I don't know if it was the fact that I got super speed or I was a really fast runner, but I was able to bolt very very far from everyone.

Shit! It hurt.

Everything hurts...real bad. I held onto my chest as I fight back the dread that spread through my very being from the deepest core of me.

I wanted to forgive Sara, I want to put everything behind me and have my bestfriend back.

And that's what hurts the most.

Wanting something so bad but not being able to allow yourself to have it. She did me wrong. In every way possible. I couldn't even bare to look at her face. And worse of all she was the only person I had to comfort me during times like these.

Oh the twisted irony...

I look up and see the Grand Master barely a skyscraper above me.

Double shit.

Urgh! I so did not want to deal with this right now.

I slid to a stop, almost directly below him, and flung out my hand. I didn't know what that move was intended to do but I just wanted him gone.

Next thing I know a black energy blast emerged from my palm and shot straight at the Grand Master.

"Oh my-!" Before I could even finish my sentence the black energy blast reach the Grand Master, expanded into what I hope was a portal and sucked him in.

I covered my mouth in shock.

Where did he? Is he gonna...

I pictured him popping out the other end of the portal just afew feet above the ground...and that's exactly what fucking happens!

The Grand Master rams into the pavement, sending the ground and unsuspecting civilians flying.

"Oh shit! Sorry!" I called out, more to the terrified people then the Grand Master.

With pure rage sparking from his eyes the Grand Master looks at me and shoots a small energy blast my way.

I was too distracted from looking at the bystanders that I didn't look back and react in time.

"VICK LOOK OUT!"

Next thing I feel myself being violently shoved away. My back slams into the glass window of a store. I look up in time to see Sara's tear streaked face give me a small smile before she was consumed by a flash of green energy, which then exploded on impact.

"NOOOOOOO!!" I shrieked in mind breaking horror.

I just watched my best friend get disintegrated.

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I just sat there...unable to breathe...unable to think.

Sara's dead...she died...she's...she's...

I feel hot tears jet down my face as I was still frozen in shock.

"He injured a civilian! AVENGERS! ATTACK!" I heard someone shouted, I don't even care who.

I see a blur of brightly colored people jump into the attack, flashes exploded everywhere.

As the fight broke out all I was able to do was stare off blankly into space...my very heart shattering on the inside.

Why were we fighting? What was the reason? She gave herself to save me...

As the tears began to ease up I see a limp body on the floor, and someone holding it.

I don't even wait for my vison to clear up before I start crawling my way over to it, clawing at the stone pavement.

Please be okay, please be okay, please be okay.

I chanted as I got closer.

I see David to be the person holding the body. His face overridden with tears.

I pull myself up next to him and see he was fiercely clutching Sara's limp body.

I touched her face.

It was ice cold.

I cupped my mouth as more tears began to pour.

Why did she do this!! I screamed inside my head. I could've survived that! I could've dodged! She didn't have to sacrifice herself!!

I gasp.

Sacrifice!

I look at the Grand Master, hatred poured out of me as I saw him, the person responsible for all this. But I need to swallow that anger and do what's right for the earth. To save everyone.

Like how Sara saved me...

"I see a pulse!" Tony yelled, flying over us.

"What!?" David and I cried out.

"She's got a pulse" Tony repeated, flying down closer to us. "But it's very faint."

A stab of hope hit me in the chest.

"But we need to get her out of here first" Tony added.

"There's no way to do that with all this cross fire happening!" David shouted over all the fighting.

"If we don't get her out of here and looked at she's as good as gone" Tony warned.

David looked at me with a helpless expression.

"What do you expect me do to!?" I cried out in alarm and panic.

"DO SOMETHING!!" Tony and David yelled at me. I got up quickly and looked around.

It was complete and utter chaos.

How in the ever-loving fuck am I supposed to stop this!? I wondered.

I tried not to panic but I looked back down at Sara's face, she didn't seem to be breathing at all and that made me just panic even more.

I grip my hand into a fist and tried to stop it from shaking.

"Stop...please" I whispered.

I don't want Sara to died, no matter what she did she was my bestfriend and she can't die.

I can't allow it.

"S-stop!" I crocked.

I balled my fist tighter as the emotions welled within me. I fight back the tears and yelled at the top of my lungs.

"WOULD EVERYBODY FREEZE!!!"

I gasped in air.

