Mastermind wandered the Venetian streets, using illusions to shroud his identity, but he encountered Magneto, who blocked his path.
Mastermind tried to use the illusion, "Your illusion didn't work on me, Mastermind, I see you as you are," Magneto replied as he came in front of him.
"What do you want to do with me?" Mastermind asked Magneto intention. "I have a job for you," Magneto replied.
Wanda witnesses an explosion, in bridge flames taking the shape of a hand. Pyro's laughter rings out amidst the chaos.
Witnessed from afar Ben and Jean saw the explosion, they quickly reached towards the bridge. While Wanda was able to throw Pyro from the bridge, Pyro dropped something, which Wanda picked up.
But the fire creates an explosion in the oil tanker, and it causes Wanda to drop to one side, but she is able to hold herself from falling off the bridge. Jean and Ben come to save the people. Storm also comes and using rain, she turns off the fire.
Ben quickly gives Wanda a hand and picks her up, "I think he is gone," He replies looking towards Pyro has run away, "Are you okay," He asked her.
"Yes, I am alright," Wanda said. "Storm calmed down the situation," Jean said.
"Wanda, is Pyro after you?" Ben asked her.
"Yes, he is delivering a little message, from my father," Wanda replied.
"Magneto, what kind of message?" Jean asked her.
"He wants me to stop looking for him, and for his boy, my brother," Wanda explained.
"But Pietro is not hiding, he is back with the Brotherhood," Jean replied.
Wanda became quickly angry knowing it, "I'm going to trash him," She shouted in an angry mood.
"Calm down, Wanda, calm down," Jean tried to calm her, but she threw her hand from her shoulders and ran towards the Brotherhood house.
"Jean, you return, I will go with her," Ben replied, and he followed her.
"Don't follow me," Wanda shouted, her anger growing as the car started flying.
Ben used his powers and stopped it, "Calm down Wanda, I know you are hurt, I understand it," He held her hands, and tried to calm her down.
"No, you didn't understand my pain," Wanda tried to release her hand, but she wasn't able to do it.
"Ok, just you calm down, and I will help you in searching for Magneto, it's ok," Ben asked her, while he tightly hugged her, so she calmed down.
Hearing he helped her in finding Magneto, Wanda started calming down, while both went towards the Brotherhood of Mutants house.
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The old TV flickered, its signal stuttering like a heartbeat on the edge of failure.
Pietro Maximoff lounged on a tattered recliner like it was a throne. Static danced across the screen, but he didn't blink.
The rest of the Brotherhood tiptoed around him.
Frrd shuffled in, carrying a greasy plate of food. He held it out like an offering to a god.
"Hey, Pietro, I made you the sandwich—extra meat, like you said…"
Pietro didn't look. He sniffed the air, grimaced.
"That's turkey, Fred. I asked for roast beef. You think I run this place just to be disrespected?"
Fred froze, gulping. Pietro finally turned his head, his piercing eyes narrowing.
"Try again. And this time, maybe act like your brain isn't on vacation."
Fred retreated without a word, swallowing his pride.
Nearby, Todd stood on a wobbling stool, arms raised, holding the rusty antenna like a sacrificial relic. Sweat rolled down his forehead as sparks crackled on the screen.
"Higher. No, left. There — freeze. If I see one more flicker, you're holding that thing till next Tuesday."
The channel cleared. Pietro leaned back, triumphant, as news footage of mutant conflicts blared through the speakers.
Pietro laughed looking at them. "Ah… Finally, The world is in chaos, and I sit atop it."
A slow pan showed the room — crumbling walls, dim lights, a broken team — yet Pietro ruled it like a monarch in ruins. The others obeyed not out of loyalty, but fear.
The signal was perfect. Pietro was just starting to relax — his feet up, his smirk returning.
Then, Fred peeked in from the hallway, his eyes widened. He nervously told Pietro, "Uh… Pietro? You might wanna see this…"
Pietro annoyingly asked, "What now?"
He looked out the window — and froze.
Outside, Wana walked side-by-side with Ben.
Pietro's mouth went dry.
"Nope. Nope nope nope. Not today. Not her."
Fred asked, "What do we do?"
Pietro whispered in panicked tone, "Don't tell her I'm here! Don't even breathe my name!"
He then sprinted in super speed blurring his motion—into the hallway, yanked open a narrow supply closet, and wedged himself between a broom and a stack of old pizza boxes. He pulled the door shut with a soft click.
Seconds later, the front door creaked open. Wanda stepped inside like royalty returning to a neglected throne room. Ben followed behind her.
Wanda asked looking at the Brotherhood, "Where is he?"
Todd without hesitation replied. "In the Closet."
