Chapter 36
The Mad Titan
Doctor Strange sat Upon a rock and watched as a blue portal appeared and out walked Thanos. He was an 8ft tall, pastel purple man, with many wrinkles lining his face. Adorned in black and metallic gold alieniac armor, a large golden gauntlet with 3 colorful stones on the knuckles, sat on his right hand. Thanos looked behind him gazing upon the wreckage of the civilization that once laid here, now nothing but ashes and broken buildings.
"Oh yeah." Doctor Strange said and Thanos looked up upon him, "You're much more of a Thanos."
"I take it Maw is dead, This day extracts a heavy toll. still he completed his mission." Thanos spoke.
"You may regret that. He brought you face to face with the master of the Mystic Arts." Strange said, As Thanos slowly approached him. And all around them the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy readied themselves waiting for the signal.
"And where do you think he brought you?" Thanos asked.
"Let me guess, your home?" Strange responded, At that Thanos, paused and looked around at the dead world.
"It was," Thanos said, as he raised his Gauntlet and the Red stone glowed, And the scenery shifted, the planet itself changed. a reverted back to what it must have looked like before whatever happened wiped out the people. "And it was beautiful. Titan was like most planets, 20 Mouths, not enough to go around. And when we Face Extinction I offered a solution."
"Genocide." Strange said, in a calm manner.
"But random, dispassionate, Fair, Rich and poor alike. They called me a Madman, and what I predicted it came to penance." Thanos said with the world shifting back to its dead itself.
"Congratulations you're a Prophet." Strange said after that.
"I'm a survivor." Thanos reaffirmed.
"Who wants to murder trillions." Strange rebutted.
"With all six stones I could simply Snap My Fingers. And they would all simply cease to exist, And I call that Marcy."
Strange got up and began walking towards Thanos. "Then what?"
"I finally rest," With the way Thanos said that strange could tell that Thanos saw this more as a necessity he was not doing it for himself, "And watch the sun Rise on a grateful universe. The hardest of choices require the strongest of Wills."
With that strange began to conjure some magic and said, " T think you will find our will equal to yours."
"Our?" Listen to that up a draft came swooping out from where he was hiding and kicked Thanos in the back, knocking him down, As Santa speaking to get up again he looked to the sky and saw Tony pushing a massive piece of junk down on him from the sky. Thanos raised his gauntlet, the purple Stone glowing but it wasn't enough to stop it as the piece of wreckage slammed down on top of him.
"Piece of cake Quill." Tony said.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that Tony." Updraft said readying his missiles just in case.
"Yeah if your goal was to piss him off." Quill said as Tony flew right by him, activated his mask and took off beside Tony.
They watched as the piece of debris Tony crushed Thanos with shattered into a million pieces, and instantly updraft fired his missiles, which hit Directly on target, Knocking Thanos off balance before he could do anything. And Tony used this opportunity to fire his Unibeam Knocking Thanos even further off balance. Before Thanos could even react a web seemingly came from nowhere and covered his eye, He tore the web off as soon as he did that Peter came from nowhere and kicked him in the side of the head, then leaped out from behind cover with his two knives sled be the yeah and attempting to cut to the back of his leg.
Doctor Strange came out of a portal and conjured a magical sword and him, Drax and Thanos began to fight, Use managed to land a good punch on Drax, sending him back. Thanos man united to get a hold of Strange's blade and held him there. Quill came running up behind Thanos And shot him in the back distracting Thanos and allowing strange to get some distance. As Quill continued to run at Thanos strange conjure the magical platforms that Quill continued to run on before he jumped over Thanos and placed a bomb on his back. Thanos turned around and confusion as well flipped him off and jumped backwards into a portal that doctor strange had to created.
The bomb exploded and it electrified Thanos, bringing him to his knees. Strange whispered to his cape, "Don't let him close his fist." The cape flew off and wrapped around The Gauntlet preventing Thanos from closing his fist, Thanos try to desperately to rip the cape off but it wouldn't budge as a strange created a portal And and Peter swung out punching Thanos in the face Before disappearing inside another portal, And then another portal opened up Behind Thanos and Peter appeared from that one and swung over his head and kicked his chest before jumping off into another portal,A portal opened up beside Thanos and Peter came through again kicking him in the jaw. But when Peter next left out of a portal Thanos grabbed him and slammed him into the ground. It was then that another, much larger portal opened and updraft came out,Tackling sandals knocking him off Peter, sending Thanos to the ground, Updraft pinned Thanos down and begin punching him over and over again trying to knock him out but the purple Stone on Thanos's gauntlet glowed And he simply swatted Updraft away.
