Hi people! Like most of you, I'm new to the Mighty Med category, but I think that if we keep working hard, we might expand this greatly. This is my Mighty Med addition to this archive, and I really hope you'll like it, despite this sucky summary I've given you (might change if I have inspiration). In other terms, I feel the need to tell you that I can't watch the episodes in Belgium, but caught up with the series through youtube, so if anything seems inaccurate, just tell me and I'll try to fix it. Okay, without further ado, Inevitable: the prologue!

Disclaimer: I would like to thank the geniuses behind Mighty Med, for creating a world in which fans can get lost forever and do whatever they want... except own the series. Only their own plots, usually. (this goes for the whole story)

-Writer207

Er…

Hey there… guys, I… er…

I… am usually not good with words, but… I just have to tell this to someone. I mean, I wanna tell this to someone, but not the people I have already told it, or who were there when it happened. That's what this doctor keeps telling me.

When I told Horace about my best friend, he told me he'd be okay – with some side-effects, even if we didn't know what he meant.

I also told Alan, but somehow he didn't really care about us, Normos. Now I think of it, he might have even laughed about me being pathetic.

I told Skylar a hundred times, every time we go visit my best friend in the hospital, and she keeps having faith he'll ever be the old him again.

So, Horace's been taking me to this doctor, who told me it's better to just tell a random person, but I'm totally not gonna do this, so that's why I'm recording it. No need to tell you who I am, 'cause this has been recorded where you work, you probably know me already.

Anyway… I still visit him every day, whenever I have the chance. I'm very sure Wallace and Clyde noticed our absence, and I am also sure they would not mind this.

It breaks my heart to see him like that. Yes, he is smiling and laughing and trying to tell jokes, and I can't help but do the same. The problem is … his laughs are honest, but mine are not. Not exactly, at least. He laughs when looking at me, knowing about all stuff he did at the Domain and at school. But every time I look at him, I wonder if he knows. I wonder if he will remember one day. I hope I won't have to keep this up for long.

He is… I don't know when he'll come back. Well, he is back, but not the way I know him. Each time I go, and when it is time to leave, I wonder if he will call me back, and ask me this one thing I'd like him to say. "Say, why don't we go to Mighty Med? It's been a while, and you never start to talk about it."

I promised Horace not to begin about Mighty Med when he was still recovering. Horace might not be a Normo doctor, but he knew what he was doing. He was talking about complications, but I tuned out before he started to use more words I don't understand. I did catch that if I told him I might get cubed, and my friend too.

I don't wanna be cubed. And I'm sure he don't wanna be cubed, too.

I miss him.

It's been almost half a year now, and he still hasn't come back.

I want him to come back. But it might be too late, believing the doctor.

[Five seconds break to think of more to say]

I don't like Tecton anymore. I started not to like him because of what happened, and the Crusher just took the place of my Number One Favorite Hero. He should have gone on patrol, as usual, but he did not and… now my best friend's lying here with no memory of Mighty Med – yet.

I just wish that, if I could reverse time and change one thing, it could be Tecton going on duty when he had to.

It was one busy night in the American city of Logan, where the Mighty Med was located. There were four or five other Mighty Meds spread across the globe, but they weren't as advanced and good with the heroes as the American one, the first one to ever exist… on Earth, at least. And, out of those five or six hospitals, Tecton preferred the American one over the others. It was nice there, also warm but with an air-conditioning, and had the best doctors of the entire universe.

Plus, it was the only Mighty Med where two Normos worked. He would not have trusted them – Normos in general – but since their knowledge through the comic books the hero hospitals sold had saved his life, he at first just thought it was a coincidence. Now, after having heard how those two Normos were a good team together and almost never failed saving the people who save the people, he kind of changed his point of view about those Normos. He thought their names were Cas and Olliver, if he was right.

These two Normos also had an idea of their own – those heroes recovering in the Mighty Med should watch out for villains trying to find it and possibly scheming another evil plot. Naturally, only the heroes who still had their powers and were considered almost-healed, so that meant Skylar Storm could not participate, how much she wanted to do. And that particular night, it was Tecton's turn.

The hero was supposed to pick an outlook post somewhere in the city, at a place where it is more likely a villain would perform a crime, and be there almost the entire night. And, since it was January, having picked that outlook post, they should be there, whatever the forecast is. That night, it was apparently going to be a cold night, with a chance of rain and a lot of wind.

