𝙰𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚈𝚘𝚞, 𝙰𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙼𝚎 ➍

6. Ebony Thaw

Madison's eyes snapped open as she gasped heavily. She leaned forward, her arms keeping her from falling flat on her face as they planted against the metal floor. Taking heavy breathes she heard sudden grunts of pain and her head snapped to her left to see Ebony Maw with some sort of glass like sticks piercing Strange's skin.

Eyes widening Madison got to her feet which made more sound that what she had intended and Maw turned his head towards Madison. His uncomfortable smile grew upon seeing he young hero awake.

"Don't even try anything little girl..." Maw demands turning himself fully around.

"Oh, I plan on it." Madison assures creating two balls of purple energy around her fists as she furrowed her eyebrows angrily towards Maw. "Let the magic man go."

"I plan on not doing that." Maw tells Madison before waving his hand. Madison narrowed her eyes confused as none of the short glass spears moved towards her. Hearing metallic sounds behind her she spun her head around to only be whacked by a slab of metal knocking her out instantly. "Children these days..." Maw mutters turning back to Strange who held a pained and nervous look on his face. "Where were we?"

Tony and James watched from above concerned as Madison laid unconscious on her floor with blood trickling down her forehead from the whack. Tony held onto the beam beside him as James kneeled on the floor.

Before the two could decipher a plan to get the two hostages out of harms way something tapped Tony on the shoulder, it causing him to react and spin towards the source with his repulser raised with James snapping his head in his direction before they saw Strange's cloak. It seemed stunned by Tony's instincts, the top corners of it rising as if to say it was putting its hands up in surrender.

"I swear if I see dragon in the next twenty four hours I may just lose it." James whispers, his eyes just as wide as Tony's as they stared at the cloak.

"Wow, you are certainly a loyal piece of outerwear aren't you?" Tony acknowledged as James looked to his left and sighed almost disappointed upon seeing who was also in the ship.

"You're joking..." James muttered quietly as he locked eyes with Peter.

"Speaking of loyalty." Peter starts innocently making Tony's jaw drop in shock as James rubbed his forehead with his metal covered hand in realisation of what the conversation between the young boy and Tony would probably consist of.

"What the-" Tony began but Peter didn't let him finish.

"I know what you're going to say." Peter simply interrupted putting his hands out in front of him.

"You should not be here." Tony scolds with wide eyes as he pointed towards Peter. James looked from Tony to Peter almost confused by the relationship he was seeing on display as they spoke.

"I was gonna go home-"

"I don't want to hear it." Tony interrupts as James looked at the cloak behind him who looked at James before the two looked back at Peter.

"But it was such a long way down and I thought about you on the way-"

"And now I gotta hear it." James' gaze went back to Tony.

"-and kind of got stuck to the side of the ship and this suit, is ridiculously intuitive, by the way." Back to Peter.

"God damnit..." Tony mutters as James continued to look confused from Tony to Peter as they spoke.

"So, if anything, it's kinda your fault that I'm here..." James cringed as Tony sent Peter a clear and harmful glare which the cloak was even surprised by. The glare was one James would be familiar with if Tony was Rachel in particular.