So This Is Love...

Chapter 18 || Wakanda Battle, The Snap, Aftermath & Five Years Later

At the Wakandan battlefield, carriers hover over the ground with Wakandan soldiers, Natasha, Steve, Bucky and I on board, while Rhodey and Sam keep pace overhead, then Bruce is in the Hulkbuster armor.

"How we looking, Bruce?" Natasha asked in the comms.

Bruce in the Hulkbuster is seen leaping jogging along, keeping up with the carriers, and utterly delighted, "yeah, I think I'm getting the hang of it. Wow! It's like being the Hulk without actually—"

He stumbled on a rock, and a carrier goes by, from which Okoye gives him a dubious look, he stands, "I'm okay, I'm okay."

"I got two heat signatures breaking through the tree line," Rhodey says in the comms.

The carrier pilots swerve into U-turns, causing their craft to tilt and allowing the practiced soldiers to slide over one side into a run, never coming to a complete halt. A Dora Milaje shouts a command nearby as the last Wakandans join ranks.

"Mie Effa! Ya Hu! Mie Effa! Ya Hu! Mie Effa! Ya Hu! Mie Effa! Ya Hu! Mie Effa! Ya Hu!" M'Baku, lord of the Jabari, rallies his soldiers with a war chant, he stops as T'Challa nears him.

"Thank you for standing with us," T'Challa says clasping his wrists with M'Baku.

"Of course, brother," M'Baku says in Xhosa.

I stand next to Steve on my left with Bucky on my right, I breathe in deeply then Bucky comes near me to my ear, "I have to tell you something about what I did to Tony's parents."

"What?" I asked him.

"I killed them..."

"What?" I said almost raising my voice, I looked to Steve, "did you know about this?"

"Yes, but now is not the time."

"You two are going to get it later on after this."

"Ah shit," Bucky said mumbling enough for me to hear.

T'Challa, Steve, Natasha, and I walk to the edge of the barrier, where Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian stand. Proxima tests the strength of the barrier by drawing her sword across it consideringly, Natasha looks at them, "where's your friend?"

"You will pay for his life with yours, Thanos will have that stone," she says to us.

"That's not gonna happen," Steve says.

"You are in Wakanda now, Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood," T'Challa tells them.

"We, have blood to spare," she brandishes her sword with a snarl, and the ships behind her start raising their outer hulls to allow their "passengers" to disembark.

All of us returned to the massed forces, Bucky looks to us, "did they surrender?"

"Not exactly."

T'Challa leads the Wakandans in the war cry "Yibambe!" telling them to hold fast as the outriders bound toward the barrier, Proxima drops her sword arm down in the signal to attack.

"What the hell," Bucky says sounding astonished at the numbers of outriders.

"Looks like we pissed her off," Nat says.

Okoye looks on horrified as the outriders bombard the force field, squeezing limbs and bodies partly through only to be bisected, "they're killing themselves."

As a few outriders managed to squeeze through intact, the border tribe take a knee and raise their shields. The kingsguard behind them level their sonic spears over their comrades' shoulders, and on T'Challa's command, fire at the approaching monsters. Bucky uses his M-249 machine gun, and Bruce fires the Hulkbuster's hand repulsors.