(Cut to Nidavellir where Rocket is in the pod, and Thor jumps from the roof onto the rings with a rope in his hand attached to the pod)
Rocket: I don't think you get the scientifics here. These rings are gigantic.You wanna get them moving...You're gonna need something a lot bigger to yank 'em loose.
Thor: Leave that to me.
Rocket: Leave that to you? Buddy, you're in space. All you got is a rope and a-
(Thor begins to swing the pod around. He lets the pod drag him, until he stops himself by digging his feet into the ring, still holding the pod. The rings begin to move)
Thor: More power, rabbit!
(Finally the star bursts into life, the rings align, and a jet of light streams through the forge)
Eitri: Well done, boy.
(Thor, hanging on, looks through the pod window, at Rocket, an points to the star)
Thor: That's Nidavellir.
(The iris closes and the beam of light recedes back into the star)
Eitri: *Dang* it.
Rocket: "*Dang* it."? What's "*dang* it?
Eitri: The mechanism is crippled.
Thor: What?
Eitri: With the iris closed I can't heat the metal.
Thor: How long will it take to heat?
Eitri: A few minutes, maybe more. Why?
Thor: I'm gonna hold it open.
Eitri: That's suicide.
Thor: So is facing Thanos without that axe.
[Cut to the Wakandan battlefield. Their carriers hover over the ground with Wakandan soldier and Natasha, Steve and Bucky on board, and Bruce is in the Hulkbuster]
Natasha: How we looking, Bruce?
Bruce: (While walking) Yeah, I think I'm getting the hang of it. Wow! It's like being the Hulk without actually- (He stumbles on a rock, and a carrier goes by, from which Okoye gives him a dubious look. He stands) I'm okay. I'm okay.
Sam: We got two heat signatures breaking through the tree line.
(M'Baku of the Jubari rallies his soldiers with a war cry. He stops as T'Challa nears him)
T'Challa: Thank you for standing with us.
M'Baku: (Translated) Of course, brother.
(T'Challa, Steve, Lincoln and Natasha walk to the edge of the barrier, where Proxima Midnight and Obsidian Cole stand)
Natasha: Where's your other friend?
Proxima: You will pay for his life with yours. Thanos will have that stone.
Steve: That's not gonna happen.
T'Challa: You are in Wakanda now. Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood.
Proxima: We...Have blood to spare. (She raises her right arm with a cry, and several large ships emerge from the forest behind her.)
(T'Challa, Steve, Natasha return to the front line)
Bucky: Did they surrender?
Steve: Not exactly.
(T'Challa leads the Wakandans in the war cry "Yibambe!" telling them to hold fast as the Outriders bound toward the barrier)
Bucky: What the hell?
Natasha: Looks like we pissed her off.
(T'Challa commands the soldiers to engage their shields)
Okoye: (Watching as the Outriders bombard the dome only a few get through) They're killing themselves.
Sam: (Sending Redwings into the fight as he flies) You saw the teeth on those things?
Rhodes: Alright, back up, Sam. You're gonna get your wings singed. (He flies over a section that has been breached and drops a barrage of mines)
Sam: Cap, if these things circle the perimeter and get in behind us...There's nothing between them and Vision.
Steve: Then we better keep 'em in front of us.
Okoye: (To T'Challa) How do we do that?
T'Challa: We open the barrier. (Putting his hand to his ear) On my signal, open North-West Section Seventeen.
Wakandan Officer: Requesting confirmation, My King. You said open the barrier?
T'Challa: On my signal.
M'Baku: (To Okoye) This will be the end of Wakanda.
Okoye: Then it will be the noblest ending in history.
(The section of the barrier is opened)
T'Challa: Wakanda Forever! (He crosses his hands over his chest as his Black Panther helmet covers his face, leading the army as they run toward the barrier. T'Challa, Steve and Lincoln are at the front of the advancing army) Now! (The section in the barrier disappears and the Outriders charge at them)
T'Challa: How much longer, Shuri? (Over the comm)
Shuri: We've barely begun, brother.
