Anna had sent out a jet for Nik, Rebekah, Elijah, and Marcel. They were immediately offering their help when she had called them, explaining what was going on. After the jet picked them up, it would head straight to Wakanda, which is where they were headed right now.
Wakanda was beautiful, like something out of a storybook. She felt Steve come up behind her, placing his hands on her arms. "What do you think?" He asked. "It's gorgeous. Is this where you brought Bucky?" She asked, turning to face him. He nodded and she smiled, leaning her head on his chest. He slid his hand under her chin and pulled it up to look at him. "Hey, are you okay?"
She shook her head. "No. I just got you back and the only reason for that is because someone is threatening the world. I'm so scared I'm going to lose you again. I'm scared we're never gonna find Tony." She said softly, her eyes glossy. Steve pulled her to his chest and placed a kiss on the top of her head.
"We're gonna find Tony. I'm never going to leave you again sweetheart, I promise."
Steve led them out of the jet when they landed, Anna falling behind Rhodey and Bruce.
"Should we bow?" Bruce asked. Anna smirked. He really was adorable sometimes.
Rhodey looked over at him. "Yeah, he's a king."
Bruce cleared his throat and started to bow. Anna stifled a laugh. "What are you doing?" Rhodey whispered.
T'Challa raised his hands. "We don't do that here."
"So how big of an assault should we expect?" T'Challa asked. Bruce snaked his way to walk behind him. "Um, sir, I think you should expect quite a big assault."
T'Challa told them that the Kings Guard, the border tribe and the Dora Milaje. They walked across the lot and T'Challa raised his hand, and out came Bucky, looking way better than the last time Anna had seen him, with a brand new arm, which she was sure was made from Vibranium.
"And a semi stable 100 year old man." Bucky said. Steve went to hug him, Anna going in next.
"It's good to see you Bucky." She told him. He smiled down at her, then over to Steve. "So, this Punk made his way back to you finally?" Anna looked at Steve and smiled. "Yeah, only took him two years." She said laughing.
"How you been Buck?" Steve asked. "Pretty good, for the end of the world."
Anna opted to stay outside, waiting for the other jet to arrive. Bucky offered to wait with her, walking over to where their jet was. "So how have things been?" Bucky asked her.
"Well, its been a rough two years." She said, sighing. "I thought I was going to pass out when I saw Steve last night. I honestly didn't think I would ever see him again."
Bucky smiled. "Doll, that man would have died trying to make it back to you, it just took longer than he expected." She smiled and looked over at him. "I love him Buck."
"You'd be crazy not to."
"So how are you doing? How's everything going on up here?" Se asked him, tapping the side of her head. Bucky shrugged. "It's good mostly, Shuri, the princess, she's pretty smart, she was able to take away the programming Hydra did to me. I still get nightmares sometimes, and I'm still trying to remember things, but I'm mostly me again." He said smiling.
"That's really great Bucky." She noticed a black mark on his neck, something she had never noticed before. "Hey, what is that?" She asked, pointing to his neck. "Oh." He said, pulling his collar back. "My soulmark, it goes down my shoulder onto my back."
Anna took a sharp breath in. She knew that mark. "What is it?" He asked, looking at her worriedly. She shook her head. "It's just um, your mark. I've seen it before Bucky. I know your soulmate." She told him. He raised an eyebrow and had a hopeful look in his eye.
"Who is it?"
"It's my best friend. Her name is Jules. When this is all over, come back with us, she lives at the compound with us. You're gonna love her." Anna told him. She couldn't be happier. Bucky deserved this, so did Jules, and it would also help Bucky to be around Steve.
Bucky smiled at her as they watched the jet land. 'I'd like that."
Anna walked up to the jet, Nik being the first one off. "Why is it that every time you need me, somethings gone wrong." He said laughing, "Hey now, usually it's you whose getting in trouble, I don't want to hear it." She said, hugging him. She hugged Rebekah, Elijah and Marcel, then introduced them to Bucky, who showed them where they could get weapons if they wanted.
They looked up to the sky upon hearing rumbling. Sam got on the comms and told Steve that ships were arriving. Ships came raining down on the city, but a giant barrier stopped it.
"God, I love this place." Bucky said.
"Yeah don't start celebrating yet guys we got more incoming!" Rhodey told them. They felt a rumble as several more blasts connected with the barrier. Several ships crashed into the ground outside the dome. They boarded ships that took them closer to the barrier line. Anna was taking deep breaths in, trying to calm herself. It had been so long since they'd had to fight, and she had to do it without Tony. She felt Steve's hand slip into hers and she looked up at him.
