lundi 23 octobre 2017

Hero(es) of the Month - Edition N°22

For this new edition of the hero of the month, I will do a special edition 'cause this time, two heroes are honored at the same time, and for good reason, they are twins, and form a beautiful duet, their story is very touching: The Maximoff twins, Pietro and Wanda, known as Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.


Wanda and Pietro are from Sokovie, a country in Eastern Europe. When they were children, a shell destroyed the building in which they lived with their parents. Their parents were killed, but the twins survived, stranded for a day in the rubble, and one meter away from them, another shell that had not exploded. On this missile, they saw the name of the one they were going to hate after: Tony Stark, aka Iron Man. 
Driven by the desire for revenge against Tony Stark, Wanda and Pietro volunteered for the experiences of a man, Baron Strucker, a member of the terrorist organization Hydra, for the purpose of an experiment to create capable superhuman beings to compete with the Avengers. Wanda and Pietro were the only ones who survived Strucker's horrific experiences and gained powers. Pietro had the power to run at lightning speed, and Wanda had acquired the ability to manipulate minds and reality.
One day, the avengers managed to stop Strucker and shut down his weapons lab, but the twins fled, not without giving Hawkeye and Iron Man some trouble. Wanda and Pietro then teamed up with a robot, Ultron, Tony Stark's creation and wishing to annihilate the avengers, but what the twins did not know was that Ultron also had the plan to provoke a global genocide, in order to allow to the earth to start a new era. Wanda will eventually discover it by probing the spirit of the new body that Ultron plans to inhabit, the body that will later become Vision. Wanda discovers with horror the true plan of Ultron and fled with Pietro. A little later, the twins arrive to help Captain America as he fights against Ultron on a train. Ultron causes the derailment of the train, but the twins save the situation, Wanda using his power to stop the train and Pietro by saving people about to be hit by the machine. The twins will help the avengers against all odds to stop Ultron. 
During the battle against Ultron's army, Wanda and Pietro stand out and use their powers, Pietro destroying dozens of robots in seconds with his speed, and Wanda, at first shocked, takes on herself and unleashes its powers on machines to reduce them to pieces. Towards the end of the battle, Ultron takes the ship of the Avengers and uses the weapons to shoot Hawkeye. Pietro, seeing this, sacrifices himself by walling with his own body and is riddled with projectiles under Hawkeye's eyes. Sensing the death of his twin brother with her powers, Wanda sinks into sadness and anger. Among the ruins, she finds Ultron, dying in a train carcass. Guessing that he is responsible for Pietro's death, she uses her power to tear the heart out of Ultron and decides to let herself die here. But while the part of the city is about to explode to pieces, Wanda is saved by Vision, who comes to pick her up, takes her in his arms and flies with her in the sky. Wanda, now alone, decides finally to join the avengers and becomes a member of their group.






Mathias, the Killmaster
Fire and Blood \m/