➢𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣 𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗦➢

『 I wanted everything I never had
Like the love that comes with light
I wore envy and I hated that
But I survived 』
―𝘚𝘪𝘢, 𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 

⟶𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 9: 𝑨𝒔𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑺𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒓⟵

❝Uncle Thor!❞

-𝙼𝙰𝚈 𝟹𝟷𝚂𝚃, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟾-

𝚆 𝙰 𝙺 𝙰 𝙽 𝙳 𝙰

Some sort of help has to arrive.

They are trying, fighting with all strength and might presently left inside each Wakandan, Avenger, and ex Avenger to a point where pure exhaustion takes over.

Even with their weapons and enhanced strength—abilities of a sustainable energy source—Thanos' army of Outriders is much stronger than these Earth beings.

They needed someone who is not of this world to match what they are up against.

They need some sort of help.

The Winter Soldier goes down and fights off the large alien outrider that tries to devour him, raising up his handy knife to stab the being. Black Panther and Captain America remain fighting side by side when War Machine hovers just above the forcefield, releasing as much ammunition and explosive devices as possible to cut down the amounts entering, but it isn't enough.

Cull Obsidian knocks him out of the air with his large ax, and back on the battlefield Bruce Banner is dogpiled and pinned by the alien beings who still snarl.

He shouts out, "There's too many of them! Gyahhhhh!!!!" 

The Hulk Buster suit is smothered.

Agent Rockland continues blasting away as many Outriders as she can with her now unhinged pieces of the Tesseract, the sustainable energy source no longer chained to the white bracelets she previously wore—she does some damage. 

The White Cat continues doing all she can, which consists of an ambitious spirit fueling the strength in her spear plunging into the chests of many aliens who charge at her, as well as the ones that charge at her friend, Tarik.

Upon hearing her Uncle Bruce's voice over comm, Dani Rockland sweats dreadfully as she thinks to herself, this is too much.

They need some sort of help.

They need help.

...Help arrives.

A large rainbow beamed from the sky harshly lands on the ground of Wakanda, and first tossed out of it is an ax that glows with lightning and wreaks havoc on anything in its way. Tearing through Outriders and freeing the heroes, Stormbreaker finally flies into the hand of its master, its wielder... and that is none other than Thor. 

The God of Thunder.

Who enters Wakanda with the presence of two other beings by his side, one a tree, and the other... a raccoon?

That didn't matter with all that had already been seen.

Natasha Romanoff lifts a blonde brow in reaction to the man's appearance, while Steve Rogers grins wholeheartedly.

Happy chortles arise out of the throat belonging to Doctor Banner, and standing up straight and revealing his face while in the Hulk Buster suit, he says the truth, "Ahaha! You guys are so screwed now!"

Proxima and Cull sneer angrily, and someone who for once does not wear a sour expression upon seeing the figure of one of her most beloved—and most handsome—uncle figures, actually starts to laugh as well. Rejoice.

Dani breathes out with much ease, "Uncle Thor!"

Ania and Tarik are dumbfounded.

All continue to fight. 

Thor Odinson charges toward the group of Outriders still entering the dome, and with much conviction, emotion from a very most recent loss—the God bellows in a loud voice that is challenging, "BRING ME THANOS!"

Rocket and Groot chase after him, individual battle cries emerging, and after gathering enough lightning Thor leaps into the air—demonstrating his newfound strength in the falling of Asgard and promptly takes out more Outriders than anyone else on the field already had.

The sky turns dark and the clouds are gray, but Dani can still see as evident as day that her Uncle is back, and she needs to see him.

☽ ☽ ☽

It's when they are fending off the space dogs more efficiently now that Ania finds herself close by Bucky Barnes, and the temporary loss of her spear is quickly covered by the vibranium-armed SuperSoldier shooting down any outriders that try to get the jump on her.

Tarik tosses one of Nakia's glowing disk rings toward his best friend while she is without a weapon, and the White Cat catches it, thanking him nonverbally before joining the White Wolf in combat.

Also joining them in combat is Rocket Raccoon, who holds a gun.

"AHH! Come and get some, space dogs!"

