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  New York [October 2014]

  –Jack Sullivan–

  Well, this was not good, he thought to himself as he watched the dozens of portals opening, through them came all the masters he had seen during his training. The initiates were sent home for the moment.

  The wartime wards were raised across all the Sanctums with two Masters guarding each Sanctum. Worse still, both Mordo and Kecillius were given the Hong Kong Sanctum to guard together.

  He didn't know what the A One was thinking but she had to know the ces of Kaecilluus betraying Kamar Taj, and all it stood up.

  There was a lull in the chaos that surrouhe A One as she cast specifitments to isote the huge hole that had appeared in the Earth, to tairaces of Chaos Energy. The effects of that remnant energy were not particurly fatal but the effects were visible. Initiates who got too close to the edge of the hole had their clothing animated, some turned into wolves, some into birds and some into lizards, leaving the now less dressed initiates running away in fear.

  “Well, what happened here?” He asked her because he did not have the fai clue as to what was happening and that was not a nice feeling to have, especially during what was shaping up to be wartime.

  “The Scarlet Witch happened…almost,”

  He looked at her with a fused Pikachu face. Almost? What kind of answer was that?

  “The spells that were flung at my shields in rapid fire were almost certainly ohat were from the Darkhold. I have seen the records of my predecessors fighting the previous holders of the Darkhold enough the deadly spells a…”

  He leaned forward in i, having taken a seat in one of the closer huts with the piratments still intact.

  “...I saw no sign of her using the Darkhold. No, she was using Chaos Energy as if she was born with it but she held none of the madness, none of the usual signs of Chaos Energy overuse because no being should be able to hahat much Chaos Energy without adverse effects oher their mental or physical aspects,” She tinued and he could see that it really bothered her.

  “The New York Sanctum was attacked by her as well. Or at least she attacked it at the same time as she hit Kamar Taj with some pre-programmed spell?” He told her.

  “I have already made tact with Master Drumm and have sent reinforts so that should not be an issue anymore. He assured me that there was no damage to the Sanctum or its ward structure at all. So what was she after?”

  He shook his head, “I don’t know. I first entered her in Sokovia, where I, along with the Avengers, were chasing a lead on the Mind Stone,”

  So he told her how he first entered, how she somehoed him in some sort of mirror dimension and then hijacked his portal or destroyed his sling ring, one of two things.

  “Yes, Master Drumm mentioned his sling ring not w as well. Both of ys are active, acc to the work ledger I maintain but I see that the inscriptions have been pletely erased without toug anything else which should be impossible unless ....”

  “Unless she reality. Goddamnit!” He cursed out loud as he realised this Wanda robably much more advanced in her capabilities as the Scarlet Witch than she should be.

  Just what the hell has happened for her to reach this level of powers in such a short period of time because the sceptre was with Thanos until 2012 and it had only been about two years and ged after that. That was nowhere he amount of time required to create a fully realised Scarlet Witch. Maybe she received her powers before that? But if that was the case, why would she be in Strucker’s castle?

  But then again, he khat it was not time that fed the Scarlet Witch, it was the enviro. Something must have happened, somethireme, for this situation to occur.

  “Her energy was not as erratic as it should be,” A One’s words brought him back to reality. He looked at her as she cast a spell matrix, revealing a captured strand, or rather vortex of Chaos Energy.

  It looked serene as if it was a wave flowing without end.

  “This is not how Chaos Energy is supposed to be, Master Sullivan. Something else is afoot and I am uo use the Time Stoo find out how. I do not like bei in the dark, Master Sullivan. I was able to trap this Chaos Energy as she fled after making that huge hole iraining grounds. That is not how Chaos Energy should look like.”

  “Did you enter another Scarlet Witch before this?”

  “No, but I have nursed wounds of many Masters who had to flee after an enter with Agatha Harkhe current holder of the Darkhold. The Chaos Energy that es into tact with that book bees infinitely more unwieldable. This,”

  She gestured to the spell matrix as it shattered and released the wave of Chaos Energy. The energy before it could do anything romptly sucked into the hands of the A One who made the energy spin in her hands before bsting it at the coffee table in front of them.

