This shot of Cap facing Thanos' entire army by himself would make a great painting.

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None of them had time to react when Thanos' warship unleashed missiles towards their base. One of the missiles hit the garden Scott was staring at just a second ago and the explosion would have surely killed Ant-Man if he didn't shrunk into microscopic size in the last second. Fortunely for him he was just knocked away by the impact of the explosion.

More and more missiles were unleashed at the Avengers headquarters, destroying the entirety of it's structure as the humans, gems, and aliens inside of it were taken by suprise by this sudden attack. The floor slided of as Rocket, Rhodes, Shi'ra, Banner, Jasper and Peridot hanged into it, but it was just a matter of time before they slided down inside of the rubble along with Clint and Amethyst as they fell through another hole that was made in the floor right into the depths of whatever was left of the Avenger headquarters.

When one last missile was sent at the headquarters, it caused a large explosion that damaged the water mains of the building.

Rocket, Rhodes, Shi'ra and Peridot were trapped underground while Jasper and Banner were doing their best to keep everything from falling on top of them. 

Some debris stuck on Rocket' chest as the talking raccon struggled to take it off, having trouble breathing, "I can't breathe. I can't breathe! I can't breathe!"

"Canopy. Canopy. Canopy!" Rhodey called out as he got out of his damaged War Machine suit.

Panicked breaths were leaving Peridot's mouth as she pressed her Arc Reactor and her Iron Gem armor disappeared from her body, the pieces of her broken visiors falling off her eyes to the ground. She glanced around herself and saw Shi'ra struggling to take a few metal pillars off her chest, gasping for a breath. The short green gem jumped back on her feet and made her way over to Shi'ra. She extended both of her hands and lifted the pillars off Shi'ra's chest.

The Kratai breathed in a deep breath, finally being able to breath again as she sent her a grateful nod, "Thanks."

Peridot just gave her a quick nod of her head in response, whispering to herself, in panic, "This is bad, this is bad..."

"Guys! Get outta here!" Banner shouted, keeping everything from falling on top of them with his good one hand.

"We don't know for how long we will be able to keep it up!" Jasper added, knowing it just matter of time before everything would fall on them.

Rocket turned his gaze towards Rhodes to see him picking up a pipe, with intention of freeing him from his prison, "Hurry up! Hurry up! Come on!"

Rhodes groaned as he used the pipe to lift the debris to take it off Rocket's chest, the raccoon telling him to hurry. Once Rocket was able to leave his prison, he instantly escaped from it. Rhodes panted tiredly, dropping the debris on the ground, as Shi'ra and Peridot approached him and Rocket.

Banner grunted, "Guys!"

"We can't hold it!" Jasper added.

Shi'ra, Rocket, Peridot and Rhodes turned towards them and all they could do was watch in horror as water started pouring into the area they were stuck in, completely engulfing them.

There was one thing that Scott Lang was aware of at this moment. That was extremely lucky to survive the blast when he shrunk down just second before the missiles struck the headquarters. 

He pushed himself out of the rubble when he heard James Rhodes voice in his comms, "Mayday, mayday! Does anybody copy? We're in the lower level, it's flooding!" 

Scott lifted his hand up and touched his comms, "What?"

"We're drowning! Does anybody copy? Mayday!" Rhodes called out again, apparently not hearing Lang's voice.

Scott looked around himself as he called out to Rhodes again, but once again got no answer, "Wait! I'm here! I'm here, can you hear me?"

Clint grunted in pain he wiped the rubble off his chest. He pushed himself back on his feet before hearing someone let out a painful grunt on his left. He glanced over in the grunts direction and saw Amethyst, the purple gem wiping off some rubble off  her body. He slowly approached her and reached his hand to her, "C'mon, get up."

Amethyst accepted his hand and rised up back on her feet, "Thanks." Clint nodded his head at her, as she asked him, "Do you know where we are?"

"In the sewers." Clint's answer came quickly as pulled out a flashlight and lighted it upwards to see what happened. The entire headquarters were completely destroyed by this sudden attack, and he had no idea how he and this gem with him were going to get out of here, "Cap?!"

Amethyst heard him call over for Cap a few more times, still getting no answer from anyone, "They won't hear us here, dude. We need to find other way out."

Clint sighed, shifting his attention towards her, "You're right."

"Let's go." Amethyst said, summoning her whip as Clint took out his bow. The latter led them through the sewers, using his flashlight to light up the path ahead of them while also having his bow in ready just in case in something was going to attack him and Amethyst. The gem held her whip in ready as well.

