If Orange Pearl honest with herself, things were never that tense in Little Homeworld as they were now. The message Steven and Azurite broadcasted across all of the gem colonies did it's jobs and many gems who decided to join the fight started arriving in Little Homeworld. Many of them arrived there by using warps but some of them arrived in their ships, like the ships from Homeworld which were going to take them to the Infinity Stones if Garnet will receive the coordinates from Azurite, or the human zoo with every Amethyst and Jasper there ready to fight, even Holly Blue Agate decided to help them even though she was known as one of the gems who weren't a fan of Era 3, but it didn't seem to matter when there was a guy who wanted to wipe out half of all life in the universe.

Even Steven's friend Connie came here to help them. She was informed about this situation by Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst and immediately agreed to help them.

Many of them were currently preparing themselves for the fight and Orange Pearl was one of them. She swung her fists around at the invisible target Azurite has been teaching her how to fight for a few months now, and she knew that she had to be ready. She knew she was better at fighting than she was when Azurite started teaching her everything he knew about, because he and the other told her about it many times, but she knew that it was going to be something much different than her daily lessons.

She stopped her traning when she heard a familiar voice. She turned to the source of it and saw Centi, who was standing beside Terra and Cotta in the clothes she never saw her wear before. She assumed it must've been her battle clothes, or something like that. Her green friend said something to the two members of her crew that made them flinch, before walking away from their captain.

"Ouch." Orange Pearl said as she approched Centi, causing the said gem to turn around to her, "You didn't had to go that hard on them, you know?"

"I know, and I'm sorry about that Orange. I want them to be ready for whatever is going to happen. I've been their captain for so long, and I feel like I need to protect them at any price. I just care a lot about them, you know?" Centi said, rubbing the back of her head nervously.

Orange Pearl chuckled, giving Centi a quick pat on her shoulder, "Of course I know that, Centi. You're one of my closest friends. Besides you're just doing your job as their captain."

Centi have her a small smile, which faded just a second after. There was something she was holding inside of herself for a while now, and she wanted to let it out of her chest, "Do you know what has been on my mind for a while, Orange?"

Orange Pearl shook her head, "Nope."

"I've been having this thought on the back of my head for a while now, and now that we may head to the battle at any moment, I feel like I need to talk with someone about it." Centi explained.

"Tell me if you want to. You know that you tell me everything." Orange Pearl assured her.

Centi nodded her head. She let out a short sigh, as she started, "...Sometimes I wonder if I deserve all of this. Life here, friends, crew who cares about me." 

"...What?" Orange Pearl asked, not understanding why Centi would think like that, "Centi you're one of nicest gems I know. Why do you think like that?"

Centi let out another sigh, ''They're my crew and I'm their captain. That's how it always has been. But, sometimes I wonder why I was choosen to be their captain. We are all the same, but no matter how many times I think about, there's always one thing I'm certain about. I need them and they need me. Maybe that's why they were waiting for me for all those years when we were corrupted. Maybe they needed a leader. They trust me, after all... and I'm not going to forgive myself if something happens to them, again."

"If they were waiting for you for all of these years, then I assure that you're doing a good job." Orange Pearl tried to assure her.

"Even if I left them to die by my own cowardly? I failed them and I ran away right after Hessonite gave us orders to retreat." Centi asked her.

"What?" Orange Pearl asked her.

Centi bit the bottom part of her lips as she continued, "I don't know what they told you about this battle, and I didn't told you much about it, because as you know, I don't like to talk about it that much, but after hearing the orders, I panicked and ran along with other gems to the ships. Instead of searching for my crew, like a good captain should do, I ran, you know what happened after that." 

Orange Pearl sighed, as she wrapped her arm around her friend, comfortingly, "Centi, I'll honest with you here. I don't know how it's like to have something like you on your back, because I was made after the war, but please stop blaming yourself. You didn't had control of what happened there, everyone makes mistakes, even gems who think they shouldn't because of their position. Your past mistakes shouldn't define you are. Who you are now is what matters."

"...Thanks Orange." Centi smiled at her, after a moment.

"Anytime." Orange Pearl smiled back, as she looked up at the sky, "Where do you think they are now?" 

''Azurite, Spinel, Shi'ra, Jasper?" Terra's voice came from their side and they saw the said Nephrite walking over to her, in hand with Cotta as the other gems from Centi's crew walked behind these two.

"Them." Orange Pearl nodded her head in confirmation.

"You don't need to worry about them. Steven and Bismuth are with Azurite, Spinel and Shi'ra, and Peridot and Lapis so I'm sure they're okay." Someone from Centi's crew, a Nephrite with a white hair tied into a ponytail stated.

"I hope you're right." Orange Pearl told her, "It's just been a while since all of them left. We're not even sure if Jasper, Peridot and Lapis along with the Guardians got the stone before Thanos, or if Azurite, Spinel, Shi'ra, Steven and Bismuth even made it to Nidavellir." 

"You're just worried about your friends, Orange. They're going to make it, trust me, and maybe who knows, maybe once this is all be over, we'll be having a drink with a drop of the alcohol that Shi'ra owns and then complain about how bad it tastes." Centi chuckled at the thought of them being disgusted by the taste of this thing, once again.

"I still have no idea how she, Azurite and Jasper can drink it." Orange Pearl shook her head with a smile.

"Are you talking here about the drink you told us? That almost made you spit it out because of it's sour taste?" Cotta asked her captain.

"That one." Centi confirmed it with a nod of her head.

''Shi'ra only drinks it on a special occasions, so it may depend if she'll consider it one." Orange Pearl pointed out.

"Defeating this Thanos will be certainly a special occasion." Someone from Centi's crew stated.

"Maybe you're right." Orange Pearl said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"If she'll decide that we should have a drink with it once this all be over, we'll convice her to let all of you try it." Centi told her crew.

"Most of us never tried a drink like that." Terra stated.

''Neither did we before she let us try it." Centi pointed out.

"Garnet! We're here! Here's the coordinates!" Azurite's voice suddenly came from Shi'ra's device which was currently on Garnet's arm as it opened. The last thing that could be heard before it closed down, was the sound of someone, presumably Steven throwing their shield at something, and Azurite thanking him for taking care of it.

"Everyone!" Garnet's voice suddenly rang across the place, as Orange Pearl, Centi, Terra, Cotta and the rest of Centi's crew turned their heads in the direction of the voice, "I just got the message from Azurite with the coordinates! Thanos forces are already there! We need to get moving!"

Garnet didn't had to say more. Everyone immediately reacted to this revelation.

Back in Wakanda things were looking better for the people defending one of the Infinity Stones than they were before Thor along with his new allies came to help them but it was still far away from perfect. The God of Thunder was doing most of the job, clearing hordes of the outriders with his new weapon but Azurite, Spinel, Steven, Shi'ra and Bismuth were holding their own pretty well, taking care of everything that tried to attack them, with all five of them staying by each other side since arriving in this place.

All of them could feel smiles growing on their faces as a few ships that were carrying all of the gesm that joined the fight against the Mad Titan. Everyone's ears were met with loud booming sound of a foghorn as the gems began to depart from their ships. Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst were leading the charge, with Connie who was sitting on Lion's back being closely behind them. There were many unknown faces for Azurite in this huge group of gems, but there were some familiar faces there. Biggs Jasper, Blue Lace Agate, Zebra Jasper, Ocean Jasper, Rainbow Jasper, Snowflake Obsidian, Bixbite, Orange Spodumene, only a name of few. He also spotted Orange Pearl, running side by side with Centi and her crew. 

All of the gems charged forward, a unified battle cry filling the air as they clashed with a horde of Outriders that charged at them the moment they appeared on the battlefield.

"Everyone! One of the Infinity Stones is here! We need to protect it with at all cost!" Steven shouted, throwing is shield at Outrider who tried to jump on him.

Every gem heard him. They knew what they had to do.

Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight watched the arrival of the gem kind from the back of the battlefield.

The first one gritted his teeth as the latter one just stared at what just transpired with unreadable expression on her face.

This was a big complication in their mission.

----

Thanos finally arrived at Titan, stepping the portal created by the Space Stone. He glanced around himself and the first thing he saw was fresh debris from the ship of one of his servants, but it wasn't the only thing he spotted. He also spotted Doctor Strange. The Master of the Mystic Arts was sitting on what may have been plaza steps once.

''Oh, yeah, you're much more of a "Thanos." Strange said to him.

 I take it the Maw is dead." Thanos took a deep sigh, "This day extracts a heavy toll. Still, he accomplished his mission."

''You may regret that. He brought you face-to-face with the Master of the Mystic Arts." Strange told him.

''And where do you think he brought you?" Thanos asked him as Star-Lord crouched behind wreckage with his weapon ready, Jasper was next to him. The huge gem summoning her helmet as she clutched the bomb Quill gave her in her right hand. Spider-Man peeked from above and behind Doctor Strange.

"Let me guess. Your home?" Strange stated, deciding to let Thanos talk.

Thanos smiled reminiscently, "It was. And it was beautiful." 

