Chapter -001

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---January 1st, 1957---

"I don't think we can stay in this world any longer." 

Turning around, I look towards my wife as she enters the study but pauses upon hearing my words. Tears start to glisten in her eyes as she slowly reaches and hugs me.

"The power that brought me here is trying to take me back to my world. I had thought with the stone I could somehow stop it but it had only delayed the inevitable." Wrapping my arms around her, I said.

"How long do we have?"

"A week at best." Her arms tighten around me as she cries louder.

Suddenly, I hear a creak and look towards the door. Standing there is my two-year-old son, who seeing his mother cry, also starts crying.

Helena, my wife, quickly separates from me and takes our son to put him to sleep. As she exits the study, she gives me the look which she usually gives me when she wants to talk later.

Sighing, I sit back on the chair as I remember how I got here.

---A different Earth---

---August 21st, 2023---

"At Last."

Sitting in front of the large pile of books, I heave a sigh of relief. 

It had taken a long time to create a copy of all the knowledge in Kamar-Taj and create a secure pocket space for it in the New York Sanctum. America had just left for a new multiverse and Kamar-Taj's defenses had been finally restored after Wanda had destroyed it.

Seeing the destroyed Kamar-Taj gave me the idea to create a backup place for all the knowledge it had stored since its making. This time, the knowledge was not destroyed but just in case, I had to a place for it.

As I gave the enchantments one last look, I suddenly heard a cracking noise. Startled, I saw the space around the edges of the room break. Quickly, I started to chant spell after spell over the cracks as I looked over any mistakes in the enchantments I could have made but found none.

As I saw no signs of the cracks slowing down, I did the only thing I could think of. I took the sling ring from my waist and started forming a portal out of here but no matter how I tried, the magic didn't work. Even when I tried to astral project out of there, my soul could not leave the room.

After trying the other methods which too ended up in failure, I sat down, giving up after making peace with the situation in which I was trapped. Checking through the books won't work as while making their copies, I had memorized everything and had known everything by heart now.

Leaning against the books, I closed my eyes and waited for the situation to develop as I could only wait. While listening to the occasional sounds of the space breaking, I drifted off to sleep.

---HP Earth---

---August 21st 1949---

I jolted awake with a loud crashing sound but found myself still in the same room. 

Looking around, I could see the whole room was a mess with all the books scattered everywhere. Getting up, I conjured the Tao Mandalas(shields) on both hands as I slowly walked towards the door.

My trusted companion, the cloak, flew to my shoulders as the gate opened.

"Where the hell am I?"

Outside, all I could see was water crashing against the cliff I stood upon. The place reminded me of when Thor had asked me for help in locating his father, Odin. But checking around carefully, though the same, the place was different.

Flying up, I looked around but found nothing but the water on one side and a forest on the other. There were no towns or cities I could locate. Looking down, I could also see the secure room I had made. It seems it was not destroyed when the space had cracked.

I flew near it and started casting enchantments around it to make it invisible and lock it up so no one finds it and if someone does, by chance, locate it, he/she can't open it.

After doing it, I opened a portal to the location of Kamar-Taj but found the location to be nothing but mountains. This did spook me a bit but I had experience traveling the multiverse with America so I decided to do the next best I could do and that was gathering information. 

Flying near a small town, I quickly landed in a small hidden area and transfigured my clothes similar to the locals I could see. Judging by their dressing sense, I did find that it was somewhere before the 1970s. Even the vehicles I could see were some of the first models in the making.

Roaming around and checking the newspaper I had got, I found out that it was the year 1949. Even though the history of the world was somewhat the same with World War 2 having ended in 1945, there was no mention of Captain America being in the war.

I did find something else odd too. A building by the name of Woolworth. No, there was nothing wrong with the building itself but only its entrance which had golden revolving doors. The people were disappearing as they entered and the other people didn't even notice it.

I did feel some magic acting here.

Walking towards the building, I observed how those people were entering and saw only those gates that were golden and had owl markings upon them serve as the entrance when the gates revolved around at a high speed.

Acting normal, I did the same and entered a whole new world!

Moving statues, flying papers, crowds of people going around, and that weird clock high in the air. The place was filled with magic which, though different from the Eldritch one I know, I was getting used to.

I did feel the Eldritch magic around but it was dormant and suppressed by the natural magic which seemed a lot active. Well, it was obvious that people around me seemed more in tune with the natural magic.

