I N F I T Y  W A R  P T . I I

"Woah, woah, woah. Slow down, Nev." Stiles' voice flooded through the phone. "What do you mean aliens and fly donuts came to earth?"

"Have you seen the news?" I ran a frustrated hand through my hair as I paced the ruined street.

"Not yet, I was just called in for a nation wide emergency...wait, this is the nation wide emergency." Stiles realized.

"Yeah. Listen, I know you are going to hate it, but I'm gonna go with the demigods and fight with Cap and his gang. They need all of extra help they could get. But I need you to locate Vision and Wanda ASAP." I informed my fiancé. "The aliens are after these stones and Vision has one."

"Is it that yellow gem in his forehead?" Stiles guessed.

"Yeah." I chewed on my bottom lip. "So, can you, please?"

"I'm on it. I'll see if Rick can help out too."

"Thank you." I softly sighed. Percy just hung up his phone. He looked up at me and gave me a sad smile. "I don't know when I will be able to call you until this is all over, but I love you."

"I love you too." Stiles instantly replied back. There was a low beep from his end of the line. "Okay, I got their location. Want me to send it to Steve?"

"Yes, please. Bruce is currently talking to him so I will see where I have to go next. Annabeth is currently informing the camps and the Norse what's going on. I think Percy is trying to get a hold of Carter."

"Woah wait, Bruce Banner is there? He's back? Where the hell was he?" Stiles asked.

"Space." I looked around the street to see people slowly walking towards the scene. "Look, we've got to go. I will try and talk to you soon, okay?"

"Okay, I've got work to do here, too. I love you."

"I love you, too." My voice tightened as tears started to form in my eyes. I hung up the phone and squeezed my eyes shut to try and hold the tears back.

"You'll see him again, don't worry." Percy wrapped a comforting arm around my shoulder. I nodded and leaned my head on his chest. Percy gave me a small squeeze and wrapped his other arm around me. He placed his cheek on the top of my head. "We'll kick this ugly-hey, wait...Bruce! How does this lead alien look like?"

"What?" Bruce turned to look at us the phone still next to his ear. "You mean Thanos?"

"Ugh, he has a Greek name. Fun."

"He's y'all and purple. Why?"

"Ok, so we can totally kick this Grape's wannabe titan ass. K?" Percy tried to comfort me. It appeared that he was also trying to reassure himself as well.

"Okay," Annabeth strolled over towards us. "The Greeks and Romans are in for sure. Magnus is trying to recruit as much people as he can on his end. Anything from Stiles and Carter?"

"Stiles found Wanda's and Vision's location and sent to coordinates to Steve. The FBI is also pretty busy with this." I said.

"Carter and Sadie are doing the same as Magnus." Percy dripped his arms from me and stood up straight. "Banner?"

"Cap says to meet him at the base. They're on their way to pick up Vision and Wanda." Bruce placed the phone in his pocket. "Let's get on the road shall we? I'll drive."

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We arrived at the base of the Avengers and Bruce quickly led the way to the conference room. There were loud voices that could be heard from the hallway.

"Wow, you guys...You really look like crap. Must've been a rough couple of years."

We walked into the opening of the room to see Rhodey, Steve, Natasha, Wanda, Sam and Vision gathers in the room. Vision was leaning on Sam.

"Yeah, well, the hotels weren't exactly five stars." Sam responded.

"Uh, I think you look great." Bruce spoke up. Everyone turned to face us as we walked into the room. "Uh..."

Bruce nervously chuckled as he walked down the two steps. Black Widow had her eyes trained on him. I sheepishly waved at everyone else.

"Yeah, I'm back." Bruce finally said. He fiddled with his hands and he walked closer to the group. Natasha smiled.

"Hi, Bruce." Natasha muttered.

"Nat." Bruce gave her a brief nod.

"This is awkward." Sam mumbled. Shaking my head, I walked around Bruce to go towards Cap.

"Hey, kiddo." Steve smiled and took a step forward. I wrapped my arms around him.

"Hey."

"Woah, wait a minute." Sam interrupted.

"What?" I asked, pulling away from Steve to look at Sam. There was a grin on his lips.

"When did you get that pretty rock?" Sam pointed at my engagement ring.

"Rock?" Steve blinked in confusion. I could feel everyone's attention on my ring.

