icarus ✧ endgame ✓

━━ chapter sixteen.

𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗜𝗫𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗡
❝ 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 ❞

SMOKE FILLED their lungs, heavy coughs echoing in the environment as debris covered them. Dahlia struggles to lift the debris on her own as she was covered herself with the remnants of the destroyed compound. She coughs, dust filling her lungs and blood trailing down her face from the cut across her forehead. She couldn't see Clea or Misty. Minho and Artemis were separated along with Clint while Astrid must have been with Thor.

It was too good to be true, Thanos somehow knew about their mission and managed to intervene. The Thanos from the past. The puzzling idea soon became clear to her as she remembered the awkward and suspicious behaviour displayed by Nebula.

"Dahlia!" she heard her voice being called out. It sounded like Clea.

"Where are you? Are you okay!" Dahlia called out.

"I'm fine. Help the others out. I'm going to find Misty and Astrid."

"I can't. I don't have powers like the rest of you." Dahlia winces in pain, noticing the large debris covering her lower torso. She struggled to get out.

"You're more unique than you know, Dahlia. You can do this." Clea's voice soon disappears. Dahlia felt a sense of panic, continuing to struggle in her place as the dust from the environment fills her lungs. She didn't know what Clea meant. That was when an idea clicked in her mind. She remembered feeling a weird sensation whenever her skin touched the earth below her. Her "hallucinations" which she thought were simply "hallucinations". She unclenched her hand, letting the palm sit on the ground. Closing her eyes, she slowly breathes in and out as she concentrates. 

"Come on." she mumbled to herself. The ground rumbles underneath her, the earth moving underneath her hand. Vines soon shoot out from the earth, pushing up the debris covering Dahlia. The large piece of debris from the destroyed building moves off her legs, Dahlia beginning to open her eyes as she realised what she was really doing. She really did have powers. It wasn't her imagination messing with her mind. But how does she have these powers?

Dahlia leaps on her feet, surveying her environment. The awful dust of the now dilapidated building filling her airwaves, continuously causing her to cough excessively. She ventures through the rubble, waving off the dust as she tries to find the others.

"Dahlia! Dahlia, can you hear me!" a voice calls out. Dahlia tries to find the source of the voice before she feels a pebble hit her shoe. She looks down, only to see Scott sitting a pile of debris in his miniaturised form.

"Scott!" Dahlia rushed to him, kneeling to his level.

"Have you seen the others!" he shouts out.

"No, only Clea but she disappeared." Dahlia answered, wondering if she really did hear Clea talking to her. Before the friends could continue their conversation, their in ear communication devices gives of a static sound before Bruce's voice fills their ears.

"We need help! We're drowning! Does anyone copy!" Bruce speaks hastily, his voice clearly showing the amount of distress he was in.

"Go! I'll find the others!" Dahlia informs Scott. He nods, running off amongst the debris as Dahlia continues to find a way out of the debris herself and find the others.

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MISTY COUGHS, her head throbbing in immense pain. Her body ached, sitting up as she noticed the figure lying next to her. It was Minho. The male himself coughs out loud, the sound relieving to Misty. The two individuals carefully get up on their feet, bones screaming out from the impact of the projectile attack by Thanos.

"We should find the others." Misty suggests.

"Good point." he nods before they were both interrupted by the sounds of growling. They noticed an underground tunnel, Minho charging up his power and shooting an electric projectile through the tunnel. Both of their eyes widen once they noticed the tunnel was crawling with Outriders.

"Run." Misty mumbled

"Run." Minho agreed as they both bolted off through the wreckage, the Outriders growing closer to their heels. Misty tried freezing the path behind them, restricting the movement of the Outriders but due to the heated environment, her powers were failing her. All they could do was run.

Suddenly an arrow wisps above their heads, an explosion erupting which throws Misty and Minho forward as their bodies fall harshly onto the hard rubble. Minho looks up, seeing Artemis staring down at him with his crossbow armed in his hands. Artemis helps Minho and Misty to their feet.

"You could've killed us." Minho shakes his head at Artemis, earning a sheepish looking smile on the archer's face.

"But I didn't." Artemis points out, a cheekier smile growing on his face.

"Did you find anyone else?" Misty asked.

"Only the two of you and Clint. He told me to stay back and see if anyone else shows up. He has the gauntlet." Artemis said.

"Well, let's meet up with him." Misty suggests, the two males nodding in agreement as Artemis uses one of his grapple arrows, hoisting all three individuals into the air. 

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THE HARD SOLE of the boot presses against his chest, forcing him back on the ground. Clint was surprised by Nebula's sudden betrayal when she informed her father that she was now in possession of the gauntlet and the infinity stones.

A blaster gun pointed at his head until the blaster is thrown out of her hands by a magical force. Clint scurries to the side, noticing Clea armed to attack Nebula once again. Standing next to her was a green skinned woman and another Nebula. Two Nebulas. This clearly confused Clint. He notices Artemis, Minho and Misty rush into the room, soon noticing the situation themselves.

"Two Nebulas?" Artemis muttered to Clint.

"I don't know." Clint grunted.

"You don't have to do this." the Nebula next to the green skinned woman said, her hands raised in the air.

"I am this." the Nebula with the gauntlet said.

"Please Nebula, listen to her." the green skinned woman insists. She glances at Clea, gesturing for her to stand down. Clea hesitantly nods, her arms growing slack as they rest by her sides. The green skinned woman lowers the blaster in her own hands.

"...He won't let me change." the evil Nebula said, immediately aiming her blaster at the green skinned woman.

"No!" the woman screamed, only for a blaster shot to ring out and hit the evil Nebula in the chest. Everyone looks to see that the other Nebula took the shot. No remorse on her face. Clint steps forward, grabbing ahold of the gauntlet lying on the ground. He didn't understand what just happened.