Chapter 144: Meteor

Chapter 144: Meteor

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5th June 2006, New York City

(Wanda Maximoff POV)

Wanda 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 threating. 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 few seconds, before leaping at each other.

Wanda was the first to attack, sending in a powerful hex bolt at her birth father. It's a spell she created that came naturally to her. In its essence, the spell turns the will of the universe itself against the user, it's the magical expression of Murphy's law; anything that could go wrong will go wrong. Jasmine had been very surprised by this spell, although she could easily cast something similar, the older woman had admitted that it took her a long time to manipulate probabilities to that extent.

As she expected, the spell crashed into the magnetic shield that Magneto always had around him. Seriously, he was that paranoid.

Wanda dodged the two concussive beams sent at her by the Summers brothers. She still didn't know what Scott's brother's name was. Not that she cared, really. It was just weird calling someone 'Scott's brother' in her head. Anyway, Wanda retaliated by sending a telekinetic push at them, sending them flying back.

Magneto used her distraction to attack her, making the metal around the witch come to life and fly towards her. Wanda responded by charging up a pulse of magic that when she unleashed, turned every single metal projectile into rose petals. For some reason, the flower petals were easy for her to picture in her head, plus, she always like the color red.

Surprised by the complete disappearance of his weapon, Magneto didn't see her next attack coming. Jasmine had explained to her that in combat, invincibility was an illusion. There's always a weakness, especially when dealing with the senses. People often forget to protect their sight, hearing or even smell. You could easily blind someone, use sonic attacks that would imbalance them, or use gases, to get the upper hand in a fight.

And Wanda did just that. The witch flew towards Magneto and created an orb of light in her palm, directly in front of the master of magnetism. The man was immediately blinded by the attack, and Wanda sent a telekinetic drill at the shield, trying to destroy it.

Magneto, still blind, collected every single piece of metal around and sent it at her. Wanda had to dodge since she didn't have any time to use transmutation.

Seeing the Summers brother coming towards her, Wanda sent a telepathic message to Jean, 'Take care of the roid brothers, I'm dealing with Magneto. And make sure that this place doesn't blow while we're inside. One small crack will be enough to kill us all.'

Jean sent her a telepathic confirmation and Wanda started to wonder what the hell were the X-men and the Brotherhood doing. Were they just standing there watching the fight? When she asked Jean, the redhead confirmed that Xavier had told them to stand down in fear of hurting Scott accidentally.

Wanda started to tear up but was surprised when Pietro's eyes turned blank and started to attack Wanda. Once more, Wanda simply levitated him and knocked him out. She growled, "Xavier!"

She was beyond angry, no she was beyond being furious. That man starting to piss her off. Wanda looked at him, in anger and wasn't surprised that he was glaring back at her. The witch looked around for Jean and found her, sweating and concentrating on something. She must be using her powers somehow and Wanda didn't want to distract her.

One by one, every single remaining X-men and member of the brotherhood started to attack her with the intent to kill. Storm was first, and Wanda just waved her hand and pulled her to the ground as if she was being pressed by a giant hand, and the witch knocked her out, once more.

She dodged Logan's leap, summoned him and knocked him out again. She then created an illusion of herself, one that dodging the Blob's and Lance's attack while her real self was knocking out the remaining mutants, aka, Scott and his brother.

She then walked behind Sabretooth who must have smelt her somehow, but he was still restrained by her telekinesis and knocked out with a telepathic blast.

Finally, the two members of the brotherhood remaining tried to impale her illusion self, only to go through her, revealing her trickery. The real Wanda was behind them and knocked them out too.

With that done, the only mutants still standing, or in Xavier's case sitting, were Wanda, Jean and the bald telepath himself.

Wanda looked at Jean and asked, "What's happening?"

Jean looked pained, "Magneto's attack destabilized the outer shell. I'm pretty much the only thing holding this place together. We need to hurry; I'm pretty much holding an entire asteroid here."

Wanda nodded and looked at Xavier, "You have one last chance. What's your problem with me?"

The man's glare didn't fade in the slightest, "You're too dangerous. You just killed one of the most powerful mutants in the planets. Reality manipulation is not a power that anyone should have. You can change reality when it suits you. You don't realize how dangerous that is? You could just kill all the mutants should you want; you could enslave the human race with just a though; you could destroy this planet, rule it. The world is your playground. No one should have that power. When we discovered your powers, Wanda, what they truly are, we chose to be merciful and just imprison you. It was a kindness from my part and affection from Magneto's. Your memories of your true capabilities would be erased, and the prison would drug you so much that achieving control over your powers would be inconceivable. It was the only way that we saw you being allowed to live. We never expected you to get out, one day, nor gain control over your abilities this quickly. We should have killed you that day. You destroyed everything. But first, it was just for the greater good, but now, you killed Eric. You killed my friend, and you made it personal. I will vow this to you, Witch, I will not rest until you are dead. I will dedicate every second of my time, every dime I own to kill you. I will train my X-men to specifically target you and I will rid the world of your taint."

Wanda waited for the man to end his rant and looked at him impassively, "That's a difference between you and me. I'm not merciful to my enemies."

Without giving him time to realize what was just said, Wanda telekinetically snapped his neck, killing Xavier immediately.

Wanda looked at Jean, who didn't look at her with an ounce of judgement. The redhead shrugged, "I don't know what happened to him, but if you didn't do it, I would have done it myself."

Wanda relaxed, realizing that Jean wouldn't see her as a monster, "Can you make a portal to Earth?"

Jean shook her head, "I'm not sure but if I miss, I could end up creating one to the middle of the vacuum of space. Better not risk it, especially while I'm still holding this place together."

Wanda nodded, "Logan must have come here somehow? Do you have any idea how?"

Jean brightened, "The Blackbird," at Wanda's look of confusion she asked, "It's the X-men Plane. It can do some limited space travel. Logan must have used it somehow. Jean closed her eyes for a second. It's in the hanger. We have a way out."

Wanda nodded and levitated the unconscious mutants. They walked to the hanger, ready to come home. They entered the plane and started to fly away. Finally, Jean let go of her hold on the asteroid who exploded seconds later after its shell crumbles. Wanda was, once again, thankful for Jean's actions on the asteroid. Magneto could have killed them all in anger.

As she watched the explosion, Wanda realized that she had just killed the Professor X and Magneto, but the only question that remained in her mind was 'Where is Jasmine and why didn't she come?'