chasing waterfalls [Peter Parker]

~43~

Everyone charged toward Thanos's army. Thanos pointed his sword at us, and his army charged. What was once grass around the compound was now a battlefield. Cap was using Thor's hammer, Scott was now giant and was punching an alien. Even Pepper was fighting.

I looked over and saw Tony hugging Peter. Since I wasn't fighting any aliens at the moment, I decided to run over there.

"Peter!" I shouted, and Peter turned around. As soon as he saw me, his face lit up. I sprinted over and almost tackled him in a hug.

"Hey, Nix." He chuckled. after a few seconds, he let go of the hug. "How did you get back here? Because when I got all dusty you were there and when I woke up you weren't." I sighed.

"I..." I was gonna explain, but then it hit me. I didn't know how I got back. Everything from the last five years was gone. I could only remember this morning and before that, Titan. "I don't know. I can't remember. But I do know I'm glad you're back." He smiled.

"Me too." All of a sudden, we heard La Cucaracha playing. "We should probably..." I nodded.

"Yeah." Peter swung off to go help T'Challa, while I focused on the aliens surrounding me. With a move of my hand, I threw one of the aliens in a circle, knocking down the others. I then threw it up in the air. I started running, but then a beam shot down right behind me, sending my flying to the ground.

Once I got up, I noticed that water was spilling into the battlefield.

"Uh, is anyone else seeing this?" I heard Pepper say, and I noticed Strange was right there, but this was something I could do. I ran over, dodging blast after blast until I got there.

"Dr. Strange, I got this." I held my hands out, and the water shot upward. I dug my feet into the dirt, and pushed it back. Once the water was far back enough, I made a wall out of the water so it wouldn't spill. Just as I put my hands down and turned around, I heard a cracking noise.

The blasts from the ship were causing the water to break the wall.

"Aw, come on!" I exclaimed before putting my hands up again. It took almost all of my energy to keep the water from spilling. After a while, the blasts stopped. I solidified the water again. My legs were shaking and I just wanted to collapse, but I had to keep going until we won.

I looked up and saw the blasts were now firing on something glowing. The glowing object flew right through the ship and tore it open. The ship began to fall to the ground, having lost power.

Now that I didn't have to focus on keeping the water at bay, I could help fight. I saw that Thanos's army was charging towards the group, and I shot water out of my hands to propel myself towards the attack.

I touched the ground and immediately started fighting. I moved aliens around, shot water at them. I picked up water from the ground and made a circle around me. When I saw that aliens were circling me, I flung my hands out, and the water knocked them back. I shot out water and held it in my hand.

Once it was in my hand, I stretched it out and solidified it so that it became a spear almost. I then used the water spear to take out three aliens.

The glowing person had taken the glove and was carrying it to the van, but Thanos threw his sword at it, sending a ripple out. This ripple broke the wall again.

"Are you kidding me?" I propelled myself back over to the wall, where Dr Strange was containing it in a tornado.

"I thought you had this." I groaned, holding my hands out.

"Well I didn't know that Thanos was gonna do that. Not everybody can see into the future like you can." With the two of us working together, we got the water contained. We still had to keep it contained, but it was easier than before.

I saw a bright flash of light, and looked over to see Thanos had the gauntlet on. Next to me, Strange was looking at Tony. He held up his finger, signaling something to him. Tony I guess got the message because he charged at Thanos. Thanos just knocked him aside. I saw him snap his fingers, and I flinched, expecting the worst.

After a few seconds, I felt nothing, and when I looked up, Tony was on his knees, the stones on his armor, energy coursing through him. I could hear him say

"And I am... Iron Man." He snapped his fingers. All around me, Thanos's army disintegrated. Thanos sat down, shocked. It wasn't long before the Mad Titan turned to dust. I looked over at Peter, happy that it was all over.

Until I looked back at Tony. He was sitting against a wall, looking close to death. I let go of the water and sprinted over.

I got there the same time as Peter, who was walking over to Tony.

"Mr. Stark?" He knelt down to get to Tony's eye level. "Hey, Mr Stark. Can you hear me? It's Peter." His breath was shaking and he was obviously about to cry. Tears started forming in my eyes. First Nat, now Tony? "Hey, we won, Mr. Stark. We won, you did it, sir you did it." Pepper started to pull him away. "I'm sorry, Tony." As soon as he stood up, he brought his hand to his mouth. I put my hand on his shoulder and brought him in for a hug.

As soon as I pulled him in, he started crying. His body was shaking, and his tears were falling onto my suit. I stood there, hugging Peter for a while.

The light in Tony's suit went out. He was gone.