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"Oh, no problem, my love."
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Wanda
Wanda Vision
Don't try to fight the chaos
Don't question what you've done
The game can try to play us
Don't let it stop the fun
Some days it's all confusion
Easy come and easy to
But if it's all illusion
Sit back, enjoy the show
Let's keep it going
Let's keep it going
Through each distorted day
Let's keep it going
Though there may be no way of knowing
Who's coming by to play
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"Halloween's a magical holiday." Billy said, looking at the camera. "All about family, friends and the thrill of getting to be someone else for a day."
"Wrong! Halloween's about candy." Tommy interrupted. "And scaring people, but mostly candy."
"Where's your costume, Tommy?" Billy asked.
"This is my costume. I'm the cool twin." Tommy answered.
"What does that make me?" Billy questioned.
Tommy hummed, thinking back to when Billy fell over playing down sore of Just Dance game.
"A dorksaurus Rex." Tommy responded.
"Not a real dinosaur." Billy stated and Tommy chuckled.
The twins walked into the living room with their breakfast to see Pietro asleep on the settee, sniffing loudly.
"Man. He even snores cool. I'm gonna go wake him up." Tommy stated, about to move but Billy grabbed his arm.
"Don't." Billy hissed.
"You scared?" Tommy asked, not knowing Pietro had actually woken up.
"He's our uncle. Why would I be scared?" Billy shot back.
"'Cause it's four o'clock in the afternoon. You're secretly afraid he's a vampire." Tommy taunted.
"No, I'm not." Billy shot back.
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not.
"Blood is thicker than water!" Pietro suddenly yelled, having sped towards the twins with his powers, the boys screaming. "I show you!"
They tried to run but Pietro sped around them, all of them still screaming loudly. This continued, Pietro speeding around the living room until he stopped, pretending to stab them both, making a squeaking noise.
"Oh! Somebody better be bleeding, broken or on fire." Wanda said, coming down the stairs.
"Whoa, Mum. Are you old Red Riding Hood?" Billy asked and Pietro snorted.
"I'm a Sokovian fortune teller." Wanda corrected, posing.
"Wow. That is so-"
"Rad." Tommy chuckled.
"-lame." Pietro finished.
"'Lame'." Tommy repeated.
"Worse than the costumes mum made us the year we got typhus." Pietro said and Wanda remembered the two of them on a doorstep, Pietro with an eyepatch on and Wanda with antenna before an old woman offered them a fish.
"That's not exactly how I remember it." Wanda mused.
"You probably suppressed a lot of the trauma." Pietro stated.
"Mum's been weird since Uncle Pietro got here." Billy told the camera. "I think it's because she hasn't seen him in a long time. And he's what you call, 'a man child'."
Vision trotted downstairs in a bright yellow and green outfit, face painted red and a false Mind Stone on his forehead that was attached to his hood and he sighed.
"Whoa! Sweet costume bro-ham-in-law. Let me guess. Uh, traffic light. Half-shucked corn. A booger!" Pietro listed.
"Yes." Vision relented.
"Yes!" Pietro exclaimed.
"Well, thank you for humouring me and wearing this ridiculous get-up, honey." Wanda smiled.
"Well, there were no other clothes in my closet, so..." Vision trailed off, looking bored and annoyed before he smiled. "You are incorrigible, darling. I know you have a secret thing for Mexican wrestlers."
"Mi gusts mucho." Wanda whispered.
"Chilli con carne." Vision responded and Wanda giggled. "What do you say, boys? Who's ready for that first hit of high fructose corn syrup?"
"Yes! Headlock!" Billy cheered as him and Tommy played video game with Pietro.
"I'll take some sugar." Nova smiled, hair now short and wearing blue trousers that were rolled up above some black boots with a red scarf like belt around her waist, a white shirt tucked into the trousers that was undone a few, walking in with Natasha, hands linked like usual before she spotted Vision and Wanda's outfits. "I'm guessing Red Riding Hood and a machine that blinds you."
"Very good." Vision rolled his eyes jokingly before turning back to look at Pietro. "Never told me much about your brother. I had no idea he'd be so..."
