Magda bit her lower lip and finally reached out to give Solomon's hand a light shake. Then, with some difficulty, she picked up the unconscious Pietro:
"Please give me a few minutes. I'll pack our belongings."
"Go ahead. Just pack a few clothes with sentimental value. As for everything else, Vought International will provide you with the most luxurious set in America."
Magda carefully carried Pietro inside and settled him down. Solomon followed at an unhurried pace, his gaze sweeping over the dim living room. Only then did he discover, to his surprise, that a little girl was hiding behind the doorframe of the inner room.
Wanda Maximoff!
Solomon's gaze sharpened slightly. Magneto's daughter, Pietro's younger sister, and most importantly, the Scarlet Witch in another world!
Under his vast psychic perception, however, the X-Gene inside the timid little girl before him was like a pool of stagnant water, completely dormant and unactivated.
At this point in this universe's timeline, Wanda was merely an ordinary person, not the terrifying Scarlet Witch who could warp reality.
Yet as he looked at the young Wanda, a gleam flashed in Solomon's eyes.
A bold idea surfaced in his mind. If he injected her with Compound V to activate her X-Gene, what superpower would she awaken?
If he got lucky and she truly awakened Scarlet Power or Chaos Magic through this, he would have hit the ultimate jackpot in the Marvel Universe!
After all, once Wanda truly mastered Scarlet Power, Quicksilver, who had only just awakened super speed, would be utterly insignificant beside her.
Across the entire X-Men universe, the only force that could truly rival Scarlet Power's ability to alter reality was the ancient and terrifying Phoenix Force.
As for all those other mutants with their flashy tricks?
Before absolute power, they were all