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╰┈➤ CHAPTER TWO ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*
⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ 𝘿𝙀𝘼𝘿𝙋𝙊𝙊𝙇 & 𝙒𝙊𝙇𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙀 ┊🐺⚔️🕷️
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         WHEN SHE WOKE UP, THE SUN WAS TOO bright to keep her eyes open, so she had to flicker her eyes shut again until she regained vision. Kate grunted, using her elbows for support when standing off the ground; for a moment she thought she came here alone, but when she turned her head she spotted Logan standing on top of Wade ready to kill him.

"Don't just stand there, you ape," she heard Wade say with a grunts, "give me a hand up," instead of giving a hand, Logan formed his hands into fists and his Wolverine claws flew out. Wade's eyes widened, unable to move back in fear, "No. I'm good, actually —"

Logan stuffed his claws into Wade's waist and Kate just stood there with an eye roll, gazing at her wrist like it was a watch. Then, Logan lifted Wade up and gave him the claws, "where the hell are we?"

"I don't know! Looks kind of MadMax-y," Wade replied with a head tilt, "But that would be IP infringement, right?"

"Fucking jokes,"

Once again, Logan used his claws to stab Wade and threw him to the ground. Then, Kate walked over, pressing a button on her widow's bite, "mind if I join you? He calls me angsty asshole one more time and the Widow's bite won't be the worst of it," the widow's bite glowed a bright red and then zapped Wade with electricity, causing him to jitter in the ground.

Wade groaned in pain as he stood up, "were you two even listening back there? If we don't make it back to that Mr. Paradox asshole everyone I know is gonna die."

"Not our fucking problem,"

As Logan and Kate walked away, Wade trailed behind them, "that all you got? Is that what you two said when your worlds went to shit?!"

The two stopped on their tracks and Logan turned to face Wade with an angry look on his features, "come again?"

"Ah , I heard all about you two," Wade said waving a hand at them. "Screwed up everything, you two should be thanking me for pulling you out of that bed you two shit in."

Logan stabbed Wade with his claws again with a grunt, "you backstabbing son of a bitch," he lifted Wade in the air and Wade flipped over him, with Logan landing on Wade's stomaching. Wade pulled out his glocks and started firing multiple shots at Logan, "are you read to be calm now?" He glanced up at Kate, "What about you, Sokolov?"

Logan banged the back of his head on Wade's face and pulled himself of way. The two separated, going to different oeuvres of debris, "rest in pieces, fox," Wade grunted as he stood up.

Both of them stood up, walking towards each other as Kate moved away from the middle of them, "I don't wanna fight you, peanut one and two," the three of them stood in front of each other with a battle stance, "I just need your help."

"I don't fucking care,"

"Romanoff said the same and look where that got us," Kate grunted getting out her batons from behind her back.

"Fuck. This is gonna hurt," Wade sighed, his gaze drifting to his guns and then back up to Logan and Kate, "Alright! Fuck it. Let's give the people what they came for."

"Let's fucking go," Logan and Kate muttered.

Wade turned his head, causing Kate to frown in confusion, "get your spectral sock out, nerds," she heard Aade mutter to himself, causing her to raise an eyebrow, "this gone get good."

Wade let his bullets drop from his glocks and kicked up a piece of debris with new bullets, locking them into the glocks and preceding to fire at Logan then at Kate, who did a flip to try and block. Once she landed, Kate rushed over with the other two with her Widow's Bite and batons in hand; she drifted off to the side with a knee down and a leg stretched back and a hand out before stopping and running back, trying to electrocute Wade, but he surprisingly missed.

Meanwhile, Logan was swinging his claws at him and flipped over him, blocking the bullets. Just as Wade was about to lose one of his katanas that was hovering over and away from him, he got the end of it just in time and swung it at Logan who blocked it with his claws.

Finally, Wade stabbed Logan. Once in the waist and the other in the chest. The fight went on until Wade got two of his katanas stuck inside the Wolverine, "Wait, wait, wait! I can fix it!"

"Fix what?"

"Whatever it is that you two did," Wade stuttered with Logan's claws inches away from his neck, "whatever made you so bad..." Wade pulled the claws that were already in his chest out, "whatever those pricks in the TVA — you both heard em. They have the power to end my universe, but they also have the power to change yours."

For a moment, Logan and Kate shared a look. It was a look they haven't shared in a long time and Kate hated to admit it, but she missed it, "we get back there and we can fix both of your worlds together — all three of us," Wade panted for breath as he stared right up at the two, "I promise... they can fix it."

"Hey!"

The trio snapped their heads in the direction of the voice and found a man in a dark cloak standing on a platform, "we fight each other, we lose."

"Dear God, It's him."

