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The empire were making themselves at home at Korriban. With Wanda able to use her chaos magic to fix up a fallen fortress. The villains found themselves celebrating their recent victory against the resurrected Sith and the Galactic Empire now under their control with a massive feast that Wanda conjured up. The villains now sat at a massive long table with Harkon sitting in the front of it. As they celebrated with cheers of applause.
After the celebration. Harkon pulled Wanda to the side.
“ I sense a great darkness in a universe nearby”
“What is it, exactly could it have anything to do with whoever could have brought back the undead Sith?”
Harkon soon fixed up a throne for himself as he sat on it “Not quite i sense somethings familiar, but not that”
“Very well, is there anyone you would like me to take for this?”
Harkon soon thought to himself a bit “Perhaps Plankton and Crumble could assist”
Wanda gave a nod in agreement "Very well I'll make sure to request their presence than" Wanda proceeded to leave the room.
The three soon appeared from the portal seeing the world they had entered in noting but burning ash and decaying buildings. One that leads to a giant crack in the sky.
Wanda and Plankton soon entered the building that the raw power was coming from. They stood on top of the stairs. Someone Wanda never thought she would see again, mainly because she killed him, at least her version of him. But this one was different, he was a Strange who looked to have suffered a lot and was now darker in nature just by appearance alone.
“Stephen?” Wanda said as she added the version of her former Avenger teammate.
“Wanda Maximoff?, what are you doing here, here to take this form?” He reveals his version of the Darkhold.
Wanda gave a small smile “oh I don't believe that should be a issue, as you see” Wanda soon conjures her Darkhold “I already have mine, yours is no use to me through two Darkholds would cause even more unlimited power wouldn't you say”
Strange soon gave look of uncertainty “How, unless your form...”
“Another universe, In fact I knew you in my reality, we saved the world together, one would say, unfortunately for me the world was saved, but no one still cared about me”
Wanda proceeded to answer his question
“We are a part of an Empire that is set to conquer across the Multiverse, we have conquered and destroyed worlds and heroes alike” Plankton said with an evil grin.
Strange looked more confused as he didn't properly understand. He was aware of the Multiverse in general, but not of an empire that could travel across.
Wanda could tell the confusion on his face “perhaps I can show you instead” as Wanda went inside his mind to show the destruction and conquest that the empire had done so far, along with some of its members and finally Harkon himself”
Strange gave a look of surprise “who was that being of mass darkness?”
“That would be our leader Harkon, he is a powerful shadow entity hidden away in the darkness pits of reality itself” Plankton smiles .
“We are always looking for those who fit our empire’s goals, perhaps you could be a great use, I mean it the Scarlet Witch and a fallen Sorcerer supreme would be an unstoppable pair wouldn't you say?” The Scarlet Witch soon got closer to the Sinister Strange.
“But where will I have Christina back if I join?”
Wanda soon gave the man an odd look considering his request “perhaps, if you serve us in our conquest first than maybe”
As Wanda proceeded to talk to Strange more. Plankton noticedCrumble’s absence and quickly went to go find her
Plankton proceeded to look through the streets of the dark environment for The Witch, plankton soon looked inside the wreckage of a car where he found The Witch. She had a look of sudden fear as she as she looked at the one she came to associate as a friend
“Crumble, what are you doing?” Plankton looked in as he saw Crumble sitting there in the car, clearly in pain.
“Plankton help me!” Plankton soon looked at the back of the woman, seeing patches that look like warts on her back and they were moving a little.
“Crumble, don't worry I'll get Wanda, she can help you”
Plankton ran to get the Scarlet Witch.
Wanda, Crumble and Plankton soon sat in the middle of the wasteland that was once earth in this dimension.
