Out Of Time✔ (S. Rogers)

Chapter LI: Aether

A/N: I want to remind everyone, this is an AU. I am legit pulling this out of my ass right now. I refuse to rewatch Thor: Dark World. I don't remember how the Aether was solidified. I don't know how it would actually be to destroy it with the Infinity Sword. And I am not a pro when it comes to coming up with ideas. So... uhh yeah!

Kendra knew what she had to do. Standing in the abandoned building where the space portal was- this was where the little kids would find the glitch to the Aether. Where Jane would absorb the Reality Stone. She couldn't let that happen. She had already told Loki and Thor what would happen with the Elves. They were prepared for the man to be captured. Thor wanted to come down to help Kendra with the stone location. But Kendra told him no.

Just like how she had to sneak out of the apartment without Steve knowing. He was thinking he was going to help her. but she couldn't risk him absorbing the stone either. There was a certain way things had to play out if Kendra planned on keeping the Aether safe. And It wasn't something she wanted to risk. It had to be destroyed. But the infinity sword needed it to be a solid. From the visions, Kendra saw that Thanos used his gauntlet to solidify the Aether. But she didn't have a gauntlet. She had nothing to use. No magic. Nothing.

But she did have one thing. Wanda. That was why Wanda Maximoff was standing in the building with Kendra.

"So this is where the stone is?" Wanda questioned, her words dripping with her accent still. Kendra shook her head.

"No, this is where the portal is to get to the stone is." Kendra told her. Wanda rolled her eyes and nodded.

"And what do you expect us to do? Jump?" She asked in frustration. She had no idea what this woman was wanting her to do, just knew she had the power to destroy the stone before anyone absorbed it. Which as a complicated topic. How would she be able to do that? She doesn't even know how to use her powers correctly. Of course she has been training with her brother and Steve. Even Natasha has been helping her. But none of them knew how to teach her something that they didn't have a clue on how to use.

But Kendra assured her, she knew exactly who could help train her. But she had to wait for the right time to reach out to them. There were several options. And Kendra had planned on having them all help her.

"Do you trust me?" Kendra asked her with a smile on her lips. Wanda looked at the woman with a raised eyebrow. Did she trust her? Probably not. Did she have a choice? Not really. Kendra reached out and grabbed Wanda's hand. "Don't scream. It'll alert some baddies." She told her before pulling her to the edge with her and jumping off the ledge. Wanda let out a gasp as they fell through a transparent glitch in space.

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"That was beyond inappropriate!" Wanda exclaimed only to be shushed by the blind woman. "Don't sh-"

"Wanda. Shut up. Do you want to be possibly attacked?" Kendra asked her in a low whisper. Wanda rolled her eyes and sighed.

"Fine. Where are we going?" Wanda whispered as her eyes saw something red-black moving around them. Like a liquid moving around. "What is-" Kendra spoke up.

"Remember how I told you to do it? Pressurize the liquid." Kendra told her as Wanda saw the liquid moving towards Kendra, latching itself onto her. "Wanda!!" Kendra shouted, knocking her out of her daze as her hands lifted to push the red mist around the liquid like substance. "Cage it. Gather it all together." Kendra instructed as if she could see what was happening. She was honestly winging this completely.

"It's-It's fighting back." Wanda grunted as she used her magic to gather all of the red liquid before it grabbed ahold of Kendra. The liquid was expanding, trying to break itself free from the magic. Like it knew what was happening. Wanda moved her fingers around, trying to push the Aether together, force it into a compact area. "Ke-kendra- It's-"

"You can do it, Wanda. Force it." Kendra told her, encouraging the young witch to do her best. "Think about what you want it to do. Imagine it being destroyed." Kendra added as she pulled out the shiny stone that turned into a sword. The infinity sword shimmered as it extended, preparing for what it was made to do.

"Wh-what is that?!" Wanda asked before Kendra jumped forward, using the sword to cut through the impacted Aether. An explosion throwing the women back. Wanda landing on her back on the rocky ground. Her magic catching her from hitting her head. When she looked up to yell at the woman though, Kendra was against a rigid rocky wall, slumped on the ground. Her head lolled to the side with blood dripping down her forehead.

"Kendra?! Kendra?!?" Wanda exclaimed as she ran over to the woman, grabbing her face and tilting her head around to try and check for any serious injury's. Wanda looked around, trying to figure out how she was going to get them home. She didn't have the kind of magic Kendra had. She tried to think of what to do, but her train of thought stopped as what looked to be a tunnel of rainbows surrounded them, sucking them into space.