The heroes ran up and up the thousands of stairs the spun in a circle.
Yet not a single one was getting dizzy. There were other things on their mind that were helping them stay occupied and not get dizzy.
Like the fact that the Infinity Gauntlet was almost in their reach, and finally they would be able to bring everyone they loved back to life.
Finally, after so much running they were finally at the top.
The entire place was truly what Oscar said. A trophy room.
"Guys..." Audrey said almost timidly while pointing.
Everyone looked up, and at the end of the other side in a display case, was the Infinity Gauntlet.
"JACKPOT!" yelled Ben. "Come to the king!"
Without hesitation he ran across the room.
"Ben wait!" yelled Katherine. "Don't!"
She and the Secret Avengers chased after him, but unfortunately the Auradon heroes were too slow, and suddenly two barriers appeared. One blocking the Gauntlet and the other trapping the heroes except for Ben and the Secret Avengers.
"You stupid, stupid boy," said a voice on a loudspeaker. "Did you really expect to waltz right into my prized possession room that easily?"
Ben growled, for he knew whose voice it was.
"Xanos..." he growled.
"It would seem two years locked up hasn't done any good for you," said Xanos. "You still don't understand that evil needs to win. You just keep fighting destiny and not caring that in the end you will fail."
"Why don't you come here and say that to my face?" growled Ben. "Right after I knock your teeth down your throat!"
"Oh please, and get my hands dirty? Nah!" said Xanos. "I think I'll let my old father's friends do the killing for me."
"What?" asked Ben.
"Oh you don't know them," said Xanos. "But those Marvel Descendants do."
"Old friends of Thanos?" Kevin asked.
"Boys and girl!" Xanos yelled. "Do you stuff!"
Everyone suddenly heard what sounded like teleportation. When they all turned around they saw four portals appear, which then brought forth four alien-looking warriors.
One was a giant lizard-looking brute with armor and holding a pickaxe-like weapon. One had gray skin, black hooded robes, armor with a horned helmet and carried a double-bladed spear weapon. One also had gray skin, but was a girl with also blue hair, horns, armor, and had another spear weapon. The fourth also had gray skin, but darker and had white hair and wore robes.
"Oh my god no," gasped Marian. "Not them!"
"Who are they?" asked Ben.
"The Children of Thanos," said Ace. "The elite warriors of Thanos. The Black Order!"
"From left to right," said Hazel. "Cull Obsidian, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Ebony Maw."
"We may be in trouble guys," said Corey.
"Are you kidding!?" growled Ben pushing his way to the front. "I did not come all the way here just to fail! I'll kill you all just to get my Mal back!"
"Wow. You have strong heart kid," said Corvus. "I can't wait to rip it out and crush it."
"Killing children puts a bad taste in my mouth," Proxima said. "But I'll do whatever is commanded of me by anyone with the blood of Thanos, even if it's not himself."
"You fools, should've stay where you belong," said Maw. "I'll have your heads all mounted on a flag in every kingdom of Auradon!"
"I take it these guys didn't like being good?" asked Ben.
"Hated it," said Victoria being translated by Hector. "They had to be locked up because they refused to change. And now Xanos has broken them out so they can serve him."
"And now they've come all the way to Auradon, just to die," said Ben. "Let's do this!"
Cull roared loudly.
"You want the honors big guy?" Corvus asked.
Cull smirked and then charged right at the heroes. Everyone jumped out the way dodging him but recovered quickly.
Ben charged ahead and slashed his sword against the brute, but it did no damage.
Cull turned and was about to impale Ben with his weapon before he was pulled back by magic ropes from Spencer.
"Don't underestimate these guys your highness!" yelled Spencer. "They are way tougher than you think!"
Cull proved his point by using his strength to pull Spencer still attached to his weapon. He sent him flying right into Katherine and Dean.
Cull roared loudly before Marian jumped ahead and shot spider webs at him to tie him up. He was about to break free when Kevin flew in on his jetpack and attached a device to his back. Immediately it sent a pulse that made everything metal fly towards his and attach to him, which was pretty damaging due to a lot of the metal things being weapons or giant statues.
He emerged from the pile and set his sights on Ben again before Nala and Hazel jumped in front of him. Nala jumped with catlike reflexes on Cull and dug her claws right into the flesh on his face. Hazel summoned bladed claws of her own and began attempting to pierce his armor.
Ben knew they were handling him so he turned to find someone else to fight, which ended up being not hard to find for Corvus was standing right before him pointing his spear at him.
"They say you're a king," he said. "I've killed kings before. You should be no problem."
"Oh on the contrary," said Ben. "You should be the one who's afraid of me!"
"Room for two more?" Adam asked joining the fight along with Victoria.
Corvus smiled and gripped his spear while Ben yelled out attacking first.
He swung his sword and clashed with Corvus' weapon and they began to fight.
Katherine, Dean, and Spencer were beginning to recover when Maw floated over with tons of rock formations from the ground surrounding him.
"Children should be seen and not heard," he said. "And you definitely won't be either after you're buried under rubble!"
