CH2- Family Reunion

Azrael Maximoff View

As I floated in purgatory for an unknown amount of time, I finally saw something. I saw… me? But he had black hair and his burns weren't as severe as mine. He was also noticeably older, he appeared about 21 years old.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"I'm Azrael… just Azrael, who are you?" He asked me.

"I'm Azrael too! But I have a last name, it's Maximoff." I saw a look of confusion pass across his face.

"Maximoff? As in, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff?" A suprised look overcame my face as he named my siblings.

"Yeah, how do you know my siblings?" After I said that, he was just stunned. "Why are you so shocked?"

He contemplated before speaking, and eventually sighed.

"I don't know how to tell you this, but where I come from, the world that you came from are a fiction where I come from. Your lives are simply TV Shows, Movies, and Comic Books."

"…What? What do you mean?" He sighed again before going on to explain the origins of my siblings, how the bombings happened, how my brother dies, and how my sister eventually goes on to join forces with the man she hated. He also told me how I wasn't originally created for any Marvel story and that's why he was confused before.

"That's actually cool, I'm like an anomaly." Azrael laughed at me. "Me too kid."

"What do we do now?" I asked him. He looked around our surroundings and as he was about to answer, a yellow light enveloped the both of us and slowly drifted us together.

"What's happening?" I started to panic before a warm feeling overcame me. Suddenly I felt as if we were almost one person. We started to share memories and personalities.

"I don't know, but I think we have nothing to worry about." He assessed that based on our memories. I think we're about to be fully mer-

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*BRAND NEW* Azrael Maximoff View

As soon as I opened my eyes I was met with familiar faces and bright lights. At first there were a plethora of emotions spanning across my face. I was heavily discombobulated. My senses were flaring and my body was very different from last I remember.

After I calmed my nerves, my body relaxed and everything felt normal to me. I had just now realized that Wanda was caressing my face and crying.

'She's so beautiful. She's grown into a wonderful woman.' I couldn't believe that my sister had grown so well. I looked over at Pietro and noticed how he was trying to hold back tears as well.

'Pietro looks great too.'

'I'll save him from his destined reality if he does come close to death. Thanks to the merge, I'm now complete. I have aspects and ideals of both me and Azrael. I'm also now just Azrael. I am both of us. We are both of us. We are one. I don't know how to explain the sensation.'

"Wanda, Pietro, I thought I'd never see you again." Wanda started to sob and more tears spilled from Pietro's eyes.

I sat up slowly and ushered for Pietro to get closer. Once he did, I enveloped them both in a hug. Wanda sobbed into my shoulder and Pietro calmed himself, a smile now blooming. Once Wanda calmed down, we broke the hug.

I moved my legs to the end of the table and slowly stood up. I noticed the height difference between the three of us. Me being the tallest and Wanda being the shortest.

"You're so tall little brother. I remember when you used to be shorter than me." She reminisced with a smile. I smiled back and looked around.

"Where are we?" I asked.

"We are at HYDRA base." Wanda went on to explain how her and Pietro unlocked their powers and how they've been teaching themselves how to use them. As she explained, I had to visibly hide my discomfort about being in a HYDRA base. Knowing the origins of this organization, I couldn't help but be disgusted.

After we had a few conversations about the twins past, Strucker came back into the room with a small grin on his face. I wasn't swayed by his charm, I saw the movies. This guy is not a very good person.

"While I do love to see a family reunion, we all have a few things to discuss."

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The four of us all sat around a table, waiting for Baron Strucker to start talking.

"The fact that we were able to bring you back to life has greatly added to my research, so I must thank you all for participating. However, Azrael, as I'm sure you understand, you can't quite leave yet." Baron paused for us to absorb his words.

'I didn't plan on leaving, because I know that the twins don't plan on leaving quite yet. I'll leave when I know they want to leave. I'll play along though.'

"Why not?" I pretended to be confused.

"Well, I have reason to suspect that you also possess supernatural capabilities like your siblings here. And since you have the most exposure to the gem, that means your powers are most amplified, which should make it very simple to find out. So it's safer for you, and everyone here if you stayed and allowed us to assess your abilities and obtain control over them."

I pretended to have a thoughtful look before answering him.

"Okay fine."

"Great. Follow me."

He situated Wanda and Pietro into their separate cells and he showed me where mine is. It was right across from Pietro, but next to Wanda.

He then led me into a room with a bunch of different machines.

"Step into that capsule." I slid open the door to the circular capsule and stepped inside, the door closing behind me.

"Stand still and face this way." I turned towards him and stood as still as I could. I myself was curious as to what my results would be.

A white light with grid patterns that spanded across the capsule slowly went down my body all the way to the bottom. However when the light came back up, it was no longer white and instead was black.

Strucker seemed shocked at the color change, he was even more shocked when he looked at the screen in front of him displaying what was just analyzed. He pressed a few buttons on the screen and the light then turned yellow.

The light came down on me once again, completely yellow all the way down to the bottom, when it came back up it had turned blue. Strucker looked confused at first and then a look of understanding overcame him.

"Okay. Azrael come here and see your results so you can get an idea of the experiments you'll be going through." I stepped out of the capsule and walked over to the screen. Looking at the results, I felt happy.

[Age: 21 Years]

[Height: 5'11" Inches]

[Weight: 175 Pounds]

[Condition: Peak Human++]

[Physiology: Defunct]

[Main Ability: Advanced Azur-Pyrokinesis]

[Advanced Azur-Pyrokinesis does not limit the user to only manipulate blue flames, but produce them from any part of his body and control the heat of the flames.]

[Sub-Ability: Anatomical Liberation]

[Anatomical Liberation allows the user to freely control body parts if severed from body]

'I'm basically a fire powered zombie, that's sick. These powers have potential for much improvement.'

"Well you are certainly something special. We'll have to run extra tests on you." He smiled at me, however to me, I saw that smile as a menacing one, not one that promised good. That one promised nothing good for me in the future.

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Author Segment:

Guys, I've noticed while revising these chapters that I seem to have a problem differentiating "your" with "you're" and vice versa, so if you notice me doing this in any chapter, please point it out. I think I do it subconsciously, I don't know.