Did you see the sparks, feel the hope? You are not alone.
Cause someone's out there, sending out flares.
Chapter Five
Wanda opened her eyes and blinked several times. That was the best sleep she had had in a long time. She had felt safe. Protected. She looked up around to find herself wrapped in Bucky's arms. Not wanting to leave, she settled deeper into his arms.
Steve who had been sleeping peacefully, woke up when someone jostled his arm. He glanced to his left and saw Bucky holding Wanda tightly in his arms. They were both sound asleep. Good old Bucky. Always did get all the ladies.
Chuckling quietly, Steve moved to wake up Bruce. Bruce, in turn, went to get Tony. Soon, Natasha wanted to see what all the fuss was about, so she came back too, followed by Clint, who had put the Quinjet on autopilot.
"Okay, that's kind of cute." Clint said. "Should we wake them up?"
"Let them sleep a little longer." Natasha smiled at the sleeping pair. "They look pretty comfortable." It had been a long time since Natasha had trusted someone enough to let them hold her like that. In fact, the only one who had ever held her like that was- she glanced at Clint and smiled.
Bucky had been awake ever since Steve had woken Bruce up. Since the war, Bucky had been a very light sleeper. He clutched Wanda a little closer to him.
Hearing everyone gather around, he decided he should just pretend to be asleep. So that's what he did. Not that he was upset about having to stay there. He was rather content where he was.
Wanda stirred and her eyes opened. She caught Bucky looking at her and smiled. She sat up. "I'm going to go to the restroom. I'll be right back."
She hurried to the tiny room in the back of the Quinjet and used the facilities. As she stood at the sink washing her hands, she examined her appearance in the mirror. Her long brown hair hung straight down her back and her face was pale. I hope I'm not getting sick. I look rather pale.
Suddenly, the Quinjet lurched and she was thrown into the mirror. She bounced off of the mirror and back onto the ground. Ouch. What's going on?
She made her way to the door. It was challenging because the Quinjet was pitching from side to side. Wanda burst out of the room. "What's happening?"
"We're being attacked." Steve responded, dashing to the window, his shield in hand.
"By what?" Wanda called red energy to her hands.
"We don't know." Steve told her. "I'll be right back." He opened the airlock and jumped out.
Bucky grabbed his gun and came to stand beside Wanda.
"Just concentrate on flying the plane." Wanda heard Natasha say to Clint. "I've got your back."
Wanda thought about how true that was for all of the Avengers. They all had one another's backs. Nobody was going to let anything happen to each other.
Bucky and Wanda crossed the room to the still open airlock. Wanda looked down at the ground, and saw how far away it was. She gulped.
Off in the distance a huge fleet of ships approached the Quinjet. Tony put his Iron Man suit on. "I'll go help Capsicle." He flew out of the jet.
"We should help too." Wanda said. She could levitate both her and Bucky safely down to the ground."When I say jump, jump."
"Okay." Bucky responded without any hesitation.
"Jump!" She launched herself out the door, with Bucky right behind her. Using her powers, she was able to put them on the ground, unharmed.
Bucky nodded at her when she asked if he was okay. She appreciated that he had trusted her enough to jump blindly out of a plane, knowing that she wouldn't let anything happen to him.
"Bruce can defend the Quinjet. Let's help Steve down here." Wanda raced over to where Steve was fighting side by side with Vision and Tony. They were battling a huge army of…..aliens?
Blue aliens covered in armor from head to toe. One of them sent out a bolt of electricity from his hands. Bucky ducked quickly and pulled Wanda down with him just in time. "Thank you." She told him. She hadn't been paying attention.
"Who are they?" Wanda asked no one in particular, throwing one alien into another one, effectively knocking them both out.
"I don't know." Steve replied, bending backwards to avoid a blast of lightning. "All I know is that they attacked us and we have to defend ourselves."
An alien approached Steve and raised its hand to stab him in the back. Before Wanda could yell for Steve to turn around, she saw a bullet fly and hit the alien right between the eyes. Whirling around, her eyes settled on Bucky who was lowering his gun.
Steve made eye contact with Bucky and nodded at him.
Bucky nodded back and went back to fighting the aliens. Wanda smiled to herself and continued fighting.
About ten minutes later, in the heat of battle, Wanda heard Steve yell: "No!"
She ceased fighting and looked to her left where she saw Vision collapsing onto the ground. An alien stood above him, holding up a yellow gem. The mind stone. The alien must have ripped it out of Vison's head.
Vision's eyes were closed and he wasn't moving. The alien army began to pull back. Wanda rushed to Vision's side. Not quite sure how to check to see if he was still breathing, Wanda just pressed her ear to his chest.
She started to panic when she didn't hear anything or feel his chest moving up and down. "Vision? Vision, wake up."
Tony and Steve looked on sadly.
Bucky pulled Wanda away from Vision. She turned into his embrace and wrapped her arms around him. "Is he dead?" Her voice was muffled a little as her head was pressed against his chest.
"I don't know."
A.N- Sorry this chapter isn't as long. I've been really busy this week cause school started on Monday(ugh) But anyway, thank you guys for all the reviews! I love reading them :D I will try to update quicker this time. ❤