Scarlet Witch looks a bit worried in the direction of Storm, Star-Lord and crazy Teutonic Drax. But Storm is one of the most experienced members of the X-Men. And Star-Lord is just a young man like her brother. Albeit one with gorgeous purple eyes (if she saw that).
"I suppose we should seek out the source. It won't do any good to calm the green man if he or others will simply be reinfected."
She adjusts her gloves, whips her hair over her bare shoulders and rides a wave of crimson to the observatory. Quickly.
Mar-Vell glides along a golden path of sparkling effervescence, like the wake of a Roman candle.
They get there at about the same time. And naturally, the villain shoots the man first.
SHA-KWOOM! A red ray smashes out and into Mar-Vell, blowing him backward in a flash of flame and a shower of crimson sparks. A tower across the square shudders as Mar-Vell is punched into, and through, its adamantine structure.
A man with a hideously shrunken face like a red skull
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steps out into the smoldering hole he just punched in the observatory.
He is, as everyone on Earth knows, the Red Skull, arch-enemy of Captain America and widely believed killed in World War Two!
"Not as observant as it should have been," he sneers. "This planet has no defenses worthy of the name, and I have been here for ten minutes. But what can one expect of the genetic trash of the universe, their pathetic attempts at eugenic self-improvement notwithstanding?"
He sees the Scarlet Witch.
"Your facial bone structure suggests Roma blood," he says cruelly, "but your eyes are Slavic. Either way, whatever science you may command, it will avail you nothing against the cleansing fire of the Furor Teutonicus. It would prove nothing to provoke you to hurl yourself to destruction at my hands. Thus, I leave it to these bald parodies of humanity whom you have, for some reason sufficient to a mind of the Eastern subhuman strain, chosen to protect."
The red gem in his hand pulses like an evil heartbeat, and all the Kree in their superhero leotards pause, turn in unison, and charge screaming at the Scarlet Witch!
The Scarlet Witch's eyes glow with fury and she unleashes a torrent of Slavic syllables. Roughly translated:
ReplyDelete"You ignoble savage! You wish for the Destruction? You shall be paid in kind.
She rises above the crowd of Kree--and out of the Red Skull's immediate range. Yes, she's wearing THAT outfit. Including the spike heels.
"Break off your mental chains and destroy this man who would bind your souls!"
(She and Doom should probably never be introduced.)
She aims the Evil Eye at the Unfortunates and spin-kicks a spike heel into the Red Skull's eye socket, tearing the Wrath stone from his hand.