Miss America: The Daughter of Steve Rogers

Chapter 10

My eyes flutter back open. The sun shines down on me as I sit up, gasping for air. Looking around I see Bucky, T'Challa, Sam, Wanda, and Groot standing around me.

"Emerson!" Bucky exclaims and wraps me in a tight hug.

"Buck? What's going on? What happened?" I ask, looking around, noticing everyone else was gone. Where was my dad?

"We need to get you to the med bay." T'Challa says, referring to my puncture wound in my abdomen.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." I say with a crooked smile. Bucky then picks me up in his arms and carries me back to the palace.

When we arrive, Shuri is looking around, frantic, unsure of what just happened. She must have disappeared too.

"Brother!" She exclaims and embraces T'Challa. Then she sees my condition. "Bring her over here."

Bucky lays me on an examination table and she immediately starts healing my injury.

"The suit should have prevented this from happening." She tells me, concerned as to why her tech didn't work.

"Considering the weapon she used came from space, it didn't surprise me." I tell her, wincing slightly as her machine closes me up.

"I'll have to look into that." She smiles. Then T'Challa comes back in.

"It has been five years since we fought with Thanos and lost." He tells us. Bucky, Sam, Wanda, and I give him a look of shock.

"You're telling me I lost another five years of my life." I look up to the ceiling and throw my hands up in frustration. "You've got to be kidding me."

"I'm sorry, Emerson." He tells me and then looks to the others once more. "There is a fight going on right now as we speak. The ones that did not decimate are fighting Thanos again."

Bucky grabs his gun. "What are we waiting for? Let's go."

"There is a plan in motion, we must wait for the signal from the Masters of the Mystical Arts." The King tells us. We give him a confused look.

"We're waiting for wizards to give us the go ahead?" Sam questions, not believe what he's hearing.

"It will all make sense when it is time."

"What do we do in the meantime?" Wanda asks.

"Get ready." T'Challa presses his necklace and his suit begins to form around his body. Then Wanda and Sam follows him out.

"When we get to the battlefield, can we enter on Caps left?" I hear him ask and I chuckle remembering the stories I've heard from both him and my father.

Bucky steps you next to me as I sit up after my procedure. "You sure you're up for this?"

"What? Like I'm going to stay here while you all fight for your lives?" I question, hopping off the table and grabbing the bracelet Shuri gave me before our first fight with Thanos.

"I'd hate to see you get hurt again." He looks down, not eating to make eye contact with me.

I walk over to him and lift his head to look him in the eyes. "You gotta stop doing that."

"Stop doing what?" He questions.

"Stop thinking I can't do it. I'm not helpless, Buck."

"I don't think your helpless." I put my finger to his lips to shush him.

"Look, this fight is bigger than all of us. If we don't win, he'll probably wipe out the whole universe. I'm not just gonna sit here and do nothing." I press the bead on my bracelet and the suit Shuri made forms around me. "You're all gonna lay down your lives for this fight. I have no right to do any less than that. That's what you don't understand."