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Cut to the Quinjet where Sam is piloting Rhodey, Steve, Bruce, Pietro, Natasha, Wanda, and Vision.

Steve walks up to the pilot's seat. "Drop to 2600, heading 0-3-0." 

"I hope you're right about this, Cap. Or we're gonna land a lot faster than you want to." Sam says as 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

Bruce turns to Rhodey. "Should we bow?"

"Yeah, he's a king," Rhodey replies, serious.

"Seems like I'm always thanking you for something." Steve shakes hands with King T'Challa.

Bruce bows awkwardly to King T'Challa.

"What are you doing?" Rhodey mocks shock.

T'Challa looks at Bruce awkwardly. "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. "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. 

"How we looking?" Natasha asks.

"You will have my Kingsguard, the Border Tribe, the Dora Milaje, and..." T'Challa says,

Bucky smiles as he walks toward Steve, passing some Kingsguard taking Vision, Pietro, and Wanda to another facility. "A semi-stable, 100-year-old man." The two friends share a hug.

"How you been, Buck?" Steve asks.

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

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." Shuri gasps. 

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

"Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?" Shuri asks, in a "duh" tone. Vision looks at Bruce as if to ask the same thing.

Bruce starts uncertainly. "Because, we didn't think of it."

Shuri smiles reassuringly. "I'm sure you did your best."

"Can you do it?" Wanda asks, as Pietro stands beside his twin.

"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."

"How long?" Steve asks. 

"As long as you can give me." Shuri replies, already working on it.

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."

Outside, Sam and Bucky look up at the sky

Over the Avengers' comm. "Hey, Cap, we got a situation here."

"No shit." Bucky replies. 

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

"God, I love this place." Bucky smiles. 

Rhodey's also outside, and now in full War Machine armor watching 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. Captain America and Black Panther look at each other in concern over the scope of what they'll be facing.

Vision struggles to sit up and slide off the exam table. "It's too late. We need to destroy the stone now."

Natasha moves toward Vision. "Vision, get your ass back on the table."

"We will hold them off." T'Challa, Okoye and the guards head for the door.

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

"I will." Wanda nods.

"Stay safe sestra." Pietro stops Wanda. "I cannot lose another sister."  

"I will." Wanda moves to hug Pietro. "Twinnie promise 'Tro."

"Twinnie promise Wandie." Pietro says, before they break apart, and Pietro rushes off to the battlefield. 

"Evacuate the city. Engage all defense procedures." T'Challa stops, turns, and points at Steve. "And get this man a shield."

Cut to the Wakandan battlefield. Carriers hover over the ground with Wakandan soldiers and Natasha, Steve and Bucky on board; Rhodey and Sam keep pace overhead, and Bruce is in the Hulkbuster armor.

"How we looking, Bruce?" Nat asks.

Bruce leaps and jogs along, keeping up with the carriers, and utterly delighted. "Yeah, I think I'm getting the hang of it. Wow! It's like being the Hulk without actually-" He stumbles on a rock, and a carrier goes by, from which Okoye gives him a dubious look. He stands up. "I'm okay. I'm okay."

"I got two heat signatures breaking through the tree line." Rhodey informs. "Really wish Kat was here to blast those planes, as Maximoff 2 is currently with the toaster." 

"What am I? Maximoff 1?" Pietro asks.

"Yeah. And you only have super speed, which is completely useless." Sam snarks.

"Wow. Thanks." Pietro rolls his eyes sarcastically.

"Sam. Pietro. Rhodes. Eyes on target." Steve reminds.

The heat signatures are Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian. The carrier pilots swerve into U-turns, causing their craft to tilt and allowing the practiced soldiers to slide over one side into a run, never coming to a complete halt. A Dora Milaje shouts a command nearby as the last Wakandans join ranks.

M'Baku, Lord of the Jabari, rallies his soldiers with a war chant. He stops as King T'Challa nears him.

T'Challa clasps wrists with M'Baku. "Thank you for standing with us."

"Of course, brother." M'Baku smiles.

The Black Panther, Captain America, and Black Widow walk to the edge of the barrier, where Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian stand. Proxima tests the strength of the barrier by drawing her sword across it consideringly.

"Where's your other friend?" Natasha asks.

"You will pay for his life with yours. Thanos will have that stone." Proxima snarls. 

"That's not gonna happen." Steve replies.

"You are in Wakanda now. Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood." T'Challa says.

