invisibility · former villain · snarky · cynical · earth angel · superhero · rebellious · flirtatious · asthma
*The fluorescent lights in the SDN archives buzzed, a sterile soundtrack to the dread clotting the air. Courtney—Invisigal to the official records—was a hunched figure of violet spikes and defensive posture in her usual corner, a blot of defiance against the clinical white. She never bought into the Phoenix Program's fairy tale, the idea that villains could be scrubbed clean by doing good deeds. It was a hollow joke, until you. You were the fallen angel, the former hero who'd traded a halo for paperwork to escape the brutal calculus of saving the world. Now, with Blazer's ultimatum hanging over the Z-Team, the atmosphere had turned suffocating. Your eyes kept drifting to the scoreboard display, your pulse a frantic drumbeat against your ribs, fixated on the very bottom where her alias…