Death Was Arrested – Chapter 17

*Upstate New York, Avengers Facility*

The combination of Hela and Thanos proved most formidable. The remaining rangers fought against the goddess of death, while Tony and Steve battled with the mad titan. Natasha was hit with an energy blast, and was off to the side recovering.

Steve threw his shield at the gauntlet wielding foe, but he used the reality stone to warp it around him, and then sent it flying back into the Captain. Thanos then leapt in the air, gauntlet on one hand, double bladed sword in the other, and he went to plunge his sword into the Captain's heart. But quickly, the good captain was carried out of harms way. Tony had propelled himself to rescue his friend. They crash-landed, a good 100 feet from the battle. Tony stuck out his hand to help Steve up. But before Steve could grab it, the large blade that Steve evaded protruded through Tony's armor, lifting him high, blood gushing from the wound and seeping from his mouth.

"TONY!" Captain America shouted. Thanos threw him off his blade, and he landed with a thud and rolled onto his back, gasping his final breaths.

"I would have preferred to keep you alive, Stark," Thanos replied. "You're like me, a survivor. But I can't let you undo what I've done."

"Too late..." he gasped, blood spilling out of his mouth.

"What do you mean?" Before Thanos could get anymore out of Tony, they heard a loud roar bellow through the air. As soon as he turned in the sound's direction, a green fist plowed into his face, sending him flying through the air. Steve and the wounded Tony were surprised to see that Dr. Banner had once more become the Incredible Hulk, his eyes blood shot as he stared into theirs. The once-thought mindless beast knelt to the ground. Small, frustrated grunts came and went, and giant tears colored his face as he gazed upon his friend's dying body.

"Bruce..." Tony mumbled.

"Banner loved Stark," Hulk boomed. "Hulk loves Stark. Stark believed in Hulk."

"I did..." Stark shared. "And I still do. I believe in both of you."

"Natasha, do you read?" Steve asked over the coms.

"Affirmative."

"Get over here and help me cover Tony. Hulk!" He turned to face Steve. "Smash." The command was heeded, as he let out a loud roar and headed straight for Thanos. Thanos had recovered by that point, and showed off his gloved hand.

"The last time we fought, I only had one infinity stone," he taunted. "Do you really think you can best me when I have all six?"

"You hurt Hulk's friend!" Hulk cried. "You monster! Hulk destroys monsters!"

"I only do what others do not have the will to!" He fired an energy beam from the power stone, but Hulk dodged it and lunged at the mad titan and landed a strike. Hulk landed a few more blows, but Thanos used the reality stone to warp Hulk's perception. All Hulk saw were hundreds of heads, like looking through a kailedescope which revealed more and more heads and bodies. Before Hulk could respond at all, he was run through by two massive blades through his shoulders. He screamed in pain, the fake perception giving way to the reality of Hela, who had thrashed the rangers and come over to help Thanos take care of the big green menace.

"We have unfinished business darling," she grinned wickedly, stroking the whimpering beast on the chin.

The rangers and Captain America rallied towards Hulk as the battle continued to rage behind them. Tony was dying, Hulk was easily dispatched, hope seemed lost.

"I'll give you credit," Thanos started. "You have heart. But now you must yield. Otherwise, I will simply choose to snap this planet away."

"We won't give up," Rogers grunted. "We won't yield, or kneel, to anyone." He looked over at Katherine, who was encased in the mind stone armor, and then back to Thanos. "We're getting our friends, and our families, back. And you will yield."

"Inspiring speech, but I think you'll just have to die instead," Hela threatened. Before she could do anything, a large flash of light filled the area.

"What's going on?" Steve asked. "Can anyone see anything?" But no one answered. The bright lights oddly weakened his body, to the point where he could not continue standing. The light blocked everything from Steve's sight. And yet, it did not hurt his eyes. The array of light was both warm and welcoming, and yet terrifying all at once.