Updraft nearly crashed into strange who barely managed to get out of the way, Thanos tore off Strange's cloak Allowing him to use the stones at maximum. Then multiple Rockets slammed directly into Thanos, as Tony flew back in constantly firing even more missiles completely carpet bombing Thanos. Two stones in Thanos's Gauntlet glowed and absorbed the explosion before he redirected it back at Tony, Knocking Tony away. Before Thanos could continue firing, Peter so long and webbing Thanos is gauntlet distracting him entirely, And updraft landed right beside Peter helping him pull. Then the ship came in from the sky it slammed into Thanos sending him flying back. Thanos did his best to recuperate when some blue female alien came out of nowhere and punched Thanos in the face. The blue alien seemingly created a dagger out of nowhere.
"Well well." Thanos said getting back to his feet.
"Should have killed me." the blue alien said in response.
"Would have been a waste of parts!" Thanos yelled. The blue alien ran forward whacking him on the face with the dagger before attempting to strike again but Thanos blocked it with his gauntlet, Causing her to lose her grip on the blade and dropping it but the blade spun around Thanos just as she did and she caught the blade, Whacking Thanos in the face again.
"Where is Gamora?" The alien shouted but instead of a response Thanos simply backhanded her away. And then Doctor Strange flew in throwing magical lips onto the gauntlet and attempting to pull it away, Drax came in again and attempted to cut the back of thanos's knee meeting no success but knocking him down to his knee, Quill shot some sort of device that attracted thanos's other arm towards the ground as Peter swung in and wrapped Thanos up in his webs, Tony landed on the ground and began to pull at Thanos's Gauntlet trying to remove it. Thanos tried desperately to break free but Doctor Strange opened a portal above his head and Mantis fell through, she began to calm him. Updraft landed behind them and warped His arms around Thanos in order to restrain him.
"Is he under? Don't let up." Tony said it continuing to pull at the gauntlet.
"Be quick he is very strong." Mantis said trying desperately to keep him under control.
"Parker, help." When he asked and Peter immediately jumped over to Tony and began to help him with removing the gauntlet.
Quill flew in and landed in front of Thanos. "Thought you'd be hard to catch, for the record this is my plan." he said looking up at Thanos. "Not so strong now huh." Quill said as he continued rubbing his victory in Thanos's face. "Now Where is Gamora?" He asked.
"My Gamora." Thanos managed to struggle out.
"Oh bullshit where is she?" He asked again.
"He is in anguish." Mantis said.
"Good." Quill Replied staring Thanos in the face.
"He Mourns." Mantis said struggling to keep Thanos calm.
"What does this monster have to mourn?" Drax asked holding onto Thanos's leg.
Quietly the blue alien said something and Quill turned and asked, "what?"
"you took her to Vormir, He came back with the Soul Stone." The blue alien said. And quill quickly realized what Thanos had done.
"Okay Quill you got to cool it right now. you understand?" Tony said, panicking, as Quill slowly turned to face Thanos.
"don't do it, do not be an idiot." Updraft said realizing what Quill was about to do.
"Don't-Don't-Don't engage we almost got this off" Tony shouted in full panic.
"Tell me he's lying, ASSHOLE! Tell me you didn't do it!" Quill Shouted.
"I had to." Thanos struggled out.
"No you didn't." Quill said as he slowly backed away. Updraft immediately let go of Thanos and made a desperate grab for Quill but it was too late. quill so long at Thanos again and again and again, knocking mantis off Thanos's head, before updraft managed to grab him and lift him off the ground.
