scarlet_chaos | The Preserve | Sunday Afternoon

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The Preserve | Sunday Afternoon

Wanda had been studying enough to be fairly confident she could help Jane out with training without causing a disaster on the island. Still, she was going to be as safe about this as possible, putting up a shield around their little area of the preserve not unlike the one she had created around Westview. Only, you know, smaller and not trapping people against their will.

Surely between the two of them they'd be able to handle anything that could go wrong in this scenario. Jane had the power of Thor, and Wanda was the Scarlet Witch; that had to count for something.

[That Wanda and Jane were hanging out in the woods is fine to broadcast, but what they're actually doing is NFB]

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Oh, for sure!

Jane, as a reward for totally helping train a potential new Avenger, brought coffees. "I had to make the baristas promise it wasn't red Koolaid or SunnyD instead of water like last time," she said, frowning down at them like she'd been so totally betrayed there.

"They did what now?" Wanda asked. "Was it caffeinated at least?"

"Wednesday was a weird one," Jane said, making a face. "If it was caffeinated, it was not worth the pain."

"Yeah, definitely not worth it," Wanda agreed, happily accepting normal coffee. "Thanks. I might actually need the caffeine for this."

"You're helping me out here, so it's really the least I could do," Jane said with a smile.

"It's a mutual helping," Wanda assured her. "I've never done this before, and I always like to learn something new."

Even if that something new was possibly morally questionable.

It was only morally questionable once murders happened!

"How does it work?" Jane had to ask.

"So, I've got us set up under a barrier here," she said, gesturing to the dome above them. "I can make it bigger if you want, but I was trying not to trap someone on a Sunday hike by accident."

That would have been a rude awakening for them.

"I've been studying how to manifest demons using magic. I can give them some basic orders--like going after you--but outside of that they're their own entity, making their own decisions. Once I conjure one it's going to be there until you defeat it."

"Okay," Jane said, considering the bubble thoughtfully as she twirled Mjolnir in her hand like a sort of tic now that it was hers. "That sounds doable. Just smash 'em with the hammer. Simple, right?"

"That's usually how Thor does it," Wanda said. "Even demons aren't immune to that."

Wanda lifted her hands, red power already building up in her palms. "So, uh, I'm gonna stay out of your way but if you need help...should we have a safe word or something? Or you just yell my name a lot?"

"I think the name thing should work," Jane replied, having a helmet form up onto her face. Because weird magic. And CGI.

"Okay. Here goes nothing." The spell required wasn't a difficult one, but since it was new it required more time and energy than usual.

The demon she created wasn't huge or anything, but it was larger than Jane, larger than the Hulk too. It was almost crab-like in appearance, if crabs glowed orange and had runes written all over them.

With one last strong psychic push urging the monster to go after Jane, Wanda lowered her hands and took a few steps back.

Mazel tov, it was a crab demon.

"Let's get cracking!" Jane said, then sighed and made a face. "No, that'll only work on crustaceans. Sorry! I'm really working on a battle cry, you know?"

It was a choice, really.

Maybe focus on the damn, demonic crab there, Jane. It was definitely making murderous pinchy jabs at her now.

Wanda winced at that attempt at a battle cry. "Yeah, uh, maybe lay off the puns!"

Really, the world could only handle so many punny superheroes.

"And watch your limbs!" Lest they be snapped off.

"It just feels like all the good ones are taken!" Jane shouted over to her, bringing the hammer down on onto of those claws. Pinchy, pinchy claws.

"Nice hit!" Wanda called. "Maybe something lightning themed?"

"You know, I thought about that," Jane said, continuing that with an upswing of the hammer to toss the crab demon away. "But then you run into copyright issues."

Maybe don't pick classic rock lyrics then, Jane.

"Oh yeah." Wanda definitely had a case against the Crimson Countess in another universe...if she hadn't been killed horribly a couple months ago.

"It too much?" Wanda asked. "I can try to buff him up a bit if you need more of a challenge."

"Let's buff him up a little." Jane, no.

"Let me see what I can do." Messing with already iffy magic? That was Wanda's specialty! The Darkhold was probably very pleased with these proceedings.

The crab demon thing grew larger, and now its shell was armored.

"That... looks a lot scarier," Jane admitted, twirling Mjolnir and having sparks of lightning coming off of it before she threw the hammer at it, only for it to be blocked by the armor and redirected past it into the red barrier.

Wanda...actually hadn't been too sure what would happen during the whole shield versus hammer scenario. Luckily it held and didn't let loose a crab demon on the town.

"Oh thank god."

Maybe ~~the power level necessary for the story~~ Stormbreaker would be different! It was hard to say.

"Okay, this is tougher," Jane admitted, recalling the hammer to her hand. She twirled it again before swinging it without coming anywhere near the crab, but it kinda just felt right.

And that was how she learned that Mjolnir could shatter again, forming little, godly projectiles to shoot through the edges of the crab demon's armor and into the delicious (and still demonic) crab meat therein.

"Oh!"

"Whoa!" Wanda said, eyebrows lifting. "What the hell was that?"

Did we know that was a thing? Thor should have used it before.

"That was new!" Jane promised, pulling the handle closer to yoink those chunks back on out. Which just meant she totally did a murder on that crab demon. Unless it could live through magic shrapnel. Which, you know, a note for future use. "Wow, I didn't not know it could do that."

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