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Chapter 24- Split

Buffy woke up with a groan as she heard a familiar voice say. "Morning."

The voice was enough to snap her awake as she looked up to see Dawn sitting in front of her, and both were behind a force field.

"Dawnie?!" Buffy yelled, hugging her tight, horrified. "How? How did they get you?"

"They got Giles and Anya too", Dawn said, hugging her back, clearly scared. "What are we going to do?"

Buffy kissed her forehead. "We will get out, don't worry, we will, I promise."

Spike's hands were tied together over his head. He stood in the middle of the room with the demons and agents around the edges. His shirt was torn partly off and his face was bloody.

"I have a riddle for you, precious. How is a vampire that won't talk ... like an apple?" Glory asked.

She walked up to Spike, grabbed his hair and pulled his head back. His chest was also bloody and had at least one ugly round wound from Glory's finger. With her free hand she had a dagger which she used to cut his chest. Spike yelled in pain.

"Think I can do you in one long strip?"

"Enough", Spike said weakly. "No more. I'll tell you who the sodding key is."

Buffy was looking at the force field as Dawn suggested. "Maybe you could-"

"Oh shut up, I'll get this", Buffy said.

"Yeah, do that", Dawn scoffed. "Since you have it all."

Buffy looked at Dawn in surprise. "What?"

"I'm not like you, Buffy", Dawn said. "I don't have anybody."

"What?! Of course you do. You have me!" Buffy snapped.

"No, I don't. You are avoiding me, shutting me down. It's so obvious you don't want me around", Dawn said.

"That's not true."

"Yes it is. Mom ... died, and it's like you don't even care", Dawn said harshly.

Buffy was shocked, with tears in her eyes. "Of course I care. How can you even think that?"

"How can I not? You haven't even cried. You've just been running around like it's been some big chore or something. Cleaning up after Mom's mess", Dawn said.

Buffy slapped Dawn across the face. Dawn yelped and puts her hand to her cheek. Buffy put her hand over her mouth in horror.

Buffy was tearful now. "Dawn ... I've been ... working. I've been busy, because I have to-"

Dawn was tearful again. "No! You've been avoiding me."

"I'm not! ... I have to do these things, 'cause ..." Buffy was crying. "'cause when I stop, then she's really gone."

Dawn frowned in confusion.

"And I'm trying. Dawn, I am, I am really trying to take care of things, but I don't even know what I'm doing. Mom always knew", Buffy said.

"Nobody's asking you to be Mom", Dawn said.

"Well, who's gonna be if I'm not? Huh, Dawn?" Buffy snapped. "Have you even thought about that? Who's gonna make things better?" She was crying harder now. "Who's gonna take care of us?"

Dawn started. "Buffy…."

Buffy cried. "I didn't mean to push you away, I didn't. I just, I couldn't let you see me."

Dawn began to cry too.

"Oh god, Dawnie…" Buffy cried harder. "I don't know what we're gonna do. I'm scared."

"Buffy..."

Buffy's voice was breaking now. "Dawn."

She began to sob. Dawn came forward and hugged her.

"It's okay", Dawn assured. They sank to the floor, holding each other tightly and crying. "It's okay."

Team Cap, Tony and Peter were locked up together and it was awkward, to say the least for sure.

Tony had a bruise on his face due to Clint punching him for outing his family to Ross, and the stuff with Glory had been explained to him by Peter, who avoided talking to him other than that.

"Tony Stark. Always ruining people's lives and joking about it." Grim Reaper said as he arrived outside.

"You?" Peter snarled as he rose up.

"I'm pretty sure you didn't come here to be gutted by my claws", Logan said.

"Who the hell are you?" Tony asked him.

Grim Reaper took off his hood to reveal a young, handsome, but partially scarred face. "My name is Eric Williams."

"Never heard of you", Tony said.

"Of course you haven't", Grim Reaper said. "But I'm sure you're familiar with my brother- Simon Williams."

At that moment, Tony's jaw dropped and he backed off involuntarily, a reaction noticed by everyone else inside the force field with him. Eric Williams smirked at the reaction.

