doubled_speed: (The Horror Approaches)
Tommy Shepard ([personal profile] doubled_speed) wrote 2019-09-12 12:23 am (UTC)

Tommy, who had been listening to the others argue about what to do, throwing in his own idea that they just flee the planet and getting shot down, sighs when Billy approaches, pushing off of the wall. Of course he's going to help Billy. How could he do something else?

He just follows after his not-twin, looking tired. And Teddy looks up when Tommy approaches, his attention on the white-haired stranger. In the fight he didn't really have a chance to really look at Tommy.

"Billy, he looks like..."

"I'm getting tired of that," Tommy observes as he moves to stand above the Super-Skrull. "I don't know how much I can do. I've never... When I was there I didn't have time to really work on my magic. This whole thing has been really bad."

"You can try?" Teddy asks.

And wow, when Tommy looks at the hope and the softness in Teddy's eyes, well, Tommy gets why he was replaced so easily. He just nods and raises his hands and starts chanting. Tommy can feel the power in him, thrumming below the surface, but the energy, it just isn't there. He knows he isn't going to manage much, but he still tries, because Billy wants it of him.

Green light bathes them all as Tommy tries, tries to the point where he's almost sagging, too desperate to do what Billy needs. Which, of course, means he's standing there when Kl'rt says it.

"Ironic, is it not? That Mar-Vell and the Scarlet Witch were my prisoners during the first Kree-Skrull war on Earth, and now I owe my life to their sons."

And that's when the magical energy fails, as much from fatigue as from shock.

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