It had been a couple of years since Steve released us from Secretary Ross's prison. Wanda was with Vision somewhere that Steve knew and Scott Lang and Clint were with their families. Steve, Natasha, Sam, and I were constantly on the move. People stopped looking for us, but we still made it our mission to help people without being detected, but it was been a while since we've done a mission. Some small things here and there, but nothing major.

Today was a simple day. Natasha was in her apartment room above Steve's and I, while Sam was out doing something. Steve held me by his side as we sat on the couch kissing.

I had my legs resting on top of his. Just enjoying this peaceful moment. It had been an eventful couple of years of me falling more and more for Steve every day. I couldn't picture myself with anyone else and I knew he couldn't either.

Steve pulled away from the kiss and smiled at me.

"I love you," Steve said to me. We smiled at each other as Steve leaned back in to start kissing me again. I let my hand wander his chest as he slides up and down my leg. After a bit of that, I threw my leg over his lap and straddled him as I deepened the kiss by having my tongue slip into his mouth as he put his large hands on my back and pulled me closer to him so my chest was pressed against his chest. I broke the kiss to pull my shirt off over my head as I felt Steve stare at me.

"Your turn," I said with a smile as I placed one hand at the hem of his shirt and pulled up. He did the rest and took the shirt off of himself. We went back to kissing as both of us had our hands roam each other's bodies. He had taken off my bra and was now flipping us over so my back was on the couch and he was hovering over me.

"I'm surprised Mister Captain America is taking charge like this," I said with a smile as I reached down and fumbled with his belt buckle.

"I can't control myself with you." He said back and I looked into his eyes and saw nothing but lust and love.

I started kissing him again as he reached down and helped me with his belt and then grabbed the string tie for my pants to get them off. He was fast to get them off and I sat up a little bit to help push his pants off. He placed a gentle hand on my chest, pushing me back down on the couch.

"Are you sure?" Steve asked.

"Always," I said, pulling him back to kiss me.

With one swift movement, he thrust into me. I moaned as he buried his head into my shoulder. I wrapped my legs around his waist as he continued to find a rhyme and make me moan louder. My fingernails raked up and down his bareback as he placed kisses on my neck with every thrust. He moaned in my ear when I thrust against him, rocking my hips. I then flipped us over and placed my hands on his chest, now that I was on top. I rocked my hips against him as his hands found my hips, guiding me at the speed that he liked.

I could feel his pulsating member as he placed a large hand on my back to pull my body against his.

"I'm gonna-" he said, but couldn't finish.

"I'm almost there too," I said back. He was finished, but he flipped us back over and placed his body on top of me. He slowly teased me with his fingertips as he slowly had them trail down my body to my clit. From our plenty of times doing this activity while on the run, he had learned what he was doing. He was gentle at first, making slow circles before speeding up the pace with every moan. I had one hand gripping the couch arm above my head and the other clawing at his back as he kissed my neck and continued his movements. It wasn't long before I came and get out a loud sigh when he stopped his actions.

"I could get used to this life," I said as he grabbed a blanket and threw it over us.

"Me too." He kissed me again as we went back to watching the tv, which I forgot was even on.

After a couple of minutes a frantic voice came on the TV of a news anchor causing us to pull apart.

"There has been an Attack in New York." Was all Steve needed to hear before he shot up from the couch he threw my clothes at me and then started to put his own too.

"Get dressed we need to get to Nat and Sam. Then we head to Wanda." Steve said. I sat up and got dressed too. he checked to see I was dressed after a couple of minutes and then ran towards the front door of the apartment to go get Natasha and Sam who were in the next apartment to ours. We all didn't wanna be in the same room, just in case. Once he opened the door Natasha and Sam were already standing there about to knock.

"I'm guessing you just saw the news?" Sam said as he pushed his way through the doorway passed Steve.

"Ya, I just did," Steve said shaking his head. He closed the front door once Natasha entered.

"We have to go get Wanda." I said getting up from the couch. I walked over to Steve and he put his arm around me.

"Check if Tony called." Sam said leaning against the kitchen island.

Steve let go of me and walked over to the desk drawer by the front door. He opened it and pulled out a flip phone and opened it.

"No. No he didn't." Steve said. I could hear the hurt in his voice.

"it's probably out of control over there Steve. Maybe he will call later. Either way we need to go there now and help." Steve nodded at me and turned to go into our bedroom.

"Suit up. We leave in 5." Steve said disappearing into the bedroom. Everyone left to get dressed and grab there gear. It was just like old times. I walked into the room hugging Steve from behind.