Thanos snapped back to reality, Head-butted mantis and grab the gauntlet tearing it away from Peter. Mantis tried to get back on thanos's head but he threw her away and Peter immediately rushed to save her. Thanos then Drax into the blue alien. Updraft tossed Quill away and tried to restrain Thanos who in response Activated the purple stone and punched updraft in the Torso slightly denting his new vibranium body and sending him flying back. You did his best but Thanos used the magical whips to throw up strange away and batted Tony away.
Quill, Drax and the blue alien tried to rush Thanos but he used the purple stone again to send out an energy wave hitting all of them and causing them to fall to the ground. Thanos activated the Redstone but before he could do anything Tony flew in and attempted to slash at him. But Thanos managed to catch Tony and head-butted him away.
Thanos looked into the sky at the moon and closed his fist with both the purple and blue stones glowing. After managed to get to his feet and realized what Thanos was doing. "SHIT FIND COVER!" Updraft yelled as he watched the moon in the sky break apart As a Thanos quite literally threw a moon at everyone. Updraft transformed and tried his best to avoid the incoming pieces of the Moon but wasn't able to as one piece hit his wing, didn't break it but caused him to lose control and crash into the ground. Tony did his best but he again was hit by a larger piece and was slammed directly into the ground. Peter did his best to save the Guardians while also dodging the incoming Moon.
The moon slamming into the planet combined with the unusual gravity caused several pieces of the planet to begin floating mid air. Thanos jumped up onto One of these floating pieces in order to try and Survey the situation and on another piece Doctor Strange landed and casted a spell that sent magical electricity From one piece to another and just before the magical electricity could destroy the peace he was standing on San Jose jumped mid-air and attempted to fire A blast from the purple stone in his Gauntlet when updraft came out of seemingly nowhere and slammed into Thanos, Sending him flying back into the ground. With Thanos could recuperate updraft transformed and fired all his missiles he had remaining each one of them slamming into Thanos, Picking up tons of dirt and dust He watched the dust cloud intently until a purple blast came firing out slamming directly into Updraft and sending him flying back. Strange used this momentary distraction to create some sort of translucent wall and sent it directly at Thanos, who managed to collect himself in time, in order to activate the purple stone and he punched the barrier shattering it into a million pieces.
And on his Gauntlet the blue stone glowed as the pieces condensed and turned into a a miniature black hole and he sent it directly at Strange.
Strange conjured a massive barrier just before the black hole slammed into him, and the barrier turned the black hole into a million tiny light blue creatures, However before that happened Strange's sling-ring was sucked into the black hole being lost forever. Creatures the immediately turned around and went towards Thanos Himself for anything and the little blue butterflies just flew past him, they were calming, Peaceful, Enough to make Thanos momentarily forget about the Battle. Strange began to float into the sky and multiple arms sprouted from his body. Countless clones of strange spread out through the air, Surrounding Thanos and tossed magical Ropes on to his arms, in an attempt to restrain him. Response Thanos activated the orange and purple stone at the same time, destroying all of Strange's clones and revealing Strange himself. Then Thanos activated both the red and the blue stone and pulled Strange to him.
Thanos grabbed strange by the neck and said, "You're full of Tricks wizard." as he grabbed the eye of agamoto And ripped it off Strange's body. "You never once used your greatest weapon." Thanos said as he crushed the eye of agamoto, Revealing that there was in fact no stone inside, "A fake."
Thanos threw Strange away.Before he could do anything something flew on to his Gauntlet preventing Thanos from closing it. And in front of him Tony landed. "you throw another moon at me and I'm going to lose it." Tony said.
"Stark." Thanos said completely catching Tony off guard.
"You know me?" Tony asked completely bewildered.
"I do." Thanos said coldly, "you are not the only one cursed with knowledge."
"My only curse is you." Tony quipped back before he created several small missiles on his back and fired them out, Thanos raised his gauntlet to try and block the missiles The missiles impacted him and did not leave any effect on him but kicked up a lot of dust, and just as that dust cleared he saw Tony, who had turned his legs into a single massive hammer and kicked him in the chest staggering him. Tony did a flip off Thanos his body and landed on the ground with his Nano machines planting him there Firmly. Thanos attempted to retaliate but Tony turned his arms into giant hammers and fired them into his chest knocking him back, Into some nearby Rubble. Thanos grabbed Tony's helmet and tore it off but it quickly reformed when Thanos went for a follow-up strike.
