AN- Thanks to Chris on for the vote for 3rd Person POV this chapter! Big warning for blood up ahead, read at your own risk!

3rd Person POV

With Xay and Zaruk

Nonononono...

It'll be alright... Stay strong Starlight...

Xay!

"Ash!" Xay bolted upright from where he lay on the ground back in the forest near Wakanda from where he had woken up, Ash's voice still ringing in his mind.

"What the…?"

"Where is everyone?" Xay turned to see Zaruk kneeling with their staffs in their hands and Xay looked around to see that everyone was gone and a significant amount of time had passed from the way the trees had grown back and the ground was smoothened out again.

"Zaruk! Xay!" They both heard a female voice shout for them and they looked to see Wanda rushing over to them along with Bucky and Sam.

"Where did everyone else go?" Zaruk questioned again.

"I am Groot?" (Where's JJ?) Groot asked after being helped up by Gora who was stumbling a bit on her paws as her wounds were still healing.

"They were gone when we came to." Sam told them.

"It's been 5 years since the battle…" They turned to see Shuri floating down from the sky on a Vibranium hoverboard that was decorated with Chrysinthean symbols and patterns.

"But I suspect a war is approaching…" They all turned to see T'Challa and Okoye walking up to the group as he spoke in a grave tone.

"Then we should quickly regroup and prepare for battle." Zaruk declared and they all started to head back to the city when a voice spoke up,

"Why should we?"

And they all turned to see one of the Chrysinthean warriors being held up by another with a large, still-healing gash across his chest and arm as he argued, "We have already fought and nearly died for this planet…"

"Girvo…" Zaruk started to speak but was interrupted with,

"When we were fighting for these people who were willing to protect us it was a worthy cause," Girvo motioned to T'Challa, Okoye, Shuri, and the other Wakandans nearby before continuing with a bit more indignance, "but now you want us to fight for an entire planet filled with humans who work relentlessly to eradicate the few of us who remain?!"

"So you want us to just leave some of our own to fight this war alone?!" Xay cut in angrily.

"I'm saying the humans not worth saving outnumber the ones who are…"

*We can't let that be our only way of thinking...* They heard a synthesized voice and turned to see a slightly grown Reaia, her light purple hair in twin braids that swirled around each other and she no longer wore a high-neck collared dress to hide the scars on her throat but a small device was attached to the side of her neck that seemed to sync with the twin disks placed on each of her temples walking toward them from the direction of the city.

"Why are you of all beings defending the humans, Reaia?! They're the ones who took your voice from you!"

Reaia calmly shook her head before "speaking" again,

*Not all humans on this planet are out to destroy us.. for every human who's tried to kill us, there are hundreds more working to help us because it's the right thing to do..*

Reaia held up her hands to her temples and allowed a misty cloud to manifest in front of her to show them a memory of hers; the day her voice was taken from her…

She had been picking some flowers that grew on the edge of a fenced farm area to bring back to the Haven before her attention was caught by the laughter of another child, a human one, who had been chasing a fluffy lamb around in the fenced area until she saw Reaia and waved to her before motioning for her to come over.

She did hesitantly before the two started laughing and making each other flower crowns and Reaia used her powers to lift the dew from the grass around them in a chain of water drops that circled around the two of them in multiple rings.

Just as Reaia had hardened some water droplets into a sort of necklace and was leaning forward to put it around the other girl's neck, they were startled by a gruff voice yelling from behind them and they turned to see an older man with a gardening fork running at them and Reaia barely had any time to scramble back before the tool came slashing down on her throat.

Stumbling away with her hands holding her bleeding throat and rasping breaths leaving her dripping mouth, she was unable to reason with the man or call out for help but the other girl stood her ground in front of the man preventing him from going after Reaia and even trying to push him back as she managed to stumble away from the farm and disappeared into the forest to make it back to the Haven unfollowed.

As the memory faded, Reaia talked again,

*There are still some humans who think we mean them harm, but if we keep letting that stop us from helping them, then we become as narrow-minded as them… and we have to be able to overcome our own stubbornness if we want to build a better future for our people on this or any other world…*

They all looked down as Reaia's words were processed in their minds before Zaruk spoke up,

"So what will it be; continue to hide away or finally stand up and fight for our home and all its people?"

All Chrysintheans looked at each other before their eyes hardened with an unspoken agreement and Girvo looked to Zaruk before nodding with hesitant determination.

"Then let us stop hiding in the shadows and go forward into the light…"

Abruptly a sparking circle of light appeared in the distance and Xay groaned,

"Now what?!"

With Ash and JJ

"Uggghhhh…" Ash dazedly blinked her eyes open and immediately regretted it when a bunch of rock dust and dirty water dripped into her eyes and she wiped them as best as she could on her suit sleeve before she heard Rocket gasping out,

"I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe!"

