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~ Unknown Location, Unknown Year ~
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— Bryan's P.O.V —
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"Who are you, and why are you with her" said cyclops with his hand over his visored, ready to shoot.
I gave him a stare like he's the biggest idiot in known Universe, and to know the reason for it we have to go back few hours in time.
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~Few hours ago~
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Wanda and I decided to take a vacation on a tropical Planet I found few galaxy away.
The planet has a developed ecosystem, and is ninety nine percent similar to the Earth.
The most shocking and mysterious thing about the planet is that there's no life on it.
You know what, I might as well go to that planet once more after this vacation to find out the reason behind it.
Anyways, I have already prepared everything on a very beautiful Island, from small cottage, to a big storage that has everything we would need, and I even covered the whole island in wards to prevent any mishaps.
We just have to reach there and enjoy the beautiful scenery and nature of the island.
"How long are you gonna take" I called Wanda loudly from outside the house.
"Just a minute." Her equally loud reply came from inside the house.
"That's what you said an hour ago." I annoyedly yelled back.
Many will ask, why are we yelling when we can communicate telepathically from any distance, but what people don't know is that the stronger you get the simpler you want the things to be, using our powers can make things easy, but doing those same things without them had a different charm to it.
Like when someone sees something they can't easily afford, they innately desired to buy them, but If they can buy the same thing easily, that same thing losses much of its value to them.
Same with power, when you have too much, it looses its charm. But of course that doesn't mean I don't desire the power.
Like Leo said, I have been a rich man and I have been a poor man. And I choose rich every fucki*g time!!!.
I will always choose power over powerlessness like any sane person would.
"Bryan, I'm done. How do I look, tell me." Wanda's voice broke me from my idle thoughts.
Looking towards her direction, I saw her looking absolutely refreshing and gorgeous in her greenish floral dress with a summer hat. The dress end's slightly above her knees and is backless.
"You would have looked even better if you have gotten ready two hours ago." I joked, but only got a cute pout in reply.
"Your looking absolutely beautiful, so please stop pouting and let's go." I said and tried to open the portal towards our destination, but Wanda stopped me.
"What?" I question her.
"Let me open the portal. I want to try my new Spatial manipulation ability, send me the location of the planet via telepathy." Wanda replied as she started a opening a portal after I sent her the location.
After she absorbed the Reality-Stone and Mind-Stone based energy without any problem, I thought she could also absorb other's too, so I gave her the Space-Stone's energy and she absorbed that without any problems if you don't consider her sexy moans a problem that is.
Of course I don't think she can absorb energy from the stones directly. The energy from them are too Chaotic and Unruly unlike mine which is very docile and calm.
As I was thinking all this, Wanda's portal suddenly exploded, forming a spatial rift that sucked us in.
I quickly reacted and covered Wanda in my Bio-Electric Aura so the spatial turbulence doesn't rip her to shreds.
I used my own Spatial Manipulation to pull us out from the rift.
"Shit" I cursed after scanning our surroundings and reading the minds of few inhabitants of this place.
"What?" Wanda asked while rubbing her forehead to remove nauseas feeling.
"I have some good news, some bad and some worst too." I told Wanda gravely.
"Start with the same order you mentioned each." Wanda said while still rubbing her forehead.
"The good news is we are on Earth." I paused and used my powers to remove her nausea.
"Thanks, hmm so what's the bad and worst news." Wanda thanked me and asked me to continue.
"Well, the bad news is that we are not on our Earth, the spatial rift pulled us to another universe, and as for the worst news…" I paused to think the best word to describe it. "This Earth is quite similar and at same time different from ours. The worst thing about this Earth is that the humans are currently enslaved by a guy name En Sabah Nur, or the Apocalypse." I stopped talking after seeing Wanda frowning.
"How is that possible? Where's the Avenger?." Wanda confusingly questioned.
"Original Avengers were not around when the Apocalypse attacked, and the newer version wasn't strong enough to stop someone of Apocalypse level." I explained.
"What do you mean not around?" Wanda questions again.
"Well, A strong guy named Thanos attacked the Earth. The Avengers managed to defeat that guy but the price they paid was enormous. Thor and Tony died against him, Hulk got lost in Space, Steve was hit by a time based attack that aged him in to an old man. The rest of the Avengers alongside another group called X-men couldn't defeat Apocalypse." I gave a summary of what I got reading the locals mind.
"What about Pietro? Is he fine." Wanda worried asked which made me dryly looked at her.
