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He took a few steps forward, stood beside Pietro, raised his hands slightly, pointed them at the two Wandas, and said calmly:
"Alright, there's no need to argue over this. The answer is, both of them are Wanda Maximoff..."
"It's just that she is the Wanda from our Universe, and she is the Wanda from another parallel Universe."
Pietro and Wanda, now ordinary people, naturally looked unconvinced.
Especially since these words came from a stranger, they were even less likely to easily believe something so outrageous.
Therefore, the siblings looked at Ryan in unusual synchronicity and questioned:
"Why should we believe you?"
Facing their doubts, Ryan didn't waste words explaining. Instead, with a thought, silver-grey liquid covered his body, quickly transforming into the Symbiote Battle Suit.
Ryan, who had transformed into Spider Monarch, looked at the stunned siblings and said calmly, "Do you believe me now?"
Wanda and Pietro heard this and nodded blankly: "Yes... yes, we believe it..."
As the most famous and most powerful Superhero on Earth, they had no choice but to believe Spider Monarch's words!
After all, why would a big shot like Spider Monarch need to lie to two nobodies like them?
"Believing is enough. You continue to explain your situation to them."
Seeing that the siblings believed him, Ryan casually found a chair and sat down, leaving the explanation to the Witch herself.
The Witch nodded. Everyone sat at the only table in the cramped dwelling, and the storytelling began.
Ryan, who was already more than familiar with the Witch's story, naturally didn't listen carefully. Instead, he lowered his head, pondering and organizing his next actions.
Now that he had successfully 'abducted' the siblings Wanda and Pietro, it was almost a sure thing. It was time to consider recruiting the next person, Stephen Strange.
Previously, he had planned to have Kingpin send people to do this, but thinking about it now, most of Kingpin's subordinates were ordinary gang members who were heavy-handed. What if they accidentally killed him?
And even if Strange's hands were crippled, with Strange's financial resources, he could certainly afford the Regeneration Serum from his company.
One shot of Regeneration Serum would heal his hands completely, so there would be no need for him to abandon his current understanding and learn some magic...
He had indeed overlooked this point before...
It truly was both made and ruined by the Regeneration Serum...
So, what method could make the stubborn Stephen Strange abandon his current materialistic views and turn to learning magic?
Ryan's clever mind replayed all his memories of Stephen Strange like a slideshow, trying to find his 'weak point'...
Suddenly, Ryan's eyes lit up...
Ah, he had it, Christine...
"Stephen, what have you done..."
In a certain broken and collapsed Universe, Christine, lying in the arms of the corrupted Doctor Strange, said so.
If there was anything more important to Stephen Strange than his surgeon's hands, important enough for him to abandon his stubborn materialistic views and learn a new magical worldview, it must be his girlfriend, Dr. Christine Palmer.
If Christine 'accidentally' fell into a spatial rift, and scientific methods were completely unable to save her, with only spatial magic able to bring her back, what would Stephen Strange choose to do?
A wicked arc curved on Ryan's lowered face.
While Ryan was contemplating his evil plan, the Witch also briefly explained to Pietro and Wanda what would happen in the other Universe's future.
Pietro said in disbelief, "You're saying we'll be recruited by an organization called HYDRA for superhuman experiments, then awaken superpowers, you awaken a magical power, and I awaken super speed?"
The Witch nodded seriously: "That's right!"
Pietro's expression became even more distorted when he heard this: "Then why, even with my supersonic speed, would I die from bullets?"
"Even if my future self was saving people, couldn't I use my super speed to move them away? Why did I have to use my own body to block bullets???"
Faced with this question, even the Witch herself fell silent. She had always been unwilling to confront her brother's death and had never seriously thought about this question.
At this moment, Ryan, who had stopped thinking, leisurely said, "Perhaps your special effects budget was too expensive~"
Pietro:???
Seeing Pietro's bewildered expression looking at him, Ryan shrugged: "I'm just kidding, you two continue..."
The Witch comforted him, "Don't worry, Pietro. This Universe is different from mine. The heroes here are more powerful, and I'm here too. I will never let that happen again!"
With his'sister's' comfort, Pietro finally snapped out of the absurd thought of his future self, a speedster, being killed by bullets.
The other Wanda was also a bit confused and asked her other self, "Um... Wanda? Er, what should I call you?"
Calling her other self by her own name felt Strange to Wanda.
Looking at her pure self, not yet consumed by sadness, the Witch's face showed a gentle smile:
"If you don't mind, you can call me 'Sister. Although we are variants from parallel Universes, we are not the same person in the end, so you don't have to feel like I'm taking your place and name. Instead, you can treat me as your biological sister who looks just like you..."
The younger Wanda heard this, looked at the sincere Witch, and finally accepted the idea:
"Okay, Sister, will I really fall in love with a... uh, mechanical intelligent lifeform named Vision, as you said?"
The Witch heard this and gently shook her head:
"No, that was just my past, not your future. This Universe has developed better than mine. Under the efficient handling of the Spider Family, many crises have been controlled in their initial stages, so Vision is highly unlikely to appear in this Universe..."
Ryan, who was beside them, silently gave the Witch his approval in his heart.
With the Mind Stone in his hands, how could he possibly create a Vision?
Moreover, compared to Vision, whose strength was unstable and fluctuated, Ryan preferred the pure and efficient artificial intelligence 'Jarvis' more.
In this Universe, he would never let Jarvis disappear to become Vision. At most, he would give Jarvis a push to become a true electronic lifeform.
Just like HYDRA's Dr. Zola...
And it's true, if you talk about it, it will come...
Knock, knock, knock!
Before Wanda could continue questioning the Witch, a knock on the door sounded again.
Pietro and Wanda were startled and instinctively looked at Ryan and the Witch, asking, "Did you bring any other friends?"
The Witch was about to shake her head when she suddenly paused, as if remembering something, and sharply looked at Ryan: "At this time, they're here!"
In her Universe, it was around this time, after the Battle of New York, when HYDRA, lurking within S.H.I.E.L.D., obtained the Mind Stone, that she and Pietro were recruited by HYDRA as volunteers.
"Mm." Ryan heard this, naturally knowing that 'they' the Witch spoke of were HYDRA. He stood up from his chair and walked towards the door.
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As the door opened, the HYDRA agents at the door were about to deliver their enticing speech about helping the siblings gain the power to get revenge on Iron Man, when they looked up and realized that the person who opened the door was not the orphaned siblings they had investigated at all, but an existence capable of striking fear into the hearts of all rats in the World's gutters!
He was... Spider Monarch!