"Go!" Pietro yelled and all three of the boys chugged their pop from a hole in the can.
"Great with kids." Vision stuck his thumb up as the all burped.
"Impressive." Nova mused.
"Don't even think about competing." Natasha warned, dressed in a dress that had a light blue skirt, a navy corset with a long sleeved sky blue shirt underneath, hair long and flowing with a big blue bow in it, shirt heeled black shoes on.
"Ruin all the fun." Nova huffed.
"Yeah. He's just full of surprises." Wanda stated.
"Well, you have fun tonight, darling." Vision smiled.
"What? What do you mean? You're all dressed and ready to go." Wanda objected and Natasha and Nova moved out of the way.
"I'm undercover. Halloween is a bacchanal for adolescent trouble-makers and the neighbourhood watch is the only thing that stands between the trees and the toilet paper." Vision replied.
"No, that's not what you're supposed to-"
"What?" Vision interrupted, putting his hands on his hips.
"Well..." Wand trailed off in a sigh. "You didn't tell me you had plans."
"Well, I am telling you now." Vision stated.
"Mum and Dad have been, not fighting, just, like, different." Billy told the audience.
"It's their first Halloween. You have to be there." Wanda ordered.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's the big dealio?" Pietro asked, walking over to the couple. "Big guys has a conflict, twins need a father figure for the night. Don't sweat it, did. I got the old XY chromosome. Uncle P to the rescue, huh?"
"There you go. Problem solved." Vision said, punching Pietro on the chest lightly. "You have a spooky time tonight, kids."
"Goodnight, Dad!" Tommy called.
"Bye, Dad." Billy said.
"Why are you two dressed up?" Vision asked suddenly. "And who are you?"
"Uh, our new neighbours, Wade and Steve, need to fix up their house so we're taking their niece trick or treating for them." Nova explained with a smile.
"And we're Ariel and Eric from The Little Mermaid. Only Eric has tattoos." Natasha smiled, tightening the blue bow on her head a little.
"I used to love that film." Nova sighed before she suddenly span around. "Sorry. Thought I heard something. Must have been wind."
"Ah, love it. Wanda?" Vision asked, kissing her on the cheek. "Be good. I smell crime."
Vision left and Wand a locked the door behind him. She span around and Pietro was standing right there making her scream in surprise.
"Don't do that!" She yelled.
"Where do you keep your water balloons?" Pietro quizzed.
"What? We don't have water balloons." Wanda denied.
"Where are we gonna out all this shaving cream?" Pietro asked, hoping up two cans of shaving cream.
"Oh." Wanda breathed, disappointed.
"It was Billy's idea." Pietro blamed, pointing at one of the twins.
"I'm Tommy." Tommy stated.
"And don't you forget it!" Pietro shouted.
"You don't even have a costume." Wanda interrupted, looking at Pietro who scoffed.
Pietro grabbed Tommy's hand and the two whizzed out the door with the help of Pietro's powers and in a second they were back with their hair in a funny doo and a blue shirt on with a lightning bolt across it.
"You look like a pair of owls." Nova spoke up, gesturing to their hair.
"You're in love with a woman that's part fish." Pietro shot back.
"Not right now." Nova mumbled. "I won that."
"Sure you did, honey." Natasha muttered, patting her arm.
"Okay but..." Wanda sighed, looking at the two very similar boys. "Just remember that this is a respectable family. If I see any funny business, I'm going to magic you into a pickled herring."
"Who is talking?" Nova asked quietly, spinning around again, waving a hand behind her head. "Did you hear that?"
"No. What'd it sound like?" Natasha questioned, smoothing out the tall woman's white shirt.
"Deep voice, kinda like a growl. Kinda hot actually. Probably going mad." Nova chuckled confused.
"Hm, well, you are going mad because you're in love with someone that's part fish." Natasha repeated Pietro'a earlier statement with a smirk.
"Hey! It happens that Ariel and Eric were my bisexual awakening." Nova scoffed.
"It came out in the '80s, in which you were with me." Natasha said in confusion.
