Chapter 12: I Can't Beat You
Defender Strange's possessed corpse makes its way to Wundagore. He looks up to the tower then he heard a noise, sounding like moans and groans, he looks down at his hand as it starts to twitch. Then some black smoke spirits surround him and they start to cackle. "Stephen Strange, possessing a dead body is forbidden! Cease your dreamwalk, and face the eternal consequences." One of spirits said to him as dozens upon dozens of the Souls of the Damned surround him and began their attack.
To Stephen it felt like they were pulling him down into the abyss as he floated down to the ground. "Stephen!" (Y/n) said. "Don't let me go. Stephen?" She calls as she comes up to him and he raises his hand out. She grabs it, squeals as she reacts to how cold he was feeling, while Vincent comes up next to him.
"Hang on, Dad. Hang on, hang on." Vincent said while Stephen starts to convulse and (y/n) checks his pulse. (Y/n) goes to open his eye and then a couple of the Spirits come out of his eye and start to attack Vincent and (y/n).
She screams as one of the spirits attack her and the other attacks Vincent. Vincent uses magic shields to block and tries to use spells on them but it didn't affect them as bad and the second one knocks him back. Vincent sits up and sees two spirits attacking Stephen's body and a third one was attacking (y/n), who was doing her best to keep it at bay.
Vincent begins to panic as he sees two people that looked like his parents getting attacked. No, not again. Not again. He thought as he looks around then noticed a gold vase and a golden stick next to him, behind a case. "Brazier of Bom'Galiath." He mutters and he elbows the glass, breaking it, then grabs the Brazier. Then he turns to the spirits.
"Hey!" Vincent yells and the spirits turn to him. "Stay away from my parents, you ugly sons of bitches!" He said and holds up the vase with his right arm and aims it at the spirits then places the stick, in his left hand, in front of the opening of the case. A large stream of fire comes out and hits the spirit that was attacking (y/n), then he sets another burst of flames at the ones attacking Stephen. All of them disappear.
"You okay?" Vincent asked (y/n) as she gets up and he sets aside the Brazier. "Yeah, I'm fine. You did good." She said as she pats his shoulder. Vincent smiles then they go over to Stephen. "Stephen...we've got you." (y/n) said as she takes his hand in hers. "You're a Master of the Mystic Arts. They're spirits. Use them." She said and Stephen's eyes open at this then he starts to float again as he starts to take control.
"Use them. Use them." (Y/n) tells him and Vincent takes Stephen's other hand. "C'mon, Dad. You can do it!" He said, encouragingly, as Stephen floats upright.
In Wundagore, Defender Strange begins to take control of the souls and started to use them as his own cloak. Then he glares over at the tower and flies towards it.
Meanwhile, (y/n) starts to wake up and notices that she was still tied up to the Pilar. She looks around and sees America on the slab and Wanda was torturing her. She lowers her head and started to say some incantations and was able to get the restraints off of her while thw large guards looked out at the snowy mountains, as if they see or hear something.
(y/n) then summoned the Eldritch whip and wrapped the whip around one of the guards neck. It grabbed at it but, with all of her strength, (y/n) yanks on the whip hard and pulls it down. Then she summons up two swords, runs and jumps and lands on the guard as she stabs it in the chest.
Then (y/n) was knocked to the side by Wanda, who looked beyond angry and annoyed. "You are testing my patience!" She growled at the Sorceress. "There's still time for you, Wanda. Please, stop this." (Y/n) pleads. "I've come too far to turn back now!" Wanda growls and (y/n) narrows her eyes. "Very well." She said then the two magic wielders began to fight as the fired spell after spell at each other while, simultaneously, blocking them.
One of the guards was about to attack (y/n) when Stephen flies in and knocks the guard down then takes out the other one. Wanda and (y/n) stop and watch this as (y/n) sees the rotting corpse of the other Stephen with the Souls of the Damned as his cloak. "Stephen!" She shouts, happily, and she let's out a laugh as Stephen lands on the ground and Wanda glares at him.
