EVEN WITH ALL THE OUTRIDERS MAALOT KILLED, THERE ARE STILL SO MANY AND ARE SLOWLY BEING OVERPOWERED. Sam and Rhodey are in the sky, the air shooting marbles are still up there as well. The battle on ground is overwhelming, bullets flying everywhere, arrows whizzing through the air, the air itself being manipulated by Maalot.

Loki has his knives in his hands, a small weapon compared to Sybbyl's now but even smaller compared to Heimdall's sword. Still, he knows what he's doing, slashing and stabbing outriders and kicking them away. Loki slashed one that came from his left, and then from his right. Outriders jumped on one another to get to Loki, they piled up and they all went down.

They snarled and scratched at Loki's body but their claws just went right through him. A shower of arrows pierced their backs and they all died. "Idiots" Loki laughed as he appeared around a large boulder where he was hiding and casting illusions. His victory was short-lived when a large outrider jumped at him and before he could plunge his knife in the creature's chest, a long blade pierced from behind and it went down. Heimdall stood on the other side. He panted and gave Loki a look.

"What? Makes us even now?" Loki sarcastically asked. He saves Heimdall's life at the Statesman and now Heimdall saves Loki's life by killing an outrider that could've killed him?

"If you die, I'll have to put up with Sybbyl's moping" Heimdall told Loki.

"I don't mope!" Sybbyl defended herself when she heard their voices in the comms. "Loki does"

An arrow flew between them. Their heads turning, eyes glued on the arrow as it hit a large creature and lightning came from the arrow. It hit and killed creatures around it.

"Not as big and powerful as Thor's but they'll do" Loki hummed. Loki and Heimdall went back to fighting.

It was a never ending wave of outriders. Just as they kill one, five more come out. Sybbyl shot arrows, some normal and others with powers, water, lightning, fire, ice, arrows multiplied by the dozen, explosions, and when she doesn't use the bow, it transforms into a sword making it easier to attack the outriders around her.

"Hey, Greeny" Sybbyl grunted as she swung her sword and decapitated an outrider "any way to get the bigger Greeny out here?"

"He doesn't want to" Bruce answered.

"Jump out of a ship and fall on your face" Heimdall spoke up.

"Oh yeah, let me just fly up and eject myself out of the suit" Bruce sarcastically said.

"I mean it worked in Asgard" they can hear the smirk in Sybbyl's voice.

That was her first impression of Bruce Banner. Sybbyl and Heimdall were escorting the Asgardian refugees across the Bifrost, but Fenrir charged at them, and when they got ready to fight, Bruce jumps out of the ship and lands on the rainbow bridge on his face. It confused everyone, even Fenrir stopped to sniff at the motionless body but when there was no response he continued his attack only to be held back by Hulk who had a strong hold of his tail.

Sybbyl has met so many people in her life, but Bruce's first impression will forever be imprinted in her mind. Under different circumstances she would've laughed until she cried. If they make it out alive she'll be sure to tease him about it.

Maalot ran across the field leaving behind severed bodies and a few frozen in ice. Tornadoes formed which picked up and threw the outriders at the barrier. Whenever she would see someone piled by outriders, she would run toward them, aim a strong wind at them and go on to the next person.

"Woah, you okay there?" Maalot stopped in her tracks when Rhodey fell out of the sky. She crouched down, hands over her knees and eyed him with worry, but she can't see him since he's in the suit.

"I'm fine. Something knocked me out of the sky" Rhodey answered. He pushed himself to a sitting position. Maalot stood straight and scanned the battlefield. That's when she saw them. Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight.

"No, Greeny!" Maalot flinched when Sybbyl yelled. The comms aren't something she's used to.

Sybbyl ran to help her friend who's being piled on by savage outriders. He tried to fight them off but they're too many. It was then that Sybbyl used magic to get them off Bruce. She spotted Loki's tricks and illusions throughout the field, maybe she should do the same. A blast of astral power emanated from her hands and the outriders flew off.

"Greeny, Greeny, are you okay?" She hurriedly asked him.

The helmet of the Hulkbuster came down and Sybbyl smiled when she saw the man's face. "Better than when I fell on my face" he joked.

Sybbyl laughed. She stood up and pulled him up as well. A stream of rainbow light shoots down from the sky knocking back nearby outriders. A glowing weapon with electrical current streaming out of it, flies through the battlefield taking out the outriders. It flew back to the light and Thor is standing there with Groot and Rocket to his sides.

