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The Multiverse

Summary: A mission to travel through the Multiverse.

A/N: I hope y'all are enjoying this series! Let me know your thoughts!

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Stepping off of the plate you look to Vision and ask him if the two of you landed close. You are standing in front of what looks to be an abandoned building. Why would a Nexus Being live here? The advanced synthezoid scans the area and nods to confirm.

“They’re hiding inside of there,” he points to the old and seemingly rundown building. The two of you take cautious steps toward the structure but don’t make it close enough before falling into the ground. You are startled as you ride a slide to an unknown location, not sure if what you’ll find when you land will be pleasant or not. Luckily, you land on a mountain of soft cushions.

“It works!” A young kid cheers from the otherside of the room. You stand up and look at him with confusion. There was no way that he was the Nexus that the two of you were sent here to grab. “No one ever comes this far! I’ve never been able to test it myself, since it recognizes me. But wow! I cannot believe it works!”

You look to Vision to confirm that this was the person that the two of you were sent to find but he is preoccupied with something else. “Reality warping,” he says in a low volume. “It feels so familiar,” he takes several steps towards the little boy.

“Excuse me,” the boy says. Seemingly frightened by the robot standing so close to him.

“Franklin Richards, stop the cartoons,” your partner demands. “Show us the real you.”

The boy pretends to not know what he is talking about but Vision is in no mood to play such games. Without physically touching him, Vision lifts the little boy in the air by his throat with a force so strong it disrupts his reality warping abilities. The space that was empty was then filled with steaming lava, then it was turned into an empty amusement park, and finally a high tech laboratory. The boy was now the man that the two of you were sent for. Vision drops him to the ground, coughing and weak.

This still couldn’t be the one, but it was. What had happened to him? Why couldn’t he have fought off Vision's abilities. You kneel down and conjure a healing glass of water for the man. He refuses, “That only makes it worse now.”

“What do you mean?” You ask curiously.

“I didn’t abide by the limitations of my abilities,” he coughs. “I played with fate too much and now I’m banished here, all alone, sick, and any attempt to heal myself… it won’t kill me but it will make the suffering worse.” At his explanation you disenchant the water and offer it to him again. He accepts the glass. You look up at Vision who was already setting the next location. Franklin was going to be no use to the cause. You wish that there was something that you could do to help the poor man but he doesn’t look like he wants any.

“Sorry for bothering you,” you say as you stand up.

Moving onto the next universe, you and Vision land in the alley and walk onto a busy sidewalk. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere and they rudely bump into you and the synthezoid as the two of you figure out where you’re supposed to go.

“Couldn’t you have programmed these things to be exact on the location?” You grumble after the fifth person has shoved you aside. “Jean and Raven landed in my backyard, why couldn’t we have been that close?”

Vision looks at the device with concern because the two of you should have landed close by the home of the Nexus that the two of you are searching for. Not in a busy street in front of businesses and apartment buildings. Using his x-ray vision, Vision scans you then he scans the buildings searching for similar energy.

When he finds it, he is astonished to find that the Nexus can't be more than a few months old. Which meant the adult Nexus that the two of you were searching for had perished. There was no telling how or when. Other than to infer that they were lucky enough to have sent their powers to their successor.“We have to move on,” Vision says as he puts the settings in. “She could be here, we must go before she senses us.”

You hop onto the platform without questioning him and the two of you are sent to the next location. This time, you land in a backyard. One that mirrors the one you have. Exactly. If you looked at your backyard through a mirror and stepped in, this is what it would look like. You were starting to feel dizzy. You would collapse if it weren't for the tall boy that walked out of the back door of the house.

“Can I help you?” He is irritated. “Look, if you think you can lock up my mother after she tried to warn you, you have another thing coming!” He does a couple hand motions that conjure up magic shields.

“Refresh our memory, what did your mother warn us about?” You calmly say with your hands up in surrender.

The boy shakes his head, “I know what you're trying to do! You're trying to make me hear how crazy she sounds. But I won't! Okay? I'm not you!” The way he practically spits at you tells you that the two of you have a history in this universe. “I won't give up on her like you did!” He motions to blast you with his magic.

“Woah, woah, hold on!” You shout. “I believe you! I believe her!” Your pleas don't stop the boy but you're able to dodge the deadly energy he sends your way.

Vision is annoyed by the boys’ dramatics. “Are you William—”

“Don't pretend like you don't know who I am!” The boy shouts before Vision could finish his name. This time he aims his powers towards Vision. The synthezoid isn't happy to be blocking the hit and he looks at you with a glare.