"Natasha? Coulson? Rhodey? Katherine?" Still silence. "Tony?"

He tried to steady himself, but he still felt that the light was too great to overcome. "What is going on?" He muttered to himself.

It was then that he heard it.

"Yimbambe! Yimbambe! Yimbambe!"

"It can't be..." He thought. The white light began to dissipate, and he looked down to find his feet planted on green lush plains. He looked over his shoulder to find Natasha still tending to Tony. But their eyes were locked elsewhere. Steve followed them to find what his ears had heard before.

"T'Challa?" Steve asked, confused as he saw the Wakandan King alongside his sister Shuri and warrior Okoye.

"Hello my friend," he replied, placing his hand on his shoulder.

"I don't understand," Steve shared, puzzled by his appearance. Before he could say anything else, a winged fighter landed beside him. He looked to find Sam Wilson, who stood before him just like before.

"Sam," he smiled, embracing him in a hug.

"Don't get sappy on me now Cap," he joked.

"Steve, are you seeing this?" Rhodey asked over the coms. Steve looked beyond to see other fighters than there were in their first battle in Wakanda. He rushed over when he found a familiar face.

"Queens!?" He shouted.

"Captain America?" Peter Parker replied. "What are you doing here? What am I doing here? What is this place? I was in space, I was with Mr. Stark, and now... what's going on?"

"You've stopped nothing!" Thanos shouted as he and Hela advanced towards their position, countless outriders and other henchmen flanking them. The heroes stood and watched as he gave a wicked grin. "You've reversed my plans for a moment, nothing more. But now, I snap my fingers, and all goes back to the way it was."

"No!" Steve shouted, but it was too late. He snapped once more, but nothing happened. Thanos turned his glove over, and to his dismay, none of the stones were contained in the glove.

"What?!"

"You sought the infinity stones without truly ever understanding them," a voice shouted in the distance. Steve and the others looked to find the six rangers flanking a mysterious wizard, who undoubtedly must have been Dr. Strange. "When you snapped us away, you locked us within the Soul Stone. What you didn't realize, is that we could manipulate it, change the course of history. Now, we have the power of the stones. Surrender now, or fall to the might of the heroes that wield them."

The mad titan merely grinned. "I must say, wizard, you saved your greatest trick for now. But I will not be denied my destiny. The universe demands balance, and that is what I seek to give it. All you have done is keep the universe from thriving."

"Thriving?!" Kim spoke up, her helmet retracted so that they could see her face. "You murdered trillions!"

"And I will again. You think that you six can stand in my way. The Goddess of death stands by my side, along with my armies, and the Sovereign coming to our aid."

"Did he just say the Sovereign?" Peter Quill, at the other side of the group, responded. "You enlisted the help of that psychopath!"

"It doesn't matter who's helping you, Thanos," Steve resolved. "We're not letting you take the stones."

"Yimbambe!" T'Challa screamed out

"Yimbambe!" The Wakandan warriors cried in response.

"So cool," Kimberly whispered, to which only Tommy could hear.

"Do all the yelling you want," Thanos smirked. "You say wizard that I don't understand the stones? It doesn't matter how many of you come after me. Avengers, Power Rangers, Soldiers, it doesn't matter. In my quest for balance, it's never been personal. But I have to admit... I'm going to enjoy it. I'm going to enjoy destroying your crummy planet and watching half of you vanish in front of your loved ones once more."

"Sounds like you're no longer merely a survivor," Strange challenged. "Congratulations, you've gone full madman."

"We're not going to let you destroy the earth!" Tommy challenged, as the six rangers moved into fighting positions, surrounding the master of mystic arts. Suddenly they heard a number of explosions above them. They looked to find a vast number of small ships firing on the Wakandan shields.

"Is that..." Steve started.

"The Sovereign?" Quill finished the sentence. "Yeah, we're screwed."

"We're fine," Tommy promised.

"Who are you guys again?" Quill quipped.

