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The sky was split between a class of red and purple, Wanda's hands were glowing dark crimson as she tried to push Thanos back, trying to give Shuri as much time as she could. Shuri let out a cry of success as she managed to finished and the Mind Stone was blasted out of Vision's body and his body discolored to a plain white.

Wanda's focus wavered for the briefest of seconds but that was all that Thanos needed, as the purple power stone in his gauntlet flared up, glowing brighter than before as Wanda was sent flying backwards.

The red stone in the gauntlet glowed and the yellow mind stone fell back down to Earth like a comet and Thanos held out his hand, ready to catch it. But it was shot out of the air, away from his grasp by a blue bolt of energy, flying off into the unknown of the cavern below.

Thanos turned and glared at the small African girl who still had her hand up, a black glove made of some Earthly technology being the source of the bolt of energy.

"I admire your courage child, but you're in over your head. I wield 5 of the infinity stones, I am the most powerful being in the universe" tsk'd Thanos

"Then why does your chin look like a ball sack" quipped Shuri

Thanos chuckled, his shoulders rocking and he shook his head, "Cute"

He turned his back on Shuri and rotated his gauntlet covered hand, the green glow of the time stone was seen and Shuri gulped as a yellow dot rose up out of the darkness and right in front of Thanos' body.

"I have all the time in the world child, reality is whatever i want it to be. You can't see it, but I've already won" said Thanos as he closed his hand around the mind stone and his body glowed in a rainbow of colors.

The gauntlet sucked in the yellow stone and Thanos let out a scream as he felt his body start to heat up, there was a bubbling pressure inside of his body and it was begging to be let out.

His mind trembled and he could taste the coppery blood that was filling his mouth, but then it all stopped and he was outside of his body looking at his stilled form and the stilled world around his frozen body.

"You've done it" said an icy female voice

Thanos turned around and he didn't know whether to smile or grimace in disgust. He was about to wipe out half of the universe, but he hadn't expected her to be here.

She was pale, her skin as white as fresh snow. Her face was perfect, whatever you thought perfection was, this was it. Her body was cloaked in a black cloak that sucked in the light from around her body.

"Yes, I've done it. I'm about to complete the mission that we set out on together, all those years ago" whispered Thanos.

"And I could not nor would not be prouder of you" said Death in a soft tone, "You've embraced the killer inside and lain waste to planet after planet"

Thanos didn't say anything and Death continued on.

"You were nothing more than a love sick puppy, trying any and everything to get me to even glance at you" taunted Death, "Your entire life was spent chasing my attention, craving my affection"

Thanos grit his teeth

"But you've become nothing more than a monster" continued Death, "From killing those cave dwellers on your home world to a the galaxy killer"

"You made me do it" roared Thanos, "You've been whispering in my ear since I was a boy"

Death smirked "And you fell for it, you don't matter"

Thanos snarled, "Enough of this, I have my destiny to attend to"

Death's form faded from view and Thanos was back of his body and this time he was not overwhelmed by the pain, his body was rather numb. He snapped his fingers inside the gauntlet.

There was silence before Thanos was everywhere, his mind stretched beyond its limits as he felt every being in the universe before one by one, half of them slowly dissolved from his mind and existence.

Thanos had always said that he would be fair in this moment, that he would not be bias in this moment, holding past actions against anyone. But in the moment, he found that he could feel the massive power on the other side of the universe. A being this powerful would be able to undo all of his work. It was weird, the large source of energy was inside of a being that had another third being inside of his arm.

Growling. Thanos made sure to wipe out the source of power inside of the man's stomach with a snarl and he was set flying off his feet as the power of the stone overloaded the gauntlet.

Shuri looked at the smoking form of Thanos in horror, "What have you done?"

"What was needed" replied Thanos before he whisked himself away in a blue portal.

And when Thanos came through on the other side of the portal, he was greeted with the warm light of a sun and a large vast field for farming.

He looked at the gauntlet on his arm and frowned, the skin under the metal glove was burnt, fusing to the metal ever so slightly and Thanos new that should he remove the gauntlet now that he was done with it, the skin would tear and leave with it.

The time stone shone for a brief moment and Thanos realized that didn't have to be the case, closing his fist inside the gauntlet once more, he twisted his wrist and the damage done to him by the snap was undone.

"Reality and Time are on my side, I can do whatever I want" said Thanos as he thought that maybe his plans to destroy the stones after using them was too rash. Instead, he allowed the time stone's power to wash over his body, his aching aging body was gone in a flash of green, replaced by him at his absolute peak form.

Earth: Avenger's headquarters

Tony looked around the room, Steve, Shuri, Vision, Sam, Thor, Banner and Pietro were all that was left from the Avengers and their allies. Captain Marvel or Carol as Tony would be calling her was not included in that group due to the fact that she raced off as soon as she finished bringing him home.

