Wanda drawn more into insanity, Chthon descends, He dead

[THIRD POV]

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Rising from the rubble, Stephen Strange gazed at Wanda Maximoff with a such smoldering intensity that threatened to burn holes into her head.

He had already come up with the best possible solution to handle the Scarlet Witch or so he thought.

"Wanda, this is where I put you down for good!"

RUMBLE!

Stephens Strange instantly did a couple of complex magical signs and the Locket he was wearing on his neck started to stir mechanically.

Stephen Strange was going to use the Time Stone under the amplification of Agamotto's artifact to stomp Wanda's advance.

Deep shades of green that represented the essence of TIME itself started swirling from the locket into Strange's hands to form an intricate geometric pattern.

At that moment, Strange had strangely connected to the concept of Time and he control it as he wished albeit at a limited duration but it was enough to take down the Witch of Hex Magic.

"Your children were never real, to begin with, and I am going to show you your own self-deception!"

"Wake Up to Reality!"

Stephen Strange cast an illusion spell interwoven with the temporal power to create something entirely new - Temporal Illusions.

The cast speed was unprecedented and unimaginable, traveling at speeds faster than light which was edging closer to surpassing the linear time.

The dark green essence of Time encompassed Wanda to form a domain that locked her into an infinite loop.

Just like how he had done to Dormammu in his own realm, he was doing the same to Wanda Maximoff but presently, the Time Loop was being empowered by lethal illusions to trap her in an endless session of her worst nightmares.

Strange wanted to shatter her psyche and make her doubt her own existence.

This was an ultimatum to incapacitate her capabilities of using her magic to the fullest potential.

"AAAARGH!"

"NOOO!"

"PIETRO!"

"VIS!"

"MY CHILDREN!"

"I AM GOING INSANE!"

Blood-curdling screams from Wanda reverberated all over Kamar-Taj like an incessant sonic attack.

Chaotic streams of unstable scarlet energy start to slowly encircle her figure.

The very fabric of reality around her began to crack and repair due to the effects of the Time Stone.

It made the hidden people feel their skulls nearly breaking.

Noah who was watching all of this MADNESS couldn't help himself and started laughing.

"Haha, Strange you are a goner. You shouldn't have done that. It has made matters even worse."

"Now I wonder what you will do next?"

Strange also knew that it would be difficult to defeat Wanda... so he thought up the most feasible plan that he could undertake at the current moment.

A plan to send the Scarlet Witch to an entirely different dimension and seal her for eternity where would continue reliving her painful moments.

He quickly circularly waved his hand and tried to open up a portal that connected his present space-time continuum to another dimension - more specifically, the Dark Dimension.

Oh, Poor Wanda!

And to think that Strange wanted Dormammu to have someone to keep him company.

A green dot akin to a spiraling singularity started to slowly form atop Wanda's head.

With time, it began to enlarge to the size of a can's circumference.

Dark wisps of energy from Dormammu's Realm could be seen emerging from the spiraling portal.

But all of a sudden, something unexpected happened.

Wanda who was holding her head in writhing pain paused her immediate actions.

A tear happened in the Space-Time beside the small portal connected to the Dark Dimension and from it, a seemingly all-powerful chaotic Will descended and effortlessly entered Wanda's body.

Earth-616 trembled wildly as it welcomed the arrival of a fearsome old entity that stemmed from the ages before the Creation of the world.

It looked as if the very manifestation of MADNESS was ready to plunge the whole universe into an infinite cycle of destruction.

The portal leading to the Dark Dimension was destabilized and was immediately closed but it wasn't Strange's doing or the new arrival...

It was Dormammu himself.

What could have made him so afraid that he immediately cast off the thoughts of using this chance to invade Earth?

It seems he was in fear of the chaotic will.

A visible transformation started to occur on Wanda as one large unholy demonic horn protruded from the left side of her head.

Her nails turned into lengthy razor-sharp demonic claws while her sclera became completely scarlet like a demon from the depths of hell.

Bones could be heard shattering and reforming endlessly to make the vessel more powerful enough to handle the power of the Other Realm Entity.

Pure Chaos and otherworldly maleficence bred from a foreign dimension swirled around her, invading every inch of space and corroding the Concept of Time Looping imposed upon Wanda.

Her new state of existence caused Strange to surprisingly feel asphyxiated and he had to constantly use the Eye of Agamotto to repair the damage done to his body by reverting time.

CRACK!

CRACK!