"I'm Captain America, he's the leader of the power rangers, and together we're the Avengers."

"There's more of you?" Mantis appeared, asking.

"Look, we need to act fast," Steve replied, disregarding the comment. "T'Challa, how long can the shields hold?"

"With that amount of ships, not long."

"Sam and Rhodey, get ready to take your fight to the skies, alongside the rangers." Tommy nodded and turned, but Steve grabbed his arm, stopping him. "You have the time stone, right?"

"I do."

"I need you to come with me," Steve pleaded. He gave a few quick directions, and then the battle waged on. Steve and Tommy arrived to find Tony continuing to gasp for air.

"Oh no," Tommy sighed.

"Can you use the time stone to turn back the clock? Would that heal his body?" Steve asked.

"It's worth a shot." Tommy held out his gloved hand, and directed his fist towards Tony. He continued to gasp, choking on his own blood, straining to look at the green-clad hero. Suddenly, magical green rings appeared, surrounding Tommy's hand. He opened his hand and began to turn it counter-clockwise ever so slightly. What he and Steve saw was nothing short of miraculous. Tony's wounds evaporated. The blood that stained his face was gone. Tommy stopped, the rings disappeared, leaving the three in shock.

"Tony?" Steve stammered.

"Yeah!?" Tony nearly shouted. He coughed, but no blood came up from his throat. "What the... how..."

"We turned back time for you," Tommy answered. Tony looked around him realizing they were in a different place.

"Where the hell are we?"

"Wakanda," Steve replied.

"How the..." Tony's voice trailed off. He looked to see the battle waging around them, and what surprised him was who he saw. Sam Wilson. T'Challa. Stephen Strange. "You did it," he said, looking up to Tommy.

"We did it," Tommy replied, placing his arm on Tony's shoulder. Tony looked over to Steve, who had a smirk on his face. Before they could say anything, however, they were under attack from a couple of outriders. They began to ready their weapons, when the pair of alien fighters were restrained. They looked to find a very familiar figure. Well, at least familiar to Steve and Tony.

"You two need a leash!" Peter Parker shouted in mock bravado. He used his strength to hurl them away from the others, the force of his throw knocking over several other fighters. He rushed over and took off his mask. "Mr. Stark, boy am I glad to see you. You know how we were in space? And we were fighting Thanos, and then this really weird thing happened, and then there were a bunch of us just in this really weird orange room, and then..." He didn't have time to finish, because Tony enveloped him into a hug, with a tear coming to his eye.

"I missed you kid," He whispered. The moment was interrupted by a loud crash, as the Sovereign's mini-spaceships blasted through the Wakandan shields.

"Hey, you guys gonna stop hugging and help us out!?" Peter Quill quipped from a distance.

"Let's do this," Tony smirked. His nanotech helmet appeared, and he propelled himself to the top of the shield where he began shooting down several of the small ships that threatened them. Rhodey and Sam joined the air attack, as did a number of the rangers.

Down on the Wakandan battlefield, Steve, Spider-Man, and several others kept both the outriders at bay. At one point, however, Steve was overwhelmed by them. However, suddenly, he heard gunfire that clipped a number of them. They died, and Steve struggled through the pile to see who had saved him.

"Bucky?" Steve smiled. Bucky didn't respond, instead raising his weapon and began shooting. Alarmed, Steve readied his shield, but the shots didn't come for him. He looked to find dead outriders surrounding him.

"We'll catch up later," he shrugged.

"Yeah, Cap, no time for swooning over your long-lost buddy," Romanoff quipped. Cap slammed an outrider with his shield without looking, sending it crashing into the dirt.

"I wasn't swooning," he muttered.

"Hey, when this is all said and done, I gotta watch out for that raccoon," Bucky mentioned. "He seemed obsessed with taking my arm."

