Fireworks... Fireworks everywhere. Peter is trying to concentrate, but she really can't see.

"Yaaaaay!" Someone shouts over what sounds like a loudspeaker. "Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you are ready for this! It's the battle of the millennium! The Mad Titan Thanos versus Earth's mightiest defenders!" An excited female voice says.

"Mr. Stark, what's going on?" Peter groans as the cramps to her abdomen begin to slowly return. There is no response. "Mr. Stark?"

"Get up, young lad." Thor tells Peter. She feels his hand suddenly grip hers, and he lifts her to her feet with uncanny strength.

"Thor? What's going on?" Peter asks.

Thor looks annoyed as he studies their environment. "It seems Thanos has sent us here... Wherever this is."

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you look in the corner of this arena, you will see a very familiar face!" The woman says. Thor and Peter look up to see random drones carrying bright flood lights flying overhead. They clear out of the way for them to see the announcer. "It's one of our very own champions from Sakar, the Thunder God, Thor!" There is cheering from an unseen crowd. A large hologram of the female announcers floats above a small ship hovering above it all.

"Is that who I think that is?" Thor asks. "Oh, I really hate that guy."

"You know Her?" Spider-Man asks.

"Yeah. It's the Grandmaster. He... She runs a gladiator arena on the planet Sakar."

"Maybe when this is all over, "the Grandmaster continues, "we can convince him to tell us where our greatest champion the Hulk is." There is another cheer from the yet unseen crowd. "Now folks, put your hands together for the challenger." The tone of the unseen crowd changes as they start clapping and/or stamping their feet. "He's from regions unknown, but universally famous for his unparalleled durability. I introduce you to Black Dwarf!"

There is a loud boom as the challenger jumps down to the area where Thor and Spider-Man now stand. The creature is nearly eight feet tall, has light armor, four small horns on its head, and wields a massive mace, with a head bigger than Peter's entire body.

"Mr. Thor... What is that thing?" Peter asks. The creature starts approaching quickly.

"Dwarf?" Thor addresses the creature casually, as if they were old friends. "It's good to see you. I thought you were dead." The creature comes rushing forward and tries to bring the mace slamming down on Thor. Both him and Spider-Man jump out of the way just in time. The impact leaves a massive crack across the ground.

"I thought Ronan had killed you?" Thor continues talking as if not interrupted.

"Shut up and fight!" Black Dwarf shouts as he swings his mace toward Thor again.

"That thing can talk?" Peter asks in shock.

*** Elsewhere ***

"So pretty!" Mantis says, enjoying the fireworks. He is not paying attention at all to the announcer when he says who their opponent is.

"Don't just stand there you fool!" Nebula shouts as he grabs ahold of Mantis' jacket and pulls him out of harm's reach. A female cloaked figure lands in the spot Mantis was just standing. She is wearing thick books which seem to crack the ground underneath her. Nebula is about to release Mantis when she spots something glowing from under the hood. He jumps away pulling Mantis in tow.

Lasers shoot from the eyes of their opponent, barely missing their intended targets. Her hood flies back to reveal a very human looking face. She quickly flies toward them and starts trying to punch Mantis. Nebula can only keep pulling him away like a rag doll, to avoid him getting hurt. Mantis is getting very sick, very quickly.

Not being one to be on the defense, Nebula takes a risk and tosses Mantis away and in one swift motion manages to grab his opponent's wrist. With a twist, he is able to bring her down hard, and pin her to the ground. She does not recognize this person. She lifts her head up just enough to speak. "Who are you?" Nebula asks.

The woman turns her gaze toward Nebula and answers with a scowl. "Your replacement!" A sharp pain goes through Nebula's head as the woman tries to psychically invade her mind. When Nebula reaches up to grab his temples the woman creates a bubble of energy that pushes Nebula away.

*** On another Asteroid ***

"Glave!" Drax shouts wildly swinging at her target who is much too fast for her.

Glave is continuously getting close to his target, then jumping away in an attempt to tire out Drax.