"I feel funny. Maybe too many Mars bars." Nova joked with a grin, kissing her softly as she cradled her jaw lovingly. "Now, Ariel, we got fish to fry."
"Half of me is deeply offended."
"Oh, I am sorry my sweet, saucy salmon."
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"I wanna see a full work-up inside the hour." Hayward ordered as he passed someone putting the fizzing missile onto a table for examination.
"Hayward." Monica spoke up, walking behind him. "Hayward! You cut us off at the knees, sending in that missile."
"Now we know who we're dealing with." Hayward replied.
"Hey, there he is. The guy who almost got murdered by his own murder squad." Darcy chimed in from beside Jimmy.
"You work for me?" Hayward demanded.
"I actually don't know." Darcy mused.
"She's with me." Monica stated firmly.
"I see. And which one of you is the sassy best friend?" Hayward asked.
"There is not time for you to diminish your colleagues, when you're about to start a war you can't win." Jimmy spoke up.
"Maximoff was never gonna negotiate with us. We take her out, this whole nightmare ends." Hayward responded.
"We don't know that. We actually have no idea what will happen in there or out here if Wanda dies." Monica argued.
"So, what? We just surrender to that?" Hayward asked, pointing at the Hex. "Not happening."
"We can't outgun her. And clearly antagonising her is only making things worse. If Wanda is the problem, she has to be our solution." Monica explained.
"Captain Rambeau, you have become an impediment to this mission. Constantly advocating on behalf of super-powered individuals. Yes, I know you're history with Carol Danvers. You know, you people who left, still have the luxury of optimism. You have no idea what it was like. What it took to keep the lights on." Hayward said.
"Don't use the last five years as an excuse to be a coward." Monica shot back confidently.
"Maybe it's a good thing you weren't here when your mother died." Hayward replied. "Because clearly you don't have the stomach for this job. Get her off my base. Now. All of 'em."
"Alright. Come on. Let's go." A soldier ordered, leading Monica, Jimmy and Darcy out of the base.
"Hayward is way overstepping his provisional authority." Jimmy said as the three were now outside, soldiers still behind them.
"He was looking for a reason to sideline us." Monica spoke up. "He's up to something."
"Let's go. Everybody in!" A soldier yelled and Jimmy grunted, punching him in the face.
Darcy watched as Monic and Jimmy fought the soldiers, moving their guns out of their line and hitting them, twisting back their arms and punching at them. Monica yelled, kicking a soldier and knocking him out, holding his gun.
"Why didn't anyone tell me the plan?" Darcy asked.
"You okay?" Jimmy questioned Monica.
"Yeah. Let's move." She nodded and they started to drag the soldiers unconscious bodies away in trailers to hide them, coming out in raincoats and caps to hide themselves.
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"Hiya!" Wade grinned as he pulled open the door, paint all over his clothes and body.
"Evening." Nova smiled.
"How are you?" Natasha asked.
"Good, good. Look like I'm part of an art class but good." He joked with a chuckle as Steve joined him, saying hello to the couple. "Love the costumes. Fits perfectly."
"Thanks. Not sure who's idea it was." Natasha replied as small footsteps sounded and Ivy was there in the doorway.
"Hi!" Ivy waved excitedly, stood by Wade's leg who patted her head softly.
"Hey, Ivy. You look lovely." Nova smiled seeing the girl dressed as Alice from Alice in Wonderland for Halloween. "Gotta love Disney. Ready to go?"
"Yeah!" Ivy cheered, moving to stand in between the two women.
"Okay, be good and don't go too far." Steve warned. "Also, when you get home, hide the sweets from Wade."
"Hey!" Wade said, offended.
"I most definitely will." Ivy giggled before retaking Nova and Natasha's hands, dragging them away.
"Thanks for this." Steve said to the women.
"No problem." Natasha chuckled as the girl continued to tug them out of the driveway.
"Hey, guys." Wanda smiled, walking over to them with Pietro, Billy and Tommy. Her smile was almost hesitant as she saw Ivy's hands linked with Nova's and Natasha's.
