Emily stays off by herself in the jet, Tony's suit floods her with photons. It's enough to keep her standing but not enough to fully replenish her powers. She still feels like sleeping for an entire week and buying all the food in a bakery.

She looks out the window of the Quinjet. The land here is so beautiful. It looks so peaceful. It's almost enough to make her forget all of her problems. She's been to so many gorgeous places but she never gets to enjoy them.

The Quinjet passes through a camouflage force field into Wakanda's Golden City's valley and lands at the airfield outside the palace. King T'Challa and the Dora Milaje approach to greet the arrivals.

Okoye walks with King T'Challa and a band of the Kingsguard to the landing pad, "When you said we were going to open Wakanda to the rest of the world... this is not what I imagined."

T'Challa raises an eyebrow, "And what did you imagine?"

"The Olympics. Maybe even a Starbucks."

The Quinjet lands down on the pad and the hangar door lowers. Steve and Emily, who has a hand on Natasha's shoulder for balance, followed by Bruce and Rhodey, with Vision and Wanda slowly taking up the rear.

Bruce leans over and whispers to Rhodey, "Should we bow?"

Rhodey nods seriously, "Yeah, he's a king."

Steve shakes T'Challa's hand, "Seems like I'm always thanking you for something."

Bruce begins to bow but is quickly stopped by a profusely embarrassed Emily, "What are you doing?"

" Uh, we don't do that here. He dissuades Bruce with a motion of his hand; Bruce shoots Rhodey a look, and is answered with a big grin. T'Challa moves on, "So how big of an assault can we expect?"

The group begins to walk back into the administrative building.

"Uh, sir, I think you can expect quite a big assault," Bruce replies.

"It'll most likely be similar to the assault on New York. The army will be different though. Stronger," Emily clarifies. "How are we looking?"

"You will have my Kingsguard, the Border Tribe, the Dora Milaje, and..."

A long-forgotten smile creeps on Emily's face as she sees why T'Challa is trailing off. "Bucky!"

"Hey, kiddo," He gets with a small smile as she wraps her arms around him.

"I've missed you. How's life treating you here? You look good."

"You don't."

She playfully hits his arm, "Shut up, old man."

Bruce nudges Natasha, "Is that Steve's friend? The assassin?"

"Yeah, he and Em go way back. Apparently he was the one who named her."

"Oh." Is all Bruce can muster out.

Steve goes in for a hug but Emily stays near him, "How you been, Buck?"

"Uh, not bad, for the end of the world."

In Shuri's lab, Shuri scans the Stone with her kimoyo beads while Vision lies on the examination table. She flips her hand over and studies the hologram projected over her palm. "Whoa. The structure is polymorphic."

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

Shuri looks up at him, "Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?"

"Because... we didn't think of it."

"In their defense, things were pretty hectic. Also, I wasn't there so..." Emily adds. Bruce shoots her a look. "What? You did your best."

"Can you do it?" Wanda asks, interrupting the science trio.

"Yes, but there are more than two trillion neurons here. One misalignment could cause a cascade of circuit failures," Shuri turns to T'Challa."It will take time, brother."

Okoye's kimoyo beads chime an alarm; she flicks one bead into her palm, where it projects the globe with a pulsing location marker, "Something's entered the atmosphere."

Emily watches as the defense shield over the Golden City destroys one of the alien vessels when it slams into the field at full attack acceleration.

Bucky and Emily both look up at the force field, saying in sync, "I love this place."

Rhodey, flying around outside, and now in full War Machine armor watches three more ships burn through the sky, "Yeah, don't start celebrating yet, guys. We got more incoming outside the dome.

The shock waves and debris from the ship landings destroy acres of forest and boil up against the dome. The lab has an excellent view of the landing sites. Em bites her lip, looking at the scene, "They found us already."

Vision starts to lift himself up, "It's too late. We need to destroy the stone now."

"Vision, get back on the table," Natasha reprimands curtly.

T'challa walks to the window, "We'll hold them off."

Emily starts to walk with them but is stopped promptly by Bruce. "Emily, stay here."

"Ha," Emily fake laughs, "you're funny. I'm going."

"You can't fight anyone in your state."

"I'll be fine. You're not going to stop me."

"Kid, don't be an idiot," Bucky scolds.

Emily glances at everyone around her and crosses her arms, "Deystvitel'no, ty tozhe?" Really, you too?

"Vy ne budete polezny, yesli vy umrete 5 minut v boyu. Syad', sestrenka." You won't be useful if you die 5 minutes into the fight. Sit this one out.

She huffs, "Fine. I won't fight here."

He ruffles her hair, "This is for the best and you know it."

"At least she'll listen to someone," Bruce mutters under his breath.

Shuri places a reassuring hand on Emily's shoulder, "Doctor Stark-Banner can stay and help me here."

"Stark-Banner?"

"Hey Dad, we could use Veronica right now," Emily quickly redirects, throwing him a small remote. "Unless you can get Hulk out?"

Bruce doesn't even respond, taking the remote and walking out.