"Dad!" Ash and JJ both cried out seeing the situations their dads were in; Rocket was trapped under a pile of debris that was threatening to crush him and Bruce was holding up more rubble with his uninjured arm from falling on top of them all while water was rushing in to steadily fill up the space they were trapped in and Rhodey was off to the side in his damaged War Machine as he shouted slightly out of breath,

"Canopy! Canopy! Canopy!"

Commanding his suit to open up and let him out as JJ reached Rocket and started trying to lift the rubble off him with Ash on the other side doing the same but their combined efforts weren't enough as the rubble shifted in their hands and the water rushing in made it hard to get a good enough grip.

"Rhodey, Rocket, girls, get outta here!" Bruce yelled out to them as his grip started to slip so Ash rushed over to help him leaving JJ alone with Rocket until Rhodey managed to pull himself over to a pole to use as a lever to lift the debris up off of Rocket as he cried out,

"Hurry up! Hurry up! Come on!"

Before he was finally able to pull himself out and the three of them laid back to sigh in relief.

"Rhodey!" Bruce yelled before his grip slipped just enough to let a flood of water rush in before Ash helped him in lifting the debris enough for him to regain a semisolid grip on it.

Meanwhile a few "floors" above them, Scott had dug himself out from the rubble dust, having survived the close blast in his shrunken form before he heard through the comms,

*Mayday, mayday! Does anybody copy? We're in the lower level, it's flooding!*

"What?" Scott asked as he put a hand to the side of his helmet when Rhodey yelled through the comms,

*We're drowning! Does anybody copy? Mayday!*

"Wait! I'm here! I'm here, can you hear me?" Scott tried to comm back as he began to run in the direction of their GPS signals.

A little further up, Clint had landed within the Compound's sewer system as he tried to see what had happened, shining a light up the crumbling structure as he called out,

"Cap?"

Before he found the Nano Gauntlet a few feet away from him and, just as he was about to pick it up, he heard some strange growling noises coming from further down the pipe and quickly drew his bow to shoot a flare arrow down the way to reveal a horde of Outriders creeping their way toward him.

"Damn..." Clint muttered under his breath before hurrying to pick up the Gauntlet and running away from the Outriders as they started to pursue him.

Above him, the Sanctuary II beamed Past Thanos to the ground as Past Nebula walked up to him.

"Daughter."

"Yes, Father?"

"So, this is the future. Well done." Thanos spoke while looking around at the ruins of the Compound.

"Thank you, Father." Past Nebula took the gold strip of metal off her head she had taken from Present Nebula to blend in with the others and tossed it away as she told her father, "They suspected nothing, except perhaps one of the Chrysintheans."

Past Nebula remembers JJ asking her if she was feeling alright after the time jump and she had just stormed past her before hearing Rhodey tell JJ about how Nebula told him about how she became a cyborg and she just shrugged it off as "she's still a little sensitive about that" and didn't question it any further.

Past Thanos spoke as he stuck his double-bladed sword into the ground and placed his helmet on top of it,

"The arrogant never do and they will soon be of no issue to the universe…"

Before sitting down and commanding Past Nebula,

"Go. Find the stones. Bring them to me."

"What will you do?" She asked.

"Wait."

Past Nebula went off to fulfill her father's command while Present Nebula was still in the prisoner holding area before she heard the door open to reveal Past Gamora and she walked closer to her before asking,

"Tell me something... In the future, what happens to you and me?"

"I tried to kill you. Several times." Nebula admitted bluntly making Gamora roll her eyes and start to walk away, having heard enough, until Nebula stopped her by saying,

"But eventually, we become friends.. We become sisters... And we gain another sister who is like us in many ways..."

Making Gamora stop and walk back over to her sister before holding a hand out to her as she told her,

"Come on. We can stop him."

This time Nebula barely hesitated to take her hand as she was helped up and they made their way through the ship to the approaching battle.

Back down below, Tony had managed to find Steve's shield but no Steve until he found him unconscious on the ground and started trying to wake him up,

"Come on, buddy! Wake up!"

And Steve woke up with a gasp making Tony sigh relieved,

"That's my man."

Before pulling him to his feet and handing him his shield as he half-joked in a serious tone, "You lose this again, I'm keeping it."

"What happened?" Steve asked as he looked at the ruins around them.

"You messed with time. It tends to mess back. You'll see." Tony answered before they both caught sight of Thor in the distance who was observing Past Thanos down below them.

"What's he been doing?" Tony asked and Thor responded with some slight annoyance in his tone,

"Absolutely nothing."

"Where are the stones?" Steve questioned.

"Somewhere under all this. All I know is he doesn't have them." Tony answered, motioning to the ruins of the Compound around them.

"So we keep it that way."

