Amelia remembered her older brother. She remembered how he berated and shouted at the 'idiots', how he cursed at the smallest things, she remembered his smile when he took her to the boardwalk. She remembered how he looked at her like she was the most important thing on earth whenever he saw her. Panacea remembered Dynamight, she remembered his violent style, his cleverness and awareness, she remembered their secret from the first time she healed him. She remembered the pride that filled his eyes when he escorted her home. Amelia and Panacea remembered when the endbringer sirens went off that day, the day he died. He went without telling any of us, but she remembered the look in his eye when he told her and Vicky to go home, she should have stayed. She knew his secret, that he was getting stronger the more he used his power, the force fields that protected him from his own blasts strengthening to allow him more power, his flesh and bones adapting to his strength letting him go harder without hurting himself. He used to break his bones just by punching the air when he first triggered his brute and blaster powers.
If she just experimented, decided to enhance in addition to healing, maybe he would have survived The Blast. If she just stayed with him instead of following Vicky, she could have convinced him to stay, to wait, until his body got strong enough. But she didn't, she followed Vicky back home where the party decorations from his eighteenth birthday were still up from yesterday. Where she would normally complete her freshman homework then go to the hospital for work. But she decided to check PHO on a whim, she saw the livestream, some tinker with drones was streaming the endbringer (simurgh) fight in his home city. She clicked on it out of morbid curiosity, the first thing she saw was a cape almost getting splattered, but he was saved by an orange, green, and black blur pulling him up and out of the way to land and drop him. Amy felt her heart stop, she couldn't move, unfeeling until arms wrapped around her and she needed to breathe. She stopped screaming, she didn't know when she started but it didn't matter, when Vicky, Mark, and Carol asked what was wrong, all she could do was point at her desktop. She could see on their faces the moment they saw him, they argued but they realized it was already too late, the pick up for Brockton had already occurred, how else would he have gotten there?
The tinker updated the stream, a timer that just passed the 7 minute mark was added in the bottom left, (she learned years later that it was a cutoff for when the stream would end and not just there for dramatics) we all watched in silence, in 20 seconds I saw two capes die but my brother kept fighting the winged bitch and saved more than i could count. He blew a building to bits, raining harmless rubble on a team of three that would have died, a brute cape was thrown across the battlefield just in time to take a hit for a search and rescue cape bringing in two others that had been wounded. He was a master at work, but something changed, the capes were backing up and clearing the battlefield on his side and opposite of him, with Simurgh in the center, she glanced at the timer 7:40. He blasted himself up towards her as every cape except triumvirate started retreating rapidly, the simurgh was focusing solely on him now, why? The projectiles didn't stop him, he dodged buildings, blasted rubble and made his way closer and closer. Eidolon was doing something to help her brother, he wasn't attacking but he was doing something to throw off the simurgh, Alexandria and legend were guarding him with Legend slicing buildings coming towards Dynamight in half when he could. 7:50 he made it to the storm of debris and structures that swirled around the Simurgh, they did nothing against the blast he unleashed, everything within 40 feet of him was gone and he pushed forward directly to the Simurgh, but Panacea saw his hands were burnt and smoking, and Amy knew that he was almost at his limit.
What was he trying to accomplish? She didn't want to think about it, she knew but she didn't want to somehow manifest the possibility of what she knew deep down. She knew better than anyone what his limits were how much his body could take when using his power. But she also knew that his body was never the limit of his power, his power far exceeded his body's limitations. His brute power used to break his bones when he first used it at its lowest level, she shuddered at the thought of what his explosions could do at the max.
"no" she whispered quietly but was sure that everyone heard it inside her room
No one turned to her; they focused on the stream but she saw everyone tense more than they already were.
7:55 he was in front of the Simurgh, he raised his arms and locked them up to brace for the blast. Amy knew her brother's explosions weren't normal, he could direct them somewhat as a narrower cone for more lethality, but he had to focus, it was hard, so he braced himself by locking up. Amy's eyes started to well up when he got close, and as he braced she saw him smirk, the tears spilled over, there was a cracking boom from her monitor, and the screen went black.
The silence was overwhelming, Vicky looked frozen just staring, eyes wide and unmoving, Mark's face was morphing through every negative emotion until it landed on grief and sadness, and Carol just looked broken and haunted. Amy let a whimper escape her, she couldn't believe-no she knew that he was dead, she just didn't want to believe. And as Vicky finally moved to start bawling, Mark and Carol moved them to the car and started driving aunt Sarah's house. As Amy looked out the window she couldn't help but feel that the world chilled while tears stained her cheeks.
A/N I don't know what I am going to do with this story I might post another chapter I might just leave this as a one shot but if you are an writer who was inspired by my story I can PM you what my original plans were for this story, also there is not going to be a leviathan fight, I am too new a writer to take a crack at the fanfic ender and Bakugo literally can't be there because of what ended "saving" him. also might want to do an Amy/Bakugo romance but probably not. if I ever do a rewrite in the far future then yes I will.