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The Institute

Summary: Jean and Raven give Wanda and Y/n a tour of the headquarters.

A/N: I'm loving the responses so far hahaha Let me know if you're team Wanda or team Jean. Enjoy!

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Walking through the Institute made your skin crawl with how familiar yet foreign the place is. It was similar to the one you grew up in but somehow vastly different. Luckily, neither Jean or Raven are in the mood to give the full tour of the facility. The only rooms that they show you to are the room that you and Wanda are staying in and after setting your bags inside, they guide you two to the war room. Inside were various monitors that were broadcasting information the two women must’ve collected from the other universes. A long table that had a mess of files and folders, even a few trays of food and disposable cups. On the wall at the back of the room was a giant map. It was the strangest map you had ever seen. It was of many universes with many random numbers floating about. On the right side of the screen were numbers in red.

You step closer to get a better look at the numbers. “Those are the universes that we’re assuming the witch has already destroyed.” The person that answers the question you hadn’t asked yet was Carol Danvers, she was munching on some chips while you stared at Captain Marvel wide-eyed. “Hi, I’m Carol–”

“Danvers,” Wanda completes as she looks at the woman in disbelief. “Wow, there’s a nexus of you too?”

The woman smiles awkwardly, still not used to any part of this situation. “Yeah, I suppose there is. I’m not a complete asshole in your universe am I? The two of you look kind of shocked to see me.”

“No,” you clear your throat and shake your head to bring yourself back. “No, we were friends until you uh, I mean. We– well, she was really good friends with our Carol until she died on a mission,” you explain. Now you understand what Jean and Raven must be going through with you. It was shocking and difficult to see a version of the person that you had cared about and mourned, standing in front of you alive and well. She has shorter hair than your friend did, but otherwise the resemblance was uncanny. You look to your wife to see if she is okay. They had a close relationship and it was hard for her to lose her best friend. On the night of the funeral she made you promise to never go on another mission again, because she needs you more than the world does.

Wanda is trying to keep from getting emotional but she can’t help it. To see her friend again felt really good. “Can I hug you?” She asks before she wraps her arms around the woman anyways. Carol laughs as she returns the hug.

“I’m glad to know she had you as a friend. If we were anything alike, she really needed someone like you in her life,” she says as she comforts your wife.

“Were we friends too?” You ask to fill in the conversation that your wife couldn’t at the moment.

Carol shrugs, “You married her so we tolerated each other.” You’re amused by her bluntness and make a comment about the universes not being so different after all. She laughs as she pats Wanda on the back to politely end the hug. “Alright, Maximoff, time to release me.” Wanda nods and pulls away as she wipes away some of her tears and thanks her. “No need, believe me, with how stressful all of this is,” she gestures to the intimidating room, “I needed that hug just as much as you did.”

Wanda excuses herself to go clean up and when you offer to go with her she refuses you and tells you to stay put. “Where is everyone else?” Jean asks as she sets down the tablet she was preoccupied with. A screen that wasn’t on before is now showing the information they had collected from your universe.

“Wonderbread is sleeping in and your highness the fancy toaster is out collecting more data on the other Nexus Beings. Seeing how many are left, estimating how many she took.” Carol sits down and kicks her feet up on the table as she bunches up the empty snack bag and tosses it over her shoulder.

Raven shakes her head, narrowing her eyes, “And what were you doing?”

“Keeping your seat warm, darling,” she winks at the shapeshifter that rolls her eyes as she tries to organize the area a bit more. When she left, the place was spotless, she should’ve known she would have needed to ask one of her colleagues to come in every now and then to reorganize the place.

“You could have cleaned up around here,” Raven starts. While they argue, you start walking by each monitor so you can catch up on the information they already have. Getting to know your other teammates in a way before actually meeting them.

“It’s a little overwhelming, isn’t it?” Jean asks as she stands beside you. “I’ve witnessed most of this and I still can’t wrap my head around it.” She continues on, feeling the need to talk to you about anything at this point. You nod your head and turn to look at her.

“I’m not sure anyone’s brain was meant to handle this much information in such a short amount of time. After seeing Danvers alive,” you trail as you look over at the woman begrudgingly picking up the cups and take-out containers while Raven goes on about the importance of cleanliness. She exclaims about how she cannot believe the mess three adults can make in two days without supervision. You smile a little as you watch the Nexus Being mimic the shapeshifter in a childish manner. “I don’t know how I’m ever supposed to live a normal life again.”

Jean shrugs, “You’ve figured out how to do that before, haven’t you?” You look at her in question and she points to your monitor. “Your body holds every infinity stone from your universe, something that should be impossible and useless outside of it but you make it possible. That’s not exactly a normal life, even for a Sorcerer Supreme.” You laugh and scratch your head sheepishly as you agree that it isn’t what most would consider to be a normal life.