"Who?"

"The one," Wade stated as the trio became walking towards the cloaked figure due to their curiosity getting the better of them, "the superhero equivalent to comfort food, for Molly, white guys answer to all the disappointments and another a-lister," they all stopped on their tracks as Wade spoke to him, "fair warning, gorgeous. We encounter some angelic language. A smidge of ass play, but we've been prohibiting from using cocaine on camera."

The cloaked figure pointed a finger out into the distance, "they're coming."

"Who's they?"

When the trio craned their necks to the left, they spotted a mob of trucks all collecting dust as they drove toward them. The cloaked figure jumped off the platform and landed right on the ground with one knee down, the other leg stretched out and a fist on the dirt, just as Kate had did before, "now that's a superhero landing — Kate, take notes."

Kate squinted her eyes at him, "I did the same thing?"

"Yeah, but his was cooler."

As he stood up, the cloaked figure flipped off his cloak and stood in front of the trio with a stoic expression, "I got this."

Once the trucks surrounded them, the man turned to them, "stay close," which Wade took personally and walked right up behind him, wrapping his arms around him, "ay-ay, captain! You got this."

A man in one of the trucks took off his mask and smirked, "Cassandra is going to be giddy when she sees what we caught," he crossed his arms, leaning them against a piece of the truck, "Can't run. Everybody knows that."

"You see anyone running dick for brains? You're not gonna love what happens next,"

Wade turned to face him, "Oh, my God!" He then began jumping up and down in exciting, "he's gonna say it! Avengers—"

"Flame on!"

As Wade groaned in annoyance, Johnny now had fire surrounding his body as he flew up into the air with the others looking at him in awe. While flying he created a ball of fire in his hands and threw it at the man, but he caught it and sucked all the power out of him. This caused him to fall back on the platform and then down to the ground face first.

"We don't know that guy."

Wade shrugged, "thought we did."

"I know you," another voice spoke causing the others to turn. Sabretooth grunted as he jumped off his truck, "ready to die!"

Sabretooth got his claws ready just like Logan, but Wade came in the middle of it, "Wait! Time!" Wade made Logan face him, "you look ridiculous," Wade stated as he got the katanas out of Logan's stomach, "people have been waiting decades for this fight. It's not gonna be easy. Shoot the devil, take him down," he continued, "Side control, then bowl him out and you ground and pound til he makes no sound because he's dead!"

"Shut the fuck up,"

"Wade," Kate spoke up causing the two to turn, both seeing her widow's bite flashing red. "Say one more fucking word and you know what happens."

"Oh, my God! Okay, good luck I'm a huge fan,"

Logan sighed, turning around to face Sabretooth and the two ran right towards each other, screaming. Logan slashed his claws right at him. When Sabretooth came towards Wade he immediately stopped on his tracks, what is it, girl? Is there trouble at the well?"

Just then, Sabretooh's head came slipping off and his body slowly plopped down to the floor causing Kate to cringe in disgust. Being in the Red Room for so long, she has seen enough of this herself. Wade chuckled and picked up the dead man's head, "behold! The head of your precious queen, Furiosa! I have the Wolverine," Wade stated, walking around the group of people, displaying the head, "I alone control her. You come for me — you come for her."

Kate sighed in annoyance, "Jesus Christ."

Wade leaned in behind Logan, "So sorry. I know it's pronounced him, but I'm gender blind," Wade explained, "It's my cross to bear."

"Who's next?"

Then, the guy up on the truck turned to another, "Toad! You're up," toad used his tongue and stretched it out to pull the lever, opening some kind of machine and pulling Logan's and Wade towards it. Before they knew it, a piece of metal knocked them out. Kate and Johnny just gave up to make it easier for themselves.

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         "HOW LONG WAS I ASLEEP?" She heard Wade asked as the two finally woke up. Kate had been tied up along with Johnny sitting next to him as Logan and Wade were tied up, facing each other. They were on a truck, taking them somewhere where Kate assumed they were gonna die. Above them was a cage like structure with spikes and with them all being tied up, there was no hope of escape anyway.

"Not all of you was asleep,"

"Don't bother,"

The trio turned their heads to Johnny, "we're very thorough."

"You know where we are, start talking," Logan demanded.

"You're in the void," Johnny replied causing Kate to frown in confusion, "think of it as purgatory," he went on," Reed called it a metaphysical junkyard where anything useless goes before it gets annihilated forever and where the TVA sends people thst don't play nice with the rest of the multiverse."

"Like you?"

"And you,"

Kate sighed, "We're gonna die."

"What does the annihilating?"

"Alioth."

"Alioth is in this thing?" Wade gasped in shock, "from Loki season one episode five?"

