Romanogers One-Shots

Wind and Dust

Alternate version of Infinity War ending.

The fight had been long and miserable. Steve had been fighting the alien creatures for what felt like hours and they still didn't know how to stop Thanos.

Thor's arrival had certainly helped them dwindle the numbers of the creatures but they seemed to be multiplying as quickly as they were being killed.

Then Thanos showed up. Steve had only barely arrived to help Vision before his stone was removed.

He almost got killed in the process too, had it not been for Vision disobeying his orders, he would have been dead.

After that, Steve caught up with Natasha, she had been fighting one of Thanos' minions when he saw her get pinned.

"Romanoff!" Steve yelled, throwing her his shield.

She caught it and hit the alien off of her, jumping to her feet and tossing Steve's shield back to him as he jumped off a rock and crashed it down on the alien.

Natasha shot the alien with her widow bite and kicked her into the path of one of the giant spinning spaceships, effectively crushing the alien.

Natasha wiped some of the splattered blood from her forehead and cringed, "That was really gross."

Steve helped Natasha to her feet and nodded towards the woods, "Thanos is here."

Natasha sighed, "Then let's go take him down."

Steve nodded and they ran towards where he had been seen.

Steve saw him and gave Natasha a worried glance.

Running towards Thanos, Steve delivered one punch before being thrown backwards.

He landed roughly in the dirt and looked up, coughing as he watched the rest of his team try and fail to even get to Thanos.

Including Natasha.

She ran up to him, firing her gun and even managed to get him in a choke hold for a moment.

Then he threw her off his back and used one of the stones to create a rock cage around her.

Natasha groaned in pain and locked eyes with Steve.

He rushed to get back up and ran at Thanos again, dodging every punch  that was thrown at him.

Thanos went to punch him again but Steve caught his hand, holding it up and making Thanos pause a moment, surprised at Steve's strength.

Steve yelled out, struggling to keep Thanos at bay, unfortunately he had two hands and when he got over the initial shock, he quickly used his right hand to send Steve flying into a wall near Natasha's cage.

She was fighting to get away from the rock that was holding her down when she locked eye contact with Steve, who shook his head sadly, struggling to regain his breath.

They both knew that nothing either of them did would do anything to Thanos. Not when they were this weak.

Steve tried to get up but was unsuccessful and fell back down.

"You alright?" Natasha asked.

Steve laid down, giving into his exhaustion for a moment, "I just need a minute."

Natasha nodded and continued to try and escape the prison she was in.

They couldn't see Wanda or Thanos from where they were but the bright lights emerging from her powers were enough to give them hope that maybe they hadn't lost quite yet.