Sooo... it's been a while, but, let's just say life got pretty busy and now, out of literally nowhere, a huge abundance of spare time popped out from a certain void. I think it's safe to say that we all know what I'm talking about. Anyways, to help ease the boredom of society, I decided to start posting a little more on this story that, for some strange reason, I'm can't help but smile when I read it! Enjoy :P
The BiFrost
Rose Waters appeared on Terra, or Earth as they called it, with the help of Loki who easily managed to shoo those away who protected the BiFrost by being in his Odin-like form.
"I still can't believe that those idiots believe your little charade." Rose Waters stated with a laugh, to which Loki only rolled his eyes to before turning the sword that lied within the BiFrost, making it burst with light and glory.
"Rose Waters, it's been a pleasure." Loki stated and stuck out a hand to which Rose Waters simply slapped away, as Loki had trained her to do. "Though, I do suppose now is the correct time for parting gifts."
Rose Waters opened her mouth to reply, mostly to say that she didn't want anything that Loki had to offer. He was probably to give her a ball of dead rats or something gross like that, but, to Rose Water's great surprise, what he revealed to her was grander than what Rose Waters could ever dream of.
She had never seen it in person before, and if she did, then she was too young to remember what it was like to be in the eyes of it's exotic power. It was beautiful, it's sides smooth and radiating with energy and life and... and Rose Waters could just feel it calling her name, begging her to touch it and hold it and become one with it like how it was with her all those years ago.
"The Tesseract." Rose Waters whispered, her hands instinctively touching the surface of the beautiful brilliant blue cube. The moment the words slid out of her mouth, Rose Waters looked up at Loki, her eyes narrowed. "How in the world is this in your possession?"
"Oh, Asgard has more trinkets than you could believe." Loki replied simply with before pressing the beautiful cube into her hands. At the feeling of being reunited with her creator, her God essentially, Rose Waters let out a powerful exhale and for the first time in her life, she felt an exhileration of power that felt like nothing she had ever witnessed before. She felt invinsible, a shooting star, a supernova. A beautiful beam of energy that was stronger than a billion men and faster than anyone who dared step in her past.
For the first time, she felt like she could rival even the power of Thanos himself.
"It's yours, Rose." Loki stated and gently patted her hand. "I suppose you would take better care of it than me after all, I mean, all it does is just gather up dust in my home."
"Loki... It's..." Rose Waters didn't have words to describe how to felt to hold the cube. She simply didn't. But, after a milliemia, she finally tore her eyes away from it and looked up at Loki, her arms cradling the cube to her chest. "Why? You know yourself just how much power is held within it's walls."
"And that's exactly why I need to get rid of it." Loki replied and arched an eyebrow. "Rosie, you took out some of my finest guards within mere minutes and, granted, while you are... a reasonably good sparrer." Rose Waters lightly punched him in the shoulder at his comment, but with the Tesseract amping up her power, it was a lot harsher than what she had initially thought. The Space Stone was intoxicating. "That does mean that someone with a little less mercy and skill could do the exact same deed."
"Also, since there's no need for this item to be in my collection... it makes reasonable sense to grant it back to one of it's original owners. Besides, I think you're quite the better hider of objects than me, Rosie."
"I'll... I'll guard it with my life." Rose Waters whispered softly as Loki patted her on the shoulder before he leaned in close so that his lips graced her ear lobe, making her shiver.
"Thanos will not touch that stone, understood Rose Waters?"
Rose's face paled. She hadn't even thought about Thanos when the stone came into her possession and, for a moment, she thought about teleporting to his ship and presenting him with her precious space stone. That would win his favour for the rest of her years and he would praise her and adore her and love her and...
And trillions more Wind's would die at his hands. At her hands.
And that thought alone was more than enough for Rose Waters to nod her head, her very first true rebellious action towards the man who practically created her.
"Good."
And in true, Loki fashion, he pushed her into the portal, casually waving at her as she fell in, her hands grabbing at the Tesseract as if it was her lifeline, giving the solemn promise of never letting go.
The very moment Rose Waters stepped onto the battle field, her heart immediately sank to the bottom of her chest at the mere level of destruction that had wrecked the once beautiful fair lands of Wakanda. Beings from both sides were heavily bruised, broken, or dead and it was hard to tell who was winning overall.
But none of that held a candle to the giant, purple being that was making his way towards a certain man with a red cape, this time more determined than ever to take back what he thought was only rightfully his.
"We need to stop Thanos." Nebula immediately stated, which Gamora nodded to and the two ladies among with Scarlet Witch began to run towards the beast as Rose Waters only stood rooted in her same spot, her legs shaking the more she looked at Thanos and how he, her guardian, her saviour, her father, had to get his hands dirty by brushing away pesky Avengers who tried to attack him.
