What If 1: Terran Variable Gravity Well

"Space Monster..."

At the start, when she first gained her powers, Taylor had been unaccustomed to the feeling of... its voice in her head. She had spent most of the last four and a half months in the hospital, screaming.

"Look at all the filth. Don't you want to just... burn it?"

As time wore in she had become more... used to the inhuman sound. To a point. She still wanted to just lay down and scream every time she heard it, but she could manage herself now. Well, as long as she made an effort to keep it quiet, when it grew angry... Taylor shuddered.

"Filthy humans, corrupting and eating away at everything. Burn it all."

Taylor clenched her fists. "Just wait, I'll... do what I can." She spoke to herself.

She had wanted to be a hero, but she was labeled as a villain. Albeit, a villain who only targets other villains, but the collateral damage involved in her battles was... huge, to say the least. And she couldn't even blame her powers for that, it was all her choice. The destruction was the only way to quiet the voice. She told herself that the people she killed were villains, and if a few innocents got involved, well, they shouldn't have been around her fighting at all.

A small part of Taylor wondered where her morals had gone.

And now, Leviathan made a steady march on the city.

"You're heart is as a star, let it burn."

And so, Taylor made to do so.

Tattletale gulped as she looked at the cape who had just shown up. She had only been around for a few days, and didn't even have a name yet, but she was well known. Namely, because her opening appearance involved a fight with the entirety of E88 that left every member dead, and a quarter of the city in flames. Thousands had died in that fight, and she had gotten labeled an A rank threat quickly.

No response had appeared, however, as Leviathan began an attack on Brockton Bay. So the nameless girl was left alone, and had now shown up for the fight.

The heroes were vaguely hesitant to let the girl join the battle. But she was powerful, her casual elimination of the E88 had proven that, and so she was eventually given an armband.

Tattletale stumbled at the first fact her power fed her.

Trigger event left her insane.

Circled back around to functional insanity eventually.

Collateral damage intentional; believes it quiets a voice in her head.

Can no longer think clearly.

Genuinely believes that everyone who died from her attack deserved it.

"Oh, shit." Tattletale muttered.

"What is it." Grue questioned.

"That girl..." Tattletale pointed at her. "...Really shouldn't be here. This is not going to go well." And now came the question of how to break this fact to the heroes.

She made for an awkward walk towards Legend, before she suddenly found herself on top of a roof, staring down Leviathan.

"Too late." She heard Grue say over the storm.

Before anyone, even Leviathan, could do anything, an eerie howl echoed over the battlefield. Tattletale winced, at clutched at her ears.

From the girl.

Tattletale looked back at the figure her power named, and so her glowing with repressed power. There was a low screech, and with a terrifying whine, the girl discharged the power.

A white light illuminated the entire battlefield, and a wave of force sent Tattletale sprawling.

Every non invulnerable cape near that was dead.

"Echo deceased, CD-5. Harbinger deceased, CD-5..." The armband echoed her powers pronouncement. "...Alexandria deceased, CD-5"

Power supersedes others, including invulnerability.

No one even had any time to react to that pronouncement, as the white light reached Leviathan.

Initial burst an aftershock of launching the attack.

"Get down!" Tattletale managed to scream, before the attack hit.

A deafening roar defined the hearing of every listener there. Tattletale screamed, as the blast wave hit her prone form, and shattered bone.

Will die in 3 minutes without medical care.

"Heavy casualties, please wait." Her armband echoed.

"Not going to have that much time." Tattletale croaked to herself.

Almost no one had escaped that last blast unscathed. Those too close, had died. Those further away like her were in various states of dying, the power that girl threw around had no regard for forcefields or invulnerability. A few fliers had managed to escape the effects. But most did nothing.

Frozen in shock and horror.

Legend's hands dropped to his sides, as he observed the battlefield. Considering every other member of the Triumvirate was dead, Tattletale didn't blame him.

Leviathan... wasn't doing much better, honestly. Most of its body had been burned away in that attack, and bits of skeleton could be seen at numerous points. The Endbringer appeared unaffected by the attack otherwise, and... turned away.

Task already completed.

Tattletale would have laughed, if doing so wouldn't be so painful. The girl had done the Endbringer's job for it.

The girl didn't appear satisfied, and charged another attack.

Attack several times more powerful.

Won't survive this attack.

Neither will Leviathan.

America will sink.

"...And so this is the way the world burns." Tattletale murmured, as the aftershock from the firing finally reached her.

And Lisa died.

"...Bad idea."