It was when their eyes caught a sight of something laying among the rubble. Clint looked at her and gestured towards it, to which she nodded her head in understanding. She moved the rubble aside from the thing and the Nano Gauntlet was revealed to be laying right in front of them. Amethyst picked it up and let out a small sigh of relief, at least they wouldn't have to worry about the whereabouts of the Nano Gauntlet and the Infinity Stones.

Her relief was short lived when she and Clint heard some rambling from the tunnel behind them. It was easy for them to guess that they were not alone here. Amethyst clutched the gauntlet as Clint loaded an arrow onto his bow. He shoot an arrow towards the dark tunnel, ligtening it up and revealing hordes of Outriders heading their way.

Amethyst stared in horror at the approaching Outriders, instantly recognizing these creatures as the same ones she fought off in Wakanda five years ago before Thanos snapped, "Oh no, not these guys again!"

They quickly broke themselves into the run and started to move away from the Outriders as fast as they could. Amethyst's tightened her grip around the Nano Gauntlet, while also trying not to drop her whip on the ground.

Sanctury 2 hovered above the remains of the Avengers headquarters as it released a single  beam of light out of which stepped the Mad Titan himself, wearing his entire armor and wielding his double bladed in his right hand.

The first thing he spotted after stepping out of the beam of light was his daughter approaching him, "Daughter."

"Yes, father?" Nebula asked, approaching her father.

"So this is the future?" Thanos asked, looking around his surroundings. He looked down at his daughter and said, "Well done."

"Thank you, father." Nebula said as she took the orange plate off her face and threw it aside, "They suspected nothing."

Thanos planted his sword into the ground and took off his helmet before placing it on top of the sword's edge, "The arrogant never do." He sat down on the rock and looked up at his daughter, "Go. Find the stones. Bring them to me."

"What will you do?" Nebula asked him.

Thanos leaned in a bit, "Wait."

Nebula nodded her head and proceeded to walk off to find the stones hid somewhere in the ruins as Gamora watched her over from the window of Sanctuary 2, thinking. Just thinking about what could have happened in the future between her and Nebula. 

She knew that there was one person that knew how their relationship will be in the end. She headed over to the cell where Nebula from the future was being held as a prisoner and walked over to her, "Tell me something. In the future, what happens to you and me?"

Her sister looked up at the floor, "I tried to kill you. Several times." Gamora rolled her eyes and turned to leave, thinking it was the only answer she needed to get but stopped when Nebula added, "But eventually, we become friends. We become sisters."

Gamora turned back to Nebula, and walked back to her, extending her hand towards her, "Come on. We can stop him."

Nebula looked at her sisters hand extended towards her and wasted no time and grabbed it. Her sister listed her up back on her feet and the two of them made their way out of the cell.

Azurite didn't know what happened after the missiles from Sanctuary struck the Avenger headquarters. All he knew was that everything suddenly went to back as she was burried under some rubble. He had no idea how much has actually passed when he heard someone picking up the rubble he was trapped under.

A minute had to pass until he was able to move again and leave his prison. He turned to the one who freed him. It was Garnet, "Azurite, it's good to see you."

Azurite nodded his head at her, "You too, Garnet."

"Let's go. Tony and Thor are nearby." Garnet informed him and gestured him to follow her. Azurite obliged and followed her through the ruins until they came acros Tony Stark who was standing over Captain America's unconscious body on the ground, Rogers shield was in his hand.

Stark looked up at them, spotting Azurite's presence by Garnet's side, "You found Az, Three Eyes."

The fusion looked down at Steve's body, "And you found Steve."

"We should wake him up." Azurite stated.

"Come on, buddy. Wake up." Tony put his boot on Cap's chest and pressed a little pressure on it, waking the first Avenger from his slumber, "That's my man." He showed Steve that he had his shield, "You lose this again, I'm keeping it."

Steve looked around himself, seeing the destruction around him, "What happened?"

"You messed with time. It tends to mess back. You'll see." Tony told him as he offered his hand to Steve who accepted it and brought himself back on his feet. He handed him his shield back as led the group of four Avengers out of the ruins where they met up withThor.

The God of Thunder stared at something, or rather at someone. Thanos sat on the rock in the very center of the destruction caused by his ship, looking back at htem.

"It's him." Azurite stated, his eyes instantly catching the sight of the Mad Titan. He recognized his ship but he hoped that it wasn't going to be him. 

"What's he been doing?" Tony asked Thor.

