Mugan = Infinity = Heda
Note this is a fanfiction that is in progress.
I started writing this after watching the first part of "Perverse Instantiation", about that time I was flipping through my Flipboard app and found a news articles about brain dead bodies being used in medical research and another article talking about detection means for coma patents of if a patient will ever wake up. Thus we have a character who meets both of those criteria. This is not a fix a world fic, this is what might happen next fic given available information.
1. Pain
Ontari felt cold. There were voices speaking over her.
"Her eyes are unresponsive." It was Wanheda's voice. "She's brain dead."
"What do we do now?"
Warm.
"Klark. Ontari... Can she be saved?" Roan spoke.
"From the knowledge we have gained from Bekka's journal we might be able to save her." Wanheda spoke.
"Bekka as in Premaheda Bekka?" Roan's words started to drive down his worry.
"The Same..." A different voice spoke up from the group. A woman's... She knew it but couldn't place it.
Movement...
"Okay Raven, let's see if this works again." It was the voice of the Skaikru healer Abby that was the woman who was speaking earlier.
"Brain function interlink test number ten." The woman from earlier spoke. Raven...
Pain...
"Raven, shut it down." Abby yelled.
"I can't..." Raven called out as numbers, symbols and letters filled Ontari's vision.
"Ontari... stay with me." Abby's words showed clear worry.
Light...
Breathe...
Metal...
"She's awake." Abby spoke. "Neural activity between the implant and remaining neural tissue functioning at programmed levels. I think we got her back Raven. Let's see if we can get the implant to communicate with her lower brain functions." This is when Ontari felt fingers on her neck. "Clark, Jackson, you two need to make sure that her neural glucose levels don't crash on us..."
Exhaustion.
Darkness.
"Do not harm Klark." A woman's voice spoke... it took Ontari a moment to place it.
Leska?
"You are the new Commander?"
Yes.
"Do not harm Klark. She will teach you. She is under my orders to teach you."
She must die... All Skaikru must die.
"Not your call. Nia is dead for her crimes. Start fresh."
Nia dead?
"You do not remember?"
No...
This felt like Alie's chip… but it wasn't! This was not the City of Light... But it was more alive.
Light again.
"Roan... Ontari has some memory loss due to her injuries as well as from what Alie did to her." Abby of Skaikru spoke as Ontari did her best to look around.
"Can she be still be Heda?" Roan said worried, they were in a room. It was made out of metal.
"Don't know... This is unexplored territory, we are using knowledge that is over a hundred years old connecting in a neural implant that was pieced together from a reprogrammed chip maker which Alie used to make the chips she used to possess her victims. But for the time being she has to heal. Though being a Nightblood did grant her a few advantages in this process working out. Remember that Ontari was technically brain dead when we found her and we had to crack her…"
"Roan." Ontari called out. It was more of a groan. Gods her mouth was dry. But it felt good to speak.
"Ontari... it is good to see you awake?" Roan raced over to Ontari's side.
"I hurt..." Ontari did her best to move her head around. Part of it felt cold.
"How much do you remember from before?" Roan spoke the concern on his face.
"Ontari... Nice to see that you are awake Ice Princess." Ontari turned to see Murphy the Fake Flamekeeper standing in the doorway. Her fake Flamekeeper.
"Murphy..." Ontari wanted to move. Get up but her body wouldn't do what she wanted. Murphy rushed over and Ontari looked at his face. His face looked to be somewhat healed. A little scaring, but it was mostly healed up.
"Hey... I am here." Ontari winced in fear as some memories came back... Mostly of them in bed, naked, having sex. He had nuzzled her behind the neck. Safe.
"We had sex." Ontari said the words, memories flooded back. "It felt good." This brought about a few blushes from everyone in the room. "You felt less... hurt by my actions." Warm, safe, beautiful agony orgasm. Alive.
Then other memories started to come back.
Pain...
Jaha... she had handed Jaha a fireplace tong willingly under the orders of the lady in red and he...
Ontari's memories jumped back to seeing Jaha enter her throne room.
"Kill Jaha... Kill this man. Don't trust a word he says." The woman in red was seating on the throne of the heda not her. She had been in the same position she had been while serving under Queen Nia.
Jaha had bashed her head in and Ontari let it happen.
Roan was here worried about her. He looked a little worse for wear.
Roan entering the city with a Wanheda...
Ontari was going to be granted the Flame... This was Wanheda's choice now.
"Roan... you saved me?" Ontari spoke looking around the room again. Skaikru symbols were all about her.
"With Wanheda's help." Roan spoke as he reached out to take her face in his well-worn hands. "The flame of the Heda was the only thing that Alie feared and with good reason."
Ontari ankle started to itch.
"My foot is itching." Murphy moved to pick up the blanket of her bed and he started to rub her ankle.
"Limb sensation is a good sign." Abby spoke grinning. There was a black and blue noose mark around the woman's neck.
"Ontari... do you feel better. I am glad to see that you are awake." Murphy said as he moved to place down a book that he had carrying with him. The symbol of the Heda was clearly on it.
"The book..." Ontari spoke looking at it.
"Bekka's journal. Yeah... it is one of the things that we used to help fight Alie. It is a little weird reading the origin story of the Nightbloods, but also the knowledge needed to heal your wounds." Murphy spoke to her. This was the fabled book that Titus denied her and now it was before her. Murphy had used it to seek out a healer to save her life. But why Skaikru?
"Murphy hasn't left your side since we brought you here to be healed." Abby spoke as she moved to touch the side of Ontari's head. This is when Ontari felt that the side of her skull had been shaved.
"Mirror." Ontari spoke, it was starting to be hard to keep her eyes open.
"Here is one." A voice called out before blackness returned.
"... Being Heda was never easy. But I remember that all decisions have a weight and a balanced to them as well as a cost that you must understand so that you can lead well." The woman's voice spoke, Ontari slowly shifted herself awake.
"Hey you are awake." The woman's voice spoke, it took Ontari a moment for her eyes to focus on the woman sitting by her bed. It was the mutant girl that Murphy had taken as a lover. Emori.
"You are reading?" Emori said as she looked at the mutant holding up the book of the Heda with her strange mutated hand.
"Murphy said that I should read to you, and it is what I have been doing." The girl said she reached out and patted Ontari on her hand. "I'm scared… Wanheda said that Alie decided to do an act of spite if she was ever defeated.…" Ontari saw the fear and the girl's eyes, whatever Alie had left in her wake was something truly fearful.
"What is this new threat?" Ontari spoke. The mutant girl took a deep breath and did her best to steady herself. The girl moved to start flipping through the book before she presented an illustration before Ontari. It was a view out of a window so high that it only could have been seen from the village of the Skaikru. The red and white of the grounds burning below stated it all.
"That picture was drawn by Pramheda Bekka when she was living with the Skaikru at the time doing research on creating the Nightblood due to her needing their tools at the time." Emori spoke as she shook. "This was drawn right after Alie Burned the world the first time. Now Alie in her act of spite is going to do it again unless the coalition stops her." The picture was of the great burn. The fact that Alie was going to repeat it stated that her Kru was in danger. Ontari tried to set up but her body did not want to obey.
"Roan is handling it my Heda. Your body needs to heal so that you can join the fight. Murphy is speaking in your stead at the meeting." Emori spoke as she rose from the seat to stop Ontari.
"Unhand me..." Ontari demanded this was before she felt something pull back on her body. Ontari stopped cold when she realized that something was attached to her head. Looking down Ontari saw the mirror on the bed and held it up.
What she saw next made her scream.
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