"Hey... Hey... Calm down, ma'am." Sam says, feeling unsure of how to calm the raging topless Kylosian. There is a loud smack as Corvus Glaive slaps the side of Drax's right boob with the side of his spear. Sam makes a concerned face for a moment, and sees Glaive pause and grin, watching his handy work.

"Is he enjoying this?" Sam asks himself, worried that he might be dealing with an intergalactic pervert.

*** elsewhere ***

"Keep your eyes peeled, White Wolf" T'Challa tells Bucky. "This one seems to specialize in stealth and speed."

"So, it's like fighting with you?" Bucky asks with a mischievous grin.

"I like to think I am a little more straightforward than that." T'Challa responds.

"Not very panther-like." Bucky teases. They both chuckle.

Their opponent manages to catch a blind spot and leaps in close to take a swipe at Black Panther. Both Bucky and T'Challa jump away simultaneously, but not without one of them getting hit.

T'Challa looks at the small tear in her armor as it starts to heal itself. "That spear of his is no joke." T'Challa says.

Bucky turns to look at the cut, and that is when their opponent tries to make another move aiming for his head. Bucky is expecting it and grabs the person's wrist as he dodges their spear. He pulls the person close and punches as hard as he can, only to stop himself merely an inch away from her face.

Proxima Midnight is confused by the sudden sympathy she is getting from Bucky. She feels his grip weaken and uses the moment to pull away. Bucky has a look of confusion on his face.

"What was that?!" T'Challa asks angrily and in shock.

"I'm sorry." Bucky responds, as their target disappears into the shadows again. "I just wasn't expecting a..."

T'Challa notices the pause. "A what?" she asks.

"I wasn't expecting a g..." Bucky starts to say again.

"Are you telling me you won't hit a girl?!" Black Panther asks in disbelief. "What are you? 12?"

"I can hit a girl!" Bucky responds. "It just caught me off guard, is all." They both start looking around for her again. "What's your excuse?" Bucky asks. "Getting tired already?"

"Something like that..." T'Challa answers, to Bucky's surprise.

"What?" Bucky asks, in disbelief. He turns toward T'Challa and despite wearing a mask, he can tell she is breathing heavily. Bucky realizes he may know the answer before he asks, "Are you okay? What's wrong?"

"No, I'm not okay." T'Challa says as she turns toward Bucky, intentionally creating a blind spot. They both spot the shadow of Proxima midnight as she tries to sneak an attack. As she lunges forward T'Challa dodges the attack and parries with a punch directly to her face.

"I'm having cramps!" T'Challa says, as she hits proxima hard and sends her legitimately flying away.

Proxima hits the ground and rolls away. After reaching a certain distance, she pushes herself up and glares at the two. She realizes she might be outmatched but still chooses to weigh her pride.

"I'm starting to think you've still got this." Bucky says.

*** Not to far away ***

"Those are the biggest boobs I have ever seen!" Scott Lang tells Bruce.

"Yeah! Those are definitely some contenders." Bruce responds.

Cull Obsidian is much larger than she was the last time they fought. The changes in gender seem to have affected her size as well as proportion. Much like Drax, she chooses to remain topless.

"Dr. Banner, what are we going to do against that thing?" Scott asks.

"I don't know, but we've gotta try something." Without hesitation, Bruce begins running at Cull and leaps toward her, pulling back for a punch.

Cull Obsidian catches the Hulkbuster suit in his left hand and holds it in the air.

"What is this thing?" Bruce asks, not recognizing her previous opponent at all. She is currently more concerned with the pain quickly growing in her abdomen. 'I must be too far from Dr. Strange.' She thinks.

Cull looks at the ax in her right hand and chooses not to use it. She tosses it to the side, then lifts up Bruce in the Hulkbuster and slams her into the ground hard.

*** On yet another asteroid ***

"Where is everybody?" Star-Lord asks Dr. Steven Strange.

"It would seem, we've been intentionally separated." Dr. Strange responds.

