Yeet
As the 5 Avengers (and Loki) flew the jets and discussed plans (that they wouldn’t let the main trio listen to), Ari, Quinn, and Peter, discussed their own plans as Peter based it off what he heard from the not so subtle Avengers.
“What are your spidey senses picking up?” Quinn asked.
Peter cocked his head in the direction of where the remaining Avengers were planning, “It’s like Thor doesn’t know the meaning of an inside voice. They’re sending Natasha in the back, obviously. I think she’s going to dismantle the power of the doughnut-”
“Quinn should follow her, she already knows where everything is.” Ari suggested.
“Yeah like I can sneak up and in with your mom without her noticing, I don’t think that will work.” She scoffed.
Ari smirked a little, “Something tells me out of all those Avengers, well maybe besides Thor, she’s the one who’s actually going to let us do something.”
“You spies are wicked annoying, you know that?” Quinn grinned.
“As I was EAVESDROPPING, Thor is obviously going to ambush from the front. I can’t get descriptions of the aliens but they aren’t cute. Bucky and Sam are going to get the rest of the team. Vision is supposed to stay back with Rocket and Mantis because we can’t risk Thanos getting another stone,” Peter said.
Quinn dropped her knives into the slots around her thighs and moved to the edge of the quinjet, “I don’t have a good feeling about this.”
“Neither do I,” Ari agreed, putting the first arrow in her quiver.
~
The quinjet dropped into the open field where the doughnut landed. The aliens that everyone had already seen were lined around the ship, docile, like they had no true mind of their own but Thanos and his children were nowhere to be seen.
The Avengers and Minis exited the jet.
“Peter, you can go with Sam and Bucky. Use your sense to make sure they don’t get their asses handed to them, please,” Natasha started.
“First of all, I don’t need a twelve year old watching my ass-” Sam started.
“I’m sixteen,” Peter tried to pipe up.
“Nuh uh, we’re the adults here teeny, you follow our rules and use your weird radioactive shit to make sure we don’t die by some gross aliens,” Sam said.
Natasha rolled her eyes at the bickering, “If you two children are done, I’d like to save my husband. Quinn and Ari, I’m going to tell you to stay back with Rocket, Vision and Mantis but something tells me you probably won’t listen so please try not to die, thanks.”
“Wow, mom you know me so well,” Ari said and then began to make her way to the treeline where she could gain better vantage points of the fighting.
“Thor while you’re fighting and being all godly or whatever, make sure my kids don’t die,” Bucky said, cocking his gun.
Peter began to bounce, “Holy shit, Mister Barnes White Wolf Winter Soldier sir, you think of me like your kid?!”
“You-you can just call me Bucky, and since collectively your parents are being held by an oversized panini, yeah you’re all my kids right now,” Bucky replied and Peter almost fainted in response.
“Alright anyways we need to go so here,” Natasha handed the trio, the Guardians and Loki ear pieces so that they would all be able to stay connected.
~
The field was soaked in black tar from alien corpses from the minute the fighting began. Natasha managed to shut off some of the power of the ship, with the help of Quinn of course but, it wasn’t enough.
Thanos ended up portaling away with Gamora to go find another stone on another planet, leaving his children to deal with Vision and the rest of the Avengers.
Thor was taking on the front of the fight with his brother Loki. Slicing and thundering through the seemingly endless amount of aliens. It was almost impossible to count the amount, and to keep track of the ones that tried to sneak off to Vision, who had the remaining Guardians to protect him. Quinn and Natasha eventually made it onto the battlefield.
“Come here you lil alien bastards,” Quinn screamed as she cut down the throats of them, using one of the falling corpses to backflip over one coming from behind her.
“I got you from behind but stop moving so fast, not all of us have super soldier speed,” Ari yelled over the coms, running from in between the trees and climbing them when necessary. She just grinned in response.
Natasha and Quinn fought together seamlessly, picking off what Thor’s lightning bolts couldn’t reach but the amount was still overwhelming.
“You’re all children! You’re nothing, your fight means nothing in the face of Thanos!” Ebony Maw yelled from across the field.
Quinn spit out some blood, “If the fight means nothing ugly, why don’t you come fight me yourself?!”
Natasha spun around but it was already too late, the blonde was barreling towards the child of Thanos, shooting every alien in her path.
“QUINN! Stop you absolute idiot!” Ari yelled into the coms, finally making her way onto the field. She shoved her bow through a couple of aliens and made it to her moms side.
“She’s faster than us we won’t get to her in time!” Natasha screamed.
“Don’t you dare let my stupid, reckless daughter who takes after Steve way too much, die Tasha!” Bucky finally chimed in.
“Soldier, how’s the progress on the rest of the team?” Thor called.
As soon as the sentence was spoken, something blasted out of the side of the doughnut. “Don’t worry children, mommy’s here,” Tony said over the coms, blasting the aliens below him, “God, those things really are ugly.”
Peter was hanging from one of his webs on the armor’s foot and he dropped onto Quinn, tackling her to the ground, “Not the time to die princess.”
“Oh fuck off Parker, he deserves it!” Quinn shouted, throwing knife into the head of the alien behind him.
“Language!”
“DAD! Fancy seeing you here!”
Oh boy, if you had seen the Steve double Dad eyebrow of disappointment, you would have fainted.
Suddenly, a rain of arrows flew over their heads, piercing the aliens and blowing them to bits. Nat’s head shot up from fighting with a grin on her face, “Oh now it’s gonna be a good fight.”
Clint slid through the grass, shooting with perfect precision and his daughter by his side, shooting right along with him.
