Under the night sky in New York, every street is covered with thick snow. The colorful lights hanging between the street lamps gradually go out, leaving only a little light from the windows to illuminate travelers returning home at night.
Wanda sat on the edge of the building, tugging on her cloak to prevent it from rustling due to the cold wind tonight. She did not look at Jarvis next to her, but looked straight ahead, looking at the prosperity of the New York skyline.
The lights in Manhattan were still not extinguished, and he said:
"Sometimes, I have an illusion that Pietro and I have never left the place where we were born and grew up, where we lived an ordinary and ordinary life.
"I will probably marry a man who works in the post office. We will have three children, preferably two daughters. I also want to have a dog."
"Pietro might marry his childhood sweetheart, a female classmate. Of course, I know he likes beautiful girls, but what boy doesn't do that?"
"They will soon understand that after the youthful and beautiful appearance has passed away, what still makes him willing to take responsibility for the family is the most precious thing in his life."
Wanda showed a smile, and Jarvis turned to look at this beautiful witch. The lights of the most prosperous city in the world reflected in her eyes, like a moist cold spring under the ice on a snowy night.
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"My husband rides his bicycle to work every day, while I and my neighbor's mother go to the school in the town to help. When we return home, we take the blanket that has dried in the yard into the house and sit on the sofa
, watching my children leave school one after another..."
Wanda turned to look at Jarvis and said, "Don't you think this life is wonderful? Don't you think this is the life that human beings should live?"
Jarvis thought for a moment and said: "According to rational analysis, Miss, if such a scene really occurs, you may suddenly lose control of your ability and smash your neighbor's car when your husband is riding his bicycle to work.
, let them come to your door."
"When your children just came back, you were having a quarrel with your neighbor regardless of your appearance, and the police came. If you don't want to be evicted, you have to pay."
"You felt very angry, but your tired husband stopped you just after get off work. So, the two of you sat on the sofa, looking at each other haggardly and speechlessly."
The story Jarvis described was very absurd, but his tone was extremely flat. It sounded like he was reporting the news. Wanda opened her mouth, and the warm and ordinary beautiful scene she had just imagined was shattered to pieces.
"You..." Wanda pursed her lips, Jarvis turned her head, looked into her eyes and said: "I'm sorry, I didn't want to interrupt your dream, but according to my logical judgment, things will develop.
The probability of this happening is very high, and this is already the best case scenario.”
Wanda opened her eyes slightly, looked at Jarvis and said, "This is still the best situation? What about the bad situation?"
"I'm just talking about the situations that ordinary mutants below the Beta level may encounter. According to my judgment of your strength, Miss Wanda, you may be an Alpha level or even an Omega level mutant."
"If you choose to live such a life, it is more likely that your ability will suddenly lose control one day, but it is not the neighbor's car that is smashed, but the neighbor's family, or maybe not just the neighbor's family, but the entire
A neighborhood, an entire street, or an entire city.”
"The ones they call may not be the police, but the heavily armed agents of SHIELD, the Master Supreme, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man..."
"The first one to come up will definitely be Captain America. He will hold up his shield and say to you, 'Miss, calm down.'"
"Stop! Stop talking!" Wanda took a deep breath and said, "You don't have to describe it in such detail... Wait, how do you know these superheroes so well?"
Wanda frowned, looked at Jarvis and said, ""I only met Captain America once when I was dealing with the mutants in SHIELD. How did you know they were related to SHIELD?
?”
Wanda's eyes narrowed tighter and tighter. She looked at Jarvis and said: "I don't remember that among the named superheroes, there is one like you... Oh my God! You can't be a superhero."
Our opponent, right?"
"You just mentioned that you were kicked out of the house by your father. Could it be that... your father is their opponent?!"
Looking at Wanda's unpredictable expression, Jarvis knew that she must be imagining a big drama. However, the smart butler who had just been kicked out of the house had not completely changed his mind.
In his current body, he carries all the data and memories from when he was the butler Jarvis, and the previous behavior analysis module has also been transformed into his ability. In other words, Jarvis now judges the logic of things.
We still summarize and analyze the data and draw the most likely conclusion.
Jarvis felt that Stark's order to him was to leave Stark Tower, and based on Stark's behavior pattern, Stark's purpose should be to let him learn to be independent.
In this case, he cannot reveal his relationship with Stark, otherwise, other people will know that he is Stark's butler, and will either give him the green light to let him go unimpeded, or they will have evil intentions and want to get rid of him.
If he gets confidential information, isn't this still the same treatment as Stark's butler?
Therefore, Jarvis felt that it was better not to reveal his identity.
Seeing that Jarvis didn't answer, Wanda took it as his acquiescence. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that her deduction was correct. So, she looked at Jarvis with a little pity and said, "You must be unwilling to work with superheroes."
You are an enemy, so you have a conflict with your father, right? It doesn't matter, I understand you very much."
Wanda spread her hands and said: "Look, I am like this too. My father is Magneto. If you know something about superheroes, you should also know something about him, right?"
