Marvel: I'm a Symbiote-Symbiote 0245: Proving Oneself

(A/N: I’m not sure who needs this, but this fight might be a little triggering for some people with certain phobias related to bugs. Just read with discretion.)

Cracks formed in the fabric of the dimension from the pressure that Wanda released. She had an apathetic expression as she glanced over at the ten demons who all looked at her with indifference.

With a wave of her arm, the main platform started cracking. In an unnatural manner, it first broke into two perfect halves before those two halves were broken further into two, and so on. The platform continued breaking apart until nothing was left of it.

“Submit to me, or die,” Wanda said with an unfeeling expression on her face. Looking at the literal manifestations of cosmic horrors, she had no sympathy and gave them an ultimatum.

The demons chose not to respond to her and Bael, the leader jumped from his platform and instantly appeared in front of Wanda, throwing out a punch at her. She smiled a little and caught the demon’s fist. A shockwave was created as Wanda got pushed back a little. But in the next instant, Bael was sent flying as Wanda punched him in the gut. Mid-flight, he burst with a crimson explosion. In the meantime, the bat-like demon, the Nightgaunt, appeared behind Wanda, attacking her with its claws. She didn’t react in time as the demon slashed its claws at her.

At the same time, the Cthulhu also flew up and looked down at Wanda, the tentacles in front of its mouth parting to reveal a pitch-black hole. It released a sonic scream at her.

A third demon also attacked her at the same time, the slimy Shoggoth moved much faster than it should’ve, considering its size, and appeared under Wanda. It formed into a net that was pulsating with sacs of some red material. The net rose up, about to envelop Wanda.

Alex and Wanda’s reaction came swiftly, the Nightgaunt’s attack met Wanda’s back since it was too fast for her to even react. Unfortunately for it, the claw was unable to pierce through her black and red outfit. Instead, it got covered with some kind of black material that encroached upon it, making it slip into subspace to save itself. As for the sonic scream, Wanda clenched her fist at the Cthulhu, and its tentacles were forced to cover its mouth before the scream could be released. The moment the attack was released, the tentacles burst apart, making the demon scream in pain instead.

Lastly, the Shoggoth.

[I feel offended at this bastard trying to encroach upon my territory.]

[Can you just … not?] Wanda gritted her teeth, not wanting to compare the man she was in love with to an Eldrich horror when it came to physical appearance.

A large amount of black mass was released from Wanda and attached itself to the body of the Shoggoth. At this, even the Eldrich horror seemed to recoil as it attempted to use chaos energy to push Alex away. The effort was completely useless and the released energy was all sucked away by the slime that was constantly encroaching upon its body. Slowly, the pulsating red sacs all over its slimy body were getting covered, weakening the light that it emitted and showing that it wasn’t able to mount any resistance against Alex who resolved to devour the demon.

At the swift dispatching of three more demons, more joined in. The two-sided head with masks on each side — one frowning and one smiling — rose up from its platform and the frowning mask faced Wanda while it started rotating in its place. She instantly felt her thoughts stirring as a depressive feeling overtook her entire being. Just as she had the thought of wanting to give up on the fight, she felt like a switch was flipped in her mind, making her feel immensely happy, to the point that she wanted to give everything up and frolic around.

[Calm yourself, Wanda. It’s messing with your mind.] Alex was quick to notice the external influence on Wanda and told her. She growled while still experiencing those extreme emotions of happiness and sadness that alternated between each other and made her want to stop fighting completely. She waved her arm at the demon to stop its actions, but her magical wave was nullified in the middle of its path.

Wanda looked with narrow eyes at the two-headed skeletal hound-like creature. Specifically, the head that was glowing. It had nullified Wanda’s attack. As for the other head, it wasn’t idle either. Its maw opened and it released a beam of Chaos energy that spread apart into countless beams that attacked Wanda from all directions.

Wanda quickly cast Chaos magic that sent a pulse of Chaos energy all around her in a spherical form. Sadly, before it could even do anything to the beams, it was dispelled by the domain that the other head of the Hound had generated. She was getting disoriented due to the constant shifting of her emotions and couldn’t do anything more as the beams all reached her.

