A/N: Clubs + Final Projects + Finals + Moving Out of Dorms + Infinity War Fallout Depression = Literally no writing done. My apologies. Love you guys, forgive this for not being BETA read, and hope you enjoy.

Question: Since Coral is either going to be with Cap or in Wakanda and those sections were very short, should I use them to build the story that is there, or should I build on what happened in-between CA:CW and A:IW? Or should I make half of it Coral being in Black Panther and the other half is IW?

Rogue

"Remind me again why we're trusting Ophelia?" Sue Storm asked as everyone suited up in S.H.I.E.L.D. Coral had hidden away in the bunker years before.

"Because she's the lesser evil and at least her delusions of grandeur do not involve world destruction," Coral said.

"Just domination," Sue snarked. Coral shrugged, which caused her sister to frown. "Seriously, have you thought this through? What if this is a trap? What if she's just manipulating you-"

"With all due respect, Sue, this is not my first rodeo while in many ways, it is for you," Coral said sharply before softening her voice, "We will use Doctor Ross' concoctions to keep her sedated, then you and Ross will turn her hammer and Rumlow over to the Avengers and NATO while I get her as far away from that hammer as possible; you all probably get nice medals and be approved for your shuttle mission for sure, and the last head of HYDRA will be cut off."

"And you'll spend the rest of your days a fugitive?" Sue asked. Coral shrugged again.

"It's not that bad; I'll get to see the world, live free."

"… What about Ophelia?"

"What about her?"

"You really think she's never going to resurrect HYDRA? And how do you make certain of that?"

"That depends on her," Coral said as she started

"You're going to ask to come with her," Sue said incredulously. Coral didn't look at her. Sue grabbed her and turned her around, though Coral immediately broke the hold. "You know she won't accept that."

"I'm not going to give her an option; either it's the three of us together on the run or we all have matching prison cells at the Raft. I don't see much in-between."

Sue seemed to soften at that, setting a gentle hand on her sister's shoulder. "Coral… you're nowhere near as bad as they are."

Coral shook off the hand and stalked off. "Tell that to the rest of the world."


"So you've found her," Sinthea asked over their video chat.

"Found her, infiltrated her, played her, I've done it all," Ophelia said to Sinthea, who grinned.

"Excellent. We'll arrive shortly." She wiped the feed and then woke Rumlow, who had been sleeping shirtless in her bed. "Prepare the Quinjet. We're leaving within the hour."


Their Quinjet landed shortly before sunset, in an abandoned town several miles from any settlements. No signs of human life or a bunker.

"I don't like this," Rumlow said, clicking his safety off as he surveyed the town.

"You don't need to like it," Sinthea rolled her eyes. "We just need to get her."

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Sinthea paused as she plucked a dart out of her skin. She heard Rumlow raise his gun, only to be immediately knocked down, but for some reason she couldn't react. She felt herself dropping, people grabbing her and attempting to tear her hammer away (you can't have it it's mine it chose me) and looked up, expecting so to see that always smirking Coral King… but instead saw her true sister. Ophelia.

"You were going to destroy the world, Sin. I can't let that happen," Ophelia said. Sinthea didn't respond. "Please, don't make me do this. Mother Night wouldn't want this. She wouldn't want us to kill each other." Skadi fought to cover her ears and throw off the people trying to pry her hand off the hammer. "Sin, you've known me your whole life… You are not Skadi. Your name is Sinthea Susan Schmidt."

"Shut up!" Sin said, throwing a punch that Ophelia swayed away from with ease. She threw punch after punch, almost throwing herself off balance with each one. fight me fight back please just give me a reason to hate you

"I'm not gonna fight you. You're my sister."

"You're my enemy. Anyone who's not with me is my enemy!" she cried.

"No, I'm not," Ophelia said, shaking her head. "Mother Night just wanted you to think that. We're sisters in everything but blood, and even that we spilled for each other. But if that's not enough, then finish it."

