The boys arrived at 177A Bleecker Street. They got out of the Mordekaiser II quickly. Drax was carrying unconscious Mantis in his arms.
They approached and climbed the stairs of the Sanctum Santorium. They knocked once, knocked twice, and then WHOSH! Out of nowhere, they found themselves inside Doctor Strange's lair.
- Can I help you? -. They heard a male voice from the shadows: Doctor Strange was approaching, flying. Wong, his magical companion, appeared beside him.
-Strange! We need your help. Mantis was badly injured by the Outriders," Drax said nervously as he laid her down on a couch.
-I'm so sorry, but there's nothing I can do," Strange lamented.
-What? But you're a doctor," answered Quill, surprised.
-I'm a neurosurgeon. I don't diagnose this kind of alien ailments," said the Wizard.
-But you're also a magician. Something you can do. It's very urgent! - protested Drax. Strange remained thoughtful and looked at Wong with concern.
-There is a way, but it's very risky," warned Wong.
-We'll do anything," said Drax.
-It's not that easy. Resorting to my spells could cause the Dark Magic to return," said Strange.
-Is that bad? - Sam asked.
-Right now, our reality is vulnerable since there are half of us left in the Universe and the Sorcerer Supreme no longer has the Time Stone to protect us from dark presences," said Strange.
- "Dark presences? - Matt wonders.
-Cosmic entities like Dormammu, Mephisto, Shuma Gorath..." said Strange.
- Shuma Gorath? Those names are made up," answered Frank.
-For example, Shuma Gorath is an ancient force of chaos, his psychic power can lead to madness and destruction.
-I will not jeopardize what's left of our Reality for a single life," Strange said.
-It's not just one life, Strange," said Frank, "Show him what you've got, boy," looking at Sam.
Sam takes the Reality Stone out of his bag and shows it to Strange.
-It's an Infinity Stone. I know it looks like it's not true, but I believe it's genuine and..." Nova is interrupted.
-I believe you..." Strange was thoughtful, "That object radiates the same essence as the Time Stone.
-I think this will help us somehow to bring back the fallen... if we find the Avengers, they will be able to help us. - said Sam
-And the only one who knows where they are is the girl with the antennae," Punisher continued.
-All right, the clock is ticking and we have to be quick," said Strange, summoning the Book of Mystic Arts. He starts flipping through it quickly, looking for some incantation to cure Mantis, "Wong! I need you to stop the bleeding, I found the spell here.
Wong and Strange prepared an orange substance in a cauldron with various mystical ingredients. They gave it to him to drink in his mouth and passed a wet cloth over the wound. It was only a matter of waiting for it to take effect.
-Coward," Quill uttered, glaring angrily at Strange. The two of them stood face to face.
-You doomed us by giving the Stone to Thanos," continued Quill, furious. Strange exploded at him.
-I remind you who was the one who wasted our chance to get the Gauntlet from Thanos. The Wizard replied, annoyed.
-You saw the future, you could have stopped me," Quill replied.
-That was bound to happen! Everything was going according to plan until Thanos snapped.
-Why did it all go so wrong?" asked Daredevil.
-It should have been us..." said the Doctor, "We should have disappeared... The other half of the Universe should have survived. The Avengers were supposed to fix it and bring us back in five years, but it didn't happen that way.
-What does that mean?" asked Frank.
-I don't know what will happen now. The future is uncertain," answered the Sorcerer Supreme.
-You don't seem very surprised to learn that there are still Stones in the Universe," said the Star Lord, surprised.
-I'm not surprised by that..." Strange remains thoughtful. "I'm surprised because I don't know how they found them.
-Thanos did not eliminate the Stones, nor did he reduce them to atoms," said Strange, distressed. The boys' concern intensified. Daredevil, Frank and Groot approached.
The remaining heroes were leaving the Wakandan forest.
Shuri arrived with all speed but it was too late. It was done. With helplessness and a lump in her throat she left along with her brother. She vowed never to stand idly by again next time.
Wanda, Bucky and Falcon decided to stay in Wakanda. A perfect place to stay.
Strange opened a portal and teleported the Guardians to an ice cream shop that he knew was abandoned and would be a safe place for them. Or at least for a while. "If you need help come to this place" Strange makes a small card appear in his hand and hands it to Quill. It was the address of the Sanctum Santorium.
All that was left was Spidy. The Sorcerer Supreme was about to send the arachnid to his home in Queens but stopped him before he crossed the portal. Strange makes another card appear and hands it to Spidy.
-I'm not going to need your help, Strange," said Spider-man, resentfully.
-I'm not giving you the card so you can get help," corrected the wizard, "I'm giving it to you so you can find someone to help," Spidy ducked his head and crossed the portal.
As he was about to leave, Strange felt the essence of the Stones. Which seemed odd since Thanos had removed them. He follows their trail through the trees.
With a spell of revelation, he discovers THANOS, who was still alive and with all the Stones in his hand. Thanos' corpse a few meters away began to fade into a red trail. It was all an illusion of the Reality Stone.
Thanos clenched the Stones in his fist and struck with all his might at the Sorcerer. The Wizard resorted to shields, daggers and magic spells to counter the powerful blows.
With the Space Stone, Thanos teleports the two to another planet. The battle continues to THE GARDEN, where there was a hut and crops for Thanos to subsist. It was part of his plan all along to get there.
The battle reached its conclusion when Thanos, in a desperate move, disappears all the Infinity Stones. But now it is true. Strange no longer senses the essence of the relics. He only sensed the energy radiating from a single Stone: the Reality Stone, which came from Thanos' fist.
