Stephen walked through the sanctum and paused next to the henchmen. He slowly put to shaking fingers to his neck, look for a pulse. Upon feeling none he slowly backed away with his head down. Stephen grabbed the Cloak of Levitation and swung it around his shoulders while he marched down the hallway.

At the top of the stairs was a pile of chains were Kaecilius was once tied up.

'Aww, he escaped!" Peter moaned.

"Strange!" Someone yelled. Stephen flinched and whipped around, sighing in relief when he saw Mordo walking towards him. "You're okay."
"A relative term, but yeah, I'm okay." He replied.
"The Cloak of Levitation. It came to you." Mordo said.

"No minor feat." The Ancient One said as she stepped out of the shadows. "It's a fickle thing."

"Where were they five minutes ago?" Wanda asked. "It seems like they left you too do all the hard work."

"I don't know. Busy. I guess." Stephen shrugged.

"He's escaped." Stephen gestured towards the pile of chains.
"Kaecilius?" The Ancient One asked.

"Yeah. He can fold space and matter at will."
"He folds matter outside the mirror dimension? In the real world?" She asked doubtfully.

"Is that a big deal or something?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, it is." Stephen replied. "The mirror dimension works outside of the real world. You arent supposed to be able affect anything outside of it."

"Well, there must be a logical explanation." Tony said. "Perhaps the inter dimensional frequencies were colliding with atoms that were vibrating on a normal level, causing the barrier separating the two dimensions to weaken."

"What does that mean?" Scott asked.

"What Tony means is the atomic particles in the air could have been colliding on a quantum level and affecting each other, therefore causing each other too slow down and lose the energy they had built up, therefore weakening each other." Bruce explained.

"What does that mean?' Scott asked.

"What they mean is quantum build up between the two different level of energy in the particles and atoms were not strong enough to support both-"

"Ughhh." Scott groaned and sunk down in his seat, cutting Shuri off mid sentence. "You're all just like Hank. Why can't anyone just say what they mean?"

"Because science!" Peter grinned.

"After a while you just learn to nod your head and pretend to understand." Clint said. "Sometimes when they really start rambling I just take out my hearing aids and ignore them. All you need to know is that Strange keeps saying 'blah blah blah magic', and then Tony says 'blah blah blah science'."

"That's not accurate at all…" Tony said.

"Works for me." Scott shrugged.

"Yeah."
"How many more?"
"Two. I stranded one in the desert."

"And the other?"

"His body was in the hall. Master Drumm was in the foyer."
"He's been taken back to Kamar-Taj." Mordo said in an attempt to be comforting.
"The London Sanctum has fallen. Only New York and Hong Kong remain now to shield us from the Dark Dimension. You defended the New York Sanctum from attack. With its Master gone, it needs another, Master Strange." She said.

"Awesome! You got a promotion!" Peter cheered.

"What does the rank of master even mean?" Bucky asked. "Do you get your black belt or something?"

"That's karate, actually." Stephen sighed. "The rank of master means that I would have more power and control, but I would also have a lot more responsibilities."

"With great power come great responsibility." Peter said with a huge grin on his face. A few people gave him confused looks. "A very wise man once told me that."

"Who?" Clint asked.

"The same person who introduced me into the fantastic-awesome-amazingness of old movies. My uncle." Peter grinned, his face glowing.

"I'd love to meet him." Nat said. A few others nodded along. Peter looked down at his hands for a moment, the smile on his face disappearing.

"Yeah… that… that would be… great…" Peter mumbled.

"What's he like?" Wanda asked. Peter shrugged.

"He's… um… uh… really great…" Peter said with his eyes down. He obviously didn't want to be talking about this. "It's just… the only thing is... um… the problem is..."

"The problem is that this movie won't watch itself." Tony said quickly. "So why don't we watch this movie and talk about all this later."

Everyone gave Tony confused looks before turning to the screen.

"Thanks Mr. Stark." Peter whispered so quietly only Tony could hear him.

Mordo gave her a surprised look before getting a little excited for Stephen. The Ancient One looked at Stephen, waiting for him to eagerly jump at offer to guard the Sanctum and to be overjoyed that she appointed him Master. Instead all she got was a glare.
"No." Stephen growled. "It is Dr. Strange. Not Master Strange, and Mr. Strange, Doctor Strange. When I became a doctor, I swore an oath to do no harm. And I have just killed a man! I'm not doing that again. I became a doctor to save lives, not take them."
"You become a doctor to save one life above all others. Your own." She explained.

"Oooh, burn." Clint said. "Maybe you should've just accept the promotion."

"Still seeing through me, are you?" He mocked.
"I see what I've always seen. Your over inflated ego. You want to go back to the delusion that you can control anything, even death, which no one can control. Not even the great doctor Stephen Strange."
"Not even Dormammu?" Stephen says with a small smirk on his face. The Ancient Ones smile is replaced with a shocked look. "He offers immortality."