"Oh, Nevah." Wanda smiled greatly as she squealed a little. "Congratulations."

"Stiles finally proposed?" Steve raised an eyebrow. "And I still haven't met the guy?"

"Bruce was in space this whole time!" I quickly brought up. "And there's an alien invasion led by a guy named Thanos."

"That's a subtle way to tell them what's going on Nev." Annabeth sighed and ran a hand down her face.  I sheepishly smiled.

"Wait, fill us in on what's going on." Natasha blinked.  In which Bruce quickly filled everyone in on what happened.

"So we gotta assume they're coming back, right?" Rhodey questioned concerning Tony and Peter.

"They have to." I anxiously popped my knuckles.

"We need all hands on deck. Where's Clint?" Bruce asked.

"Yeah, and where's Scott?" I looked at Sam.

"After the whole Accords situation, he and Scott took a deal. It was too tough in their families. They're on house arrest." Natasha stated with her arms crossed.

"They're on house arrest?" I frowned. "And they hadn't contacted me? Rude."

"Wait, who's Scott." Bruce questioned.

"Ant-man." Percy and Sam both said.

"There's an Ant-Man and a Spider-Man?"

"We," Percy waved his finger between him and I, "reference to them as the Bug Gang. Of course, we need more people with big names and stuff, but we have considered asking Frank if he wanted to be a part of it."

"Ok, look." Bruce shook his head. "Thanos has the biggest army in the universe...and he is not going to stop until he-he gets...Vision's stone."

"Then we have to protect it." Natasha demanded.

"No, we have to destroy it." Vision finally spoke up. We all turned to look at him. He was leaning against the wall with a hand pressed against his torso. "I've been giving a good deal of thought to this entity in my head. About it's nature. But also its composition."

Everyone remained quiet as we listened to him. Vision started to stride towards Wanda.

"I think if it were exposed to a sufficiently powerful energy source...something very familiar to its own signature, perhaps...it's molecular integrity could fail." Vision stopped in front of Wanda.

"Yeah, and you with it." Wanda looked up at him. "We're not having this conversation."

"Eliminating the stone is the only way to be certain Thanos can't get to it." Vision softly rebutted.

"It's too high of a price." Wanda said. Vision shook his head. He gently placed his hand on the side of Wanda's head.

"Only you have the power to pay it." Vision looked Wanda in the eyes.

Wanda walked away with tears in her eyes. I made a step to go comfort her, but Natasha gently grabbed my arm. Looking over my shoulder, Natasha shook her head at me.

"Thanos threatens half of the universe. One life cannot stand in the way of defeating him."

"But it should." Steve stated from behind a chair. He shook his head and looked towards Vision. "We don't trade lives, Vision."

"Captain, seventy years ago you laid down your life..." Vision pointed out. He walked towards Steve. "To save millions of people. Tell me how this is any different?"

"Because you might have a choice." Bruce countered. All the attention was on Bruce now. "Your mind is made up of a complex construct of overlays. Jarvis, Ultron, Tony, me, the stone. All of them mixed together, all of them learning from one another."

"You're saying Vision isn't just the stone?" Wanda asked.

"I'm saying that if we take out that stone...there's still a whole lot of Vision left."

"Perhaps the best parts." Natasha added. "Can we do that?"

"It's possible." Annabeth nodded her head. "But we need technology that out beats Stark's in order to do that. I know we don't have anything close back at camp to do it."

"Not me, not here." Bruce shook his head.

"Well, you better find someone and somewhere fast." Rhodes noted. "Ross isn't just gonna let you guys have your old rooms back."

"We would suggest Hephaestus or Leo, but I'm not sure if they could do it quick enough. They will have to know how Vision and everything worked." Percy shrugged. "I mean, I can contact Leo, but-"

"I know somewhere." Steve interrupted.

"Well, What are we waiting for? Let's go." I clasped my hands together with a large grin. Steve winced. My frown dropped. "What?"

"It may require flying." Steve stated. Percy and I nervously glanced at each other. "For several hours."

"Oh God." Wanda groaned. She rubbed her temples with her index fingers. "Leave that to me. I'll knock Nevah out with sweet dreams again."

