In which you figure out what's been going on with Wanda pt. 2 (Alternate Ending)
After all the crazy nonsense between Wanda and the town of Westview, I'd finally decided to confront her. I came into the kitchen to see her already there.
"I spoke with Norm," I started.
"Oh?"
"I unearthed the man's suppressed personality and I spoke to him free of your oversight."
Her eyes narrowed as she took in what I said. "He was in pain, Wanda."
"Y/n," she chuckled lightly. "Listen can we just..."
"What?" I asked, tired of the excuses. "Watch tv? Turn in for the night so that you can change everything over again? No, Wanda! You can't control me the way you do them."
Her head tilted sinisterly. "Can't I?"
I was shocked at her behavior. Who was this woman? This cruel woman that was okay with keeping other humans under her control. This couldn't be my Wanda.
"I'm going to bed." She said before trying to leave the kitchen.
"No! We're not done here!" I yelled. "What is the Maximoff anomaly?"
"The what?" She asked. I walked toward her slowly.
"I have to believe that this, whatever this is, was subconscious at first and that you only recently became aware of it."
"Aware of what?" She asked, trying once again to leave.
"Norm has a family, Wanda!" I yelled. I never wanted to yell at Wanda, but the way she was acting was almost psychotic. "He has a family, and he can't reach them because you won't let him reach them!"
She turned quickly. "I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Stop lying to me!" My anger got the best of me and I rose unconsciously.
"This, all of this is for us!" She rose as she spoke to me with coldest tone I'd ever heard from her. "So let me handle it."
"What is outside of Westview?"
"You don't wanna know, I promise you."
I became increasingly frustrated with her. "You don't get to make that choice for me, Wanda!"
She looked taken aback. "You've never talked to me like this before."
"Before what?" I asked, scrambling my brain for a time before we were in this house, in this town. "Before what? I can't remember my life before Westview! I don't know who I am! I'm scared!"
"You," she was now on the ground speaking in a calm tone. "Are my wife. You are Tommy and Billy's mother. Isn't that enough?"
The children. I couldn't help but wonder if she was controlling the children the same way she was controlling the others. I wondered if she was controlling other children and putting them through the same pain. And that's when it dawned on me that I hadn't seen any children since we arrived here.
"Wanda, why are there no other children in Westview?"
"Oh god!" She walked away. "There are! Just stop it!"
I walked to work and there were no children, we went to parks and there were no children. I don't even think any of our neighbors have children. She had to know why so I asked.
"Do you really think that I am controlling everything?" She sat on the couch. "That I am somehow in charge of everybody in Westview? I'm walking their dogs, mowing their lawns, getting them to dentist appointments on time?"
I watched her as she danced around my questions with excuses.
"I don't know how any of this started in the first place."
"Wanda," I spoke. "What you're doing here, it's wrong. It is wrong."
And suddenly, the doorbell rang and outside of the door was none other than her long lost brother that I only vaguely knew about. And just like that, we were back in her little tv show.
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After quarreling with what I believe to be a replicated version of myself, we engaged in conversation. This being was created of the parts of my original form. My real form.
"Why are you doing this?" I questioned.
"My programming told me to destroy the vision."
His voice was identical to mine. Only colder and lacking in emotion. Emotion I'd earned over time. I dodged his attacks and maneuvered him into a headlock.
"But I'm not the true vision," I spoke. "Only a conditional vision."
He let himself out of my hold and said "I request elaboration."
He and I were finally able to regain our composure and have a civilized conversation.
"You are familiar with the thought experiment that ship of Theseus in the field of identity metaphysics?"
"Naturally." He answered.
"The ship of Theseus is an artifact in a museum. Over time it's planks of wood rot and are replaced with new planks. When no original plank remains, is it still the ship of Theseus?" I spoke. "Secondly, if those removed planks are restored and reassembled free of the rot, is that the ship of Theseus?"
"Neither is the true ship." He looked down. "Both are the true ship."
"Well then we are agreed."
After returning his memories, his eyes were finally clear from the newfound knowledge. Metaphorically and physically.
"I am Vision." Is all he said before lifting himself away.
I realized just then, that I was also the real vision and that I couldn't lose my family. Wanda, the boys and I could continue to live together without the pain and exploitation of other people.
There has to be a way.
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We watched as her glamor started to come down through the window of the boys' bedroom. Wanda thought that this was the end, but I'd figured out a way to let us continue.
"Wanda," I turned to her. "Who am I?"
"You're Vision." She said as her hand caressed my face. "You are the piece of the mind stone that lives in me."
And that was all I needed.
I brought her hand to the "stone" in my head. Just as I started to fade with the rest of the town, I used it. I used the stone to manifest myself back into my original body.
"Vision!" Was all I heard before my eyes opened.
My memories flooded back into my mind. The memories from my original form and the memories from this form. The form built and dismantled by the government. I searched around for where I was and saw that I was only a few miles away from Swellview.
I was me again.
I changed my white form back into my red form and flew back to where Wanda stood.
"Vision!" I heard again as I landed. "But how? I swear I'm not doing this! If I am, I'm not controlling it! Visio-"
I cut her off with a kiss.
"It's me, Wanda," I smiled. "For good. I am the ship and the rot."
"But-" I cut her off again and wiped the tears that now flooded her face.
"I'll explain," I grabbed her hands. "But first let's get us to a secure location."
She nodded and together we flew away from our home of Westview.
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Author: this is how I wish it'd ended :(