  He jerked back as the table turned into a small tree before it returo its inal form.

  “--This energy be wielded by me and that means something else is afoot and I have not lived this long by not knowing all that goes on in the Mystical Space of Earth,”

  Wow. He had never seen her so shaken before all of this. The fact that she was uo see the future using the Time Stone might have had a hand in it but it must also be due to all the fusiarding the enemy’s as.

  Wanda, if she was here for something, must have made some move towards it but the training grounds were oher side of the library. Better to just ask then.

  “Did she take anything from the–”

  “No, nothing is missing from the library. No spell book, no forbidden tome, no relic, or past records. My personal colle has not been touched at all. That is where I am fused, Master Sullivan, what were the motivations of the intruder?

  The spell that dug that hole recisely calibrated for just that, nothing more and nothing less. No demon summoning, no sacrifio fallout. The embers of Chaos Energy that spread throughout the surrounding areas are just misfires that she did when I arrived and took trol of the field,”

  Oh. She probably used that then.

  “Yes, judging by the proximity of a Scarlet Witch to the future of Kamar Taj, I deemed it a critical enough situation to use his powers. I was able to overpower her for a moment before she threell that scattered as much os Energy as she could and then tore apart the surrounding space, a.”

  Oh. Well, that was difficult then. If she had already learned how to traverse space without a sling ring, trag and capturing her would be almost impossible.

  “We are going nowhere like this. I will tih the preparations, and also warn all of the magical s oh, allied or not. The emergence of a true Scarlet Witch is not something that any of us wishes for. I know your mystical tag spells are not up to par but I would appreciate any information you gather on her,” She said before she snapped her fingers.

  His vision blurred as he found himself once again on the doorstep of Kamaar Taj. Damn this spell. He wondered when he would grow strong enough to detect this spell and at least deflect it, if not stop it pletely.

  He sighed and flew upward, his sling ring not ready because the A One doesn’t keep any spare ones on hand, which must be a plete lie because what if she lost her own sling ring?

  Still, it was quite a revetion that she had a work made of all sling rings and she was the master troller of it, allowio track their status, their location, their usage, et ingenious way of trag all the sorcerers under Kamar Taj. After all, it was quite ingrained into any Sorcerer, the use of Sling Rings, ever sihey began training itself.

  By the time anyone bees a sorcerer, the use of a sling ring to travel must have bee a reflex.

  He kept the stealth spell ed around him as he flew straight to Wakanda, the one pce where he would get everything he might need in the fight against this new enemy. Hopefully, they had some good news for him about the Avengers.

  The thing that bugged him was that he had only ever heard and seen Wanda beiioned everywhere, ion of Pietro, the speedster, someone who was equally if not more dangerous to any Sorcerer below the level of either Mordo or Kaecillius. Not to mention none of the Avengers, save for Bruce, will be able to survive an enter with Pietro if he wishes to kill them.

  Not even Captain Rogers had the necessary reflexes to survive the death that Pietro could give him. All the gruesome ways one kill someoh superspeed sped through his mind as he absentmindedly crashed into the grouo the Border Tribe settlement guarding Wakanda’s borders.

  It must have looked quite hirious as he pulled himself up from the ground using his barriers as he floated backward in the same position and then turned himself upright, ing face to face with Vibranium spears pointed in his dire.

  He raised an eyebrow at the one Border Tribe member who threw a VIbranium spear that was now held aloft in one of his peers. All of the members of the tribe present meically turheir heads at him.

  He said something in Xhosa but his expression was defensive as he was berated by his fellow tribe members.

  “Greetings, Green Guardian, please, let me escort you to the city,” One of the Border Tribe members came forward and asked him in fluent English.

  “No need,” He said as he looked behind them, his barriers already deteg the raptor that was heading their way. He slowly floated to the raptor as it became visible to all the people present.

