LEENA KNEW IT was a risky move, for there was a possibility that she could die. Regardless, she was going to give it a go.

She ceased her own energy current and awaited the pain. Within a millisecond, the flaming red blast burned her chest, throwing her in the air and over a broken metal star.

Leena, almost immediately, regretted her decision. Quite frankly, as she dropped through the air at a record-breaking pace, she truly believed that she was about to die.

Her mind came to a standstill while her body rippled with the energy that burned her insides until she forcibly converted it into another protective bubble around her, to avoid the inevitable death. She bounced off the debris below, and flew into the air where her static bubble fizzled slightly which twinged a cold panic in her chest. She was still at a height that would prove fatal to fall from. Leena forced her eyes shut and hoped that her bubble would hold as she fell back to the ground.

There was one last bounce before she reached a lower height, and dropped to the ground with a loud smack as her bubble fizzled in the air with a pop. She rolled around in the debris with a loud groan. A scathing hiss burned past her lips when she accidentally sliced her thigh on a broken shard of metal. Leena forced herself to roll onto her back, and away from the metal shards that littered the orange ground.

"Ouch," Leena winced as the cut on her thigh dripped with icy blue blood that clung to her trousers in an uncomfortable way. Tears blinded her vision. She slowly lifted her aching body into a sit-up, her hands shaking as she peeled back the sliced open material to look at the damage. "That's a pretty sight."

She used the bottom of her shirt to wipe away the seeping blood to see the wound clearly, hissing as she accidentally wiped over the cut. Thankfully, it wasn't too deep, it was only a couple inches in length.

A loud crash caught her attention. She quickly glanced up, and looked to her left, where she made out the familiar shape of a space-pod which had crashed landed into the battle.

She glanced back down at her wound. Her risk had almost paid off. She was alive, at least. Her hands continued to shake while black sparks zapped the air, she had absorbed as much as she could from the energy blast. Perhaps too much.

She shot her palms out, and fired a blast at the debris which had sliced her thigh. It soared through the air and away from sight.

"Yeah, piss off," she whispered in daze towards the flying debris. She was still slightly impressed with how she had managed to utilise her powers to form a bubble around her, but now was not the time to be in awe of her new discovery.

Her eyes fluttered close as she took a moment to breathe. She needed to pull herself together. Leena had to get away from the fight with Tony because a small part of her didn't want to hurt him. She let out a groan and ran her hands down her face.

She doesn't want to hurt anyone.

"What the hell is wrong with me?" Leena whispered with an annoyed sigh. Her thoughts whizzed dangerously around her mind, flickering between knowing what she should do and what she wants to do. She should fight with her family. With Thanos.

We were never a family.

She opened her eyes to the beep of her bracelet. Leena furrowed her brows as she tapped the single button and a hologram appeared. It illuminated five red dots, and their coordinates. Her siblings had moved locations.

Her four older siblings had all returned to the Sanctuary, and were grouped in the Throne Room. The final fifth red dot being Leena's location on Titan. She could only presume that her other siblings had failed to acquire the Stones. Warmth twitched in her chest for some unknown reason.

She swiped the hologram away, her brows were still threaded together as she looked back towards the battle that had quietened down. Her siblings may have finished their war but she was in the middle of her own. She had to decide what side she was on. Now.

Her heart continued its fearful song as her mind flashed with all the possibilities. Her throat tightened.

"I can do this," she stated with a newfound layer of determination. She forced herself to stand while she numbed the pain in her leg, for the time being. She needed to fight. She had to fight. "I can do this."

She side-stepped the debris, and it wasn't until she was closer to the eye of the storm that she realised why it was quiet.

They had Thanos trapped.

She made sure to keep herself hidden from view behind one of the larger metal pieces that had previously formed a building. Quickly, she scanned over the Protectors, only to do a double-take when she glanced at her sister, Nebula. She bit down on the inside of her cheek.

Leena's lips tightened into a straight line. She stepped out from behind the metal structure, and stepped over the debris, black wisps flaked off her fingers.

Within moments, Leena was in hearing distance. She couldn't help but furrow her brows after catching Drax's question. Her heart was pounding.

"What does this monster —" Drax grunted as he struggled to hold the Titan in place, "— have to mourn?"

What was he talking about? Her eyes flickered to Nebula who had already locked her robotic gaze onto her. The two sisters, who had never seen eye-to-eye, were now staring at each other with an equal amount of despair.

"Gamora."

Quill's eyes shot towards Nebula, widening slightly upon noticing Leena walking towards him. Black wisps dissipated into a cloud of smoke as Leena dropped her hands.

"What?" His voice broke into a shattered whisper.

"He took her to Vormir." Nebula choked out, her hardened eyes never strayed from Leena, "he came back with the Soul Stone, but she didn't."

She didn't.

