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Earth
Edinburgh, Scotland
9:35 p.m.
They tried to hide it away. They’ve stayed hidden for so long, yet it was all for naught. They thought they were truly and utterly alone in the world, that they could keep it away and hide its power. But they were wrong. There was no power on Earth that could hide the Mind Stone.
He closed the curtains on the windows, shielding their presence from the outside world. It was already too late. Perched upon a building top, hidden in the shadows and the soft, drizzling rain, the Outrider stepped forward. Its claws gripped the edge of the building it stood upon, its eyeless gaze centered solely on the location of the Mind Stone. Just as they discovered last time. They never moved. They stayed exactly where they were.
They made it so much easier.
Baring its fangs, the Outrider stared one last time at the location he was bound to find. “Mind…” the creature hissed, vanishing completely out of sight. Its mission was complete.
Now off to tell its superiors.
As for the Vision, he just got off the phone. After recently closing the window curtains, very little light remained in their apartment. The only light he could truly distinguish was what came from the face of his cellphone. The call had ended, the name “Tony Stark” fading away as did the light from the phone.
And then he was caught in complete and total darkness. That is, until, the lamp at the front of the bedside popped on. In that warm, yellow glow of the light bulb, Wanda Maximoff sat on the bed, her concerned gaze falling on Vision. He looked to his cellphone's blank face, sighing and eventually meeting the young woman’s instead.
It still made him feel weak.
In just the few years they had been fighting together, the Vision found a particular interest in Wanda Maximoff. The Scarlet Witch. He never called her that. He always saw her as Wanda, as the fiery spirit of the Avengers. As the fiercest, most dangerous, most powerful woman on Earth. As the woman… he had fallen in love with.
And she could say the same for him. While most saw the Vision as an android, as the robot of the team with just a bit of a higher intellect than everyone else, Wanda saw him differently. She saw the man who was gifted with power beyond his control. He was the man who was shown strength and knowledge beyond Earth and beyond their very understanding. And he wielded that power to his advantage. Just like her. She stared at him, at the human-like design he had chosen for his disguise. She stared at the shimmering yellow light pulsating in his forehead, causing him to hunch over.
Wanda quickly got off the bed and rushed over to him, placing her palm on his chest and keeping him standing. He was wearing a dark blue shirt and tan pants, his skin a similar color. His hair was a soft blonde, his eyes a deep blue. She stared at those twin blue eyes, his gaze trailing her up and down. She wore a thin white shirt, black jeans and socks. Her dark brown hair fell straight down her head and rested, flushing over her shoulders. Her face, her eyes, her worrisome expression, all of which Vision saw as beautiful.
They had been hiding for a couple years. And in those years, they both felt something between them, something they chose to ignore at first. But as the time and the tension moved on and on, they decided to let it happen. To try and make them work. And for the two years they had been together, things weren’t as bad as they had thought it would be. Neither had been in a relationship prior, and neither Wanda nor Vision had truly been… intimate beforehand. It was different for them. It was alien at first, but through trial and error, through the unknown, they had made it work. They worked.
They had been together, as a couple, ever since.
“The Stone,” Wanda whispered, her fingers rising up and twirling closer towards Vision’s forehead. “It’s happening again.”
As the red energy flowed from Wanda’s fingers and into the Stone, Vision surprisingly waved her away. The bright yellow slowly dimmed, nothing but a dark tan remaining on his forehead. “I’m fine, Wanda,” he told her.
Even when he tried to keep his balance and eventually succeeded in doing so, Wanda remained by his side, always studying him. Knowing the foreboding expression on his face, she assumed it would be due to his previous discussion with Stark. Prompting that thought further, she placed her palm on his shoulder, asking, “What did he say?”
“Nothing… comforting,” Vision replied, his voice sounding very weak. Her palm traced upwards, meeting his cheek. His hand found her own, bringing it closer so he could kiss her palm. “It would seem my assistance is required elsewhere. The world is ready to fall apart, and Mr. Stark thinks he has a plan in order to turn the tides.”
