Against The Clock {Wanda Maximoff A/U}

Chapter Seventeen- The Illuminati

I woke up staring into a bright light.

The events that had occurred moments ago caused me to panic as I exploded from my laying position.

I was in a glass box, workers in lab coats walked the area busily, looking at tablets and monitors.

Where was I?

Wanda?

Strange? Wait Strange put me here.

What was going on?

I looked to the box next to me where a Hispanic teenager with long brown hair and brown eyes was pacing back and forth.

She wore a pair of black jeans with a grey shirt that was covered by a denim jacket that had a Star across the back of it.

"Who are you?" I asked.

She stopped pacing and looked at me.

"Good, you're awake." She said smiling.

"You know me?" I asked her.

She nodded. "Yeah of course, you're kind of a big deal where I'm from."

"Where you're from?" I asked confused. "Who are you? Why are you here?"

"My name is America Chavez, I'm here because I'm like you." She said. "My powers allow me to travel the multiverse."

"You said you knew me? How?"

She looked at her feet. "Well, you trained me. You taught me how to control my powers, at least another universe version of you did."

I nodded and looked around the glass box. "So, why am I here?"

America shrugged. "No idea."

"Well, when my friends get here. They'll get us out."

"I assure you, Mr. Cole." A deep voice said. "No one is coming for you."

I turned to see Stephen Strange standing at the entrance of the laboratory, but he wasn't my strange. He was different, his robes were were light blue with a large white rune in the middle. His cloak was the same though.

"Strange?" I said to him.

"The Illuminati, will see you now." He said as he flicked his wrists and a pair of power dampening cuffs strapped themselves to my wrists.

"The Illumin-what-I?

I followed Strange and his clan of robots through the hallways into a large room with five chairs and an opening in the middle of the chamber.

"What's going on here?" I asked confused. "Where are my friends?"

"Your friend are fine. Peter was sent back home. As for Wanda and Strange they are unharmed. As for where you, you are in the headquarters of the Illuminati, for your crimes against the multiverse." Strange said.

"I am Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme." He said. "Tony Stark, founding member of the Avengers and one of the most brilliant minds on the planet." He said gesturing behind him.

My heart almost dropped at the sight of Tony. Last I had seen him half of his body was smoldering as he was put to rest.

"Black Bolt, King of the Inhumans." The man in the black suit just nodded.

"Namor, The Sub-Mariner. King of Atlantis."

"Reed Richards, the smartest man on the planet, founder of the Fantastic Four."

"And Professor Charles Xavier, founder of the X-men. Together we make up the Illuminati, a combined secret society of the greatest and smartest heroes the world has seen. Together we hope to stop the crimes of the multiverse before it causes too much damage." Strange said.

"Okay, awesome. Super secret society. Super smart, awesome people. But why am I here. I am a hero. Godric and Calypso have my blood and the quantum sphere to conquer the multiverse." I said to them frustrated.

"We have kept our eyes on Godric and his conquest for a multiversal empire. But he is not our most dangerous threat." Tony Stark said sadly.

"I'm so confused, all I've done is protect and protect how am I even on the supervillain radar?"

"I think it's time we tell him the truth." Xavier said moving forward in his wheelchair.

Tony Stark sighed sadly. "Go ahead, I knew this day would come."

"In Tony's universe. Earth- 419. Your parents were killed in the explosion that you caused at Godric Industries." Xavier began. "Shortly after, he took you in trained you, continued raising you and you grew into an amazing young hero. An Avenger. But after Thanos, something changed."

"What did?" I asked.

"You did. You began having nightmares. I'd wake up in the middle of the night and the room would be destroyed. I figured it was just a  young adult thing and in my hubris I let it get too far." Tony took over. "Then one night, it happened and I blame myself every night for it. I awoke one night to screaming and glass shattering. I found you, standing over Steve's dead body, and holding up Natasha by the throat choking. The second you noticed me you snapped her neck like a toothpick."

My heart wretched and I almost vomited. "That wasn't me. It's not me." I said to them.

"Not yet it isn't, tell me Carter. Are you plagued by nightmares. Is there a voice in your head, do your eyes turn pure silver at random times. Have you had random outbursts of power?" Tony grilled me.

I took a step but nodded. "Yeah, it started a couple months ago."

"Like I said, you're a danger to multiverse. Have your hands begun to glow yet?"

Something snapped in my head.

"Don't talk to me like that." The voice inside my head said. Although it wasn't inside my head this time.

Tony looked shocked.

"It's time we have a vote." Reed Richards said to the Illuminati.

"All in favor of those of the death sentence?" Reed spoke.

"I." Namor said loudly.

Black Bolt nodded his head.

Strange hesitated by replied. "I."

"I." Richards concluded.

"All in favor of exonerating all charges?" Reed asked.

"I." Tony and Charles spoke at once.

"Then it is settled." Reed said looking at Tony with empathy. "Black Bolt."

Black Bolt stood up as Namor pushed me onto my knees.

"I'm sorry, kid." Tony said to me. "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you."

I bowed my head and prepared for my death.

Then something took control of my body and everything went black.