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"That was my story, who will open up now?" Elena said and looked at the others on the wheel, everyone was silent for a moment before Cage raised his hand, "I speak!" He said and scratched his chin for a moment before starting to retrieve his memories and begin.

" My name is Luke Cage, I gained my powers after an experiment in prison and when I left I decided to make the neighborhood I lived in a better place, but I found that it wasn't the gangs in the area I should be afraid of !"

He paused and took off his shirt showing several blade scars, Elena across the room put her hands over her face trying to hide her shame but no one noticed her, "When I started fighting crime in the area the gangs in that place denounced to the real bosses who controlled the Underground city of New York, the Lin Kuei!"

"I found out how the territory distribution system worked later, but by then they had already sent an assassin to deal with me!" Luke then looked at Elena who was trying to hide the shame on her face.

"Elena chopped me up that night and left me near death before reaching out to me and asking me if I wanted to join her, I've never seen a more innovative way to recruit someone!" He said smiling as if what happened was water under the bridge, the others in the room also laughed together before lowering their voices.

"Well then I guess it's my turn now!" Mercury said and then proceeded to recount his story that he doesn't like at all, "Me and my sister Wanda were victims of war, we gained our powers and teamed up with the Hydra in one day hoping to get revenge on Tony Stark, but something worse knocked on our door before!" Mercury's face darkened as he remembered the past and the image of Sub-zero invading the base with his trained assassins.

"The base forces were decimated, they didn't have the capacity to react, I was going to join my sister but we ended up bumping into him!"

(Flashback noises!)

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"Let's go Wanda fast!" Mercury yelled as he urged his sister to destroy a containment door, "I'm trying to hold on just a little longer!" She screamed and cracks began to form in the door.

"Ahh!" At that moment screams came from the hallway behind them and several Hydra soldiers ran screaming in fear and throwing their weapons to the ground, "Show me, they're monsters!" A soldier screamed in despair but his movement stopped when the noise of wind being cut off sounded.

Blood and flesh flew sideways as a dagger attached to a chain pierced the back of his neck and came out of his mouth. Marcos looked coldly at his enemy before his hands glowed and a glow of heat passed through the chain to the dagger.

BOOM!

The soldier's body exploded into hundreds of pieces flying everywhere and causing the other soldiers to run faster towards Wanda and Mercury, "Wanda!" Mercury screamed as he saw Marco's eyes meet his own before he lunged at the fleeing soldiers and began to slaughter them like lambs.

"Wanda!!!" Mercury said ringing once more when he saw the chain go through two soldiers and pull them back, time passed by and Mercury prepared to face Marco who was killing the last two soldiers.

" Ahhh!" A soldier yelled as 3 shuriken slammed into his back and he fell hard to the ground, the last soldier ran in even more despair forward and his eyes met Mercury's.

" Help me." Mercury read the soldier's lips before the Vibranium blade passed through his body, (Slash!) The soldier's body split in two and the two parts fell to each side along with the victim's organs.

BAM!

" I achieved!" Wanda screamed and without waiting for her to compose herself Mercury grabbed her and ran at full speed when the door collapsed leaving Marco behind who just looked at where they fled.

"Ah, ah!" He heard small screams of pain behind him and turned to look at the soldier with shurikens buried in his back still alive and trying to call for help, but his lungs were already punctured and his spine damaged, he had no way to ask for help.

Marco slowly approached him and saw the despair and fear in the man's eyes, "I wonder what is the fear of ceasing to exist, the despair of letting go of everything against your will." Marco muttered as he looked into the soldier's eyes that were losing the color of life.

"Well I don't think you can give me an answer, after all you're already dead!" He said jokingly and walked around the base looking for survivors, while the two young mutants, his Master would take care of it.

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Mercury ran quickly through the facility as he looked for an exit, along the way, he passed through corridors filled with bodies and some Lin Kuei assassins cleaning up the battlefield.

Mercury gritted his teeth at that brutality, everyone in the base was killed without even offering a fight and wondered who the hell these people were, "Brother!" He heard his sister say something and stopped running.

Wanda the moment they stopped she lowered her head and vomited on the floor, her body was not made to move at high speeds and although she used her power to protect herself she still felt a very strong dizziness.

"Quick Wanda we have to get out of here now!" Mercury yelled uneasily and seeing his sister nod he was about to grab her and run but he felt something catch her feet and looked down, "Ice?" Mercury muttered before feeling a sharp pain in his thigh and saw an ice stake driven into his leg.

"AHHH!" He screamed in pain and fell to the ground clutching his leg which was frozen in the sheer cold of the ice stake, "Brother!" Wanda shrieked and turned to face her attacker, footsteps sounding down the hall as William slowly approached with Elena following behind him.

Wanda said nothing and immediately gathered her power and launched a blast at William who raised his hand slightly and a blue impulse passed through Wanda's power, "What?" She muttered in disbelief at the sight in front of her.

Crack!

Her energy was frozen in midair and shattered into thousands of pieces falling to the ground and disappearing, "You know, although you have great power with you, you are still too weak to use your full potential." William said and slowly approached Wanda who kept attacking but only the same result happened.

"Who are you and why are you attacking us?!!" She yelled trying to buy some time to come up with a plan but William was getting closer and closer to her, "Run away Wanda, I'll try to buy you some time!" Mercury who had been holding the injured leg forced himself up only to fall back to the ground.

"Run away!" He yelled once more but Wanda ignored him, "I won't leave you behind, you're my only family!" She screamed and sent out a powerful blast this time that pushed William back a little before he continued to walk normally.

"Enough of the games." He said and raised his hand towards Wanda's neck that he felt a sense of danger but it was too late to stop, she took a big pull towards William and tried to resist but it was too fast.

"Coff!" Wanda coughed as William's hands gripped her neck, "Now, I'm going to eliminate this threat to my future plan!" He said and blue strands started coming out of Wanda's mouth as she screamed.

"Not!!!" Mercury yelled and started dragging her body towards William, "SOLTEA, STOP!!!" He screamed but it was in vain, Mercury could only watch as his sister's soul was stripped from his body and a blood-red crystal went into William's hand.

"Get rid of him!" He gave the order to Elena and left that place without even looking back.