Doctor Strange raised both hands.
An orange Magic Circle spread from the roof of Avengers Tower, passed through the overlapping overpasses and the other New York, and finally stopped between the two layers of sky.
The Magic Circle did not close completely.
A small section of its outer ring remained missing.
That was the spot Chen Mo was looking for.
His Spider-Sense was going wild at that blank space.
"A little to the right."
Doctor Strange turned his wrist.
The Magic Circle shifted with it.
The stabbing pain in the back of Chen Mo's head eased slightly.
"Too far. Back a bit, about half my height."
"Please use a unit of measurement that does not change with age."
"I'm so young. How much could I change anytime soon? I'm not that short. How much is that even doubled? That's only 1.7 meters. I'm at least 1.8!"
Chen Mo had barely finished when an alarm cut through his earpiece.
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s deep-space channel connected.
Fury brought up a collapsing star map before everyone. That region was so far from Earth that even Stark's satellites could only receive intermittent images.
A golden figure hovered beside a shattered moon.
The Carol of this world raised both hands and pushed away the debris falling toward a colony ship. The stars behind her kept shifting out of alignment. Two entirely different sets of planetary rings briefly overlapped, then tore apart in opposite directions.
"I received the coordinates."
Interference chopped her voice into fragments.
"But I can't get back in time. A collision is happening here too. The evacuation ships haven't made it out yet."
Carol glanced back at the departing ships, then charged into the shattered planetary rings again.
"Handle Earth first. I'll hold things here."
The transmission cut off amid golden light.
Reed stretched out