“So I’m guessing the person you knew wasn’t as reckless as I am when it comes to saving the world,” you ask lightly. “Wanda will be jealous if that’s the case.”

“No, they absolutely were,” Jean instantly answers. “The version of you that I knew was constantly giving me heart attacks. But they always came back to me, without fail. You refused to break that promise to me.” She gets a distant look in her eyes as her mind is invaded by thoughts of the love of her life. “It’s part of what made losing you so hard. I mean, not you. Y/n. My Y/n, I mean,” Jean laughs awkwardly as she remembers the first time she ever called Y/n hers. How happy they were to hear her say it. They were surprised but every time after they had looked at her so lovingly, whereas right now the only thing in your eyes is pity.

Jean excuses herself to break up what was happening between Raven and Carol and you let her go. You decide to look for Wanda since she hasn't returned yet. You wonder if she got lost or something. As you're walking down the hall a loud screech from outside catches your attention. You look out of one of the big windows that make the wall and see a robot dropping a mostly nude man onto the main platform where you and Wanda had arrived from. They were too far to see many details but something, his screaming mostly, tells you that the man is from a time long before yours and this must be quite a shock for him. Figuring that you’ll find out what that is about later, you ignore it for now and continue to find your wife.

Checking down each corridor as you pass them, you don’t sense Wanda until you get close to the room. You initially thought she would have gone to one of the public restrooms, but she seemed pretty upset when she left. She is lying on the bed, hugging a pillow when you find her. You lock the door behind you and then you lay down behind her. Unsure if she wants to be touched because sometimes she doesn’t and you were respectful of that.

“Where’s your head at?” You ask her softly. Wanda doesn’t have an answer for you, so instead she reaches behind you to have you to hold her. You adjust your position so that you can comfortably do so. “You don’t have to be here, no one will think less of you if you go home.” This makes Wanda turn in your arms so that she can glare at you.

“Stop trying to talk me out of this. We’re in this together,” this time to remind you of the vows the two of you made to each other, she holds her engagement and wedding rings up. You couldn’t help but smile at them, the first memories coming to mind are the days that you conjured them on her finger. You take her hand so that you can place a kiss on the back of it and rub soothing circles to help her anxieties. Wanda sighs with content, grateful that you know what she needs. “I just needed a minute. You know how hard it was for me to lose Carol. She was my best friend. We were sisters. I’m lucky to know that we have that bond in other places but, it makes my head spin, you know?”

You nod because you did know, in a sense. It makes you think about the Scarlet Witch. The kinds of people she must be missing from her life that has led her to the point that she is at in her life. Either she never had them or she lost them all and the thought was almost too much to bear. The train of thought even brings your mind back to the woman looking at you like she wanted to have you all to herself.

“The more this whole thing settles in my mind, the more impossible it’s starting to feel. I’m scared, duša. I won’t lie to you about how I feel, but I’m not backing down,” Wanda continues. “So, until you can give me a real reason please don’t ask me to go home again.” You promise her that you won’t bring it up again. She makes you seal the promise with a pinky swear and a kiss.

There is a knock on the door and the two of you take a deep breath and tell each other that you can do this. You stand up first so that you can pull her out of the bed since she wouldn’t let go of your hand. She stays attached to you the entire way back to the room but lets go of you once you’ve entered the room. With an expression, you ask her if she is okay and she points her eyes in the direction of the Phoenix who seemed to be preparing to give the briefing. The simple act of kindness made you fall for your wife all over again, she was always thinking of others. In your eyes, she was unmatched when it came to her pure heart.

“Please, find a seat and we can get started,” Jean says as she gestures to the many empty seats at the long table. There were only three chairs that were occupied. The ones taken by Raven and Carol and one more by a man you hadn’t had the pleasure of meeting yet, however, his attention was drawn to the woman standing next to you. “Simon!” Jean says, to grab the man’s attention once again. Now you know why the notes on his monitor said that his weakness was Wanda Maximoff. You thought he was going to be afraid of her, like many others would be. But now you knew exactly why she was his weakness, it was the same reason she was your weakness. “Alright, now that we have most of you here. Let’s get started–”

Jean is cut off when the door opens and two unique figures walk through. A man that looks like he belongs in the stone age and a much more advanced version of Vision than the one you know. “Sorry for the interruption,” he pushes the man with no skin on his head into an empty seat at the table. “This is Ghost Rider, he’s from 1,000,000 BC in the 272 universe. We will have to be patient with him but believe me, it will be worth it.”

“Oh-kay,” Jean says as she looks over at the strange looking man that is looking around the room wildly, trying to process all of the new around him. “May I continue now?”

“Please,” Vision gestures for her to do so as he finds his own seat.