A wave of happiness and relief washed over Sybbyl. The friend she had to leave behind in space is standing there on earth and with a prosthetic eye and a new weapon. That self-searching journey in space really made him stronger. Everyone in the field stopped and stared at Thor. Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight glowered at them. Did no one on that ship die?

Bruce laughed in happiness. "You guys are so screwed now!"

"Bring me Thanos!" Thor charges with Groot and Rocket following, he leaps high above the advancing outriders. Summoning lightning, eyes glowing, he lands among them and slams Stormbreaker down. Lightning bolts shoot out and send cracks in the ground.

"I told you so" Loki's proud tone of voice rang through the comms. Oh, how he likes to be right.

"Wait until he sees us and he'll kill us" Heimdall commented.

"We blame Loki. Like always" Sybbyl joked.

"I'm starting to see why Loki lead the attack in New York" Natasha spoke up. "Because of you guys"

"It's true. It's all their fault" Loki agreed with Natasha.

Heimdall grunted as he killed an outrider "so, who wants to go say hi?"

It didn't take Sybbyl long until she reached Thor who's swinging the axe around with flames of lightning. It wasn't hard to locate him either, all she had to do was follow the lightning. The lightning from her arrows is strong and bright but not at Thor's level.

She spotted her childhood friend talking with Steve in the middle of battle. Her face is aching with all the smiling but she can't help it. Thor is back. Stupid Loki was right, their "deaths" did fuel him with purpose and made him great.

"Where did you get the eye from?" Were the words that left Sybbyl's mouth as she got closer to Thor. He immediately turned around, eyes landing on his childhood friend. At first he was confused so he picked up a small rock from the ground and threw it at Sybbyl. It hit her shoulder and she glared at the man. "What was that for?"

"You're real" he breathed out. "You're– I saw you die" he took a step closer to her, his eyes locked with Sybbyl's eyes. They're not dull and unfocused like he last saw them back in the Statesman, they're bright and full of life.

"Yeah well, it didn't stick" she shrugged.

"It was an illusion!" Thor yelled in realization. A little anger raised in him but he pushed it to the side. Instead he wrapped an arm around Sybbyl, pulled her close and gave her a tight and short hug.

"Aww, I knew you wouldn't be mad at us!" Loki cooed as he walked up to the pair with open arms. Thor pushed him away and Loki frowned. "Uncalled for"

Thor didn't need any explanations. He knows Sybbyl and Loki better than anyone and knows that when up to it, Sybbyl can be just as mischievous as Loki. Loki transforming into a snake, Sybbyl bringing Thor's attention to it and then being stabbed by Loki when he picked up the snake. One time Sybbyl and Loki transformed Thor into a frog. It was quite amusing to see him trying to pick up Mjölnir so he could blast them with lightning. It was even funnier that it happened when they were adults and not children.

"This happy moment needs to come to an end. There's something coming. It's underground." Heimdall got the groups attention. "And someone has to go to Vision. Corvus Glaive is up there" he said that last part into the comms for the Avengers to hear. Bruce said he's on his way. Thor smiled when he saw his best friend but the moment didn't last long. He can hear rumbling outside the barrier.

Outside the force field trees in the forest uproot as the ground beneath moves like a wave advancing toward the dome. The ground bulges under the border of the force field and threshers, machines resembling giant circular sword blades, emerge inside the dome. The threshers roll across the battlefield toward the city tearing deep furrows in the ground.

Two threshers approached Thor, Loki, Heimdall, Sybbyl, Steve and Groot. Sybbyl took the silver bracer off her arm and it transformed into a bow. She pulled the string, an arrow formed, whispered something and let the arrow go. The arrow split into two and each hit a thresher engulfing it in ice. Maalot came by, moved her arms around and picked them up with air and threw them at the masses of outriders. On the other side of the field, threshers were coming straight to Natasha and Okoye. Wanda came down from Shuri's lab and impressed Okoye with her powers.

"Maalot?" Thor is surprised to see her there.

"I heard you were dead!" She smiled at the man.

Loki scoffed with a roll of his eyes. "Nothing can kill him"

"Anyway, Syb, I located Proxima. Want me to–"

"Let's go" Sybbyl didn't let Maalot finish. She grabbed her friend and they sped away.

Proxima is in a ditch fighting Natasha and Okoye. She'd already tossed Wanda to the ground, so how hard would it be for her to toss Natasha and Okoye to the side? The two women did put up a fight but Proxima overpowered them.

