The Dark Witch: Fallen (Avengers Fanfic)

Chapter 26

I couldn't look at her in the eye.

My entire body screams at me to do something but what could I do?

I couldn't do anything to let her know it was going to be okay. I couldn't reach out to her and tell her it'll be alright because the truth was nothing is okay.

Nothing will be alright.

Her brother was dead.

And her pain is all I felt.

"W-Wanda..." It's the first time I spoke her name.

The first time I acknowledged her as a person I trusted instead of Scarlet.

She doesn't reply. Instead, she leaves the core, steps slow and subtle, heading nowhere but outside.

I watch her go, tears springing in my eyes as she disappears from view.

There was nothing else to be done.

I felt like a failure.

I was supposed to be the one to protect them, to save them from themselves. Everything fell down to me.

Maybe if I hadn't escaped that Helicarrier, Tony wouldn't be forced to build Ultron.

A rippling feeling began to crawl up my arms and I pulled my sleeve, watching the disgusting veins grow higher.

They burned with several layers of pain and instead of giving me the power I so desperately wanted. I felt them take it away. I felt them strip and pull at my skin.

Like my body was unable to absorb the power it gave me.

"Riley! Where are you?" Steve was calling for me through the ear comm.

I couldn't leave.

Not yet. Not now.

Not until every last one of them was dead.

My brown eyes turned luminous blue searched the surroundings for a familiar energy wave.

"Wanda!" Shouting, I run out of the church to find her.

Her energy tells me she was in a bus somewhere with... Ultron?

I ran up ahead and entered the enclosed space. The bus had been overturned and inside, there she was, her hair flowing against her back, knees on the floor in front of a dismantled Ultron.

"Do you know how it felt?" Her fingers glowed red, sparkling brightly.

Ultron grunted as Wanda ripped out his metal heart.

His glowing hollow red eyes dimmed, turning into nothing but darkness.

Wanda smiled bitterly. "It felt like that."

She was a girl who's lost everything and everyone and my heart ached even more.

Reaching out for her shoulder--

I felt it before it happened.

The ground plummet downwards, gravity taking hold.

The City was going.

My eardrums began to pop and crackle. Shooting up an energy field, I surround it around Wanda, as the two of us were beginning to float.

I struggled to maintain my own force field and hers as it got increasingly harder to maintain it.

Something yellow flash across my vision.

Odd ball.

He peers into the bus and both of us, odd eyes glowing.