Ch-6 The Girl in the Box

Peter looks at the girl, and he realizes that the girl looks a lot familiar to the woman he knew very well.

"Wanda," Peter said.

As Peter was looking at the girl, she opened her elegant eyes slowly, and as she was looking around only to lock her eyes with a brown-eyed boy who was looking at her mesmerizingly.

As both stare at each other continuously, Dr. Strange clears his throat loudly and says, "If you both are finished gawking at each other, then can you tell me who the hell you are?"

Hearing this, the girl breaks eye contact with Peter, turns towards Dr. Strange, and says, "Where am I? Who are you?"

"I only know him," Wanda said, nodding towards Peter, "But who are you?" she asked, turning towards Dr. Strange.

"My name is Dr. Stephen Strange, and I am the Sorceror Supreme and the protector of this realm," Dr. Strange replied.

"Now my turn to ask you questions," said Dr. Strange and teleported everyone in the living of the Sanctum.

"You have got to stop doing that," Peter said to Strange as he tumbled in the chair.

Dr. Strange ignores Peter's grumbling, focuses on the girl, and asks, "Ok, now that we are all settled, tell me who you are and why were you inside the box?"

The girl, still adapting to the surroundings, takes a deep breath and says, "My name is Wanda Maximoff, and I was the guardian of the box which you retrieved from Peter's body." Wanda said, pointing towards Peter.

Dr. Strange looks at Wanda and asks, "Wait, how do you know Peter?"

"I know almost everything about Peter," Wanda said in an ambiguous tone.

"Wait, What?" Peter questioned Wanda's answer.

"Yes, I was inside your soul, so I was able to see your memories," Wanda answered.

Then, Wanda started to narrate her tale, how she became Guardian of the Pandora box.

"You see, I am a mutant. Mutants are the humans with a different gene ...." as Wanda was saying, Dr. Strange, interrupted her, "We know what mutants are, we have them here too."

"Right, so I am an omega-level mutant with the highest of the powers."

"There was an intergalactic war going on in our universe," Wanda said, "All the Mightiest heroes in our universe like Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Inhumans, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Nova Corps, and many more came together to fight the Kree Empire as they tried to conquer the universe."

"We were all trying to stop the Kree. But then their leader Ronan got his hands on the Pandora Box on his conquest to rule the world."

"Ronan soon came to know about the powers of the box and became champion of One Below All, and he tried to unlock the box. But there was one thing due to which he was not able to use the box."

"There was a condition to be fulfilled for the Box to work." Wanda continued.

"For the box to work, it needed sacrifice. So Ronan went on a murderous rampage and started killing off millions of beings throughout the universe. Many of the heroes' lives were lost too including the Peter Parker of my universe," Wanda said with guilt in her voice looking over at Peter.

"So we all went after him to end his rampage and to stop him from unlocking the horrors of the Pandora Box."

"But as we stopped him, the box was about to be unlocked,"

"We may be able to stop Ronan, but it was too late," Wanda said in a tense voice.

"The heroes in my universe decided to try to secure the box. But it was not that easy. You see, by the time we got hold of the box, it had gone out of control. So the leaders of the groups of the heroes decided that one person should try to contain the box. And since only I could use chaos magic, I was chosen to close the box," Wanda continued narrating her story.

"Just as I was closing the box, I don't know what happened, but suddenly I was sucked inside the box, and as the box started to travel between dimensions."

"I protected the box from getting in the hands of any other evil being until one day in the dark dimension I saw Peter finding the box, I allowed him to get hold of the box, but just as he got the box, I helped him get out of the dark dimension, and in that process, the box was attached with Peter's soul," Wanda completed her tale.

"Well, that's a good story," said Dr. Strange, "But how do I believe that you are not a herald or an agent of the One Below All?"

"Well, I can always show you what I just said," saying this, Wanda created a spell that showed Dr. Strange and Peter the story she told.

As the spell was going on, Dr. Strange saw that Wanda was trying very hard to work the spell.

As the vision was over, Dr. Strange said to Wanda, "Okay, I believe you kid. But I need to check something, and for that, I may need a strand of your hair."

"Well, sure," Wanda said and plucked out a strand of her hair and gave it to Strange.

"I will be right back," Dr. Strange said and vanished.

'Woah, I am in way over my head here,' Peter thought.

Peter looked at Wanda and thought, 'Man, she is so beautiful. I don't know what it is, but I feel attracted to her.'

"Maybe I can help you with that," Suddenly Wanda said to Peter.

"With what?" Peter asked Wanda.

"With you, being attracted to me," Wanda answered Peter.

"How did you know that?" Peter asked Wanda, even if Peter was embarrassed, he did not let it show in his face.

"You see, when the Pandora Box was attached to your soul, I was inside the box, so a part of our souls is attached. It is because of that reason that I can sense your feelings. But don't worry, I may have done it this time but I will not do it without your consent anymore," Wanda explained to Peter.

"So..." as Peter was about to ask Wanda another question, Dr. Strange reappeared.

"It is just as I suspected. You see Wanda, because of being inside the box and protecting it for a long time, I will need her assistant to stabilize this box." Dr. Strange said.

"Yes, and feel a little weak and powerless," Wanda said.

"Don't worry, after little rest, you will be able to recover your power. I need you at your 100% to keep this Pandora Box closed. I can only close it myself for some time. After that I may need your help," Dr. Strange said.

Saying this, Dr. Strange chanted a spell and a closet-like container appeared in front of him.

"This is a magical container powered by the spell of healing," Dr. Strange explained, "Wanda, I want you to go in the container and heal yourself."

"Okay. Mr. Strange," said Wanda.

"It's Dr. Strange. But we will discuss that when you get out," Dr. Strange said to Wanda in a little gruntled tone.

"Goodbye Peter, I hope we meet again," Wanda said to Peter before entering the container.

"Bye Wanda," Peter said as he looked at Wanda as she entered the container, and it disappeared.

"Now as for you, Parker," Dr. strange turned to Peter as the container vanished.

"For now, I suggest you live here in this world, in this body, until I find a solution to your problem. Till then, try to stay out of trouble," Dr. Strane said.

"Okay, but if you ever need my help just give me a call or you know portal me here," Peter said.

"See you around, kid," said Dr. Strange.

Saying this, as Dr. Strange snapped his fingers and Peter was out on the street.

"Damn, my teenage hormones," Peter said to himself as he was not able to get Wanda's image out of his mind.

Every time he would think of it, the only image that came to his mind was of Wanda's and what she said to him, "A part of our souls is attached,"

"Man, I need to lighten up," Peter said to himself.

Just then, he realized that he has to take the bus again to go home.

"I need to make my web-shooters and a costume as soon as possible. After all, it's hero time," Peter said as he went to look for a bus to Queens.

As Peter was riding the bus to Queens, suddenly his phone rang, and he saw the name, and his eyes were widened with shock, "Uncle Ben?"

To be continued...