PP POV
With a mighty cry the army surged forward. Thanos responded by sending his army screeching towards them.
"Let's play a game." Piper suggested as they ran toward the battle.
"What?" Past Nebula asked.
"Whoever kills Thanos wins!"
"MINE!" The three woman yelled as they jumped into battle taking out Chitauri and Outriders instantly.
"Show offs!" Clint yelled firing arrows as best he could.
"Keep up old man!" Piper mocked as she shot a web at the leviathan like creature. She swung around the neck of the creature a few times before aiming at another leviathan and pulling both of them toward it. Jumping off as they crashed into Thanos army. She jumped away throwing a dagger at a Chitauri who came near her.
She turned to see a grey man with red tattoos near her, and a giant ape like thing coming towards him.
"Look out!" She called out before using him as a springboard, flipping and kicking the creature under the jaw knocking him back onto several Chitauri.
She landed on her feet easily before pulling out her kindjals and slicing the Chitauri as more surrounded her.
She saw Salem run next toward her. How the hell is the cat alive?!
"Salem run!" She ordered as she sliced a Chitauri running to her, blinding another with web.
She gaped as a green light traveled over Salem turning him into a tall man with shoulder length black hair wearing dark pants, and a yellow cape. He jumped onto a Chitauri stabbing it through the head. He landed with a grunt before throwing a knife to her, hitting the Chitauri she had blindfolded.
He stood up towering over her.
"Were you my cat this whole time?!" She asked in shock.
"Yes." He said with an English accent. "Although I would stretch out my natural form when I ventured into the forest. Do you have a spare communicator? I would like to remain in the know."
Numbly she pulled out her spare comm, handing it to the man, who put it in easily.
"What's your name?" She asked as Thor was thrown near them.
Thor pushed himself up, looking up in awe at the man. "LOKI?!"
The man, Loki, smiled. "I did tell you the sun would shine on us again brother."
"I have so many questions!"
"After the battle." Loki promised before throwing another knife. "Now find your brother."
Peter.
She ran in random direction, moving by pure instinct.
Duck. Swing. Web. Slash. Punch.
She looked over as giant Scott walked past her, punching a leviathan in the face. She could see Tony hugging Peter.
He was here. She could she his face. It was the exact same as before. All the baby fat, no sign of having age. Just as she remembered him.
As soon as they separated she rushed over tackling him in a hug from behind.
"YOU'RE ALIVE!" She cried tears streaming down her face as she spun Peter around ignoring his surprised screams.
She spun him around, hugging him as she cradled his head, relishing in the feeling of his soft curls. "I thought I lost you forever."
"Do I know you?!" Peter said pushing away from her, looking to her with wide confused eyes.
A pang of hurt went through her heart. "I'm going to kill him." Piper hissed as she looked over across the field to Thanos.
"Who are you?!" Peter demanded again.
Piper's gaze softened turning to him as she took off her masks and hood. "Pete-y it's me."
"Piper?!" He yelled in shock. "You're- You're-"
"Grown up?" She asked teasingly, pushing his hair away from his forehead, as she looked down at him. She engulfed him in another hug. "It's good to see you again, baby brother." She pushed him away to look him in the eye. "But if you ever disappear on me like that again, I'm going to sell all your Star Wars merch, you understand?"
"Yes." Peter nodded eagerly.
"Hate to break up the reunion." Tony said as he blasted away nearby aliens. "But we're in the middle of a battle!"
"Right." She looked to Peter. "Stay close to me or Tony, alright?"
"No problem." He was gone before she could turn.
'Cap!' Clint shouted over comms. 'What do you want me to do with this damn thing?'
'Get those stones as far away as possible!'
'No!' Bruce protested. 'We need to get them back where they came from.'
"That can wait until we're not in the middle of a battle!" Piper argued as she slid between two outriders slicing them with her blades. "Get them out of here!" She turned to see Peter swing through the air. "Peter you're on gauntlet duty!"
"Why me?!" A grown, but whiny voice asked.
"Who are you?" Piper asked leaping over a giant gorilla like creature, wrapping him up before throwing him like a baseball.
'That's Quill,' Rocket supplied. 'The moron.'
'Well I mean Spider Peter." Piper said swinging through the air. She landed on the ground with a roll. "By the way Quill, we need to talk after all this."
'Is that good or...?'
'Bad.' Peter supplied. 'Very bad. Sleep with one eye open.'
'Ignore him.' Piper said with an eye roll. 'He's dramatic. I just wanted to meet the amazing Star Lord from the stories Rocket and Nebula told me of.' She looked up to see the giant ship sitting like an eerie eye.
'Random girls my favorite!'
"We have to get rid of that ship before they use it against us." Piper said to herself. She looked over spotting Scott still being a giant.
"Scott don't shrink yet. I'm using you as a ramp."
Before he could reply she was already crawling on his back.
"That tickles!" He laughed as she kicked off his head leaping into the sky. She shot a web at a leviathan, wrapping it around like a horse rein before launching herself onto it's back.
