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chapter sixty-six gone but not forgotten
𝐒𝐀𝐌. 𝐁𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐘. 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀. 𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐃𝐘.
So many people had disappeared in a pile of dust—half the world, to be exact. Grace held her head in her hands, glancing at the screen that continued to show the rising death count, currently at three point two billion.
"This is a nightmare," Steve muttered, staring at the screen in disbelief. She tilted her head in agreement, rolling her neck. She still had no way of knowing if Tony was among the dusted; as far as she knew, he was still stuck in space with Peter Parker.
"I've had better nightmares," Natasha replied.
Grace stood up from the table and locked eyes with a familiar photo. "Liv..." she whispered, shaking her head and closing her eyes. "She's sixteen..."
"Hey." They looked over when they heard Adelaide's voice and Grace couldn't help but notice how puffy her eyes were. "So that thingy just stopped doing whatever the hell it's been doing."
"It's called a pager, Addy," Grace replied, letting out a breath and walking out of the room. Steve and Natasha trailed after and they found Bruce analyzing the pager. "What's going on with that, Bruce?"
He tilted his head. "Whatever the signal is sending, it finally crept off."
Steve furrowed his brows. "I thought we bypassed the battery."
"We did," Bruce said with a nod and Grace crossed her arms. "It's still plugged in, it just... it just stopped."
"Reboot and send the signal again," Steve told him.
Bruce looked up at the soldier. "We don't even know what this is," he countered and Natasha shrugged.
"Fury did," she said. "Just do it, please. You tell me the second you get a signal. I want to know who's on the other end of that thing."
Grace tilted her head at the pager. "It looks oddly familiar..." She turned around and immediately jumped. "Oh, for the love of—Carol."
"Where's Fury?" Carol Danvers asked and Grace let out a breath. "I gave him that pager if he ever needed something."
She nodded. "That's why it looked familiar..." she muttered, running a hand through her hair. "Nick isn't here. We're having... a bit of an issue. Half of the universe has disappeared."
Carol furrowed her brows. "What?"
"It's a long story," Grace said with a sigh. She glanced around the room and noticed everyone was staring at the woman in the middle of the room. "Oh—right. Uh—everyone, this is Carol Danvers, better known as Captain Marvel. She—uh—she was born here and was an Air Force pilot who got exposed to the energy of the Tesseract and got powers. She came back to Earth with no memories, which she eventually got back. She also knows Nick. We met in the eighties."
