"You throw another moon at me, and the two of us are gonna have a serious problem man." Peter said, glaring at the mad Titan.
"Parker" Thanos said, tilting his head just the slightest at the man. Peter tensed underneath his suit, not liking how an evil alien knew his last name, when some of his closest friends didn't.
"You know me?" He asked, raising his eyebrow underneath his helmet.
"I do. Very few people are blessed with the amount of power you possess, and even fewer are cursed with the amount of knowledge you hold." He admitted.
Jesus Christ...he sounds exactly like fucking Cable...
"Yeah, well I appreciate the compliment and all, but you're wrong, my only curse right now is you." Peter said, activating the rockets that were installed literally a few days ago.
It was a good thing he packed his everything suit for this mission...
Somehow, he didn't think coming at the Titan with only webs would be a good idea.
"Come on!" The Titan exclaimed, getting ready for the barrage of missiles heading his way.
The rockets all exploded on target, momentarily shrouding Thanos in smoke. Before it cleared though, Peter used his strength to catapult himself at Thanos feet first. As he bounced off, he flipped and stuck the landing, immediately starting his fight back up again.
He lunged at his target with crazy efficiency, punching him over and over and over again right in the face, hoping it'd at least stun him for a little while.
Much to Peter's chagrin though, Thanos just shook his attack off as fast as it came, knocking Peter away before he leaned forward and tore his helmet off, revealing Peter's surprised expression before it changed to anger a second later, and he reactivated the helmet. But that one second was all that Thanos needed.
He swung his fist back hard and landed a blow to Peter, sending him sliding meters away, giving Thanos all the time he needed to rip the webbing off the gauntlet. He then proceeded to use the Power Stone to make a stream of pure energy and shot it straight at Peter. Before it could hit him though, Peter activated his nano shield and blocked the full force of the attack.
Peter slid out from behind the shield, letting the energy from the blast push him away for a faster start, and shot a web right at a hanging ledge above him before hurling it towards the Titan, momentarily distracting the guy.
When Thanos got the chunk of metal off of him, all he saw was Peter swinging in right towards his face. Peter kicked the Titan with his left foot and kneed the alien in the chest with his right.
Peter then activated his energy swords and started to swipe at Thanos, getting a few good cuts in before he had to jump out of the way of the next attack. He then went back to punching the mad Titan, hitting him repeatedly in the mouth, slowly backing the guy up against a wall, not throwing any of his punches.
He stopped for a minute to see his handy work and saw that Thanos was bleeding through the cuts he had given him and he was bleeding out of his mouth, pretty profusely.
It also looked like he had a broken nose...
Thanos coughed up some blood and spit it out on the ground, looking at it in astonishment. Never had an enemy of his made him bleed so much without that much effort.
Too bad Parker still wasn't better than the stones.
Thanos looked up into Peter's suit eyes, panting, "I admit, you're a worthy opponent...But, all of that work, just for some blood."
He smiled briefly up at Peter before punching him, sending him pinwheeling back away from the Titan. Peter charged him again with more anger that has ever been inside his body. He tried to swing but Thanos was using all the stones power to try and stop him.
He was no match...
Peter attempted to block the blows when Thanos came up to him and tried to pummel him into the ground, but Thanos was relentless, as he picked him up by the helmet and blasted his midsection with the Power Stone, sending him away.
There were now gaps in the nanites of Peter's black and maroon suit, even though the maroon was a darker shade of red now, due to all the blood. Peter tried to rearrange the nanites to cover him, but they were nearly depleted and had lost their ability to fix up the broken parts.
Great...
Peter struggled to one knee and fired his right hand beam at Thanos, trying to stop him with his literal last weapon in his arsenal. Peter could start to feel the affects of fighting against the stones. He was becoming more tired, more weak by the seconds.
This really wasn't looking good for him.
The beam that Peter shot though was easily deflected by the gauntlet. The young man got to both feet as his suit tried to complete repairs, adding the repulsor to his left hand as well, to try and give him more of a chance against the big guy.
Thanos though, walked right up to him, and backhanded him which caused the incomplete helmet to be blown completely off of his head. He crossed his arms to block a blow from Thanos' gauntlet, and had his left hand caught over his head.
In desperation, Peter tried to form all of the rest of his nanites into a little blade that extended out from his right wrist band. He tried to stab the Titan with it but it was easily caught by Thanos.
The mad Titan snapped it clean off of the rest of his suit and brought it down onto his right hand.
Completely slicing his right hand off...
Peter groaned but didn't get that much time to react to his missing appendage before Thanos swiftly stabbed the blade into his left side, making it stick out the other end of him.
Thanos walked Peter back until he finally stumbled onto the ground. He placed the gauntlet almost comfortingly on Peter's head, causing him to look up at the alien, surprisingly, with a single ounce of fear laced in his vision.