Steve turns to the witch, "Wanda, as soon as the stone's out of his head... you blow it to hell."

She nods, "I will."

"Evacuate the city. Engage all defenses," T' Challa orders, turning to Steve, "And get this man a shield."

As soon as everyone is gone, Emily stands back up. Wanda sighs, "You're not going to fight down there."

"Not down there."

"Amelia..."

"Wanda, I have to. I'm not just going to standby when everyone I care about is fighting for their lives. Plus my dad... I'm not entirely sure he'd care anyway."

"Don't say that. You know it's not true."

"By my calculations, you have maybe two trips left in you," Shuri adds in. Wanda shoots her an accusing look. "You know no matter what we say she's going to go anyway."

Wanda finally gives in. "Go but please be careful."

Emily nods, "Don't die. That goes for you too. Viz."

"Not me?" Shuri asks in a falsely offensed tone.

"You actually have brain cells. You'll be fine. I have the utmost faith in you," Emily absorbs the last dose of photons and gives a small salute before scattering away.

Emily slowly regathers her body on the sandy ground of Titan. Her whole world is gray. She slowly blinks but the world stays the same. It's all black and white.The sound of yelling and blasters reach her ears. She stands up, her body still putting itself back together. She walks toward the noise gradually, wiping the blood from her nose away.

"Tell me where the girl is, or I swear to you, I'm gonna French-fry this little freak!"

Emily's eyes widen as the monochrome scene plays out as she gets closer, unable to go any faster.

Tony extends his nano-tech cannon, looking uncannily like an electric shark about to eat Drax's face. "Let's do it! You shoot my guy, I blast him. Let's go!"

Quill scoffs, "Oh yeah? You don't wanna tell me where she is? That's fine. I'll kill all three of you and beat it out of Thanos myself." He presses his blaster harder to Peter's head. "Starting with you."

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"

Everyone falls silent, all of a sudden noticing the angry girl. She glowers at the group with a glare that could kill half the universe.

Emily groans loudly, "Quill, I swear you better not shoot my best friend or you are going to regret it. All of you put your weapons down. Now! The world is like an hour away from ending and you're fighting each other. Does that sound smart to you? How about next time you actually talk instead of fighting right off the bat? Not everything has to be onsight, geez. How are any of you still alive?"

Everyone drops their defensive stance at her reprimanding, feeling like scolded children.

Tony retracts his blaster and steps over Drax's body, "Em, what are you doing here?"

"Spare me the lecture. I've already gotten it from everyone else. Quill, where's the rest of your team?"

"Rocket and Groot went with this guy who said he was your uncle to go build a weapon. Gamora....... Thanos got her."

"He what? But she- this isn't good. Gamora knows where the Soul Stone is. Thanos will come here next," Emily mutters something incoherently under her breath, pacing back and forth. "I'm gonna go help Thor. Guardians, try not to make life too hard, okay? Strange, keep the Stone safe. Peter, do whatever Tony says. And Tony-"

Tony places a hand on her shoulder, silencing her, "You gonna be okay?"

"Just make sure you get home for your wedding. You deserve your happily ever after. Thank you for taking care of me all these years. You're going to be a great dad."

"I don't like how you're talking right  now."

"Someone once told me that one of my main problems is that I run away. I'm not running from this fight but I'm still going to run. It's kind of my default setting."

"At any cost?"

"At any cost."

Tony sighs, shaking his head, "I'm a terrible influence for you."

Emily laughs softly, "Kick the grape's butt for me?"

"Only because you asked so nicely," Tony takes a more serious tone. "Don't do anything stupid."

"You can't ask the impossible of me. That's just not fair. Catch you on the other side?"

"It's the flip side."

She gives him a side glance, "Yeah." She shoots him the smallest smile before she slowly scatters away.

Emily zips through space at a slower than normal speed. She flickers before landing on a hard cold metal floor. She coughs, blood drooling down her chin.

"At least, we know she isn't dead."

Emily jolts up at the voice, her vision spotty.  She turns her head to face the furry rat? "Rocket?"

"Banner, are you okay?" Thor asks, helping her to her feet.

"IkindajustletfatedecidewhereIendupsowhyamIhere?"Emily rushes out in one breath. "Oh, look a giant man. That's cool."

"Stay here," Thor orders.

She can barely see anything at this point, "What's going on?"

"The only one left is the giant dwarf man, "We're making a weapon to kill Thanos. Thor has to hold that thing open so we can make it."

"No way. I'll do it."

"You're in no-"

Emily's skin fades away into a dim light sillouette. She floats up into the sky. A beam of light hits the metal and it begins to melt. One last time, she gives it all she has. Everything. Then it hits her. She cries out as the pain of Gamora's death hits her.

"BANNER, YOU CAN STOP NOW!"

Emily plummets. It's like a bright meteor crashing down.There's a surge of lightning as Thor weilds his new battle axe. He grabs her right before she hits the ground. Lightning surrounds the group.

But she never makes it to Wakanda. She's gone.

Happy Birthday.