"It's gonna be like old-time," I said trying to reassure him.

All of a sudden the flip phone started to ring. Steve ran from my grip over to the phone. He answered it right away.

"Hello?" Steve asked into the phone. After a couple of seconds, Steve pulled the phone away and looked at me.

"It's Bruce. We have to go now."

On the jet, Steve filled us in with what Bruce has told him. About the infinity stones, Thor and New York. When we arrived at where Wanda was, we didn't even need to leave the train station to find her.

"You guys go over there and get ready to back me up," Steve ordered us as we got off the jet. We all nodded in response and ran off the train platform. Another express train passes behind Wanda, and Proxima cocks her head as if aware of another's presence. Confused, Wanda also turns and looks over her left shoulder. As the last train car passes, we can see the silhouette of Steve, who Wanda and Proxima don't know is there. Proxima throws her weapon at the shadowy figure, but it is deftly caught just before the figure steps from the shadows. Steve steps out into the light. Vision and Wanda look hopeful and relieved. While all parties are distracted, Sam swoops in and kicks Proxima across the platform and through the closed café's security gate and furniture. I run out from under him firing on Corvus. At the same time, Captain America throws Proxima's weapon to Natasha Romanoff who engages Corvus, ducking under his swing, stabbing him in the gut and executing a flying kick to knock him backwards.

Proxima, who has rushed back to the fight, summons her weapon back to her hand and attacks Black Widow. Captain America leaps forward and scoops up Corvus's dropped glaive and holds her off. Falcon flies over me just in case I need help as I kick Proxima backwards. She scuttles over to Corvus. Falcon draws both of his submachine pistols on the couple as I point my weapons at them too.

"Get up," Proxima says to Corvus.

"I can't." He answers back.

"We don't wanna kill you. But we will." Natasha says.

"You'll never get the chance again," Proxima says.

Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive depart as they are beamed up. The glaive is snatched from Cap's hand as well.

"Can you stand?" I ask Vision.

"Thank you, Captain." Vision says as I try and help him up.

"Let's get you on the jet," Steve says.

"I thought we had a deal. Stay close, check-in. Don't take any chances." Natasha said to Wanda once we were on the jet.

"I'm sorry. We just wanted time." She just looks away.

"Where to, Cap?" Sam asks

"Home."

We arrived at the upstate New York Avengers HQ while Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes deals with the red tape in the holographic person of Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross (Lt. Gen., USA Ret.).

We walk in to the office as everyone looks at us.

"Mr. Secretary," Steve says.

"You got some nerve. I'll give you that." Ross said.

"You could use some of that right now," Natasha said.

"The world's on fire. And you think, all is forgiven?" Ross answered back.

"I'm not looking for forgiveness. And I'm way past asking for permission. Earth just lost their best defender. So we're here to fight." Cap takes a step forward, looking right at Ross. "And if you wanna stand in our way... we'll fight you, too."

"Arrest them." Secretary Ross yells to Rhodey.

"All over it," he says as he hangs up in the holographic image of Ross.

"That's a court-martial. It's great to see you, Cap." Rhodes says to us.

"You too, Rhodey," Cap says. He pulls Rhodey into a hug. He then hugs Natasha and then me.

"Well. You guys really look like crap. Must've been a rough couple of years." Rhodey says to us.

"Yeah, well, the hotels weren't exactly five-star." Sam jokes.

"Uh, I think you look great," Bruce says as he walks into the room. "Uh... heh... Yeah. I'm back." He says as he sees all of us staring at him in shock.

"Hi, Bruce," Natasha says.

"Nat."

"This is awkward," Sam says. I hit the side of his arm and shake my head.

Rhodey brings us into another room to fill us in on everything and talk.

"So we gotta assume they're coming back, right?" Rhodey asks.

"And they can clearly find us," Wanda says.

"We need all hands on deck. Where's Clint?" Bruce asks.

"After the whole Accords situation, he and Scott took a deal. It was too tough on their families, they're on house arrest." Natasha said.

"Who's Scott?" Bruce asks.

"Ant-Man." Steve and I say at the same time.

"There's an Ant-Man and a Spider-Man? Okay, look... Thanos has the biggest army in the universe. And he is not gonna stop until he... he gets... Vision's Stone." Bruce says.

"Well then, we have to protect it," Natasha says.