"You know it's a trap, right?" Thor asked, looking at the two of them.

"Yeah. And I don't much care." Tony admitted in a blasé tone.

"Good. Just as long we are all in agreement." Thor started to say before summoning both Mjolnir and Stormbreaker as a bolt of lightning cracked down on him and changed his outfit to his armor and cape while braiding his beard before he stated determinedly, "Let's kill him properly this time."

The three of them walked over to Past Thanos spacing themselves out to ready for an attack at any moment as he started to monologue,

"You could not live with your own failure... And where did that bring you? Back to me... I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive.. But you've shown me that's impossible… and as long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist."

"Yep. We're all kinds of stubborn." Tony stated bluntly.

"I'm thankful. Because now, I know what I must do." He stood up and started putting his helmet back on as he devised, "I will shred this universe down to its last atom. And then, with the stones you've collected for me, create a new one. Teeming with life, that knows not what it has lost but only what it has been given. A grateful universe."

"Born out of blood." Steve asserted.

"They'll never know it. Because you won't be alive to tell them…"

At that, the three of them charge and their battle begins, meanwhile back with the Spark Sisters, the area they were trapped in was starting to completely fill with water as Bruce and Ash were still struggling to hold up the debris while JJ, Rhodey, and Rocket were about to take their last breaths as Rhodey told Rocket and JJ,

"See you on the other side."

Rocket started to panic until he felt JJ's hand around his paw and he calmed down just a tiny bit before the water came up over their heads.

A short distance away, Scott was hurrying toward them as he rode a bottle cap on the rapids calling out,

"Hang on! I'm coming!"

Before leaping up and vaulting over on a pencil before diving into the water below and began fighting the currents to make it to the five of them before they drowned.

Meanwhile, Clint was still running through the pipes with the Outriders pursuing him and he managed to stick a few explosive arrows onto the walls as he ran before they exploded and set the Outriders ablaze as Clint had been pushed to the floor from the force of the explosion.

Right as an Outrider managed to pull itself up despite being on fire, Clint fired a grappling line and attached it to his belt to pull him up just as it was about to pounce on him and he sliced through any that tried to climb the pipe's walls before he made it to the top with no more Outriders following him.

He lay on the floor for a few seconds before Past Nebula showed up and Clint spoke breathlessly,

"Oh, hey– I know you."

Clint handed her the Gauntlet and Past Nebula tapped her earpiece to speak,

"Father."

Making Clint lift his head in surprise as she comm'ed,

"I have the stones."

"What?!" Clint asked in disbelief just as he tried to get up but she planted her boot on his chest, pinning him to the floor, before pulling out her gun, about to shoot him when-

"Stop!"

Past Gamora asserted as came out from the corner with a gun raised and Past Nebula asked in disbelief,

"You're betraying us?"

Before Present Nebula came out as well with her hands up making her past self point her gun at her future self allowing Clint to get off the floor away from her as she spoke calmly to her past self,

"You don't have to do this."

"I am this."

"No, you're not." Gamora tried to convince her Nebula as her future self told her while tapping the side of her head,

"You've seen what we become."

"Nebula, listen to her."

"You can change."

"He won't let me…" Past Nebula claimed hopelessly before pointing her gun at her Gamora as she shouted,

"NO!"

Right before Present Nebula shot her past self in the chest and she fell against the fence to the ground, her wound sparking before going still, her unshed tears falling as Present Nebula looked down at her past self before Clint went to pick up the Gauntlet.

Meanwhile back on the surface, Thor, Steve, and Tony were still fighting against Past Thanos and Tony made his suit morph into a giant repulsor before telling Thor,

"Okay, Thor. Hit me."

Thor hit both Mjolnir and Stormbreaker together to direct a huge lightning bolt to Tony's suit as it absorbed the blast and fueled the suit's multiple blasters but Thanos used his blade to shield himself from them by spinning it rapidly in front of him.

Just as Thanos was starting to push forward through the blasts, Thor used Stormbreaker to hit Mjolnir like a baseball to try and hit Thanos but he managed to make it to Tony in time to use him as a shield that took the hit from the hammer, leaving it on the ground a ways away while Tony was sent flying back into a pile of rubble that knocked him unconscious even as FRIDAY tried to wake him up.

Steve was able to kick Thanos' head before he was punched away even as he tried to shield himself before he was sent crashing through a pile of rubble that left him reeling on the ground.

Thanos threw his blade at Thor but he was able to slide under it and made it to Thanos with Stormbreaker raised before the blade came boomeranging back in time for Thanos to use it to intercept Thor's strike.

Right after, Thanos managed to knock Stormbreaker out of Thor's grasp and picked him up to punch him repeatedly into a pile of rubble before tossing him to the side as he continued his assault. Just as Thor tried to summon Stormbreaker to help him, Thanos was able to grab it just as Thor did and directed it to his chest to start trying to stab him with Thor trying and nearly failing his hardest to keep himself from getting stabbed by his own weapon.