"So you remember him after all", Eric smirked.

"Who is Simon?" Steve asked as he stood up.

"He was my brother", Eric said before pointing at Tony accusingly. "And when you brought his company and business, he grew so angry and frustrated that he took his own life."

The expression of guilt on Tony's face brought a grim (no pun intended) satisfaction to Eric's mind.

"Even if Tony is responsible for your brother taking his life, your way of vengeance isn't very righteous, I mean, you join up with Hydra and Vamps", Peter told him.

"Every villain is the hero of his own story", Sam said as they all looked at Grim Reaper with nothing but contempt and hatred.

"You're just another Hydra pig", Logan told him. "And so I'm going to gut you."

"I wonder if it will be before or after our army has been created", Grim Reaper snarled as he walked off.

Tony slid against the wall and sat down, his head in his hands as guilt overtook him.

"Tony", Steve said gently as he put a hand on his shoulder/ "What was he talking about?"

"I didn't buy Simon's company to jeer at him", Tony said in a heavy voice which was rare for him. "He was good with tech and ideas, but not the best with numbers. I bought his company to save it because it was going bankrupt. It wasn't going to survive. I wanted to work with Simon. And not a day goes by when I don't regret what he did to himself."

Steve grasped Tony's shoulder tighter as he looked up at him. "Don't blame yourself for every single thing that goes wrong, Tony. I get that you were trying to help Simon. But sometimes, people cannot be helped."

"Eric was just trying to get under your skin", Natasha told him.

"All of us make mistakes", Sam said. "But we shouldn't let them define us."

"Speaking of mistakes", Tony said as he looked up. "Seeing how you all came to rescue me, even though none of you owe me a thing, I'd like to say something."

Tony was glad Barnes wasn't here. He wasn't ready to face Barnes yet. Even in Peter's case, he wasn't completely sure yet, but he needed to say this to him. He owed Peter that much.

With that, Tony began. "I fucked up. Big time. From the moment I knew about Ross and the Accords, I should have been listening and working with all of you, instead of trying to force you to do what I wanted to assuage my guilt and get my girlfriend back."

Tony glanced over at Clint and said. "I should NEVER have exposed your family to Ross."

He turned to face Wanda and said. "I should NEVER have called you a WMD."

Tony glanced at Nat and said. "I should NEVER have made that double agent crack."

Tony nodded to Sam and said. "I should NEVER have shot you when you weren't attacking anyone, even if it was only a knockout shot."

Tony then turned to Peter. "I should NEVER have involved you at the airport, that too by blackmailing you like that, and then ditched you, and put the blame of the ferry incident on you completely. I screwed up with you badly, and you deserved much better than that. Your lifestyle got displaced because of me. I am sorry kid."

Peter didn't want to forgive Tony, but he had a big heart at the end of the day, so he nodded, seeing that Tony was genuine.

Tony looked at Steve and said. "I SHOULD have listened to you at the compound when you tried to tell me what was wrong with the Accords. I should have listened to you at the airport when you tried to tell me about the Winter Soldiers."

Tony swallowed and continued. "And I should NEVER have attacked Barnes. I KNOW he's not at fault, but I wanted him to hurt like I was hurting. And I would have killed him."

Steve looked at Tony with sympathy and raised his hands. "You're not the only one who made mistakes. I should have tried to voice my own thoughts on the Accords better too. And I should have told you that I knew about Hydra's involvement in your parents' deaths."

"When did you find out?" Tony asked.

"Just before the fall of SHIELD, the two of us encountered an AI version of Zola, a Hydra scientist", Natasha told Tony.

"And while stalling us, he said that Hydra had killed a lot of people that had been in their way. When he said that, he showed us a picture of your parents", Steve admitted. "That was all I knew. I never looked into the matter at all. I should have. I thought I was protecting you. But in truth, I was protecting myself. I SHOULD have told you, even if it was just suspicions. You deserved to know, Tony."

