THE OLDEST MAXIMOFF | Stephen Strange

3.9

Nadia halted her stride upon seeing Kaecilius with his followers as Stephen brought his hands up and slammed them down, bringing everyone in the foyer of the sanctum into the mirror dimension. "You can't affect the real world in here," Strange floated down the staircase with the use of his cloak. "Who's laughing now? Asshole."

Kaecilius merely just shrugged his shoulders toward Strange with Nadia not far behind him. "I am."

He pushed his hands out, moving the inside of the building around. Nadia spun her eyes around her to  the stairs split in two as the walls grew in height. She raked through her brain to find an escape and the only thing she could think of was to run. Therefore, she pushed past Stephen, grabbing his hand tightly so that they wouldn't lose each other in all the madness. The enhanced Maximoff pulled him along behind her with him grabbing tightly onto Kaecilius's sling ring as they raced to the front door with Mordo behind them.

"I've got his sling ring," Stephen's voice echoed to Nadia and Mordo. "They can't escape, right?" His head turned toward the darker skinned man questioningly.

Kaecilius stalked toward them with two zealots next to him as Mordo shouted out to Nadia and Stephen. "Run!"

Nadia didn't need to be told twice as her feet picked up and moved along the street, narrowly escaping oncoming vehicles. Nadia forced herself to stop as the roads started moving and her eyes couldn't focus on the trippy feeling of the mirror dimension.

She didn't exactly have experience in this realm of things and it was her first time in the mirror dimension after all. "Their connection to the dark dimension makes them more powerful in the mirror dimension," Mordo explained to Nadia and Strange. "They can't affect the real world, but they can still kill us. This wasn't cleverness. It was suicide!"

"Hey, I don't see you coming up with any ideas. Now look who's whining like a wounded dog," Nadia snapped in his direction, using his earlier words toward Stephen against him.

The three didn't have any more time to let Mordo and Nadia's words sink in before they took off running again when they saw Kaecilius with his followers. Stephen had his hands outstretched as he tried to create a portal with his the use of his sling ring and when they reached it, the world tilted. Nadia felt herself falling alongside Strange and Mordo, the three of them slamming into a bus.

There was an old man on the bus reading, his laughing echoing through the glass window. "That is hilarious," the man chided and if the situation was different, Nadia would have joined in despite not knowing what the man was laughing about.

"You've got to be shitting me," Nadia grunted as she saw Mordo and Strange heading toward a tall skyscraper with the intention of running up it. Orange tinted shields appeared in front of her to jump onto to help her get to the building. She pushed through her bundle of nerves and jumped from shield to shield until her feet it the side of the building.

Strange was attempting to form a portal in front of the three but it all went wrong when Kaecilius caught up to them. The building started to move in little ripples before morphing into big waves, the portal completely disappearing before the three started to free fall as the world turned in on itself.

Nadia held her hands out, her psionic energy wrapping itself around her body as well as Strange and Mordo to catch them before slamming into the side of another skyscraper to prevent them from hitting the side of the building too hard. "I'm not sure I'm a fan of this place. It defies all sorts of physics," Nadia panted heavily from all the running she had just done.