“It seems these warts are side effects of the bio weapons that came from the missiles of your planet, it's a good thing Plankton got me in time. thanks to my chaos magic they shouldn't be a issue anymore” as as the Scarlet Witch healed Crumble and removed the warts with her magic
Crumble looks at her hands as she remembers her past more clearly “It’s not just that, I think I remember who I was before this before I became what I am now”
Wanda stared at the woman and what seemed like a long time The Scarlet Witch gave a slight nod to the woman out of sympathy,
“This is understandable, your memory coming back means you mental state is improving, I can only imagine how much of a handful it can be, I sense something happened to make you that way, not your nature, but your mental state”
“It's not something I would want to talk about” Crumble looked as some more tears came down from her face.
Wanda seeing the pain it took the woman to describe the emotional pain of her memory that caused her to have brain damage, soon suggested
“Crumble, may I please go into your head and see what is causing you this much pain that it's hard for you to speak it?”
The other woman soon nodded to Wanda in response as Wanda soon revealed some of her red magic form her hand as some of it went into Crumble’s mind. Wanda soon saw the image of the woman getting into a scuffle with Barr and her fall downstairs in a school hallway.
Wanda soon left the woman’s head as she stared at the woman with even more understanding.
“I'll be honest Crumble when I first met you at the mall and when Barr automatically saw you as if you were a ghost, I knew there were was something going on there, when you clearly couldn't recognize him as well and his face was a look of shock, i knew something was up”
“I really wish I didn't remember, but thanks to you ” Crumble soon turned to Plankton
“ I've been getting better, you've been helping my brain heal, why help me?”
“I don't know you been very helpful and useful with my projects for the Empire and I have grown fond of you I won’t lie” Plankton responded
“But that's the thing I remember who I was , I don't want to be that person anymore”
“You don't have to be, Crumble you can be the Witch that’s who you can be now if you want, You are a member of this empire, that's who you are now” Plankton stated as he watched his friend.
“But I wasn't evil or an ambitious person, at least not in that sense I was more insecure, to scare to speak my mind, i wasn't evil”
“Oh Crumble, I understand all too well, before all of this, I was just a simple girl who had lost her parents in one of Tony Stark’s weaponry along with that it was just me and my brother. Then I lost him, then I found happiness with Vision, the man I loved. He was there for me even when the world was after me, than I lost him, only to have the opportunity of regaining him along with Billy and Tommy”
Wanda soon stopped as a tear began to run down her face “I was forced to lose my children and I wanted to do everything in my new defined unlimited power to find them, even if it meant I had to quite literally kill another me, I saw them in my dreams every night, I wanted to be a mother more than anything”
Wanda soon looked at the edge of the void
“Then Harkon found me and showed me that I wasn't meant to have any of that and he showed me that I am ready to embrace my role as the Scarlet Witch. That my loss and pain are meant to fuel my destiny, but there's something I haven't told others including Harkon, I been daywalking into variants of me to see Billy and Tommy to feel their hugs, their smiles and their love for their mother, but I know deep down I am a being who can't love them back, not anymore I've come to far, there’s no turning back, I have made my destiny”
Plankton looked in agreement “I can understand that more than anything Wanda, I won't lie there were moments I helped SpongeBob in the past that I really did enjoy, the friendship he offered those many times were tempting but deep down my desires and ambitions were things I couldn't hold back, being evil is just way more easier to live in this world and the idea of conquest is what drives me because I realize do to my size, I will never be respected unless I take it, it's why I hired a bounty hunter to kill SpongeBob so I could finally get rid of the one challenge my desires. Honestly I have only told this to Wanda and no one else but I have a son who I haven't seen in a long time, doubt he wants to talk to me along with my wife haven't seen her since I went to prison”
Crumble looked at the two with a look of sincerity as she could tell that her colleagues and friends were being truthful about their tragedy and how it has shaped them. The Scarlet Witch and Plankton would admittedly share these emotions to a gathering of their fellow empire members, especially not towards the more extreme ones as it would show a sign of weakness.