Not sure what he expects you to do, so you look back at the boy and clear your throat as you stand taller. “We aren't who you think we are. And we're here to discuss the multiverse with you. Please, hear us out. We need your help.”

The crazed look in the boy's eyes tells you that there might not be anything to convince him that you're telling the truth. “No,” he whispers bitterly. “No! You think I'm going to let you in? You think you're going to convince me to trust you? No! I won't put my mother in danger like that! Now go! Get out of here and stay away! We don't need you! The day you left was the best day of our lives!” He looks at you with daggers of hatred in his eyes. “Why couldn't you have just stayed gone?”

You step forward to say something but Vision stops you. “Another lost cause,” he says, “We better get going.”

“No, I think I can—”

“It's no use, Y/n. Even if you convince him to come with us, he's not going to want to fight against the Scarlet Witch,” Vision elaborates.

“How are you so sure?” you challenge.

“Billy, who's there?” A new voice, that sends shivers down your spine, calls the boy from the house. The answer to your confusion stands on the back porch of the house.

“It’s nobody, mom. Go back inside please,” the boy — Billy — keeps a guarded stance towards you as he speaks softly to his mother. Wanda.

“That's them!” Wanda says as she races down to you and Vision. She is much older than the Wanda you’re married to and she is very thin. An unhealthy amount, as if she hardly ate if at all. But the resemblance is still uncanny. You looked to the boy to see that he wasn’t doing well for himself either. You begin to wonder if this is what the people just look like in this universe or if these two need a lot more help than just each other. You felt bad for the two of them as you realize the house was a lot more rundown than you initially thought. The longer you paide attention the more things began to deteriorate. You wanted to help them get out of here, it looked like they really needed it.

“Mom, no! It's a trap!” Billy tries to catch her but she shoos him away. He shakes his head and prepares to hit either of you with a powerful blast if he needs to.

“You came for my boy, yes?” She asks in a thick Sokovian accent. She must not have felt the need to lose the accent in this universe which you’re happy about for her. You missed her accent, and though there is a hint of it here and there with your Wanda, it’s not nearly as strong. And she would mention to you about feeling a loss of her former identity, of where she came from. But she never made much of an effort to find it again because it didn’t feel right to the person she has grown to be. “He’s like you. He is powerful. You need him, yes?” She directs her questions to you.

“Yes, we could use someone like him on our side,” you confirm.

“My apologies to your team. I need him more than you do. But you will defeat her without him. I know this,” she says and she puts her hands on your face. “You will be the one to stop her because you have to stop her,” Wanda tells you and you nod. An eerie feeling makes your skin crawl at her words but you try not to let the effect last. To please her, you promise that you will stop the Scarlet Witch and she steps away. Vision sets the machine to go to move on and you join him on the platform getting one last look at the family you haven't had the chance to create yet. You hope that when you do, you'll appreciate it more than this version of you apparently has.

Landing in front of a building of the fourth and final Nexus on your list, you start to feel the effects of the trip. “Hold on,” you stumble away from Vision to vomit in the bushes in front of you. “Strange,” you move your tongue around in your mouth. “I don’t taste a thing.” You look to the synthezoid who is preoccupied with looking over his notes. “I know this is a different universe but, no taste? I had no idea that could be taken from us. Well, from me, I have no idea if you even have taste since your uh… a robot.”

When you turn to look at Vision, you are met with his unimpressed glare and you straighten up with an apologetic grimace. “You weren’t created here so that's a strange thing for you. But to anyone from here, flavor is weird,” Vision explains. “Are you okay to go inside now? Or would you rather lose to the witch because you couldn’t get over that you lost the ability to taste your own vomit?”

“Sorry, yeah, uh, lets go.” You gesture for him to lead the way. He slaps your chest with a piece of paper that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere grumbling to you that you have to stick to this script from now on. Not in the mood to put up much of a fight about it, you read it over as the two of you walk inside of the building. Before getting to your destination, the two of you are instantly stopped by the receptionist.

“We have an appointment with Ms. Romanova,” Vision informs the woman at the front desk as he manipulates the computer to add your names to the system. “We’re under Vision and Y/n Y/l/n.”

The woman narrows her eyes at the both of you before she types something into the computer to confirm. “She’s in an important meeting. It’s going to be a while. The two of you can wait in her office on the top floor.”

