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Dr. Stephen Strange: Stop! [Sitting up and sounding entirely damaged] Spare his life... and I will give you the stone.
Thanos: No tricks. [Doctor Strange shakes his head as Thanos points all four Stones at him instead.]
Tony Stark: Don't... !
[Doctor Strange reaches up and plucks the Time Stone out of its hiding place in the stars. He opens his hand, the scars on his fingers and their inherent trembling particularly obvious now, and the Stone floats to Thanos' bare hand. Doctor Strange watches him intently, as he takes the Stone and drops it into the thumb setting, the energy pulse making the Titan wince.]
Thanos: One to go. [An energy blast hits the gauntlet right in the empty Mind Stone setting, and Thanos grimaces in surprise.]
Peter Quill: [Screaming in incoherent rage, helmet up, firing with both hands and flying straight for Thanos.]
[Thanos doesn't even bother responding to the assault - he just leaves. Star-Lord flies through where Thanos had been and crashes, rolling several times]
Peter Quill: [Standing and de-helmeting] Where is he?!
[Tony stitches up his stab wound as well as he can with his suit functions; he has no breath for answers.]
Peter Quill: [Now fearful instead of furious] Did we just lose?
Tony Stark: [To Doctor Strange, sadly, who has given the Time Stone to Thanos] Why would you do that?
Doctor Strange: We're in the Endgame now.
[M'Baka bashes another Outrider - the ground game has improved considerably with the addition of the God of Thunder. His tribesmen are equally successful around him.]
M'Baku: MAYEFA!
Jabari: YA HU!
[Thor is in the air, using Stormbringer on the Outrider drop ships which are now retreating. He is having considerably more success than the Wakandan Dragon fliers firing on the fleeing ships.]
Wanda Maximoff: [landing as she finally locates Vision] Are you okay? [Vision flinches in pain before he can answer] What? What is it?
Vision: He's here.
[The wind picks up. It feels... strange. Eerie.]
Steve Rogers: Everyone, on my position. We have incoming. [He is joined by the Black Widow, Falcon, Okoye and the Black Panther in short order.]
Natasha Romanoff: What the hell?
Bruce Banner: [Bruce sees the blue-black clouds of a Space Stone relocation just before Thanos steps forward, and confirms this isn't just another member of the Black Order] Cap. That's him.
Steve Rogers: Eyes up. Stay sharp.
[Bruce reaches Thanos first, lunging forward fist-first - but Thanos uses the Space Stone on him, renders him immaterial until the Hulkbuster is half-buried in the stone of the cliff behind him, and freezes Bruce in place.]
[Captain America is sent flying by purple energy before he even gets to strike a single blow.]
[The Black Panther, armor fully charged kinetically, leaps high and with claws extended, but is easily grabbed by the throat and punched to the ground, his armor discharging violently.]
[Falcon stoops, strafing with both Steyr pistols, but is felled when his wings become rubbery and unable to sustain flight.]
Vision: Wanda. It's time.
Wanda Maximoff: No.
Vision: They can't stop him, Wanda, but we can. Look at me. You have the power to destroy the stone.
Wanda Maximoff: Don't.
Vision: You must do it. Wanda, please. We. Are. Out of time.
Wanda Maximoff: I can't.
Vision: Yes, you can. You can. If he gets the stone, half the universe dies.
Wanda Maximoff: It's not fair.
Vision: It shouldn't be you, but it is. It's all right. You could never hurt me. I just... feel you. [The Scarlet Witch extends a trembling hand and starts beaming her energy at the Mind Stone.]
[The following action is mostly muted. War Machine joins the fight, firing his guns at Thanos until he uses the gauntlet to crush his armor around him and toss him aside.]
[The Winter Soldier runs in firing, and is punched away by the Power Stone.]
[Okoye activates the Vibranium-powered elements on her spear and flings it; Power stops it inches from Thanos, and throws her and it aside while wrapping the Black Widow in inescapable bands of earth.]
[Groot stabs his hands into the ground to wrap Thanos in cables of roots, which he breaks easily.]
[The Scarlet Witch watches all this over one shoulder, and turns back to Vision to add her left hand to her tearful effort.]