Ania pinches a brow in confusion.

So does Bucky, but he utilizes the both of them firing to pick the being called 'Rocket' up, and holds him up at arm's length so that they can spin at 540 degrees and take down more outrider aliens. It works!

"Come on, get some, get some! Come on, get some!"

The Winter Soldier drops Rocket, who looks up at him with a fairly impressed look, "How much for the gun?"

Ania is pushed into silence based on the fact that she is still trying to get over that this animal... raccoon... is... talking. Huh. She's seen it all.

"Not for sale." Bucky fires more bullets before Rocket then asks another question.

"Okay, how much for the arm?"

Ania takes a good look at the black and gold metal arm that she and Sister Shuri had designed, and then accompanies Bucky in giving no response and instead moving onward—the sixteen-year-old hearing from behind her, "Oh, I'll get that arm."

She certainly hopes not.

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Thor performs many strides while using Stormbreaker, having that be his primary weapon, and using the large item like a baseball bat with lightning attached to it he simultaneously finds himself taking a breather with an old friend.

Steve exhales heavily, both panther-shaped shields still tightly fastened to his hands.

He looks to his fellow Avenger amidst the chaos, asking wittingly, "New haircut?"

"Noticed you've copied my beard." Thor, while grinning, gestures to the area around the Captain's mouth that is now coated with a thick amount of hair.

The SuperSoldier nods wearily, as he uses one of the vibranium shields to point at his face and the ultimate circumstance that led to it.

From behind them is the walking and living Groot from earlier, who impressively impales three Outriders at once.

"By the way, this is a friend of mine," Thor introduces, "Tree."

The stem-looking being lets out a battle snarl with the only three words he knows, "I am Groot!"

With much formality through a bucketload of puzzlement, Captain America places a hand over his right chest—informing earnestly, "I am Steve Rogers."

The two are immersed back into battle not even a second later, though before Thor can act a honey-blonde teenager wearing a royal blue leather jacket runs over to him, and practically jumps into his open arms, "Uncle Thor! You're back!"

"Oof!" The God of Thunder emits a muffled sound before content lights up the veins of his muscular skin, just like lightning, and reflexively his arms go to hug an enthusiastic Dani Rockland back as she greets him hello.

Thor pulls away to be met with the face of his now thirteen-year-old niece, and he has to say he really did miss her wholesome demeanor.

"Young One! How are you? It's been so long, and you've grown up so much!" He briefly takes her slender face in his hands before Dani gets a good look at him from peering up, and a hand of her own reaches out.

"Your... your eye, Uncle Thor... it's a different color!"

"Oh, that old thing," the God forcibly chuckles, before his voice turns a bit shrill when explaining, "Nothing to worry about, my Dear, just you know, a, a run-in with my older sister."

Dani tilts her head, bewildered at the comment, "You have a sister?"

"I... Did. I did have a sister." He corrects awkwardly and thankfully, avoiding any more explaining, grunts belonging to Captain America interrupt the reunion of the uncle and niece when slicing through an Outrider that nearly takes Dani's head off.

A bearded Steve Rogers stands up, "Can we please try and focus here?"

"Oh, my god." The thirteen-year-old scoffs, rolling her sea-foam irises into the back of her head before preparing to run off—though not before landing a sharp jab, "You always gotta take the fun out of everything..."

Her bitter attitude strikes an immediate chord inside Thor, who looks back at the former adopted father who will not glance back at him, and the God begins to wonder just what had gone on while he was gone? 

More importantly, why Dani Rockland-Rogers was acting a bit like Stark... and why there was a different demeanor she was sporting when around Cap? Her father.

☽ ☽ ☽

STAB!

STAB!

STAB!

Princess Ania continues to stab every last alien that comes her way, rapidly exerting her body back and forth until one comes up that she did not have time to shoo away. Luckily the one who has been watching out for her most takes the opportunity to step in and assist, and the White Tiger herself, Izitena, drives her spear up and into the alien dog—thrusting it off of her student. Daughter.

The White Cat swallows a breath of relief and instantly turns her tied-back head around to lock eyes with the woman and shows immense gratitude for her. Always.