He raised his gauntleted fist and activated the Reality Stone to show Strange Titan before it was destroyed. A second after their surroudings started to change. Green lawns, intact buildings, water-filled ponds, walking citizens, the jack-like structures hovering and connected to the ground-based buildings with beams of energy. It all seemed like a pretty normal planet. Peridot and Lapis were looking around their surroudings from their hiding places. This planet was indeed beautiful.

''Titan was like most planets." Thanos continued, "Too many mouths, and not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution."

Strange's heart pounded, "Genocide."

"But at random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman. And what I predicted came to pass." Thanos explained with a quick nod of his head as he lowered his fist. The Stone stopped glowing and the illusion faded back into the true state of Titan.

''Congratulations. You're a prophet." Strange said, sarcastically.

"I'm a survivor." Thanos corrected him.

''Who wants to murder trillions." Strange pointed out.

''With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers." Thanos said, snapping his finger with his free hand to clarify his point, "And they would all cease to exist. I call that... mercy."

''And then what?" Strange asked him, standing up.

 ''I finally rest... and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills." The Mad Titan remarked.

''I think... you'll find..." Strange started, entering a fighting pose, "Our will... equal to yours."

Thanos titled his head forward to the right a bit, "Ours?" He looked up to a see a chunk of wreckage descending rapidly on him, too rapidly to react  and it was powered by Iron Man. He was competely crushed by it.

"Piece of cake, Quill." He remarked.

 ''Yeah, if your goal was to piss him off!" Quill pointed out, his mask covering his face.

The wreckage on top of Thanos erupted in purple, as he bellowed in rage. He turned the hovering fragments into a flock of bats with the Reality Stone and swarmed Iron Man with them, driving him back through the ruins. Spider-Man fired his web right at his eyes, and swung in to kick him in the face at the same time that Drax and peridot leaped from cover, the first ones blades in both hands, to knee-slide behind Thanos and try for a tendon slide across the back of the Titan's knee as Peridot was carrying several pieces of metal thanks to her metal powers. 

As Peridot started pushing every piece of metal at him, one by one, Doctor Strange jumped through a portal and summoned a sword of golden energy, dueling with Thanos while Drax attacked him similarly on his other side and while Peridot was pushing more and more metal at him. Thanos punched Drax who's body then knocked Peridot from her disc, causing all of the pieces of metal to fall down, then he shattered the blade with one hand and teared the web from his eyes. He advanced on Doctor Strange and kicked at him, but Strange's shield defended him from the damage before his cloak lifted him up from the ground.

Quill and Jasper were making their way to him,  Star Lord shooting at Thanos  from behind. Thanos used the Power Stone to shoot balls of energy them while these leaped towards him, using magical platforms thrown in his path by Doctor Strange, the last one placed above Thanos' head. Jasper and Quill shared a look together, knowing what to do next. Quill began to fire at Thanos from the air, earning the Titan's' attention with a small help of Peridot who had gotten herself back on her disc and pushed the piece of metal that was lying nearby at Thanos' back. Using this situation, Jasper jumped above Thanos' head and placed the bomb Quill gave her before the battle on Thanos' back. She glared at the Mad Titan, before falling backward into a portal that formed behind her.

The explosion knocked Thanos to his knees.

"Do not let him close his fist." Strange whispered to his cloak. The cloak took off Doctor Strange's shoulders and wraped itself tightly around Thanos' hand, who started trying to take it off.

The two portals suddenly appeared, one at Thanos right, the other one on his left. Lapis Lazuli came out of one of them. A wave of water forming behind her as she fired it Thanos. The Titan absorbed the water with the Reality Stone, but what he didn't know was that Lapis used it as a distraction to wrap the water chains around his arms. The Titan struggled to break himself free, before coming up what he can do with the water he absorbed earlier. He fired it at Lapis, who was not ready for this sudden attack. It knocked her away from him, at least for now.

The moment after that happened, Peter Parker came out of the other portal, as he started attacking him.

"Magic!" The young Avenger punched Thanos in the head and vanished through a portal to the lower right before reappearing above Thanos, "More magic!" He yanked Thanos' head down hard, then leaped into a portal in front of him. He leaped through another portal high and behind Thanos, "Magic with a kick!" He delivered a flying kick and fell feet-first into an exit, then appeared on his right, "Magic with a..."

Before he could finish, Thanos grabbed him from the air, and threw him to the ground, with his hand around his neck

"Insect!" He growled.

He then threw him at Doctor Strange, knocking them both down. Thanos finally took the Cloak away off his gauntlet, but was suddenly surrounded by explosions as Iron Man bombarded him. He sucked all the flame into the gauntlet with the Power Stone and fired it in a stream at Iron Man, hitting him dead on and sending him far away, plowing through a massive fallen machine.

Spider-Man jumped from behind, while Thanos full attention was on his fire on Iron Man. He fired his web the gauntlet and dropped down in front of him, pulling it down, but unfortunely Thanos started pulling on the web-line, pulling the much teenager towards him, and punching him on his way past. He tore the webbing off the gauntlet just in time for a small spaceship to attempt to crash-land on him.

The ship dragged Thanos along for a distance, burying him under debris. He stands just as the pilot jumped in a great arc to punch him, landing in front of him with an energy-blade at the ready.

"Well, well." He said, as before him was standing no other than his adopted daughter Nebula. 

"You should have killed me!" Nebula growled at her adoptive father.

"Would've been a waste of parts!" Thanos shouted at her.

Nebula ran at him, attacking him with her blade, hitting him three times before shouting, "Where's Gamora!?" 

Thanos punched her away from him as Doctor Strange used the Crimson Bands of to pinion the gauntlet, pulling Thanos' fingers open and trying to pry the gauntlet off his hand. The Mad Titan tried to pull free as Drax slided in from his right along with Jasper who slided in from her left, kicking his knee and knocking him off-balance. The Guardian of the Galaxy and the gem then wrapped themselves around Thanos' kneeling legs. Peridot pushed a piece of metal at Thanos' back, distracting him for a second as Lapis grabbed both of his hands with her water chains, trapping him but for how long, she had no idea. Star-Lord fired a electric trap onto the ground to Thanos' right, the tangle-field holding down his unarmored hand. Spider-Man swung in, firing his web the Mad Titan's chest then wrapped it around behind him, digging his Iron Spider legs into the ground to anchor himself.

Doctor Strange opened a portal straight above Thanos' head  out of which fell Mantis, landing on the Titan's shoulders, her hands on resting his temples. He bellowed as she tried to put him to sleep.

Iron Man, having returned, was pulling on the gauntlet. Doctor Strange reapplied the Crimson Bands to reinforce the trap's hold on Thanos' right hand, and the Cloak helped him pull. Thanos was finally not moving which allowed him to get close to him, but was not fully asleep.

"Is he under?" He asked Mantis, earning a quick nod from her, "Don't let up."

''Be quick. He is very strong." She informed all of them.

"Parker, Dorito, help!" He shouted as Peter dropped his web-line and Peridot nodded her head to that, and both of them hurried to help Tony with the gauntlet, "She can't hold him much longer. Let's go."

Quill flied over to join the others, and now stood in front of Thanos, tauntingly, "I thought you'd be harder to catch. For the record, this was my plan. Not so strong now, huh? Where is Gamora?

''My... Gamora...?"  Thanos groaned out.

Quill scoffed, "No, bullshit. Where is she?"

''He is in anguish!" Mantis declared.

"Good!" Quill stated.

"He mourns..." Mantis added, looking like she was about to cry.

Lapis who was still holding Thanos' hands in her water chains and Peridot was was still helping Tony and Peter pull of the gauntlet off Thanos' hand shared a look with each other. The last time they saw Thanos, he teleported himself out of Knowhere with Gamora, and had three Infinity Stones at that time, and now he has four of them. And if they remembered correctly in one of the messages Nebula sent them, Thanos was taking Gamora to this planet with him but she was nowhere to be seen.  An idea of what could have happened to Gamora formed in their heads, but they were hoping that it wasn't going to be it.

"Gamora..." Nebula spoke up, saying what was on their minds, as Quill turned around to her.

"...What?" He said with a small pause.

Nebula swallowed and shook her head, ''He took her to Vormir. He came back with the Soul Stone... but she didn't...''

Tony looked at Quill and recognized something about him. He recognized the same fury that was going to take control of Star-Lord, just like it did with him on the day when the Avengers fell apart. The vengeance that may have been righteous, but it would result in a spiral of suffering. 

"Okay, Quill, you gotta cool it right now, you understand?" He tried to talk some sense into him.

Quill slowly turned to the Titan and shouted, enraged, "Tell me she's lying. Asshole! Tell me you didn't do it!"

"Quill don't do anything! They almost got it off!" Jasper shouted to Quill. They were so close to actually winning this.

"...I had to..." Thanos hissed.

''No, you didn't... ! No, you didn't..." Quill said, starting to tear up for his lost love. He continued to rage as he punched Thanos twice in the face with his blaster, causing Mantis to let go in pain, "No! No you didn't!"