Thor's answer was quick, "Absolutely nothing." 

"Where are the stones?" Steve wanted to know.

Garnet gestured towards the ruins around them, "Somewhere under all of this." 

"All we know is he doesn't have them." Tony added.

"So we keep it that way." Steve stated.

"You know it's a trap, right?" Thor asked all of them.

"Yeah. And I don't much care." Tony answered.

"He's simply waiting for someone to approach him." Garnet remarked, summoning her gauntlets.

"So, let's give him exactly what he wants." Azurite added, his eyes filling with hate he felt for Thanos.

"Good as long as we are all in agreement." Thor said. Thunder cracked as he stretched out both of his hands to summon both Stormbreaker and Mjolnir. His casual clothes transformed into his armour and cape, and his beard got some braid treatment, "Let's kill him properly this time."

"You took those words right out of my mouth, Thor." Azurite agreed with Thor as his claws appeared on his fists.

The five Avengers stepped forward from the ruins of the headquarters, marching towards Thanos, side by side. The Mad Titan continued to sit on the spot he found himself as he messed with a rock in his hand, thinking about the journey he made for himself to restore the balance in the universe. He thought about how he'd fullfil his destiny in the future, and save the universe from overpopulation, and yet, there were still people that were too stubborn to accept what the universe could become. These people will remember what the universe used to be and will resist accept the change. They would try to find a way how to reserve everything, how to take his destiny away from him.

He looked over at the five Avengers approaching him and spoke up to them, "You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me."

He continued to sit here. He didn't even moved an inch as they were getting closer to him. The God of Thunder and the male gem took the right path, while the Iron Avenger and the fusion took the left, leaving the Captain in the middle of their march.

"I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you've shown me that's impossible." He continued as he looked over at them, "As long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist."

Tony looked at him defiantly, "Yep. We're all kinds of stubborn." 

"And we're not sorry about that." Azurite added, glaring at him.

 "I'm thankful. Because now, I know what I must do." He  threw the rock aside and stood up, making everyone get ready for what was going to happen next, "I will shred this universe down to its last atom." He picked up his helmet from the edge of his sword and put it over his head, " And then with the stones you've collected for me, create a new one." He got his sword off the ground and looked at it, "Teeming with life, but knows not what it has lost but only what it has been given."

Azurite clenched his fists. This mad man really couldn't accept that universe rejected his idea and was going to shred it to it's last atoms. Tony could find himself shaking, this was it. The nightmares he has been having since the battle of New York in 2012 were coming true. Lightning meterialized on Thor's hands, energy sparking around his weapons.

The Mad Titan turned back to his enemies, facing them, "A grateful universe."

"Born out of blood." Steve pointed out, glaring at him.

"They'll never know it" Thanos stated, readying his weapon, "Because you won't be alive to tell them."

"We'll see about that." Garnet said, glaring behind her visiors at the Mad TItan.

Thor let out an issuing battle cry as Tony had his mask materialize over his face to cover it. Captain America led the assault and threw his shield at the Mad Titan, only to have it deflected by his sword. The shield fell right into it's owner's hands as Iron Man brought forth an energy blade from his right wrist, but his strike was blocked and knocked to the ground. Azurite moved in to cut him with his claws, only to have scratched his blade. The Titan kicked Azurite right in the chest just a moment after after his failed strike, sending. him to the ground as Garnet moved in to punch him in the chest side of his armor to have her attack blocked. The Mad Titan swung his blade at the fusion, sending her flying backwards. Thanos swung below, his strike heading straight for the first Avenger who raised an attempt to block the strike. The force of it sent Steve backwards, landing right next to Azurite and Garnet.  Thor threw Mjolnir at the Mad Titan who dodged it by inches and reached his hand out to catch it, but the hammer simply flied away. Thanos dodged the swung of Stormbreaker that was headed straight for this neck and kicked back the God of Thunder, who crushed somewhere among the rubble.

Banner, Shi'ra, Peridot, Jasper, Rocket and Rhodes were still trapped undearneath of the ruins. Banner and Jasper were still trying to keep the rubble from falling on top of them as the water was slowly engulfing more and more of their entire bodies to the point where almost their entire bodies except for their heads were covered by water.

"See you on the other side, guys!" Rhodes called over to them, knowing that it was a matter of seconds until the water will cover their entire bodies.

"Not the time, Rhodey!" Shi'ra called back, feeling how the watter just reached the upper half of her neck. She really hoped she could hold her breath for long.

