With a swift uppercut, Strange was sent hurtling through the dimly lit museum, his back cracked against the glass of a weapons display leaving him desperate for breath on the floor. You ran over, his trusted cloak twirled and danced across the mysterious assailant's devilish form, distracting it and giving you time to sit Strange up against the shattered glass.

"Look y/n, I don't know what this thing is but if I can't stop it by myself, I need you to leave me and get help. You know how to get hold of people, right? Wong, Peter... anyone that can help." The tentacles of the attacking beast tore free from the cloak and trapped it under one of its many monstrous feet where it could do nothing but struggle. The beast let out a vicious, ear shattering roar as it marched towards you and Strange with hunger and death in it's eyes. "Leave y/n..." Strange held his hands up and cast an incantation of protection, blocking the beast from progressing but cracks quickly began appearing against the orange tinted air.

"I'm not going to leave you to die, we've got through much worse than this." Your eyes scanned around the room hoping to find something that would do anything to help save both of your lives, until a glint caught your peripheral vision. You brought your soft woollen sleeve up to cover your hand and punched through the thick shards of glass that Strange had left behind him.

"Y/n you surely can not be serious? We are fighting an inter-dimensional demon; it seems to be imbued with some sort of magical resistance and you want to fight it with a bow and arrow?" You pulled through the short, chipped bow and quiver that sat half full of glistening arrow heads.

You slung the quiver over your shoulder and darted across, careful to grab the attention of the beast.

"Just be there to help me when I need it." You called out as the ground quaked under the beasts' steps. You grabbed an arrow, pulled the string back and watched as the arrow flew through the air, it skimmed the beasts' oozing flesh and pierced the brick wall behind it.

"That thing is huge y/n, how do you miss?" Strange wrapped a projection of tendrils around its leg as you nocked another arrow, it quickly broke free from the restraints as you fired an arrow into it's softer underbelly. The arrow was quickly ripped from it's flesh with a pained screech and discarded to the ground, the beast was now wounded. For all the magic and technology in the world, this beast had clearly not come from a dimension where it could evolve against such basic weaponry.

"Hawkeye makes this look a lot easier than it is... I'll keep shooting, you get your lazy ass up and hobble portal out of here and get help. I'll be okay!" After a brief hesitation the dim room began to light with an orange glow as Strange crawled through the portal. You knew it would not be long before he returned with help, but it would feel like an eternity as you fought death.

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Written by Aaron.