A WORLD IN DARKNESS

SUMMARY – The world ended. The universe fell. And the shadow of Thanos' oppressive rule covered them all. But that was only the beginning. Who will survive to lead Earth in its fight against extinction?

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PROLOGUE

After the Avengers defeated Loki and his army of Chitari in New York, Thor used the Tesseract to return his brother to Asgard for punishment. What none of them realized at the time was that Lord Thanos had been the one truly behind the attack on the city.

Without the infinity stones, Thanos' magic could not reach Midgard as it was protected by an ancient Asgardian ward designed to keep him out. So he sent Loki, after months of torture, and acting under the threat of death, to retrieve the Tesseract for him.

Thanks to the Avengers, Loki failed him, but by returning the powerful cube to his home realm, Thor inadvertently brought it back within Thanos' reach.

Within months, he had defeated Asgard's armies, killed King Odin and Queen Frigga, enslaved the Asgardians, and stolen the Tesseract. Within a year, Thanos had conquered all realms bar Midgard and collected the rest of the infinity stones and the infinity gauntlet. With their power in his grasp, it was a simple matter for his forces to take Earth.

The Avengers fought him and his armies, of course, but with SHIELD crippled by the return of HYDRA, they weren't strong enough to stop him.

Believing that the team of heroes might be a valuable source of intel, Thanos ordered them to be taken alive, and interrogated using whatever means the Chitari deemed necessary.

That was three years ago. Three years in which the six strongest fighters Midgard had have suffered dearly in captivity. Three years that have seen billions of human lives lost, and hundreds of millions of the survivors enslaved.

And three years in which a single woman has gathered a powerful force of resistance against Thanos' rule.

When Iron Man revealed himself to the world for the first time, Bella Swan was a nineteen-year-old, volunteering abroad with a small group of humanitarians. They had made their way into a small village in Afghanistan called Gulmira filled with refugees, offering aid, only to find themselves caught in the middle of a raid by the Ten Rings.

It had been six months since she had been forced to watch her beloved Edward killed in the battle with Victoria. The alliance between the Quileute wolf pack and the Cullen coven was stronger than ever, but in the wake of Edward's death, Bella needed to get away from Forks. And the opportunity to volunteer abroad had been the perfect opportunity to escape her grief.

Tony Stark's intervention that day in Gulmira saved her life, and she swore that she wouldn't waste another second of it.

When she returned to Washington, Bella trained under her father and joined the Forks Police Department. It wasn't long before she was recruited into the Seattle PD, where she rose through the ranks quickly, putting her legendary skills of deduction and observation to work, protecting people.

She kept an eye on Iron Man's activities, and when the Avengers revealed themselves during the battle of New York two years later, and she watched as Stark sacrificed himself and fell from the sky nearly dead, she decided to travel to the ruined city to help them rebuild.

Three months later, she joined the NYPD and made a home for herself just five miles away from Stark Tower.

And then came Thanos and his armies. Bella fought for as long as she could, but was gravely injured. The Chitari left her for dead in the rubble, but she did not die. She rose from the battlefield and escaped into the night, vowing to never stop fighting until the Avengers were freed and Thanos was destroyed.

That was three years ago. Three years that she has fought her enemies at every turn. Three years in which she has joined together every pack, coven, and pride still standing. Three years in which she built a sanctuary for human, alien and supernatural survivors alike to escape Thanos' rule.

And three years for her to plan the destruction of Thanos and every one of his allies on Earth...