I did it! Everyone stopped!

But...everyone wasn't moving either...

I looked around. Everyone seemed to be consumed by a faint pale blue glow. I look down at myself. Everyone except me.

Everyone seemed to be...frozen.

"Oh no...!" I groan. "Is this another one of my powers?"

I looked around as if for confirmation, but the only thing people could do was blink.

I sigh in frustration. These powers were definitely a blessing and a curse.

I turn to a frozen Tony and David, but Sara didn't look much different than she did before.

I contemplated unfreezing the three of them but what if the effects wore off for everyone and the fighting continued?

But I couldn't risk keeping Sara in this frozen state if it probably didn't affect the rate at which she was dying.

Dying.

That word was enough to have me wave a hand over the three of them, please work, please work, please work-

David gasped for air and Tony shook violently.

"Brrrrr!" Tony shakes himself in his suit, then looks at me. "Never do that again" he points, "Or at least without warning"

David wastes no time getting up, I see the look of hate in his eyes that he trains my way but ultimately turns and looks at Tony.

"Give her here" Tony takes her, "I'm taking her to Stark Towers stat" and with that Tony blasts off without a second glance.

"I'll catch up!" David calls out to him as he flies away. He waits a moment then glares murderously at me.

"It wasn't my fault!" I immediately cried.

"I know that!" he yelled.

"She didn't have to do it!" I replied.

"Exactly why I'm pissed as all hell!" he answers.

David's whole body shook from pure rage but it was obviously visible that he was fighting it back.

I wanted to tell him 'she'll be fine', but I'd hopelessly be lying to myself. I couldn't hug or comfort him because I needed exactly the same at this point.s

"Go to her." Was all I could say in the end.

He nodded and turned away.

Just then a very familiar blue mini-van comes shrieking to a stop barely half an inch in front of David.

"Motherfu-!" he jumps back in mortal terror.

The doors of the mini-van slide open.

"GET IN" Bridgette shouts.

I see Wade behind the wheel and Kevin in the back with Bridgette.

"I don't want to..." David squeaks in fear.

"Get your butt in here David!" Wade yelled. "I got a bet with Tony that if I make it to Stark Towers before him I get 25 billion dollars"

"I-I'm coming too" I say meekly, wanting to go see how Sara was.

Everyone held out an arm to stop me.

"Go deal with that." David points behind me.

Oh right, I forgot.

"If I get in I'm getting 5 billion, right?" David asked, jumping in the car.

"You're lucky we even came by to get your ass, we could've left without you you know?" I hear Kevin say as the mini-van zoomed down the road.

I feel the humor of the moment hit me...but it was weak. The smile it brought to my face didn't last.

I turn back around, everyone was still frozen. And dozens of eyes of those who's peripherals I was in were trained towards me.

I gulp.

Walk up to the Grand Master. You could see he was fighting with all his might to get free, to attack, to disintegrate me from existence.

I wave my hand before him and unfreeze him.

"INSOLENT, UNWORTHY-" he was already arching back his arms to blast me to ashes when...

I fell to my knees before him.

I hear him pause in shock. I fight back a sigh of relief cause I was glad he didn't act on his instinct of pure anger alone, which means he could be reasoned with. God knows I was fighting back my own instinct towards the Grand Master Right now.

"What are you doing?" I hear him ask cautiously, obviously suspicious of my sudden move.

That didn't mean he wasn't still ready to obliterate me. I could still see an ominous green glow radiating from above my head.

"I have just learned something" I say to him, curtly. Making sure to erase any and all hints of rudeness from my tone.

He pauses again. "...and what is that?"

"To be a hero doesn't require great power or noble acts." I fight the wobble that tried to get into my voice. "That no matter what great deeds or acts I accomplish it won't make me a true champion of earth. I understand now why the Grand Counsel rejected my offer"

I see the glowing green light dissipate.

"Rise."

I slowly did so.

"Look. At. Me."

I did.

The Grand Master studied me silently. He then looked behind him and a purple beam emanated from the gemstone lodged in his head, his huge crystal chair suddenly appeared, resting on the ground as if it'd always been there but just invisible.

He hovers towards it and sits.

"Speak." He waves at me.

I gulp again.

"Oh please Grand Master, can you bring down my fri...family?" I point up at the sky.

The rest of the fantastic four are still up there, and they'd be worried out their minds by now.