[Captain America slides under one blow and comes up swinging his deployed arm-shields, punching Thanos in the gut and chin. He grabs the gauntlet, keeping Thanos' fingers un-clenched. Thanos looks very briefly impressed at Captain America's efforts as he screams before slamming a fist into his head and rendering him insensible.]
[The Scarlet Witch looks over her shoulder again and sees Thanos approaching unopposed. She swings her left hand around to fend him off with a stream of scarlet energy, and pushes him back despite his blue-purple energy shield, but then he starts to make slow headway.]
Vision: [Very softly] It's all right. It's all right. I love you.
[At those words, the yellow Mind Stone finally starts to crack. Vision's face is overcome by an expression of joyful peace, and as the crystal fragments completely, a pulse of pure yellow energy explodes from him, shuddering the trees for many meters around his epicenter. Wanda's and Thanos' energy subsides.]
Thanos: [Walking closer to the Scarlet Witch] I understand, my child. Better than anyone.
Wanda Maximoff: [Snarls] You could never.
Thanos: [Reaches down to presume to stroke her hair, as if in comfort] Today, I lost more than you can know. But now is no time to mourn. Now... is no time at all. [He reaches forward, clenching the gauntlet, emerald filigree surrounding his wrist, making a gesture very similar to that Doctor Strange made when activating the Eye of Agamotto. In response, a bead of yellow light starts gathering in on itself as time is reversed and growing in size, solidifying into an intact and conscious Vision]
Wanda Maximoff: No! [She lunges for Vision and is swatted away.]
[Thanos picks up Vision by the throat, lifting him to eye-level, and digs the fingers of his right hand into Vision's forehead, digging out the Mind Stone. He pulls it loose, and Vision goes limp and colorless; he tosses the lifeless android aside like trash. Bringing his gauntleted hand up, he slowly moves the Mind Stone over the last empty setting, and drops it in. The energy surge is much more than any previous - his torso is wreathed with iridescent static and he bellows from the sensations.]
[As Thanos studies the completed gauntlet, a massive bolt of lighting strikes him, digging him into the ground and grinding him back for meters.i'd has arrived, eyes glowing with power, stooping down from the sky like a bird of prey. The God of Thunder pauses his attack, reverses his position, raises Stormbreaker above his head and hurls it - Thanos fires the whole might of the gauntlet against it, but it only creates a rainbow-like bow-shock, not slowing the ax as it slams right into Thanos' chest. ]
me:
[Lands in front of Thanos, who is down on one knee; hatefully.] I told you. You'd die for that!
[He takes hold of the back of Thanos' head and forces Stormbreaker deeper into his chest, staring angrily into his eyes while Thanos cries out in pain]
Thanos: [Weakly] You should have... you... [suddenly stronger] you should have gone for the head! [He raises his gauntlet and snaps his fingers.]
me:gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
[The scene whites out. It cuts sharply to a view of Thanos his hand on his chest, no wounds visible. Thanos now seems to be inside the Soul Stone, where he sees a young Gamora and the pavilion from the home world of the Zen-Whoberi.]
Thanos: Daughter?
Gamora: Did you do it?
Thanos: Yes.
Gamora: [Beat] What did it cost?
Thanos: [Solemnly] Everything.
[Now out of the Soul World, Thanos is snapped back to normal reality, and notices the damage inflicted on the gauntlet - the metal scorched and distorted from heat, the stones no longer glowing.]
me: my eyes...i can't see
bloom: what have you done...
Thanos nearly seems to not notice Thor before he uses the Space Stone and teleports away, leaving Stormbreaker behind on Wakandan ground.]
Steve Rogers: [Stumbles into the clearing, holding his left side] Where'd he go? johnathon... where'd he go?
me: i do-
Bucky Barnes: Steve?
[Bucky suddenly stumbles over, and collapses into ashes, much to Steve's shock; he walks over and touches the ground where Bucky's ashes evaporated disbelievingly.]
me: my god...
bloom: what th-
[On the battlefield, Wakandan soldiers disintegrate to ashes, much to M'Baku's horror.]
