A/N: This chapter is going to be coming out as soon as I reach 1million total views on this site. So ... make this shit happen y'all.

"He's not chasing after us" said Tony as Thor, Steve, Bruce, and himself flew back towards Earth.

"No, he knows that we can take him even if just barely, that's why he's been avoiding us. He's smart, he knows what we know. Strength in numbers, if I had to hazard a guess, he's going to gather all of his forces and attack us with everything he has" suggested Steve

"He's going to attack us where we are most comfortable" stated Thor, "Thanos is a warrior first, he will not attack a random city. He is going to fly right to the compound and demand the stones back"

"That's fine, we're going to be waiting for him" said Tony and a quick glance at the watch on his wrist told him that he didn't have much time, he was down to his final 7 hours of life. This was coming to an end regardless of what happened to him. They made it home in 1 hour and Tony immediately went to work on making a gauntlet from his nanotech that would be able to channel the stones in the same way that Thanos' gauntlet had been able to. Clint was already there when they arrived and he stuck around to watch them work.

Time was dwindling for Tony by the second and by the time that he finished his task, his watch said 33 minutes. That wasn't a lot of but he was also realistic about the situation. This wasn't his job to survive, he was only supposed to fill in for the real Tony.

Carefully placing the stones in the gauntlet, they waited to see if the gauntlet would accept the stones. The completed gauntlet sits in a cradle, six infinity stones embedded in the back. Tony lets out a sigh of relief as the gauntlet does it's job and the power of the stones is channeled through the nanotech gauntlet.

Tony looked at the other Avengers "All right. The glove's ready. Question is, who's gonna snap their freaking fingers? Who can bring everyone back and survive the snap?"

Everyone freezes up at that question. Then, Thor reaches for the gauntlet.

Thor says "I'll do it" as he moves to walk forward, but nobody else seemed to agree with him.

Tony gets between Thor and the gauntlet "Whoa, whoa, what are you doing?

Steve agreed with Tony, "Thor, we haven't decided who's putting that on

Thor scoffed "Oh. Were all of you just waiting for the right opportunity? Thanos is on his way here, probably with the full force of his army. We don't have time for a discussion, we need to right the wrongs now"

Clint Barton looked at Thor "You're right, but are you the person who is in the best mental state to handle this?"

Thor didn't pay any attention to Clint's words instead saying "Staring at the thing isn't going to bring everybody back, is it? Look, i'm the strongest avenger. It's my responsibility"

Tony put his hand on Thor's chest, preventing him from walking forward "Hold on, hold on"

Thor grit his teeth, "Stop it! Let me do this. Let me this. Let me do something good. Something right-

Tony continued to stand in Thor's way, "Listen, that thing is channeling enough energy to light up a continent. You're in no condition-

Thor shook his head, interrupting Tony, "What do you think is coursing through my veins right now? I am the GOD OF THUNDER, LIGHTNING COURSES THROUGH MY VEINS!"

Clint rolled his eyes "Half a case of Bud Light, a ham sandwich, and cheez whiz. You might be the strongest of us with that axe in your hands, but you've been letting yourself go Thor"

Bruce nodded in agreement as he takes steps toward the gauntlet.

"Lightning won't help you, Thor. I don't think you understand what type of power that fills these stones. It's gotta be me" said Bruce as he walked closer to the Gauntlet, "You saw what those stones did to thanos. They almost killed him. None of you could survive, none of you here anyways"

Steve frowned "If none of us could survive it, how do we know you can?"

Bruce shrugged "I don't. But the radiation is mostly gamma. It's like i was made for this, I survived the biggest gamma explosion in the history of the world, I can survive this"

Bruce studies the gauntlet. This was his moment of truth, he hadn't worked to be able to control the Hulk form for shits and giggles. He

Tony couldn't help but ask "Good to go?"