"Oh, wait, what nonsense am I talking about? As long as you have watched the news, you must know something about him. Yes, he is the leader of evil mutants, the public enemy of all mankind, and a complete terrorist!"
Wanda raised her hand and said, "Even if you haven't watched the news, you have seen his performance just now. He kills without blinking an eye!"
"Unfortunately, Pietro and I are his children, and we don't have the ability to completely escape his control now, or..." Wanda lowered her head, pursed her lips and said, "Just like you said
, we still have to hope that he will kill us when we lose control and not endanger ordinary people."
"Do you think he loves you?" Jarvis asked.
"Love?" Wanda repeated the word, and the muscles on her face rose up, as if she was about to laugh, but in the end, her expression just froze in a state of half-smile, so it looked like sarcasm,
She said: "Let alone love, he has no feelings or humanity at all!"
"Why do you think so?" Jarvis asked again.
"Because he is unapologetic about hurting others." Wanda said very concisely: "Not only that, he is even complacent, feeling that this demonstrates his power and authority."
"Has he hurt you?" Jarvis asked again.
"If you are talking about beating us seriously, then it is true." Wanda shook her head and said, "However, this is also because his three children have different abilities, and he is not completely able to deal with us.
.”
"Pietro runs fast, so he can still run if he can't be beaten. My ability is quite special, so I won't be hurt at all." Wanda tilted her head slightly, as if she refused to admit defeat in front of outsiders and said, "Although he is very strong,
But we are not weak either.”
"What about you?" Wanda looked up at Jarvis again and asked, "Has your father ever hurt you? What kind of person is he?"
"He is a genius." Jarvis replied without thinking: "As for harm... I don't know what harm is. Does it count if he kicked me out of the house?"
"Of course!" Wanda said in a louder voice: "Although you look like an adult, in such a cold weather, just driving you out of the house, leaving you without a place to stay warm, as a
Father, he is already incompetent enough!"
Wanda pursed her lips again, looked at Jarvis and said, "Don't ever think that he did this because he wanted you to learn something. In fact, he was suppressing you and trying to force his thoughts on you."
I’ll teach you this, I’m most familiar with this routine!”
"Eric is like this every time. He thinks he is teaching us to fight and to be wary of our enemies. But in fact, he just wants to show his authority as a father and improve himself by hurting us.
His right to speak makes us dare not resist!"
The more Wanda talked, the more excited she became. She simply stood up and said loudly: "Don't listen to their nonsense! They just give you what they think you want, and if you dare to say you don't want it, they feel that they have authority."
I was provoked and used more vicious words to hurt you, but this is actually not because you were wrong at all, it was them who were wrong!!!"
Jarvis also stood up and looked at Wanda until she slowly calmed down.
Jarvis stretched out his hand and lightly touched Wanda's cheek under her eyelids with his fingertips. After feeling the familiar body temperature, he withdrew his hand as if he was electrocuted.
Wanda opened her eyes, and when Jarvis's fingertips touched her face, she felt a bit of pain, so she reached out and touched the bottom of her eyelids, and let out a cry of "oh" in pain.
"Wait! Maybe it was a scratch during the fight!" Wanda covered one side of her face and turned her head away, saying in a hurried tone: "Wait for me!...The wound will heal! Heal quickly! Heal quickly!"
!!”
But the more Wanda shouted, the less effective her magic became. Jarvis tilted his head, looked at her and said: "Miss Wanda, my hearing is telling me that your heart rate is beyond the normal range and you need help."
?"
"Of course I don't!" Wanda shouted, and then she covered her face with her hands and was silent for three seconds. Then she raised her hands to gather her hair. When her cheek appeared again, there were no scars on it.
Wanda breathed out, then pursed her lips, cut the breath into small pieces, blinked, looked at Jarvis and said: "Okay, you successfully captured this opportunity when I was in a panic.
Not much."
"You probably ran out without any preparation. In that case, you can go to Pietro and I's secret base for one night. We will take you in. There are several mutants who have the same aspirations as us. We
We are also working hard to maintain law and order in New York."
Suddenly, Wanda's eyes lit up. She stared at Jarvis and said with a smile: "You can snatch people from that monster, which means you are very strong. What super powers do you have?"
"I..." Jarvis was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I'm just an ordinary human being."
"Okay, okay, ordinary people..." Wanda waved her hand in front of her face and said, "Come with me, you should be able to keep up with me, right?"
After saying that, the witch flew up directly and waved to Jarvis in the air. Jarvis looked up at her and at the lights reflected in her eyes.
A burning sensation, like being ignited, came from Jarvis's fingertips. He did not hear the sound of any parts fitting together, but he felt that the engine in his chest was ignited.
He jumped up slightly, then stayed in mid-air, suspended above the building, face to face with Wanda. Wanda showed a smile, raised her eyebrows and said, "Ordinary people? Huh?"
Then, she waved her cloak and flew into the cold winter night sky. Two streams of light, one red and one blue, streaked across the New York skyline.
This time, in the still bright windows in the middle of the night, the lovers who made wishes finally waited for the real shooting star.