When Thanos opened his eyes, he found himself to be standing on an endless sea, looking at the water before him.

This water was everywhere. It was burning brighter than any form of light Thanos had ever experienced in his long life, but it wasn't causing any form harm to him. The clouds on the sky were like a orange fog. The sea he stood on rippled under his boots, the mix of crimson and orange was spreading further. The world in which he found himself in was limitless and completely empty of any form of life.

The Titan caught his breath, when he turned his look to his left hand and seeing it bare. There was no gauntlet. There was no stones. The pain he felt was gone after he snapped his fingers, every wound on him was healed and he actually felt like a new person now, the damage that was done by the gauntlet was gone. But when he lowered his left hand, glanced to what lied behind it, that pain returned.

A lone structure stood in the world of endless water. He narrowed his eyes. He had seen that structure before, and he especially remembered the figure standing before it. Completely alone, no one was by this persons side. It was a young girl, standing with her back facing him. He stopped at the view of her, looking at the red locks of her hair. Thanos nearly quivered where he stood, as tears were threatening to spill down his cheeks.

"Daughter." He finally called over to her.

The little girl began to turn around at the sound of his voice calling over to her, and when she finally did, if he had any second thoughts about who this person was, they all went away, disappeared, faded away. It was Gamora, his little Gamora, as young as she was one the day where he came across her during one of his cleansings, where he saved her.

"...Did you do it?" She asked him after a moment of staring at her father.

"Yes." He answered, giving a small, very small nod in response.

"What did it cost?" Gamora asked him another question.

"Everything." He responded, dropping his head.

"Was it worth it?" She asked him with a small pause, "...Father?"

She got no answer from him, he just lifted his head and stared at her in silence. Neither of them said anything. They just kept looking at each other.

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"What did you do!?" Thor demanded to know, glancing from Thanos' arm at him, "What did you do!?"

Thanos said nothing, as he used the Space Stone to form a portal behind him and leave Wakanda, getting Stormbreaker off his chest as Thor just stood there, having no idea what Thanos had just done.

"Where is he?" Steven asked, approaching Thor with Captain America.

"Thor. Where did he go?" Cap added.

"Steve..." Steve, Steven and Thor, all three of them turned to the source of the voice and saw Bucky. They all stared at him in shock mixed with confusion when they saw his hand disintegrating into ash, before it consumed his whole body. Bucky's ashes fell on the ground and his rifle was the only thing left of him. Steve slowly walked over to his best friends ashes and touched them, as the realization of what was just happening came into his mind. He looked up at Thor and Steven who were staring in horror at what just happened to Bucky.

"Steven. What is this?" Steven could feel how his heart almost stopped when he heard Connie, already fearing the worst. Fearing that she may share the same fate as the Winter Soldier. His worries became true when he turned to Connie and saw her right hand disintegrating into dust, as she was staring at it with a confused expression on her face.

"Connie..." He said as he began to run towards her, but all he caught of her were her ashes. Steven could feel tears forming in his eyes, as he touched Connie's ashes. When he lifted his hand up, he could feel that some parts of Connie's ashes attached itself to his hand. He stared at it for a few seconds, before he heard.

"Steven! You're here!" It was Pearl. He could easily that she was relieved to see him, as she knelt down in front of him. She already saw how the people of Wakanda, and gems began turning into dust and she began to run across the fields of Wakanda to find anyone, Garnet, Amethyst or Steven, to see if they were okay, or not.

"Connie. She's..." He said to her, as he was now crying, looking down at Connie's ashes.

It was when Pearl realized over whose ashes Steven was kneeling. She put her hands over her mouth in shock, but could feel how a moment later, one of them turned into dust, which was soon followed by her entire body turning into dust as well. Pearl gave Steven one last smile. Smiled even though, with each second her body was breaking apart, the last thing she said to Steven was, "Don't worry. It's okay..."