"Yeah, but, uh, there's two of us." I sheepishly pointed towards my brother. Percy clicked his tongue and shot Wanda finger guns.

"If you can't, I can always knock them both out." Annabeth merely shrugged. She sent us a devious grin.

"No!" Percy and I immediately protested.

"No, I'll rather take my chances of staying awake and Zeus' wrath thank you very much." Percy added.

"What he said." I nodded quickly.

"You're choice. Let's go." Annabeth stalked out of the room.

"Uh, is she always like that?" Sam looked at Percy and I with a raised brow. "Seems pretty scary."

"This? Oh, this is nothing. Be lucky she's on our side." I laughed.

"And...you're married to her?" Bruce looked between Percy and Annabeth.

"Aren't I lucky?" Percy beamed. "Let's go before I change my mind and Annabeth does knock me out."

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Percy and I were tightly clutching to our seatbelts as we neared Wakanda. We were merely minutes away from King T'Challa's country according to Steve.

"You guys are fine. There hasn't been a turbulence this entire flight. Zeus doesn't have it out for the both of you." Annabeth reassured us.

"Maybe because we are saving the world. Again." Percy muttered under his breath.

"Don't worry." Steve patted my shoulder. "You two are fine. Besides, we are almost there. Zeus won't give us any turbulence."

"You sure about that?" I asked giving him a look.

"Zeus may hate you two, but he completely adores me." Steve grinned. I gasped at him as he stood up from is seat and walked towards the pit. Sam was flying the aircraft. "Drop to twenty six hundred, heading zero- three-zero."

"I hope you're right about this." Sam followed Cap's orders. "Or we're gonna land a lot faster than you want to."

"Woah." Annabeth stood up from her seat and walked towards the pit to see us going through a hologram of a forrest. Once we had passed through, there was water and and a large city. "Oh my gods. The architecture! It's ahead of its times. Look at this. Percy!"

"I think I'm good here until we land. I'll listen to you once we are on the ground." Percy nervously fiddled with the seat buckle.

"Wimp." Annabeth muttered under her breath. I giggled awkwardly from the nerves.

"What was that?" Percy gave his wife a look.

"I said okay." Annabeth grinned.

Sam brought us down safely. I let out a deep sigh and thanked the gods before quickly unbuckling. Percy was already running towards hanger. We all gathered at the hanger which quickly opened for us and started to walk out.

The Black Panther, dresses in his regular clothes, and some of his warriors were waiting for us. His warriors were mostly women with spears. Some walked closer to us to secure the area.

"I'm already liking this guy's choice of warriors." I nudged Annabeth with a grin.

"Seems like I'm always thanking you for something." Captain American stopped in front of T'Challa. The two shook each other's hands.

"You." T'Challa pointed at me.

"Hi." I sheepishly smiled. "Um, so, no hard feelings for throwing you at Clint?"

"No hard feelings." T'Challa chuckled as he extended his hand towards me. "I was quite impressed by your skills to control the water. Tell me. How are you able to do that?"

"It's in my blood." I grinned and shocked his hand.

Someone cleared their throat behind me. Turning around, I saw Bruce bowing. Percy was besides Rhodes stifling his laugh.

"What are you doing?" Rhodes asked Bruce. Bruce slowly straightened up.

"Uh, we don't do that here." T'Challa raised his hands. "So, how big of an assumption should we expect?"

He started to walk us towards the big building in the background. Annabeth let out a small squeal and wrapped her hand around Percy's bicep. Some of T'Challa's people asked for Vision and Wanda to follow them.

"Um, sir- sir, I think you should expect quite a big assault." Bruce answered.

"How we looking?" Natasha asked.

"You will have my Kingsguard, the Border Tribe, the Dora Milaje, and..." T'Challa motioned towards someone walking our way.

"And a semi-stable one hundred year old man." Bucky smiled. Steve grinned and hugged his best friend.

"How you been, Buck?" Steve asked as he let go of the hug and patted his friend's shoulder.

"Uh, not bad, for the end of the world." Bucky replied. "Klutz? Should have known you were here too."

"Eh, someone needed to help save the world. And well, I may or may not know four armies who are currently on their way." I shrugged with a smirk. Bucky laughed and pulled me into a hug. "Good to see you, Bucky."

"You too, Nev." Bucky let go of our hug.