They had no idea that Ant-Man was coming in their way to save them. Scott slid into a rock rock and jumped on top of the pencil to bounce himself off it to dive into the water, "Hang on! I'm coming!"

The situation was even worse for Clint and Amethyst. They still were running for their lives  as fast as they could through the sewers. Out of the desperation, Barton started planting some explosive arrows along the way, as they proceeded to run away from the horde of Outriders. 

"Get ready!" He told her as the charges were detonated, engulfing the Outriders in fire. The fire consumed the beasts as they were thrown away upon the impact of the explosion.

The first thing the purple gem did was picking up the Nano Gauntlet as they got themselves back on their feet. They looked to see that the Outriders survived despise the fact that the arrows Clint planted just exploded and were being burned alive. As the flames died down, they charged at them again, the explosion

Clint wrapped his left hand around Amethyst, who didn't had a question why he did as he looked up and fired a grappling cable towards the ceiling and had them carried into the upper levels but the Outriders didn't left them alone. The beasts followed them and began crawling over the walls. 

Amethyst held her whip in ready as Clint took out his sword. Amethyst slammed her whip against the first Outrider that got close to them while Clint cut the other one that managed to reach them in the half. They reached the exit from the sewers without many other confrotations with the Outriders, but one happen the moment they flied out through the entrance to the sewers, but fortunely, thanks to Clint it shared the fate of the previous Outrider he took care of and cut it in the half.

As they fell on the floor, they got up to stare down to see if there was more of them coming their way, but thankfully, they must've killed all of them because all they spotted was the body that Clint just cut in the half. They breathed in sighs of reliefs as they fell on their backs, finally having a chance to rest, even it was just for a second.

It was when Nebula approached, earning their attention.

"Oh, hey, I know you." Clint stated.

"Nebula, you have no idea how good it is to see you." Amethyst told her as she held out the Nano Gauntlet to her, "Can you hold it for a second?"

Nebula took the gauntlet from her and pressed her fingers against her comms, "Father. I have the stones."

This instantly got Amethyst's and Clint's attention, as they looked up at her, voicing their confusion at the same time, "What?"

They tried to get up but Nebula held them down with her boot. She pulled out a blaster, intending to finish both of them off but a familiar voice stopped her from doing it.

"Stop." She turned to the source of the voice and saw Gamora coming out of the shadows with a blaster of her own aimed at her.

Nebula got her boot off Clint's and Amethyst's chests as she shifted her attention towards her sister, her blaster not leaving the human and the gem on the ground, "You're betraying us?"

She quickly got the answer to her question, but it wasn't anything she wanted. She saw her future self step out of the shadows, "You don't have to do this."

Nebula watched how her past self aimed her blaster at her. Amethyst and Clint rolled out the way, and watched everything before them, "I am this."

"No, you're not." Gamora told her sister.

Nebula gestured towards her synaptic drive, "You've seen what we become."

"Nebula, listen to her." Gamora pleaded her sister

Nebula stared at her own self from the past, seeing her eye water up, "You can change."

"...He won't let me." was Nebula's answer to her past self as she aimed her blaster at Gamora.

"No!" Gamora shouted but before anything could have happen Nebula pulled out a blaster she stole from Sanctuary 2 and fired it at her younger self, hitting her right in the middle of the chest. She watched how her younger self was thrown back at the wall, the  lifeless body of her younger self now leaning it as Amethyst and Clint stood up, the latter picking up the Nano Gauntlet from the floor.

The moment Tony Stark landed on the ground six panels emerged from the back of his armor, each equipped with a repulsor at the end., watching how Captain America was getting easily tossed around by Thanos' attacks.

He knew he had to work fast, "Okay, Thor. Hit me!"

Somewhere behind him, the God of Thunder roared at the thundering sky as he held both Mjolnir and Stormbreaker. Strikers of lightning poured down from the sky at him, fueling his body, flowing through his arms right into his weapons. He slammed both weapons together and and a bolt of lightning shot out right at Tony Stark.

When it reached the Iron Avenger, the stream of lightning was consumed by Tony's Stark back and charged up his armor to it's maximum capacity. He gritted his teeth as the sudden dose of energy flew through his suit.  He shot out his hands forward towards Thanos, watching how the first Avenger was knocked away by the Mad Titan, just a second before a stream of energy of enemy shot from his hands and each one of the repulsors at Thanos.

