To say that it had been a rough few days for the Asgardians would be an understatement. First, they find out that for the past few years, Loki had been masquerading as Odin. Then Odin dies and Hela, the Goddess of death is able to return to Asgard and take over. Then, in order to stop the her, Thor unleashes Surtur upon Asgard in order to stop her, destroying the planet in the process. What was left of the Asgardians remained on a ship heading to wards Earth. You would think that was enough apocalyptic level events for one week, but then Thanos attacks their ship. They tried to stop him but the effort turned out to be in vain. He destroyed the ship, killed half of their people, along with Loki and Heimdall. He left Thor floating through space.

What was left of the Asgardians was floating in one peace of their now broken ship. The Valkyrie had taken over the leadership role, as she was the most skilled warrior, however she was having trouble coping. The slaughter of the Asgardians reminded her of how all the other Valkyrie had died, and she was the only one left. She had no idea what had happened to Thor and Hulk. But she knew that was now her duty to to defend what was left of her people.

Once the engineers on board had fixed their ship up so that they could actually move thought space, one of the Asgardians asked Valkyrie where exactly they should go now.

"We were on our way to Earth before. Might as well keep up with that course." She said, followed by he taking a large drink and sitting in the captain's chair. "Let's get going."

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They managed to find the Guardians' ship fairly easily. It was right next to the Q-ship that Tony had crashed earlier. They entered the ship and Tony looked around at the alien technology on display. Any other day he would have wished to study the ship to understand how it worked and how he could apply that to his own technology.

Nebula started to turn on the ship and lock in a course to Earth. "The ship is in good shape, so we should be to arrive at your planet in a few days time."

"Good." Tony replied. He went to sit down and tend to his wound. He had to do a makeshift job in order to stop the blood loss, but he would still need to work on it more to make sure it healed completely. After they had left the Atmosphere of Titan, Tony asked "Hey smurfette, is there a med kit of something around here?"

Nebula set the ship on auto-pilot and went over to a cupboard and pulled out a box full of medical supplies. She placed it next to him and sat down. "Let me see your wound."

Tony pulled up his shirt just enough to show off the large cut Thanos had left when when he stabbed him with Tony's own blade. Nebula started to clean off the wound and then pulled out a machine that helped close the wound. Tony saw this and made a mental note to study that device later on. Nebula then helped him bandage his wound. "You'll be in pain for a few days, you'll want these." She handed him some pain medication. "The wound should be healed by next week."

They both moved up to the cockpit and sat down. "How is it you know Thanos so well?" Tony asked.

"When I was young, Thanos came to my home-world, slaughtered half my people, and took me in as his daughter. He taught he to fight and do his bidding, and he turned me into this." She gestured towards the robotic parts of her body. "He used me to help him kill billions, and hunt down the stones. I tried to kill him before he did so, but I failed."

"Oh." Tony said, a little shocked at how dark that story seemed to be. After a few moments, Tony asked "So if you grew up with him, you must know about any of his weaknesses. Does he have any? Like can we use some radioactive space rock, or does he get really bad sunburns or something?"

"You've fought him. You know how efficient he is in combat. And now that he has all 6 stones, he's practically unbeatable."

Tony was trying his hardest to stay optimistic. His mind kept thinking of how everyone had disintegrated right in front of him. And Parker, God, Parker. He couldn't believe that he had allowed this to happen. He knew he had to find out some way to fix this. There had to be.

They continued to head to earth in awkward silence, briefly interrupted by the odd comment from Tony.

It had been a few days since the Battle of Wakanda. The country had been trying to organize itself after Thanos' army attack and he wiped out half the world's population. Thanks to Wakanda's advanced technology, they had been able to make good progress in repairing the damages made to the area surrounding the city after the battle. The world outside had not been so lucky.

Many of the people who disintegrated were driving at that moment, which lead to millions of car crashes, some even fatal. Some were currently piloting planes, and in some very unlucky instances both co-pilots in large commercial planes disappeared, leading to some very deadly plane crashes. Many world leaders and government officials had disappeared, including the U.S. president and a good chunk of the cabinet. The U.S. government remained fairly stable, however some less stable nations had power vacuums occur because of the deaths of their leaders, and even more death occurred.

Wakanda was dealing with its own transfer of power. After the king disappeared, Shuri would be named the new Queen of Wakanda. They would need a leader as soon as possible, so they had organized for her coronation to occur in one week's time. All of the tribes agreed that there was no need for a challenge on warrior falls, as all of them had much larger needs to attend to.

After they were able to get communications back up in Wakanda, the Avengers immediately jumped into action to help the outside world in any way they could. They tried to organize governments and organizations, and convince the wealthiest in society to help out with the recovery, but this seemed to be a disaster that would be even harder to recover from.