"Well, I don't think you'll have to worry about that, we haven't seen any sign of them," Steve replied as they stood back to back now, taking different outriders out. Suddenly they saw the Hulk flying towards them, and Steve pushed Bucky out of the way. Hulk left a massive crater where they had been standing. They looked over to see Thanos. "We've gotta find a way to neutralize Hela and Thanos. It's doing us no good just to focus on their foot soldiers."

"Well, we'd love to help Cap, but we're kinda busy up here taking care of the cast of Mars Attacks," Tony quipped.

"We're being overwhelmed," Tommy replied. "We're outmanned."

"But we're not out-gunned," Kim realized. "Rocky, can you give a jolt from the power stone?"

"Let me give it a shot!" He cried. Suddenly, the skies turned purple. His suit began to glow, and he began to scream, splitting through their intercoms.

"Rocky, you ok?!" Adam cried.

"ARRGGHHHH!" An explosive wave of purple energy burst forth from his suit, aimed solely at the Sovereign's fighters. In a flash they vaporized, clearing a major part of the skies of her armies. But the energy output clearly took a toll on him, as he drifted to the ground. Adam and Tommy followed him down, landing more softly than Rocky did, who did with a bit more of a thud. He collapsed to one knee, and his helmet dematerialized.

"What's wrong?" Tommy asked.

"It took so much out of me," Rocky stammered, gasping for air as he tried to communicate.

"Let's not do that again, unless we have too," Adam instructed, earning a thankful nod from his friend.

Elsewhere on the battlefield, several Wakandan soldiers attempted to take down Hela, but several of them lost their lives trying. She currently held M'Baku in her grasp, ready to deal a killing strike, when she was blasted from behind. M'Baku scrambled, and Hela turned to find Doctor Strange as the culprit.

"You dare challenge the goddess of death?" She asked, grinning at the wizard.

"My mission is to protect life on this planet," Strange replied. "And since you threaten it, you leave me no choice but to rise up and stop you." The response illicited a small chuckle from the black-horned goddess, but she quickly flicked her hands to hurl massive swords at the master of mystic arts. He quickly used spells to defend from the attack, rendering her blades futile. However, she charged at him quickly. He used his sling ring to open a portal, and she ran straight through it. Another opened up 20 feet above, and she fell to the ground in a heap.

He spoke an incantation and used the red bands of Cytorak, which looked like wide red bands sprayed out from his hand. They leashed themselves around her body, rendering her immobile for the moment.

"Is that the best you can do?" Hela taunted as she looked at her foe. She quickly slashed through the bands and rose to her feet, her face menacing as she gazed at Strange. "Congratulations, you survived a few seconds longer than your comrades."

"I could probably do more," Strange replied confidently. "But, I was never banking on being the one to take you out."

"What?"

Suddenly, a massive surge of light and energy entered the Wakandan space. It captured everyone's attention, especially those who had fought in the first battle of Wakanda.

"It can't be," Steve whispered, close enough for Strange to hear him.

"It is," he smirked.

"Thor..." Hela whispered. "My brother will not..." She was interrupted by a blast from a massive gun. The light dissipated, and several warriors, including Thor, Loki, and Rocket, were gathered together, including a large rock monster holding the weapon. He lowered the weapon for a moment, and looked over towards the other avengers. "My name is Korg, and the Lord of Thunder..."

"God," Thor interrupted.

"God of Thunder, here, suggested we start another Revolution, so, here we are to help."

"Now I've seen everything," Steve muttered under his breath.

Hela stood back up and gave a wicked grin. "Is that all you can do?"

"No, it's not," Thor replied.

"Actually, dear sister, it turns out the legends are all true," Loki smirked.

"What legends?" Hela snarled. Suddenly, another beam of energy blasted her to the far edge of the Wakandan shields. Everyone gasped at the sheer power of the blast. Well, all except Dr. Strange, who merely just looked over to the new arrivals. A woman stepped forward had a glimmering red and blue suit covering her body, with flowing blonde hair down to her shoulders.

"Carol Danvers, I presume," Strange started.

