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Doctor Doom’s fortress, in Latveria - where a war is waging between Doom’s forces - his Doombots - and some of the mightiest heroes on Earth! ‘For the record? I am not the kind of guy who says “I told you so”!’ Steve Rogers a.k.a. Captain America remarks to Eli “Patriot” Bradley of the Young Avengers. Patriot knocks back a Doombot with his shield and tells the Avenger that he cannot say how glad he is to hear that. ‘But if I were that guy…’ Captain America remarks as his shield blocks a blast. ‘Hypothetically speaking -’ Eli replies. ‘…I might say something like “See? This is why we didn’t want you kids going after the Scarlet Witch”!’ Cap concludes. ‘Nuff said’ Eli mutters.
But Captain America tells him ‘Not quite’ and points out that there is a legion of Doombots programmed to kill them, while Avengers, Young Avengers and former Avengers are staging what looks like an invasion of Latveria, while Doctor Doom and Magneto try and “out-bad-guy” each other to death. ‘And we’ve got…’ Cap remarks as he looks at Logan a.k.a. Wolverine. ‘We’ve got Wolverine flying backwards through the air’ Patriot exclaims. Cap asks where Wolverine came from, while Eli asks, more importantly, who is powerful enough to do that to Wolverine.
‘That would be me’ a robotic voice announces. ‘Is that…?’ Teddy Altman a.k.a. Hulkling gasps. ‘No, it can’t be…’ the new Vision a.k..a Jonas exclaims. Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man stops in his tracks, as does Carol Danvers a.k.a. Ms Marvel, Pietro “Quicksilver” Maximoff, Tommy “Speed” Shepherd, Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man, Kate “Hawkeye” Bishop, Tony “Iron Man” Stark, and even Doctor Doom and Magneto cease their battle. ‘Nathaniel…’ gasps Cassie “Stature” Lang as Iron Lad flies past everyone. Stature is in her larger form, and Iron Lad tells her that her size marks her a target, so she needs to stand down. ‘Oh, no’ Captain America exclaims. ‘It’s really him. It’s Iron Lad!’ Patriot declares.
Iron Lad and Stature both smile as Stature finds herself in Iron Lad’s arms, catching her after she decreased her size. Cassie asks Iron Lad what he is doing here, how he can even be here and how long he is going to stay. ‘Can you tell I’m happy to see you?’ Cassie exclaims. Nathaniel replies that the feeling is entirely mutual. ‘Good!’ Cassie declares, before asking Nathaniel to answer the questions. Iron Lad replies that it is a long story. Stature asks him to tell her everything and not to leave anything out. ‘It involves time travel’ Iron Lad explains. ‘In that case, give me the gist’ Cassie mutters. ‘Cassie?’ Jonas calls out, dejected as he follows the two. Iron Lad explains that he was monitoring the time stream and could not help but notice that they could use a hand.
Suddenly, Iron Lad separates Magneto and Doctor Doom. ‘What are you -?’ Cassie asks. Iron Lad explains that he is generating twin containment fields, although they will not last long, they will buy them enough time to escape. ‘Did that kid just give Doom and Magneto a high-tech time-out?’ Simon asks. Carol announces that the kid is from the 30th Century and grows up to become Kang the Conqueror. ‘Yeesh, what’s he doing here?’ Simon asks. Iron Man explains that the last time he was here, Iron Lad was trying not to become Kang the Conqueror. ‘If you single-handedly take out Magneto and Doom, how do you not become Kang the Conqueror?’ Simon asks. Tony replies that he is guessing that is what Iron Lad is here to find out.
Stature shrinks down to a small size and sits on Iron Lad’s shoulder as he flies towards the others, asking them if they are okay. ‘You tell us. Should we be worried that you’re here?’ Patriot asks. Battling the Doombots still, Kate agrees, and asks Iron Lad if his presence here doesn’t threaten the whole time-space continuum. Blasting some Doombots away, Iron Lad replies that he has gotten pretty good at navigating divergent timelines, so when he saw that Billy was in trouble - ‘You saw Billy? Where is he? Is he all right?’ Hulkling asks as he pummels two Doombots.
Iron Lad replies that Billy is fine, that he is with the Scarlet Witch. ‘You found the Scarlet Witch?’ Hulkling asks. Iron Lad explains that Billy did, and that they are just outside the city. ‘No, they’re not’ Speed replies. ‘How do you -?’ Iron Lad begins to ask, but Tommy explains that he just circled the city at super speed and they are not there. Stature drops down from Iron Lad’s shoulder and points out that they are not the only ones missing. Indeed, above everyone, Magneto shouts ‘Where is he? Where’s Doom?’
‘Victor, stop! You’re killing him! Victor, please! He’s only a child!’ Wanda Maximoff calls out as Doctor Doom engulfs Billy Kaplan a.k.a. Wiccan in energy. Wiccan keels backwards, while Doom remarks that, apparently, Wiccan is much more than a child, and reminds Wanda that even without his powers, he still managed to escape his cell, contact his allies and kidnap her. ‘He didn’t do any of that. I’m the one who freed him’ Wanda, still in her wedding dress, explains. ‘You?’ Doom asks. Wanda points out Wiccan traveled halfway around the world and risked his life looking for her, so she had to find out why. ‘And did you?’ Doom asks as he turns to Wanda, who replies that Wiccan told her his story. Doom asks her if she believes him. ‘Do I believe that I’m an all-powerful sorceress who lost her children and murdered her teammates? No, Victor. But the real question is…why are you so afraid I’d believe such a story?’ Wanda replies.
Doom doesn’t reply, and suddenly, ‘DOOM!’ shouts Magneto as he, Ms Marvel, Wonder Man, Iron Man and Spider-Man appear. Magneto bathes Doom in magnetic energies, while Wanda helps Wiccan up, though she calls out to Doom. Wiccan tells Wanda that they have got to get out of here, but Wanda exclaims that she cannot just leave Victor. ‘Believe me, Doom can take care of himself’ Wiccan tells Wanda, adding that they have to get her someplace safe where no one will try to capture her - or kill her - or marry her. ‘I think we might be able to help with that’ a voice exclaims as Wiccan and Wanda make their way through the forest.
Wiccan looks up and sees Iron Lad, with the rest of the Young Avengers. Wiccan and Hulkling smile at each other, and Wiccan tells his teammates that he is so happy to see them right now, he almost doesn’t care that they are about to start yelling at him. ‘Good, because -’ Teddy begins, ‘I said “almost”!’ Wiccan exclaims. ‘The Young Avengers, I presume?’ Wanda asks. ‘Guys, allow me to introduce -’ Billy begins, but Tommy interrupts: ‘The Scarlet Witch’ he exclaims. ‘I can’t believe it, Kaplan. You actually found her’. ‘I am not the Scarlet Witch’ Wanda replies, as Billy announce ‘This is Wanda Maximoff’, and explains that she has no memory of the Scarlet Witch, and no powers. ‘Neither do I, at the moment’ he explains. ‘Because you didn’t listen to me and tried to take on Doom by yourself?’ Hulkling asks, putting an arm around his boyfriend.
‘That is one way of looking at it. But it means I can’t magic us out of here’ Wiccan replies, pointing out that they need another way out before Doom and the Avengers - but he is interrupted by the arrival of Doom, who rushes towards them, calling out for Wanda, he is pursued by Magneto and the Avengers. ‘Too late’ Hulkling exclaims. ‘No, it’s not’ Iron Lad declares. ‘That’s the thing about time travel…it’s never too late!’ he exclaims as he engulfs his friends in energy, and they vanish.
‘She’s gone!’ Magneto exclaims. ‘Again. Thanks to Doom’ Quicksilver declares, annoyed. Magneto hangs his head and announces that Wanda was happy here, and that they were to be married. Everyone looks up as Doom hovers over them, while Magneto replies that he daughter would never have married Doom, not willingly, and asks him what he has done to her. Doom replies that he has been trying to save her. ‘From you. From all of you…who sought to destroy her’. He declares that now, because of them, the most powerful force in the universe has been unleashed into the time stream, where she can rewrite the past or the future just as easily as she said the words “No more mutants”. Everyone goes silent, and they all frown. ‘God help us all’ someone utters.
In the time stream, ‘Where to?’ Iron Lad asks, controlling their journey. Cassie announces that she knows. Hawkeye knows what her teammate is going to say, ‘Cassie -’ she begins, while Stature declares that if they are going to undo this, they need to start at the beginning - the day the Scarlet Witch brought Jack of Hearts back from the dead - just long enough to kill her father, Ant-Man. ‘So you can save him and change history?’ Patriot asks. ‘I won’t I promise -’ Cassie begins, but Patriot tells her that she will not be able to help herself. ‘And you’ll create a divergent timeline with two Cassies in it…neither of whom will want to come home with us’ Patriot points out.
Wanda steps forward: ‘Assuming we can go home’ she declares. ‘Forgive me, but we seem to be on the run because of something I’ve done. So, if reliving the past could help me remember, maybe I could set things right’ Wanda suggests. But Hawkeye exclaims ‘I’m sorry, but we’ve learned the hard way that once you start messing around with the past -’, however Iron Lad interrupts, explaining that they would not be changing the past. Iron Lad announces that he has developed a new technology which would allow them to inhabit the moment in time without altering it. ‘Then maybe Wanda will remember’ Hulkling suggests. ‘Then maybe she’ll lose control and kill us all…’ Patriot mumbles. Hawkeye smiles and asks how reliable this technology is.
‘I promise you, Kate…no one will ever know we were here’ Iron Lad declares, and an instant later, they appear in the memorial garden at Avengers Mansion. ‘Oh, my…’ Wanda gasps. ‘Do you recognize it?’ Wiccan asks. ‘You know where you are?’ Stature exclaims. Wanda hangs her head and replies ‘No. I’m sorry…’, to which Cassie suggests she takes a look around. Stature tells Iron Lad that she cannot thank him enough for everything he has done. The Vision approaches them and remarks ‘Yes, we’re all very fortunate you showed up’, before asking how long he will be staying. Iron Lad frowns and the Vision and replies, that barring any unforeseen complications, he does not see any reason why he could not rejoin the team permanently.
‘You mean it?’ Stature exclaims. ‘If you’ll have me’ Iron Lad replies. ‘Of course we will. What wonderful news’ Jonas remarks’ Speaking of wonderful news…now that Wanda Maximoff is alive and well, I suppose that means you’re married!?’ Iron Lad exclaims. ‘What?’ the Vision gasps. ‘What?’ Stature echoes. Iron Lad smiles as he announces that according to his research, the Vision and the Scarlet Witch never actually divorced. ‘So I guess congratulations are in order’ Iron Lad smiles. Jonas frowns and replies that the Scarlet Witch was married to the former Vision, ‘As you well know -’ he begins, before Cassie gasps ‘Oh my God…DAD!’
