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Makena sighed in relief as everyone was back to the present. Well, not everyone. Makena's brows scrunched in confusion as she looked at Clint, seeing no Natasha next to him. "Did we get 'em all?" Bruce asked, but Makena was completely zoned out, wondering where Nat was.

"Are you telling me this actually worked?"

"Clint, where's Nat?" Makena heard Bruce ask. Everyone finally noticed her missing seeing as Clint had dropped to his knees, his face filled with grief.

Makena sighed, a tear falling from her eye as she had a feeling someone wouldn't come back. And she knew Nat would never let Clint die when he had a family.

Makena was the first to walk away, walking past Nebula, accidentally bumping her shoulder. "Sorry," Makena mumbled. Nebula glanced back at Makena, clearly unaware of who she was but she seen Makena in her memory drive.

Makena joined the others on the dock, leaning on the pillar as she looked up at the blue sky.

"Do we know if she had family?" Tony had asked. Makena kept quiet, unsure if Natasha had wanted anyone to know about Yelena. Steve only knew Yelena was a Black Widow but Makena was the only one to know she was Nat's sister. Makena shared a look with Clint and they both stayed quiet.

"Yeah. Us." Steve said.

"What?" Thor questioned Tony.

"Huh?"

"What-What are you doing?" Thor stammered.

"Just asked him a question."

"Yeah, no, you're acting like she's dead. Why are we acting like she's dead? We have the stones, right? As long as we have the stones. Cap, we can bring her back. Isn't that right? So, stop this shit. We're the Avengers. Get it together." Thor said, clearly in denial of Natasha's unfortunate death.

"Can't get her back," Clint spoke up.

"What's he...? What?"

"It can't be undone. It can't." Clint stated.

Thor laughed in disbelief, "Look, I'm sorry, no offense but you're a very earthly being, okay? And we're talking about space magic. And 'can't' seems very definitive. Don't you think?"

"Yeah, look, I know that I'm way outside my pay grade here. But she still isn't here, is she?"

"No, that's my point."

"It can't be undone. Or that's at least what the red floating guy had to say. Maybe you wanna go talk to him, okay? Go grab your hammer and you go fly and you talk to him!" Makena walked over, placing a hand on his shoulder, and he sighed, calming himself down a bit.

"It was supposed to be me. She sacrificed her life for that goddamn stone. She bet her life on it," Clint spoke, holding himself from breaking down.

Makena blinked, a bit taken back as Bruce had chucked a bench across the pond in frustration and anger. "She's not coming back. We have to make it worth it. We have to." Bruce said.

Steve stood up, "We will."

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Makena stood next to Rocket, watching closely as Tony had started manually placing the Infinity Stones onto a gauntlet capable of holding the power of the stones.

"Boom!" Rocket shouted, startling Tony and Bruce. Makena nudged Rocket who chucked mischievously.

"All right, the glove's ready. Question is, who's gonna snap their freakin' fingers." Rocket spoke as they had the glove in some case to hold it.

"I'll do it," Thor immediately spoke up.

"Excuse me?" Tony questioned.

"It's okay."

"Stop, stop, slow down!" Tony and Steve put their hand out to stop Thor before he could grab the glove. "Thor, just wait. We haven't decided who's gonna put that on yet," Steve said.

"I'm sorry. What, we're all just sitting around waiting for the right opportunity?" Thor questioned.

"We should at least discuss it," Scott added.

"Look, sitting here staring at the thing is not gonna bring everybody back. I'm the strongest Avenger, okay? So, this responsibility falls upon me." Thor argued, making a point but also not making one.

Makena looked at the glove as Tony and Thor bickered. "Stop it! Just let me! Just let me do it. Just let me do something good. Something right," Thor pleaded with Tony.

"Look, it's not just the fact that that glove is channeling enough energy to light up a continent. I'm telling you. You're in no condition," Tony countered.

"What do you think is coursing through my veins right now?"

"Cheez Whiz?" Rhodey added.

Thor chose to ignore Rhodey, "Lightning. Lightning."

"Lightning won't help you, pal. It's gotta be me. You saw what those stones did to Thanos. They almost killed him. None of you could survive." Bruce said, walking over to the glove.

"How do we know you will?" Steve asked.

"We don't. But the radiation's mostly gamma. It's like...I was made for this."

Makena watched as Bruce picked up the glove, as much as she would've done it herself, she didn't think she even held enough power to hold them all. Despite being a super soldier. Bruce was the right call to do this. Makena just wished he didn't have anything to lose, but he did and that's what sucked.

"Good to go, yeah?" Tony asked.

"Let's do it."

"Okay, remember, everyone Thanos snapped away five years ago, you're just bringing them back to now, today. Don't change anything from the last five years." Tony instructed.

"Got it," Bruce nodded understandingly.

Scott and Rhodey put their helmets back on, Steve held up his shield and Rocket placed on his goggles. Makena pulled out her knife and turned it into a purple shield (like Tony's but purple yk) and held it up, pushing Rocket behind her. Tony put up his own shield, making sure it protected himself and Clint, next to him.

"Friday, do me a favor and activate Barn Door Protocol, will ya?" Tony requested to his AI system. "Yes, boss."

Makena glanced around seeing the compound go into lockdown mode. Bruce slowly began to put his right hand in the glove, once it was fully on he groaned in pain, dropping to his knee. The Infinity Stones burned his arm, and sweat dripped from his forehead.

"Take it off! Take it off!" Thor objected.

"No, wait. Bruce, are you okay?' Steve asked. "Talk to me, Banner," Tony added.

After a few seconds, Bruce spoke, "I'm okay. I'm okay."

