Chapter 32

M'Baku bashes another Outrider- the ground game has improved considerably with the addition of the God of Thunder. His tribesmen are equally successful around him.

Thor is in the air, using Stormbringer on the Outrider drop ships which are now retreating. He is having considerably more success than the Wakandan Dragon fliers firing on the fleeing ships.

Wanda lands as she finally locates Vision, Pietro speeding past them, missing by 8 inches. He walks back, alert, and ready to attack. "Are you okay?" Vision flinches in pain before he can answer Wanda's question. "What? What is it?"

"He's here." Vision says. 

The wind picks up. It feels... strange. Eerie.

"Everyone, on my position. We have incoming." Steve is joined by the Black Widow, Falcon, Okoye, and the Black Panther in short order.

"I'm staying with my sister," Pietro says.

"Alright." Steve nods.

"What the hell?" Natasha asks, as the wind picks up.

Bruce sees the blue-black clouds of a Space Stone relocation just before Thanos steps forward, and confirms this isn't just another member of the Black Order. "Cap. That's him."

"Eyes up. Stay sharp." Steve orders.

Bruce reaches Thanos first, lunging forward fist-first- but Thanos uses the Space Stone on him, renders him immaterial until the Hulkbuster is half-buried in the stone of the cliff behind him, and freezes Bruce in place.

Captain America is sent flying by purple energy before he even gets to strike a single blow.

The Black Panther, armor fully charged kinetically, leaps high and with claws extended, but is easily grabbed by the throat and punched to the ground, his armor discharging violently.

Falcon stoops, strafing with both Steyr pistols, but is felled when his wings become rubbery and unable to sustain flight.

"Wanda. It's time." Vision whispers, as the twins both whip their heads to him.

"No." Wanda shakes her head mournfully.

"They can't stop him, Wanda, but you two can." Pietro says, nodding at Vision. "As much as I don't want the toaster to die, it has to be done. It's him, or half of the universe."

"Look at me. You have the power to destroy the stone." Vision gently says.

"Don't." Wanda shakes her head.

"You must do it. Wanda, please. We. Are. Out of time." Vision shakes his head sadly.

"I can't." Wanda cries.

"Yes, you can. You can." Pietro hugs Wanda. "I'm going to help." Pietro rushes away, giving the couple their last moments.

"It's not fair." Wanda says.

"It shouldn't be you, but it is. It's all right. You could never hurt me. I just... feel you." Wanda  extends a trembling hand and starts beaming her energy at the Mind Stone.

War Machine joins the fight, firing his guns at Thanos until he uses the gauntlet to crush his armor around him and toss him aside.

Pietro rushes in, but only manages one punch, before he's blown away.

The Winter Soldier runs in firing, and is punched away by the Power Stone.

Okoye activates the Vibranium-powered elements on her spear and flings it; Power stops it inches from Thanos, and throws her and it aside while wrapping Natasha in inescapable bands of earth.

Groot stabs his hands into the ground to wrap Thanos in cables of roots, which he breaks easily.

The Scarlet Witch watches all this over one shoulder, and turns back to Vision to add her left hand to her tearful effort.

Captain America slides under one blow and comes up swinging his deployed arm-shields, punching Thanos in the gut and chin. He grabs the gauntlet, keeping Thanos' fingers un-clenched. Thanos looks very briefly impressed at Captain America's efforts as he screams before slamming a fist into his head and rendering him insensible.

Wanda looks over her shoulder again and sees Thanos approaching unopposed. She swings her left hand around to fend him off with a stream of scarlet energy, and pushes him back despite his blue-purple energy shield, but then he starts to make slow headway.

"It's all right. It's all right. I love you." Vision smiles softly.

At those words, the yellow Mind Stone finally starts to crack. Vision's face is overcome by an expression of joyful peace, and as the crystal fragments completely, a pulse of pure yellow energy explodes from him, shuddering the trees for many meters around his epicenter. Wanda's and Thanos' energy subsides.

Thanos walks closer to Wanda. "I understand, my child. Better than anyone."

"You could never." Wanda snarl.