Kate rolled her eyes, "Who the fuck is Loki?"

"The God Of Mischief," Wade spat, "And he seems like your type," he added, signaling to Logan, both him and Kate sending Wade death stares for the last comment.

"Everyone here is on the run from Alioth," Johnny cut in. "Most don't make it," it got a little silent after that, "there's a resistance, though. Other people like us that managed to survive. They're hiding out in the borderlands trying to find a way to get the fuck out of here."

Logan turned to Wade and Kate, "so that's where we go."

"We? The three of us — a team? The answer is yes. Shake on it," Wade stated trying to put his hand out for a little shake, but Logan only let his claws out, "Fuck!"

Kate chuckled, waiting for someone to finally shut Wade up all day. Logan sighed and turned back to Wade, "These others can help us get back to the TVA and they can fix things.

This caused Johnny to give a laugh and the others turned to him, "something funny, bub?"

"She might have something to say about that,"

Kate craned her neck over to Johnny, "Who's she?"

"In the void you're either food from Alioth or you work for her," Johnny explained.

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         AFTER A LONG RIDE IN THE SCORCHING, DESERTED ROADS, they finally made it to a lair made of a large ant-man suit. The hand's opened up, acting as a door and letting all the trucks in. Inside was a whole base of metal and machines all working at once, even more punk rock looking people inside with metal armor and gear.

When they got inside, they were plopped onto the ground, but then lifted up. Wade glanced at the helmet, "Oh, Paul Rudd finally aged," she heard Wade comment; not having a single idea what he meant, but she never does. As the doors open, fog cleared away and a hoverchair, similar to Charles Xavier caught Kate by surprise, she almost thought it was him.

"Is it... is that Charles?" Wade asked, seeing the chair. "Hey, Charles!"

"That's not Charles,"

"Ah, shit."

Just then, a woman with a long coat and no hair had stood up and walked down a flight of stairs she made from the metal below her, "Oh, Ableism — great. That's not gonna go over well with the woke mob," Wade stated as Cassandra stepped down the stairs.

"A Wolverine and a Red Widow," Cassandra spoke up as she got down the flight of stairs, "I wondered when I'd get one of you two," once she got down, she headed to the the trio, "He's one of Xavier's and she was just there for everything bring angsty all the time."

Kate growled, "ANYONE SAYS IT ONE MORE TIME —"

"You knew Chuck?"

"Oh, I knew him," Cassandra stated, "we shared a womb," the last bit caused Kate to grimace, "tried to strangle the sly little fellow with my umbilical cord."

Kate gagged, her gaze drifting to the ground, "and I'm gonna throw up."

"Amen! I've never loved roommates," Wade stated, "mine's blind, but she can see cocaine for some reason," he sighed, turning to the other two, "You wanna chime in here Mr. and Mrs? I'm dying over here."

Logan turned to Cassandra, "Who are you?"

"Charles Xavier's twin, Cassranda Nova,"

"Oh, shit—"

"— I was an anal birth,"

Cassandra chuckled with a head tilt, "You three are cute," she paused for a moment, lifting her fingers, "I have a good feeling about this," she let down the ropes, holding Wade, Logan and Kate, "And I have been trying to catch this little firefly for years," she said, walking over to Johnny, "Haven't I, Johnny? Aww, you picked the wrong time to make friends."

"Oh, Johnny told us all about you," Wade spoke, causing Johnny, Logan and Kate trying to intervene, but failing, "We're just talking here. Yeah, Johnny told us you're a psychotic, megalomaniac asshole. His words — not mind," he made sure to add that in, "Hell bent on domination and pain."

Cassandra turned around to Johnny and faked a frown, "You said all that about me?"

"No, no! I didn't say any of —"

"Sticks and stones, Johnny! Don't let her intimidate you," Wade cut him off as Cassandra walked back to the trio, "like you said in the convoy: this fingerlicking, dead inside, pixie slab of third-rate dime store nut milk can eat your delicious cinnamon ring and kicks rock all the way to bald hell."

Johnny gasped with a frightened expression, "Okay! I haven never said any of those words in my entire life."

"Oh, the modesty! You think I'm a shit-talker, but this guy?" Wade blew a kiss to the air, "Next level."

"What?! I don't even know what half of that means!"

As the conversation went on, it flip flopped between Wade and Johnny as Johnny tried defending himself, but Wade was being irritating enough to convince Cassandra to kill em in the flick of an eye, just at the snap of her fingers. This caused Kate to gasp, "What the fuck, Wade?!"

"Not my favorite Chris," Wade shrugged.

Logan rolled his eyes, "you stupid piece of shit," he then pointed his arm to the pile of bones, "you just got him fucking killed!"