Tony could hear the sincerity and regret in Steve's voice.

"And I should never have tried to get into your head", Wanda told him. "I didn't control you. But what I did, I had no right to do it. To any of you."

"Admitting you were wrong is the first step", Sam agreed.

"I think in your position, Cap, I'd have probably done the same", Tony said as he got up. "It's not like you would just say to me, "Hey, Tony. My best friend may or may not have something to do with your parents' deaths. Have a good day.""

"And I also might have been too consumed by guilt to think rationally if I was in your place", Steve agreed. "And still, I'm sorry I kept it from you. We have both hurt each other. But I feel it is time to move past that."

"It is", Tony agreed. "I'm sorry for everything that happened between all of us. I know I still need to make it right with a few of you", He glanced at Clint. "But I need to stop blaming everyone else for my own choices."

He then held out his hand. "Do you trust me?"

With a nod, Steve said. "I do."

And then he took Tony's hand and both of them shook it.

"I'm not ready to forgive you", Clint told Tony. "Not yet. But I can promise not to hit you now."

"Fine by me", Tony chuckled.

"You seem sincere, so I forgive you", Peter said to Tony who nodded gratefully.

"Thanks kid, I may not deserve it, but you still forgave me. You are a good kid", Tony said to him.

"Thanks. Now not to say I'm not a fan of this 'reconciliation while locked up and captured'", Peter said. "But we still need to get out and stop MODOK."

"What're we going to do?" Sam asked.

"I'm pretty sure we don't have any communications with us", Logan said.

"Nope", Tony said. "They took my suit and Friday with it."

"I think I have an idea", Steve suddenly said.

"What is it, Cap?" Peter asked.

Steve then reached into his sock and pulled out some kind of card.

"What is that?" Peter asked.

"Our ticket out of here", Steve said and swiped it. It suddenly started beeping lowly and Steve said into it, "We're locked up in a faculty at Sunnydale by Hydra. And their leader has a robot that can copy anyone's powers and abilities. Plus, they have a weakened God at their side, who can beat me in a fight. So be careful."

He then swiped the card again and the low beeping stopped.

"What now?" Peter asked.

"Now we wait", Steve said.

Buffy and Dawn were holding each other together when they looked up to see two agents leading a bloodied Spike to their cell, and they pressed a button, making the force field shimmer, though it didn't disappear. They pushed Spike through it and walked off as one muttered to the other.

"Oh boy", Buffy muttered.

"Spike", Dawn asked, shaking him, as he looked at her, unaware of Buffy's presence nearby. "What happened?"

"She wanted to know who the key was", Spike coughed.

"Did you tell her?" Dawn asked, gulping.

"No! I can't ever! Glory never finds out!" Spike coughed again.

"Why?" Dawn asked.

"'Cause Buffy….the not so pleasant Buffy, the Slayer…." Spike said quietly. "... anything happened to Dawn, it'd destroy her. I couldn't live, her bein' in that much pain. Let Glory kill me first. Nearly bloody did."

Dawn backed off in shock as Buffy frowned at what she had heard Spike say, then leaned forward and kissed him softly on the lips. Spike started to kiss her back, frowned and pulled away.

She looked at him. Spike stared at her in amazement, now aware of her presence.

"Buffy….." Spike said, now wanting to apologize. "About that time with Dru…"

"You wanting to kill Drusilla to impress me wasn't real. It was you trying to show off", Buffy said as Spike looked down, hanging his head, before Buffy said to him. "What you did, for me, and Dawn ... that was real."

Spike lifted his head to look at her. She looked at him with a softer expression now. "I won't forget it."

That was when MODOK arrived with a device and said. "The Vampire's heroics are in vain."

He lifted the device and said. "I was sure I would get this working by now. It scans people for mystical energy. With this finally finished, no need to interrogate anyone anymore."

Buffy gulped as MODOK pointed the device and it scanned Spike, sensing mystical energy but due to his Vampire nature. "Not it."

He then scanned Buffy, and it sensed mystical energy, due to her being a Slayer. "Still not it."