Tony let go off Thanos' hand and leaped for Quill's arm, his helmet appearing on his face and leaving Spider-Man and Peridot to pull off the gauntlet, "Hey, stop! Hey, stop! Stop! Hey, stop! Stop!''

"Look!' Peridot said to Peter, looking at the gauntlet which was close to coming off.

''It's coming! It's coming! It's coming!" Peter said, the fingers getting completely loose, ''We got it! We  got it!''

Thanos woke up completely, now well and truly furious. He head-butted Mantis, grabbing the cuff of the gauntlet just as it is sliding off his hand, causing Spider-Man and Peridot to stumble back, and then throwing Mantis away off his shoulders.

"Oh God." Peter said as he jumped wrapped his arms and legs around her, extending his spider legs to form a roll cage for a safe landing.

The Mad Titan grabbed Peridot by her head and threw her away from all of them, then he kicked Drax off his right leg an and into Nebula and Star-Lord, knocking them down. He did the same with Jasper, only this time he threw her into Lapis, the two gems falling away, their bodies landing next to Peridot. He yanked on the Crimson Bands holding his right hand and used them to to throw Doctor Strange far away, and swatted  away Iron Man and his repulsor shots. The remaining Guardians jump up and charge him again, but he fired a pulse of indigo energy at them that knocks the three of them completely unconscious.

Iron Man zoomed back in, his nanite arm cannon manifested, and is head-butted to the ground. Thanos looked at him for a beat, then raised his gauntlet towards Titan's moon. He used a combination of the Power and Space Stones to shatter the moon's surface, then bring the debris down on the field of battle at speed. Iron Man powers out of the way but is caught by a chunk of moon about the size of a baseball field, slamming him into the ground. The Guardians went sailing into the air from the rebound. 

Jasper and Peridot looked up from the place they landed, and saw a piece of moon falling down at her,  but before it could hit them. Lapis formed a shield of water around her and two gems to protect them and herself from the everything that was failing from the sky.

Situation just went from bad to worse.

----

The invasion of Wakanda was still going rather smothly for Thanos forces, even after the arrival of the gem kind and the God of Thunder. The shields surrounding the capital city had been breached and the Outriders were making more and more headway further into Wakanda.

James Rhodes and Sam Wilson ruled in the skies, firing at what seemed to be the endless waves of enemies below them. Whether it be nearly limitless rounds of ammunition, blasts, small drones, and even missiles, they always found their target. Outriders dropped dead whenever they swooped by.

Shi'ra was separated from her friends and allies a while ago. She swung and twirled and danced with her spear around any Outrider that tried to come near her. She slammed the edge of it against the side of her enemy's face, or mouth or whatever it was. All she cared about now was keeping them away from the stone as best as she could. Her plasma caster fired at one Outrider that tried to attack her from her side. A plasm of energy cutting it's body in the half. However, what she didn't notice was the fact that there was Outrider heading towards her from the other side. She realized that there was something headed towards her when a horryfic cry came from the above. Her head turned back and eyes darted forward as Outrider jumped on her. She held her spear between them, as the snarling creature snapping towards  throat with its golden,  teeth. As she struggled to hold it away from her, her plasma caster was ready to fire at it but before it could fire at creature pinning her down, a whip was wrapped around it, getting it off her, just a second before a blast of energy ended it's life.

Shi'ra titled her head towards it and saw Amethyst and Pearl. She was met with the latter ones hand and she took it without second thought, "Thanks."

The two gems nodded their heads at them as they joined her side. The three of them now dealing with everything that came into their way.

Bismuth engaged everything that stood in her way. With both of her hands turned into sharp blades, the Outriders didn't stood a chance against her, she was practically untouchable. She was joined by Bruce Banner in the Hulkbuster suit. He was blasting energy from the hands of this suit at the Outriders away with a shock wave of energy from her hand. She turned to him,  almost taken aback by him. She lost her breath when Banner jammed the palms of the suit, with him glaring at the swarm of Outriders heading their way and let something fly through the ground. The earth underneath them trembled, and it felt like an earthquake for her, but it was okay when she saw the creatures falling on the ground. The Earthquake stopped when Banner took his hands from the ground and looked down at Bismuth, the two of them knowing what they had to do next. The Outriders who were rising up from the ground didn't stood a chance against them.

Similiar thing was with Garnet. She too didn't seem have any problem with anything going against her. Experiencing years of combat in her entire existance. She rushed faster than many people she passed meeting a group of Outriders. She ducked the pounce of one of them before sliding forward. Sha slammed one of the gauntlets at the side of rushing Outrider. The next Outrider that charged her was launched by the fusion clear across the battlegrounds, its body disappearing in the madness of this battle. She didn't had to deal with other Outriders because a lightning which she assumed came from the God of Thunder himself lit al of them, their bodies burning at the impact of the thunder.

Speaking of Thor, the God of Thunder was unleashing his wrath upon every swarm of Outriders that tried their chance on him. His new weapon letting out spark of thunder at each of his enemies as he swung it around. Steve Rogers was right next to him. Captain America rammed the end of his shields over the Outrider beneath him, his punches being strong enough to kill the creature on the second of the impact. With his hair being a mess of sweat mixed with alien blood, Steve looked over at Thor.

"New haircut?" He asked him, panting.

"Notice you've copied my beard." Thor said, gesturing towards Captain having a beard similiar to his.

Captain America nodded, wearily gesturing at his own face with a shield-covered hand as Groot extended his hand forward, impaling three Outriders with his right arm.

''By the way, this is a friend of mine. Tree." Thor introduced his new ally to his friend, gesturing towards him with Stormbreaker.

"I am Groot!" Groot said, taking his sight away from the impaled Outriders for a second.

"I'm Steve Rogers." Captain America introduced himself, putting his hand on his armor, unaware that it was all the talking tree could say.

"It's all he can say." A voice that was unknown for Captain America, but familiar for Thor and Groot sounded in their ears before a pink shield was threw at the leaping Outriders bringing it down on the floor.

"Nice throw, kid." Captain America complemented Steven who came from behind him.

"Thank you, Cap." Steven said, looking up at Captain America with a s smile. He couldn't help himself. His favourite Avenger was standing in front of him!, "Means a lot from you."

"Where you're from?" Captain America asked him

"Beach City. Delmarva." Steven answered, stopping an Outrider with his shield, before a bubble formed on his fist.

"Brooklyn, New York." Captain America said back, slamming one of his new shields at the top of the skull of an Outrider.

Natasha Romanoff and Okoye gritted their teeth and swung their weapons around as best they could as more and more Outriders came their way. By the time they realized they were being surrounded by Outriders, an energy fired at one their enemies. Black Widow and The Dora Milaje barely catched a glimpse of the Kratai and two gems standing by her side. Neither groups had the time to even share a word or two with each other. All five of them were dodging, swinging, and putting their weapons into their enemies. 

Black Widow swung downwards with her staff at an Outrider held down by Amethyst's whip as Pearl stabbed one of them on the top of its skull. Shi'ra wished she could use her plasma caster now but her weapon had to recharge itself before she was able to use it again. Nevertheless, she was still practically unstoppable, and Okoye was in awe of her skills with her spear, and vice versa. The two women becoming an untouchable duo. They engaged in a dance of pure precision and devastation towards their enemies. They weaved together like pure silk, leaping to where the other stood, slashing at any Outrider that came between the two of them. When the last creature fell back, the group of five looked around to see no other Outrider left alive. Twirling her staff, Natasha turned gaze over to Shi'ra, Pearl and Amethyst looking their way. A Kratai and two gems shared a quick look with Black Widow and Okoye as they nodded their heads at each other.

A moment later, some humans and gems on the battlefield, especially the ones that were close to the trees felt a strange disturbance. The ones who weren't fighting with anything at the moment turned their heads for as second at the trees, and the ones who were fighting with the alien at the moment still had their full attention on their enemy but a shred of it was also focused on these trees. When the disturbance reached the edge of the trees, it turned into vast moving mounds of earth that easily bypass the force field and emerge. Threshers, sets of massive, motorized spiked wheels, intended for nothing more than shredding everything in their paths, some unfortunate gems and humans being one of it's victims.

"Fall back! Fall back now!" T'Challa shouted, called over to everyone that could hear him, as the Threshers were making their way through the fields.

''Focus that fire on the left flank, Sam!" Rhodes said to Wilson, both of them flying towards one of the Threshers.

''I'm doing it!'' Falcon was already firing his target as he was joined by Rhodes but unfortunely both of them couldn't find a weak spot.

Black Widow with her escrima sticks, Okoye with her augmented spear, Shi'ra with her spear and plasma caster, Pearl with her spear and Amethyst with her whip have drifted together when they  suddenly found themselves in the path of a Thresher. All of them cringed at their seemingly inevitable shredding when the Scarlet Witch landed in front of all of them, eyes glowing red, lifting the whole Thresher well clear of the ground. Looking behind her, the friendly forces have scattered and replaced by a charging mob of Outriders.  It was the perfect place to throw a Thresher. Black Widow and Pearl looked at her with a pleased smiles, Okoye, Shi'ra and Amethyst with an amazed look.

"Why was she up there all this time?" Okoye asked.