"So, we lost Rocket, Groot, Peter Quill and his squad, Spider-Man Peter, Naruto, all of Wakanda's warriors, most of the mutants from that school and Wanda" recounted Tony

"What about Clint?" asked Steve

"No idea, the phone number that he used when we were all together is disconnected and the only person who has his personal number is Naruto and Wanda" answered Tony

Steve frowned, "Yeah, those were a couple of our big guns, Wanda and Naruto in particular. Naruto was probably as well connected as he was powerful. Those two were probably handpicked targets by him, he would have feared them the most"

"Yeah well, he'll learn to feel us too" added Tony

"He will" agreed Steve, "But for now, we need a plane, we need to figure out where he went and get the stones"

And so, Tony and Shuri got to work, managing to learn that when the snap was made, it unleashed a massive wave of radiation. But that was all they found, they tried to use that wave as a signal identifier, but there was too much natural radiation in the universe for them to lock onto anything.

And wherever Thanos was, if he was using the stones, he wasn't using them to that level again.

Soon the days stretched into weeks and the weeks stretched into months. Before anyone knew it, it had been six months since the snap and things were looking bleak around the world.

Stark's off the grid house: Upstate New York

Tony couldn't help but glance at the watch on his wrist, it was a special watch that the weird Strange had given him on Titan. It did not tell time, no this watch was actively counting down. Tick after tick, the false Stark memory clone knew that we was getting closer to his death. He was supposed to figure out a way to defeat Thanos before being absorbed by the Tony that had been snapped away by Thanos.

But his quest to stop Thanos would have to wait as he was rubbing Pepper's back as she puked into the toliet, she had been feeling sick over the past couple of days, the morning sickness getting worse with each day.

"I think it's time that we make a trip back to civilization and take you to a doctor" said Tony.

Pepper groaned "Ok, just give me a minute"

Tony gave her a small frown and looked at the watch, the time had just sped up from 6 years to 4.5 years.

Across the State: The Xavier's School for the Gifted: Not Abandoned

Steve looked at Jean and Logan, the lone mutant survivors from the Snap.

Jean had sensed it right before it happened and Logan had been drinking when the world around him turned to dust, only for him to wake up in the bar all alone.

But what was the real surprise is that a lot of new Mutants were showing up since the snap. while the school always had a couple dozen of students, it was never other flowing with students. But with that massive wave of radiation starting on Earth, Shuri had theorized that it must have unlocked or sped up the X-Gene development in people who had it.

So far, they had added Storm, who had been visiting her home village but had managed to survive the Snap. Rejoining them was a man by the name of Henry McCoy, but he liked to be called Hank. He was a 5'11 400 pound white guy with hands for feet that could turn into a blue planet of the apes reject,a form that he called beast and that form could out muscle even Steve on his best day. Hank apparently was part of the original X-men group with Havoc and Xavier, thus when he heard that Steve was taking over training the next generation of X-men, he left his position with the CIA to help assist Steve.

The first actual newcomer was Cyclops, who was the younger brother of Havoc, a mutant that Xavier had helped control his abilities, Steve had a lot of notes to go off of to help Cyclops or Scott. They shared a very similar power set, both being able to launch pure kinetic energy out of their bodies in a beam of red light. Unfortunately, Scott was a bit less controllable with his powers, his unleashing from his eyes every time he opened them. It was like he basically punched someone with his eyes every time he opened reason that he was called Cyclops is that his powers were channeled through a visor that covered both of his eyes in a single strip of crystal.

The next newcomer was a slender guy named Bobby Drake, he had actually fallen into their lap as he had come looking for Charles Xavier who had been one of the victims of the Snap. Bobby was able to conjure and control ice. He was dubbed Iceman when in a fit of rage when he was chasing Cyclops after a prank, his entire body turned into solid ice.

The last newcomer was a man that was completely dark blue and had a pointy tail, he had shaggy black hair, loved to wear a Michael Jackson Thriller jacket, his name was Kurt Wagner, an orphaned young man that despite his devilish appearance had the heart of an angel. His name was Nightcrawler, it was a name that he had picked out himself, people used to use it to insult him, but he had turned it into a source of determination and strength for himself, taking their slander and turning it into his pride.

Steve couldn't have picked a better group to try and prepare for the next showdown with Thanos with, but even he knew that they were missing something, but he couldn't put his finger on what he was missing. That was until it quite literally rang the bell to the manor, Wade Wilson and Lucifer, the failed Hydra experiments had come knocking on his door, and Steve couldn't stop the smile on his face, this is what he was missing.

6 months later: 1 year since the Snap:

Tony and Steve stood outside of a private nursery room in the hospital, the two Avengers looking through the glass at the lone figure in the room.

"I'm proud of you, settling down like this" said Steve to Tony

"Thanks for making it out here, Pep really appreciates this" replied Tony, "But yeah, this is insane. I never thought that I would have a child."

"The Shadow Avengers basically run themselves at this point. Jean has really taken some steps forward, but I think Cyclops has matured the most, he's leading the mission in Argentina today" dismissed Steve, "Plus, I wouldn't miss this for anything in the world"

"Thank you, all the same" said Tony as he stared through the glass, the slumbering form of his daughter ... really it was a daughter for the real Tony to raise and love. No matter what happened, the fact that he was basically doing this to simpy die weighed on his mind more and more. Time was literally running out for him, he had 4 years to figure something out.