Leena clenched her fists as she stepped over a broken metal crate, standing just behind Quill. Her eyes glanced at the Soul Stone on her father's wrist, the Stone glinted at her. No, no. Her father wouldn't have — he couldn't have. Leena's thoughts spiralled into darkness.

Tony grunted as he failed to pull off the gauntlet. Leena's eyes flickered over to him, his own gaze giving her a once over with a lingering look at her sliced thigh, before he looked over at Quill, who was rapidly losing his composure.

"Okay, Quill. You gotta cool it, right now. You understand?" His pleading eyes glanced at Leena once again who stared at him with blackened eyes that were drowning in pain as the cold realisation kicked in. "Don't — don't engage! We've almost got this off!"

Quill's heated eyes burned Thanos, "tell me she's lying! Asshole!"

"I had too," Thanos choked out. The whites of his glazed over eyes were blinding Leena as her mind flooded with images of her sister.

Her legs suddenly buckled and she dropped to her knees in front of her father. "What did you do?" Her voice didn't sound like her, it was thick and heated with burning emotions.

Gamora can't be — she can't be dead.

Leena's heart dropped to her stomach while tears burned the backs of her blackened eyes. Sparks zapped the air from her palms.

"Saviour —" Thanos whispered. Leena's shoulders tensed up from her fathers voice. "My daughter. I had to. It's our destiny."

Leena could only shake her head while her throat tightened and her cheeks ached from holding back tears. She clenched her jaw.

"You said," Quill paused, trying to force back the lump in his throat as his glistening eyes looked down at the broken woman beside him, "you said he would never hurt her."

Leena was drowning in Quill's anger, which rolled off him in crashing waves.

He started to shake his head, his eyes wild while he lifted his gun. "You lied!" He shouted at her, the tip of the gun pointed at her forehead.

Leena was motionless. A single tear trailed coldly down her flushed cheek as she stared at her father's glazed over eyes. It felt as if she was swimming, aimlessly, in ice cold water with no way of escaping.

Gamora was dead. Her sister. Her Gamora was dead.

All for a glinting, orange Stone, that had captured not only Gamora's soul, but Leena's too.

"Quill!" Nebula shouted but she was ignored by the enraged man.

"I'm sorry," Leena's words pushed past her lips with difficulty, for her heart continued to shatter as she could hardly stand to look at the sadness dripping from Quill's face. "I am so sorry."

He shook his head, his eyes flooded with despair. "So am I."

Quill suddenly knocked Leena out the way, she fell backwards while Quill smacked Thanos around the head with the edge of his gun.

"You asshole!" He screamed.

"Quill!" Drax shouted as he struggled to hold onto Thanos' legs as the Mad Titan began to wake from his induced slumber. Mantis suddenly yelped as she lost her control. By the time Leena had managed to stand up, and pull Quill away from attacking her father, it was too late.

Thanos' eyes suddenly flashed opened. He snatched the gauntlet from Peter, and promptly grabbed Mantis before throwing her in the air.

He kicked Drax away from his legs, shoving the large muscled man into Quill, and his two daughters who flung back into the debris. Leena groaned as she caught her cut opened leg on a rock, deepening it. The Guardians were quickly on their feet to attack Thanos, with Leena following behind them as a newfound sense of determination flooded through her.

She had to stop Thanos.

It took a mere second for the four of them to be immobilised by a purple plasma.

Her body spasmed. She released a gut-wrenching scream as she dropped to the floor. While the three Guardians had been knocked unconscious, Leena was writhing in agony.

In her tear-stained vision, an outline of her father appeared before her. He knelt down before his screaming daughter and reached a finger out to stroke her pale face, wiping away the blood which trickled from her nose.

"Oh daughter," he sighed with a shake of his head, paying no attention to her blood-curling screams as her body tried to withstand the energy. "You have disappointed me today."

A purple shimmer encased his golden gauntlet as he shot another purple plasma towards her. Leena's throat burned red raw. Tears streamed down her face while black sparks zapped the air around her in a frenzy as if she were a solar flare.

"Shh now, you know you deserve this," he tilted his head, "it's a virus for you but mercy for everyone else." He cast his eyes to the unconscious Nebula, merely a few feet away. "I will forgive you, daughter, only if you stop this childish act and help the Universe. This is your destiny, little one. You were made to save us, not destroy us."

He stroked her face one last time, another purple shimmer danced around his gauntlet and the Power Stone retracted it's infectious essence from her body. Her screams quietened to ragged gasps for air. Her chest heaved with difficulty.

"I think you might be a runner up for Father-Of-The-Year award, just behind my old man," the snarky voice of Tony Stark called out from high above. Leena's chest warmed.

"Wrenched Terrain," Thanos growled.

Leena fluttered her eyes, attempting to peer up at the Iron Man. She blinked away the blackened spots and tears, and heaved a deep breath when she saw him a few feet away, staring at her.