The two of you take a seat before the desk as you wait for the Nexus to come through. Which surprisingly isn't a long wait at all. Natalia Romanova struts through the door in a dark pantsuit and short blonde hair. The Natasha Romanoff you knew had long fiery red hair and if she wasn’t in her uniform, she was in active wear. Unless she was on a mission where she had to dress up to catch the eye of her target. And she had dropped the original version of her name a long time ago. “What did I say about messing with my system? I don’t care how important–” She tosses a tablet onto her desk and narrows her eyes. “I take that back. I don't believe I've ever told the two of you anything.” She stands at the front of the desk and leans against the edge of the glass with her arms crossed. “Who are you really? And what do you want?”

“I’m Y/n Y/l/n, and I'm here to ask if you have been having any nightmares,” you go by the script that Vision curated.

Natalia's eyebrows move as she purses her lips. “I run the most successful business in this city. Of course I have nightmares. What's it to you?”

You look at Vision before you clear your throat and conjure an image of the Scarlet Witch, “Does this woman ever appear in them?”

She barely looks at the magical holograph before she shakes her head with a smirk. “Come on, what is this? Did Hill order the two of you as some sort of magic act to distract me? I mean, I know how much she cares about my birthday but this is a little much.”

“Please Ms. Romanova, it will help us to explain our presence if you answer our question. Has this woman appeared in your nightmares before?” Vision cuts in with a serious tone that makes Natalia lose the humor from her features. She sighs and shakes her head.

“No, I don’t dream about my friend in a weird costume,” she answers with an annoyed expression. “Stop with the slow introduction and cut to the chase already. Why do you look similar to my friends but it’s clear that you’re not them? Why do you care if I have strange dreams? Why are you people here?”

“You’re right, let’s,” you ignore Vision’s glare as you sit up to go off script. “We came here from different universes. We are trying to put together a team to save every universe from a threat and we could use someone with your abilities,” you explain.

“No can do,” she says as she pushes off of the desk and walks around the piece of furniture. “For one, I don’t believe any of that. And two,” she holds up a pistol that she had stashed in her desk, “you have five seconds to leave here alive.” The small weapon makes you and Vision laugh and you turn it into a water gun with a wink. “Cute,” she says and the bright green toy glows in her hand before she shoots your arm. The acid seeps through your sleeve and burns your skin, you don’t let it show to save face. “Now go, before I give you a hell of an audition for your team,” she says sarcastically.

“Now hold on,” Vision starts as you continue to pretend that the acid isn’t hurting at all but you want to scream. You haven’t felt pain like this in years. “We can prove it to you–”

“Oh,” she begins chuckling cynically. “It’s not a matter of believing you,” she smirks as her clothing starts to burn away being replaced by a deep red material. “It’s about stopping you.” When her clothing is transformed into an outfit you’ve only ever seen in your dreams before you stop breathing. Her smile stretches further like a cheshire cat and her eyes glow red. Her short blonde hair grows out red and her face morphs into Wanda’s – no, the Scarlet Witch. A dark red crown materializes and frames her face. You begin to feel conflicted. Not certain whether to run or to try to reason with her or try to fight her. Right here. Right now.

“What have I told you two – What is happening?” The real Natalia stops at the entrance of the office. You jump from your seat as the Scarlet Witch fires a ball of energy in her direction and block it with an energy shield of your own. You turn to Vision who is floating in the air firing a beam from the stone in his forehead.

“Get her out of here!” he shouts as he swerves from a blast. You nod once as you grab Natalia and teleport her out of the building.

“We need your help fighting that woman in your office. Your best chance is to come with us,” you rush out as soon as you land in a safe space a few blocks away.

“Are you crazy? Leave!? I have to get back there! You have to help me fight her here!” Natalia pushes your hands off of her.

“No! You’re not listening! We can’t defeat her on our own! We came here to ask for your help, we have a plan.” You demand that she listens to you but she won’t.

Vision bursts out of the top of the building in the distance, as does the Scarlet Witch. She lifts two nearby buildings from the ground intending to sandwich Vision between them but you open a portal to save him. He flies through it and falls in front of you. “We have our work cut out for us,” he says. “Ms. Romanova, we need to get you out of here now.”

“No,” she snaps, “I’m not running away this time. I’m staying and I’m fighting. Besides, if I fail, I’ll just wake up.” She rips her business suit off, revealing her sleek suit of armor.

“Ms. Romanov, I’m afraid this isn’t a dream. If you lose to her, it won't be the end of just you. That will be the end of everyone and everything,” Vision explains urgently.

