*EDIT* Thanks to Daisy96 for spotting my mistake, I've missed a chapter. You may recall several chapters ago I did this too, and I believe that is the source of this mix up too. This is what happens when you leave updating for too long kids!
So you will need to head back to Chapter 36 to fill yourself in with what happened.
Hi guys!
Long time between chapters, I know, but I kind of got stuck trying to remember what happened in a particular scene and then life got in the way, but now I'm back.
And this tale is nearly over! :'(
Or is it? With the news that Bucky and Falcon will have their own show, I'm toying with the idea of having another fic based on their adventures with Lex in tow. Let me know what you think!
Thanks to all those still hanging on for this wild ride, and thank you to our new partygoers ,justanothermewlingquim, kjl106, writer chickie, TayTayFogs1595, plumpeaches, anothercarly, ItsJustMe-94, The Midnightwolf15, The Ghost's Are Real, innerseeker, Zose, LewtonSpoons, alxnnxhh, Zackliphon, the-dork-across-the-road, MyCookiemonster95, and CupcakeLoopy.
Thanks also to reviewers rosafern, AnimeFreak71777, AliceCullen3, and Janeth16
This chapter is quite short in comparison, but I promise, it will not be as long between updates, and I kind of needed to keep certain scenes together so it all made sense.
Enjoy
xo
Chapter 36
La Cucuracha
Lex, Clint, Nebula and her sister turned and began to try and fight off the tides of Chitauri and Outriders that were now hunting them. Lex took the gauntlet from Clint, attaching it to the magnet at the back of her armour so that they could fight more freely.
She sliced through alien after alien, before she found herself surrounded and separated from her allies. She carefully looked around at the six aliens. As she considered her options, debating whether her rifle might be suited to the situation, there was a blur of green and magenta. Nebula's sister leapt into the circle, a sword appearing in her hand, and she began cutting down the aliens around them. Lex was quick to join her, slicing through half the group that had thought to surround them.
They looked around, once all the aliens had been felled, before Lex met her gaze. "So, you got a name? 'Nebula's sister' seems a little on the long side."
"Gamora, my name is Gamora."
"Lex. Thanks for the help."
"It's the least I could do," Gamora replied quickly. Their attention soon returned to the fight at hand as more aliens charged towards them.
"Lex, there's too many, we're going to need to make a run for it again!" Clint shouted as he and Nebula hurried over to the pair who had just cut down another tide of aliens.
"Oh, come on, there's got to be a way to end this," Lex groaned, shaking her head.
"The only way to end this, is to end Thanos," Nebula said coldly, looking around for the Mad Titan himself.
"Sounds simple enough," Lex replied sarcastically, picking up a large piece of rubble and hurling it up at the remnants of a wall beside them. The stone hit a Chitauri fighter who was trying to sneak towards them, knocking him out and causing him to crash to the ground.
"Let's get to Steve and Tony, maybe they've got an idea," Clint suggested, a slight smirk on his face as he looked over at the alien she had just knocked down. The group made a run for it as more Outriders and Chitauri appeared over the piles of rubble around them.
Steve, Tony and Thor began to struggle to get back to their feet again. Thanos had the upper hand against them, even though it was three against one, and even though Steve had proven to be worthy of wielding Mjolnir.
Lex suddenly appeared, running towards them with the rest of the remaining Avengers in tow. Steve glanced back when he heard her shouting as she fought off aliens. She turned to slice through an alien that got too close to her with her stave. He grimaced when he saw she had the gauntlet strapped to her back.
"Why is she bring that back here?" Tony hissed, deactivating his helmet.
"Probably has something to do with these things following me!" Lex shouted back from where she was fighting.
"Wow…she heard that?" Tony said, frowning.
"Not the time, Tony," Steve warned, turning his attention back to Thanos, who looked over at Lex with a malevolent grin on his face. Thor and Tony both looked at the Mad Titan with disdain.
"In all my years of conquest...violence...slaughter... It was never personal," he sneered, beginning to walk towards them slowly, with an air of superiority. "But I'll tell you now... what I'm about to do to your stubborn, annoying little planet... I'm gonna enjoy it. Very, very much." He gave a wave of his hand, seeming to signal to his forces.
Behind Thanos, his ships began to land and open, causing wave upon wave of aliens to appear. Outriders, Chitauri and the Children of Thanos. Steve recognized them from his last encounter in Wakanda. The female he had fought previously was there, an angry look on her face as she led many of the Outriders down the hill towards them.