Those were her last words before she shattered into ash, right in front of Steven's eyes, sharing the same fate as Bucky and Connie. He was now sobbing even more as he was forced to watch how his best friends and one of the gems that took care of him since he was little shattered into dust and there was nothing he could do to stop it. For the first time in his life, he lost someone he loved and he was powerless to stop it.

But then, he shot up onto his feet and began to run across the field. Garnet and Amethyst... He had to find them! They could have been still out there!

The first thing he saw after shooting up to his feet was the view of Blue Lace Agate. The gem from Little Homeworld was on her knees, as her body was breaking apart, "Steven? What is happe..." she said to him, extending her hand towards him. Her hand being the last thing of her that disintegrated, leaving nothing but ashes that floated away alongside the wind.

Steven brought his to cover his mouth. He saved her before. He saved her from corruption, but this time he was powerless to stop what happened to her.

"Up general up!" Black Panther said to Okoye, approaching her. He held his hand down to her, as she grabbed it a moment later, "This is no place to die."

As Black Panther began to lift her up from the ground, he shattered into nothing but ash. Okoye could only stare at it in horror mixed with confusion. She stood up from the ground by herself a moment later, and looked at the place where T'Challa used to stand just a moment ago.

She began to call over for him, but got no answer, much to her horror. She was seconds away from bursting into tears at this point.

Bismuth heard her cries, but for now, didn't paid any attention to them, as she walked over to Garnet who was still on the ground.

"C'mon, Garnet. Let me help you get up." She said, as she offered her hand to Garnet, both of them unaware of what was just happening. Bismuth helped the fusion to get back on her feet, and it just seconds away before she vanished from Garnet's sight, leaving nothing but ashes. She probably didn't even realized what was going to happen to her before it was too late.

"Bismuth?" Garnet asked, but got no answer from her. Bismuth was gone. Her fellow Crystal Gem just vanished.

"Where is she?" Garnet turned to the source of the voice and saw Biggs Jasper staring at her before her eyes went to Bismuth's ashes. She wanted to know where her closest friend was,  "Garnet. Where is she?"

"...Oh no." Garnet said as she broke herself into run, without even answering to Biggs Jasper's question, "I need to find Steven, Pearl and Amethyst..."

Azurite and Spinel finally got themselves back on their feet. The duo shared a quick look with each other, making sure that they were okay, before they heard someone gasp behind them. They turned around and saw how the captain of Rubies, Doc faded into dust, leaving Eyeball, Leggy, Army and Navy completely confused over what just happened to their captain. They both stared in complete shock at what just happened in front of their eyes, as their minds were trying to process what just happened to her.

However, their shock turned into sadness when they heard someone say to them, "Azurite... Spinel... What is happening to me?..."

They immediately recognized that voice. They both turned into the direction of that gem and saw Orange Pearl who was turning into dust. Half of her face was gone, the other half, half of the fear that consumed her before the dust consumed the rest. Every shred of her being faded alongside the wind, her fearful eyes no longer holding that terror.

"Oh my stars..." Spinel didn't know what to say.

"Orange..." Azurite said a moment after he watched how a Pearl that wanted to know how to fight just like him shattered into dust. A Pearl that he considered one of the closest friends he made in Little Homeworld.

"I am Groot..." They both heard someone say from their right side. They turned into the direction of that voice and saw Groot, who was turning into dust right before Rocket's eyes. Spinel couldn't understand what Groot just said, but Azurite could. He still couldn't understand most of things Groot said, but now he could because it was an easy word to translate.

It was dad.

Groot just called Rocket his dad...

"Oh, no, no..." Rocket kept repeating these words as he held his hand forward to Groot who tried to reach him, but he couldn't, because there was nothing but dust left of him just a second after, "Groot... no..."

"Oh, no... No... It can't be." Azurite said as the realization of what was happening just came into his mind. It was just like in the nightmare he had during his first night in Little Homeworld. He remembered that in this nightmare Groot turned into ash as well, before it was revealed that The Mad Titan got what he wanted.

He knew what was going on now.

Thanos won and now they were facing the effects of his snap.

His worst nightmare just became true...

