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Justasmalltowngirl2713: Hahaha I bet Stephen would fight you on that. And YES Gwen and Becky would love each other omg. I just love thinking about it.

torixx3: OH SHNAP IS RIGHT

TeamAmWolves: Ah, okay. I was like...what? Haha. I want to shank him too. I don't know what's wrong with him.

Arrows the Wolf: Haha thanks. Hulk is so great.

Lena Sauran: Sorry! Haha, I am making a series. There's six installments in all.

WillowDamon17: Thanks! He is a clumsy fool!

Itsgoose2u: He does need to hurry up. Hopefully he can help save the day in this chapter.

Jimmy 144: Thanks! I couldn't help myself with her taser.

Ms. Smooth Criminal: I think most of us are angry with Clint haha. I'm glad you found those things funny haha. You'll find out if you're right with that question in like two chapters. We're gettin' there!

AngelVamp6688: Don't worry, I have trouble killing these guys off! My heart breaks too. I love Tasha.

StarViky: Thank you! I knew I had to fit the taser in there haha.

Jayc Black: Don't worry! Don't cry! It'll be alright dear reader!

dragonrain618: Yay! Someone who doesn't want Clint to die! Weee!


Chapter Twenty-Eight

Gwen only managed to look up as Thanos finished the Gauntlet. He smiled down at her, pointing the Gauntlet at her.

"Say goodbye to your planet, mortal," he said.

He shot a blast from the Gauntlet before Gwen could react to his sentence. Just before the light hit her, something got in the way. She looked up to see a man wearing leather, metal and green. He suddenly fell to the ground and disappeared.

Thanos laughed. "This is not a time for your tricks, Loki!"

Gwen saw the real Loki appear out of nowhere. He stood in front of her, almost protectively.

"Then what is it a time for?" he asked the purple Titan.

"It is time for you to die, Odinson."

But before he could fire the Gauntlet which was now aimed at Loki, a blast of light hit Thanos and he flew away from them.

"My brother is such a homicidal maniac!"

Gwen turned to see Eros, examining his hands. He looked very beat up and bruised. Gwen assumed he had a run in with the Hulk. And it seemed that the womanizer had actually saved them. Wasn't that a surprise.

Her attention changed when she saw Loki extending a hand out to her. She took it as he helped her up.

"Thanks," she said.

"You are welcome."

They didn't have time for anything else as the Skrulls approached. Gwen turned around to find Steve now standing, looking unsure about the whole "Loki-just-saved-Gwen" thing, but he at least wasn't trying to kill the god. They nodded at each other in understanding, Steve turning to fight and Gwen doing the same.

"Hey Gwenie!" came Tony's voice.

"What is it Tony?" she asked as she took out her gun and began firing.

"I added something to your uniform."

"D'you mind telling me what?"

"Batteries."

Gwen smiled as she looked down at her belt. Indeed there were batteries and she felt very stupid for not even knowing they were there.

"You're a genius," she muttered.

"Tell me something I don't know."

Gwen focused as best as she could and felt the energy from the batteries fall under her control. She let it almost become one with her as it became visible and climbed up her arms. She formed it into a sphere, just like what she had shown Daisy when they arrived. However, Gwen had never done anything more with the sphere before and knew that what she was about to try was risky. But she did it anyway.

The blonde turned towards a group of approaching Skrulls, aimed the sphere at them and commanded it to fly at them. Just as the sphere was about the hit them, she let it explode.

The energy hit them and they all went flying back. Gwen focused the energy just on the Skrulls so that it didn't go anywhere else and harm another person. She noticed, however, that she had also destroyed the grass in the process.

"You have to admit," said Steve beside her, "that was actually pretty awesome."

Gwen laughed as she began to gather the energy she had shot forward and bring it back to her. "Thanks."


Thanos was seething. He was burning with anger. This wasn't how the plan was supposed to go. He was supposed to be crushing the pathetic mortals. But instead, he was seeing his army being destroyed. He could've sworn he even saw some of them run back through the portal.

It was time Thanos took the battle into his own hands.

The Titan went on a bit of a rampage. He didn't care what he shot with the Gauntlet. One shot hit the Washington Monument at its middle and the top half started to sway. Half of the obelisk fell and Thanos saw the Avengers around that area dive away and to safety.

Scowling, he shot some more, destroying even some of the Skrulls. They were useless anyway. All they were doing was having fun shooting the buildings and causing chaos. Granted Thanos like doing that kind of thing too, but he wanted the Avengers out of the way. But one of them, Luke Cage or something, managed to run forward and catch it before it did damge. It was them who were ruining his plan. It was them who were saving their puny planet from his rule.

Thanos thought about what the Other told him. "To challenge the humans is to court death." He then realized at this moment that the Other had not been referring to the Death that Thanos thought of. Instead, the death that had been spoken about was the real thing. Death as in to actually die.

But Thanos wasn't finished yet. If he was to die, he'd end it all with a bang.


The fight went on for a while. Gwen was finding herself getting tired, her head starting to throb. She was slowly losing focusing becoming unable to hit everything she wanted to.

Out of no where, the clouds seemed to open up as a ray of light shot down dangerously fast and hit the ground. It went away almost immediately leaving something else in its place.