Buffy gulped as he then turned to Dawn and the device scanned her, sensing mystical energy again. "Aha! It's you, you little….."

"No, she is not!" Buffy protested. "She started learning magic, so there would be so-"

"No she has not, I know everything", MODOK said as he turned away. "We have found the Key."

"NO!" Buffy yelled, banging at the force field. "NO! NOOOOOO!"

Dawn slid down in horror and disbelief while Spike sighed, falling to the floor.

"So the Slayer's sister is the Key", Glory laughed as MODOK hovered, while Grim Reaper stood, and a soldier pointed the Ferula Gemina at her.

He then fired and Glory was hit, screaming before she and Ben fell into different directions.

"Huh!" Ben said, looking between himself and Glory. "Are we-"

He was cut off when a soldier shot him, killing him on the spot while Glory laughed. "I am glorious again."

MODOK started. "Now like we had discussed, let's together use the-"

He was cut off when Glory hit him with a powerful blast, making him scream as he exploded into bits, and then the rest pointed their guns at her, but Glory was a blur as she turned them all into bloody splatters with her punches, before grabbing Reaper by the throat and twisting his neck, killing him.

The Super-Adaptoid arrived but before it could fire, Glory sped at its throat and rammed her fist inside, smashing up its wiring as it was deactivated.

"Oh these pathetic mortals!" Glory laughed hysterically. "Thinking a God would stoop low enough to help them."

"We bow before your grandeur, Glory", her minions said as they knelt to her.

Buffy, Spike and Dawn were in the cell together when Glory arrived and punched the force field, shattering it. Buffy got up, bravely standing between her and Dawn. "You won't take my sister."

"You are funny", Glory laughed before lifting Buffy up by the throat and tossing her to the wall, breaking it as Buffy fell down, knocked out.

Dawn backed off but Glory grabbed her by the arm, slowly dragging her away as Dawn called out to the unconscious Buffy in concern. "Buffy!"

Spike tried to run to stop her but fell down and grabbed her foot, trying to hold her back, but Glory freed her foot and walked off, as Spike fell down, knocked out himself.

Later

As the Avengers sat together in the cell, Bucky and T'Challa arrived, looking grim, as Bucky opened the force field with a button, and he and Steve shared a hug. "Bucky."

"Hey man", Bucky said before he turned to Natasha and they shared a kiss.

"So this is a thing now?" Tony wondered.

"Longer than you've known", Clint said.

"What's the matter?" Peter asked on noticing their expressions.

"The Hydra have been killed", T'Challa said, shocking them all.

"My friends!" Peter ran out, looking here and there, before he found Willow, Tara, Xander, Anya and Giles in another cell. "Guys!"

He ran and opened the force field as they walked out.

"What happened?" Giles asked.

"The Hydra are all dead", Peter said as they and the Avengers looked around as Wanda used her powers to free Vision of the machine, waking him up, before they found Buffy and Spike, both barely awake in their cell.

"Buffy!" Willow ran to her with Peter, trying to help her up. "What happened?"

"Glory…..took….Dawn…" Spike groaned. "Couldn't….stop her!"

That was when a yellow portal opened and out walked a man in a blue uniform and a red cape behind him.

"I am Stephen Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts", he introduced himself. "I am here to help you stop Glory."

And this one is done too.

So now we had a Buffy/Dawn moment, a Spuffy kiss, Tony apologizing to everyone, Glory and Ben being split, Hydra dying, Glory taking Dawn and Strange finally coming in. You might have thought I'd do a rescue scene and battle climax similar to 'Heroes from two worlds', but this was me subverting expectations, and that's how you do it Ruin Johnson you idiot.

As for the scene with Team Cap and Tony, imagine it went similar to my 'Heroes from two worlds', minus the Arrowverse heroes being around, since I didn't want to repeat all of it. But still, let's just say our Buffy won't let Tony go without a little physical payback for what he did to Peter *evil laugh*

Hope everyone enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter. Stay safe from the coronavirus ya all!