"I've... I've heard of that Vibranium before...", Tara admitted. Something Steve and Peggy once mentioned in terms of the portal that Stark person made to bring them to this Earth.
"Surprised to hear that.", Shadowcat said. "Didn't think anything would reach out to this almost dead zone of the galaxy... or so Gallaxhar claims.".
Tara was to reply when another contraction came, and she breathed slowly, "Well, this is my own Earth, and well, he's lying. There are people down there, innocent and free...So, this is no dead zone at all.".
Shadowcat widened her eyes, "W-we're above another Earth? Storm, did you hear that?! Yes, gods, I longed so much to see the sun, to feel the wind, to run in the grass!", with a sob...
Storm shushed her, rubbing her shoulders, "I know, I know, Kitty...It's okay...You got us...You're not alone...", before looking at Tara with a sigh, "I don't know how long we have been here, but it feels like two years at least, and like I said, we're the last ones...Gallaxhar's pets killed everybody else on our Earth...We saw it explode when the ship left...with us abroad as prisoners...".
"Then this ship must travel... dimensions...", Tara groaned. "My sister... my mate... they're from a different Earth as well.".
Storm blinked in surprise, "Perhaps, perhaps not. Shadowcat, go to the door, and keep watch.", and Shadowcat nodded, and headed across the room to the door, and Storm patted Tara's shoulder, "I'm going to look, okay? See how far you are.".
Tara nodded, "Okay.", wearing maternity overalls with a shirt, and removed the buttons of the overalls, pushing down the overalls off her, and Storm helped her along, taking off the overalls, shoes, and the briefs that Tara was wearing as well for comfort, and looked down, "Only 1/4 of the way dilated...I think your daughter was scared back there...".
"I know...I fought the machines, destroying them before they could even hurt my baby...I really hope James will be here soon enough...I need him...", before gasping at another contraction, and Storm nodded, "Breathe, Tara. I am sure he will get here soon, but for now, I'm right here, okay?".
The sounds of loud roars and the sudden sound of an intruder alert certainly was causing some worries. "Are you sure they'll be alright?", Tara asked about the others.
"Yeah, they'll be alright for now... at least I sure hope so... it's been a while since they've done any fighting.", Storm sighed as she continued to try to help.
When Lacey got to the hangers, Bucky and Susan was the most furious and upset out of everybody when they heard that Tara was captured. Much to their frustration, they couldn't get Bea for she was currently visiting Japan as in a way of apology for sort of destroying Tokyo all those years ago.
Luckily, they had reserved jetpacks from Monger as a gift in case if they wanted to fly next to Peggy on one of their off-break days, and this is an entirely different situation. Lacey stayed back with Henry while the others went off to rescue Tara, furious that one of their family is in danger and take down whoever did it.
"So, let me get this straight, we're going to be trying to board a massive spaceship with just a simple pair of jetpacks?", Link asked as he was trying to put his on.
"You got a better idea, Link? You don't have like a spaceship of your own that you've hidden away we can use?", Steve gave a small chuckle as Bob waved.
"Oh, oh! Can I drive it?", He asked as Link shook his head, "First, Bob, I don't have a ship, and secondly, yeah, I get what you mean, Steve... still just seems crazy to even attempt.".
Bucky glared at him, "Would you do anything to save Bea if she was up there?", and Link winced, nodding, "Fair enough, Bucky.", latching on his waist belt of the jetpack.
Peggy patted Bucky's shoulder, "We'll get her, Bucky. Her and Reva.", and Bucky exhaled, "I feel helpless right now, and I feel like my mate is really stressed right now...I can feel her asking for me.".
"We'll get her, Bucky, I promise.", Steve insisted. "Doc, you got a bead on that ship?".
"Almost, thing seems to at least be in a holding pattern towards the northeast... moving away from most populated areas.", Doc explained as he was looking at a radar that he quickly put together.
Susan replied, "I don't get it. Why is the ship not attacking anywhere?", and Doc replied, "I don't know, Susan, but either way, it's large...Ah, got it!", nodding, "Alright, I'll lead the way as there must be a backdoor to this thing.", tightening the radar to his waist belt of his jetpack.
Mo growled, "Let's do this thing.", nodding to Susan with a determined look, "We'll find her, Susan.", and so, they lifted off, with Doc leading the way, and soon making their way to the ship, discovering a way in.
As the ship is huge, they were hesitant to split up, but they had radio walkie-talkies thanks to Doc and Monger, and so, Link went with Bucky and Susan, while Steve took Peggy and Doc, and Mo went with Bob.
And of course, eventually, the intruder alert was sounded out as they entered main rooms and such. "So much for boarding this thing undetected...", Steve growled as his group moved.
"Must imagine this thing could track a fly with molecular precision if it had to. We're lucky that we could at least make it aboard!", Doc called out.
Peggy replied, "Less talking, more running!", and Doc nodded, following them. Elsewhere, Susan frowned, "Great. Anything, Uncle Bucky?", looking at Bucky who is furiously sniffing the air and the floor in his large wolf form.
