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Tony and his team landed in Berlin and suited up
“Are we all clear on the plan?” Tony stood in front of everyone with his helmet retracted
“Non-lethal, get them contained before Ross shows up and kills them” Rhodey was calm and collected
“The kid is here to web them up, get them brought down safely” Tony points to Peter, who had his face covered, although he was internally geeking out at the suit Tony had designed for him
“Scott, Hope, you two are here to help the kid and keep him safe. Vision you’re here to minimise any damage to everyone, whether they’re on our side or not. Natasha, you neutralize Clint and Sharon. T’Challa Rhodey and I are going to help everyone, and whatever you do, do not let Maximoff into your head”
The team all nods as they’re told what to do “Ok, lets go” The team all set off to the landing strip of the airport
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“This isn’t going to be easy” Steve turned to Sharon “Tony’s going to have some heavy hitters on his team”
Sharon stroked his cheek softly “So do we Steve, we’ve got two super soldiers, a woman who can move things with her mind, whatever the hell Luke Cage’s power is, nobody at SHIELD was too sure, and Clint who has an arrow for seemingly everything”
Steve nods once “Ok team listen up, we have to get to the Quinjet, we can’t let Zemo get to the other Winter Soldiers before us. Let’s move out”
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Clint had shot the webbing away from Steve’s hands and Matt had handed his shield back to him. Natasha cracked her knuckles and ran at Clint and Sharon, ducking under Clint’s swipe with his bow and sweeping Sharon’s legs out from under her before being tackled to the floor by Murdock.
“Dressed all in red? Not very stealthy” Natasha and Matt circle each other, trading blows and counter blows before she is knocked backwards by an energy blast from Wanda. T’Challa kicked Steve’s shield away and flipped over him before being punched across the face by Luke, the force sent even T’Challa stumbling back a few steps.
Rhodey and Tony try and bring Sam down, dodging Redwing and grabbing Sam by the ankle, Tony throws him to Rhodey who places a circle on Sam’s wings that disable them and force Sam to ground himself.
Peter webbed Goliath to the floor before he had a chance to grow in size, Hope blasts at Bucky and Scott punches him across the face before shrinking and Hope kicks him in the chest.
All of a sudden, all of Team Tony falls to their knees and screams in agony as Wanda’s eyes glow red and she waves her fingers around her in concentric circles
“Wanda what are you doing?!” Steve’s voice was filled with horror
“You said we had to get to the Quinjet Steve! We can go while they’re distracted” Wanda smiles coldly Tony manages to stand and shakes his head
“It’s the Avengers or her Steve, if you hand her over, we can go stop Zemo together”
“How are you up Stark?” Wanda seems confused
“After your antics in Sokovia, I developed a gadget that nullified the effects of your powers on me, unfortunately there’s only one of them so i’ll give you one chance, let my friends go” Tony raises his repulsors at Wanda
“Tony wait” Steve looks round at his team “If Bucky and the rest get immunity, it's a deal”
“Done”
“NO!” Wanda screams and a wave of energy explodes from her body, knocking everyone back, Tony felt his suit’s energy levels deplete before he heard a beeping and looked round before looking up and seeing Rhodey free falling uncontrollably, he sets off flying but it is too late and Rhodey crashes into the ground.
“What did you do?” Bucky looks horrified Tony gets to his feet and fires blast after blast at Wanda, who deflects them all back at him. Hope shrinks and gets close before growing back to normal size and blasting Wanda full force in the face before she is flung back by a wave of energy, knocking Scott down. Peter uses his webs to slingshot a section of tarmac at her before it is destroyed and he is knocked down. Vision grunts in pain as she messes with the mind stone again. Bucky and Sam are knocked unconscious when they hit a concrete pillar. Tony again tries to fire a repulsor blast at Wanda before she uses Steve’s shield and hurls it at Tony’s chest, where it embeds itself.
Steve watches the scene with a look of horror and fright on his face
“Well this all looks horrible” a female voice is heard across the tarmac as well as the sound of high heels “I’m going to give you one chance to surrender Ms Maximoff, or I guarantee you it won’t be pretty” the footsteps get closer until Steve and Tony, the only two left conscious, could see who the voice belonged to
“Pepper?!” Tony manages to gasp before he collapses in pain
“Mr Rogers, please escort Tony and the others from the premises”
“Oh look who it is, Tony’s trophy wife” Wanda sneers in disdain “What could you possibly do to stop me?”
“Steve, I won’t ask again” Pepper ignores Wanda’s comment.
“Ok, ok but I’m coming back to help you” Steve helps Tony to his feet as Natasha and T’Challa regain consciousness and start helping Steve get everyone out
“Now, Ms Maximoff, this can go simply, you can surrender and come into custody, or not” Wanda flings a ball of energy at Pepper, who simply sidesteps it and raises an eyebrow at her “in that case…” Pepper raises her hand and fires a blast of fire at Wanda, who only just manages to block it, her eyes widening in surprise and a hint of fear
“Not just a trophy wife huh?” Pepper quips before she covers the distance between them at a blinding speed and delivers a solid blow to Wanda’s ribs before following it up with a strike to the cheekbone, sending Wanda staggering backwards, struggling to regain her composure.
Wanda uses her powers to throw a car at Pepper, who deftly catches it and throws it back at the red woman, who dives out of the way
“How are you doing this?!”
“EXTREMIS, I guess Tony never told you, then again why should he? He perfected it, getting rid of the glitches and upgrading the powers, at my request. I was too tired of him constantly getting into trouble and nearly dying for a world that doesn’t see him as I do, as the kind sweet man that myself and Colonel Rhodes know him as”
“He’s a killer, he killed my parents” Wanda shot back
“What, personally?” Pepper seems slightly amused
“N- no but his missile did!”
“Hmmm, guess you didn’t keep up to date with the news, but then again volunteering for a neo-Nazi death cult tends to do that to you” Pepper’s voice turns cold “Obadiah Stane, his mentor, was selling weapons to terrorists, including presumably the ones that actually killed your parents” Pepper takes a step towards Wanda “Come in, and you can atone for what you did, to the people of Johannesburg and to the Avengers”
“No, no this is all because of Stark! He caused this” Wanda attempts to slice at Pepper’s neck with a sharpened blade of energy but Pepper dodges and reflexively lashes out, catching Wanda in the neck and breaking it, she’s dead before she hits the ground.
Steve and Natasha come running back to see Wanda’s lifeless corpse and Pepper standing over it
“What happened?” Natasha looks concerned “Are you ok Pepper?”
“She tried to kill me, she failed. If that’s all” and with that, Pepper walks away calmly, whilst Steve looks surprised and Natasha looks impressed.