He blasted all his ammo at the three but Spencer formed a portal that swallowed each of them, and then opened one up over Maw. The rocks came charging out but Maw was quick and telekinetically grabbed them.
However with him distracted, Katherine fired lasers and Dean fired lightning, blasting Maw into the wall.
Maw quickly recovered and slashed his hand, blasting a dust store at the three and blinding them. He took that opportunity to blast magic glass spears at each of them. Some they dodged, but some either scratched or slightly stabbed them. They couldn't see where any of them were coming from.
"You cannot fight what you cannot see," laughed Maw.
"Neither can you!" yelled two voices.
Maw looked around, not being able to see anything, but he did feel a hard kick in the face followed by an invisible slam to the ground.
Maw stood up and tried to fight back, but he couldn't see who had attacked him. He only got kicked and beaten repeatedly by invisible enemies.
Angered by the attacks, he then unleashed a powerful telekinetic blast that sent the invisible Ace flying in the air, now visible.
But before he could attack him, he had forgotten about the other enemy who had been flying to avoid the blast. From out of nowhere Oscar grew to his normal size and blasted Maw with his stingers.
Ace stretched out his elastic arms and wrapped them around maw while Spencer threw magic ropes around him.
"No! No!" yelled Maw. "You cannot beat me! My power is beyond you! My intelligence is unmatched!"
"And your face is still looks like Squidward," said Katherine.
"I TOLD YOU I DON'T KNOW WHAT A SQUIDWARD IS!" he roared.
"Guess you'll never find out," said Oscar. "Dean?"
Dean smiled and snapped her fingers. Immediately a giant bolt of lightning blasted from the sky above and struck Maw. He yelled out loud as he was given the most massive electrocution ever, so powerful that his skeleton was visible.
Once no one heard him screaming anymore, Dean stopped and Ace and Spencer let go, leaving Maw's charred and burned body to hit the ground and disintegrate.
One Black Order member was down.
Proxima clashed her spear weapon with Corey's bow that he used as a melee weapon as well. He somersaulted back after he broke free and shot two arrows quickly. She slashed however and cut them down.
Hector jumped ahead and blasted his powerful booming voice, sending Proxima flying towards the wall, but she rebounded by instead of crashing into it, kicked off it and flying towards the two with her weapon.
She caught Hector by his neck with the open part of her spear which stuck him the wall against his throat, preventing him from screaming.
"You're nothing without your voice," she teased. "Just like Robin Hood here is nothing without his bow and arrow."
"Is that so?" Corey asked. "Well fine then."
Proxima turned and saw him throw aside his bow and arrow.
"I have no problem with fighting a girl," he said. "So, face me with no weapons! Think you can do that?"
"If that's how you wish to die," said Proxima leaving her spear in the wall trapping Hector who was trying to pull it out.
Proxima swung two punches which Hector blocked. He punched her in the face and then the stomach, which he quickly regretted after forgetting she was wearing armor.
He grabbed his hand that was in pain which allowed Proxima to punch him, kick him, and throw him into the wall.
Corey recovered and slid across the floor, kicking Proxima off her feet. He proceeded to get on top of her and punch her in the face repeatedly, until she grabbed his throat and threw him aside.
He jumped to his feet and kicked her stomach this time. He attempted to do a flip kick, but she grabbed his leg and threw him right near Hector.
Hector had managed to only get part of the spear off him, allowing him to talk again. Corey then got an idea.
He jumped to his feet and ran at Proxima doing a flying kick. She dodged, but then he rebounded off a giant statue and lunged at her grabbed her by the horns which proved painful.
She desperately tried to get him off, but he was quicker, and with all his might he ran while holding onto her right towards her spear.
Proxima was only able to get a quick glance before Corey ran her through her own spear.
As he let go she gasped as she looked at her spear impaling her right through her stomach. She coughed up black blood and bent over in pain, right at Hector.
"Hey babe," he said. "Wanna hear a secret?"
Unable to speak and reply, Hector managed to position her ear right near his mouth. And then he screamed with his supersonic voice, "FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK YYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU!"
His voice was so powerful and earsplitting as it traveled through her ears that while she was screaming in the pain so loudly, the frequency literally caused her own brain to explode.
Blood began to pour out of every opening in Proxima's head before Hector finally removed the spear and threw it and her on the ground.
Another one dead now.
Marian and Kevin wrestled with Cull while Nala and Hazel continued to slash him. They were finding it very hard to pierce his armor.
Eventually he broke free and threw everyone different ways. He managed to grab a monument from the side that had a horned helmet with chains attached to it.
He swung it hard, hitting all four Secret Avengers before throwing the monument itself aside into the wall, which literally broke a hole through it that sent the display falling into the sea while leaving the giant helmet.
"And there goes Surtur's crown display," sighed Dean. "At least the helmet's still there."
"Why again is there a chain attached to them?" asked Nala as she recovered.
"So, in case someone stupidly decides to revive Surtur, he would be chained and unable to break free," said Dean.
Nala was about to reply before Cull grabbed her and smashed her into the ground before repeatedly punching her.
"Nala! Use your pulse charge!" yelled Kevin.