"No, we have to destroy it. I've been giving a good deal of thought to this entity in my head, about its nature. But also, its composition. I think if it were exposed to a sufficiently powerful energy source, something, very similar to its own signature, perhaps... Its molecular integrity could fail." Vision addresses Wanda as he walks up to her.

"And you, with it. We're not having this conversation." Wanda says.

"Eliminating the stone is the only way to be certain that Thanos can't get it." Vision says back.

"That's too high a price," Wanda said.

Vision takes her face gently in both hands

" Only you have the power to pay it. [Wanda walks away, distressed] Thanos threatens half the Universe. One life cannot stand in the way of defeating him." Vision says.

"But it should." I said

"We don't trade lives, Vision," Steve said after me.

Vision walks toward Steve.

"Captain, 70 years ago, you laid down your life to save how many millions of people. Tell me, why is this any different?" He said to Steve.

Steve takes a breath, but before he has a chance to answer, Bruce speaks.

"Because you might have a choice. Your mind is made up of a complex construct of overlays. J.A.R.V.I.S., Ultron, Tony, me, the Stone. All of them mixed. All of them learning from one another."

"You're saying Vision isn't just the stone?" Wanda asks.

"I'm saying that if we take out the stone, there's still a whole lot of Vision left. Perhaps the best parts." Bruce says.

"Can we do that?" I ask as Steve drapes his arm over my shoulder.

"Not me. Not here." Bruce says.

"You better find someone, and somewhere fast. Ross isn't exactly just gonna let you guys have your old rooms back." Rhodey says.

"I know somewhere," Steve says.

We climb into the Quinjet as Cap tells us we are going to Wakanda. He told me before at Wakanda when he went there to drop off Bucky. It had been years and I knew Steve was happy to be able to see Bucky again. When we landed, Steve leads the way as he held my hand and Natasha stood beside me. Bruce and Rhodey were behind us and Vision and Wanda slowly taking up the rear.

"Should we bow?" Bruce asked Rhodey.

"Yeah, he's a king."

"Seems like I'm always thanking you for something," Steve says shaking hands with T'Challa.

Bruce bows awkwardly to T'Challa behind us.

"What are you doing?" Rhodey says to Bruce

"Uh, we don't do that here," T'Challa says to Bruce. Bruce shoots Rhodey a look and is answered with a big grin.

"So how big of an assault can we expect?" T'Challa asks the group.

We all begin to walk back into the administrative building behind us.

"Uh, sir, I think you can expect quite a big assault," Bruce says.

"How are we looking?" Natasha asks.

"You will have my King's Guard, the Border Tribe, the Dora Milaje, and..." T'Challa pauses.

Bucky Barnes smiles as he appears out of nowhere and walks toward Steve. He walks past some Kingsguard taking Vision and Wanda to another facility

"Just a semi-stable, 100-year-old man," Bucky says, finishing T'Challa's sentence.

Steve dropped the hand he was holding as he went over to share a hug with Bucky.

"How you been, Buck?" Steve asks.

"Uh, not bad, for the end of the world." He answers.

Bucky then moves over to me and goes in for the hug.

"No hard feelings right?" He asks me as he pulls away from the hug.

"Well you did through me against a wall, but no. No hard feelings."

"So are you and grandpa over here finally a thing?" Bucky asked pointing at Steve.

"Hey, you're just as old as me Buck." Steve laughs as he pats Bucky on the back.

"We are good. Really good." I said as Steve pulled me into a sideways hug.

As we walked Steve talked to Bucky just like old friends.

"We had a place together. It finally started to feel as normal as this life would let it get. You know what I mean?" Steve said to Bucky.

"I get it. It's been a while since I've seen you and I'm glad you started to live a life." Bucky said back with a smile.

We then all made it to Shuri's lab. Shuri scans the Stone with her kimono beads while Vision lies on the examination table. She flips her hand over and studies the hologram projected over her palm.

"Whoa. The structure is polymorphic." Shuri says.

"Right, we had to attach each neuron non-sequentially," Bruce says.

"Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?" Shuri asks.

Vision looks at Bruce as if to ask the same thing.

"Because we didn't think of it," Bruce says.

"I'm sure you did your best." Shuri says,

"Can you do it?" Wanda asks.

"Yes, but there are more than two trillion neurons here. One misalignment could cause a cascade of circuit failures. [to T'Challa] It will take time, brother." Shuri says.

"How long?" Steve asks.

"As long as you can give me," Shuri says.

Okoye's kimono beads chime an alarm. She flicks one bead into her palm, where it projects the globe with a pulsing location marker.

"Something's entered the atmosphere." She says.