Bruce steeled his face, burying any and all nerves in his body, "Let's do it"

Tony walked up to the console and began to type away, calibrating it for Bruce, "Okay, remember, everyone Thanos snapped away five years ago, you're just bringing them back...to today. Don't change anything from the last five years. Got it? I cannot affords to lose my family"

Bruce nodded "Got it"

Tony finished making the gauntlet expand to fit on Bruce's Hulk form's hand and said "Friday, why don't you go ahead and activate barn door protocol"

Steel doors slide shut all around the workshop. Finally, Bruce stands in front of the container holding the expanded gauntlet and takes a deep breath before he makes his move.

He slowly slips his hand in the glove. Suddenly, he spasms, taking in the power as thanos did in ml1. He struggles.

Thor hears the pain that his friend is in and asks "What's happening? Take it off! Take if off!"

Steve feel like Thor might be right and asks "Bruce, you okay?"

Tony was quick to add "Talk to me, Banner"

Clint took a step forward "Don't be a hero Bruce, if you can't do this, put it down. We can find another way"

Bruce hissed as the pain spread throughout his body "I'm...okay..."

Then Bruce reaches out his hand...and snaps his fingers.

Craaaack! The stones flare. A bright surge of energy races up Bruce's arm. He roars as his eyes blaze green.

He can feel everyone in the universe, he can see everyone all at once. His mind was filled to the brim with the presence of everyone in the universe. There was a cold icy pair of eyes on his form and he felt his very soul was being gripped by the icy pair of eyes.

Whoosh! Everything comes back into view. The gauntlet falls off, rolling across the floor.

Bruce collapses, arm withered, side burnt black. Everyone rushes over. Steve checks Bruce's pulse.

Tony was quick to warn Steve "Don't move him! He might be giving off radiation. We have to be careful"

Then the blast doors open, revealing the sound of something that they hadn't heard much of, birds chirping. Thor walks toward the window overlooking the Avenger's compound courtyard.

Bruce's eyes opened back up, his eyes glazed over and he looked at Steve, "Did it work"

They pause, as if it only just now occurred to them. Just then...a cell phone buzzes.

A stunned clint turns and approaches his phone. On the home screen, we see a photo of his wife, Laura calling. Clint finally answers the phone and puts the phone to his ear.

"Honey?"

Her answer was covered up by an explosion that rocked the compound, Barton dropped the phone and the second tremor sent him falling through the crumbling collapsing floor.

Fires smolder beneath the collapsed ceiling, the building was still crumbling around him. Tony moved through smoke to find Steve, out cold and immediately shakes him.

Steve wakes to see Tony, holding his shield.

Tony "you lose this again, I'm keeping it"

Steve groaned"what happened?"

Tony glanced around "Thor was right, Thanos came right to our front door and kicked the entire building down"

Steve stood up, his body aching "Where are the others?"

Tony let his suit do a quick scanning of the area, "I read life signs, maybe 800 feet down, but it's hard to tell"

They reach the edge of the crater where Thor looks down at...Thanos. Sitting on a rock. Waiting.

"What's he been doing?" asked Tony

Thor continued to stare at Thanos "Absolutely nothing"

The three of them stare a long moment. Then, as if sensing them, Thanos turns his head and looks their way.

Steve swore "Son of a bitch"

"He is quite the bitch" agreed Thor

Steve continued to look at Thanos "Where are the stones?"

Tony glanced backwards to the rumble "Somewhere under all of this. All I know is he doesn't have 'em"

Steve smirked "So we keep it that way"

That lands. This is their chance.

Thor said "You know it's a trap"

Tony deploys his helmet back over his head, completing his armor, "Don't think I care.

Thor snarled "Just so we're all in agreement"

Thor holds out his hand and Stormbreaker slaps into his palm.

Crack! Lightning strikes as he's covered in cape and armor. He body much thinner than before, years of despair and depression having done away with the once chiseled body to a thinning slender body.

Thor grunted "Let's kill him properly this time. Too many times, he's escaped death, we'll hand deliver him to her this time"

Steve tightens his shield, leading them into the crater.

