𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 || ( infinity war )

↳ chapter fourteen

↳ forget and.. no that's it

they had reunited with the rest of the group after two hours. no one had found anything truly helpful, so they were all frustrated to say the least

"he's coming" strange's head has snapped up suddenly looking at the others alarming

"what's the plan?" evi asked

"hide" advised strange, while he sat down at a pile of rubbish, awaiting thanos arrival

"do you want to-?" asked peter opening his arms to evi

"sure, thanks" she smiled, stepping closer to the boy and hugging him around the neck. peter shot a web to the metal construction behind strange and brought them up their, so they could watch the scene unfold before them.

not long after a purple alien, stepped out of a portal, evi thought that he looked like a grape that had hit the gym way too often, but that was just her personal opinion

"you're much more of a thanos" greeted strange

thanos turned his head to look at him "i take it the maw is dead"

strange nodded, but kept silent

"this day extracts a heavy toll... still he accomplished his mission"

"you may regret that... he brought you face to face with the master of the mystic arts"

"and where do you think he brought you?"

"let me guess. your home?"

"it was" the gauntlet at his hand shone red and the scene around them transformed, showing a beautiful scenery, that seemed less... dry

"and it was beautiful. titan was like most planets.. to many mouths, not enough to go around. and when we faced extinction, i offered a solution"

"genocide" strange clarified

"but random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. they called me a madman. and what u predicted came to pass"

the beautiful titan disappeared

"congratulations, you're a prophet" said strange

"i'm a survivor"

"who wants to murder trillions" strange deadpanned

"with all six stones, i could simply snap my fingers, they would all cease to exist. i call that mercy"

"and then what?" strange stood up

"i'd finally rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. the hardest choices require the strongest wills"

"i think you'll find our will equal to yours" strange clapped his hands and activated his orange shooters? evi wasn't sure what to call them

"our?" thanos asked, raising his head and meeting the metal cluster, tony was pushing down on him

"piece of cake, quill" said tony

"yeah, if your goal was to piss him off" quill answered unimpressed

"do you think we should go down there now?" asked evi, turning to peter, while a swarm of something? flew through the air in front of them, he just shook his head and raised a finger as if to tell her to wait for one more minute

"do you think you can handle yourself?" asked peter

"tell me if you can" joked evi, raising into the air and flying down to fight thanos

"fair enough" mumbled peter before he followed her example

they both only stayed back when strange was fighting with his magic, so they wouldn't get hit by it on accident. it was hard in general, to fight only one person with so much people, evi was just trying not to get in anybody's way

finally quill could put a shocker onto thanos, which made him crumble under the impact

"don't let him close his fist" muttered strange, to which he send his cape flying towards the alien

peter and evi were busy jumping through strange's teleportation rings, taking turns at hitting thanos, while peter, repeated jokes about magic

finally as if he had enough of the kids, thanos took both of them down, evi landed on the ground next to him, while thanos kept his hand at peters neck, pressing him down on the floor.

"stop, you're killing him!" protested evi loudly, kicking the giant arm. thanos didn't even budge at that

"insect!" he raised peter from off the ground before he threw him away, right at strange and ripped the cape off of the gauntlet

evi was about to use her powers on him, but he just raised his hand again, and she went flying directly next to peter, while she fell unconscious

"this isn't going well" said pietro

evi looked at her mirrored self across from her. they were sitting on the floor, their backs leaned against yet another set of mirrors

"of course it isn't! that's what i tried to tell them, didn't i?"

"you did" pietro smiled, as if to fuel his sisters anger at the others even more

"i think peter was the only one that took me seriously" she crossed her arms

"peter?"

"the boy" evi explained lamly

"ahh the boy" pietro nodded "you like him?"

"i-i think he's nice" evi stuttered, surprised by his question

"you're getting all flustered" her brother remarked, pointing at her reddening cheeks "i think that you think that he's more than nice"

"you aren't angry?"

"why would i be?"

"you were angry when i knew what starks joke meant, back in sokovia"

"for the record: i wasn't angry, just.. concerned, but you're not as little as i thought you were. you became someone to be proud of, someone who's good"

"only for you"

"ahh, you don't mean that" pietro laughed

"no i don't"

they both laughed at each other "just too stressful being the villain" evi explained, while she threw her head back from the laughing that shook her body, her brother joined in

suddenly, pietro turned really serious.
"do you think you will do as i told you and finally stop coming here?"

"no, i still need you"

"no you don't, you have to accept that we're living in different worlds now, and there's nothing you can do to change that. don't let yourself get trapped here"

"i won't" she shook her head

"aren't you already?"

"that's different. i came here to see you"

"evi, you don't understand. you can't just come here and visit people, everything comes with a prize, especially if you cross borders"

"i don't want to let you go"

"you don't have to right now, but you should reduce your visits here"

when evi awoke again, she still couldn't really make a rhyme to what pietro kept saying about the effects the mirror dimension would have on her. or maybe she could but she didn't want to realise it. she was just not as observant as she should've been.

if she had been, maybe she would've noticed that things were changing. nothing that happened now, but time was never an easy concept

so it was like she didn't even notice that she could not remember her brothers birthday anymore

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