As Matt walked out the courtroom, he stood outside the steps and made a call to Peter to find out where Wanda could be, but he didn't answer his phone. He then called Professor Charles Xavier for answers.

Professor X: Mr. Murdock, I was expecting your call soon enough. I assume you want to know if Wanda came to us.

Matt: I managed to make an agreement with the authorities. If we can have her appear in court in three hours, they will allow me to provide necessary evidence to ensure her safety by transferring her to another location. If Wanda is at the mansion it would be great, but I was wondering if you could use that mind thing of yours to find out where she might be.

Professor X: If I was able to use Cerebro I would've done so immediately, but for some reason I cannot access her at all. Something is blocking her, and I think I know who. As for her location, Jean just called in and confirmed she is on her way here with Mrs. Maximoff.

Matt: That's great. I'll meet you there. Then we can... talk about that other thing blocking you from accessing her. What will you do when she gets there?

Professor X: The most important thing first, welcome her in like family, which is something she desperately needs in the state she is in, then work on suppressing the sudden outbursts that her powers have been creating lately. That should probably be done when you arrive.

Matt: Whatever you do, you have to keep her there. We cannot afford to let her run away and risk the trial to be canceled. We got one shot, three hours, or she might be spending her entire life in the raft.

Professor X: Understood.

The professor put down the communication device and looked at Pietro standing beside him.

Pietro: Who was that?

Professor X: Her lawyer.

Pietro: There's gonna be a trial? Why am I only now finding this out?

Professor X: The first day of the trial is supposed to have taken place already, but for obvious reasons there has been a complication. They're giving us three hours to make her appear in court, or she will spend the rest of her life at the raft.

Pietro felt a cold chill through his spine. After what the professor told him about what she went through in there, he was determined to never allow her to go back there ever again.

Pietro: Then we MUST take her once she arrives with Jean.

Professor X: Only after we tended to her.

The Future

Cable arrived with Vision in a closed off camp filled with members of a resistance group with Vision. But the camp was overrun with hordes of loyalists and the members were forced to defend themselves. It was a battleground. Vision looked around in confusion, and saw a familiar face between them. Doctor Strange.

Cable: Oh no... How long was I gone?

Cable whipped out his blaster and began shooting the loyalists. Vision joined the fight and took them out one by one, he was more powerful than he had ever been, but there were too many.

Doctor Strange opened a portal in front of Cable and Vision.

Doctor Strange: Jump through! Now!

They didn't hesitate for a second and they both jumped through the portal to an open wasteland.

Cable: When did they find us? Where are the rest?

Doctor Strange: Most of us fled away and found refuge in another camp outside the borders of the big city, but I stayed... I see you brought what I asked.

Cable: As you said, there is no other way.

Vision: Pardon me but... Where are we? Why are you still alive and what is going on?

Doctor Strange: There's not much time to explain everything but I will try to make a long story short. You're in a future time, on a world outside of the known multiverse. Some call it battleworld, but it goes by many names. This world is where everything in existence comes together as one. That camp is... Was... the main base of operations for our resistance. As for why I'm alive... I assumed everyone would think I died at Transia, but I was brought here through a hole in spacetime by your fiancé--

Vision: Wife.

Doctor Strange: It's been that long huh...

Vision: Look, I don't know what's happening here, but I need to go back. Wanda is in danger! I can't leave her.

Cable: Wanda is the reason we're in this mess in the first place.

Doctor Strange: That might be a bit of an oversimplification, and out of line...

He looked sternly at Cable.

Doctor Strange: But he's right... Vision, we brought you here because that blood stone in your head might be our only shot at saving Wanda of THIS time. You might be our only shot at saving her. Saving her means saving everything, though I wonder if there is anything left of her sanity.

Vision: Wanda of this time? So that means she's still alive? Here? In the future?

Cable: She's being kept alive because her powers are all that keeps battleworld from falling apart.

Vision: Kept alive? By who?

A drone suddenly spotted them in the wasteland and shined a spotlight over them.

"Unauthorized personell will be terminated. Submit or be destroyed. Scanning..."

Doctor Strange: That's not good. Since when are these things patrolling this sector?

Vision: What's it doing?

Doctor Strange: It's scanning our temporal aura.

"Targets identified. Stephen Strange of Universe-199999, Cable of Universe-15730, Vision of Universe-199999, temporal aura locked."

The drone began shooting at them, but Vision instantly destroyed it with a red beam from the stone in his head.

