Android 18 burst out of the water the instant she fell in and charged at Thanos once more.
But Thanos struck her with another energy attack, sending her carving another silver trail through the air.
She was not flying. She had been hurled.
The force of Thanos's throw exceeded her Infinity Power Reactor's ability to compensate in real time.
Her body was like a stone launched from a slingshot, completely beyond her control.
Her body shrieked sharply against the air, dragging a white shockwave behind it and shattering every pane of glass along its path.
She flew across Third Avenue and smashed through the thirtieth floor of an office building.
Concrete and steel were like paper before her body.
She entered through the left wall and burst out through the right, kicking up clouds of dust and shredded paper.
Then she crossed Second Avenue and smashed through the roof of another building.
She burst out through the foundation on the first floor, plowing a deep trench through the ground.
Then she crossed First Avenue and crashed into a statue in a park by the East River.
The statue shattered beneath the impact, and her body tumbled dozens of meters through rubble and dirt.
At last, she embedded herself in the concrete wall of the riverbank in a twisted position.
River water flowed over her head. The icy waters of the East River battered her blond hair and blue eyes.
Her eyes remained open as she watched the sand and stones churned up by the current, watched the fish swimming through the darkness.
She watched fragments drifting down from upstream, things she could not even identify.
Her body was not injured. After all, it had been created through life engineering using Nano Vibranium.
Vibranium's atomic structure could not be damaged by