Work. She mentally begged as she pulled on it roughly. Work!
She let out a breathless laugh as the creature turned and headed straight fir the alien ship.
"Piper where are you?" Tony's voice rang out.
"You really don't want to-" She yelped as something hit the leviathan, sending her sprawling to the ground.
"Pipe?!" Peter yelled as she pushed herself onto her elbows.
The hair on the back of her neck stood. She turned onto her back to see another leviathan heading straight toward her.
Move! She yelled to herself even as her body remained unresponsiveness. Move!
The leviathan roared at her- Before an explosion went off at the side of it's head, knocking it away from her ever slightly.
As its head was thrown to the side, a figure in all black on what appeared to be a glider sped between them. The figure moved close to her as his mask came off revealing Harry.
"Take my hand!" He yelled as he passed her.
She quickly latched onto him as he flew them away from the creature.
"Is this what you wanted to show me?" Piper asked a smiled on her face as she settled behind him.
"Yeah. You like?"
"Love it." Piper said running her hands over the exoskeleton suit. "Why don't you wear this more often?"
"Want me to?" Harry asked as he looked back to her. His smiled disappeared.
Piper glanced back to see the leviathan's open mouth inching closer to them.
"Holy-"
"Hold on." Harry said as he twisted them, and pushed a button with his foot, allowing them to fly backwards. He stepped on another button letting 2 small orange bombs pop up. He quickly grabbed them, before throwing them in the creature's mouth.
They exploded taking it's head off.
Piper chuckled breathlessly. "Not going to lie, that was kinda sexy."
Her spidey sense increased tenfold again, right before a barrage of missiles launched from the ship.
"Move! Move!" Piper urged.
Harry stepped on another button as they zig zagged, narrowly avoiding the rays as they shot down. One went off right next to them launching them off of the glider and onto the ground.
Harry covered her with his body as the barrage continued.
She wanted to push him off, find Peter, Pepper, Tony, even Sal- Loki she would have to remember that. But she didn't want to leave Harry.
And just as suddenly as it began, it stopped. They looked into the sky to see a bright yellow figure in the sky launching into Thanos ship.
"Carol!" Piper realized.
She and Harry looked at each other.
Harry smirked. "So this is what it feels like to be on top."
Piper snorted. They've never done anything beyond cuddle. "Well don't get used to it. Once we get back things are going to-"
"You know we can hear you, right?" Carol's voice rang through the radio. "We all heard that."
She wondered if her face was as red as Harry's. "Uh Mr. Stark!" Harry said as he jumped off top of her. "That wasn't- We hadn't-"
"Later." Piper said as she got up. Spotting Loki, Nat and Carol a few feet away.
She rushed over to see Peter on the ground, clutching onto the gauntlet like a giant teddy bear. "-Peter Parker."
Carol smirked. "Hi Peter Parker."
"Want us to take that?" Nat asked.
Peter in response, all but threw the gauntlet at Natasha as he stood.
"Don't worry, boys." Piper said as she ruffled her brother's hair. "The big girls will handle this."
Piper looked across the field seeing the Outrider army coming toward them.
"What's your plan?" Loki asked curiously.
"Keep it away from gauntlet long enough for someone to kill Thanos."
"How?" Harry asked concerned.
"Meet us on the other side of this army." Natasha said leaving no room for questioning.
"Uh.." Peter began nervously. "I have no idea how you're going to get through that."
"Don't worry." Wanda said as she, Mantis and Valkyrie landed nearby.
"They're not alone." Okoye said as she arrived, Pepper landing in front of them. Mantis and Shuri arrived next.
"Pep," Natasha began holding onto the gauntlet as Gamora and both Nebula's joined. "You, Carol, Valkyrie and Wanda handle the leviathans."
"Mantis, Gamora, Shuri, Wasp on the go through the center."
"The rest of us are going to play catch with this until we get it to the boys."
"Good for me." Okoye said before they all launched into battle.
Piper shot a web at the hooded elf in front of the army, hitting him dead in the chest, before pulling him forward. In time to be hit by Okoye. Piper shot a web at a leviathan, pulling herself away from an outrider. She swung deeper into the chaos as she pulled out a kindjal, launching herself forward and slicing through several Chitauri.
"Piper!" She looked over to see Natasha throwing the gauntlet at her. Piper grabbed it before she continued swinging towards where she hoped Peter would be.
She looked around, noticing that she was quickly being surrounded. She looked around barely spotting Nebula, her timeline.
"Nebula!" She called out, waiting for her to look her way before she tossed the gauntlet.
Just in time to dodge the swing of another creature. She didn't know how long she battled. How long she barely managed to avoid being killed. How long she fought. When a giant explosion went off, sending her and the nearby creatures flying in different directions.
She laid on the ground disoriented for several moments before looking up.
Thanos stood in the center of the field, his back to her, gauntlet in hand.
Harry, Peter, Morgan, May, Pepper, Tony.
