Infinity War Part 6

Captain America, Black Widow, Falcon, Bruce Banner, and James Rhodes aka Rhodey were now on their way to Wakanda in a quinjet. CA walked over to the cockpit in order to tell the pilot of where they were going. The pilot was Falcon.

"Drop to 2600, heading 0-3-0," CA said to Falcon as he leaned next to him with his right hand on the ceiling.

"I hope you're right about this," Falcon said a little worried, "or we're gonna land a lot faster than you want to."

The next minute later they were flying through the holographic barrier which looked like a forest mountain and into Wakandan airspace. The Wakandan city had elements of being primitive while it was also extremely advanced. Though, probably not as advanced as Asgard was.

In the Wakandan city…

T'Challa, the king of Wakanda, and his bodyguards began heading to where the quinjet was going to land. T'Challa's head of the guard, who was a woman, was not very thrilled, but wasn't angry either.

"When you said you were going to open Wakanda to the rest of the world…" the woman said, "this is not what I imagined."

"And what did you imagine?" T'Challa asked.

"The Olympics," she suggested as they came to a stop next to where the quinjet was going to land, "maybe even a Starbucks."

The next second later, the quinjet arrived and slowly descended onto the platform. The quinjet's ramp lowered revealing Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson leading the rest out of the quinjet.

"Should we bow?" Bruce asked Rhodey.

"Yeah," Rhodey said with a straight face, "he's a king."

"Seems like I'm always thanking you for something," Cap said as he stopped in front of T'Challa before holding up an arm. T'Challa then held up his own and they shook hands.

Bruce then cleared his throat as he bowed.

"What are you doing?" Rhodey asked.

"Ugh," T'Challa said a little uncomfortable, "We don't do that here."

T'Challa then turned to lead them to the palace, and began to speak. However, before any more could be said a black jet suddenly appeared out of nowhere and began descending down next to the quinjet.

T'Challa turned towards it and narrowed his eyes at the plane. While Wakanda is open the world, he's still suspicious of unknown anythings. Even T'Challa's guards were suspicious as was proved by them tightening their grips on their spears. When the black jet lowered it's own ramp Steve walked up to them in order to greet the occupants. The people that walked down the ramp were Logan aka Wolverine, Colossus, Luke Cage, Danny Rand, and Soron. Even Deadpool was there. They were all in their civilian clothes except for Colossus and Deadpool.

"Been quite a while Logan," Steve said greeting his old war buddy. Logan nodded in return.

"Who are you people?" T'Challa asked as he walked up with his guards close behind.

"Who we are, bub," Logan said as he looked at the Wakandan king, "are people willing to help should Thanos attack."

"Logan is correct," Colossus said, "Thanos is danger to everyone, so we must all work together in this fight."

"You weren't with Bruce and Rhodey," Cap said looking at the mutant, "where were you?"

"I had to go searching for help," Colossus replied, "but only found Logan. Deadpool also elected to tag along."

"Why?" Cap asked.

"I want to go toe to toe with the Thanos guy," Deadpool said, "and something tells me I'm going to get to make some Josh Brolin jokes."

"Answer the question," T'Challa said stubbornly.

"I am Soron MacLeod," Soron said speaking up and gesturing to Luke and Danny, "and these two are Luke Cage and Danny Rand. I believe they'll be useful in the fight."

"Where's the quinjet?" Cap asked Soron.

"Some guy that controls metal destroyed it," Soron replied.

Cap then nodded in understanding that it wasn't Soron's fault. He and T'Challa looked at each other before the latter sighed and turned before he led everyone to the palace.

"So how big of an assault should we expect," T'Challa asked.

"Uh, sir…" Bruce replied quickly as he hurried up, "sir, I think you should expect quite a big assault."

"How we looking?" Natasha asked.

"You will have my Kingsguard, the border tribe, the Dora Milaje, and…" T'Challa said before gesturing to a newcomer.

"And a semi-stable 100-year-old man," said Bucky as he walked up. He and Cap them embraced in a hug as they hadn't seen each other in a while. They may not be blood, but they were brothers.

