Auther's note: I'm sorry! (hides behing chair) I just wrote this chapter out of frustration and I didn't like it so I didn't post it. It had been sitting there, mocking me and I couldn't find the insparation to make a better one. Then I wrote a chapter that's more like this one and chucked the old one out my nonexsisting virtual window. It still kinda sucked and I still couldn't find any ways to make it better until I listened to Shakira's new song, 'Empire'. This still isn't the best thing I've ever written, but I'm not perfect.
Warning: Thing's from 'Thor: The Dark World' are mentioned in this chapter. If you haven't seen the movie, look up some quick facts so you don't get lost too badly.
Disclaimer: I don't own the wonderful world of the Avengers, no matter how many times I put it on my Chirstmas/Birthday list. :( Sorry I forgot to post the disclaimer in the first three chapter's.
"No!" It wasn't until later that I realized that the shout came from me. This wasn't part of the plan. He was supposed to be sort of fine. My mind nearly went blank with shock, but I shook it off before it got a hold. I needed to get him medical attention, and he needed it fast. I ran to him. I dropped by his side and desperately started searching for a pulse. My heart went cold as I couldn't find one "Nononononono. Don't do this to me. You promised. You promised me you wouldn't leave me." I didn't care that Jarvis was recording this and the Avengers would know that I tried to trick them, all I cared about was Loki. I was trying to find some way to make his heart beat again, but I couldn't find it. I wasn't skilled in healing. My only gift was moving things with my mind. I had never felt so useless. I finally gave up and just sobbed into his chest.
I didn't notice the Avengers burst in, weapons drawn. I didn't notice the guy with the cape running towards me and checking Loki for a pulse. I didn't notice them trying to get me to let go of Loki's body. I didn't notice them sticking a needle in my neck, filled with enough drugs to knock me out for a few hours.
What they didn't know was that I was allergic to that particular drug, and by the time they noticed something was wrong since nearly an entire hour had passed since I was supposed to wake up, I was already dead. That turned out to be the end of S.H.I.E.L.D., since the news media found out I was the one who stopped the giant alien. The World Security Council couldn't cover it up, so S.H.I.E.L.D. got shut down, along with the Avengers.
This turned out to be both a good thing and a bad thing. A good thing since, while dismounting S.H.I.E.L.D, they found out that HYDRA had infiltrated it. But it also turned out to be a bad thing, since few years later, some idiot with a lot of money hired a group of brilliant children and adults, made a half-assed cure for cancer, rushed through testing, and released a disease that killed half the worlds population in two days, and left the other half in fear of the walking bodies that ate people who were walking around. Yeah, the world could have used the Avengers that year.
After about five years of resistance the last human got infected and the Earth was now a empty hell hole. The Asgardians finally got off their asses to do something about it, but they came too late and some got infected. The disease took longer to take over the more advanced beings because of their more developed immune system, but it still took over. So by the time they figured out that some of their own were infected, it was too late and Asgard was overrun in days. Funnily enough, the prisoners were the last to die, since they were safe behind the walls of their cells. So instead of turning into flesh-eating monsters, they starved to death. Loki, son of Laufey, who was the last to die, had a thought that he did not have time to express. 'I don't know which is the worst way to go. Starvation or being eaten.'
With the main peace-keeping race in the universe now a race of more advanced zombies, all the realm fell into chaos and despair. Races fought for the spot at the top of the food chain, the spot that Asgard had left open when everybody on their planet died.
Some time later, the Aether was found by a curious moon-child, and the Dark Elves stole it back for themselves. They plunged the universe into even darker despair, and ruled until Thanos killed their leader, Malakith. He put the Aether on Earth, were the zombies were still running around, since it seemed they didn't need food to survive. They didn't waste away, as some left over humans had hoped before they died. They were enough to dissuade anybody to go to Earth in search for the power of the Aether, and it remained there until, well, I should let you find that out for yourself''s.
Thanos's rule was even worse than that of the Dark Elves, since they were fine with leaving everybody alive as long as they followed their rules. Thanos just went around killing people in the name of Death, his lover. In the end, nobody was left, and Thanos was killed by Death, who expressed her fury in ways that would forever dissuade anybody from making her angry. She was fine with him sacrificing a few people, but not everybody. Now there wasn't anybody around to make new people. Chaos, creator of all the universes, saw what had happened, and shut the universe down permanently as an example. 'Don't fuck up your universe, 'cause you don't get a second chance.' In time, the universe that was called 'Project Infinity Stones' was forgotten. Chaos never made another universe with such powerful objects in it, since it had turned into such a disaster.
A few thousand years later.
Death was gliding through the deep catacombs of the closed universes. It was buried deep beneath Chaos' palace, but a cold breeze still wormed it's way down to chill anybody who dared go deeper than the kitchens. Strange things lurked down in the catacombs, but Death sent them all scurrying. They knew a predator was amongst them, and even the creatures that lived in the darkest corners didn't dare make a sound. She swept through, looking for something to catch her eye. When she found it, she nearly walked right past it.
Tucked away in a corner in a feeble attempt to hide it, it just drew attention. What first drew her attention was how somebody had tried to hide it, but what had her frozen was the name. 'Project Infinity Stones'. She remembered quite clearly why it had been shut down. Thanos had found her in her chambers, fell in love with her and proceeded to destroy every bit of life. It took him a while, since most races objected to being killed off, but he did it. She remembered how she had to take action herself. Her! Death, ruler of the Underworld! Keeper of souls and the one who everybody feared. Such a disgrace. Her attention was drawn back to the file. Yes, she would ask Chaos if she could use this one. It would do quite nicely for what she had in mind. If anybody could see the smile on Death's face in that moment, they would not be around to see what it meant, as they had died of fright, such was her smile. Oh yes, this one would do quite nicely.