Wanda’s hand fell. “Against that army?” she asked, backing away slightly. He just nodded, listening as she continued to sound flabbergasted. “Vis, even if he manages to assemble half the world, it still wouldn’t be enough to take on an alien army that massive.”
“Maybe not,” Vision said. He looked down to his hands, shaking his head. “But what use would there be in hiding?”
He stared at her. Wanda knew that stare. That wanting look, desperately needing her to think the same thoughts as he. She didn’t want to. She knew what he wanted and she wouldn’t have it. Wanda shook her head instantly, much to Vision’s dismay. His hands fell to his sides.
With her head still, Wanda’s breath quickened. “I can’t go back, Vis. I’m basically a wanted criminal. For all we know, this is a trick by Stark to bring me back in—”
“He would not do that to you,” Vision sternly declared, taking a step closer.
Their eyes met, the lightning meeting the fire, and they both froze. Completely alien. Completely different lifeforms. One an android, the other a monster. Polar opposite, yet somehow finding that balance and seeing deeper within. In an instant, both the intensity and the denial faded away into nothing, leaving the two practically breathless, their bodies almost touching. It was like the first time they saw each as something different than what the world saw. And it was… electric. It was just right.
Vision sighed, reaching forward and wrapping his fingers with hers. Wanda silently gasped. She shuddered under his touch, his other hand rising and caressing her cheek. She looked at him, he at her. Their differences, what made them so unique and misunderstood from the world, that is what made them feel the strongest.
Wanda sighed, a tiny smile gracing her lips. Whatever the feeling the Vision felt, be it love or something completely alien—like the Stone—it burned and rippled throughout him whenever he saw that smile. It made him want to melt in her gaze. She raised her free hand, placing it against his cheek lovingly.
Just like that, her smile faded. Her eyes became more serious, her tone falling flat. “We can’t take that chance, Vis.”
“I know,” he told her quickly, slipping the cellphone in her shaking palm. Wanda’s eyes almost fell to it, but Vision’s hand brought her towards him once more. “That is why I need you to contact Steve Rogers once I leave. He will come to you, he will offer you a safe haven, and if need be… keep you safe.”
Wanda blinked, almost smiled. “I can take care of myself, Vis.”
“I know you can.” The Vision’s hand fell from her cheek, covering her hand that held the phone and closing her fingers over it. He held her there, tightening his hands over hers. “But I can’t take that chance.”
The two stared into each other’s eyes for what felt like eternity. An eternity they wish they could have, but knowing they never could. It was a dangerous life they both lived, one on the run and the other aiding a fugitive. But they lived it for each other. They hadn’t realized their hands were still held with each other. They didn’t care. They just didn’t care.
“We’ll be together… through a thousand miles if need be,” the Vision whispered.
Wanda looked into his eyes, her own darting back and forth, looking for the strength, the deceit, all that he was and tried to become. Her pupils dilated. “I know you’re not lying,” Wanda said, a breathless gasp escaping her. “I feel you.”
Vision felt her breath on his lips, the smell of herbal tea still strong. He leaned in, inch by inch. She did the same. “I feel you,” he whispered back.
They both broke the distance and their lips met. At first, Wanda was unsure of what it would be like, kissing a robot. But she soon realized—after several times to be exact—that it probably never felt any different, and it hardly was now. His hands reached up and gently caressed her cheeks. He was always so gentle with her, the way he massaged her when they kissed. And Wanda was no different.
She placed her palms against his chest, one closed and the other trailing his pectoral. Her hand played around over his chest, fell to his abdomen, feeling his strength, trailing west to caress his rib cage. Their lips smacked, Wanda diving in for more. Vision pleased her, a short but clearly audible moan escaping the Maximoff. He knew he couldn’t do this now, not with the time they had, no matter how much he wanted to. Wanda, though a tad disappointed, felt the same. And just like that, before it could escalate into something more, it was over. They were both breathless, gazing into each other’s eyes.