"You okay?"
She smiled. It didn't matter what was wrong, looking at Steve made all her worries melt away. "I am now."
She watched out of the corner of her eye as Bruce was running by in the Hulk buster suit, laughing as he tripped on a rock and faceplanted.
They jumped off the ships coming to stand with the rest of the fighters. Steve and T'Challa stood at the head, Anna to his left, Nat next to her, followed by Bucky. Nat, T'Challa and Steve walked down to the tree line to talk to the two aliens, and Anna turned to Nik. "Are you guys ready?" She asked.
"Alien invasion?" Marcel said with an eyebrow raised. He shrugged. "I wasn't doing anything today anyway." He smirked. Anna chuckled and looked at Nik. She threw her arms around his middle. "Be safe." She said.
"I will. Always and Forever. Right?" She smiled back at him, feeling very honored that they shared their family motto with her, they had considered her family.
"Always and forever."
The trio made their way back and the ships started opening. This was it.
"They surrender?" Bucky asked Steve, already knowing the answer.
"Not exactly."
Hundreds of aliens ran towards the barrier.
"Oh my God." Anna said.
"What the hell." Came Bucky.
"Oh, that's disgusting." She heard Rebekah call out.
"Guess we're not making it home for dinner." Elijah joked.
"I guess we pissed her off." Nat offered.
As they pushed at the barrier, Anna saw arms getting lasered off, but for the most part, they weren't getting through. Yet. They were piling up quick and she wondered just how many of them there were.
A handful made it through and T'Challa ordered the shooters to get them down. Anna pulled her guns from her holsters and stepping up next to Bucky. She forgot just how much she loved shooting a gun, and she could see Steve smirking at her out of the corner of her eye.
Sam and Rhodey flew over them, letting out missiles at the tree line, taking out a lot of them. There were too many of them. They were circling the dome and Bruce said if they broke through there was nothing stopping them from getting to Vision. T'Challa had the idea to open one section of the barrier, so they could keep them controlled.
Anna looked over and Steve was looking at her. She pulled him by the back of his neck and placed a soft kiss to his lips. His hand found her waist and pulled her to him. They pulled apart after a second and just looked at each other.
"I love you." Anna said.
"I love you."
T'Challa stepped out in front of everyone. "Wakanda Forever!" He yelled, and they all started running. Anna, Bucky, Steve and T'Challa led the rest, with Nik, Rebekah, Marcel and Elijah right on their heels, being the fastest. T'Challa gave the order to open the barrier, and one single panel opened, and they started pouring in.
Anna pulled her knives out and jumped into a group of aliens. There were so many of them everything was starting to blur together. She ripped the arm off one, kicking another one in the chest. She ripped them apart, black blood spraying all over her. She glanced over and the same thing had happened to Rebekah. "Okay. I definitely should have stayed in the quarter."
She saw Bucky trapped on the ground and ran over, shoving her and through the alien's chest. It slumped down, and she tossed it aside, grabbing Bucky by the metal hand, hauling him up. "Thanks."
She smirked, shooting an alien behind him. "Keep up old man." She said laughing and she disappeared. He rolled his eyes at her.
She saw both Steve and Bruce get taken down but groups. There were too many of them, they weren't going to last long at this rate. She ran over to Steve and pulled out her batons, shocking two of them into the ground. She whirled around when a giant beam entered the sky, coming through the dome. Lightning came from it, killing hundreds of aliens. She smirked; she knew what that was coming from. The beam died down and There was Thor, with what looked like a raccoon and a tree.
She turned and a spear went through her side. She looked down and spit up blood. The drove her knife into its skull and fell to the ground, blood oozing out onto the ground. She cried out. There was something wrong. Nik and Steve made it to her at the same time. Steve want around behind her and picked her up, moving her to a trench away from the fight. She hissed as he sat her down, he settled in behind her, Nik coming around to the front.
"There's something wrong, it's burning." She cried out, spitting up more blood. Nik grabbed the spear, yanking it out of her abdomen, blood pouring out. "There's wood in them." Nik said upon further inspection. Anna's eyes widened and she looked up at Steve. She looked back at Nik, crying out. "It's still burning Nik; I think there's some still in there." She grabbed Steve's hands and nodded for Nik to get it out. He carefully started digging around, picking the pieces of wood out, Anna screaming, squeezing Steve's hands.
Nik finally got all the pieces out and Anna slumped back against Steve, whimpering. "She needs blood." Steve offering his wrist. She latched on and began to drink, her other hand still intertwined with his. She only drank for a few seconds, Steve's blood being strong enough, and both Steve and Nik helped her to her feet. "You alright love?" Nik asked.
