THE OLDEST MAXIMOFF | Stephen Strange

5.2

Nadia felt prodding and poking at her sides and arms and forced herself to open her chocolate brown eyes. "Uh, Miss Maximoff?" She faintly heard directed to her. "Ma'am?"

The enhanced Maximoff fluttered her eyes open to see Peter Parker leaning down next to her. She squinted her eyes shut from the bright light around her and felt Peter helping her up to her feet. "It's Nadia," the dark haired brunette corrected the high schooler.

"Oh, um, right. Nadia, that alien dude took the wizard," Nadia went into overdrive and started rushing down the middle of the empty street with Peter trailing behind her. she held her hands out and willed her psionic magic to appear at her fingertips to carry her through the air. Peter swung from his webs as the pair chased after the alien who had Stephen.

Nadia and Peter had finally caught up to Ebony Maw until he used his abilities to fling a billboard toward the two. Nadia's and Peter's bodies flew back which resulted in the two landing on the cement. "Not cool," the teenager huffed as they both got up to their feet with Peter shooting his webs to help him swing from building to building.

Nadia forced herself upward and watched as Peter swung in front of her. Ebony Maw moved his arms inward to make the lamp posts lining the street pull toward the middle. This resulted in Stephen's cloak becoming caught between a few lamp posts. Stephen fell out of the cloak which made Nadia fling her arms out to catch him before he could hit the ground. She felt something sticky hit her back and turned her head to notice that Peter shot a web at her to help her.

A bright blue light shot down toward the three, making Nadia lose her hold on the former surgeon. Peter had a web wrapped around a pole before he couldn't hold on anymore which resulted in him and Nadia flying up toward the space ship. "Uh, Mr. Stark, we're being beamed up," Peter shouted into the comms.

Nadia held onto the side of the space ship with a lot of difficulty as the air in her lungs decreased before she slipped into the opened entrance behind Ebony Maw, who still had Stephen with him. Nadia scanned her surroundings before finding a place to hide so that she could come up with a plan to save Stephen.

His eyes were closed as he floated in the air horizontally with many thin and little needles that were pointed toward Stephen in all directions. Worry flooded Nadia as she raked her brain to help Stephen out of this predicament. He stirred slightly as he struggled to open his eyes. Once his eyes fluttered open, he scanned his surroundings with only one thing at the forefront of his mind, Nadia.

He needed to know if she was okay and wished that she was far away from the space ship and hoped she was on her way to Wanda and Vison. He moved his eyes in front of him to Ebony standing there expectantly as Stephen flipped from lying on his back to now facing the floor of the ship. He had to crane his neck upward to be able to look at Ebony. "In all the time I've served Thanos....I have never failed him. If I were to reach our rendezvous on Titan....with the time stone still attached to your vaguely irritating person....there would be judgment."

The needles grew closer to his face and then one came into contact with his cheek. He grunted softly in pain. "Give me....the stone."

"Come on, we got a situation," Nadia heard from behind which alerted her and made her stand up from her crouched down position only to see Tony with Peter as well as Stephen's burgundy cloak. In rush to save the former surgeon, she ditched Peter and instantly felt bad but she didn't dwell on it for too long. " See him down there? He's in trouble. What's your plan?" Tony directed the question toward the high schooler.