But that didn't mean that he couldn't stop to live in the moment like this, the birth of his daughter.

"So, what's her name?" asked Steve

"Morgan Natasha Stark" said a tired voice from behind them

"Pepper" said Steve with a small smile on his face as he stepped up and wrapped her in a tight hug, "You should be resting in bed, you just had a baby pushed out of your body"

Pepper rolled her eyes, "I've been taking care of a bigger baby for years"

Tony gasped in mock shock.

"I like the name" commented Steve as he released Pepper

"Yeah, I know that Naruto and Natasha would have been the only people happier than us to see us have her, to have any child in general, would have been the two of them" explained Pepper

"Yeah, we had a plan believe it or not, Naruto or Natasha would have been the middle if it was a boy or girl" added Tony

Steve nodded, a somber look on his face as he remembers his friends that were no longer with them.

2 years from the Snap:

Shuri and Tony were both typing on their keyboards rapidly, both of their computers were connected to Vision.

Shuri squealed with excitement and Tony cried out himself only a second later.

"What did you find?" asked Tony

"I think the same thing that you did" stated Shuri

"You managed to isolate the residue frequency emitted by the Stone that was inside of Vision's head and built a system that can track that exact frequency anywhere?" they both asked at the same time.

Vision said nothing as he laid on the table.

1 Year later: 3 years since Snap

Tony was awoke by the ringing of his phone, his eyes were sluggish to open and he found his face pressed against cold glass. He lifted his head and rubbed his face, his eyes moving around, trying to locate the phone that he could still hear.

His right hand found it and he tapped the accept button, putting the call on speaker as he yawned quietly.

"Talk to me" said Tony tiredly

"Tony, it's Shuri. Remember the frequency identifier that we sent off into space? Well ... it got a hit. We found him" said the voice on the other side of the phone and Tony was suddenly much more awake as his mind managed to fit the pieces of her words together.

"We found him? We found Thanos?" asked Tony

"Yeah" replied Shuri

"OK, let's go get him. Call them in"

"Which ones?"

"The older ones"

Avenger's Compound: Upstate New York

Tony and Shuri stood before the group assembled before them, it was the original Avenger's cast that had survived the Snap. Steve was dressed in a dark grey version of his once classic American Blue Captain America Suit. Bruce was pacing nervously in the background. Vision was still in his white form, his eyes lacking the normal calmness that he was supposed to have. Sam sat beside Steve, arm folded over his chest. Thor sat at the other end of the table, his hair had grown long and wild, his once tone body was starting to lose it's definition, Stormbreaker was in his hand, the axe head touching the ground. Pietro was sitting next to throw, but completely still for once, his body stiff.

"We found him, we managed to track the signal of the mind stone that was inside of Vision's head and we located him to a planet that is simply known by the people of that galaxy as "The Farm". He's been there for months as far as I can tell" said Shuri

Thor grit his teeth and his eyes were filled with bolts of lightning, "Then let's go get him"

"We are Thor, but we need a plan" said Tony, "He has all 6 of the stones still, we can't just rush him"

Thor didn't look happy about it, but he took a deep breath and listened to the rest of the plan.

The Farm: Across the Universe:

Thanos felt the ship arrive above his little slice of paradise. He had been waiting for them, those failures who couldn't live with the fact that they couldn't have things their way.

He had done what was needed. He dropped the sack full of fruit that he was holding, making his way back to his hut, the gauntlet waiting for him, the stone's power calling out to him.

He slipped it down and he felt the power humming through his veins once more and a confident smirk graced his face. He walked back outside and looked up into the sky, watching as their ship landed in the large patch of crops that he had been in earlier.

Thanos watched as ship's ramp dropped down and 6 figures walked out, some he knew of and others he did not.

But one in particular stood out more than others.

"Stark" hissed Thanos, his eyes trained on the man in disbelief, "I targeted you in the Snap, I left the boy you brought with you to Titan alone, but I hand picked you"

"Performance issues are not uncommon in men of your age" quipped Tony as Steve and Thor flanked him. Banner, Vision, and Pietro were just behind them.

"Welcome to my retirement home" said Thanos with a wave of his arms, "I'd offer you something to drink, but it'd be wasted on deadmen"

Lightning split the sky and Thor's form shimmered with bolts of lightning.

"I see, right to business" said Thanos as he closed his hand wearing the gauntlet and all of the stones glowed with power.

A/N: We are in the Endgame now, obviously there is more to the story than this and this isn't following the movie's overall story as I am not interested in how Endgame turned out. I honestly believe that I've changed too many things along the way to simply rehash Endgame.

This is part 1 of 6 for Endgame. To which I am happy to tell you will not be the end of this story. I have 2 more arcs that I am going to cover, more on that latter, but I will say there will be a break from this story after Endgame.

I have been writing this story for a while now, since March of 2018. I've gotten slander, rude reviews and pms, weird threats. I just want to say thank you for all of it.

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