The Never-Ending Why: Chapter 19: Never Be Like You (Part 4)
Tony and Steve took the C train toward their destination. It was pretty packed, so the two of them had to stand pretty close. They naturally did that anyway, so they ignored some glances that came from other passengers.
They walked the rest of the way to Bleecker Street. Tony studied all the addresses, as the two of them walked down the sidewalk. Steve saw a motorcycle, and he gave a quiet whistle.
Tony glanced over at Steve, and a warm smile formed. Did Steve wanna get himself a little hot rod? Tony wondered as they walked. He held that blondie's hand, and told him that he found the address.
Steve pulled his focus from the bike, and he looked up at the building. It looked like it was the haunted mansion on the block. It wasn't "spooky" like on Halloween, it just looked old and probably cursed.
Tony and Steve looked at one another, and they both exchanged some baffled looks. They were taught the Mystic Arts, but everything in Kathmandu felt very spiritual.
The building that they currently looked at felt very unusual. Perhaps, it was mysterious, or magical? Steve tried to think of the correct word, as Tony stepped up to the door.
He knocked three times.
Victor Strange opened the door. He said hello to Tony and Steve, then he made room for them to walk in. The two of them walked into the Sanctum Sanctorum, and an eerie feeling slowly began to settle.
"It feels.."
What was it? Tony kept looking at Steve. It felt familiar, and that was creepy for Tony. He stuck by Steve, and his eyes wandered about the space.
Steve immediately started exploring. He asked Victor if the place was abandoned, and the youngest Strange said that he didn't have a clue.
"Donna is upstairs. We've been looking for the person that she saw in her dream, but..."
Nothing. Victor smiled at them again, and he looked up the giant stairs. Steve walked up six steps. He turned around, and looked down at the other two.
"What person in her dream?"
Steve was very intrigued. He wanted to explore every inch of the building. He was reminded of something as well, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
Donna Strange was looking for something. She was told what she needed to get Stephen back, and she was on her way to accomplishing her objective.
She heard Victor talking to Steve and Tony. They were heading up the stairs, but the building had three stories. The first one had a common library, common rooms for guests, and a kitchen.
The second one had more rooms, and a study. The third floor was the only one worth exploring. It had an open room that seemed like it was used for meditating. Donna found the real library, and a room full of peculiar items and artifacts.
She couldn't get into one of the rooms, and she was sure that what she needed was inside it. Donna walked back to the stairs, and she said hello to the three companions that were walking up.
"I think we've searched the entire place, except this one room."
Donna pointed at the only door that was locked. Steve, Tony, and Victor made it up the stairs, and they all started focusing where Donna was pointing. The door had an interesting pattern around it. Steve walked ahead of the pack, and he approached the door.
The blonde extended his hand, and he gently opened it. The door immediately flew open, and they all could see that it led to a completely different place. That door was actually a gateway to another dimension. Steve felt a strong pull coming from within it, so he quickly reached in and shut the door.
They all slowly looked at Donna.
"It was locked, I swear."
What the hell. She was beginning to get annoyed with the place. Donna looked toward her left, and she attempted to look down the stairs. The stairs were now on her right hand side.
A few of them shrieked, because the stairs weren't where they originally were.
"Are we moving? Or, is the floor changing around?"
Victor had to ask. He looked down at the floor. The Sanctum Sanctorum rotated. It was designed to shift and alter itself. The rooms that Donna thought she explored had been relocated, and the locked room was currently somewhere else.
There was one element within the Sanctum that stayed exactly the same. Tony was looking directly at it, and he was certain that he had seen it before. Tony pointed at the giant window that was to his right.
He asked Steve if he had seen it before. The would-be-soldier told him that he had. He couldn't remember where, of course, so he sighed and looked at Donna.
"Victor mentioned that you are looking for something to bring Stephen back. Can you tell us what it looks like? Then, maybe we should split up and look?"
Split up? Donna listened to Steve. He was trying to come up with an effective plan, since there was no one to guide them around the peculiar building.
The mansion rotated, so Donna wasn't sure if that was the best plan. She looked at her younger brother, then confessed.
"We need to find something called the Eye of Agamotto. That is all we need to bring him back."
Tony's young ears instantly sprang to life. AHH. Ah. He knew exactly what the Eye of Agamotto was. He spoke very loudly.
"Big Stephen wears that. That's what this entire place reminds me of. Right Steve?"
The whole place felt exactly like the energy that came from the king of brooding. Stephen's older self was moody as fuhhhhhkkk.
Tony chuckled a little bit. His older self was in charge of the Mystic Arts weaponry, and all the fancy artifacts, so he knew exactly what they were looking for.
"Let's stick together, and I'll scan around for what it's made out of. I have a complete breakdown of it right here."
Tony flipped up a digital screen and he immediately started sifting through the program called E.D.I.T.H.
Donna and Victor did not expect Tony to whip up that screen, so their mouths were locked open for a short while. Tony started scanning the building. They all watched his technology construct a map of every room.
They even watched a floor rotate, and Steve's eyes settled on something that moved pretty slowly in one of the rooms.
Chapter: END
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