Lex, Clint, Nebula and the newcomer hurried up the hill, putting enough distance between them and the aliens pursuing them, with a little help from Thor and his lightning, before sliding to a stop beside Steve.
"Steve, we have got to do something," Lex said breathlessly, eyeing off Thanos and his forces. "We can't keep this up for much longer."
Steve clenched his jaw. He knew all too well, that she was right.
As the two groups stood ready to fight to the end, there was a crackling over their commlinks.
"Cap, you hear me?"
Lex glanced at Clint, who also looked as confused as she felt.
Steve looked around in confusion.
"Cap, it's Sam. Can you hear me?" They heard the sound of sparks, and Lex saw them beginning to appear in thin air all around them. The aliens all around them noticed too, turning their attention to the strange occurrences.
"Steve!" Lex shouted, drawing his attention to them.
"On your left," Sam said, and Lex swore she could hear the smirk on his face. Suddenly, the sparks to Steve's left expanded and it looked like a hole appeared in thin air, but what caught Lex by even more of a surprise was the smell.
It smelt like Wakanda.
Three figures stepped through the hole, Okoye, Shuri and T'Challa. Lex's mouth fell agape as she stared at T'Challa. He was back. When she had last been in the Golden City, they were mourning the loss of T'Challa and Shuri had been forced to take over his reign with the assistance of her mother.
T'Challa looked at Steve first, then over to Lex, a grin appearing on his face as Sam zoomed in overhead from the portal, eliciting a laugh as he did so.
"Hey crazy lady," Sam called as he flew by her.
"Hey yourself." She grinned as he flew a loop above her, as more portals appeared, with more and more armies joining them. Lex stared as more and more troops from all across the galaxy seemed to appear out the portals. Space ships, Asgardians, sorcerers and Wakandans. Their numbers swelled, and she finally felt like they stood a chance.
The portals began to close finally, having deposited heroes from all over the galaxy to join Steve and his remaining Avengers.
Dr Strange looked around, seeming to be counting those around him. "Is that everyone?" he asked expectantly, glancing at Wong beside him.
Wong looked up at him incredulously as he created his shield. "What, you wanted more?"
There was the sound of earth shifting where the Avengers facility had once stood, and Ant-Man appeared in his giant form, carrying Hulk, War Machine and Rocket.
Lex saw movement to her right, looking to see Bucky moving to stand beside her. He smirked as her eyes went wide. "Lex."
She coughed slightly, before looking straight ahead. "Bucky."
Steve looked at the pair, a relieved and determined smile on his face. His eyes roved further along the lines of his army, before he looked back towards Thanos' forces. "AVENGERS!" He raised his hand in the air, Mjolnir flying into his outstretched hand.
"That's new…" Shuri commented under her breath to Okoye, who raised an eyebrow in his direction at the development.
"Assemble."
Thor roared loudly, moving first as he began to run past Captain America, calling on his lightning as he ran. Thanos lifted his sword and pointed it towards the Avengers forces, causing his aliens forces to also charge down the hill. The two forces charged towards each other, except for Lex and Clint, who turned and made a break for it.
"Cap, what do you want us to do with this damn thing?" Clint asked as he fired arrows at some aliens encroaching on Lex as she ran ahead of him, the gauntlet still attached to her back.
"Guys, we need to get this gauntlet out of here," Lex said breathlessly through their comms as she hurdled debris.
"Get those stones as far away as possible!" Steve exclaimed, narrowly avoiding a strike from Thanos.
"No! We need to get them back where they came from," Bruce replied, picking up a large piece of rubble and hurling it with his good arm. It bowled through the ranks of aliens charging towards them, killing a handful in the process and severely injuring several others.
"No way to get them back. Thanos destroyed the Quantum Tunnel," Tony called as he crashed through the ranks of aliens, before turning and firing a blast at Thanos' back, which he easily dodged.
"Hold on! That wasn't our only time machine," Scott exclaimed as he shrank back to his normal size, looking around hastily.
"You think that thing survived?" Lex asked as she turned and sliced at an alien who got a little too close for comfort. He pulled his keys out from his pocket and pressed a button. 'La Cucaracha' could be heard playing from across the compound. "You have got to be kidding me," she exclaimed, turning to look back the way they had come.
