CH1- Resurrection

<Backstory Narration>

In October of 1990, Azrael Maximoff was born in Sokovia to Olek Maximoff and Iryna Maximoff. Along with Azrael were his two older siblings who were born a year earlier in 1989, both of them being twins, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff.

Growing up as a child, his unique white hair tended to drive kids away, leaving him quite lonely. Luckily, he had his family by his side to get him through the pain.

On one fateful day, in 1999, things took a turn for this happy family. While the family were watching the Dick Van Dyke Show, Wanda had suddenly gotten hungry. But since Wanda suggested to watch the show and it was her favorite, she didn't want to leave her spot, so she looked towards her kind best friend and little brother, Azrael.

"Hey, Ezzy, can you make me a sandwich? I don't want to miss the show?" Wanda affectionately addressed him by his nickname. That was his nickname because out of every nickname she could think of, that was the only one that sounded good in both her Sokovian and developing English accents.

Azrael looked over to her and digested her words carefully. "Okay." Azrael replied with a small smile. Azrael then got up and entered the kitchen to make Wanda a sandwich.

*RUMBLE* *RUMBLE*

"What the.." Azrael muttered. He looked back at his family to see if they were disturbed by the sound too. They didn't seem that bothered. He suddenly caught a bad feeling, but he couldn't quite figure out where it's coming from. He finished making the sandwich and made his way back to the living room. As soon as he handed it to Wanda-

*BOOOM X3*

Multiple bombs went off in the distances, quickly alerting the family to act. "EVERYONE UPSTAIRS-"

*CRASH!*

As soon as Olek started to usher his children and wife upstairs, a bombshell crashed directly through the roof and through the staircase, separating the Maximoff twins from their little brother and parents. The parents pulled Azrael behind them, but that was almost of no use.

*BOOOOM!!*

In a few seconds, Azrael and his parents, were launched backward. His parents were eviscerated due to their closeness to the bomb. Azrael was heavily burned in uncovered places like his neck, arms, a little of his face, and more. Rubble quickly enveloped his heavily burned body.

Wanda and Pietro who were farthest from the bomb only suffered minor damage, but were also covered in rubble, but managed to get under their bed for extra safety.

Suddenly, another bomb crashed through the roof and right in front of the twins, but this time it didn't go off, seemingly being a dud. It took days for the Sokovian military to save the twins, unfortunately it was far too late for them to save Azrael. He had unfortunately succumbed to his burn wounds due to no one coming in time to treat his wounds, he would have possibly lived had he gotten treatment.

Miraculously, no flesh had been blown off so most of his body could be preserved for a proper funeral.

His body was not a good sight after death. He had horrific wrinkled purple skin from the burns of the bomb. Located on his lower face, his neck, all the way down past his collarbone, below his eyes, around his torso, and on his arms and legs.

They attatched that skin with the rest of his skin with surgical staples, and that's all they could really get with insurance.

Over the next few years, the twins struggled to survive, but they managed. They attended many movements and riots that advocated against Tony Stark.

Eventually, when the twins were around 22 years old, they discovered that they had powers. HYDRA also discovered their powers and offered them help in further increasing the strength of and controlling their powers. All the twins had to do, was participate in experiments with the Mind Stone.

A few months after these experiments started, the twins learned about the potential of the mind stone after unlocking their powers, they both had one thought in mind about what it could do.

<Backstory End>

Wanda Maximoff View

Today was a day off from experimenting, due to me and Pietro's great results and cooperation. We get a free day every once in a while. I waited to Strucker to walk by to ask him the question. "Strucker, can I talk with you?" He stopped at my cell and looked at me questioningly. "Can it bring back my brother? The gem, like can it bring him back somehow?" Wanda asked hopefully at the leader of this HYDRA base, Baron Strucker. He stared at her with a thoughtful look.

"Is his skeleton still intact?" Baron asked. I nodded.

"Do you have a picture of him?" I lowered my head at the question, holding back tears.

"All of our family photos were destroyed from the bombing. You can look up his autopsy after the stitching process." I looked back up at him, still with that hopeful glint in my eye.

He dropped his thoughtful expression and unlocked my metal door.

"Come on." He led me to Pietro's cell and opened his too. Pietro looked at me with confusion evident on his face. I mouthed "Ezzy" and he instantly understood as a smile formed on his face. He quickly exited his cell and followed behind Strucker with me.

Strucker led us to the experiment room where we usually get tested in. He brought out a long metal table and brought it to the middle of the room. He placed two chairs on the opposite side of the table.

"You two sit here and wait." Strucker left the room to go retrieve a few items to help the revival process.

"Pietro this is it. We're finally going to revive him, he's going to live again!" I couldn't contain any of my excitement. I've missed my little brother for so long, I can't wait to see him.

"I know Wanda, we never thought we'd get a chance to see him again. But let's not get our hopes up, we have no idea what the gem is capable of, so if it doesn't work, let's not get discouraged."

I nodded in agreement.

I don't expect Azrael to be the same as before his passing, but I do hope that he didn't change too much after death.

We waited in the room for about an hour before the door to the room mechanically slid open. A man who was dressed like a doctor walked in holding a child sized skeleton in his gloved hands.

He set it on the table and exited without looking back or sparing us a glance.

Despite us being offered to come here and be experimented on, a lot of the staff disliked us at first, especially after we unlocked our powers more.

The next person who walked in was Strucker with the scepter that he uses to experiment on with Pietro and I and an image of my brother after the autopsy.

"You two, don't interrupt this process, or else your brother will be brought back with very noticeable impurities. Understand?" We nodded at his words and cautiously watched.

He turned back towards the skeleton and pressed the tip against the skull. He stared at the picture and tried to envision a twenty-one year old version of Azrael.

The gem glowed brightly as the skeleton began to expand to fit the frame of a twenty-one year old. Flesh slowly started to form around the skeleton. The brain and the rest of the organs were forming at the same time, helping the development of the resurrection.

Slowly but surely, we could instantly see resemblances of Azrael. After around 30 minutes, he was almost complete, only missing his hair, internal things, and a few facial features. 15 minutes later, he was complete, but he had yet to wake up.

"Why isn't he awake Mr. Strucker?" I asked, slightly impatiently.

"I haven't awoken his mind yet, he's not alive. But he will be now." Strucker tapped Azraels' forehead with the scepter. The gem shined as a yellow wave of energy phased through his head.

After a few seconds, his body started to twitch, presumably from his brain recognizing that the body can function, eventually his eyes opened revealing new eyes. His eyes had a blue iris with big black pupils.

Strucker looked at us and then stepped away and out of the room. Pietro and I quickly stood up and walked over to Azrael to see how he was. This was surreal.

I put my palm on his cheek and gently caressed his face. I couldn't even be bothered by the different texture of his lower face. I was trying my hardest to hold back my tears but I couldn't.

At first he looked disoriented, then he saw me and Pietro. A look of shock overcame him and then realization. He quickly relaxed into my hand and spoke.

"Wanda, Pietro, I thought I'd never see you again.."

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My Author Segment:

Wanda and Azrael will not engage in a romantic relationship at all in this story, they are just as close as can be, like siblings should. Those two being in a relationship wouldn't sit right with me for the direction of this story, maybe if it was wish fulfillment I'd consider it. I also still don't know if I want this to be a harem or single love interest. So I will put a few names down here for both and you can just vote on it.

Harem? If harem, only 2-3 members, and name who you want to see in the harem.

Single Love Interest? If single love interest, list who you want it to be.

Also, please read the Author's Thoughts section, it's a bit of an explanation for my hiatus