Steel Hearts

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After sufficiently distracting Thanos, I throw another searing hot energy wall toward him and the ones closest to him, "Someone gets me close to the power stone so I can blow Thanos to hell!"

"Ella," Barton panted, "Where the hell are you?"

"Literally right above you."

I take to the sky again and lob energy balls into the clusters of aliens that were attempting to crowd Barton. Keeping an eye on the gauntlet, I touch down in front of him at the same time as T'Challa. Both of us let a kinetic energy blast fly into the aliens charging toward him.

"Clint," T'Challa says, turning to face him as I continued to fend off the incoming aliens, "Give it to me."

The two hands off the gauntlet and T'Challa turns on his heel to sprint in the direction of Scott's van. Using my force fields, I levitate a large chunk of earth and throw it far in front of him to squish any aliens in his immediate path. He ran up and over it, flipping over several aliens before being stopped by Thanos' sword boomeranging through the air in his direction. He stopped in his tracks before the large purple alien started to advance, only stopping when a very angry Wanda lands in front of him.

Hopping across force fields, dropping energy balls at any aliens in his path, I followed T'Challa as he ran. Suddenly, the rocks on the ground started swirling upward and took the gauntlet out of his hands. Continuing his race, T'Challa dove for them and in turn was encased by those same rocks, raising the gauntlet as high as he possibly could.

Sliding down a force field on my hip, I swipe the gauntlet from his hand. Using my other arm, I pop myself back into the air. Conjuring an energy whip, I loop it around one of the giant aliens standing taller than the others and swing myself up onto their shoulder.

"Peter Parker, I hope you're a good catch!" I yell when his swinging figure catches my eye. Once he's close enough, I hurl the gauntlet as high as I could into the air. As he swung toward me, he shot out a web and pulled the gauntlet to his body.

Once the gauntlet was safe with him, I light up my hands and clutch onto either side of the alien's head. The searing pain became too much for it and it started to drop to the ground backward. My timing wasn't great, I didn't jump off of the falling alien fast enough before it collided with the hard ground below and I was thrown into the air, only for my wrist to be roughly yanked upward. Sam had caught me, swooping down low enough to drop me in an opening in the battlefield near Peter.

Suddenly the enormous ship above us started whirring and the guns changed directions. They were going to start shooting.

"Anyone that can create a force field or a shield or anything, better start holding them to the sky!" I announce, conjuring a force field large enough to cover me and any other friendly near me. The sorcerers took my direction and held their shields above their heads, creating larger ones. Within seconds hundreds of missiles were raining down on the battlefield.

"Uh, is anyone else seeing this?" Pepper asks worriedly about the lake that threatened to spill into the crater we all were fighting in. Strange thrust himself in front of the potential break in the dam and took control of the water with his powers. The water swirled upwards and kept away from the fighting.

While fending off three large aliens, I catch sight of Peter being overwhelmed by a cluster of them, "Help! Somebody help!"

Clearing my immediate area, I slam my cuffs together and direct the sonic boom toward him, and thrust the aliens off of him only for an even larger cluster to overtake him.