A few weeks later Steve was in a bathroom ate the Avengers Compound holding a blade, having just shaved off his beard. He sighed and looked into a side mirror. Then it started shaking, slowly at first then severely. A few minutes later Steve, Natasha, Bruce and Rhodey were in the yard walking out looking at something, the Benatar carried by Carol Danvers as she landed the spacecraft. The landing geared deploy as they touch down. The entry hatch opened and Peter and Nebula walked out, Peter being supported by Nebula. Steve ran to Peter to help him stand up. Peter gripped Steve's arm as he joined him.

"Couldn't stop him." Peter said.

"Neither could I." Steve said.

"I lost Mr. Stark."

"Queens, we lost."

"Are, uh...?" Peter said struggling to ask about Pepper and Harley.

"Oh, my God! Oh, my God!" Pepper said and he embrace.

"It's okay."

Rocket sat down with Nebula and took her hand, both silently mourning their losses.

Later in the Compound they were sitting in a living room area. Peter was sitting at a table, getting blood for speeding up the healing. A holographic casualty report listed the names and faces of those lost to the Decimation.

He had lost the only person he'd ever love.

He lost Harley.

"It's been 23 days since Thanos came to Earth." Rhodey said.

"World governments are in pieces. The parts that are still working are trying to take a census. And it looks like he did... he did exactly what he said he was gonna do. Thanos wiped out fifty percent, of all living creatures." Natasha said.

"Where is he now? Where?" Peter asked.

"We don't know. He just opened a portal and walked through." Steve said.

Meanwhile a sullen-looking Thor was sitting on a bench, seemingly deep in thought.

"What's wrong with him?" Peter asked.

"Oh, he's pissed. He thinks he failed. Which of course he did, but you know there's a lot of that's going around, ain't there?" Rocket said.

"Honestly, until this exact second, I literaly thought you were a Build-A-Bear."

"Maybe I am."

"We've been hunting Thanos for three weeks now. Deep Space scans, and satellites, and we got nothing. Peter, you fought him." Steve said.

"Who told you that?" Peter asked surprised. "I didn't fight him. No, he wiped my face with a planet while the Bleecker Street Magician gave away the store. That's what happened. There was no fight."

"Okay."

"He's unbeatable."

"Did he give you any clues, any coordinates, anything?"

"Pfft! I saw this coming a few years back. I had a vision. I didn't wanna believe it. Thought I was dreaming."

"Queens, I'm gonna need you to focus."

Then Peter started to seethe.

"And Tony needed you. As in past tense. That trumps what you need. It's too late Capitan. Sorry." he said and stood up pushing things off the table with a clatter getting everyone to wince at the noise. "And I believe I remember Tony telling all youse -" he said and went for Steve.

Then Rhodey quickly came in front of him, trying to stop him.

"Peter, Peter, Peter!" Rhodey said.

"Alive and otherwise what you needed was a suit of armor around the world! Remember that? Whether it impacted our precious freedoms or not- that's what we needed!"

"Well, that didn't work out, did it?" Steve said.

"I heard Tony said, "we'd lose". You said, "We'll do that together too." And guess what, Rogers? We lost. And you weren't there. But that's what you do, right? Our best work after the fact? You're the Avengers, you're the Avengers. Not the Prevengers."

"Okay." Rhodey said.

"Right?"

"You made your point. Just sit down."

"Okay..."

"Okay?"

"You know what?"

"Peter, you're sick."

"She's great, by the way." Peter said referring to Carol.

"Sit down. Sit."

"We need you. You're new blood. Bunch of tired old mules!" Peter said and walked right up to Steve's face, his voice hushing down to a venomous whisper. "I got nothing for you! I got no coordinates, no clues, no strategies, no options. No trust. Liar."

Steve looked affected by Peter's words. The old friends just gaze at each other. After a moment, Tony rips the watch from his wrist and shoved it into Steve's hand.

"Here, take this. You find him, and you put that on. My Iron-Spider suit. You hide. I still have the one I got from him when he needed my help and the one I made when I first started saving my friendly neighborhood Queens." he said and fell to the ground exhausted.

Then Steve was by his side and everyone was starting to gather.

"Queens!" Steve said.

"I'm fine. I..." Peter said and fell unconscious.

While he did he saw when Tony told him he was done with the war between them.

Later Peter was on a bed, with Pepper at his side.

"Bruce gave him a sedative. He's gonna probably be out for the rest of the day." Rhodey said.

"You guys take care of him. And I'll bring him a Xorrian Elixir when I come back." Carol said and walked away."

"Where are you going?" Natasha asked.

"To kill Thanos."

Steve and Natasha shared a look before walking after her.

"Hey, you know, we usually work as a team here, and between you and I, morale's a little fragile." Natasha said.

"We realize up there is more your territory, but this is our fight too." Steve said.

"You even know where he is?" Rhodey asked.