"You have my respect, Parker. When I'm done, half of humanity will still be alive," He said, straightening up his posture and aiming the gauntlet directly at his head, "I hope they remember you."
Peter isn't really listening to the guys monologue though, to busy trying to deal with the pain of his fucking hand getting cut off and how there was still a giant blade sticking out of his back. Blood was already staring to pool around his hand and he was starting to spit out blood.
Soaking what was left of his suit dark red...
Thanos raised the gauntlet, closing his fist with all stones glowing inside of it, ready to finish Peter off when a shout caught both of their attentions.
"Stop! Spare his life... and I will give you the stone." Strange said, panting heavily from the battle they all just fought.
"No tricks." Thanos said, glaring at the doctor. Strange shook his head and Thanos moved the gauntlet to point it at him.
"Don't...!" Peter said, spitting out blood as he did so.
Doctor Strange reached up and opened his thumb and pointer finger to revel the stone. He extended his hand, letting Peter see the scars on his fingers and how they were trembling, and let the stone float over to Thanos. Doctor Strange watched him intently, as he took the Stone and dropped it into the thumb ring, the energy pulsed though him, making the Titan wince.
"One to go." He said, just before an energy blast struck the gauntlet right in the middle of it, causing Thanos to grimace.
Quill screamed in rage, his helmet up, as he fired with both hands on his guns heading right for the Titan.
Thanos didn't even bother responding to the assault, he just opened up a portal, and left.
Quill flew right though where Thanos had been seconds before and crashed against the ground and rolled several times.
Quill stood up and deactivated his helmet, "Where is he?!"
Peter isn't worried about that at the moment though, he's more worried about bleeding out on an alien planet. So, carefully, Peter pulls out the blade with his only hand and slowly seals the wound with what's left of his suit. Then he moved over to his right hand, which was a pretty clean cut, thank god for that. He used the same stuff he used on the hole in his chest to seal the wound until he could find something else to work better.
"Did we just lose?" Quill asked, fearfully. All anger draining out of his body.
Peter looked over to Strange with desperate eyes, wondering why in the hell would he give up the stone for him, when he explicitly said on their way up here, that he would let him die and save the stone.
"Why would you do that?"
Strange paused for a minute, looking at Peter with a look behind his eye that Peter couldn't quite read at the moment, "We're in the Endgame now."
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"Are you okay?" Wanda asks as she landed right next to Vision. The Android was about to speak when he flinched in pain, catching Wanda's attention, "What? What is it?"
"He's here."
Suddenly, it got really quiet and the heroes could see how the wind was picking up. Steve didn't have a good feeling about this, not at all.
"Everyone, on my position. We have incoming." Steve said into his com. A couple seconds later he was joined by Nat, Sam, Okoye and T'Challa.
"What the hell?"
Bruce looked in front of them and saw how the blue clouds started swirling around the ground. Thanos stepped forward and looked at the heroes, not looking worried at all. "Cap. That's him."
"Eyes up. Stay sharp."
"Are you sure you want to go down this road? It didn't end well for the last group who tried to stop me." Thanos said before anyone could move towards him.
All the surrounding heroes stopped and actually looked at the Titan for a second. To be honest, he looked like shit. He was bleeding a lot out of his mouth and they could see cuts running down his torso, that were still bleeding.
"It looks like that last group gave you a run for your money." Sam pointed out.
"Yes well, Parker was a formidable opponent."
As soon as the words left his mouth, all the surrounding heroes tensed in shock. Natasha inhaled sharply when he said it.
What made her more nervous was that she knew her son like the back of her hand, he'd never let this alien out of his sight if he was gonna destroy the universe.
Not unless something had happened to him...
"What did you do to him." She said, glaring at him with as much venom she could muster. If this asshole touched one single strand of hair on her son's body, he was as good as fucking dead.
"Ahh, the mother. I regret to inform that your son won't be surviving his injuries. It's not like he could make it back here anyway, he's millions of light years away." Thanos admitted, causing an anger to surge through all the heroes, no one touched their baby spider.
Natasha saw red...
All the heroes then charged at Thanos. Bruce reached him first, lunging forward fist first but Thanos used the Space Stone on him, making the man and the suit immaterial until the Hulkbuster was half-buried in the stone of the cliff behind him, which froze Bruce in place.
Steve rushed the Titan but was sent flying by purple energy before he even got close enough to strike a single blow.
T'Challa with his armor fully charged kinetically, leaped high and had his claws extended, but was easily grabbed by the throat and punched to the ground, his armor discharging as soon as he made contact with the dirt.
Sam flew by to make a go at Thanos too but he used the stones on him, making his suit incapable of flying anymore. Which caused the bird themed hero to fall and roll on the ground.
"Wanda. It's time." Vision said to her.
"No."
"They can't stop him, Wanda, but we can. Look at me. You have the power to destroy the stone."
