"Pepper? Is that you?" Tony was sitting in the middle of his workshop, reading the reports from the SHIELD. Everything they got after making a deal with the SHIELD from the other side.

Although the other side didn't give a full report, it was enough to make him worried.

He glanced towards the side, hearing the sound of footsteps, narrowing his eyes to look at a group of men and women standing there, "you are not Pepper. Who are you?"

"They are the X-Men," Maria Hill walked to the front, "and they are here because there is trouble. World War grade trouble."

Tony scratched behind his ear, thinking, "for one. Which Maria are you?"

"I am this Earth's. Believe it or not, the other one is tanned," Maria curled her lips. She found the notion of developing a tan funny.

Tony looked at her as if imagining it, making Maria shake her head, "anyway. Did you read the files on the X-Men?"

Tony nodded, looking at Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Emma, and Jean, "they look familiar. So, what is going on?"

Maria opened her mouth, closing it again. She knew that this was a touchy subject for Tony.

But Wolverine didn't have her tact, "someone from your world stole the body of a mutant."

Tony looked at him in confusion, "and that involves me how?"

Maria pressed her lips, "Tony...it was Jay's body."

Tony stood up, narrowing his eyes, "who?"

Sokovia, Wanda's Mansion,

Quicksilver was rushing out after hearing the reports that someone was invading when he stopped in the living room, "what are you doing?"

Jay was lying on the sofa, wrapping himself in a blanket, watching Netflix while resting his head on the pillow. He looked up at Quicksilver, "binging?"

Pietro had so much to comment on, but he held back out of respect, "no, the whole blanket? It's May!"

Jay squirmed inside the blanket, getting comfortable, sniffing, "it's still cold today. Although yesterday was warm. Anyway, I never dealt with cold weather before...so it's new to me. I like it."

Pietro covered his face, "yeah, I didn't see that." He rushed off, making Jay took a deep breath, relax, "yeah, this is life."

Outside,

Pietro appeared someways away from the mansion, on the helipad, looking at the X-Jet landing in front of them.

"How is he?"

"Are you sure it's the same, Jay? He seems so different..."

Wanda lightly smiled, watching the Jet land, "yeah, it's him. Just...mellowed down."

Pietro scratched his neck, "that's your department. So, what is going on here? Who are these people."

Wanda raised one side of her lips, "I might have stolen something from them."

Pietro gasped, stepping back in shock, "and you didn't invite me?!"

"You didn't invite me too," Tony walked out from the ram, staring at Wanda.

Wanda shrugged, "the job needed discretion. The two of you are anything but discrete."

Pietro laughed, "ok, you have a point."

Tony frowned, "you know that is not the Jay we know." He took a deep breath, looking down, "not like I didn't think about it. But even though Anthony and I are similar, there might not be a difference in the eyes of others. But we know that we are different, very different from each other. That's why I know that is not the Jay we knew. Moreover, he's dangerous."

Wanda shook her head, "I took away his X-Gene."

Tony faltered, hesitating, "Oh, I did not know that."

Emma walked over, glaring at her, "you do not understand. You might have somehow taken it away, but the reality wouldn't let it stay like that. It will overwrite whatever you did."

Wanda pointed at the sky, "can't you see it? The reality that was affected by his powers has already been overwritten. It's safe now."

"And what if you are wrong? Then you will be under his powers, and your brother, your country, and before long the whole world. With two planets now, that could be disastrous."

Wolverine rushed forth, "enough talk! Give him back, or we will take him!"

Pietro cracked his knuckles, grinning as a silver symbiote suit appeared on his body, "yeah? I want to see you try!" 

Emma turned into her diamond form, "hold them here."

Wolverine growled, jumping forward when his body stopped in the air. He took out his claws, staring at Wanda, who turned around. Her voice lingered behind her, "enough. You are not invited here."

A red blast came out of her body, covering them, the X-Jet, and the next moment, most of them found themselves in a forest outside Sokovia.