"What happened to your three-pronged spear?" Sybbyl curiously asked Proxima from behind. She turned around and saw the Asgardian woman caked in dried and fresh blood. Her hair is still tied to the side but there are undoubtedly knots in her hair. There's dirt on her face, a couple of fresh scratches. She changed clothes from the last time she saw her, from when she thought she killed her on the ship.

"How are you alive?" Proxima tightened her grip on her sword.

Sybbyl smirked and offered a light shrug "magic"

Proxima growled and charged at Sybbyl. She raised her bow and Proxima's sword collided with the bow. Sybbyl kicked Proxima in the stomach causing her to stagger back, but she quickly regained her footing and raised her sword bringing it down on Sybbyl. She stepped to the side and the blade missed her.

"Remember what I told you, Proxima? I'm going to kill you first. I'm going to make you watch me kill your friends and you won't be able to do anything" Sybbyl told her.

"And I said, you'll have to be alive for that!" Proxima yelled and punched Sybbyl on the face. Her hand shot up to her face, her fingers gingerly touching the cheek Proxima landed the blow. "Just making sure it's you this time" she smirked.

"You didn't even know the first time!" Sybbyl shouted and raised her bow that transformed into a sword. She swung it and cut her arm, blue blood trickled from the gash.

Natasha stood up with batons in her hands, she blocked Proxima's sword with them and then disarmed her. Sybbyl kicked the sword to the side and cut Proxima's leg with her own sword. She grunted and dropped to a knee.

"You killed them!" Sybbyl kicked Proxima, sending her across the ditch. "You killed innocent families!"

"I'd do it again!" Proxima got to her feet. Sybbyl yelled, the sword now a bow, and she shot an arrow by her feet. It exploded and Proxima was thrown back again.

"YOU KILLED ME!" Sybbyl yelled.

"IT WASN'T EVEN YOU!" Proxima yelled back. She stood up, she has a cut on her forehead, cheek, she's bleeding from her arm and leg. She charged at Sybbyl and she did the same.

Punches and kicks were thrown. Proxima pulled out a knife and cut Sybbyl on the arm and then her thigh. She hissed. Suddenly she was hit by a blast from Okoye's sonic spear. Maalot appeared above them and looked down at Proxima.

"So I thought you should know that your friend, Cull is no more" she said. "Just saw him kiss the barrier. It didn't like him back"

Proxima glared at them, already acting out their deaths in her mind. She'll kill them, all of them, with her knife, sword, her bare hands even. Her eyes darted between Maalot who's standing above them, Sybbyl, Okoye, Natasha and Wanda. The one with the greater advantage and bigger threat is Maalot. There's nothing stopping her from taking the air from her lungs and let her die of asphyxiation. She knows Maalot isn't doing this because Sybbyl is the one who wants to kill her. She's the second biggest threat. Asgardian and has a bow with an infinite amount of arrows. The other three are human, not a big threat but Wanda has powers so she's up there with the other two.

Proxima threw her knife at Maalot and found itself in her leg. She cried out in pain, gripped her leg and winced. Proxima then made her move to Sybbyl, she jabbed her fingers on the cut on her thigh and she yelled. Proxima ran at Natasha and Okoye but instead of attacking them, she jumped over them. She moved to Wanda who's already moving her hands, red mist around them, and when she reached out an arrow zoomed just an inch away from Proxima's hand.

She turned to Sybbyl who's lowering her bow. She can clearly see the pain in her face, blood trickling down her leg and arm. "You missed" Proxima smirked.

"I never miss" Sybbyl replied. The arrow that flew by Proxima's han kept going until it turned around and flew right at Proxima. It went in through her back and out of her chest knocking her forward. Sybbyl shot a couple more arrows before the body fell, just to make sure she's dead. But the body never fell because Maalot lifted it in the air and was caught in a thresher, blue blood splattered on them.

"That was really gross" Natasha breathed out.

"Is everyone alright?" Sybbyl asked.

"Wanda was knocked pretty bad" Natasha pointed out. "How are you feeling?" She asked her friend sitting on the dirt.

"Dizzy. I can't really stand" Wanda informed.

Maalot yelled when she pulled the knife out of her leg. "You should've let me kill her slow and painful"

Sybbyl chuckled and limped her way to Wanda. She sat next to her and sighed. "Let's get you healed up" she placed her hand on Wanda's forehead and began to do her thing.

Author's note
I suck at writing fighting scenes.

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