"Don't"
"You must do it. Wanda, please. We. Are. Out of time."
"I can't."
"Yes, you can. You can. If he gets the stone, half the universe dies."
"I..."
"It's not fair. It shouldn't be you, but it is."
"It's all right. You could never hurt me..."
"I just...feel you." He said, making Wanda extend her trembling hand that started beaming her energy at the Mind Stone that laid in the middle of Vision's head.
Rhodey soon joined the fight too, firing his guns at Thanos until he used the gauntlet to crush his armor around him and toss him aside like he was nothing.
Bucky ran at the guy, shooting at him but Thanos used the power stone on him too, effectively throwing him out of the way.
Okoye activated her Vibranium spear and threw it at the alien. However, the Power stone stopped it inches from Thanos, and he threw her and it aside.
Natasha charged at him, getting a few good hits in before she was blasted away too, trapped in giant spikes that shot up from the ground. She couldn't move at all, the spikes were too close to her neck and one wrong move and she'd be as good as dead.
She could do nothing as she watched the events that played our before her, hoping now that Wanda could destroy the Stone before Thanos got to her.
Without anyone realizing it, she let a couple tears leak out of her eyes. What Thanos said, it couldn't be true. Her son was not dying, she wouldn't believe it. She knew, she didn't know how though, but her son was still alive.
It was just a feeling, but Natasha has always trusted her instincts and they'd never been wrong before.
She hoped that this could all be over soon...
Back to the fight, Groot stabbed his hands into the ground to wrap Thanos in cables of roots, which he broke out of very easily.
Wanda watched all this over one shoulder, and turned back to Vision to add her left hand to try and speed the process along.
Steve slid under one blow and came back up swinging his shield, punching Thanos in the gut and chin. He grabbed the gauntlet, keeping Thanos' fingers un-clenched. Thanos looked very briefly impressed at the man's efforts as Steve screamed due to the strain before he slammed a fist into his head that rendered him unconscious.
Wanda looked over her shoulder again and she can see Thanos slowly approaching her, unopposed. She swung her left hand around to fend him off with a stream of her energy, and pushed him back despite his own energy shield, but then he started to slowly make his way to her.
"It's all right. It's all right. I love you." Vision spoke just above a whisper, so only she could hear it.
As soon as he said those words, the Mind Stone finally started to crack. Vision's face was overcome by an expression of joyful peace, and as the crystal fragments completely, a pulse of pure energy exploded from him, shuddering the trees for many meters.
Thanos looked unconcerned when he started to walk closer to Wanda, "I understand, my child. Better than anyone."
"You could never..." she snarled at the alien.
Thanos reached down 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 said, reaching forward as he clenched the gauntlet. The green energy of the time stone surrounded his wrist as he made a gesture. In response, Wanda could see how he was reversing the effect of what she had just done, turning back the clock to when Vision was still alive.
"NO!" She exclaimed while she lunged for Vision but Thanos quickly backhanded her away.
Thanos picked Vision up by the throat, lifting him to his eye level, and dug his fingers of his right hand into Vision's forehead, ripping out the Mind Stone. He pulled it loose, and Vision goes limp and colorless. He tossed the lifeless android aside like trash.
He brung his gauntleted hand up, and slowly moves the Mind Stone over the last empty ring, and dropped it in. The energy surge is much more than the previous ones, his torso is wreathed with lines of cosmic energy and he bellowed from the pain that it caused him.
As Thanos studied the completed gauntlet, a massive bolt of lighting hir him directly in his chest, digging him into the ground and grinding him back a good distance.
Thor arrived from the sky, with his eyes glowing with power.
The God of Thunder paused his attack, before he raised Stormbreaker above his head and hurled it right at Thanos. The Titan fired the whole might of the gauntlet against it, but it did nothing against the ax, not even slowing it down as it slammed right into his chest.
Then, Stark landed from out of the sky and aimed his repulsors at the alien, "Sorry we're late, we had to take care of your little army back there. Made sure they didn't escape." Tony said.
Thor landed right in front of Thanos, who was down on one knee. He glared at the Titan, "I told you. You'd die for that!"
He took hold of the back of Thanos' head and forced Stormbreaker deeper into his chest, staring angrily into his eyes while Thanos cried out in pain
"You should have... you...You should have gone for the head!"
He raised his gauntlet and snapped his fingers before Tony or Thor could react.
"NO!"
"STOP!"
There was a giant flash that came form the gauntlet and when Tony and Thor looked back over to the Titan, they could see the gauntlet was burned along with Thanos' whole left side.
"What'd you do?"
When he didn't answer the god, Thor got angry, "WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
Thanos doesn't even answer to the god before he used the Space Stone and teleported away, leaving Stormbreaker to fall onto the ground.
Steve stumbled over to where Thor was, holding his left side in pain, "Where'd he go? Thor... where'd he go?"
