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𖢻 𝟤𝟢𝟣𝟪, 𝗐𝖺𝗄𝖺𝗇𝖽𝖺 𖢻

EVEN AFTER MARTA PURPOSEFULLY MADE Bruce angry, the Hulk wouldn't come out. So he activated Veronica, the suit Tony had used to fight the Hulk when he was hit by Wanda's powers years ago. Sam and Rhodey flew beside Marta's jet as everyone else was transported to the edge of the barrier with Wakandan soldiers. Steve tried to talk to Marta before she boarded her jet, but in Marta's mind, there was nothing to talk about.

        "How we looking, Bruce?" Natasha asked through the comms, checking on Bruce in his new suit.

        "Yeah, I think I'm getting the hang of it," Bruce responded, testing the suit's thrusters and taking off running with some minor stumbles. "Wow! This is amazing, man. It's like being the Hulk without actually–" Bruce tripped over a rock.

        Rhodey flew ahead of Marta. "I've got two heat signatures breaking through the tree line." he answered, and as they got closer, Marta saw two aliens standing outside the barrier.

        The Wakandan warriors, speaking Xosha, got out of their travelers swiftly and formed battle ranks as Marta landed her jet on the grass, joining Steve, Natasha, Bucky and T'Challa. More tribes had arrived, chanting. "Thank you for standing with us." T'Challa voiced towards M'Baku, leader of the Jabari. M'Baku responded in Xosha.

        Marta's hearing picked up footsteps. "I think they want to talk." she nodded towards the two aliens from before, lowering her hood and mask. Steve looked from her to the aliens, new shields on his arms given to him by T'Challa.

        Marta walked with Steve, T'Challa and Natasha to the edge of the barrier, watching as the female alien ran her sword across the barrier, discovering her army could not get through. "Where's your other friend?" Natasha asked the female alien snarkily.

        "You will pay for his life with yours. Thanos will have that stone." the alien said confidently.

        "Yeah, not today." Marta said with a fake wince.

        "You are in Wakanda now. Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood." T'Challa said. His country was strong, its people stronger. He was confident.

        The alien wasn't phased. "We have blood to spare." she said in a threatening manner before raising her sword sharply.

        In the distance, the landed alien ships began to become dismantled. The four walked back to the lines of soldiers, ready to fight. "They surrender?" Bucky asked Steve when they arrived.

        "Not exactly." Steve said with a sigh.

        Marta's eyes widened as thousands upon thousands of space animals descended the ships, running towards the barrier, screeching. "Oh, hell no." Marta muttered, creeped out and terrified. She decided that she didn't like space or aliens very much.

        Quickly, Marta moved back to her fighter jet while T'Challa and the Wakandans started chanting, slamming their weapons into the ground. The space animals came closer as Marta lifted her jet into the air, hovering. "What the hell?" Bucky mumbled in disbelief.

        "Looks like we pissed her off." Natasha replied.

        Marta watched as the animals ran towards the barrier, trying to claw their way through. Their limbs were cut off, scorched, and soon, a heap of dead flesh was left outside the barrier. "They're killing themselves." Okoye said in horror.

        Some of the animals managed to make it through, and the Wakandans readied their weapons and technologically enhanced shields. At T'Challa's signal, everyone began shooting at the animals. Marta moved towards the barrier and launched a few explosions, effectively killing many at once. She worked with Sam, trying to stop the animals before they got any closer to Shuri and Vision.

        "You see the teeth on those things?" Sam asked, flying above Marta, around Rhodey.

        "All right, back up, Sam. You're gonna get your wings singed." Rhodey answered, dropping explosions at the barrier line.

        Marta found the controls for a machine gun on board her jet. She figured out how to use it and started shooting. She wished technology had been this advanced during the war. "Guys, they're still coming." Marta said, her eyes widening when she saw just how many animals had been released.

        Bruce spied them moving in a different direction. "Cap, if these things circle the perimeter and get in behind us there's nothing between them and Vision." he said from his suit.

        "Then we better keep 'em in front of us." Steve said, eyes following Marta, watching her drop a crater bomb in a mess of hundreds of animals.

        "How do we do that?" Okoye asked her king.

        "We open the barrier." T'Challa said, proceeding to give directions to the barrier's control operators, preparing them for his signal.

        "This will be the end of Wakanda." M'Baku said, Marta evading the animals trying to claw at her jet everytime she dipped lower.

        Okoye stood strongly. "Then it will be the noblest ending in history." she spoke.

        Steve readied his shields as T'Challa shouted for his army's attention. "Wakanda forever!" T'Challa yelled, and just as the barrier opened, Marta started shooting bombs of her own design at the animals, the entire army running below her.

         The fight began, and Marta was trigger happy. The animals weren't stopping, but neither was she. Marta kept hitting buttons on her jet's control display, hoping whatever she was doing worked. One button that she pressed was particularly useful. Nets were dropped from the bottom of her plane, and once they hit the animals she was aiming for, shocks of electricity emanated, killing everything under the net.

        "Do that again, please!" Natasha shouted, panting.

        "I don't know what I did!" Marta responded frantically, trying to find the button again.

        Once she did, she was set. Bruce trampled over piles of animals, Bucky, Steve, Natasha and the others fought the animals hand-to-hand. Rhodey flew around Marta, using his suit as Sam swooped high and low. Marta started sending nets at the animals outside of the barrier, stopping them until they got in, and that worked until she ran out. Rhodey was knocked out of the sky by the hammer one of the alien's held, and Marta feared she was next.

        The numbers were overwhelming. "Marta, do something!" Bucky yelled to his sister, who was doing the best she could.

        Marta tried, she really did. But when her jet was knocked out of the sky by an alien hammer, she knew she would be eaten instantly if she went with the plane. So, while going down, Marta shoved her hood and mask on and set a bomb off from inside the jet, escaping through the rubble and landing in a roll on the ground. Luckily, the explosion killed all of the animals around her, so she had time to get her guns ready.

        The animals were even more terrifying up close, so Marta didn't feel remorseful killing them. She found Bucky pinned under an animal and threw a bomb in its mouth, Bucky rolling from the blast. "You're welcome." Marta panted, pulling Bucky to his feet.

        "It's been a while since we fought together." Bucky said, shoving Marta's head down to shoot an animal behind her.

        Marta's eyes were the only visible feature on her face. They showed no fear. "Feels like the old days. Kind of." Marta spoke while she gunned down animals, punching them, stabbing them, blowing them up. They just had to protect Vision. That was all. Then she could rest. Marta held on to that thought as the fight continued, getting worse. There were just way too many of them.

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