Thor leaned over Loki and pulled him up onto his feet. Unable to walk, Loki leaned into his brother's side as Thor took his right arm over his shoulder and pulled him along. Complete and utter chaos surrounded them. Everyone was in total shock that they just witnessed people turn to dust in every direction. Not even their bodies remained, they had disintegrated into the ground, transformed into dirt, and flew away into the wind.

As Thor and Loki passed them by on the way to the palace, everyone turned to glare at them. Things didn't look much better inside.

"She's not answering the phone," Clint said hastily, talking about his wife. He desperately tried calling her again.

"Try to stay calm," Natasha said, holding his hand and having trouble keeping herself calm, "I know this is insane, but the phone lines are tied up because everyone is freaking out. She could be at home right now, desperate to hear your voice."

"What happened?" Sam asked to Steve and Bucky, "Did people really just turn to ashes right in front of our eyes?"

"We didn't stop him," Steve said angrily, "he won."

When Thor and Loki entered the room, all eyes were on them.

Dr. Strange sat off to the side, cradling his amputated burnt hands. He glared up at Loki. "You went inside my head," he said, huffing from the pain, "you made me think Christine was dying!"

Thor asked, "What are you talking about?" Oblivious.

Steve explained angrily, "Loki used the infinity stones and went inside all our heads. He made fools out of all of us and gave the stones away to Thanos! He's the reason we lost!"

"Nuh-uh," Shuri said, running up to Loki angrily, "no! I don't want you inside the palace! Not after learning my brother is dead because of you!" She choked up on her tears.

"Loki," Thor asked, "what did you do?"

Tony shouted, "He's the reason everyone just vanished, Thor!"

"It was Thanos," Loki insisted, "every part of every action I just made against your little rag tag group of heros was him, not me! He turned my soul inside out and forced me to relive every bad experience. Then I found myself here, suddenly opposing the same heros I opposed a few years ago. I only broke out of Thanos' terrible trance when he nearly amputated my legs to get the tesseract."

Sam didn't hesitate. "Convient excuses coming from a psychopath. You tried to murder everyone years ago, and as soon as you got your chance to do it again, you did."

Tony said, "We should kill him." He readied his cannons. Natasha brought out her guns. Bucky put another magazine in his gun. Dr. Strange stared him down, cradling his severed hands in his arms. Even Steve wanted revenge. Wanda's eyes turned red. Everyone was ready to end his life.

"Now wait, he just helped me kill Thanos," Thor said, backing up hesitantly, "if it weren't for Thanos' daughter, we would have achieved victory with Loki's help!"

No one stopped to listen. They all leveled their weapons at him but before they could fire, Loki shouted, "I know where he is!" He put his hands up in defense, "I know where Thanos went."

Tony shook his head and scoffed, "And why should we believe you now after everything you've done to us, asshole?"

"How do we know you're not lying?" Dr. Strange demanded, struggling to keep his breath even through the pain.

Loki asked, "You honestly believe I wish for him to live after everything he just subjected me to? He nearly cut off my legs, broke every bone in my left hand, and wrist! I killed him! He was dead! Then it was undone in and instant and he won. He should be killed for what he has subjected every one of us to and murdering half of all life." He stared them all down.

Tony said, "Fine then, just tell us where he is, and I'll make sure it only hurts a little when I kill you." He leveled his cannon again.

Loki looked around at everyone waiting for him to speak and said, "You'll never make it to him without me. You should turn all your anger at Thanos, rather than at myself. He's the reason you're all in anguish and now suffer grief."

"You killed Vision!" Wanda shouted.

"Actually," he replied calmly, "Vision was never truly alive, therefore I couldn't kill him."

Thor pulled him away from her as she screamed incoherently at him. "Loki," he said, "tell everyone where Thanos is now. We all wish for vengence against him."

"Alright," he said, "Thanos now resides at 'the garden.'" He watched everyone's expressions turn blank.

"Thor, do you know where that is and what he's talking about?" Tony asked.

"Never heard of it."

Steve asked, "What are the coordinates?"

If Loki wasn't in so much pain in that moment, he would have laughed out loud at that. "Coordinates," he spat, "it's space! There is no precise location. If you get lost out there the chances of you being found is slim, and being found alive is even slimmer. Go there without a proper guide and you'll likely die before you ever see his ugly face again."

Thor said, "He's not wrong. Space travel offers many dangers, especially to those unexperienced in it."

