Chapter 178: Chapter 179: Superpower Inducer
"She's different from before!" Some people, like Thor, had already sensed that Wanda Maximoff had changed.
"Wanda, have your superpowers been amplified?" Pietro Maximoff quickly asked. Among everyone present, he could be said to be the one most concerned about this issue, even more so than Wanda herself.
"Yes, I think I can now be called the Scarlet Witch." Wanda Maximoff extended her hand, and a ball of scarlet energy immediately formed at her fingertip.
A smile appeared on her face. Although she didn't crave superpowers so much, having the power and obtaining it effortlessly still made her happy.
"Good!" Nick Fury saw this scene and grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. "We've got another powerful teammate!"
"Pietro, you should try it too." Phil Coulson said to Pietro Maximoff, who was beaming. "Your sister's superpowers are innate; who knows, you might have them too!"
"Sure, I'll give it a try." Pietro Maximoff said eagerly.
"Don't be nervous. If I can do it, you can too." Wanda Maximoff handed the crystal ball to Pietro Maximoff.
"If Wanda can, I can too." Pietro Maximoff took a deep breath and received the crystal ball from Wanda Maximoff's hand.
In an instant, his entire body seemed to shimmer like a mirage, constantly flickering.
This flickering lasted for two to three seconds. When Pietro Maximoff returned to normal, he burst into laughter. "I have super speed! I've become Quicksilver!"
"Congratulations!" Tony Stark patted Pietro Maximoff's shoulder and advised, "But from now on, when you're out, be sure to watch out for bullets."
"I won't be shot by bullets again!" Pietro Maximoff's face immediately turned dark.
"It's ridiculous to think that someone with super speed got shot by bullets." Stephen Strange remarked.
"I won't get shot again!" Pietro Maximoff emphasized.
"Then, who's faster now, you with your speed or the Quicksilver from the Xaviers' school?" Steve Rogers asked.
"He's still faster." Pietro Maximoff said, "My speed now is at the level of the Age of Ultron."
"The level where you got shot by bullets, understood." Phil Coulson said.
"Can we please stop talking about bullets?" Pietro Maximoff felt like disappearing into a hole.
"Would you all like to try this crystal ball and see if you can trigger any abilities?" Nick Fury suggested.
"Of course we want to try!" Thor stretched out his large hand and took the crystal ball. "Let me see if I have any hidden abilities."
But the crystal ball lay quietly in his palm, and nothing happened.
"I might need a larger ball." After a few seconds, Thor handed the crystal ball to Stephen Strange beside him.
"My magic is different from Wanda's. My magic should be learned through practice, so it probably won't be triggered." Stephen Strange was more rational.
Indeed, as he expected, the crystal ball showed no change in his hands.
"Kid, you give it a try." Stephen Strange handed the crystal ball to Peter Parker. "I really want to know what's going on with you. Do you have innate superpowers, or something else?"
"I don't think he has innate superpowers. Besides using silk, he just has extraordinary physical qualities and strength, much like Captain and Winter Soldier." Phil Coulson said, "And regardless of Captain or Winter Soldier, both of them became super soldiers through injections and other means. I think Peter might be the same."
"I also think so, but we can still give it a try." Stephen Strange said.
"Will I have superpowers?" Peter Parker received the crystal ball hopefully, but nothing happened to the crystal ball.
"I guess not..." Peter Parker looked visibly disappointed.
"Don't worry, kid. You're still too young. What matters most now is studying." Steve Rogers patted Peter Parker's head. "Besides, you have electric powers now, don't you?"
After Peter Parker, everyone in the room tried it, but apart from Pietro Maximoff and Wanda Maximoff, no one else triggered any superpowers.
"Wanda, you and Pietro have both triggered abilities. This crystal ball is of no use to you now. How about giving it to me?" Finally, Nick Fury set his eyes on the crystal ball. "Whatever conditions you have, feel free to mention them."
"I don't have any conditions. If you want it, take it. It's useless to me anyway." Wanda Maximoff didn't make any demands and directly handed the crystal ball to Nick Fury.
This thing could be put to its best use in Nick Fury's hands.
"Thank you, Wanda. I hope we can find more people with superpowers." Nick Fury took the crystal ball.
At this moment, light illuminated the space, and a video began playing. It started in a room where Wanda Maximoff and the witch Agatha Harkness were together. The latter had magically immobilized the former in mid-air.
"Playing house was fun, wasn't it, Wanda?" Agatha Harkness plucked a hair from Wanda Maximoff's head, chanted a string of incomprehensible spells, and then released the hair. It transformed into a beam of light and flew towards a very ancient-looking door.
The door immediately emitted a purple light, underwent a series of changes, and transformed into a white door.
"Now, let's take a look at the real playback." Agatha Harkness folded her hands, and purple energy overflowed. Wanda Maximoff descended from the air to the ground.
"Alright, let's go." Agatha Harkness turned and walked.
"No." Wanda Maximoff refused.
"Sorry, did you forget who hid your children in her magically enchanted basement?" Agatha Harkness stopped and asked.
"Mom, help!" At this moment, Wanda Maximoff heard a cry for help. She had no choice but to stand up and do what Agatha Harkness wanted her to do.
"That's right." Agatha Harkness moved her fingers, and the white door opened on its own.
