4 Chapter 4: The magical story

[Alphonse 'Idris' Grayson's Point of View]

I am bored... Like I said that I was going to wait for my targets to stop worrying about me before getting my get-back but I did not account for the amount of brick they would have to shit before getting over my death threats.

I am a man of my word plus I know the satisfaction I would get from catching them at their happiest moment would be immeasurable but it does not take away the boredom I am feeling right now. Heroes and villains are popping up here and there but I do not care.

The only thing that manages to keep me from dying of boredom is the way I turn the other investors into my puppets. It took some time to figure out how to keep them conscious of the fact that they were trapped in their body without a telepath being able to pick up on their anguish.

Long story short, I placed an untraceable and undetectable neuro chip in their heads. Dear old Regi was the first guinea pig to have the control chip installed, I did it for good measure and for shits and giggles.

It has been a few years since dear old Regi became my puppet and adopted me. I became even more famous due to my invention which solved world hunger but started to create another world problem, world thirst as the internet dubbed it.

Yeah, my invention, Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator also known as All-Food turned water into food. It works by converting water molecules into food molecules through microwave Nano-Mutation within its Radiation Matrix, physically rearranging the molecular structure of water into the shape of food.

In a simpler term, H2O molecules enter the colander at the top, where the molecules are separated and travel through an electron gun into a microwave radiation chamber. This induces a molecular phase change, creating the food, which passes through a gate and out the "chowplopper" to deliver the finished product to the user.

I think you can guess what is the flaw with that machine. It needs water and I did not expect this problem to come before the tenth anniversary of my invention but I had underestimated the greed of humans.

Countries started to hoard their water resource which almost caused a cold war between a couple of countries. Being the inventor and having created the facade of a good guy, this might not make sense now but you will understand later on, I needed to do something or at least act like I gave a semblance of a fuck.

Thus began my worldwide tour, trying to convince the countries at odds to stop being hoarders. I could have easily solved it within a day by rumoring them but who does not love a good old story about a guy that struggles to stop a war?

I did a lot of good deeds during my world tour. I saved a girl from a burning building while I was passing through Vinnytsia, a city in Center-West Ukraine. Her parents seemed relieved that she survived but the town folks were mad because her father was a mutant.

I acted according to the image of myself I had put in front of the world and admonished them for trying to kill a little girl, after I left I ordered some of my robots to go to Vinnytsia and make the population there more "open-minded" through a simple hypnotic suggestion.

But that did not happen because when they arrived there most of them were already open-minded through it was through the use of metallic objects lodged into their skulls. I was curious so I teleported there when I had the chance and talked to one of the ghosts that saw the events.

Apparently, within the three days it took for my robots, which were stationed in one of the numerous secret labs that I made after I got adopted by dear old Regi, the townsfolk decided to take a different approach and attacked the whole family by surprise with crossbows and arrows.

They killed two out of three and unfortunately, the one that managed to survive their surprise attack was the one they should have killed in that surprise attack. The mutant proceeded to tear them a new one then went to do the same for everyone in town before burying his dead family and then leaving.

He has a cool ability so I decided to remember his face since I might take his ability once All For One awakens. Anyway, it still counts as a good deed even if it does not matter. Still, my next good deed was rewarding in more ways than one.

I got myself a minion and a girlfriend at the same time, the cherry on top is that she is also a mutant, a powerful one at that and she can use magic. How did that happen, you ask? I will let the narrator tell you that later.

I also decided to slowly take full control over the Hellfire Club because being the mysterious guy on top is nice but it does not mean jack shit if the people below do not litsen to you and planned on killing your precious puppet. 

[Third Person's Point of View]

Wanda Maximoff and her twin brother, Pietro, were born to a nomadic Romani witch named Natalya near Novi Pazar, in Serbia. Afraid of harming her children due to her perilous lifestyle, Natalya Maximoff placed the babies under the care of her brother, the ventriloquist Django, and his wife, the gentle Marya.