"He did it..." Spinel realized what was happening too.

"We have to find the others..." Azurite said to Spinel who nodded her head, that it would probably broke her neck if she was a human. They began to move across the field, seeing how both gems and humans were fading into ash and their friends couldn't do nothing to save them.

Steven couldn't see Garnet and Amethyst anywhere as he proceeded to run across the fields of Wakanda, "Garnet! Amethyst!"

He saw Wanda Maximoff, kneeling over the body of the Vision, before turning into dust.

"No, no, no, no, no..." This word continued to fly through his head as he ran past dozens of human and gems turning into dust. Some of the gems he saw were the gem he knew from Little Homeworld or Homeworld. And then, relief hit him like a tidal wave when he saw Garnet running across the field. He ran over to her and grabbed her in the tighiest hug he's ever given.

"Garnet... Connie and Pearl are gone..." He said to her, embracing her as tightly as he could.

"Don't worry. I got you. Nothing is going to happen to you. We're going to find Amethyst and everything is going to be okay." Garnet said back to him as she embraced him even tighter. He was there with her. Nothing was going to happen to him. Nothing.

"Garnet..." Steven suddenly said with a small pause in the middle of the sentence. His voice suddenly became so weak, "I don't feel so good..."

The words that just left Steven's mouth were horrifying to Garnet. It was so bad that it made her unfuse into Ruby and Sapphire. They all saw how Steven's right leg faded into dust, which made him fall on the ground.

"Steven!" They both shouted at the same time, immediately falling on their knees, and clutching the fading teenager close to themselves.

"I don't want to go, guys... " Steven said as his body continued to break apart in front of their eyes.

"Don't worry." Sapphire tried to assure him that everything was going to be okay.

"Where am I going?..." Steven said as most of his body was gone by now.

"We're not gonna let you." Ruby added, even though she already knew that it was pointless.

''You're not going anywhere. We have you, Steven. We're never letting go... Don't be scared... We're not letting go, Steven... We're not letting go." Sapphire added, holding what was left of Steven as tightly as she could.

"Tell my dad I l..." Steven couldn't finish this sentence as the last part of him faded away, leaving nothing but dust. Dust-covered hands of Ruby and Sapphire fell on the ground.

Azurite stared at what just transpired before him, a gasp leaving his mouth. Steven Universe, a teenager responsible for stopping the Diamonds just died right before his eyes in the arms of two gems who were like a family to him. And If he heard correctly, Pearl and that friend of his named Connie were also gone, and they were just one of the many people who were going to lost their life...

Another gasp, but this time more of a painful one left his mouth, when he looked at Spinel, and saw that she was gazing horrifically to her hand which was fading away into the air.

"Azzie..." She said to him as one of her legs faded away into the air, the ash slowly consuming her entire body.

"No, no, no, no... Please not you too..." Azurite said to his beloved gem as she fell into his arms, her teary eyes gazing at him.

"Don't worry, Azzie. It doesn't hurt." Spinel tried to cheer him up a bit, placing her remaining hand on his cheek as Azurite set her down on the ground, "It doesn't hurt."

"Spinel..." Azurite said to her. He wanted to say something to her. It was something he wanted to tell her for a while now, but was waiting for the right moment.

"Don't worry about me..." Spinel was still trying to cheer him up, as her hand faded, leaving dust on Azurite's cheek. She wanted to cheer him up one last time in her life.

"I love you..." Azurite told her. It was something he was trying to say to her for a while, now. He finally brought himself to say it to her, because it was probably the last ocassion he'd ever have to say it to her.

Spinel, or rather what was left of her was taken aback by his words, but eventually gave him one last smile, and it seemed like she was going to say something, but she didn't even had a chance, as the disintegration erased her completely. The only thing that was left of her was the necklace Azurite gave her on Christmas. He picked it up and held it close to himself, as he looked all around his body, hoping that it was going to happen to him as well. He didn't want to live in the world where his worst nightmare became true, but it never did.

