Hey, guys. Back with the last main chapter of the story. We still have the epilogue though.

This will mainly focus on other Earths, and show how the snap will affect the multiverse. I'm not just doing this to give more reason to bring in our heroes from other Earths. In the Marvel comics, the Stones have been shown to be capable of affecting other universes too.

Also, as like the Infinity War writers, I will be killing off some characters from the Arrowverse that will likely make you sad, but we all know how this is gonna turn out anyways.

Let's get to it.

warlocktongue: No guarantees on the time heist.

Guest: At least one Avenger will eventually move to Earth 1.

Chapter 14- Decimation

(Earth-1, Central City)

Clint shakes his head as he pulls up to his house. He had just got back from Joe's house, where he had been introduced to Nora and Stephen.

Needless to say, Clint was a now more pissed at Barry for leaving Wanda behind given the fact she'd been pregnant, even though he knew he had to cut him some slack since he didn't know about the twins.

Clint walks in the front door, and Lila comes running up to him. "Daddy! You're back!" she says happily.

Clint smiles as he gives her a hug. She's grown a lot the last few years.

Clint walks into the kitchen, where Cooper and Nathaniel are both at the table, and Laura is cooking lunch..

"Hey, honey," Clint says as he walks up behind her and gives her a kiss on the cheek. Laura smiles as he does.

"Hey, dad!" Nathaniel cries, holding up his picture. Clint walks over to the table and looks at it, a small drawing of a car.

"Nice one, buddy," he says cheerfully and ruffles his youngest's hair.

"Is it true, dad? Barry and Wanda have kids?" Cooper asks.

"Yeah, it is. You can meet them later," Clint says.

"Clint?" Laura calls to him. He turns to face her with a smile, only for his eyes to widen in horror as he sees his wife finish disintegrating into dust.

Clint rushes over to where she had just been standing, reaching out towards the dust that had been his wife just moments ago. He sits there for a moment, then turns around to try and calm his kids, only to see three clouds of dust where his kids had been a moment earlier.

Clint stands there, stunned, unable to believe what he's just seen. A hole starts to form in his heart as he realizes his family is gone.

(STAR Labs)

"Any sign of Cicada since Falcon came and drove her off?" Ralph asks.

"Nothing. I've tried everything. But no sign of her," Cisco replies.

"Don't worry, guys. We'll find her," Joe says.

Right then, Joe's phone starts to ring. He looks down, sees it's Cecile, and answers with it on speaker, cheerfully asking, "Hey, Cecile. What is it?"

"Joe, I'm at CCPD. I don't know what's going on! Half the force just suddenly turned into dust! Like literally! And Singh was one of them!" Cecile cries into the phone.

Everyone in the cortex goes still. "Okay, Cecile. I'm on my way!" Joe answers.

"Please hurry! I don't know…" Cecile responds, but she is suddenly cut off. A sound that kinda sounds like a phone hitting the ground comes through the line a moment later.

"Cecile! CECILE!" Joe cries into the phone. But there is nothing on the other end. Nothing but a cloud of dust.

Joe lowers the phone, looking around at everybody. Everybody has their eyes wide with horror. Then, before anybody can say anything, Ralph says with fear, "Guys?"

Everyone looks to Ralph, and see his hands start to disintegrate. Ralph looks up at everybody, right before his whole body turns into dust.

Everyone just sits there, stunned at what just happened.

(Star City, Mayor's office)

"And make sure to have those notes on the new zoning ordinance on my desk by tomorrow morning," Quentin tells his aide. The young woman nods before walking out of the office.

Quentin reaches for a pen, but is stunned as his fingers disintegrate into dust. He looks down and sees the same thing happening to his whole body.

"What the ****?" is all he has time to say before he disintegrates into dust.

(ARGUS)

Lyla looks into the cell containing Grodd. The massive gorilla is still in his coma, and shows no signs of waking.

"Director!" Lyla jumps a little bit at the urgent shout over her earpiece. She taps the earpiece and says, "This is Director Michaels."

