The Green Valley Twins

Lost to the Storm

In a heartbeat Tanith lost it.

She screamed, shrill, primal, animalistic, and in a fit of raw power she fisted both hands and smashed them against the deck of the ship. So crippling and terrifying was her power that in the point of a second, just before anyone could react to the pulse of power that rippled the air and shuttered the ocean, the ship they stood on shattered. Everything that once held it together crumbled into ash, making the giant ship appear to have exploded from the inside but the explosion only effected the bolts that kept it together.

"Kaname!" the firebreather screeched, a bright blue flame emitting from his mouth to circle around them like a coiling serpent readying for its first strike. The woman barely had time to move one hand up to extend her shield over the helicopter, her pastel-blue-green shield rippled against the assault of bolts and nuts that once kept the ship together. All Might cursed as he lost his balance, the ship literally crumbling beneath his feet, he couldn't find perches to leap after the villains. Just as the deck gave way beneath him, sending him teetering down into the ship quickly filling with white-rushing water; he saw something he never thought he'd see. A woman, young and beautiful with short emerald hair, blood stained face and bruises on her thin body, her big green eyes were narrowed as she glared up at the villains. Then Endeavour, a thick piece of metal between him and the woman, both hands and feet emitting blistering scarlet flame that propelled them to the villains.

It looked like they would succeed, that by working together both Endeavour and Tanith could save the child the villains were desperately trying to take away. He wasn't worried about having to give chase, he knew they could do it; they could save the girl. He focused on his own landing, hoping he wouldn't drown amongst the shattering ship, slowly picking himself a way out. He made it out of the sinking ship, a high-energized leap propelled him high into the air: just in time to watch Endeavour and the woman get consumed in a thick purple cloud of smoke. There was a scream behind him, a woman's cry of despair, quickly followed by the wail of two children.

Just before that purple cloud bloomed to life, Tanith's hand very nearly reached the container of her child, she cried out as the child inside the tube opened her pale green eyes. recognition shimmered in those sleepy jade depths, her fingers twitched, a smile pulled at her lips; for a moment she thought she could succeed. She'd bring her daughter home. Then fire, orange, yellow, red, burst across her skin; blackening her hand and arm and reflecting back off that glass she could just barely touch. She screamed, her voice mixing with agony of more then one source. One of the villains swung his body around the tube, kicking Tanith in the face and belting out a thick toxic purple cloud that felt thick like smog and sticky like sweaty.

Tanith hated the feeling in her chest, like a bomb needing—wanting—to explode but had no ignition. She just wanted that feeling to go away. She hated that feeling, the feeling drowning in her skin, of claws tearing at her chest, of beasts gnawing on her mind, of needles piercing her skin, of ice into her veins, of acid eating her flesh.

"let me have it," a voice whispered in her mind, gentle and coaxing, like a mother's hug. "I'll take away your pain... let me have it." Tanith just wanted the pain to stop. She hated knowing that fire-breather. She hated knowing how strong she could've been the whole time. She hated not saving her child. She hated running out of strength. Her memories were the source of her pain, her hatred, so she gave it all to the voice. Her world blackened and everything gave way to the cool black abyss of her unconsciousness; a peaceful place without emotion or memory.

The villains won this round, Endeavour and the woman fell out of the cloud unconscious and seemingly unbreathing. All Might screamed as he caught both Endeavour and Tanith, cradling them as he landed amongst the rolling waves of the ocean. It wasn't long before one of the water-mutant heroes found them, several others soon surrounding All Might and supporting him with the retreat.

"Honey!" Rei cried out as she hurried to the edge, the single slope she designed for those with water quirks.

"Stay back!" one of the mothers ordered, grabbing Rei and keeping the woman from sliding into the ocean.

"honey! Enji! Enji!"

"He's unconscious!" one of the other heroes coughed as he pulled himself onto the iceberg, "We need to get to a healer!"

"They're further in," Rei informed him, "I made a bunker for them so the wind wouldn't make them cold!"

"Good thinking young lady!" All Might praised her as he pulled a woman from the ocean onto the iceberg.

"Is that one of the villains?" one of the women asked, tugging her child back from the slope of the iceberg.

"Itsuki?" The young boy called out

"That's a girl honey," the mother chided her son.

"She looks just like Itsuki," the boy elaborated, "I mean... other then being older, she could be Itsuki's twin."

"Inko!" the hero known as 'Silence' and 'Scarlet Widow', tore out from the center of the iceberg, tearing their ways over to the unconscious green haired woman.

"Inko! Inko honey wake up!" Silencer was shaking the green haired woman, "Scar!"

"Move!" the insect-woman ordered as she shoved her way over and checked for a pulse and signs of breathing. "She's alive Silence, calm down." Though she ordered her comrade to calm down it was clear Scarlet Widow was just as shook up as Silencer. "All Might, what was that attack just now? Were they hit with poison?"

"it looked like the same gas from the first attack," one of the mother's interrupted. "but... perhaps this one is was of higher density?" she watched as All Might pulled his arm away from Ink and watched as the purple smog coating her stretched like melted cheese before snapping; smearing his arm in thick dark purple. "Do we know what the previous gas-attack was meant to do?"