Author's note: This is a challenge (one of many), given to me by my best friend Horizon Gus Watson, which I finally decided to post. The challenge was to write a crossover with Avengers and Star Trek, which contains 300 words on the dot (not counting the title). The hardest part, for me, was writing so little...most of my stories are quite...lengthy. Hope y'all like it! I'd love some constructive criticism (no, I'm serious).
Escaping the Darkness
Darkness – it was his only friend. Everything he had left. He was all alone, floating in a cold void, surrounded by nothing but black…and his regrets. And he had too many to count.
He had thought he was a part of something, he'd thought he had a family, but it had all been a lie. The only people he had ever cared for had been created…from his own DNA. So he wasn't made like the rest of them – he was born this way. However, the origins of his abilities remained unknown to him.
And all his knowledge and superiority couldn't help him now. He was a prisoner in his own mind, locked in an eternal nightmare created by his own subconscious, tortured by all the emotions that filled the abyss he was trapped in. Raw guilt burned his insides, while loneliness spread like ice through his bones. Anger was acid coursing through his veins, betrayal steel blades piercing his heart.
He knew nothing about his past, not even who he truly was. He had no real memories. But nothing mattered to him anymore. Everything he ever cared for was lost and all that was left was everlasting emptiness.
Time was irrelevant. He no longer knew how long he had been frozen in this state – dead, yet alive.
Bright light suddenly exploded in the darkness, blinding him. It spread like wildfire, wrapping around him. It wasn't violent or painful like he expected. Instead it warmed him, melting the ice around his heart and mending his scars. When the light faded, his senses exploded. He could suddenly see the world, hear and smell everything around him.
A pale face appeared before him, emerald green staring down at him with worry and happiness.
"I found you at last," Loki said softly, "my son."