Real-Life Myth

Fourteen.

Back in Wakanda, Shuri is working steadily to complete the Mind Stone's removal. Wanda stands by tensely.

The Kingsguard, Borderers and Jabari have little success going against Cull Obsidian's chained hammer. He either sends them flying or punches them into the ground. The Black Panther gets free of his other sorties, leaps and uses all his collected kinetic energy behind a punch that lays Obsidian flat.

Rocket has found a clear spot. "Come and get some, space dogs!" Another wave of Outriders heads right for the raccoon-oid. Bucky, having come up behind Rocket, grabs him with his mechanical arm, holds him at arms length and spins 540 degrees, firing his own M249 at the same time. "Come on, get some, get some! Come on, get some!" Bucky drops Rocket, who looks up at him with an impressed gleam. "How much for the gun?"

Bucky snaps off another burst, "not for sale."

"Okay, how much for the arm?" Bucky just gives him a look and moves off. "Oh, I'll get that arm."

The tides of battle cause Thor, using Stormbreaker to great effect, and Captain America to band together. They take a breather. Steve pants. "New haircut?" He asks.

Thor grins. "Notice you've copied my beard." Cap nods, wearily gesturing at his own face with a shield-covered hand. Groot skewers three Outriders with his right arm. "By the way, this is a friend of mine. Tree." Thor gestures towards Groot with Stormbreaker.

"I am GROOT!" The tree snarls.

"I. . . I am Steve Rogers."

In Shuri's lab, a deep rumbling can be heard even at their height. Wanda looks down on the battlefield, and sees movement through the blazing forest between the troopships and the dome. When the disturbance reaches the edge of the trees, it turns into vast moving mounds of earth that easily bypass the force field and emerge Threshers, sets of massive, motorized spiked wheels, intended for nothing more than shredding everything in their paths.

"Fall back! Fall back now!" T'Challa orders.

Wanda watches as at least one set of Threshers separates into individual wheels and starts veering all over the battlefield, and then looks anxiously back at Vision.

"Focus that fire on the left flank, Sam," Rhodey comments.

"I'm doing it." The two fliers use their firepower to crack a Thresher but cannot find a weak spot.

Black Widow with her escrima sticks and Okoye with her augmented spear have drifted together when they're suddenly in the path of a Thresher. Both women cringe at their seemingly inevitable shredding when Wanda lands in front of both of them, eyes glowing red, lifting the whole Thresher well clear of the ground. Looking behind her, the friendly forces have scattered and replaced by a charging mob of Outriders; the perfect place to throw a Thresher. Black Widow straightens with a pleased smile, Okoye with an amazed look.

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

The Children of Thanos help answer that question. "She's on the field. Take it," Proximal declares.

Corvus Glaive kills one of the guards just outside the lab, alerting Shuri to the problem. She starts hastily disconnecting her equipment from Vision's systems; he gasps at the sensations. The Dora Milaje engages Glaive but is sent skidding across the floor. Shuri finishes her shutdown, grabs one of her sonic panther-paws and fires at Glaive. The Dora attacks again, and Glaive sends both her and Shuri through the balcony railing and onto the main lab floor.

Vision is not where Corvus Glaive expects to find him. Vision is, in fact, charging at him and knocking him out the window to fall many meters down the face of Mount Bashenga.