Stature races towards Scott Lang a.k.a. the second Ant-Man. ‘Cassie, no’ Hawkeye calls out, while Iron Lad explains that Cassie can see Ant-Man, but he cannot see her. However, ‘Cassie?’ Scott asks as his daughter throws her arms around her father. ‘Daddy…’ Cassie exclaims. ‘What are you doing here, sweetheart? Everything okay?’ Scott asks. ‘It is now’ Stature replies. ‘In my defense, it is new technology’ Iron Lad mutters. ‘And apparently useless’ the Vision frowns. ‘I’m still beta-testing it, but the results have been -’ Iron Lad begins, until Hawkeye, frowning, asks Iron Lad if he has any idea what he has done. ‘The minute I power back up, I’ll get us out of here, Kate, I promise’ Iron Lad replies.
‘Aren’t you supposed to be at your mom’s today? And what are you wearing? And who are your friends?’ Scott asks Cassie, confused. Cassie breaks the embrace, and motions to her teammates, ‘Um…they’re…from school. We’re…dressing up as…Young Avengers for Halloween’ she explains, adding that she promised them a tour of the Mansion. ‘You want to introduce me?’ Scott asks. Cassie tells her father that he has no idea how much. ‘This is Nathaniel’ Cassie announces as Iron Lad and Ant-Man shake hands. ‘It’s a pleasure to finally meet you, sir’ Iron Lad smiles. Scott replies ‘That’s a pretty impressive get-up, young man. They all are, before remarking that the Jack of Hearts costume is in poor taste.
‘No…’ gasps Stature. ‘…that is the Jack of Hearts!’ Indeed, the decomposed body of Jack Hart a.k.a. Hack of Hearts smoulders nearby. ‘That’s impossible. Jack’s dead!’ Scott exclaims, before Cassie urges Nathaniel to get them all out of here. Nathaniel replies that he needs a moment to get his power levels back up, but Stature replies that they do not have a moment. Scott asks his daughter what is going on, but Stature ignores him, ‘Wanda! Everybody! Run!’ she exclaims, while Wanda stands fixated on Jack of Hearts. ‘Wanda!’ Wiccan calls back after Teddy throws him on his back and begins to fly away. The Vision grabs Hawkeye, and Iron Lad carries Patriot, while Speed runs along side everyone, and Scott and Stature lead the way.
‘Cassie Lang, what did I say about altering the course of history?’ Kate exclaims. ‘That I shouldn’t, but that you knew I would anyway?’ Cassie replies. ‘You are eventually going to tell me what’s going on, right?’ Scott asks. ‘If we don’t die, absolutely’ Stature assures her father. ‘Wanda?’ Jack of Hearts calls out as Wanda approaches him. ‘Oh, my God…’ Wanda gasps, while Wiccan calls out to her, ‘Wanda, come on!’ he shouts. ‘Jack…’ Wanda utters. ‘Why are you doing this?’ Jack asks, his decomposed form approaching Wanda. ‘Jack of Hearts…’ Wanda remarks. ‘Please, Wanda…don’t make me do this’ Jack calls out. ‘Please?’ he asks.
The Young Avengers and Ant-Man stop running and turn back to look at Wanda and Jack of Hearts. ‘What is she doing?’ Hulkling asks. ‘We have to go, now!’ Cassie calls out. ‘Not without Wanda’ Wiccan declares. ‘Don’t worry…I’ve got her!’ Speed exclaims as he races to get Wanda - he does - just as Jack of Hearts begins to cry, and he whispers ‘I’m sorry’ - and an instant later, he explodes, decimating the Mansion as well.
There is white all around, before the Young Avengers slowly rise. ‘Kate?’ Patriot calls out. ‘I’m not dead. So that’s something’ Kate replies, while Teddy calls out to Billy, and goes to help his boyfriend up. ‘I’m okay’ Billy assures Teddy, while Kate tells Eli to take it easy as she helps him up, though Eli assures her that he is fine. ‘Cassie? Are you -?’ the Vision begins, but Cassie ignores him, instead asking her father if he is all right. ‘I’m okay. If anybody’s interested’ Speed mutters. Scott rubs his head and asks ‘What just happened?’ Iron Lad fumbles around with some controls on his armor and declares that he is trying to find out. ‘Jack of Hearts exploded’ Stature exclaims. ‘But…Jack of Hearts is dead’ Scott replies. ‘He is now, that’s for sure’ Cassie remarks. ‘But -’ Scott begins. ‘Dad, the important thing is, you’re alive’ Cassie exclaims.
‘If that’s true…then why is there an And-Man memorial in the Statuary Garden?’ Scott asks. Cassie replies that is an excellent question, which she is hoping Iron Lad will be able to answer. Iron Lad announces that according to his chronometer, they have returned to Cassie’s original timeline, where her father is still dead, though he has no idea why. ‘Excuse me?’ Scott asks. Patriot declares that he knows why. ‘Why?’ Iron Lad asks him. ‘Because you’re a time traveler who refuses to learn from the past’ Eli exclaims, asking Nathaniel if he remembers what happened last time he changed history.
Suddenly, Billy asks ‘Where’s Wanda?’ Speed announces that he will search the grounds, and takes off, while Iron Lad declares that the last time he changed history, he stopped Wolverine from killing Billy and Wanda. ‘You didn’t seem to have a problem with that’ he points out. ‘Actually -’ Patriot begins, while Iron Lad explains that his power levels have still not recharged, so there is no way he could have brought them back here. ‘Then who did?’ Patriot asks. Speed returns to the group after searching the grounds, while a voice from above calls out ‘I did‘. Everyone looks up, to see Wanda, wearing a strikingly familiar pink and red costume - hovering in the air, power cursing around her, she exclaims ‘You were right, Billy. I am the SCARLET WITCH…and I remember everything!’….


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Avengers Mansion, New York City. A crimson hue has overtaken the Mansion grounds and the surrounding area, as a powerful mutant hovers in the air. ‘My name is Wanda Maximoff. They call me the SCARLET WITCH!’ she announces, before remarking that her husband, the Vision, and she had twin sons - Thomas and William, two lost souls she made flesh and blood using magic. Two lost souls that she was forced to set free. ‘And for that I blamed the Avengers!’ Wanda declares as standing below her are several very engrossed beings - Wiccan, Speed, Hulkling, Stature, the new Vision, the new Hawkeye and Patriot - collectively known as the Young Avengers, as well as their comrade Iron Lad, and the recently resurrected Scott Lang, better known as the second Ant-Man, Stature’s father.
Energy surges around the Scarlet Witch as she announces that she wanted the Avengers to experience loss, that she wanted them to face the sins of their past the way she had to face hers, so she confronted them with their failures, their addictions and their mistakes - with a fleet of Kree warships seeking revenge for the Kree-Shi’ar war, and an army of Ultron robots. Several warships and Ultron robots appear before the Young Avengers, Suddenly, a voice calls out ‘This is how I died…and now it’s all happening again…thanks to a temper tantrum by the Young Avengers!’ the original Hawkeye a.k.a. Clint Barton announces as he stands beside the Mansion, bow and arrow ready. At his side are Jessica Jones and the Beast. ‘You’ve got to give the kids credit. They at least found her. Nobody else could’ Jessica points out.
‘That’s not entirely true’ the Beast announces. ‘You found her, too?’ Hawkeye asks. ‘In Transia. We had tea’ the Beast reveals. ‘Same here. We had…tea, too’ Hawkeye announces. Jessica turns to Hawkeye and exclaims ‘Oh, my God, Clint! You had sex with her?!’ The Beast turns to Clint as well, ‘WHAT?’ he gasps. Hawkeye asks if they can focus on the impending catastrophe here - the Kree, the Ultrons, the Scarlet Witch. Jessica asks if the Ultrons shouldn’t be trying to kill them by now, to which the Beast suggests that perhaps history is not repeating itself, but repairing itself.
Suddenly, ‘Jessica Jones…you look like you’ve seen a ghost!’ Ant-Man exclaims as he approaches Jessica. ‘He’s been waiting all day to say that’ Stature remarks, smiling as she stands by her father. ‘Scott Lang?’ Jessica asks. ‘Back from the dead, apparently’ Scott replies. ‘But…how?’ Jessica asks before they hug. Scott tells her that they keep trying to explain it to him, but that he is just happy to be here. The female Hawkeye a.k.a. Kate Bishop, leader of the Young Avengers, announces that they took an unexpected detour into the Timestream and accidentally ended up altering the course of history again. ‘Was this before or after you started a war in Latveria?’ Clint asks. ‘After. Thanks for asking’ Kate replies.
Scott and Clint shake hands, and Scott remarks that he heard Wanda killed Clint, too. ‘Gotta love magic, right?’ Jessica asks, to which Clint remarks that he is actually a little freaked out by magic at the moment. ‘As am I’ the Beast announces as he looks up at the sky. ‘What is Wanda doing up there?’ he wonders. Speed explains that she is remembering it all, reliving it, and Wiccan reveals that Wanda had amnesia when they found her. ‘You found her in Transia?’ Clint asks. But Wiccan reveals that the Wanda they found in Transia turned out to be a Doombot. ‘WHAT?’ Clint shouts. ‘You’re joking’ the Beast mutters. ‘Please. Don’t be joking’ Jessica smirks.
Wiccan explains that Doom replaced the real Wanda with a Doombot so that he could marry her. ‘Wanda married Doom?’ Jessica asks. Kate reveals that Wanda was about too, until Iron Lad gave her a tour of her past. ‘And now…’ her voice trails off, before Clint declares that it has all come back to haunt them. But the Beast tells him ‘Not exactly’, and motions to the Ultrons and Kree warships, pointing out that they are not aiming at them. ‘They’re aiming at Wanda!’ Clint realizes. ‘She’s trying to kill herself’ Jessica exclaims. Wiccan declares that they have to stop her, to which Kate tells him that she doesn’t know if they can stop her, but they sure can distract her, and calls out to Speed, who races across the grounds, knocking out all of the Ultrons. ‘I’m way ahead of you, Hawkette!’ Speed boasts.
‘Call me that again and I’ll use you for target practice’ Kate replies. ‘I kind of like “Hawkette”!’ Clint tells her. ‘You would’ Kate mutters, before declaring that all they have to do is take out the magical Kree warships. Clint announces that he has experience doing that, and asks Kate how many explosive arrows she has on her. ‘Not enough’ Kate replies. ‘Then it’s a good thing there are two Hawkeyes in the world’ Clint tells her. Kate replies that she cannot tell him how relieved she is to hear him say that, to which Clint asks if she has told Scott that there is a new Ant-Man. ‘I thought he’d appreciate it from the guy who used to be the only Hawkeye’ Kate replies as they both begin to fire the explosive arrows at the Kree warships. ‘Passing the buck like a born leader, Hawkeye’ Clint tells Kate, who asks Clint if he wants to take over, as she has no idea what to do next.
