"We can. Sometimes I think he just wants to see the world burn, though." And if that's the case... there's only one way to make sure everyone stays safe. His sister included.
Lark doesn't say it. Pietro knows, or if he doesn't, he will soon. So instead of presenting the idea again that Magneto may need to die, he goes a different--though perhaps no less difficult--direction. "How did you do it?"
Pietro shrugs. "The world needed to find out about mutants sooner or later. We were getting pretty hard to hide. We just... made sure it came out in the most alarming and unflattering way possible." He rubs his temples. "By luring all of us - the X-Men, the Brotherhood, his Acolytes - to the middle of a city and unleashing a giant mutant-hunting robot into their midst. Made national news in seconds."
"Sure it worked. He wanted to prove that humans and mutants couldn't live together in peace, and it sure got people scared. Got half of us captured, too. Brotherhood, X-men. Didn't matter so long as it furthered the cause, right?"
"Nah. Got to stick around a while. See the world lose their shit and start a goddamn witch hunt. Saw the X-men try to convince them we didn't mean any harm. As if ol' buckethead didn't mean every single thing he did." He's not sure he believes in peace for his home universe, even now. Even with a warden deal in his future.
"Got to have my sister try to kill me for it. Nah. I lived a while after that all went down."
"I'd still be an inmate if I was." He hesitates. "He hurt my sister a lot worse than he hurt me, though. Might've taken me way longer to see it, if it weren't for that."
"Yeah. Hospital. More like a holding facility masquerading as an institution. He said it'd help her. That she had anger problems and was out of control and her powers were too unpredictable. But she was nine years old. And I don't think he ever meant her to get out again."
Pietro doesn't have a great picture of Wanda anymore, to be honest.
"Not until Mystique broke her out. Then, when he got sick of her being mad enough to try to kill him? He had one of his cronies go in. Change all her memories of growing up into... I dunno. Sanitized happy crap. She still thinks we were- he was a good father."
He snorts. "She was here, I guess. Or a version of her from a world a lot like mine. But I'm hoping... maybe I'll be able to spare her that, if I figure out how to smooth things over, back home."
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"We started a war together, him and I."
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He's not bitter.
He's a little bitter.
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"Got to have my sister try to kill me for it. Nah. I lived a while after that all went down."
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"Not until Mystique broke her out. Then, when he got sick of her being mad enough to try to kill him? He had one of his cronies go in. Change all her memories of growing up into... I dunno. Sanitized happy crap. She still thinks we were- he was a good father."
He snorts. "She was here, I guess. Or a version of her from a world a lot like mine. But I'm hoping... maybe I'll be able to spare her that, if I figure out how to smooth things over, back home."