"I...CAN'T...CROSS...MY...ARMS!" Nala stammered through punches.
"Allow me!" yelled Marian. Before Cull could throw another pound, Marian grabbed his hand with her spider webbing and held him back.
Finally Nala took all the power she had charged up from her pummeling and blasted a tremendously powerful purple pulse charge onto Cull which sent him flying through the roof roaring loudly.
"That's how a monster can rest at ease!" yelled Nala.
Cull began falling towards the building.
"And here's some bare necessities!" yelled Hazel.
As he charged through the roof, Hazel, with his own pickaxe swung hard and thrust it through his armored chest.
Cull staggered before falling to his knees, watching blood drip from where the weapon impaled him.
"Damn I really wish you could talk," said Hazel. "I would've wanted to hear some last words from you."
Cull just glared at the four.
"But I guess you live your life without talking, and now you die without a word," she said.
Without hesitation she extended her blade claws and slashed right across Cull's throat. All the monster could do was cough blood until he fell dead on the ground.
And now only one remained.
Ben clashed with Corvus back and forth. Corvus broke his defense and tried to stab, only for Adam to throw his shield right over his shoulder and protect him.
Victoria came in quickly and silently and whacked Corvus with her sticks before extending the grapple wire on it to grab his weapon.
She tried to pull it out of his hands, but Corvus was stronger and with his weapon he swung her right into Ben and Adam.
Ben quickly recovered and clash again and again. Adam slashed his shielded arm and blasted a holographic shield projectile that hit Corvus in the face but did nothing.
Victoria again tried to sneak up, but Corvus was quicker and knocked her off balance by almost stabbing her with the other end.
Ben got his sword caught in the tight spot of his spear and was lifted into the air before getting thrown into Adam and Victoria again.
Ben was thrown towards the opening in the wall Cull had made and almost fell over. He reached for his sword but Corvus knocked it away. Adam was unconscious for he hit his head hard and Victoria was over on the other side of Corvus.
But it was then that Ben and Victoria saw part of one of the chains Surtur's crown was attached to. It was opened and unlocked, probably from breaking off of where it was attached to on the stand.
And it was right near Corvus' leg on Victoria's side.
"You are a fool boy," Corvus said. "The only reason the others killed the other three is because they hail from the same world. We're from different worlds! I'm from one more powerful and advanced than yours! What makes you honestly think you can defeat me?"
Ben just looked up and smiled. He waited until he heard it, and until Corvus not only heard it, but felt it too.
He looked down and saw Victoria had attached the chain to his leg.
He gasped and stared at Ben who laughed.
"Maybe I'm not powerful," he said. "But I'm damn well smarter."
He then kicked Surtur's giant crown right off the side while Corvus horrifically watched the chain follow.
He attempted to find a way to escape his doomed fate, but that proved inevitable after Adam had recovered and snatched his spear.
As soon as the rest of chain went over the side, the weight pulled Corvus with it, who screamed in terror as he attempted to grab hold of anything, but to no avail, he was pulled over the side where Ben watched him scream out as both he and the crown sunk to the bottom of the ocean, where Corvus would met his watery grave.
"Well, now Surtur's crown is gone forever," said Dean.
"Be glad there's no Eternal Flame at the bottom of the ocean," said Adam.
And now it was the end of the Black Order.
As soon as everyone was dead, the barriers magically went away. Everyone broke out into a quick celebration before turning their attention to the gauntlet.
Ben walked over and once again without being careful, he lifted the glass off and grabbed the gauntlet.
However, no traps or alarms went off. Ben officially had the gauntlet.
"We...we did it!" he yelled. "I HAVE THE INFINITY GAUNTLET!"
Everyone cheered out.
"We should get out of here however before Xanos comes," said Doug.
"Right," said Ben. "Jane can you teleport us and the Big 4 back to the castle."
"Right away your highness!" Jane said. She swung her mother's wand and everyone magically disappeared.
As did the four who had been fighting on the bridge.
Almost immediately after they left, Xanos was teleported into his ruined trophy room, along with all the other Marvels.
He walked over and stared at where his precious gauntlet had sat while everyone stared at the three visible dead members of the Black Order.
"We should've never kept those ten alive!" yelled Vincent. "Now they have the gauntlet and they're going to undo everything!"
"For once I'm on the side opposite of Xanos!" yelled Hela. "What should we do now? We're screwed."
However, Xanos wasn't mad. He only laughed.
"Go ahead," he said. "Let those fools try to change destiny. They will discover that it is inevitable."
"Excuse me?" asked Dora.
"My brothers and sisters," said Xanos. "What they do does not matter. For I have a new plan. One that cannot be stopped or undone. But first, we must kill those heroes."
"Excellent," Kai said evilly.
"Prepare...the mothership," Xanos said with an evil laugh following. "They are all about to learn truly that evil will always live forever."
I had to immediately write this chapter. I had already started the last one before this back in March I believe. So, that was an epic battle with the Black Order. What happens next? Do they finally bring back all the heroes!? Stay tuned to find out, and I swear I won't keep you waiting long.
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