‘I do!’ Wiccan announces. ‘You have to fly me up there so I can talk to her!’ Wiccan tells his boyfriend, Hulkling, who tells Wiccan that he is not flying him up there. ‘And she does not look like she’s in the mood to talk’ Hulking adds. The Beast asks Wiccan what happened to his powers, to which Hulkling explains that he lost them the last time he did something he told him not to. Wiccan turns to Stature and asks her if she will take him. Stature replies that she could, but that Hulkling might kill her. Scott is confused, and asks his daughter how she could take Wiccan, and Stature increases her mass, ‘Actually, Dad…there’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you…’ she remarks.
‘Cassie -’ Scott gasps. As she holds Wiccan in her hand, Stature informs Ant-Man that she borrowed his Pym Particles when he wasn’t looking. ‘And by borrow, I mean steal’ she adds, before asking him if he is mad. ‘Mad? Are you kidding? My daughter’s a super hero’ Scott exclaims, while Jessica tells him that she is a good one, too, so she guesses it runs in the family. Stature has grown in size enough so that she can hold Wiccan up alongside the Scarlet Witch. ‘It’s like she’s possessed’ Wiccan calls out. ‘Like some outside force is controlling her’ he explains. Stature tells her teammate that she knows he wants to think that, before asking ‘What if it’s not? What if the Avengers were right about her?’ ‘You mean that she’s too powerful? That she needs to be put down?’ Wiccan asks, before reminding Cassie that they said the same things about him.
Suddenly, the Scarlet Witch calls out to them, telling them not to come any closer. ‘Please. My friends…my husband…my children…they’re all dead because of me!’ she announces. Wiccan calls out to her, asking her to listen to him as he tells her that her friends are alive, and so is her husband - sort of. ‘And I know this may be hard to believe…but I think your children are alive, too’ he tells her. ‘WHAT?’ Wanda gasps. ‘How else do you explain identical twin boys named William and Thomas who just happen to have magic powers and super speed?’ Wiccan asks, smiling. ‘Wiccan…that’s what this has been about?’ Wanda asks. ‘That’s why you traveled the world to find me? That’s why you started a war with Doom? That’s why you’ve awakened this power in me!?’ Wanda demands.
The Scarlet Witch continues, ‘Because you thought maybe - somehow - I might be your mother?’ she asks. ‘You are. I know you are’ Wiccan declares, before telling Wanda to use her powers, as they will tell her whether or not he is her son. Wanda casts her power over Wiccan, who is knocked backwards in a surge of scarlet energy. ‘Well…?’ Wiccan asks when the energy begins to fade. ‘I’m sorry, Billy’ Wanda replies. ‘You mean…?’ Wiccan asks. ‘What kind of mother doesn’t even recognize her own son?’ Wanda utters, before the two embrace, as the crimson hue that had surrounded the Mansion and nearby area disappears. Wanda and Wiccan both begin to cry, as Wanda asks Wiccan to forgive her. ‘There’s nothing to forgive’ Wiccan replies. ‘There’s quite a lot, I’m afraid’ Wanda tells him, before Wiccan suggests that she needs to meet the rest of the family.
Wanda and Wiccan drop down beside Speed. ‘Thomas…’ Wanda utters. Wiccan tells Speed that he knows he doesn’t believe in any of this, to which Speed exclaims ‘It’s not that I don’t believe it…it’s that I don’t see the point. Because, even if she is our mother or whatever, it doesn’t change anything’. Speed continues, pointing out that the Scarlet Witch betrayed her friends and murdered people - almost wiping out an entire race. Speed declares that she is going to have to pay for that. ‘Which means now that we’ve found her, she’s just going to disappear again…sp what’s the point?’ he asks.
Wanda puts a hand on Speed’s arm and tells him that the point is, he was doing his job when he came looking for her. ‘You brought a known criminal to justice. But more than that…you’ve given me a chance to see what extraordinary men you’ve become. I only wish I were worthy of you’. Wanda and Speed them hug, while suddenly, ‘She’s here, Tony’ Hawkeye reports to Iron Man via a communicator. ‘Can you talk? How is she?’ Iron Man replies. Clint assures Iron Man that she is fine, that she is Wanda, before asking them where they are. Inside a Quinjet with Captain America, Wolverine, Wonder Man as well as Wanda’s brother Quicksilver and their father Magneto, Iron Man replies that they are an hour away, and asks Clint if he can keep the Scarlet Witch where she is.
‘How is she? Is she all right? I must speak with my sister at once!’ Quicksilver demands at super-speed. ‘What is that noise?’ Clint asks over the communicator. Iron Man replies that it is the noise Quicksilver makes right before he is tossed out of the airlock. Iron Man asks if there is any update on the kids, to which Clint tells hi that they are here, and brought Scott Lang with them. ‘WHAT?’ Iron Man asks. Clint remarks that he is expecting Jack of Hearts to show up any minute. Iron Man orders Hawkeye to make sure he stays there and that no one leaves the compound. ‘Do whatever you have to do’ he declares. ‘What the hell does that mean? Tony?’ Clint replies, but gets no response.
‘That was Tony’ Clint tells Wanda, who replies that she heard, before assuring her friend that she is not going anywhere. ‘But you can’t stay here. The Avengers will kill you’ Speed points out. ‘Nobody’s killing anybody. Avengers don’t kill. We avenge. Which is different. I think’ Clint declares. ‘Tell that to Wolverine’ Wiccan exclaims. ‘He won’t stop until Wanda’s dead’ Billy adds, to which Wanda remarks that Wolverine should not deserve to die for what she has done. ‘Which begs the question…what if you un-do it?’ the Beast suggests. ‘Henry -’ Wanda begins, but the Beast asks her to hear him out. The Beast reminds Wanda that in a moment of psychological instability she said three words that robbed nearly every mutant on the planet, and perhaps even the omniverse, of his or her mutant abilities.
“No more mutants” Wanda quotes herself, as she hangs her head. ‘Three words which cast a spell that can only be reversed by you. I learned that the hard way’ the Beast tells Wanda, referring to his own adventure in which he tried to find a way to restore mutant powers. Wanda reminds Henry that her powers can be difficult to control, to which the Beast suggests that there is no harm in trying. ‘So, what - Wanda’s just going to say the three words backwards and re-power the entire mutant race?’ Hawkeye asks. The Beast explains that each former mutant should be given the choice, and they just have to find one who is willing and conduct a test. ‘So who do we know who’s desperate enough and / or stupid enough to be our former mutant guinea pig?’ Hawkeye asks. ‘I know just who to call…Jamie Madrox and X-Factor!’ Jessica Jones announces.
Soon, The Multiple Man and three of his X-Factor teammates - Strong Guy, Shatterstar and the de-powered Rictor are meeting with the large assemblage of Avengers, young, old and former. ‘How desperate and / or stupid do you think we are?’ Multiple Man asks, frowning. ‘Well -’ Jessica begins, until Madrox interrupts her, telling her that was a rhetorical question and she knows it. ‘Why did you call us?’ he asks. Jessica explains that when he decided to cut into her PI business by starting X-Factor Investigations, he told her that her clients were mostly former mutants who were hiring him to find out why they were suddenly former mutants.
‘And now you want us to round them all up so Wanda can do even more damage?’ Madrox asks. ‘We’re trying to undo the damage’ someone tells him, to which Madrox points out that is exactly what Quicksilver said when he showed up asking for their help. Strong Guy remarks that the Scarlet Witch’s brother claimed he could give people their powers back, too, but it turned out he was doing it with stolen Terrigen Crystals. ‘And it almost worked…didn’t it, Rictor?’ Strong Guy declares. ‘For a while…until the mutants Quicksilver “restored” couldn’t take the strain on their bodies anymore…and they exploded’ Rictor explains.
Wanda looks shocked, while Madrox announces that they will be leaving now and will pretend that they never had this conversation. But before the quartet leaves the Mansion, Wanda steps forward and asks Madrox to wait, telling him that she will not be using Terrigen Crystals, and will not be casting any new spells. ‘The only thing I’ll be doing is trying to reverse -’ but Madrox interrupts her, declaring that it will not work, because the minute she shows her face out there, the minute the mutant community hears that she is alive and that she was the one responsible for M-Day, they are going to tear her limb from limb. ‘And I won’t blame them’ Madrox adds. ‘So good luck finding any mutant who’ll be able to keep from killing you long enough for you to cure them’ Madrox tells her.
Suddenly, ‘I’ll do it!’ Rictor announces. Strong Guy tells him not to be an idiot, while Rictor’s boyfriend, Shatterstar, points out that it is too risky. ‘It’s not happening. Besides, you’ve already proven you don’t need your powers to -’ Madrox begins, but Rictor interrupts, ‘To what, Madrox?’ he asks. ‘To be a third-rate detective who gets his ass kicked every time we go up against anybody with powers? Which is all the time, but the way’ Rictor remarks, before declaring that he wants his powers back. Shatterstar goes over to Rictor and puts a hand to his face, as he asks ‘What about everything else in your life? Are you willing to lose that, too?’ he asks. ‘How do I make you understand? I was born with the power to move mountains literally. My connection to the earth was like…breathing. And I’ve been holding my breath for a very long time’ Rictor replies.
Rictor turns to the Scarlet Witch, ‘So, let’s do this. Say the magic words. Or unsay them’ he tells her, while Shatterstar stands behind him and warns Wanda that if she harms Rictor in any way, he will kill her. Wanda tells Shatterstar that if she harms Rictor in any way, se will beg him to kill her. As Wanda places her hands at Rictor’s head, she asks him if he is absolutely sure about this. ‘Just do it’ Rictor tells her, before crying out in pain as Wanda unleashes her power on him. ‘Stop! You’re killing him!’ Shatterstar calls out. ‘I’m sorry…’ Wanda whispers. ‘WANDA!’ Wiccan cries out. But he and Rictor are both knocked backwards as the Scarlet Witch’s power surges upwards.
Suddenly, there is a massive rumbling noise. ‘What have I done?’ Wanda gasps. ‘You’ve brought the whole building down. You’ll kill us all!’ Madrox shouts. But slumped against a nearby wall with crimson energy residue fading around him, Rictor calls out that it wasn’t Wanda, it was him. ‘That tremor was me. Whatever Wanda did, it worked. My powers are back!’ he announces, smiling. Shatterstar rushes over and hugs Rictor, while Madrox tells Wanda “Congratulations”. ‘One down…only a million more to go’ he remarks. ‘A million mutants?’ Wanda asks. ‘A million former mutants’ Madrox reminds her. ‘But…how will I ever find them all?’ Wanda asks. ‘Maybe they’ll let you borrow Cerebra’ Strong Guy suggests, before looking out the window and telling her ‘That is, if the X-Men’ don’t kill you first’.
