Saving Grace

Seventy Five

Grace is with Nat and Okoye, fighting the rest of the Outriders, though they've fallen back towards the building, where Vision, Wanda, and Shuri still are.

"You are Iron Man's daughter?!" Okoye asks mid-battle. She's fighting with her spear, while Grace blasts more than punches. Nat uses her weapons too.

"Yeah!" Grace replies, blasting a midair Outrider with her chest blaster, knocking it back to the ground.

"And he is currently in space?!"

"Yep!"

"And you are here, in Wakanda, in this battle, and you're not even eighteen yet?!"

"Basically!"

Okoye stabs a Outrider through the neck, marveling, "There are some things in this world that I will never understand."

In the distance, while they continue to fight, they see the crafts outside the force field get closer, felling trees as they go, and then giant, bladed wheels emerge from the ground, going under the force field to get inside. They then roll forwards, and Grace hears T'Challa's voice through comms. "Fall back! Fall back now!"

The wheels break off from each other, going in different directions, covering too much ground.

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

"I'm doing it," Sam replies.

Grace barely pays attention to them as she fights more Outriders. But then she sees more wheels heading for her — and therefore Nat and Okoye. "Nat!" she screams, getting her attention.

She and Okoye duck while Sai desperately tries to fly Grace away, but the wheels are coming too fast. All three of them should be crushed, but they're saved by a red light.

Wanda.

She lifts the wheels in the air, then turns, tossing them on an approaching group of Outriders. Grace lands on the ground while Nat and Okoye look up.

Okoye looks at Nat. "Why was she up there all this time?"

Grace laughs. "She's our secret weapon." Wanda smiles before moving farther away.

They begin fighting Outriders again, as they just keep coming, no end to them in sight. A few moments later, Sam says, "Guys, we got a Vision situation here."

"Somebody get to Vision!" Steve shouts.

Bruce replies, "I got him!"

Grace looks at Nat, and she nods. Grace says, "We're coming!" They take off, following Bruce.

"On my way," Wanda says, but then she grunts as if hit. Grace stops short, and Nat does too. They look at Okoye, who nods and follows them to a rut dug into the ground by the wheels Wanda threw. She's laying at the bottom of it, the female alien on top of her, threatening her.

"He'll die alone," she says of Vision. "As will you."

"She's not alone," Grace spits, stepping down into the rut. Nat stands behind the alien. Okoye spins her weapon on the other side of her, aiming her spear at her.

"That was so epic," Sai says quietly.

The alien roars and turns, going for Grace first with her blade, but Grace dodges and grabs her wrist, twisting, blasting her in the face with her free hand. The alien kicks her, forcing Grace to release her hold, and then Nat steps in, hitting the alien with her long, electrified, pole-like weapon. Okoye runs around, shooting the alien with her spear. Grace blasts at her, avoiding Nat, who kicks her in the chest.