Thanos sat on a rock, simply waiting for them. He could feel them, he was certain that this would be their final battle. His army was sitting high above the battle field in his fleet of ships, but they were already prepared to be beamed down and start searching for the stones.

"You could not live with your own failure. And where did that bring you? Right back to me" said Thanos, "Time and time again, you chased me all over the universe. The Maelstrom gave his life for you to get the stones from me. Yet, here I am still alive, you waste his gift, his sacrifice. He did what needed to be done and you did not"

Tony approaches, wary, as if sneaking up on a rabid dog. Steve and Thor fan out on either side.

Thanos continued "I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you've shown me that's impossible"

Thanos paused for a moment, "But it seems life clings to the past with bloody fingernails. As long as there are those who remember what was, there will be those unable to accept what can be. They will resist.

Tony couldn't help the sarcastic quip from leaving his mouth "Yep. We're all kinds of stubborn"

Thanos nodded, "I'm thankful. Because now i know what i must do"

Thanos reaches for his helmet.

"I will shred this universe down to the very last atom and then, with the stones that I will take back from you for the final time, I will build a new one on top of this one. Teeming with life that knows not what it has lost, but only what it has been given. A grateful universe." said Thanos

Steve shook his head, "A universe born out of blood"

Thanos shrugged "They'll never know it"

Thanos draws a blade off his back, towering over them.

"Because you won't be alive to tell them" finished Thanos

Tony glances over at Steve. Ready?

Steve nods in agreement with the mentally asked question.

But, it wasn't Steve who attacked first, but actually Thor charged Thanos first.

Thanos shifted his blade to stop Thor, but Tony and Steve attacked Thanos from the sides. Forcing the Mad Titan to deal with all three of the original Big 3 Avengers at the same time.

Thor jumped into the air, lightning flying out of his body and he slammed Stormbreaker down at Thanos, the Uru metal of Thanos' blade screeching in protest as the pair of blades met.

Thanos push Thor up and away, just in time to avoid a blast by Tony by sliding to the left. Thanos hissed in pain as Steve's shield clipped him in the back of the knee and he was forced to one knee. Thor swung his axe at Thanos' head, who stabbed his twin sided blade into the ground to shield himself from Thor.

Tony rushes Thanos, but Thanos is prepared for him and pulls his sword out of the ground in time for Thor's swing to hit Tony in the side of the head, sending him flying off to the side knocked out.

Steve slashed at Thanos with his shield. The titan brutally bats him aside, knocking him out.

Thor attacks, but Thanos drives him through walls of debris.

Thanos smashes his fist into Thor's face, over and over.

Thor calls for stormbreaker, but Thanos intercepts it. He

Presses the blade into Thor's chest, trying to drive it home.

Then, across the field, there was a blur of lightning that shot off towards Thanos.

Thanos grins, about to finish Thor off, when the blur of lightning flies

In, knocking the axe out of his hand, saving Thor's life.

Following the blur as it flies towards a man with a heart of gold, the only other man with the pure heart Steve Rogers, revealing itself to be a heavily crackled Mjolnir. Steve grabbed it and the sky lit up with lightning and Steve

Half-conscious, Thor sees Steve holding the crackled Mjolnir, lightning seen through the numerous cracks along the handle.

Thor pants "I...knew...it"

Steve did not hesitate to rush forward, slipping under a slash from the Uru blade and cracking Thanos in the jaw with Mjolnir. causing Thanos tumbles.

Before the titan can get up, Steve calls down the lightning, slamming the bolts of electricity into Thanos' body.

Steve leaps, trying to finish Thanos off, but Thanos rolls to the side, jumping back up to his feet before head-butting Steve backwards.

Thanos gets to his feet, a faint smile on his face.

He whips off his helmet and attacks Steve with his blade, before using his blade to slap away Mjolnir.

Slash after slash, All Steve can do to get his shield up as the Uru blade gets closer and closer to claiming his life with every second.

Thanos hacks finally lead to the shield shattering to pieces, knocking Steve across the field.

