Wanda had been searching Westview for any hint of where Vision might have gone. She'd broken into and searched his office, finding nothing, had questioned his friends and colleagues, who all agreed Vision had never mentioned any place he wanted to go, or any reason he'd want to leave.
It made no sense. If he were a normal human, she might have thought he'd met some misfortune on Halloween Night, but he wasn't a normal human, and she couldn't imagine any explanation for his disappearance that wasn't nefarious. She didn't believe for a moment that Vision had left Wanda and their children willingly.
She was walking away under an umbrella at dusk when the sky suddently lightened, and the rain stopped. She stopped and looked up. What could have lit up the sky? A nuke?
People were stepping out of their houses to look at the sky. She saw a man she recognized as the father of one of her students sitting on the sidewalk in a daze.
"You okay?" she asked him.
"I don't know. I just realized I haven't seen or spoken to my brother or my parents in years. I haven't left Westview in years."
"I think something weird's going on," Wanda said. "I think you should go home until we figure it out."
As she continued, she came upon many similar scenes. Everyone she saw was dazed and confused, like they were waking up from a bizarre dream. Several people she talked to said they or their children hadn't aged in years. One person speculated that they had all been part of some kind of government experiment, another that they had been abducted by aliens. Wanda encouraged everyone to go home and wait for official word.
Official word came in the form of armored jeeps driving slowly through town, loudspeakers repeating a message that there was no immediate danger, that the town was in the zone affected by a temporal anomaly, and for everyone to pack supplies and prepare to evacuate in a safe and orderly manner. The jeeps had the acronym S.W.O.R.D. written on their sides.
Wanda watched the jeeps pass, wondering if she should stop one to try to get some real answers. 'Temporal anomaly' was so vague as to be practically meaningless, and it didn't really explain why she was there, why she was alive, and why she'd just suddenly rememberer her own death.
Another S.W.O.R.D. jeep passed by down a side street. Wanda suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of her head as someone hit her from behind.
The room brightened so suddenly it made Billy flinch. He blinked several times, then looked out the window to see where the light was coming from.
The sky was as bright as day.
"Weird," he said.
When Tommy didn't respond, Billy turned to him.
He was sitting at his desk, looking toward the window, but with a confused, distressed expression.
"Tommy, what's wrong?"
"I don't know. Billy, have you ever been out of Westview?"
"No. Why?" The sky had just flipped from night to day; why was Tommy worried about something like that?
Tommy looked at him quizzically, then walked to his door. "Hey Mom, you out here?"
Billy followed him into the other room. Agnes sat on the steps, her face resting in her hand. She looked troubled and deep in thought.
"Agnes, do you know where mom is ?" Tommy asked.
"Yes, honey, she is out looking for your father," she answered.
"Do you know what's going on?" Billy asked.
"Not exactly."
" The sky just got really bright and the TV went to static."
"Something's happened," she said. "Billy, Tommy, you're mother got something to do "
Billy glanced at Tommy, who looked just as confused as he was.
"What" Tommy responded.
Someone knocked on the door. They all went into the foyer.
"Should we answer it?" Tommy whispered.
"Tommy? Billy? Are you in there?"
"Maybe its uncle Peitro again?" Tommy joked. He opened the door, then jumped backward, stumbling. "Holy shit!"
After they finished packing, they all piled into a large armored jeep. Billy was nervous, Tommy was a little more reluctant, but went along because he didn't want to be left behind.
Billy watched out the window. The familiar buildings of the town he'd spent his whole life in looked different, more somber, almost lifeless. He wondered if that was because they were being evacuated, or because it was daylight but everyone had already gone home from work for the evening, or if it was just because the events of the day had shattered everything he regarded as normal and given. He'd thought things like alien invasions and experiments giving people powers were the stuff of science fiction, but he couldn't not believe it.
After all, he'd always known his own parents had powers other people didn't have. But for some reason, even though he'd known it was a secret, he'd never thought it was weird, never wondered where those powers came from.
He figured, based on Tommy's silence, that similar thoughts were going through his head.
As they reached the boundary they saw a man standing in the middle of the road. Hayward stopped the jeep and they all climbed out. A man in a back trenchcoat and eye patch walked up to them.
"Fury, it's good to see you. For me it's been a very long time," Nat said.
"You too. Great to have you back in one piece. I never want to hear about you pulling a stunt like you did on Vormir again."
"I'm not planning on it," she said.
Fury turned his eye to Tommy and Billy. "These Wanda and Vision's kids?"
Tommy stepped forward before anyone could confirm it. "That's right. I'm Tommy, and this is Billy. I don't know what's going on, or how you know about our parents, but if you don't take us to them right now, there's going to be trouble."
Fury raised his eyebrow. "I like you," he stated. "Im taking you to your mom"
Hayward looked at fury confused, a green flash soon revealed his true form.
" Holy shit its Loki" Tommy said in awe, before the S.W.O.R.D. Agents could react Loki threw his trademark daggers into the agents, before stabbing and possibly killing Hayward. " Ok lets go " Loki said, he and the kids then headed back into Westview.