T'Challa: You might want to pick up the pace.
(Cut to Thor on the rings of Nidavellir)
Thor: Allfathers, give me strength.
Eitri: You understand, boy? You're about to take the full force of a star. It'll kill you.
Thor: Only if I die.
Eitri: Yes. That's what killing you means.
(Thor grasps the handholds and pulls, slowly opening the iris. The stream of light returns and awakens the forge once more.)
Eitri: Hold it! Hold it, Thor!
(Eitri watches the metal melt, and tips the cauldron, pouring it into the mold. Thor passes out, and the jet carries him to the forge. Rocket follows him, in the pod, and Groot looks up from his game when Thor lands near him)
Rocket: (Kneeling over Thor) Thor! Say something. Come on. Thor, you okay? (To Eitri) I think he's dying.
Eitri: He needs the axe! Where's the handle? Tree, help me find the handle!
(Groot looks sadly at Thor, stands and grows a longer arm, weaving it around the axe and hammer, joining them,and then cutting his arm off at the usual length. Thor's hand opens slightly, and the hammer rises from the ground; lightening flickering from it)
(Cut to Wakanda where the Avengers and Wakandans are struggling against the Outriders. Suddenly, a large beam of light lands nearby, and the Avengers and Wakandans stop to look up as the axe flies through the air, electrocuting the Outriders. Thor appears with his new axe Stormbreaker, alongside Rocket and Groot.)
Bruce: [laughing with joy] Hah! Hah! Hah! You guys are so screwed now!
Thor: BRING ME THANOS!!! (He charges toward the hoards of Outriders, followed by Groot and Rocket)
[Cut to Titan, where Thanos appears in front of Doctor Strange, who appears to be the only one there]
Strange: Oh, you're much more of a Thanos.
Thanos: I take it the Maw is dead. This day extracts a heavy toll. Still, he accomplished his mission.
Strange: You may regret that. He brought you face-to-face with the Master of the Mystic Arts.
Thanos: And where do you think he brought you? (Star-Lord is nearby behind wreckage with his weapon ready, and Spiderman is above the structure where Strange sits.
Strange: Let me guess. Your home?
Thanos: (Smiling reminiscently) It was. And it was beautiful. (Thanos uses the Reality Stone to show Strange Titan before it was destroyed) Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, and not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution.
Strange: Genocide.
Thanos: But at random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman. And what I predicted came to pass. (The illusion fades into the true state of Titan)
Strange: Congratulations. You're a prophet.
Thanos: I'm a survivor.
Strange: Who wants to murder trillions.
Thanos: With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers, and they would all cease to exist. I call that...Mercy.
Strange: And then what?
Thanos: I finally rest...And watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
Strange: I think you'll find our will (Using his hand motions) equal to yours.
Thanos: Ours? (He looks up in time to a see a chunk of wreckage coming down on him, and tries to use the Power to stop, but is too late)
Iron Man: (Flying in) Piece of cake, Quill.
Quill: (Flying in from the other side) Yeah, if your goal was to *tick* him off.
(The wreckage on top of Thanos erupts, the pieces glowing with purple. He shouts as he uses the Power Stone to force the pieces at Iron Man. Spiderman webs his eyes, and swings in and kicks him in the face. Then Strange and Lucy summon a blade, but Thanos stops it with his hand, and tears the web from his eyes. He advances on Strange, and kicks him just as Strange summons a shield, absorbing the force of his blow, but knocking them back. Star-Lord shoots Thanos from behind, and Thanos uses the Power Stone to shoot balls of energy at Star-Lord while he advances by the steps Strange formed in the air, and places an electric mine on his back. He turns to Quill, as he disengages his helmet, dives backward into a portal, flipping him off.)
Star-Lord: Boom!
(Thanos tries to use the Space Stone to pull Quill back)
Strange: (To the Cloak of Levitation) Do not let him close his fist.