"Hey! We're all grieving," Wade exclaimed. "PS. He knew what he was doing to the budget!"

Just then, Cassandra walked towards them, shushing the two, "Alioth is hungry,"

"There's been some kind of mistake," Wade said, pointing to Logan and Kate. "Big Yellow and Angsty Widow are backup anchor beings and I'm Marvel Jesus, MJ if you're nasty," from the distance, a glowing light was seen, but Wade still went on, "This may be hard to hear, but there's another British villain. He's gonna destroy my universe and I'm gonna stop him."

"Oh, honey you don't really strike me as the world saving type,"

As Cassandra turned, now they could see purple lightning and clouds brewing up ahead, "Did I hit a nerve?"

"I didn't want it to come to this," Wade sighed. "Either you help us or my friend over here is gonna sing the entire second act of music man with zero warmup," then he glanced over to Kate, "And you... I dunno, I guess you can recite Harry Potter — the annoying brunette girl."

Kate furrowed her eyebrows, "Who the fuck is that?"

Logan rolled his eyes and drifted his gaze at the chair, "Where'd you get the chair?"

"Once in a while, I did get a trowel through here," Cassandra replied, walking towards the stairs where the hoverchair was placed, "No. he didn't care to find me."

Wade groaned in annoyance, "Ugh! Gen-Z and their trauma-bragging!" He put his head back before drifting his head back to the Xavier twin, "Can't you just stuff it down and turn it into accomplishment or cancer like the rest of us?"

Cassandra turned around, "But I'm not like the rest of you," then she shrugged, "except maybe the Wolverine. Now we could be truly terrifying together."

"You're that scary, huh?"

"The TVA certainly thought so," Cassandra replied. "They sent me here before I could walk and you know, it was the best thing that could ever happen to me," a smirk grew on her face as she glanced around the place she called home, "I love it here."

"You live in a garbage dump,"

"I think we both know who lives in the garbage dump," Cassandra snapped, "the void is a paradise. I can wield my power here without shame," a fake frown formed on her features, "Unfortunately, I had no Charles Xavier to teach me temperance," this made Kate's blood boil, not have hearing that name in a long time either, "What about your Charles? Did he protect you or make you feel safe?"

"We're mutants, we're never safe,"

Logan swung his claws out and ran towards Cassandra who lifted her fingers up and threw him to the ground, sending him down even further and sliding him across, "Logan!" Kate shouted, now just being her and Wade standing.

Cassandra's snuck behind Wade and Kate and put her fingers through their faces, taking them to darker places than this. Kate was taken back to the night where she was taken to the Red Room with Natasha and Yelena; all the screaming, getting separated and lined up, but something didn't right.

She remembered that night very clearly, but there was one thing missing. The Polaroid photos were missing and the three reaching out for each other, but they did the complete opposite. This is how Kate figured out it wasn't real and how she snapped out of it and Wade seemed to snap out of his too, "She never said that!"

"No, but I bet she thought it,"

Wade wiped his face off, "Ugh! You are so mean," he pointed at her like a child, "my brain could taste your fingers and they tasted like hate. And where in God's name is the intimacy coordinator."

"You're so lost, Mr. Wilson," her gaze then shifted to Kate, "and you, Sokolov — your ledger's just gushing red," if her blood was boiling before, Kate's anger level was at an all time high now, "and long before you two came here."

Kate growled as she got out her batons, "you take that back right fucking now."

Wade swiped a dagger from his shoe, "this is baby knife and she's gonna fuck you in the face."

"If either of you want to kill me it's gonna take a lot more than a dagger and a couple batons,"

Wade shrugged, "How about six."

From behind Cassandra, Logan slashed his claws right into her back and lifted her up, "Ha, ha! My boy's wicked strong!" Wade shouted as he through the dagger and Kate used the widow's bite to fire electricity waves at her, watching her jitter in bright blue for a few moments.

It didn't last for long, though. She tapped the claws and he flew backwards, slashing them back out as he stood up. Cassandra sighed, "Well this has been fun, but the big guy needs to eat and the rent is due."

The duo turned around and spotted a large smoke cloud with purple lightning and an evil look in its eye, "by the way, you pre the rent," Cassandra added as she walked away. Alioth's cloud body hovered over the lair as it came closer.

The sky turned darker and Logan found an engine they could use to escape.

➥ AUTHOR'S NOTE
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my LONGEST chapter yet three thousand words or something 😭 this took forever and lagged every time, but I'm glad I got it over with. I hate this chapter just cuz it's not my best writing, but whatever 🤷‍♀️

I thought abt adding a lil harry potter reference in this since emma is the fc too

plsss don't be silent / ghost readers cause reading your comments keeps me motivated <33
— see you soon, meg!