New York, New York

Christine sat in the back of the bus as it headed out of the Bronx, down south towards Brooklyn. She had found a group of fans who were very happy to let the naked doctor ride with them, although had obviously insisted she sit with them for the rest of the game first. And wouldn't you knew it, they didn't have so much as a spare cap they could offer her to spare her blushes. Now that she was finally able to get on the move, Christine had a feeling that Dr Strange's Sanctum in Bleeker Street would be the best place to head for.

The bus dropped her off about half an hour later, the fans all very sad to see her leave, although they did love to watch her walk away and took quite a few photos to commemorate the occasion. Christine stepped out onto the pavement, and took stock of her surroundings. The street was not very busy, although her recent adventures had taught her that as soon as people realised there was a hot nude woman around, that would change.

There was a line of decorative trees on the pavement, Christine picked one that had a full showing of leaves, and grabbed a branch. With some effort, she wrenched this branch free from the tree. She did the same to a second one, and then held one leafy branch in front of her and one behind, as she hurried down the road towards Bleeker Street.

It took her a few minutes, during which she managed to draw the admirers she had been expecting, but then Christine stood in front of a house with a familiar circular attic window. She wondered if she was going to find any difficulty in getting inside, when a voice made her jump.

"Chrstine?" she turned, to see Stephen Strange standing behind her. "Why are you dressed like a shrub?"

"You!" Christine began, and then launched into a hasty version of what had happened to her that day.

"Sounds like we'd better get inside." Stephen said when she finished. He stepped up to the door, "I need to unlock it with magic, you might want to step back."

Having been caught up in too many spells already today Christine complied, taking a step backwards towards the road. At that moment a bus came driving down at speed, passing near to her. It didn't hit her, but did create a strong draft which was enough to strip the leaves from Christine's covering branches, leaving her with handfuls of bare sticks which now hid nothing at all.

Thankfully, it was only a few seconds before the door was unlocked. Christine threw her bare branches aside, and took her bare body inside.

As she went through the door there was a flash of light, and Christine dived to the side, eager not to end up zapped to Timbuktu or Moscow or somewhere this time. But instead of being orange sparks it looked more like purple waves, and it caught Dr Strange head on, holding him in place.

"Dr Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts!" the red-haired girl, still wearing nothing but her thong, called down from the top of the staircase, "You're too late to stop me! I have already raided the London and Shanghai Sanctums to gather the artifacts I need to bring back Kaecilius and complete our work!"

Christine realised the girl had not noticed her, which was definitely best. She snuck along the side wall of the hallway, until she reached a side door under the stairs.

Christine made her way through the house and up a back staircase until she reached a large hallway full of mystical objects, which then opened up on the landing where the girl was still monologuing.

"The Wand of Watoomb from Shanghai! The Book of Baal from London! These are the items that I stole without you being able to stop me..."

Christine looked around her. Some of the items looked useless, some of them too heavy to pick up. There was an axe hanging on the wall, but she was definitely not comfortable with the idea of using that on the girl. But there was a device made of a series of interlocking metal straps, which reminded Christine of something she had experienced back in college, during an... "experimental" phase which caused her a shiver of pleasure as she remembered it. She picked up this device and, not knowing quite how it would work but trusting her instincts, hurled it at the girl.

"So prepare to bow before us, sorceror, for your time is... Ack!" The device gripped the girl, twisted around her, then **** her arms back behind her and her legs into a kneeling position, the items she had been holding fell to the floor and she was stuck.

"You just saved the world." Dr Strange said, now freed and walking up the stairs.

"Mostly it was **** for what she's put me through." Christine replied.

"I'll take her to Kamar-Taj, we'll figure out what to do with her. What are you gonna do?"

"I've just spent hours trying to get back to the hospital, I came here hoping you could help me out with that."

"No problem." Dr Strange smiled, there was yet another swirl of orange sparks, and the old-fashioned Bleeker Street house was replaced by the sight of the Accident and Emergency department at the hospital. It was, as usual, packed with people, but as Christine looked around she saw conversations stop as both patients and staff turned to look at her.

She had a feeling of dread. Christine patted her body to check she was right, although the cold floor tiles under her feet had given it away. Although Stephen was not there, she called out in case he was still watching her,

"I also wanted my clothes back!"