(The Cloak closes around Thanos' fist, and the mine on his back goes off. Spiderman appears on his right from a portal)
Spider-Man: Magic. (He kicks him in the head) More magic.
(He then leaps into another portal. As Thanos tries to recover, he appears through another portal behind him)
Spider-Man: Magic with a kick! (He kicks him again in the head with his right leg)
(Finally, he appears on his right)
Spider-Man: Magic with a-
(Before he can finish Thanos turns, grabbing him from the air, and throwing him to the ground, with his hand around his neck.)
Thanos: Insect! (He then throws him, about to use the gauntlet, but is interrupted by an explosion caused by Iron Man shooting a missile at him. As the flames blind Thanos, Spiderman attaches a web to him, and strains against it. Thanos pulls Spiderman toward him, but looks up as a ship crashes beside him, and Nebula jumps in front of him)
Thanos: Well, well.
Nebula: You should have killed me.
Thanos: It would've been a waste of parts!
Nebula: [she runs at Thanos, attacking him with her sword] Where's Gamora?!
[Strange uses the Space Stone to cast her aside, flailing. Strange and Lucy form energy ropes that grapple onto the gauntlet. Thanos tries to pull it free, as Star-Lord shoots an electromagnet onto the ground beside him, holding down his other hand. Spiderman swings in, and makes a string of webs, holding him back, enabling his spider legs to anchor himself, as Strange opens a portal above Thanos out of which drops Mantis, who lands on his shoulders, her hands on his temples. He screams as she tries to put him under]
Iron Man: [while pulling on the gauntlet] Is he under? Don't let up.
Mantis: [starting to cry] Be quick... He is very strong!
Iron Man: Parker, help! Get over here. [Parker withdraws his web, and hurries to help Tony with the gauntlet] She can't hold him much longer. Let's go. We gotta open his fingers to get it off!
Star-Lord: [lands, then joins with the others] I thought you'd be harder to catch. For the record, this was my plan. Not so strong now, huh? Where's Gamora?
Thanos: ... My... Gamora...?
Star-Lord: Oh, bull–shit. Where is she?
Mantis: [shocked] He is in anguish!
Star-Lord: Good.
Mantis: [crying] He... he... he mourns!
Drax: What does this monster have to mourn?!
Nebula: [she suddenly understands in horror what Thanos has done with...] Gamora.
Star-Lord: ... What?
Nebula: He took her to Vormir. He came back with the Soul Stone...but she didn't.
Iron Man: Okay, Quill, you gotta cool it right now, understand?
[Quill slowly turns to Thanos]
Iron Man: Don't, don't, don't engage, we've almost got this off!
Star-Lord: Tell me she's lying. [enraged] ASSHOLE!!! Tell me you didn't do it!!!
Thanos: I... had... to.
Star-Lord: [while starting to tear up; quietly] No, you didn't... No, you didn't... [he continues to rage and then proceeds to pistol-whipping Thanos in the face] NO, YOU DIDN'T!!!
Drax: Quill!
[Quill uses his gun to pound Thanos in the face twice. Iron Man goes to hold him back, as Peter Parker is left to pull off the gauntlet]
Iron Man: [to the struggling Quill] Hey, stop! Hey, stop! Stop! Hey, stop! Stop!
Spider-Man: It's coming! It's coming! I got it! I got it...!!
[But Thanos wakes, butting Mantis from his shoulders, and grabbing the cuff of the gauntlet just as it is sliding off his hand, causing Parker to stumble back, and Mantis to go flying]
Spider-Man: [seeing Mantis flying] Oh, God! [he jumps and hugs her, extending his spider legs which give them a safe landing]
[Strange summons a weapon, and Thanos uses the Space Stone to throw him away. Then, Iron Man shoots at him, but Thanos bats him down, and uses the Space Stone to pull down the surface of a moon. Stark tries to fly away, but a large chunk pins him down]
Stonekeeper: Welcome, Thanos, son of Eros, Gamora, daughter of Thanos.
