Normal in every way
Agatha expresses her concern about Thomas and William, the descendants of a mutant and a synthesoid, shocking Wanda with the revelation that her children will disappear if she does not think about it (Avengers West Coast # 51). Wanda rejects Agatha’s accusation that the twins are not normal children, and refuses to believe that Thomas and William ‘simply cease to exist’ when Wanda is busy.
When Master Pandemonium attacks the Avengers with a horde of demons and kidnaps the twins, the villain reveals the super-demon Mephisto who scattered his soul after dividing it into five pieces. When Wonder Man mentions Betower – one of the classic sitcoms that influences WandaVision – An angry Wanda loses control and peeks at fellow Avenger the Wasp.
Immortus, one of the identities of Kang the Conquerer, looks from afar.
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One small step beyond illusion
Agatha reveals Wanda’s children were born out of her desire for a normal home, which makes them a manifestation of Wanda’s will through a combination of magic and her mutant powers. Because Vision is a sophisticated machine, Agatha explains, Wanda uses her probability-changing powers to enable the couple to start a family – but even Wanda’s great powers cannot create life (Avengers West Coast # 52).
The Avengers confront Master Pandemonium, who kidnaps Wanda and Vision’s children to replace the missing pieces of his soul – only to discover that Thomas and William have pieces of Mephisto’s soul once thought destroyed by Franklin Richards (Fantastic Four # 277). When the demon reabsorbs his missing pieces and restores his being at the expense of Wanda who loses her children, Agatha defeats Mephisto by erasing the twins from Wanda’s memory.
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As if they never were
Agatha explains: “Wanda has longed all her life for the kind of normal existence that has denied her forever through her mutant powers. She so longed for a family – in her mind the perfect symbol of a peaceful, happy life – that “she suffered what a human woman would have had a hysterical or imaginary pregnancy. In such cases, there is usually no child to be born … but Wanda’s power to change probabilities created Thomas and William.” A twin, you see, doubles the fulfillment of her dream., she subconsciously reached out to capture everything that would function as souls for the newborns.What she captured, still greatly weakened by their recent separation, were two of the missing pieces of Mephisto! ”
To spare Wanda the pain of losing her children, Agatha closes her mind and makes it so that the twins were ‘never’ for Wanda (Avengers West Coast # 52).
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Darker than Scarlet
Awakened after almost unrest (almost)Avengers West Coast # 53), Agatha watches over a reacting Wanda when Magneto – Wanda’s mutated supervillain father, a relationship that would be contacted again decades later – takes her off the earth (Avengers # 313). Wanda’s nervous breakdown becomes vicious when she returns to California and attacks the Avengers (Avengers West Coast # 55).
Agatha, who is trying to reason with her student, tells Wanda that her thoughts are incessant due to recent tragedies. Wanda tells of the captured Avengers that her ability to change probabilities means she can reform the universe at will (Avengers West Coast # 56). With just one thought, Wanda can actually transform her slightest whims into reality.
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From pawn to queen
After working with Magneto and her twin brother Pietro (Avengers West Coast # 57), Wanda allies with Magneto despite Quicksilver’s attempt to save her. Immortus continues his plot to rule for centuries as the master of time and puts Wanda under a trance during a battle with the Avengers.
Just as Quicksilver begins to suspect that Magneto has been manipulated by someone more powerful than himself, the time traveler reveals himself and takes Wanda as his queen (Avengers West Coast # 60).
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Revelations
Immortus transports the Avengers to Limbo, where he defeats the Earth’s most powerful heroes against ‘zombied’ enemies who form the Legion of the Unliving to prevent them from interfering in matters essential to the topicality of many realities – including, in particular, these, “(Avengers West Coast # 61).
Agatha, the half-hearted Immortus, was behind Wanda’s misfortunes – her increased powers, her growing alienation from humanity and her non-existent children – and is aware that the timelines of the earth are in danger of unraveling.
Immortus reveals that an almighty trio called The Time Keepers – who could enter the MCU Loki – appointed him as custodian of the time stream for the period he lived as Kang: from 3000 BC to 4000 AD. Its task: to monitor all time travel spanning seven millennia, while realizing the realities brought about by different Kangs in exchange for total mastery over seventy centuries.
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The final fate of the Scarlet Witch
Finally, Immortus reveals that he has been manipulating Wanda’s life for years because the Scarlet Witch is a Nexus creature, one that belongs equally to all possible timelines and all realities and deviations. Through Wanda’s power, all futures can be protected and controlled by Immortus, the self-proclaimed master of the time.
Immortus explains that his orchestration of Wanda’s tragedies and the resulting trauma would make her susceptible to his powerful and indispensable puppet (Avengers West Coast # 61 and # 62).
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Dooming the Multiverse
Agatha’s astral form seeks to reach the enchanted Wanda, who is transformed into a living power source for Immortus. Agatha encourages her to take the excess power that Immortus has cultivated in her from her side and desperately tells Wanda that she will be useless to him without changing the probability of cosmic timelines. When Wanda’s love for her teammates wakes her from her trance, Immortus curses Agatha for creating new aberrations that he says will ‘sow irreversible devastation over countless realities that already exist’ – which could possibly condemn the entire Multiverse.
While Wanda tries to withdraw the power within herself, thus preventing a cosmic disaster, the Time Keepers intervene and prevent her from taking back those powers (Avengers West Coast # 62).
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Future danger
The Time Keepers tell Immortus that his only duty was the ultimate transformation of a particular Nexus creature – the Scarlet Witch – into a power source. They explain: Immortus then uses the power over probabilities to protect important events must can take place on different timelines to ensure a certain future, including one in which the Time Keepers have a vested interest (Avengers West Coast # 62).
According to the trio, Immortus can only use an existing Nexus creature, not create one. When Wanda was able to reject her hex power, they had to intervene. “If this power were to wreak havoc between the timelines,” they warn, “all future would be in jeopardy – even that in which we ourselves were created!”
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The Greater Good
When Immortus reveals that the Time Keepers never told him exactly what future he was protecting, they tell the Avengers that their selfless actions were to ‘the greater well-being of the cosmos’.
“If we were to cease to exist due to distorted timelines, the loss to the Multiverse would be huge,” says the Time Keepers, who send the mutant energy expelled by Scarlet Witch to Immortus. They condemn him to an immovable existence in limbo, transform into the same powerful energy container he wanted to be Wanda, and Wanda returns to the Avengers (Avengers West Coast # 62).
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