Chapter 143: Fathers and Daughters

Chapter 143: Fathers and Daughters

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I would like to thank my beta, Akisu, for his help in this chapter.

Also, I noticed a lot of negative comments from the last chapter. I understand that what I did doesn't sit well with others. I wanted to clarify a few things before things get serious.

First, I'm not going to rewrite the last few chapters since they will have a lot of ramifications in the future. Since the arc will be ending in two chapters, there's nothing I could change that would make sense to the story.

What I want to know if what I chose to do is this bad (I mean most of the comments were negative) and what do you think I should do, moving forward. I was planning on making the next arc where she would pretty much snap and be free of the chains binding her, and starting the MCU properly, but now I'm not sure.

With how much hate I've been getting, I wanted to know what do you think the way forward is. I didn't choose Entropy as a whim, since its identity will have a big impact in the future.

It really is depressing seeing everyone hating on your idea like this, and I want to avoid something that would be a mistake. I have the ending played out, but if you already don't like this, I'll need to do a lot of readjustments.

Now, onto the chapter...

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5th June 2006, New York City

(Wanda Maximoff POV)

Magneto moved over to a device that was connected to another doorway leading into a small circular area, the walls sloping inward to a point. There was a somewhat familiar gem that was stuck at that point. It was glowing ominously. Wanda didn't like it.

The master of Magnetism looked proudly at it, "this is the Genetic Enhancer. Through shooting gamma rays through the gem, I can enhance the power of the mutant in the room to its full potential."

Wanda looked more closely at the gem. It felt familiar. A memory jolted in her mind, of her fight with Juggernaut. This felt like the gem that gave Juggernaut his powers. This was a gem of Cyttorak. Jasmine had explained it to her before. This was very bad and way out of her league. She needed Jasmine.

Wanda touched her Ankh and sent the distress message to Jasmine with her location. She only hoped that she would come before it's too late.

Only Jean seemed to share her horror at the situation. Strange must have taught her about elder gods and their powers. It is a very important aspect of sorcery, especially when they sometimes borrow energy from their dimensions to cast particularly energy intensive spells.

The other teenagers, on the other hand, looked at the device in wonder, not understanding the consequences of actually using this device.

Wanda waited for him to finish ranting and answered back, "You're a fucking idiot, Summers, and you deserve what will happen to you."

Scott just turned around with his hesitant brother and entered the genetic enhancer.

A minute later the door opened, and Scott and his brother walked out. Their physical appearances had changed greatly. For one they, now, both looked like college age men rather than high school teens. They had tanned skin for some reason, and white hair. The most surprising thing was that Scott had removed his visor and his eyes were open, staring around in wonder. His eyes soon locked on Jean, and he stared at her almost hungrily. "So, her hair really is red, wow."

"For fuck's sake, dude, can you be anymore creepy. You just got your mind back and you go throw it away just so you can see colors. You do realize that there are real people who suffer from color blindness and even worse, actual blindness."

Scott just ignored her and started talking to himself, "I feel strong, so much more powerful than before. I feel like I could vaporize a building if I wanted to."

That's not ominous at all. Not the sarcasm there. The boy turned towards Magneto, "If that's what you're offering then count me in. I never thought that I would be able to have a genuine control over my powers. Thank you, sir."

Magneto nodded, and Wanda had enough of this. She waved her hands towards the machine and turned it into red rose petals. The only thing that remained was the gem itself, that was too powerful for Wanda to affect. However, Wanda was too slow in getting the gem and Magneto was able to surround it with metal and summon it to him.

She walked towards the fuming master of magnetism and sneered at him, "I know exactly what you're doing, what you truly are. You don't care about our kind. Maybe you do, but what you just allowed to happen to two teenagers who don't know any better, manipulating their insecurities, their fear, to serve under you, you disgust me. You never cared about mutants, I know it, you know it, you just don't want to be powerless, you're afraid of it, and the only way to stop feeling this way would be to be on top. You want to rule us, not save us, and I for one will not stand for this."

The master of magnetism looked surprised for a second and Wanda wasn't surprised. When she was younger, she would have jumped at the chance of earning his approval. That was when she was an attention starved child that craved familial love. But now, things have changed; she had Jasmine, she had Jean and Kitty, she didn't need Magneto anymore.

Her biological father looked at her with a blank face, "It doesn't matter what you've done to the machine. I can create another one easily with my powers. Only the gem is needed, and destroying it seems to be beyond your abilities. But what interests me is your hypocrisy. You condemn me as a monster, and yet you live with the worst monster of them all. Your little Jasmine, or should I say, the Morrigan, has killed more people than I probably ever will, she has committed genocides, killing everyone without mercy. They worshipped her as a goddess."

Wanda was furious now, "Don't talk about her. Do not even speak her name. She's a better person than you'll ever be."

Magneto ignored her, "I met her once, you know. When I was a child, I was forcefully recruited into a group of mutants. I was a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. They had killed my mother in an attempt to get me to use my powers. I heard whispers about her, about the immortal goddess of death who massacred people with a wave of her hand. They wanted to hunt her, but for some reason, she was in hiding. They thought that she was weak, that her legends were exaggerated. They hunted her. I don't know why, maybe they wanted to recruit her, to enslave her, to experiment on her.

"I had no idea. But they kept hunting her and none of them died. Until one day, she came to the base. And that day, she massacred the entire division of Hydra. Not a single member survived apart from the leader who wasn't at the base at the time. I killed him myself a few years later. And when I stood around in the ashes that used to be the base and realized that the Morrigan had spared me, I understood why this woman, who had fought with gods and demons alike, a being of legends with unparalleled power, had run and hidden. She was being kind in a twisted, inhuman way. If she wanted me dead, I would have been. I had never felt so powerless in my life. Which is why, I said, no more. I will never be weak again; I will never allow people from our kind to live in fear as I had. It was at that time that Eric Lehnsherr was dead and Magneto was born.

"I thought I recognized her when she fought Apocalypse, and I asked an associate of mine, Mordo, who has spies at the order of sorcerers to find her. Let's just say, I was surprised to learn that she had adopted you. You live with a monster in human's clothing, Wanda. Do not be fooled by her looks. She has killed so many people, so many mutants. This woman is a monster that needs to be put down. I had hoped that she was coercing you somehow. But you chose her. You are still choosing her over your family, over your blood. You have betrayed your kind, Wanda and for that, you're no daughter of mine."

Huh, that was surprising. She didn't know that Jasmine had such an impact at her birth father. The witch found herself feeling quite free with her final chain to Magneto being severed.

The man continued, "And with that said, I cannot allow the Morrigan to have an apprentice. She's a threat, not just to me, but to our kind. I cannot allow a second Morrigan to be born, especially one with your powers. I am sorry, Wanda, but this is for the best."

Magneto raised his hands and thousands of things made of metals started to levitate. The man started to float, looking threatening. Wanda in return, let her powers flow through her, and started to levitate too, "You're just proving my point, Magneto, but if you want a fight, I'm more than happy to oblige."

Father and daughter stared at each other for a few seconds, before leaping at each other.