"How did you know that?" She asked.

"I've seen this play out before," he grinned. "For a moment I wondered if you all would show up, or if I was about to be skewered." He looked over towards Thor and Loki. "We're going to have to talk about your consistent violations of bringing Loki to our planet."

"No offense," Steve finally piped up. "But is this really the time for you guys to talk about this?"

"He's right," Thor replied. "Hela will be back. The blast was strong, but it won't keep her down for long." He looked around briefly. "Where's Thanos?" As he asked the question, a loud roar was heard.

"Probably where that roar came from," Rogers replied.

"Banner?!" Thor replied. "But..."

"Apparently he was all busted up that I was dying," Tony interrupted, flying alongside Tommy and Kim. "Good to have you back, Thor."

"It's good to be back," Thor replied. "What did we miss?"

"I am Groot," Groot replied, the Guardians approaching the new arrivals.

"Groot?!" Rocket gasped, emerging from the group. He ran and leapt onto the tree-like being, and they collapsed to the ground.

"Look, I know we're all excited to each other," Tony started.

"Shut your frickin mouth, Stark," Rocket shot at him.

"No, Tony's right," Tommy interjected. "Look, we have this small reprieve, we need to figure out what to do."

"We were able to disable a number of enemy ships, but we're still pretty overwhelmed up there," Kim added. "We had to leave the others up to fight, and if we don't get back up there..."

"I can fight up in the skies and take the fight to them," a new fighter approached, who mounted a beautiful winged white horse. "The name's Valkerie."

"I can join her," Danvers added.

"And so can I," Quill replied, using his jet repulsion anklets.

"Good," Steve commented. "But Danvers, you stick to the ground, help Thor and Loki with Hela." They nodded. "Rangers, you guys stick to the skies until things clear up a bit. Clint?"

"Yes boss?" Hawkeye replied over coms.

"You know what to do. Get to high ground, pick off strays. Romanoff, help lead the ground attack with Groot, Rocket, and the other guardians, Spider-man. Coordinate with T'Challa and his armies. And let Hulk smash a few things along the way." He turned over to Doctor Strange. "I want you in the middle of all this. Someone needs protection, utilize your shields and magic."

"What about you, Captain?" Tony asked.

"I'm going after Thanos."

"Not alone you're not," Tony reprimanded him. "I'm coming with you."

"So are we," Tommy and Kim replied simultaneously.

"We need to contain the fight up there!" Steve replied.

"They will, especially with the help they're about to receive," Tommy assured him. "But you can't take on Thanos by yourself, and you know it."

"I don't know if any of us can take him on," Steve confessed.

"Then we'll fight together," Tony reminded him. They locked eyes for a moment, silently acknowledging the weight they felt taking on the mad titan. "And if we lose, we'll do that together too."

"Thanks," Steve replied. He turned to the rest of the group of heroes. "You have your orders. Avengers, Assemble!"

Tommy, Kim, Tony, and Steve walked slowly over towards Thanos as the rest of the team left to their respective assignments. After a couple of moments, they confronted the warrior, who had just finished killing another one of the men from the Border Tribe. He looked over at the four of them and smirked, and stood up tall, brandishing a double bladed sword.

"I remember seeing you delivering that bomb through the portal all those years ago," Thanos started. "Loki was to bring me the tesseract. He failed me. But ever since that moment, I knew who you were, Stark. I knew you were my greatest threat."

"No offense, pal, but there's quite a few of us," Stark chided. "I mean, not that I don't like taking credit for things, but..."

"You flew through that wormhole and destroyed my army," Thanos challenged. "You survived space and created tech to utilize the zeo crystal and harness the power of the stones. You enabled other warriors to grow stronger. You have been my greatest foe. The greatest challenger. For that, I give my respects."

"You said the same thing as I was dying," Tony said sullenly.

"You have harnessed the power of the stones, you have undone what I had always dreamed of doing. But you will not keep me from my destiny. I am inevitable."