From that point on, they go over what they know. Each Nexus Being contributes what they can remember from the many nightmares of the Scarlet Witch murdering their variants. You purposely leave out the one that occurred here. When Jean asks if you had a nightmare of it, you apologize and say that you don’t remember. You wouldn’t want to hear about Wanda in her last moments before a monster took her away from you for good, so you couldn’t put the redhead with desperate eyes through the same thing.

What you didn’t know was how much she needed you to confirm that she lost you to the Scarlet Witch. That the love of her life didn’t willingly choose to leave her. She knew that you weren’t telling her the truth about dreaming about their death, she didn’t need to know if you had or not. What worried her was why you were reluctant to tell her. Would it be what everyone had been telling her was what happened? That Y/n got up in the middle of the night and decided that they had enough with this life? No, she wouldn’t lose hope yet.

After they were done comparing notes about their nightmares, cultivating a list of abilities she possessed and theorizing the limitations and weaknesses they have to work with, they moved onto using the map. Working to choose the Nexus Beings that could be useful and or willing to help their cause. They write down the names and numbers of the dimension that they think will have prime candidates.

While you’re learning how to use the portable multiversal travel device you find yourself questioning a few things. Thankfully, Raven was your instructor because you weren’t sure if you could ask Jean the questions that were jumping around your head.

While Wanda is preoccupied with the device, trying to call the platform but finding it to be more difficult than it had looked, you decide to talk to Raven. “So, we were able to pinpoint exactly where certain Nexus Beings are,” you start conversationally and the shapeshifter makes a noise to let you know she heard you but her main focus was somewhere else. You thought for a second it was your clumsy wife but find yourself smiling a little when you notice her gaze went far beyond that. “Danvers, huh?” You ask just above a whisper to catch her attention.

“What? Huh? Sorry, were you saying something?” Her focus is on you now and you decide not to mention what previously held her full attention. You repeat what you had observed in the war room earlier and she nods. “Yeah, we did. What about it?” She asks, a little annoyed that you were pointing out the obvious.

“Well, Jean mentioned to me earlier about having seen me and Wanda together in every other universe. And the two of you seemed so happy to have found me. Or rather, the correct me, so I just have to ask. Why is it easier to locate Nexus Beings now than it was before?” You finally get the question out and Raven understands your confusion.

“We are advanced in our technology and information on the multiverse, but up until we found Vision on Earth-90110, we were blindly searching. Of course, we wanted to start with finding you first. So that’s what our goal was when we’d enter a different dimension. But we’d either find out that something happened to you or that you weren’t the Nexus we were looking for. So we would go to the Nexus in those worlds to try to convince them to help but they had no idea what we were talking about. Until we met Carol. She was the first one to agree to come with us,” her gaze wanders back to the woman with short blonde hair and the playful attitude. She lets herself get lost for a second, watching the woman engage in a conversion with Simon and Jean, then Wanda’s cursing at the device snaps her out of her head. “I’m sorry. Uh, then Simon came along and with his help we were able to find Vision. The improvements he made to our equipment is why today has been easy so far.”

You thank her for the explanation and then you give your wife the help she needed in order to get the device working properly. She isn’t happy in the slightest that she needed your help to have the platform appear. You try not to laugh at her grouchiness but you can’t help how adorable and amusing you find her. She shuts the machine off and storms to the other group, telling you not to follow her. Raven shakes her head at you with a light scoff and you shrug your shoulders.

Once everyone has successfully done a trial run on the devices on their own, including Wanda, Raven hands everyone their assignments. A small device that is the size of a smart phone but it can make calls directly to this Institute in another universe in case of an emergency. It also holds the small bit of information that they were able to get on the Nexus that each group is supposed to look for. “Oh good, you’re here,” Raven says as a man in a lab coat arrives at the main platform. “This is my friend, Dr. Hank McCoy,” the man she pulled beside her waves with an awkward smile as she introduces him. “He was part of the research that cultivated the research for these devices. He will be joining Wanda and Carol,” she gestures to your wife and her friend that were distracted trying to figure out how the devices work again.

They both look up as if they had been caught doing something bad and hide the start up device behind their backs. “Whatever you think happened, it wasn’t me!” Carol states.

“I’m her alibi, it wasn’t her and it wasn’t me either,” Wanda raises her hand and you shake your head as you laugh quietly to yourself.

Raven’s eyebrows knit together in confusion. “What the hell did you two do?”

“Nothing, were we not clear before?” Carol retorts playfully.

Not having the time to deal with this at the moment, she waves it off. “Whatever, Hank, good luck babysitting those two.”

“Wait, why can’t you babysit us?” Carol asks, not exactly happy about this sudden substitution.

“Because someone needs to keep an eye on,” the blonde woman nods her head in the direction of Ghost Rider, who everyone voted to have stay behind. “And I need to get the school cleared out. It’s too dangerous for them to be here.”

