Champion

Big Purple Bastard

"Look around you little girl and tell me who you love." Willow pulled against her restraints and screamed. She didn't dare speak a name. She wouldn't let him have the satisfaction. "Because there's nothing you can do to stop what's coming." Willow swore he seemed to glow with power. "And by the end of the day, everyone you see around will be dead." Willow didn't know how he had done it but that red light must have been the cause of everyone's restraints. It felt like red hot whips tying her down to the ground. She didn't know why Thanos was addressing her specifically, maybe because she was the closest to him? Maybe because she had tried to get Scott and Gamora away from him? Maybe Thanos could sense the raging power deep inside her.

A slight noise startled Willow and made her look away from the Titan lord. It was Steve. He was inching up behind him, shield up and ready to attack. Willows eyes grew wide. She wanted to scream at him to stop, to run, to tell him to hide or free the others. How had Thanos not seen him? How had Steve been left out of this? "Let us go!" Willow shouted. She needed her hands free. She needed to protect Steve. For some reason, Willow was having a hard time sensing vibrations and moving the earth with her hands pulled back. That had never happened before. Was Thanos doing something else? Restricting more than just her hands but her powers as well?

But it was too late to do anything. To late to stop Steve. To late to break free. And too late to warn him about going against Thanos by himself because Steve was raising his shield. Willow watched it at risk the back of the titans neck and he screamed before whipping around and aiming a severe blow to Steve's chest. Willow heard him grunt. She watched him fall and then he was quiet.

A scream ripped through Willows throat and suddenly, she could feel her powers rush back to her all at once. She shattered her red restraints, and those of her friends around her but the rolling motion didn't stop there. The cracks in the planet deepened, the ground shook uncontrollably and began to shift under everyone's feet. "Willow!" Somebody screamed but she wasn't about to listen to them now. She had tunnel vision and all she could see was red. Thanos smirked, like he was ready for her. But nobody is ever ready for a women out to kill.

Willow threw out her hand and sent out a violent pulse out that pushed Thanos to his knees. He simply laughed and slammed his gauntlet down into the planet, using the Power Stone to send out a just as powerful shockwave that burned the ground around him and raced towards Willow. But it never touched her. The air vibrated so fiercely around her that the purple flames just licked up the sides of the bubble she had created around her before simmering out. Willow slammed her hand down and a large piece of earth lifted out of the ground and came smashing down on top of Thanos.

"You think your flimsy powers are stronger than mine?" Thanos asked. "I can kill everyone here with a snap of my fingers."

"I'd like to see you try." Willow growled, throwing her arm out and making spires of rocks shoot up towards him. Thanos laughs as he brushes them away, turning them to dust. And as he clenches his fist, an orange golden light sweeps out of the gauntlet and races across the battlefield. Willow watched as one of the golden lines streaks past her and hears Mantis' horrified scream as the light hits her. Willow turns immediately and sees that Wanda, Natasha, Bucky, Mantis, Peter, Hope, Thor, Rocket, Rhodes, T'Challa, and Stephen are all convulsing on the ground. Tendrils of orange light wrapping around their bodies.

"Don't touch them!" Gamora screams as Tony rushes towards Peter and Quill leans down towards Mantis. When the golden light fades, the heroes collapse into heaps. Willow rushes towards Bucky in a panic. If Steve and Bucky are both gone, she's going to rip this planet in two.

"Bucky! James, can you hear me?" Willow asks, sweeping his hair out of his face and checking for a pulse.

"What did you do!" Tony shouts. "What did you do!" He's holding Peter in his arms and Willow has never seen him look so broken before.