A moment the two wanted to last forever, but knew it couldn't. Vision's hands fell from her cheeks, Wanda's slowly dropping to rest over her legs.
When they parted ways and Vision left the bedroom, Wanda stared at his retreat. She gripped the cellphone with both hands. She flipped it open, found Steve’s name in the contacts, and hovered over the “Call” button. She knew Vision would be safe. And she knew he would be there for her if she needed it. They would be there for one another, even if separated by a thousand miles.
Because they knew they worked.
She pressed the button and listened to the ring.
well.... that was short....................
Vision and Wanda. A bittersweet romance blossomed through their connection to the Mind Stone. Despite her having lost everything including her late brother and being turned a wanted criminal because of the Accords, Vision would do anything for her to stay with her, keep her safe and make her happy even if the whole world goes to hell. They deserve better than what fate has in store for both of them.
But now with these events in motion, Vision has to leave to help fight against this catastrophe even though his life will be in danger since the Mind Stone puts a big target on his forehead, all while Wanda can do to go to Steve for help since going to Tony is out of the question because of the Accords. I would really like to see the look on Ross' and those stubborn government imbeciles' faces when they realise, which I very much doubt anytime soon, that maybe turning some of Earth's Mightiest Heroes unregistered to the Accords into wanted criminals, despite everything those heroes have done for the world in past, was not such a good idea to begin with. And if they don't and keep the conflict towards each other, then this war is already very much lost.
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.....Ah screw it, I might as well put this up!
Oooh La La~~
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I am such a sucker for romance sometimes.
Vision and Wanda sitting in a tree....for now.
Ah romance in a story which such high stakes. They can have matching coffins at their funeral.
It's time to call Steve, and hurry like hell, Wanda!
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Those retarded government ass-sacks don't know everything about what the universe is in store for them, or the universe itself. Do they think for a second that tying strings and give total control on the only people fighting what's outside do anything in their benefit? well guess what, controlled or not, people will still die in a massive earth-shattering event, ever worsened so by the former. Once the snap gets rid of Ross and his band of shit-spitting weasels, that would serve as a big costly lesson of what happens if they just try to carelessly tamper with superheroes' affairs when they don't even know what's even outside the whole damned multiverse.
I bet Rarity would be gushing if she knew about this.
Come to think of it, so would Pinkie. Wasn’t she the one who tried to play matchmaker with those two while the ponies were on Earth?
Such a shame that this sweet little romance is about to end in tragedy.
Without Wanda there to watch his back, Vision won’t stand much of a chance when Glaive and Midnight come for the Stone.
Scarlet Witch is so underrated.
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Apple Bloom posing the shield with Steve Rogers in Club 33, Disneyland, Apple Bloom a Marvel fan? Wow.:
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just goes to show how much MLP has incorporated itself into pop culture!
HAVE BABIES! ...somehow.
*Magneto appears out of nowhere*
"Wanda, what did I tell you about seeing that Vision boy? Nothing but trouble."
"Let it go, dad!"
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Yeah, even Wade Wilson mentioned Pinkie Pie, which Meghan Mcarthy took notice.
I'm currently re-watching Infinity War, so far it looks below average.
Now that I think about it, I am very curious as to what Tony thinks about the Chitauri--his nightmares--returning and invading Earth again. Would his trauma return?
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You still have to look at their perspective. The government is sticking to their words, they aren't characters that learn and fix their mistakes. They think what's best with their choices so far and decide from there. You can't just mop up a 3rd impossible choice, and they sure as hell don't have better priorities other than fixing their own world before they even make peace with others. That's why Marvel is making a good interpretation of how unruly the law is.
I'm not defending the government here. Just giving more picture on the background.
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Some cast members might also be Marvel fans too.