Wanda and Pietro lived a happy childhood, constantly traveling alongside their foster parents' tribe in Central and Eastern Europe. Wanda's potential for magic eventually attracted the attention of a powerful coven formed by Margali Szardos, Maria Russoff, and Lilia Calderu.

Calderu approached Marya Maximoff and had her bring Wanda to Castle Russoff. They hoped to recruit Wanda into their coven as an apprentice, being able to predict her future as a relevant magic wielder.

However, servants of a demon lord of chaos known asChthon, Taboo, and Damballah, interfered with Wanda's initiation. The battle only ended once Wanda was able to manifest her hex powers for the first time, accidentally allowing Chthon to reach out to her soul and make it known that Wanda was not allowed to join any coven. The witches then returned Wanda to her family.

Under their family's protection, Wanda explored her mystic potential freely while Pietro manifested an unusual superspeed power. Afflicted by poverty and the lack of opportunities to provide for his family, Django began to steal food for his starving family, and enraged villagers attacked their caravan.

Using his phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister. The circumstances of their separation from their clan were so traumatic that not until well into adulthood could they remember anything but the barest details of their childhood.

For the next few years, Wanda and Pietro wandered central Europe, living off the land. One day, Wanda accidentally set fire to an unnamed village with her powers and was attacked by villagers. She tried to explain herself but her powers were affected by her emotions and started to attack the villagers.

Seeing this, Pietro decided to intervene and calm her sister which worked a bit too well. As the siblings were regaining their bearings, they forgot that the villagers were still there, and one of them attacked Wanda.

In certain situations, the body moves on its own before the person in question is able to think. This happened to Pietro who shielded his sister with his body instead of just moving both of them out of the way with his Super speed.

Unlike his DC Comic counterpart, he could not phase them both out of harm's way and his healing factor was not powerful enough to heal the injury that he sustained in the chest. Wanda watched in horror as her brother's life was about to end and due to the shock she leveled the entire area around them.

The villagers were reduced to dust. Wanda cried as she held her dying brother in her harm and cried even more when Pietro died. Her cries only stopped when she heard someone slowly clapping before they spoke.

*Clap*... *Clap*... *Clap*

"Bravo! Bravo! You totally leveled them. Hahaha!"

She turned to see who spoke to her and saw a youthful man with dark skin. He has crimson eyes and shaggy black hair with braided locs. He is wearing a simple blue shirt and black pants with his hands in their pockets.

"Huh? *Cough*"

*Thud*

Seeing his smile, Wanda did not even think about it as her eyes glowed red while she looked at him. She brought her hand up and used her powers to crush his heart. Her brother had just died and she was out of mercy to give. She felt nothing as the man fell to the ground. As she went back to hugging her dead brother she heard the voice of the man that should be dead.

"Right, good instincts! I would have done that too if I was in your shoes."

"W-what are you?"

Wanda asked as she saw the man whose heart she had crushed stand back up and wipe his blood off his mouth before using a weird gun to erase his blood that was on the ground. He turned to face her after erasing his blood and answered her question.

"I am a mutant just like you and I know-"

"Don't you fucking say that you know how I feel! You can't imagine what I feel right now!"

Wanda yelled as red energy started to surround her. The mystery man raised his hands up though he still sported his playful expression on his face as he spoke once more.

"I was going to say, I know what is going to happen in a couple of hours from now and I am here to give you an extra option. I don't know how you feel cuz I am an only child, I mean I think, I was abandoned so I presume that I am an only child."

"I don't care!"

"Fuc- *Cough*"

*Thud*

Wanda responded before her eyes glowed red once more. She brought her hand up and used her powers to crush his heart again along with all of his other organs. She had just lost her brother she was not in the mood to hear anyone talking about their lives as a way to manipulate her. Just like before, the man got back up.

"You know I am being uncharacteristically nice right now. I am here to warn you that two groups are going to come here. One to capture you to turn you into a lab rat... which is not as fun as it seems trust me on that...

His tone changed for a moment before he resumed.

