Chapter 4:

"No More Mutants"

**Six Months Later**

The last six months has been relatively uneventful for Wade, but uneventful for a superhero is very different than a normal person, supervillain battles, alien invasions, the occasional team up, but no huge life changing events for him at least. The Avenger's broke up just to be reformed with a whole new rooster including Captain America, Spider-Man, and Wolverine to mention a few. Wade turned down an offer from Captain America to join the New Avengers. Wade reluctantly joined as a reserve member of the Avengers, but was out right against joining any team as a full time member at this time

Wade slowly wakes, he doesn't even remember going to sleep last night, but has a splitting headache, by far the worst of his life. From the pillow he looks around the room with his eyes and doesn't recognize the room or anything in it. "Where the hell am I?" he asks himself. He feels something on his chest and pulls it out of the covers to see it's a hand. He turns over and gently pulls the covers down. He almost jumps out of the bed when he sees Laura lying there. "Okay I must be dead or dreaming. A very vivid dream." Then his headache gets worse and worse and he starts seeing memories of events that never happened, a life he never lived or did he? "What's going on?" He tries to sort through the memories, both his lives. What happened and when. It takes about fifteen minutes or so before he is able to sort both sets of memories out. This world doesn't add up. Mutants are the dominate species on the planet. Superheroes are treated as equals to mutants. In this world he is treated as a celebrity with his company, Prometheus, still being hailed as one of the largest companies in the world. He vividly remembers proposing to Laura just a week ago. He is truly happy here, but questions like "is any of this real?" occupy his mind, so much so he doesn't even realize Laura has started moving.

Laura starts to wake up and looks up at Wade. "Hey, you're up early," Laura says drowsily. "Good morning." she says with a smile and leans toward Wade.

"Yeah I couldn't help but to wake up early to watch you sleep," Wade tells her flirtatiously. He remembers that this Laura is very similar to the Laura he knew, but also vastly different. She is still very intelligent and a great fighter, but without the pain of having spent most of her life in the care of the Facility and killing her mother.

"Is that so? Maybe you should actually spend more time in bed and less out on patrol then," Laura tells him. She gets out of bed and gets dressed.

Wade can't help but stare at her as she gets dress and think about how happy she is here living with her mother, aunt and cousin. Wade has been living here with them for the past week or so since proposing to her. They are living in San Francisco and Wade, Megan, and Laura all go to the same school together. Wade has a great relationship with Laura's family here, but the thing that is getting to Wade is how wrong all this feels. Wade also gets out of bed and get dressed as well and both walk out of the room.

A few hours past and Wade spends time with Laura and her family. Things are happy here, but it's all a lie, a fabrication, a sick joke and someone is going to pay for it. For now however he will enjoy the moment. If his memories are correct Laura and Megan should be leaving for Europe for a short vacation and he is staying behind. This is when he'll start investigating what the hell happened here.

Laura gives Wade a quick good-bye kiss on the check before she and Megan leave for their trip. After they leave Wade blitzes to New York to try and find anyone else that has memories of the world before whatever caused this change. Once he arrives in New York, Wade starts looking for any sign of normalcy, but finds none. Fortunately, Wade owns a home in upstate New York here. After looking all over the city for the day he retreats here for the night of contemplation. If he can't fix this could he actually live in this world knowing what he knows? The next day he decides to go to Stark Tower to see he could speak to Tony about his or get a more scientific opinion on what had happened here. As he walks into the building he sees Logan talking to the attendant.

"Logan what are you doing here?" Wade asks walking up to him. Logan turns around violently. "Are you alright?"

"That's far enough James!" a voice yells from the doorway.

"What?" Logan turns to the voice to see Mystique, Rouge, Nightcrawler, Jessica Drew, and Toad

"James we here to take you back don't resist," Jessica Drew tells him.

Wade sees it, Logan remembers. "Logan RUN!" Wade screams as Olihandrew appears in his right hand and he sends a large wave of blue energy toward the group that just demanded Logan's surrender enveloping them. With that Logan takes off and Wade follows quickly after him. "Tell me why I just hit the Red Guard with a Nova Logan."

"This world aint right kid…" Logan starts.