As Tony got back up to his feet he saw Thanos tear away his Nano machines that were preventing him from closing his fist. House activated the purple stone and fired a massive beam of energy at Tony who created a shield with his Nano machines And he managed to block the blast although it sent him a couple meters back. he could feel the energy blast tearing away at his Nano machines so he rolled it to the side dodging the blast in its entirety. Blue straight at Thanos and kicked his Gauntlet to the ground pinning it there As Tony spun around and created a giant hammer around his arm punching Thanos in the face.
After that Thanos put his fingers to his cheek and winced in pain, he looked down at his fingers and saw blood In all his years of warmongering and slaughtering he could not for the life of him remember the last time someone made him bleed. "All that for a drop of blood." Thanos said as he tore his Gauntlet upward sending Tony careening into the air. once Tony landed on his back Thanos went for a follow-up punch and Tony desperately raised his arms in an attempt to defend himself, Nothing as Thanos punched him over and over again continuously destroying millions of nanites in the process. Thanos grabbed him by the head and activated the purple stone punching Tony so hard that he went flying back, destroying most of his nanites in the process.
Tony struggled to his feet and redirected most of his nanites to his arms to reform repulsors and he began to fire them at Thanos who leisurely walked towards him blocking the blasts with his gauntlet. Once Thanos got close enough And he backhanded Tony with the gauntlet smashing off what remained of his helmet, Thanos attempted to backhand him again but Tony managed to raise his arms and block the strike, He redirected to all his nanites to one of his arms to create a blade and he attempted to stab a Thanos, But Thanos leisurely grabbed the blade snapped it off and stabbed it directly into Tony's gut.
Tony stumbled back looking up in horror at Thanos, who continue to walk forward making sure the blade went deeper into Stark. Tony fell to his knees as he could feel the only thing stopping him from dying was the blade in his gut.
However before anything could happen "NOOOO!" Updraft yelled as he flew into Thanos tackling him but continued flying, Updraft turned his arm into a gun and shot Thanos in the gut several times, However Thanos was now too powerful for him alone, he was still a rookie at this, and even worse he wasn't even a full cybertronian Which made it much easier for Thanos to plunge his Gauntlet into updrafts back and when he tore his Gauntlet out updrafts thrusters that stopped working and he began to bleed Energon at an alarming rate.
Updraft rolled onto his back hoping that the ground would at least somewhat slow the bleeding. And he stared up at Thanos's gauntlet, with All of the stones activated and ready to fire an energy blast that would kill him.
Before Thanos could kill him Strange spoke up, "Stop." And everyone looked over to Strange. "Spare his life and I will give you the stone." Strange bargained.
"No." Updraft managed to say, "Don't." He said as he coughed up Energon.
"No tricks." Thanos said still ready To execute Updraft. And Strange shook his head.
"Don't." Tony managed to say still holding on to the blade that was inside him.
Strange raised his hand to a distant star and plucked it out and it became the time Stone. Thanos held out his hand and the time Stone floated over to him both Tony and updraft watched in horror as Thanos placed the green stone in the gauntlet. "One to go." And that's when a blast hit Thanos in the shoulder off in the distance they saw that the Guardians were awake and were rushing at Thanos in a desperate attempt to stop him, but it did nothing Thanos opened a portal behind him and he backed into it with it closing before Quill could stop him.
Quill Rolled on the ground before he popped up with his weapon ready, "Where is he?" Quill shouted. Then he saw Tony with no armor and nursing his stab wound, and he realized what had happened, "Did we just lose." He asked in complete horror.
"Not yet we haven't." The Updraft said, slowly getting to his feet with a rock precariously wedged into the hole in his back to try and stop the bleeding. "Tony do you remember when you and Ratchet upgraded the ground Bridge?"
"What about it?" Tony said with ragged breathing from the stab wound.
"Have enough range to get here?" Updraft asked.
"Yes before overloading in 30 seconds and exploding, plus we have no way to contact Earth." Tony pointed out.
"That's all the time we need and I have a couple of ideas to contact Earth." Updraft said as he looked at the Guardians ship.