"... The other to gaslight you into protecting the same people that are hunting you down just to have the moral high ground."

"And which of those two groups are you in?"

Wanda asked now seeing that she could not kill the man in front of her.

"I am on either of those groups. I am currently trying to build my own group for shits and giggles... Before you try to kill me again remember that it will be your third strike and I will kill you after that."

His eyes glowed red as he said those words which caused Wanda to freeze for a second.

"Now, here is my offer. Join my group and... What was it I was going to do with this group again?"

The man tilted his head to the side.

"Whatever, I'll figure it out later... Oh right, I forgot to give my sales pitch."

He coughed into his closed fist while straightening up and resumed.

"Join my group and I will give you what you want the most."

"What I want the most..."

Wanda said.

"Yes."

The man nodded while smiling which caused Wanda to frown.

"And how would you know what I want to most?"

This was rhetorical as what she wanted the most was for her brother being alive. In fact, what she wanted to ask was how he would do such a thing but her rage-filled mind did not properly transfer her thoughts to her mouth.

"By asking you of course."

The man said as he erased his blood from the ground and snapped his fingers. This caused both of them and Pietro's corpses to turn into particles of light as they vanished from there. They reappeared inside a futuristic compound where robots were constantly roaming around doing their assigned tasks.

"I moved us here because the two groups were too close for my comfort. Now what is it that you want the most?"

The man said as he brought his hand to Wanda who hung her head low. Her powers had caused her nothing but misfortune and adding to the fact that she did not believe that he could bring her brother back from the dead caused her to say this.

"I want to not have these powers anymore."

"Really? I thought you wanted to see your brother again? Hey, Pietro, she can see you now."

The man said and just as he said those words Wanda saw the image of her brother standing next to him. Wanda was about to lose it due to her rage. To her, the man in front of her had just created an illusion of her dead brother.

Had it not been for Pietro rushing to hug his sister and calming her down, she would have leveled the area they were in. It took Pietro half an hour to convince Wanda that he was her brother and another half-hour to calm her down as she apologized for killing him.

"Now, what do you guys say? Are you in?"

The man said ruining the touching moment that was ongoing.

"Who are you?"

Wanda asked with a calm tone.

"You can call me Idris. So are you in?"

"Can you really bring back Pietro to life?"

Wanda asked as she felt that although the Pietro in front of her was real, he was not fully alive.

"My answer to your question is the same as yours to mine."

Idris said with a smile causing Wanda to sigh before she spoke.

"Yes, we will join your group. If you bring Pietro back to life, we will be in your debt."

"Okay, time to test my new invention then!"

Idris said as he threw a ball that looked like a Pokeball toward Pietro's ghost and the latter was sucked into the ball. A robot then brought a syringe to Idris who took it and used it to gather Pietro's blood.

"Follow me!"

Idris said to which Wanda did after the robot took Pietro's body and followed them. They arrived at a strange machine with a human-sized tube connected to it. Idris placed the syringe inside the machine and as the blood was poured into it, Wanda saw the human-sized tube being filled with strange liquid.

Wanda stood there and watched as her brother's body started to form inside that human-size tube, cell by cell, tissue by tissue, bone by bone, nerve by nerve, muscle by muscle, skin by skin, and finally hair by hair. Idris then plugged the Pokeball inside the machine shortly after Pietro's eye opened.

The tube opened before Pietro fell to the ground. The first thing he saw was a pair of pants that Idris threw at him which Pietro put at super speed proving that he still had his powers. Idris stayed silent for a moment as the siblings hugged each other out of joy.

After the celebration was over, Idris explained to them that he wanted to build a team of mutants for shits and giggles. This was actually a lie but his acts convinced them. He told them to make themselves at home in one of his secret bases, which they were currently in.

He also explained to them that he would create decoys of them that would eventually find themselves in America so that the originals would take their place. This was done so that S.H.I.E.L.D. would not noticed since making a fake identity for each would have brought more attention to S.H.I.E.L.D. at him.

