Chapter 55 Scarlet (1/2)
"I wish we had popcorn…" Laura absently thought.
"Here." Alex bought a bucket of popcorn in front of her face. She was still lying on the couch with her head in his lap.
He'd made all the preparations for the movie. Using camouflage with extreme precision, he was able to project the pixel information that he was receiving from Research Earth's server directly on the screen that he'd formed. And the sounds were easy to stimulate.
"Where did you get this?" She asked as she grabbed the bucket and sat up, snuggling close to him.
"That's a secret." He looked at her with a cheeky smile.
"Tell me…" She whined cutely while shaking his arm lightly. She knew how to get answers out of a guy.
"You'd rather not know. Trust me." Alex told her.
"Come on, how bad can it be? I'm not eating other people, am I?" Laura joked as she grabbed a handful of popcorn and ate it, "So good!"
"Well… Not exactly." Alex told her and she froze with her hand mid-air, clutching the popcorn that she'd just grabbed again to stuff her face with.
"Alex… What is this?" She asked seriously.
"Sigh… Can't you just enjoy the movie without asking too many questions? I'll show you what it is." He said and the bucket of popcorn turned into a black bucket with pitch-black popcorn.
"It's me. Well, an extension of my body. I can stimulate it to taste however I want." Alex could do the same with any part of his body, even his cum.
Laura was left blinking her eyes for a few seconds.
"That's why I said you'd rather not know." He said and the popcorn turned back to look normal.
"Can you do caramel popcorn?" She asked. Deciding to push the weirdness to the back of her mind. She hadn't eaten popcorn for years and she'd be damned if she doesn't eat it after it was served to her on a silver platter.
'More like a cardboard bucket, but whatever.' She thought.
"Sure." The popcorn gained a caramel sheen and started tasting like caramel popcorn.
"There aren't any problems with eating this, are there?" She asked as she grabbed another fistful and stuffed her face.
"Not at all. Hell, you can eat as much as you want without feeling full."
"Awesome. Best date ever!" She loved their movie experience. Not that she had much of a dating experience, to begin with.
"Can you do the same with drinks?" She asked.
"Sure. Here you go." He handed her a glass of coke. And the best thing about these foods was that they were never-ending. She could drink tens of liters of coke from that glass but it would still be the optimal amount of full. Not completely full, but a bit more than half full.
…
In the MCU, with Wanda and Natasha.
Natasha threw a kick at Wanda's head but Wanda blocked her attack with her forearm while elbowing Natasha with her other hand.
Natasha used her hand to block her elbow and twist it around while using her leg as leverage to disbalance Wanda.
Nat pinned Wanda down between her thighs.
Wanda tapped Natasha's leg three times in surrender.
"You've got better. You can hold me off for more than a minute now. It's a pretty solid improvement." Natasha praised Wanda.
"I agree. You're doing splendidly." Alex walked up to them both. He'd been acting as the referee for the fight while observing and understanding Natasha's fighting style.
They'd been training regularly for the past week and both Wanda and Alex had gotten pretty good at physical combat. Wanda was only able to hold Natasha off for a minute while Alex was able to hold her off for 4 minutes before caving in.
Neither of them had had a win against her yet. Then again, Natasha was technically the weakest of the three. It was just that her physical combat technique was extremely good.
"All right, you guys continue. I'll get going." Wanda said as she walked out of the gym of the mansion. Her training wasn't done, it was just the physical combat training that she was done with.
Their daily training lasted for 8 hours each day. The first two hours were for general physique training for both Wanda and Natasha where Alex helped them both increase their strength, speed, and stamina.
The next two hours were for combat training where Natasha trained both Alex and Wanda and sparred with them. Since Alex was far stronger than both Natasha and Wanda physically, he made sure to suppress his strength. If he just overpowered them with brute force, he wouldn't learn anything from Natasha.
After that, they separated and Wanda went out of the mansion to train her Chaos powers for the last four hours.
Meanwhile, Alex and Natasha spent those four hours training their physical combat prowess. That training was much more intense than what they did with Wanda since Wanda's forte was magic and her physical prowess wasn't too important. And that intense training not only helped Alex refine his technique quickly, but it also helped Natasha grow with her own technique.
