Authors notes: and there, this chapter is finally out and finished.


Chapter 4, 1.3

Beep… Beep… Beep…

Of all the things I could've woken up to, is the familiar beeping of a heart monitor. You get used to them after several trips to the hospital, whether you are or aren't injured. These times included going to a hospital after I lost my leg in the war, breaking my arm while I was vigilante, and visiting my grandfather in the hospital when I was still a human.

When I opened my eyes, there was no one there, because no one I knew was from my home universe was there. They were either dead, or off world and in the vacuum of space leading their designated evacuation ships. The SS Rome and it's respective fleet was led by Lilith, the SS Paris and its own respective fleet was led by Pluie, the SS London and it's own respective fleet was led by Alex and planned on setting up a city on the moon so that when the day the earth was once again inhabitable, Alex's descendants could call upon the scattered fleets of human and Saurians that hadn't found a new world that they could return to earth, and then there was SS Tokyo, It left for alpha centauri just before Torr-khan had built his space station to prevent us from leaving earth, It was led by Kitsune, the nicest women I had ever met… she despised the war, how it divided humanity and Saurians, how it even managed to divide Saurians even further, she couldn't allow for the newest species, the Vulpinians, a hybrid race of humanoid foxes, to be dragged into the war, so she gathered as many of them along with several humans as well as Saurians that pledged neutrality in the war, and they left earth in 2057. When I last checked on the course of the SS Tokyo and its fleet, it had just entered Ftl speed when it reached the edge of the solar system in 2069. Kitsune and I agreed that if the day came where the rest of humanity and Saurian race had to leave the planet, the fleets should broadcast their departure to Alpha Centauri. But this wasn't like any other situation at a hospital that I've been in. This was a hospital belonging to a different universe.

As I sat up, I discovered that I wasn't in my armor, which I expected to be off, but he wasn't awake to guide them on how properly take it apart without damaging it any further. Now, he was in a gown, the typical kind you'd find patients wearing. I then noticed that my prosthetic wasn't attached to the stump of his leg, making it impossible to walk without hopping up and down across the room. But then I remembered that it was destroyed in the crash.

'Oh Diloph…' I swore internally, 'great, now I'm stuck here in this bed thanks to my stupidity.' I thought to myself before looking around the room, reminding me of a hospital room you'd only find in the 2010's.

Then I heard the door open, and low and behold a nurse, in what I think is a hazmat suit. And now that I thought about it, I was kind of feeling thirsty and hungry.

I decided to ask for food and water right then and there, "Sup… Can I get something to eat and a glass of water please, I'm feeling hungry and parched?" I requested politely.

The nurse's eyes, from what I saw from behind the hazmat suit, were wide, and then I believe she nodded, before leaving the room.

'I wonder where I am. I am eerily hoping that I am not in worm… but if that giant biblical angel in orbit was there… no, no, no, there had to be more evidence to prove that I am not in that universe specifically, like… uh… what city am I in? Yeah, that's something to determine, like, I could be in a city from a different universe that doesn't exist in mine… ok think of a city that isn't Brockton Bay… Gotham… metropolis, yeah Gotham and Metropolis would be much better than Brockton Bay, heck, Gotham in comparison looks like a paradise to the likes of Brockton Bay, and Metropolis is a utopia when you compare Brockton Bay to Metropolis. But let's look around and get any hints at what kind of time period I'm in, just to knock it down a peg or two.' I thought while looking around the hospital room… and then noticed the tv. The tv looked like the kind you'd find in the 2010's or 2000's. 'ok, so that knocks it down somewhat.' I thought. But the smell of the hospital, it didn't smell familiar to any recent hospitals that I had recently visited in recent years.

Then, I scratched the back of my neck where my head crested plates were. And then I yawned. I looked to my right and noticed that I missed a tv remote on the table next to my bed. 'Well, I guess I can determine where and when I am.' I thought as I grabbed the remote and turned the tv on.

After a bit of channel surfing, I thought to myself, 'Maybe it isn't all that bad, if I didn't end up in worm, I can finally retire from getting my butt into conflict, maybe live up in the mountains of this world has to offer-' I stopped thinking once I reached the news channel, and once I heard these words, I realized that I wouldn't be able to get some peace in this world what so ever, as the news channel confirmed my suspicions that I didn't want coming true.

"Hello Brockton Bay, I'm mike, and this is Zach, and today, we have interesting news that was just revealed to the public-." but before the news anchor could finish speaking, I tuned him out as I started to have a heart attack. By that I mean a literal heart attack, as the beeping of my heart monitor proceeded to beep faster. Then several Doctors and Nurses in hazmat suits came rushing in, and just like that I fell unconscious. My last thought before I passed out was this:

'Well… shit!' I thought as my head flew back into the pillow.