“Crumble, we aren't born like this, something made us who we are now, we were taken by the world who decided that we can't be happy and have what we desire the most and instead be chewed out for wanting to be happy, my home world treated me offer, I tried my hardest to be a protector I even fought Thanos and they still treated me with nothing, no one was there for me when Vision died, in the end this empire has been more loyal to me than the Avengers ever were, I don’t want to be that woman anymore, I am now someone far more powerful than I could ever imagine”
Plankton got out of his Mecha and soon jumped onto Crumble’s shoulder “She’s right we must let the past die, it serves nothing but to mold us into who we are now, beings to be feared and respected, you have that opportunity to do the same, i seen what you can do, even when your mentally insane, you are very smart, I won't lie crumble you along with Wanda, have probably been the best villainous friends i could asked for”
Crumble looked at the two with a look of utter sincerity “We are monsters aren't we?”
“Yes, but in the end we are proud of it, right Wanda” Plankton soon turned to Wanda who looked at the void
“Yes we are and we shall be feared across the multiverse as in the end we are monsters who were made not created” The Scarlet Witch soon started again at Plankton and Crumble.
Suddenly a voice could be heard it was Sinister Strange who decided to join them “I couldn't help, but overhear your conversation”
“Ah looks like you decided to join us after all?” Plankton said as he jumped off from Crumble’s shoulder.
“I couldn't help but listen considering Wanda left right away when you came to get her, I figured something was up” Sinister Strange stood next to them
Strange soon took a sit next to Wanda
“I been wondering joining this empire what would exactly be like?”
“Well we are a empire seeking conquest across the Multiverse, worlds have fallen to us and we have even conquered a galaxy lately as well, this empire is for those who have enough darkness or ambitions in their heart, others are lost souls looking for their place” Wanda explained as she turned her to Plankton and Crumble and than to Strange.
“Harkon, our leader, is someone who understands pain all too well as you might find it hard to believe when meeting him but he was once human,” Wanda explained to Strange.
Crumble soon interjected “the woman I was before was weak and too afraid to speak her mind, I want to be someone who's willing to take what she wants and to be feared, Plankton taught me that”
“Really?” Plankton had a look of udder, shocked he never thought he had this kind of impact on someone before.
“Yes, you taught me so far that no matter what shape or size you are, you can be heard and feared I want that, especially you, you are very smart many overlook that due to your size” Crumble explained as Wanda and Plankton were amazed how much sanity she seemed to have regained.
“She's not wrong Plankton, you told me about how you managed to take over the town that had mistreated you for so long. It's impressive, sure it was very short your rule, but the fact that you pulled it off is amazing” The Scarlet Witch followed up Crumble’s statement.
Plankton gave his two colleagues a look of emotional look of holding back tears “oh here comes the evil tears, at least I hope their evil, it's just no one has said that about me while being me before”
“Plankton, I never thought I would end up having this villainous bond you could say with someone like you before even in my wildest dreams” Wanda said giving a smile to Plankton.
“So if I join this empire?” Strange asked
“You will have those who understand you, yes” Crumble responded “We are monsters”
“Well I guess I'll be a monster with you guys than” he gives a small nod to Crumble
Meanwhile back at Korriban.
Harkon is sitting in the Throne Room. As Dodge and Abbadon enter.
“Hi there's my demon ladies, I have a task for you”
“What could it possibly be about” Dodge asked
“There is a small town in a universe called Purgerty in the Canadian Rockies this town is home to many supernatural beings such as demons, vampires , werewolves and others, I believe there might be potential allies there for our Empire there”
“As a Hell Knight, I promise I won't let you down, I find this town form how you describe very interesting to say the least” Abbadon responded
“We won't let you down, I'm sure there are those who could be useful to us in this little town” Dodge responded with a little nod.
As the two demon ladies left for the town of Purgerty.
Harkon is soon caught off guard by a female voice
“I'm so glad I could find you after seeing the aftermath of what you and your little empire did to the Justice League and the champion, I knew you would be worthy to join”
A woman soon appeared wearing Greek battle armor
“I am Klypso and I believe I can be quite useful for your empire”
Harkon took the woman’s words in curiosity “Go on”