Steve said as gently as he could muster, "Thor, even if we really wanted to trust Loki, your brother is in no condition to lead an expedition."

"I'll heal," Loki said.

"Not on my healing table you won't!" Shuri proclaimed.

Loki smirked at her, "As if your pathetic mortal 'science' could ever heal a God."

Thor set him on a table in front of everyone anyway. Loki revealed the back of his legs nearly cut clean through, causing Thor to faint.

Dr. Strange asked, "How did that not kill you?"

"Magic," he answered. He conjured a large needle, and then with his saliva made a magic thread leading from his mouth. He pushed it through his wrist and sewed his muscles and bones back together through his skin. Once he was done, he flexed his left hand and moved on to the back of his legs. The injuries he sustained were so severe his healing wasn't instantaneous, taking a good half an hour to sew himself back together again, but he was done relatively quickly compared to the slow speed Shuri and other Wakandans could get to everyone else. He even created new clothing for himself, more black and green.

For Dr. Strange on the other hand, the shock was wearing off fast. His pain only grew. Once Loki was healed, he stood up and said, "Come in close."

Through gritted teeth, Dr. Strange asked, "And what do you think you're doing? Nothing can fix this."

"Pretend you're flexing your hands," Loki said, showing him his own open hand.

Although he didn't want to trust him, Dr. Strange did as he said, not exactly having much choice in the matter. Loki took his severed right hand first, and reversed the burn scars on it. As he did so, Loki's skin turned blue momentarily. Dr. Strange didn't notice, he instead noticed how quickly Loki reattached his right hand, and then moved over to the left. The pain disappeared. Even the old nerve damage, scars, and constant shaking he had before completely vanished.

"The pain..." he whispered in awe, "it's gone."

"That's not Mother's magic," Thor said, looking his brother over, curious.

Loki said, "Did you know in all nine realms, outside of Jotunheim itself of course, there are only three books on Jotun magic?" He held up three fingers. "They unsurprisingly have many burn healing spells."

Dr. Strange got back to his feet and said, "Take me to Thanos! I'll make sure he stays dead this time."

"Yes," Tony demanded, "bring us all to Thanos. And this better not be a trick."

"The only spaceship I see you people have is that little ugly orange one sitting out there and you're not all fitting inside of it so I suggest you start making difficult choices," Loki explained.

"He's right," Steve said, "most of us are going to have to stay behind and tell the world what just happened." He hung his head.

Dr. Strange said, "I'll make sure we get the stones and undo what he's done. I don't care who stays behind, I'm getting that son of bitch."

"I want to go too-" Tony said, starting to stand up and struggling through his own pain, "dammit, just give me a minute."

"Tony," Steve said, walking up to him to hold him back gently, "you're in no condintion."

"I can't leave something this important in his hands," he said, pointing at Loki.

With her eyes still glowing red, Wanda stepped forward and said, "Then I'll go. I have to make sure Loki here doesn't fail so miserably again."

"Listen here you mueling quim," Loki spat at her, "your powers hold your intellegence hostage. One wrong move and your power will overcome you, sucking you into an endless stream of peril of your own design. Watch yourself before you claim you can watch me."

Dr. Strange walked between them and pushed them away from each other. "Enough! This isn't the time to fight."

"Fear not," Thor said, stepping forward, "I'll go alongside the three of you and make sure Thanos dies properly this time." He brought his axe to his hands.

Loki turned around and said, "So it's decided then. I know where we're going therefore I get to fly us there!" He took out one of his knives and launched it through the window behind them. It shattered into a million pieces.

Shuri shouted, "That was bullet proof glass!"

Loki ran through the now broken window and gracefully did a flip onto the ground and booked it to the ship. Thor ran after him and replied to Shuri, "But it's not Loki proof!"

"We'll be back as fast as we can," Dr. Strange said, donning his cloak and flying behind the two of them, and Wanda right behind her.

The four of them ran into the Milano, Loki taking charge at the pilot's chair. Thor asked, "Do you even know how to fly this thing?"

"No but I can make it show me it's secrets," he said. When he touched the dashboard and controls, he used his magic to have the machine tell him everything about it. From there he pushed all the buttons and levers he needed and soon they took flight.

Thor asked, "Are you sure you know how to get there from here?"

"We'll go through the closest jump point all the way to the asteroid fields of Spredte Steiner. After that we'll get to Liten Åpning wormhole. On the otherside of that after a few more jump points is 'the garden.' We should be there in a bit more than an hour and a half," Loki answered.