Standing outside on the Avengers Mansion grounds are several of the senior X-Men - Cyclops, Storm, the White Queen, Iceman, Colossus, Rogue and Gambit. Madrox tells Wanda that is not a very friendly-looking crew they have waiting for them. X-Factor, the Young Avengers, Beast, Hawkeye, Jessica Jones, Iron Lad and Ant-Man gather around the Scarlet Witch, as Madrox asks her what her plan is. ‘My plan…is to give the X-Men what they want’ Wanda announces, before smiling, she declares ‘More mutants’.


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The abandoned Avengers Mansion, where a gathering of powerful heroes has commenced:Inside, the Young Avengers, Hawkeye, Beast, Jessica Jones and four members of X-Factor are with the recently returned Scarlet Witch. ‘Wanda…I can’t thank you enough’ the young mutant called Rictor of X-Factor exclaims. His teammates Multiple Man and Strong Guy and Shatterstar are nearby. Shatterstar smiles, while Multiple Man reminds Rictor that he doesn’t have to thank the Scarlet Witch, as she is the one who took away his powers in the first place. ‘Madrox is right, Rictor’ the Scarlet Witch points out. Rictor smiles, and tells her ‘Never say that out loud’. ‘Too late’ Madrox remarks.
Wanda announces that all she has to do now is convince the X-Men to allow her to restore all the other de-powered mutants. ‘Then it’s a good thing you have the power to alter reality - because, in reality, that’s never gonna happen’ Multiple Man declares. Wiccan steps forward and asks why the X-Men would have a problem with that. ‘Have you met Scott Summers?’ Madrox asks, while Rictor explains that the X-Men are angry, and justifiably so, and that they are afraid of what else Wanda might do. Strong Guy and Patriot stare out one of the windows, and Strong Guy tells everyone that it is not just the X-Men they have to worry about. ‘It’ Magneto - and the Avengers - and the X-Men!’ he announces.
Indeed, outside on the mansion grounds, the X-Men have already arrived - Cyclops, Storm the White Queen, Iceman, Colossus, Rogue and Gambit. At that moment, Magneto arrives with an assemblage of Avengers, both active and inactive - including Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Ms Marvel, Wonder Man, Luke Cage, and Wolverine, currently working with the Avengers. Quicksilver is also with them.‘Is this a social call, Scott? Because now really isn’t the time’ Captain America calls out, but Cyclops quickly replies ‘You know why we’re here, Captain’, and announces that they have come for the Scarlet Witch and that they will not be leaving without her. ‘Then I guess we’ll have even more X-Men becoming Avengers, because you won’t be leaving with her’ Captain America declares. ‘But I should warn you - the Mansion is chock full of super heroes…so you won’t each get your own room’ Captain America jokes, while both groups of heroes stand their ground.
‘The Scarlet Witch is responsible for the genocide of the mutant race…and she will be brought to justice’ Cyclops declares through gritted teeth. ‘Yes she will…but not today…and not by you’ Captain America responds, with Ms Marvel and Iron Man at his side. ‘No matter what she’s done, the Scarlet Witch is an Avenger…and we take care of our own’ Captain America states.Magneto steps towards the two great leaders and tells them that this doesn’t have to become a turf war. ‘Both teams can work together - with Wanda - to ensure that -’ Magneto begins, but Cyclops tells him to stay out of this. ‘Scott, listen -’ Magneto begins, only for Cyclops to interrupt once more, ‘I trusted you -’ Cyclops exclaims, to which Magneto quickly points out that he has done nothing to betray that trust.
‘You used the Young Avengers to go after Wanda, when I specifically asked you not to -’ Cyclops points out. Magneto remarks ‘You did nothing of the kind’. Raising his voice, Cyclops tells Magneto that he is warning him, when suddenly, ‘ENOUGH!’ a voice shouts, and the ground shakes with tremendous force, knocking the - X-Men and various Avengers off their respective feet. At the front entrance to Avengers Mansion, Rictor stands with Shatterstar at his side, Madrox and Strong Guy are behind them. They are then flanked by the Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye - the original male Hawkeye, that is, the Beast, Jessica Jones and Scott Lang, the second Ant-Man. Behind them, are the Young Avengers: Wiccan, Speed, the female Hawkeye, the new Vision, Patriot, Stature and Hulkling, as well as their recently returned teammate, Iron Lad.
With power charged, Rictor calls out ‘Before you idiots kill each other and rob the world of even more mutants, you should know the Scarlet Witch just gave me back my powers’. He explains that with their help, she is about to do the same for all the mutants who lost their powers on M-Day. ‘If you’ll permit me’ the Scarlet Witch asks, hanging her head, while surrounded by the Young Avengers and the others. ‘Sister…’ Quicksilver exclaims as he speeds over and embraces Wanda. ‘Pietro…’ Wanda utters. Talking at super speed, Pietro tells Wanda that they are going to kill her, so when he gives the signal, they will run. ‘Are you ready?’ he asks her. Wanda thanks her twin brother, but tells him that she is not running.
‘Wanda’ Magneto remarks as he goes over and embraces his daughter. ‘Father…’ Wanda replies, while Magneto tells her that she mustn’t worry, and that he will protect her. ‘You must promise to let me go without a fight’ Wanda tells him. Quicksilver declares that not even their father could make a promise that empty. ‘Wanda…’ Captain America calls out, as he, Iron Man, Ms Marvel, Luke Cage and Spider-Man approach her. ‘Captain…I want you to know, I take full responsibility for what I’ve done…and I don’t care what happens to me…but I’m begging you - please - before you imprison or destroy me - please allow me to alleviate the suffering I’ve caused’ Wanda asks her long-time teammate. ‘You could do that? You could give the mutants back their -’ Iron Man asks Wanda, before Cyclops unleashes an optic blast, knocking the Avengers back.
‘The Avengers don’t get to negotiate on behalf of mutantkind’ Cyclops states, before announcing that the Scarlet Witch is coming with them, and the X-Men will hold her accountable for her crimes. ‘Or I will burn the Witch where she stands’ Cyclops threatens. ‘What is wrong with you, Scott? You’re better than this’ Magneto declares, admitting that Cyclops has every right to his anger, but that he cannot afford to act on it. ‘I hate to say this, but right now, you’re behaving like me…and I wouldn’t wish my mistakes on anyone. Least of all you’ Magneto remarks, but Cyclops isn’t interested, and tells Magneto to spare him the condescension and to stand aside.
Rogue steps forward to Magneto and she tells him to do as Cyclops asks. ‘You’ve worked too hard to become an X-Man -’ Rogue points out, but Magneto interrupts her, and reminds her that Wanda is his family. ‘I thought we were your family now’ Rogue tells him. ‘Then act like it’ Magneto replies, before pointing out that the X-Men didn’t come here to make things right, they came for payback. ‘And they shall have it’ Wanda announces, stepping forward. ‘Wanda -’ Magneto begins, but Wanda tells him that she refuses to be the source of further conflict, and that she will go with the X-Men. ‘Say goodbye, Magneto’ Cyclops declares. ‘Wanda, I beg you -’ Magneto calls out. ‘I said…say goodbye!’ Cyclops shouts, as he blasts a close-range optic blast at Magneto, who throws a force field up.
‘I have to be honest…I’m not a big fan of the super heroes fighting each other’ Spider-Man remarks to Wonder Man, but as he hovers in the air behind the Scarlet Witch, Wonder Man keels backwards, ‘Aggh-’ he calls out. ‘I’m guessing you’re not, either’ Spider-Man mutters as he sees Wonder Man clutching his head, but Wonder Man announces that the White Queen is in his head. ‘That can’t be all bad, can it?’ Spider-Man asks. ‘Father, stop this!’ the Scarlet Witch calls out as she stands behind Magneto’s force field. Magneto tells his daughter that he is merely protecting himself, nothing more.
The X-Men and Avengers have all picked battle partners, as Iron Man tries to get to Cyclops, Storm fries him with lightning bolts. ‘That’s as close as you get!’ Storm orders. ‘Easy, Rogue…’ Ms Marvel begins as both women struggle mid-air. ‘Don’t make me take the gloves off’ Rogue warns Ms Marvel. Quicksilver speeds towards Iceman, but Iceman throws shards of ice at Quicksilver, knocking him backwards. Colossus punches Luke Cage, while Cyclops continues to pour the optic blast at Magneto’s force field. The White Queen stands behind her lover and tells him that he doesn’t have to worry about Wonder Man defending his ex-girlfriend’s honor for the moment. ‘Who’s my next telepathic target?’ Emma asks. ‘The Maximoffs. All of them’ Scott orders.
Nearby, Captain America asks Wolverine to talk to Cyclops. ‘You can stop this’ he tells the long-time X-Man, recently affiliated with the Avengers. ‘Does it look like he’s in a listening mood?’ Wolverine asks, before pointing out that this fight has been a long time coming. ‘And you know as well as I do that there’s no stopping it’ Wolverine adds.
Back at the Mansion entrance:‘We have to get out there!’ the female Hawkeye gasps. ‘Because that’s what the world needs - more super heroes beating the crap out of each other for no reason’ Jessica Jones mutters. ‘It does seem to happen a lot’ the original Hawkeye points out. Wiccan announces that he has to tell Cyclops that this is his fault, but the Beast tells him that it is not his fault, and warns him that without his powers, he is likely to only get himself killed. ‘Cap!’ Wiccan exclaims when he sees Captain America fall the ground. ‘Billy!’ Patriot calls out after his teammate. ‘Wiccan, no!’ the Beast shouts as Wiccan rushes to Captain America’s side.
‘Don’t worry, I’ve got them!’ Speed calls out as he races over to his brother. ‘You all right?’ Wiccan asks Cap as he helps him up. Suddenly, ‘Well, if it isn’t the Witch’s sons’ the White Queen remarks as she approaches the two young heroes. ‘How would you two fine young mutants like to become X-Men? All you have to do is come along with your Auntie Emma’ the White Queen telepathically suggests. ‘Yes Auntie Emma!’ the twins both exclaim, smiling, under her telepathic influence.
Suddenly, ‘Auntie Emma, you might want to check with their mother, first…because I hear she can be a real bitch!’ the Scarlet Witch exclaims as she rushes towards the White Queen and slams her down with a burst of hex energy. Wanda then begins using her power on the squabbling X-Men and Avengers, stopping all the battles. ‘For the record, I have tried to remain calm through all this. I have tried to accept things as they are…to keep my emotions in check…to remain in control’ Wanda announces. ‘Because we all know what happens when I lose control’ she adds. ‘But right now, you’re as out of control as I was. And if you don’t stop, you’re going to hurt yourselves and each other…and I can’t allow that’. Wanda stands over the bodies of the Avengers and the X-Men, including her father, all felled by her mighty power.
‘What did you do to them?’ Patriot enquires as he and the Young Avengers are all who remain standing. ‘If they’re going to act like children, I thought it best they have a nap’ Wanda explains. ‘They will wake up eventually though, right?’ Stature asks as she kneels beside her father, Ant-Man, who was felled also. Wanda assures Stature that they will wake up, and then will no doubt be at each other’s throats in a moment. ‘But that’s all the time we need…to get to safety’ Wanda declares as she casts another hex spell, transporting herself and the Young Avengers to safety.