She felt like she was betraying everything she ever stood for. She felt like she was betraying herself but just standing there and not helping her master, much less attacking him. She didn't think that she could throw a single punch in his direction without throwing up or apologizing a million times over. She couldn't.
Or maybe it was just that liquid Proxima shot in her talking.
"Rose, watch out!" Peter Parker shouted before pushing Rose out of the way of a few tons of debris that was falling off of a large structure. She roughly hit the ground, Spiderman's face just inches from her own but she wasn't seeing him. She was seeing Thanos and hearing his voice in her ear that she was going to come out of this better and stronger than ever before because she was Rose Waters.
"Are you alright?!" Peter shouted as Rose let out a cry, tears falling from her eyes. She wanted nothing more than to teleport to another planet and live out the rest of her sad, grey days on an isolated planet, starved of food, love, or attention. But she couldn't even do that, her teleportation not even allowing her to get out of Parker's arms much less to another solar system.
"I can't do this." Rose whispered softly and let out a cry. "I can't do this, Peter, I can't, I can't."
"You don't have to do anything." Peter replied and gently picked her up. Even after all of the crimes she committed, even after she stabbed the wizard and, alledgely, killed millions, Peter couldn't help but feel like she was nothing more than a confused soul who was trying her very hardest to do right in the world. That, when it really came down to it, she would put her life on the line for what she truly believed in.
With a sling of a web, and fragile Rose in Peter's arms, they managed to get to the balcony of the main building when Peter Parker put Rose Waters down and slid on his mask.
"Wait, don't go!" Rose Waters screamed and grabbed Peter's arm, her eyes wide. Maybe it was the temperature or because she had the same liquid that she had in her body when she last saw him but for a brief moment, Rose Waters thought that Peter Parker was Kevin Windack.
It had been so long since Rose Waters had last allowed herself to think that name, so long because she knew that the man was haunting her despite the fact that his body was floating lifelessly in the depths of endless space. He was everything she went, in her head and in her dreams and in her very soul and now, he was in front of her in the form of Peter Parker.
For a brief moment of time, Rose Waters was back in a Novas Corp ship, looming over a (mostly) innocent man. No, a friend. A friend who she had killed in her fury.
"He's going to kill you." Rose Waters whispered, her hands shaking as tears leaked past her eyes. It wasn't a statement, it was a fact and Rose Waters knew it.
She had only sparred with Thanos once in the past, despite all of her years of being his pupil. In that fight, Thanos had purposely played with her mind to make her think, cruelly, that she was going to win. He let her land her best moves on him, and, at one point, Rose Waters could've sworn that his knees buckled when she kicked him.
But then everything fell apart when Thanos got bored.
Within a second, the tables turned so quickly that Rose Waters had her puny, human head inside Thanos' fist, where he was squeezing so tightly that Rose Waters couldn't even concentrate hard enough to teleport. She couldn't breathe, see, or even think anything besides the fact that she had failed her master. That she would never be good enough to serve under his hand. That he deserved someone stronger, smarter, better than Rose Waters.
She had genuinely thought that he was going to murder her and she was close, but, alas, their little match only gave her a month in an Intensive Care Unit. According to Gamora, Thanos had suffocated her for so long that her brain stopped functioning. When she woke up, she didn't remember her name, who she was, where she was, or even that she could teleport.
But she remembered Thanos. She remembered to bow to him and call him Father and beg for his forgiveness, despite not knowing how nor why he was important.
She forgot everything but Thanos because he was all she knew.
"He's will kill you." Rose Waters repeated herself before she grabbed Peter Parker's arm even harder.
"I know." Peter responded as Rose Waters only shook her head.
"No, no you don't know!" Rose Waters felt overpowered with emotions, even blade of her being crumbling apart. "This isn't some... some petty New York criminal, Peter, he will not hesitate to tear you limb from limb and... and he has the Power stone, he won't have any mercy, he won't even think-"
"Rose," Peter replied, his voice dead serious. "I know. But this is my job, Rose Waters. This is what I swore myself to do the moment I donned this suit."
"It... That doesn't mean anything! Promises and the works, they don't mean anything Peter when there's nothing to bound you to them! My powers... In just... just thirty minutes they'll come back full speed." I blinked and could feel myself blink in and out of reality, moving just a centimeter away from where I formally was, though, it did take all the energy in me to do that alone. "And we can get out of here. I know planets that Thanos doesn't, planets that I'm sure he'll find but then we'll just go away again, Peter, we don't need to be here-"
"Maybe you don't, but I do." Peter replied and before Rose Waters could argue more, Peter snatched his arm away from her and swung away towards the mad man that went by the name of Thanos.
How do you guys think I got Peter's character? I personally think I did pretty well, but then again, I haven't watched one of his movies in forever, so I literally have nothing to compare it to.
Thank you so much for your continuous support!
~Emily :)