"I know people who might." Carol said.

"Don't bother. I can tell you where Thanos is. Thanos spent a long time trying to perfect me. And when he worked, he talked about his great plan. Even disassembled, I wanted to please him. I'd ask "where would we go once his plan was complete?". His answer was always the same: "To the Garden."" Nebula said standing behind Carol.

"That's cute, Thanos has a retirement plan." Rhodey said.

"So where is he?" Steve asked.

"When Thanos snapped his fingers, Earth became ground zero for a power surge of ridiculously cosmic proportions. No one's ever seen anything like it... Until two days ago." Rocket said and a hologram of a planet popped up, with a shockwave visibly traversing the surface. "On this planet."

"Thanos is there." Nebula said.

"He used the stones again." Natasha said.

"Hey, hey, hey. We'd be going in short-handed, you know." Bruce said.

"Look, he's still got the stones, so..." Rhodey said.

"So let's get him... Use them to bring everyone back." Carol said.

"Just like that?"

"Yeah, just like that." Steve said and he and Carol shared a knowing look.

"Even if there's a small chance that we can undo this... I mean we owe it to everyone who's not in this room to try." Natasha said.

"If we do this, how do we know it's gonna end any differently than it did before?" Bruce asked.

"Because before, you didn't have me." Carol said.

"Hey, new girl, everyone here is about that superhero life. And if you don't mind my asking, where the hell have you been all this time?" Rhodey said.

"There are a lot of other planets in the universe. And unfortunately, they didn't have you guys."

Thor, who had been eating a snack behind all this time, stood up and walked over to Carol. She looked behind at him and he held his hand up, and caught Stormbreaker as it flew over to him, missing Carol by inches. But Carol didn't even flinch, instead smiling at the God of Thunder.

"I like this one." he said and smiled.

"Let's go get this son of a bitch." Steve said.

Later everyone but Peter was aboard the Benatar.

"Okay, who here hasn't been to space?" Rocket asked and Natasha, Steve and Rhodey raised their hands.

"Why?" Rhodey asked.

"You better not throw up on my ship."

"Approaching jump in 3... 2... 1!" Nebula said and the ship jumped forward into a wormhole.

Steve was holding onto his seat for dear life and his eyes widening slightly at the exhilaration of this new experience. Then the ship slowed down, and hovered in orbit of the planet. Carol hovered in front of the Benatar.

"I'll head down for recon." Carol said.

The passengers inside the Benatar were preparing for the impending confrontation.

"This is gonna work, Steve." Nebula said.

"I know it will." Steve said holding a compass with an image of Peggy Carter. "Cause I don't know what I'm going to do if it doesn't."

Then Carol approached the Benatar.

"No satellites, no ships, no armies, no ground defenses of any kind. It's just him." she said.

"And that's enough." Nebula said.

Meanwhile a scenic lush tropical fauna surrounded a shed on a farm. Thanos was walking among his crops, harvesting fruit, and putting them in a sack. Then he walked over to the shed, with a dragging quality to his legs, like it pains him to walk, presumably his living quarters, and tried to sit down. His whole left side was burnt black with blisters.

Suddenly, Carol flew through the roof, knocking him down, and grabbing his neck. Bruce in the Hulkbuster armor burst from the ground, and grabbed his' Infinity Gauntlet arm. Thor flew in and sliced off the Infinity Gauntlet. Rhodey flew down with Rocket and aimed guns on his head.

Then Steve walked in his Winter Soldier Outfit, with Natasha right behind him, staring murderously at Thanos. Then Rocket went over to the sliced off Infinity Gauntlet, and kicked it over, as everyone realized there were no stones in it.

"Oh no." Rocket said.

"Where are they?" Steve asked.

"Answer the question!" Carol said.

"The universe required correction. After that, the stones served no purpose, beyond temptation." Thanos said.

"You murdered trillions!" Bruce said and pushed him to the ground wearing Hulk Buster armor.

"You should be grateful." Thanos said punched by Hulk Buster.

"Where are the Stones?" Natasha asked.

"Gone. Reduced to atoms."

"You used them two days ago!" Bruce said.

"I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me. But the work is done. It always will be." Thanos said and sat himself a little straighter. "I am... inevitable."

"We have to tear this place apart, he-he-he has to be lying." Rhodey said.

"My father is many things. A liar is not one of them." Nebula said.

"Ah, thank you, daughter." Thanos said and she looked down, a little uncomfortable. "Perhaps I treated you too harshly."

Thor's face was filled with rage as he raised to summon Stormbreaker, and before anyone could stop him, sliced Thanos' head off. Thanos' limp body fell to the floor. Nebula wiped off some of the blood spatter.

"What... What did you do?" Rocket asked.

Thor looked broken, realizing what he'd done.

"I went for the head." he said and slowly walked out of the shed, no real purpose in his steps.