Bruce screamed, panting heavily as he forced his fist up, then snapped his fingers. Bruce fell unconscious and the sizzling glove fell off his arm. They immediately ran to Bruce and Clint kicked away the smokey glove.

"Don't move him." Makena watched worriedly as Tony iced Bruce's right arm. It had clearly shrunk and burned like Thanos's had. "Did it work?" Bruce breathed out, still in pain.

"We're not sure. It's okay."

Makena walked over to a corner and turned on her beads, not seeing any messages or calls, she sighed in defeat. Makena glanced over and furrowed her brows seeing Clint on the phone. "Guys, I think it worked," Just as Scott said that, the entire compound began to blow up.

Makena groaned as she was forcefully thrown into a wall and it crumbled down on her. "Rocket?!" Makena shouted out in concern for her friend despite being in her own situation.

"Makena!" Steve shouted out.

"I'm over here! I can't breathe!" Makena groaned as she tried to force the rubble off of her but the metal held her down. Steve and Tony ran over, and Steve pulled up the metal with a groan as Tony pulled her out.

"Here," Tony said, handing Makena her knife as she stood up.

Makena turned the knife into a gun and put it in her holster, before she, Tony and Steve walked over to Thor. That's where they all saw Thanos, sitting down doing absolutely nothing.

"What's he been doing?" Tony asked.

"Absolutely nothing," Thor replied.

"Where are the stones?" Steve asked.

"Somewhere under all this," Tony answered. "All I know is he doesn't have 'em."

"So, we keep it that way," Makena spoke up. There was no way in hell, Thanos was gonna snap his fingers again.

"You know it's a trap, right?" Thor stated, more than he asked.

"Yeah. I don't much care," Tony said.

"Good. Just as long as we're all in agreement." Thor's eyes turned lighting blue and he reached out his hands. Thunder crackled from the cloudy skies and Stormbreaker and Mjölnir landed in his hands, and his suit magically came on. Makena still had no clue how that worked or how to pronounce the hammers name.

"Let's kill him properly this time."

All four of them slowly made their way to Thanos, Makena on Tony's left with her spear in her hand.

Thanos looked at them, almost amused. "You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me." Thanos spoke. Just hearing his voice made Makena want to rip out his vocal cords.

Makena, Tony and Thor all went separate ways to surround him, Steve in front. "I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you've shown me...that's impossible. As long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist."

"Yep, we're all kinds of stubborn," Tony said sarcastically.

"I'm thankful. Because now, I know what I must do. I will shred this universe down to it's last atom. And then, with the stones you've collected for me, create a new one, teeming with life, that knows not what it has lost, but only what it has been given." Makena watched as Thanos had stood up, placed on his helmet and remove his huge two sided weapon from the ground.

"A grateful universe."

"Born out of blood," Steve said.

"They'll never know it. Because you won't be alive to tell them." Thanos stated deadly in reply.

Thor was the first to charge forward, Tony also following in tow. They all began to fight him, but he was much stronger, easily blocking their hits. Makena threw out her hand to pull the weapon from his hand and he grabbed her hand, and threw her to ground. "Ugh, asshole," Makena spit out.

Makena and Steve shared a look before she jumped onto Steve's shield and jumped onto Thanos's shoulders, plunging her spear into his shoulder. Thanos groaned and grabbed her, throwing her off and into Steve who tried catching her but when she fell, her head hit a rock, effectively knocking her unconscious. Thanos pulled out Makena's spear and broke it in half using all his strength as it was vibranium.

Tony and Thor tried teaming together which failed as Thor's smaller hammer hit Tony, knocking him into some rubble, unconscious. Thanos threw off Steve and now Thor was fighting him.

As Thanos was beating Thor, he reached for Stormbreaker only for Thanos to grab the axe and try to shove it into Thor's chest. But then, Mjölnir rised from the ground, hitting Thanos, stopping him from effectively killing Thor. Thanos turned around and Mjölnir landed in Steve Rogers hand. Proving that Captain America was worthy.

"I knew it!" Thor cheered.

Thanos kicked Thor back and turned back to Steve. They both charged forward, Steve swung Mjölnir and uppercut Thanos with the hammer. They continued to go at it, Steve actually getting the upper hand by using Mjölnir and the shield together. Steve harnessed lightning and used it against Thanos. Steve went to crush Thanos against the ground but Thanos moved just in time.

They continued to go at it, Thanos effectively getting the upper hand. Thanos cut the inner thigh of Steve and punched Mjölnir out of Steve's hand. Thanos brought his weapon down on Steve but he out his shield up just in time. Unfortunately the weapon sliced through the vibranium. Thanos continued to bring his weapon down on Steve, and soon the shield was halfway destroyed.

Thanos threw Steve back a few feet and it took him a few seconds before Steve was forcing himself up to his feet. Not giving up.

"In all my years of conquest, violence, slaughter, it was never personal. 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." As he finished up his statement, his army own army arrived. And it was the biggest army known to kind.

Steve let out a strained grunt as he finally got to his feet, breathing heavily but still ready to defend Earth and many more planets. Steve tightened the shield on his bruised and bloody arm and began to walk forward to Thanos and his army. Not going to give up without a fight.

Makena's eyes opened slowly as she heard something in her coms.

"Hey, Cap, you read me?" Makena recognized the voice to be Sam's.

She sighed in relief, realizing it worked, they brought everyone back.

"Cap, it's Sam. Can you hear me?"

"On your left."

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a.n: im used to writing fight scenes but jeez was this complicated

cliffhanger...sorry baes

also totally didn't make a kehlani book crossover with my tish book...

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