The Orphan and the Widow

Chapter 2

When we arrived in Wakanda, we were met by the king, T'Challa, the leader of the Dora Miaje, Okoye, and a few of her guards.

I walked off the shop beside Rhodey and Bruce, Nat just ahead of me.

"Do we bow?" Bruce asked softly to Rhodey.

"Yeah. He's a king." Rhodey responded seriously. I knew about T'Challa. We don't bow in Wakanda.

"Seems like I'm always thanking you for something." Steve shook T'Challa's hand.

I saw Bruce clear his throat, and start to bow.

"What are you doing?" Rhodey asked jokingly. I chuckled under my breath.

"We don't do that here." T'Challa told Bruce. He turned and led us towards a large building.

"So how big of an assault are we expecting?" The king asked.

"Sir, sir." Bruce pushed beside Steve. "We should expect quite a big assault."

"So how are we looking?" Nat asked, in reference to soldiers.

"You have my kings guard, the Bora tribe, the Dora Miaje, and..." he motioned towards a man with a metal arm that I could only assume was Bucky Barnes.

"And a semi-stable 100 year old man." He and Steve hugged.

"How you been, Buck?" Steve asked.

"Uh... not bad for the end of the world." He replied with a smile.

We went into a large building, but Bucky and Sam stayed outside, and met the woman that would be removing the stone from Vision, Shuri, also T'Challa's younger sister.

"It will take time." She said, after scanning Visions body.

"How much time do you need?" Steve asked.

"As much as you can give me, brother." Shuri replied, looking at T'Challa.

She barely begun the procedure before I noticed a massive explosion on the top of the barrier surrounding the city.

"Uh... guys? We've got company." I stared out the window as more explosions occurred on the shield, and massive space ship like things planted themselves just beyond the barrier.

"God I love this place." We heard Bucky tell Sam over the coms.

"Wanda, stay here. The second Shuri has removed the stone, destroy it. Get your armies ready." Cap said. We followed T'Challa out of the room, and towards the awaiting ships, to take us to the barrier.

"Someone get this man a shield!" T'Challa yelled as we left the room.

I got off the hover craft after Nat, and stood beside her. She squeezed my hand in reassurance as Rhodey's voice was heard over the coms.

"I've got two heat signatures breaking through the tree line." He flew towards the wall, and a woman with blue hair and black horns appeared at the edge of the forest.

Nat, Steve, and T'Challa went down to speak with her. They came back, just as the woman pulled her arm down.

T'Challa started a chant, as we watched several thousand animal like creatures emerge from the forest.

"What the hell?" Bucky said under his breath. I chuckled in agreement.

"Looks like we pissed her off." Nat said, as they charged towards the barrier, but bouncing back or getting limbs ripped off.

"They're killing themselves." Okoye said as many creatures were ripped in half by the force field.

A few broke through, and Rhodey dropped several grenades. I shuddered at the loud noise, and Nat squeezed my hand even tighter, not looking at me.

Bucky shot at the ones that got close to us, and the Wakandan armies shot as well.

"Cap, if these things move behind us, there's nothing in between them and Vision." Bruce said from inside a massive metal suit.

"Then we better keep them in front of us." Cap responded.

"How do we do that?" Okoye asked her king.

He hesitated. "We open the barrier." He touched his ear piece. "On my signal, open Northwest section 17."

I looked around at the people surrounding me, and noticed that the men in the front had removed their shields, and let T'Challa through.

"Wakanda forever!" He yelled, and all the armies charged. I was swept up in the stampede, and barely noticed the barrier open.

"Stay with me. I need eyes on you at all times." Nat said as she sprinted beside me.

"Yeah." I huffed, struggling to keep up with her.

I looked up, and saw a creature fly past my head, and straight for a soldier who had their back turned, and was fighting a creature of their own. I waved my hand and picked up the creature, then moved my fingers to an empty area and dropped it, throwing a rock on it for go measure.

"Good. Remember what we talked about. Stay focused, and don't wear out all your powers..." Nat started, and paused to fight off another creature. "Unnecessary."

"I got it, Nat. I'm a trained assassin, I can always fight without powers." I rolled my eyes and laughed as I easily moved 3 creatures away from me.

We continued fighting, but I saw something coming up through the ground beyond the barrier. I watched in horror as they moved under the barrier, and headed in all directions. A massive set came hurtling towards me, Nat and Okoye. I started trying to gain all my energy, ready to move the deadly metal.

Wanda appeared beside me, and her eyes glowed red. Red orbs formed around her hands, and she lifted the wheels easily.

She slid them down beside us, and wiped out all the creatures surrounding us. I smiled at her.

"Wow." I said in shock.

"Why was she up there all this time?" Okoye said.

I chuckled softly. I hoped one day to have control over my powers as Wanda could.

I spun around to move another set of monsters, and saw two figures fall out the window. "Nat. Nat. I think that's..." I started.

"Guys, we have a Vision situation." Sam interrupted over the coms.

"Someone get to Vision." Cap yelled.

"On it." Rhodey responded, flying towards the buildings.

"On my way." Wanda said from near me. I watched as the woman with blue hair knocked her down.

"He'll die alone. As will you." She stood over Wanda, who had fallen into a ditch.

"She's not alone." Nat said from behind the woman. She turned in shock and gave Nat a disgusted look.

"Don't look at my mother that way." I said, hovering on the other side of Wanda.

"Oh how perfect. The mother and daughter will die together." She smirked.

"No. They won't." Okoye said, raising her spear.

The woman growled, and jumped towards Nat, who fended her off with an electric spear.

I jumped over to the fight, following the Wakandan woman. I lifted the blue haired woman off the ground, and slammed her back down. That turned the attention to me. I quickly conjured a fire ball, and hit her with it. She came over to me, ignoring her cloak that was now in flames, and knocked me down.

I covered my head with my arms, and blocked her spear. I closed my eyes, waiting for the fatal blow.