Not Quite a Soldat

18

  Instead of getting a call from the team, Chanel and Bucky were suddenly face to face with them. Some of them. Now they didn't see Peter, Tony, or Clint.

"Clint's getting his family back to the farm, we um, don't know where Stark and the kid are," Steve said when he pulled back from the hug.

"Okay, but why are you guys here?"

"How far have you gotten on those stones?" Bruce, who Chanel was shocked to see, asked.

They quickly entered the lab where Shuri was up immediately to see Vision and examine him. Bruce pulled Shuri aside to talk about the notebook amongst other things.

"Bruce, half of Asgard?" Chanel asked in disbelief.

"Half of what little was already left. That's what Thor called me for when we left. They called it—"

"Ragnarok," she recalled the myths from Arn's journal.

At least she had thought it was myth and legend. Chanel shook her head to clear it. Her heart ached for Thor but now was a bigger problem. Now that everyone was settled in the lab, they looked to Chanel... even Shuri.

"I'm not done but by the time Shuri gets the mind stone out of Vision, I'll have the whole journal finished, I'm sure... I'll make sure. You said four days?"

Shuri nodded.

"Okay, I'll try to get it done in four days. I'm not really needed for the rest of this right now, I think it's best if I go home and start."

The rest of the team agreed since they would just train with the Dora Milaje and plan for an invasion.

"Alright. See you at home, Buck."

"Catch you in a minute, darlin'."

Bucky waved and blew her a kiss that Chanel pretended to dramatically catch, an ode to the cheesy damsel in distress joke from the other night. She briskly walked home and pulled out her journal, flipping through what she had done so far. The stones had been tracked, if she had known Thanos was headed their way she would've said something. Chanel didn't have their exact present day location but she did have them tracked up to last year and someone could've started to look. But it wasn't a concern, Earth wasn't overpopulated. Maybe struggling a little but not overpopulated. Apparently not to Thanos.

There were various drawings for how to hold all the stones at once to use them. It was just a drawing with no real plans since engineering was Tony's thing not Chanel's. Explanations of each stone, Thanos' backstory— as much as she could find, and a map of the universe were also in the journal.

Now, Chanel's focus was on anything that would help them stop Thanos with the other five stones so they could be given to Wanda to destroy. She also needed a backup in case Wanda couldn't destroy the others for whatever reason— Chanel was sure the stones could destroy each other but what she hadn't discovered yet was if that would blast Earth into oblivion, a safe option is what she needed to find. While Chanel was in the apartment, the others were gathered around Vision.

"Four days? Not any quicker?" Steve asked.

"There's too many paths. If I mess up on one, it will cause critical failure in Vision."

"Alright. Well it's better than no—"

Shuri, Okoye, and T'Challa's kimoyo beads rang alarmingly loud. Okoye pulled up a map of Wakanda on her beads and moved it to the large screen.