Sinthea thought back to all the training sessions, patch-ups, battles, and near-death encounters, the literal blood, sweat, and tears they had wrought and shed together. Her grip on the hammer slackened… until she remembered Mother Night and her father and grandfather and her grip returned, stronger than ever. She threw off the and swung the hammer to end her conflict forever, only for a swing from a sword to block her blow from making contact.


The five milligrams of Carfentanil in that dart should've put her into a freaking elephant into a coma and yet Sinthea FUCKING Schmidt just kept charging, Coral couldn't help but think. So here she was, all her back-up unconscious or at least thrown to the side while she desperately tried to fight a literal godly hammer with her katana.

"You turned her against me!" Sinthea screamed.

"You did that yourself!"

"You always take everything! My sisters, Mother Night-"

"Mother Night got herself killed, just as you're going to if you keep talking," Coral said. Sinthea screamed and appeared to gain some of her lucidity with her rage. Coral was barely able to dodge her swings and could feel her sword shake with every blow. If she hadn't known any better, she would say she could hear her sword cracking. But it was made of Adamantium, forged by Tony Stark himself. It couldn't just-

CLANG!

SNAP!

Sinthea's blow hit Coral's Katana so hard it broke the near-unbreakable sword and sent the young former Avenger sprawling into the dust. Coral coughed, desperately trying to recover as Sinthea advanced on her.

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Sinthea growled and rounded on Sue Storm, was reloading the dart gun with more Carfentanil. Sinthea attempted to advance but was instead hit by one, two, three more darts, which sent her to the ground, hammer slipping from her grip. Trying one last time, she lunged.

Bang!

Sinthea cried out as Sue Storm switched from a dart gun to a real one, the bullet tearing through her thigh. Then Sue Storm was the one advancing, even as Coral warned, "Sue, don't…"

Instead, Sue got closer, turning the barely conscious Sinthea over with her boot, grimacing as though nudging roadkill. "You're pathetic. Access to the greatest power on the planet and you waste it doing magic tricks — then trying to best a woman who'd never really harm you, despite your endless provocation. But that's the difference between my sister and me. She doesn't understand revenge. Me? I can't decide which of the many ways I can hurt you I'm going to use," Sue said, activating a portable energy shield she'd found in Coral's weapons stock. She then began beating Sinthea with it, across the face, with uppercuts to the jaw, blows to the stomach, kidneys, and diaphragm.

"Sue, stop!" Coral cried, dragging her off of a near unconscious Sinthea.

"She's killed dozens of people, if not hundreds. How can you defend her?" Sue cried, gesturing to Johnny and Reed who were just now regaining consciousness.

"We take our enemies alive, Sue-"

"Like you did at Jörmungandr base?" Coral stiffened and Sue faltered for a moment before standing tall. "Face it, Coral, you're not running from NATO and the Avengers; you're running from what you did."

"Guys!" Johnny Storm shouted. Coral and Sue turned to see Ophelia helping Sinthea get away.

"Ophelia, stop, we had a deal-"

"And I intend to keep it. Get that hammer away from her and I'll keep her away from any population centers," Ophelia said, doing her best to drag along the mostly unconscious but still resistant demigoddess. She seemed to soften as she locked eyes with Coral. "Nice knowing you-"

Bang!

Ophelia fell as a bullet ripped through her leg. Everyone hit the deck as Rumlow raced across the field and snatched up Sinthea, throwing her over his shoulder and hauling her back to the Quinjet.

"She's getting away!" Sue cried, taking cover with Johnny and Reed behind rubble as Rumlow covered their escape with a spray of bullets.

"Not if I can help it," Coral said, drawing the sniper rifle that she'd used against Loki, before setting it up… and aiming for a kill shot.

"No!" Ophelia screamed, jumping in the way of the titanium bullet. Even with her body armor, it blew through her like a watermelon. But her body provided enough resistance that the bullet was diverted from its course so it only hit Sinthea in the shoulder and not the heart. Ophelia fell to the ground and Sinthea summoned her hammer, which flew her up to her waiting HYDRA Quinjet, grabbing Rumlow along the way.

