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The Sweetest Night Flower Of Wakanda 3 Chapter 8

Tamu is pretty sure she ended up blacking out for a couple of minutes when the explosion rocked the compound. All she can recall when they thought about it later on is a roaring in her ears and she falls and tumbles into darkness.

The next thing Tamu knows is water dripping on her from above, being covered in dirt and concrete dust, and large pieces of rubble strewn about it.

Groaning Tamu slowly rises to her feet, shaking off any remaining disorientation and grogginess from the attack. It takes a few seconds, but things slowly come back to her about what she'd been doing before impact.

Nebula! She'd been battling the fake and the imposter had activated the time portal to bring forth Thanos and his army into their future before Tamu could do anything to warn the others of this new plight. She must locate the Infinity Stones to prevent them from falling into enemy hands.

There is a slight opening where she can see sunlight on the outside, but it's too narrow for her to get through. Tamu will have to find another way to get out. As Tamu is moving through the narrow tunnels she attempts to make contact through the comm channel only to discover hers is broken beyond repair.

Great just great.

Tamu isn't running around for very long when she hears noises.

Growls snarls, and echoes of weapons firing.

Tamu hears shouts, realizing them to be coming from Barton's voice.

Tamu darts as fast as she possibly could in that indicated direction. A smaller explosion is heard that Tamu assumes to be from one of his weaponized arrows. Tamu braces as a precaution incase anything else comes apart from the shockwave created from it. When nothing else happens Tamu continues on her way.

Barton is just finishing off the last of the Chitaru pursuing him for the Infinity Stones when she arrives. In fact, she terminates the final one with one of her sais. Seeing that he's no safe Barton collapses onto his back, panting, taking a moment to catch his breath.

Waving a hand at her as she retrieves her sai, Barton said "Thanks."

"No problem," said Tamu.

Footsteps are heard. Tamu's back is to Barton so she doesn't see the person making an approach toward them.

Barton does.

"Oh, hey, I know you," said Barton, relieved.

Assuming it's one of their friends Tamu whirls around…and sees the Nebula imposter about to be handed the Infinity Gauntlet.

"No, Clint," shrieked Tamu.

Too late.

Infinity Gauntlet in hand the Nebula Imposter draws her gun, aiming it at Tamu and Barton both.

Speaking into her own communicator, the Nebula Imposter said "Father…I have the stones."

"What," said Barton, stunned.

"This isn't our Nebula," stated Tamu, shifting into her stance for a fight.

Tamu needn't have done so.

Gamora steps into the light, her own weapon trained onto the Nebula Imposter.

"Stop," said Gamora, firmly.

Behind Gamora emerges their Nebula with her hands raised in a placating gesture to keep the younger version of herself calm.

The Nebula Imposter gets off Barton, backing away. Tamu rushes forward to pull Barton to the side with her out of the crossfire.

"You're betraying us," observed the Nebula Imposter.

Beseechingly, Nebula said "You don't have to do this."

Raising her head, the Nebula Imposter said "I am this."

"No, you're not," disagreed Gamora.

Tapping her temple, Nebula said "You've seen what we become. You can change."

The hand holding the gun trembles slightly as the resolute expression on the Nebula Imposter's face shifts to uncertainty.

"Nebula, listen to her," insisted Gamora.

"You can change," said Nebula.

"He won't let me," said the Nebula Imposter, tone cracking from the pressure.

Making her decision the Nebula Imposter aims to fire her weapon at Gamora.

"No," shouted Gamora.

Not hesitating Nebula fires her blaster at her counterpart.

A direct hit to the chest, taking the other out instantly.

The Nebula Imposter drops, dead before she even touches the floor.

How sad.

Barton reclaims the Infinity Stones at the four of them stare at her in an ominous silence.

Her path could've been so much different if she'd just listened to her options.

Authors Note:

Almost there!

Heads up everyone there's someone on fanfiction you need to seriously watch out for. Early a couple of days ago after I woke up I was checking my email and I saw I had a new guest review on my A Dog's Purpose Is Strange Magic 2 sequel. I took a look at it and got a very big shock. Some random person I've never spoken to before on here or anywhere else in my life was basically threatening me. Intimidating and practically ordering me to write a threatening letter to someone on their behalf, telling to stay off of for life or else they and everyone else close to them would be killed, disgustingly telling them to kill themselves. And at the bottom of the message this crazy person wasn't done. Warning me that if I don't send the letter then they would kill me and for confirmation to email them to make absolutely sure I complied with their demands. Of course I did nothing of the sort. Instead of doing what they wanted I reported them to the website, sent copies of this deplorable guest review message to police officer cousins of mine so they could have it on file, and I went to a nearby police station and reported it.

When I spoke to the police officers and they checked everything on the message they saw, that while the address and names of business were accurate the people and their names were not. They agree it was more than likely a scam because of the email address on the bottom in order to perhaps get access to personal information or potentially hack my computer. Despite that I'm still very happy they took it seriously as I showed and told them everything. All the same I'm still very happy that I brought this to the attention of law enforcement. Even though the entire thing might be fake I'm still very happy to have brought this to the attention of those who can do something about it if it was legit in someway. This may have been a scam, but it's obvious these people are beyond irresponsible if they try to goad people into sending death threats to random strangers just to get access to info.

Be that as it may if this does unfortunately happen to you do not send any messages to the email addresses they put down and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you bring the message to the authorities immediately whether it is legit or not.

Because it's a guest review it might not be visible for a couple of days as it loads if it is sent to you. But when it does you should definitely pressing the report abuse button and send it to the email that leads to the support staff that is available.

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I hope you all like this one! I certainly did while writing it for your vast enjoyment! ;D

For those of you just starting out with my stuff there are other works on my profile that may catch your interest. I highly recommend you take a look as soon as the opportunity presents itself to you. Who knows, you may be pleasantly surprised by what you discover.

Stay safe everyone. Especially with all of these crazy natural disasters occurring a lot lately due to global warming and climate change everywhere for sure. I swear it's like they're getting worse and worse all the time and it's like officials are simply just ignoring it or pretending it doesn't exist entirely just to go on with their daily lives. Especially those in multi-million dollar companies that rely on certain elements of our planet that we rely on to naturally keep us safe instead of adapting and finding new safer ways to keep in business. There are so many options out there where they can adapt, but they just refuse to see it because all they care about is money. Climate change is altering so much faster than anyone can really keep track of.

So, in light of all this, it is important to live life to the fullest as much as anyone can.

I know I am. ;) See you guys next time.