Idris already knew that S.H.I.E.L.D. was monitoring him due to his invention but they had only seen what he wanted them to see. It would take a year before there decoys arrived in America as refugees.

Then after a couple of months, they managed to win a small lottery which allowed them to live comfortably. That is when the original took over and before long, a group of mutants came at their door.

The group was led by a man called Sebastian Shaw who offered them to join their group, the Hellfire Club. Sebastien was pleased that they accepted not knowing that they had done so at the behest of someone who had decided to mess with Sebastien.

On the night of making contact with the Hellfire Club, Wanda went to see Alphonse to report what had happened. He was sitting in front of a fireplace with a wine bottle in hand.

"Hey, Wanda so how did the meeting go?"

He asked.

"They bought it. I'll be joining the White Queen's faction while Pietro will be joining the Black King's faction."

She said as she sat down on the other chair that was beside the one that Alphonse was sitting on.

"Wine?"

Alphonse asked as he offered.

"Sure why not."

Wanda said and a silence ensued with only the sound of fire crackling filling the room before Alphonse spoke.

"Wanda, have I ever told you the time I went backpacking across Western Europe?"

"No, you haven't."

Wanda said not noticing the mood that had already been set. Alphonse put down his glass of wine and started speaking in an enticing tone.

"Years ago, when I was backpacking across Western Europe, I was just outside Barcelona, hiking in the foothills of Mount Tibidabo. I was at the end of this path, and I came to a clearing, and there was a lake, very secluded, and there were tall trees all around. It was dead silent. Gorgeous. And across the lake I saw, a beautiful woman, bathing herself. but she was crying..."

He stopped for a second which brough Wanda's attention even more to him.

"I hesitated, watching, struck by her beauty. And also by how her presence; the delicate curve of her back, the dark sweep of her hair, the graceful length of her limbs, even her tears, added to the majesty of my surroundings. I felt my own tears burning behind my eyes, not in sympathy, but in appreciation of such a perfect moment."

His tone had lowered but Wanda's attention to him had increased.

"She spied me before I could compose myself. But she didn't cry out. Instead, our eyes held and she smiled, enigmatically, fresh tears still spilling down her cheeks. I was frozen. I knew nothing about this woman, and yet, as we stood on opposite sides of a pool of water, thousands of miles from my own home and everyone I had ever known, I felt the most intense connection. Not just to her, but to the earth, the sky, the water between us. And also to the entirety of mankind. As if she symbolized thousands of years of the human condition."

Wanda's heartbeat was increasing and she was feeling hot. She thought that was due to the fire and paid no mind to it as Alphonse continued.

"I wanted to go to her, to comfort her, to probe this feeling of belonging I had never encountered before. But I couldn't. Because I knew that if I spoke, if she spoke, that moment would be ruined. And I knew I would need the memory of that moment to carry me through the inevitable dark patches throughout my life."

Wanda gulped her wine glasses as he continued.

"And so I watched her lower her hand, turn, and slowly walk to the shore opposite me. The rest of her perfect form was gradually revealed to me, and I held my breath as I watched her disappear behind a copse of trees near the water."

Alphonse looked at the fire before ending the story.

"I didn't follow her, in fact, I turned around. I knew there was nothing else we could experience together that would be more perfect than that moment...and it still remains the most profound experience of my life."

Another silence ensued before Alphonse stood up and as he did so, Wanda stood up as well. She came close to Alphonse and grabbed his head before lunging at him and passionately kissing him. She wrapped her legs around Alphonse's waist as he wrapped his arms around hers.

The morning that followed that night, Alphonse can be seen sleeping in a worn bed with barely any sheet covering him or Wanda's naked body.

[Alphonse 'Idris' Grayson's Point of View]

And that is how I got myself a new girlfriend.

[AN: I wonder how many got the reference?

Exam Season is approaching so I will be busy hunting down good grades Since I haven't gotten a fixed schedule for this work yet don't expect any chapter on a regular basis.

Want more? Like Thanos, I want those STONES!!!]