A little ways away, Mjolnir started to rise from the ground but not from Thor's command as it hit Thanos away from Thor before shooting back over to Steve's grip as he wielded it and his shield.

"I knew it!" Thor managed to speak before being kicked to the ground as Steve charged at Thanos while swinging Mjolnir by the strap to build up power as he hit Thanos back with it before he threw his shield and then the hammer at it to create a shockwave that was powerful enough to knock Thanos to the ground.

The two exchanged blows, Steve even managing to summon lighting from the hammer to strike Thanos before he was able to grab his blade, tossing his broken helmet aside, and started relentlessly striking down on Steve, cutting his leg and knocking Mjolnir out of his hands before continuing to strike down on him, breaking his shield apart piece by piece until the top half was reduced to shattered edges and Steve was left breathless on the ground.

As he tried to get up staggeringly, Thanos began to monologue,

"In all my years of conquest, violence, slaughter… It was never personal… But I'll tell you now; what I'm about to do to your stubborn, annoying little planet.. I'm gonna enjoy it.. Very, very much…"

Right before the ship beamed down the full force of his army; hundreds of thousands of Children of Thanos, Chitauri, Sakaarans, Outriders, Leviathans, and Chitauri Gorillas.

Even after seeing the odds against him, Steve forced himself to his feet, tightened his shield strap, and was prepared to face the entire army on his own when-

*Hey, Cap, you read me?*

Steve heard a voice on the comm in his ear.

*Cap, it's Sam. Can you hear me?*

He put a hand to his ear in disbelief before a swirling portal opened up behind him just as Sam told him.

*On your left.*

(AN- Feel free to listen to "Portals" while reading this scene for maximum dramatic effect ^^)

Coming through the portal was T'Challa, Shuri, and Okoye and Steve exchanged a look with T'Challa before Sam came flying out from the portal as well just as several other portals began opening up both on the ground and in the sky letting other allies through and onto the battlefield.

From another ground portal, Doctor Strange floats down and alongside him steps out Drax, Mantis, Peter Quill, and Peter Parker from where they battled Thanos on Titan.

T'Challa rallied the rest of the Wakandan army with their war cry as they came through the portal alongside several flying Wakandan ships with Xay and Zaruk leading some of the other Chrysinthean Protectors, Tools wielded and marks glowing as they flew through some of the portals in the air.

Bucky, Groot, and Gora walked through with the Wakandans while Valkyrie aboard her Pegasus led Korg, Miek, and what remained of the Asgardian soldiers through from a portal that opened through to New Asgard and Wanda landed in front of them with her powers manifesting around her hands.

Countless Masters of the Mystic Arts led by Wong readied shields as they came forth from portals leading from the Sanctums while Kraglin led the Ravagers from another portal before Hope grew from her shrunken Wasp state from where she had been teleported coming in between the two.

Thor called Stormbreaker back to him and Tony managed to get up in time to see Pepper touch down in her own blue Iron Man suit as they readied to battle as well.

"Is that everyone?" Doctor Strange asked Wong making him ask incredulously,

"What, you wanted more?"

Just before the ground shook and, bursting up from the rubble in the distance, Scott grew to Giant-Man size and opened his hand to let out Bruce, Rhodey, Rocket, and the Spark Sisters as Bruce stood ready to fight, Rocket readied his pistol from where he was holding onto the War Machine armor, and Ash and JJ powered up to where their marks were glowing along with Ash's staff and their hair was blazing with their elements.

All together now the Avengers, Guardians, Wakandans, Chrysintheans, Asgardians, Ravagers, and Masters of the Mystic Art took up battle positions and each group let out their own war cries before Steve called out,

"AVENGERS-!"

Right before summoning Mjolnir to finish,

"-assemble…"

Thor yelled out along with T'Challa as they led their people to charge forward along with everyone else and Thanos raised his blade in their direction to command his army to go forward as well, the two sides running to each other before colliding.

Everyone used their strength, Tools, powers, tech, weapons, and skills and worked together with their allies to defeat any enemy they came across.

On one side of the battlefield, Thor and Steve fought close to each other and switched weapons at one point so Steve had Stormbreaker and Thor had Mjolnir before Thor told him,

"No, no, give me that." Steve handed him Stormbreaker as he tossed him Mjolnir saying, "You have the little one."

