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"I can't even begin to imagine the sacrifice you're making. So please, if I could do anything, no matter what, please just name it."
Heather wiped her eyes and steeled herself, came to a decision and said. "My brother Davis has been missing since we got back from New York. After we found out our father died in a gang war, and worse, that he was an underworld criminal lord known as Viceroy, Davis became distraught. He was there with me in New York, and since he loved surfin', his power manifested as the ability to teleport with warp waves. After comin' back to Australia and findin' out our dad's truth, he vanished. Just surfed off teleportin' from wave to wave. To this day, I can't find him. I'm terrified somethin' happened. That he's hurt or alone or..."
Her voice cracked from the fear she'd been carrying.
Jay nodded, stood up and used the depths of Mad Jim Jasper's universal reality warping. His eyes' whites were replaced with black. Stars speckled among them like he'd swallowed the cosmos. His awareness expanded as it stretched across the planet. Feeling space and sensing disruptions. There - in Goa, India. A beach with waves and riding those waves, a young man with the Cameron genetic signature. Teleporting, surfing and lost in the motion.
Jay reached out and made a grabbing motion across space.
To others, it looked like a simple motion of the hand closing. But when the motion was completed, Davis Cameron was there. Held up by his throat in Jay's grip. Pulled across thousands of miles in an instant, ripped from one beach to another through pure cosmic will.
Davis's eyes went wide with shock and disorientation. He tried to teleport using his powers, but nothing happened as Jay's null field suppressed it and held him in place.
Heather saw her brother, and her eyes went wide as joy and relief came crashing over her. "Davis!"
She lunged forward. Freed him from Jay's hands, pulled him into a hug, kissed his head and held him tight. "Oh my God, Davis! Where have you been? I've been so worried about you! I couldn't reach you! I thought... I thought..."
Davis, after seeing his sister after a long time and recovering from the shock of forceful teleportation, just broke down and hugged her and started crying. Words tumbling out between sobs. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Heather. I just couldn't handle it. Dad bein' dead. Findin' out he was a criminal. The invasion was a blood bath with all those people dyin'. I felt like I was drownin' and the only thing that helped was surfin'. So I just kept goin'. Wave to wave. Beach to beach. Tryin' to outrun it all."
Heather held him tighter as her own tears fell. "I'm sorry too. I didn't know you were goin' through so much. I should've been there for you. I should've looked harder."
They stayed like that. Brother and sister, reunited. The pain and fear of weeks apart finally released.
After everyone calmed down, Davis pulled back and looked around. Saw the dinosaurs outside, the impossible base, even Jay and Domino, who were silently watching. "What the hell is goin' on? Where are we? And is that Power Broker?"
Heather carefully explained. What Jay was planning, what she'd agreed to and what it meant.
Davis's expression shifted from confusion to understanding and finally to anger. "No way you're takin' my sister's power, no matter how strong or godlike you are! Those powers are hers! Part of her!"
But Heather calmed him down. Put her hands on his face and made him look at her. "It's my choice, Davis, my decision. And more importantly, you're back safe, and we're back together. That's all I care about"
After a lot of back and forth, Davis finally calmed down and accepted her decision. Didn't like it, but understood her choice, and he'd respect it.
Heather approached Jay and extended her hand. Her golden skin catching the light filtering in from outside. "Go ahead, Power Broker. Take my power, but promise me you'll save as many as you can. Promise me this will matter."
Jay stood and took her hand. His expression was solemn and respectful. "I promise. The world will remember you and forever be indebted to your sacrifice."
He activated his power theft to gently take away her power. But he stopped mid-theft and suddenly used his power to scan her genetic makeup more deeply and saw a strange pattern of alien DNA woven through her human genes, finally subtly revealing this secret of her origin.
"Say Heather, did you know your mother?"
Heather, surprised by the question, shook her head. "No, we were too young when our mother passed away. Dad never talked about her much. Why do you ask?"
Jay smiled. "Your lineage isn't as simple as you think. Your mother wasn't human. Or at least, not entirely."
He used his gene activation and reached into her dormant alien lineage in her DNA. The Shi'ar bloodline waiting as expected, and he triggered it carefully.
Heather gasped as her body transformed. Golden wings erupted from her back, and sharp claws extended from her fingers. Shi'ar markings appeared on her face in elegant patterns that marked her royal bloodline. Her golden skin intensified and became armor rather than cosmetic.
Davis stepped back in shock. And Heather looked down at her new form, her wings spreading instinctively.
Jay completed the power theft by taking her Danger Detection Response and Situational Biomorphic Adaptation. The powers flowing into him and settling. But he left her Shi'ar abilities intact. Enhanced them even to compensate, however, he can.
"Apparently, your mother was a member of the Shi'ar Empire. Royal bloodline, from the markings. I'd guess some exiled princess who crashed on Earth." Jay's voice was gentle. "She had a relationship with your father, the Viceroy. That's where you and Davis come from. Half-human and Half-Shi'ar. Your brother should have the genes too, though they haven't manifested the same way."
He gestured at her new form. "Now you have her power. Your golden form increases all your abilities. Strength, regeneration, durability and more- you know the works. Those claws can cut through steel, and those wings let you fly at nearly supersonic speeds. You can still save lives, Heather. You're still Lifeguard, just in a different way."
Heather's relief was palpable as tears streamed down her face from the connection of knowing her mother and still being able to help people. She flexed her wings and felt new strength in them.
Davis moved to her side and held her, processing their newly discovered heritage.
Jay spoke softly. "You and your brother are welcome anytime to come and train in this facility and get used to these new abilities. Davis can teleport you both wherever you want with his warp waves. It's the least I can do."
The scene settled with Heather and Davis holding each other and coming to terms with what they'd learned.
Jay felt Heather's powers settling into him, integrating and becoming part of his arsenal.
One step taken toward an impossible goal.
Just one final step remained.
He looked out at the Savage Land. At the impossible geography. At the world that needed saving.
"Soon," he whispered. "We change everything soon."
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