Normal in every way
Agatha expresses concern about Thomas and William, the offspring of a mutant and a synthezoid, and shocks Wanda by revealing that her children will disappear if she doesn’t think about them (Avengers West Coast # 51). Wanda rejects Agatha’s accusation that the twins are not normal children, refusing to believe that Thomas and William will “just cease to exist” if Wanda is confiscated.
When Master Pandemonium attacks the Avengers with a horde of demons and kidnaps the twins, the villain reveals that the super demon Mephisto scattered his soul after splitting it into five pieces. When Wonder Man calls Enchanted – one of the classic sitcoms affecting WandaVision – An enraged Wanda loses control and lashes out at fellow Avenger the Wasp.
Immortus, one of Kang the Conquerer’s identities, looks from afar.
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A small step beyond illusion
Agatha reveals that Wanda’s children were born of her desire for a normal home, making them a manifestation of Wanda’s will through a combination of magic and her mutant powers. Since Vision is an advanced machine, Agatha explains, Wanda used her probability-altering powers to make it possible for the couple to start a family – but even Wanda’s tremendous powers cannot create life (Avengers West Coast # 52).
The Avengers confront Master Pandemonium, who has kidnapped the children of Wanda and Vision to replace the missing pieces of his soul – only to discover that Thomas and William are pieces of Mephistos soul once thought destroyed by Franklin Richards (Fantastic four # 277). When the demon takes back his missing pieces and restores his essence at the expense of Wanda losing her children, Agatha defeats Mephisto by erasing the twins from Wanda’s memory.
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As if they were never there
Agatha explains: All her life, Wanda longed for the kind of normal existence she was forever denied by her mutant powers. She longed so much for a family – in her mind the perfect symbol of a peaceful, happy life – that she suffered what a human woman a hysterical or imaginary pregnancy In such cases, there is usually no child to be born … but Wanda’s ability to change probabilities created Thomas and William. Twins, you see, to fulfill her dream. Because her strength cannot create a real life, she unconsciously reached out to snare everything that would function as souls for the newborns. What she caught, still very weakened by their recent divorce, were two of the missing pieces of Mephisto! ‘
To spare Wanda the pain of losing her children, Agatha closes that corner of her mind – leaving the twins ‘never’ for Wanda (Avengers West Coast # 52).
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Darker Than Scarlet
Left almost comatose after weeks of agitation (Avengers West Coast # 53), Agatha watches over an unresponsive Wanda when Magneto – Wanda’s mutated supervillain father, a relationship that would end decades later – carries her away from Earth (Avengers # 313). Wanda’s nervous breakdown turns horrifying when she returns to California and attacks the Avengers (Avengers West Coast # 55).
Agatha tries to reason with her student and tells Wanda that the recent tragedies have made her remember. Reveling in her newfound power, Wanda tells the captured Avengers that her ability to change opportunities means she can reshape the universe at will (Avengers West Coast # 56). With just a thought, Wanda can turn her smallest whims into reality.
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From pawn to queen
After leaving with Magneto and her twin brother Pietro (Avengers West Coast # 57), Wanda joins Magneto despite Quicksilver’s attempt to save her. Continuing his plan to rule for centuries as the master of time, Immortus puts Wanda into a trance in a battle with the Avengers.
Just as Quicksilver begins to suspect that Magneto was manipulated by someone more powerful than himself, the time traveler reveals himself and takes Wanda as his queen (Avengers West Coast # 60).
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Revelations
Immortus transports the Avengers to Limbo, where he takes on Earth’s most powerful heroes against ‘zombified’ enemies who make up the Legion of the Unliving to avoid meddling in matters that are ‘essential to the actuality of many realities – including especially this one. “(Avengers West Coast # 61).
Agatha with a half sense of Immortus was behind Wanda’s setbacks – her increased powers, her growing alienation from humanity and her nonexistent children – and is aware that Earth’s timelines are in danger of unraveling.
Immortus reveals that an all-powerful trio called The Time Keepers – who could enter the MCU Loki – appointed him keeper of the timestream for the period he lived as Kang: from 3000 BC. Until 4000 AD. His task: to oversee all time travel spanning seven millennia, while disentangling the realities created by various Kangs in exchange for total control over seventy centuries.
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The Ultimate Fate of the Scarlet Witch
Finally, Immortus reveals that he has been manipulating Wanda’s life for years because the Scarlet Witch is a Nexus creature, one that belongs equally to all possible timelines and all realities and differences. Through Wanda’s power, all futures can be secured and controlled by Immortus, the self-proclaimed master of time.
Immortus explains that his orchestration of Wanda’s tragedies, and the resulting trauma, would predispose her to become his powerful and indispensable puppet (Avengers West Coast # 61 and # 62).
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Damn the multiverse
Agatha’s astral form tries to reach the enraptured Wanda, who is turned into a living power source for Immortus. Agatha urges her to get rid of the excess power that Immortus has grown in her, desperately telling Wanda that she will be useless to him without the ability to alter the probabilities of cosmic timelines. When Wanda’s love for her teammates takes her out of her trance, Immortus curses Agatha for creating new differences that he believes will “wreak irreversible damage in the myriad realities that already exist” – and potentially destroy the entire Multiverse.
While Wanda tries to pull that power back into herself and thereby prevent a cosmic catastrophe, the Time Keepers intervene and prevent her from reabsorbing those powers (Avengers West Coast # 62).
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Future danger
The Time Keepers tell Immortus that his only duty was the eventual transformation of a particular Nexus creature – the Scarlet Witch – into a power source. They explain: Immortus would then use that power over probabilities to protect important events must occur in different timelines to ensure a particular future, including one in which the timekeepers have a vested interest (Avengers West Coast # 62).
The trio reveals that Immortus could only use a pre-existing Nexus creature, not create one. When Wanda managed to reject her hex power, they were forced to intervene. “If that power were to cause chaos between the timelines,” they warn, “all future would be in danger – including the one in which we originated!”
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The public interest
When Immortus reveals that the Time Keepers never told him exactly what future he was protecting, they tell the Avengers that their selfless actions were for “the greater good of the cosmos.”
“If we ceased to exist because of polluted timelines, the loss to the Multiverse would be great,” say the Time Keepers, who send the mutated energy emitted by Scarlet Witch to Immortus. They condemn him to an immovable existence in limbo, transformed into the same all-powerful energy receiver he intended to be Wanda, and Wanda returns to the Avengers (Avengers West Coast # 62).
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