For a moment, the fight seemed to be on the side of the Avengers. The rest of the team was free and they could cover the whole field. The number of aliens was finally dwindling to a reasonable amount.
“Come on squidward, give me the best you got!” Stark yelled, blasting him.
“Do not mock me, you pitiful thing,” Ebony replied.
Ebony flew up to Tony’s level, landing several blows onto to the armor with objects surrounding them. The other members of the Black Order took this as a cue to join the fight against the Avengers.
Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight immediately went after Natasha and Steve, with Bucky as back up.
Meanwhile, Peter fought through the masses of aliens on the ground with Clint and Ari.
“Oh, so Tony can antagonize the aliens but when I do it, it’s reckless and dangerous,” Quinn yelled as she ran towards Peter, “Spideyboy you better yeet me far, just like we practiced.”
“Hell yeah!” He yelled and positioned his body in the correct way.
Quinn flew through the air, landing on the back of Proxima who had both of her dad’s cornered. “It’s time to back off, you big emo bitch,” She said and jabbed one of her daggers into the alien’s neck.
Midnight roared, throwing the kid from her, “You’ll pay for that, child.”
“No, I think that’s you. Ya know, since the blood is pouring from your neck,” Quinn groaned from her landing spot, next to Steve and Ari.
“You will bleed more than I once Thanos is through with you pathetic humans,” She spit back.
As if on a cue, a portal opened up in the sky revealing Thanos onto the field.
“He’s found the soul stone!” Loki yelled from his fighting position.
Ari huffed, “Well shit.”
“You can dread it. You can run from it, but I assure you, I will bring balance to the universe despite your futile efforts,” Thanos’ booming voice echoed through the field and trees, clenching the fist of the Infinity gauntlet on his hand.
Quinn gestured for Ari and they jogged over to Peter.
“Now, if we want to be completely stupid, this is the time. I think we should yeet me onto Thanos from behind, I’ll cut off his hand. Boom. Gauntlet,” Quinn hissed, trying to play it cool so the titan wouldn’t notice.
Peter’s eyes all about bulged out of their sockets, “Are you actually insane? He’ll kill you!”
“He’s going to kill all of us regardless, and I don’t know about you but I want to die for a good fucking reason,” Quinn snapped back.
“There’s gotta be a better way to do this, Q, I don’t want to lose you,” Ari tried to calm the girl who was practically her sister but, it was no use.
Quinn grabbed the last long knife she had from her boot, “I’m doing this, so help me or don’t. Peter you’re going to throw me. Ari you have to distract the adults.”
While the trio was arguing, the Avengers were trying to reason with Thanos. To get the needless violence to stop.
“ENOUGH! Give me the mind stone!” Thanos yelled, stepping towards the team.
Ari stepped out in front of her parents, and the rest of her family, “Sorry grape soda, you’re not getting the stone. You’ll have to go through me first.”
“WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING ARI!” Clint screamed and moved towards his daughter.
“Being stupid,” Ari took a deep breath in. While Thanos was laughing at the ridiculous proposition of the tiny human being any match for him, she nodded the signal to the other two teenagers. Looks of confusion spread across the Avengers’ faces.
“Where’s Quinn? Where’s my kid? Ari, what the fuck?” Bucky grabbed her shoulder.
All that could be heard was the scream that erupted from Steve’s chest, as he saw his baby fly through the air towards the Titan who wanted to destroy every aspect of life as they knew it to be.
The next motions seemed to slow down with time, as Quinn’s knife dug into the purple skin above the gauntlet and a roar echoed so loud it hurt her ears. Man, maybe this wasn’t such a good idea.
“You pathetic little girl!” He yelled, ripping her down from his shoulder by her blonde curls, “All things need to be balanced.”
After that things get kind of fuzzy.
Quinn’s left arm lay in the midst of scorched flowers and alien blood. Her crumpled body, like a child, truly represented how young she was, with her own blood seeping out of several areas lay on the ground next to it.
Bucky was the first to react, running towards Thanos, guns blazing. He was swept to the side into a fire that seemed to grow bigger and bigger.
Steve grabbed the gauntlet, that was now dripping with blood, “You’ll pay for that.”
A simple smile grew on Thanos’ face, “I already have.” A portal appeared once more, and Thanos stepped partially through it, “I’ll be back for the stones. Be ready for when I do. Children, leave this planet and heal.”
Before they could, Glaive stepped forward and drove his weapon through the gut of Natasha with echoing screams of her and her daughter, “That was for Midnight.”
She sunk to the ground as Ari tried desperately to hold her head upright, her hands now soaked in her mom’s blood.
“Please mommy, please please don’t leave me,” Ari sobbed, grabbing at her face and Clint stepped forward to scoop her up.
“We need to go,” Clint said, the look of pain twisted on his face before he began the sprint back to the quinjet.
No one seemed to notice that Quinn woke up and was crawling towards where Bucky lay in the flames that were searing through his skin.
“папа, пожалуйста,” She groaned, trying desperately to pull her father with her remaining arm. The dogtags that belong to him were burning into her flesh, “You can’t die, I’m wearing your dogtags, remember? Please wake up,” Quinn coughed up a mixture of blood and ash.
She doesn’t remember Peter pulling her from the fire into his chest. Or Steve grabbing Bucky, whispering words of nonsense to try and wake up his husband.
“We need to go!” Tony screamed as the injured were pulled onto the jets.
“Where? I need to put in a location!” Sam yelled right back, voice cracking as the pain of seeing his seeing his niece without an arm. One of his best friends being covered in burns, unconscious. Natasha, bleeding out as the little mini clung to her, becoming way too much to handle.
Steve looked up from his daughter, and his husband both bloodied and burned.
“Wakanda.”