Cursed Luck

After a long night, we woke up pretty late, but since we were on vacation, who would stop us from doing so?

As we sat in a cafe eating our late breakfast, I felt a familiar telepathic presence.

"Someone is trying to telepathically reach for me." said Wanda worriedly and looked around.

I let my chakra leak out of my body and engulf us, to stop his attempts to telepathically connect with us.

Wanda visibly relaxed after I blocked him. I copied this from the Mind Stone after seeing how it did the same to protect Loki from my eyes.

"He's not reaching out to you specifically, but to everyone," I say as I finish my eggs.

She raises her eyebrows at this, "Who is this? I never felt such strong telepathic powers."

Honestly, I don't want to spend my time talking about Xavier, but if she wants to know.

"His name is Charles Xavier, a powerful mutant who runs a school for mutants. He and the metal guy we met in the Raft are the leaders of the two main mutant groups out there.

The problem is that one is a control freak, while the other is an extremist. But don't worry, he won't find us as long as I'm not allowing him to." I say and give her a wink.

She smiles and continues with her meal.

It seems that yesterday's light show made Charles suspicious and he wanted to find the one who did it. But he will have to search for quite a while...

I keep my sensory ability constantly active to stay away from people and groups who could disturb our peace. The X-Men were one of them.

We finished our food and then started to walk through New York to our next destination, which was a tour bus that would show Wanda Uptown.

As we could hop off at any time, we would stop our tour after arriving at my company and tomorrow we will visit Downtown Manhattan to meet the creator of the Straw Hats.

We plan to stay two weeks in New York and then do the same in Sokovia. So we have plenty of time to see all of New York.

On the way to the bus, we grabbed snacks and drinks to fully enjoy the ride.

When Wanda caught sight of the tour bus, her face lit up since she had never seen one in real life. It was heartwarming to see her like that, every time she encountered something new or things she only knew from the internet or television.

I felt sorry for her movie counterpart, that she never really found peace in her life... the MCU writers really know how to destroy the lives of great characters.

Wanda noticed my concerned look and asked, "David, is everything okay?"

But I take her hand, kiss it and say, "Yes, sorry, I only remembered something stupid. Let's hop on!"

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After we drove around and Wanda snapped many photos to show the others later, we got off the bus and went straight to my company.

The plan was to get some new figures and make some of Wanda and the others.

It was easy with Wanda since she could play the model. For the rest, I made some bunshin and transformed them into Black Panther, Pietro and even Shuri.

Then some employees took photos of them from all sides, to create 3D models later.

Afterwards, it was Wanda's turn. I wanted as many figures from her as possible, so I transformed her clothes nearly a thousand times to her annoyance.

Including costumes from comics and movies with tiaras. Although she hated them immensely... she endured them for me.

Then, we headed to the company shop to buy some stuff. When Wanda saw the Black Widow series, she looked very angry at me, as if I had some stuff to explain.

"You had a thing for her?" asked Wanda and showed me a figure with visible cleavage, while her eyes glowed a bit violet.

Oh no, that's bad... I step back as I prepare to be blown away. If she continues like this, I will someday print a capital R on my chest.

"In my defense, we made this before I met you. Also, it was only a crush that went nowhere." I say and close my eyes while waiting for the impact.

But nothing happened. I opened one eye and saw that she had placed the figure back.

"My figures will be much better... I need to speak to the producers and make them create some with glowing eyes and so on." she said while raising her fist and walking out of the shop.

It seems like her competitive side has woken up right now...

Since Wanda left to destroy the Black Widow series, I had nothing to do. So I bought some figures and arranged for them to be delivered to my apartment.

When she returned, we stopped at the manager's office to set up some important trade routes.

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After finishing our work for today, we went to a diner for lunch.

"You told me that New York is full of criminals and super villains, but no one has appeared yet. Is it normal?"

Suddenly a loud noise, as if glass had shattered somewhere and people could be heard screaming outside.

Looking across the street, I saw a figure lying on the ground in a yellow robe.

