𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐬

22) Flashback

Wanda soon found that covering her ears did nothing against the magic.

She took a breath, annoyed that she had to deal with another sorcerer. She'd fought enhanced creatures many times before, although most of them had generic elemental control or telekinesis, perhaps some other various abilities. She'd only fought another sorcerer oncs. Yes she won, but not easily.

She'd fought Loki multiple times, but he never went difficult with her. He may have claimed that he was in front of Thanos, but Wanda could read minds. He was being soft. Wanda didn't know why, for whenever he failed a fight, the next time she saw him he would appear to have burn marks lined up on his skin. Wanda wasn't allowed to ask.

She turned herself slowly, turning to face the wizard. Her eyes burned red, and scarlet magic reformed in her hands as she moved her hands off of her head.

"Oh no." She heard the man mutter before she sent a heavy blast of energy at him, sending him flying through already broken glass.

He fell through the glass, tumbling down to his death, and Wanda turned her head to Natasha.

"So I see you've been practicing." Natasha commented.

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Pietro had informed everyone as quickly as they could. Luckily all of the Avengers had emergency call buttons so he could alert them from whenever, wherever. Steve was already at the tower, so he just had to get up to the floor quickly.

Sam and Tony were already on their way, considering they both had flying gear. Clint was nowhere near, but he said he'd start traveling. Bucky claimed that he would "catch a ride", but Pietro didn't know what he meant by that. He didn't call Rhodey since he was off doing Military stuff.

Pietro ran back into the room that Wanda and Natasha were in, eyes widening as a female body was thrown his way.

He went to catch his fellow Avenger, and he did, but that only knocked them both backwards.

Wanda watched the speedster get crushed by the Black Widow, then her attention turned as she heard the ruffling of something in the wind behind her. A glare crossed her face as she saw the sorcerer fly through the window, his cloak holding him steady.

Her head tilted and she summoned more magic to her hands. Her eyes fell upon the golden necklace he wore. It was shaped as an eye, and it had a closed holding in it's center. Even Wanda could sense the power that came from that center.

The sorcerer had the time stone, so he was the only one who mattered here.

Strange noticed the witch's gaze on the Eye of Agamotto. He summoned his own magic to match hers. He glanced behind her at Pietro and Natasha, who were regaining themselves.

He moved his hands to press against the other, then did a slow swirl with his left hand around his right hand. A small orange loop had casted around his wrist, then he threw his hands to the side and many clones of himself shot out from his one body.

It wasn't a large space, but Strange had a good wall of himself to help guard the stone. All of the clones summoned magic, copying the motion of the original, and aimed themselves at the Scarlet Witch.

In a synchronized motion, all of them shot out the blast of noise at her, but this time she was ready for them.

Their forces hit a red wall of magic. Then the magic then began shifting. It started towards the army of sorcerers, pushing through all of them. The red magic disintegrated all of the clones, passing through the real Strange with no harm.

Strange released his magic as the shield flew through him, and he looked at his magical company that were now nothing but red ashes.

When his attention turned back to the witch, he regretted turning for a moment. Another blast of magic aimed straight towards him, throwing him backwards. He tried to control himself with the Cloak of Levitation, but the Scarlet Witch must've noticed that that was what was keeping him up.