Steve looked up to the sky, seeing the Wasp fly past, as well as many others flying through the sky as they fought back aliens. "Anyone see an ugly, brown van up there?"
There was no reply at first, until finally Valkyrie, a colleague of Thor's, called back as she flew overhead on a Pegasus. "Yes! But you're not gonna like where it's parked." She motioned towards it so Lex and Clint could see. It was positioned behind the alien's battle lines.
"Well, we wouldn't want this to be easy now, would we?" Lex groaned, before she and Clint were quick to change directions.
"I'll meet you there, guys!" Scott called, as Lex and Clint slowly began to work their way across the compound, ducking and weaving aliens and stray fire from their allies.
"Scott, how long you need to get that thing working?" Tony asked, as he fired at some aliens that were gaining on Clint and Lex.
"Maybe ten minutes."
"I'll give you five!" Lex exclaimed as she pulled out a handgun and fired a bullet into the head of an alien that charged at her, as she continued on her way to the south side of the compound, ducking as another alien tried to jump at her from overhead. Clint fired an arrow that hit the alien square between the eyes, continuing to shadow Lex as she ran.
"Get it started. We'll get the stones to you," Steve ordered, watching as Lex jumped in the air to avoid an alien but was crash tackled by another one. "Lex!" He watched as Lex grabbed the Outrider by its jaws, holding them off her while Clint did his best to fire at more that looked to capitalize on her being preoccupied. Steve threw Mjolnir, and it struck the alien in the head, throwing it backwards and into a line of oncoming aliens.
"Thanks Cap," Lex said breathlessly, as she quickly stood up, wiping her hands on her armour. "Gross, alien drool." She reached back and pulled the gauntlet from her back, turning to Clint. "Clint, you need to run this, I'll give you cover."
Wasp zoomed by them, on her way towards the van, where Scott was also beginning to make his way. "We're on it, Cap," she called as she fired at some aliens that got a little too close to Scott's back. She swooped down, grabbing Scott and they both shrank out of view.
Lex ran ahead of Clint, fighting off as much of the onslaught of aliens as she could, the problem was, they had finally caught wind of the fact that they were trying to get the stones out of there. All of Thanos' forces seemed to have diverted all of their attention towards them now.
Lex skidded along the ground, her stave slashing through several aliens at once before she slammed into a wall of rubble.
"Ow…" she groaned, stumbling back to her feet and running back towards Clint. She slashed at another Chitauri, before a group of them lunged at Clint. She was quick to shove him away, taking the brunt of their attack, forcing her onto the ground. "GET OFF OF ME!"
Suddenly, she felt as if there was a strong wave of energy blast above her, and all but one Chitauri was flung from above her. She capitalized, kicking out at the alien and it reeled backwards with a snarl. Before she could bring up her stave to cut through it with the Vibranium blade, there was a gun shot and the alien was thrown backwards, lying still on the ground. She was quick to sit up quickly, looking around in bewilderment, as Sam swooped low overhead, imbedding his wings into a large Outrider that had appeared over a mound of rubble, looking to capitalize on Lex's moment of distraction.
T'Challa strode forwards, with Bucky beside him, T'Challa deactivating his helmet. Lex's eyes widened when she noticed the rifle in Bucky's hand, realizing he had been the one to shoot at the alien. "Thanks for joining us on this fine day."
"You've got a weird interpretation of fine," Bucky replied, a hint of amusement in his eyes as he smiled at her.
She swallowed heavily at the smile he gave her, before looking at Clint as he hurried towards them. He looked exhausted, and she didn't blame him. For all her enhanced abilities, she was starting to feel the efforts of the last five years.
T'Challa looked to Clint and motioned to the gauntlet. "Clint! Give it to me."
"Don't need to ask me twice," he answered breathlessly. He tossed it to T'Challa, who nodded to the two super soldiers, before reactivating his helmet and hurrying back towards the van.
Lex watched him go, before reactivating the Vibranium blades on her stave as she looked around at the aliens who were now running towards them, obviously trying to pursue T'Challa. She moved into a ready stance. "So, where have you been?" she asked, glancing sideways at Bucky.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," he replied, before raising his rifle into his shoulder. He glanced at her from the corner of his eye and smiled again. "You look good."
She raised her eyebrows and smirked back at him. "Yes, because that seemed really important to me at this moment."
He grinned back at her, as she shook her head before running towards the nearest alien.
I promise, the next chapter will be up in a day or two.
xo
Krayzee