Infinity War (Charlotte Stark)

Ch. 9 It's Time

"That's him." Bruce says, showing up next to us.

"Miss Stark." He says, looking to me. "I just saw your brother."

"What did you do to him?" I grunt out.

"A little of this, a little of that. But it ended with me stabbing his own sword through his gut."

"No." My eyes widen and I feel the tears forming.

"Yes." He smiles at me.

"You're going to die for that." I say through gritted teeth. He just grins as he looks at the team around me.

"Eyes up. Stay sharp." Steve says and we start to charge forward.

I fly towards him and he catches my ankle, throwing me into the ground. I stand up again, firing a beam at him. But he uses the Reality Stone to turn the beam into ribbons. I look over and see Wanda and Vision. I run over to them in hopes to help.

"Wanda. It's time." He says to her.

"No."

"They can't stop him, Wanda, but we can." She looks away from him. "Look at me. You have the power to destroy the stone."

"Don't."

"You must do it. Wanda, please. We are out of time."

"I can't."

"Yes, you can. You can. If he gets the stone, half the universe dies. It's not fair. It shouldn't be you, but it is." He then grabs her hand and places it over the stone. "It's all right. You could never hurt me. I just feel you."

"Wanda, he's right. This is the only way to stop him now." I speak up. Tears are falling down her face as she looks at me, in pain.

"It's all right. It's all right."

She then begins to use her powers, in hopes to destroy the stone.

Bruce then charges at him in the Hulkbuster, but Thanos waved him away, sending him into the rocks behind him.

Sam flies towards him but Thanos uses the stones to make his wings floppy, so he just crashes into the ground.

Tchalla lunges at him, but is sent to the ground with one hit to the side, out cold.

Nat joins in, but he trips her and creates sharp rocks around her, encasing her on the ground.

Steve comes up to him and grabs the arm with the gauntlet. He used all of his strength to push it up. Thanos marvels at his strength for a second, but then raised his other fist, and knocks Cap out.

Wanda and I see him getting closer so she uses both of her hands to destroy the stone. I fly towards Thanos and lift him up in the air, trying to get him as far away as possible. He kicks out of my grasp and begins to fall back down.

Wanda takes one of her hands and starts blasting Thanos with her powers. I land down next to her and send a constant beam towards him. He blocks it with the gauntlet.

I look to Vision again and he mouths the words "I love you" to Wanda. And then he's blown up, right before our eyes. Sending us all back from the force of the Stone.

Wanda sits on the ground, sobbing, panting, because of what she's just done. I get up slowly and make my way towards her.

"It's okay. It's going to be okay." I tell her and she hugs me tight, burying her face into my chest. Then Thanos comes up to us.

"I understand, my child. Better than anyone."

"You could never." She huffs out.

"Today, I lost more than you can know."

"Did someone come to your world and try to kill half the population?" I say in anger.

"You still don't understand. It's all about balance. The world needs correcting."

"You don't know that!" I scream at him.

"I'm the only one that knows that." He puts his hand into a fist. "At least I'm the only one with the will to act on it."

He grabs me by the neck and hoists me up in the air.

"You'll lose." I choke out. "Even if you win today. Because were the Avengers."

"The Avengers? A band of hero's that couldn't even protect it from me?" He says with an evil grin.

"That's right. Because if we can't protect the Earth, we'll be damned sure that we'll avenge it." I say to him.

His smile fades and he tosses me aside. He looks back down to Wanda, who is still weeping.

"Now is no time to mourn. Now is no time at all." He says, using the Time stone to reverse what had just happened to Vision.

"No!" Wanda cries and he punches her across the face. He then picks up Vision and rips the stone from his head. He goes limp, and grey, and falls to the ground. Placing the Mind stone in his gauntlet, he goes to snap his fingers.

As I start to get up to stop him, Thor comes crashing down, throwing Stormbreaker into his chest. He lands in front of him and I run over to him and help Thor push the axe deeper. Thanos yells out in pain.

"We told you... you'd die for that." Thor says. 

"You should have...You should..." Thanos tried to speak. "You should have gone for the head."

"No." I huff out.

He then raises the gauntlet up, and snaps his fingers.