Back in Wakanda, Shuri is working steadily to complete the Mind Stone's removal; Wanda stands by tensely.

The Kingsguard, Borderers, and Jabari have little success going against Cull Obsidian's chained hammer- he either sends them flying or punches them into the ground. The Black Panther gets free of his other sorties, leaps, and uses all his collected kinetic energy behind a punch that lays Obsidian flat.

"Come and get some, space dogs!" Rocket yells, firing rounds at the Outriders. Another wave of Outriders heads right for the raccoon-oid. Bucky, having come up behind Rocket, grabs him with his mechanical arm, holds him at arm's length, and spins 540 degrees, firing his own M-249 at the same time. "Come on, get some, get some! Come on, get some!" Bucky drops Rocket, who looks up at him with an impressed gleam. "How much for the gun?"

Bucky snaps off another burst. "Not for sale."

"Okay, how much for the arm?" Rocket questions and Bucky just gives him a look and moves off. "Oh, I'll get that arm."

The tides of battle cause Thor, using Stormbreaker to great effect, and Captain America together. They take a breather.

Steve pants. "New haircut?"

"Notice you've copied my beard." Thor smiles.

Captain America nods, wearily gesturing at his own face with a shield-covered hand. Groot skewers three Outriders with his right arm.

"By the way, this is a friend of mine. Tree." Thor gestures towards Groot with Stormbreaker.

In a full battle snarl, Groot yells. "I AM GROOT! "

Formally, but bemused, Steve greets. "I am Steve Rogers."

In Shuri's lab, a deep rumbling can be heard even at their height. Wanda looks down on the battlefield, and sees movement through the blazing forest between the troopships and the dome. When the disturbance reaches the edge of the trees, it turns into vast moving mounds of earth that easily bypass the force field and emerge- Threshers, sets of massive, motorized spiked wheels, intended for nothing more than shredding everything in their paths.

"Fall back! Fall back now!" T'Challa yells.

Wanda watches as at least one set of Threshers separates into individual wheels and starts veering all over the battlefield, and then looks anxiously back at Vision

"Focus that fire on the left flank, Sam." Rhodey orders.

"I'm doing it." Sam says, and the two fliers use their firepower to crack a Thresher but cannot find a weak spot.

Black Widow with her escrima sticks and Okoye with her augmented spear have drifted together when they're suddenly in the path of a Thresher. Both women cringe at their seemingly inevitable shredding when Wanda lands in front of both of them, eyes glowing red, lifting the whole Thresher well clear of the ground. Looking behind her, the friendly forces have scattered and replaced by a charging mob of Outriders- the perfect place to throw a Thresher. Black Widow straightens with a pleased smile, Okoye with an amazed look.

Okoye starts, a touch indignant. "Why was she up there all this time?"

The Children of Thanos help answer that question.

Proxima holds up her wrist. "She's on the field. Take it."

Corvus Glaive kills one of the guards just outside the lab, alerting Shuri to the problem. She starts hastily disconnecting her equipment from Vision's systems; he gasps at the sensations.

The Dora Milaje engages Glaive but is sent skidding across the floor. Shuri finishes her shutdown, grabs one of her sonic panther-paws and fires at Glaive. The Dora attacks again, and Glaive sends both her and Shuri through the balcony railing and onto the main lab floor.

Vision is not where Corvus Glaive expects to find him. Vision is, in fact, charging at him and knocking him out the window to fall many meters down the face of Mount Bashenga.

"Guys, we got a Vision situation here." Sam's tackled by a leaping Outrider and grounded.

"Somebody get to Vision." Steve orders.

"I got him!" Bruce has figured out the Hulkbusters repulsor thrusters and makes a beeline for the android.

"On my way." Wanda is clobbered by Proxima Midnight's pommel and rolls down into the large ditch from the Thresher before she can move.

Proxima jumps down next to the Scarlet Witch. "He'll die alone. As will you."

"She's not alone." Natasha lands in the ditch

Okoye silently brandishes her spear on the other side of Proxima and nods at Black Widow.

"Euuyaaah!" Proxima leaps for Black Widow, who has joined her sticks into a full staff. She blocks Proxima's blow with an electrical crackle while Okoye runs around the slope to also attack from the front.

