Wanda walked through the bustle of the hipster neighborhood in Brooklyn. She pushed her sun glasses up and pulled her hood down on her face. The light dimmed around her as the sun set behind her.
She rounded the corner to Agatha's shop and saw the elderly lady standing in front of her store.
"Wanda! You're late!" She yelled as Wanda walked up to her.
"Well I don't usually get this reception for being a few minutes late." She snarked as she looked into her mentor's eyes.
"Something is wrong." Agatha grabbed her hand and lead her upstairs. She pulled Wanda hastily into her magic shop. "The cosmic energy around us is out of sorts. Something is not right." She let go of Wanda's hand and floated over to the window, looking out at the darkening sky.
"The cosmic energy is off? What does that have to do with us?" She asked confused.
Agatha turned her eye's angry and wild. "What does it have to do with us? Everything!" She marched over to the kitchen.
"I don't think this is time for tea." Wanda said standing uncomfortably in the middle of the room. She shifted her feet for better balance, the past two months had been very helpful in her training. Nat had been teaching her combat skills, and the two women had grown very close. So Wanda stood ready, for what she did not know.
"Tea can make anything better. But I've done some digging into your past. Miky?" She called as a new assistant walked around the corner, he had different colored eyes, one blue, one brown and he winked at Wanda as he handed Agatha the ipad.
"Fresh meat?" She inquired as he walked downstairs.
"Psh, now about your past. You were born in Wundagore Mountain, Transia. Now we found that a man named Chthon affected you as a child, infusing you with the ability to have chaos magic." She took Wanda's hands.
"Chaos magic?" Wanda asked frightened, there was already so much she couldn't control, she didn't need anymore reason to be afraid of what she could do.
"It's the most powerful kind of magic on the planet. Chthon is an evil being from legend. I fear his spirit, trapped in the mountain, infused you with the magic to one day be able to use your body to regain his once awesome power. You're called a Nexus Being, a center of magic on earth." She walked back to the kitchen and poured her tea. "But I don't think we have to worry much about Chthon. There is something coming, something very bad. I can feel it in the wind." She sipped the tea.
"Do you think the Asgardians have something to do with this?" Wanda asked reaching into her bag to hand Agatha the fifth book on Norse mythology the mentor had her read.
"No, this isn't them. But somehow they are connected." The old witch shook her head, befuddled.
"Is this Loki?" She asked quietly, thinking of the footage she'd been watching lately of the team's first engagement.
"It may be, but from what Mr. Rogers has told me, he is locked away in some prison light-years from here." She took another sip of her tea. "This may be something new and much worse."
"I should get back to the tower. Sorry I can't stay for a lesson." Wanda started for the door.
"You've learned much, but now you must find your own path." Agatha smiled sadly.
"Now don't get all Yoda on me, you old, wonderful woman." Wanda gathered her in a tight hug.
"Be off quick now, find out what this is Wanda. And stop it."
"I'll do my best." Wanda's brow furrowed at the weight of all this unknown.
"We need to talk!" She rammed into the main room of the tower. Tony was sitting there with Steve and Clint. Nat was standing at the counter with a magazine. They all looked up at her shocked, Nat walked over to her calmly.
"What's going on?" The ex-spy asked.
"Agatha, my witch mentor lady, she saw something in the cosmos. Something bad is coming, I don't know what it is, but it's bad. I can feel it." She was out of breath from running through the subways and into the tower.
"I'm confused." Clint said kindly as he walked over to her, followed by Steve and Tony. "Are you okay, you look like you just saw a ghost." He slung a friendly arm around her shoulder.
"I think this has something to do with the Asgardians." She looked up at her team, her family, all of whom stood taller than her.
"If you're talking about Loki, hun, you've got it all wrong. We kicked his ass last year." Tony's hands flew up.
"Did you? Did you really?" Wanda asked incredibly.
"What are you saying?" Tony asked stepping forward.
"Calm down guys." Steve stepped between them. "So what do you think we should do?"
"Assemble the team. We need to be ready." Wanda straitened her shoulders.
"How do you know all this?" Clint asked his eyes looking intently into hers. They had put their ugly past behind them and he had become her closest friend. He was very protective over her, much like her missing brother. But the difference between Clint and Pietro was the Clint saw the truth in every person. He was kind and warm. She felt more comfortable with him than anyone else.
"Chaos magic. I was given it by something called a Nexus Being. Apparently I have unlimited magic at my disposal." She gave them a scared smile.
"That terrifies you." Clint said still holding her.
"Of course it does." She stared past Tony out the window.
"Well, that settles it. I'm not gonna mess with a Nexus, whatever that is. Call in the team." Steve said with authority.
Tony pulled out his phone and pressed a button, which called all the teammates.
"Avengers Assemble."