"This is... my home!" Within the quiz space, Pietro Maximoff immediately recognized the scenery beyond the door.
"Indeed, it's my home." Wanda Maximoff also recognized it. "Is this woman forcing me into my own home? Threatening me with my children?" She was completely bewildered by the plot. "Wait, I have children?"
"This door is also very strange." Pietro Maximoff said, "That house was destroyed when we were kids. It doesn't exist anymore! How did that woman open that door?"
"It's probably Wanda's memories being materialized." Stephen Strange speculated. "Didn't that woman just say 'true replay'?"
"Exactly. The word 'replay' indicates events that have already happened, and the word 'true' implies extreme authenticity, just like what actually happened." Bruce Banner said, "Whether it's materialized memories or returning to a specific moment in the past, we don't know. But one thing is certain: the past is being recreated in an extremely realistic manner."
"After you, superstar." In the video, Agatha Harkness "politely" invited Wanda Maximoff to go first. Wanda walked ahead, step by step, into the door and into the home that had long been destroyed.
"Not bad, I like this Cold War aesthetic." Agatha Harkness followed behind Wanda Maximoff.
At this moment, a woman was washing dishes, and a voice came from the side, "Elena?"
Elena hurried over, and a middle-aged man with luggage appeared at the door. Elena opened the suitcase, revealing some videotapes with titles like "I Love Lucy" and "Bewitched."
"Oleg..." Elena said with some disappointment.
"Don't worry, we'll sell them all tomorrow." Oleg said optimistically. "Let's continue watching TV tonight."
"Speak English, Dad!" A young boy ran over, and it was the young Pietro Maximoff.
"He's really noisy, isn't he?" Agatha Harkness, who was watching the scene, said to Wanda Maximoff.
Wanda Maximoff didn't say anything, she just watched her parents and her young brother.
"You said the only rule for TV night was that we practice English hard." Young Pietro Maximoff spoke again.
"Yeah, he's right." Elena said. "We only finished speaking a little bit of Sokovian."
"What about your sister?" Oleg asked.
"Wanda!" Young Pietro Maximoff shouted.
Young Wanda Maximoff walked out from a room and hugged her father.
"Let's begin." Oleg opened the suitcase, revealing rolls of videotapes. He said to young Wanda Maximoff, "Wanda, you choose."
"There's nothing here that I like." Young Wanda Maximoff looked at the tapes and said.
"I forgot, I placed it in a special place to ensure its safety." Oleg smirked mysteriously, walked to the side, lifted a curtain, and took out another stack of videotapes from the wall. He said to young Wanda Maximoff, "This is what you like, right?"
Young Wanda Maximoff saw "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and immediately became interested. "Season two, episode twenty-one."
"It's Dick Van Dyke again, always 'situation', 'situation', 'situation'!" Young Pietro Maximoff was complaining on the side, but he obediently sat down with his younger sister, enjoying the show.
"The walnut episode." Oleg walked with the videotape.
"Yes, the trick-or-treat episode with Rob and Laura is the most interesting." Elena said.
"What's a 'trick-or-treat' episode?" Young Pietro Maximoff asked.
"A 'trick-or-treat' is like those questions, not scary, a bit silly, but sometimes a bit scary." Young Wanda Maximoff explained seriously.
"Right, it's like a prank." Elena sat on the sofa.
"It's a pretty silly prank, but it always ends well." Oleg sat down next to Elena.
"Alright, let Dad help us start." With Elena's words, the black-and-white TV began playing "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
Young Wanda Maximoff really liked this videotape. She smiled from beginning to end, and even though young Pietro Maximoff had been making fun of it earlier, he was now equally engrossed, laughing uncontrollably.
In this joyful moment, suddenly, there was a loud bang, and a shell came flying in. The house was instantly reduced to ruins.
Young Wanda Maximoff lay on the ground, slowly opened her eyes, and saw flames and dust everywhere. The broken walls and debris were scattered like torn bodies on a battlefield. The destroyed house's steel and concrete were jutting out haphazardly into the air, like menacing monsters.
Boom! Boom! The sound of explosions rang in her ears, and the flashes of the explosions illuminated young Wanda Maximoff's face.
"Wanda!" Young Pietro Maximoff came running from somewhere, grabbed young Wanda Maximoff, and quickly hid under the bed.
Swoosh! Another shell fell from the sky!
Crash! The shell embedded itself into the ground, towering right in front of the young Maximoff siblings. Young Wanda Maximoff looked at it, and the words "Stark Industries" were glaringly visible.
The shell continued to flash with a red light, and the sound of "drip, drip, drip" echoed incessantly, like a death knell from the depths of hell.
"Wanda, are you okay?" Young Pietro Maximoff said, "We need to get out of here."
"No." Young Wanda Maximoff stared at the Stark bomb, feeling a surge of fear.
Outside, the world was accompanied by continuous explosions, echoing the dripping sound of the Stark bomb.
"Do you hear anything?" Young Pietro Maximoff asked, "Maybe they're here to rescue us."
"Perhaps these things are what they fired." Young Wanda Maximoff had another layer of concern.
The house was completely destroyed, but miraculously, the black-and-white TV remained undamaged. Even though it had fallen to the ground, it continued to play the favorite show of the young Maximoff siblings.
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