Wanda said, "You make it sound easy enough."

"Loki, a ship this size isn't going to fit in the Liten Åpning wormhole," Thor warned, "it's much too large."

"Good thing we have magic for that little problem," he said, "hope no one is claustrophobic."

He piloted the ship to the nearest jump point and landed halfway across the galaxy. Even through her rage, Wanda couldn't help but stare out the windows and was amazed by the impressive sights of space. She whispered, "It's beautiful."

Dr. Strange ignored the sights and asked, "So, Loki, how did you get through the Wakandan barrier?"

Loki replied, smirking, "With magic."

"No shit," he said, quickly, "I mean what type of magic did you use? I've read every magical manuscript on the topic of breaching magical and non-magical barriers at this point, and none have ever mentioned disappearing and then reappearing on the otherside in such a fashion. How did you do it?"

Loki explained, "No barrier is air-tight. If it were, it'd be rendered moot, due to the fact that whoever you're attempting to protect inside would suffocate to death."

Dr. Strange said, "So you turned into the air itself?" He leaned back. "Impressive, but seems hazardous."

"As long as you keep breathing and feel for your lungs the entire time, your body comes back together on the otherside mostly on it's own accord," he replied, "it doesn't enjoy being separated into atoms."

Dr. Strange replied, "Still sounds dangerous."

"The best magic always is," Loki replied.

"Brother," Thor interjected, "tell me how you met Thanos, and what all he has done to you over the years."

"When you rid me off the rainbow bridge," he explained slowly, "I fell through the void of space, and struggled to remain conscious. Later, I figured out I floated among the darkness for over a month, but at the time it felt like an eternity. A massive rock eventually came into view, and I disguised myself as part of it once I saw movement. It was Thanos and his children. It didn't take long for me to see Gamora, a surviving Zen-Whoberian, was his favorite daughter."

Thor stopped him, "Tell me you didn't."

Dr. Strange asked, not following where this was going, "Didn't what?"

"Transform myself into a male Zen-Whoberian to seduce her and gain her and her father's favor," Loki said, "yes, in fact, I did. You know me too well, brother."

"I take it Thanos eventually discovered your lies," Thor said.

"Eventually," Loki confessed, "it went well for a while, but Thanos collected the mind stone and presented it to me in my fake form. As soon as I touched it, the illusion was broken-something I had no idea could happen. Thanos used the mind stone against me to learn all he could of who I was and how I ended up on his rock. He then banished me to the fire dimension for breaking his daughter's heart."

Dr. Strange gasped in horror. "The fire dimension?!"

"The fire dimension is certain death," Thor said, "How did you get out of there alive?"

Loki continued, "Just before he sent me there, I severed my own finger, transformed it into the rocks to leave it behind, and then, as I was portaled away, I turned myself to stone so I couldn't burn in the dimension's hell fires. It took months and all the concentration inside all the magic I could muster through the searing pain of heat to regenerate myself out of there."

Wanda asked, "What's the fire dimension?"

"A place where all heat and fire comes from," Dr. Strange explained, "if you go there it's instant death, like trying to walk on the surface of the sun. You lived through that?"

"Anything to survive," Loki explained, "once I made it out of there, I presented myself to Thanos once again and he was impressed. He figured after that I couldn't be killed, so I bargained to go on a mission to Midgard to retrieve the tesseract for him. In exchange, he was going to let me rule the planet, and would leave it alone for the most part."

Dr. Strange said, "Still psychotic."

Thor asked, "What happened after he captured you on the ship? What did he do to you then?"

"He trapped me within a power stone prison," he said, "it's power attempts to rip you apart to the nerve level every time you move. He then used the soul stone to remind me of every moment you were terrible to me, Thor, among other dreadful things. All to fuel my rage so I could attack the avengers and get him the stones."

"What moments are you referring to?" Thor asked, "What did you remember?"

"When you threw your hammer at my head."

Thor said quickly, "That was an accident! And it happened over 400 years ago. I've apologized for bashing your head in many times over the centuries."

"Father did nothing to you," he said, still hurt, "I could have died and he had no care."

Thor insisted, "He cared! He threatened to take Mjolnir away if I ever did anything like that again, so I changed my behavior for the better! That's a good thing!"

Loki continued, "And when you pushed me down krigertrappen."

"I did not push you!" Thor insisted, scoffing, "You threw yourself down those stairs and then told Mother I pushed you, getting me grounded for six months! Don't anger me with this tall tale of yours again."

