A/N Hello everybody. PENULTIMATE CHAPTER! I know I said this story would be longer but then it turned out it wasn't (duh). So yeah. Once I finish this series, I will let out a teaser trailer for Percy Jackson: Endgame in this story as a bonus chapter. And no, I don't know ANYTHING about Endgame any more than you guys do.

Percy Jackson: Endgame will be released as soon as the Avengers: Endgame Transcript comes out on or is available to rent. I'm not saying all of this on the author's note on the last chapter because… well, you'll see. So anyway, please review!

Chapter 10: We're in the Endgame Now

(Jason)

The Guardians and the Avengers were dealing with the catastrophic events that come when you slam a moon on the surface of a planet that was already pretty messed up.

The unconscious guardians were flying upwards uncontrollably, (Jason was actually tempted to let Peter Quill fly up into the stratosphere and die for all he cared) moon chunks were still making fiery ballistic inbounds, and random debris and floating rocks were flying in all possible directions.

It was all Jason could do to fly around, grab his friends, and not die simultaneously. Spider-Man was also well equipped for this new development. He was handling the floating Guardians and Jason was handling the people on the ground. Thanos was nowhere in sight.

Peter swung around, shooting out webs everywhere. "I got you!" He webbed Mantis. "I got you!" He grabbed Drax, anchoring both of them on to something not moving. "I'm sorry; I can't remember anyone's names." He grabbed Quill as well.

Jason flew around a rock and dove under another one to grab Piper just before a bit of rock threatened to crush her. She jumped and turned around wildly to see her captor.

"Sorry." Jason said, holding her close to him and darting around the rocks, trying to find a good place to land. "It's okay." She muttered. "You wouldn't happen to have any ambrosia, would you? I hate being useless in a fight.

"Um, I don't know." Jason said, finally finding a safe place to land. "Let me check." He set her down gently and dug through his pockets.

"Let's see… ten dollar bill–that'd be useless now, I can't even see the ten—some Fonzies from Leo, and… ah-hah." Jason triumphantly brought out a crushed bag of ambrosia. He fished one out and handed it to her. "I've got to go and make sure Frank's okay."

Jason knew that speed was of the essence so flew as quickly as he could, rising high into the air to look for Frank. He spotted a human figure somewhere near where Thanos got crushed. He dropped down and saw Frank struggling to lift a piece of moon rock off himself.

"Styx." Jason swore. "Frank, are you okay?"

Frank shrugged. "Broken leg, probably. Can you help me with this?" He said it casually, but Jason could hear the pain laced in his words.

Jason struggled to lift to rock, and finally just settled for moving it aside. He did his best to ignore Frank's yelps of pain as he moved the leg back in a more normal position.

"Here's some ambrosia." He handed Frank the bar. He took it gratefully. "Thanks."

"No proble-"

Jason was blasted out of the way as Thanos finally managed to extricate himself from the rock using the power stone. He was thrown at least fifty feet away along with Frank, whose leg was turning a nasty purple color from all the action.

"Can you shapeshift or anything?"

Frank tried and nothing happened. "Sorry. That happens sometimes when I'm too messed up to concentrate." Jason was half way away from him before he finished his sentence.

"Stay there!"

Jason arrived back at the battle scene to see a really bizarre sight: Thanos surrounded by what looked like a huge, circular mirror, which promptly shattered.

He looked over at Doctor Strange and guessed enough to know that he was the one doing all the magic stuff.

Thanos sucked the shattered mirror pieces into his gauntlet (wouldn't that hurt?) and created a miniature black hole with the space stone and shot it back at Strange.

Jason decided to stay hidden for the moment to help when Strange was in a tighter spot than he was now. It was hard for him to hide since he wanted to go in swords blazing and knock that pathetic excuse for a chin right off Thanos' face.

Just in time, Doctor Strange raised a shield and the broken shards of magic mirror were turned into what looked like aqua butterflies.

Before Thanos could get time to counter-attack, Strange rose into the air and suddenly had arms like a Hindu deity, spreading out all over the place.

Then dozens of identical Doctor Stranges spread out, surrounding Thanos. They all casted golden cords, wrapping around Thanos' arms, torso, and legs. He struggled to close his fist, using the Power and Space Stones to destroy all the fake Stranges and weed out the original.

Thanos reeled Strange in and grasped him in the throat. "You're out of tricks, wizard."

"But guess who isn't?" Jason decided that now was as good a time as any to reveal himself, and rose into the air, raising his sword.

Thanos smiled. "The 'son of Jupiter'. Pray tell me, where did you get your… unusual powers?"

"And why would I tell you that?" Jason launched into battle. He figured Strange wasn't getting much air currently since he was knocked out.

Jason was doing his best to try and lop off Thanos' arm, but Thanos was mostly using that arm for more important things, like trying to kill him, which made it slightly hard.