There was no explosion. Instead, the beams all hit Wanda and seemed to get absorbed into her clothes, without any more effects. As for Wanda, she raised her arm and pointed her finger at the anti-Chaos head. A bolt of lightning was released from the tip of her finger and struck the hound before it would even react to it, piercing through the head.

Wanda then instantly threw a beam of Chaos magic at the dual face mask that kept forcing her emotions to alternate. Its entire existence warped as a horrifying screech was released before the demon disappeared completely. She did the same to the second head of the hound.

Just as Wanda was finished, she felt like there was something right beside her ear and instantly whipped her head to the side. She saw nothing, and before she could turn back to the remaining monsters, she felt a presence on her other side, quickly whipping her head to the side. During this time, the mosquito-like demon, the Mi-go, had the glow of its head intensified as it focused it on Wanda. At the same time, the Dunwich Horror or Yog Whateley floated up and approached Wanda while becoming smaller in size and multiplying. It split itself into tens of thousands of copies that were all barely as large as a small house fly and continued splitting further. All of the split bodies spread around and surrounded Wanda.

The Scarlet Witch in question had finally realized that her perception was being messed with. “You really are a fucking bug,” She said annoyedly to the mosquito-like Mi-go while still feeling that there was something close to her ear. She cast a spell on the countless tiny Dunwich Horrors that now seemed to her like the kind of disgusting parasitic bug that would crawl into one’s ear and take control over them.

Her spell had no effect. All of the energy she released was sucked by the wiggling worm-like mass of tentacles that ended with a mouth. It had absorbed all of her released energy. Just as Wanda’s spell failed, the tiny Dunwich Horrors approached her. Wanda growled and exploded with lightning instead, hoping to take care of the bugs in a single attack. Sadly the lightning was also sucked away by the Azathoth’s huge open mouth.

“God damnit!” Wanda grunted as she waved her hand beside her ear, feeling as if something was flying right beside her ear. Her slight loss of composure was all that was needed for the Dunwich Horrors to capitalize on the opportunity as the demons all surrounded her in a sort of cocoon, crawling all over her body and attempting to somehow get inside. Once even a single body of the demon entered her, she would come under its control.

Unfortunately for them, just like the sneaky bodies that The Dunwich Horror had been sending throughout the fight to take over Wanda, they were all blocked from even coming into contact with her skin. Before they even reached her, the black parts of her outfit expanded out and covered her from head to toe completely.

Wanda took a moment to regain her bearing despite having lost her sight as Alex covered her completely — She was, in fact, glad that she had her eyes covered and was unable to see anything. The only thing that annoyed her was that she was still feeling a presence right beside both her ears as the Mi-go’s perception attack was still messing with her.

Calming herself, Wanda released an instant burst of energy that made the fabric of the dimension crack. Even as her energy was sucked away, she teleported through the crack to appear above the culprit. She gathered her strength and punched the wiggling mass of tentacles that was the Azathoth. Her attack didn’t seem to have much effect other than creating a hole in its skin that was quickly being healed. That was until a red glow passed all over its body. The attack had disrupted its absorption, which Wanda capitalized on to send a wave of energy through its body to destroy its internal bonds. The tentacles all fell away, turning the creature from an amalgamation, into separated fleshy tentacles that all lost their connection to the main thing.

With her magic not being interrupted anymore, Wanda first destroyed all the Dunwich Horrors that were still crawling all over her body before crushing the Mi-go into mosquito paste with her Chaos energy.

“You want to test me out as well?” Wanda asked the single demon that was still left on its platform. A second also appeared on another platform, the Nightgaunt. It had been forced to cut off both of its arms since it was unable to stop the encroachment of the weird parasite that had been attached to its claws.

Wanda was met with a profuse refusal by both the eye demon who had escorted her to this location and the Nightgaunt. At this point, Bael also returned, the demon’s entire body wiggling as it seemed to have been burned and mutilated, yet was still alive. It was the same with the Cthulhu, it flew back down to its platform and expressed its submission while bleeding blue blood from the tentacles that had been burst apart.