Loki scoffed, offended at the acusation, "Tall tale?"

Dr. Strange held his head in disbelief and muttered to himself, "I can't believe I have to sit here and listen to two people who consider themselves Gods whine about falling down some stairs."

"Krigertrappen is no ordinary set of steps," Loki explained hastily, "carved for the training of elite Asgardian warriors, they were made to be 10,000 steps to get to the top of Himmel Berg, guarded by an anti-magic barrier so you must use your true strength to make it up and down them on your own."

Thor continued, "Every 5 years we have the most boring tradition of climbing all 10,000 stone stairs to become one with the mountain mist or some other nonsense for three days at the very top. On this particular occasion, I happened to plan a date with Sif on the first day, completely forgetting about the ceremony altogether. It took forever to finally wear our mother down to the point of saying yes, I could leave just for my date and come right back. As I attempted to leave, Loki blocked the steps. He begged me to stay."

"A God never begs," Loki interrupted.

"I tapped his shoulder to get him to move out of my way," he said, "then he turned and fell down the steps."

"I did not purposefully fall down those God-forsaken stairs," Loki insisted, "when you pushed me, I tripped, and my momentum carried me nearly a third of the way down that damn mountain."

Wanda asked, half amused at imaging the situation, "You couldn't catch yourself sooner than that?"

"The anti-magic field is cast around the mountain to enhance the suffering," he answered, "and gravity naturally has a way of pulling everything down."

"Well we both suffered those three days and I was grounded for six months afterwards," Thor said, "no dates allowed with Sif the entire time."

"I believe I suffered more after being injured from falling down 3,000 steps," Loki replied.

"Oh spare me," he said, "You were fine. Mother coddled you the entire ceremony."

"Because I was bleeding and nursing broken bones," Loki added.

Dr. Strange interjected, "I've heard enough out of both of you. I don't care about any of this." He paused. "How long do your people live, and how old are both of you?"

Thor answered, "We live around 5,000 years. We're both just over 1,000."

"A fifth of your lifespan," Dr. Strange calculated quickly, "and a fifth of a human lifespan is about 17, 18, maybe a bit young or older depending on how long we live. No wonder you both act like teenagers."

Loki skillfully navigated through the asteroid belt, then shrunk the ship down to size in order to fit through the Liten Åpning wormhole, squeezing them all together for nearly an hour. Eventually he brought them through the different jump points all the way to 'the garden.' It looked so innocent. If they didn't know any better, it seemed too perfect to harbor a genocidal maniac.

"Don't be rash," Dr. Strange warned, "we need a proper stradegy if we want to win this. I know we all want him to die, but we have to focus on separating him from the stones first or we'll never stand a chance. We have the advantage. He must know some of us survived, but he doesn't know who. We can sneak up on him, cut off his arm, get the stones, kill him, and do our own snap undoing everything he has done."

"I'll do the snap," Thor volunteered.

Loki asked, "And what of the stones afterwards?"

"We're not handing them over to you if that's what you're asking," Dr. Strange said hastily, "and if you do anything foolish down there to prove your alliance to Thanos again, you're not making it off that planet."

"I can't even keep the space stone for myself?" he joked.

"No!" Thor shouted, unamused.

Wanda ignored their antics and said, "We should go down there quickly and sneak up on him."

"Wait," Dr. Strange said, putting his hand up, "we need to scout out the area first. This could be a trap, or Loki could be mistaken...or he could have lied to us."

"I'll create an illusion and go," Loki suggested, creating one right there in front of all of them with ease.

"Not alone you won't," Dr. Strange said, astral projecting out of his body.

They both made their way down to the surface of the planet. The only real signs of life outside of the natural trees and animals was a farm at the center of it all. The sun was setting, giving everyone a soft warm glow. It sickened them to know a murderer was attempting to live so peacefully.

"You still don't trust me," Loki said, walking toward's the farm in the middle of nowhere, "I don't entirely blame you, however I thought perhaps after I delivered you across the cosmos directly to Thanos' front door you might give a little."

"I want to see the stones for myself," Dr. Strange replied, "shouldn't you be quiet? He'll hear you."

Loki explained, "In this form of illusion I created, only those I wish to see and hear me can do so. Perhaps mortal magic isn't up to par." He walked straight through the wall with ease and showed up in the middle of Thanos' living room.

