What the Heart Wants | Infinity War

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Back on earth, the quinjet sails through the sky. Sam is piloting while Rhodey, Steve, Natasha, Wanda, Bruce, Vision, and y/n are scattered throughout the jet.
"Drop to 2600, heading 0-3-0." Steve instructs.
"I hope you're right about this, Cap. Or we're gonna land a lot faster than you want to." Sam tells him, doing exactly as directed.
The Quinjet passes through a camouflage force field into Wakanda's Golden City's valley and lands at the airfield outside the palace. T'Challa and the Dora Milaje approach to greet the arrivals.
The occupants of the Quinjet disembark, Cap and Black Widow leading, followed by Bruce, Rhodey and y/n, with Vision and Wanda slowly taking up the rear.
"Should we bow?" Bruce questions leaning towards y/n.
"Yeah, he's a king." Y/n tells Bruce seriously, silently laughing to herself.
"Seems like I'm always thanking you for something." Steve says, shaking hands with T'Challa. Bruce bows awkwardly to T'Challa.
"What are you doing?" Y/n asks, elbowing Bruce.
"Man what the hell?" Rhodey asks while giving y/n a low five.
"Uh, we don't do that here." T'Challa dissuades Bruce with a motion of his hand. Bruce shoots Rhodey and you a look, and is answered with a big grin. "So how big of an assault can we expect?" T'Challa asks while the group walks towards the main building.
"Uh, sir, I think you can expect quite a big assault." Bruce shouts from towards the back.
"You remember that attack on New York 6 years ago? Multiply that by a million and you got your attack." Y/n explains walking beside T'Challa.
"How we looking?" Nat asks.
"You will have my King's Guard, the Border Tribe, the Dora Milaje, and..." T'Challa stops pointing towards the newest addition to the group.
"A semi-stable, 100-year-old man." Bucky smiles as the group comes to a stop. Steve walks up to his best friend, sharing a hug.
"How you been, Buck?" Steve asks, pulling back.
"Uh, not bad, for the end of the world." Bucky jokes. "Hey Sapphy." Bucky looks behind his best friend to see y/n.
"I told you not to call me that, how's the new arm treating you?" Y/n smiles, moving his shirt to see the connection point.
"It's perfect, thanks to you and Shuri."
"It's the least I can do for my dad destroying your last one." Y/n smiles. "Speaking of Shuri, where is she?"
"Upstairs if you all will follow me, a few kingsman already escorted your friend up there." TChalla says, leading the way to Shuri's lab.

In Shuri's lab, Shuri scans the Stone with her kimoyo beads while Vision lies on the examination table. She flips her hand over and studies the hologram projected over her palm. Y/n, Bucky, Sam, and Rhodey all stayed outside, catching up with Bucky. Only y/n stayed silent staring up at the sky.
"You okay, kid?" Bucky asks, drawing y/n out of her trance.
"What? Oh... uh... yea, I'm just thinking." Y/n responds, her gaze returning to the blue sky.
"About?"
"Peter, my boyfriend, he's somewhere out there right now doing god knows what and I dont know what to do." Y/n tells Bucky, sighing as she leans against a nearby wall.
"From what I remember in Berlin, I think the kid is doing just fine up..." Bucky is quickly cut off by the a loud sound blasting through the air. Bucky, Rhodey, Sam and y/n all look up to see something hustling towards the defensive dome around the city, y/n's suit materializes as they watch.
"Hey, Cap, we got a situation here." Sam says into the comms. The defense shield over the Golden City destroys one of the alien vessels when it slams into the field at full attack acceleration.
"God, I love this place." Bucky sighs, his gun at the ready.
"Yeah, don't start celebrating yet, guys. We got more incoming outside the dome." Rhodey says over comms, now inside of his suit.
The shock waves and debris from the ship landings destroy acres of forest and boil up against the dome.

Carriers hover over the ground with Wakandan soldiers and Natasha, Steve and Bucky on board; War Machine and Falcon keep pace overhead, and Bruce is in the Hulkbuster armor.
"How we looking, Bruce?" Nat asks over comms.
"Yeah, I think I'm getting the hang of it. Wow! It's like being the Hulk without actually-" Bruce shout just before he stumbles on a rock. "I'm okay. I'm okay."
"I got two heat signatures breaking through the tree line." Rhodey says.
The carrier pilots swerve to turn, causing their craft to tilt and allowing the practiced soldiers to slide over one side into a run, never coming to a complete halt. A Dora Milaje shouts a command nearby as the last Wakandans join.
T'Challa, Steve, and Nat walk to the edge of the barrier, y/n stays back, slightly behind many soldiers that are much larger than she is but ready to fly forward at any given moment.
Not long later, Steve, Nat, and TChalla return. "Did they surrender?" Bucky asks.
"Not exactly." Steve answers
"What the..." You start, moving forward to see hundreds of creatures running towards the barrier.
"Looks like we pissed her off." Nat says.
"They're killing themselves." Okoye states as the creatures break through the barrier only to be split in half.
As a few creatures managed to squeeze through intact, the Border Tribe take a knee and raise their shields. The Kingsguard behind them level their sonic spears over their comrades' shoulders, and on T'Challa's command, fire at the approaching monsters. The Winter Soldier uses his M249 machine gun, and Bruce fires the Hulkbuster's hand repulsors. Y/n prepares to run through with energy surrounding her hands but Steve grabs her arm.
"Steve..."
"Go back and help Shuri and keep them safe."
"But Wanda..." y/n protests but Steve stands firm.
"Go." Y/n sighs before using her powers to fly back to the palace and into Shuri's lab.
"Y/n! What the hell is happening?" Wanda asks.
"A lot. Need any assistance Shuri?"
"Yes, thank god one Stark is still on earth, take over for a minute." Shuri tells y/n and she walk over working on the reconstruction while Shuri works on her computer.
Minutes later, TChalla's voice comes over the system. "How much longer, Shuri?"
"We've barely begun, brother." She tells him as she moves back to y/n and both work on the stone.
"You might want to pick up the pace." TChalla says.
"There's two of us working your highness, were going as fast as we can." Y/n tells him, focused on the diagram in front of her.
As Shuri and y/n work, they glance out the window in their peripheral vision and see a large beam of rainbow-hued light land in the middle of the action. Y/n fully turns and see an axe flie out of it, wrapped with lightning and tearing through the creatures before returning to the owner. Y/n shifts towards the glass, "Is that?"
"It cant be." Wanda says looking with y/n.
"Thor?" The two witches p question before Shuri speaks up.
"Y/n, if you don't get back over here..."
"Sorry Shuri!" Y/n jogs back and begin working on Vision again.