"Then we will have to convince Ms. Maximoff to put the world back, one way or another. Her children might be a good place to start gathering more information about what would have prompted her to do this."

She nods. "There's - also a feeling I have, halfway to a memory... I think there's somewhere from the original world I would be able to find out more..."

"Also worth checking on, if you can narrow it down any."

"Teleporting to unfamiliar places isn't easy for me, but - I know I've been there before, so I should be able to manage it."

"Whichever you'd like to attempt first, then."

She hesitates. 

"I - "

"The place. I need to think before I talk to my friends."

"Fair enough. Is there anything we can do to help?"

"...I'm not sure. I - suspect this might come down to a fight."

"We had best prepare for one, then."

"Prepare for the worst, even as we aim for the best, if nothing else."

"Just so. What can we expect fighting her to be like?"

"Her powers work on intent - Nausicaa theoretically has the same ones, and might be able to shed more light on the internal workings. When I've seen her use them she makes a single statement of intent to focus herself, but I suspect she doesn't actually need to talk. She can fly with no apparent mental effort, and fling energy bolts fairly trivially. She's not very fast, though, and she's probably normal human levels of fragile, so she'll go down easily if actually hit. She has strong psychic defenses and might have offensive psychic abilities, but I'm not actually sure on that. Directly interfering with other people is hard, so she'll probably lean 'throw energy bolts' over 'willing someone to die'. She's more dangerous at range - I'm not sure she actually has a range limit - and to people she genuinely wants to hurt. Another advantage of recruiting her kids - if she can't bring herself to wish them harm, she can't harm them."

"So we should strike first, and from a position of surprise, if possible."

"I don't know I want to escalate that suddenly - at least not without knowing more about what's going on."

"Right. Information first. And some of us can be in reserve at the initial confrontation. Mora and I, likely, as we have the best chance of being unaccounted for."

"Yeah. She probably knows my personality and powers pretty well. Me and her kids can handle the talking initially."

"Sounds like a plan."

She nods. "To the place from my memory first, though, I think..."

"Of course. When you are ready."

"I am. One moment - "

She spreads her arms, chants -

And they're elsewhere. A stone mansion surrounded by several other buildings, and a stacked stone fence, and what was once grand gardens, now all destroyed and overgrown -

"This was Xavier's School," Loki says, softly. "I - learned magic here, I think."

"Doesn't seem like she has very fond feelings for it."

"She taught here. I think - I was in her classes." She frowns. "She didn't seem miserable..."

"Perhaps she was hiding it from students. Or there was an unseen trigger event."

"Yeah. I - don't know." She shakes her head.

And there's a very deliberate rustle behind them.