‘Where are we?’ Patriot asks. ‘What is this place?’ Iron Lad enquires as he examines their new surroundings. ‘At the risk of sounding redundant, we’re either in Hell…or this is Castle Doom’ Hulkling anounces. The Young Avengers then look up - to see the Scarlet Witch in the arms of Dr Doom! ‘Victor…’ Wanda smiles. ‘You’ve come back’ Dr Doom declares. ‘Of course…but I’m afraid things are a bit more complicated than when we saw each other last’ Wanda tells him. ‘More complicated than the Avengers invading Latveria on what was supposed to be out wedding day?’ Doom asks. ‘Let’s put it this way: if we survive, we should probably elope next time’ Wanda tells him.
‘Billy…’ Hawkeye utters. ‘What have we done?’ Patriot exclaims. ‘Let’s not jump to any hasty super-villain team-up conclusions here, people’ Wiccan suggests. Hulkling agrees: ‘After all, just because the Scarlet Witch took out the Avengers…’ he begins. ‘…and the X-Men…’ Iron Lad points out. ‘…and then immediately ran back into the arms of Doctor Doom’ Patriot adds. ‘…that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re pitting the two teams against each other and plotting to take over the world, does it?’ Hawkeye concludes.
The Scarlet Witch turns to the Young Avengers and tells them that what it means is that she cannot do on her own what it is she has to do, and that Victor is the only one who can help her. ‘I know you don’t trust him, but I assure you, he’s only ever acted in my best interests’ Wanda states. ‘That is true’ Doom agrees, while Wanda points out that Doom may only help her because he knows that if he betrayed her, she has the power to simply wish him out of existence. ‘That is also true, but it’s not why I did it’ Doom adds. Wanda tells the Young Avengers that they need allies now, and that Victor has been one from the start. ‘An unlikely one, I’ll admit, but -’ she adds, before one of the Young Avengers interrupts ‘From the start?’
‘When did it start?’ Wiccan asks, telling Wanda that he wants to know because one day, for some reason, her magic powers suddenly got amped up into reality-warping powers. ‘You murdered your husband and your friends - and then you nearly wiped out an entire species…things the Scarlet Witch would never do…but Doom would’ Wiccan declares. Wanda assures him that it was not Victor, that it was her. ‘Then your memory has returned?’ Doom asks. Wanda replies that there are still some things she cannot remember, or, perhaps doesn’t want to.
Flashback images, narrated in the present by the Scarlet Witch and Dr Doom:Wanda reveals that when she learned of her sons’ deaths, she became desperate, and sought Victor’s help in bring them back to life. She adds that Doom was her enemy, but that his magicks were more powerful than hers, or Dr Strange’s, and that Doom was certainly less conflicted when it came to practicing the darker arts. Wanda reveals that to her surprise, Doom agreed to help her, but then her memory fades.
Doom continues the history lesson, explaining that since Wanda is a nexus being, a living focal point for Earth’s mystical energies, they were able to combine their magicks to access and capture that life force itself - the only power that could give her back her sons. Doom explains that they were naïve to think the life force could be so easily contained and manipulated. Doom reveals that the life force possessed Wanda and transformed her into an entity with the reality-shaping abilities of a God. Doom explains that the forces they unleashed that day could not be controlled, and resulted in the violence that Wiccan described. Doom adds that it was not until months later that his scouts found Wanda living in Transia, with no memory of who she was or what she had done.
Present:‘But all that time we spent in Latveria together, you never told me!’ Wanda exclaims. Doom replies that he had no intention of telling her, as he couldn’t risk losing her. ‘Or the power you possessed’ Wiccan points out. Doom admits that was true in the beginning, as he couldn’t help but imagine what Wanda and he might have accomplished if they had learned to control the life force. ‘But those who attempt to control that power become consumed by it’ Doom declares. ‘Even so, I have to try…if only one last time’ Wanda remarks, touching Doom on the shoulder, explaining that she needs to restore the rest of the lives she destroyed. ‘And then I need you to divorce me from this power once and for all. Will you do that for me, Victor?’ Wanda asks. ‘I will’ Doom tells her. ‘Do you promise?’ Wanda asks. ‘I do’ Victor assures her.
‘And you’re just going to believe him? I’m sorry, but he’s Doctor Doom!’ Patriot exclaims, annoyed. Patriot declares that Doom doesn’t keep his promises, and that he is not a good guy. ‘You want to know why? Because he’s Doctor Doom’ Patriot exclaims. ‘You think he’s just going to give all that power back? He’s not. He’s going to keep it, and then we’ll all be living in the World of D - which is short for “Doom” - which should give you some idea of what it’s going to be like to live in his world’ Patriot shouts. Wanda smiles and tells Patriot that she appreciates his candor, and agrees that he is nor wrong, as the power of the life force would be tempting for anyone, especially for someone with Victor’s ambitions. ‘Which is why I’ll need Billy to use his powers as a safeguard’ Wanda explains.
‘But I don’t have my powers. Your boyfriend took them’ Wiccan reminds Wanda. Doom tells Wiccan that he should know that no one, not even the Sorcerer Supreme, can ever take away his powers. ‘What they can do, however, is enchant you into believing anything they tell you’ Doom explains as he raises his arm and casts energies around Wiccan. ‘I’ve had my powers the whole time? That’s so “Wizard of Oz”!’ Wiccan exclaims. Doom adds that it is a cheap trick, but an effective one. ‘We shall begin by joining hands and forming a circle -’ Doom remarks, as he, Wanda and Wiccan take hands. ‘Wait. Help me understand what’s happening here’ Patriot exclaims as he rushes over to them.
‘We’re going to give the mutants back their powers’ Wanda explains. ‘But we talked about this. You can’t just do it in one fell swoop and risk ruining these people’s lives all over again. I thought you were going to give them the choice and let them decide their own futures’ Patriot declares. Wanda reminds Patriot what happened at the Mansion - that the Avengers and the X-Men were seconds away from destroying them, and each other, before she even had a chance to explain her plan, let alone execute it. ‘They could arrive here any second, and then I might never get the chance to save the mutant race. So, I share your concerns - believe me, I do - but we have to do this now before it’s too late’ Wanda concludes.
‘Billy, wait -’ Patriot calls out, but Wiccan replies that Wanda is right. ‘You know she is’ he tells his teammate. Wanda apologizes to Patriot, but tells him that this is the only way. ‘Then let us being!’ Doom calls out. ‘We cannot let this happen!’ Patriot shouts. ‘Why not?’ Hawkeye asks him. ‘You want to put the fate of the mutant race in the hands of Doctor Doom?’ Patriot asks. ‘What choice do we have?’ Hawkeye enquires. ‘We can stop them’ Patriot tells his girlfriend. Crimson energy suddenly surrounds Wanda, Wiccan and Doom, and Hawkeye asks Patriot how he proposes they stop the combined powers of the three of them. ‘I don’t think we should’ Stature remarks, and Hulkling agrees. ‘Good, because I don’t think we can’ Hawkeye exclaims.
‘We don’t have to stop them. We just have to stall them long enough for the Avengers and the X-Men to get here and figure things out’ Patriot explains. ‘Because they’re always so calm and rational’ Speed mutters, while Hawkeye asks Patriot how they stall Wanda, Wiccan and Doom. ‘I am just guessing…but an incendiary arrow might do the trick’ Patriot tells her. Hawkeye points out that it also might kill them. ‘Then I’ll be sure to aim it at Doom!’ Patriot exclaims as he snatches Hawkeye’s arrow and a bow. ‘Eli! Eli, no!’ Hawkeye screams as Patriot shoots the arrow into the swirling, crimson energy.
However, the arrow does not strike Doom. It pierces Wanda, landing in her stomach. ‘Unnnh -’ Wanda utters as she falls backwards. ‘No!’ Wiccan screams. ‘WANDA!’ Doom calls out. ‘Eli…’ Hawkeye mutters as she stands behind Patriot, the other Young Avengers gathering around them. ‘Oh, my God…’ Patriot exclaims, before telling Wiccan that it was an accident, that he didn’t meant to hurt the Scarlet Witch. ‘I didn’t mean to hurt anybody!’ he shouts. Wiccan goes over to Wanda’s anguished body and tells Patriot to shut up and let him concentrate. ‘I want her to heal…’ Wiccan whispers over and over as he casts a healing spell on the Scarlet Witch. ‘Is she okay? Please say she’s okay’ Patriot calls out.
Speed goes over to the Scarlet Witch and touches her, announcing that he has a pulse. ‘Wanda…?’ Speed calls out. ‘Wanda…? You okay?’ Wiccan asks as the Scarlet Witch begins to rouse. ‘What happened?’ Wanda asks, wearily. ‘I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I was trying to stop the spell’ Patriot explains. ‘The spell…I never completed the spell’ Wanda reveals, before explaining that she cannot feel the power, or the life force anymore. ‘It’s gone’ Wanda announces. ‘So all those mutants…?’ Wiccan asks. ‘I can’t help them now’ Wanda reveals. ‘No…’ Patriot utters, shocked. ‘Eli, look out!’ someone calls out to Patriot, who raises his shield to protect the Scarlet Witch. ‘What’s happening?’ Wiccan asks. Patriot explains that it is shrapnel, falling from the sky.
Suddenly, Doom’s mask falls to the ground, and everyone looks at it in shock. ‘Don’t be afraid, children’ a voice from above calls out. They look up, and a handsome man hovers over them in a spectacular costume, he glows with energy. ‘VICTOR is here. And I am going to take care of everything….!’


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Latveria, inside Castle Doom, where in a fancy white costume and surrounded by a brilliant light, a handsome man announces ‘Doctor Doom is dead. Victor von Doom has been reborn…restored and transformed by the reality-altering power of the life force itself…and by you, Wanda’ he tells Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch.
‘Victor, the power to alter reality is, by its very nature, unstable -’ Wanda replies calmly, but Victor interrupts, swearing that he shall not abuse it. ‘I shall devote my life and my power to rendering the wrongs I have done - to atoning for my sins - and to earning a place for myself among the heroes of this world’ he announces. An image of the planet Earth appears between Victor’s hands and declares that he shall make theirs a planet free of poverty, disease and war, peaceably governed by Victor von Doom and his bride, Wanda Maximoff’. He tells Wanda that, together there is nothing they cannot accomplish.
‘What about the mutants?’ calls out Patriot of the Young Avengers as he stands with his teammates Wiccan, Hulkling, the female Hawkeye, Speed, Stature, the Vision and their recently returned former member, Iron Lad. ‘Please…I’m begging you…can you give the mutants their powers back?’ Patriot asks. Victor replies that even with the power of the life force, he cannot undo a spell cast by another, however he can cast new ones. He assures Patriot that the mutants who lost their powers will lack for nothing in the new world, that they shall have everything they need and everything they desire. ‘Except their freedom!’ Hawkeye calls out. ‘I think what Kate is trying to say -’ Wanda begins, but Hawkeye interrupts: ‘Kate said what she was trying to say!’ she exclaims.