"Azurite..." Shi'ra's voice rang through his ears, as he looked up and saw Shi'ra, standing before him, and nothing was happening to her... She was okay! His sister was okay!

"Shi'ra..." Was the only word that escaped his mouth, as he began to cry. Tears were streaming down his cheeks like a waterfall, experiencing loss of another person he loved in his life. A gem that was one of the people who helped him the most to open up again after what happened to Aleena, her dad and her mother.

Shi'ra saw how Spinel faded into dust a moment ago in Azurite's arms with her own eyes. She knew that her brother needed her now as much as he did after Konoritos. She knelt down in front of him, and hugged him as tightly as she could, letting him cry into her shoulder, "Don't worry. I'm here for you, brother. I'm here..."

"Guys! Guys!" Amethyst's voice sounded across the field as she and Lion ran over to Ruby and Sapphire, "What is going on? Why is everyone fading away?!"

"Amethyst..." Ruby barely brought herself to say this, her and Sapphire's eyes not leaving Steven's ashes, "Steven and Pearl are gone...''

Amethyst's eyes shot open at the revelation she got from Ruby, as she dropped her whip on the ground. She walked over to the two gems, and got herself on her knees. She touched what remained of Steven and stared at it for a good moment as she found herself breaking into tears. She lowered her hand before she embraced Ruby and Sapphire, all three gems crying over the loss of their family.

As Azurite, Shi'ra, Ruby, Sapphire, Amethyst and Lion stood over the ashes of Spinel and Steven, a crowd of confused gems walked over to them. There was Centi along with Terra who was the the only one from her crew that didn't turn into dust, Little Larimar, Crazy Lace Agate, Bixbite, Orange Spodumene, Zebra Jasper, Eyeball, Army, Skinny Jasper, Biggs Jasper, Holly Blue Agate, and many others. All of them immediately noticed lack of Steven, Pearl, Bismuth, Connie and Spinel by their sides, and already assumed what happened to them.

"Guys! What is going? Most of my crew is gone!" Centi asked what was on the mind of every gem as they approached them, but they didn't got the answer the moment after Centi asked this question. Ruby, Sapphire and Amethyst were still sobbing uncontrollably over Steven's ashes, as Azurite was crying his eyes out into Shi'ra's shoulder.

Shi'ra took a deep breath, as she was stopping herself from bursting into tears as well. All she could say to them was, in a very shaky voice, "He did it... Thanos got exactly what he wanted. He won..."

It was when the realization hit all of the gems that survived. The expressions of loss, sadness, grief and anger appeared on their faces. Some of them broke into tears, Centi and Terra being one of them, some of them ran off somewhere, probably to take out their anger, some of them just sat down on the ground, trying to accept the fact that they lost, or some of them just remained where they stood, their minds trying to process what Shi'ra just told them.

Azurite's head eventually left Shi'ra's shoulder, as they shared a quick look with each other, before they looked around, to see who was also spared from Thanos' snap.

Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, War Machine, Bruce Banner, Okoye, Rocket, and many other Wakandan warriors.

Everyone else was gone...

All of the survivors stood in complete silence for a moment...

Until it was broke by Captain America. The only words that left his mouth were.

"Oh God..."

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On Titan, everyone that tried to stop the Mad Titan collected themselves. Lapis helped Peridot to get up, the small green gem standing on the ground instead of her disc because it gone, turned into bubbles. The two gems shared a quick look together, offering themselves nods, before turning their attention to Jasper. The large orange gem offering them a nod of her own, telling them that everything was okay with her, minus the broken helmet and the fact that she destroyed Shi'ra's ship. Star-Lord helped Mantis, keeping her close to himself, Spider-Man helped Tony to his feet, Drax and Nebula managed to rise up on their own.

Mantis suddenly looked up, with horror growing on her facial features as she said, nervously, "Something is happening..."

It was the last she said before shattering into ash before their eyes...

