❝ Kinetic Replication: The ability to use the effects of motion and force to replicate yourself ❞

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chapter two,
THE ESCAPE

——— APRIL 27TH, 2015 would be the day the newly Maximoff-Stark was finally going to reunite with his father and things would be normal again. At least that's what he thought.

Odysseus was still coming to terms with the fact that his life was a lie, and that had had siblings, twins at that. He didn't know what to think. What was worse was that Wanda and Pietro hated his father because he was the cause of said twins' lives. When they were just children, a Stark Industries weapon bombed their little apartment and killed their parents. They thought Odysseus had been killed too...

Odysseus watched as the twins comforted each other while overhearing that the HYDRA based was under attack. I wonder who is trying to take down HYDRA, the Stark-Maximoff male inquired. Little did he know it was his father.

"Who gave the order of the attack?" Strucker asked.

"Herr Strucker," said a soldier, "it's the Avengers."

Odysseus's eyes lightly widened in shock, a wave of relief overflowing him. As he silently thought to himself without trying to not seem so happy, another soldier approached Strucker and told him, "They landed in the far woods. The perimeter guard panicked." The soldier walked off before Strucker glanced back to his right, hand man, Doctor List.

"They have to be after the scepter," he said before he glanced back at the group of soldiers and computers. "Can we hold them?"

"They're the Avengers."

Odysseus suppressed the urge to smirk and say, Yeah, they are.

"Deploy the rest of the tanks. Concentrate fire on the weak ones. A hit may make them close ranks," Strucker ordered and with the soldiers quickly getting to work around them, he turned back to Doctor List. "Everything we've accomplished... we are on the verge of our greatest breakthrough."

"Then let's show them what we've accomplished," Doctor List told him. "Send out the siblings."

Odysseus and Wanda overheard the doctors.

"It's too soon," Strucker said.

"It's what they signed up for... at least the twins did," Doctor List said and Odysseus felt his fists clenching. Yeah, the twins volunteered, but he was taken.

"My men can hold them," Strucker assured before addressing the room of people. "We will not yield! The Americans have sent their circus freaks to test us. We will send them back in bags..."

As Strucker continued to speak, Odysseus suddenly began to feel very odd, his vision blurring out. When it refocused itself, he found himself standing on a street of some kind of suburbs. He glanced around confused until he looked up to the sky, finding two individuals floating in the sky with red and green magic glowing around them. The longer he stared at them, the longer he seemed to realize that the figures looked like him... and Wanda, with crowns of both emerald and red.

"The scepter..."

"The child of Odin..."

Odysseus blinked and found himself standing back in the HYDRA Base, watching Strucker and Doctor List talk again. He had... blanked out... and had some sort of vision about him and Wanda. He had no idea what that meant, but he didn't have time to figure it out either.

He felt a pair of hands grab him and he abruptly disappeared, leaving a trail of emerald sparks behind him.

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——— WITH GUNFIRE AND BITTER COLD SURROUNDING HIM, Hawkeye, or better known as Clint Barton, ran through the forest alone. Quick and calculated, he hid behind a tree when he heard gunshots in the distance. He waited a moment before quickly pulling an arrow into his bowstring and glanced around the tee. He pulled back the arrow, breathed, and then released it. However... the arrow didn't hit the tank in the distance. Instead, it was snatched midair by a trail of light blue and green sparks.

Barton quickly turned back around his tree, his mind racing at what he just saw. With his brows furrowed confused, he placed another arrow in his bowstring and stepped out from his hiding place.

However, just before he released the arrow, he was knocked down by the flash of blue and green sparks. He hit the ground with a harsh thud and when he looked up, he was shocked to see Odysseus strutting past him, following behind Pietro, who held an amused smirk.

"You didn't see that coming?" they both asked.

Odysseus faltered for a moment, contemplating whether or not he should go back to try and help Barton, but then remembered his true mission. He wanted to make sure Strucker got what was coming for him, even if that meant betraying and manipulating his new siblings and the Avengers a bit.

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——— ON THE HYDRA BASE, Strucker had ran up a flight of stairs, attempting to escape when he came to a sharp halt when a knocked out soldier was thrown in front of him from another room. He looked up to find Captain America had walked into the room, staring the leader down.

"Baron Strucker," he said. "Hydra's #1 thug."

"Technically, I'm a thug for SHIELD," Strucker told him as Captain America walked around him like a predator on prey.

"Well, then technically, you're unemployed," Captain America told him. "Where's Loki's scepter?"

"Don't worry," Strucker sighed. "I know when I'm beat."

Suddenly, two pairs of eyes in the shadows behind them appeared; one of crimson, the other of the emerald shade of green: a sight of pure anger, frustration and sadness in one form of Odysseus Stark and Wanda Maximoff.

"...You'll mention how I cooperated, I hope," Strucker continued.

"I'll put it right under, 'illegal human experimentation'," Captain America told him. "How many are there?"

