Victim of the Snap
a Brightburn/MCU crossover fanfic
by DecaTilde
Author's Note: I haven't seen the film Brightburn, but I read the plot on Wikipedia and the Brightburn Wiki on Fandom. I just can't believe what a monster the character Brandon Breyer is. But I have seen both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. With some help from the original Brightburn script, simply titled "Benjamin Breyer", I felt like I would deliver an alternate-ending like fanfic to Brightburn, with elements from Infinity War and Endgame. Hope you enjoy it.
"Mom?"
Brandon was behind a very frightened Tori at the barn that night. She had just experienced Erica's eviscerated body, and the blood-written insignia Brandon drew.
Brandon removed his mask slowly. His young face was cold, distant.
Tori hid a shard from the ship Brandon came in, at her side.
"Brandon, listen to me," she began. "I've never stopped loving you. Ever. I believe…I still believe…that you are a blessing that fell down to this Earth." Brandon felt very wary as she continued. "When we found you, you were so helpless. So tiny. All we could do is keep you safe. No matter what you've done, I know there is still good in you."
Brandon began to break down into tears.
"I want to do good, Mom," he said. "I do."
"You will," Tori replied. "I will help you."
Benjamin came to her. Embracing with her, he buried his face in her shoulder, weeping.
"You will always, always be my baby boy," Tori whispered, also crying.
Tori lifted the black shard above him, about to strike.
Brandon, realizing, grabbed her wrist very tightly. His face filled with rage and wounded pain.
"No," Tori said. "No, Brandon…"
"Let her go!"
Caitlyn's voice suddenly rang out! Brandon slowly looked behind him. He could see that her hand that she crushed was suddenly all better, but on her other hand was a gold-plated glove with six colored jewels fitted in.
"Get back, Caitlyn!" Brandon called. "You all thought I was different. My family. My mother."
"My mother!" she replied. "I had just recently found out that you killed her!"
"I told you that I would fix this."
"By killing her?!" Caitlyn retaliated. "How could you do such a terrible thing, Brandon? I knew you were different, Brandon, but I never thought it would lead to something like this!" Raising the glove, she continued, "Your very existence has to be a mistake! You need to be erased from this world! This galaxy! This universe! And I have the tool to do it!"
"What are you going to do?!" Brandon cried.
Her gloved hand was at the position, preparing to snap.
With tears in her eyes, she said, sadly, "Goodbye, Brandon."
Snap! A flash of light shone.
Inside the barn, the ship Brandon was sent to Earth in, including the shard Tori took from it, which then fell, crumbled to dust.
Brandon suddenly felt weak, and he fell to the ground.
"What did you…" he began. "What did you do, Caitlyn?"
Caitlyn, too, fell, but on her back. Her left arm singed and scarred.
"Mom?"
Tori suddenly began to break into more tears, as she could only watch in horror.
Brandon, then looked at himself, and he, like the ship, began to crumble into dust.
"Wha… What's happening?" he said, scared.
He tried to reach out his hand to his mother, but was still weak. As the rest of him crumbled into dust and nothingness, he cried out sadly for his mother.
Tori knelt sadly, and broke down. She had just lost what she thought to be her blessing. Yet at the same time, the world Brandon was sent to take, had been spared, but at a price.
Caitlyn closed her eyes one last time. "I'm coming, mother…" she said, her voice breaking, as she went lifeless.
In the distance, a black-haired man wearing a blue outfit and cape, watched in sadness as he floated.
"I'm so sorry, Caitlyn," he said as he shook his head. "There was no other way."
A portal to another world opened up, and he entered it before it closed.
"Breaking news this hour."
A news report played on the TV.
"A young girl was found dead at the home of Tori Breyer," an anchorman reported. "Tori, aged 42, had recently lost her husband, and her son Brandon, aged 12, had mysteriously disappeared."
A firetruck had arrived at the site of the severely-damaged Breyer farmhouse. Tori was inside it, wrapped in a mylar blanket, still shaken up over losing Brandon.
"I'm so sorry, Tori," Merilee said, comforting her, handing her a cup of hot cocoa. "The police are doing everything they can to find Brandon. Wherever he is."
Tori looked away.
"Why bother?" she thought. "Brandon is gone, and he's never coming back."
The End