"To get these stones back, you gotta go through us," Kim challenged.

"Exactly," Thanos grinned. He leapt through the air and slashed his sword to knock Tommy back, while Kim and Iron Man blasted Thanos with their repulsors. He blocked both of their attacks with his blade, spinning it in his hand to repel the blast. He spun around and swung his weapon to hit Captain America's shield out of the air, with his large boot thrusting into his mid-section, sending him flying across the battlefield. Iron Man landed some small missile strikes into Thanos' broad chest, leaving him staggering. However, as he flew in close to land a blow, he caught him by his head and smashed him to the ground.

Kim flew in and landed a massive blow on his face, and then ducked under his blade and kicked him in the knee. This caused him to stumble to his knee, which allowed her to gain the upper hand for a moment. She kicked his weapon out of his hand, and then began to pummel him with rights and lefts, finally blasting him in the face with her repulsors. His body jostled through the grounds, shrouded by a cloud of dust and dirt from the blast. Though no one could see her face, she gave a small, triumphant smile. However, it was short-lived, as through the dust Thanos' gloved hand reached out and grabbed a hold of Kim's helmet, the strength of his grip so powerful that it disintegrated within his grasp.

Kim choked on the rubble, backing away from her foe, all the while knowing her head was currently exposed. She tried to summon the nanobots to form a new helmet, but before she could, Thanos' large hand grasped her throat, rendering her unable to breathe. She tried to fight him off, her body jerking around, but to no avail. Flying in for the save was Tommy, who landed a massive kick to his temple, the impact causing him to release Kimberly from his chokehold. She landed with a thud on the ground, and he briefly landed beside her.

"You ok?" Tommy asked her, and she gave a quick nod. He left her after the small assurance, and he continued on the offensive. He blasted the villain with shot after shot, and then withdrew a sword from his suit. He slashed at him, but Thanos had regained his weapon and after he blocked a few of Tommy's attacks, he regained the upper-hand and Tommy was down once more. This time Thanos stood on his mid-section and pointed his double-bladed sword towards his chest piece.

"I'm going to pry that stone from your chest, green ranger," he threatened menacingly. "I'm going to pry each and every stone from each of you, leaving you all in a bloody heap. And then, your only contribution in this will be your own bloody deaths." Tommy grimaced as he saw Thanos ready to plunge the blade into his chest. But when the deathblow came, he heard a clank of steel. He looked to find Thanos' blade blocked by a very familiar blade. He looked over to see a red handle, with the emblem of a Tyrannasaurus engraved in it's center, being held by a very familiar white glove.

"I'm glad you finally went back to your original color, rather than continuing to steal all of ours," Jason, the original red ranger, grunted. Thanos quickly swung his blade at his new challenger, but he dodged his strike, which enabled Tommy to blast him with his repulsors. Tommy rose up, his helmet disappearing to show the shock in his face.

"Jase?" He merely nodded.

"It's good to see you on the other side." Tommy looked to find Zack, Billy, and Trini all morphed as well, and ready to fight.

"Thanks for fighting to get us back," Zack commented.

"Zack?" Kim was the one who now asked, as she was able to get up and see her old team.

"I never pegged you as an orange kind of girl, but, if anyone can rock it it's you," Zack joked.

"Thanks, I think," Kim replied.

Suddenly, the airborne rangers descended to their level.

"Tommy, we've been able to push back the Sovereign's forces," Kat started.

"Great... but what are we going to do about him?" Tommy replied, pointing towards a rising Thanos.

"We need to find a way to bring the stones together," Kat responded.

"Or at least the power of the stones," Kim added. "Remember how we were able to get the power of the stones?"

"They were channeled through Stormbreaker!" Kat exclaimed.

"Thor!" Tommy yelled through his coms. "We need you over here!"