Thanos: You know us?
Stonekeeper: It is my curse to know all who journey here.
Thanos: Where is the Soul Stone?
Stonekeeper: You should know: it extracts a terrible price.
Thanos: I am prepared.
Stonekeeper: We all think that at first. [his face is revealed as the Red Skull] We are all wrong.
Thanos: How is it you know this place so well?
Red Skull: A lifetime ago, I too sought the stones. I even held one in my hand. But it cast me out, banished me here, guiding others to a treasure I cannot possess.
Gamora: I was a child when you took me.
Thanos: I saved you.
Gamora: No, no, we were happy on my home planet.
Thanos: Going to bed hungry, scrounging for scraps? Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I was the one who stopped that. You know what's happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It's a paradise.
Gamora: Because you murdered half the planet!
Thanos: A small price to pay for salvation.
Gamora: You're INSANE.
Thanos: Little one, it's a simple calculus. This universe is finite, its resources ... finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correcting.
Gamora: YOU DON'T KNOW THAT!
Thanos: I'm the only one who knows that. At least, I'm the only one who has the will to act on it.
Rocket: You speak Groot?!
Thor: Yes, they taught it on Asgard. It was an elective.
Groot: I am Groot?
Thor: You'll know when we're close. Nidavellir's forge harnesses the blazing power of a Neutron Star. It's the birthplace of my hammer; it's truly awesome.
Rocket: [to himself] Okay, time to be the Captain. [to Thor] So, dead brother, huh? That can be annoying.
Thor: Well, he's been dead before. But this time... I think it really might be true.
Rocket: And you said that your sister and your dad...
Thor: Both dead.
Rocket: But, still got a mom, though?
Thor: Killed by a Dark Elf.
Rocket: Best friend?
Thor: Stabbed through the heart.
Rocket: You sure you're up for this particular murder mission?
Thor: Absolutely. The rage, vengeance, anger, loss, regret, they're all tremendous motivators. They truly clear the mind... so, I'm good to go.
Rocket: Yeah, but this is Thanos we're talking about, he's the toughest there is.
Thor: Well, he's never fought me.
Rocket: ... Yeah, he has!
Thor: Well, he's never fought me twice. And I'll have a new hammer, don't forget.
Rocket: Well, it'd better be some hammer.
Thor: You know, I'm one thousand and five hundred years old. I've killed twice as many enemies as that, and every one of them would have rather killed me, but none succeeded. I'm only alive because Fate wants me alive. Thanos is just the latest in a long line of bastards, and he'll be the latest to feel my vengeance. Fate wills it so.
Rocket: And what if you're wrong?
Thor: Well, if I'm wrong, then... What more could I lose?
Gamora: All my life I dreamed of a day, a moment, when you got what you deserved. And I was always so disappointed. But now, you kill and torture and you call it mercy. The universe has judged you. You asked it for a prize and it told you no. You failed. And do you wanna know why? Because you love nothing. No one.
Thanos: [sheds a tear] No.
Gamora: Really? Tears?
Red Skull: They are not for him.
[Gamora realizes what Thanos is going to do]
Gamora: No. This isn't love.
Thanos: I ignored my destiny once. I cannot do that again. Even for you.
[Gamora aguishly takes the double-edged knife Thanos had given her, then tries to kill herself. But Thanos uses the Reality Stone, turning the knife into bubbles]
Thanos: [anguished] I'm sorry, Gamora.
Gamora: [muted] NO!
Banner: Who's Scott?
Steve Rogers: Ant-Man.
Banner: There's an Ant-Man and a Spider-Man?!
Stark: [to the Guardians] We gotta work together. Because if all we come out with is a plucky attitude...
Quill: Dude, don't call us plucky. We don't know what it means. We're more optimistic, yes. I like your plan. Except...it sucks. So, let me do the plan and that way...it might be really good.