"Director! Something's happening! Some of our agents just turned into dust before my eyes!" a scared sounding agent nearly yells over comms.

Lyla stands there for a moment before she responds, "I'm on my way! Hold on!" She takes one last look back at Grodd, and is stunned to see him disintegrating too. She is too stunned to react before she also disintegrates.

(The bunker)

"What do you got for us, Anatoli?" Diggle asks.

"No sign of Longbow Hunters. I have been looking for them, but they seem to have vanished," Anatoli says in reference to their latest enemies.

"Well, if anybody can find 'em, we can. We got the dream team," Felicity says. Everyone looks at her, smiling at her cheerfulness, then stunned when she suddenly disintegrates.

"What the h***?!" Rene shouts. Everybody looks around, and is stunned when Anatoli disintegrates too.

"What's going on?" Rene demands.

"Guys?" Rene and Curtis both look at John, who has started disintegrating. They are forced to stand and watch as he disintegrates before their eyes. And only a moment later, Rene also disintegrates.

Curtis looks around at the now empty bunker. "What the **** is going on?" he asks himself.

(Bucky's apartment)

Bucky finds himself pushed up against the wall the moment he walks into his bedroom. He has just a brief glimpse of his smiling girlfriend before she starts kissing him.

Bucky smiles against her lips and kisses her back. When they finally separate, Bucky grins and asks, "What was that for?"

Laurel smiles at him mischievously. "Well, you and I have been working a lot lately. I thought we could take some alone time," she says. She then grabs Bucky and shoves him onto his bed. She turns to lock the door, just in case. She reaches back to undo her dress as she turns back to Bucky, but stops short when she sees Bucky looking at his hands, which are disintegrating.

"Bucky!" she cries as she looks at him. He looks back at her, eyes wide.

"Laurel," he manages to get out before he disintegrates into dust.

"BUCKY!" Laurel screams, collapsing to her knees beside the bed. But Bucky is already gone.

(Seattle)

"Hey, mom. I'm home," William calls out as he walks into his and Samantha's home in the outskirts of Seattle.

"Hey, honey. How was school?" she asks.

"It was good. Got an A on my math test," he responds.

"That's great," Samantha says as she walks up to him, "I made some brownies. Why don't you get some and I'll put your backpack away."

"Sure," William says cheerfully. Samantha reaches out to take his backpack from him, but right before she touches it, her hands begin to disintegrate.

"Mom?" William exclaims, scared. Samantha looks down at her hands in shock, then looks back at William before the rest of her body disintegrates.

"Mom?!" William calls in the hopes he'll get an answer. But nothing answers him.

(Markovia)

Slade growls as he crosses blades with his son. After a long time of pursuing Joe to try and talk him down, or stop him, he's finally found him.

"That's enough, Joe. I don't want to hurt you, but you need to stop," Slade growls.

"I don't think so, Dad," Joe says before he kicks Slade in the leg, making Slade stumble back.

Slade tries to steady himself as Joe rushes to attack him. But, as Joe is slashing at him, his hand suddenly disintegrates, causing the sword to fall to the ground.

The two stare in shock at Joe's disintegrating arm. Then, they both realize, it's not just his arm. Joe has just enough time to look up at Slade before he disintegrates completely.

Slade stares in shock at where his son just stood. "What the h***?" he mutters.

(St. Louis)

Vincent ducks behind a shipping container as the gangsters fire at him. A moment later, Dinah leaps into view, unleashing her scream and knocking them back into another shipping container and knocking them out.

"Nice one!" Vincent calls out as he steps back out from behind the container and walks towards Dinah.

"It's good to be back together and fighting crime together again," Dinah says.

Vincent smiles. The two of them had spent the better part of a year after leaving Star City just spending time together and trying to get over everything that had happened the last few years, and especially during their time in Star City. Then, missing the rush of fighting crime, Vincent returned to his life as Vigilante, and Dinah joined him.

Vincent smiles and says, "Let's go get something to eat." Dinah smiles and pulls Vincent in for a kiss. Vincent smiles against her lips. But, a moment later, it almost feels like her lips melt away.