Thanos reaches down to presumeably to stroke her hair, as if in comfort. "Today, I lost more than you can know. But now is no time to mourn. Now... is no time at all." He reaches forward, clenching the gauntlet, emerald filigree surrounding his wrist, making a gesture very similar to that Doctor Strange made when activating the Eye of Agamotto. In response, a bead of yellow light starts gathering in on itself as time is reversed and growing in size, solidifying into an intact and conscious Vision

"No!" Wanda lunges for Vision and is swatted away.

Thanos picks up Vision by the throat, lifting him to eye-level, and digs the fingers of his right hand into Vision's forehead, digging out the Mind Stone. He pulls it loose, and Vision goes limp and colorless; he tosses the lifeless android aside like trash. Bringing his gauntleted hand up, he slowly moves the Mind Stone over the last empty setting and drops it in. The energy surge is much more than any previous- his torso is wreathed with iridescent static.

As Thanos studies the completed gauntlet, a massive bolt of lightning strikes him, digging him into the ground and grinding him back for meters. Thor has arrived, eyes glowing with power, stooping down from the sky like a bird of prey. The God of Thunder pauses his attack, reverses his position, raises Stormbreaker above his head, and hurls it- Thanos fires the whole might of the gauntlet against it, but it only creates a rainbow-like bow-shock, not slowing the ax as it slams right into Thanos' chest. 

Thor lands in front of Thanos, who is down on one knee; hatefully. "I told you. You'd die for that!" Thor is reffering to the deaths of Loki and Heimdall.

Thor takes hold of the back of Thanos' head and forces Stormbreaker deeper into his chest, staring angrily into his eyes while Thanos cries out in pain.

Thanos weakly starts. "You should have... you..." He's suddenly stronger. "You should have gone for the head!" Thanos raises his gauntlet and snaps his fingers.

"NO!" Thor yells. 

Thanos notices the damage inflicted on the gauntlet- the metal scorched and distorted from heat, the stones no longer glowing.

"What'd you do?" Tnor asks angrily. "WHAT'D YOU DO?!"

Thanos nearly seems to not notice Thor before he uses the Space Stone and teleports away, leaving Stormbreaker behind on Wakandan ground.

Steve stumbles into the clearing, holding his left side. "Where'd he go? Thor... where'd he go?"

"Steve?" Bucky suddenly stumbles over, drops his gun, and collapses into ashes, much to Steve's shock; he walks over and touches the ground where Bucky's ashes evaporated disbelievingly.

On the battlefield, Wakandan soldiers disintegrate to ashes, much to M'Baku's horror.

T'Challa reaches for a fallen Okoye. "Up, General. Up! This is no place to die." King T'Challa holds out his hand for Okoye. He suddenly disintegrates into ashes and, in anguish, Okoye falls back on the ground. Few seconds later, she gets up herself.

"Kumkani?!" Okoye gasps.

Groot slowly corrodes into ashes as well by Rocket. "I am Groot.."

"No... no. No. No. No! Groot, no..." Rocket gasps.

Pietro runs over to Wanda, who is mourning over Vision. He hugs her, as Wanda slowly turns to ashes. "Wanda?" Pietro lifts his hand up, and is also turned to ashes.

An injured Sam turns to ashes, hidden in the undergrowth.

Rhodey's searching for Sam, missing him by only a few feet. "Sam?" Okoye is whimpering for her disintegrated king. "Sam, where you at?!" Rhodey's much more frantic now.

The remaining team members, Captain America, Thor, War Machine, Black Widow, Bruce Banner, and Rocket are left mourning near Vision's dead body. Steve turns over Vision's bleached corpse as Natasha runs up to the other survivors.

"What is this? What the hell is happening?" Rhodey asks.

"Oh, God." Steve gasps. 

(A/N: I've read a lot of fanfics that have Pietro in it, and Pietro usually survives the snap. Let me explain to you why he was Blipped. 

1. When Wanda ressurrecated him, he's turned to Wanda's age, with is about 21 or 22. Idk why. Don't ask me, ask my brain. Which is technically me. Oh well.

That's the only reason.

I'll post the next chapter of this today I think

Alright thanks)

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