The Mad Titan was ready for it, despise it being a sudden attack. After sending the first Avenger flying backwards, he turned his attention to the Iron Avenger and saw a stream of energy that was headed his way. He raised it double bladed sword and spined it around, diverting the energy. He had to take a step or two backwards, but he remained on his feet. The stream of energy wasn't able to do anything to his blade.

He gritted his teeth at the pressure of energy pushing against him, before roaring and and taking one step forward, which was followed by another one, and another one, pushing against the stream of energy. With each step forward, his distance between him and Stark was getting smaller and it was just a matter of seconds before he'd reach him.

Thor saw it and knew he had to do something about it. He did the first thing that came to his mind. He threw Mjolnir in the air and hit it Stormbreaker to make sure that the hammer would get to Thanos before the Titan would reach Iron Man. Unfortunely, by the time he sent Mjolnir flying towards the Titan, he already stood right in front of Stark and grabbed him by his forearm, glaring at the man underneath of the mask.

Then, the Titan saw the hammer getting closer towards him and his reaction to that was quick. He lifted Tony from the ground and held his entire body in front him as some sort of human shield. This from of defense worked, Mjolnir struck the Iron Avenger right in his Arc Reactor and the impact of it was so strong that it sent Tony flying backwards and even made the Mad Titan stumble back a bit.

Tony landed somewhere among the rubble several metres away from the fight. He let out a painful grunt before his eyes rolled into the back of his head, which his AI didn't failed to notice.

"Boss, wake up!" Friday called out to her boss, but he didn'r reply. He was unconscious.

Azurite saw how the Iron Avenger didn't stand up, realizing that he most likely lost his consciousness. He breathed as the Mad Titan now stood right in front of him, the two of them staring into each other'e eyes.

"Come on." Thanos declared to him, recalling him as a gem from his daughter memories that apparently lived on one of the planets he saved, and wanted him dead more than anything. Just another person that refused to accept what the universe could become, "Face me just as you wanted."

Azurite just stared up at him, his eyes dark with hate for the Mad Titan. There was no sight of even slightest fear in his eyes. Just hatred. Pure hatred.

"You've been in my head for over twenty years." The male gem spoke up to him, putting his hands behind his back. The claws on the had that wielded a glove able to form a myst around it's user and his enemies disappeared for a second, "I feared of the day when you'll finally find the localization of all of the Infinity Stones, and the day when your daughter that you murdered for you sick ideology informed me about it was the scariest day of my life, but you know what I feel when I look at you?"

Thanos just stared at him, stared at the defective gem that was looking at him with a glare that would burn an entire forest. Azurite's glare was not leaving his face. He already lost one home because of him. He couldn't stay on Konoritos all those years ago after his forces cleansed it because, It would remind him how he failed to protect Aleena and her family. He found his new home here on Earth and he was not going to protect it for as long as he was able to.

The male gem gritted his teeth, "I feel nothing. I only see a mad man that refuses to accept that everyone rejected his idea. A mad man that will  be stopped." 

He made hand gesture towards Garnet with his clawed hand as he finally pressed the button on his glove. Garnet remembered this glove. Azurite used it on the first day when he arrived in Little Homeworld to form a myst around them to take off the guard for a moment. This was actually the only moment when she saw him use this glove as he stopped using it after Bismuth gave him a pair of claws on Christmas.

It was when a myst formed out of nowhere around the Mad Titan, clearly confusing him. When the myst disappeared he noticed that Azurite was nowhere to be seen but instead he saw him drop from the sky, heading right towards him. The Titan blocked his attack by his sword, deflected him aside. Azurite was thrown backwards but it didn't do much harm to the male gem.

Azurite quickly got himself back on his feet and began running towards him as Garnet joined him. The Titan readied himself their assault as Azurite was the first one to make his way towards him. Thanos snarled, quickly reacting to each one of the strikes he received form the male gem. Most of his strikes were being blocked either by Thanos' blade or Thanos' armor but it didn't stop him from proceeding with his attacks. 

Thanos could spot Garnet approaching him as Azurite tried to deliver a kick right at his armor and this was the mistake the Mad Titan was waiting for. The moment when Garnet swung her fist at him, Thanos grabbed Azurite's leg and lifted  him up, using him some shield, just like he did with Tony. Garnet saw that but unfortunely wasn't able to do anything to stop her punch as she punched Azurite right in the stomach with all the force she had. The male gem grunted in pain as he was thrown backwards upon the impact of Garnet's powerful blow.

"Azurite!" Garnet shouted as she watched how Azurite was sent backwards by her own punch. Azurite didn't stand up after that, he just layed on the ground, defeated.

