good luck."
Feeling invigorated after the kiss on the cheek, Kaz jumped in the time machine and typed in the date box: September 13, 2012. That was the day he and Oliver first discovered Mighty Med.
"See you later!" Kaz called out.
"Don't you mean see you earlier?" Skylar yelled back.
"Very funny!" Kaz shot back. He heard a bang and then felt movement. It was official. A thirty-three year old Kaz was traveling back in time.
A/N – Okay, that concludes the first chapter. Updates will be sporadic. I'm guessing the next chapter will sometime next month. The first episode is a long one. Peace!