Torn Between Lies

Chapter Eight~Chose A Side

The two teams stride towards each other with grim determination etched on our faces. Pretty soon we all break into a sprint. Steve blocks a punch as Iron Man lands. Clint fires an arrow at Vision. War Machine flies after Falcon and Bucky trades blows with T'Challa. Natasha throws Scott, as Peter swings through the air, struggling to evade vehicles projected by Wanda. And there I was in the middle of it all watching my teams back by making shields when needed for them.

I get fired at from one side and turn to see Tony his arm up "I don't want to hurt you!"

"Try me!" I shout and go to strike him, he grabs my arm and holds me still "Listen, you keep doing this you'll be no better than Calum!" I freeze and make a shield around my other first punching him back, I face him "So that's what Ross said huh?"

"He said you destroy him! Something like that! How could you keep that from me!" 

"What would you want me to say! That I killed my mom and my best friend! That I've kept secrets from you because I was scared about what you would think!!!" I shout, Tony looks at me in shock "....Spirit-"

"Don't you Spirit me, you know I don't care anymore! I killed Calum! I killed my mom! I blew up half of Harper Ferry! I made out with Loki! I...." I stop, okay that last one wasn't supposed to come out. I look at Tony who still had a look of shock. I don't think I can face him anymore "You chose your side and I've chosen mine." I say and runoff.

Peter swings past, I give Steve a boots up and he snaps the web with his shield. "That thing does not obey the laws of physics at all." says Peter after landing "Look, kid. There's a lot going on here that you don't understand." says Steve.

"Mr. Stark said you'd say that. Wow." he fires webs which stick to Steve's shield and ankle. He pulls and Steve slides towards him. Peter kicks him backward, then rolls clear. "He also said to go for your legs," says Peter as he webs Steve's hands and pulls. I blast another shield, propelling Peter through the air.

Peter recovers and pulls himself up on top of a gangway. "Tony tell you anything else?" I ask. "That you're wrong. You think you're right. That makes you dangerous."  Steve leaps to kick him backward onto the gangway's leg. "Guess he had a point," I say and put a shield around the gangway leg and rip it out leaving Peter to hold it up.

I walk over and smile "You got heart, Peter." I say "Where're you from?" asked Steve 

"Queens."

"Brooklyn."

"Wait how do you know my name?" asked Peter, I turn back to him "Well who do you think suggest you to there once brother for the Stark Internship program." with that Steve and I run leaving Peter to hold the gangway.

We end up crouching behind a cargo crate, Bucky joining up "We gotta go. That guy's probably in Siberia by now."

"We gotta draw out the flyers. I'll take Vision. You get to the jet." starts Steve.

"No, you get to the jet! Both of you! The rest of us aren't getting out of here." says Sam.

"As much as I hate to admit it, if we're gonna win this one, some of us might have to lose it." says Clint.

"This isn't the real fight, Steve."

We all look at each other "Alright, Sam, what's the play?" asked Steve.

"We need a diversion, something big." 

I look at my hands "Like an illusion?" I ask Steve shakes his head "They all know you can do that...What was if you said about defense." I look at him worried "I've never done it with other people before."

"I got something kind of big, but I can't hold it very long. On my signal, run like hell. And if I tear myself in half . . . don't come back for me." says Scott "You're sure about this, Scott?" asked Steve. "I do it all the time. I mean once . . . in a lab. Then I passed out. I'm the boss. I'm the boss. I'm the boss. I'm the boss. I'm the BOSS!" 

And out of nowhere Scott grows into a towering Behemoth and grabs Rhodey's leg. We stand and look "I guess that's the signal." I say and we start running, okay you got this...I concentrate and with enough effort turn us all invisible, with the minor exception of fading in and out every thirty seconds.

"Something just flew in me!" shouts Scott just then a shining beam of energy from Vision's mind stone is fired and the control tower collapses towards the entrance of the hangar. No, No, we were so close.

Just then a red light comes around the rubble, I look to the side to see Wanda struggling to slow its collapse. But Rhodey fires a sonic disruptor behind her. Wanda holds her head and screams. The tower falls quickly before us.

I quickly ditch the invisibility and hold out my hand "Take my hand!" I shout, the two do and we keep running not stoping, this was either going to hurt us or me. Come on you got this, you've done it a bunch.

A glow comes around us as we run through the rubble like we weren't there, once on the other side the two let go of my hand checking to make sure they were real, I put my hands on my knees panting "I am never. Change the mass. Of more than one person. Again."

I look up to see the hangar where Nat is waiting for us. "You're not gonna stop," she says.

"You know we can't," says Steve.

"I'm gonna regret this," says Nat holding up her stun gun, she fried it and it hits T'Challa who's was behind us. I look back to her "Go." he says.

We nod and quickly run for the Quinjet as she keeps T'Challa at bay. We strap in and I fire up Quinjet's engine and the guns blast debris from the entrance. Natasha keeps T'Challa held until the jet rises. 

We fly out of the hangar into the sky. I look at one of the screens to see Rhodey flying after us "God, Rhodey." I say, Steve pushes forward on the thrusters. Tony flies beside Rhodes and Sam follows them.

I look back to see Vision fire his laser. Sam spots it coming and tucks into a tumble. The laser overshoots and slices through the core on Rhodey chest plate! he begins loses power and goes into a spinning free fall!

"Rhodey!" I shout I could only watch as he plunges the suit emits black smoke. He smacks into a wide, grassy field just before Tony lands nearby. I feel a hand on my shoulder and turn to see Bucky who was trying to comfort me.

I put a hand on the window "Rhodey...I'm so sorry."