Then a screech-roar sounded out, and Link blinked, "What was that?", and Bucky growled, perking his ears, and whuffed with a gesture of his paw, and Susan nodded, "Right.", picking up Link as she was in giant form, and followed Bucky as he ran.
As they turned a corner, Bucky stopped at once, his eyes widened, and he sniffed before howling, running down another hallway, and Susan ran after him, "I think he got Tara's scent!", as Link hung on, "No doubt!".
They heard more screech-roars, and they turned another corner to see strange black glossy saber-tooth cats with scorpion tails and pincers fighting a human man with gleaming white claws in his knuckles and a blue-furred gorilla beast. Bucky snarled and ran, clawing and tearing open through a path of them, with Susan swatting and squashing more of them, with Link jumping off, laughing, "Hell, yeah!", so stroked to punch and kick, yelling.
After a minute of fighting, things settled down, with the clawed man laughing, "I needed that for ages! So, you're the girly werewolf's mate, eh?", looking at Bucky who growled at him, and the man snorted, "Chill, man. She's back there with couple of friends of mine. You better hurry. Your kid's on the way.".
Bucky widened his eyes, and went to run again, turning another corner to follow Tara's scent, soon hearing Tara's cries and shouts. Another screech-roar sounded out, and Beast sighed, "I think Gallaxhar found a hobby, Wolverine. He's bred those alien-cats again.".
Wolverine smirked, "Let's keep them away, shall we? What do you say, fish monkey?", and Link spoke, "First of all, it's fish-ape. Second, the name's Link. Third, hell, yeah! I want to clobber some more!".
Susan narrowed her eyes, "Count me in. My sister was captured by this insane alien, and I am so angry!", cracking her neck slightly, and growled, and so they didn't wait long for the next swarm of alien-cats.
Meanwhile, Bucky soon arrived, shifting back to werewolf form, shouting, "Tara, Tara, my aurora, where are you?!", frantically looking.
"James!", Tara's voice echoed as she screamed, obviously in pain as Bucky moved as fast as he could to the source. "Oh, Lord in Heaven... please let her be alright.", Bucky said to himself as he ran faster than he ever had before in his life.
He got to an open door guarded by a teenager girl, who blinked, "James, right?", and Bucky nodded, and the teenager smiled and moved, "Go. She needs ya.". Bucky ran into the room, calling out, "Tara!", and an unfamiliar female voice replied, "She's back here! Get over here!".
Bucky ran to the back of the room, soon seeing Tara crying out, clenching into a hand of a dark-skinned woman, laying on her side, her baby bump convulsing, and Bucky leaped over, "Tara!".
Tara looked up with tears, "J-James! She's coming, James...", and the dark-skinned woman switched places with Bucky, "Hold her hand, sir. I have to check the progress.", going around to look, "You're almost all dilated, Tara!".
"Pick a bad time for being born, did you?", Bucky said as he looked to Tara's belly. "I think she was scared like me, James...", Tara sobbed. "I don't know what happened but the moment I woke up, I saw instruments... cutting ones... I think they were trying to pull her out of me and not in a helpful way.".
Bucky snarled, his eyes fierce, "What?! How dare they?!", before taking a much deep breath, "All of us are here...One of them will get this guy who captured you and dared to hurt our daughter...", rubbing her baby bump softly, "You're okay, you're okay, Reva. I know you're scared, but we're both here for you...Your momma really is working hard.".
Tara gave a small smile, "I sure am...", before crying out from another contraction, squeezing Bucky's hand, and Bucky moved closer to her, resting her head on his lap, "Easy, easy, T. Breathe.".
"I-I'm so relieved you're here, James...Storm has been here almost all at my side ever since I came into labor...", Tara panted shakily.
"That's good, you know I would've been here if I could.", Bucky said as he kissed her forehead. "Sorry... I certainly was never planning this...", Tara tried to give a small chuckle as she felt some serious pain. "Oh, Reva... please don't accidently kill me here!".
Storm replied after her latest check, "You're open! Push!", and Tara widened her eyes, looking up at Bucky who squeezed her hand, "I got you. You can do this.". Tara nodded, taking a deep breath, and after another contraction, pushed, shouting, feeling her birth canal slowly widen with their daughter moving through.
With brief stops and deep breaths between numerous pushes, it was five minutes before Storm shouted, "She's peeking! She's coming headfirst!", and Bucky smiled, "Did you hear that, my aurora?! Our daughter's coming!", kissing her knuckles.
Tara sobbed happily, tears filling her eyes, "Thank god!", and Storm called out, "We're not done yet, Tara. Push!". Tara took a deep breath, and pushed, screaming as pain met her nether regions as her daughter's head stretched out her vaginal walls.
Tara made another hard push a moment later as Reva's head finally cleared as she started to cry. Tara almost relaxed for a second when she realized that Reva was still mostly in her.
"There's her head... and she's certainly awake... just need to get her shoulders through and the rest of her should be easy.", Storm said.
Tara whimpered, and Bucky leaned down to kiss her lips, "I know you're scared. I'm scared too, but I know you. You'll be a great mother to her as I'll be a great father.".