Nebula, Tony, Jasper, and nearly everyone else held their breath as she broke apart, her body turning to dust. It happened out of nowhere. It was even worse for her fellow Guardians, Quill simply watching as Mantis faded from his side, the dust dissolving away from Star-Lord, some parts of it covering his clothes.

As if it was a plague, it also consumed Drax the Destroyer. It all began with his hands, they were breaking apart as he was paper being torn apart. There was such fear in his eyes, "Quill..."

Everyone looked over at Star Lord, and saw bits of ash leaving his body. Everyone just stared at him in silence as his body was slowly breaking apart. The silence that was broke by Tony who spoke up to him, "Steady Quill."

"...Oh, man." Quill's eyes watered up as he faded into dust.

"Guys..." The people and gems who just watched how the Guardians of the Galaxy faded away, turned to Lapis Lazuli, and saw that this plague consumed her left hand, before spreading across her entire body. The only thing that was left of her were her ashes, that flied away into the air.

"Lapis..." Peridot said, covering her mouth with her hand as she watched how her friend turned into ash right in front of her eyes. She looked up at Jasper, who was staring at Lapis' ashes floating away. She couldn't read her expression.

"Tony..." The voice that belonged to Doctor Strange suddenly called over to Tony, who along with, Jasper and Peridot turned in the direction of his voice, "There was no other way..."

"What do you mean there was no other way?!" Peridot asked what was on her, Tony's and Jasper's minds, but got no answer as the ash consumed Doctor's Strange entire body, not even his cape was left behind.

"Mr Stark..." Peter's voice came from behind them, as they quickly turned around to the teenager, small pieces of ash were flying out of his body, "I don't feel so good..."

Tony was trying to be calm, but no matter how he tried it didn't change that fact that his voice shaky as he looked at Peter in terror, "You're all right?"

Peter was stumbling, looking over at his fading arms, terrified, " I don't know what's - I don't know what's happening. I don't..."

Spider-Man clutched onto Stark, holding him tightly, once his strength finally gave away. His arms wrapped around Tony's body. He saw through his tear-stained vision how his right arm was starting to break apart, pieces of dust fading away. All Tony could do was hold onto him, clutch the brave, brave child as he trembled, whimpered, started to fade away right in his arms.

''I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go, Mr. Stark, please. Please, I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go...'' Peter was practically begging Tony, begging for his life.

Tony felt his legs tremble at Peter's grip. He set him down on the ground, and knelt above him, holding the young Avenger tightly. His eyes meet Peter's red, teary ones as he heard the teenager whisper to him, in a shaky tone.

"I'm sorry..." Those were his last words to Iron Man before he was erased completely, his ashes fading away into the air. Tony fell forward from the lack of weight in his arms, before staring at his hands in disbelief.

"He did it..." Nebula stated, plain and true. Everyone that was spared heard her.

A expression of horror and grief grew on Tony's facial features. The grief that is going to last a long time. He dropped his head and put his hands on his face, covering his face with his dust covered hands, with tears threating to spill down his cheeks.

Jasper was doing her best to hide the expression of grief on her face, as she sat down on the ground, her eyes staring forward. Peridot sat next to her, before she hugged her arm, tears falling down the small green gem cheeks. Jasper wrapped her hand around her and brought her even closer to herself, as she sat in silence, wanting to accept the biggest defeat in her entire life, but she couldn't.

She just hoped that Azurite, Shi'ra, Orange Pearl, Centi and Spinel were okay. She needed them to be okay. She wouldn't know what she would do if they all shared the fate of Quill, Mantis, Drax, Lapis, Peter and Strange, and left her alone. She wouldn't forgive herself if four gems and one Kratai that all in some ways helped her to change for the better died, and she failed stop it from happening. Failed to stop the Mad Titan from achieving his destiny.

Nebula sat down next to them, and did nothing but stare at the ground in silence, mourning her sister's death.

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Beach City and Little Homeworld were in shambles.

The panic began when Padparadscha began disintegrating into ash. Her last words before fading into the wind were, "I predict that something terrible is going to happen..."

