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Five minutes into the fight and Steve had found the shape of it.Nothing about the shape was good.Even after winning every exchange with Pietro at his side to keep Kleiser off-balance, those exchanges were somehow still coming up short on their end. Between the two of them, they’d already reduced Herr Kleiser’s jaw to gravel a dozen times, folded his ribs a few dozen more on top of that, exposed his brain to open air at least half that many, and seen his beating heart fall out of his own chest.Despite that, the alien just kept coming back out of the rubble.Steve knew well enough that fire didn’t work all that well either, once-blackened and charred skin a perfect pink again, so all they had left was force.And force was failing.A blur caught the alien from four directions in a blink, Steve barely able to track each impact on their own as they came in as one long sound. Like somebody running a stick down a fence, the barrage ended all of a sudden as the kid’s fist went into Kleiser’s cheek with a scream — “DIE ALREADY!” — and came out the back of his skull.Fingers cleared the other side, all the way out through purpled blood and gray matter as Steve saw daylight through Kleiser’s skull for all of a second.Then bone came back, a crawl of meat reaching for itself by the edges and knitting all that matter back together until it all closed in again. By the time Pietro finished a circle, Kleiser had already turned to face the kid, both eyes present and working. “Come now, is this all not getting rather tedious?”“It would be considerably less so—!” Pietro blurred past Steve’s left as he charged forward, the mutant doing his best to keep momentum even as he lagged. “—if you healed slower!”A fist cracked Kleiser’s jaw as a shield edge took his ribs with everything in Steve’s shoulders, a solid six inches deep through bone and everything behind it. Purple sprayed as the captain wrenched his weapon back, things visible and moving inside the gap between flesh. “Seriously, how fast can this thing heal?”Steve’s head snapped up to the mutant, lips pulled back in a growl. “Quit admiring him and hit him!”“I have been!”

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