The trio spent the rest of the 16 hours resting and enjoying their time in the mansion. Alex knew that doing nothing but training wasn't going to be beneficial for any of them and would be detrimental in the long run.
Wanda and Natasha's current stats looked like this after a week of training.
[ «Status- Host #3»
«Name: Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) (MCU Earth)»
«Bonding Rate: 24%»
«Bonding Level: 2»
«Powers: Low Superhuman Physique (3 Tons)— Melee Mastery— Espionage Mastery»
]
[ «Status- Host #4»
«Name: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) (MCU Earth)»
«Bonding Rate: 13%»
«Bonding Level: 1»
«Powers: Low Superhuman Physique (1 Ton)—Chaos Magic»
]
As Alex and Natasha continued their training, Wanda walked out of the mansion. She couldn't train her powers inside the mansion since it might get damaged if her powers go haywire.
Especially since her unrestrained training with her powers had finally removed the dormant status from her Chaos Magic. Her powers weren't just limited to basic mind manipulation and telekinesis anymore. She had a lot more to explore now.
She walked out to the backyard and kept walking.
[Alex, can you please change my clothes?] She asked Alex mentally while walking.
[Sure.] Alex changed her clothes from her usual leggings and sports bra that she wears during physical training to her Scarlet Witch outfit. Apparently, the look had some significance.
This outfit wasn't something suggested by Alex.
When Wanda's Chaos magic awakened, there wasn't a lot of fanfare other than a slight energy spike. But what was weird was that the magic started overlapping with her clothes, i.e. Alex.
Her Scarlet Witch outfit wasn't something that she randomly came up with, it was something that was instinctively created by her Chaos magic.
In the end, Alex ended up merging with her Scarlet Witch outfit. Somehow, it also allowed him to gain rudimentary control over her Chaos energy. Otherwise, he would've needed a lot more time to actually use his collected Chaos energy in a combat setting like the Bastion at that time when he was escaping with Laura.
The scene looked pretty magical as Wanda walked out of the backyard and onto the snow-covered mountain while her clothes morphed into a blood-red bodysuit with a gown and a red tiara formed over her forehead.
Soon, it stopped looking as magical as she had to start climbing the snowy mountain with her bare hands.
[Why am I doing this again?] She was annoyed that he didn't let her use her magic for this.
[Physical training is important Wanda. Magic requires a strong conduit.] He wanted her to climb up to the top using her physical abilities rather than her magic. It was sort of a ritualistic thing where Wanda follows the exact same process every time.
[Aren't I already doing it though?] She grumbled.
[We've gone over this. The process is important. How about this for an incentive, I'll take you on a date after this. Just the two of us.] He wanted to show some love to Wanda.
[Just the two of us?] She asked with an anticipating undertone. She had volunteered as Hydra's test subject when she was just a teenager. She hadn't ever had the time or freedom to enjoy a normal romance so Alex's proposal was bound to get her excited.
[Just the two of us.] He whispered.
With that, Wanda seemed to have gotten motivated as she easily agreed to the difficult climb. She'd been crushing on Alex for a while and all she'd gotten was some sensual massages from him that led her to orgasm after the training sessions. His offering to take her out was done at the perfect time.
She'd been growing jealous of Natasha since she knew that he and Natasha were fucking like bunnies after every training session.
Alex timed the invitation perfectly so that he could appease her jealousy while also making sure that she doesn't take his presence for granted.
Soon, she was at the top, at her usual training spot for every day.
She felt the cold snowy winds hitting her face, her bare toes feeling the soft snowy ground as if she was connected to it. And she kinda was. This was the spot where she'd awoken her dormant Chaos magic. It had some unknown significance.
Neither Alex nor Wanda understood why, but they knew that this location meant something. Especially since Wanda noticed that her training efficiency at this spot was greater than at other locations.
Even her power output was greater.
'It's like a sort of Chaos energy concentrated zone…' That was what Alex assumed.
The awakening of Wanda's chaos magic caused the area to get permeated with Chaos energy and made her efficiency greater here.
'Or I could be completely wrong and it's like some sort of causality thing where this spot is designated as Wanda's home ground and she can harness more of her power here.' All he had were theories. They weren't concrete answers.
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