It appeared boring enough. Some random furniture, some items strewn about, clothing here and there. Nothing odd, outside of the fact that Thanos was making himself food in the kitchen area. It was almost all too normal.

Loki gestured to the area they were now standing here. "See," he said, "he's here. No tricks. You're welcome."

"Loki," Dr. Strange whispered, pointing at a shelf on the wall.

He looked through Dr. Strange's transluscent astral projection and saw the golden gauntlet. Only, it wasn't right. The infinity stones were missing.

Loki asked, panicked, "Where are the stones!?"

Dr. Strange shrugged. They both looked around the home at a quick glance, Dr. Strange making sure to stay out of Thanos' eyeline as he moved around his own kitchen. He must have done something to them, but what? And where?

They both immediately went back to the ship.

"The stones are not in the gauntlet!" Dr. Strange said half panicked to Thor and Wanda, "We need a new strategy but remember, our advantage is he doesn't know we're here."

Thor demanded, "If they're not in the gauntlet then where are they?!" He made stormbreaker fly into his hand.

"We'll figure that out later," Dr. Strange said, "right now we need to-"

Not waiting, Thor forceably landed the ship right outside Thanos' home hard, throwing everyone around inside. He then ripped the door open and in a blast of lightning, completely disintegrating Thanos' home in one fell swoop. Wanda was right behind him, using her telekinesis to throw the rubble in every direction, revealing Thanos, sitting comfortably at a table.

"I thought you were the flamboyant one in the family," Dr. Strange remarked, turning to Loki.

"You have no idea," he replied, running off the ship with him.

Thor made it over to Thanos first. "Where have you hidden the stones?!" he shouted, "I have no time for any games, Thanos! Tell us where they are!"

"Whatever you answer," Wanda warned, her eyes turning red the madder she got, "it better not be a lie."

As Loki walked up from behind them, Thanos turned to him calmly. "Loki," he said, "you survived. And here I was sure the universe killed you off, given you've fulfilled your purpose."

Loki conjured two knives and said, "Fate clearly disagrees."

"Fate," he laughed, "or destiny, whichever it may be. Those must be funny words to you. One who was rejected at birth and left to die alone. Only to be rescued by a foreign king merely looking to use you as a political pawn in a possible future. When you learned of that truth, you decided to escape such a destiny. Then fate brought you to me, and I burdened you with my glorious purpose. Even after you failed me, I gave you a second chance. In return, you have given me victory." Loki glared at him but didn't say a word in return.

Dr. Strange interjected harshly, "This is not your victory, Thanos. What have you done to the infinity stones?"

Thanos confessed, "The first thing I did was try to use the stones to destroy the stones, to atomize them out of a proper existence, so no one could undo what I have done. But the stones told me if I were to do that, all of reality would fall apart, and my wish would have been all for not. Instead, I sent them hurtling across the universe, all in different directions."

"You did what!?" Thor asked, horrified, "They now fly among the stars?" He looked up at the sky in vain.

"No," Dr. Strange whispered in horror, "no...tell me you're lying!"

A slow and painful realization came over Thor, Loki, and Dr. Strange all at once. The previously cloudless sky began clouding up. Yet the realization passed over Wanda entirely.

She said, "Then we'll find them again and still undo everything!" She turned to Dr. Strange, "We can just go up there and search for them throughout space. They can't be far, right?" He hesitated when no one reacted positively to what she was saying. "Right?"

Thor said sadly, "They're gone, Wanda." Thunder rolled across the sky directly towards them.

"But we can travel through space," she insisted painfully, "we can get them back!"

Dr. Strange explained patiently, "Wanda, the entire universe is quite literally infinite, and not only is it infinite, it's also ever expanding. If Thor and Loki here spent every waking moment of every single day for the rest of their 5,000 year lives searching the entire universe for the stones, they likely wouldn't even find one, let alone all six."

Wanda's face fell in horror. "But that means..." she said, her voice full of pain, "no...it can't be over. He managed to find the stones to use for himself. We can't give up!"

Lightning suddenly struck Thor from above, and the skies erupted with thunder and burst with terrential rain out of nowhere.

As they got soaked, Loki slowly sank to his knees, and then fell all the way back to sit on the ground. "We came all this way for nothing," he whispered to himself in horror.

"You have no idea what you've unleashed, Thanos," Dr. Strange said, walking up to him through the debris, "this cataclysmic event you started is unscaled hitherto undreamt of and nothing will stop it now. Without the time stone to thwart Dormammu, if he ever tries to come out of the dark dimension again, we're all fucked!" He kicked a broken piece of beam and it barely moved. He grunted and turned around, unable to look at any of them in his rage.

