March, 2018
Wakanda

Noah's knee bounced up and down nervously as they got closer and closer to Wakanda, "Are you alright?"

Noah's head snapped upward, catching Wanda's concerned gaze, "Yeah..yeah."

"Are you sure?"

"Nope. I kind of feel like I'm gonna throw up." Noah breathed pulling her legs up to her chest.

The Quinjet landed and Noah stood up, taking a deep breath and then quickly walking beside Natasha.

"Should we bow?" Bruce asked from behind Noah, "Yeah, he's a king."

A small amused smile pulled at her lips, with Rhodey's response, "It seems like I'm always thanking you for something." Steve stated shaking T'Challa's hand.

Bruce cleared his throat offering a bow, "What are you doing?" Rhodey asked, "Uh, We don't do that here." T'Challa stated.

And Noah laughed fairly loudly receiving a whack on the shoulder from Natasha, "Sorry."

"Shuri, will be happy to see you," T'Challa nodded at Noah, before turning away, "How big of an assault should we expect?"

"Uh, Sir, I think you should expect quite a big assult." Bruce stuttered out, "How we looking?" Natasha asked.

"You will have my king's guard, the Border Tribe, the Done Milaje, and..." T'Challa motioned to the man approaching them.

Noah's jaw clenched shut falling a back a bit, almost hiding herself behind Natasha like she was a child again, "A semi-stable-100-year-old Man."

Steve moved forward to hug him, "How you been, Buck?"

"Uh, not bad for the end of the world." Bucky looked behind him offering an awkward nod in the direction of Natasha and Noah.

"Nat." Bucky greeted with a tight-lipped smile, "I'm gonna go find Shuri," Noah whispered to her mom, trying to make a very quick exit.

"Hey, Noah."

Noah just nodded at him before taking off.

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"Noah!" Shuri exclaimed a small smile on her face, "Hi!" Noah beamed.

"Oh my God it's been so long, I've missed you!" Shuri spoke as they went through their handshake fairly quickly, "I know I'm sorry, it's just-"

"Your father, I know."

Noah grimaced, "I would've come around but it's just so weird. And I don't know how to deal with it, you know?"

"I know," Shuri nodded, "Now let's go ahead and get this whole saving the world thing over with so we can catch up, yes?"

Vision laid on the table as Shuri scanned him, pulling up a projection of the mind stone, "The structure is polymorphic."

"Yeah, we had to attach each neuron non-sequentially." Bruce spoke, "Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?" Shuri asked and then looked towards Noah.

"Don't look at me, I was like 12 they wouldn't accept any of my input. Plus I was un-involved at that point."

"And we didn't think of it." Bruce answered moments later, "I'm sure you did your best." Shuri stated.

"Can you do it?" Wanda asked, "Yes, but there are more than two trillion neutrons here. One misalignment could cause a cascade of circuit failures. It'll take time, brother." Shuri answered, "And an extra set of hands?" she asked looking at Noah.

"Yeah, I'll help." Noah nodded, "How long?" Steve questioned.

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

"Something's entered the atmosphere." Okoye alerted, "Hey Cap, we got a situation here," Sam's voice cut through the ear piece.

Noah took a few steps forward to hug Natasha, "I love you, good luck." she whispered.

"Love you too, sweetness." Natasha whispered kissing the top of her head, "See you soon."

Vision sat up from the table behind them, "We have to destroy the stone now."

"Vision get your ass back on the table." Natasha instructed sternly, "You do your genius thing, Noah." the blonde haired woman added.

"Oh, you know it." Noah winked, "Shuri and I are just that good."

"I left you with Tony for way too long." Natasha teased.

"We will hold them off," T'Challa spoke walking off, "Wanda as soon as that stone's out of his head...you blow it to hell." Steve instructed.

"I will."

"Evacuate the city. Engage all defenses." T'Challa turned back to them and pointed to Steve, "And get this man a shield."

Shuri and Noah began working on Vision as Wanda stood by, "This is slightly, slightly more complex than I'm used to." Noah muttered, "It's good practice? Or would be if we were not against the clock."

Mere minutes later T'Challa's voice filled the silence, "How much long, Shuri?"

"We've barely begun, brother."

"The two of you might want to pick up the pace."

Noah tried stay focused on the task out hand but the muffled rumbling proved to be quite distracting.

"Okay Thor showed up, that should give us an extra five minutes." Noah murmured, "I'll take what we can get." Shuri stated.

Wanda stared out the window before suddenly looking away, "I have to go help them." she stated.

Noah looked up at her wide eyed, "But what about the stone?"

"I'll be back in time to destroy it." Wanda promised.

Wanda hurried out of the room, "Okay, if they need her help, we need to move faster."

"Yeah."

A guard cried out in pain and Noah's head snapped around to look, "Shit!"

Seconds later Shuri closed the hologram and spun around shooting at the alien, and Noah reached for her own gun, unloading bullets into him.

It however, wasn't enough.

The three of them went flying over the balcony, and before they could recover, Vision jumped out of the window pushing the alien out in front of him.

"Fuck." Noah groaned, "Somebody get to Vision." Steve's voice echoed through her head from the earpiece.

"I'm on my way there!" Noah exclaimed, picking a piece of glass out of her elbow, and then taking off.

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"Hey there." the several projections of Noah spoke, "Oh, I'm sorry do you find this confusing?" she taunted the aliens.

Banner landed just outside of the circle of her projections, "Oh no you don't. This isn't going to be like New York, Pal. This suit's already kicked the crap out of the Hulk."

The bigger of the two aliens however, rammed directly into Banner knocking him off the side. Noah sighed, "Okay, so maybe I didn't think this through. Any ideas Vision!"

The alien was smarter than Noah anticipated, and she noticed that seconds before it's blade tore into her leg. She cried out in pain, toppling over, and seconds later, the alien had stabbed it's spear directly through Vision.

"I thought you were formidable, machine. But you're dying, like any man." he threw vision to the ground but before he could strike again, Steve knocked into the alien with his shield.

"Get outta here!" Steve instructed, "Both of you!"

Steve continued to fight against the alien, and Vision laid on his side weakly, "Steve!"

Noah couldn't just let him die, I mean that man had saved her once before. She put weight on her leg, quietly wincing in pain, and stretching her finger tips out for the spear. A silent conversation passed between Vision, and she tossed the spear to him.

Vision tore it through the alien, and Steve gasped for air, "I thought I told you both to go."

"We don't trade lives, Cap."

Steve moved to help Noah up and he shrugged him off, "I'm okay. Get Vision the hell out of here, I'll be right behind you."

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