"Dreamwalking, you hypocrite!" she shouts and she fires a spell at him but he uses the souls to block it then he faces her. "This time, it's gonna take more than killing me to kill me." He said then he makes the Souls of the Damned attack Wanda as they surround her.
(y/n) walks over to him and he turns his head to her. She jumps alittle at this as she looks over the moving corpse. "I'm scared to even ask." She said to him. "Probably best that you don't." He replied and she shakes her head as Stephen uses the souls to bring Wanda over in the middle of the room and (y/n) summons up two halves of a circle and locks Wanda and the souls in.
Wanda tries to get out but the souls would grab her arm and pull her back in. "She's breaking free!" (y/n) yells. "Hold her!" Stephen said and she does her best but Wanda's power was becoming too much. "Stephen! Take America's power. There's no other way." (y/n) said and Stephen looks over at America, who was floating above the slab. "This is the only way." He said and he turns and uses magic to bring her down on the slab then goes over to her.
"It's me, in other me's body." Stephen tells her "You're gonna take my power, aren't you? Before Wanda can." America asked and Stephen stares at her. "It's okay. I understand now." She tells him. "No, America. I've come here to tell you to trust yourself, trust your power. That's how we stop her." Stephen said.
"I can't control it..." America cries. "Yes, you can. You have been all along. Every time you opened a portal, you sent us exactly where we needed to go." he tells her. "What about the first time?" she asked him. "Even that led you to this moment. When you are gonna kick that witch's ass." He said and she smiles and clenches her fist with determination. Stephen gives her a wink.
Wanda breaks free from her cage, which knocks (y/n) back, and the souls disappear. Wanda then stomps towards Stephen and uses a spell to hit him. He falls back and back with his original body, he floats down a bit but (y/n) and Vincent grab his hands. "We've got you!" (Y/n) whispers.
Stephen tries to get up but Wanda uses a spell that slowly was tearing at Defender Strange's body; which of course was hurting Stephen and (y/n) and Vincent, since they were holding his hands. Then the two were knocked down.
Wanda continues to torture Stephen until she heard a yell. She turns to see America leaping towards her and punches her across the face, making a portal appear behind Wanda. America smile and nods while Wanda turns to her and shakes her head.
But before Wanda could do anything, America punches her in the face three times then she kicks her, which made the portal open up to some sort've hell. Wanda stumbles back a bit but catches her balance as America goes to punch her again. But Wanda catches her fist.
"I can't beat you. So I'll give you what you want." America said and she punched Wanda again and then she grabs America by the throat but stops when she recognized the room they had appeared in.
She turns to her right and sees Billy and Tommy sitting at a couch, staring at the. "Billy. Tommy." Wanda said, shocked, and both boys began to scream. "Mommy!" Billy screamed as he and Tommy run off towards the stairs. "There's a witch!" Tommy shouts as Wanda turns to America. "What have you done?!" she asked with a growl.
"Mommy!" Tommy screams as other Wanda comes down the stairs to her boys. "Wait! Boys. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay." She tells then as she pushes the boys behind her. "I'm their mother!" Wanda yelled as she pushes the couch away and takes a few steps forward. Other Wanda takes a protective stance in front of her kids.
"Get away from them." Wanda yells and she flings her other self across the room and she lands with a crash. America gasped and goes to take a step forward but Stephen speaks up. "No. Not yet." Stephen tells her as the boys stared in horror at what they were seeing
"Mommy!" Tommy yelled then he and Billy go grab some of their toys and throw it at Wanda. "Get away from our mom! Leave her alone!" they shouted at her as Wanda raises her arms up to protect herself from the toys being thrown at her. "Boys, stop. Please. Wait, boys. Stop." she said in a soft, kind voice but then she snapped.
"Stop it!" she yells and this frightens the boys and the go hide by the stairs and begin to cry as Wanda approaches them. "Please don't hurt us. Please." Billy pleads, tearfully. "I would never hurt you. Never. I would never hurt anyone. I'm not a monster. I'm not...I'm..." Wanda stops then she begins to tear up at what she has done to get this far.
She steps away from the stairs and the boys run over to their mother as she starts to come to. "Mom. You're okay." Tommy said, questioning, as him and Billy come to her side. "Okay, okay...I'm okay..." other Wanda said as Wanda sobs and falls to her knees, staring at the boys.
