#hexedwebs

“are you?“ erik asked, turning sharply to face the younger lad with a emboldened look of placidity. “alive, i mean. are you truly?” he asked again, stepping closer to the younger man and raising both of his brows. “does this place not resemble a sort of torturous hell to you? do not tell me you have never done anything considerably off the mark in your life.” a small, cruel smirk spread on his lips as he turned away from the lad. “perhaps we are the new demons.”

reed was glad that peter was an incredibly optimistic person. way too sarcastic sometimes but definitely optimistic. he definitely appreciated that peter always saw the good in everything and hoped that he would continue on doing so. “that always counts for something, peter. that should be higher on your list, quite frankly,” he said with a reassuring smile before a grim look was on his face. and he leaned back on the wall, finally taking a rest since he got there. “i’m just hoping johnny and ben are doing okay.”

amadeus couldn’t help but roll his eyes at peter, massaging his right hand as he did so. “i can feel how much you hate saying that. really.” it was dumb on his part, sure, but he had to at least try. they’ve reached what they thought were the edge of the place and with what he could extrapolate from the place, amadeus thought he should try punching at the wall with the right amount of force. nothing cracked except maybe his bones. (an exaggeration on his part but who’s going to stop him?) “alright, parker. let’s see what you got.”

great. this was the kind of situation she was trying to avoid. this was the very reason why maria had hoped there weren’t any civilians trapped in this place, whatever this place was. “if i was playing a game here, you would know. unfortunately, i don’t have a hand in this shitshow much like anyone else.” maria let out a deep sigh before finally looking at the woman. “miss page, the only thing i can tell you about this situation is that we still don’t know how we ended up here. and right now, there’s nothing else we can do except to wait for the people more adept to this situation to tell us anything of substance.”

“does it now?“ he asked, though already knowing entirely too well that yes, his reputation certainly did precede him. he wasn’t a stranger to fame among the midgardians and he wasn’t entirely shy about it either. he knew of her as well, though her reputation had remained muddied among the earth’s highest authorities. but steve rogers trusted her, and he was going to take that as a factual account to trust her as well. plus, he’d witnessed twice to the near destruction of thanos by her own hands. the witch was powerful. “as does yours, it’s an honor.”

if he was being honest about it, reed was far too used being with fantastic four that it almost felt like they were his own limbs. so imagine how disoriented he had been when sue disappeared first then to find himself here. as curious as he was, he was also pretty worried of the two people he might have left behind. “i was half-expecting johnny to be with you,” he sighed out as he saw peter. “well i hope he’s doing better than the rest of us.”

it was by chance that he saw her. maria finally found something in the soul stone other than some barren wasteland and immediately sat down on the ground near the ferns. it’s reasons like this that she remembers she’s a human being. but as soon as she sat down, there was a figure in the distance and she immediately held her gun as she stood and walked; she was at least thankful that none of the liquid from earlier on stained her boots. “wanda maximoff,” she called out as maria recognised the woman, her gun lowered but still in her hand, “where the hell are we.”

“ow.” amadeus kneaded his muscles as he landed on his back in this new place. he sat up and sighed out, looking around the void or whatever this place was as he tried to get comfortable considering he was still in hulk form and in uniform. the building he was in looked empty and on the verge of collapsing, but he ran the numbers and stood up immediately. of course he had to be in a situation like this. as if dealing with namor’s bullshit wasn’t a big enough problem for him already. amadeus was so busy thinking about the mess back home that he almost failed to notice a lady a few steps in front of him. almost. when he finally noticed, he all but ran towards her and called out, “hey! are you okay?”