Marvel: NIHILITY

After a somewhat relaxing vacation , David decided to go on a training trip finally. He needed to deal with the issue of his alter ego and harness the power of Nihility completely. He refused to remain weak.

The stars shimmered in the sky above the Baxter Building, but David wasn't looking at them. He stood at the edge of the rooftop, staring into the swirling abyss of the portal before him—the Void Between Worlds, the place where existence bled into nothingness. His next destination to completely control Nihility , like he should have done long ago .

Susan and Emma stood behind him, their faces carefully neutral, but David could feel the weight of their emotions pressing down on him. He knew this moment would come eventually. He knew he would have to go.

Still, knowing didn't make it easier.

Susan stepped forward first. Her blue eyes, usually sharp and unyielding, softened. She reached up, brushing a strand of hair from his face, her fingers lingering against his cheek. "You better come back in one piece ," she whispered. It wasn't a request. It was a demand.

David smirked, though there was no real amusement behind it. "You know me, Sue. I'm too stubborn to die."

"That's what I'm afraid of," she muttered.

Emma was next. She didn't waste time with words. Instead, she grabbed his collar and yanked him into a kiss—hard, deep, desperate. When she pulled away, her eyes flickered, revealing the vulnerable woman beneath. "Don't do anything stupid , my love " she murmured against his lips.

David chuckled, but the sound was hollow. "Can't promise that."

Emma huffed. "Didn't think so."

He took a step back, looking at them both one last time. Two women who had seen the best and worst of him, who had stayed despite knowing how broken he was. For a moment, just a moment, he allowed himself to feel something—something warm, something human. He smiled and said, " See you in a few weeks."

Then he turned away and stepped into the Void.

There was no color. No light. No sense of up or down, forward or back. The moment David stepped through the portal, reality ceased to exist as he knew it. He was nowhere and everywhere, standing in the void between universes—a place that wasn't a place at all.

Most would go mad from being here.

Well, David had already been insane, for a long, long time.

He exhaled slowly, watching as his breath didn't fog, didn't disperse—just vanished into the absolute nothingness. He felt it around him, pressing against his skin, not like air or water but something deeper. Something wrong. The kind of emptiness that could unmake a person if they lingered too long.

Good.

This was exactly what he needed.

"Finally embracing your true self , David?"

The voice slithered through his mind, smooth and venomous, curling around his thoughts like smoke. He didn't flinch. Didn't react. Nihility had been waiting for him. It always had.

David closed his eyes, steadying himself. "If I'm going to keep living with some sanity , I need to control you."

The laughter that followed wasn't just a sound—it was a sensation. It crawled through his bones, wrapped around his lungs, echoed in places beyond sound itself.

"Control me?" Nihility laughed , amusement dripping from every syllable. "Oh, David. You still don't get it, do you? I'm not some power you can tame. I'm not a weapon you can wield. I am you."

David's jaw clenched. "No. You're just a part of me. One I intend to master."

"Master me?" Nihility chuckled, the sound warping the very fabric of the void around them. "David, David, David… you still think you're the one in control? After everything?"

The space around him twisted. Shadows bled into shape, forming jagged, flickering images—memories. Old wounds. Ghosts of things he'd buried deep.

Emily.

His sister's lifeless body sprawled across the living room floor, blood pooling beneath her skull. The vacant stare. The silence. The moment he realized the only person who had ever truly loved him was gone.

Claire.

Her laughter ringing through the air, bright and real—then the screech of tires, the sickening crunch of metal, the absolute, deafening silence that followed.

Then—

More.

Scenes he didn't recognize at first. Cities reduced to dust. Planets imploding. Screams echoing across collapsing dimensions. The weight of it hit him like a sledgehammer to the ribs.

This wasn't just his past.

It was all of them. Every world he had erased. Every life he had unmade.

David stumbled back. "No—no, that's not—"

"Not real?" Nihility finished for him, a grin curling into its voice. "Not something you're willing to accept? Oh, David… you poor, broken thing."

The shadows solidified, forming a mirror. But the reflection staring back at him wasn't his own.

It was something else.

A version of himself that had long since stopped pretending to care. His eyes weren't his usual sharp blue, but endless voids, swirling with black holes and cosmic horror. His grin was too wide, too knowing.

David's breath hitched. He had seen many things in his life, but nothing had ever *terrified* him quite like looking at his own face and knowing, without a doubt—

This was what he could become.

Or perhaps… what he already was.

"Tell me, David…" the reflection whispered, tilting its head. "Have you accepted everything? About your sister? About Claire? About the worlds you chose to erase? Or the world before that? Where it all began?"

The words hit like a bullet to the chest.

His heart pounded. His vision blurred.

He took a step back, only for the void to pull at him, wrapping around his limbs like ink.

"Ah, I can feel it." Nihility sighed, almost delighted. "That ugly little thing inside you. The part of you that knows you were never meant to be a hero. The part of you that destroys everything it touches."

David growled, his power sparking against the darkness. "Shut the fuck up!"

The reflection didn't waver.

"You never saved anyone, David. Not Emily. Not Claire. Not any of them."

David's breathing turned erratic. The void pulsed around him. His fingers curled into claws, his body shaking with something deep and uncontrollable.

"Don't. Don't fucking say their names."

"Why not?" Nihility's grin widened. "Aren't you supposed to be the hero? The beacon of hope for weak, pathetic little things like yourself? But that's not what you are, is it? No, no, no…"

The shadows moved again. The mirror cracked.

David heard the screams before he saw them.

The screams of people dying. The screams of world's dying .

Then—

A memory surfaced. One he had long since erased from his own mind.

A world. His world.

Not this one. Not the one before.

The first one .

The one he had burned to ash.

The memories he had deliberately locked away in a dark corner of his mind.

His legs gave out. He collapsed to his knees, his pulse hammering against his skull.

"Ahhh," Nihility cooed in mock sympathy. "There it is. The truth, clawing its way back up. You really thought you could bury it forever, didn't you? That if you just kept moving, kept fighting, you could forget what you did?"

David clutched his head. His body was unraveling. His power was spiraling out of control.

He was losing.

"How about a trip down memory lane, old pal?" Nihility's voice was almost playful now. "Let's relive that trauma once more."

David's eyes widened in panic. "Wait—Don't—!"

But it was too late.

The void swallowed him whole.

And the last thing he heard was Nihility's voice, cold and absolute.

"This is the price of power. No more middle ground. Either accept the tragedy, the pain, the despair… or embrace the nothingness like you should have from the beginning."

And then—

There was Nothing.

***** A rather short chapter, a prelude to the horror that's about to unfold .

Sooo, just wanted to give you folks a heads up. The next arc will be very important and depressing af . You'll finally get to see who David truly was before all this, and why, and how all of that factors in the grand scheme. There will be lots of dark stuff( not the hentai kind) , but emotional kind. Some might hurt you more than getting punched in the nuts.

This will also clarify some doubts or questions you guys had for since beginning. As I always said, his character is a rather complex one, with so many issues and personalities clashing in his head. Plus a trauma inducing primal entity in him. i

This will also show why he was chosen, the real truth behind the multiversal war and the previous attempts of OAA to fix things. It's some heavy stuff and quite interesting.

But don't you dare skip any of this stuff! I'll hang you upside down, and make a gorilla flick your balls with full strength for 24 hours straight 💀I lost a portion of my remaining mental health writing them, so you better appreciate this shit.

Some further explanation will follow after the flash back and arc end. not to mention the expected powerup . ****