Meanwhile at the Hebert household…

P.o.v: Taylor Hebert

As I watched the news, I realized something… something about this felt familiar. As if my wish a couple of nights ago… might've came true…

This wish was this… 'please, send me someone that isn't my only friend, Rob, he doesn't truly count as a friend… I just need another light of hope I my world, so please send me someone who will be something akin to a mentor, someone who would back me up in my darkest moments, someone who would stand up for me against the trio, unlike how Rob does… don't think about Rob's behavior… Rob is more of something to me than just a friend… more like a… crush… send me someone who wouldn't stand for bullying, like Rob… Just please throw me a bone or something, universe.'… now that I thought back on it, that was more akin to a prayer then a wish.

But, with that whole giant space station falling through the atmosphere and crashing into the ocean, just off the course of Brockton Bay, and a survivor from the crash… maybe the universe is throwing me a bone right now.

I then thought about Rob… he was the only friend I had since… Emma left me for Sophia and started terrorizing me. I met him at summer camp, and after summer camp, I found out that he was moving into Brockton Bay and attending Winslow High School… he… was different. Unlike anyone she had met, he had a big heart, but he proclaimed that he disliked humanity as a species but said that there are individual humans that are good people. Whenever the subject brought up capes, he just dodged the subject. Another thing about him is that he keeps on getting love letters… not from me of course, I would be terrible at trying to put the letters in places that only he should be able to access. These love letters though… come from someone addressed as 'Angel', and Rob claims that this Angel is tormenting him with these love letters. I had asked him if he knew who this Angel was, and he said he had his suspicions on who it was, but when I asked him who he thought it could be, He said that I wouldn't believe him.

It just made me more curious on who it could be, but I, and several others at Winslow, are just stumped, we don't know who it could possibly be. Its just a big mystery, and everyone has suspicions that this angel is a cape, who's fallen in love with him, others… like Greg… have a conspiracy theory that it's the Simurgh… but that would be impossible, it's just absurd of a theory. Like, really, what is the likelihood of that being the case? It is on the same level as the theory 'Scion is an alien and he's here to experiment on the human race and blah blah blah!' it's just absurd.

Meanwhile the Simurgh…

"Achoo!" I sneezed again… 'it happened again! For like… the third time or something…' I thought again. I then shrugged, as I returned to writing another love letter to Rob.

'Oh, how I love to see your reactions to these… even though I can't see. It is just a pleasure to torture you without having to mess with your mind, you sweet, and smart, reincarnate. Even though you might have the knowledge of the future events to come, of the people behind everything, it is so much fun to torture you with these love letters. And you of course know that it's me, The Simurgh as the other humans refer me to, but you think of me as Ziz, the one name that I like to refer to myself. But you know that no one would ever believe you… other than cowboy or Greg as you know him. Oh, how I love to manipulate your emotions just to FUCK with your mind without having to mind rape you.' I wrote, before I then thought back onto the… anomalies.

These anomalies… I hadn't seen them down in the path… in fact, they revealed new pathways… paths that even I didn't foresee being possible. There were… three, and that was still counting, since there would be more anomalies to come, but these three individuals were as follows.

A male, hybrid, and former king, designated name: Claw Guk. They were a soldier king, something unheard of to the humans of this planet.

A female, same hybrid species as Claw, position: infiltration mistress, designated name: Opal Ken. They were familiar with espionage and infiltration and stealth.

Then there was… the machine, the Artificial Intelligence. They… were different from the other two. He, well, it referred to itself as a male, was not native to earth, or any earth… but he has visited quite frequently. But not this earth, a different earth… but… the major thing about the machine was that even she couldn't get a read on them… all she got from him was basic simplistic information and just that…

These three anomalies had inadvertently created and revealed more timelines that weren't there before. This made her curious… she would observe them for now, before determining what to do with them.

Then, I returned to the letter I was writing, and continued on writing.


Authors notes: well, there's that chapter out, I had initially planned on having the Taylor and Simurgh point of views apart of a second interlude after this chapter, but I decided that they could just be place in this chapter, so I can have this chapter a bit longer than the original chapter. I would appreciate the feedback on the ocs, and I would like to see feedback on how well I'm doing the characters from worm in general. Feedback is appreciated, and I would like to hear your thoughts on the story so far. also tell me what you think about the names of the characters that claw mentions, as one of them has a French name, I may or may not have them mentioned in future chapters. So, that's that for the day, and I hope you all have a great day.