"How you been, Buck?" Cap asked with a smile as he patted his friend's shoulder.

"Uh, not bad," Bucky replied with a smile, "for the end of the world."

Later, in Shuri's laboratory…

Vision was now laying on his back on a table as Shuri waved a scanner that was on her wrist over him in order to get a good look at his insides without disassembling him. When she was done scanning she raised her palm up allowing a hologram of the infinity gem to appear. Everyone that wasn't scientifically inclined were currently just standing randomly throughout the room as they waited patiently. The only ones in the room were Wanda, Steve, Bruce, Shuri, Vision, T'Challa, Okoye, Natasha, and Soron. Wanda was closer to Bruce because she was worried about Vision.

"Whoa," Bruce said amazed at the tech through his glasses he now wore.

"The structure is polymorphic," Shuri said intrigued.

"Right," Bruce confirmed, "we had to attack each neuron non-sequentially."

"Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?" Shuri asked.

"Because we didn't think of it?" Bruce said slowly feeling dumb.

"I'm sure you did your best," Shuri said trying not to feel superior over Bruce.

"Can you do it?" Wanda spoke up.

"Yes," Shuri explained, "but there are more than two trillion neurons here. One misalignment could cause a cascade of circuit failures."

"It will take time, brother," Shuri added looking at T'Challa.

"How long?" Cap asked.

"As long as you can give me?" Shuri said.

Suddenly, the beads on Okoye's wrist began beeping alongside an alarm that started blaring. Steve looked around in order to determine the reason while Okoye tapped on the beads allowing a hologram to pop up.

"Something's entered the atmosphere," Okoye said as she looked at the hologram of the Earth.

Above the Earth…

One of the donut ships launched several sharp-looking portions of itself towards Wakanda. These weren't missiles or anything, but instead they were the biggest drop-pods known to man. They were filled with Chitauri warriors that didn't wear armor or use weapons for some reason or another.

Back in Wakanda…

Falcon and Bucky were waiting outside alongside Rhodey, Luke Cage, Danny Rand, Logan, Deadpool, and Colossus. Suddenly, a rumbling sound could be heard from the sky attracting their attention. Falcon was the first to look up to see the drop-pod.

"Hey, Cap," Falcon said into an earpiece as he looked up, "we got a situation here."

Fortunately, the palace was shielded so the incoming drop-pod exploded on impact. Not even debris fell to the streets of the city.

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

"Yeah," Rhodey said through the radio as he watched two more drop-pods falling towards the ground, "don't start celebrating yet, guys. We got more incoming outside the dome."

The drop-pods crashed into the ground causing a shockwave which rammed into the field causing it to flare up.

In Shuri's lab…

Everyone was staring out the window watching as the surviving drop-pods crashed into the Earth outside of the force-field. Both Steve and T'Challa looked at each other in concern while Vision sat up as Shuri helped by gently holding him up with her hand.

"It's too late," Vision said as he began to get off the table attracting Nat's attention, "we need to destroy the stone now."

"Vision," Natasha said sternly as she walked off, "get your ass back on the table."

"We will hold them off," T'Challa added as he also walked off.

"Wanda," Steve said looking at Wanda, "as soon as that stone's out of his head…"

"You blow it to hell," Steve finished sternly.

"I will," Wanda nodded.

"Evacuate the city," T'Challa said as he headed towards the room's exit, "Engage all defenses."

"And get this man a shield," T'Challa added as he turned around pointing at Steve. Steve looked at T'Challa and nodded.

"I'll need some of your armor," Soron spoke up suddenly as he looked at T'Challa with his one eye, "I'm not going into a big battle dressed like this."

"You are in luck," T'Challa said, "someone who knows you came by here just last week. She requisitioned a suit of armor for you."

Soron moved his eyes back in forth as he remembered what Doctor Strange had said earlier that day. Only thing is… where was Sif now?

"Where'd she go?" Soron asked a little too eagerly.

"I am sorry," T'Challa said, "but I do not know. She left the same day she made the requisition."

