Chapter 369: Flickering Light

Chapter 369: Flickering Light

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26th April 2015, New York City

(Wanda Maximoff POV)

As if to prove her point, the moment the new wave of ships started to arrive, even with the blasters raining down on them, the slimes were able to make a temporary breach in the forcefield and go through. They were killed immediately by a wave of Maximoff's hand, but her point was made.

And so, while whittling down their numbers with the blasters, and as more and more stragglers started to break into the city Wanda nodded to herself, "Alright, I'm opening a section of the forcefield soon. By the way, remember the briefing, if you see any children of Thanos, or the Mad Titan himself, call it in immediately, and Doormaker will send the appropriate opponent to your location to fight them."

Ah, yes, the Children of Thanos. His prized lieutenants that are utterly devoted to him and his cause. Not that the Mad Titan wouldn't kill them in a heartbeat if it helped him achieve his goal. They were dangerous and had a tricky range of powers, which was why the Scarlet Witch had designated a list of people that should engage each one.

Maximoff then continued her orders, "alright, open section fourteen."

Immediately, the forcefield started to open up like a door, and an entire army of Chitauri and monsters started to flow in, ready to kill them all. And well, the defenders of humanity did what they were supposed to against these impossible odds. They charged.

Wanda decided to buy her comrades a bit more time by conjuring a giant circular saw of red energy that literally cut the charging army of Chitauri in half, creating a small pile of bodies that the still incoming wave of enemies climbed to get over. The flying Chitauri artillery were intercepted by the vibranium speeders that kept shooting bolts of energy at the incoming ships.

Honestly, it looked like they were winning, but Wanda knew that this was only the beginning. Her mother had trained her for this specific goal, this purpose, and it wouldn't be this easy. This was her time to lead humanity to victory.

The reality manipulator decided to kick things up a notch when she contacted one of the mutant generals, "Storm. You know what to do."

Without replying, a white-haired woman lifted into the air, creating a giant thunderstorm in seconds. Thunder roared as lightning kept striking the enemies outside of Wakanda's domed forcefield, until that is, a giant bolt of lightning charged up and vaporized a good chunk of the army, as well as a lot of the ships.The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))

People started cheering, but Wanda knew that this victory was nothing but an illusion. This was the first wave, the small test. There was no sign of the Mad Titan or his infamous Black Order. From now on, Thanos will start to take them seriously.

The reality manipulator shook her head and spoke up, "Don't break formations. Blasters, stay at the ready. Frost, tell me when the Etherion Cannon is charged up again. Richards, keep me updated when the next wave of enemies is coming."

"Roger that," someone responded, but Wanda didn't care.

Wanda interrupted him, "Are you seriously monologuing now, even as one of your members has just been defeated?"

"His sacrifice was a noble one, Stone Keeper. Should he have died, it would have been due to his own incompetence. If he had lived, our father would have punished him severely. But for all our father is strict, he is also merciful. He is prepared to leave this planet be, should you offer him the stones in your possession in return."

Wanda shook her head, "No."

"Then I will take them from your rotting corpse." The alien returned.

"Will you now? With what help? Your fellow Children of Thanos are dead," Wanda waved her hand around making the alien stiffen.

She was right of course. While they were having their dialogue, Stark had released a small cloud of nanotech that practically dissolved half of Proxima Midnight, and the combination of Reed Richards and Victor Von Doom had destroyed Corvus Glaive's weapon, while Susan Storm kept the alien immobilized in multiple forcefields.

"How?" Ebony Maw said.

He was more asking himself than Wanda, but the reality manipulator responded either way, "Gamora. She told us about you, about your strengths and about your weaknesses. She really hates Thanos, you know that, with a burning passion."

"That traitorous little" the alien started only to be interrupted by Wanda, "Look, you're the ones who tried to invade our planet, and who want to wipe out half of all living beings. You don't think that people would ally themselves just for their own survival, for their family's survival?"

"I am going to wipe out your entire species off the map for killing my siblings," Ebony Maw continued.

He waved his hand and Wanda froze in the air, gasping for breath, "I was going to plead my father to be merciful, that this useless little primitive rock didn't deserve to be saved by his glorious self. But you have grown too far. I am going to get the stones from your cooling corpse and use them to wipe..."

Before he could continue, his voice stopped as a blade of red energy went through the back of his throat. Slowly, the image of a struggling Wanda disappeared into red mist, and the real Wanda appeared behind him, holding the blade that killed him, "The first lesson my mother told me is to be mindful of my surroundings and never talk in a fight. It's almost always a distraction."

Before she could celebrate though, the earth started to shake, and she heard Reed speaking up, "I just detected a massive power surge from the battleship. Dozens of ships are getting deployed. They're priming their weapons."

And just like that, Wakanda was being bombarded by energy shots coming from all over the place. The force field protecting them was slowly being overwhelmed. Things did not look good. Damn, Thanos used his own children as a sacrifice to buy himself enough time for an attack that might destroy the very forcefield that protected them.

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