Other Wanda looks at her then starts to stand up. "Mom, no!" Tommy said. "Don't go. Don't. Mom..." Billy pleads as other Wanda gets up and walks towards Wanda, who turns her head away as if she's ashamed at what she's become.
Other Wanda walks up to her, takes her chin and gently strokes it. Wanda looks up at her and her other self nods. "Know that they'll be loved." She informs and Wanda stares at them, longingly, as America goes to shut the portal.
Wanda cries for a few moments while (y/n) stands up and walks over to America. Wanda then floats up and goes over to the slab and lands down on it.
"What now?" (y/n) asked Stephen. "Get out of here." Stephen tells her and she nods as she goes over to America. "I'll find you." America said and then she punches a portal that was away from Wundagore and both her and (y/n) climb through it.
(Y/n) stopped and turned to look at Stephen and he nods at her before she smile and enter the portal, which closes behind her. "I opened the Darkhold. I have to close it. No one will ever be tempted by the Darkhold again." Wanda said and Stephen nods. Wanda uses all of her power to take down the tower with her in it.
Back in the other Universe, Stephen wakes up from his trance then noticed that (y/n) and Vincent were on the ground but they were coming too. "Are you two all right?" Stephen asked them as they start to sit up. They nod and he helps them up to their feet. "Is it over?" (y/n) asked him. "Yeah." replied Stephen.
"Is America okay?" Vincent asked, worried. "She's on her way here to get us." Stephen said and Vincent sighs with relief at this. "Wanda?" (y/n) asked him. "No." Stephen said then they hear a nosie and look down to the the Darkhold was disentergrating. "So she destroyed the Darkhold in every universe." Vincent points out as the boon turns to dust. "She did the right thing." (y/n) said. "Yes, she did." Stephen mutters then (y/n) turns to Vincent.
"I want to thank you for saving me, back there." She says and Vincent smiles. "Don't mention it." He said and Stephen smiles at him. "You did good, kid." He said and Vincent nods. "I just...I wish you could stay with us in our universe. I feel bad that you don't have any..." Stephen said and Vincent shrugs.
"I wish I could stay too." Vincent said and (y/n) furrows her brow. "You're an orphan?" She asked, sympathetically, and Vincent nods. "Yeah...But it's okay. I have Uncle Wong to watch over me." Vincent said and Stephen nods. "Still would've been one hell of an incursion." Vincent said and the two adults laugh as a star-shaped portal appeared with America and (y/n) standing on the other side.
Vincent runs over to America and they hug each other. "You're okay!" He whispers and America smiles. "Stephen!" (Y/n) exclaimed and she runs to him and the two embrace each other. "You okay?" Stephen asked her. "Yeah, I'm fine." She said then Stephen places his hands on her stomach. "And the baby?" He asked, concerned. "Yeah, yeah...we're good." She said then she looks over and sees the other her.
"Oh...wow...this is trippy." She said as her and Stephen pull back from the embrace. "You're telling me." The other her said then America closes the portal and then opens another one. "There..." America said to the other (y/n), who walks through it. She turns around gives them a smile and a wave before America closes the portal.
Then she opens up another portal and this one was Vincent's home. "I wish you could stay." America said to Vincent. "Me too but...I have to go back." He said and he looks over at Stephen and (y/n). "Thanks for everything." He said. "You're a good kid, Vincent. Don't ever forget that." Stephen said and Vincent looks between the two then he runs over to them and hugs Stephen.
Taken aback by this, Stephen smirks and hugs him back then Vincent goes over to (y/n) and hugs her. "You be careful." She tells him and he nods as he pulls back from the embrace and walks over to America.
"You better come visit." He said and America smiles. "I will." She said and Vincent smiles back at her. "Good. Plus I'm sure Erica would love to see you again." He said, teasingly, and America blushes at this and stammers a bit and Vincent laughs. "I'll see you around." He said and she nods then they hug before Vincent goes through the portal. He turns around to face them one more time and waves a goodbye. They wave back and America closes the portal.
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