"That's a very good question." Shi'ra agreed with her, nodding her head.

Spinel grinned as she launched herself from the ground, extending her legs. It allowed her cut several Outriders down at the time. She looked at her work, giving it a simple nod of her head. It was right before she heard someone growling and shouting to someone to let go off her. She glanced in the direction of that voice and saw a gem, a Ruby guard with a gem in her eyeball pinned to the ground by two outriders as she the said gem was trying to get the creatures off her with her small knife. Spinel extended her legs and headed towards them, intending to save this Ruby guard as fast as she could. The gem that was in the need of help didn't had to wait much. Spinel cut through the Outriders like a hot knife through butter. She offered her hand to the Ruby guard, who after some hesitation eventually took it, allowing Spinel to help get back on her feet.

The Ruby stared at her for a second before whispering, "...Thank you."

Spinel turned to her for a second, offering a smile to the short gem before using her ability of extended libs again, heading towards another swarm of the Outriders, with intentions of taking them all out at once.

"Come and get some, space dogs!" Rocket shouted at the top of his lungs as he was firing everything he had onto another wave of Outriders heading right in his way. The Winter Soldier, having come up behind Rocket, grabbed him with his mechanical arm, held him at arms length and spins 540 degrees, firing his own M-249 at the same time. The Winter Soldier dropped Rocket, after they were done with a swarm, who looked up at him with an impressed gleam, "How much for the gun?"

"Not for sale." Bucky answered, firing at another Outriders that started heading their way.

"Okay, how much for the arm?" Rocket asked another question. The Winter Soldier just gave him a look before walking away, "Oh, I'll get that arm.''

The talking raccoon and the Winter Soldier were all suddenly taken aback when they heard a very loud roar that came from behind them. The two of them turned in the direction of the roar, and saw Lion. The huge pink animal bit in the skull one of one the Outriders and threw him above himself, the lifeless body of the allien landing several metres away from him. However, Lion wasn't alone. Connie was with him. She rammed her blade behind her, and impaled at leaping Outrider. Ripping her blade out of it's lifeless body, he looked around the battleground, her eyes spotting Rocket and the Winter Soldier.

"You're a raccoon. A talking raccoon!" She said, staring at Rocket in awe. In all weird things she's experienced in her life, she was never excepting to met a talking raccoon.

Rocket took the offence, "Hey, watch it, girlie!''

Orange Pearl and Centi fought together, side by side, the friends holding everything back from themselves. An Outrider leaped from the battle and jumped on Centi, the former corrupted gem grabbed the alien by its throat holding it away from her as far away as she could. Orange Pearl saw that her friends in need and brought her claw down on the Outrider's head. Centi gritted her teeth as she slammed the lifeless body of o an Outrider on the ground. The two friends shared a nod together as they went forward, taking out more and more Outriders coming their way.

Orange Pearl was doing everything she could. The orange gem was putting all the skills she learned from Azurite in Little Homeworld in use. She couldn say she was doing well, but there were some situation when she needed help from someone. One of those situation came when she was rammed to side and sent to the ground as the clawed around her like she was piece of food threw to some wild dogs. She did her best to shield her face from them with her arm while the other one tried to push them away from her. The help came when all of them were sliced down. She removed her hands from her face, confused that they were killed off in a fraction of a second, even though they were about to feast on her like they did to many humans and gems who were less fortunate than her. She looked around to see Spinel standing before her, offering her hand.

"Hey guys." Spinel greeted them, as Orange Pearl accepted her hand, allowing her to lift her up from the ground, "It's good to see you again."

"You took your time, Spinel." Centi smiled, happy to see her friend, stabbing a charing Outrider with the end of her spear.

"Better late than ever, right?" Spinel smiled as well, "Have you guys seen Shi'ra or Azzie?"

"Shi'ra is with Amethyst and Pearl. At least she was the last time I saw her." Orange Pearl said as she kocked one of the outriders, knocking it down. She dug her claws into it's body, killing it.

"Where's Azzie?" She asked them.

Azurite was making his way through the field, delivering a short fight between everyone that tried to go against him. His claws  were easily ripping through their shells of skin of the Outriders. He ducked as an Outrider jumped for his head. Turning back to him, the gem reared back with his claw and slashed at the side of the beast's head, the Outrider letting out a scream and as it's life faded away from it. 

It was when he saw her.

Proxima Midnight.

The member of the Black Order he meet during the cleansing of Konoritos was standing several metres away from him. He remembered her. She was the one who separated him from Aleena all those years ago. She was just standing there. This was his chance to get rid of her once and for all.

With a clench of his fists, he started to make his way towards her.

Upon finally reaching her, he heard her whisper something to herself, but it wasn't on his mind right now.

"You." He said to her, earning her attention, "Remember me? The gem from Konoritos?"

Proxima nodded her head, recognizing him, ''I do. What are you doing with gems? I thought they casted you out."

Azurite didn't answered to her question, instead said something else, "You took her away from me when you were murdering our neighbours. She could have survived if you didn't took her from me.''

"What happened is now history. You had an equal chance that it'll happen to you instead of her." Proxima stated.

"What happened to your precious spear?" Azurite asked, recalling that Proxima was using a spear, before not a sword, "Was it destroyed?"

"That's one of your concern." Proxima retorted.

"I'll take that as yes. Good. I'll be honest with you, when I was told that he's after the stones, I was hoping I get to kill you and it's going to be much easier now." Azurite told her, his eyes were full of hate for the woman in front of him.

"I had similiar feelings after I saw you appear on the field." Proxima said back, glaring at the gem.

Azurite unsheathed his claws.

Proxima Midnight roared.

They charged at each other and the two warriors clashed. She stabbed with her sword leading, Azurite knocking it to the aside and slicing upwards for her jugular. Hoping to see her blood fly in the air, and paint his claws. The gem growled to see her lean back at the last second, his claws only shredding an inch off her flowing hair. It didn't do nothing to her and she was still alive, still dangerous as ever. It was made him angry ever more. He knew he wasn't being himself, but everytime when he looked at her, he still saw Aleena being put in the other crowd, before being executed by the Chitauri, after they were separated from each other by her. His anger and rage was taking the control of his body.

She spun in mid-air, and her next blow as headed towards his gem on his forehead, a guaranteed death for him. Azurite caught the sword and gripped it by it's front and punched her right across her face. Proxima was down for a second, as Azurite went towards her, ready to end her life, to get his revenge from separating him from Aleena. Unfortunely for him, but fortunely for her, he didn't even had a chance to land a finishing blow on her. She quickly got herself back on her feet, and punched him as hard as she could. It was that hard that he was launched backwards, landing flat on his chest and fighting to get back up.

Proxima picked up her sword from the ground which was dropped by Azurite the moment she punched him as he after some struggling got himself back on his feet. He wasn't to die today. The member of the Black Order lunged towards the gem, with her sword and his claws sending spark across the ground. Midnight held her sword up outwards, slowly circling Azurite. The gem did the same, his claws in front of him, ready to strike or to hold another attack from her.

"You've gotten stronger." She stated.

"And it's bad for you." Azurite said, with his glare not leaving his face.

"Tell me. Do you have anyone here that you care about? Because if yes, then I'm going to make you watch them as I take of them. It'll be just like on Konoritos with that young Zaranian girl." Proxima told him.

An imagine of Centi, Orange Pearl, Shi'ra... and Spinel getting killed by this woman flew through his mind. He screamed and rushed at her, his claws headed to her neck. The two weapons struck once more. Weapons igniting and sparks falling on the ground as they connected, but once again, Azurite failed to hurt her, but on Midnight side, everything was going just as she wanted. She saw that this gem wanted her to see her dead, she knew that what she just said made him even more angry and thirsty for her blood, and she was going to use it to her benefits. 

A wicked smile appeared on her face as she jumped backwards, just as Azurite was about to block another one of what he thought was going to be of her attacks. Azurite, who was blinded by the rage and hate for this woman that was growing inside of him since Konoritos was taken of the guard by this sudden movement had to balance himself to avoid falling on the ground, because it was easy to say that it wouldn't well for him, as Proxima landed a powerful blow on the back of his face. He stumbled back, holding his head, as Midnight headed towards him. He swung his fist at her, to hold back but she easily pushed that attempt of an attack from her with her sword, and the second after that, she landed another powerful blow on his face.

Azurite grunted in pain as Proxima grabbed him by his throat, and pinned him down to the ground, with her sword ready to land a finishing blow on the gem's forehead.

"You're going to die today, Azurite. Neither you, or your new gems friends, or these humans will stop us from getting that stone." She told him . It was supposed to be her last words to him, but then a rather unfamliar voice to her but familiar to Azurite sounded. 

"You leave my gem alone..." Spinel's voice came from behind them. The member of the Black Order turned to the source of the voice and saw three gems. Spinel had her scythe in ready, Orange Pearl readied her claws and Centi held her spear in ready.

Proxima Midnight glared at the three gems before her, gritting her teeth, "But before that happens, you'll watch all of them die."