Rhodey had been able to make it through to Stark Industries after multiple tries, and was relieved to discover that Pepper was still alive, and she had already been using to resources of Stark Industries to assist with disaster relief.

"What about Tony?" Pepper asked. "Last I heard from him he got in that huge space ship over New York." She sounded worried. Rhodey understood. Pepper had always worried that being Iron Man would get him killed one day. They both hoped that she was wrong.

"I'm sorry Pepper but I haven't heard from him yet. We haven't seen him at all on our end." Rhodey replied.

"Dammit Tony." Pepper muttered under her breath.

In different part of the castle, Steve was hitting out all of his anger on a punching bag. The Wakandans had informed him that they had more advanced training equipment that he could use, but he preferred the old fashion method. He used the punching bag right after they brought him back from the ice too. He would sit there and punch out all of his anger. Now he was doing the same, but instead of thinking about how he had left behind his entire generation, he was thinking about how badly they had lost. Bucky, Sam, Wanda, Vision, T'Challa, and who knows who else were all gone. He continued to hit the bag until it's handle broke and it flew backwards.

As he moved to set up another bag, Natasha entered the room and moved towards him. "You know its funny, almost this same situation took place when Fury recruited me for the Avengers the first time around." Steve said. They both let out a little laugh. It felt good to laugh about something.

"I was just in the comms room." Nat said. "Not as many car or plane crashes as there could have been, so were are lucky there, I suppose." No one would say that their situation was truly lucky, but Nat was just trying to look on the bright side. As a spy, Natasha had always been skilled at covering up her emotions. She found that skill useful now. She felt awful, but she knew that she needed to be strong in order to help the world, and the rest of her team.

"Yeah, lucky." Steve replied, bitterly. He sat down on a bench and Nat moved to sit next to him. "I still can't believe we lost, and half the universe paid the price."

"Hey, it isn't our fault that some alien decided he needed to kill half the universe. We did our best and …"

"And our best wasn't good enough." The sat quietly for a few moments. Nat knew he was right. Once Thanos had arrived there was no way they would have been able to stop him. They were only a mild inconvenience to him. Even after Wanda managed to destroy the stone, he just turned back time and took it.

Nat broke the silence. "Either way, now is not the time to mope. The world needs us, there is chaos on every continent, and we have help the world realize that this is no the end of the world." Even though it feels like, she thought.

In another area of the castle, Rocket was desperately trying to contact the rest of his team. The last he saw them they were trying to stop Thanos from getting the reality stone, and when he showed up here on Earth, he had all six. Rocket tried not to let the worst come to mind.

Before he had met up with the Guardians, Rocket did not care about anyone or anything, except for Groot, of course. He definitely would not have gone all the way to Earth to try and fight an evil alien warlord and his army of "space dogs." But over the years he spent with them, he grew to love them like family, even Quill, although he would not like to admit it.

And so the thought of losing them terrified him more then anything, after all, he had to watch Groot die right in front of him twice. He kept trying to contact them to no avail. The communications technology in Wakanda was good, but it did not have what he needed in order to reach his team and their ship. He continued to try and make modifications on the tech when Thor walked in.

"What are you doing, sweet Rabbit?" Thor asked.

"I'm trying to reach my team. They must be out there. I gotta get to them so that, so that we can regroup and figure what the hell we are going to do now." Rocket was trying not to let his voice reveal how full of fear and sadness he was.

"They are a fine team of morons, aren't they? I'm sure they are alright."

"Yeah but you can't know for sure." Rocket said quietly as he continued to work.

"I'm sorry about your friend, Tree." Thor said.

Rocket continued to work and ignored Thor.

"If you need someone to talk to, you know that I've dealt with quite a lot of loss myself."

Rocket smirked at Thor's comment. He remembered how Thor had said that his entire family, his best friends and half his people had been killed. He felt sorry for him in that moment. Thor lost everyone in his life and yet he still remained optimistic that they could win, and always tried to support his teammates. Rocket does not know what he would do if everyone he loved were gone.

Rocket continued to work on his communication device the all of the sudden in started smoking. "Dammit!" He yelled.

"Whats wrong?" Thor asked.

"This stupid comms device isn't wanting to freaking work. God damn Terran technology, freaking idiots can barely get past there first moron." Rocket was starting to feel all the emotions he was trying to suppress come out. He started hitting and banging on the device until it definitely couldn't be used to talk to anyone. " I need to hear there voices. I need to make sure they are okay. I've already lost one friend today, I can't lose anymore" Rocket said as he started to cry. He hadn't felt this way since Groot had sacrificed himself for the Guardians on Xandar.

In that moment Thor came over and started to comfort him. "I'm so sorry, sweet Rabbit." They sat there in silence as Rocket allowed himself to pour out all of his emotions while Thor listened.