Cyclops looked around, "did we get teleported."

Beast frowned, "not all of us. Emma, Jean, and Iron Man aren't here. The three of them were able to resist her powers."

Sokovia,

Wanda glanced towards Emma rushing off, but both her hands were busy, stopping Jean's telekinetic attack.

"Sis, you deal with miss no spark, and I am going go stop miss shiny!" Quicksilver was ready to run when his body fell forward, seeing the foot clamps on his legs, "what the! Hey Iron Man?! You are not seriously thinking about helping them, right!"

Iron Man shrugged, walking off, "don't worry. I won't let her kill Jay. Or who knows what your sister might do."

Jean abruptly stopped, "maybe not."

Inside the mansion,

Jay paused the vampire show that he was watching, looking towards the door. He blankly blinked, "Emma?"

"So, you didn't die after all," Emma walked towards him in her diamond form, straightening her palm, ready to use it as a knife.

Jay glanced towards her palm, raising his hands, "I have lost my powers. If you try, you can kill me."

Emma stood in front of him, as her diamond form disappeared, cradling his cheeks as she sat down on his lap, "kill you? Why would I kill you."

Emma ran her hand through his hair, "what did that woman do to you...taking away your powers, trapping you here. I am here to free you. I have waited for you for a decade. I can wait for longer."

Jay stroked her young face, softly smiling, "so it's been a decade. And I thought more time would have passed. Emma...I am sorry, I couldn't help you then. But now...I can. Or she can."

Emma quizically looked at him, "help me with-" Her eyes started becoming heavy as her body fell down on his.

"Jay...?"

Jay stroked her head, "sorry, it will be fine soon."

He looked up at Wanda standing near him, "she is all yours."

Wanda sat down on the sofa as Emma's body slid down to her lap, putting her hands on Emma's head with a happy smile on her face.

Jay blinked, "you seem awfully cheerful."

Wanda glanced over, using her powers to break Emma's mind, erasing the memories from her mind, "even without your powers. You are not bad in predicting how things are going to go."

Jay removed the fake finger from his left hand, with a needle coming out from the nail. He threw it on the table, "it wasn't hard. I knew long ago that Emma would be trouble. No matter what her condition, she would never let Charles wipe her mind without leaving a backup.

He looked towards the gate, seeing Tony talking with Jean as the two walked in, with Pietro laughing behind them, "but even I didn't expect that Jean would call to warn you. She shouldn't...remember anything. Pheonix made sure of that."

"Actually, I didn't," Jean seemingly heard him, "for the longest times, they were just dreams. Even now, they are just fleeting moments. But Emma seemed to know more than me. It was just a possibility, so I contacted Wanda through the crystal. Although, the others don't know that."

Jay let out a breath, scratching his cheek, avoiding Tony's glare before looking at him with a smile, "Tony..."

Tony stared at him when Pietro appeared, clearing his throat, "do you two want the room for yourself?"

Tony stared at Jay, "you are not him?" He wasn't sure that he was looking at Jay.

Jay shook his head, "on the contrary, there is no him. I am me."

"No! You might think that, but that is not how parallel worlds work!" Tony removed his armor, shaking his head when Jay smiled.

"Well, then this should clear things up. You hate it when Pepper and I flirt. Especially because you know we are doing it to tease you. Last month you gave Happy the job, and he has been on his high horse ever since, which you find funny. Seeing him act like a fourth-grader. Also, in the last three years, you have gotten quite good at magic, and you even found Kamar-Taj, and Ancient One allowed you to borrow books. But you never use it because you want to keep it as the trump card. You also have been working on three new projects, better versions of Uru armor. And you bought a ring."

"Ok! Ok! Ok! Stop!" Tony jumped up, hearing the talk of the ring, staring at him in wonder, "how?"

"No, don't tell me! Mind reading? No? Memory reading? -"

"Infinity Gems."