"We'll see about that." Centi said, glaring at her, knowing that this was one of the members of the Black Order Azurite told her and the rest about. She wasn't going to panic like she did when Hessonite gave her the order to retreat. She was going to fight her as long she was able to.

Midnight charged at them, letting out a horrendous scream. Her fight target was Orange Pearl, jamming her blade into the direction the orange gems eyes, but much to the suprise of both, Spinel extended her arm and grabbed Midnight, while the other hand that was wielding her scythe headed for Proxima's breastplate, but before it could do anything to her, her enemy blocked the attack with her blade. The second after, Spinel threw Proxima away from her and Centi. As Midnight skidded across the ground, she didn't even hesistated and tried to go for Centi's  gem, but thankfully Centi, she ducked this attack.

The green gem twirled and spun her spear around, with her the edges of her weapon going against her enemy again and again.  A rather short fight between Proxima and Centi ended when Midnight swung low,  heading towards Orange Pearl's legs who unfortunely for herself didn't manage to dodge this attack. The green gem was send on the ground, with her her body laying flat on her back. Proxima was ready to end her, to shatter her, and lifted her sword up, but that could happen, Centi rolled to the other side. The former corrupted gem picked up her spear by the two sides and held it above herself as the member of the Black Order brought the sword down, and instead of ending Centi's life, she broke the gems spear in the half.

Knowing that Centi's wasn't going to hold longer with being on the ground and a broken spear, Spinel extended both of her legs and slammed herself into Proxima. The two of them fumbled away into the dirt. Kicking, Spinel off her, Midnight quickly raised up from the ground, the pink gem doing the same, gritting her teeth.  As Spinel swung her scythe right at Midnight, the latter one felt two blows onto her back. Turning her glance away for a second, she saw Orange Pearl.

Quickly realizing that she was fighting on two fronts, Midnight was blocking more and more strikes from Spinel, while suffering one or two blows from Orange Pearl that she didn't had time to dodge. One of those blows, which was directed to her leg, caused her to fall on her knee. She lifted her blade just as Spinel's scythe came down on her head, pushing her off of her. She then quickly jumped back on her feet, before taking care of the orange gem that was behind her. She spinned rapidly and sliced low. Orange Pearl was doing all she could, ducking and blocking every attack from her enemy, but unfortunely for her, Proxima's attacks started to pay off.

It was not long before Midnight kicked her in the chest. As Orange Pearl tumbled away, Spinel was all Proxima had to deal with. The pink gem stood up from the ground she was fell on after Midnight pushed her off, and extended her hand towards her scythe but the child of Thanos quickly made sure that she wasn't going to wield it for the rest of the fight. The child of Thanos made sure that Spinel wasn't going to have anything to defend herself and began to send powerful blows right at her face with her free hand. Spinel was taking each of them down, trying to extend her hands to stop her but all of those attempts didn't had any effect of Midnight. She proceeded to punch Spinel until the pink gem eventually collapsed on the ground.

Azurite who was down for most of the time since Spinel, Orange Pearl and Centi joined his fight with Proxima was cursing under his breath for everything that just happened. Cursing Proxima, and more importantly himself for letting the anger, rage and hatred he felt for this woman take the full control of him which resulted in him getting easily beaten by her. He quickly looked around and saw his hooks which haven't been used by him since he joined this battle after arriving with Thor. Both of the were laying on the ground. Knowing that Proxima's focus wasn't on him now, he used this as an ocassion to take her by suprise. He quickly picked it up and when Proxima who was about to land a finishing blow on Spinel, stabbed her in the probably only area that didn't had any breastplate on, but it wasn't the only thing he did to her. He placed his hand on her neck, slicing along with it with his claws. badly wounding it. Midnight gasped for a breath as she grabbed her bleeding throat, her dark blood painting her hands.

Spinel knew that it was her chance to do something. She saw Midnight drop her sword at the sudden damage she took from Azurite. She quickly picked it up and stabbed her right in the stomach with it, penetrating her breastplate, finishing her off. Blood began to pour from Midnight's mouth, before Azurite threw her now lifeless body aside.

Before Spinel could say anything to him, he hugged her laying body, and said, "You're okay... you're okay." He repeated those words a few times, before saying, "She didn't took you from me just like she did with Aleena."

Spinel, at first a bit suprise by the hug, gave him a few quick pats on the back, before saying to him, "Hey, I'm not going anywhere, Azzie. You don't have to worry about that." 

Azurite lifted his head up from her chest and smiled at her.

Spinel returned the smile.

"Oh my stars... She almost got all of us, and you wanted to fight with her alone?" Orange Pearl asked him, standing up from the ground, which was followed by Centi, Spinel and Azurite.

"I know that was foolish of me? It just, when I saw her, I saw her separating me from Aleena, and I let the anger take control of me." Azurite said, letting his head down in shame. 

Spinel put her hand on his arm, "It's alright, Azzie. Now this isn't what we have to worry about."

"You're right." Azurite said with a nod of his head, as Spinel extended her hand to pick up her scythe which was laying a few metres away from them.

"There's one problem here. I'm going to need a new weapon. My spear is not in a good condition." Centi said, gesturing towards her broken spear.

An idea immediately popped in Azurite's mind. He picked up Proxima's sword and handed it to Centi, "Take it. This bitch doesn't need it anymore." 

Centi eyed the sword for a second, before saying, "Let's go."

With that, all four of them rushed back into the battle.

Falcon was still flying across the fields of Wakanda, unloading everything he had onto the invaders when he saw something. It was just moments before he saw something. There were two figured failling down the the window to fall many metres down the face of Mount Bashenga. He recognized one of these figures. It was the Vision. Someone was close to him! Close to the Mind Stone!

''Guys, we got a Vision situation here.'' He informed his fellow Avengers, before an Outrider jumped on him, causing him to fall on the ground.

''Somebody get to Vision!" Captain America shouted, slamming down one Outrider, as Steven who was not leaving his side was taking care of everything that came in his way with his shield, or the bubble on his other fist.

"We got him!" Bruce Banner shouted, flying towards the current location of the Vision with Bismuth on his back.

Unaware that his beloved one was dead, Corvus Glaive kicked the Vision, knocking him down. As he attempted to rise again, Cull Obsidian showed up and swung his hammer in a full arc, throwing Vision even further. He painfully started to climb to his feet again when a whooshing overhead interrupts the fight as Bruce Banner landed the Hulkbuster between the aliens and the android. He took a defensive stance, pointing one hand's repulsor at each, similiar thing with Bismuth with both of her hands that were still turned into sharp weapons.

"Oh no, oh no you don't. This isn't going to be like New York, pal. This suit's already kicked the crap out of the Hulk..." Banner didn't had a chance to finish as Cull Obsidian jumped forward. The member of the Black Order grabbed Bruce's right arm, and Bismuth's left arm. Banner in reflex grabbed Obsidian's hammer as a jet fired, taking all three of them in a random direction, to the base of a waterfall.

"Guys! Vision needs backup now!"  He shouted to through his earpiece, he and Bismuth getting themselves back on their feet. Unfortunely, Cull Obsidian was faster than both of them and Bismuth saw how Obsidian pulled the Hulkbuster up and kicked it in the back. Inside of the suit, Banner was trying to change into the Hulk while fighting Cull Obsidian was basically rippng the Hulkbuster apart, "Hulk, I know you like making your entrance at the last second, well, this is it, man. This is the last, last second." He extended his left hand protectively as Obsidian grabbed the armor's hand, chopped the shoulder joint with a relatively small axe then does a roll over Bruce's back to leverage snapping off the Hulkbuster's whole arm and knocking Bruce away from him.

Bismuth came in Banner's rescue. She jumped in the distance between these two and swung her sharpened blades which still replacing her hands in the direction of the largest member of the Black Order. Much to her suprise, a shield, simply out of nowhere appeared right before her. She tried two more times to do something to it, but she couldn't. This shield was basically impenetrable to her blades. She jumped back as Obsidian swung his shield, thinking that it was going to go for her, but instead, he slammed it upon the earth where she stood. Dozens of rocks flew right into her face. Bismuth covered her eyes with her now normal hands, shielding her eyes them from the rocks, unable to shield anything else as Cull ripped his own shield out of the ground and drove it across her face. Bismuth screamed as she flew across the field, landing against a rock. Obsidian's shield disappeared back into his wrist as he lanched himself at her, ready to bury his fist in her gem but was instead met with a brown shield with several sharp things coming out of it.

"Need a shield?" Biggs Jasper asked her friend, turning her head to her for a second, "I saw this guy use it on you."

"Biggs?" Bismuth asked, looking at Biggs in suprise, not excepting to see her, "What are you doing here?"

"I heard there was a problem and saw you flying on this guys back so I came." Biggs explained.

Bismuth got herself back on her feet, "I'm glad you did."

"Good." Biggs sent her a quick smile as one of Bismuth's hands turned into a hammer and Biggs' shield went back to her gem, before taking out a sword, "Let's finish off."

