Hypnosis

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(Wanda's the same as she was at the beginning of Age Of Ultron, but this time Peter and Tony are together to fight back against her and Pietro.)

When the Avengers found a new threat in two young twins, they assumed that it'd be an easy fight. Who wouldn't? A God, a super soldier, a Hulk? No one assumed that they would be in too much danger. That was until the girl played with everyone's mind. She made Tony see his friends dead, Steve saw the life he missed out on and Nat's memories left her unable to even stand. She even took over Thor's mind. And when her brother whisked her away with his super speed, they knew that this wasn't going to be as simple as they had thought.
They had eventually regrouped, and Nat was much better after a few days but knowing how powerful Wanda was made them all uneasy.
When a week has gone by, Tony and Peter were working on a new Spider-Man suit in the lab. He had told the kid about the two new people working with Ultron, but Tony thought that it was a bit too dangerous for Peter. He'd rather have the kid stick to helping old ladies cross the road and giving people back their purses.
The kid resisted this idea of course, and wanted to help. "I could help. I mean, I could definitely help with the boy. I have these reflexes, I'd be able to feel him come for me before I even saw him."
"Yeah, yeah. I know you could. But if that girl can take out a God, I don't think a fifteen year old in spandex had a chance. It's too much of a risk, kid. This is grownup shit." Tony replied, smirking when Peter rolled his eyes. "When you're older you can help out on the bigger missions, I promise."
"What if they come back? What about Ultron?"
"It's not something you have to worry about. Ultron can't do anything without the Tesseract anyways. And it's safe."
"Where is it?" Peter asks.
"Telling you could put you in danger, I promise it's safe." Tony says, putting down his safety goggles. "Want some food, kid? I'll get Happy to run out and grab something."
"Sure. What are you getting?"
"Burgers?" Tony replies with a raised eyebrow.
"Sounds good." Peter smiles, knowing that he'd say that.
Tony walks out of the room and returns a moment later to find that Peter isn't there. He knows that the most rational explanation is that he's at the bathroom, or getting something to drink. But there's an uneasy feeling in his stomach that tells him he's wrong.
His heart starts to beat faster and he calls out for Jarvis on one of his many TVs. "Jarvis. Show me the security footage from the lab two minutes ago."
The AI pulls up the video immediately but Tony is confused when one second he sees Peter, standing like everything is normal, and the next second he's gone.
"Fuck." He gasps as he realises what happened. The boy. The insanely fast one must have grabbed him before Peter even realised.
"Sir, I have eyes on Mr. Parker on the 54th floor." Jarvis says, panning to the live camera upstairs.
Tony doesn't even wait to see what's happening, he runs to the stairs, no safety measures, no suit, there was no time. His fight response kicked in when he thought Peter was unsafe. He runs up and shoves the door open to find a mess. Peter is on the floor, eyes rolled back into his head and red sparks are flowing out of Wanda's hands. Pietro is holding his bleeding nose as he curses out the kid in Sokovian.
"Don't take another step." Pietro warns, putting his hand out at Tony.
"Let him go." The genius replies, an anger in his voice that neither of the twins had heard before.
"He's strong. He took a swing at me. And it landed." He almost sounds impressed, looking down at Peter.
"Stop it. Whatever you're doing to him. He's a kid." Tony pleads.
"We know the Tesseract is here," Wanda speaks, her accent strong. "Give it to us and no harm comes to him."
"You can hate me as much as you want, but this has nothing to do with him. Just stop. Okay? I don't have any weapons, I don't have my suit. I can't do anything to you. Just stop. Please." Tony practically begs. He expects it to fall on deaf ears but Wanda drops her hands. Peter gasps out as he sits up frantically. He's hyperventilating as he pushes himself away from the two.
"Kid. Kid." Tony says, getting his attention. "It's okay. It's alright." He only now realises that Peter's crying.
Tony can't describe himself as anything but heartbroken, watching the child go through something like this. He doesn't know what the girl made him see but he knows it wasn't pretty.
"Mr. Stark." Peter chokes out, he gets up to his feet and stumbles a few feet towards his mentor but is pulled back by some force he can't see. It's Wanda, her telekineses was incredulous.
"Stop! Stop." Tony half shouts at her. "It's okay, Peter, just stay down." He instructs as kindly as he can manage.
Wanda lets him go and the kid falls to the floor again, much closer than he wants to be to the twins.
"We need the Tesseract," the boy repeats. "We can't leave without it."
Peter tries to compose himself on the floor, but he can't concentrate on anything other than the horrible things he just saw. Uncle Ben blaming him for his death. May, Tony, Ned, everyone he cares about lying motionless in an empty vacuum of space. His mind attacks itself as he tries to make those images leave his head.
"I can't give you that. You don't know what Ultron is capable of. He's gonna kill everyone." Tony tries to explain.
"He's going to make this world a better place. You are the villain here, Stark. You killed our parents." Pietro says, getting frustrated. "You are a murderer."
"I'm sorry, okay? I don't know what happened to your parents but I know that if I give you the Tesseract, more people will die. They don't have to. You can help us stop Ultron."
"We can help you?!" Pietro asks rhetorically. "Like you helped us? Like our parents?"
"Whatever this is, Peter had nothing to do with it. Just let the kid leave and you can have what you want from me." Tony says, desperate for them to listen to him because he can't see Peter like this for much longer.
Tony blinks and sees that the fast twin was at the other side of the room, and Peter was on his back, blood dripping from his mouth. There's a fury in the genius' eyes as he watches Pietro shake his fist that he had used to hit the kid.
"Don't touch him!" Tony spits as he takes a step closer to them. But Wanda's eyes glow red as she starts to use her powers, making Tony step back.
"Okay! Okay." He pauses, "Don't do that to him again. Please..."
Peter hasn't processed any of the words being said and didn't even realise that Wanda was about to use her powers on him again. He has his eyes closed tight as he wishes this nightmare would be over.
Just when Tony thinks it literally can't get any worse, the window shatters and in walks the giant robot he never wanted to see again.
"Hi, Stark." His voice is deep and mechanic, "Where is the Tesseract?"

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