The fusion knew it couldn't take her focus from her main target. Each one of the blow she directed towards the Mad Titan was powerful, but unfortunely for her, each one of them was blocked by him. The Titan swung his blade at her, but just him, she also did a very good job at avoiding his attacks.

Unfortunely, it didn't lasted long. A strike that she couldn't avoid in time finally came as the only thing she could do protect herself from it was holding his blade right in front of her face. The fusion used all the strenght she had in herself to hold back Thanos' strike. The Titan gritted his teeth as he proceeded to push his blade further at her.

Garnet gritted her teeth as well she was using everything in herself to hold back his strike. She gazed up right at his eyes as her glare that everyone in Beach City and Little Homeworld dreaded to see was covered by her visiors. It was when Thanos got an idea how to deal with her. He brought his head forward and headbutted her, making a huge crack in her visiors but not completely breaking them.

He growled as he brought his blade down at her, sending the fusion several metres backwards. His strike was that powerful that it made her unfuse into Ruby and Sapphire. The two gems landed on the ground away from him, neither of them stood up after that. They just layed on the ground, defeated.

Thor Odinson watched how his gem allies fell one by one. Azurite layed somewhere among the rubble while Garnet was gone, unfused into Ruby and Sapphire, the two smaller gems remaining on the ground.

The Mad Titan then brought his focus forward, directly at the God of Thunder and the two of them faced each other. Thor tightened his grip around Stormbreaker and charged at him as Thanos seeing this, tossed his blade ahead of him. The double sided sword spined around as it flied right over Thor's head who slided right underneath of it and quickly shot up back on his feet.

Thanos was weaponless, and Thor knew he had to use this opportunity. He sprinted forward and leaped off the piece of ruins of the Avenger headquarters, his axe directed right at Thanos' head. Unfortunely for him, he didn't noticed that Thanos' sword was spinning backwards like a boomerang and returned back to it's owner the moment Thor leaped himself off the rubble.  

The two of them clashed with each other, the God of Thunder swinging Stormbreaker, with his attacks directed right at the Mad Titan's throat. Each one of his attacks was directed towards one place of Thanos's body, head. Thor couldn't let it happen again. He was already close to killing Thanos once, but he didn't aimed for the head. He let his desire to make Thanos suffer take the control of his body and struck him in the chest when he had an occasion to kill, which led Thanos to snapping his fingers and wiping out half of all life.

Each one of his attacks was blocked by the Mad Titan who replied with his own deadly strikes. One of Thor's attacks finally paid off and it left Thanos's sword in variable position and he used this face to knock the sword off Thanos' grasp. Instantly after throwing the double bladed sword away from it's owner, Thor directed his next strike towards Thanos' throat, but stopped when Thanos raised his left hand and caught Stormbreaker's handle.

The Titan grabbed the axe and threw it away. He grabbed Thor's throat and tossed him around like a ragdoll, from one place to another, delivering a set of punches at the God of Thunder as he did so. He finally threw his against a rock and brought his boot down right in the center of his chest, holding him against the rock. He send a powerful punch right at Thor's face as the God of Thunder extended his hand forward, and Stormbreaker started flying right back to it's owner.

Thanos noticed that as he glanced back at Stormbreaker heading their way. He catched it before it even had a chance to reach Thor. He brought it down at as Thor catched it before the sharpened edge could reach him. Thanos pressed his opposite palm onto the back of the weapon to increase the pressure, pushing Stormbreaker further and further right into the chest of the god it belonged to.

Several metres away from them, Mjolnir, layed right in the dirt somwhere among the ruins, abandoned right after the fight started as it slowly started rising from the ground. Neither Thor and Thanos noticed it. The God of Thunder growled as he could feel his own axe pressing against his skin as the Titan's entire focus was on him. 

Right before the Mad Titan could finish Thor's off, Mjolnir struck him right in the shoulder and knocked Stormbreaker right off his hands. He and Thor turned their attention towards the hammer and watched how it was caught by a glowed hand of a star spangled, Steve Rogers stoic expression turned towards them, well, mostly towards Thanos as he stood, worthy of wielding the legendary weapon of Asgard.

Thor smiled in astonishment, "I knew it!"

His smile faded away when Thanos kicked him right in the chest. Thor crushed into the rubble and was send flying backwards out of their sight, leaving just the Mad Titan and the first Avenger to face themselves as they were the only ones left standing.