Doctor Strange: There will be more on the way.

Vision: Why don't we just open a portal?

Doctor Strange: The hivemind already has our temporal aura. No matter where we go, they will find us. Cable, you know what to do.

Cable: He would know it was us. I'd be hacking into the system and erasing our data.

Vision: Who is "he"?

Doctor Strange: Then don't just scramble our data. Scramble it all. Every temporal aura they have locked.

Vision: Why not just go back in time by a few minutes?

Cable: It's not possible to travel through time on battleworld itself. He made sure of that.

Vision: Who?

(This sub-plot continues in AVENGERS Secret Wars)

Present day
The X-Mansion

Jean arrived at the X-Mansion with Wanda still unconscious in her arms. Professor X, Pietro and Beast stood ready to receive her. Pietro immediately ran towards Wanda laying in Jean's arms. He then saw the state her body was in.

Pietro: Wanda! Wanda it's me. It's Pietro. I'm here.

Jean: She won't hear you.

Professor X: Jean, what happened?

Jean explained everything to them while putting her on the couch.

Jean Grey: She lashed out in fear and confusion, I tried calming her, but then I saw... terrible things... when I looked into her head. Things I cannot forget.

Beast: Is that why she's unconscious?

Jean Grey: No. Spider-Man was there, but he was taken. Some kind of portal opened up, and another one stepped out. Wanda tried to stop him but the portal closed just before she could follow them, which blasted her into the opposite direction. Her arm was glitching and she lost consciousness.

Beast: Curious...

Pietro: Did you say another Spider-Man showed up? From like another... world?

Jean Grey: Yes.

Pietro: Where are they now?

Jean Grey: No idea.

Professor X: You say her arm glitched? What did it look like?

Jean Grey: When a part of her arm came in contact with the portal just before it closed, her arm just began like... glitching. As if it was slipping through space and time in milliseconds before going back to normal.

Pietro took her other arm and saw all the bruises. Some of which partially healed because of her powers slowly returning, but even if her powers were at full potential, the more she uses it to heal herself or someone else, she slowly loses access to the primordial energies that her power taps into.

Pietro: Is she going to be okay?

Professor X: To tell you the truth... I do not know. Without even talking about the state she is in and that monster that seems to have been behind it all, the world is hunting her down, and I do not know how we can legally free her from all of this. But we should never lose hope.

Pietro: There has to be something we can do! We can't just let that monster run free and do what he wants! He's the reason she's in this mess!

Professor X: I have contacted the Fantastic Four as well as the Avengers. They are currently using all of their satellites at their disposal to find him. Carol Danvers is searching the globe as we speak.

Baxter Building

The Fantastic Four was in Reed (Mr. Fantastic)'s lab looking everywhere on the satellite feed.

Thing: So the Professor said this man is like a monster?

Mr. Fantastic: Something like that. I have done some of my own research and found some interesting things about this guy. Only problem is... They are all folktales and myths.

He opened a tab on the computer which he previously had open.

Mr. Fantastic: It says here although he has been banished from our realm, he still had a lot of influence due to the darkhold which he wrote. Some of these writings claim that he took on many forms throughout history by directly controlling a corrupted person, and essentially shaped our world by influencing every large historical event, without ever being physically there.

Thing: Impossible.

He opened multiple tabs on the computer of ancient texts talking about Chthon.

Mr. Fantastic: Some say he was the most trusted adviser to Genghis Khan, others say he guided Julius Caesar through the Gallic Wars. One of these claim that he was there for all of it. Even World War 2.

Sue Storm: Which means... He could've been behind the Incursion War as well.

Mr. Fantastic: In hindsight, he already was. If he did, in fact, write the darkhold, as it is said in these texts, that means he was the cause of Wanda's brief corruption and the incursion last year. Now he's back somehow, and he wants to finish his goal.

Sue Storm: But what is his goal?

Mr. Fantastic: What they all want. Power most likely.

Johnny ran into the lab, holding an orb in his hands.

Johnny Storm: Guys! You will not believe what I just found in my quarters!

Thing: Not now, Johnny!

Johnny Storm: No, look!

He put the orb on the counter and pressed a button on top. A holographic recorded message appeared on top of it, showing The Watcher.

Mr. Fantastic: The Watcher?

Sue Storm: Reed, look at the date of the recording.

Mr. Fantastic: April 25th... 2035!?

Sue Storm: Things just got a whole lot more complicated...