Clarice is working with portals (lostinexile) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2012-11-17 13:45:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, clarice ferguson (blink) |
Who: Clarice
What: The Exiles visit the House of M, and then chase a body snatcher across dimensions.
When: Dream time
Where: Dream world
Status: complete
Rating: R
All they had wanted to do was take Beak home. Earth 616 was in flux (a not uncommon occurrence that Heather had noted), but they'd tried anyway. They owed it to Beak to try to fix his reality.
Mutants ruled this world, which didn't seem to be that bad at first, but as with all 'utopias' there's a shadowy undercurrent. Control at all costs.
Kevin MacTaggert was a serial killer in this reality, a mutant that absorbed the energy of his hosts and could alter reality as he saw fit. As a side effect of his power he burned his hosts out if left in for too long. He took Beak's girlfriend, and they battled him to save her. He was forced out of her body, only to take Cal's.
Clarice watched in horror as her lover tore a hole between space and time, and disappeared.
Determined to save him, Clarice and her friends chased him to another world. They convinced the heroes of that world to help them, but too late to save Cal.
World after world they chased the monster as he burned through body after body. He took Morph's body, and finally discovered a host that would not burn out. Clarice had lost her lover and now her best friend.
With the help of the Young Allies of one world, they were able to submerge all but Morph's personality, granting him control of his body once more.
It was Clarice who took Cal's body back to his homeworld.
"Cal died fighting for what he believed in. I'll tell you how it happened, and why he's been gone... and then I hope you'll tell me everything he never got a chance to tell me himself."
Clarice woke, tears fresh in her eyes. She hadn't known she would lose Cal. Combining that with the certain knowledge she would lose the woman she loved here, and it was too much to bear. She teleported away, to get some air.