better than your dreams//tony stark

♡twenty eight♡

"There's nothing that I wouldn't do to make you feel my love."

Bob Dylan

We all run full force towards the barrier not backing down.

Halfway to the barrier, the T'Challa shouts into his comm, "Now!"

The Outriders pour through, distracted from trying to find any other access. T'Challa and Cap ahead, and leap into battle.

"How much longer, Shuri?" T'Challa questions.

"We've barely begun, brother," Shuri informs him.

"You might want to pick up the pace," T'Challa advises.

I use my escrima sticks and my powers to fight off the Outsiders. I groan as an Outrider sinks its teeth into my shoulder. I quickly get the outrider to let go as I knock it out.

I see Bucky goes down and fights off Outrider fangs snapping at his head. I jump on the outriders back and rip its head clean off its shoulders. I stand up and extend my hand out towards Bucky. He takes it timidly. I smile at him slightly and nod my head.

After all that happened with Tony and Steve, I don't blame Bucky. I've come to terms with what he did to Howard and Maria. He wasn't himself; he was a pawn for HYDRA. I know Steve and I know that he wouldn't still be friends with Bucky if he was truly a cold-blooded killer.

Cap and T'Challa still fight side-by-side. War Machine hovers over the breach, pouring ammunition into the flood of bodies until a huge hammer knocks him out of the sky and to the ground. The Hulkbuster is dogpiled and pinned.

"There's too many of them! GYAH! AAAAHHHHH!" Bruce shouts.

Suddenly, a large beam of rainbow-hued light lands in the middle of the action, and an ax flies out of it, wreathed with lightning and tearing through the Outriders. It flies back to the light and into its master's hand just as the beam cuts out, revealing Thor, something that resembles a tree and a racoon who chambers a round in his large gun. I stop and stare at them in astonishment.

Bruce opens the Hulkbuster's helm and laughs with joy. "AH-hahaha! You guys are so screwed now!"

"BRING ME THANOS!" Thor bellows. He charges toward the hordes of Outriders, followed by the two others he showed up with. Lightning gathers around him until he finally launches himself into the air, lands in the densest concentration of Outriders and makes a crater where they had stood.

The Kingsguard, Borderers and Jabari have little success going against Cull Obsidian's chained hammer. He either sends them flying or punches them into the ground. The Black Panther gets free of his other attackers, leaps and uses all his collected kinetic energy behind a punch that lays Obsidian flat.

I watch as Thor takes out Outrider after Outrider using what I can only describe as a mix between a hammer and an axe.

I can hear Cap and Thor talking as they fight.

"New haircut?" Steve asks.

Thor grins. "Notice you've copied my beard."

I watch as the tree skewers three Outriders with his right arm.

"By the way, this is a friend of mine. Tree," Thor says as he gestures towards the tree with his new weapon.

"I am GROOT!" the tree shots.

"I... I am Steve Rogers," Cap introduces himself.

There is movement through the blazing forest between the troopships and the dome. When the disturbance reaches the edge of the trees, it turns into vast moving mounds of earth that easily bypass the force field and emerge. Sets of massive, motorized spiked wheels, intended for nothing more than shredding everything in their paths are heading right towards us.