Meanwhile, at Nidavellir…

Rocket flew the pod around the cold star with Thor on top of the ship, and Rocket was being his usual skeptical self as he talked to Thor.

"I don't think you get the scientifics here," Rocket said through the radio.

"These rings are gigantic," Rocket continued as Thor jumped off onto a ring, "You wanna get them moving…"

"You gonna need something a lot bigger to yank 'em loose," Rocket finished as Thor looked up.

"Leave that to me," Thor said.

"Leave it to you?" Rocket asked skeptically as Thor prepared to do swing the rope.

"Buddy," Rocket said still skeptical, "you're in space."

"All you got is a rope and a…" Rocket said before yelping due to Thor swinging the pod around and around. Rocket yelled the entire time until Thor stopped swinging and allowed the inertia to yank him off of the ring he was on.

"Fire the engines!" Thor yelled and rocket did so as soon as he was stable enough.

The inertia of Thor swinging the pod into a direction combined with the ship's thrusters made them go even faster. As they passed over another ring, Thor reached down with a free hand and grabbed into it till he could put his feet into the ring and skid them to a stop. As soon as he had, the ring jolted causing some ice to shatter where it was keeping the rings from moving.

"More power rabbit!" Thor yelled.

Rocket pushed on the gas to max causing Thor to have to hold on with all his strength which was tough as is proven by veins popping out of Thor's arms. However, the process eventually enabled the ice to completely shatter which allowed the rings to begin moving again. As soon as the rings aligned with one another once more, the cold star became hot once more impressing Eitri.

"Well done, boy," Eitri said from inside of the forge.

Thor suddenly thudded on the pod's viewscreen startling Rocket, and laughed out of victory

"That's Nidavellir!" Thor said pointing to the star and Rocket looked at the star with a greedy expression as he noticed that the star was surrounded by a device. Said device opened a hole allowing energy from the star to blast into the forge in order to begin melting the forging metal in the forge. Unfortunately, the device slammed shut as quick as it opened due to the weakened brace having broken free.

Damn it," Eitri said unhappy over the coms.

"'Damn it'?" Rocket asked confused, "What's 'damn it'?"

"The mechanism is crippled," Eitri replied.

"What?" Thor exclaimed.

"With the iris closed," Eitri explained, "I can't heat the metal."

"How long will it take to heat it?" Thor asked.

"A few minutes, maybe more," Eitri replied as Thor stood up on the pod, "Why?"

"I'm gonna hold it open," Thor said with resolve.

"That's suicide," Eitri said.

"So is facing Thanos without that axe," Thor countered.

Thor then launched himself off of the pod towards the iris.

Back at Wakanda…

Hover cars, Falcon and War Machine all flew towards a hill that stood above where the forcefield ended next to the alien dropships. Soron was standing in a hover car next to Natasha who looked behind her as she placed her hand to her right ear. Soron now wore an outfit reminiscent of DCEU Deathstroke's, but it was matte gold and black instead of orange and black. However, since they weren't expecting Soron to have lost an eye, the helmet had two eye holes instead of one. Soron elected to go helmetless for this fight since he didn't feel like looking stupid. Besides, he had gone helmetless for most of this Infinity War and he's survived each battle. He had his katana strapped to his back, throwing knives sheathed in random places, and had a few grenades on his outfit's belt. He was offered a sidearm as well, but since he had quake powers he politely declined.

"How are we looking Bruce?" Natasha asked.

"Yeah," Bruce replied a little bit distracted, "I think I'm getting the hang of it."

He then yelped as he accidentally flew into the air bypassing Steve and T'Challa's hover car.

"Wow!" Bruce exclaimed in glee, "This is amazing, man! It's like being the Hulk without actually-"

He was then interrupted as he tripped over a boulder and fell onto his face skidding a little bit due to the momentum he gathered. Okoye looked at him with an unimpressed expression as her hover car passed him by. She was in the same hover car as Steve & T'Challa.

"I'm ok," Bruce said as he wiped the dirt from the helmet's lenses, "I'm ok."

"I've got two heat signatures breaking through the tree line," Rhodey said into his coms.

