Infinity War (Charlotte Stark)

Ch. 10 He Did It

"What did you do?" Thor asks Thanos.

"What did you do?" I repeat. He then uses the space stone and leaves through a portal.

"Where'd he go?" Steve asks. "Thor. Char. Where'd he go?"

"Steve? Charlie?" I hear behind us. We turn to see Bucky disappearing, turning to dust. The gun he is holding drops to the ground. I run over and put my hands over the settling ash.

"Up, General. Up!" I hear TChalla telling Okoye. "This is no place to die." But he disappeared too.

"I am Groot." I see the tree disappear, with the raccoon right beside him, trying to hold on to the ashes.

"Oh... No, no, no! Groot! No."

"Sam!" I scream out, trying to find him. Rhodes comes up next to me, trying to find him too.

"Sam, where you at?"

Then I look over and see Wanda starting to vanish. I run over to her. "No, no!"

Then, she's gone.

"What is this? What the hell is happening?" Rhodes asks.

"He... He did it." I say quietly, Steve walks up to me and puts his arm around me. I fall to the ground, and he comes down with me.

"Oh, God." He pants out.

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We make our way to the Quinjet. The ones that our left, anyway.

Me, Steve, Thor, Banner, Nat, Rhodes, and the raccoon, who I learned is Rocket.

"What do we do now?" Nat asks me.

Everyone's eyes are swollen from crying. We lost a part of ourselves today, and we're not sure if there's a way to get it back. To get them back.

"I don't know, Nat." I say, looking down. "I don't know."

"There has to be a way to fix this. There just has to be." Rhodes says.

"I hope Tony is okay." I softly say. Nat gives me a hug and Steve walks over to me, placing a hand on my shoulder, puking me in for a hug.

"We'll find him, Charlie. If he's out there, we'll find him."

"Oh, who cares about your damn brother!" Rocket yells in anger. They all look to him with a glare. Except for me. "I just lost the only family I ever had."

I slowly move over to him. Everyone assumes I'm going to punch him in the face or twist his neck. But I kneel down to his level, and give him a hug.

"Woah, woah, what the hell do you think your-" He stops as I start to rub his back. He just slowly melts into my arms, and begins to sob.

"I would've slit his throat." Rhodes says to Bruce.

Tears form in my eyes again and I get up and walk to the back of the plane.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y.? Call Tony, please." I softly say.

"Miss, there is no connection to-" she starts to say, but I cut her off.

"I know. I just want to leave him a message. In case he gets in reach."

She then sets up the call.

"Hi, this is Tony Stark. If you're listening to this, then I'm probably to busy to give you the time of day. Just leave a message and one of my assistants will get back to you, maybe." I laugh at his voicemail. And then I get ready to speak after I hear the beep.

"Hey, Tony. It's Char. You probably won't get this, I don't even know if your still...." I begin to say, but stop myself before the crying starts again. "Anyway, we lost. We couldn't stop him." I look up to the ceiling. "God, I wish you were here right now. We're all a little fragile. We lost Bucky, Sam, Vision, Wanda, TChalla, and so many more." I take a deep breath in. "I hope the kids okay. I saw him sneak onto the ship, probably against your wishes. He seems great. I hope he's alright. Strange too." I look over to see my team watching me, obviously listening in on what I'm saying and doing. "Before I go, I want to say this. I know your going to try and blame yourself, but don't. It's nobodies fault. We're gonna find a way to get him back. To get everybody back." I pause for a second and turn away again. "You know why?" I take in another deep breath. "Because we're the god damn Avengers."

I hang up and turn back around to face everyone again. Nat and Steve come up to me and give me a tight hug. Then the others join in.

We just stand there, holding in to each other. Even Rocket. We just lean on each other, be there for each other. Because we're all each other has left.