"Oh no..."

Toni forced herself up and half crawled, half stumbled her way through the mud to Stephen's side, chanting 'please God, don't be dead' over and over again in her head. She kneeled beside him, placing her fingers against his neck to check for a pulse. The second her hand made contact a pained moan came from Stephen.

"Oh thank God!"

She had been afraid she wouldn't find one, that the fall through the portal had killed him, but there it was beneath her fingers. Not extremely steady, but son of a bitch it was there, a slow pulsing beat. After a quick thank you to the universe she tried to survey the damage.

"Oh shit..."

He looked horrible, his robes were torn and caked with mud and his left leg was definitely broken. The bone had snapped just below the knee and was poking out through the skin, blood slowly oozing from the wound. It made her feel sick just to look at it. His left arm wasn't much better, the wrist was bent oddly to the side and all five fingers were broken,but the worst...

The sight of it had her turning away and vomiting on a nearby bush or maybe it was a blade of grass, hell she didn't know. Everything here was so freaking huge, she was starting to believe Thanos had shrunk the kids..

Holy mother of God.. The worst was a rather large branch that was sticking out between his left clavicle and scapula. A small pool of blood had gathered beneath him and she could see bits of dirt and other debris stuck around the wound. He must have hit the ground on the left side then, but how in the hell did he survive from that height?

She wiped her mouth and glanced up at the gigantic tree above her, noting the trail of missing branches and bark, then looked at the cloak, it was hovering nervously around it's master.

"You..? Woke up before he hit the ground?" she bit into her hand to try and ward off more sickness. Cuts and bruises she could handle but impaled body parts were her limit.

The upturned collar turned to face her. To be honest it was kinda creepy, it couldn't talk, there were no eyes or ears but it could still understand whatever you said and somehow it could see or sense where it was going. Magic was weird.

The Cloak gave a small nod of it's collar.

She looked back to the tree, "Did he..? Did he hit the ground at all?"

Cloak (she really wanted to give it a better name) seemed to think for a moment, then gently touched his leg and then his arm.

"Just that..? Ok.. So the rest of this came from.. He hit the tree then? Is that what happened to you? Your torn."

The Cloak nodded again. It had a rather large rip down one side, as was there a large gash down the left side of Stephen's face, which had turned a dark shade of purple and his eye was swollen shut. Blood had dried around his nose and mouth, and a tiny line had trickled from his ear.

God, what if there was internal bleeding? Or other internal injuries? What if there was spinal damage? What the hell was she supposed to do? She wasn't an MD, she was an engineer, she had basically the bear minimum of medical knowledge, (just enough to keep herself alive) she was not the best person to handle this. Did the others even know what had happened to them? Where they were?

"This is why I hate leaving earth," she mumbled, trying not to panic. She had to try and treat Stephen's injuries, which meant she was going to have to think back to all those team meetings they had (the ones she completely zoned out in cause Steve yammered on for like four hours and all she wanted was some blueberries) about treating injuries in the field.

Shit... What the hell was she supposed to do about his impaled shoulder? She knew she couldn't take it out, that could cause massive bleeding. Then there was the dirt and Thor knows what other crap was in the wound, if it didn't get cleaned out soon the Doc was going to get a nasty infection. He'd already been lying out here for half a day, well whatever half a day was on this planet she had no idea. For all she knew a week could have passed.

She cursed their ridiculous luck, and Thanos while she was at it. "I swear when we get home I am going to find that big purple cock face and cut off his balls! Does he even have balls? Could totally be a woman, I can never tell these days."

She gave her cheek a tap to get her thoughts back on track, "No, focus Toni. Severly injured man here. Needs your immediate attention! Focus!"

Toni went back to Stephen's side , Cloak was trying to wipe some of the grime from his face. It obviously cared about it's master a great deal. That was when she heard the small whine the Doc was making. God he had to be in excruciating pain.

"Stephen," she gently cupped the uninjured side of his face, "Stephen, can you hear me?"

A moan of pain was her only response, "Stephen, Stephen it's Toni. Can you open your eyes for me? Come on Doc, you know I'll just annoy the hell out of you til I get what I want. Come on, open those eyes.."

Honestly it would be better if he stayed out of it for a while longer, she needed to treat these wounds and no doubt that would just up the pain level by a ten but he was a medical doctor. He could make sure she didn't cause any more trauma to him.

