“We lost friends. We lost family. We lost a part of ourselves.”
Tag: Nebula
it’s always darkest before the dawn (½)
Tony had always known that being Iron Man was going to
kill him one day. He’d come to terms with that. He’d accepted it. It was
a part of the job of being a superhero.He just never thought it
was going to be from lack of food, water, and oxygen while floating
aimlessly on some dead guy’s spaceship through an unnamed galaxy with a
blue and purple robot alien. Spoilers, obvs. Hopeful ending. No character death.
Tony closed his eyes and pressed his forehead more firmly against the cool glass of the Benatar. Light flared behind his eyelids as the ship turned toward the sun that lit up the galaxy they were in. His stomach grumbled painfully and he wrapped his arm tighter around himself and brought his legs up closer to him, curling up in a ball against the window pane.
Six months. It’d be six months since the others had died. Four months since they had gotten the ship into the air. Two months since they had run out of fuel and started drifting aimlessly through space. They were running low on food and water, and he didn’t even want to think about how long they had until they ran out of oxygen. It was only by rationing their food and water that they had made it this long. Thankfully Nebula didn’t need as much to survive, but once again Tony’s very human body was working against him. Where Nebula could go a couple weeks without food and drink, Tony could only go a few days.
His stomach rumbled and cramped again. He had eaten yesterday. Tomorrow he’d be able to eat again.
At least he had that to look forward to.
He opened his eyes and looked out into the space around them. He had been dreaming and having nightmares about space for years, but being here… drifting aimlessly, hoping for a savior but waiting for death, he couldn’t help but think it was beautiful. The way the colors mixed together. The infinite, endless sea of stars. You could never see something like this on Earth.
He wasn’t afraid anymore. Not of the stars. The stars couldn’t hurt him now.
Not anymore than he already hurt.
He heard movement behind him as Nebula came back into the cockpit. He felt her stop behind him and could feel her eyes resting on him for a couple minutes before she finally spoke.
“How long can humans go without food and water before death?” She asked quietly.
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