It was followed by Fluorite sharing the same fate, leaving a huge pile of dust where she just stood a second ago and the Rutile Twins, Rhodonite and Lars stared in horror at how their crewmates just disolved into dust, but a moment after, their captain realized something. He shot up to his feet and made his way to his home as fast as he could, but all he could find of his parents was a pile of ashes.

He fell on his knees and began to sob, mourning for the loss of his parents. A moment later, he felt someone put a hand on his shoulder and saw Sadie, with teary eyes. All she said to him was, "My mom is gone..."

Lars stood up from his knees and hugged her, both of them crying into themselves as Rhodonite and Rutile Twins stood behind Sadie, staring at the what was happening in front of them in incredible sadness in their eyes, neither of them having idea of what was happening, but the realization of what might have caused it appearing in their minds.

Jenny, Sour Cream, and Buck were all spending their time with each other, until they saw how humans and gems alike began to turn into dust out of sudden. The ones who were more fortunate were staring at the remains of the ones who were less fortunate. The three friends quickly split up and ran off to see if their families were okay. As Jenny was making her way to the Fish Stew Pizza, she ran past and Peedee, who was pushing his hands through the dust that used to be Ronaldo and his dad. She could hear a sigh of relief escaping her mouth when she saw her sister and grandma inside of the Fish Stew Pizza, but the relief of them being still alive quickly faded away when she saw both of them glancing down at the ashes that used to be her dad. It faded away, along with her, the last thing she heard before there was nothing but a pile of dust left of her was her sister and grandma shouting her name.

Buck ran across Beach City into the Big Donut to see if his dad was alright, but all he found was a pile of ashes on the floor, and a confused costumer who was staring at them. The unknown customer turned to Buck before his entire body disolved into dust, and all Buck could do was to stare how the unknown man became a pile of ash, just like his dad.

As for Sour Cream, upon reaching the front doors of his house, he heard crying. Crying that was coming from inside of his house. He bursted through the front door, calling the names of his dad, brother, mom, and the only person from his family that he was able to find was Yellowtail, crying over two piles of ashes that used to be Vidalia and Onion. He and Yellowtail stared at each other for a moment, before they rushed towards each other, embracing each other tightly, mourning for the family the loss.

The minutes passed and everyone gathered in one place in a Beach City. Those people who were lucky enough to be randomly spared.

Greg was one of them.

Unfortunely his cousin Andy wasn't as fortunate. When he felt a strange sensation all over his body, and could feel himself becoming weaker, he reached his hand out for him, saying, "Greg..." before it was the first part of his body that faded.

Greg could only stare at his cousin whose body broke apart just a few seconds later, leaving dust on the ground, "Andy..." was the only thing he could say.

As he kneeled over his cousin's ashes, and pushed his hand through his ashes, he looked around himself to see who was with him here.

Lars, Sadie, Buck, Sour Cream, Yellowtail, Kiki, Jaime, Nanefua, Peedee, Smiley were all here with him. Even Connie's parents were present.

Everyone else was gone.

He heard Connie's dad ask everyone, hoping to get answer, to get idea of what was just happening. Why was this happening, "...What is going on?"

He got no answer...

Everyone else just stood there in silence.

The situation was even worse on Homeworld.

The crowd of confused and hurt gems ran into the throne room of the Diamonds, asking question why their friends and loved ones just faded into dust. White Diamond couldn't control the confused crowd. She couldn't because she was gone, Her and Yellow Diamond both were gone. Them and half of gem population, leaving only Blue Diamond who couldn't answer to these question who was crying her eyes out because she witnessed how her fellow Diamonds just faded right before her eyes, leaving nothing but ashes on their thrones.

Pink Pearl, Yellow Pearl and Blue Pearl were doing their best to calm her down, while also trying to answer the questions of the crowd of gems that gathered in the throne room, but all of them suddenly stopped when they saw Pink Pearl shatter into dust, with her not even realizing what going to happen to her, before it was too late.

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''Still no word from Stark?" Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D asked Maria Hill, as they were currently in a car, driving through the streets of New York.