Vincent opens his eyes, and sees a cloud of dust in front of him instead of Dinah. Alarmed, he looks around and sees one of the gangsters they just took down disintegrate into dust.

(Czech Republic)

Thea and Roy smile as they walk back to their campsite hand in hand. For the last year and a half they've been chasing down leads on HYDRA. They just successfully raided a small HYDRA hideout in the southern part of the Czech Republic they had managed to find after months of searching.

"Well, that went well. You want to call Bucky and let him know?" Roy asks.

"No. Let's do it tomorrow. Let's just rest and relax. Just the two of us," Thea says.

Roy turns to her and smiles. Suddenly, he feels her hand dissolve in his. Looking down, he sees it has turned to dust. He looks back into Thea's face, which now is full of fear, right before Thea dissolves before his eyes. Roy stands there, frozen in shock.

(Earth-2)

"Well, that's another meta criminal in prison!" Jesse says cheerfully as she walks into the lair.

"Good job, sweetheart," Harry says proudly.

Jesse walks over to one of the computers to enter a few things into their system. She stands up, then asks Harry, "How about I go grab us some Big Belly Burger?"

"Sounds good," Harry says.

Jesse smiles and turns to race out. But, before she can start running, she suddenly disintegrates into dust.

Harry stares at the spot, stunned. He justs stands there, trying to deny to himself what he just saw.

(Earth-3)

Jay Garrick dodges the jet of fire shot at him by a new metahuman. In return, he gathers up lightning and throws it at the man. He instantly goes down, knocked unconscious.

A SWAT truck rolls up a few moments later and a few officers hop out. "Nice one, Flash," one of the officers says as they cuff the guy. They get the guy into the truck. One of the officers turns around to thank Jay again, only to see Jay finish disintegrating into dust.

(Earth-38, Smallville)

"Do you think I'm doing the right thing, not going back to the DEO?" Kara asks Clark.

"I don't know, Kara. But you don't have to work for the DEO to be Supergirl," Clark says.

Kara nods as she takes a sip of beer she's holding. Right then, Lois walks up to the two. "Hey, guys. The tractor doesn't seem to want to start. We may need to have a little maintenance done on it," she says.

Suddenly, Kara's phone starts to ring. Reaching down for it, she sees that the call is from J'onn. She answers and says, "Hey, J'onn. What's going on?"

"Supergirl, we have a problem. I don't know what's going on, but people are disappearing. As in disintegrating randomly. Winn, James, and Lena are all gone," J'onn says urgently.

"Alright. I'll head over there as soon as possible," Kara replies before hanging up.

She looks at Clark and Lois and says, "Something's wrong. J'onn says people are at the DEO are just disintegrating into dust out of the blue. And it doesn't sound like it's just at the DEO."

"You mean like this?" Clark deadpans as he lifts up his hands, which are turning to dust. Kara and Lois just stare in horror as Clark disintegrates before their eyes.

(Time Stream)

"Alright. We've taken care of Neron. So, where to now?" Ray asks, hand in hand with Nora.

"I don't know," Sara responds.

"How about we finish that vacation in Aruba the Englishman cut short?" suggests Mick.

"I'd be okay with that," Nora suggests.

Suddenly, an alarm goes off. Everyone looks around, worried about what's causing it.

"Gideon! What's going on?!" Sara demands.

The hologram of Gideon's head pops up. "A massive temporal anomaly has been detected in 2018," Gideon replies.

"What kid of anomaly?" Ray asks.

"In May, 2018, half of the Earth's population suddenly disintegrated into dust," Gideon replies. For the first time ever, Gideon's voice seems a little fearful.

The Legends stand there, stunned into silence. Finally, Sara cries, "WHAT?!"

"The cause was undetermined at the time. However, records kept be STAR Labs show that an alien warlord by the name of Thanos in the Earth-99 universe caused the event, which affected not only Earth, but every world in every universe," Gideon responds.

