Escapism: Visions of United Fates

Cuatro

MARVEL UNIVERSE

Peter's POV

"Especially that little gadget, it's mine now, Peter."

I'm so fucking dumb, matter of fact, I'm fucking stupid.

I open my window, putting on my suit as I shoot a web to the nearest pole and swing out of there, making my way to Dr. Strange, watching him on top the building before landing on the roof top.

" Peter, I told you to go home and get some rest, why are you here?" Strange asked as he closed up a book.

" Gadget, the watch, she has it" I said. Steven gave me a puzzling look, trying to figure out what I meant.  " She has a gadget, that may or may not have some properties that I don't want to discuss before you get mad."

"I'm still not sure what you mean by that" he said.

"So, you remember when the whole thing happened with me, and the other Peters, and then Ned... MJ, and I we were in your basement and stuff, well, I took something from there and, for a while, I curated a device around it, and it works...kinda.. "

"What do you mean 'take'?" He emphasized, his nostrils flaring a bit.

" It was like a brassy pebble, oval shaped, had green hues, I thought it was like crystals that people use for manifestations and clearing negativity, and since there is a magical element from that, I wanted to make something that would work well with nanotech and" I smiled widely and nervously.

His eyes widen. I fucked up.

"Brassy pebble with green hues... where was this pebble exactly?"

"Inside a jar, was hard to open, but it wasn't located where the other stuff would be, I mean, you did have a Pilates machine there, and.."

"Enough" He put his hand up, turning his head to avoid looking at me. " That pebble was part of a ritual a coven had done long ago, in the 1990s... Wong had told me this story."

"What... What happened?" I asked hesitantly.  Strange had his back turned now.

"This Coven was looking for 'pure' souls, they were trying to bring as many of them to reincarnate their... 'King'" He said.

"But how did they travel through universes."

" The Darkhold" Strange said. Turning back to me. "That book landed in the wrong hands twice, this was the first time. After performing the spell, many from the Coven possessed the bodies of their variants throughout the universes.  Taking souls out of each one they visited, transferring back to our world" He took a deep breath. "That kind of thing causes a huge imbalance, disturbs the natural order, and... the spell was almost done, but because things did work out in their favor, instead, the book took each member's soul, when they found their hideout, it was too late, but among other things I will not be discussing with you because that is all I am going to say." He spoke. " Wow Peter, you really have to clarify everything with me."

"You said this happened twice, who was the second one?" I asked.

"There was an incident that happened in Westview with Wanda, she curated a town where she happily lived with Vision and her 'two' kids. For some unknown reason, after those events, she got a hold of the Darkhold, we don't know how she might have gotten it, but this led to me having a recurring dream running with America Chavez from something, then she landed in our universe. Turned out that monster that attacked the day she arrived was sent by a Coven, we thought it was the same one from the 90's, but it was Wanda, she was looking for America, and used her powers to better transfer herself into the universe where her sons actually existed..."