"No, not yet. We're watching every satellite in both hemispheres, there's still nothing." Hill answered, glancing down at the device in her hands, before it beeped, three times.

"What is it?" Fury asked her.

"Multiple bogeys over Wakanda." Hill answered, looking up from her device at Fury, for a second, before lookind back down at the device.

"Same energy signatures as New York?" Fury wanted to know.

''Ten times bigger." Hill explained.

Fury looked over at her, taking his eye sight away from the road, "Tell Klein. We'll meet him at...''

He didn't even had a chance to finish what he saw saying as Hill quickly cut him off, pointing at the car that was spiraling out of control in front of them, "Nick!"

Fortunely for them, but unfortunely for the car that was parked not that far away from them, the car that the driver lost control of stopped after it hit a car that was parked on the street. Fury and Hill both got out of their car to see if the driver was okay. As the latter one approached the car, she quickly noticed that the damage wasn't serious, but it was certainly going to leave a scratch.

''They okay?" Fury asked her.

''There's no one here." She pointed out, staring at the empty car in confusion.

Fury stared at her for a moment, not really knowing how to reply to this, before he heard something. It was a helicopter. He turned around and saw helicopter, tail rotor was already smoking from the damage. He couldn't do nothing but watch as it crashed into the nearest building. People began to scream, running away from that building.

''Call Control. Code Red." Fury told her, glancing over at the place where the helicopter crashed.

"Nick..." Hill called over to him, her voice was so weak out of sudden, as Fury turned around to her to see her disintegrating.

"Hill?" He said to her as she was erased completely, her ashes fading away into the air.

"Oh my God..." He heard a man say from his left side. He quickly turned around to him to see the said man, staring down at his disintegrating hands in horror, before it consumed his entire body, his ashes flying away into the air.

Fury's attention quickly went back to his car as then raced back to it, pushing away a confused man who just like he witnesses Hill and another man fading away that stood in his way. He quickly opened the back doors of his car, with his hands immediately digging into a bag that laid there. His hands quickly digging through the things that were inside of bag. He had to find it. It was something he always carried with him. He finally found it and took out of the bag a thing that appeared to be an old pager with extra gear attached to it. He quickly send out an emergency call, just seconds before his hand turned into ashes.

"Oh no..." He said, the disarray growing on his facial features when he realized that even he wasn't going to make it out of it unscathed. He shook his head, grumbling, "Motherfu..."

Fury faded away into the dust as the pager fell to the ground, red lights blinking. The device displayed "SENDING..." before a red-blue-and-gold star insignia appeared on the screen.

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Ant-Man opened his eyes and stared out into the Quantum Realm. It had no end, and no beginning, just endless space. Scott Lang, was just staring into the colors around him, most, if not all of them not known to any ordinary person. He tried to remain as still as possible, refusing to even move an inch until he was certain that he was safe as he drifted. His mind rattled, finally returning to the voice in his head. In his helmet, but it was close enough.

"Mic check 1, 2! 1, 2! How's everybody doin' tonight in the Quantum Realm?" Scott declared loud and clear.

"Scott, we read you," Hank Pym's immediate response sounded in his ears.

Ant-Man continued to look into the Quantum Realm. His left palm gripped the small containment unit while the other drifted by his side, "Ah, I just... I just wanted to make sure,"

When he heard the voice of Hope, Scott was happy in his place, but he kept himself under control. He held his breath, listening to her voice tell him, "Great. Preparing for reentry in... 5... 4... 3..."

Scott closed his eyes, excepting a change of scenery, but instead found himself to be still inside of the Quantum Realm.

"Hello?" Scott called out for them, but silence was all he received in from the other side. He closed his eyes, and let out a sigh, thinking that they were messing with him, "Ha, ha, very funny. Hank, quit screwing around; you told me yourself not to screw around."

