Chapter 16

                                    

                                          

Steve pov 
                          
"Romanoff!" I yell throwing my shield at her so she can use it to protect herself from the attacking robot.
                          
"Thanks." she responds.
                          
"The anti-gravs are rigged to flip. Touch 'em, they'll go full reverse thrust. The city's not coming down slow." I hear Friday say through the coms talking to Stark.
                          
"The spire's Vibranium. If we can to hit it..." Tony says.
                          
"It'll crack, but that's not enough, the impact would still be devastating." Friday says,
                          
"Maybe if we cap the other end, keep the atomic action doubling back."  Tony says. 
                          
"That might work. It will incinerate the city and everyone on it.  I ran multiple scenarios the only one who has the amount of power we need is..." Friday says but I can't hear the rest.
                          
"The next wave's gonna hit any minute. What have you got, Stark?" I ask.
                          
"Well, nothing great. Maybe a way to blow up the city. That'll keep it from impacting the surface but no one is going to like it." Stark says.
                          
"I asked for a solution, not an escape plan." I argue hitting a robot.
                          
"Impact radius is getting bigger every second. We're going to have to make a choice." Tony reasons through the coms.
                          
"Cap, these people are going nowhere. If Stark finds a way to blow this rock..." Nat says agreeing with Tony as she is walking over.
                          
"Not 'til everyone's safe." I agrue.
                          
"Everyone up here versus everyone down there? There's no math there." Nat continues to reason.
                          
"I'm not leaving this rock with one civilian on it." I say standing firm. I am not letting anymore people die. 
                          
"I didn't say we should leave." Nat says as I turn to look at her. "There's worse ways to go. Where else am I gonna get a view like this?" Nat continues as we look at the mountains. Zari and Clint were right they are beautiful.
                          
"Glad you like the view, Romanoff. It's about to get better." Fury says into our coms and just then the Helicarrier show up. "Nice, right? I pulled her out of mothballs with a couple of old friends. She's dusty, but she'll do." Fury continues.
                          
"Fury, you son of a bitch." I say smiling then Pietro show up. 
                          
"Oooh! You kiss your mother with that mouth?" Fury jokes and I could practically see the smirk in his face.
                          
"Altitude is eighteen thousand and climbing." Maria says into the coms.
                          
"Lifeboats secure to deploy. Disengage in three, two...take 'em out." I hear another agent say as we watch the lifeboats fly in towards the us.
                          
"This is SHIELD?" Pietro asks smiling.
                          
"This is what SHIELD's supposed to be." I say looking back at him.
                          
"This is not so bad." He says and I smile.
                          
"Let's load 'em up." I say to them.
                          
Zari's POV
                          
People start running out of the broken buildings towards the life boats.
                          
"Let move, come on" I say to the people helping them to the life boats.