In another place, Tony was fighting some Chitauri soldiers before Cull Obsidian punched him to the ground but, just as he was about to finish him off, he was held back by some webs so Scott could stomp him to death before Peter Parker ran up to Tony and helped him up as he rambled,

"Hey! Holy cow! You will not believe what's been going on. Do you remember when we were in space? And I got all dusty? I must've passed out, Because I woke up, and you were gone. But Doctor Strange was there, right? He was like, 'It's been five years. Come on, they need us.' And then he started doing the yellow sparkly thing that he does all the time–"

"He did? Oh, God." Tony spoke breathlessly before pulling Peter into a hug as he asked,

"What are you doing?"

Before he decided to hug back and spoke wistfully,

"Oh, this is nice…"

"Watch your heads!" JJ jumped over their heads aided by the orbs on the bottoms of her boots making the two of them separate to duck down to avoid getting kicked in the head.

"Well that was a moment killer…" Tony muttered before Peter pointed at JJ with a confused look on his face as he asked,

"Who's the new girl?"

"Phoenix's long lost sister, long story tell ya later.." Tony moaned a bit peeved before going back to fighting with Peter going in another direction.

Meanwhile, JJ had shot her hand out to direct some orbs that were spinning rapidly and shot them into the back of a Chitaur gorilla that was about to try and crush Quill and Gora under its fists.

"Oh no ya don't!" JJ pulled her orbs back out of the creature making purple blood spurt out as they made several gashes that caused it to shriek in agony before collapsing to the ground to bleed out.

"Oh yeah!" JJ fist pumped herself before she caught sight of another Chitauri soldier that managed to get past her, kick Gora aside, and shoot Quill back and but just before she could rush in to save him and it was about to finish him off, a shot from the side killed it and Quill saw Past Gamora standing there.

"Gamora..?" Quill slowly approached Gamora, reaching out to touch her hair as he whispered, "I thought I lost you…"

"She's not ours…" Gora whispered sadly from where she limped over to JJ making her realize she must've been from the past and tried to warn him,

"Quill don't-!"

Right before Gamora harshly grabbed his hand and twisted it before kicking him twice as she seethed with each kick,

"Don't- touchme!"

Shoving him to the ground as she wiped her face and Quill groaned,

"You missed the first time.. Then you got them both the second time…"

"Tried ta warn ya." JJ spoke up from behind him with her arms crossed as Gamora asked Nebula,

"This is the one? Seriously?"

"The choices were him, or a tree." Nebula spoke up with a hint of sarcasm.

"Yeah Drax is taken, he doesn't know it yet but he is." JJ smirked a bit before putting on a slightly disgusted face as she added, "And Groot's my little brother gross.."

Quill pointed to Gamora with a questioning look, looking at Nebula and JJ before looking back at Gamora.

"She's from the past Quill keep up!" JJ told him bluntly before Gora managed to trap a Chitauri soldier that tried to charge at them with her spines so JJ could shoot it with a few orbs before calling them back to her.

"This the one?" Past Gamora asked pointing to JJ and Nebula gave a nod making JJ arch an eyebrow in question to what she was talking about as she walked over to her before Gamora pulled her into a quick hug before releasing her just as quickly as another Leviathan flew overhead to deploy some more soldiers around them.

"Oh sure she gets a hug…" JJ heard Quill grumble to himself before she summoned some orbs to create floating steps that she ran on through the air to try to shoot down the Leviathan and Gora ran off to find Groot.

Close by, Ash was seen battling alongside her dad before she was swatted aside by an Outrider that was prepared to chomp down on her head before two thin lines of fire shot through its head and stomach leaving it dead to the side as Ash looked down in disbelief before hearing someone cry out,

"Ash!"

And she looked up to see Xay standing there with his Tools in his hand and he dropped them before running to her and she pushed herself up to meet him halfway as they seized each other in a tight hug.

"I'm so glad you're back…" Ash spoke a little teary as she pulled away to look Xay in the eyes and was relieved to see them back with their life-filled glow.

"Get down!" Bruce yelled as he punched away a Chitauri gorilla that was about to bash down on them.

"Thanks Dad!"

"Hey kids let's save the lovey-dovey reunion for after the battle yeah?" He told them as he stood over them and Ash nodded as Xay called his Tools back to his hands before asking Ash,

"Where's Nat?"

Ash didn't answer as she sent out a fireball to hit another Outrider that tried to rush them but the look on her and Bruce's faces was enough to tell Xay that she wasn't with them because she was gone.

"We're going to talk about that later. Got it?" Xay put a hand on Ash's shoulder while looking her in the eyes and Ash nodded with the downcast look still on her face before going back to fighting alongside her remaining parental figure.

Elsewhere, Clint is seen running through the battle with the Gauntlet in his arms after Sam stabbed down a Chitauri gorilla that had been chasing him with his wings before Clint comm'ed,

"Cap, what do you want me to do with this damn thing?"

"Get those stones as far away as possible!" Steve ordered him but Bruce protested as he punched down a Chitauri soldier,

"No! We need to get them back where they came from."