A walkie-talkie hanged by its wire and swung from one side to another. Back and forth. The computers and other equipment laid on the rooftop and were used for analyzing and controlling the Quantum Tunnel resting in the back of Scott's van. They were all abandoned, nothing but a pile of ashes floating, falling down on the floor of the rooftop where Hank, Janet, and Hope once stood, stood just several seconds ago.

"Hank?" the walkie-talkie asked, Hank Pym's ashes covering it.

"Hope?" Hope van Dyne's ashes floated away.

"Janet?" Janet van Dyne remained as nothing but dust. Even that faded away.

"Guys... Guys... Okay, seriously, don't joke around; bring me up, let's go." He told them, but silence was still the only thing he was getting in response.

The world that was outside of the Quantum Realm, away from the roof, and further beyond it didn't respond. Nothing could be heard on that roof except for a distant screams miles and miles away, and Scott was unaware of the terrible events that were currently happening.

"Guys!"

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It was the first day of a new universe.

The first day of Thanos' retirement.

The sunrise peaked above the horizon as birds were chirping in the distance.

Out of shadows in a small hut on the hill, Thanos stepped out into the light. His left arm was scarred, and there no possibility to heal it. Sitting down upon the grass, the Mad Titan let out a short grunt as he adjusted to a sitting position, his eyes rising and flinching under the heavy brightness. The warmth of the sun shining into his face. Thanos stared onto it, narrowed eyes finally relaxing.

He breathed in and sighed.. A fulfilled and satisfied essence entered his body. He looked out onto his surroudings and saw the river waves, saw the tree lines, all of them leading to his farm, to the grass, past the scarecrow made of his armor and finally onto him. That sunrise washed over all of it, the shining brightness completely otherworldly, It was the kind of one he had only experienced on his home world, before it became a desolated westeland, before it faced extinction.

It was when he recalled a certain question his daughter asked him.

She asked him if it was worth it.

With one smile at the sun he knew the answer.

Yes.

It was...

https://youtu.be/rBkMsmUbLLs

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I hope I did a good job at writing this chapter, because this is the chapter for which most of you was probably waiting for. The characters facing the effects of Thanos' snap, and their fates.

The next two chapters are going to be a previews to Endgame. (Which is going to be longest arc of this story. It will be 10+ chapters)

I wrote this segment in case if you missed any character death, or you were curious about the fates of the background characters that weren't mentioned in the recent chapter.

I'm not including Marvel's character, because I'm certain that you know who was dusted, and who wasn't.

So, let's start (Yes, I know that I probably missed a lot of characters):

Victims of the Snap: Steven, Pearl, Connie, Spinel, Bismuth, Lapis Lazuli, White Diamond, Yellow Diamond, Pink Pearl, Orange Pearl, Most of Centi's crew including Cotta, Doc, Leggy, Navy, All of Famethysts except for Skinny, Lars' parents, Sadie's mom, Andy, Jenny, Kofi, Dewey, Kevin, Ronaldo, Vidalia, Onion, Fryman, Mystery Girl, Padparadscha, Fluorite, Rainbow Jasper, Snowflake Obsidian, Yellow Zircon, Green Larimar, Ocean Jasper, Watermelon Tourmaline, Hessonite, Heaven Beetle, Aquamarine, Blue Lace Agate, Freckled Lapis, Lace Amethyst, Angel Aura Quartz, Topaz

Survivors of the Snap: Azurite, Garnet, Amethyst, Shi'ra, Lion, Peridot, Jasper, Greg, Connie's parents, Blue Diamond, Blue Pearl, Yellow Pearl, Lars, Sadie, Rutile Twins, Rhodonite, Centi, Terra, Buck, Mr Smiley, Nanefua, Sour Cream, Biggs Jasper, Skinny Jasper, Holly Blue Agate, Eyeball, Army, Jaime, Yellowtail, Marty, Peedee, Kiki, Little Larimar, Blue Zircon,  Bixbite, Squaridot, Emerald, Zebra Jasper, Nephrite that worked at Fish Stew Pizza, Earth Beetle, Crazy Lace Agate, The curly-haired Lapis, Orange Spodumene, Cherry Quartz