[FFML] [Ranma/Marvel] Avenging Side Story 4: The Tragic Death...

[DB Sommer]

Another brief one that didn't fit anywhere I would have liked.

Avenging
Side Story 4
The Tragic Death of Haruhi Suzumiya


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[Writer’s forward] These events take place during Act III, after Chapter 
2. Yet before it as well.

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[16 Years Ago]

Kozue Morishima made certain to hold the newborn properly. Fresh out of 
nursing school, she had only been working in Yokohama General for a 
week, and still tended to think about every little detail since nothing 
was automatic to her yet. Still, she was impatient since she should have 
been finished with her shift fifteen minutes ago. She was going to be 
late for her a date with the sexy young doctor that had asked her out 
last night. One of Kozue’s co-workers claimed he was a playboy that hit 
on all the nurses, but Kozue was certain she could win him over and land 
him. Then it would be retirement, marriage, and babies of her own in the 
future. Hell, it was one reason she wanted to be a nurse in the first 
place. Hospitals were the best ponds to fish in to land a doctor, and 
sexy nurses’ outfits made great bait.

Visions of wedding ceremonies danced in Kozue’s head when an older 
woman’s deep voice said, “Oh, let me see that cutie.”

Kozue turned to see another nurse, at least in her late forties, cooing 
at the baby. She didn’t recognize her, but then she was still new and 
didn’t really know many of her coworkers. The nametag said, ‘Nurse Akagi’.

Kozue offered the baby to her. It was true. The girl was adorable. 
Seeing so many infants made Kozue want one of her own more than ever.

“What’s her name?” Akagi asked.

“Haruhi Suzumiya.”

The nurse’s smile broadened. “May I hold her?”

Technically Kozue probably shouldn’t, but then pissing off an obvious 
superior by citing rules would just make the job bad for her. The woman 
was probably a friend of the head of the nursing department, of maybe 
even the chief executive of the hospital. She held out the baby to Akagi.

The older woman accepted the child and looked down at her cherubic face. 
“Have you ever looked at a baby and just known they’re someone special?”

Kozue couldn’t say she had. Then again, she hadn’t had any of her own, 
or been a nurse very long.

“You look like you’re in a hurry,” Akagi said.

“Ah, well,” Kozue didn’t know whether to be honest or not. Would it seem 
unprofessional?

“Why don’t I take her to the ward and you get on with what you wanted 
to?” Akagi suggested.

Kozue knew she shouldn’t, but it was all but an order from a superior. 
Sort of. She bowed in gratitude and left. She’d have just enough time to 
put on the proper make up before the date, rather than rushing through it.

Once Kozue was out of sight, the Nurse Akagi continued walking with the 
child in her arms until she entered the newborn’s ward. She lay the 
child in her assigned crib and cradled the infant’s cherubic face.

In a soft voice, she said, “Yes, Haruhi, you’ll be special. Very 
special. Sixteen years from now, while you’re on a trip to England with 
your parents, you’ll be present when a momentous event occurs. A madman 
from an alternate universe, Sir James Jaspers, and his reality altering 
‘Jasper’s Warp’ will strike London when you’re visiting. Luckily, he’ll 
be repulsed by Captain Britain and Excaliber before he has a chance to 
destroy our universe like he has so many others.

“Unfortunately, your close proximity to the Jasper’s Warp will soon 
trigger your own reality warping abilities. It’ll take several months, 
but eventually they’ll be tapped on a subconsciously level, and you have 
such an active imagination. Normality has no place in your life. 
Time-traveling waitresses, alien magicians, your own version of Jasper’s 
‘Crazy Gang’, baseball games with the fate of the world in the balance, 
and some many bizarre things, all your doing as you change and shift the 
world to suit your every whim. Your constant tampering with reality 
threatened to unravel the very fabric of our universe. In my past, you 
were only stopped a hairsbreadth away from destroying all by a variety 
of powerful beings.

“In fact, looking at a number of alternate timelines, you did succeed in 
destroying our universe. Far too often. And there’s no guarantee that 
you wouldn’t succeed this time, with my… alterations having changed 
things. Necessary ones, but I must be careful lest I prevent my becoming 
what I am today. I can only affect things at certain junctures, not 
changing the key elements in my future creation, all the while 
preventing the Tragedy from occurring.

“But, ironically, despite your encompassing the entire world in your 
reality warping powers, once you’re defeated, everything snapped back to 
normal, with only a handful at the center of your defeat remember only 
the faintest of details of your tampering. Meaning your death today will 
change nothing of consequence in the future.”

Done talking, Akagi removed her hand from Haruhi’s mouth and nose. While 
she had struggled at first, she had stopped moving several minutes ago. 
A quick check showed no pulse in the tiny infant. The work was done. 
Reality saved from potential destruction at the hands of the small 
child, Haruhi’s passing attributed as another crib death.

‘Nurse Akagi’ left the room and hospital. The moment she was outside, 
‘she’ dropped her cloaking device, revealing a decidedly male figure in 
purple and green armor, a blue face mask hiding his features.

Only one elderly patient saw him for a brief second before Kang 
disappeared from sight, or more appropriately from time.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Kang sat in the stone throne in the Citadel of Time. Observing. 
Planning. One possible obstruction had been removed. But it was a minor 
one. He needed to destroy the Avengers. His Fourth Sleeper and 
Hulkbusters projects might have failed, but he was confident in the next 
one, already moving pieces into position. Surely his Champions could 
defeat their counterparts. Just another few months, and he’d be ready to 
propose the idea to the president. And then…

And then the Avengers would be dead, and all would be well.

Xxxxxx

[End fic]

This one didn’t really fit in the proper Avengers story, so it became a 
side story. It also shows Kang’s still active and manipulating events. 
It also uses the age old moral question of ‘if you could go back in time 
and kill Hitler as an infant, before he committed the atrocities he did, 
would you do it?”