"No way to get them back. Thanos destroyed the quantum tunnel." Tony told them as he fought close to them.

"Hold on!" Scott called out before he shrunk back to normal and informed them while pulling a remote out, "That wasn't our only time machine."

Before pressing a button and a car horn version of "La Cucaracha" is heard from afar and Steve tried to go to higher ground to see where it was before comm'ing to everyone,

"Anyone see an ugly, brown van up there?"

"Yes! But you're not gonna like where it's parked!" Valkyrie replied as she spotted said vehicle from her position in the air but it was surrounded by Outriders and Chitauri running past it on the ground.

"Scott, how long you need to get that thing working?" Tony asked.

"Maybe ten minutes." Scott answered as Hope appeared beside him.

"Get it started. We'll get the stones to you." Steve directed.

"We're on it, Cap." Hope told him and she and Scott exchanged a look before they both shrunk down, Hope carrying Scott toward the van.

Further away, Doctor Strange used his magic to trap several Chitauri in tendrils of energy before pulling them through portals in the ground that closed up immediately after just as Tony joined him to ask,

"Hey. You said one out of 14 million, we win, yeah? Tell me this is it."

"If I tell you what happens, it won't happen…" Strange spoke warily, making Tony assert while pointing a finger in his direction.

"You better be right."

Back with Scott and Hope, they managed to get into the van through a crack in the back window before regrowing into the front seats as Hope commented,

"It's a mess back here."

"It's–it's dead." Scott reported from where he was checking on the devices on the control dashboard.

"What?"

"It's dead. I have to hotwire it." Scott opened up the panel over the steering to do so.

Further away, Thanos had stabbed away a charging Master before asking his Children,

"Where's Nebula?"

"She's not responding." Corvus Glaive answered as he sliced at an incoming Chrysinthean before Ebony Maw called out,

"Sire!"

While pointing to Clint running in the distance with the Gauntlet in his grasp.

Clint continued running until he found himself surrounded by Outriders almost out of options before somebody lept in and a purple shockwave of energy was sent out forcing the Outriders away as T'Challa was revealed to be the one who saved Clint before telling him,

"Clint! Give it to me."

Clint handed him the Gauntlet as he charged through the battlefield with it flipping over and fighting any enemy in his way before the Gauntlet was knocked out of his hold by Thanos' blade and he was sent flying away from it.

But just before Thanos could make it to the Gauntlet, he was stopped by Wanda who landed from the air and created a small shockwave of her red energy when she landed as she glared at him with glowing red eyes filled with anger for what his future self did to Vision as she seethed,

"You took everything from me."

"I don't even know who you are." Thanos bluntly stated before Wanda breathed out brokenly,

"You will…"

Just as she used her powers to lift the debris around them to fire them at Thanos before barraging him with more bursts of her powers while T'Challa went to retrieve the Gauntlet just as Ebony Maw was using his powers to telekinetically lift it with the rubble and began grappling for it with him until he heard someone call out,

"I got it!"

And T'Challa managed to wrench it away to toss it up into the air as Peter swung overhead, caught it, and landed in the middle of some Chitauri soldiers before commanding his suit,

"Activate Instant Kill!"

The suit's eyes glowed red before four robotic legs came out from the back of the suit to begin stabbing and tossing away any Chitauri that got too close.

Back with Wanda, Thanos tried to strike down on her with his blade but she managed to hold it back with her powers before striking the blade, causing it to be tossed away with a giant chunk taken out of it before she began using her powers to destroy Thanos' armor leaving him defenseless before he ordered,

"Rain fire!"

"But sire, our troops!" Corvus started to protest before being cut off with,

"Just do it!"

On the Sanctuary II, multiple cannons began revealing themselves before firing down on the field below, blasting Wanda away from Thanos and releasing him from her powers but also killing a few Leviathans and anyone else on the ground who was unfortunate enough to be near the impacts.

To protect them all, Wong created a shield with his magic and raised it above cueing other Masters to do the same and Chrysintheans all over the battlefield used their powers as well to create energy shields over themselves and their allies but rendered them unable to fight as they used all their power to maintain the shields under the heavy fire so the people they covered fought to protect them as well.

Abruptly, one of the cannons hits a dam and water started to flood into the battlefield and Pepper was the first to notice as she comm'ed to everyone,

"Uh, is anyone else seeing this?"

Strange looked at the damage and began using his magic to create a funnel of wind and water but water was still coming in from the sides and the funnel was becoming heavy before he heard a voice behind him,

"Let us help."

He looked behind him to see a Chrysinthean wearing a navy blue tunic appear with 5 other blue-clad Chrysintheans and they all made some motions in sync before holding their arms out like Strange and helped with further keeping the water from rushing into the valley, the pressure on Strange lessening but not enough to make him feel safe enough to leave his post.