"Shoot her!" Sue yelled, but all Coral could focus on was Ophelia. She was looking at her. Blood was blooming from her lips. And she was in pain. So much pain. She was slumped down, breathing fast. Coral couldn't breathe at all. Ophelia was still looking at her. She vaguely heard Sue shouting and then felt her snatch the rifle from her grasp to shoot at the retreating HYDRA heads in the echoes of her mind, but couldn't process it correctly because Ophelia was lying there, bleeding out and no one else seemed to realize that. But she stared at her, right in the eyes, and she wanted to say so sorry. So very sorry.

So she dropped to her knees and then her hands and then started crawling because that's all she could do. She crawled next to Ophelia, into the growing pool of her sister's blood, but didn't touch her. She didn't dare touch her. Instead, she opened her mouth, to say something, anything, apologize, ask why she sacrificed herself, why she always chose Sinthea over her, when Ophelia grabbed her hand. She then maneuvered her head into Coral's lap and, staring up at her sister, said, "Don't be frightened… and certainly do not worry, dear… I'm not too angry at you for killing me. In fact, I'm quite grateful that what you did led to this." Coral blanched and Ophelia stared at the darkening sky. "Perhaps one day someone will return the favor… Wish it, that your corpse looks so pleasing."

She went limp.

Her eyes were still staring.

They weren't seeing.

Coral felt an arm wrap around her shoulders, guide her back to her feet and away from the body.

Because it wasn't Ophelia.

It would never be Ophelia again.


"Any luck tracking them?" Sue asked Johnny and Reed as Dr. Cho and Dr. Ross started treating Coral's wounds.

"No, but I think we have confirmed where they're going to strike; there's freak snow storms starting over Mount Everest, the Mariana Trench, Johannesburg, Jerusalem, Manhattan, the Amazon, and the Austrian Alps," Reed said, showing her the world weather map. "They came out of absolutely nowhere and have similar energy readings to New Mexico during Thor's time there. If these energy levels keep building at these levels, we have maybe thirty hours before they reach catastrophic levels."

"Alright, that's where the action is. Let's go," Sue said.

"No," said a voice and Sue, Reed, and Johnny looked up to see Coral glaring at them. "You're not coming."

"You can't be serious," Sue said. "You need back-up-"

"What I need is people who will listen to me. I gave you direct orders, you didn't follow them."

"Maybe if you weren't so focused on keeping Ophelia happy-"

"If you hadn't been so focused on hurting Sinthea, we wouldn't have gotten distracted and HYDRA might be headless at last." Sue had nothing to say to that. Coral sighed and shook her head. "Go back to New York, Susan. This isn't a free-for-all. You work as a team and listen to the leader, or you get benched." Coral turned away and stalked toward the door.

"You loved her, didn't you?" Sue asked. Coral stopped and turned back around.

"What?"

"Ophelia. You loved her," Sue said. Coral blinked.

"I love all my sisters."

"Not that kind of love." Coral seemed to freeze, knuckles whitening as she clutched the door and her lips parting as she looked down, deep in thought as she considered Sue's words. Sue swallowed. "I'm sorry." She headed for the exit, Reed and Johnny right behind her.

"Do you want to help?" Coral called out and they turned to see her, slightly wet-eyed.

"Yes," Sue said sincerely.

"There is one thing you can do," Coral said.


Coral stood in the middle of a field, starting up at the Milky Way; somewhere up there was the man she needed. She just had to get his attention.

"Hey, uh… Thor or Heimdall or Whomever the fuck is up in Asgard listening… I need help," Coral said, voice clear and growing in strength with every word. "I can't do this alone, but I can't tell the Avengers without risking more harm than good. Will you help me?"

Silence.

Coral stood in that field for several minutes. Nothing. She closed her eyes and sighed through her nose. Just as she turned to leave, a rainbow spread across the sky, a bolt of lightning cutting across it, though there was no rain nor clouds nor sunlight.

Cora smiled, lightning reflected in her eyes.