Pretty soon all he was doing was dodging attacks. His stamina was wearing out quickly. After all, he'd spent the last day doing nonstop fighting. Apparently, Thanos could sense weakness. He used the space stone to grab his sword arm and bend it the way that it was not supposed to bend. Jason gritted his teeth and strained against the force, but one can only go so long against the power of an Infinity Stone.

His arm went snap. Jason was pretty sure it wasn't supposed to make that noise. Thanos smiled in triumph and dropped him, probably sure that he wouldn't be bothering the Titan any time soon. Jason was left to his pain in peace, but he couldn't say the same for Doctor Strange.

First came the shock. Jason knew enough about injuries to know that excruciating pain would be there soon. He crawled over to his bag of ambrosia and managed to stuff some in his mouth, tasting the now familiar smell of sawdust.

Thanos reached for the time stone around Doctor Strange's neck. "No…" Strange gasped.

The Titan studied it. " Would you like to know how I knew? You never once used your greatest weapon." He crushed it. Jason gasped. "A fake." Thanos said. He threw Strange hard enough that his head it the rocks and he passed out. Jason tried to stand, his arm lolling on his side.

Thanos didn't even look over, but trapped Jason in a blue cage using the space stone. Almost simultaneously, a red and gold device latched onto the Infinity Gauntlet, preventing Thanos from closing his fist. Jason rolled his eyes. He'd been wondering where Tony was.

"You throw another moon at me and I'm gonna lose it." Tony Stark sounded just about done with the Titan.

"Stark." Thanos said, momentarily losing his focus on Jason and dropping him ten feet and catching him again. He craned his neck as much as he could in his cage and saw Piper's white face looking over at the situation on a nearby cliff.

Where's Frank? Jason mouthed. Piper looked at him in confusion, either meaning that she didn't understand his lip reading or didn't know. Jason sighed and turned back to the situation at hand.

"You know me?" Tony was saying.

"I do. You're not the only one cursed with knowledge."

"My only curse is you." Small rockets popped out of Iron Man's back and launched themselves at Thanos.

The rockets all exploded on target, momentarily shrouding Thanos in smoke. Before he was able to see what was going on, Tony launched himself into Thanos horizontally, making use of his single super-jet boot configuration.

He bounced off, flipped, and stuck the landing, reconfiguring his boots into ground clamps for stability and his gloves into rocket-driven battering rams. Jason suddenly realized what Tony had been up to when the press said he'd been shut up in his workshop for weeks.

Tony punched Thanos into a ruined wall behind him, but he shook it off quickly. He reached forward and tore Iron Man's head off, revealing Tony's shocked expression before the suit recovered and grew back the head protection.

Unfortunately, the Titan made use of the millisecond of delay and punched back hard, sending Tony sliding yards away and also giving Thanos time to rip off the brace device on his gauntlet.

Suddenly a spinning bronze knife was flying towards Thanos, piercing his arm with deadly accuracy. Thanos drew it out of his skin with an expression of mild interest, and then turned towards where the knife had come from.

Piper jumped off her rock, sliding smoothly to face Thanos. "Piper, don't!" Jason tried to shout, but the Space Stone prison also didn't let him speak. "I'd like my knife back, please." Piper said in a sugar sweet voice.

Her voice washed over Jason, filling him with the desire to get her knife back. And it wasn't even directed at him. Thanos merely raised an eyebrow. "Don't try your sorcery with me, girl. It won't work."

"Well, it was worth a try." Piper shrugged. "But you were wrong on two accounts. One: it wasn't sorcery. Two: I'm not a girl." Suddenly she was holding the knife in her hand again. "I'm a demigod."

She slid under Thanos' legs, came up behind him, and promptly stabbed him in the back. He yelled in pain, but then melted away. The real Thanos appeared behind her, the reality stone glowing. She turned around with an expression of surprise on her face, before getting slammed by the gauntlet and knocked into a pile of rocks and was knocked out.

Iron Man flew out of nowhere and sent a blast of fire at Thanos' face, which was deflected by the blue of the Space stone. The Titan then immediately used the Power Stone to stream highly concentrated energy and his opponent, who formed a shield to kneel behind just as instantly, getting pushed back even further by the incredible force.

Tony slid out from behind the shield and let the angled energy push him away for a faster start. He whipped back to Thanos with full thrusters; then kicked at the Titan with his left foot, turning the boot into a ground clamp at the same time to pin the gauntlet.

He kept twisting while his left glove became a ram again, slamming into Thanos' face and cutting his cheek. Thanos looked down on it with an expression of amusement.

"All that for a drop of blood." Jason groaned silently. They were most definitely doomed.