"It's our fear of death that gives Dormammu life. He feeds off it." She said.
"Like you feed on him?" Stephen accused. "You talk to me about controlling death. Well, I know how you do it. I've seen the missing rituals from the book of Cagliostro."
"Measure your next words very carefully, doctor." She warned.
"Because you might not like them?"
"Because you may not know of what you speak."

"What is he talking about?" Mordo asked.
"I'm talking about her long life." Stephen replied. "The source of her immortality. She draws power from the Dark Dimension to stay alive."

"DUH DUH DUH DUHHHH" Peter said. "Plot twist! I totally called she was a super villian!"

"For the hundredth time, she's not a supervillain." Stephen sighed.

"I'd personally be more concerned with Mordo." Wong sighed.

"What that supposed to mean?" Bucky asked.

"Does Mordo do something?" Peter asked.

"Mordo is a close friend, okay? Wong probably misspoke." Stephen said. Wong just shrugged. "No, what's with the shrug, Wong? Do you know something I don't?"

"Well-" Wong started.

"Spoilers?" Clint asked. He slowly reached behind his giant bean bag chair and grabbed a pillow. He tapped the pillow slowly for affect and then brought a finger to his lips. "Shhhh. No spoilers."

"I was just going to say that-"

"SPOILERS!" Clint yelled and threw one of his pillows at Wong.

"Legolas, if you don't stop throwing pillows I'm gonna buy every pillow company in the world and make a rule where you are not allowed to use them. Ever. " Tony threatened. He was just joking. Probably. Maybe.

"I think that's a bit excessive, Tony." Wanda said with an eyebrow raised.

"He'd do it, too." Nat said. "Once he tried to buy the rights to Doritos so he could make Steve the mascot."

A few people laughed at that, and laughed a little harder when they saw Steves confused expression.

"I still don't get the joke." Steve said. "Are Doritos america themed, or something? Or are you making another grandpa joke, or it their something ice themed about the chips and you're making a capsicle joke? I don't understand…"

"Hehehehe." Tony giggled.

"That's not true." Mordo laughed.

"I've seen the rituals and worked them out. I know how you do it."
"Once they regroup, the zealots will be back." She gulped and changed the subject, avoiding eye contact. "You'll need reinforcements." She added before she walked away.
"She is not who you think she is." Stephen told Mordo.
"You don't have the right to say that. You have no idea of the responsibility that rests upon her shoulders."
"No, and I don't want to know."
"You're a coward." Mordo spat.
"Because I'm not a killer?"

"These zealots will snuff us all out, and you can't muster the strength to snuff them out first?"
"What do you think I just did?" Stephen screamed and pointed to the body in the hallway.
"You saved your own life!" Mordo snarled. "And then whine about it like a wounded dog."
"Would have done it so easily?"
"You have no idea. The things I've done… And the answer is yes. Without. Hesitation."

"That's super villain talk right there." Peter said. "I don't know if I trust this Mordo guy…"

"Even if there's another way?"
"There is no other way."
"You lack imagination."
"No, Stephen." Mordo poked Stephen in the chest. "You lack a spine."

They stared at each other with anger in their eyes. Suddenly a crash rang out and they both turned their heads in the direction of the noise.
"They're back." Mordo snarled.

"Already?" Wanda groaned. "You just got rid of these guys."

Stephen and Mordo started sprinting towards the top of the stairs. Kaecilius and a few of his henchmen where standing in a circle, summoning a giant sphere of electricity. "We have to end this. Now!" Mordo yelled and leapt over the railing.

Stephen stood on the top step as Mordo darted towards them.
"Strange! Get down here and fight!" He screamed.

"What are you doing? You're just watching them fight. I think you should be helping." Peter asked.

"You'll see." Stephen said.

Stephen waved his hands and a glass-like effect went over all of their surroundings. The sphere they were summoning disappeared.
"The Mirror Dimension." Stephen smirked as he levitated many feet above their heads.. "You can't affect the real world in here. Who's laughing now?"

"I thought you said that he was bending space and stuff while in the mirror dimension, earlier." Clint said. "How is this any different?"

"I don't know. It was a split second decision." Stephen shrugged.

"I am." Kaecilius said. He summoned a whip and it wrapped around Stephen's ankle. Kaecilius gave one quick tug and Stephen went flying to the other side of the room. Stephen and Mordo darted out of the building and stood on the sidewalk.
"They've got no sling ring. I mean, they can't escape, right?" Stephen asked. His question was answered when they walked out of the building with ease.
"Run!" Mordo cried. The darted down the street, winding in and out of traffic. "Their connection to the Dark Dimension makes them more powerful in the Mirror Dimension. They can't affect the real world, but they can still kill us. This wasn't clever. This was suicide!"

"Again, it was a split second decision." Stephen said before anyone could say anything.

Kaecilius and his two henchmen ran down the street towards them. Stephen opened a portal with his sling ring. Before they could jump through Kaecilius shifted gravity and they were both falling to the right.