"You good?" Nova raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, fine." Wanda nodded.
"Go say hi to Billy and Tommy if you like." Natasha whispered to Ivy who nodded, skipping towards the boys and introducing herself, the twins doing the same.
"This is it. Game time." Tommy said, the three kids ahead of the adults as children swarmed around the street in costumes and pumpkin buckets in hand.
"It's not a competition, Tommy." Billy objected.
"It is if you're a winner." Tommy responded and Ivy giggled as Tommy ran away, her joining him.
"Tommy." Billy whined, following the two.
"Unleash he'll, demon spawn." Pietro shouted after them and turned to Wanda who chuckled.
"Do you remember when we were at the orphanage after mum and dad died?" Wanda asked. "What was the name of the kid who was always trying to steal your boots? You know, he was the one... He had the... He had the skin thing."
"You're testing me." Pietro smirked, pointing at her.
"No, I'm not." Wanda lied.
"Hey, it's cool. I know I look different." Pietro surrendered.
"Why do you... look different?" Wanda questioned.
"You tell me. I mean, if I found Shangri-La, I wouldn't wanna be reminded of the past either." Pietro stated.
"Odd thing to say." Nova chuckled softly.
"Next house, Mum." Tommy laughed, running back over with Ivy and Billy.
"Junior entrepreneur, over here." Pietro smiled. "How about you let Uncle P help you maximise your candy acquisition, huh?"
"Yeah. Kick-ass!" Tommy exclaimed.
"'I feel the need-'"
"-'for speed'." Tommy finished and they all linked hands, Pietro whizzing them away.
"Kick-ass." Wanda repeated.
"Language." Nova gasped before Wanda spotted Herb dressed as Frankenstein.
"Oh, hey, Herb." She smiled.
"Oh, hey!" He greeted as the three women approached.
"How's patrol going?" Natasha asked.
"Eh, quiet, so far. Hold up, will you?" Herb questioned when something sounded over his earpiece. "Say again. All the candy hA disappeared?"
As he said this, Nova held back laughter as she saw Pietro and the three kids whizzing aroun ugh the help of his powers to steal all of the sweets form people's pillow covers and buckets.
"And now all the jack-o'-lanterns have been smashed."
Pietro, Billy, Tommy and Ivy cheered as Pietro slammed a baseball bat into the pumpkins around the street.
"And now everyone's covered in silly string?"
The four then went around spraying everyone with silly string and cheering loudly and happily as they did so.
"Sorry, guys. I gotta bounce." Herb apologised.
"Well, maybe Vision can help you out." Wanda chuckled.
"Vision? Oh, he's not on duty." Herb denied.
"Oh! I... I thought he..." Wanda trailed off.
"Is there something I can do for you, Wanda?" Herb asked. "Do you want something changed?"
"No. It's fine. Never mind." Wanda waved him off.
"Alright. Peace." Herb bid, walking away.
"Strange. Oh, well. C'mon, my fishy wife, we go now." Nova smirked, twirling Natasha around before walking down the street after Ivy.
"You do know how to treat a half fish." Natasha giggled happily.
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Vision walked down the street, the sky darker now. He smiled at a woman who bid him a happy Halloween and continued on, watching people walk. He then stole outside a house where a woman was just lifting decorations up and down repeatedly, a man behind her repeatedly putting a pumpkin down and then lifting it back again. A tear ran down the woman's cheek but she continued to stare at the washing line where she was 'hanging' the Halloween decorations.
He decided to carry in walking down the road where kids were running towards houses, buckets swaying in their hands as they ran.
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"I'm so hungry, I'd eat anything." A boy sat on a tiny little island said, a crab next to him as he leant on a palm tree.
A shark swam nearby and dove out of the water on a surf board, sunglasses perched on his face as he landed on the island, his surf board flipping to the floor and he took his sunglasses off.
"Hungry? I remember hungry." The shark spoke. "I used to be like that all the time."
"What did you do?" The boy asked.
"Snacked on Yo-Magic, bro." The shark replied, thrusting a box forwards. "Now I have time to hang fin."