Odysseus stood by and watched as Wanda conjured a red telekinetic blast that pushed Captain America down the stairs behind him. She then quickly disappeared before Captain America ran back up the stairs, however, he spotted a glimpse of her before she disappeared.

"We have a second Enhanced. Female. Do not engage," Captain America said into comms before he looked over at Strucker.

"You'll have to be faster than..."

Captain America slammed his foot down on his shield that laid on the ground, and it flew up, hitting Strucker in the head, instantly knocking him out. As he dropped to the ground, Odysseus's brows raised in surprise.

Captain America then glanced over at Odysseus, and narrowed his eyes. The boy seemed familiar to a certain billionaire he knew...

"There are three enhanced individuals. Do not engage."

"My, oh, my. The Captain America in the flesh," Odysseus spat, his voice filled with sarcasm.

"Who are you?" the blonde haired man asked.

"Who I am is none of your business," Odysseus replied. "Not yet at least, but my truth will be revealed soon. Count on that for sure, Steven Grant Rogers. Nice to meet you, Cap."

And with that, Odysseus disappeared back into the shadows, leaving Captain America standing alone in shock.

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After weaving through the chaos of the HYDRA base, he found Wanda standing in a corridor. She was entirely focused, her crimson magic swirling from her palms and into the mind of Iron Man.

Odysseus froze, confusion flickering across his face. What is she doing to my father?

He stepped closer, watching as Tony Stark stood there, immobilized, his expression vacant and glassy. Whatever vision Wanda had forced upon him, Odysseus couldn't look away.

When Tony finally snapped out of his trance, Wanda let her hands drop, her magic dissipating like smoke.

Odysseus glanced at her, speaking directly into her mind. What did you just do to him, saestra? [ Sister. ]

Wanda flinched, startled by his Sokovian accent. She turned toward him, her expression unreadable, but before she could answer, Tony strode toward the scepter.

The siblings watched silently as the billionaire retrieved it, the weight of the weapon heavy in his hands. Then, without a word, Tony disappeared, leaving the Maximoff twins—and Odysseus—behind.

Odysseus exhaled sharply and turned back to Wanda. "Go with Pietro," he said. "Get out of here."

"What about you?" she asked, her voice sharp with concern.

"I'll find you both later," Odysseus said firmly.

Before Wanda could argue, Odysseus summoned his kinetic replication ability, creating a clone of himself. The replica nodded at him before stepping beside Wanda, ready to leave with her and Pietro.

As the real Odysseus turned invisible, he muttered, "I have unfinished business."

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Odysseus slipped aboard the Quinjet, his presence undetected. He moved silently through the shadows, his eyes faintly glowing emerald-green as he surveyed the Avengers.

Clint Barton—Hawkeye—sat slumped in a seat, his face pale and twisted in pain. The injuries he'd sustained during the battle clearly weighed on him.

Odysseus's brows furrowed. Despite everything, he hated to see anyone suffer. Without hesitation, he knelt beside the archer, whispering an incantation under his breath.

"Asinta Mulaf Hinto, Sho Bola," he murmured, his voice low and steady.

The air around him seemed to hum with energy as the lights in the Quinjet flickered. Odysseus continued the spell, channeling a soothing green glow into Barton's body.

"Asinta Mulaf Hinto, Sho Bola," he repeated, his hands hovering just above the injured man.

The flickering lights settled as the spell came to an end. Clint's breathing eased, and some of the tension melted from his face. Odysseus gave a faint nod of satisfaction. The pain reduction spell had worked—at least enough to make Barton's condition more manageable.

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Odysseus stayed hidden in the shadows, listening as Steve Rogers, Captain America, addressed Maria Hill over the comms.

"Give me a debrief on the triplets," Steve said. "Wanda, Pietro, and... the boy. Odysseus Maximoff."

Maria's voice crackled over the comms. "Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, twins, orphaned at ten. Sokovia natives. Their apartment was destroyed during a Stark Industries bombing. HYDRA took them in, experimented on them. They volunteered for the program."

Steve frowned. "And the boy?"

"That's where it gets tricky," Maria admitted. "I can't find much on him. It's like he doesn't exist."

Odysseus allowed himself a faint smirk from his hiding place. HYDRA had trained him to be untraceable, to stay in the shadows. But the game was about to change.

He stepped forward, letting his invisibility drop.

"Hello, Dad," he said, his voice calm but laced with defiance.

The Avengers turned as one, startled by the sudden appearance of the young man. Tony Stark froze, his breath hitching.

"Odysseus...?" Tony's voice cracked as he stepped closer, his eyes wide with disbelief.

Odysseus stood tall, his glowing green eyes locked onto his father's.

"I'm alive," he said simply.

Tony stared at him, a thousand questions racing through his mind. What had HYDRA done to his son? How had they kept him hidden? Why hadn't he known?

But Odysseus's expression remained cold. Whatever reunion they might have, it would be on his terms.

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