-What did you do!" shouted Strange. He was already paralyzed by that point. Thanos gasped for air in agony. He was still dismayed at what he had done.
-I teleported the Stones," said Thanos. Opening his fist, there was only the Reality Stone.
-Tell me the truth," Strange approached the Titan and conjured chains to stop him.
-I teleported the Stones to other Realities.
-What?
-With the power of the Stone, I removed the others from this Reality and sent them to other Universes," said Thanos, surprised at himself. Thanos looked at Strange one last time and smiled.
Thanos turns into a swarm of turquoise butterflies and escapes Strange's chains. Now the Sorcerer Supreme collapsed to the floor on his knees and, with a desperate look, saw the emerald cloud of butterflies escaping the atmosphere with the Reality Stone.
Everyone in the room was dismayed.
Even though they know the truth of Thanos' "death", they now know that the Stones were not removed. They were transported to different Realities/Universes.
-Why didn't you ever tell us this," asked Star Lord.
-Would that change anything," answered the wizard, "Thanos won and disappeared forever.
The boys began to devise a plan.
-We have the Stone that teleported the other Stones," said Daredevil.
-That means we can use it to bring them back," continued Punisher.
-It's impossible, there are infinite Universes," emphasized Star Lord.
-But the wizard said they all have the same essence, we can use it to track the others in different Universes," said Sam.
-Ok, once we locate it... What do we do," asked Strange. Sam stared at the Stone.
-We travel to different Realities to look for them.
-Good plan, Nova," said Daredevil.
-But how do we analyze the Stone? I don't think there is any technology capable of tracking space rocks," asked Punisher.
-Maybe not here, but in Wakanda, yes," answered Mantis. The boys were surprised. Mantis had already healed his wounds.
-Mantis! Are you all right? Do you remember the coordinates?" asked Drax.
-Mr. Stranger, give me a pencil and paper," ordered the girl with antennae. -I need you to take us to these coordinates," she said as she wrote the coordinates on the sheet of paper.
Suddenly, a tremor is felt. The atmosphere became quiet.
-It can't be..." Strange looks worriedly through the window.
-What's going on, Strange? - Frank wonders.
-Wong, he's here... we must act quickly. -said Strange, worried. The two wizards quickly set off.
-Wait, who's here? - asked Daredevil.
-Shuma Gorath," answered Strange.
When the boys came out of the Sanctuary, they saw a huge golden eye in the dark sky that is illuminating all the streets. Sam put a claw on his heart and clawed the air. He felt an evil coming.
The eye suddenly closes suddenly and when he opened it again, it became a portal where a mass of tentacles, scaly and with a certain elasticity, came out. It was a combination of an octopus, a dragon and a sphere of fire.
In a matter of seconds, the streets were filled with dozens of colossal tentacles dodging the buildings. Target: The heroes. They began to fight with the impenetrable extensions.
Sam was paralyzed. His legs turned to jelly. While the others fought with the ferocious tentacles, Nova was intercepted by one of them. The extension curled around his body and pressed against his neck, knocking Sam unconscious.
Nova awoke in a dark room filled with fog. She no longer had her battle suit on. He had the same clothes he had on the day his father died.
Directly in front of him, and sitting in a wooden chair, was a mummy. It was the corpse of a woman shrunken and wrinkled like a raisin. She wore a dusty dress, many necklaces and long gray hair. Her eyes were replaced by ruby stones;
Looking at her sent shivers down his spine. And that was before she rose from her chair and opened her mouth. From inside the mummy came a green mist that curled around his body and seeped into his ear:
COME CLOSER, SEEKER AND ASK.
A spectral voice coiled through his brain. Sam had the courage to ask, "What is my destiny?"
TO ACHIEVE VICTORY YOU MUST PREVAIL UNITED...
FIVE SEEKERS WILL RETURN TO THE AID OF THE HEROES IN THE GREY DUSK...
YOU WILL END UP FINDING WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR BUT, IN THE END, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SAVE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING...
The green fog managed to blind Sam to the point of not seeing anything. He rubbed his eyes and when he opened them again he was on a beach. His battle suit was back.
It was stormy. A white wolf and a golden eagle, were trying to kill each other on the shore. The eagle swooped down and shredded the wolf's muscles with its huge talons. The wolf reared up and kicked the eagle's wings, plucking it off. It was good and evil fighting. Alpha and Omega. As the animals fought, the earth shook.
The eagle swooped down with its beak aimed at the wolf's eyes and as it was about to strike, Sam was awakened from his trance.
The battle in New York continued. Buildings, streets, vehicles destroyed everywhere. The heroes were still giving their all to fight the huge beast. Mantis was protecting the coordinates paper with his life.
Strange told Sam that if he stayed any longer he might have suffered a bout of insanity and dementia brought on by Shuma Gorath's hallucinations.
Sam couldn't believe what he was seeing. He rubbed his eyes and saw in the dark sky that all the tentacles were converging on a single point: a colossally giant eye that was approaching.
The boys had to flee as quickly as possible. They headed for the Mordekaiser II but an atomic shot from the dimensional creature destroyed the Ship. Sam was paralyzed. The heroes had no escape route.
Strange took the paper from Mantis' hand and read the coordinates. He conjured a portal in the middle of the street and summoned all the heroes. They must enter the portal to go to Wakanda.
Shuma Gorath was approaching at full speed through the air, destroying buildings with his tentacles and his enormous mass. In an act of bravery, Strange was left holding off the creature along with Wong to give the others time to get through the portal.
When Sam (who was last in line) passed through the portal, Strange closed it and was left with Wong fighting the Ancestral being. Protecting the Sanctuary and the World.