"In this corner," A strange high pitch male announcer shouts over an intercom. "We have the famous Star-Lord from the Guardians of the Galaxy, and boy is she a looker now! Hubba hubba!"

Dr. Strange turns toward Star-Lord with a confused look.

"She is accompanied by an equally beautiful wizard from Earth." The announcer continues. "I don't know her, but I would definitely love to spend some time with her, if you know what I mean."

Dr. Strange turns toward the announcer and glares angrily. Instead of seeing a humanoid figure like she expected, the announcer looks like a huge biomechanical green slug with a human face on it. She cannot determine the gender as the creature has dark lips and long thick spindly wire-like hair.

"Oh, I think she likes me!" The creature says, happily trying to be offensive.

"Mojo! You slug!" Star-Lord addresses the disturbing alien. "What the hell are you doing here?"

The creature turns toward Star-Lord and smiles. "What does it look like I'm doing?" It asks. "We're having an intergalactic tournament!" The creature throws its long lanky arms with long spindly fingers in the air, and crowdless cheers seem to fill the air."

"You know that thing?" Dr. Strange asks Star-Lord, in a mixture of surprise and disgust.

Star-Lord looks at Dr. Strange and shrugs her shoulders. "Yeah, that's Mojo. Think of him as an interdimensional. TV producer."

Dr. Strange gives Star-Lord a surprised look. "He's got his grubby little fingers into everything media." Star-Lord adds for clarification. "You can even get Earth movies from him, I hear."

Dr. Strange nods her head, impressed to learn something new. Before she can say anything else, Star-Lord pulls out her guns and starts shooting toward Mojo. Her bullets are stopped by what seems like a force field surrounding their asteroid. Mojo just laughs obnoxiously.

"Well, that explains why we can still breathe." Star-Lord says.

"We don't have time for this." Dr. Strange begins to rotate her sling ring, to create a portal off the asteroid. She can only create an opening wide enough to peek through when something comes flying through the air and hits the sling ring, causing it to break. Dr. Strange shakes her hand and takes a peak at it, seeing a small thin cut.

"Oh, where are my manners?" Mojo says. "In the other corner, we have the equally beautiful, equally agile, Ebony Maw!" More fake cheering fills the air.

"Mother Thanos was kind enough to give me another chance at capturing you." Ebony Maw says as she comes strolling out from behind some rocks. Her features are rather different, but it is still clearly her. "I believe we have some unfinished business." She says as she raises her hand and surgical spikes hover just above her fingers.

*** In another area ***

Wanda finds himself alone. He is surrounded by lights, but it's fairly clear he is not really being watched like the others. He looks around for Vision, but he cannot find him.

"I sensed you." A male voice says from behind Wanda.

Wanda turns around to see a very tall, thin, and slender man standing before him. Despite having very male facial features, the figure seemed to have female mannerisms.

"Who are you?" Wanda asks, a little agitated.

"You're the one attached to the stone." The man says. "You're the one with chaos magic."

"I asked who you are." Wanda says, taking on his Russian accent and generating magic from his hands. .

"I am one of Thanos' children." The man says. He takes a few steps to his side to get a better look at Wanda. Wanda is still on guard, but wondering what this creature is planning.

"She wants you, you know. She says you can be great." The figure says and he starts approaching Wanda slowly. "Greater than him." Wanda notices she is suddenly unable to move. The figure seems to have a psychic hold on him. "Greater than me!" The figure reaches out a hand and pain shoots through Wanda's body.

Wanda is trying to concentrate, but does not seem to be able to. It feels like his brain is being scrambled with a hot iron. He clenches his fists then his eyes tightly. Using all his might and concentration, he manages to shoot energy out of his body which sends his opponent flying. The energy flies out and hits the edges of the force field that surrounds the asteroid. The mixture of red and blue creates a beautiful purple effect.

The feminine man gets back to his feet slowly, but now cautiously does not take his eyes off Wanda.

"Are you the one I was warned about?" Wanda asks. "Are you the psychic?"

"It's heard of me." The man says, now talking to himself.

"Yes, I've heard of you." Wanda responds. "I was told you were the most dangerous of Thanos' children."