Drax: Tell him about the dance-off to save the universe.
Stark: What dance-off?
Quill: It's not a thing.
Parker: Like in Footloose? The movie?
Quill: Exactly like Footloose. Is it still the greatest movie in history?
Parker: It never was.
Stark: Don't encourage this alright, we're not getting any help from Flash Gordon.
Quill: Flash Gordon? That's a compliment. Don't forget, I'm half human. So that 50% of me that's stupid, that's 100% you.
[Thanos emerges from a teleport on the ruined Titan]
Strange: Oh, yeah. You're much more of a "Thanos".
Thanos: I take it that Maw is dead? This day extracts a heavy toll. Still, he accomplished his mission.
Strange: You may regret that. He brought you face-to-face with the Master of the Mystic Arts.
Thanos: Where do you think he brought you?
Strange: Let me guess. Your home.
Thanos: It was. [activates the Reality Stone, showing a holographic image of a populated Titan] And it was beautiful. Titan was like most planets; too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution.
Strange: Genocide?
Thanos: At random. Dispassionate, fair; To rich and poor alike. They called me a madman... and what I predicted came to pass.
Strange: Congratulations, you're a prophet.
Thanos: I'm a survivor.
Strange: Who wants to murder trillions.
Thanos: With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers; They would all cease to exist. I call that... mercy.
Strange: Then what?
Thanos: I finally rest and watch the Sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
Strange: [he summons his Mandalas, entering a fighting pose] I think you'll find our wills equal to yours.
Thanos: Ours?
[Stark crushes Thanos with a pillar of wreckage]
Stark: Piece of cake, Quill.
Quill: Yeah, if your goal is to piss him off!
Tony Stark: So this is it. It's all been leading to this.
Thor: Ready?
Steve Rogers: Let's go.
Gamora: He won't stop. Until he destroys half the universe. Everything you know... Everything you love... It will all be gone.
Peter Quill: Let's talk about this plan of yours. I think it's good, except it sucks. So let me do the plan and that way it might be really good. Tony Stark: Wow.
Thanos: The end is near. When I'm done, half of humanity will still exist. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
[upon seeing Steve] Thor: New haircut? I notice you've copied my beard. Oh, by the way, this is a friend of mine. A tree. Groot: I am Groot. Steve Rogers: I am Steve Rogers.
Black Panther: Thank you for standing with us, M'Baku. M'baku: Of course, brother.
Black Panther: How much longer, Shuri?
Bruce Banner: [trying to change into the Hulk] Hulk. Hulk, I know you like making your entrance at the last second, well, this is it, man. This is the last, last second. Hulk! Hulk! Hulk! [Hulk: NOOOO!] Oh, screw you, you big green asshole! I'll do it myself!
[Thanos has just got the Infinity Stones; Thor suddenly hurls Stormbreaker, which goes right into Thanos' chest]
Thor: I told you. You'd die for that!
[He takes hold of the back of Thanos's head and forces Stormbreaker deeper into his chest, staring angrily into his eyes while Thanos cries out in pain]
Thanos: You should've... You... You should've gone for the head!!
[He raises his gauntlet and snaps his fingers]
Thor: NO!
[Thanos is now briefly inside the Soul Stone, where he sees a young Gamora on the home world of the Zen-Whoberi]
Thanos: Daughter?
Gamora: Did you do it?
Thanos: Yes.
Gamora: [beat] What did it cost?
Thanos: [solemnly] ... Everything.
[Now out of the Soul Stone, Thanos notices the damages inflicted on the scorched Gauntlet]
Thor: What did you do? [angrily] WHAT DID YOU DO?!
[Thanos mockingly smirks at Thor before he uses the Space Stone and teleports away, leaving Stormbreaker left on the Wakandian field]
Captain America: Where'd he go? Thor... where'd he go?
Bucky Barnes: [feeling his prosthetic arm turning into ash] Steve?