"Can I have some?" The boy questioned, holding out his hand.
"Here you go, little dude." The shark responded, throwing him a pot before diving back into the water.
The boy shivered, trying to peel off the lid to the yogurt but got no where. The sky showed change, night coming and going may, many times over and he gradually got skinnier. Eventually, he was a skeleton and the sun rose, him dead still holding the yogurt pot.
"Yo-Magic! The snack for survivors!"
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"This is so lame. I can't believe you're making them return all the candy." Pietro grumbled.
"Agreed. It's Halloween, let them have fun." Nova agreed, arm wrapped tightly around Natasha's shoulders, their hands linked.
"They won't sleep, honey." Natasha chuckled and Wanda shot her a look. "I mean, it's so very bad for them to take other kids sweets."
"I can't believe what a bad influence you are." Wanda shot back.
"Who beefed in your borscht?" Pietro asked. "I'm just trying to do my part, okay? Come to town unexpectedly, create tension with the brother-in-law, stir up trouble with the rug rays, and ultimately give you grief. I mean, that's what you wanted, isn't it?"
"C'mere, Ivy. Let's check for blades." Nova muttered, directing her and Natasha away from the squabble.
"Blades, really?" Natasha asked quietly.
"I keep one under my tongue. It not that strange and people are awful. You don't know what type of people keep blades around." Nova replied with a shrug.
"Are we hearing the same thing?" Natasha asked Ivy who giggled.
"Plus, I can tell by the packaging don't worry. I won't open the sweets, Ivy, I see you grumbling."
"What happened to your accent?" Wanda questioned Pietro.
"What happened to yours?" Pietro shot back. "Details are fuzzy, man. I got shot like a chimp on the street for no reason at all and the next thing I know, I heard you calling me. I knew you needed me."
"Uncle P, guess what?" Tommy asked, running over with Billy, Natasha, Nova and Ivy joining the group.
"They've got full-size candy bars a few blocks up. Mum, can we go?" Billy asked and then Tommy sped off, surprising them.
"Next stop, Cavity Town." Tommy smiled, now back with two large chocolate bars.
"Right on, little dude. Chip off the old Maximoff block." Pietro cheered. "You've got super speed!"
"I do?" Tommy asked with a laugh.
"Yeah!" Pietro high-fived him.
"It's okay, baby. You can take it slow, and you can-"
Wanda was cut off by Tommy zooming around them quickly, cheering madly. Pietro nodded happily, Nova and Natasha amused at Wanda's expression. Wanda then caught Tommy's arm stopping him form speeding around.
"If you're gonna break the sound barrier, please just take your brother with you." Wanda ordered.
"Really?" Billy asked excitedly.
"Really?" Tommy questioned disappointedly.
"Really. Yeah. As well as Ivy. And please just remember to-"
"Don't go past Ellis Avenue." Billy and Tommy chorused.
"We know, Mum. We know." Tommy sassed, taking Billy and Ivy's hands and speeding away.
"Hey! Be carful!" Wanda yelled after them.
"No blades." Nova smiled in satisfaction.
"You don't have one under your tongue, do you?" Natasha asked quietly.
"I do most of the time. Except when I kiss you." Nova answered with a shrug.
"Thanks for the consideration." Natasha smirked.
"Oh, no problem, my love." Nova whispered, leaning down to kiss her softly.
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Monica, Jimmy and Darcy were sneaking around. They snuck into the base to see the broadcast.
"I'm just trying to do my part, okay?" Pietro asked over to broadcast. "Come to town unexpectedly, create tension with the brother-in-law..."
"Who is that?" Monica asked, looking at Pietro.
"Wanda's brother came to town." Jimmy answered.
"He brought the wrong face." Darcy told her.
"Over here." Jimmy called as the broadcast continued.
"We shouldn't hang out here too long." Monica stated as Darcy turning on a computer.
"Uh, give me two seconds." Darcy replied. "I just need to hack into the secure network on the base. Donezo. Now, should be able to access the data on Hayward's devices. Oh. That's interesting. Guys, Hayward figured out a way to look through the boundary."