And that's why Tecton was now still in Mighty Med and tricked NeoCortex into taking this watch in Tecton's outlook post. He wrapped up the coat around him, which he brought specifically so he would not have to freeze to death. Off course, he was used to Absolute Zero messing around with his powers, but the psychic hero never really liked 'too cold' or 'too warm', so he wouldn't be taking any risk. It also wasn't a help to know the ice cold wind brushed against his face and all still uncovered parts of his body and uniform, hoping it was just Absolute Zero again and that he would stop soon. He'd even rather fight his nemesis, the Vanquisher, right now instead of staying on someone else's guard duty. Jerk.

It was now almost half past midnight, and to be honest, NeoCortex started to be really fed up by Tecton and his big ego. He picked up the phone he could borrow – he can, he's a hero, nobody would refuse to give their phone to a hero if it was an emergency – and called Tecton's number. He was too occupied by hoping his fellow hero would pick up to notice the dark thoughts from behind.

"Hello?" a voice answered – Tecton's voice. NeoCortex scratched his throat before speaking up.

"It's me," he said, and it was silent at the other side until Tecton finally decided to answer. NeoCortex didn't like the fact they were so far away – he might be psychic and all, but he has to know where exactly they were. That and he was fairly sure Tecton moved since he's been in the cafeteria, being one of the few to have survived its food.

"Oh, hi Cortex! How's it going? Didn't pick up any activity?"

"Not yet," the psychic hero responded, "everything's quiet up here. How are you doing?"

"Well, my leg's feeling much better than before. I can even walk again!" NeoCortex snorted – he needed not to be a telepath to know this was a clear lie. Before the hero answered, something in the back of his head warned him about some danger which could be imminent, but he ignored the feeling and instead replied to Tecton's latest sentence

"I should have known," he said as neutral as possible, "I mean, you might even be able to run! I'm glad your legs are right. I presume that arm that was hit badly and paralyzed in that battle with Megahertz is also healing?" Tecton had told him that lie, and NeoCortex hadn't even thought about checking his mind if he were lying. Why would he? They were heroes, if they didn't have trust, they had nothing. But now, slowly, he had been realizing this was all one plot from Tecton so he wouldn't have to be on boring guard duty.

"Yeah, my arm's also fine," Tecton quickly added, and NeoCortex nodded.

"I can't believe you lied."

"And I can't believe you just did it! What made you decide to go against mind-reading? You could've known I was lying." He could just hear Tecton smirk at the other side of the line, and NeoCortex himself sighed.

"We don't use our powers on each other, that's just disgu-" NeoCortex now could no longer ignore that sense of danger, and turned his head to look behind him. Indeed, he sensed some thoughts, and automatically read the mind of the stranger. 'That is not our guy!' NeoCortex took a step back. This person was angered, and such anger he only sensed in villains. Tecton's voice at the other side was asking him what was going on, but NeoCortex had no time to respond.

Instead, he felt a tickling down his feet, and when he looked, he saw black smoke he could not identify further on. He moved one foot, but that was all he could do, for the smoke quickly rose and grew in size, blinding him completely and covering his whole body. He felt how he lost all feeling in the whole of his body, yet still could feel he was standing, with a straight back and the phone in his right hand. His hearing was also dampening, but he could still make out the villain walking closer, and Tecton calling out for him, rather annoyed now.

"NeoCortex! I understand it if you're mad, but please, say something!" That was the last thing NeoCortex heard before tumbling down in ever darker darkness than the black smoke brought with him, and he lost all meaning of time and space.

"NeoCortex!" Tecton said for the hundredth time, really getting annoyed now. "I understand it if you're mad, but please, say something!" he was walking around the Mighty Med, being declared almost fit enough to leave the superhero hospital again. He had thought NeoCortex took over his duty because the psychic hero knew he was almost to be released, this being a sort of present. And, as for now, he hadn't answered back, but through his earpiece he could still clearly hear the city nightlife in the background, so Tecton knew NeoCortex could still be listening – or he was in danger.

"I'm fine!" he heard NeoCortex snarl, and before Tecton could say anything else, he heard a beep tone, letting the superhero know NeoCortex broke off the connection, and thus decided he would no longer talk to him – through mouth and mind alike. He looked upset, at the moment Solar Flare came walking by. He looked from his earpiece in his hand to the female superhero.

"He hung up on me!" he said with an indignant voice with a hint of anger, and Solar Flare looked at him with a sympathetic look before continuing her way to the training room. Tecton shook his head, and now also broke the connection. "Jerk," he too snarled, and walked back to his room. With this he also passed the dumber of the two Normos who worked at this Mighty Med.

(Yes, I did spell Kaz and Oliver's name wrong on purpose - I don't believe Tecton to be the type to know how names are spelled.)