THE OLDEST MAXIMOFF | Stephen Strange

1.2

AFRICAN COAST

Nadia Maximoff had followed her twin siblings to the African Coast to a salvage yard for a man named Ulysses Klaue, who was a South African black market arms dealer that sold vibranium stolen from Wakanda. Nadia wasn't sure how to pull off intimidating someone as she had only ever done so to Wanda and Pietro. Now that she had these powerful abilities, she felt like she could pull off scaring Klaue. She tilted her head and held a twisted smirk on her slightly chapped lips. Nadia and Wanda waited in the shadows as Pietro disarmed the tattooed man, having lined up the bullets all neat on the table from Klaue's gun.

"Yeah, the enhanced," he realized after seeing Nadia and Wanda but wasn't the slightest bit frightened by them. "Strucker's prize pupils," he held up a plate that held pieces of candy and offered it to them, none of the siblings moved from their spots to take one of the sweets. "I was sorry to hear about Strucker. But then, he knew what kind of world he was helping create. Human life. Not a growth market."

"Strucker's dead?" Nadia questioned in shock with a voice barely above a whisper, her façade of intimidation gone, but wasn't fully surprised that the Hydra scientist was killed.

"You didn't know?" Klaue asked after seeing Nadia's reaction as well as the faces of Wanda and Pietro, who were just as confused as Nadia. "Is this your first time intimidating someone? I'm afraid I'm not that afraid," he told them plainly.

"Everybody is afraid of something," Wanda jeered to Klaue as she stepped closer with Nadia tagging along behind her little sister.

"Cuttlefish. Deep sea fish. They make lights, disco lights....," Klaue told the three his irrational fear and then he started intimidating the sounds of cuttlefish which made Nadia tilt her head from confusion and wondered why he was only afraid of that specific type of fish. "To hypnotize their prey, and then....whoop. I saw a documentary. It was terrifying."

Pietro, finally taking up the offer for a piece of candy, zoomed over and grabbed one and unwrapped it and shoved it in his mouth. "So if you're going to fuddle with my brain and make me see a giant cuttlefish, then I know you don't do business. And I know you're not in charge. And I only deal with the man in charge," after Klaue stood up from his chair, a figure that Nadia recognized as Ultron was behind the glass windows and shot at Klaue and made glass from the window fly everywhere.

"There is no man in charge. Let's talk business," Ultron spoke deadly to the stolen vibranium dealer.

Klaue had led them to where he had kept all of his collection of vibranium. "Upon this rock, I will build my church. Vibranium," Ultron tossed the sample he was holding to Pietro, who looked at it with curiosity and wonderment.

"But I always say, 'Keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and wait to find out which is which.'" that quote that Ultron spilled out had reminded Klaue that he had heard that saying once before.

"Stark. Tony Stark used to say that. To me," Klaue revealed. "You're one of his," he accused Ultron.

"What?" Ultron seemed almost offended to being grouped in with Tony Stark. "I'm not."

Nadia had noticed Klaue's man with him had pulled out a gun but hadn't made a move to stop him and resulted in Wanda using her abilities to stop him from raising his gun. The man cried out in pain as he fell to his knees.