Then, Steve charged towards him, spinning the hammer madly as Thanos charged him as him too, with his sword in his grip, as the disance between them was closing. Rogers swung the hammer upwards,  hitting Thanos right in his chin, as he fell backwards. Steve gritted his teeth as he watched how the Mad Titan quickly rose back to his feet.

It was too long before Captain America made his next move. He threw his shield right at the Titan,  who deflected it with his sword, but it wasn't the attack that Steve Rogers had on his mind. He tossed Mjolnir shorty after, but the hammer wasn't headed for the Titan, but for the shield above him. The hammer struck Steve's shield, sending a massive shock wave onto Thanos' back. The Mad Titan quickly crumbled once again, dropping his sword.

The second after his weapons returned right to him, Steve charged at Thanos and the first thing he did upon reaching him was droving his knee right at his chest, making the Titan stumble backwards. Since, then Captain America wasted no time. He delivered powerful strikes from both of his weapons all over Thanos' body and the Titan couldn't do anything as he was thrown backwards on the ground.

The first Avenger lined his arm back up sent a bolt of lightning directed right at his opponent. Thanos didn't had a chance to do anyting about it as the lightning struck his armored chest and drove him further into the earth.

Once the lightning finally ceased, Steve leaped him up towards Thanos and unfortunely he moved too quick and made the mistake that the Mad Titan was waiting for. Thanos finally had a chance to to something and he did the first thing that came into his mind. He grabbed the first Avenger by his throat and slammed him against the ground, making himself a time to get back to his feet.

Steve rolled out of Thanos' way, as Thanos picked up his sword and started making his way towards Captain America who's gaze went over to him to see the Titan approaching him. Thanos growled as he took his damaged helmet off his head and threw it aside before swinging his sword right at the first Avenger.

Rogers ducked his attacks for as long as he could until Thanos, having enough of it, drove his sword right at his knee. Cap yelled in pain as he swung the hammer, intending to strike Thanos with his back. Instead, Thanos excepted this happen and blocked his attack by grabbing the hammer and then the Titan used Steve's shield and sent him flying backwards.

Mjolnir fell off right out of Steve's hand as he rolled several metres away. Gritting his teeth, he quickly pushed himself back on his feet, only to be instantly met with Thanos' blade headed right towards his head. He quickly brought his shield above his head and blocked this attack and could feel how his eyes widened upon seeing that Thanos' sword cut right through his vibranium shield.

Thanos saw it too. He started swinging his sword violently, as Steve stumbled back with each hit his shield received as his shield was getting torn apart by Thanos' attacks. The last hit knocked Steve Rogers to the dirt. The first Avenger glanced over at what remained of his shield as half of it was shattered into fragments that were scattered somewhere around the battlefield.

The Mad Titan growled as he swung his sword forward sent Steve flying across the battlefield. He crashed several metres away from him,  landing on his back somewhere among the rubble. The first Avenger tried to get himself back on his feet, but he couldn't...

He layed on the dirt, breathing heavilly. It couldn't over. He had to get up, one last time, but he couldn't, it hurt, everything hurt him. He grunted in pain as he rolled himself to his side. He breathed in as he lifted his eyes his towards his enemy.

Thanos stood several metres away from him, among the destrucion as he turned over to the first Avenger and spoke up to him, in a deep voice, "In all my years of conquest... violence... slaughter... it was never personal."

Rogers looked away from him, and tried to push himself back on his feet with another painful effort.

Thanos continued to speak, his gaze not leaving the first Avenger, "But I'll tell you now– what I'm about to do to your stubborn, annoying little planet, then I'm going to go straight for Homeworld. It will be something I should have done a long time ago, and I'm going to enjoy it. Very, very much."

A beam of light appeared on the ground and out stepped four members of the Black Order. Proxima Midnight planted her spear into the earth, Cull Obsidian doing the with his hammer. Ebony Maw held his hands behind his back as he stood with his siblings. Corvus Glaive raised his glaive in the air, as the dropships were released from Sanctuary 2 and touched on the ground, right behind the Mad Titan and the Black Order, forming waves of dirt upon the impact.

The dropships opened, and the Outriders were unleashed, but they weren't the only ones, they were quickly joined by the Chitauri tanks, Gorillas, foot soldiers, commanders, all entered the battlefield. The Chituari Gorillas roared as their chains were pulled free by the foot soldiers and marched forward. Outriders charged from their dropships, numbering in the hundreds as more and more waves rushed and stopped behind their lord.