Clearing my thoughts, I looked around the place while trying to act as normal as I could. I did see some people doing some basic magic like making the papers fly to the upper floors but the thing that intrigued me the most was the sticks or should I say foci they had in their hands.

I did know about foci as the sling rings too were one of them but they are only used to create portals and to teach the beginners as while creating portals, they did get to feel the magic around them.

Taking a newspaper from the newspaper stand, I was surprised to find moving pictures. This did get me a bit excited as by the looks of it, the magic was very developed in this world and it could help me find a way back to my world.

Now the only thing left for me was to integrate myself into this new magic society and find out all the information I could get. 

---April 1st 1951---

---Leaky Cauldron, London---

"So, any progress with what you are looking for?" Tom, the bartender, asks.

"No. Even after going around the whole world, I still can not get any information regarding it. Even my last trip at Hogwarts and the Ministry didn't lead anywhere." I shake my head as I start eating my food.

These two years, I have been to many places and searched for any magical society I could find but I did not find a way back home. After touring around the magical USA, I went to Norway to find anything they might have after I remembered the Bifrost but the knowledge they had was even less than mine regarding runes, talk less about their being knowledge of Bifrost.

After Norway, I went to Africa, where apparition was discovered. While it did not give any progress towards my research, I did scavenge every knowledge about magic I could gather there like the other places I had done.

  On and on, I went around the world and later came to Britain where floo was developed, and also where one of the oldest schools of magic was present. 

While my search was not fruitful, I did become famous around the world for my knowledge. I had given many guest lectures around the many wizarding schools in exchange for my time in their library.

Most of the lectures were about runes. Runes because many of its translations seem to have been lost in time and those known seem to have given all the uses they could provide.

I also researched if the people of this world could learn the Eldritch Magic because in my world anyone could do it but there was not any natural magic in my world except for a few places. An intriguing fact I found from the research is that only people with natural magic could learn Eldritch Magic.

Meaning only wizards and witches could learn it but that not mean that I have to teach it them. 

As I was not neglecting my urge to study new magic and being from modern times, I did develop some things such as runes which could allow modern tech to work in the presence of magic, I mean, Kamar-Taj did have Wi-Fi.

I also created a tele-magi-tech company after I created phones using the same principle that two-way mirrors worked. I named the company Apple Magi-tech because I was a bit lazy to choose a new name. It has been only a year since its founding but the company did make me quite rich.

The next thing I did, which was very recently after I had given up on finding my way back home, was open a sanctuary for magical animals. Not to lie, but I was very interested in them after I remembered my time when I visited Ta Lo with Shang-Chi. I had made a friend in Newt Scamander who was very happy to cooperate with me on this project of mine.

"What are you going to do now?" 

"I don't know. Guess it's time to settle somewhere." I reply.

"Any specific place in mind?"

"No, but I guess here should be fine."

I already have my beast sanctuary here and five of my 16 properties here. Only shifting the headquarters of Apple magi-tech and opening my vault will be left. However, I do find talking to those money-grubbing goblins to be annoying.

---November 23rd 1956---

---Cokeworth, England---

Hearing the giggling of babies, I look down to see a baby boy and baby girl playing with toys on the picnic mat.

After I had made peace with my situation, I decided to enjoy my life rather than spend it busy at work. After my talk with Tom, I went to Gringotts and opened a vault. 

At first, those goblins were not giving me many of the features the pure-blood families were getting like a personal manager for the account, a family ring, and extra security. All they gave me was a key with which anyone could open the vault. 

This did remind me of all the mud-blood nonsense I had in the magical community in this world, especially in Britain. 

Threatening to not open the vault in Gringotts did get me all the privileges I wanted as these couldn't afford to anger me with all the money I was bringing to their vaults and providing them with artifacts I created to guard against disguises and mind-magic made extra security available to even muggle-born.

I mean, all should be reassured their money is safe in the bank.

With the bank done, I focused on the shifting of headquarters of my company and then spent a large amount of money in buying shares in both Magic and Muggle World. In the magic world, my main priorities were Daily Prophet and Nimbus Racing Broom Company.

Though my shares in Daily Prophet were around 10%, I could get 49% for the Nimbus broom Company because it had just been founded and I did provide a bit improved method for making the broom.

