Storm thinks,
He's soooooo cute!!!
Oh. Wait. What a jerk.
But...isn't "What a jerk" what women think about
men who are cute? Maybe I'm still under...
Really? No point in going there.
She pulls herself together.
"Can that gem you keep so casually in your back pocket
help stop Thanos?"
"Ah ... Thanos? We were actually pretty sure, that, no.
We try it on Thanos he's probably got some cosmic whammy that will kill us all
every hour on the hour for a week," temporizes Star-Lord. "Now,
Rocket has this theory that there's five more of these jewels, and if we steal
two or three more of them, well, THEN we can put old purple-chins back in his
box."
Storm points at the Red Skull and says, "Bad guy at
five o'clock. Let's try it out on him!"
"Is that the ACTUAL Red Skull?" gapes Star-Lord.
"From the Saturday morning cartoons?"
The Scarlet Witch's eyes
glow with fury and she unleashes a torrent of Slavic syllables. Roughly
translated:
"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 high-heeled boot into the Red Skull's head, tearing the Wrath stone from his hand.
"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 high-heeled boot into the Red Skull's head, tearing the Wrath stone from his hand.
With the Wrath Stone in her right hand and the Evil Eye in
her other, Wanda now has all the rage-producing artifacts on the entire planet
Hala. And the wrath is too strong for her to resist, especially given how angry
she was at the Red Skull, and at Death in general!
"And who's that?" says Star-Lord, who was worlds
away when the Avengers were formed.
Waves of red destructive passion pour from Wanda’s eyes like
thunderclouds. Everyone in the square becomes paralyzed with rage, their heads jerking left and right, eyes bugging out, unable to
decide whom to punch out first, like a donkey between two really annoying jerks!
“HOH-kay,” decides Star-Lord. “She’s evil.”
He whips up the Purple Stone to aim at the Scarlet Witch.
As soon as he aims it at her, the Wrath Stone sparkles. The
Purple Stone also sparkles. When they are turned on each other, they affect
each other.
Wanda sees a red halo of vengeance envelop Star-Lord, whom
she could obliterate with but a thought.
And Star-Lord? There is no telling exactly what he sees, but
his scruffy stubbled jaw does drop open in amazement.
“She’s AWESOME,” he declares softly.
But Wanda remembers the amazing purple eyes of the heero in front of her and is loathe to kill such a spectacularly engaging person.
ReplyDeleteBesides, she notices that the citizens rose up and are not taking out the tyrant as she asked but rather appear furious with one another and on the edge of a civil war.
And, she's lived through one of those in her own beloved country. Brother against sister against mother against father sometimes. It was horrible. It was... worse than than the Nazis, for that is a named evil that could be defeated. The rifts in families, even after the fighting ceased, would continue for generations.
That must not be. So many lives ruined. So many children left vulnerable to evil forces.
As she can withdraw her normal powers when they have had their desired effect, so she pulls back the tide irrational madness from those around her, back into the gem from whence they came.
>(She and Doom should probably never be introduced.) lol
ReplyDeleteStorm grabs Star Lord's arm when he raises it. "No! She's on our side. She just is suffering from wrath overload."
After he doesn't attack.
"Indeed. She is awesome. And that is one of the other gems your talking rocket mentioned. Let's join her and see if there is any way your gem can protect her from the influence of that one."