Wanda tells Victor that the point is, however noble his intentions, this power of his will not be contained, at least not for long. ‘It corrupted me -’ she reminds him, but Doom just tells Wanda that hers is too gentle a soul to wield such power. ‘We both know mine is not’ he points out. ‘Even so, the nations of the world won’t simply accept you as their ruler’ Wanda tells Doom, who replies that once he has proven himself, they will choose him. ‘Perhaps…but the Avengers and the X-Men will not’ the Scarlet Witch declares. The Young Avengers listen closely as Victor replies that the Avengers and the X-Men pose no threat, adding that they have already shown that left to their own devices, they will destroy themselves and each other. Victor puts a hand on Speed’s shoulder and remarks that the Young Avengers, however, have demonstrated nothing but bravery and loyalty to each other and the woman he loves. ‘It is my hope that we can become a family’ Victor tells Wiccan and Speed.
Victor continues and tells Speed and Wiccan that with their permission, he would very much like their mother to be his wife. ‘will you marry me, Wanda?’ he asks, turning to the Scarlet Witch, who instantly replies ‘Yes’, but only if he rids himself of this power and puts it back where it belongs - then she will marry him. ‘And if not? You’ll what? Side with the Avengers and the X-Men against me? That is, if they don’t kill you first’ Victor declares. Wanda sincerely tells Victor that he is dealing with forces that he cannot control, but Victor replies ‘No…I’m dealing with forces you could not control’ and tells Wanda that she has made her choice and that she must now find a way to live with it. With a wave of his hand, Victor casts magical energies, that teleport the Scarlet Witch and the Young Avengers back to Avengers Mansion.
‘Did Doctor Doom just send us home?’ Hawkeye asks, to which Hulkling declares that sounds very un-Doom-like to him. Wanda explains that Victor is hoping her presence here will provoke the Avengers and the X-Men into killing each other. ‘That sounds more like Doom’ Stature mutters. Various members of the X-Men and the Avengers, as well as several former Avengers and members of X-Factor lie scattered around the grounds, unconscious. Iron Lad states that they need to get out of here, to which Stature asks ‘And go where?’ as she holds up her unconscious father, Ant-Man. Iron Lad suggests they go into the Time Stream, at least until they can come up with a decent plan. But, the Vision announces that would be a mistake, as running away and disrupting the Time Stream whenever something displeases them is not the answer.
Iron Lad points out that it was the answer to brining Stature’s father back, and Wanda’s memory, and declares that when it turns out to be the answer to defeating Doom, they will come back to this moment in time and make history. ‘With or without you’ he tells the Vision, who replies ‘Spoken like Kang the Conqueror’. ‘How dare you!’ Iron Lad declares, while Stature goes over to them and tells the Vision to stop it. She tells Iron Lad that she cannot thank him enough for bringing her dad back, for saving the team, for saving her. ‘And I love you so much…but my place - and my time - is here. With my friends. And my dad…and the Vision’ she announces. Stature adds that they are the Young Avengers, and that they cannot leave the X-Men and Avengers to take on Doom by themselves.
‘We have an obligation to them’ Stature adds, only for the Scarlet Witch to announce that is why they should all go with Iron Lad. Wanda tells the young heroes that they are the Avengers’ last best hope for the future, so they should probably take refuge there, at least until they can find a way to restore the balance of power. Wanda states that she will stay here and lead the fight against Victor, only for Patriot to declare they he is staying. Wanda turns to him as Patriot declares that this is his fault, that he did this, so he is going to stop Doom or die trying. However, ‘If anyone deserves the blame, it’s me’ Wiccan calls out, only for his boyfriend, Hulkling, to tell him’ Don’t you start’.
‘As much as I would love to stand here and bask in the fact that for once, I’m not responsible for this apocalypse, we need to start waking up the Avengers and the X-Men least likely to kill us before Doom can launch a full-scale war!’ Speed suggests. Suddenly, ‘Wanda!’ a voice calls out, and the Scarlet Witch is under attack, dropping to the ground thanks to a psychic attack courtesy of the White Queen of the X-Men, who steps forward and tells the teenage heroes that Doom is the least of their worries, because now they have upset her. ‘And, yes, the fact that I’m angry enough to be talking about myself in the third person should terrify you’ she adds. Wiccan asks the telepath what she did to Wanda, to which Emma replies ‘The same thing she did to me’ and explains that she has taken Wanda off the grid, as it were, so she cannot use those pesky reality-altering powers of hers anymore.
While Cyclops struggles to get to his feet, Speed announces that Wanda doesn’t have those powers any more, but that now Doom does. Wiccan tells the White Queen that keeping Wanda safe is the only way they are going to survive whatever Doom has planned. Cyclops orders the young magician to step away from her, but Wiccan asks the White Queen to read his mind if she doesn’t believe him. ‘It’s not your mind I’m interested in…it’s Wanda’s’ Emma announces as she kneels down beside the unmoving Scarlet Witch, and reads her mind - where recent events flash through her. ‘Bloody hell…’ Emma utters a moment later. ‘Then it’s true?’ Cyclops asks.
Many of the mutants begin to wake - standing with four members of X-Factor - Rictor, Shatterstar, Multiple Man and Strong Guy, the Beast is forlorn and declares ‘It can’t be true. If Wanda doesn’t have the power, then she can’t restore the mutants’. Shatterstar puts a comforting arm around Rictor, while the X-Men Storm, Colossus, Iceman and Gambit stand together, and Storm remarks ‘And if Doom has the power…’, to which Gambit concludes ‘We’re all dead’. Rogue stands with Magneto and Quicksilver, as well as Wolverine, although Wolverine is currently working with the Avengers. Magneto orders that his daughter be revived at once, as she will know what to do. ‘Great idea’ Wolverine mutters, pointing out that if it wasn’t for the Scarlet Witch, they wouldn’t be at war with an all-powerful Doom.
Cyclops tells Emma to wake Wanda up. Emma begins to protect, but Cyclops states that although she may not be able to break the spell, the Scarlet Witch can still be brought to justice. ‘I’m sorry, but what does that even mean?’ Speed demands as he races over to Cyclops. ‘Are you going to put her in a mutant jail? Or have your girlfriend give her a psychic lobotomy? Are you gonna torture her? Kill her? Torture her and then kill her? Would that be enough justice for you?’ he demands, angrily. ‘No’ Cyclops frowns. ‘Then what would? What’s your plan, Mr Summers?’ Speed asks. The Young Avenger asks Cyclops what, when he came here for the Scarlet Witch, was he planning to do with her. ‘Put her on trial for crimes she’s already confessed to? For killing three people who are now alive? For turning a million mutants into…human beings?’
‘Mutants died. Hundreds of mutants died, because the Scarlet Witch stole their powers. And hundreds more died trying to get them back. As your uncle Pietro about that’ Cyclops replies, while Quicksilver and Magneto kneel down beside the Scarlet Witch. ‘What am I supposed to do, Speed? Welcome Wanda back and say “It’s okay. I know you didn’t mean it. You can be an Avenger again and we’ll just pretended you didn’t murder people and destroy millions of lives”?’ Cyclops asks. ‘Is that what I’m supposed to do?’ Magneto remains silent, while Wiccan shouts ‘Yes. After all, Magneto’s killed untold thousands…and you made him an X-Man’.
Members of the Avengers gather around now as well as Wiccan begins running through a list of former criminals amongst them. He reminds everyone that Emma Frost was the White Queen of the Hellfire Club, and a murderer, while Rogue was a terrorist for the Brotherhood of Mutants, and Gambit was a member of the Thieves’ Guild. Wiccan continues, pointing out that Wonder Man, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Vision all started out on the wrong side of the law. ‘But I personally can’t imagine the Avengers without them’ Wiccan declares, while asking ‘And how many times has one of you been possessed by an evil spirit…or mind controlled and forced to do things you would never do - to hurt people - to kill people - even people you loved?’.
Wiccan declares that he is not saying they should pretend this never happened, but he doest think they should look at the whole picture. ‘Whatever her crimes, Wanda Maximoff has saved the world - more times than we probably know. She has proven herself again and again to be a hero. And what happened to her is bound to happen to every single one of us someday, if it hasn’t already’. Wiccan tells the heroes that the question is, how do they want to be treated when it happens to them.‘With compassion…and forgiveness’ Victor exclaims as he bursts into the air in a blaze of brilliant light. The heroes all look up at the transformed Doom, and tells reminds them that Wanda was trying to save her sons’ lives when she was possessed by the power of creation itself. ‘The power to make and unmake reality. The power that I now possess. But have no fear…for I intend to use it to heal’ Victor announces as he crouches down beside the Scarlet Witch and revives her.
Cyclops asks Victor if he can heal the mutant race, to which Doom boasts that he can do anything. ‘I can make the blind see’ Victor states as he removes Cyclops’s visor, revealing his eyes, free from optic fire. Victor turns to the Beast, and reveals that he can cure the afflicted, as he transforms the Beast back to his human form. Victor adds that if needs be, he can raise the dead. Images of dead X-Men and Avengers surround him. Jean Grey. Banshee. Nightcrawler. Thunderbird. Captain Mar-Vell. The Wasp. ‘I can give you everything you’ve wished for…or nothing at all. It’s up to you’ Victor declares as the images vanish, and Cyclops and the Beast return to how they are. ‘And all we’d have to do to receive these miracles is…?’ Cyclops begins. ‘Accept them’ Victor replies. ‘You mean surrender’ Cyclops declares.
Victor’s eyes flare with energy, and he tells the heroes that they may resist if they wish, if their pride demands it. ‘But you won’t win. Even the power of the Beyonder was nothing compared to that of the life force. And those who resist it will surely perish’ he declares. ‘So will you accept my offer?’ Victor asks as he suddenly increases his mass, rising above the heroes. ‘Oh, no…’ Rogue mutters. ‘Not again…’ Wolverine declares. ‘…I guess this time it’s a not-so-Secret War’ Wolverine adds, while Doom asks them if they will fight and die. ‘You even have to ask?’ Ms Marvel asks as she flies towards him. Every hero moves towards the massive Victor. Iceman slides towards him on an ice-sled, Storm, Rogue, Iron Man, Wonder Man and Magneto fly upwards, Spider-Man swings towards Victor on a web, while the other ground-bound heroes prepare to fight. ‘AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!’ Captain America shouts.