Corvus Glaive kicks Vision, knocking him down; as he attempts to rise again, Cull Obsidian shows up and swings his hammer in a full arc, throwing Vision even further. He painfully starts to climb to his feet again when a whooshing overhead interrupts the fight as Bruce Banner lands the Hulkbuster between the aliens and the android. He takes a defensive stance, pointing one hand's repulsor at each.

"Oh no, 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" Bruce says, andCull Obsidian jumps forward, grabs Bruce's right arm and Bruce in reflex grabs Obsidian's hammer; a jet fires, taking the two of them in a random direction, to the base of a waterfall.

"Guys! Vision needs backup now!" Bruce yells, as Obsidian pulls the Hulkbuster up and kicks it in the small of the back. Trying to change into the Hulk while fighting Cull Obsidian in the Hulkbuster armor. "Hulk. Hulk, I know you like making your entrance at the last second, well, this is it, man. This is the last, last second." Bruce extends his left hand protectively; Obsidian grabs the armor's hand, chops the shoulder joint with a relatively small axe then does a roll over Bruce's back to leverage snapping off the Hulkbuster's whole arm. "Ahhhhh! Hulk! Hulk! HULK!"

Banner's face briefly becomes the Hulk.
"NOOOO!!!"

"Oh, screw you, ya big green asshole! I'll do it myself! Come on!" Bruce snaps. He charges the alien, jumps into the air and delivers an effective punch with his remaining hand- swat, punch, hammer- except that blow is caught by Obsidian, who punches back, knocking Bruce flat.

Obsidian changes his left hand armor into a pointed weapon, and lunges forward to deliver a likely fatal blow, when Bruce grabs the detached Hulkbuster arm out of the water, holding it so Obsidian impales that instead, and slaps the controls.

"See ya!" Bruce says. The repulsors fire, taking Cull Obsidian high into the air- high enough, in fact, to intersect the defense dome. The Hulkbuster arm drags Obsidian against the field to grotesque destructive effect, ending in a very final explosion. "Hulk, we got a lot to figure out, pal."

Proxima Midnight alternates heavy blows between her two opponents, but all three of them duck as a single-wheel Thresher tears overhead, the ditch sparing them most of the danger from the wheel-blades. Proxima uses the distraction to kick Black Widow in the face, sending her to the ground. She then grabs Okoye by the shoulder and weapon and throws her meters away.

Simultaneously, Corvus Glaive and Vision struggle in the forest at the foot of Mount Bashenga. Glaive grasps Vision's shoulder and uses the leverage to plunge his blade once more into the android's chest.

"I thought you were formidable, machine. But you're dying, like any man." Corvus yanks his blade out, and Vision collapses. As he bends over his fallen opponent to retrieve the Stone, he's tackled by Captain America at full speed.

"Get outta here!" Steve exchanges blows with Glaive, using his arm-shields as offence as well as defense, then turns to Vision again. "GO!"

Natasha splits her staff back into a pair of sticks to block Proxima Midnight's sword blows, and finally knocks it from her hand. The alien takes to her bare fists instead, knocks down and pins the Black Widow. Proxima triggers an arm-blade from her left-arm armor, and stabs at Black Widow, who barely manages to block the blade with her crossed sticks.

As the edge starts to dig into Black Widow's neck anyway, scarlet energy grabs the alien and tosses her into the air right into the path of another passing Thresher. Dark blue blood spatters the women below. The Scarlet Witch sits up, sighing with relief, her hands still shimmering.

"That was really gross." Natasha gasps.

Captain America keeps blocking Corvus Glaive's staff weapon using his shields, finally knocking it from the alien's hands just before he's thrown over a fallen tree and pinned, Glaive's hand at his throat. Even with his physical abilities, Captain America's struggling- until a glaive-blade pierces Glaive's chest, and is pushed all the way through. Vision raises his enemy in a perfect mirror of the first attack on him, and holds him for a moment, before dropping Glaive's corpse to one side and collapsing exhaustively.

Steve helps him back up. "I thought I told you to go."

"We don't trade lives, Captain." Vision replies.