With Peter, he was still fighting the Chitauri to keep the Gauntlet away from them but was being swarmed little by little as he rambled to himself,

"I got this. I got this! Okay, I don't got this." Before calling out, "Help! Somebody, help!"

"Hey, Queens, heads up." Steve told him as he threw Mjolnir in his direction so Peter could shoot a web to attach to it as it flew overhead dragging him out of the horde but a blast from the ship overhead severed the line and he was about to fall to the ground before Pepper came along and caught him assuring him,

"Hang on. I got you, kid."

Before tossing him up to Valkyrie on her Pegasus as he greeted her before yelling as they sped off,

"Hey! Nice to meet yo–OH, MY GOD!"

They swerved to avoid the firing from the Sanctuary II before they were hit and Peter was left alone to guard the Gauntlet as more shots continued to rain down on everyone.

Numerous people were having close calls including Groot who was fighting alongside Gora and JJ but was knocked to the side with them as a shot came too close to them and Rocket hurried over to cover them with his body along with Gora as he yelled but everything suddenly went quiet as the shots stopped and they looked up to see that all the blasters were being redirected to fire at something in the sky.

"What the hell is this?" Sam questioned as he flew overhead and Tony asked,

"FRIDAY, what are they firing at?"

Before she reported,

*Something just entered the upper atmosphere!*

A bright light zoomed down through the clouds and surged right through the Sanctuary II destroying everything in their path and causing it to come crashing down in the lake near the battlefield below before they were revealed to be Carol Danvers.

"Oh, yeah!" Rocket yelled out smiling.

"I don't know who she is but YEAH!" JJ punched the air excitedly before running off in that direction with Gora to meet up with Ash on the way as Cap comm'ed to Carol,

"Danvers, we need an assist here."

Back with Scott and Hope, they had managed to bring power back to the Tunnel and were activating it when Carol landed near Peter as he lay on the ground clutching the Gauntlet for dear life as he shakily introduced himself,

"H-hi. I'm.. Peter Parker."

"Hey, Peter Parker." She greeted him with a nonchalant tone and smirk before gesturing with her eyes to the Gauntlet, "You got something for me?"

Peter stumbled to his feet and passed her the Gauntlet before looking to the army of Chitauri soldiers and Gorillas, Leviathans, and remaining Black Order members running toward them, their sole objective to get the Gauntlet.

"I don't know how you're gonna get it through all that…" Peter noted with slight discouragement before Wanda dropped in and told him,

"Don't worry."

"She's got help." Okoye added as she appeared along with Valkyrie, Pepper, Mantis, Shuri, Hope, Gamora, Nebula, Gora, JJ, and Ash to surround Carol and protect her and the Gauntlet.

Each of them fought with their individual skill sets; Gamora took out a gorilla with her sword while Nebula used her blaster to shoot them down, Okoye ran Corvus through with her spear, Wanda used her powers to hold two Leviathans in place while Valkyrie flew close to one and used her sword to slash its side, and Gora used her spines to pierce through and effortlessly toss away any enemy in her way despite her small size and seemingly harmless appearance.

Once Thanos saw Carol flying toward the van, he went to try to stop her but was stopped by Pepper, Shuri, Wasp, and Ash and JJ who each sent their respective energy and power blasts at him, driving him back as Carol flew right past him toward the van.

Unfortunately, Thanos had landed near his nearly demolished blade and grabbed it before hurtling it toward the van like a javelin causing it to be destroyed and making it send out waves of quantum energy that forced them all back and made Carol lose her grip on the Gauntlet while also jostling Strange and the other Water wielding Chrysintheans before they regained their positions to keep the flood at bay.

JJ and Ash had landed near each other and saw in the distance Tony, Steve, and Thor each fighting relentlessly to keep Thanos from reaching the Gauntlet in the distance and looked at each other before JJ asked,

"I think it's time we showed'em what we really got."

Ash clenched a fist to her chest before grabbing her staff and morphing it back into an armband as she nodded with fierce determination in her eyes that JJ matched.

Just as Thanos was battling Tony and Steve for the Gauntlet, they stood up and grabbed each other's hands, their marks lit up and their cores started to pulse in time with their heartbeats before stopping to glow brightly as streams of energy were seen flowing from their cores down their arms to intertwine with the other's energy and going up the other's arm up to connect with the other's core as well and they hovered off the ground with their force of the powers combining.

Just as Tony and Steve were tossed back, the girls zipped forward as two distinctive beams of light, one fiery orange edged with red and one bright yellow tinged with purple, before they swirled together and just as Thanos reached the Gauntlet and put it on his hand, he saw the beam of light coming toward him and made a move to dodge their attack but only partially succeeded as their power hit him in the side and he roared in pain as the heat from their combined powers melted straight through his remaining armor and left a huge wound on his side that made him take a knee with his ungloved hand on it to try and stop all dark violet blood that started gushing out from the burnt gash.