However, the Young Avengers, the Scarlet Witch and Ant-Man remain standing where they are. ‘What do we do?’ Iron Lad asks. ‘We can’t just stand here, watching. We have to do something’ he tells his companions. Ant-Man asks if the all-new giant-sized Victor von Doom has any weaknesses they can exploit, to which Wanda repliers that Victor may feel li8ke a god, but that he is still a man, he is omnipotent, but not invulnerable. Wanda adds that unless Victor puts the power back where it belongs, it will consume and destroy him. ‘So how can we get him to put the power back?’ Ant-Man asks. ‘We can’t’ Wiccan announces. ‘But id Wanda and I can reopen the portal -’ he begins, only for Wanda to point out that the minute they open the portal, Victor will sense it, and know what they are doing. ‘We’ll need a distraction’ Wanda declares.
Looking up at the massive Victor, Ant-Man points out that he has got the X-Men, X-Factor and the Avengers crawling all over him, so what is more distracting than that? ‘I am. If I can grow to Doom’s height -’ Stature begins, but her father turns to her: ‘No way’ he declares. ‘Dad, I can do this. I know I can’ Stature replies. ‘I’ll go’ the Vision calls out. ‘I’m going’ Iron Lad exclaims at the same time. Ant-Man tells the kids to stay put, and that he will distract Doom while Wanda and Wiccan start casting that spell. He shrinks down in size, and rides the back of an ant that flies towards Doom. ‘Dad, wait! What are you gonna do?’ Stature calls out. ‘Kiddo, the key to defeating any opponent…is to get inside his head’ Ant-Man calls back, as he rides the ant towards Doom’s head. He adds that you need to do as much damage to his inner ear as possible. Doom cries out in agony and clasps at his head, while Spider-Man, Ms Marvel, Storm, Iceman, Iron Man and Multiple Man are nearby. Ant-Man then rides the ant out of Doom’s ear - only for Doom to notice him, and slams his hands together over Ant-Man. ‘Dad!’ Stature calls out.
‘No…’ Wiccan utters. The Scarlet Witch calls out to Stature, who is in shock, and instantly increases her mass, ‘YOU KILLED MY DAD!’ she shouts as she reaches up and punches Doom hard in the face - so hard that she knocks him onto a nearby building, sending both he and the building toppling to the ground. Stature moves on top of Doom, ‘You killed my father!’ she exclaims as she wraps a hand around Doom’s neck. And I can just as easily do the same to you, child. So I suggest you rein in this tantrum of yours…before I lose my temper!’ Doom warns her as they are both reduced to their regular sizes, and Doom casts Stature off of him with a burst of energy.
The Young Avengers are concerned for Stature, so Hulkling and Speed race towards them, telling the others to get the spell started while Doom is still disorientated. Wanda turns to Wiccan and tells him that she needs him to promise he will do what she says. ‘That depends on what you’re about to say’ Wiccan replies. ‘I mean it’ Wanda declares, telling Wiccan that once the portal is open, she needs him to run - to get as far away from her as he can. ‘Why?’ Wiccan enquires. ‘Because with magic there is always a price to be paid. And if anyone pays, it must be me’ Wanda announces. ‘No -’ Wiccan begins, but Wanda hangs her head and reminds him that she has taken people’s lives, and that it is only right that she should forfeit hers.
‘But -’ Wiccan begins, only for Wanda to tell him to try and let her be a decent mother this one time. They clasp hands as their magical energies swirl around each other, and Wiccan tells Wanda that he is not losing her again. ‘Just remember that I love you…and when I say the word…RUN!’ Wanda declares, as Doom hovers over them, ‘I should thank you’ he calls out, smiling, the brilliant light radiates around him and he tells Wanda and Wiccan that by opening the portal, they have only given him more power, more illumination, more white light that floods his soul. He basks in the power, and declares that he has been made one with the creator, that is sins are being burned away.
Suddenly, Doom falls to the ground, in flames. ‘Victor, let it go. It’s killing you’ Wanda calls out. Victor declares that he will not be corrupted, that he is not weak like she is. He keels over, ‘Victor!’ Wanda gasps, rushing over to him. ‘You’re hurt -’ Wanda exclaims, but Doom, returning to his true guise, covers his face with his cowl and tells her to get away from him. ‘But I’m -’ Wanda begins, ‘You are nothing’ Doom snaps. ‘A nexus creature - a conduit to power - that’s all you are. That’s all you’ve ever been!’ he exclaims cruelly. ‘What?’ Wanda gasps. ‘You think you were powerful enough to destroy the Avengers and rid the world of its mutants? That was me. That was Doom!’ Victor reveals.
‘You don’t know what you’re saying’ Wanda tells him, while the others all gather around in shock at the revelation. ‘Let me help you, please -’ Wanda calls, but Doom gets to his feet and holds his hands up, ‘Help me? You can’t even help yourself!’ he tells her. ‘You’re as weak, as trusting, and as easily led as your so-called friends. I’ll leave you to them’ he tells the Scarlet Witch. ‘Perhaps they’ll even save me the trouble of having to kill you’ Doom adds as he vanishes. ‘Victor, wait!’ Wanda calls out, while Captain America tells Wanda to let Doom go, as she is needed here. The heroes all gather around the fallen body of Stature. Iron Lad and the Vision are crouched at her side. Hulkling comforts Wiccan, while Patriot puts his arm around the female Hawkeye, and Speed puts a hand on Wanda’s shoulder.
‘Poor Scott…’ someone calls out, referring to Ant-Man. ‘Is there anything you can do?’ someone else asks. The Vision announces that it is too late, while someone else calls out ‘Don’t say that. Please don’t say that…’, when suddenly, ‘Guys. I’m here! I’m okay!’ Ant-Man calls out as he rises from some grass, and returns to his regular size, he walks over to the heroes. ‘You’re alive. You’re -’ Rogue begins, while Ant-Man suddenly sees what - who - everyone is gathered out. ‘Oh my God…Cassie…’ he utters, staring down at his dead daughter….


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‘How did this happen?’ Scott Lang a.k.a. Ant-Man cries as he holds the unmoving body of his daughter, Cassie, also known as Stature of the Young Avengers. Both are bloodied and bruised from battle, but Scott is still alive. Cassie is not. Assembled behind them on the battle-ravaged grounds of Avengers Mansion are the Young Avengers - Wiccan, Hulkling, Speed, the female Hawkeye, the Vision, Patriot and their former member Iron Lad. The recently returned Scarlet Witch, her brother Quicksilver and their father Magneto. Four members of X-Factor - Multiple Man, Rictor, Shatterstar and Strong Guy. Several members of the X-Men - Cyclops, Storm, Iceman, the White Queen, Rogue, Colossus and Gambit. Members of the Avengers - Captain America, Iron Man, Ms Marvel, the male Hawkeye, the Beast, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Luke Cage and his wife, Jessica Jones. Rounding out the assemblage of heroes is inactive Avenger Wonder Man.
‘When Doom attacked you…Cassie thought he’d killed you. She…’ Wiccan begins. ‘She beat the hell out of him. She saved us’ the female Hawkeye states. ‘She saved all of us’ she adds. ‘It was supposed to be me. Not her’ Scott cries, while Iron Lad states that it is not too late to save her, as they can take her into the Time Stream right now, the two of them, and find a doctor in the future who can help her. ‘What?’ Ant-Man calls out. ‘But we have to go now. The longer we wait -’ Iron Lad begins, before Captain America steps forward and exclaims ‘Iron Lad…I appreciate what you’re trying to do, but -’, only for Iron Lad to interrupt, exclaiming that he can save her, that he can bring her back. ‘You just have to trust me!’
Iron Lad tells Ant-Man that he knows how painful this must be for him. ‘But if you let me take her, I promise I will do everything in my power to -’ he begins, only for the Vision, frowning, to tell Iron Lad that he will do nothing. ‘Cassie is gone, Iron Lad. You must leave her in peace…with her father’. This angers Iron Lad, who snaps ‘You mean I should leave her with you’. Iron Lad lashes out at Vision, punching him, and shouting ‘You are NOTHING!’ The Vision falls backwards, while Speed and Wiccan hold Iron Lad back. ‘Nathaniel -’ Wiccan begins. ‘Nothing but a machine. A machine with my brain patterns!’ Iron Lad exclaims, while Speed suggests he calm himself. Patriot enters the fray, while Iron Lad casts a blast of energy at the Vision and tells him that if Cassie had any love for him, it was because was a carbon copy of him. ‘Your behavior at this moment disproves that theory’ the Vision replies. ‘You wouldn’t even exist if I hadn’t programmed you - if I hadn’t built you -’ Iron Lad declares as he comes in for another attack.
‘I know that’ the Vision replies. ‘Then know this…I can take you apart just as easily’ Iron Lad announces as energy charges around him - which he releases at the Vision, who falls to the ground, melting and crumbling. ‘You killed him. You killed the Vision’ the female Hawkeye gasps as everyone fathers around. ‘You can’t kill something that was never alive to begin with’ Iron Lad shoots back. Hawkeye orders Iron Lad to fix the Vision, but he just tells her that if she wants him fixed to do it herself, as he is leaving, and taking Cassie with him. ‘No, son. You’re not’ Captain America announces as he steps towards Iron Lad. ‘I am trying to save her life. You’re the ones who killed her’ Iron Lad exclaims.
‘The way you went after the Scarlet Witch…the way you went after Wiccan…’ Iron Lad begins. ‘Nathaniel, you know that’s not true’ Wiccan tells him, to which Iron Lad asks Wiccan why he is defending them, as they are terrified of what he can do. ‘And if you think they’re going to let you and the Young Avengers even exist after this, you’re deluding yourself’ Iron Lad adds. He opens a portal to the Time Stream, and tells the Young Avengers that their only hope for any kind of future is in the time Stream. ‘We can find Cassie in the past and make sure this never happens to her’ he offers. Wiccan calls out to Iron Lad: ‘Don’t you see? This is the moment. If you run away to the past and start changing the future…this is the moment you become Kang the Conqueror’. Iron Lad looks back at the Young Avengers and tells Wiccan that he underestimates him. ‘I’m going to be better than Kang the Conqueror. Much better’. He frowns, before turning and entering the portal. ‘You’ll see’ Iron Lad calls back.
‘Should we go after him?’ Colossus enquires. ‘Can we go after him?’ Spider-Man asks. ‘It isn’t him you want…’ the Scarlet Witch remarks, holding the head of the destroyed Vision. ‘…it’s me’ Wanda Maximoff concludes. ‘And me’ Wiccan calls out. ‘And me’ his brother Speed adds. ‘I’m as much to blame as Wanda is’ Wiccan announces. ‘I am, too’ Speed adds. ‘Tommy -’ Wiccan begins, but Speed declares that they are all as much to blame as Wanda is. ‘Which is to say, not at all’ Magneto announces as he stands beside his children. ‘Doom is to blame for all of this. M-Day…Cassie’s death…’ Magneto declares. ‘He said so himself. You all heard his confession’ Quicksilver adds.