“It’s a good thing I’m not alone then, right?” She looks between you and Vision but neither of you are certain you can stay to fight. Maybe the three of you had a chance to get rid of her now. Maybe there was a team here that could show up and help with the fight. However, the option to stay seemed to be too much of a risk and you want to grab the woman and take her with you regardless of her protests. Before you can make a decision, one of those buildings land right on top of Natalia. You and Vision decide to save the fight for another day and jump to three different universes before heading back to the one they had set up base.

By the time the two of you find the universe on the map, the numbers and zone are in red. You sigh as you excuse yourself to your room. You stare at the ceiling as you process the last trip. Process being face to face with her. You were starting to doubt your involvement in this mission. Maybe you should go back and hope they can take it from here. You couldn't even hit her with anything. You reacted too slowly. Your head wasn't in the game. Not with her looking exactly like the woman you love.

Not only was it bad that you didn't put up much of a fight against her. Now she knows too much information about the plan. That could cut the time to prepare dramatically. She could be here within days when they were hoping for at least a couple months to get ready. If you were to leave after having failed at bringing anyone else to the team, what kind of person would that make you? Besides, if she won here it was only a matter of time that she'd find you right after.

No, that's not how you were going to go out. If you were going to lose this battle, it was going to be with your team.

Once you were done with your pity party, you got out of the dorm room and headed back to the war room. On the way there you spotted an annoyed redhead and a man that seemed to be bothering her with many people carrying bags as they walked out the entrance. You step closer to see what was happening.

“I’m just reminding you, that you have options, honey. I'm not going to stay, if what Raven said was true I think you guys have it handled. But once it's over, call me. You're too pretty to die alone,” Scott says and he caresses Jean's cheek with the back of his hand.

“Huh, I take it that we weren't friends in this universe either,” you say as you stand close to Jean. Scott's mouth quivers and his eyebrows raise as he stumbles on his words. Shocked to see your face once again. “It's okay, I'm not back from the dead,” you put your arm around Jean and dip your fingers in the front pocket of your pants. “Or am I?” You lean forward, “Boo!” Scott stumbles back and says one more goodbye to Jean before running out of the building.

The two of you share a laugh. “I still don't believe that I chose him over you in your universe,” Jean says.

You shrug, “I couldn't believe it for years either.” There's a quiet moment between the two of you when you stop laughing and gaze into each other's eyes. She was brought back to the last night that she had with Y/n. The two of them had just worked through an argument and Y/n caught her as she was going to pass them. Jean was laughing as she was in their arms. Their face was about as close to hers as yours is right now. Y/n told her that they loved her and that they couldn't believe how lucky they were to have a life with her. Lost in that memory, Jean starts to lean in but you step back and remove your arm from her shoulders. “Come on, Vision and I had quite an experience on our trip and we have a lot to catch everyone up on,” you say, pretending that you didn't notice her trying to kiss you. “Were you and Simon able to recruit anyone?” Jean shakes her head, both to tell you no and to break herself out of her head.

Walking into the meeting room you are met with a very happy Wanda. She tries to greet you with a quick kiss on the lips but you turn and her lips land on your cheek. She doesn't allow the move to phase her as she lets you know that she and Carol had a lot of fun on their mission. “And we got a guy,” she says. “Thor was very willing to come with us!”

“Oh, that's great! Where is he?” You say as you look around the room.

“Carol is showing him to his room,” she shrugs.

“Maximoff!” Raven storms through the room. “You left Hank behind?”

Wanda pretends to take a second to think, “I don't know who that is.” Carol walks into the room with the God of Thunder towering behind her. “Danvers, do you know about this Hank business?” She air quotes his name and Carol makes a confused expression.

“No, that name doesn't ring a bell. Was he on the list?” She says just as confused with a godly man towering behind her.

“He was your chaperone!” Raven snaps.

“Well we didn't need one of those, so we didn't have one,” Carol retorts. Raven rolls her eyes and grabs Carol by the wrist.

“You’re coming with me to pick him up,” Raven pulls the other woman out of the room angrily.

You shake your head at Wanda and ask how long the poor scientist lasted. “Second location, he kept going on and on about this and that. We couldn't hear it anymore, honestly, I think we did everyone here a favor.” You force a laugh as you avoid eye contact with your wife and comment on how adorable she is when she's happy. Wanda's grin wavers as she begins to worry.

“But seriously, no more pranks. We barely had time for them before but now we're really going to have to buckle down,” you tell her. “Every second counts now.”

Your tone brings Wanda's mood down even further, “What are you talking about?”

“We,” you look over at your mission partner and notice that he is tinkering with his arm and sigh, “I think we might be in way over our heads. ”

The Training

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