CHAPTER 114 - FIGHTING THE HELLFIRE CLUB II

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[General POV]

Vision grunted at the violent feedback he received from whatever it was Selene had struck him with and pushed himself off the ground but the irritated Black Queen had no intentions of making anything easy for him. 

No matter how much force he used, he found it difficult to push himself off the ground. 

"Shadows, really?" He saw something darker mixed into his own shadow and knew that whatever it was was what was restraining him to the ground. 

Seeing that he couldn't force himself out of the hold like that, he simply shrunk himself down to microscopic size and swiftly escaped whatever had been holding him down. 

He saw Wanda dodging Selene's attacks while clutching her sides where he could see the faint outline of black veins. 

Since the barrier was already down, he had no need to limit his output for worry of potential damage. 

Cracks appeared on the ground as Vision joined his palms together before they broke off into huge lumps of earth and floated upwards. 

He sped blitz towards Selene with force fields around his hands and punched the empty air a few meters from her. 

Selene felt as if she was telekinetically punched and the force sent her careening backwards. 

"Are you okay?" Vision came to Wanda's side and asked. 

"I'm fine. She blindsided me for a moment but it's not fatal, only painfully distracting."

Being in the middle of a fight, he couldn't focus too much on Wanda's injuries right now so he directed his focus back on Selene. "I'll close in on her this time. Watch my six."

In a spark of light and Vision was gone and the sound of explosions rang out again. 

Selene formed an 'X' with four of her fingers but cursed under her breath as one of the floating lumps of earth above her glowed red and turned into the head of a giant serpent and bit down at her. 

Wanda and Vision watched with frowns on their faces as the serpent disintegrated to dust and in its place was an altar that blew up plumes of smoke. 

Vision tried smashing the altar but his hands harmlessly passed through it. He felt a baleful aura around the altar that only got thicker faster he attacked it. 

He didn't waste his time trying to deal with the baleful altar, trusting Wanda to deal with it, while he engaged Selene. 

He fired off laser beams from his eyes which she easilyip blocked but slowed her down for him to engage her in close combat. 

She conjured up a short black as he got too dangerously close and slashed at him but he used his hands to deflect it and drove his leg into her ribs. 

With his monstrous superhuman strength that didn't lose to the Hulk's, it was more surprising that Selene survived it, though she bled furiously through her orifices. 

"Come, baleful curses."

At this time, the plumes of black smoke that the altar released had covered the entire area they were in and with Selene's words, started coalescing into spectres. 

"Begone!" Wanda shouted angrily and a blood red wave was emitted from her body and cleared all the spectres that covered the sky. 

"You're seriously pissing me off!" She growled at the sight of Selene's infuriating smirk. 

"Oh please, darling. Don't feel special just because I pissed you off." Selene wiped off the blood on her mouth and winced as she counted her broken bones. 

All the floating rocks and lumps of earth turned red as Wanda's response to Selene and started glowing glowing with a rising intensity. 

"Oh shit!" Vision immediately retreated the next second to a safe distance and narrowly escaped the explosion that swallowed the entire landscape. 

"The bitch escaped." She sounded heavily displeased as she couldn't sense a wisp of Selene's presence. 

Vision on the other hand didn't look too surprised about the outcome. "It would have been quite strange if we actually managed to catch her. None of us were going all out out of caution for the other and I'm sure she has a handful of escape options ready at any given moment."

The other party was both one of the oldest mutants alive as well as well experienced sorceress. Even if she couldn't easily deal with them, she could have easily escaped whenever she wanted to. 

"I keep having new reasons to hate her by the second." Wanda said before taking in a deep breath to calm herself. 

"Are your injuries okay?" I asked in light concern. 

She nodded and showed me the area she was injured and the blackened veins were already receding. "An hour or two and I'm good to go." She casually remarked. 

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Inside the Club a few minutes after Vision and Selene relocated outside. 

Facing off against a group of sorcerers and mutants, along with Shaw, the Avengers showed just how much individual experience they had as they went through the numbers stealthily. 

Tony kicked one of the sorcerers in his nutsack and blasted another one creeping up behind him. 

He pointed his blasters at another wannabe Merlin but a shield smashed into the dude's head and knocked him out flat. "Just in case anyone wants clarification, I completely had that."

"Focus, Tony."

"Ironic that no one listens to the genius nowadays." He faked being hurt before deciding to heal his 'hurt' by facing the group of street magicians. 

Steve once more cursed his shitty luck as his opponent just had to be a mutant that could fully transform his body into some hard crystalline ore, just like Piotr of the X-Men did. 

Unfortunately for Steve, his opponent was built to withstand heavy physical hits.. 

"What's the problem, old man? Experiencing back pains?" The young man taunted boisterously only to eat a mouthful of Steve's shield, which just pissed him off more. 

"I'm going to retire you gramps!" He rushed at Steve and dived Steve to the ground but Steve managed to position his legs just under the man's abdomen and used himself as a fulcrum to launch the man up into the air. 

The man could only stare dumbly as he flew a few feet into the air only to see Iron man sending a few tiny missiles his way. 

He braced for the explosion, confident that he could tank it, but no explosion came. Instead he found himself being encased in some sticky substance that continued growing until his whole body, except for his head, was covered. 

Pietro was the one who brought Emma and Raven out of the building after the fight started and apprehended the remaining members of the Hellfire Club after casing the entire building. 

Flexing his fingers, he jogged lightly in his slow world and punched any acolyte and mutant in his way as he moved towards Shaw. 

"And Pietro winds up for a fantastic throw!" He jokingly imitated the commentary of a baseball game and swung his hand in large circles and punched Shaw flat against his nose. 

He could see the propagation of the resulting sound waves from his fist hitting Shaw but something else caught his attention. Shaw's face lit up around where he punched as if there was a torch inside his head. 

"… Oh fuck. This guy could absorb kinetic impacts, right?"

Thinking fast before he made everything worse, he ran his hand through his utility belt and brought out the dampening cuffs and cranked them to maximum output and slammed them against Shaw's wrist. 

Everything returned back to its normal speed and a few acolytes were blasted to the side while Shaw crashed into the ground while screaming from the mind-numbing pain that came from his pulverized nose. 

"Whew! I thought I had messed it up for a few seconds back there." The speedster sweatdropped at what his mistake could have cost. 

For the next few minutes, the team worked together and quickly rounded up everybody which was the same time Vision and Wanda came back. 

"Where's Morgana?" Tony asked as he saw them returning alone. 

"She escaped." Vision simply replied. 

"That means we have a vengeful butt hurt witch coming for our asses any time soon in the coming future? Great job, robocop."

Vision did not bother with a retort to Tony's sarcastic comment and simply walked towards Shaw along with Tony. 

He looked between Shaw and Pietro and the latter made sure not to cross sights with him as he conversed with his sister. He left it at that and held Shaw's hands in his, still ignoring Tony's suspicious gaze, and took the ring on Shaw's finger. 

"I'll be needing the information inside this ring so I'll be borrowing it." Shaw tried to protest but a sticky substance covered his mouth and left him mute. 

"What's with the crafted ring?" Steve asked, perplexed by Vision's actions. 

"There's a chip of binary codes inside it that contains information only Shaw knew about. I want to find out what's in it." He sighed as Tony swapped the ring and was already having Friday running a scan on it. 

The police and other armed forces were coming to their location so they made sure that everyone was in metal binds before they left. 

The police and DA's office were already mailed files concerning the key figures in this place so they knew how to take it from there.