The Royal Asgardian

Chapter 106

M'Baka bashes another Outrider the ground game has improved considerably with the addition of the God of Thunder.

His tribesmen are equally successful around him.

M'Baku Yells "MAYEFA!"

Jabari yell "YA HU!"

Thor is in the air, using Stormbringer on the Outrider drop ships which are now retreating.
He is having considerably more success than the Wakandan Dragon fliers firing on the fleeing ships.

I look at Steve's body. "Hey I'm fine I'm fine." He grabs my face.

Wanda landing as she finally locates Vision. "Are you okay?" Vision flinches in pain before he can answer. "What? What is it?"

Vision simply says "He's here."

My heart drops.

The wind picks up. It feels... strange. Eerie.

Steve Comms In "Everyone, on my position. We have incoming." We get joined by the Nat, James, Okoye and T'Challa.

Natasha asks "What the hell?"

Bruce sees the blue-black clouds of a Space Stone relocation just before Thanos steps forward, and confirms this isn't just another member of the Black Order. "Cap. That's him."

Steve looks at Thanos "Eyes up. Stay sharp."

Bruce reaches Thanos first, lunging forward 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 place.

Steve is sent flying by purple energy before he even gets to strike a single blow.

T'Challa, armor fully charged kinetically, 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 Steyr pistols, but is felled when his wings become rubbery and unable to sustain flight.

I move the water on my body as armor. "Come on! Can't beat me with your own power."

Thanos smirks and I run and strike him in his face.

He hits back but I dodge it.

I make two daggers and start striking at Thanos but only hitting the air. "Ahhhhhhh!!! Stop moving!" I move the water around trying to strike him.

He moves the ground under me causing me to fall back and be enfolded into the ground.

Sam joins the fight, firing his guns at Thanos until he uses the gauntlet to crush his armor around him and toss him aside.

Bucky runs in firing, and is punched away by the Power Stone.

Okoye activates the vibranium-powered elements on her spear and flings it; Power stops it inches from Thanos, and throws her and it 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 focus hard on the water in the earth. "Dear lord Odin. Please grant me one last chance to help those I love." Soon a power surge is taking over me. And I explode out of the ground. "YOUR MINE!" I fly in and pounce Thanos down.

Wanda watches all this over one shoulder, and turns back to Vision to add her left hand to her tearful effort.

Steve slides under one blow and comes up swinging his deployed arm-shields, punching Thanos in the gut and chin.

I side kick Thanos and Steve grabs the gauntlet, keeping Thanos's fingers unclenched.

I wrap my watered legs around him and pull him the opposite way of Steve.

Thanos looks very briefly impressed at Steve's  efforts as he screams before slamming a fist into his head and rendering him insensible.

"Steve!" Thanos takes it as his opening to grab me and slam me to the ground next to Steve knocking the wind out of me.

"You are to emotional for these humans, that you can't even fully engulf yourself in your own powers to face me." Thanos grabs me at my ribs. "Your still to young." He squeezes my ribs slowly.

"AhhhhhhhHhhhAHUGggH!!!" I feel my ribs cracking slowly. The pain becoming all to much.

Thanos releases me knowing I'm crippled. He turns towards Wanda. "I think it would be even better for you to suffer mentally Avinna."

Wanda looks over her shoulder again and sees Thanos approaching unopposed. She swings her left hand around to fend him off with a stream of scarlet energy, and pushes him back despite his blue-purple energy shield, but then he starts to make slow headway.

Vision very softly "It's all right. It's all right. I love you."

At those words, the yellow Mind Stone finally starts to crack. Vision's face is overcome by an expression of joyful peace, and as the crystal fragments completely, a pulse of pure yellow energy explodes from him, shuddering the trees for many meters around his epicenter. Wanda's and Thanos's energy subsides.

Thanos walking closer to Wanda. "I understand, my child. Better than anyone."

Wanda snarls "You could never."

Thanos reaches down to presume to stroke her hair, as if in comfort. "Today, I lost more than you can know. But now is no time to mourn. Now... is no time at all." He reaches forward, clenching the gauntlet, emerald filigree surrounding his wrist, making a gesture very similar to that Doctor Strange made when activating the Eye of Agamotto.

I knew what was going to happen.

In response, a bead of yellow light starts gathering in on itself as time is reversed and growing in size, solidifying into an intact and conscious Vision.

"Thoooorrrrr!!!" I yell.

Wanda Yells "No!" she lunges for Vision and is swatted away.

Thanos picks up Vision by the throat, lifting him to eye-level, and digs the fingers of his right hand into Vision's forehead, digging out the Mind Stone. He pulls it loose, and Vision goes limp and colorless; he tosses the lifeless android aside like trash.

Bringing his gauntleted hand up, he slowly moves the Mind Stone over the last empty setting, and drops it in. The energy surge is much more than any previous - his torso is wreathed with iridescent static and he bellows from the sensations.

As Thanos studies the completed gauntlet, a massive bolt of lighting strikes him, digging him into the ground and grinding him back for meters.

Thor has arrived, eyes glowing with power, stooping down from the sky like a bird of prey. The God of Thunder 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.

I watch as Thor lands in front of Thanos, who is down on one knee. hatefully he stares into Thanos eyes. "I told you. You'd die for that!"

He takes hold of the back of Thanos's head and forces Stormbreaker deeper into his chest, staring angrily into his eyes while Thanos cries out in pain.

Thanos weakly speaks back. "You should have... You..." suddenly stronger he speaks a little louder. "You should have gone for the head!" He raises his gauntlet and snaps his fingers.

Thor yells "NO!"

My heart stops for what seems like an eternity.