"Everything is just wrong," Wade finishes.

"You too? How come we still remember, but no one else does?" Logan asks as they continue to run.

"No idea. I woke up yesterday morning next to Laura, but I can't remember going to sleep the night before, but I can tell you what I had for lunch last Monday in this world and the real world," wade tells him.

"Wait so…" Logan starts as a cloaked figure appears in front of them and envelopes them with their cloak.

Wade and Logan find themselves in a dark room surrounded by people that include Cloak, Luke Cage, and Hawkeye.

"Wolverine you can either cut the tracker out of your neck yourself or I can do it for," Hawkeye tells Logan pulling back an arrow and aiming it at Logan.

"Okay, everyone calm down," Wade says trying to calm Hawkeye down.

"If you were going to remove the tracker you should have done it before bringing us here!" Logan yells at them.

Hawkeye looses his arrow and it cuts through Logan's neck destroying the tracker. "There, my way it is," Hawkeye says.

The roof suddenly collapses and two Sentinels reach into the building. Everything goes black for Wade and then he, Logan, Luke, Hawkeye, a little girl, Danny Rand, Marc Spector and a few others are in an empty Kingpin's office. "I wasn't able to get everyone," Cloak says sadly.

"Someone care to explain?" Wade asks.

"A few days ago this girl came up to me and told me this world was wrong and I suddenly started seeing flashes of memories of another world," Luke Cage says presenting a small child.

Logan walks up to her and kneels looking her in the eyes with a smile. "Hey kid, can you tell what I am thinking?" He asks nicely.

"Wha..? No I can't," She says hesitantly.

"Okay can you tell me your name and what you know?" Logan asks.

"My name is Layla Miller and I was with my living in Hell's Kitchen until two days ago then my parents were alive again, but the world was just wrong. I thought I was going crazy," Layla tells him.

"You aren't crazy, well unless me and the boy scout over there are crazy too," Logan says pointing to Wade.

"What's going on then?" She asks.

"I have an idea, Magnus and his children, Wanda," Logan starts but is interrupted.

"The human one?" Hawkeye says.

"Human?" Logan asks.

"Yeah here she was adopted by Magneto and raised as an equal to his mutant children Logan. She is used here to show that humans and mutants are equal, at least on paper," Wade adds. "But in our world she is a mutant, a very powerful one with reality warping powers."

"She did this, her father, Magnus, asked or forced her too," Logan tells the room and starts explaining Wanda's slow decent into madness and loss grip on reality, which ended up killing fellow Avenger members in the real world including Hawkeye. Danny Rand, the Ironfist, and Marc Spector, Moon Knight

"But why do this?" Luke Cage asks.

"We got what we wanted most in this world to "buy" our compliance," Wade says with a sigh.

"Yeah we got what we wanted so hecould get what he wanted and we wouldn't question it," Logan tells them.

"But how would he even know what we wanted?" Danny asks.

"Charles," Logan says. "Any of you have a phonebook?"

The team spends the next few hours awakening other superheroes to the sick joke that the world has become, Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, She-Hulk, Emma Frost, Scott Summers, Tony Stark and a few others. They found an aged Steve Rogers as his wish was to live out his life after the end of World War II. Most of the heroes have now their costumes on and prepare to take the fight to Magneto.

"Now that we have enough people we can start making a plan," Wade says now in his costume. The door to the office explodes and the Red Guard led by Jessica Drew charge into the room. A few heroes, including Wade, jump in to engage The Red Guard.

Rouge manages to grab for Layla. "Got ya darling," she says pulling her hair and grabbing her by the throat. During Layla's struggle Rouge and her made skin contact and Rouge absorbs her power to see the true world and it affects to the other Red Guard showing them the truth of this world.

"What the hell is goin on?" Rouge asks. "What are ya girl? You aint no mutant." She says.

"We good? Cause I think I know how we can get to Genosha," Wade tells everyone.

"How's that kid?" Logan asks.

"The SHIELD Helicarrier, Emma, do you think you could use your charming personality and ask them to take us there?" Wade asks her.

"Of course very few people can say no to my requests," Emma answers smugly.

"Wait, I have something to ask before we do this. Are we even sure we can fix this? If so how?" Spider-Man asks everyone.