"You mentioned four armies?" T'Challa questioned. He started to walk towards the door of the large building.

"Yeah, um, Greeks, Romans, Norse, and Egyptians."

Two guards held open the doors for us.

"I did not know these countries and the Norse were involved." T'Challa entered the building.

"Oh, we're not countries." I looked to the right to see Jason with the rest of the Romans and Greeks behind him.

"I like to think that we are way better." Leo seated on his feet. He had his thumbs tugging at his tool belt. Calypso rolled her eyes from beside him.

"I also may have brought some of the gods with me." Apollo waved with a large grin.

"Some by force." My dad walked through the aborted demigods with Zeus and Hades behind him.

"Dad." Percy and I both uttered in shock.

"Dad?" Rhodes blinked in confusion.

"Gods?" Bruce gaped.

"He was the one we had to force." Hades jabbed his thumb towards Zeus.

"And I brought my Hunters." Artemis gave us a brief nod.

"And the badass Egyptians have entered the building." Sadie flaunted into the room with her arms spread out into the air. Carter walked besides her hanging his head low while shaking it.

"Psh, you don't know the definition of badass." Magnus walked behind them.

"Oh really?" Sadie turned to look at him with her hands on her hips.

"Because you are looking right at the definition of badass." Alex nodded as he crossed his arms against his chest.

"Just shut up." Erin shook her head.

"Okay... why don't you guys go ahead and start discussing strategies with my people and the other tribes." T'Challa said.

"Will do." Reyna waved a finger and the Romans started to file out of the building.

"Percy, Magnus, Carter, and Thalia? Let's go." Frank waved from them to follow. "And Dad, we're going to need yours and Athena's help."

"We're already on it." Mars gruffly stated.

"Let's go up, shall we?" T'Challa motioned for the rest of the Avengers to follow. "Nevah, it's up to you if you want to follow."

"We've got it covered, Nev." Annabeth said.

"We'll fill you in once you get back ." Nico added.

"Okay." I sent them a right smile and quickly caught up to the group.

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Vision was already lying on a table when we entered the room. T'Challa's sister, Shuri, was attending to him. There was a blue light emitting from the thick beaded bracelet on her wrist as it scanned over Vision. Once it was done, she turned her palm to face the ceiling and opened it. A hologram of sorts showed the stone that was placed in Vision's forehead.

"This structure is polymorphic." Shuri stated.

"Right, we had to attach each neuron non-sequentially." Bruce told her.

"Why didn't you reprogram the synapses to work collectively." Shuri looked at Bruce as if he was stupid. We all looked at Bruce.

"Because we didn't think of it."

"I'm sure you did your best." Shuri smiled at Bruce.

"Can you do it?" Wanda asked Shuri.

"Yes," Shuri gave a brief nod, "but there are more than two trillion neurons here. One misalignment could cause a cascade of circuit failures. It will take time, brother."

"How long?" Steve inquired.

"As long as you can give me." Shuri responded.

There was a soft alarm and ringing coming from inside the room. I looked around to try and find it only to see one of T'Challa's warriors looking at a hologram coming from her beaded bracelet. The hologram was of earth and dots rippling where Wakanda was located.

"Something has entered the atmosphere." She told T'Challa.

There were loud crashes coming from outside. I quickly walked towards the windows along with everyone else in the room. All we could see were alien spacecrafts crashing into the invisible shield surrounding Wakanda and around it.

"It's too late." Vision noted. He struggled to get off of the table. "We need to destroy the stone now."

"Vision, get your ass back on the table." Natasha demanded. She started to go towards the door to exit the room.

"We will hold them off." T'Challa said. He started to lead his warriors out of the room.

"Wanda, as soon as that stone's out of his head you blow it to hell." Steve instructed.

"I will." Wanda nodded with determination.

"You can do this, Wanda." I gave her shoulder a squeeze. She gave me a tight smile.

"Evacuate the city. Engage all defenses. And get this man a shield." T'Challa pointed towards Steve. Cap turned to look at the king and gave him a curt nod.

"Let's go kick some alien ass." I smirked at Steve.

"Oh God."

"And, I want a go at this Thanos guy. He interrupted my day to find a dress." I started to stomp out of the room.

"Well, he's dead." I heard Steve mutter under his breath.