"And he didn't share it with the group." Monica said in realisation.
"Is this Wanda, right here?" Jimmy asked, pointing at the pulsating dot on the screen.
"No. The program is tracking the decay signature of vibranium." Darcy explained.
"Vision. Wait. Why is Hayward tracking Vision?" Monica questioned.
"I don't know. This is all I can access so far." Darcy responded.
"These other dots, those are Westview residents?" Jimmy quizzed.
"The ones in Vision's immediate vicinity, yeah." Darcy replied.
"Hayward must have an accurate headcount by now." Jimmy told them and Monica hummed, zooming in. "And some sense of their well-being. Huh... These people, near the edge of town... They're barely moving. Are they alive?"
The monster started to beep and the screen was suddenly dragged back over to the pulsating dot that indicated Vision's whereabouts.
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A dog barked in the distance as Vision continued to walk further out of Westview. He saw a family standing together, all completely still, dressed for Halloween but looking into their pillow cases full of sweets. He wakes away from them and approached more people.
"Say, excuse me." Vision began. "Ma'am? Are those your children?" He asked a woman and got no reply yet again. "Are you waiting for someone?" No response.
Vision left their group and started to slowly walk further down again. He eyed the families that were around him, all of them still and staring into space. Nothing was happening, a lamppost flickering above him. The atmosphere was creepy, even for Halloween.
Vision let his normal appearance come back, his original hero form in place, a cape there as well. He took off, flying away high in the air, looking down over the town of Westview. He could hear people laughing, saying happy Halloween and trick or treating at doors as a usual town would do. But this was different.
If he faced one side of the town, he could hear it all. Al the children giggling happily, all the parents talking to their kids, people answering their doors and gushing about how adorable the kids look. But when he turned the other way, it was silent. Eerie silence covering it like a thick blanket.
Then, he spotted a car with its lights on so he flew down and landed in front of it, the light hitting his body. He walked around the car and saw Agnes sitting in it.
"Agnes?" He asked and got no response. "What are you doing here?"
"Town Square Scare. Where is it?" Agnes questioned creepily.
"Oh, well, the Town Square." Vision chuckled softly. "I expect." Agnes chuckled emotionlessly.
"Took a wrong turn." Agnes stated, still in the same emotionless tone. "Got lost."
"In the twin you grew up in?" Vision quizzed and she didn't reply, just stared ahead of her so Vision pressed his fingers to her temples and she gasped. "It's alright."
"You." Agnes gasped, taking in Vision's real appearance. "You're one of the Avengers. You're Vision. Are you here to help us?"
"I am Vision. I do want to help. But what's an Avenger?" Vision asked.
"What?" Agnes questioned confused. "Why don't you know? Am I dead?"
"No, no. Why would you think that?" Vision asked her.
"Because you are." Agnes stated.
"'Cause I'm what?" Vision inquired.
"Dead." Agnes replied. "Dead. Dead! Dead!"
"Agnes, it is my intention to reach those outside of Westview and make sense of our situation." Vision explained.
"How?" Agnes asked desperately. "No one leaves. Wanda won't even let us think about it." Agnes chuckled darkly. "All is lost."
"Agnes..." Vision trailed off and Agnes began to laugh manically. "Agnes, please calm down. Agnes! Please..." She just laughed louder and Vision put his fingers on her temple. "I will fix this, Agnes. I promise."
"Okey-dokey, neighbour." Agnes said, back to her cheerful self before she was driving away. "Happy Halloweenie!"
Vision looked at the stop sign and the street names before started to walk across the road and onto the field, determined in his mind to fix the mess Westview was in.
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Darcy sat at a computer, typing away and a phone started to ring loudly. Monica picked it up and looked at it.
"That's it." She grinned. "My way back into the Hex will be here in an hour. Just gotta meet my guy over the ridge. Let's roll."
"You can't do that." Darcy spoke up.
"Sure we can. I'm a whiz at hot-wiring cars." Jimmy stated.
"You can't go back into the Hex." Darcy explained.