Pietro shouted, "TRAITOR!!"
Wanda extended a single hand toward the closet. Her fingers twisted subtly in the air. The closet door groaned, glowed red—and ripped off its hinges, revealing a curled-up, sheepish Pietro blinking in the light like a raccoon caught in a trash can.
Wanda crossed her arms, "Hello, brother."
Ben also gives a thumbs up, "Nice hiding spot. Cozy."
Pietro crawled out, "I-It's not what it looks like... I was just... doing a security sweep.
"In the broom closet?"
Pietro looked towards her, "I surrender."
The rest of the Brotherhood stood in stunned silence, watching the once-proud tyrant emerge, defeated.
"Okay, now I have no time to waste. Tell me, Pietro, where is Magneto?" She asked him, looking angry.
"Wanda, I didn't know, he only contacts me when he needs me," Pietro replied.
Wanda asks Pietro what the thing Pyro dropped was. Pietro doesn't know, but it looks like a Ski Lift ticket or something. Todd grabs it from Wanda's hand and notices arrows, which he says must mean Mt. Arrows, a local ski resort; he offers to take her there.
"No, I am going with Ben," She replied. She took Ben and went with him.
Wanda encounters Todd disguised as someone else on a trolley, leading to her using her powers to repel him. She notices Pyro and chases after him, who is snowboarding; ultimately, she notices him boarding a ski lift.
Ben is left behind, as he chases after her. While following Pyro, Wanda witnessed him heading towards a large metal sphere.
She entered, but the sphere closed, revealing Magneto's presence. Wanda was rendered unconscious by a gas released from the sphere; Ben observed her capture.
Wanda is restrained in a chair by Magneto, "I had expected that Pyro would leave a clue, which leads you here, now it's time for father and daughter to talk," He said.
"So explain to me, what do you want to talk about?" Wanda shouted in an angry mood.
"Wanda, leaving in the hospital, is one of most difficult things I have ever had to do. I now it's must hard on you," Magneto explained.
"Save it," Wanda rebuke him.
"Please understand, that's was for your own good," Magneto again persuaded.
"You never cared about me. Only about yourself, I am just something else on your way," Wanda again shouted.
"Wanda, I hope you start building a new relationship," Magneto said.
"Not, in this time," Wanda replied, prompting Magneto to employ Mastermind to alter her memories, transforming bad recollections into happy ones involving himself.
But as the Mastermind was going on the memory-alteration process on Wanda. Everything freezes there, except for Wanda.
"What are you doing here?" Magneto asked, noticing the familiar power, he knew who had appeared. He tried to use his powers, but was unable to do so.
"Ben, why did you come here?" Wanda asked, looking at Ben.
"I have said, I will help you, so I come here," Ben replied, then he looked toward Magneto. "From Wanda's childhood, you have not given her any happiness, but now you are trying to change her memories, which will damage her brain."
"Who are you to interfere in my daughter's business?" Magneto shouted back at him.
"I am her friend, not like some useless father, who even didn't try to see how her daughter is inside the hospital," Ben said, his tone carrying a hint of anger.
"If you were not her father, then today, I have killed you," He threatened.
"Kill me, hahahaha, how? Because X-Men never killed someone," Magneto laughed, he thought he heard the funniest joke, because he knows about the X-Men nature.
"Then I show you, it will hurts me, but for Wanda, I will do it," Ben said as he pointed his hand towards the Mastermind.
"Ben, you didn't need to do it," Wanda shouted, as she noticed Ben was going to do something harmful to him.
But Ben didn't reply, as he focused his powers on Time Forward, and the first time he used the Time Forward. "You have try to change her memories, then I will make you the memories forever," he said, and started forwarding his age.
Mastermind's body started aging rapidly, "It was not my fault, Magneto forced me, please don't do anything to me," he cried, but Ben didn't stop.
While a few seconds passed in reality. But for Mastermind it was years, he then died and even his bone and flesh vanished with time decaying.
This scene horrified Magneto and his partners, "What have you done? You know Charles never liked it," Magneto shouted at Ben, he was even now horrified by the scene.
"I hope, you didn't tell him, or the same result will happen to your son Pietro," Ben threatened him, as he released the Time Pause effects on Magneto, "Now open her hands," He shouted.
Magneto was still angry, but seeing his group life was in his hands, he opened Wanda's hand using his magnetic powers. Wanda was still angry at Magneto, she was going to fight him.
But then she noticed Ben was going to collapse, she understands it was overusing of powers, the same situation happened with when he used his powers at reversing the situation when Sentinel attacked on them.
"Wanda leaves from here, and forget about him," Ben said, Wanda nodded and both left Magneto and his group and went outside of the metal sphere.