In the muggle world, companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Adidas, Sony, and IBM were my main focus as the other companies were still not created.

Afterward, it was time to fully settle down and enjoy my life.

A year later, I met Helena Williams, a muggle-born witch at dueling competition spectator stands and we hit it off. She knew about my fame and all but she didn't care as her main focus was on dueling and she was well-known for being one of the best in the ring.

That day she had come to see her younger sister, Celine duel.

In the year 1952, I married Helena. The year we spent together before our marriage made me enjoy a simple life like she did because of which we had bought a small house in a muggle district.

On March 26th, 1955, our son Theodore Strange was born. I did sense the signs of magic in him but what startled me was him being born with both natural magic and the Eldritch magic. From what I knew, though Eldritch magic can be learned by anyone as Helena did, a case where one is born with it is not known. It is a magic that can only be harnessed from other sources.

My diagnoses did reveal that there was no problem with Theodore instead his magic capacity should larger than normal.

I also found out that the place where we lived had a few other magical families or ones where their children were capable of being a mage. One such example was the sitting and playing with my son.

Lily Evans was a girl two months older than my son and had a potential to be a Witch. She was the daughter of Cynthia Evans and Gerald Evans who also happen to be my neighbors. They also had another daughter named Petunia who was 4 years old.

I did notice she did not show any signs of possessing magic, so she would not get the letter to attend Hogwarts. For now, there is no problem with it but if in the future it does create one, I will teach her other things like runes, potions and divination which do not use magic from the user.

Watching the kids play around, I smile a bit but as I turn to look at my wife sitting and talking with Cynthia on the other side of the garden, I sigh.

I did reveal my secret of being from another world to her before the wedding. She had said in didn't matter but also made unbreakable vow seeing my insecurities regarding it that she will be with me always.

At first, the pact didn't matter as we both loved each other but now it did. I was starting to feel a pull around me and this pull gave me the familiarity of my world. Me having the Time stone did help a bit as I could stop or slow the force of pull but even the Time stone had started loosing it's power.

Talking to my wife also made me realize that she too was experiencing the same situation which I could only attribute to the unbreakable vow. She was a bit sad about leaving Celine behind as she had realized that someday we will be leaving this world.

We had told her sister about it and she was beyond angry at me for taking her sister and nephew away from her. After anger came sadness and crying. She had started living with us now to spend as much time as she can with us. 

During this time, I had taken it upon myself to teach her everything I know and also leave her the books I had come with. I had also made and given her a sling ring just like the Helena had. She had eager to learn how to make one so I taught it to her along with some other things.

I had made sure that everything can be accessed by Celine after we leave and all that was left was make sure everything was ready be leave. Helena had also talked to Mr. and Mrs. Evans regarding magic and how her daughter has a chance to become a witch.

They both had laughed it off but had shut up after she showed them some tricks. I did ask why she had done so and her answer was, "Because our families have become close." 

---January 8th 1957---

---Cokeworth, England---

It had been a week since my talk with Helena and now we were standing in basement together as she held our son and Celine stood opposite to us.

"Take care my sister and Theo otherwise even if I have to break dimensions, I will come and hex you." Celine says as she gives us a sad smile.

"Don't worry. You should about yourself." My wife says as I wrap my arm around her.

"It's time." Upon hearing my words, Celine walks towards and hugs Helena tightly before hugging Theodore.

Standing up, she looks at me and hugs me too before separating and standing back. I slowly let go of the force stopping the pull and hear cracking sounds behind me. Looking back, I see the space breaking the same way it was the time I came here.

Suddenly two things happen at once. Theodore is suddenly flung away from and me and Helena are suddenly pulled towards the broken space. I suddenly realize the mistake we had been making.

Both me and Helena had felt the pull but we had never asked Theodore if he felt anything. I had an Unbreakable Vow with Helena which might have made the force acting upon me act upon her too but there was such thing for Theodore.

Both Helena and Celine shout as Celine starts to run towards the crying Theodore. I know I can't do anything right now because both me and Helena are already half way through the portal and it is already closing.

Closing my eyes, I bring my right arm towards my left shoulder and take a hold of the cloak.

"Protect him." I fling my arm forward as the cloak shoots towards Theodore while taking my sling ring along with him.

The last thing I see before the portal closed was my son levitating in the air with the cloak of levitation around his shoulder with Celine having her wrapped around her. 

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