‘A man in love will say anything’ Wolverine points out. ‘That didn’t sound like love to me’ Captain America remarks, before turning to Cyclops, who declares that in the unlikely even that Doom was telling the truth, and the Scarlet Witch was possessed by a force she couldn’t control, it doesn’t change the fact that she destroyed lives. ‘And for that, there is no punishment severe enough’ he adds. Turning to Wiccan and Speed, Cyclops states that they were right, there is no justice to be had, even the Scarlet Witch’s death would accomplish nothing. Cyclops stands with Storm, Iceman, the White Queen, Colossus, Rogue and Gambit and declares that it is better that the Scarlet Witch should spend what’s left of her life trying to make up for what she’s done - knowing it will never be enough. ‘Knowing she will never be forgiven’ he adds. ‘Knowing I will end her life myself when it happens again. Because it will happen again’. The X-Men turn to take their leave, while Rogue looks at the Scarlet Witch and tells her ‘He’ll come around. They all will’ she smiles. ‘Rogue!’ Cyclops scolds. ‘See ya!’ Rogue exclaims.
Captain America turns to the woman who was one of his longest-serving teammates and closest friends and tells her that she knows she has a home here with them. ‘No, Cap. Not after what I’ve done’ Wanda replies. ‘Wanda…”Once an Avenger, Always an Avenger”’ Cap reminds her. ‘I think we both know that’s not true’ Wanda tells him, and Cap turns and walks away, as Wolverine did moments ago.‘Don’t kid yourself’ Multiple Man remarks bitterly. Rictor, Shatterstar and Strong Guy stand behind him as he tells the Scarlet Witch that the minute the Avengers find themselves in a magic way against Domammu or Mephisto, she will be back on the team. ‘Hell, they’ll probably put you in charge’ he adds. Wanda tells Multiple Man that she will be too busy, doing everything she can to help the people whose lives she destroyed. Turning and walking away from the Scarlet Witch, Multiple Man tells her that she better, or else Cyclops won’t be the only mutant who comes gunning for her.
‘Wanda…’ Wonder Man calls out as he walks over to the Scarlet Witch. ‘Simon…’ Wanda whispers as the former lovers and dear friends embrace. Wanda begins to cry as Simon holds her, and asks her what she is going to do now. Wanda tells him that she has no idea, for her entire adult life, she has only ever been an Avenger. ‘You’re better off without them. Believe me’ Simon tells Wanda. ‘The Avengers used to be a family. Now it’s an army. And one you don’t want to be part of’ Simon declares. ‘Wanda…’ Magneto calls out, so Simon smiles and tells Wanda that he will leave her to her family now, but to know that he is here for her, no matter what. Wonder Man then flies away in a blur of ionic energy.
The Scarlet Witch turns to her father who tells her to come along, as she needs her rest. ‘Wanda’s coming with me, father’ Quicksilver exclaims. Magneto replies that he thought they might all go somewhere together. ‘Europe? The South of France?’ he suggests. ‘You want to go on holiday?’ Quicksilver asks. Wanda thanks her brother and father, but explains that she needs a life of her own before she can take a holiday from it. ‘I’ve only ever been Pietro’s twin…Magneto’s daughter…the Vision’s wife. It’s time for me to take responsibility for myself…and be there for my children’ the Scarlet Witch announces as she goes over to embrace Wiccan and Speed. Wanda then goes over to Ant-Man, and puts a comforting hand on his shoulder, before crouching down beside him and embracing him. The rest of the Young Avengers and several of the Avengers stand nearby as flames smoulder around the destroyed Vision, and Stature’s body lies in the dust.
So, what do we do now?’ Speed asks several days later as he, Hulking, Wiccan, Hawkeye and Patriot sit together in a park, the sun rising in the background over the city. ‘We repair the Vision’ someone tells him. ‘How?’ someone else asks. ‘What do you mean, “How?” We’ve got timed backups of his hard drive’ Speed points out. Hulkling points out that his body was 30th Century tech, so there is no way to replace it. Speed suggests that they ask Tony Star to build them a new Vision, with the old Vision’s memories. ‘The young old Vision. Our Vision’ Speed adds. Hulkling mutters that he doesn’t think Tony Stark is going to be in the mood to do them any favors for a while. ‘Even if we could…I don’t know if we should’ Hawkeye announces. ‘What?’ Speed exclaims. ‘Kate -’ Hulkling begins.
Kate tells her friends to think about it, and reminds them that all of the Vision’s hard drive backups are from before. ‘What are we gonna do? Bring him back to life only to tell him that Cassie’s dead?’ Kate asks. ‘That would be just cruel. And I can’t help hoping…maybe he and Cassie are together right now…wherever they are…and they deserve to rest in peace’ she announces. ‘So, they’re both just gone? And we just…we’re just gonna go on without them?’ Speed asks, shocked. ‘No’ Patriot announces, standing up. ‘I’m not anyway’ he adds. Kate hangs her head, while the others gasp ‘Eli -’, ‘What?’. Kate, Speed and Hulkling all stand up as well, and Patriot declares that a million mutants would have gotten their powers back if it wasn’t for him. Speed tells Patriot that is not true, and points out that Doom was never going to let Wanda re-power the mutants.
‘Eli, you made a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes’ Hulkling declares. Tears in his eyes, Eli replies that he has made too many, and that he is seventeen and only going to make more. ‘But I swear to God, I will never allow my mistakes to hurt anyone else. Ever again’. Eli announces that he is through being Patriot and that tomorrow he is moving to Scottsdale to live with his mother. ‘That’s a mistake’ Speed mutters, while Kate tells them that he has made up his mind. ‘And you’re just gonna let him go?’ Hulkling asks. Wiccan joins the others, standing alongside his boyfriend. ‘What choice do I have? My best friend died…the Vision died…Iron Lad murdered him…on a mission I was supposed to be leading. I’m not like you guys’ Kate declares. ‘I have now powers. No ties to the Avengers…and no right to be doing this. So, I’m done’ she announces.
Everyone frowns and hangs their head, when suddenly, ‘So am I’ Wiccan states. ‘Billy -’ someone calls out, but Wiccan hangs his head and declares that the Avengers were right about him, that he has no idea what he is doing, but that he knows enough now to stop doing it. ‘I’m sorry’ he utters. ‘Apology not accepted’ his brother snaps. ‘This is a war we’re fighting. And, yes, people get hurt. People die. But you don’t stop fighting or the bad guys win!’ Speed exclaims. Billy replies that he doesn’t know who the bad guys are anymore. ‘The Avengers thought it was Wanda. I thought it was the Avengers. Eli thought it was Doom. But it turned out to be me. I’m the bad guy…and I have no business calling myself a Young Avenger’ Billy declares.
Speed and Hulkling turn and walk away, and Speed asks Hulking if he is okay with this. ‘I…understand it’ Teddy replies. ‘So…the Young Avengers are just…you and me?’ Speed asks. ‘Just you’ Teddy tells him. Tommy turns to Hulkling and tells him that he is not going out there and doing this all by himself, to which Teddy tells him that he doesn’t have to, and points out that he could have an actual life for a change, be a person, learn to slow down. They stop and sit on some steps, and head in his hands, Speed declares that sounds like hell. ‘You never know, you might enjoy it’ Teddy tells him. ‘Have you met me?’ Speed replies. Wiccan, Patriot and Hawkeye make their way down the stairs, and Billy asks his brother and boyfriend if they are ready. ‘I give this whole retirement thing a week. Two weeks at the most’ Speed mutters. ‘Between you and me…?I hope you’re right’ Hulkling whispers.
Later, Billy, Teddy, Kate and Tommy are watching a news report on television. ‘They’re calling Manhattan “Spider-Island”!’ Kate announces. Holding up a copy of the Daily Bugle which is reporting on the situation, Speed exclaims that they have to get out there, as it is an epidemic. ‘Even if we went out there…how do you fight an epidemic?’ Hulking asks, while Wiccan just starts out the window.
More time passes, now only Wiccan, Speed and Hulkling are at the young Avengers’ home. Billy continues to stare out the window, while Speed watches a news report showing live footage from the North Korean News Agency of what appears to be military maneuvers. ‘Sentinels…’ Speed utters, while Hulkling tells Wiccan that someone is declaring war on the X-Men.
Later still, Hulkling smiles as he stares out the apartment window. ‘Billy, look…the Human Torch…he’s alive’ Teddy exclaims, but Billy just stares out blankly.
‘Billy, it’s been months…enough is enough’ Teddy declares as he turns on the light to the room where Billy continues to stare motionless out the window. ‘I’ve tried to be patient and supportive…but you need to talk to me - or to Wanda - or to someone - right now’ Teddy declares, before taking it back, and telling Billy that he needs to talk to him. Wiccan turns to Teddy, forlorn, he apologizes, telling Teddy that he is sorry. ‘You should be’ Teddy replies. ‘Because if I’ve learned nothing else from all this…I know now that life it way too short for you to be sitting here wasting yours. And mine’ Teddy declares. Wiccan asks him if he is breaking up with him, to which Teddy replies ‘And give you yet another reason to sit in the dark doing nothing? Sorry, Kaplan, you’re stuck with me’ Teddy declares. ‘Til death do us part’ Teddy adds. ‘Teddy Altman…did you just propose to me?’ Billy gasps. ‘Depends. Are you gonna get off your ass and do something?’ Teddy smiles. Billy looks at Teddy, before they embrace, and kiss passionately.
Suddenly, there is a tapping noise at the window. ‘Sorry to interrupt, boys…but Cap needs you at the Mansion’ Ms Marvel tells them. ‘But -’ Teddy begins. ‘In uniform’ Ms Marvel adds. ‘But -’ Wiccan protests. ‘Now’ Ms Marvel snaps.
Shortly, Wiccan, Hulkling, Hawkeye and Speed are all in uniform and follow Captain America and Iron Man down a corridor within Avengers Mansion. Captain America thanks them for coming on short notice, and tells them that the reason they are here tonight is because they need their help. ‘What can we do?’ Wiccan asks. ‘Quite a lot, it turns out’ Cap replies. The other Avengers gather around, and Cap tells the Young Avengers ‘You found the Scarlet Witch when we couldn’t. You stopped Doctor Doom when we couldn’t. You somehow managed to defuse our conflict with the X-Men’. ‘For the moment’ Jessica Jones points out.
‘So, we’ve asked you here to let you know that from this day forward…whether you’re Young Avengers or not…in our eyes, you are and always will be AVENGERS’ Captain America announces as he leads them out to the gardens, where Ant-Man is dressed in a suit and standing next to a memorial statue of himself, Stature and the Vision. The Avengers gather around the Young Avengers, and everyone smiles.
‘In the beginning, nobody knew what to make of us’ Wiccan thinks to himself. ‘Seven super-powered Avengers fans who came together because the Avengers had fallen apart. Now there are four of us and we’ve fallen apart. I have no idea what will happen to us’. He decides maybe that is the point - that there are no guarantees, no happy endings, but you show up anyway, you don’t give up, you never give up. ‘Maybe that’s what it takes…to be a hero’.