According to common sense.
As a hostage used by Strucker to threaten Hawk, Pietro generally shouldn't have much freedom here.
But the reality is quite the opposite.
In this Hydra base located on the deep-sea floor, Pietro and his sister Wanda's activities were not greatly restricted.
Except for some important places, Pietro and Wanda could move freely.
It's not just because Pietro and Wanda voluntarily participated in Hydra's superpower experiments.
More so because Strucker wasn't afraid they'd escape at all.
Because in the underlying genes of Jean, Billy, and even Tommy, there have already been gene bombs set.
With just the press of a button, Jean, Billy, and even Tommy would instantly die.
Whether it's true or not, Pietro and Wanda didn't know. Anyway, that's what Strucker said, and they didn't dare to take the risk.
Alright.
Wanda didn't dare to gamble because these three children were indeed given birth to after she carried them for ten months in her belly.
Hawk was indifferent about these three children.
But Wanda cared greatly.
Women are generally weak, but strong when they become mothers.
Besides—
Pietro and Wanda, or Jean, Billy, and Tommy, couldn't say they had the highest treatment in this base but were treated on the same level as Strucker.
Strucker even provided childcare services and more.
Billy and Tommy were just over a year old, but Jean had already started receiving an education.
Let's put it this way.
At three years old, Jean was already fluent in the Sokovian language, English, and German, not knowing from whom she inherited her learning talent.
Anyway, Pietro thought that his sister definitely didn't have that talent.
Very soon.
Just as Pietro was thinking and just left the office, he heard that word, 'son,' he was already walking into their home in this undersea base.
Yes.
Home.
Walking through the hallway, it seemed unremarkable, but after opening the door, there was a world of difference inside.
In a word.
The interior of the room was almost a replica of the layout of Palm Street No. 521A before it was sold to Hawk.
Not exactly the same, but could be said to be carved from the same mold.
The electronic fire in the living room was blazing.
A woman with smooth red hair, the tips slightly curled, at this moment was propping her head with one hand, sitting on the carpet in front of the fireplace, looking about twenty-six years old, Wanda, was smiling as she listened to her eldest daughter Jean excitedly talk about what she saw outside this time.
Jean gesticulated while speaking, telling her mom how Daddy Hawk had crushed Uncle Pietro.
Just then.
Pietro pushed the door open and came out.
Wanda, smiling as she listened to her daughter's story, looked up at Pietro entering the room.
Jean also turned her head to look, her eyes lighting up, and ran to Pietro, grabbing Pietro's fingers, and pulled him back into the living room: "Uncle, tell mommy your speed is no match for daddy's, mommy doesn't believe me."
Wanda smiled hearing this and looked at Pietro.
Pietro met Wanda's gaze and nodded.
Only then did Wanda's smile stiffen a bit.
At this moment, Wanda wasn't yet the Scarlet Witch, and in her worldview, Pietro's speed was already the fastest known.
But then...
Pietro held Jean, pulled her into his arms, then looked at Wanda: "He really is very strong, unprecedentedly strong. I could feel it, if he wanted to kill me, I wouldn't have any chance to resist."
He thought of the moment when he had entered the speed space, Hawk looked at him, with a disdainful and arrogant smile.
Wanda, hearing this, also stood up from the carpet instinctively.
"You really met him?"
"Yes."
Pietro came back to his senses, then his eyes lit up, looked at Wanda: "By the way, he's not as we imagined, not only is he not old, but very young, and very handsome."
Jean, being held in Pietro's arms, also looked at Wanda: "See, mommy, daddy is really handsome. Daddy used to see me every month, but it's strange, why can't you see daddy?"
Saying this, three-year-old Jean also felt very puzzled.
The reason she went out this time was because Hawk had told her if he didn't come to see her one day, then as long as she thought of daddy, she could find Hawk, and said that as long as she actively sought out Hawk, their family could reunite.
This month, Hawk hadn't come.
So...
Jean was so excited to find Hawk.
Wanda also knew about this matter.
Even Strucker knew, but before this disappearance of Jean, neither Wanda nor Strucker took Jean's words seriously.
Until now.
Wanda listened to Jean's words again, looking at her eldest daughter: "Jean, when did you see him for the first time..."
Jean corrected Wanda's statement.
"Mommy, that's not him, that's daddy."