[Bucky suddenly stumbles over, and collapses into ashes, much to Steve's shock; Thor watches Steve mourning Bucky's death. On the battlefield, Wakankan soldiers disintegrate to ashes, much to M'Baku's horror]
Lincoln Loud: lily stay close to me ok? [he looks to the over to see lily start to disappear]
Lily Loud: lincoln…i…i don't want to go…please help me please…please help me
[Lincoln looks at her in shock and helps her down so he can hold her]
Lincoln Loud: lils your going to be ok i…i promise…your going to be ok just stay with me ok?
Lily Loud: Lincoln…kick his ass for me ok? [she disintegrates]
T'Challa: [while reaching for a fallen Okoye] Up, General. Up! This is no place to die. [he suddenly disintegrates into ashes and Okoye falls back on the ground, much to her anguish]
Okoye: Hezvo...?!
Groot: [resting on a tree branch; slowly disintegrating, to Rocket] I am Groot... [Translation: "Dad?"]
Rocket: [as Groot starts slowly to corrode into ashes, much to Rocket's horror] No... No. No. No. No! Groot... no.
[Scarlet Witch is mourning over Vision. She then turns into ashes. An injured Falcon turns to ashes, hidden in the brush]
War Machine: [searching for Falcon, missing him by only a few feet] Sam? Sam!? Where are you at?!
[Back on Titan, the remaining members of the Guardians and Avengers help themselves up from their battle against Thanos they had lost]
Mantis: Something... is... happening. [she gets killed into ashes]
Drax: [to Quill; his right arm and lower-half of his body slowly turns to ashes] Quill...?
[Drax gets disintegrated next as Quill stares in horror]
Tony Stark: Steady, Quill.
Quill: Aw, man.
[Quill also gets disintegrated into ashes]
Strange: [calmly turns to Stark] Tony, there was no other way. [he finally gets erased]
Lucy Loud: my master was right…we had to do it [she turns to ash]
Parker: [feels himself starting to disintegrate and doesn't want to die] Mister Stark? I don't feel so good...
Tony Stark: [trying to be calm] You're all right.
Parker: [stumbling] I don't know what's – I don't know what's happening. I don't – [Parker falls into Stark's arms, clutching him tight and crying] Save me, save me! I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go, Mister Stark, please. Please, I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go... I'm sorry.
[Parker disintegrates into ashes in Stark's arms]
Nebula: [to Tony Stark, seeing Thanos' victory] He did it.
[Stark mourns silently at his failure. Back on Wakanda, the remaining team members, Captain America, Thor, War Machine, Black Widow, Bruce Banner,Lincoln and Rocket are left mourning near Vision's dead body]
War Machine: What is this? What the hell is happening?
Captain America: ... Oh, God.
[Meanwhile, on a different planet, Thanos sits down and watches the Sun rising]
Nick Fury: Still no word from Stark?
Maria Hill: No, not yet. We're watching every satellite in both hemispheres, there's still nothing. [receives three beeps from her device]
Fury: What is it?
Hill: Multiple bogeys over Wakanda.
Fury: Same energy signatures as New York?
Hill: Ten times bigger.
Fury: Call Klein. We'll meet him at –
Hill: NICK!
[Suddenly, a car spirals out of control into them. Hill goes over to check on the driver of the car, but sees no one is in there]
Fury: They okay?
Hill: There's no one here.
[Suddenly, a helicopter, with ash flying out, crashes into a building. The two are now witnessing civilians around them suddenly disintegrating]
Fury: Call control. Code Red!
Hill: [alerting Fury] Nick…?
[Fury turns around to see Hill in shock]
Fury: Hill?
[Hill then races back to their car and gets a pager out. She sends out an emergency alert, mere seconds before Fury hand turns into ashes]
Fury: Oh, no. Motherf –
[Fury corrodes to dust. The pager falls still in Hills hand; we see the device display a red-and-blue star insignia, indicating the symbol of Captain Marvel]
