While Bova explains to Quicksilver the true details of his birth, Scarlet Witch is in Modred’s clutches. She briefly breaks free and battles him, but is overpowered. Leaving Bova’s cottage a short while later, Quicksilver is confronted by his sister’s spectral face in the clouds, warning him with a lightning bolt to leave or die. Racing down the mountain, he encounters Django in the woods, and has to carry him back to the village when the trees attack and a storm engulfs the region. He phones the Avengers, alerting them to the situation; Gyrich tries to order them not to go to Transia, but Captain America calls the president. Though instructed to allow their trip, Gyrich insists the Vision stays behind on monitor duty, despite the Vision’s wife being in danger. Back in Transia, Quicksilver and Django are blasted unconscious by a possessed Scarlet Witch, who identifies herself as Chthon.
The High Evolutionary transforms a normal cow into Bova (1). Later she witnesses HE’s old partner, Jonathan Drew, unexpectedly return. Around the same time the pregnant Magda arrives at the Citadel. Bova delivers her children, Wanda and Pietro, noting a strange light filling the sky as they are born. Despite clearly loving her newborns, Magda leaves them behind when she flees soon after, leaving a note warning of her husband. Bova asks a battle-weary HE to help find parents for the newborns. He summons the vacationing Franks up from the village, as they are expecting a child soon, intending to give all 3 children to them, but Madeline Frank dies in childbirth, her baby stillborn (2). Bova presents the twins to Robert Frank, but he flees in grief upon hearing of his wife’s death (3). The HE presents the infants to Django and Marya Maximoff (4). Some time later, Wundagore Citadel departs into space; Bova chooses to remain behind (5).
Magda’s husband is revealed to be Magneto in X #125, ’79, though the twins will not learn this until VSW #4, ’83. Most events in Marvel comics are subject to the sliding timescale – for those in the Marvel universe it has been less than 15 years since FF #1, ’63. However, the flashback involving the births is set circa 1958, and cannot be redated because the Franks are WWII veterans. As such, and since Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are not currently in their 50s, there is a decades-long gap between fb3 & 4, during which the HE kept the infants cryogenically frozen while he searched for suitable foster parents.
