AVENGERS Incursion War (Secret Wars Saga)

Chapter 6: Drowning in a sea of nightmares

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The Science Lab

As Wanda#2 and Doctor Strange lied on separate beds with their minds connected with wires, they injected Wanda with narcotics and she fell into a deep slumber. Doctor Strange activated the eye of agomotto on his chest and he closed his eyes, soon he was in a dream state as well. He began searching for all the dreams she had about our Wanda, and dreams she is yet to have. Causing Strange to essentially relive the most important and traumatic parts of our Wanda's life. But strangely the dream did not start with Wanda being a child, it started with a war.

Strange was observing a giant war. The original multiversal war that already happened. At the war's center was Kang the Conqueror. Strange had no idea who Kang was at this point, this was the first time he saw him. This particular dream was fuzzy, just glimpses, as if it was a forgotten memory. Suddenly Strange saw everyone ranging from the Avengers to the X-Men to the Fantastic Four to the Eternals all running toward Wanda who at that point in time already had her Scarlet Witch attire. They were running toward her to fight her, as if they were trying to prevent what she was about to do. Then suddenly she uttered three words. The dream was too vague to make out what she was saying but suddenly there was an extremely bright flash of light. The next thing that happened was a very vague image of a timeline being formed, then everything turned pitch black. Strange did not understand what this meant, but his view of Wanda changed even more after this dream, not in a good way.

Strange's heart rate spiked and his brain patterns were all over the place, causing the same to happen to Wanda#2.

Magneto: What's happening? Is this normal?

Tommy: Mom!

Beast: It shouldn't be normal, not by this point. It's as if they saw something very dreadful.

Iron Man: Don't worry Eric, she'll be fine.

Like a video tape being burned or overwritten, the dream changed to Wanda being a child in Sokovia. Doctor Strange was reliving her tragic past growing up in a war torn country while suffering from high functioning autism. Her autistic special interest was sitcoms and she kept watching it to escape the world she didn't want to live in. Strange relived the death of her parents which devastated her, then being trapped for two days under the rubble with her brother. This amount of trauma changed the entire course of Wanda's life. After these events, her mind never developed further into adulthood.

She was stuck in the past, unable to move on. She was taken with her brother to an orphanage that did not have the money or infrastructure to properly care for children. She was in the orphanage for 5 years until she was 15 years old, hating every single moment, longing for her life she once had with her parents. At 15, she and her twin brother was innocently indoctrinated by Hydra, telling them that they will save the world, forcefully making them "volunteer" to be experimented on. Experiments so inhumane that not one subject has ever survived. Doctor Strange relived Wanda being experimented on, feeling the same innocent fear she had when she approached the mind stone with hesitation. Every instinct screamed to run away, but she was forced to endure this cruel treatment, frozen in place.