In Your Eyes // Steve Rogers

His Final Fight

Wanda, Valkyrie, and I took on the three Chitauri ships that were charging towards us in the sky. Wanda went for the left one, Valkyrie for the right, and I was left with the center one. I slowed my pace and let my fellow female warriors charge ahead of me, letting even Kona pass me, after she glanced back at me to ensure I was okay. I nodded at her to continue and she charged, leaving me behind. 

I then sprinted, breaking the mental barrier between control and the full spectrum of my powers, and as I ran, my body found itself glowing green with every step. The Chitauri monster in the sky made eye contact with me; it roared and beelined directly towards me. Green energy started to flow from my body, I felt release, I felt free, and I threw my hands down to the ground to propel my body up into the air. I didn't need Kona to reach the sky. I pushed myself up into the sky with my own thought, my own power. I felt a scared, yet happy breath fill my lungs as I shot up into the air. 

The Chitauri monster opened its mouth to engulf me, but I threw my arms and legs outward, and I let every concealed control of power in me go and I exploded. An explosion of green fire opened from within me and I blew the head of the Chitauri monster's head off. I shot my hands behind me to push my body back up and I landed ungracefully on the back of the monster. I grabbed onto a ridge of its back, it started to lose momentum and fall, and I gasped. If it fell entirely, it would crush our army, as well as Thanos'. 

I conjured a shield underneath my knees. I gripped the Monster tightly underneath my fingers and I started to spread the green fire across the body. The ground closed in quickly, I screamed with anxiety as I tried to hurriedly burn the remnants of its body, my allies on the ground started to brace themselves, and I, at last, found my body hitting the ground with a rough thud. No trace of the Chitauri monster remained. 

I glanced up and saw Carol flying above me. Kona leapt over my body. She was running underneath Carol, stomping through ground armies for her, as Carol covered the sky. I turned my head to watch her, to see how close she was to the Van, when I saw Thanos jump in front of her, wielding his weapon fiercely and with an anxious rage to get that Gauntlet. I threw my body upright immediately to shoot my hands at him, when Janet, Shuri, and Pepper touched down alongside me. Four colored beams of power shot at Thanos, causing him to hold up his weapon for cover. He caught the majority of my beam; it started to reflect and I threw up a shield for us, it bounced back at him again, and he fell. 

I took Pepper's hand as she extended it, she pushed me forward, and I launched myself for where Thanos, Carol, and Kona were about to meet. I flew close to the ground, my arms in front of my head. I passed Kona, ready to collide with Thanos before she could. 

But I never did. I watched him pick up his weapon and launch it into the Van underneath Carol. As Carol was inches from entering the Van, Thanos' weapon slid in before she could, and he ignited an explosion from the Van that blew the entire battlefield off its feet. 

Carol, Thanos, Kona, and I took the blunt of the explosion. The force of the explosion stopped any sense of momentum in me and I crashed into Kona, we bounced off each other, and we both landed with heavy thuds on the ground. 

I heard only the monotonous thumping of my heartbeat; silence took over the battlefield. I lifted my head from the ground, my heavy breaths the single sound I heard. I saw Kona's white fur through the dust, almost entirely black now from the ash of the explosion. She was back to her normal size, I noticed, as I reached to touch her stomach. I felt her breathing. Her eyes didn't open as I called her name. 

A spark shocked my hand. I turned my head, saw Carol's lit fist on the ground, and I met her concerned eyes. She had lost the Gauntlet in the explosion. We needed to find it before Thanos did. Time was urgent.