Thanos looked up to the sky and said calmly, "The ground needed this rain."

"No!" Wanda shouted, her powers beginning to explode out of her body, "This can't be over! We have to find them!"

As her power exploded out of her body to search for the stones across the planet, Dr. Strange quickly turned and created a shield for himself, only to be pushed back into Thor. Thor grabbed him and held him in place as red energy burst out of Wanda and covered the entire planet in a manner of moments. Wanda took a few deep breaths and fell to the ground, defeated. Her power instantly dissipated.

"They're not here," she said, her voice wavering in pain, "I searched the entire planet. The stones aren't here." She collected herself, stood back up slowly, and said, "You deserve death, Thanos."

Thor readied his axe. Loki prepared his knives. Wanda began lifting the ruins of Thanos' home to aim directly at him.

"Wait!" Dr. Strange said, putting his hand in the air to stop them, "Stop, all of you! He should live to see out the consequences of his actions thus far."

"He lives alone on this isolated planet on the far side of the galaxy," Loki said, "what consequences? He won't have to deal with the wars or the fear he just unleashed on the entire universe."

"Loki is correct," Thor said coldly, "We end him here and now."

"We found him here," Dr. Strange said, "Others bent on revenge will too. He should have to live to fight them all off. Then he'll see what it's like to be the hunted."

As the rain continued, they all released their weapons and powers. Thor said, "Strange, go ahead and make a portal back to Earth."

"I can't," he paused, "I mean, of course I can, physically. I mean mentally." He took a deep breath before he confessed, "I don't know how to tell the world that things will never be the same again."

"We probably should have mentioned this before," Thor explained, but wormholes only work one direction, so we must take the long way home. It will take close to 5 hours."

"Plenty of time," he replied sadly. He turned and used his magic to grab the gauntlet before leaving, "You don't get to keep a trophy for what you've done." With that, Dr. Strange turned and began walking back to the ship. Wanda hesitated before staggering along behind him.

"Loki," Thor said, patting him on the shoulder as he continued to sit in the pouring rain, "we must take leave." He continued to sit still, completely catatonic. "Rise." Thor turned to see Thanos smiling in contentment. It made him sick. "Brother, you get to pilot the spaceship back to Midgard."

Having had enough, Thor finally bent down and forced Loki upright onto his feet. He then proceeded to carry him once again with one arm over his shoulder and dragged him along.

"You can take us back, brother," Loki said pitifully, finally moving under his own power.

"You wish for me to take us home?" he asked.

Loki could only nod. He didn't have it in him to pilot the ship all the way through the different jump points. Once on board the ship, he used his magic to dry himself and Thor off. Following his lead, Dr. Strange and Wanda did the same to themselves.

Dr. Strange turned to the opening of the ship and said, "May all those who wish to find Thanos, show them the way." With that a spell was cast onto Thanos without his knowledge.

"What was that?" Wanda asked.

"Anyone who wants to figure out what happened and seek vengence on Thanos will be able to find him now," he answered, "no matter who or where they are."

Together, they took to the skies in the ship, and left the planet to get to the nearest jump point. The silence was deafening. No one knew what to say. The magnitude of their failures was only mounting.

"What Thanos spoke of about you, Loki," Thor said, "it was all lies."

Loki corrected hastily, "Every syllable he uttered wasn't merely the truth, Thor, it was fact. I was destined to die alone after my own people cast me out as a newborn. I was raised to be used as our Father's leverage against the Jotun. Once I discovered his true purpose for me, I left, only to be used by Thanos in an attempt to wipe out humanity. After I assumed I had escaped Thanos' grasp once and for all, he found me. He proceeded to use me to help him half all existing life. My glorious purpose was to be used by others, as he said. This mission I brought us on was my last chance to be something more than a pawn in others' games, but I failed again."

Dr. Strange said, "You didn't fail, Loki, you brought us to Thanos in a timely manner. We got the gauntlet. Eventually droves of pissed off people across the universe will find him and mess him up for what he's done. We might not have accomplished what we came for but this wasn't all for not."

"There has to be something we can do," Wanda said desperately, "anything." Tears came to her eyes. "Maybe the Wakandans can rebuild Vision without the mind stone." She sniffled.

Dr. Strange looked out into the void of space and confessed, "I don't know what we're going to do now."