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Chapter 13: Something's Happening
Maria was laying down next to where Strange sat on the ground spread out like a starfish as she closed her eyes exhausted from her long and stressful day. First thing's first, she stayed up late watching reruns of Saved By the Bell which kept her up until around 4 in the morning. Then she was woken up early by her father to go "jogging" which had put its own strain on Maria who, as established, was not as physically fit as she thought herself to be. So in reality, because of the things she just mentioned above, she was running on no sleep right now making her feel exhausted. She could hear Star Lord, yeah that's really what he said his name was, although now that she thought about it his friends called him Quill, and her dad talking but she paid no attention to them.
Maria felt Peter nudge her side with his foot as she threw a nasty glare back at him before telling him to let her sleep as he laughed and paid attention to Quill's friends who were on the other side of her dad and Quill and bouncing around where the gravitational pull was weak. She heard Peter walk away and toward her dad who had began talking about having a plan but Maria already knew he would be saying something simple that even a squirrel would be able to understand. Maria wondered if a squirrel would even be able to take down Thanos? Maybe a stampede of squirrels? Anyway, he was probably saying how they should attack and hold him down so they could all steal the gauntlet from Thanos with as little repercussions as possible.
"Are you yawning? In the middle of this, while I'm breaking it down? Huh? Did you hear what I said?" Maria rolled her eyes as she heard her dad yell about people not listening to a word he said as she sat up exhausted letting out a yawn of her own which she hoped didn't trigger her dad anymore than the blue aliens yawn had. Maria looked over to Strange to ask him if he had heard the plan when she noticed him sitting criss cross moving erratically.
"Hey Strange, what's wrong?" Maria said standing up quickly as she tried to shake Strange from his episode. To no use, Strange was still trapped so Maria decided to do what she thought was right at the moment and tried to read his mind.
Boy was she wrong about that. The second she tapped into Strange's mind she felt nauseous at just how fast his thoughts were moving. Maria tried calling out to Strange in his mind with panic filling her voice but his thoughts were in such disarray she couldn't pinpoint where he was exactly. She couldn't decipher what she was seeing but just kept seeing many variations of a big purple shape. All of a sudden Maria felt a throbbing pain in her head as she was thrown out of Strange's mind just as he fell to the ground gasping for air.
"Hey, are you alright what happened?" Tony said as he and Peter were bent down in front of the two as Peter put a comforting hand on Maria's back.
"I don't know I saw Strange having an episode so I tried to reach his mind but there was so much going on I couldn't really see much," Maria explained as she looked at Strange in confusion.