She shot to her feet, rushing to him as he lifted his hand-
She jumped onto his back and sunk her teeth into his neck willing her venom to inject into him. She heard him scream, almost making her smile. Still she held on. If she got him to stop moving they could kill him, end this once and for-
Her thoughts came to a screeching halt as he rolled on the ground, almost crushing her. She gasped excruciatingly, feeling one or two ribs break, and maybe one of her fangs too.
She put a hand to her mouth, feeling blood in her mouth as she blinked rapidly. She looked up to see Thanos towering over her, a giant foot lifted-
Carol crashed into him, sending him away.
She rolled onto her elbows looking over in time to see Thanos push Carol away with the power stone in his hand as Tony attacked from behind.
That's it! She realized getting to her feet. The gauntlet was made out of nanites, like the ones she infused into her gloves, meaning if she got the stones out she could wield them. And snap like Bruce had.
But Bruce may have just lost use of his arm. What would happen to her?
"Piper!" She heard Harry call over the comms as Tony was tossed away. "Where are you?!"
"I'm sorry." She said softly before running to Thanos and grabbing the gauntlet. He laughed at her as she moved her hands ever slightly to cover the stones.
"Why do you fight child?" He sneered as he pushed her away. She rolled onto her knees, glancing down to see the stones in her palm. "I am inevitable."
He was too narrow minded. She thought as she willed the nanites to move into place, feeling energy course through them into her. He thought only of his pain, and his ideals.
She looked up as he snapped. She smirked seeing his puzzled face. He snapped again. Nothing.
He then turned his gauntlet around showing the stones were gone.
This was bigger than them. It may be selfish, but she didn't want him to die just yet. She wanted him to suffer.
She lifted her head high as she sat tall staring him dead in the eye. "And..." These may be her last words. "We are..." This wasn't about or for her. "The Avengers."
Let him live, but all of his army turn to dust. She snapped her fingers-
And was in an orange world. Everything was gone, even the stones. She stood up looking around, spotting a lone figure not to far off.
She walked to the figure, quickly noticing it was a man with slightly gray brown hair.
He turned to her. She felt her heart stutter and eyes water as he smiled gently.
"Daddy?"
"Well done baby girl." He said as he hugged her. "Your mom and I couldn't e prouder."
"I've missed you." She whispered as he stroked her hair gently. "So has Peter."
"We didn't want to leave you." He said as they separated, he held her hands gently. "But it's time for you to go back."
"Daddy?" She didn't want to leave him.
"They still need you. Never forget how much we love you." He kissed her forehead gently.
She was then transported back to the battle field. She could see the bodies of Thanos army being turned to dust around them. She looked to see Thanos.
He stood, turning around as his minions died. He almost did appear to be mourning.
As the last of the dust settled, Thanos looked to her. "You let me live?"
"My life isn't yours to take." She panted as she saw the space assassins walk closer. "It's theirs."
As the three woman attacked, she felt all of her strength leave, and she fell limply back onto the ground her eyes closed. She just wanted to sleep.
"PIPER!" she heard Harry yell. Distantly she felt a tug on her right arm, as a pair of hands cupped her face.
Her eyes peeled open seeing Peter, Tony, Harry and Pepper surround her. "We win?"
"Why did you do that?" Tony asked quietly.
"Had to stop him..." Her words slurred. "Had to protect..." She blinked looking up to Pepper and Tony. "... Thank you."
Her eyes slipped shut and darkness consumed her.
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AN:
Thanos is gone! In the movie I felt Thanos death was a little too impersonal with him just turning to dust. However I think Thanos seeing his army and 'children' who liked him disintegrate, and knowing his plan would fail, and being killed by his remaining 'children' would be devastating.
Also I had Natasha giving orders during the A- Force moment just to show her leadership skills off because of *Spoilers for next chapter*.
And Piper once again may be dead! And still no regrets leaving y'all on cliffhangers. Ha, I'm evil.
And just after she and Peter reunited too! Sorry it wasn't long, but hope it was still nice.
Anyways thank you everyone who reviewed.
AlchemyWriter: Yes Peter and Piper were reunited! And I hope you weren't disappointed with the battle. Action scenes are not my forte yet. And yes they were in the A-Force scene.
HeavenlyMonster: Aww, thanks
Padgent: Are you mad this is another cliffhanger? And I love it when people tell me my story is believable! I feel like I'm forcing so many things and it's nice to hear others enjoying it.
kaia: I can't kill Tony. I honestly tried writing this with the movie ending, but my fingers wrote this instead. As for Piper you will see.
reika88: So technically yes Harry did get dragged into the fight. But for plot convenience he just happened to be showing Piper his Hobgoblin suit at the same time! Many different characters have used this mantle. But I'm basing this more on the suit from Spider- Man 3 when Harry took over as Goblin. So there.
Grazi: Don't worry Tony's still alive. There will be Morgan and Peter interactions in the next chapter. And I'm glad you like the two Nebula's. Aww, I'm so glad you like this story. Thank you.
As always thank you all for reading. Please enjoy and review. Thank you.
Bye.