THE FADING FALLEN ● Bucky Barnes X OC ● 18+ ● ENGLISH [COMPLETE]

Chapter 32

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That weird feeling of falling apart into a million tiny pieces faded away just as quickly as it had come.

Bucky was barely able to catch himself with his hands before he landed on the ground. His left arm was still there.

When he looked in the direction from which he heard her voice, he saw nothing. Where he last saw her, there was nothing but forest.

Her partly bloodied and horrified face, was gone. Emilia was gone.

So were Steve and Thor, who had just been standing in front of him.

An uneasy feeling spread through him. For he had no idea what happened.

The trees and foliage seemed to change in a single flow around him as he spotted Sam, Okoye and T-Challa.

Wanda was also not far from them, kneeling beside a tree trunk.

"Where are they?"

T-Challa's aghast expression was like the others'. No one could explain what was going on.

Still eyeing the area, Bucky grabbed his machine gun from under the masses of leaves.

He set out with the others to search, and in the process came across Wakanda's hordes of rulers.

Where battle had formerly left deep furrows in the earth, pristine greenery was visible.

The enemies had disappeared.

"I am Groot?" Bucky turned a little confused to the talking tree, which looked at him with the rather frightened expression of a child, while flashes of gold formed in front of them.

He didn't know what he was saying and was thinking that Emilia could definitely converse with the young seedling in some way.

The golden sparks grew larger and larger. Until circles were formed.

Bucky suddenly seemed to know what Groot meant by his question. His grip strengthened around the machine gun.

"I have no idea what that is."

The emerging black hole in front of them became clearer. They saw a battlefield. The very one that had been here in Wakanda shortly before.

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After being thrown rather roughly against a rock, Emilia regained consciousness after a few seconds.

It was useless.

They were in the same situation as they had been five years ago. And again they were about to lose everything.

The crackling sound behind made her turn around, panting and still half kneeling on the floor.

First one, then two and then more and more portals appeared, through which she could see not only her beloved Wakanda, but also many other and unknown places.

The troops and flying ships came through. They faced Thanos and his army with courage and confidence.

Relief spread through her. Bruce's finger snap seemed to have had its effect.

Emilia straightened up in pain. On the other side, amid loud rumblings of debris, she could see Giant Ant Man emerging with Rhodey and the others.

It was like a load off her mind when she saw that everyone seemed to be okay.

For a few seconds, she let her eyes continue to wander over the field. Wanda was back, as was Shuri. Well and alive.

Only one face she couldn't find among the many others.