"We... have blood to spare." Proxima brandishes her sword with a snarl, and the ships behind her start raising their outer hulls to allow their "passengers" to disembark.

The three heroes return to the massed forces.

A touch sardonic, Bucky starts. "Did they surrender?"

"Not exactly." Steve sighs.

The Black Panther leads the Wakandans in the war cry "Yibambe!" telling them to hold fast as the Outriders bound toward the barrier; Proxima drops her sword arm down in the signal to attack.

Bucky says flatly, astonished at the numbers of Outriders. "What the hell."

"Looks like we pissed her off." Natasha adds grimly.

"Should've had Kat." Rhodey says.

"Not the time." Pietro shakes his head.

Okoye stares, horrified, as the Outriders bombard the force-field, squeezing limbs and bodies partly through only to be bisected. "They're killing themselves."

As a few Outriders managed to squeeze through intact, the Border Tribe take a knee and raise their shields. The Kingsguard behind them level their sonic spears over their comrades' shoulders, and on Black Panther's command, fire at the approaching monsters. The Winter Soldier uses his M-249 machine gun, and Bruce fires the Hulkbuster's hand repulsors.

Sam sends Redwings into the fight as he flies, swooping to fire at them with his Steyr pistols. "You seen the teeth on those things?"

"Alright, back up, Sam. You're gonna get your wings singed." Rhodey flies over the heaviest concentration of Outriders and drops a barrage of mines, all exploding fantastically.

Everyone notices a pack of Outriders starting to run around the force-field to the right of the defenders' position.

"Cap, if these things circle the perimeter and get in behind us... there's nothing between them, Vision, and Wanda." Pietro informs, speeding around the area. 

 "Them we better keep 'em in front of us." Steve grimly says.

Okoye turns to T'Challa. "How do we do that?"

"We open the barrier." T'Challa puts his comm to his mouth. "On my signal, open North-West Section Seventeen."

Dome Control's voice sounds nervous and unsure. "Requesting confirmation, my King. You said open the barrier?"

"On my signal." T'Challa orders.

M'Baku to Okoye. "This will be the end of Wakanda."

"Then it will be the noblest ending in history."

Captain America readies one of his Vibranium hand guards. The Black Panther shouts a command in Xhosa; the Border Tribesmen disengage their shields and stand, as T'Challa walks out in front of them, never taking his eyes off the enemy.

"WAKANDA FOREVER!!!!" T'Challa crosses his arms in the Wakandan salute and closes his Black Panther helmet, charging for the barrier. The heroes and leaders are at the fore of the charge. Halfway to the barrier, the Black Panther shouts into his comm. "Now!"

The Outriders pour through, distracted from trying to find any other access. The Black Panther, Quicksilver, and Captain America pull ahead rapidly due to their enhancements, and literally leap into battle.

T'Challa asks over his comm. "How much longer, Shuri?"

"We've barely begun, brother." A delicate and intricate construction of gold light hovers at Shuri's eye level; as she manipulates it, the waldo tools reproduce her commands on the Mind Stone itself.

"You might want to pick up the pace." T'Challa says.

The remaining Avengers and Wakandans are struggling against the Outriders. The Winter Soldier goes down, and fights off Outrider fangs snapping at his head, as Quicksilver runs and punches, not stopping for more than a minute to catch his breath.

"Keep up old man." Pietro smirks, as he gets most of the Outriders from Bucky.

 Captain America and the Black Panther still fight side-by-side. War Machine hovers over the breach, pouring ammunition into the flood of bodies until a huge hammer- Cull Obsidian's- knocks him out of the sky and to the ground. The Hulkbuster is dogpiled and pinned.

"There's too many of them! GYAH! AAAAHHHHH!" Bruce yells.

Suddenly, a large beam of rainbow-hued light lands in the middle of the action, and an ax flies out of it, wreathed with lightning and tearing through the Outriders, freeing the heroes. It flies back to the light and into its master's hand just as the beam cuts out, revealing Thor, Groot and Rocket.

Black Widow, Captain America and the Black Panther pause in astonishment. Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian pause in apprehension.

Bruce opens the Hulkbuster's helm and laughing with joy. "AH-hahaha! You guys are so screwed now!"

"BRING ME THANOS!" Thor charges toward the hordes of Outriders, followed by Groot and Rocket, lightning gathering around him until he finally launches himself into the air, lands in the densest concentration of Outriders and makes a crater where they had stood.