Again, the Legends are stunned into silence. Finally, Nora says, "We have to go back! We have to stop from happening!"

"We can't!" Ray responds. Nora looks at her boyfriend in surprise. He looks back at her, then at the rest of the team before saying, "What happens if the people who built the Waverider had ancestors that ended up getting disintegrated in this event? The Waverider could wink right out of existence the moment we exit the Time Stream."

"So, we're stuck here until we die or somebody fixes this?" Mick demands.

"Pretty much," Ray responds.

(Universe-99, Xandar)

It is chaos on Xandar. The planet has not recovered from when Thanos attacked it a week earlier and wiped out half it's population. Now, in aftermath of Thanos' snap, it's population has been halved again.

In the chaos, as Xandarians try to figure out what's happening and who that they know is still alive, a cloaked figure walks through the streets. As he watches people around him disintegrating, he looks up at the sky. The motion partially reveals his face, with grey skin on his face, pointed ears, and black skin where his hair would be.

"Well, father. I guess you did it. This changes nothing. I may not have been able to stop you. But I will reverse this if I can," the man says before disappearing.

(Earth-99, Wakanda)

Barry stumbles over to a tree. When he reaches it, he slumps against it before falling to the ground, just kind of in a daze. He can't believe this. After finally reuniting, he had Wanda taken from him like this.

Feet enter his field of vision. He looks up to see Steve kneeling in front of him.

"Barry?" Steve asks gently.

With tears rolling down his cheeks, Barry chokes out, "I-I promised her, Steve. I promised her we would never be parted again. And then this happens. I broke my promise!" And with that, the dam breaks, and Barry embraces Steve and just cries. Steve embraces his friend back and just sits there, letting Barry cry, trying to hold back tears himself. Because he knows that they, the Avengers, Earth's mightiest heroes, have failed.

And with that, I bring this chapter to an end.

I know this was long, but I wanted to show everybody I had planned to get dusted in the Decimation.

Now to address some things. First off, Clint's family. I may yet have Clint assume the Ronin identity, but I'm not decided yet. I put this in so it would make sense if I do.

Second. Most of the people who I pointed out that survived the Decimation will be going to Earth-99 to help stop Thanos in the Endgame sequel. Not everybody will. But a few people I will confirm right now will be going are Slade, Roy, Kara, and Laurel. You'll have to wait till the sequel to find out all the others who'll be going.

Third. As suggested by the Kara scene, the events of the recent season happened, including her leaving the DEO, but Elseworlds has not happened.

And fourth. The cloaked man on Xandar who called Thanos "father" is Thane, who in the comics is a son of Thanos by an Inhuman woman. He has some pretty cool powers, and I thought it would be really cool if he were in the MCU. Kinda disappointed he wasn't since the Black Order was, so I decided to introduce him here. He will play some role in Thanos' defeat. Let me know what actor you think could portray him.

Alright. I'll end here. I'll save any more talk about the story and the future of the MACU for the epilogue.

Wait. We haven't done the end credits scene yet.

(Earth-99, space, three days after the Decimation)

The stars glimmer against the void of space. The terrible Decimation has not dimmed their light.

Just beyond the moon, a hole in space opens. A moment later, a ship soars out of it. Inside the cockpit, Logan looks out at the window, taking his first sight of Earth in years.

"Well, Fury, when I get back, if you're still alive, we're gonna have a talk," Logan mutters, thinking back to what he saw on Xandar a few days ago when he stopped to refuel and get supplies, and saw people turning into dust.

Logan takes a deep breath, then advances the throttles and heads towards Earth at high speed. As he watches Earth slowly get bigger, he says, "But for now, hopefully I can find somebody who knows what the **** is going on."

And there we are. Wolverine has finally returned to Earth. We will see him in the Endgame sequel, and he will play an important part in Thanos' defeat. That's also when you'll find out how he ended up on Sakaar, and also how he knows Fury. He will also have a surprise for our heroes.

Alright. Please, please review and give me your feedback. And stay tuned for the epilogue.