Barry interrupts the first 5 minutes of Infinity War... thank goodness. Please enjoy and let me know what you thought! -LowTide1322

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Thor screamed at the top of his lungs as he watched Heimdall die in front of him, helpless to stop it from happening.

"You're going to die for that!" the god of thunder threatened. The misshapen figure that kept him from moving waved a hand and covered his mouth with yet another piece of metal.

Thanos crushed the tesseract to reveal a glowing blue stone: the space stone. He added it to his gauntlet, and what remained of the spaceship glowed blue.

Thor struggled in his metal prison as Loki proclaimed fake loyalty to the mad titan. When the knife appeared in his hand, Thor knew then that his brother was going to die. His eyes widened with horror, and struggled even more to break free of the bonds that held him. Not Loki, not his brother, not again… He couldn't handle mourning his family yet again, especially when he'd been so close to being happy and having his brother at his side.

The god of thunder sensed a crackle of electricity in the air, and for once, it wasn't from him. Golden lightning and a high pitched crack of thunder sounded throughout the space ship. The lightning traveled through the air faster than the eye could comprehend, and in an instant Thanos's children were on the ground, knocked unconscious.

Loki flailed in Thanos's grip and he could feel the life slowly, painfully drain out of him. Finally, the titan's grip released and as did Thor's metal prison. The elder brother crawled towards the younger with whatever strength he had left, and saw that the bruising on his brother's neck ever so slowly had begun to subside. Loki gasped and took in as much air as he could now that his windpipe wasn't being crushed. He tried to grab a hold of Thor to verify that he was actually there, that he was alive and had evaded death once again.

He really hadn't been expecting to survive this time, and based on how tight Thor was hugging him, it seemed that his brother hadn't expected him to either. In any other scenario (when Loki wasn't weak and on the brink of death), he would have shoved Thor off of him and tell him to stop being so soft. But to his great surprise, he found that the only thing that could comfort him right then was his older brother.

"Thor," Loki coughed, his voice barely audible, "what-what in Odin's name was that?"

Thor only shook his head. He knew whatever had distracted Thanos must have been extremely powerful. Its energy signature far surpassed anything that currently was alive on the spaceship.

"Yo, Thanos!" came a young man's voice from behind Thor and Loki. Thor turned his head around to see a mere Midgardian man, dressed in a red uniform. He was the source of energy that he was sensing, but how could that be? How could a man from Midgard hold so much power?

"It's unwise, human, to stand against me," Thanos said, his voice dangerously low.

"You have failed this universe, asshole."

In a flash of lightning, too fast for Thanos to comprehend fully, the scarlet speedster ran at the titan and vibrated at the same frequency as the space stone. He removed the stone from the gauntlet, just in time before the power stone obliterated the spaceship, leaving Thor and Loki and Thanos alike floating through outer space.

…

Barry smirked as he ran through a breach, moving on to the next location that the Avengers had told him to meet Thor and (now alive) Loki; the Guardians' ship.

Stealing Oliver's line was something the Flash had been aiming to do for a long time, and it turned out to be really satisfying. The mad titan certainly seemed as terrible as everyone had described him, and reminded Barry too much of DeVoe to pass up the opportunity to foil his plan. Not to mention that Loki was about to die and Thor was being held hostage basically, but that was only a part of it.

The space stone was starting to burn through his suit in his hand, and he grimaced. That little bit of distraction caused him to exit the breach late, looking upon a motley crew of aliens and two Asgardians. He pulled his cowl back from his face to look less threatening. Damn, he was supposed to make it there before Loki and Thor.

"Woah, what the hell?!" said one of the aliens, who actually looked like a human. Okay, so there were five aliens, a human, and two Asgardians.

"You again," Thor said, stepping forward. "Who are you? How do you possess such power?"

"Hi, I'm Barry Allen, and do you have a container for this?" he held up the space stone, vibrating his hand so that it wouldn't burn through his flesh. He couldn't hold it forever, and he could already feel himself tiring.

"An infinity stone," muttered a green-skinned woman towards the back of the group.

"Yeah, I plucked it from Thanos...but I can't really hold onto it much longer so, please?" Barry asked.

After everyone overcame their initial shock of seeing a random human with an infinity stone appear on their ship, the Guardians of the Galaxy rushed around to find anything that could contain the stone.

"Here!" said one, who Barry recognized as Rocket. He handed him a container that looked like what he used to put his sandwich in for lunchtime at school.

"Tupperware? Really?"

"This ain't any regular plastic, Red. Just drop it!"

Barry did as the raccoon asked and placed the space stone down in the box gently. Surprisingly, the stone didn't react at all and sat quietly, as if it weren't one of the most ancient objects in the universe.

"Okay, thank God that's over…"

"You're from Earth?" said the human.

"Yeah, but not yours… I'm from a parallel universe, oh, and the future," Barry began, although he wasn't sure that he could explain everything well enough in the time that he had.

"You never answered my question: who are you and how could you wield the space stone?" Thor asked again, stepping even closer to Barry.