She nodded, swaying on her feet a little. "Yeah, I'll be fine." She told them, placing her hand on Steve's arm to steady herself. "Come on, more assholes to kill." She said smirking, running out after Nik.
She skidded to a stop when she saw something come up out of the ground. She dived out of the way before she got ran over by the giant metal wheels. "Holy fuck." She breathed out. Wanda flew down and picked a couple of them up, throwing them behind them taking a bunch of aliens out. She laughed as Okoye made a comment about her being up in the palace this whole time.
Anna heard glass shatter and she whipped her head around and saw Vision fly out of the window with one of Thanos' children.
"She heard Sam's voice in her ear. "Guys, we have a Vision situation."
"Someone get to Vision!" Steve yelled.
"I got him." Anna said, racing into the forest, Rebekah and Nik behind her. They made it to him just as he got stabbed again. She jumped on the shoulders of the alien, tackling him to the ground. He threw her off and she skidded across the ground, struggling to get back up, still sore from her wound. She crawled over to Vision, helping him to stand while Nik and Bekah fought the alien. "Come on Vis, we have to get you out of here."
"No." He told her. "We need to destroy the stone."
"Vision, that's not an option and you know it." Anna told him.
She saw Steve come into view to help, and she guided Vision over to a tree, where he collapsed, not being able to walk anymore. Vision was finally able to stand, and he picked up the fallen spear and slammed it through the alien, who was on top of Steve.
'I thought I told you to go." Steve told him.
"We don't trade lives Captain."
They were making their way through the forest when Anna felt a pain in her side, opposite where she had been stabbed. She doubled over in pain when her arm started burning. Steve managed to catch her before she hit the ground. "Anna, what's wrong?" Steve asked her.
"Something's wrong. My arm is burning. I think Tony is hurt, bad." She said. Steve's eyes widened and her gaze followed his and a puncture wound appeared on her side and started bleeding. "Oh God." They watched as it sealed itself, but it still hurt. "He's using his suit to close it up." Anna said.
Wanda touched down and ran over to Vision. Steve helped Anna to her feet and pulled her to him. "You have to stop trying to die on me." He whispered into her hair. She smiled. "I'm really not trying to you know."
The wind started blowing and everyone looked up in the sky. Thanos was coming. A portal opened and Thanos stepped out. He was huge.
They all ran toward him, and he used the stones to throw Bruce, trapping him in a wall, he threw Steve to the side, he picked up T'Challa by the neck and slammed him into the ground. He grabbed Anna and flung her down, she rolled a few times before stopping next to Steve.
She looked up and saw Wanda using her powers on Vision's stone. Tears formed in her eyes, understanding what Wanda must be feeling. Steve was back up, grabbing the Gauntlet, using all the strength he had. Thanos overpowered him and sent a punch to his face, knocking him down. She crawled over to Rebekah and helped her stand, Nik coming up behind them. They watched as Wanda held Thanos back with on hand, destroying the stone with the other. A force blew them all back, and Anna sat up, watching as Thanos used the stones to go back in time. She cried out as Vision reappeared in front of him, and Thanos plucked the stone out of his head.
Vision was thrown aside, and she watched in horror as Thanos added the stone to the Gauntlet. She knew they had lost. Thor came crashing down on top of him, throwing his axe into Thanos' chest. Thor pushed the axe into his chest deeper and Thanos groaned. He looked up at Thor and mumbled. "You..should have went for the head." He said, raising his hand and snapping his fingers.
A feeling of dread washed over Anna.
"What did you do!" Thor screamed, but Thanos used the stones to create a portal and he was gone.
"Where'd he go?" Steve asked, coming over to Anna. "Thor, where did he go?"
"Anna..." Rebekah called out next to her. She turned and reached out for Rebekah's hand, but it turned into dust, disappearing right in front of her. "No, no, no, no." Anna whispered. Nik came next, dropping to his knees. Tears filled her eyes as she looked at the piles.
"Steve?"
They turned to see Bucky walking towards them, his arm turning to dust before the rest of him followed. "Wanda?" Anna called out, but she was gone too.
"What is this. What the hell is happening?" Rhodey said, walking up to where Steve say by Vision. Anna was leaning against a tree, arms folded in on herself, tears streaming down her face.
She heard Steve let out an 'Oh my God' when he realized just what was happening. They had lost. Thanos had wiped out half of the population. And she had no idea if that included Tony.
A/N: That part always makes me sad, especially when Peter and Bucky go. :( *cries in a corner*
