Goddess | Natasha Romanoff

Chapter 5: Stowaway

Strange groans as he wakes up. He is surrounded by what seems to be glass shards that levitate around him. Strange is also levitating, he lifts his head up slightly to see Ebony Maw "In all the time I've served Thanos, I've 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...judgement. Give me... the stone" The shard slowly moves closer to Strange, hitting him on the cheek. Stephen grunts at the pain. His cheek begins to glow unnaturally, a white fluorescent shimmer appearing.

Tony is forced to watch as he is hidden from above. Waiting for the right moment to jump in and get Strange back. Strange's cloak taps Stark on the arm. He raises his hand to it, ready to shoot, but he sees what it is and stands down. "Wow you're a seriously loyal piece of outerwear, aren't you?" Tony tells the cloak.

Peter swings down from a web on the ceiling "Yeah, uh, speaking of loyalty..." Peter says, flipping back onto the ground.

"What the-"

"I know what you're gonna say" Peter says, holding his hands out in front of him

"You should not be here"

"I was gonna go home-"

"I don't wanna hear it"

Peter ignores Tony's rambling continuing, "But it was such a long way down and I just thought about you on the way-"

"And now I gotta hear it"

"...And I kinda stuck to the side of the ship. And this suit is ridiculously intuitive, by the way. So if anything, it's kinda your fault that I'm here"

"What did you just say?" Tony says, turning to peter questioningly.

"I take that back. And now I'm here in space"

"Yeah. Right where I don't want you to be. This isn't Coney Island. This isn't a field trip. It's one-way ticket. You hear me? Don't pretend like you thought this through. You could not have possibly thought this through. God Aloisia is gonna kill me, she was mad enough when I got you to fight cap. Shit" Tony mumbles, but he pauses when he realises that Aloisia might be dead.

"No. I did think this through. And I'll tell Al it was my fault"

"You could not have possibly thought this through" Tony says, quickly skipping over the topic of Aloisia as he is scared if he thinks about her for too long he might just start crying.

"It's just- You can't be a friendly neighborhood Spider – Man when there's no neighborhood" Peter pauses slightly "Okay. That didn't really make any sense, but you know what I'm trying to say"

eventually Tony caves in, knowing there is little he can do now. "Come on. We got a situation. See him down there? He's in trouble. What's your plan? Go"

"Um. Okay. Okay...uh...did you ever see that really old movie, Aliens?" Peter begins. A plan forming. Tony rolls his eyes at how young peter is.

Strange screams loudly again as Ebony continues to torture him with the spikes of material. "Painful aren't they? They were originally designed for microsurgery. And any one of them..." Ebony begins, however he hears a thud and turns, to see Stark in his Iron Man suit standing there.

Ebony Maw continues "...could end your friend's life in an instant"

"I gotta tell you, he's not really my friend. Saving his life is more a professional courtesy" Tony says, charging his repulsers.

"You've saved nothing. Your powers are inconsequential compared to mine" Ebony says, using his abilities to grab pieces of metal from the ship and hold them by his sides, ready to throw them at Tony.