Cull Obsidian roared, a large blade unsheathing on the same wrist as his shield. He and the two gems charged at each other, the first one snarling like a best at his two opponents. Biggs Jasper roared as she swung her sword at him, a roar that was silenced as her attack was blocked by the Obsidian. It was followed up by another, then another, and again and again, until she sword was knocked away from her hand, sending it away from her. He grabbed her by her neck and began onloading his anger at her, pushing her deeper and deeper into the nearest rock, before he felt Bismuth punch him in the back with her hammer-like hand. 

Cull grunted in pain as he turned back to her, taking his attention away from Biggs for a second. His expression he sent her was saying one thing. He was done playing with them. He pulled her up and kicked her in the back. Bismuth tried to free herself from her graps so she could try to attack him again, but she was too strong for her. He threw her away from him into the rocks. Then his attention went back to Biggs who was taking her last thing to defend herself, her shield out of her gem, but unfortunely he was faster than her and threw her away into the same rocks as Bismuth. The two gem laid on the ground, defeated with Obsidian heading in their way with the intention of finishing both of them, but suddenly the two gems and the member of the Black Order heard Banner scream to himself, "Oh screw you, you big green asshole! I'll do it myself!"

The two gems watched as Banner charged the member of the Black Order, jumping  into the air and delivering an effective punch with his remaining hand. Unfortunely that blow was caught by Obsidian, who punched back, knocking Bruce flat. Obsidian changed his left hand armor into a pointed weapon, and lunged forward to deliver fatal blow into the Avenger's chest, but before that could happen, Bruce grabbed the detached Hulkbuster arm out of the water, holding it so Obsidian impaledthat instead, and slapped the controls.

"See ya!" Banner said as the repulsors fired, taking Cull Obsidian high into the air, high enough, in fact, to intersect the defense dome. The Hulkbuster arm dragged Obsidian against the field to grotesque destructive effect, ending in a very final explosion, "Hulk, we got a lot to figure out, pal."

"Is he?" Bismuth asked, standing up from the ground, wanting to be sure if Cull Obsidian meet his demise or not.

"I think so." Banner said as he looked down at Bismuth and Biggs, "You two alright?"

"Did you knew that it was going to sent him flying?" Bismuth asked the Avenger, with Biggs nodding her head in agreement.

"No." Banner shook his head.

"Then we got lucky, real lucky, without it he'd easily have us." Biggs stated, now understanding why Azurite considered the Black Order to be as dangerous as Thanos.

As Vision was struggling to get up, Corvus Glaive who was still on his trail lifted him up by his neck to his eye level, thrusting his glaive into his body just a second after, "I thought you were a formidable machine, but you're dying just like any other man."

The member of the Black Order pulled his glaive out, as Vision collapsed on the ground, wincing in pain. He reached down, ready to grab the Infinity Stone out of the android's forehead, but was interrupted when Steven threw a shield knocking him away from him the Vision.

"Get out of here!" Captain America shouted to the android, charging at the last member of the Black Order.

"We got this!" Steven added, his shield going back to his fist, running towards Corvus.

Steven was the first to make his stand against Corvus Glaive. He  was blocking Corvus's every attack with his shield, eventually trying to sent a blow at the alien with his bubbled fist, and it paid off as he drove his past forward, punching Corvus in the stomach. The alien took a few step backwards, but it overall didn't do any serious damage to him.

Corvus glared at the gem-human hybrid, making his way back to him, an idea how to take out Steven appearing in his mind. He swung his glaive at him a few times, all of his attacks were of course blocked by Steven, but what Steven didn't except from Corvus was that his next attack was going to be headed towards his legs. The member of the Black Order took out his leg, causing him to fall down on the ground. With Steven on the ground, Corvus had more chance to take care of it. He brought him glaive down, with the edge of it being blocked by Steven's shield. He gritted his teeth, a glare not leaving his face as he pushed the glaive down at the gem-human hybrid. Steven gasped  in shock as his shield was finally penetrated by Corvus' Glaive's weapon, the edge of it going through a small a hole in it. He struggle to hold it, as a smirk grew on Corvus' face, knowing that it was just a matter of time before Steven's shield will finally be fully penetrated by his weapon.

It was when Captain America finally made his move. He slammed his body against Corvus', pushing him away from Steven. He blocked the swing from his glaive, driving his fist forward and punching Corvus in the forehead. The alien stumbled backwards and giving Steve all the room he needed. Shaking his head to regain as much sense as possible at this moment, Corvus reacted quickly and raised his glaive to block the kick from the first Avenger.

Steve flipped through the air, his right leg heading toward Corvus as he swung it fiercely down, right down the weapon Corvus wielded. It fell a few feet away from them, Corvus gazing towards his weapon, knowing that he may not have the time not to pick it up as Captain America swung his fist at him. His punch was caught by Corvus, the last Black Order member's right fist striked  Rogers right on his chin. The punch was strong enough that it would surely kill any normal man in the matter of a seconds, but for Steven, it was just another punch, leaving just a drop of blood from his bottom lip. 

It may have been a normal punch for Captain that would surely kill him if he was a normal human, but it didn't change the fact that it was a very strong one. Steve fell on his back from the force of the punch. Just as he was about to stand up from the ground, Steve caught his breath as Corvus' hand grabbed his throat, tightening with each second, taking all the source of the air from the first Avneger and earning several gasps for air. Rogers tried to break free from Corvus' grasp, but was unable to break the grip. Glaive narrowed his glare, tightened his wrist, and pushed further and further until...

He gasped as he felt his body penetrated by his own glaive. Blood began to pour from his mouth as the Vision raised his lifeless body in the air, before tossing it aside, along with the glaive.

'We told you to leave." Captain America said to Vision, who was helping him to get up.

"We don't trade lives, captain." Vision stated, before glancing over at Steven who had joined them by Cap's other side, "Of anyone."

Steven gave the android a small smile, before helping him to get Cap up.

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The situation on Titan wasn't getting any better. Lapis was still covering herself, Peridot and Jasper from everything that was falling from the sky as the unconscious Guardians were flying upwards uncontrollably.

Spider-Man was well-equipped to handle this physically, even if he was  freaking out emotionally. He began to fire his web at the Guardians, trying to catch them, "I got you! I got you! I'm sorry I can't remember anybody's names!"

The Cloak of Levitation set Doctor Strange down on a stable outcrop as Thanos freed himself from rubble. The Sorcerer Supreme made a few gestures with his hands, making golden magic circles, and slammed his hands down on the rock in front of him, invoking the Seven Suns of Cinnibus as a lightning-like effect of immense heat jumping from rock to rock until it reached Thanos, sending him flying, but he used gravity to keep control and fire back a blast from the Power Stone.

Doctor Strange blocked the purple energy with a wall, which he then pushes back at Thanos. It went around the Titan, who sucked the magic and formed a small black hole with the Space Stone, firing it back at Doctor Strange. Just in time, Doctor Strange raised a shield and changed the dark energy into a swarm of aqua butterflies which return to their master.

Lapis, Peridot and Jasper were watching the fight between these two in awe. Even the Diamonds would be impressed by what they were just seeing.

Before Thanos can counterattack again, Doctor Strange levitated and began to move his hands in a strange way, before dozens of his replications rush away, forming a circular wall around a the Mad Titan. They casted magical cords, wrapping them around Thanos' entire body. He struggled to close his gauntleted fist, and used the Soul and Power Stones to discover the real Doctor Strange among the many copies of the sorcener, blowing the copies away and sending the real Doctor Strange down. Reality and Space pulled Strange forward, Thanos grasping him by the throat.

"You're full of tricks, wizard." The Mad Titan stated,

As the Mad Titan reached for the Time Stone, Strange shouted, "No!"

Thanos pulled the Time Stone off it's chains, "Yet you never once used your greatest weapon." He crushed it with his hand, "A fake. 

As he threw Doctor Strange hard enough that his  head hit stone, casing him to pass out, the gems knew they had to do something. Doctor Strange was just defeated by Thanos and it was just a matter of time before the Titan would get the stone from the sorcener.

Lapis was the first to make her move, removing the water shield from her, Jasper and Peridot and flied over to the Mad Titan, and faced him, standing between him and Strange.

"A Lapis Lazuli? I thought you were supposed to be destroying planets." Thanos stated, the second after Lapis landed before him.

"You're the one who's been wiping out half of the populations of the planets, and now wants to do it in the universal scale." Lapis pointed out, glaring at him.

"It is just a small price to pay for salvation." Thanos told her.

Lapis said nothing in response, with her glare not leaving her face. She slighty extended her hand forward and grabbed the Mad Titan by his hands, trapping him. She knew it wasn't going to last long because she already tried this trick on him but it was just to give her more time to attack. She extended both of her arms forward herself, forming a giant sharp thing with water and pushed it at Thanos. It was going to work, it had to work, with this planet not having any water, it was the only thing that came into her mind.

She could feel her eyes opening in shock as It flied. Flied right through his body and he just stood there as if nothing happened. It wasn't supposed to go like that. It was supposed to cut him in the half. Even the two Lapis Lazuli's she and Steven came across about two months before all of this were cutting hills in the half with this trick, and it would surely kill a normal alive being without the victim of this trick realizing what happened to him, or her, but the Mad Titan was just standing there, not even touched by it.