  Instead of entering the raptor, he just flew ahead, in the dire of the barrier. He needed answers and he had no time to adhere to official procedures. He sped through the many yers of barriers, still keeping himself to almost the same speed as the raptor as they finally ehe try, at which point, he simply boomed straight to the Royal Pace, leaving a soni behind him.

  He winced as many birds flew out of the trees below, mostly due to the soni.

  He slowly nded on top of the Royal Castle hangar, where T’Chal and Shuri were both waiting for him. Shuri seemed to be vibrating with excitement as T’Chal came forward to greet him.

  As a gesture of trust, he deactivated his barriers and shook hands with T’Chal.

  “Any update about the Avengers?”

  “Mr.Sullivan, I know that the emergency must truly be dire to be able to take out the Avengers but please tell us what is going on. The try has been in a lockdown, preparing for a war against an imaginary enemy, ever since you dropped brainwashed Avengers on our doorstep and fled after telling us that it was an emergency,” T’Chal seriously reminded him.

  Oh. Oooh.

  “I am so sorry for that but we talk while you take me to the Avengers?” He said urgently. T’Chal nodded and they began heading deeper into the stairs that opened up after a panel on the Hangar slid out, revealing stairs that probably led deeper into the Royal Pace.

  “So, the brairy of all the Avengers is normal, save for Steve Rogers, whose mental activity is heightened, as expected of a super soldier really. In fact, I was surprised to find that his brain activity was on par with my brother’s, suggesting simir levels of enha between the Hea–”

  “SHURI!” T’Chal rebuked Shuri who was about to reveal cssified information to an outsider. Damn, the girl could talk when she wao.

  Also, she was really just a teenager so they should probably five her.

  “Are they out of any dahen? Have you pared the mental activity with that of an active brainwashing victim?” He asked Shuri as they finally ehe b that everybody was kept in.

  Bucky was not here, for obvious reasons but all 4 of the Avengers were suspended in medical pods that looked strikingly simir to the one he gave Wakanda when he handed over Bucky to them.

  “Are those?” He gestured to the pods.

  “Yes, the medical pod you gave us was eons ahead of what he had. We were able to signifitly advanedical stasis teology with that. We are still in the process of figuring out how half of that thing works but so far, we have been able to create a streamlined product that also be deployed on the field, as long as we have the power source to sustain it,” Shuri said.

  “I assume you know all about Arc Reactor teology as well now?” He asked Shuri, pointedly looking at the dispy unit that kept the dismantled Iron Man suit with the Arc Reactor suspiciously missing from its housing.

  “Hey! I knew Arc Reactor teology the moment Mr.Stark here started installing them ie areas. I was just curious about the fen Arc Reactor that he had only a single one of. Turns out, Mr.Stark had somehow synthesised a variant of Vibranium that was only good for its energy transmission properties,”

  “Uh-huh. I want that suit ba tip top shape when Tony wakes up, alright?” He asked T’Chal who nodded and looked pointedly at Shuri who huffed and muttered a quiet, “Alright.”

  “We have enough proof to know that they are out of their brainwashing. The dull impa all of their brains, no doubt your handiwork, shocked their brains bato their normal state. I believe it is safe to wake them up right now. I was just waiting for you to e bad tell us all about the threat that has even you running around the world,” T’Chal said.

  “I would like to know that as well,” An aged voice, tinged with authority, greeted him as he looked bad saw T’Chaka walking in with Okoye behind him.

  He sighed, he would really rather be doing anything but debriefing these people but he really heir people.

  “Alright, I assume you guys have a secure space around here? This is for the King’s ears only, and okay T’Chal e too,”

  ‘Very well. Follow me. Shuri, stay here aore Mr.Stark’s suit,” T’Chaka stopped Shuri’s tirade even before it had begun, showing his parenting skills as this robably not the first time it had happened.

  “Before that, you che with Pepper Potts and Jarvis of Stark Industries? They will be informed of everything as well. Just check if Jarvis, an AI is poking around the web, looking for Stark and me,” He took a step bad asked Shuri who nodded, her eyes gleaming iement at the mention of Jarvis.

  Probably was excited to meet a fully funal sapient AI.

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