"Worst case scenario, Wanda removed my free will and puts me back in ultra-low-rise jeans." Monica replied with a small chuckle.
"Hayward has your blood work." Darcy continued, turning the computer to show them the information. "You've gone though the boundary twice already, Monica. The energy inside has re-written your cells on a molecular level twice. It's changing you."
"Seen enough lab resists to last em a lifetime. Cells metastasising, cells in remission. I know what Wanda's feeling and I won't stop until I help her." Monica argued.
"Okay." Darcy relented.
"Okay." Jimmy repeated, he and Monica leaving.
"But I'm staying here." Darcy said definitively.
"Wait, you can't stay here. It's not safe."
"What? Darcy, what are you talkin' about?"
"I haven't made it through Hayward's last firewall. There's something big here. Something that can help us. I know it." Darcy nodded.
"Fine. Fine. I'll drop you the location, you meet us out there as soon as you can." Monica ordered before she and Jimmy left, going outside.
The two got into a car and started to drive away.
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Chatter sounded, the night filled with laughter. Ivy giggled loudly as Nova and Natasha help her hands, using their arms to swing her forwards before putting her back down, grins on the women's faces. Wanda looked over at Nova when the tattooed woman looked behind her, checking for that same gravely voice.
"Holy shmacaroni." Pietro smiled and Wanda chuckled, looking away from the three. "Wow!"
"Isn't it great?" Wanda asked as they all walked into some barrels of hay, Ivy on Nova's shoulders.
"Damn it, if Westview, New Jersey isn't charming as hell." Pietro gushed.
"Now, I know that you think that I've gone full soccer mum. But it really is nice, right?" Wanda questioned.
"Yeah." Pietro sighed heavily as Nova out Ivy back on the floor and she ran off with Billy and Tommy, the adults sitting on the bails of hay. "I think Mum and Dad would've loved it."
"Yeah. I think they would have." Wanda agreed.
"Where were you hiding these kids up till now?" Pietro quizzed and Nova and Natasha's eyes snapped towards Wanda.
"What?" Wanda asked.
"I assume they were all sleeping peacefully in their beds. No need to traumatise beyond the occasional holiday episode cameo, right?" Pietro continued.
"Wanda, what is he talking about?" Natasha chuckled in disbelief.
"No-"
"You were always the empathetic twin." Pietro smiled.
"I don't... I don't..."
"Don't get me wrong. You've handled the ethical considerations of this scenario as best you could. Families and couples stay together, well, apart from these two and their daughter, most personalities aren't for from what's underneath, people got better jobs, better haircuts, for sure." Pietro explained.
"You don't think it's wrong?" Wanda asked.
"What, are you kidding?" Pietro questioned. "I'm impressed! Seriously. It's a big leap from giving people nightmares and shooting red wiggly-woos out of your hands."
"Wanda." Nova snapped suddenly and Wanda turned to her and Natasha. "What aren't you telling us? What did he mean by our daughter?"
"They don't know?" Pietro asked quietly. "Oh, sorry."
"You don't have a daughter." Wanda replied definitively and she saw the two standing up. "C'mon, stay. It's Halloween."
"No. We're okay." Natasha nodded.
"Ivy! C'mere! We're taking you back to your Uncles!" Nova called and the little girl came running over.
"Why?" She asked sadly.
"See? She wants to stay out. Stay with us. Trust me-"
"No, Wanda. We're taking her home and going to sleep. And no, right now, I'm not trusting you." Nova snapped, picking up Ivy and the girl wrapped her legs around her middle, arms around her neck and waved bye to Wanda a they all walked away.
"How'd you even do all this?" Pietro asked once they were gone. "Hey, I'm not some stranger, or your fellow Avengers and I'm not your husband. You can talk to me."
"I don't know how I did it." Wanda shook her head after a moment of silence. "I... I only remember feeling completely alone. Empty. I just... Endless nothingness."
She looked away, sniffling slightly before turning back to Pietro and gasping as she saw his body full of bullet wounds. His face was paler an eyes clouded and blank, blood seeping from his wounds. She turned away and then back again to see him fine again.