Tara nodded, giving him a small smile, "I love you, James.", and Bucky smiled, "I love you too, Tara. Now, bring our daughter into the world.".
Taking a deep breath, Tara pushed hard, shouting, tears falling down her cheeks as she squeezed Bucky's hand and pants, feeling Reva's body move through, pain filling her nether regions from the shoulders, and then from the rest of her as there was a final pop as Storm cradled her, and Reva then gave out a healthy wail from her lungs, squirming and shivering.
"You did it, Tara! She's beautiful!", Bucky sobbed happily to see his daughter nude and bloody, with the cord still attached, and Tara smiled tearfully as she pushed the afterbirth a moment later.
With an air slice and a clever hairclip, Storm cut the cord down to Reva's belly button, and cleaned Reva warmly and affectionately with a moist blanket she dampened with her powers of rain from the air as Reva cried out, snuffling as Storm then tucked her in another blanket, "There you go, little strong one.", with a smile.
Bucky helped Tara up to sit up as Storm gently handed Reva into Tara's arms, "Here she is, Tara.", and Tara fell in love from the very first moment as Bucky held Tara in his arm, looking at Reva in awe.
Reva clearly has Bucky's regular brown shade in her hair, yet has Tara's curls, so soft, and she has Tara's nose, and Bucky's smile, and her skin tone is a healthy tan tone. Tara whispered softly, "Hello, Reva Winifred Barnes-Murphy. Look at you...Open those eyes for us, darling.".
Bucky nodded, "That's right, cub, listen to your momma.", smiling lovingly, and Reva snuffled, cooing as she then opened her eyes, blinking before she managed to open them fully, revealing to have two separate eye colors. Her right eye is teal, a bright blue-green, and her left eye is light brown.
"Oh, she got both our eye colors, Tara...She's perfect in every way...", Bucky whispered, kissing Tara on the temple, smiling in amazement and love.
Tara gave a long sigh of relief, at least glad that the pain of childbirth was over, even if they still were in such great danger.
"She is...", Tara sighed before the sound of a what had to be sort of an intercom fizzling came over the ship. "Greetings, intruders... I'd have extended you all an invitation later, but you've obviously showed up early. No matter.", Gallaxhar's voice echoed.
Gallaxhar's voice continued, "Now, as you have clearly experienced, my dear pets are tracking most of you down, with the exception of the spawn that has been clearly born as of now, and in my hands, well, in my tentacles, right now, I have the lever that will drain Quantonium from one of you, and oh, you may think you're safe, but someone is not. A certain giant gorilla man has fallen for one of my traps when he was rescuing a pathetic blue blob, and I am currently watching him right now. Care to say any last words before I drain you of your Quantonium, and oh, die from the aftereffects of the trauma, Mo?".
"He's bluffing... he's got to be...", Bucky shook his head. "I don't think so, James...", Storm said, obviously not knowing his nickname. "It's not one to bluff like that. Trust me.".
Mo's voice shouted, "May you die in hell, alien freak! As long as I know Tara and her baby's okay, you clearly failed! And Susan, I'm really sorry, but he got me! I can't break out! I love you and-".
"Blah, blah, enough of your chit-chat, monster!", Gallaxhar's voice replied with an annoyed tone, and there was a click, and then suddenly, screams and shouts of pain filled the intercom as Gallaxhar's voice cackled, "Try to save him!", and then the fizzling sound of the intercom turned off.
Bucky smashed a nearby wall hard with his fist in frustration. "Damn it... we shouldn't have split up!", with a growl. "It's okay, James... we'll save him... If I know Susan... she'll charge through hell itself to get to him...", Tara said.
A feminine roar of anger, angst, and fury sounded out, echoing, and Tara blinked, "I stand corrected.", before Reva whimpered out hungrily, and Storm nodded, "Right, let me help you secure Reva up in a sling where she will be safe and feeding without need of your arms while we get out of here.".
Tara removed her shirt, and her bra, and so, Reva went to feed as Storm went to make sure of the best sling ever with Tara's shirt as Bucky went to put Tara back on her boxer shorts and overall pants.
Meanwhile, Susan, in rage, horror and fear, ran down the hallways, already having left Link and the others in the dust, killing all the alien-cat freaks, kept hearing her mate Mo's screams of pain over and over in her head.
She cannot lose him, she can't! She can't see him die from the extraction of the Quantonium, the one he was born with, literally all his life. She has so many plans with him, so many dreams! She was going to accept his proposal if he was intending to do so. Gods, she didn't even have the chance to raise a family! She dreamed so much of carrying his children, with him at her side, being an incredible husband, father, and more!
She crossed paths with the group of Steve, Peggy, and Doc, and Steve stopped her, holding her in his arms, "Susan, stop! Stop!", and Susan shouted, "I need him, Daddy! I want Mo! He can't leave me!", sobbing and tears filling her eyes as she fought her father, "What if there's another trap?! What would Mo feel if he saw you trapped as well?! We will get him, but Susan, don't put yourself where I and your mother will lose you, and we aren't going through that again!".