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Moment of Awesome - Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch: Wanda and Amanda Sefton team up when Avalon is attacked. “Right behind you,” Wanda responded. She moved when she felt more than heard Amanda move. The only way to watch their backs was to move as quickly as she could backwards, using her powers to keep the creatures at bay and keep her from stumbling. But Avalon itself was shifting in subtle ways, causing her concentration to split just enough for one moment. It was all it took for a blur of a creature to slam into her side, forcing her against the moving shield behind her. “Fuck!” At the sound, Amanda paused in her shoving their way out of the pocket dimension to glance back at Wanda. “You all right, Boss Lady?” she asked, but before the other woman could reply, the same creature had leapt up at her, managing to inflict a deep scratch to her forehead before she could push it away. A short burst of fire from the witch’s hand sent it tumbling off to the side. “C’mon, Boss Lady, no time to hang about,” she continued, wiping blood away from her eye before reaching out to grab Wanda’s hand and pull her into the safety of a full shield. “You do not have to tell me twice.” The bulldozing trick had worked but they were going to need one more push to get out. “Don’t touch it when I’m done, just…” Wanda mimed pushing out with her fingers. Taking a deep breath, she winced as sharp pain shit across her ribs. A problem for later. Carefully, Wanda pressed her fingers against the inside of the shield, doing her best to not put too much undue pressure on it. Not yet. Red arcs like small bolts of lightning spread out from under earth her fingertips, blossoming and swelling until a large swath of the shield was infused with entropic energy. The infusion of Wanda’s powers against her spell made Amanda’s hands tingle uncomfortably, but she nodded and instead of laying hands on the shield she gestured with her fingertips, ‘pushing’ the spell forward once more. It was a wall of entropic energy. The creatures, it didn’t matter which ones, caught by it as Amanda pushed it forward had no chance. Parts that were wooden creatures harden and exploded while it’s fellows degraded into a boiling of mass. When Amanda stopped, shaking out her hands, the way was…not exactly clear but safe as they headed towards the exit together. “Amanda, remember to send me your dry cleaning bill.”