Chapter 66: The Moment We've All Been Waiting For
Nebula was fast asleep when her phone suddenly went off. She groaned and levitated her phone over to her. She bolted up when she saw the caller ID. She levitated off of Rad and Rad silently followed her. "Wait...what?! Okay, I'll be there as soon as possible" she said. She then raced into the bedroom and grabbed her clothes. Before Rad could say anything, she raced out of the bathroom fully dressed. "Babe?" he called. "Cant talk. Gotta go" Nebula said in a hurry. She then raced over to him and kissed his cheek. "Be back soon" she called as she left.
To her surprise, a shuttle was waiting for her. As soon as she got in, the shuttle took off and it was quick to arrive at a large white building. Nebula sped inside and was immediately grabbed and brought to a room where a female's screams were heard. The three of them burst through the door just as the screaming stopped. The room itself was filled with warm colors and looked like a fancy hotel room."Nebula! You made it!" Bianca said as she was propped up in the bed against two red pillows and gripping Laserblast's hand-who was on her left side. She was wearing what Nebula noted was one of Laserblast's shirts by the red thunderbolts on it. "Of course I made it!" Nebula said as she rushed to Bianca's other side and hugged her. "What's with the outfit? It's still early morning" Nebula asked as she motioned to Laserblast in his hero attire. "I was training and when Bianca paged me that it was time, I rushed to her" he explained. A doctor then walked in. "Sorry for the delay. I'm Doctor Faire and I'll be taking care of you. So, Mr. Steven, tell me about your wife's pregnancy" she said. "Let's see, aside from morning sickness.. At 6 months, She was always sore and she started her weird cravings. When we were watching a movie, she actually dipped a pickle in ice cream" he said to the doctor as he thought back to that night.
Laserblast was in light grey pajamas and rubbing Bianca's shoulders from behind the couch."How does this feel?" Laserblast asked as he massaged her shoulders. "Amazing" Bianca sighed happily as she shoved a scope of ice cream in her reached over and grabbed a pickle from the plate nearby and dipped it in her ice cream. Laserblast looked at it in slight disgust, "Want some?" Bianca asked as she held out the ice cream covered pickle. "No thanks babe" he replied as he moved to massage her feet. "Why not? it's good" Bianca replied as she munched on her ice cream covered pickle. "As um...appetizing as that looks, I'm gonna pass" he said. She shrugged and dipped another pickle in her ice cream.
"And after that?" the doctor asked."At 7 months, her hormones kicked in. Literally everything anyone did to try and help her made her really upset" he responded and the doctor wrote it down on her clipboard. "Finally, at 8 months, everything I did seemed to make her angry and everyone steered clear of her. I always told myself that it was because she was sore" he said. Bianca then let out a yell in pain and the doctor went to Bianca's feet. "Okay Ma'am, I need you to keep pushing" the doctor said. The more in pain Bianca was, the colder the room got and ice began to form around the room. "I can't believe that this is finally happening! We're going to be grandparents" Bianca's mom said happily. "I know! It's so exciting! Okay no one panic, on man I'm panicking"Oberion said frantically. His wife then put a hand on his shoulder and led him out of the room. They then came back in moments later.
After hours of the doctor telling her to push, she was told to give one final push and the room went silent for a moment before the sound of a baby crying was heard. Bianca panted and Laserblast rubbed her back and kissed her head. "Good job honey" he said softly as he helped her lay back against the pillows as the doctor took the baby away to examine it and get it cleaned off. "Great job Mama Bi" Nebula said as she gently hugged her. "Thank you" Bianca said tiredly. "We did it!" Bianca said as she held up a hand to Laserblast. He chuckled and gave her a light high-five. The doctor then came back with the baby wrapped in a blue blanket with snowflakes on it. "Congratulations. It's a girl" the doctor beamed as she handed the baby girl to Bianca.
The baby had a light skin tone similar to Laserblast's and she had pointed ears like Bianca. When Laserblast removed the top of the blanket, they could see a small tuft of black hair. "She's beautiful" Bianca whispered as she held her baby. "Just like her mother" Laserblast said softly before he kissed both of the girls' heads. "What are you going to name her?" Oberion asked. The new parents looked at each other and smiled. "We are going to name her Solana" Laserblast responded. "That's a beautiful name" Jaqulina said. Bianca then looked over to Nebula who was leaning against the wall. "Nebula. Do you want to hold her" Bianca called softly. Nebula hesitantly nodded and walked over. Laserblast gently took his daughter out of Bianca's arms and carefully handed her to Nebula. Jaqulina cooed softly as Nebula held her and she made a small comment about her Nebula was technically her big sister. Nebula started blankly at the infant on her arms as she looked at her. All she could do was stare silently a the infant as dozens of thoughts raced through her mind. She then smiled falsely and handed the baby back to Laserblast. "Thank you for letting me hold her. If you don't mind, I'd like to go call my boyfriend to tell him where I am" she said. They nodded and she quickly left the room. She then sighed sadly and tapped on Rad's name in her recent calls list. It rang for a second before Rad answered.
"Hey babe. Where are you? Are you okay? What happened?" he asked worriedly. "I'm fine. Miss Bianca had her baby and she wanted me to be here" she explained. "Are you okay? You don't sound happy" he asked. She then let out a long sigh. "I don't really know how to feel. When I held the baby, all I could really do was stare. Don't get me wrong, I am happy for Miss Bianca and Laserblast, but there's a part of me that is kinda jealous. She gave birth to her while I was made in a lab. She'll get to have a normal-ish childhood and I never got one. I just don't really know how I should be feeling" she explained. "If it helps, at least you have to go to work later so you can process your feelings" he said. "That is true. Would I also get a big hug from you when I get there?" she asked. She heard Rad let out a laugh. "Why wouldn't you?" he asked. She then let out a small laugh and went back into the room. "I don't want to be rude, but I need to get back. I have to go to work in an hour" she said. "Of course. Thank you again for coming. Especially on such short notice" Bianca said sweetly. Nebula nodded and said goodbye to everyone.
Solana=(Soul-ay-nah)