King T'Challa: [While reaching for a fallen Okoye] Up, General. Up! This is no place to die. [King T'Challa holds out his hand for Okoye. He suddenly disintegrates into ashes and, in anguish, Okoye falls back on the ground.]
Okoye: Kumkani?!
Groot: [Slowly corrodes into ashes as well by Rocket] I am Groot...
Rocket: No... no. No. No. No! Groot, no...
[Wanda is mourning over Vision. She then turns into ashes. An injured Sam turns to ashes, hidden in the undergrowth.]
James Rhodes: [Searching for Sam, missing him by only a few feet] Sam? Sam!? Where you at?!
[On Titan, the remaining members of the Guardians and Avengers collect themselves - Mantis props up Star-Lord, Spider-Man helps Tony to his feet, Drax and Nebula manage to limp over on their own.]
Mantis: Something... is... happening. [She disintegrates into ashes.]
Drax: [To Quill as he dissolves] Quill?
[Quill stares in horror.]
Tony Stark: [Staring panicked at the slowly fading Quill] Steady, Quill.
Peter Quill: Aw, man. [Quill also gets disintegrated into ashes]
Doctor Strange: [Calmly turns to Stark] Tony, there was no other way. [He finally gets erased.]
Peter Parker: [Realizes he's fading away] Mr. Stark? I don't feel so good...
Tony Stark: [Trying to be calm, his voice shaking as he looks at Peter in terror] You're all right.
Peter Parker: [Stumbling and terrified] I don't know what's - I don't know what's happening. I don't- [Parker falls into Stark's arms, clutching him tight while beginning to cry.] I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go, Mr. Stark, please. Please, I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go... [There is a short silence before Peter speaks again] I'm sorry. [Parker disintegrates into ashes in Stark's arms.]
[Tony falls forward from the lack of weight in his arms, before staring at his hands in disbelief.]
Nebula: [To Tony Stark, seeing Thanos' victory.] He did it.
[Stark mourns silently at their failure. Back on Wakanda, the remaining team members, Captain America, Thor, War Machine, Black Widow, Bruce Banner, and Rocket are left mourning near Vision's dead body. Captain America turns over Vision's bleached corpse as Black Widow runs up to the other survivors.]
James Rhodes: What is this? What the hell is happening?
Steve Rogers: [Pause] Oh, God.
musa: this bad..
riven: it worse musa...
timmy: guys look at this on screen.
( we watch all heroes turn into dust , like them R.W.B.Y... SORA AND HIS TEAM AND MORE ALL SNAP AWAY..BUT US...)
ME: we fail...( crying)
[Meanwhile, in a different place, in a rustic house on a terraced slope with a scarecrow made of discarded armor, Thanos sits down and watches the sun rise.]
Nick Fury: Still no word from Stark?
Maria Hill: No, not yet. We're watching every satellite in both hemispheres, there's still nothing. [Receives three beeps from her device.]
Nick Fury: What is it?
Maria Hill: Multiple bogeys over Wakanda.
Nick Fury: Same energy signatures as New York?
Maria Hill: Ten times bigger.
Nick Fury: Tell Klein. We'll meet him at- -
Maria Hill: Nick! [A car spirals out of control in front of them. They get out and Hill checks on the passengers.]
Nick Fury: They okay?
[Behind their vehicle, a motorcycle lies in the middle of the street with a concerned citizen approaching it.]
Maria Hill: There's no one here.
[They hear helicopter rotor sounds from the direction they'd come, but it sounds wrong - a Leonardo executive helicopter, tail rotor smoking from damage already, appears and crashes nose-first into a building. Screaming intensifies. The two are now witnessing civilians around them suddenly disintegrating.]
Nick Fury: Call Control. Code Red.
Maria Hill: Nick?
[Fury turns around to see Hill disintegrating.]
Nick Fury: Hill?
[Fury then races back to their car and gets a what appears to be an old pager with extra gear attached out of his bag on the back seat. He sends out an emergency alert, mere seconds before his hand turns into ashes.]
Nick Fury: Motherfu-
[Fury corrodes to dust. The pager falls to the ground, red lights blinking on the additions; the camera zooms in and we see the device display "SENDING..." then display a red-blue-and-gold star insignia - the symbol of Captain Marvel.]
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