Protect the Fallen

Chapter 6

I kept fighting alongside with Wanda as I conjured up a bunch of fireballs as I shot them at the bots while they scrambled to get to their goal. The large core that was going on, sounding like gears turning as I grabbed a bot and slammed its head to the ground while I opened my wings and threw my arms out as my wings turned into swords but still looking like wings as they impaled their goal. Chaos ensured through the old church building as I get hit by one of the bots and felt pain coursing through my side as I touched my side and noticed a large gash, but I shook it off and pushed myself off the ground and continued to fight. It was like practice. These things. Were like zombies. Creepy, inhuman and just easy to kill. I noticed Ultron come charging into the church but Vision stopped him and started to face off with his other creator as I stopped for a bit and looked up only to go back to fighting as I felt a large energy surge go through me as if a bunch of volts was coursing through my veins. I turned to see Vision was now beaming a bright beam outside to Ultron as ran over and watched as Thor sent a bunch of electricity to Ultron as well with my father as I did the same as I felt a beam of blue fire through my palms from both my hands. 

Dad and Thor turned to me as I narrowed my eyes and showed that my eyes were now a bright blue like pure blue sea color as I beamed out the fire. After what felt like minutes, we all stopped to see Ultron on his knees before he weakly got up and looked at us while about to speak. "You know, with the benefit of hindsight-" Before he could finish the Hulk punched him into the air. Sending him flying away from us as I sighed and kneeled down while grabbing my stone to stare at it as it was now fading to look like normal stone. I also wrapped my other hand around my side on where I was bleeding the most as I see Dad put his hand on me as I smiled at him and took a deep breath.

"Just need to take a deep breather," I reassured him lying to him about the wound that was causing me so much pain. I looked up to see that Hulk turned to the other bots before started to run for it. "They'll try to leave the city," Thor looks at my dad as I hear my dad speak through his suit. "We can't let them, not even one," he says as he calls on his friend. "Rhodey," He calls to as I ran over to where everyone was as I looked at Steve with an out of breath expression. I looked tired. I could tell as I listened to him. "We gotta move out. Even I can tell the air is getting thin. You guys get to the boats. I'll sweep for stragglers. Be right behind you," Steve says as I looked at the core and looked back at Steve and stood straight. "What about the core?" I asked as Wanda stepped in front of it as if being protective over it. "I'll protect it. It's my job," Wanda says as I looked at her while Barton and Natasha ran off to go help with the boats. "Nat? This way," As they left, I followed by running but stopped to look at Wanda. "You sure you don't need help?" I asked her as her brother looked at her for an answer as she shook her head. "Get the people on the boats," She says as she looks over to my side as she noticed the huge bloody spot. "You're gonna need to be on the boats," She says in concern while Pietro looked at his sister. " I'm not going to leave you here," He says as Wanda huffed at him. 

"I can handle this. Come back for me when everyone else is off. Not before. You understand?" She asked her brother as he walked over to me and then turned to Wanda. "You know, I'm 12 minutes older than you," He smirked as Wanda laughed and ordered him.  "Go," Suddenly I feel Pietro pick me up on his back and gently put his hands underneath my legs and ran with me bleeding on him as he ran towards the boats. I soon get off him as he looks at me as I sniffed the air and looked around as I hear a lady call out a name. "Costel! We were in the market. Costel!" She says as I shook off the pain and ran towards where I could see movement under some debris as I pushed my limits to help the boy. I picked up the boy and was about to turn and run back to the boat but suddenly heard heavy gunfire heading towards us as I noticed someone in the quinjet as I turned around wrapped my wings around the boy. This was it. I was sacrificing myself for this boy. At least I was able to protect this child for the future he will be able to have. I closed my eyes and braced myself for impact but it never came as I felt a breeze pass through my wings as I opened my eyes. I closed my wings and looked behind me to see a car was in front of us as I looked around to see Pietro with his hands out as I knew he was the one moved the car in front of us. It felt like my heart dropped as I saw the piercing shots as I felt my heart shatter as I stared into Pietro's blue eyes. "You didn't see that coming?" He questions as I cried out to him while Barton ran over and took the kid from me as I fell to the ground and tried to keep Pietro alive but he was gone. Far from me. Far from his sister. I held his head close to me and felt tears starting to fall as I sobbed deeply and hoarsely. Steve ran over as I held Pietro in my arms as I cradled his head as tears ran down my cheeks. "Maria..." Barton says as I ignored his words as I tried to think of many times I wanted him next to me when this was over.