Izitena nods.

Meanwhile, up in Shuri's Lab, a deep rumbling can be heard, catching the eighteen-year-old off guard as she still works on removing the Mind Stone from Vision's head.

An extremely tense and apprehensive Wanda Maximoff is aware of the sensation as well and quietly treks over to where the window of the administrative building projects disturbances from back by the trees. 

Big disturbances break through the bottom of the ground and come up to the surface as these large saucers.

Sharp, that will end any and all in their path.

"Fall back! Fall back now!" King T'Challa yells to his warriors on the battlefield.

Wanda looks anxiously back at Vision.

"Focus that fire on the left flank, Sam," Rhodey says as he still soars in his War Machine suit, trying desperately to find the weak spot in these saucers so that they can avoid crushing anyone.

Sam Wilson insists wholeheartedly, "I'm doing it!"

But there is no luck.

They are in trouble.

❀❀❀

Black Widow with her escrima sticks fights off a few Outriders, Okoye with her spear doing the same.

Both fight with much conviction, and not far away from them Agent Rockland does the same.

Dani continues using her hand as a signal blaster, sending blue forces of energy into all aliens in her path, but a brief pause in doing so results in her getting tackled by one she didn't have time to diffuse—and the thirteen-year-old raises her leg up as her eyes glow blue.

"Agh!" Another blast is signaled.

Scrambling back onto her feet as quickly as possible, the girl then notices along with Natasha and the General that the disks previously emerged from the ground are coming toward them at an unstoppably fast rate—and without thinking Dani steps forward.

Her hands raise up in front of her, and with all her concentration and energy she summons a blue barrier to expel out of her body. A ForceField, just like old times, but as more time passes when seemingly she is entirely responsible for holding back what was in danger of shredding them all—Dani does not have enough control nor power at the moment to successfully disband the saucers. She is not strong enough.

That's okay. Because someone else is.

Wanda Maximoff lands down in front of them, eyes glowing red, and with her neuro-electronic mind powers she lifts all of the threshers up and after looking back at what she is dealing with—pushes her palms down while the red magic coating them shoves the saucers in the direction of the Outrider alien dogs. Taking out a lot of them. 

Nearly all of them.

Natasha rises with a small smile, and Okoye frowns while flipping over her staff.

"Why was she up there all this time?"

Dani coughs up some smoke from exertion, as well as being brought to her knees due to the strenuous holding back with her ForceField.

Her powers have ceased, and she slumps back.

A strawberry-redhead turns around to meet her, though, after arriving on the battlefield, and Wanda extends a hand to the surrogate sister that once deceived her during a civil war.

Her non-gloved fingers linger while the younger girl stares up at the older one, in awe, and breathing heavily a few times, Dani admits, "I'm sorry I tricked you."  

"Sorry I lied." 

The young woman apologizes... before the dimples on her cheeks become more noticeable.

Dani accepts her offer, allowing the Maximoff girl to help her back up and then the two of them decide to reconcile, putting their differences aside and using one another's similar abilities to instead work together in taking down the Outriders.

Outriders, Proxima Midnight, and Cull Obsidian so that they can hold them off long enough until the Mind Stone is out of Vision's head. Out of his head and then destroyed, so that Thanos can't get it. 

Little did they know though, during this time, the Mad Titan was well on his way to getting the other Infinity Stone he needed.

Time.

Wielded by Caitlyn Strange's uncle, Stephen Strange... The Troubled Youth was about to get up close and personal with an Infinity Stone when a battle on Titan takes place.

A battle that ends with a bargain.

They thought they were done with those. They aren't.

They aren't.

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heyyyyy so this has been sitting in my drafts for a while all finished and stuff just had to fix some gifs. tbh I prob still won't be updating for a hot sec cause I am on that grind of rewriting my stories and giving y'all the best content I can because your support means everything (plus I am 2 weeks shy of graduating high school so things are a little hectic right now) anyways I hope you enjoyed this little short chappy and won't kill me for popping away for a lil while. I'm still active on here I promise ;)

Take care & have a wonderful day/night ❤️

~xxoo, Alessandra~

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