Peter Maximoff: The Man, The Myth, The LEGEND

Long Lost Sis Get to Squeeze Her Stinkin' Brother to Death or What?

"This message is for Rip Hunter. I am going to make this very quick, and very simple. If I can't find you, I can find those you love," The Pilgrim started. Images of all of their loved ones showed on the screens.

"Anna?" Ray said. Huh, that must've been his fiance Peter thought. Then the image switched back to the Pilgrim. She pulled a guy up by his neck, as well as a young girl.

"Dad!" Jax yelled.

"Wendy?" Peter asked. It was the first time he had seen his sister in 34 years, she had died when they were 15.

"All of them will suffer and die because of you. Your family, friends, anyone you've ever cared about, unless you surrender your younger selves to me," The Pilgrim continued.

"So she can erase you all from history," Rip said.

"If it's of any comfort, you won't feel a thing. As for your loved ones, I can not promise the same thing." With that, the transmission turned off.

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So, they made a deal. Rip would turn over his younger self, making it so he never became a Time Master, therefore never creating the Legends. Peter, though, had another idea. But, he couldn't say anything to the team and risk it all going wrong.

So, they walked into the warehouse and met with Rip's mother, as well as the Pilgrim.

"Where's my dad?" Jax asked.

"And where's my sister?" Peter asked.

"On board my ship. Along with the rest. All in perfect condition. As long as your captain honours your end of the bargain." The Pilgrim stated.

"You'd murder a child?" Rip asked.

"I'd murder as many children as is necessary to acomplish my mission." She stated.

"Do you know what this will do to the timeline, killing a Time Master?" Stein asked.

"In case you've forgotten, I am sanctioned by the Time Masters to do what my former colleague Chronos here failed to do." She said, looking over at Mick.

"Enough of that. Let's get down to business," Rip said.

"Where's the rest of your group?" The Pilgrim asked, looking around for them.

"They're around," Rip replied. She paused for a second.

"I'll be taking the boy."

"Before you do that, we don't believe for a second their loved ones are on your ship," Mick said.

"A show of good faith, then. A prisoner exchange. Send the boy, and I'll send the father and sister. Once I have the future Captain Hunter in my possession, then I'll release the rest." She raised a futuristic remote, and pressed a button. Wendy and Jax's dad appeared out of thin air.

'Wanda!' Peter reached out with his mind. 'Wanda, can you hear me? It's Pietro.'

'Yes, I can hear you, Pietro. What is it?' Wendy responded, also in his mind.

'Wanda, I have a plan.'

'What's your plan?'

'Once the man standing next to you is out of harm's way, I'll yell "Wendy now!" And you'll have to encase her in your magic. Can you do that?'

'Yes, I can. I'll wait for your signal, Pietro. I trust you.'

"And I trust you, Wanda. Thank you.' With that, Peter and Wanda stopped their mental chat. Peter had known that she had her magic because she responded when he was reaching out for her. Peter realised that they had only missed a couple seconds of the conversation that was going on around them.

"You don't need to understand. Only walk." The Pilgrim shoved Wendy and Jax's dad forward.

"You are going to be absolutely fine, I promise," Rip said to his younger self. Young Rip started walking towards the Pilgrim, and Wendy and Jax's dad started walking towards them.

"You wanted to see me? Have I done something wrong, miss?" Young Rip asked.

"Not. Yet." She responded.

"Now!" Ray yelled into their comms.

"Wendy now!" Peter yelled, obviously confusing the rest of his team. Wendy turned around and held down the Pilgrim with her magic. It was obvious that she was struggling though.

"Peter, I can't hold her for much longer, so whatever it is you're going to do, do it now!" Wendy yelled, and his team all shot at the Pilgrim at the same time. Since she was being held down by Wendy's magic, she was unable to stop all of them, and she was literally reduced to ash. Wendy stopped using her magic, and ran to hug Peter.

"Come on, let's get everybody and get back to the ship," Peter said. 'And you can take a nap in my room. I know how much that probably took out of you,' he then thought to Wanda. She nodded, and everyone went to get the others off of the Pilgrim's ship. They then all headed back to the Waverider. Peter led Wendy to his room before heading to the bridge to talk with the team.

"Care explaining what that was?" Sara asked him, once he walked onto the bridge. He sighed.

"That was my sister's powers. She has magic," Peter explained, shortly.

"Why didn't you tell us that she was going to do that?" Ray asked.

"Because there were a few things that determined whether or not she would have been able to help. Whether or not the Pilgrim brought her out with Jax's dad, how old she was when the Pilgrim took her, and whether or not she would've trusted me," Peter said, and the others seemed to understand.

"Wait- how did you guys even coordinate that? There's no way you guys could have talked about a plan," Jax said.

"Part of her magic is telepathy, so when I saw that she came out I reached out to her with my mind to see if she had her powers, and if she would help us," Peter said.

"Why wasn't she recruited, too?" Kendra asked, and Peter hesitated with the answer.

"Because... She died when we were 15. An experiment went wrong and blew up our science classroom during our science class, and she was killed. I was at home that day, taking care of our little sister, who was sick," Peter explained. They were the first people he had talked about her with ever since her death. It was weird for him. He was talking about her in the past tense while she was on the ship, in his room.

There was an awkward silence, then they all went to talk to their loved ones and explain everything that was going on. They gave them all the amnesia pills, and brought them back to their times.

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