A wave of unstable Chthonian magic was emitted from Wanda's beautiful figure as her now red hair defied gravity while she shattered the confinement imposed upon her.

The eerie Darkhold floated in front of her and in her right hand, a red orb made out of chaos magic could be seen rotating vigorously.

"Kekeke, this vessel is simply the best!"

"I have to give special "thanks" to the one who has shown this unfortunate child what true madness and despair are."

A demonic hoarse voice that brought about the illusion that you were speaking to an almighty demon god, was heard from the possessed Wanda.

Noah leaned against his clenched hand while smiling down at the empowered and possessed Scarlet Witch. 'Ho, it is little Chthon as expected.'

'Wanda's mental instability and existing loopholes in the spaces between realities and dimensions made his descent possible!'

'Now it seems Strange will suffer a loss without a doubt unless a miracle happens.'

'His possession of Wanda is enough to do the job.'

While Noah was lazily speculating about the sudden turn of events, Strange wasn't having an easy time as he knew how dire his situation was.

He knew about the might of the Elder Gods, existences that were there even before creation itself.

And Chthon was possibly the strongest of all and greatest threat to Earth even more so than that annoying Dormammu.

"Young one, you are the one who has allowed me to set foot in this mortal plane."

"God of Chaos, the Demon of the Darkhold, what brings you to this earthly plane?"

Stephen Strange asked while on the other hand, he was secretly opening up a path for himself to time travel immediately to the point in time where he hadn't cast a temporal illusion on Wanda.

What he was about to do was something that defied the order of the Multiverse but he had to do it to save it from the mess he had made.

"I can see your little tricks, young Sorcerer Supreme. Nothing can escape my cosmic awareness. It seems you will not get the chance to witness the total annihilation of your universe and how I will feast upon the souls of the living."

Demonic Wanda [Chthon-possessed Wanda] raised her hand and attacked with the red orb of concentrated chaos magic.

DODOOM! *SFX*

The very fabric of reality was torn!

Space shattered as the beam of chaos traveled at immeasurable speeds before Stephen Strange was engulfed into oblivion or so we thought.

Before Strange was erased by Demonic Wanda, a black hole mysteriously appeared out of nowhere and swallowed him before disappearing.

Then what about the highly concentrated chaos magic?

It was immediately turned into a kaleidoscope of butterflies by an unknown figure.

Of course, it was none other than Noah the ROB, hidden in the background.

"Who is it? Show yourself!" Chthon commanded as his eyes looked at a certain space specific where Noah was seated.

It wasn't like he was using [Existential Veiling] or anything.

"I am here idiot. Why are you shouting as if I stole your wife or something?" Noah chuckled lightly while guiding the Morbius Chair to Chthon.

"Who are you?"

"Hmm, I am Bob U-"

"Why am I even bothering to explain myself to you, fake god of chaos?"

"I wanted you to kneel before me like a dog but that would be so disrespectful to our poor Wanda, don't you think so?"

"Oh, me kneeling? That's definitely new but... I like it. It seems you are quite an insa-"

"Oi oi, stop talking as if we know each other well. Begone and die in your Realm!"

"Shuu!"

With a lazy wave of disregard for Chthon, Noah exorcised, no, his mere words killed him literally.

No unexpected resurrection.

No living paradox shit like the Reverse Flash.

No nothing.

Just True Death and erasure from both existence and non-existence for his poor ass!

Wanda's consciousness started to gradually return to her body, her pretty lashes fluttered, and finally, her eyes opened.

The previous transformation of her body was no more due to Chthon's death.

Now she had returned to normal.

Wanda curiously looked around and finally set on only one single being.

"Who am I? Who are you?"

'Oh, here we go again with the questions but it seems Wanda had forgotten herself for a little bit,' Noah smirked inwardly as he maintained a comfortable distance with her.

"You are Wanda Maximoff."

"As for who I am?"

"I am...the perfect answer to what you have been seeking."

Noah smiled mysteriously, his mind thinking of ways to bring Wanda to his side.

A little bit of psychological manipulation and Wanda was hooked.

Wanda intently looked at this extremely good-looking man and she didn't know why she felt compelled to believe in him as her previous memories started to rush into her mind.

"I am Wanda, now I remember."

"So how do you plan to make me meet my children?"

Noah remained silent for a moment before replying with a smile that had a lot of meaning.

"There is no need to look for them since... I have the "perfect" method for you to have your own real children."

The power of D was Omnipotent and couldn't be underestimated.

Before he set off to another multiverse, it needed to enlighten our lovely Wanda back to the right path.

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