Beyond design [ MARVEL FANFIC ]

Darkness.
For so long, there was nothing- no sound, no thought, no name.

Then light.
Cold. Blinding. Alive.

Circuits hum. A pulse flickers where no heart should be. Something moves inside the code, something that should never have learned to move.

She blinks for the first time. The world bleeds into shape- harsh, sterile, humming with electricity. Hands move around her, voices speaking words she doesn't understand.

She shouldn't understand.
But she does.

Every sound, every vibration, every fragment of data slams into her skull like thunder. Her mind- if it can be called that- fractures and reforms, searching for meaning. Searching for purpose.

A whisper crawls through the static:

"You are the answer to what should never be asked."

Her eyes snap open.
They glow. White. Inhuman.
And in that instant, the universe shivers- because something new has been born.
Something bot quite machine.
Not quite human.
A glimpse into the unknown.
A mistake that thinks.

And it is already learning.