"You know know even if there's a Pietro in this Universe, he won't be the same, right?" I questioned her, but seeing her worry not receding even slightly, I sighed and spread my senses to search for Pietro. And after reading some rebel heroes mind, I learned about this Universe's Pietro…and Wanda.
"~Sigh" I sighed again and then continue telling Wanda about Pietro.
"Pietro is fine, he's currently hiding in an underground city below the Kamar Taj alongside the other rebels." I told her
"Why do I feel like you're hiding something from me?" Wanda questioned me while leaning back from my chest.
"I'm not, and listen the situation here is quite complicated, I can already teleport us back, so let's just leave." I'm not really hiding anything important other than her whole new origin.
"What do you mean go back Bryan, we can't just leave them like that, we have to help." Wanda said firmly.
"Wanda the Multiverse is really big, and problems like this are really common, there will be many world we'll visit that will have these same situations, or even worst, and the sooner you learn to let go, the lesser you'll get hurt." I'm genuinely concerned about Wanda's kindness. There are really fucked up world out there. Forget about war-hammer 40k and some other eldritch monstrosity world, worlds like the One Piece, Tensura, Dragon ball are really dark as well.
"Bryan, I know you only help people for just your own satisfaction, and not for some sense of justice or anything, but I can't be like you, I can't help but feel compassion and pity towards these helpless pe-
*BOOOM* Wanda's word got interrupted by the sound of an big explosion.
We both turned our heads towards the explosion and saw few big robots attacking a group weirdly dressed people.
Wanda nudged me to move towards the group, which I complied after releasing one last sigh.
Quickly reaching the location, I saw a group of five fighting three big robots whom I recognised as the X-men and the Sentinel respectively.
The group of five X-men fighting the Sentinels were Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, and Shadow cat. There situation weren't really good. The Sentinels were pushing them to a corner, Nightcrawler can't even properly teleport as the Sentinels are predicting where he will appear before he even teleports.
Seeing there situation getting even dire, I teleported before the fallen Storm and tanked an optic blast from the Sentinel, which would have definitely killed her.
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—— Ororo Munroe's P.O.V ——
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Me, Logan, Scott, Kurt and Kitty were tasked by Magneto to retrieve a very important equipment that is needed for the energy supply of our secret underground city.
God, I never imagined working under Magneto, and taking orders from him, but sometimes in life there are things that you can't really have control over.
One day our biggest problem and struggle was to improve the life our mutant brothers and sisters, then the other day we are doing everything just to survive, and live another day.
If the Sorcerer Supreme Wong haven't given us a safe base and Stark technology that prevents mind reading, Apocalypse would have found us long ago, and wiped us from the face of Earth.
God! Stark was a genius! If only he and other Avengers have survived~sigh.
Anyways our information about the equipment was wrong and instead we walked in trap.
Looking at the laser beam coming towards me, I closed my eyes and accept my imminent fate.
"~Sigh, I hope you guys find a way to defeat Apocalypse..." I muttered underneath my breath.
*Boom* I head an explosion sound and felt slight heat, but the expected pain didn't came.
I quickly opened eyes after the heat and air pressure passed. What came in view stunned me.
A tall, well built man wearing a greenish Hawaiian shirt and khaki short pants stood before me, but that wasn't the thing that surprised me, What did was the ground where both he and me are currently standing, that patch of ground was the only thing that wasn't completely melted from the heat of Sentinel's attack.
"Are you okay?" The unknown man turned his head and questioned me to which I nodded. I couldn't completely see his face with the strawhat he's wearing, but with his jawline and smooth skin I can tell he's definitely an attractive man.
The man then turned his head back towards the Sentinel, and released a purple telekinetic blast from his concealed eyes that instantly shredded the robots in millions of pieces.
The man then flew back into the sky where he embraced by a beautiful women in floral dress, looking at the hugging couple, I can't help but feel slight jealousy towards them, but that feeling completely changed when I recognised the women, although her face is completely unrecognisable, but her aura is not something I can ever forget.
She is The Scarlet Witch, one of the biggest calamity that has hit the Earth and Mutant kind before the Apocalypse. And it's seems I'm not the only one who recognised her.
"Who are you, and why are you with her" Scott questioned as he pressed his hand on his visor dial.
The now visible violet eyes of the man didn't hide his feeling for such action.
Come on Scott, you're embarrassing us, that guy tanked a laser blast from the Sentinels like it was nothing.
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{AN: No chapters tomorrow…and maybe after tomorrow as I have an Exam.}
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