The Grand Master tilted his head slightly, my pleading tone must've swayed him. He nodded, "Very well"

I look up in time to see the platform high above disappear. I was momentarily afraid from the seconds that passed by with nothing happening, then the four tubes containing Johnny, Sue, Reed and Ben flash besides me.

I breathe a sigh of relief I had not known I was holding. I look back at the Grand Master and he was staring at me intently, waiting for me to begin or do whatever it was I intended to do.

"I have a better offer." I say loudly, "One that I am sure the Grand Counsel will not dispute and in fact name me the next Champion of Earth"

Someone might think I might've sounded boastful, but in truth I was scared out my friggin' mind!

What if they don't accept! What if it's not enough!? Are you actually ready to do this!!??

I took a deep breath and wait.

"You sound so confident" Grand Master observed.

"I am" I say confidently.

No you are fucking not! – Brain and Heart

"And what is it you propose that will be of such high value to change the Grand Counsel's collective minds?" Grand Master asks calmly.

"A sacrifice"

That got his attention.

He sits up straight. "Elaborate"

"My friend..." I pointed towards the path Sara had been taken. "Just showed me the true value and gravity of what a selfless sacrifice can do."

I pause at I tried not to get emotional.

"That despite all the anger, hate and negativity, your true colors and intentions show from an act of sacrifice," I continue.

I look around at everyone frozen and a spray out my arms, unfreezing everyone in the process.

Everyone released from their frozen state, even those there were in midair dropped to the ground in relief.

"So with an act of sacrifice I will prove to the Grand Counsel I am worthy to be deemed protector of this earth," I finish.

The Grand Master leans forward towards me. "And what is so grand and important that you plan to sacrifice that is worthy of the earth?"

Ooooooh shit, I didn't want him to ask that...

I begin to squirm in my place.

"Is it your life?"

"What!? God no," I correct. "It's...uhm..."

I look around in more panic, I so did not want to say it out loud. Talk about embarrassing.

"Can't you just...read my mind? And see what it is?" I inquired.

The Grand Master raised an eyebrow at me. He tilts his head forward towards me and the gem on his head shoots out a beam that hits my head.

Ooooiu! Tingles! I slightly shivers at the cold chill that races through my head.

A few seconds later the Grand Master blinks at me, at a loss for words.

"Oh my..." was all he could say.

"Okay, you are definitely telling us what it is!" Hawkeye called from a distance away.

I look towards the tubes and Johnny's arms were folded as he glared at me.

My face grows hot.

"What is it?" I see him mouth in all seriousness.

Oh God, I've never wanted to be swallowed up by the earth more in my life!

I seriously contemplated teleporting away from the spot for a moment, but I fought against the urge.

"Grand Master!" I call out, determination dripping from my very being. He seems to snap out of his trans. "I VICTORIA HOWARD STARK! Do hereby give up the one thing most important to me in exchange for the sake of the earth. My one sacrifice that is a plea to the Great Grand Counsel to leave the earth be!"

I could feel my body shivering as I spoke.

And then I finally say it, "I sacrifice...my virginity."

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?" Johnny yells as he broke through his unbreakable glass tube.

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Author's Note

Man, how I do miss leaving you guys on deadly and horrible cliffhangers XD

I actually ended up writing a lot for this chapter and I'm really proud :)

Also, do you think Vick's sacrifice was enough? I was supposed to write this (the sacrifice) a couple chapters back but after being away for so long I totally messed up the progressions of the chapters, nearly gave me writers block. But lucky I found a way around it.

Creativity FTW!

Too bad Sara had to get the bad end of the deal :c

But I think it worked out perfectly, all things considered. Even better then I originally intended for things to go. (Sara wasn't to have gotten so injured before).

We've got a couple of new readers who blazed through this book in less than 3 days, and to those lovely ladies, y'all are awesome!<3

Also also,

<3 = do you consider this a heart or a kiss?

I always viewed it as more of a kiss but, meh!

Please let me know what you think of the Sara "death" thing and the Vick's Virginity things.

With us all here being mostly girls, I'm super interested and intrigued to hear what y'all might think!

Again, big huge mondo thanks to everyone that's still here and is still with me.

We shall finish this book together :)

And it ends at a hundred chapters...so the countdown begins *insert clock/timer emoji here*

So expect longer chapters for the remainder of this book!

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