Keeping Her Humanity.

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It was a regular day in Brockton Bay, druggies doing drugs, gangsters doing gangster things and the regular people just trying to get by while ignoring it all. Idly noticing this was Taylor Hebert as she walked through her place of birth just trying to pass the day. Letting out a sigh as she smells garbage strongly for a few seconds as a flashback tries to take her over, that damnable locker.

Sure it wasn't long she was in there because the school nurse happened to be running late and took that particular hall to get to her office though why that was located there instead of by the Principles was a question that has never been answered. The Trio didn't get in trouble of course but she was out and refused no matter what to go back, damn the consequences.

Which leads us to here. After completing her online course work she decided to take a walk and clear her head with some, relatively, fresh air. Of course that was when a large bang happened followed by yelling. Curious enough she takes a peak around the next corner to see a cape battle! Actual live capes!

Armsmaster was striking at Uber while Leet was working on some device frantically. Yes, she watched their online shows once in awhile and knew who they were. Thinking it was relatively safe there she stayed peaking, until the device Leet was messing with seemed to spasm and make a line straight at her.

Letting out a yell she turned tail and ran away without any hesitation, nope no way was she letting one of his tinkertech things get near her. Hearing more yelling from behind along with curses she risks a glance back to see Armsmaster having attacked the flying device which before being hit split apart to form some sort of doorway.

It lights up picking up speed as it did so, and before anyone could do anything else it came in contact with her body. Letting loose a scream of pain she tried to jerk free but was forced to float in the air. Worse than the locker, worse than anything she experienced the pain seemed never ending and getting worse. Her last conscious thought was in a distance part of her mind noting her skin flaking away in a blue glow.

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Everyone pauses and couldn't look away as the young girl was slowly torn apart by some short of device until there was finally nothing left. The machine whirled once before melting into itself, seemingly destroyed for good. A few seconds later Armsmaster turned to the two responsible with a visible grimace and his hand tighter than it was on his weapon. The duo stood there in shock and for a few moments continued to ignore even Armsmaster unable to believe what the hell had just happened.

Uber was the one to notice Armsmaster tensing to continue the fight and knowing it just got a lot more serious started to as well but before anything could happen a wave of blue energy swept by them. The epicenter being the location the teenager was at. Quickly looking they saw what appeared to be blue lightning and a form taking shape, that of a naked woman.

It seemed to be the girl but aged. Her body matured and losing any semblance of ordinary, it was that of a true beauty. Granted said beauty was glowing while hovering and staring at them but it was still true.

Unsure if there was a trigger, Armsmaster didn't get knocked out after all and he knew that should have happened, he cautiously called out.

"Miss? Are you alright? Can you remember what happened?" He asked though the reply wasn't what he was expecting. With a rather blank look with a hint of mischief the now mature woman nodded.

"Yes Armsmaster I remember being ripped apart at a molecular level because these two refuse to grow up and simply sell things they make or create videos of themselves playing games. There will be consequences but first a talk, however you will be in the way of that. Don't worry this won't hurt at all and you will be safe." She finished and before he could do more than tense he seemed to explode in a blue light.

Gaping at her the two villains, along with everyone still watching there stream from the eye in the sky, believed that she just killed Armsmaster. However she settled that right away to calm any fear.

"Do not worry I simply teleported him back to the Rig so we could... Talk." She said and walked up to them. "No, you can't run. Yes, I can teleport you anywhere I please as well and yes I can track you so don't bother."

Despite that they still tried, or started to at least. Bonds of metal appeared out of no where wrapped around them, and if they were just a smidgen to tight? Well, doubtfully anyone would call her out on it.

"You will both be arrested for you are to irresponsible with powers to have anything else happen. Children playing at men that are playing at being children. Foolish and sad. The man that can build anything, with the man that can master anything. All of that potential, all of those resources available at your fingertips yet you do this?" Shaking her head the woman finally stops right in front of them while the camera keeps streaming.

"Neither of you will escape this time, it would take the work of Fortuna herself to do so but I doubt it. You stirred the cauldron to much for even her to want to smile down upon you. Take this time, and the rest of your lives, to know you will be punished and you can't run away." Finishing her talk and knowing her messages were now out there she teleported herself to a stretch of flat land near the center of the United States to wait.

She didn't have to wait all that long honestly before a portal opened up and a woman with a fedora existed. No words were said as they stood by one another and just watched the view.

"Yes I know all the secrets, is probably the best way to put it shortly. What they did broke me apart on a level most won't ever have a hope of even beginning to understand. My name is Taylor Hebert and I am now a non-linear higher dimensional being. The best part of my particular situation is while seeing the future, past and present I can change them to a degree."

"A degree? I somehow think it is far more than that Taylor." Fortuna replied with a glance.

"It is, but if I do more outside of the now while just viewing the past and watching the future for how things change where will I know to stop? I have already had this conversation with you alone one million three hundred thousand eight hundred and nine times. Some the same and others differently just to see the future that would bring unfold before undoing it all and starting fresh." Their best chance at now saving humanity stated with a slight smile.

"It's difficult to keep perspective, to still feel emotions. To care about life when mine is never ending and because of what happened has happened can also be termed as always been if I wanted. Time travel and not just perception, after all I meant non-linear in a very literal way. Scion? Eden? They are parasites that toil away with the thought of living forever. There are beings out there that would swat them as one would a fly, civilizations so grand and large if you just got their people together it would be enough mass to create a black hole a dozen times over." Pausing to shake her head she glances at her companion for a moment.

"Humanity in this part of the multiverse is in it's infancy. The only thing special about us is we have the potential to ascend to a fairly high level while others are stuck roughly where they are at." With a sigh Taylor lightly motioned with a hand and have leaned back into the one of two very comfortable chairs that were until that point just dirt which disassembled and then reassembled into what they now were.

"I will help, I will kill Scion. I will bring Cauldron to justice as not even with your powers and Doormaker could you hide from me as I am now. But humanity needs to also continue to grow up, to start truly policing themselves. The PRT need to take a more hands on approach, a more final one. Sleeper, Ash Beast, Slaughterhouse Nine, Three Blasphemies, they will be dealt with by my personally before the day is out. Your job is to now get things neat and working correctly, for the PRT and Protectorate to integrate into the rest of humanity fully so before we reach the stars we can be, mostly, safe from ourselves." Finished the still lightly glowing blue woman.

"I.. Understand. If you can truly do and are as you have said then all the work we have done has been for naught. We knew there would be a time for things to come to a head. Just didn't think it would be this way. Prove it to us and we will get started" Was all Fortuna had to say after everything she just heard. Really she couldn't say anything else and her powers refused to model this being at all, the tricks she normally used for getting partially around that limit simply not working.

Looking up Taylor smiled gently as she still saw the stars despite it being daytime. With a small nod and a mischievous snap of her finger like a old tv show she vanished. Off to save humanity, to save the day. And other versions of herself of course, those that could be saved anyways. The multiverse was such a curious thing after all..

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AN: Was horribly sick for the past week and while laying in bed listening to a nine hour loop of the rain this came to me. I have seen Emp!Taylor, I have seen Superman!Taylor, I have even seen Thor!Taylor or Endbringer!Taylor. What I have yet to see was Doctor Manhattan!Taylor.

Bring it on multiverse as Taylor with those kind of powers are now on the loose and willing to take on all comers.