He punched Tony further away and teleported to his location, and then proceeded to beat him with his fists. Tony attempted to block the blows with his forearms, but Thanos was relentless, picking him up by the helmet and blasting his midsection with the Power Stone.

The gaps in the armor were now gaping and the armor seemed to lose the ability to recover from the intensity and extent of the damage. Iron Man landed hard from the Power blast, struggled to one knee and fired his right hand blaster at Thanos, but the beam was easily deflected by the gauntlet.

He got to both feet as the suit tried to complete repairs, adding the beam from his left hand as well. Thanos walked right up to Tony and literally slapped his head right of his neck.

He crossed his arms to block a blow from Thanos' gauntlet, and had his left hand caught over his head. In desperation, he formed what was left of his right glove into a short sword, which was also easily caught by Thanos, snapping it clean off and driving it through Iron Man's side.

Jason hated being a useless spectator, but there was currently nothing that he could do. Tony struggled to rise, clutching the stab wound in his chest. There was a look of fear and desperation in his eyes that Jason had never seen before.

Jason started struggling more than ever, pushing against his blue cage with his good left arm. The cage started rising higher into the air, and he thought it was working until he saw the blue stone glowing on Thanos' gauntlet.

Then the sphere surrounding him disappeared, leaving him floating fifteen feet in the air for a fraction of a second, and then dropping.

He twisted in midair, trying to land on his feet but too surprised to try to control the winds. The only thing he accomplished was landing on his side right on a sharp rock. He cried out in pain and tried to move, but that only made the pain worse. Probably a broken rib.

The Space Stone on the gauntlet stopped glowing and Thanos made his way leisurely towards Tony. When he reached him, Thanos squatted down and placed his gauntleted hand on Tony's head, as if trying to comfort him.

"You have my respect, Stark. When I'm done, half of humanity will still be alive." He let go and stepped back. "I hope they remember you."

Tony looked just slightly distracted from the pain. There was blood drooling out of his mouth and had compromised breathing.

Jason was just wondering why Thanos was just leaving him here, still alive, when he closed his fist and walked over to Jason. "I'll take care of you first." Thanos informed Jason. Then he seemed to have an idea. "Or, better yet, I take care of both of you at the same time."

Jason glared up at Thanos. At least if he had to go, Piper wouldn't have to watch. Still, he didn't intend to die without a fight.

Thanos lifted him up with a huge hand and raised the glowing power stone next to his head. Jason struggled and kicked but he might as well been trying to cut down a tree with a feather. At the same time he saw Tony being lifted into the air, still looking thoroughly defeated.

The Power Stone was pressed against his temple.

The pain was unbearable. He had promised himself that he wouldn't give Thanos the satisfaction, but he screamed. He'd never been tortured like this before, and found himself wishing that Thanos would just end it.

"Wait!"

The pain lessened. The power stone had been taken off. He could still smell the scent of burning flesh, which especially didn't smell good when it was your own. Jason saw that Doctor Strange had regained consciousness.

Strange sat up. "Spare their lives… and I will give you the stone." Jason stared at Doctor Strange. Maybe it was his fevered brain, but he was pretty sure he remembered Strange telling them that the stone was more important than all of them and wouldn't hesitate to kill them all if it meant saving the stone.

There was a look of triumph in Thanos' eyes. "No tricks." Strange shook his head.

"Don't…!" Tony managed. Jason shook his head violently. "We're not worth it." He croaked out.

Doctor Strange ignored both of them and used his magic to take the stone out of its hiding place in the stairs. He opened his hand, the scars on his fingers particularly noticeable as the stone floated over to Thanos.

Strange watched him intently as Thanos dropped the stone into the thumb place on his gauntlet. "One to go." Suddenly, an energy pulse fired at the one place on his gauntlet that didn't have an Infinity Stone.

Thanos winced in surprise and turned around. Peter Quill's helmet was back on and he was screaming in incoherent rage as he shot both of his guns towards Thanos.

He didn't even respond to the attack—he just left using a portal with the Space Stone.

"Where is he?" Peter Quill said in rage.

Jason struggled to his feet, ignoring the protestant headache that he was having. "Oh, now he wants to know where he is. Well, I've got some choice words for you, buddy…"

Tony stitched up his stab wound as best he could; he had no breath for answers. Jason saw Frank climbing over a rocky hill, limping from his leg wound. Piper was stirring; regaining consciousness.

"Did we just lose?" Quill said, now fearful instead of furious. Jason doubted he heard a word that he'd said.

Tony turned to Strange. "Why… why would you do that?" He said sadly.

Doctor Strange looked at him intently. "We're in the Endgame now."

A/N Dun dun dun! Well, we're not in the Endgame yet. That's next movie. Anyways, PLEASE REVIEW PLEEEAAAASSEEE! Thanks to those of you who did:

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