"Run! They're gonna kill you!" Peter shouted.

"For the hundredth millionth time, Peter. He's right there. He can't die." Tony groaned.

They landed on top of a bus. "That is hilarious." An old man laughed as he read a paper, oblivious to what was happening outside.

"Wait a minute… I feel like I've seen that guy before…" Peter said with a puzzled look on his face. "Is that… is that my bus driver?"

"No… That's the Tony Stank UPS guy!" Rhodey laughed."The UPS guy who though your name was Tony Stank!"

"Wait a minute… Steve, doesn't that guy look familiar?" Bucky asked.

"Oh my gosh." Steve gasped. "He looks exactly like that retired general from the war! That's impossible…"

"Hang on, raise your hand if you think you've seen this guy before." Tony said. Almost everyone raised their hand.

"Freaky…" Peter breathed.

Stephen and Mordo ran up the side of a building. Stephen tried to open up another portal, but Kaecilius leapt up and slammed his fist onto the side of the building, causing the building to bend and twist like it was made of plastic.

"Awesome!" Shuri grinned. "The atoms in the cells forming the buildings must have been put in a corruptiple state! If you could harness the plasmic energy used to manipulate the structure of the quantem-"

"Ughhhh." Scott groaned. "Why can't you just speak english?"

"Ngaba ungandithanda ukuthetha isiXhosa?"* Shuri asked with an eyebrow raised.

"What?" Scott asked.

"Ndicinga ukuba olu lwimi luya kwenza kakuhle, udade."* T'challa replied with smirk on his face.

"What is happening?!" Tony asked.

"Badidekile."* Shuri giggled.

"Hlekisa."* T'challa smirked.

"Khangela ubuso babo!"* Shuri snickered at pointed everyone's confused expressions.

"I'm so confused." Steve said.

"Their speaking Xhosa." Bucky said. "It's Wakanda native language. Currently they're making fun of everyones confused expressions."

"Bucky, you know Xhosa?" Steve asked.

"I can understand it. I can't speak it." Bucky shrugged.

Before they could reach the portal, Kaecilius twisted his hands which caused the building to tear in half. As it bent upside down Stephen and Mordo were knocked off and plummeted thousands of feet down. Buildings and streets started turning and twisting upside down. Mordo and Stephen landed on the side of a rolling building and ran alongside the edge.
"This was a mistake." Stephen gasped as they looked at the floating and twisting buildings. Suddenly the building moved again and they were falling once more. Mordo caught himself on a ledge, but Stephen continued to fall.

Kaecilius lunged and tackled Stephen to the ground. He took Stephens sling ring and shoved it in his back pocket before grabbing Stephen by the throat. Stephen gasped and squirmed as Kaecilius choked him. Kaecilius smirked and summoned a knife to his other hand and tried to stab Stephen. However, the surface that they were on split and Stephen was hurled far away from him.

Kaecilius turned around, confused. Both of his henchmen were being pulled away from him, and he was being trapped as debris circled around him, creating a wall. Behind him, The Ancient One emerges, waving her hands and summoning weapons.

"Awesome! Can we get her to join the Avengers?" Tony asked.

"Tony, you can't ask every super powered being to join the Avengers." Steve said.

"Why not?" Tony asked.

"You just can't!"

"Can too."

"Can not."

"Can too."

"Can not."

"Guys! Watch the movie!" Shuri said and pointed at the screen.

"It's true." Mordo gasped. "She does draw power from the Dark Dimension."

She looked away in shame before sending Stephen and Mordo backwards so they wouldn't get hurt.
"Kaecilius." She stood far apart from each other, and slowly began to circle one another with weapons in their hands.
"I came to you, broken, lost, bleeding. I trusted you to be my teacher, and you fed me lies." He snarled.
"I tried to protect you." She insisted.
"From the truth?"

"From yourself."
"I have a new teacher now."
"Dormammu deceives you. You have no idea of what he truly is. His eternal life is not paradise, but torment."

"Liar!"

Kaecilius and his henchmen lunged for her. She knocked him back and fought the henchmen. She knocked one aside and blocked the other ones attack. Kaecilius watched before grabbing Stephens Sling Ring and slipping it on. He lunged forward and stabbed one of his henchmen; the blade traveling through him and stabbing the Ancient One. She gasped and knocked it aside, but continued fighting.

"Ooh, ow.." Wanda winced.

Kaecilius open up a portal and threw her through it. Stephen and Mordo yelled and leapt through it to follow her.

She fell off of a huge skyscraper and plummeted to the ground below. She crashed through a glass pane and crumpled to the ground in a pile of shattered glass. Stephen and Mordo landed a few feet away from her and pushed their way through the gathering crowd, trying to get to her limp body.

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*Shuri and T'Challa conversation:

Shuri: Would you rather me speak Xhosa?

T'Challa: I think this language will work just fine, sister.

Shuri: They're so confused!

T'Challa: Funny.

Shuri: Look at their faces!