Her father will kill him.

"You have a nickname for me?" Tony asked, sardonically. "That's cute. How do you like Chins for yours?"

Her father will definitely kill him.

Thanos growled and released a purple plasma in his direction. Tony's helmet shut over his face before he promptly blasted into the air. Leena was left by herself while her father engaged in battle with Doctor Strange and Iron Man.

She slowly crawled towards a rock, and breathed raggedly through gritted teeth as she leaned against it. Her body was slowly repairing itself, cell by cell. She tried to ignore the spell of darkness which sought to pull her under but it proved futile as she fell under its trap a number of times, awaking suddenly when she felt herself become weightless.

A blue shimmer had been placed protectively around her while Titan's gravity tipped once again, for a reason Leena could only presume had involved the destruction of a moon which had been cut down to bullets, firing towards Tony. Thanos continued his attack while also ensuring that Leena was unaffected by the devastation. Her eyes rolled back into her head as a wave of nausea washed over her. She drifted unconscious once again.

"— Leena!"

She groaned slightly in acknowledgement to the muffled voice but her eyes remained shut. Her body was barely functioning.

"Leena!"

Her body suddenly tingled. Her eyelids fluttered open when she realised that she was no longer twinging in pain but her body was relaxing under the spell. An orange hue had been cast around her, the trails of static leading to the shaky fingertips of the bruised and bloodied, Doctor Strange.

His piercing green eyes burned her. His magic continued to be absorbed by her at an alarming rate which led to his body paling, and faltering against the rock beside her while hers greedily reenergised.

"You need to stop," her voice softened in confusion. She shifted herself up to sit beside him, no longer finding it a struggle to move. "Strange — you need to stop. I'm okay."

The orange static dissipated into a puff of smoke, his head leaned back against the rock while his eyes fluttered. Leena furrowed her brows and wriggled her fingers, watching a black spark zap the air. She was thankful that she was no longer in agony whenever she moved but she was confused to why he had helped her, especially since it came at a great cost for him.

A loud grunt caught her attention. She glanced towards the sound, only to gasp when she saw that Thanos had stabbed Tony in the stomach. She quickly stood to her feet, wobbling slightly as a dizzy spell overcame her.

"— No, wait." Doctor Strange called out to her. Leena quickly glanced down at him. He was struggling to keep his eyes open. "I know."

"What?" Leena asked, flicking her gaze back towards Tony in a heated panic. She had to help him.

"I know," Doctor Strange stressed. His words sent a wave of confusion over her but she didn't have time to dwell on them before he had summoned the glinting green Time Stone in his hand. Her eyes widened. "I need you to give him the Stone, and then I want you to run."

Leena barely had time to question him before the Stone was within reach. She heard another grunt of pain behind her which twinged a cold feeling in her chest. She had to help Tony. Her hand grasped the Stone, its power warming her palm. She looked at Doctor Strange who faltered unconscious against the rock.

Her eyes flickered down towards the green glow, and before she knew it, she had turned on her feet and limped towards her father.

"You have my respect, Stark. When I'm done, half of humanity will still be alive." Thanos taunted the weakened man, taking a step back from Tony as he faltered to his knees in pain. "I hope they remember you."

Tony's watery eyes flickered momentarily towards Leena, his dark brows, coated in a thick layer of sweat, knitted together in confusion until realisation dawned on his pale face when he noticed the Stone in her palm. He began to shake his head.

"No," he whispered quietly. Leena's chest twinged. She continued towards Thanos, forcing herself to look away from Tony. She swallowed harshly.

Thanos tilted his head before glancing towards his daughter. His face hardened before a small smile teased his lips when he, too, noticed the familiar green glow.

"Father," Leena said softly. Her heart pounded in her chest.

He stared at her, remaining silent.

She knelt before him, ignoring the shot of pain which ran up her injured leg, and held her hand out with the green Time Stone glinting in her palm. She glanced up through her eyelashes towards Thanos, masking her confusion with one of acceptance for what was to come. An easy mask for her to paint on her face for it was one that her father would not dwell too long on. He would believe her.

His eyes glistened in glee as his large purple fingers reached out and grasped the Stone. It gravitated towards the secure holding on the gauntlet, a green shimmer encased Thanos. He twisted his gauntlet hand in admiration before glancing down at Leena, who was still kneeling before him.

Leena choked down her heated words of anger and ignored the creeping power crawling towards her fingertips. "I was wrong, father. I'm sorry."

He curtly nodded his head. "Stand, daughter. For now is the time of the Saviour." Leena stood to her feet with Tony's stare burning into the side of her head. A blue shimmer clouded around the Mad Titan and his daughter.

Thanos stared down at Leena, his lips tugging into a smile. "One more to go."

Leena's darkened eyes locked with Tony's pained gaze, his swimming in confusion while hers begged him to forgive her.

It was the only way.

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