"No this is impossible. She can't have that much power." Logan exclaimed.
"Why did you think Charles, Strange and the rest of the Illuminati decided to finish her? Even Erik was onboard with it." John said. Logan sat there contemplating. He couldn't believe that Scarlet Witch just changed the whole world with her power alone. Even Clint came to life who was dead due to the attack of Kree.
"I understand.. But who the f**k are you? Thank you for the food but how do you remember all of this? Are you like me? A mutant who has healing powers?" Wolverine. He didn't ask that question before because he was too overwhelmed but now that he knew why this world was out of place he needed to know who this charming person was.
"I wasn't present when all of this went down. Actually I came to this universe a few hours ago. I know all of this is because of other reasons."
"Another universe? You mean a parallel universe? What is your name?" Logan asked.
"Yes, another parallel universe. My name is John Jameson. Yes, I am the son of J Jonah Jameson from another universe."
"Oh. You seem to know a lot even if you belonged to another universe." Logan said.
"I do. But that is not the main point here. The people here are confused about why we think the world is upside down. Why don't you tell them." John said.
Wolverine nodded and then proceeded to tell about why he thought the world was wrong. Their mission was to kill Scarlet Witch but they failed to do so. And Wanda went full crazy, changing the whole world.
"Even if we trust you, how do you retain such memories?" Moon Knight asked.
"I don't know." Logan said.
"There are two reasons that I can think of." John interrupted in the middle.
"Oh. Tell me then." Logan said.
"Firstly, his body can heal faster than normal and he has been brainwashed so many times that even his brain can resist changes done to it. And secondly, his greatest wish was retaining all the memories of his past. Wanda didn't fulfil that but she at least gave his memories of his previous life."
"How twisted and horrifying." Barbara mumbled as she heard the whole story from Wolverine. Now she understood why both John and Layla claimed the world was upside down.
A world where mutants were in minority and humans in majority. A person having enough power to change reality.
"Even after what you said is true, how will we convince the masses?" Luke asked.
"You can't. But Layla here can help." John said.
"Huh! What do you mean?"
"Layla has the power to reinstate all your memories. Isn't it right Layla?" John asked and all looked at Layla who was happily putting a lollipop in her mouth that John gave.
When all looked at her she smiled and nodded.
"Then why didn't you tell us before?" Clint asked.
"Because I wanted to see you all being confused for a longer time. Anyway seeing is believing. But now Logan is here so you can start the process. Layla, can you reinstate their memories?" John asked.
"Sure." Layla said.
"Who will volunteer first? Please raise your hand." John said out loud. Many raised their hands.
"Luke, you are the leader, you should get to see the old world first." John said. Luke nodded his head and came near Layla.
"How does this whole process work?" Luke asked.
"Uncle. I need to touch your forehead to bring the memories back." Layla said. Luke nodded and he bent down to let Layla touch his forehead. After she touched his forehead for a few seconds, Luke opened his eyes.
He had tears. His memories got reinstated but now that he looked at everything from the previous world, he was sad. He thought the previous world would be utopia. But it was far from that. He had lost so much. Their fights, their struggles.
Their sacrifices. And if that was not enough he saw Clint being dead. Even if this world was fake, his current memories were filled from the start of his childhood. Even though he hated everything in this world, at least a major portion of the world was happy.
And now if they went and changed everything back, it would be back to normal. A struggling life.
John who saw the tears knew that Luke came to know everything of his past. He went and put his hand on his shoulders
"Reality hurts. Doesn't it?"
"It does. This is f**ked up. Do we even deserve such a world? This world is much better than we had before." Luke said. His words surprised all of them. All the members of the Resistance thought their actual world would be perfect.
But from Luke's words, it didn't seem like that.
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"So you can decide if you want the world back or do you want to continue as it was before." John said. He really wanted to know if his butterfly effect could change the decisions of these people.
Luke, who was on his knees, got up slowly. He still had tears in his eyes. He looked at his comrades who had expecting eyes. He then sighed as he knew that everything should be returned to normal. Even though it would be bad, they had to accept it.
"Go. All of you. Get your memories back. All I can say is expect the worst. Clint will be the last one to go." Luke said.
"Hey. Why am I the last?" Clint asked. Luke just shook his head refusing to answer. Thus all the members of the Resistance went to get their memories back from Layla.
And after getting their memories all had tears in their eyes. Even Moon Knight who always showed a face of no emotions had wet eyes.
And finally it was time for Clint. He had a very bad feeling about it. He didn't know why Luke asked him to be the last, but his instincts told him that whatever happened in the past for him was very bad.
Like others he bent down and Layla touched her forehead. All the members who now knew that Clint was dead were more sad now. This would be mind blowing for him, and not in a good way.
And after a few seconds getting all his memories, he broke down. He started crying loudly. And after some time, his cries turned into laughter. What he saw in his memories was what he never expected. He thought it was bad, but didn't expect his whole existence to be false.
His face was laden with tears but also had huge anger. Clint really didn't know how to express himself. He was dead, killed by the Kree. The Kree which was brought by Scarlet Witch. He hated her. He wanted nothing to just tear her apart. Just so that she lost her imaginary children she blamed all of them.
And then Clint remembered one of the first words of John. It was ' .... not babysit someone who lost her imaginary children.'
Clint looked at John. From his face, he could immediately tell that John knew of his death long ago. Maybe that was why he was more irritated with him.
"You knew about this?" Clint asked in an angry tone.
"I did." John nodded.
"No.. No... NOOOO... This can't be happening. I .... I don't know.... I..." Clint said as he just sat down in his place. He still couldn't accept it. All the members came near and sat.
Barbara just hugged him. All felt bad about what had happened to Clint. There was utter silence in the room. Wolverine too was sad seeing Clint had a breakdown. He couldn't imagine how anybody would feel in such a situation.
A person who was neither dead nor alive.
After almost 10 minutes of silence John finally spoke up
"Still want to go to the old world?"
"We will. Even if I die again, I will go back. There is no turning back. I want to kill her with my own hands." Clint raged as he spoke those words. He was unbelievably angry. John clapped his hands when Clint said that. He didn't expect that Clint was the first person who would say such words.
"Cool. I didn't expect such words from you Clint. As a gift, you can keep this suit that I lent you forever." John said.
"I thought you gave me a gift when you changed my suit. Not gonna lie, this suit is much better than my previous one." Clint said. John didn't refute him.
"So what are we going to do now?" Wolverine asked.
"Gather the old heroes. Peter, Emma, Scott, She-Hulk, Strange.... I think many will be on board with it." John said.
"Will the mutants even help us? They have a utopia here." Cloak asked.
"Some mutants will, some will definitely resist." John said.
"You said you know the future too. Can you tell us what is going to happen?" Moon Knight asked as he remembered all that John had said.
"I can't say everything because if I say it, it won't happen." John said, copying the famous last words of Strange to Tony. This was a lie for John because he had already changed the story. Now he was just having fun in all of this.
Scarlet Witch was a nexus being, even if his actions changed many things, at the end Immortus would take care of it. And John wanted him to show up so that he could beat the s**t out of him.
"Where do you want to go first?" John asked.
"We need to meet Emma and Scott. They are powerful mutants and have huge authority. And they are my friends from the previous world. I am sure they will be convinced." Wolverine said.