Chapter 1
it was so sudden.
well, all attacks are sudden, that's kind of the whole idea, to take someone or several someone-s off guard to injure or kill them.
but, when jack heard an explosion during the middle of the school day, he nearly fainted from the fear that immediately filled him.
everyone went to the school's gymnasium and all students were all told to sit on the floor and just wait as the staff explained to them that there was an "avenger's level threat" near midtown tech and almost immediately after hearing those words leave their principal's mouth, jack realized that peter was gone and he looked to ned and mj; the three sharing a knowing glance.
the blonde teenager pulled his knees to his chest and clenched his fists, burying his face in his arms as he tried to remain calm and that weird energy that appeared a couple months ago pulsed throughout his veins, eager to be used.
jack couldn't tell you how this weird energy, or grace has he decided to call it, developed; he has no idea what happened, even though he has a strong feeling it had to do with space because the night he recalled feeling it for the first time, some weird thing happened with the moon where it turned gold--whatever, he's got crazy powers now.
he could move things with his mind and his eyes turned bright gold when he used his powers; which was super kick ass. also he could heal himself, maybe others, and he had fucking wings, those were really the only things that differed him from scarlet witch, honestly, but he still thought these new powers were pretty rad and full of potential.
every part of the teenager's brain was yelling at him to tell someone about this, like peter or tony, so that he could use these powers for something other than getting things without getting up, but he was also terrified because he's never used his powers like that so what if he messed up and did something terrible?
a loud boom snapped jack out of his thoughts, making him jump and cover his ears as his nerves made his hands begin to shake, heart clenching in fear for peter's life; what if he didn't make this mission?
the young boy turned as he felt a hand on his shoulder, seeing michelle sitting behind him and she gave him a side-of-the-mouth smile as if she had read his mind and heard his fears, jack opened his mouth to say something but another bang cut him off and every student screamed as one of the walls began to crack as something repeatedly hit it.
everyone rushed to exit the gym, but about half the students were still left as the wall broke under the pressure and this gross alien-lizard-thing that rivaled the hulk's height and build made it's way through, a mouth full of sharp teeth opening wide with a roar and jack froze in fear from the middle of the crowd of scared students, staring wide eyed at the ugly creature and he felt someone grab his arm and pull, but his body wouldn't move.
"HEY, UGLY!" they heard peter--uh, spiderman shout and webs quickly made their way around the monster's legs, causing it to fall and it angrily turned to look at who the culprit was, glaring at the red and blue suited hero. "didn't anyone tell you that being late to class will get you detention?" the teenage hero joked and the alien went to strike, but peter easily dodged it and jack, along with several students, watched as spiderman fought the scaley creature.
once again, his grace hummed in his veins, wanting to be used oh so badly, but like always; jack didn't listen.
"is that all you got?!"
at spiderman's shout, the lizard-thing slammed it's scaled fist into the hero's body and sent him, almost literally, flying and a collective yet hushed gasp sounded from the small group that watched the battle.
help him, you idiot!
jack's heart jumped into his throat as he watches the disgusting alien stomp over to the obviously-injured hero and sharp claws revealed themselves from it's fingers, preparing itself to probably shred the teenager into bits.
despite the hushed protests from his other friends, fear and adrenaline took over took his brain and after lifting up his hood in an attempt to hide his face, jack ran faster than he ever had before.
well, he didn't really run; he used his wings for what was probably the fifth time and teleported himself right in between peter and the alien.
the ugly thing raising it's claws to strike and jack's eyes glowed brightly as his grace boomed inside him, "STOP!" he shouted while raising his hand, creating an energy force field between him and the creature, peter's eyes widening as he watched his friend save his life.
the alien's hand smacked into the force field, eyes squinting in confusion as it realized that it's plans didn't work out and the mutated(?) boy took the opportunity to use his powers to lift the beast off the ground, getting it up a few feet in the air, "you're hurting.....my friend!" he screamed before clenching his fist and with a pained howl, it exploded into a cloud of dark grey dust.
jack calmly lowered his arm, eyes still illuminating as his grace practically screamed inside of him, the adrenaline in his body causing it to go nuts.
"what the hell just happened?" peter asked and jack turned to look at his friend, the eyes of the spiderman widening at the sight, "it....it was gonna kill you and i......got scared." the younger teenager replied with a small shake in his voice and peter walked closer to him, cradling his ribs and breathing a little weird.
a deep roar, similar to the one that the lizard thing made but louder, sounded and the boys turned their heads to the noise, seeing an incredibly large creature in the distance, "that must be the leader." peter muttered and jack's adrenaline-driven brain made him think it was an amazing idea to just grab his friend's arm and just teleport to where the other alien was.
when their feet touch the ground again, peter collapsed because his legs were not prepared and jack bent down to help him back up, both of them watching as thor and tony did their best to take down the gigantic creature; and by gigantic jack means that it makes two story houses look small.
"stay here."
"what? jack!"
the blonde teenager ignored peter as he walked towards the fight, fists clenched and grace ready to be used, "what the hell are you doing?!" iron man shouted at him, taking noticing at, what seemed to be, a stupid kid who just wanted to help out and jack pulled his hood off, tony's eyes widening behind the mask as he saw this boy he's known for a year now just walk into battle and the distraction was taken advantage of as the lizard alien swung its arm and smacked into tony, sending him flying.
"stark!" thor cried and the monster, once again, took advantage of the distraction and swung at the god, knocking him away and jack clenched his teeth; this was getting personal, "STOP IT!" he shouted and the creature turned its head, along with the other heros, "leave them alone!" he screamed at the alien and it fucking smirked at him, showing off several sharp teeth and it stomped towards him, claws out and ready to strike; it had no idea that this tiny child was going to be it's end.
"i said stop!"
with that cry, jack lifted his hand and sent pulses of energy at the disgusting lizard thing, seeing the shock on it's scaly face as he lifted it off the ground by barely even moving his arm.
tony stared wide eyed, just as peter had earlier, as he watched jack do something that would've claimed was impossible if he didn't know any better.
what the hell was going on?
jack clenched his fist, the alien giving a blood-curdling cry before it exploded into dust, just like the other one had, and as soon as it did; jack's eyes went back to normal and he fell to his knees, breathing heavy and body trembling from the amount of work it just went through.
"jack!" peter cried as he limply ran over to his friend, tony doing the same thing as he watched jack curled up into a ball on the floor and tremble while gasping for air, peter kneeling beside him and clutching onto his arm as the genius and the god of thunder stood there; "mister stark, something's wrong--really really wrong!"
while the three people surrounding him internally panicked; jack struggled to keep himself from passing out as his body felt like it was burning from the inside out, able to feel his grace freaking out because of the extreme use and making his insides go fucking bonkers, causing him to shake from head to toe and his lungs struggle to fill with air and his heart pounded in his chest.
was he going to die? he didn't want to die!
"b-burns." he whispered through shivers and peter looked ready to cry as tony leaned down to help get jack up, "what burns, jack?" the man asked calmly and jack took a few gaspy breaths before giving a frightening response, "everything."
then, his vision went dark.