Fuck..

Alright Toni, you got this. You survived Afghanistan, built a flying suit, nearly got beheaded by Cap and fought a purple penis for a magic glove. Becoming an overnigh MD.. No prob!

First things first, a plan..

Luckily she could adapt on the fly.

"Cloak?" she barked.

The collar snapped up to face her, ready to act. She just needed one thing.

"Do you remember where you picked me up?" It nodded.

"I need you to go back there and get my suit. Every piece, don't leave any behind, I'm going to need it all. Bring it back as fast as you can. Go!"

The magical garment shot off like a bullet.

She took a long, deep breath to try any ready herself for the task to come.

A weak voice broke through her thoughts, "Ton... Toni? What? Mmmm, hurss. Can't.. I can't move.. Why can't I move..? Hanns, no.. No, no!" He asked in a panicked breath.

"Stephen-"

"No! no, no, no, no. Out, out get me out!" he cried out. "Please, help me... Don't leave me down here, please! My hanns, please, don't leave me in the car, please!"

"Strange, calm do-"

Hanns? Whats a hanns? Toni wasn't sure at first what he was talking about but he was beginning to panic. It took her a few more minutes (she had a head wound, give a girl a break here) of Stephen begging for her to get him out when she realized he must be in the midst of a flashback. No doubt from the accident that ruined his career.

He jerked his body upward trying to free himself from whatever nightmare he was stuck in. She had to bring him out of it somehow. Needed to get him grounded again before he ripped the branch from his shoulder.

She clasped his good hand between hers, "Stephen! Oh God! Stop moving! Stop! Stop! Stop! You're not in the car, you're ok. You're not trapped in the car, see just look around. Breathe with me, come on. Look, look at me Stephen. Focus on me, ok. Breathe along with me, in and out, see. Just like that, come on."

One beautiful pale green eye looked to her, filled with pain. She could see the terror deep inside and kept coaxing him to breathe. After a few moments he began to calm down but started shaking slightly, hopefully it was caused by the pain truly registering to him and he wasn't going into some sort of shock.

"Good, that's good. Just keep breathing Stephen, we're ok, little beat up but we're both alive."

"Toni..? No..No car?"

"No Doc, there's no car, see. Look, do you see the trees and up there, there's a sky, see it?"

Stephen's head lolled to the side, his good eye roaming around taking in his surroundings.

"Nes..Nestragua?"

Toni shook her head, "Sorry Doc. I don't think we're in Nestragua anymore.."

"I can't.. Why can't I move?"

"Doc-"

"Tell me!"

"You're hurt pretty bad, Doc. So just don't try and move to much ok. Stay still, Cloaks go-"

Stephen choked in a breath,"My cloak, where? S'it ok?" his speech was slurred.

"Relax, it went to get something for me. Yes, it's ok, I promise. I have to get you stitched back up, it went to fetch my suit, there's more in there than my mini med-kit. How you doing? Your breathing sounds raspy."

He was indeed having a hard time drawing a deep breath. Toni placed a hand on his chest and gave a gentle probe which made him scream.

"Sorry! Sorry! I think you have a broken rib or two. God, I hope you didn't ouncture a lung.."

"Mmmph, four broken ribs. Two cracked. Lungs not punctured, not yet. Multiple contusions, broken leg and arm. Bruised kidney, moderate concussion with some facial trauma since my eye is swolen shut and judging by the feeling of my hand, or lack of feeling I'd say it's basically crushed. My spine seems to be fine I can still move my body. How bad is the rest? I am afraid to check."

Toni glared at the branch pointing into the air, "You can't feel it? Damn, I thought that would be the worst. Hey do you by chance have your power back? Maybe you can just portal us home."

"Feel what, I don't feel any pain elsewhere."

"Hmm. Ok, just dont.. Dont look to your left.." Toni cringed, knowing he'd do it anyway.

"What! Why?" He turned his head so his good eye could see.

"Doc, don't!"

"Oh...Fuuuck! That's a, it's a branch. There's a tree in me.."

"Well more like through you..."

Stephen's eyes rolled up into his head and he promptly passed out.

Toni sighed, not really knowing what to do. She sat beside Stephen and rubbed a hand through his hair, it always made her feel better if she was ill. She looked up to the pinkish colored sky, praying that soon someone would come for them.