Outside the forcefield, the troll and the ugly woman watched as the Wakandans and foreign heroes exited their hover cars to stand in formation. The Wakandans yelled in their native language as they did so.

T'Challa's former rival stood chanting as T'Challa and his friends walked up, and only ended as T'Challa came to a stop next to them wearing his BP outfit minus the mask.

"Thank you for standing with us," T'Challa said as he shook the chanting men's leader's hand firmly.

"Of course," the man replied in the Wakandan language, "brother."

T'Challa, Steve, Natasha, and Soron then walked up to the portion of the forcefield where the ugly woman was running her sword along it to see if she could cut it. She stopped as soon as they stopped walking.

"Where's your other friend?" Soron asked even though he already cut one of her friend's head off and the other one was who knows where in space with Doctor Strange.

"You will pay for his life with yours," the ugly woman replied with a murderous look in her eyes.

"Thanos will have that stone," she stated.

"That's not gonna happen," Steve said as if it was a fact.

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

"We," the ugly woman said cockily, "have blood to spare."

She then thrust her sword into the air as she grunted, and behind her the drop pods began the opening process.

A couple minutes later, back with the army…

Soron came to a stop right next to Wolverine and Colossus. Deadpool, for some reason, was currently on Colossus' shoulders like a kid would be on their dad's.

"They surrender?" Colossus asked.

"No," Soron replied.

"Good," Logan said as he popped out three adamantium knives from his right fist, "I've been itching to get into another battle."

He then allowed his claws to re-enter his fist.

"Yibambe!" T'Challa yelled prompting his people to do the same. He repeated that several times as they waited for Thanos' army to show themselves. Suddenly, they rushed out of the woods right in front of where the drop pods landed.

"What the hell?" Bucky said from his place next to CA not too far from Soron and the mutants.

"Looks like we pissed her off," Natasha said.

"How long should forcefield hold?" Colossus asked.

"Guess we'll just have to wait and see," Soron replied.

"They're killing themselves," Danny said horrified as he had never seen something like this before. Not even the Hand were this fanatical about their cause.

While most of the aliens had died to the force field some did make it in, and that prompted the Wakandans to produce their own personal hi-tech shields while some aimed their spears over the shields.

As T'Challa began speaking in his native language, Soron pulled out his katana, Logan popped out his claws, Deadpool dropped to the ground and pulled out his sidearms, and Luke Cage merely balled his fists. They then watched as the spears began firing energy blasts at the approaching aliens with most of the shots missing.

"Pew pew sticks!" Deadpool said in awe, "I love pew pew sticks!"

"Now then," Deadpool yelled as he he aimed at the upcoming aliens, "I forgot my spare ammo, so you're going to have to share!"

He then began firing his sidearms which counted down the number of shots he had in total to do. Each casing that popped out that had a number on it. Starting from twelve, and will end with one. As he fired his sidearms, Bucky was firing his rifle taking down as much as he could too. Dr. Banner on the other hand was firing from the Hulkbuster's palm repulsers which were shooting out red energy instead of orange.

In the sky, falcon flew around firing with guns of his own that were and launched devices from his suit towards the aliens. Said devices penetrated three aliens killing them quickly.

"You see the teeth on those things?" Falcon exclaimed as he flew away from the nearest one.

As Falcon flew off while firing his own guns, Rhodey let loose some explosives as he flew over the aliens. They exploded as they hit the ground killing a fair amount of them. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough.

"Cap," Banner said, "If these things circle the perimeter and get in behind us… there's nothing between them and vision."

"Then we better keep them in front of us," Steve said quietly as if to himself.

"How do we do that?" Okoye asked looking at T'Challa.

"We open the barrier," T'Challa said as he looked at his guard captain.

"On my signal," T'Challa said as he touched his left ear, "open North-West Section 17."

"Requesting confirmation, my king," said Dome control in confusion, "you said open the barrier?"

"On my signal," T'Challa confirmed.

"This will be the end of Wakanda," M'baku said to Okoye.

"Then it will be the noblest ending in history," Okoye replied.