"...Alright."
Wanda laughed: "And do you remember the first time you saw your daddy?"
Jean thought for a moment: "I don't remember, but I remember daddy said that when we were still in that castle, he was already there, and yes, he was there when I was born."
Holding Jean, Pietro gasped.
Wanda exchanged a glance with her brother, Pietro.
"Can he really travel through time?"
"I don't know."
Wanda shook her head, "But if it's really as Jean says, we can be sure of one thing."
Jean spoke loudly, "I didn't lie."
Pietro looked at Wanda.
"Sure of what?"
"That he has no ill intentions towards us... towards Jean, Billy, and Tommy."
"That's true."
Pietro listened to his sister's speculation, thought for a moment, and nodded, "My speed seems like a snail's pace to him, and he had the chance to kill me, but he didn't."
Even though Hawk didn't let him bring Jean back.
But as Pietro left New York S.H.I.E.L.D, he realized something on the way back.
Hawk didn't stop him from leaving either.
Pietro was sure, given Hawk's shown speed, he could not have taken Jean with him.
But then...
Pietro pinched Jean's cheek and called her upstairs to check on Billy and Tommy.
After Jean left, Pietro looked at Wanda and lowered his voice.
"But Strucker plans to use Jean, Billy, and Tommy to threaten him."
"Yes."
Wanda's smile faded slightly into a trace of worry after Jean left.
Initially, Wanda agreed to cooperate with Strucker's experiment to make herself and her brother stronger, to gain extraordinary power and lessen their suffering.
But since Jean was born, some thoughts naturally began to change.
Once again.
A woman is inherently weak, as a mother she becomes strong.
To Hawk, the birth of Jean, Billy, and Tommy came from a Hydra experiment, but to Wanda, they are her children.
Pietro noticed the melancholy in his sister's eyes, seemed to think of something, and his mouth moved slightly, making eye contact with Wanda.
Wanda smiled upon seeing it and said, "Rest assured, when you came in, I already created an illusion. What they saw was just normal chatting."
Creating virtual illusions.
This is something she slowly figured out after her psychic ability was awakened by the Scepter of the Mind.
Wanda felt she could do more than just this, perhaps more than just covering a room.
But for now, covering a room and creating a realistic virtual illusion was already her limit.
She had never told Strucker or others about this.
Because...
She now has not only her brother but also her three children.
Pietro nodded upon hearing Wanda's words, and then took out the Pleiades Saint Cloth Necklace from his pocket and handed it to Wanda.
Different from when Hawk gave it to Gwen, where it was golden.
Because Gwen had used it once, over time the Pleiades Saint Cloth Necklace had changed from pure gold to a rose-gold color.
Wanda looked at the Pleiades Saint Cloth Necklace her brother Pietro handed over and instinctively took it.
Just as she took the necklace and was about to say something, a buzzing sound echoed, and in an immense boundless cosmos, a Phoenix with eyes that encompassed both a blazing and icy gaze opened its eyes and fell upon her.
The next second.
The illusion vanished.
After Wanda's pupils constricted, she instinctively clutched her chest, sitting on the couch behind, gasping for air.
Pietro was slightly stunned and quickly stepped forward.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know."
Wanda recalled the fleeting image and shook her head, looking at the Pleiades Saint Cloth Necklace in her hand, she turned to Pietro.
"What is this?"
"His fiancée gave it."
"What?"
Wanda listened to this, widened her eyes, turned to Pietro, opened her mouth wanting to speak but stopped as the words reached her lips.
"She...gave this, was."
"She said it's for Billy and Tommy, it can protect them."
Pietro truthfully relayed Gwen's words.
Wanda frowned, looking at the Pleiades Necklace in her hand, then suddenly thought of something and turned to her brother Pietro.
"Wait, when you came back, didn't they search you?"
"Hehe!"
Pietro heard Wanda's question and smirked, looking at Wanda, "In his eyes, my speed might be slow, but to others, my speed is fast enough they can't detect it at all."
When he drank the happy drink, he had already placed the necklace on a Hydra Agent.
Then, when the submarine docked at the Hydra Base and he was taken to Strucker's office, he used his speed to retrieve the necklace again.
As for why it was so accurate.
It was simple.
He hadn't even drunk the happy drink at all.
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