Wanda cursed our luck...

We walked outside and it turned out it was really the Ancient One, which means the events of Dr. Strange had already begun.

I could feel that she was still alive, which meant Strange was nearby too.

When Wanda saw the look on my face, she asked, "Do you know that person?"

"Yes, she is the Ancient One, I told you about and I still owe her."

"So, should we help her?" asked Wanda.

"No, she still needs to do something. Let's wait a bit."

She raises her eyebrows and asks, "What do you mean?"

"Look." I say and gesture to the right, where Dr. Strange and Mordo appear.

After that, an ambulance arrived and took her along with Strange to the nearest hospital.

Following them in a taxi, Wanda uses her powers to make us invisible to others and we walk to the operation room, where the Ancient One lays in.

I could sense that Strange was talking with her right now, so it was time to strike.

We walk inside and I say to Wanda, "Use your powers and make them stop the operation and freeze them."

She nods and then lets her violet-red energy engulf all doctors and they stop the operation and then stop moving completely.

While summoning a bunshin, I transform him into the Ancient One and walk over to the operation table. Place my hand on her and let my chakra rush through her body. Since I got better at it, her wounds started to heal visibly.

Then I remove her from the table and transform her bloody clothes into a red tunic.

After that we leave the operating room, as the bunshin lies down on the table.

Since Strange became the man he was after her death, it was important to create the perfect illusion for him. If the Ancient One wants to tell him later that she is alive, she can do that herself.

We find an empty hospital room and I lay her down on the bed and after a few minutes, she opens her eyes, completely confused.

When she sits up and looks around, she spots Wanda and me.

"What have you done? I'm not supposed to be here. I should have died a minute ago."

"Me? I simply paid my debt." I say while leaning on the wall and pointing at me.

She gets angry and says, "Debt? You play with the timeline because you think you owe me something? It is necessary for me to die."

"Play with the timeline? Who says there is a right timeline? Wasn't it you who said the universe will always find a way to get order?"

After seeing that she became calmer, I continued.

"If you ask me the time stone showed you only the future to the point you entrusted the stone to Strange completely and the proof of this is yourself."

"How so?"

"Didn't you say you should have died a minute ago? And yet here we are talking to a living person.

You saw your future to the point of your death and always waited for the moment. You lived for a moment, where your life would finally end and someone better would take your place.

Even when the most important part of it was not your death...

This is your chance to live your life free of all these responsibilities because now you have none.

If you still think you should die, then do it. But not because a stone told you so, but because you decided it yourself."

After I finished my rant, she looked down and thought about it. I will not force her to live, but no one should say she didn't have the chance to do so.

I glanced to the side where Wanda sat and her face was astonished, as if she had just realized something.

Now I had only one thing to do. I activated my Sharingan, followed by my right Mangekyou Sharingan.

"There is one last thing to do. Consider it as a gift, for a new start."

I could feel my eye burning and blood coming out of it.

Suddenly the symbol of the dark dimension appeared on her forehead and she collapsed to the ground, groaning in pain.

But I only stretch out my hand and the energy of the dark dimension flows out of her and forms a stone in my hand.

The powers of the dark dimension made her immortal, but at the same time she was a ticking time bomb. So it was better to take it away from her.

She looks at me and says, "The power of the dark dimension... Am I finally free from it?"

"Yes, if you ever feel nostalgic about your sorcerer supreme job you can place it in an amulet and wear it around your neck." I say while laughing a bit.

However, she only rolled her eyes and stood up to come closer.

But out of nowhere, the stone in my hand started to react and a booming voice could be heard.

"Who dares to try to control my powers?"

The power of the dark dimension suddenly surrounded me and I only heard Wanda scream, "David!!!" before disappearing from my dimension.

At first, the world is dark, then it changes and I am standing on a huge, flying violet thing that looks like an atom.

I looked around and saw more of these atoms in this strange green, violet, and dark dimension.

"Well shit," I say, when a huge face with flaming purplish eyes appears in front of me.