Steve lies beaten, half a shield still attached to his arm.

Thanos was panting from the effort, "You know in all my years of conquest"

Thanos looks out at the human known as Steve Rogers struggling to stand, a man with a will that was as strong as his own.

"Of violence and slaughter...it was never personal, until now" said Thanos with an angry look on his face, "But I'll tell you now, the things I'm about to do to your stubborn, annoying, little planet"

Q-ships, dropships, necrocraft, and leviathans all start to descend from the sky and Steve looks up at the army amassed before him.

"I'm going to enjoy it. Very, very much" finished Thanos

Steve stares at Thanos and his army as an insane look of acceptance appears on his face. Because even in the face of such overwhelming odds, Captain America, a man known as Steve Rogers, gets to his feet.

Thanos stares, a look that was a mixture of respect, anger, and sadness graces his face as Steve tightens the broken shield on his arm and starts walking toward him.

One man against thousands. All alone. But just then, Steve's com crackles inside of his helmet. He strains to hear, the buzzing of it could have been the microphone breaking inside of his helmet. The com crackles again and he can make out a muffled voice.

"ap...comin...ot" said the voice and Steve shakes his head, trying to clear it. Slowly, sound returns and the words ring clear this time and Steve recognizes the voice of Sam Wilson coming over the com in his helmet "On your left"

Thanos looks over Steve's form to see a portal opening in the distance, much to his surprise. Out of it flies Sam Wilson in his Falcon suit. Steve watches Sam soar over the field, then turns as even more portals open. From the first came Dr. Strange, Peter Quill, Drax, Mantis, another Tony Stark and Kraglin and the Ravagers. The second spat out T'Challa, Okoye, Shuri, m'Baku, Wanda, Bucky, Groot...and the wakandan army. From the third, Valkyrie, Korg, Miek and an Asgardian Army. From the fourth: Pepper Potts in the rescue armor that Tony had made for her, Hope Van Dyne, Scott Lang and Wong leading a squad of sorcerers. A final fifth portal opens and it reveals the X-men lead by Jean, Scott, Kurt, and Wade Wilson.

Thor gets to his feet, calling stormbreaker to his hand. Tony regains consciousness, staring out at the cavalry, before checking the watch, seeing that it said 2 minutes and was dwindling even more with each second.

"Avengers Assemble" shouted Steve as he tightened the forearm latch of his shield, his voice carrying weight and power despite his beaten up side.

There was a green rip in the sky and 5 figures dropped from the ground in a 1-2-3 triangle formation, the lead one having spiky blond hair and a sword strapped across his back.

"I'm sorry about being late to the party, but I had to go grab some of my friends" said the man in the front of the triangle closest to Thanos' army, revealing it to be Naruto.

There was a series of gasps as people realized that Naruto had brought with him, the Winter Solider, Natasha, a pale white girl with long blonde hair in a black suit with a glowing pink outline, and Wade in a different suit, this one being a red and black full body tactical suit houses a number of pockets containing multiple types of guns, grenades, sai, and knives. The suit now had two holsters on his back to house his katanas, but also with a teleporter on his wrist.

"The Maelstrom" greeted Thanos

"The purple bitch who I've been chasing across the universe" said Naruto

"I broke your neck once, I will rip your head off this time" tsk' Thanos

"It's been a long five years, I'm not the same as I once was," replied Naruto as the world started to shake around him and he entered KCM mode, but this time instead of a yellow energy cloak, he glowed a deep orange.

A/N: Ok this is it, final battle. Obviously some things have changes a bit. There was no time traveling in my endgame story line. Tony, Naruto, Thor, and Steve each have their parts to play in this upcoming battle.

We have 2 Tony Starks running around, 2 Wade Wilsons running around. so Thor's mom in the comics has been revealed to be the Phoenix Force in the Avengers of 1,000,000 BC in the Marvel Legacy comic line from 2017, should I incorporate that into my Endgame story line at all?

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