“Why do we even need a babysitter?” Wanda asks next, completely offended. “Carol and I are very capable of traveling, just the two of us.”

This time you save Raven the breath, “No, the two of you are hopeless. I don’t know how Simon’s pairing system failed, but the two of you need someone who will get you back here safely.” You look at the guy that the shapeshifter had appointed and he seemed harmless and responsible enough, “Hank will be a good balance for the two of you. Won’t you?” The man is brought out of his thoughts when you call attention to him, and has to wipe his eyes before ensuring everyone that he is fit for the task. It wasn’t easy being the one sharing the face of someone that meant a lot to people. But it did make you feel good that you were important to people in worlds outside of your own.

“Alright, is everyone ready?” Raven asks and she is met with mostly nods except for one raised hand. “Yes, Simon?”

“Can I switch with Hank?” He asks, stepping forward, a little too eager for your liking.

Jean swats the guy on the back of the head and pulls him back to her side, “He’s just joking,” she says. You smile, amused and thankful, in her direction. She has to look away when she notices it and you feel like maybe you shouldn’t have made the expression. But then when you look over at her again, she says, “You’re welcome,” through a mind message.

“Alright, everyone, good luck and bring back as many as you can,” Raven calls over Ghost Rider so that the two can head back inside together. Each group wishes the other luck and one by one they disappear into another universe.

The Multiverse

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"riot at xavier's" isn't really my favorite arc but it gave me one of my favorite x-characters: quentin quire

Started liking this guy mostly at Jason Aaron's "Wolverine And The X-Men" which gave us a new perspective on his character and also a nice character development along with new relationships both with teachers and students. Went from asshole to actually wanting and liking to be a good guy, well done!

One of my favorite aspects about WATXM is how Quentin's change happens with the help of Wolverine and the development of a teacher-student bond. Logan sees that Quentin is still young and an idiot and that he can change and maybe just needs some assistance. Quentin gets there with a little help from his friends and also by working himself to be better because he starts liking to be a good guy. It's a redemption arc that feels natural.

From here, Quentin Quire had a lot of potential. Newly-redeemed, wanting to do good, having a really interesting friend group, cool powers, being an omega telepath and even a potential in romance stories. I'm sure he could do well in the newest X-Men group or as a new member in an already-existing one/new lineup

Strain's "Generation X" really had me hopeful because there were characters I liked set in a scenario that give a similar vibe to Aaron's WATXM at the same time introducing us some new stories and developing these characters to new places. I was kinda sad to see Quentin's arc was basically rebooted.

His development is sort-of-reversed for the sake of having this redemption arc again in a much similar way: a teacher (now Jubilee), some friends (this Generation X) and Quentin himself works towards a redemption to his character. While I would say this one is kinda excusable, because maybe he just wasn't coping well with Logan's death combined with being around a new mentor figure and (some) new friends, I can't really excuse Thompson's "West Coast Avengers"

Quentin is once again put in a new setting and in a new team and is an asshole who has to grow through another redemption arc that feels the same as Generation X's. At some point, it really feels like Thompson didn't really bother to read some of Quentin's past books or at least WATXM. Besides, I really dislike this redemption arc.

"Generation X" and WATXM focused on a redemption through a mentor figured which is a lot better (to me, at least) than what it felt as a "changed by love". Basically what I got was "Quentin has a romantic relationship with Gwen and that motivated him to change" and really that is so ???

Sorry, Gwentin shippers, but I really dislike this couple. It really feels like a changed-by-love story and completely ignores the way Logan and Jubilee took care of him. It's the most important relationship Quentin has in the book and that love-hate thing was so based on a mischaracterization of Quentin that it Did Not Feel Right.

Quentin was being constantly sidelined by the team and mostly of them either blatantly ignored him or had fights with him. They only have like a single scene that indicates they are heading towards a better friendship. That's it. Don't get me wrong, I like West Coast Avengers and I understand people who like, but it mischaracterizes Quentin and reverts his development a lot.

Which is sad, because WCA Quentin is my favorite Quentin art

If I were in charge of Marvel Studios, I would either continue the Generation X storyline with them doing good ol' superhero missions and developing as teen heroes or would have made Quentin and his Jean Grey School friends start their own superhero team and develop as teen heroes and trying to handle it all without adults around. Probably with a lot of goofy missions like WCA's land-sharks.

I would start talking about the new X-Force book by Benjamin Percy but it has taken such a weird story with Quentin and Phoebe and Quentin dying then coming back as an old man that it deserves its own post.

#quentin quire #kid omega #wolverine and the x men #watxm #generation x #west coast avengers #comics #x men comics #really but the idea of the jean grey school gang teaming up as some new x-men team and try to handle it all as teenage heroes #and handle with a lot of goofy and weird missions and growing and maturing as persons and more development of their relationships #fantastic concept i want a writer to give me this

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