Amanda Smith (The Avengers ff) #English

66.

Travel with the Bifrost is one of the coolest things ever!
With a thunderlike impact we come to stand on a field in Wakanda.
Thor throws his axe, while the dust clears around us. I finally see Nat, Cap and T'Challa standing there. But not Peter. Where is he?

Wait there's Bruce Banner in the Hulkbuster suit. Where's he been the whole time?
"AH-hahaha!
You guys are so screwed now!", he shouts joyful.
Now I start to glow again.
"Did you know she can do that?", Rocket asks and I start to smile.
"BRING ME THANOS!!!", Thor yells, while we start to run towards the Outriders.
H

e jumps in the air and lands in the densest concentration of Outriders and just leaves a crater where they had stood.

I build up more speed and grab a spear, that was lying on the ground. Now I can use, what I've practiced with the Guardians. I've never really killed someone. Now it's the first time.
After a while I realize that I need to get a new weapon and htap a sword from a dead warrior.
Really big motorized spiked wheels, intended for nothing more than shredding everything in their paths, are on the field now.
I'm trying to evade them and save the other as good as possible.
I stop next to Steve, who throws an earplug to me, so I can hear them on the battlefield.

Natasha and Okoye drift together when they're suddenly in the path of a Thresher. But Wanda lands in front of both of them, lifts the whole Thresher off the ground and throws it at mob of Outriders behind her.
"

Why was she up there all this time?", Okoye asks amazed.

"She's on the field. Take it", I hear a blue woman say.

"Guys, we got a Vision situation here", Sam says and gets attacked.

"Somebody get to Vision!", Steve says.
"

I got him!", Bruce yells, who has finally figured out how the Hulkbuster works.
"On my way", Wanda says as I watch her getting kicked by the women they called Proxima Midnight.
I follow them in a trench, Nat and Okoye too.
"He'll die alone. As will you", Proxima says smiling at Wanda, who's still lying on the ground.
"She's not alone", Nat says. She turns around and looks at us standing around her.
We just nod at each other and get ready to fight. Proxima runs for Natasha, but she blocks Proxima's blow with an electrical crackle while Okoye runs around the slope to also attack from the front. I just my chance to stab Proxima with the sword, but she sees it coming and pushes me away. How the heck?

Proxima alternates heavy blows between us, but we all duck as a single-wheel Thresher tears overhead. She uses the distraction to kick Natasha in the face, sending her to the ground. She then grabs Okoye by the shoulder and throws her meters away.
She turns fast and kicks me again. While I'm trying to get up Nat splits her staff back into a pair of sticks to block Proxima Midnight's swordblows, and finally knocks it from her hand. She takes to her bare fists instead, knocks down and pins Natasha. Proxima triggers an arm-blade from her left-arm armor, and try to stab her. As the edge starts to dig into Nat's neck anyway, Wanda energy grabs the alien and tosses her into the air right into the path of another passing Thresher. Her blue blood spatters at us. Wanda sits up, sighing with relief.

"That was really gross", Natasha says, I'm nodding in agreement.

"Everyone, on my position. We have incoming", Steve says. We're all standing in the woods.
"What the hell?", Natasha whispers.
"Cap. That's him", Bruce says.
Thanos is here.
"Eyes up. Stay sharp", Steve starts running towards him, as we all do.
Bruce reaches Thanos first, lunging forward with his fist first, but Thanos uses the Space Stone on him, renders him immaterial until the Hulkbuster is half-buried in the stone of the cliff behind him, and freezes Bruce in there.

Steve's sent flying by purple energy before he even gets to kick the titan.
T'Challa leaps high and with claws extended, but is easily grabbed by the throat and punched to the ground, his armor discharging violently.
Falcon stoops, strafing with both his pistols, but is felled when his wings become rubbery and unable to sustain flight.
Wanda and Vision start talking, while the others try to fight Thanos.
Then Wanda extends a hand and starts beaming her energy at the Mind Stone.
War Machine joins the fight, firing his guns at Thanos. Until he uses the gauntlet to crush his armor around him.

Bucky runs in firing, but gets punched away by the Power Stone.

Okoye uses her vibranium-powered spear and flings it. Thanos uses the Power stone to stop it inches from him, and throws her aside while wrapping Natasha in unescapable bands of earth.

Groot stabs his hands into the ground to wrap Thanos in cables of roots, which he breaks easily.
I'm running towards him too and try to stab him, but also get kicked to the ground where I get tied up by roots coming out of the soil. He just copied Groots idea, bad for me.

Wanda watches all this over one shoulder and seconds later resumes to destroy the mind stone. I'm still trying to escape, but with every single move the roots are getting tighter.

Steve slides under one blow and comes up swinging his deployed arm-shields, punching Thanos. At least he managed as the only one of us to hurt him.
He grabs the gauntlet, keeping Thanos's fingers unclenched. But Thanos slams a fist into his head and renders him insensible.

Vision is kneeling in front of Wanda, you can see the pain in both of their faces.

"It's all right. It's all right.
I love you", Vision says softly. Seconds later the stone, Vision including, explodes.
Thanos stops next to Wanda,

"I understand, my child. Better than anyone", he says.
"You could never", Wanda answers angrily with tears in her eyes.
Thanos reaches down to presume to stroke her hair.
"Today, I lost more than you can know. But now is no time to mourn.
Now... is no time at all", he says, clenching the gauntlet. In response, a bead of yellow light starts gathering in on itself as time is reversed and growing in size, solidifying into an intact Vision.

"NO!", Wanda screams and gets swatted away by him.

Thanos picks up Vision and digs the fingers of his into Vision's forehead, digging out the Mind Stone. He pulls it loose he throws the lifeless Vision aside like trash. He slowly moves the Mind Stone over the last empty setting and drops it in the gauntlet.

As Thanos looks at the completed gauntlet, a massive bolt of lighting strikes him. Thor arrives, eyes glowing with power. He pauses his attack, reverses his position, raises Stormbreaker above his head and hurls it. Thanos fires the whole might of the gauntlet against it, but it only creates a rainbow-like bowshock, not slowing the axe as it slams right into Thanos' chest.
It's really the only thing that can beat Thanos.

Thor lands in front of Thanos, who is kneeling down.
"I told you. You'd die for that!", Thor says hatefully forces Stormbreaker deeper into his chest, while Thanos cries out in pain.

Thanos looks at him weakly,
"You should have...
You...
You should have gone for the head!", he says and snaps his fingers.
"NO!", Thor shouts. To late.

Thanos disappears.

Finally I can get up.

"Where'd he go? Thor... where'd he go?", Steve asks. As Bucky walks to him
"Steve?", he asks. Suddenly he stumbles over and collapses into ashes. Shocked, Steve walks over and touches the ground where Bucky's ashes lay.

I'm still looking around and watch T'Challa turning to ashes, too.
"Sam? Sam!? Where you at?!", Colonel Rhodes shouts, not knowing that he also turned to ashes in front of him in the high grass seconds before.
I'm waiting for turning into ashes, too. But it's not happening.
"What is this?
What the hell is happening?", Rhodes asks.
"Oh, God", Steve gasps.
He really did it. The half of life in the universe is dead.
Wait.
WHAT'S WITH PETER?!

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I'll continue the story soon. But now I don't want to spoil anything from Endgame.
Hope you liked the story so far.

Caro