"A bit busy at the moment," he gasped. That was because he was currently removing one of Hela's blades from his shoulder. However, Hela couldn't finish him off because she was engaged with Captain Marvel. While Marvel was certainly a formidle opponent for the goddess of death, she hadn't quite figured out how to land any significant damage to her. She continued to shoot energy blasts as her offense, and use her protective energy to deflect any attacks against her, but it the battle felt like a stalemate.

Suddenly, hundreds if not thousands of forms surrounded Hela. Loki had multiplied his image and imposed it on his sister, but she quickly slashed through them, spinning while flinging her death blades all around. Many of his forms disappeared, but it was enough of a distraction for Danvers to land a blast. She quickly flew over towards her, grabbed her by the throat and flung her down to the ground. Thor landed by Hela's side and placed the blade of his axe towards her throat.

"Yield," Thor asked. She grunted, but he pressed the blade against her throat even harder. "Yield!" He forced out once more. He looked over to Danvers and Loki, who had run up towards them, holding his shoulder. "Are you ok, brother?"

"One of her blades grazed it, but I'm fine otherwise."

"Watch after her," he commanded the pair. "I'm needed elsewhere." He flew off, and as soon as he did, Hela tried to make a move against Danvers, but she forced her foot down on her throat and chest.

"Don't even think about it," She threatened.

"Who do you think you are?" Hela choked out.

"The strongest avenger," she joked.

"I like you," Loki grinned.

"I'll like you too, as long as you don't turn into a snake to scare me."

Thor tuned out their playful banter and made his way to the battlefield with Thanos, who had recovered and began waylaying the rangers, as well as Tony and Steve. He saw the original team of rangers, and a look of confusion came across his face. "There are more of you?" Before he could do anything, he saw something flying towards his head, he dove out of the way, and found it was Tony, who had been picked up and thrown through the air.

"Are you okay?" Thor asked.

"Yeah, yeah, really really good," Tony quipped. "You planning on helping us out, Hercules?" Thor's eyes began to light up.

"Yes," he uttered. He charged his axe with energy from his lightning, and he leapt into the air, ready to strike down, but as he approached, his thrust was blocked by Thanos' blade. They clashed their weapons, Thor trying to slash with brute force. However, Thanos got Thor off balance and slashed his blade upward, catching Thor with the broad side of the weapon and knocking him high in the air before he crashed back down into the earth.

Katherine saw the god of thunder down, with Thanos ready to destroy him. She ran to shield him from the blow, and fired her repulsors at him. He shielded himself with his blade until he got close enough to her, and grabbed her by her helmet, slamming her down. He readied his blade for a killing blow, but Captain America was able to block the strike, sliding down by her and hiding her under his vibranium shield. He continued to strike over and over again, breaking the shield in half. He kicked him across the battlefield, and he tumbled onto his belly and began to get to his knees, though it was very slowly. Before he could get to his feet, however, Thanos grabbed Steve by his throat and began to choke the life out of him.

"You're an honorable man, Captain Rogers, I'll give you that," Thanos muttered, choking the life out of him effortlessly. Rogers tried to speak, but his grip was so powerful that nothing came out. "Fine, I'll give you your last rites." He loosened his grip just for a moment.

"I can do this all day," he gasped. Thanos merely smiled.

"No, you can't." He began to tighten his grip, but he felt a sharp pain in shoulder blade. The blow, caused by Stormbreaker, caused enough damage to free the bloodied hero from his grasp. Quickly, Thor summoned his mighty axe back to himself.

"Now!" He cried.

Thanos looked to see the six stone keepers assembled, charging their powers. All six released a wave of energy that hit the Thor's raised weapon, which he used to channel the energy and then shot it at Thanos. He let go of Captain Rogers, who swiftly rolled out of the way, so that he could brace himself against the blast. He spun his sword, in hopes of deflecting the massive beam. It held up for a moment as he spun the weapon furiously, but at last the power of the infinity stones conquered. He screamed in agony as the power came up against his flesh, and then there was silence.

To Be Continued

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