"Are you okay?" Pietro asked.
"I'm fine." Wanda stated.
"Uh-huh." Pietro replied, unconvinced.
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Electronics beeped around Darcy s she sat on her laptop, typing away. A file came up and she leant closer to the laptop.
"Hayward, you sneaky bastard." Darcy mumbled.
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Inside the main room where Hayward was, the hologram of Westview started to move, the circle pulsating.
"Move out." Hayward ordered.
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"Vision." Darcy muttered, seeming the circle pulsate. "Whats he doing?"
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Inside of Westview Vision was walking further and further to the edge of the mysterious town. He stopped as he saw the crackling border of the Hex, looking almost like Tv static.
It started to move towards him. Pushing through it, he tried to pass the boarder, forcing himself through the static like area. Cars ahead of him pulled up, checking the surroundings but they couldn't see anything just yet.
Vision finally broke through it with some struggle and everyone watched. Darcy ran out of the base, stalling to marvel at the display ahead of her. Vision's full body was now out of it and he grunted. He tired to pain himself forwards and continued to grunt in pain.
"He really does want out, doesn't he?" Hayward asked.
Vision grunted, forcing himself forwards but his body seemed to be peeling away in tiny fragments. He fell to his knees, grunting in pain slightly as more of him fell away and into the Hex. Chunks of him were now falling away from him and being sucked back into Westview.
"Oh, no." Darcy mumbled before running forwards. "Why aren't you helping him? Stop! He's coming apart!"
"Hey!" Hayward grunted, catching Darcy before she could help the breaking man.
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Billy looked up having heard his dads grunts with his powers. Hiding his hand out, he stopped Tommy running with telekinesis.
"Whoa, Billy!" Tommy gushed.
"Shh!" Billy hissed.
"Are you okay?" Tommy questioned, unknowing that Billy was hearing his dads screams.
"Mum!" Billy yelled and the twins ran towards Wanda. "Mum! Mum! Mum! Mum!"
"What? What is it, Billy?" Wanda asked quickly.
"I hear Dad in my head. He's in trouble." Billy panted.
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Vision screamed and grunted, reaching out towards the people just watching him literally fall apart.
"Let me go! What are you doing?" Darcy exclaimed as someone handcuffed her to a car. "Help him! Let me go!"
"Help!" Vision yelled as more of him frayed away. "The people need help."
Vision gasped, looking at his hand that was slowly decaying and being sucked back into the Hex. He whimpered and groaned, lying down on the floor in pain as he continued to be broken and forced back into the Hex.
"I don't understand. What's happening to me?" Billy panicked.
"Where is he? Where's your dad?" Wanda demanded.
"Hey, don't sweat it, sis. It's not like your dead husband can die twice." Pietro joked and then grunted as Wanda drives him backwards with her powers.
"Billy, I need you to focus." Wanda stated and Billy shuddered.
"I can't tell. I see these..." Billy trailed off as he saw Vision gal to his knees in sin followed by the soldiers holding guns, "soldiers." He then saw Vision screaming and reaching towards the soldiers. "I think he's dying."
Wanda waved her hands and everything stopped moving around her, it falling silent. Her eyes blazed red and she closed them, power exploding around her.
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"Jimmy. Jimmy, do you see that?" Monica asked, seeing the Hex moving. "Something's happening!"
"It's moving! Go, go!" Jimmy ordered and Monica stepped on the acceleration.
"Go, go, go! Move, move, move!" Hayward yelled as he saw the Hex moving closer to them.
"Are you serious right now?" Darcy demanded as everyone ran off, leaving her handcuffed to the car.
Vision was put back into the Hex and was completely fine again, lying on the floor. Darcy grunted, trying to pull free of the handcuff to run but the Hex reached her.
"Oh, fu-"
Everything inside the shed towards the edge had been turned into a circus. Soldiers were turned into clowns and performance acts by the Hex.
"Push it! Faster!" Hayward ordered in a car and the tyres screeched as they drive away, barley missing being added to the Hex. "Anyone hear my voice? Does anyone read me? Anyone read me, over?"
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