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Yeah, unruly of their very own destruction by something from space, who by himself is not a fan of unruly governments. Third choice or not, their world's gonna wreck up anyway, as Thanos might think, crushing entire planets of societies of unruly and imperfect, to him, governments is what he calls: Mercy.
Still, the government just doesn't have to make such a dick move, otherwise, whether it prioritizes its own issues to fix or not, an outside force will still be there to wreak armageddon upon it, without the very people they're not supposed to be tampering fighting it off.
So by technicality, in spite of doing what's best for its greater good, it's the government's fault, it's responsible for causing its own destruction, by indirectly letting the Mad Titan and his accomplices into their atmosphere uninvited and imposing his will upon it by just ratifying one tiny piece of paper that simply led to the Avengers, the only people capable of stopping the mess, its own dismantlement, coupled by Zemo's doings on Bucky.
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I mean, they couldn't have known the consequences. Am I right?
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Definitely...
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Yeah, fuck Ross, I can clearly see Betty's mocking smirk, saying:
"Congratulations, dad, you destroyed the world."
9082808 Next chapter will be much longer.
9082867 Coincidentally, that song truly does fit Wanda and Vision's relationship. Kinda.
9082976 It was getting a little too hot even for me. Had to cut it short.
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9083027 And here comes Thanos with an ax...
9083117 They would pay no expense.
9083356 She just called Steve! He's on his way!
9083369 Pinkie Pie has officially coined herself as the "Love Pony", so she would absolutely adore to see what their relationship blossomed into.
9083394 I know, right?
9083928 They DID have babies in the comics... I think. I may be wrong.
9084531 Below average? What do you mean by that? And definitely expect Tony to have some kind of PTSD from the Chitauri.
Vision and Scarlet Witch have such amazing chemistry.
9085279 They do, don't they?
You know I love Scarlet Witch and her acting is great, but when she talks all I hear is that accent cause her voice is flat, flat, Flat like a welcome mat, there is no life in her voice, I guess she would get along with Maud, but action speaks louder than words, and when she acts it’s LOUD
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I'm glad Pena had fun improvising a lot of his dialogue but Grubber could've been cut entirely and nothing would've been lost.
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Oh, it just means the quality isn't looking good so far. Or maybe it's the monitor..
9085443 Eh, I think it's fine. To each their own, though.
9085552 Oh, okay. I thought your opinion on the movie had changed for a second.
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To make a long story short:
Wanda used her reality warping powers to basically create children of her and Vision, but it later turned out they were actually pieces of the soul of the demon Mephisto, who reabsorbed them back into himself, leading to Wanda's breakdown, leading to Avengers Disassembled and House of M. But the kids were later reincarnated, somehow, and one of them, Billy, became the superhero Wiccan, and became a founding member of the Young Avengers.
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But they say that Stormbreaker's purpose was its capability to kill Thanos and immunity to the likes of the Power Stone, which is the exact purpose of why Thor went to Eitr in the first place, but since Stormbreaker will serve as Thanos' ultimate shortcoming, it will be saved for the finest last, but the question is, how will Thor use the Bifrost? If not, can he even fly weaponless?
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Dont mind a woman jumping in
Nice moment between Vision and Wanda..... trying to say more about this chapter but I can’t... ummm... oh are we going to see the Thanoscopter make an appearance in this story!!!
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9094575 The Thanoscopter is too legendary for this story to handle.
S C O T L A N D
Well sad fact is: Vision and Wanda knew they couldn't hide forever. Even after everything that's happened in the previous story, the world is in terrible trouble and Stark needs their help. Wanda may see this as a means of putting back in confinement again, but sooner or later her power will be needed to combat the forces that are just waiting to crush the Earth. Even if they are no longer together when this battle rages on, Vision knows there is a duty to take part in and even if it's not logically possible to defeat Thanos that should not prevent either being from trying their best.
I think Wanda and Vision have one of the best relationships in the MCU. It is just too bad it is surrounded in tragedy and heartbreak.
The “I feel you” line hits you every time!