The man smirks.

"But why come after me alone?" Wanda asks.

"Because, my sister to be." Supergiant responds. "Mother says, you are the most dangerous one as well."

"So that's it then?" Wanda asks confidently. "Thanos fears my power?"

"Thanos fears nothing..." he replies. "And you know nothing of POWER!" Supergiant reaches his hand out again and grabs ahold of Wanda's mind, along with everyone else as well. In an instant everyone who isn't his ally reaches for their temples and screams, groans, and shouts in absolute pain.

"What's happening?" Mojo asks as he watches his warriors stop fighting due to their opponents suddenly becoming disabled. "You're ruining the show!" He looks around pointlessly to find the source.

Elsewhere, the Grandmaster chuckles to herself as she watches Thor and Spider-Man each curl into a fetal position.

*** Not far from Wanda's fight ***

Groot and Vision watch the others confused as they all writhe in pain. Groot kneels near Rocket, and tries to hold her head, but she is flailing wildly.

Vision's body is white and his stone is now a pale blue color. He seems emotionless as he begins to scan everyone. He realizes Valkyrie isn't human quickly, but cannot find any obvious physical issues with Clint, Natasha, or James Rhodes. He looks toward the asteroid that flashed purple just moments before this all happened and begins to levitate toward it. "I'll be right back." he tells them, not expecting an answer.

"I am Groot!" is the only response Vision gets as he fazes through the shield surrounding the asteroid. He is glad it worked.

As soon as Vision gets a good distance away from the others and closer to the other asteroid, his color begins to return. A previously unfelt sense of urgency comes over him, and he speeds up. His stone begins to flicker and the moment he gets close enough, it takes on its yellow hue, and he can feel Wanda in pain. He begins rushing as fast as he can.

*** Back to Wanda ***

Supergiant is towering over Wanda and holding his head up by his still long hair.

"You will submit to Mother, or there will be nothing left but a husk that she can reprogram!" Supergiant tells Wanda.

Wanda is screaming at the top of his lungs. The pain is unbearable to the point that he cannot even move. He starts trying to concentrate his energy again, but the moment even a flicker of magic shows, Supergiant takes hold of his mind again. Wanda begins to scream louder.

"You will join the Black Order, or all that you love will die!" Supergiant says with a diabolical grin.

The idea that Thanos had already once taken everything from him bubbles to the top of his consciousness, and Supergiant reads it like the page of an unguarded diary.

"You know the pain, child!" Supergiant's voice resonates in Wanda's thoughts. "Joining us is the only way to stop it."

Wanda does not even have the mental strength or concentration or protest anymore and feels his sanity is on the verge of breaking.

Hot air hits him in the face unexpectedly and he falls to the ground when Supergiant lets go of his hair. His hands touch gravel and his thoughts slowly return to him. When Wanda looks up he sees Supergiant standing several meters away. He is clutching his chest and covered in burns.

"Are you okay, My Love?" Vision asks as he slowly floats down to Wanda's side.

"Vision?" Wanda calls, with barely enough energy to avoid collapsing again.

"I'm here, My Love." Vision says, wrapping his arms around Wanda and helping him both look toward Supergiant who is now glaring at them angrily.

"No!" Supergiant shouts at Vision. "Why can't I control you!" He raises his hands, and points both of them at Vision. The air around him seems to warp, but whatever he had planned he did not have time to commit.

"No!" Wanda shouts in fear. He rotates his wrists and points both of them toward Supergiant. A large wave of red energy shoots out of his body and overwhelms his opponent.

Supergiant only has time for a brief confused look before being pushed further away He flies into part of the asteroid, passes through stone, then hits the shield. The sound of loud electricity fills the air as Wanda continues holding Supergiant against the shield until he stops screaming. He doesn't keep track of how long he was like that, but when he lets go, he turns to Vision, somewhat mortified at what he had just done.

Vision picks up on Wanda's anxiety, and decides to try and cheer him up. "I do love it when you play rough, My Love."