Gwen saw an old man with a staff wearing a helmet and what seemed to be some sort of eyepatch. He was on a large, eight-legged horse.

"Father?" called Thor, a look of pure shock on his face. "You live?"

The man Gwen now assumed was Odin ignored Thor's shout and instead stared at Thanos.

"All-Father?" asked the purple maniac. He actually looked slightly frightened. "How is this possible?"

"The poison you put on the dagger you attempted to kill me with was not of Asgard. It has a different effect on us. Instead, it makes us show symptoms of being dead while we are unconscious for a period of time."

"Go, All-Father, before I end you myself!"

"Stop this foolishness, Thanos! You cannot win!"

"Watch me!

Before Thanos could do anything else, Odin shot him with a blast from his staff, sending Thanos flying.

And the Gauntlet went flying in a separate direction.

"Father!"

Gwen saw Thor running over to Odin who was now getting off of his horse. She saw Loki look at the old man with shock. Sif, Fandral, Volstagg and Hogun were all smiling widely at their King, okay, maybe not Hogun, but he was probably exploding on the inside.

"So that's the King of Asgard?" asked Tony's voice. "He's...old."

"What did you expect?" asked Daisy. "He's like, hundreds of years old or something."

"Humans," said Odin, turning to all of the others who were now gathering together at the base of the destroyed Monument. Even the Hulk had wandered over, making Odin furrow his brow. "And green giant. You must go. I can send Thanos away."

"No, father," Loki spoke up. "I am the one who made a deal with Thanos. It is because of me that he is here. I will end him."

"Nonesense, I will not lose you a second time."

"And we will not lose you," said Thor. "We fight this together, father."

Odin paused for a moment.

"Where is Thanos, anyway?" asked Hank.

Everyone looked over at him and noticed he was growing so that he was back to his normal size. Gwen hadn't even noticed him shrink a second time.

"He must be invisible," said Stephen, coming to join them with a cut across the right side of his face.

"So he is hiding," laughed Eros. "That figures."

"Where are the Skrulls?" asked Natasha.

"They're running away," answered Rhodey's voice.

"Yeah," agreed Tony. "Once Santa Claus got here they took off for that portal on the White House."

"So Thanos is a coward," observed Fandral.

Out of nowhere, Sif screamed. She must have been thoroughly surprised as Gwen was sure that nothing could frighten the female warrior.

Everyone turned around immediately and saw that Thanos had taken hold of Sif. He was certainly bigger than her, but he now held her spear and had it pointed at her throat.

"One wrong move," said Thanos who seemed slightly out of breath, "and she dies."

Everyone still had their weapons pointed at Thanos, but no one was willing to let Sif get hurt. And so they lowered them.

"Good," continued Thanos with a smile. "Now give me the Gauntlet."

"We do not know where it is," stated Odin.

"You lie, All-Father. You must be hiding it."

"I do not lie. We know not of its location."

"GIVE ME THE GAUNTLET OR SHE DIES!"

"Let go of her, please."

Gwen recognized the voice and turned quickly to see Phil standing there, behind them all. And he had the Gauntlet on his arm.

The group parted so that he could walk forward, the Gauntlet aimed at Thanos. Gwen couldn't help but wonder when he had even gotten down on the ground. She wanted to yell at him, but was in complete shock of the situation. It was an action like this that had gotten him killed. Or, at least they had thought so.

"Coulson!" yelled Tony in their earpieces. "What the hell are you doing?"

"I said let her go," demanded Phil.

"It was a stunt like this that got you killed!" added Steve. "Well, sort of..."

"Alright," said Thanos, still smiling. "I'm amused."

But instead of just simply letting Sif go, he threw her into what remained of the Washington Monument. Gwen saw Thor run to her to see if she was okay.

Phil suddenly shot a blast from the Gauntlet and Thanos flew backwards into the ground, digging up the ground where he slid.

"Coulson!" shouted Steve. "Put it down!"

"You puny mortals think yourself above Titans!" shouted Thanos as he got up, pushing chuncks of mud and earth off of him. "You are lower than dirt! You are-"

He was cut off by a blast from Phil and exploded into what almost looked like confetti and Gwen couldn't help but think of Voldemort's death in the last Harry Potter movie. It littered the ground as though a New Years Eve party had just taken place.

It was completely silent as Gwen slowly stood up, staring at the spot where Thanos had stood. She then looked back at Phil who was smiling in complete delight, the Gauntlet steaming on his arm as he lowered it.

People started moving around her, getting up, pushing rubble out of the way, getting to medics. She could see Tony now flying around the Hulk like an annoying bee, the green rage monster swatting at him angrily. Daisy was sitting on the ground looking exhausted as she was approached by Luke who helped her up. Stephen was quick to Phil in order to get the Gauntlet off just in case it went off by accident. The Asgardians grouped together, even Loki, who looked almost...happy.

But Gwen went straight for Steve and threw her arms around him. She soon pulled back and kissed him.

"I told you everything would be okay," he teased her when they parted.

Gwen rolled her eyes and sighed. "Just shut up and kiss me."

And Steve did just that.


Okay guys, there's two more chapters and then an epilogue. And now you know why I specifically had Loki realize at the end of "Powers" that the poison on the blade used to "kill" Odin was not of Asgard. I PULLED A J. K. ROWLING. WEEE.