Thanos' warship just released an army numbering in thousands of soldiers, but it wasn't over. An armada of the Sakaaran forces was quick to join as their Necrocrafts filled the skies. Hundreds of Sakaaran foot soldiers were fast to join various Chitauri's and the Black Order on the ground, stopping right behind their master. Starships and chariots flew from the Sanctuary 2. Leviathans and Leviathan Drillers roared as they flew alongside the necrocrafts, starships and chariots into the battlefield.

As if the army wasn't already massively outnumbering them a strange large dropships fell straight from Sanctuary 2, they were much larger than any other dropships. The dropships split open as if there were eggs, revealing giant and by far the most monstrous creation in Thanos' entire army, the Chitauri Titans. His army owned at least half more of them, everytime when he used them, which was rather rarely, he only used a few of them, never really being in a situation that made him release every single of them into the battlefield. The Mad Titan smirked when he could feel them land on the ground. Some of them walked on two legs, and some of them crawled on four claws. 

Ruby and Sapphire watched how the massive army continued to depart from the Mad Titan's ship. Their eyes couldn't leave the Chituari Titans, and how massive they were. They were probably as tall as White Diamond or even taller. The two gems finally looked away from Thanos' army and glanced at each other, sharing a horrified look. Ruby's eyes shot open when she felt Sapphire's hand clutch her own. She didn't hesitated to do the same, clutching her wife's hand as tightly as she could as they just watched, watched everything unfold right in front of them.

Steve Rogers stared at it all too. Stared at the massive army ahead of him, an army of someone who was going to shred the entire universe to it's last atoms. His gaze went away from the army and went to the ground. He pushed himself up, despise everything, despise the pain, and despise an army ahead of him. He grunted as he got himself on his feet. He actually found strenght inside of him to get up.

Thanos watched him with an expression of admiration forming on his facial features for this human that despise the odds was about stand against him, but he couldn't help himself but sigh. Sigh in pity for the same human.

He stumbled, and his body may have wanted to give up, but despise all of it the Captain America had done it. In the end he stood, deep breaths leaving his mouth. He gazed to his left arm, and despise it being broken in the half, despise his own symbol shattered by the Mad Titan's sword, he reached for his shield's strap and tightened it.

The first Avenger grunted and glared ahead at the army that continued to grow with each passing second. He gritted his teeth as he steadied his breathing. His eyes not leaving the Mad Titan's army.

Dozens of Leviathans and Leviathan Drillers roared as they flew closer to him, followed by chariots, starships and necrocrafts. The five Chitauri Titans that were released into the world marched forward, shaking the ground beneath them with each step they took. 

Steve just walked. He knew it was death sentence for him to go against the army that big but he didn't care about it. His enemies were hardly shaken by it, but he walked anyway, intending to show them some resistance, even though it was he was all by himself. He would stand against them no matter what, to his final breath.

Out of the sudden, something stopped him. It was a familiar voice ringing in his ear.

"... you read me?"

The sound of this voice was enough to freeze him in his place. He looked at his broken shield, having no idea if his brain was just playing tricks with him and was just hearing things.

The voice came back just a moment later, and rang through his ears again.

"Cap, it's Sam, can you hear me?"

The first Avenger could feel how his heart almost stopped. A voice that he had not had a chance to hear in over five years just rang through his ears. He wanted to hear it again. He wanted it to be real. He slowly raised his right hand and touched his comms.

It was when he heard something behind him. A sound of sparks. He slowly turned behind him and saw the orange shining glow.

It was just a second before Samuel Wilson's voice called over to him.

"On your left..."

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It's happening! 

Also, if any of you were wondering how the Chitauri Titans look like, 

I found these concepts while browsing MCU subreddit and wanted to involve them in this story, because why not. I've been thinking how should I call these guys and was torn between Chitauri Giants, and Chitauri Titans, but as you know by now, I ended up using the latter, because of how massive these guys are.

If any you were wondering why I haven't used them in Infinity War arc, here's my explanation, and I hope it'll make sense. Thanos gave up on using them the moment he got the Power Stone on Xandar, just like he gave up on his sword after acquring the Power Stone, or on his armor after acquring the Space Stone.

As for the Leviathan Driller, here's his concept.

Funfact: If the Snap worked reversely for SU characters, Steven and Spinel would be the ones to join Cap, Tony, and Thor against Thanos instead of Azurite and Garnet.

Funfact 2: At first, I was planning Garnet to join Cap in his final march against Thanos' army but I scrapped that idea because it was Cap's moment.