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Chapter 21: Revelation (Cont.)

"No," I said, "Just give me a second. It's a lot to process." I tried to remember all the questions I could've possibly had for him, but the first one, and dumbest one, if I do say so myself, I said was,"When I first woke up, Steve said something about Bruce being in love with me... What was that all about?" I asked, embarrassed.

Pietro laughed loudly for a while, as if I'd brought up an old joke. Through his laughter, he said, "Wanda was getting bored. Did it confuse them? That's what she was going for. She thought she'd have a little fun with him."

I felt both relieved and very uncomfortable. "So, he's definitely possessed then," I changed the topic with a frown. "Banner, I mean."

"Yes," Pietro declared, "I watched her do it."

"Then why didn't you stop it?" I asked, not understanding. He could've prevented this whole war... Stupid.

"Exactly, Strong, that's the real question here. Why didn't you stop her when you had the chance?" Stark butted in.

Pietro seemed confused that we would even ask. "She is my sister. I love her,"

"She was murdering people in cold blood," I corrected.

"No," Pietro insisted, "She hasn't killed anyone, or done it 'without reason'. She only kills the one who can't be taken-"

"What do you mean 'can't be taken'?" Tony butted in.

Pietro sighed, bothered. "There are certain people whose genetic code prevents them from being possessed by Wanda. Most of them are in hiding. But, as I was going to say, Wanda only kills people who won't take her magic, and she always sends somebody else that she's consumed to do it for her. She's starting with the countries who will put up the biggest fight, and then she's moving onto the smaller, less threatening ones."

"Why'd you let yourself get locked up then?" I said in a practical, but blunt manner, "Once you realized she was insane, why didn't you try to stop her?"

"First of all, because I knew I couldn't do it alone, even if I wanted to. But... Then you showed up, and I knew I'd finally have someone with sense to fight with me. Secondly, I didn't want to upset or hurt her. I want her to be happy for once. She hasn't been really happy since... well, since you left," Pietro confessed.

"Well!" Tony cut Pietro's confession short, "What an astonishing revelation. But, may I just add, it's worth literally nothing at all because we're stuck in this stupid freezing cage!"

"Well, what am I supposed to do about that?" Pietro defended himself.

"You virtually got us in here. Get us out!"

"How? Do you think I can just run into the wall and it will break? These are called the uncontainable cells for a reason!"

"It's your fault we all are trapped in this place. You need to figure out how to get us out!"

Their squabble was in the back of my thoughts at the moment. "Pietro... " I interrupted, "What exactly did you and Wanda do to me?"

Their argument broke off in a halt. "We thought it would kill you."

"What?" Tony squawked.

Ignoring him, Pietro continues forcefully. "Wanda wanted you to feel exactly what you had missed out on when you jumped out of the plane. She fed you something, to make you stay unconscious, and we brought the scepter in and enveloped you in it. We did both the experiments on me and Wanda. It should've killed you right then and there, just like how it did to all those people at the H.Y.D.R.A. base that didn't make it through the experiments." Pietro still sounded bewildered. "But you survived. Wanda was angry, and she let her emotions get the better of her. In her anger, she released all the people in the building from her spell. She accidentally does that when she's emotional. We got out of there immediately, without you. We could only hope it would kill you when you woke up, otherwise we'd made a big mistake."

"Why...?" This was all so new and weird.

"Because you're stronger than both of us now," Pietro said worriedly. "What didn't kill you... It made you stronger. Stronger than either of us could even imagine."

"Can you teach me?" I asked seriously.

"Teach you what?"

"To control it," I clarified. "My powers. Once I get them under control... Maybe I can break us out. Like the H.Y.D.R.A. base. I can just take over a guard-"

"No." Pietro voiced emphatically. "You will not posses anyone under any circumstance. I won't have you turning out like Wanda."

"Hey, I know you guys are having an important mentor to student conversation," Tony, once again, interrupted, "But I have an important idea. Might be useful. It's on why I'm not being controlled by that guy's freak sister anymore."

"Really?" I asked curiously, "What?"

"You." Tony said simply, "I assume your light thingie's purple, right?"

"Why do you know that?" I asked him, confused.

"I don't know, maybe because you're glowing purple," Tony said sarcastically. I looked down at myself, surprised. He was right. My skin emitted the slightest purplish glow, lighting my cell bizarrely.

"That's..."

"Weird? I know," Tony agreed with himself, "But back to the point. When I woke up, everything was red, and then it flashed purple. Somehow.. I think you reversed the possession of me somehow. So, like a non-creepy, purple exorcism."

The realization sort of clicking in my brain. If I was stronger than Wanda, and I could learn to control myself... I could un-posses a whole lot of people. If Tony's right... It's a lot of responsibility to say the least. "You might be right." I admitted.

"As usual," Tony replied cockily.

I ignored him. Groaning, I turned away from the wall I shared with Tony and back to Pietro. "Of all people, why'd you have to pick me to experiment on and make really powerful?" I complained, feeling stress begin to eat at me.

Pietro laughed a little. "You may not enjoy it this much in a little bit."

"You think this is enjoying it?" I asked incredulously.

"You haven't even felt any real pain yet." Pietro laughed again, this time, harsher. He got to his feet, dusting himself off a little in the darkness. "Stand up. Let's see what you can really do."

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