Growing, even more desperate, and running out of options, Lapis brought her hands together, forming a beam of water and fired at Thanos. The Titan absorbed her attack with his gauntlet, until he began to fire it back at her, the Reality Stone glowed, turning it into fire. Lapis could feel herself taking a step, or two back as she was doing all she could to hold it back. The two of them just stood there, Lapis water beam and Thanos' fire beam going against each other. The edges of it touching themselves somewhere in the middle, each absorbing one another, until Thanos' fire beam began to move forward. It sucked everything that was made by Lapis until it eventually reached the blue gem.

Lapis' last sight before getting thrown away was a piece of metal heading towards the Mad Titan. Peridot was pushing every piece of metal that came into her view at Thanos, even though it was doing nothing to him. She saw his gauntlet glew red as her disc was suddenly turned into bubbles, causing her to fall on the ground. She looked up from the ground and saw Thanos approaching her, with fear growing in her eyes as Jasper jumped right between them.

"I'm done playing with you." She said to the Titan, glaring at him.

"Done?" Thanos asked her.

Jasper growled as she rushed at the Titan. She punched him in his torso, over and over again, giving all the strength she had in her blows. Thanos was stumbling back as Jasper began to smirk, thinking that she may have him. She pushed him against a huge rock, pushing it deeper and deeper into it, until something that took her off her caught happened. Thanos was prying her hands.

Using the fact that she was taken off the guard by it, even though he was basically throwing him just a second ago, Thanos knew that it was a perfect moment to finally strike back at her. He punched him in the neck, as she took a step back after receiving the punch. As she clenched her neck, it was when Thanos fully unloaded on her. Every blow was so strong, Jasper was stumbling back further and further with each punch from the Mad Titan. Peridot watched in shock how one of the strongest gems she met in her entire life was tossed around like a ragdoll by Thanos, until he lifted her up above his head and threw her away.

Just a moment after being tossed into the air, Jasper suddenly could feel herself being held up in the air, before being gently set down on the ground. She glanced over at Peridot and saw her, holding her arm out.

Thanos saw it as well, his gauntlet sending a wave of energy, throwing the green gem away from him and Jasper.

The tall orange gem was ready to fight with him again, despise the good beating she got from him just a moment ago. She began to glow as she formed herself into a ball and rolled herself at Thanos, using her powerful charge. After hitting him with her charge, she looked up, excepting and hoping  to see Thanos thrown away by it, but much to her suprise, Thanos stood there, as he wasn't just hit by her. Getting off her suprise rather quickly, she raised her fist and was about to punch him again, but her fist was caught by opponent, before the Titan headbutted her. The hit was so strong that it made her fall away a few metres away from him.

"I like you." Thanos said, admiring how determined this gem was to defeat him.

Jasper didn't react to that, she just got herself back onto her feet again and tried to make her stand against him, once again. Being more desperate than ever, she began to form herself into a glowing ball again and charged at Thanos, hoping that it will do something him, but it was when it seemed like The Titan was done with playing with her. His gauntlet glowed purple and a wave of energy sent Jasper flying across the field, eventually hitting a Shi'ra ship that happened to be standing on her way. The impact was so hard that sent the ship flying along with her for several more metres before she finally stopped. The impact of the landing was so strong that it broke her helmet and destroyed a rather good of her roommates ship.

It was when she finally realized that they weren't strong enough to beat him,

It was when she realized that she wasn't strong enough to beat him.

After watching how Jasper literally flew away from him, The Titan saw Iron Man's device into his hand with the gauntlet, bracing the fingers open,  and an Avenger in the iron suit landed in front of him.

''You throw another moon at me, and I'm gonna to lose it." Tony said, sounding like he was done with the Titan.

"Stark." Thanos simply said.

"You know me?" Tony asked him.

"I do. You're not the only one cursed with knowledge." Thanos stated.

''My only curse is you." Tony told him as small rockets popped out of his back and went at Thanos.

All of the the rockets exploded on the Titan, momentarily covering him in smoke. Before it cleared off, Iron Man flied into Thanos, using his single super-jet boot configuration. As he bounced off, he flipped and sticked his landing, immediately re-configuring his boots into ground clamps for stability and his gloves into rocket-driven battering rams, punching Thanos into a ruined wall behind him.

Thanos who shook it off quickly, reached forward and tore Iron Man's helmet off, revealing the Avengers' surprised expression before the suit recovered automatically and re-formed helmet. The Titan made use of it and punched himhard, sending Iron Man sliding away, giving himtime to rip the device off his gauntlet. He instantly used the Power Stone to fire energy at his opponent, who formed a shield to hide behind just as quickly, getting pushed back even further by the powerful force.

Iron Man went out from behind the shield, letting the energy push him away for a faster start, and flied back to Thanos full thrusters. He kicked at the Titan with his left foot, turning the boot into a ground clamp at the same time to pin the gauntlet, and kept twisting while his left glove became a ram again, slamming into the Mad Titan's face, cutting his cheek.

The Mad Titan touched his cheek, before glancing down at his bloodied finger, "All that for a drop of blood."

He smiled as punched Iron Man, then started beating him with his fists. Iron Man attempted to block the blows with his forearms, but Thanos was unstoppable, picking him up by the helmet and blasting some of it with the Power Stone. The gaps coverage were gaping, as the armor losed it's ability to recover from the the damage it was receiving. Iron Man landed from the blast, and was struggling to get himself up to one knee and fired his right hand repulsor at Thanos.  The beam was easily deflected by the gauntlet. He got to both feet as the suit tried to complete repairs, adding the beam from his left hand as well. Thanos walked right up to him, and backhandeed the incompleted helmet completely off Tony's head. He crossed his arms to block a blow from Thanos' gauntlet, and his left hand was caught over his head. In desperation, he formed what's left of his right glove into a short-sword, which is also easily caught by Thanos, snapping it off and driving it through Tony's left side. 

The fight was over.

Thanos walked to Tony back as he sat up, placing the gauntlet  on his head.

"You have my respect Stark, but when I'm done, half of humanity will still be alive." The Titan told the Avenger in a respectful tone, letting go off him. He stepped back as he added, "I hope they remember you."

He raised his gauntlet, closing his fist as all four stones were glowing, ready to end Tony's life.

"Stop!" Strange' voice suddenly sounded in the ears, as they both turned in his direction, "Spare his life! And will give you the stone!"

''No tricks." Thanos said to Strange, turning himself to him, now pointing all four stones at him, as Strange shook his head.

"Don't!" Tony shouted to Strange, shaking his head, telling him to not give the Mad Titan another stone.

Doctor Strange reached and took the Time Stone out of its hiding place in the stars. He opened his hand, the scars on his fingers and their inherent trembling particularly obvious now, and the Stone floated to Thanos' bare hand. Doctor Strange watched him intently, as he took the Stone and drops it into the thumb setting, the energy pulse making the Titan wince.

"...One to go." He said, looking over at his gauntlet, forming a portal behind him as Jasper who had gotten herself back on her feet threw a huge piece of metal that was lying nearby, hoping that it'll stop him from entering the portal, but it didn't. Lapis also tried to stop him from entering the portal by sending a huge wave of water at him, but the only thing it managed to do hit was the piece that Jasper just threw, cutting it on the half once it flew through the wave.

Peter Quill also tried to stop him from entering the portal. He was firing from his blaster as he was flying towards the Mad Titan as fast as he could, but his attempts were as unsuccessful as Lapis' and Jasper's.

"Where is he?" Lapis asked, not excepting to get the answer from anyone.

"Did we just lose?" Quill asked as he clicked his mask off his face, revealing a horrified look on his face.

"You just doomed us all!" Jasper shouted, pointing angrily at Strange.

"Why would you give him that stone?" Lapis asked in complete disbelief, landing a few metres away from him.

"Why would you do that?" Tony asked, being in complete disbelief, just like Lapis.

"We're in the endgame now..." was Doctor Strange's reply to their questions.

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The situation in Wakanda was finally going in the benefit of the heroes because with the Black Order dead there was no one to lead the Mad Titan's forces. The last waves of the Outriders were being taken down  while Thor chased one back into the pyramids and destroyed it. He flew into the air and destroyed all of them.

Wanda landed next to Vision and as he started screaming, "Are you okay? What is it?"

Vision franctically looked around, "He's here."

All of the humans and gems there noticed it. Some of them even shivered at the feeling.

"Do you guys feel that too?" Amethyst asked, looking up at the sky, feeling that strange sensation in her body. 

"Everyone on my position. We have incoming." Steve informed everyone.

"What the hell..." Natasha said, looking around. Falcon was standing right behind her.

"He's coming. I can feel it." Garnet stated as the gems readied themselves for the confrotation. The Mad Titan was coming.

Azurite turned around and saw a portal opening, and out stepped The Mad Titan himself. He glared at him, before confirming who this came out of the portal to everyone, "Guys. That's him." 

"He already has five of them..." Orange Pearl said, with fear growing on her facial features, looking at the five Infinity Stones in Thanos' gauntlet.