Ash and JJ had crashed to the ground a few feet away from Thanos, separated again after their hit landed but left them almost completely drained as they struggled to get back up after such a big power use for the first time.

"You Chrysintheans are a plague on this universe and I will take great satisfaction in wiping what remains of your accursed species from this universe's existence…" Thanos sneered down at them in disdain as he raised the Gauntlet up, yelling out as its power was too much for even him, and was about to snap his fingers when Carol tackled his hand and held it to where he couldn't snap.

It seemed like Carol was winning in keeping Thanos from snapping and forcing him further to his knees until he rapidly grabbed the Power stone with his free hand and used it to fuel his punch, sending Carol flying backward.

In that split second, Ash groggily raised her head up from the rubble and saw JJ lying on her side a few feet from her before looking to where Tony was glancing at Strange who was holding up one finger.

What is he saying…? Ash thought before she grimaced at the pain in her core as Thanos placed the Power Stone back into place on the Gauntlet and was preparing to snap again when Tony made one last attack to pull off the Gauntlet before Thanos punched him away and declared ominously right before snapping his fingers,

"I am… inevitable…"

*Clink*

-But nothing happened, making him look in shock back at the Gauntlet which revealed that the Stones were missing from the slots.

Further away Tony raised his hand to reveal that they had transferred over to his suit's glove and their powers started coursing through him as he spoke,

"And I… am.. Iron Man…"

*SNAP!*

A blinding light went off before all around them Thanos' forces were being dusted just as he had done to them all in his future and their past.

Everyone looked around in surprise at all their enemies disintegrating before their eyes and Ash and JJ had managed to recover from being in close proximity to another Infinity Stone Snap and were reuniting with their loved ones; JJ with Rocket, Groot, and Gora and Ash with Bruce and Xay before the two of them looked over to Thanos as he sat down in mourning before he too was dusted out of existence.

However, things weren't looking too good for Tony since the Snap had sent a blast of raw energy from the Stones through him and his entire right side was fatally burned as he stumbled before collapsing to the ground against a pile of rubble.

Rhodey flew down and landed next to Tony, placing a hand on the side of his head and bowing his head down knowing his friend had made a noble yet permanent sacrifice.

Everyone had begun to gather around at a fair distance when Peter went up to Tony as he kneeled down in front of Tony and started to ramble in a teary voice,

"Mr. Stark? Hey– Mr. Stark? Can you hear me? It's Peter. Hey. We won, Mr. Stark– We won, Mr. Stark. We won. You did it, sir. You did it."

But Tony remained unresponsive and Peter broke down before giving him a hug as he choked out,

"I'm sorry– Tony–"

Before being gently led aside as Pepper kneeled in front of her husband and gently spoke,

"Hey…"

Tony looked to barely have any strength left as he moved his head to look Pepper in the eye before whispering,

"Hey, Pep…"

She put a hand on his Arc Reactor and Tony managed to place his hand on top of hers before she asked,

"FRIDAY?"

*Life functions critical.*

Some more tears came to her eyes at that announcement but Tony just gently smiled with matching tears in his eyes making her smile as well before assuring him,

"Tony… Look at me... We're gonna be okay... You can rest now…"

Tony wasn't able to answer but the look in his eyes was enough to let Pepper know he heard her and, with one final strained breath, Tony went still and his Arc Reactor flickered off for good…

Pepper gave her husband one last kiss before breaking down into sobs in his shoulder that were heard by everyone gathered around and let them know that their ally, friend, family figure, and hero was gone…

A slight crunching noise was heard which was revealed to be Clint kneeling on one knee with a hand to his face in grief but the action seemed to catch on as everyone kneeled to honor Tony's sacrifice for them all.

Zaruk looked to every Chrysinthean before putting a fist to their chest and opening it to release a small marble-sized sphere of light up into the air that matched their mark colors and hung there just as every other Chrysinthean including JJ and Ash did the same and soon numerous colorful lights were seen floating in the air above their heads before they dissolved into wisps of light that retreated to the sky beyond as though to light the way…

AN- That was hard to write both because of the action and the emotions but I hope I didn't do too bad…

There's gonna be one last, fairly lengthy, chapter for the funeral, "goodbye's," and mini epilogue scene so you can expect one last chapter for this "Spark Sisters" crossover before the post-Endgame original story "Rediscovering Home" gets started.

I'm still figuring out where in between Phases 3 and 4 it's gonna be taking place in since the season finale of She-Hulk was yesterday and I've already written a few mini moments with Ash and Jen and I'm thinking about posting them in my short stories and mini moments book on my Wattpad account.

Welp until the next chapter, Bye!