"And why would you help us?" came Loki's scratchy voice from behind Thor. Barry remembered after his fight with Zoom his throat had almost been crushed, and it wasn't a pleasant thing to recover from. He winced at the memory as he glanced at the bruising on Loki's neck.

"I was sent here because of some failsafe in the infinity stones because in the future Thanos kills half the universe and—" Barry babbled, not paying attention to the horrified expressions of the crew.

"The snap? He-he did it…" said the green-skinned woman, who Barry was beginning to think was the "Gamora" Rocket told him about.

"Yeah. How do you know so much about Thanos?" Barry asked, just to confirm that it was in fact Thanos's daughter.

The woman looked at her shoes, avoiding the eyes of the strangers in the room. Loki took this as an opportunity to speak up.

"Oh, she knows her father all too well. Isn't that right, Gamora?" the god of mischief sneered. As much as he wanted to, he could never forget all that time spent under Thanos's thumb. Looking at the titan(who'd just nearly killed him)'s daughter was just another reminder of what he'd lost, and where it all went wrong.

"Woah dude, chill out alright? She hates him as much as you do, if not more," the human replied, coming immediately to Gamora's defense.

"They are not dudes," chimed in the shirtless alien with tattoos, "you are a dude. They...they are men."

"Excuse me?"

"Face it, Quill, you're one sandwich away from fat," said Rocket.

"How does that have anything to do with this!?" Quill exclaimed.

"Loki, perhaps it's best not to glare at those who saved us from the unforgiving vacuum of space…" Thor said in an attempt to calm his brother.

"I'm sorry, but that's kind of hard to do when one of them played a part in torturing me!" Loki yelled, but the effort caused him to cough uncontrollably. He rubbed his neck, which was still bruised, but it only made him grimace more. Thor instantly was at his brother's side, trying to help him breathe.

Thor never gave much thought to what happened to Loki between the time he fell from the bifrost to New York. He'd only ever assumed his brother had aligned himself with a higher power that sought to corrupt all the planets in the galaxy. He was half right, in the sense that Thanos had been pulling the strings from behind the scenes. However, he never accounted for why exactly Loki had fallen in line with the titan.

"Is this true?" Thor said, his voice shaking with anger. He didn't even bother to turn and look at Gamora; if he did, he might not be able to restrain himself from starting a fight.

"...Yes," came the hesitant reply.

There was a beat of silence on the ship. As time went on, Barry had become really uncomfortable. Obviously, there was some deep-rooted conflict here and he wasn't sure which side he was supposed to take. There probably shouldn't have been sides to begin with; they were going to need every single person to defeat Thanos.

"Look, I get that things are really tense here but… we need to keep it together. Thanos is coming for the other stones, and we have to get to them before he can. I've seen the future, and things are pretty bleak. Don't let that become your reality," Barry said, standing before the group.

"He's right," Loki said after a brief pause. "Our...personal issues aside, we need to work together. Thanos can't get the stones."

"I agree." Gamora nodded in Loki's direction. "And I'm truly sorry, Loki, for anything I helped Thanos do to you...what I did to you."

"Well, we've all made mistakes," the god of mischief said as a curt response.

"This is nice, but how do we even know where to find the stones?" Quill piped up.

"I am Groot!"

"Uh, I think it's a bit past introductions…" said Barry.

"No, that's not what he said—" Loki began.

"You speak Groot?" Rocket asked, very surprised that two of the three strangers could communicate with his friend.

"Yes, it was an elective in school on Asgard," Thor explained.

"Okay before we get off topic here—!" Quill spoke again.

"You're right, you're right. Okay, so here's what needs to happen…" Barry explained to the group that Thor and Loki had to go to Nidavellir to acquire a powerful weapon to use against Thanos. Rocket had decided that he wanted to go with, seeing as it was a place full of advanced weaponry the raccoon had only dreamed about.

"Fine, but Gamora has to go with you." Barry remembered from Nebula had said, Thanos used the reality stone to capture Gamora, and then took her to Vormir where he murdered her to acquire the soul stone. The thought of Thanos killing his own daughter still gave Barry the chills. "The rest of you should go to Knowhere to see if the reality stone is still there. I'm pretty sure Thanos blew him and his 'children' out into space using the power stone, but he must have a lot of resources and could have survived and already be on his way there. I'm sure his children are on their way to Earth to get the time and mind stones… I guess that's where I need to go next."

"Wait, so now you're just gonna leave? What if we need you, man!?" Quill said.

"Yes, you've proven a mighty ally in the fight against Thanos. The power you possess… it's unlike anything I've ever seen before," Thor said as he approached Barry and rested a hand on his shoulder. Barry almost laughed at the severe déja-vu he was getting.

"When the battle comes to a head, I'll be there," Barry said as he put his cowl back over his face. He grabbed the container holding the space stone, and gave a small salute to the Guardians and Asgardians. "I'll see you guys in a Flash."

With that, the superhero vanished in a blue portal. Thor laughed and turned to his brother.

"I like him."

Loki only rolled his eyes.

Again, each chapter reads like a oneshot, so some of these might be out of order. Reviews are much appreciated!