"Well we need to distract Magneto, find Charles Xavier, and Wanda," Wade tells everyone. "But I doubt we'll fix everything. We have to be careful with this or Wanda could just reset everything again or just wipe us out of existence."

"So three teams then, the bulk of our forces will fight Magneto and his guard as a distraction, Strange will led a small team to deal with Wanda, and Cloak will take a team to find Charles," Logan says.

"Good plan, let's get this started then," Wade tells everyone.

"Wait one last thing," Scott Summers says. "I have worked my life to be the one to always take the high road no matter the cost. We are all heroes and we have a moral compass that demands we hold back. I don't know if we can do that this time, if there is any part of you that is holding don't, not this time. We need to end this permanently."

Wade looks at Scott. "Are you saying we kill Magneto or Wanda? What if Magneto isn't behind this? Wanda is mentally unwell. Should we just kill her because of what her powers COULD do? Scott I have trusted you to take care of my cousin at your school and I have never regretted it until this moment. If you want to take that jump go right ahead, but I will not hold anyone responsible for something that they have no control over. If I am ever in the position where I have to end a life to save many others I hope I make the right choice or I am able to find a third solution." Silence radiates through the room. Many see the point in both arguments and start to weight both options.

It takes the team several hours for the team to reach Genosha. Dr. Strange and Cloak teleport into the palace below while the main group attack The House of Magus and their Gala guests head on to cause as big of a distraction as possible. The guests include Namor, Ororo Munroe, Victor von Doom, and a few other guests. The heroes deal with mutant guards, Doombots, and Sentinels all while dealing with Magneto and Pietro.

Wade sees an opening to Magneto and blitzes through the crowd of people to get into striking distance of Magneto. Wade readies Olihandrew to launch a Nova at Magneto, but Magneto easily pulls the blade from his hand with his power over magnetism. This doesn't slow Wade down much as he rushes toward Magneto and when he is right up on him Olihandrew turns into light and it forms back in Wade's hand. The blade glows yellow and he swings it at Magneto hitting him in the stomach. When the blade makes contact it transfer kinetic energy right into Magneto and sends him into the air.

"Enough!" Magneto yells as he uses his powers to send metal toward the force invading his home. Magneto senses something wrong elsewhere in his palace and flies toward it abandoning the battle, but the heroes are outmatched fighting their former allies and enemies alike that have not been awoken as of yet.

"Everyone, we were wrong. Magneto wasn't behind this! It was Pietro! He thought we were going to kill Wanda to keep her from losing control of her power again. He convinced her that this was the best way for everyone and she changed the world to this. We have to capture Pietro!" Emma's voice sounds in everyone's mind.

Wade tries to follow Magneto as he flies to what appears to be a garden with a memorial. Wade Sees Cloak, Emma, Layla, and Magneto there. Magneto looks shocked as if awakening from a horrible dream.

"She show him the real world?" Wade asks Emma.

"Yes, he is trying to process everything," Emma answers.

"I never would have allowed this!" Magneto shouts. Pietro speeds into the garden and stops when he sees he is too late. "Pietro! What have you done!"

"Father they were going to kill her!? What would you have me do? You never cared for us and you were going to let her die!" Pietro screams at him. Large pieces of metal start flying toward Pietro.

"This was not the answer boy!" Magneto screams and sends another barrage of metal toward Pietro.

The metal is suddenly stopped and vaporized. Wanda appears next to the injured Pietro and heals him fully. "Father, you always loved your dream more than us. We were nothing to you. We're freaks...mutants and you choose this over us and you ruined us," Wanda says cradling Pietro and looking at Magneto, her father. "Daddy…No More Mutants." She says softly as everything is enveloped in white.

Everyone, thank you for reading up until this point and this is where the story starts deviating from the mainstream universe while large events and the like will still happen in this world it may happen a bit differently in this story and I plan to keep this going up until Civil War II. Crimson Knight/Wade Clemons will not take part in all events that occurs in the world, but may only hear about it from the news, other heroes or completely ignores the event outright. Although the time skips won't stop until after the conclusion of Secret Wars and the creation of All New Marvel (Earth-Prime)