"Steve?"
Bucky suddenly stumbled over, dropped his gun and collapsed into ashes, much to Steve's shock. He walked over and touched the ground where Bucky's ashes evaporated, not quite believing what was happening at the moment.
On the battlefield, Wakandan soldiers were disintegrating to ashes too. All M'Baku could do was watch in horror as his people all but turned to ash.
T'Challa reached for Okoye who was down ont he ground, "Up, General. Up! This is no place to die." the King held out his hand for Okoye. But, he suddenly disintegrated into ashes and, in anguish, Okoye falls back on the ground.
Groot was leaning on a tree branch while also too turning into ashes as Rocket watched from a few feet away. "I am Groot..."
"No... no. No. No. No! Groot, no..." Rocket says in shock, not believing it.
Wanda is mourning over Vision's dead body when she too, then turned into ashes. An injured Sam turned to ashes, while on the ground a few feet away from Rhodey.
"Sam? Sam, where you at?!"
Steve, Thor, Rhodey, Natasha, Bruce, Rocket, and Tony were all left mourning near Vision's dead body.
Steve turned over Vision's corpse as Nat walked over. She had a look of shock and loss on her face that Steve has never seen before. If Steve looked close enough, he would have seen the tears in her eyes too.
They weren't because they lost though...
It was because her son wasn't there...
"What is this? What the hell is happening?" Rhodey asked in fear.
Steve paused for a second before responding with a grief stricken voice, "Oh, God."
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On Titan, the remaining members of the Guardians, Peter and Strange all sit around and try to get a moment to eat form the fight that they all had. Mantis walked over to Quill and propped him up, Peter tried to get himself up off the ground with only one hand, and Drax and Nebula managed to limp over on their own
Suddenly, Mantis spoke up, "Something's happening." She said. Not even a second later, she disintegrated and turned into ash.
Quill looked to his right in shock before he tuned behind him and saw Drax disintegrating right before his eyes.
"Quill?" He said right before he fully vanished.
Quill stared at where his teammate once stood in horror as he turned back over to look at Peter.
"Quill, you ok?" Peter asked, trying to keep his cool but he was actually freaking out.
"Aw, man." Quill said, also getting disintegrated into ashes
"Peter," Strange said calmly to the young man, waiting for him to turn. When he made eye contact with Peter, he held it for a few seconds before continuing, "there was no other way." The doctor said before he too, vanished.
"He did it" the blue lady said.
Peter stumbled back into the ground, trying to make sure his lungs kept on working, not wanting to break out into a panic attack.
"He won."
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At the compound, the rest of the family was sitting in the common room, trying to relax while everyone else was out there fighting.
Suddenly though, Gwen stiffened and looked around the room for any danger, but found none. The others looked at her in confusion before she spoke up.
"Something's wrong." She said. They didn't have to wait long to figure out why though.
"Umm...Guys?"
Everyone turned to Yelena, who was staring at her hands in shock.
They were vanishing right in front of her face. Gwen and Ana stared at their long time friend in shock, not knowing what was happening.
"Lena?" Ana asked, everyone could hear the quiver in her voice though.
Yelena looked up and stared at her in the eyes, "Tell Pyotr and Tash I love them." She said.
Then...she disintegrated, right before them all.
Nothing but ash floating in the air...
Ana and Gwen moved over towards the pile of ash that used to be Yelena, not quite believing what was happening.
Mary Jane looked at the scene with wide eyes and her hand over her mouth. If this happened to Yelena, needless to say it was happening to others.
She could only hope that whatever was happening, didn't affect Peter.
She didn't know what she'd do if she lost him...
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"Still no word from Parker?"
"No, not yet. We're watching every satellite in both hemispheres, there's still nothing." Maria said to Fury. Suddenly, Maria's bracelet went off.
"What is it?"
"Multiple bogeys over Wakanda"
"Same energy signatures as New York?"
"Ten times bigger"
Nick was about to continue when Maria quickly cut him off.
"Nick, Nick!" She said as a car spiraled out of control in front of them. They got out and Hill went over and checked on the passengers.
"They okay?"
"There's no one here."
They both looked up when they heard helicopter rotor sounds from the direction they had come from, but it sounded wrong, the tail rotor was smoking from damage already, and in seconds it crashed nose first into a building. The screaming intensified as more shit hit the fan. The two watched as two civilians disappeared right before their eyes.
"Call Control. Code Red."
"Nick?" Maria said looking at her hands that were disintegrating.
"Hill?" He said as she fully vanished.
Fury then raced back to their car to get his old pager. He sent out the emergency alert, mere seconds before his hand started to turn into ashes.
"Motherf..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Fury turned to dust. The pager fell right out of his hands onto the ground, red lights were blinking on the device, indicating that it was sending.
As soon as it sent, a symbol popped up on the screen...