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Earth-6161 [May 2012]
Manhattan, New York
–Samantha Weber–
She made sure to wrangle every single living being in her senses, into the living river she had created as she was ferrying the entire population around Stark Tower out of the blast zone. Despite her best efforts, she was certain that it was not going to be enough.
Even she was not strong enough to transport an entire city's worth of people within minutes, especially since the nuclear bomb coming their way was due to detonate any minute now.
Her senses were spread thin as is, as she had to keep watch over every single human, children or adults, to make sure they did not end up drowning or scraping themselves against the wall of water because it might look fluid to them but they were very much solid. If someone tried to ram their way out, they would find that the wall of water would be just as hard as concrete.
She had to admit, in all of her long life, she had never exerted herself as much as she was doing now. It was refreshing, to go all out for the first time in…ever, basically. Still, she knew she could do more but she was unsure if the humans would survive it. She had to be extremely careful with all of them lest she accidentally break some of them.
Despite all of that, her senses were keeping track of everything happening behind her. The last of the water had already left Manhattan, as she looked at Thor floating mid air
Her eyes narrowed as she saw Stark rocket off, towards the direction of the nuke and the Green one heading to the roof, right where the contraption that started this whole thing was.
Stark was now heading back as the Green One was getting slightly injured by something, which she did not think was possible because he was just so much more durable than anyone she had come across yet.
Her eyes widened minutely as she processed everything, as Stark was coming in with the missiles, Banner was getting more and more injured. So, that's how they were going to play it.
She kept an eye on them and slightly increased the speed of the wave, just in case. She grunted a bit as her wave hit a gridlock of cars, just stuck, as she had to rescue numerous injured, stuck, as well as unconscious people and assimilate them into the river. Meanwhile, a massive air bubble was being created at the centre of the river, just in case the very air around them became poisonous in mere moments.
The moment Stark entered the hole in the sky with the missile, she safely deposited everyone on the ground, redirected the flow of water to the nearest water body and the drains and then dropped her focus before shooting towards the contraption that was keeping the hellish hole in the sky open.
To not just close the portal and push back the invasion but to do something, even at the cost of his own life, to deter anyone else from coming in, by sending in the strongest possible weapon humanity had at its disposal, Stark had earned her respect.
She would not let his sacrifice go in vain.
The moment she reached the roof, her eyebrows shot up as she finally saw what was happening to the Green One. His arms were charred beyond recognition as he was holding onto the sceptre, having already punctured the sphere she thought invincible and was just barely a moment away from plugging the flow of energy that was keeping the whole thing going.
The blasts of energy that came from the contraption clued her in as to what was hurting him as she decided to spare him the pain and summoned water from the ocean, creating a ball of glowing water, that she intended to chuck at the sceptre, giving it the final push necessary when the Green one, spoke, nay, roared back at her.
"NOOOO!"
She reared back a bit at the desperation and intensity of it, even as it was mixed with pained grunts as the contraption continued to punish the Green One.
"Why?" She found herself asking, keeping an eye on the hole in the sky. The second she saw an explosion, she was going to close the hole. After all, the problem with destroying the machine was not the machine itself but the sphere of unbreachable energy around it.
No matter what she did, she could not get the energy to budge, leaving her with no other option than to mitigate the fallout and remove the civilians from the area. Now that she could breach the energy, she could very easily dismantle the machine from the inside and that was what she planned on doing, no matter what.
Because no one, no human, no matter how pure their intentions, should be allowed to have a contraption so devastating in nature. No, she was going to crush the remains and throw them in the ocean once this whole invasion was done.
She was all out of trust for humans and yet, even she was a bit surprised by the words that the Green One spoke next, clearly in pain and yet, determined to push through till the end.
"H-He, Tony W-will come b-back," The man said with clenched teeth as he held the sceptre in place, not pushing or pulling it back.
She raised an eyebrow at the sentiment, admirable and naive as it was, "Be realistic, Stark is long gone. He cannot survive an–" Her neck snapped up as she heard more than felt the explosion as a small sun bloomed in the darkness beyond the portal.
Moving with haste, she floated towards the contraption, ball of water in hand when even she had to instinctively shield herself as a primal roar full of anger and fear was directed at her. The Green Man was now covered in a shroud of green, so much so that she could see his hands being healed in real time.
She raised an eyebrow as the corrosive shroud made contact with her shield and she had to supply energy to maintain the shield lest it crack from the energy. Very impressive. She could see that this was beyond what the Green Man had ever done before and to do so for a comrade, a friend, she could understand his feelings and yet, she knew what had to be done.
So, pushing through the shroud of green, she contained the energy blasts and thrust the orb of water at the sceptre, the one that was also glowing green now, having been affected by the outburst of energy from the Green One, all the while she was subjected to a primal roar.
The only reason the Green One was not blasted off the roof was because she was sympathetic to his pain and also because it helped that he was holding the sceptre in place. She watched as the water, under her command, turned itself into a stream and flowed along the length of the sceptre, finally reaching the end, before turning back into a orb and then pushing the sceptre along with it, finally reaching the and stopping the flow of energy to the hole in the sky.
The containment unit disappeared as she looked to the side, to see the Green One turn back human, unconscious as the hole started to collapse in on itself.
She smiled a bit as the dozen chitauri she had kept secured for experimentation later on, dropped dead like flies as the explosion ballooned in size.
She was about to fly off but then her eyes narrowed as she saw Stark dropping through the portal at the last moment, just as the wave of explosion was about to come through the portal. He was dropping uncontrollably so it would seem his suit was not functional but it had clearly helped the man do his final task.
And yet….
She looked to the side, at the now shrunken down man and looked up at Stark, "I suppose it was worth it, then."
With a negligent motion of her hand, a tendril of water shot out of the nearby sewers, latching onto Stark's form, forming a small ball of water that slowed down as it reached the ground, finally depositing the suit on the ground as she saw the rest of the rag tag group that Fury had assembled here, converge on Stark's position.
The man's heartbeat was weak, weaker than it was before but he was unquestionably alive.
They had removed his faceplate when she dropped down from the sky, the Green One's deflated form dropping alongside her as she stepped forward. "Step aside," She ordered Thor as a small drop of water fell from her eyes, as she collected it and then, flicked it towards Stark's downed form.
The effect was immediate, as Stark woke up with a gasp, sitting up when the Captain stopped him and pushed him down.
"W-What just happened? How did I–Ugh," Stark grunted mid sentence as the rest of them looked in concern and alarm. She concentrated and then sighed, realising the root of the problem.
With a flick of her hand, water shot out and infiltrated the little crevices on the suit before it was all dismantled and in some places, crushed before Stark was lying down with a full body suit.
"O-okay, what is happening?" He said in between pained breaths, his hands clawing at his chest or rather, his reactor as she bent forward and placed her palm on the circular reactor, water surging under her palms before she pulled and Stark, perhaps on instinct, reached forward as well, trying to save what he thought was life saving equipment.
He was pushed down by the water as she removed the reactor, and then–
KRA-KOOM!
Her left hand shot out as a shroud of water appeared around her, stopping the lighting strike that would have killed Stark and then worked on getting the metallic housing out of his chest, not before removing the little pieces of shrapnel struck in his chest, before, finally, her teardrop finished its work and healed the hole in the man's chest, leaving him hale and healthy again.
Stark was clearly astonished as to how that happened as he sat upright and continued to touch his chest as if ascertaining whether it was a dream or not.
Meanwhile, she, turned back and walked out of the encirclement as the shroud disappeared and she, with it.
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