"Lapis, Peridot, Jasper..." Steven said, realizing that three gems they sent to retrieve the Reality Stone failed.

"They failed." Spinel stated,  letting her head down, but she knew that there no time to mourn. Thanos was here with five Infinity Stones. They had to keep him away from the Mind Stone at all cost.

"Eyes up! Stay sharp!" Captain America told everyone as he started moving in the direction of the Mad Titan.

Bruce Banner in the Hulkbuster suit was the first one to make his move. He flew towards Thanos, as the gauntlet glowed blue. He flew right through Thanos into the nearest cliff and was melted into it, effectivaly trapping him in it.

Captain America was the next one in the line. Thanos threw him through the air and down to the ground.

Black Panther leaped up at Thanos, before he caught him by his throat. He punched him with his free hand into the ground.

Azurite, Spinel and Orange Pearl charged at the Mad Titan, all of them intending to protect the Mind Stone with their lives. Azurite leaped up at Thanos, but was caught by his neck by his other hand as Orange Pearl and Spinel weren't even able to reach him as the Power Stone glowed purple, and a wave of energy was sent at them, which sent all two of them flying across the field. Azurite could only watch them fly away from them.

 As Azurite was struggling to break himself free, trying to scratch the Mad Titan with his claws, without any effect, he eventually managed to say with a glare that would burn an entire forest, "You'll never win..."

Thanos just smiled at him in response before he threw Azurite away with his body landing just a few inches away from Spinel's.

Sam Wilson unloaded his last magazines directly into The Mad Titan as he flew towards him, screaming every moment as he did so. Thanos destroyed his wings with the Power Stone, causing him to fall on the ground, landing before him.

"Wanda... It's time..." Vision said to Wanda.

"No." Wanda shook of her head.

"They can't stop him, he's too powerful, but we can." Vision continued, making her listen, "Look at me. You have the power to destroy the stone."

"Don't." Wanda looked back at Thanos.

"You must do it, Wanda." Vision was now practically begging her, "We are out of time."

Wanda shook her head, "I can't."

"You can." Vision aligned her hand to his hand, "If he gets the stone half of the universe dies. It's not fair. It should be you but it is. It's all right. You could never hurt me. I just feel you..."

Scarlet Witch teared up as she extended a trembling hand and started beaming her energy at the Mind Stone.

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War Machine was unloading everything he had on Thanos, but it didn't do any demage to the Mad Titan. The Mad Titan just used one of the stones to crush his suit, before throwing him on the ground.

Connie glared at the Mad Titan as Lion growled. She quickled leaped herself up at him with her sword raised in the air. He froze her in the air , before grabbing her by her hand and throwing her out of his way, into the nearby trees. The Infinity Gauntlet then glowed purple and a wave of energy sent Lion away from him.

Centi along with her crew and at least a dozen of gems from Little Homeworld tried to make their stand against Thanos, in order to protect the Mind Stone, even if it would cost their lives,. Snowflake Obsidian formed a wall of ice, hoping that it'll give more time but her wall just a second after by the power of the Reality Stone, then the Titan used the same stone to  froze all of them in place. Thanos walked past them, as if they didn't even existed.

Bucky and Rocket roared, as they charged at him, holding the trigger and unloading everything they had onto Thanos, who knocked them away with the Power Stone.

Shi'ra, Pearl, Amethyst, Okoye and Black Widow were the next. Shi'ra roared as she had her spear in ready as her plasma caster was aiming itself at Thanos as Pearl and Okoye threw their spears at Thanos, who froze it before his chest, before knocking Pearl, Amethyst and Okoye away. With Reality Stone, he trapped Natasha and Shi'ra under slabs of stone.

Amethyst and Pearl landed right before Garnet's, Bismuth's and Biggs Jasper's feet, who were the next ones between the Mind Stone and Thanos.  Bismuth and Biggs nodded their heads at Garnet, as they charged at Thanos, knowing exactly what Garnet was going to do as Garnet helped to get Pearl and Amethyst back on their feet. The three gems looked how Bismuth and Biggs were sent away by the power of one of one of the Infinity Stones without even reaching the Mad Titan. All three of them shared a quick look with each toher before they fused themselves into Alexandrite. A huge fusion roared before charging at the Mad Titan, but a moment later, he froze her in the place with the Time Stone. A look of confusion and shock grew on her face, before Thanos caused her to unfuse into Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst, who still couldn't move. Thanos walked right past them, as he used the Power Stone, sending all of them flying in different directions.

Groot fed his arms into the ground and tried to entrap him. Thanos broke free and continued to walk towards Wanda and Vision.

Steven, knowing that he was probably one of the last, if not the last person in the line to defend the Mind Stone, threw his shield at Thanos, which returned to him a moment after. He was threw it again, but Thanos used the Time Stone, stopping the shield right before his body, causing it to vanish with the power of the Reality Stone a moment after. Then, then gauntlet glowed purple and a wave of energy was sent towards Steven who instantly formed a bubble around him. The bubble saved Steven from being thrown away. He quickly made it disappear and summoned two bubbles which appeared on his fists. He charged at Thanos, but only managed to land one or two blows at the Mad Titian, who grabbed him by his collar and lifted him up until their eyes met. They stared in each other eyes, and it seemed like Thanos was going to say something to him, but then Thanos saw the progress Wanda was making with destroying the Mind Stone, and threw him away into the trees.

Wanda watched all of them fall down one by one over shoulder, and turned back to Vision to add her left hand to her tearful effort.

However, Steven wasn't the last one in the line to defend the Mind Stone. Steve Rogers was. He slided under one blow and came up swinging his deployed arm-shields, punching Thanos in the gut and chin. He grabbed the gauntlet, keeping Thanos' fingers un-clenched. Confusion grew on the Mad Titan's facial features until it was turned into an annoyed frown. He narrowed his frown to the Avenger holding his gauntlet, holding his strength far greater than any other. Steve Rogers screamed as he somehow still held against the one of the strongest beings in the universe. Fought against the greatest threat. Stood against Thanos. The Mad Titan finally had enough of it, punching Captain America right into his face. Steve laid on the ground, his body no longer moving, no longer being in the Titan's path..

Wanda looked over her shoulder again and saw Thanos approaching them. She swung her left hand around to fend him off with a stream of scarlet energy, and pushed him back despite his blue-purple energy shield, but then he started slowly to make his way to them.

'' It's alright. It's alright." Vision kept assuring his beloved one that everything was alright, "I love you."

After those words, the Mind Stone finally started to crack. An expression of joyful peace overcame Vision's face, and as the crystal fragments completely, a pulse of pure yellow energy exploded from him, shuddering the trees for many meters around his epicenter.

Thanos walked closer to Wanda and  looked down at her, "I understand, my child. Better than anyone."

"You could never..." Wanda looked up at him, glaring.

"Today I lost more than you could know." Thanos rubbed her head, "But now is no time to mourn. Now is no time at all."

The Mad Titan reached forward, clenching the gauntlet, emerald filigree surrounding his wrist, making a strange gesture. In response, a bead of yellow light startedgathering in on itself as time is reversed and growing in size, solidifying into an intact and conscious Vision, bringing him and the Stone back to life.

"No!" Wanda shouted in pure horror as Thanos slapped her, sending her away from him.

Vision's ressurection was short lived. Thanos picked him up by his throat, lifting him to eye-level, and dug the fingers of his right hand into Vision's forehead, taking  the Mind Stone out of his body. He pulled it loose, and Vision's now lifeless body went limp and colorless; he tossed the lifeless android aside like trash. Bringing his hand up, he slowly moved the Mind Stone over the last empty setting, and dropped it in. The energy surge was much more than any previous he had acquired today. 

When the energy stopped going across his body, he looked over at his gauntlet.

All of the Infinity Stones were shining in his gauntlet. It was completed...

Finally...

As Thanos studied the completed gauntlet, a massive bolt of lighting striked him, digging him into the ground and grinding him back for meters. Thor has arrived, eyes glowing with power, stooping down from the sky like a bird of prey. The God of Thunder paused his attack, reversed his position, raised Stormbreaker above his head and hurled it. Thanos fired the whole might of the gauntlet against it, but it only creates a rainbow-like bow-shock, not slowing the axe as it slammed right into Thanos' chest. 

"I told you. You'll die for that!" Thor growled, pushing his axe deeper into Thanos' chest who screamed in pain.

"You should've.... You should've..." Thanos was struggling to speak until after a few tries finally found the strength to say it, "You should've gone for the head..." 

Thor looked at Thanos' Infinity's Gauntlet, and saw him lower his middle finger to connect with his thumb and press it.

His eyes burst open, "NO!" 

SNAP!

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Well, it happened...

Who do you think is going to get dusted? 

I know that the fight scenes are not the best, but I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them. That's a shame that Ebony Maw was killed off so quickly, and Supergiant (She's the fifth Black Order member in the comics) didn't appeared in both of the movies, because I'd love to write them fight our heroes as well.

And, holy crap (falls from my chair from exhaustion)... this is probably the longest chapter I've ever wrote, now I'm afraid how long is going to be the battle in Endgame...

Anyway, hope the chapter was worth the wait.