Ch#14- We were this Close!!
[Cut to the Wakandan battlefield. Carriers hover over the ground with Wakandan soldiers and Natasha, Steve and Bucky on board; Rhodey and Sam keep pace overhead, and Bruce is in the Hulkbuster armor.]
"Didn't this I see the day where this would be used by Bruce and Not against it!?" Tony chuckled. Never thought of this. "By the way, How did it got there? Veronica wouldn't have send it if I wasn't there."
"You think I couldn't override, and Honestly who would keep their Password as simple as XqY#2h3Ucit+35tZGb, You were just asking to be hacked." Natasha scoffed as if the undisputed Most Genius Person alive was a Stupidest Person alive.
Natasha Romanoff: How we looking, Bruce?
Bruce Banner: [Leaping jogging along, keeping up with the carriers, and utterly delighted] Yeah, I think I'm getting the hang of it. Wow! It's like being the Hulk without actually-- [he stumbles on a rock, and a carrier goes by, from which Okoye gives him a dubious look. He stands] I'm okay. I'm okay.
"Way to Excited before a Fight, Bruce." Maria comments, at seeing Okoye's look. She and Most understand what that look meant, 'Wakanda is going to fight for Earth, in which the Survival of My Country is at risk, at least you could be serious here.' and Many agreed. Even Bruce also was in agreement.
"My Majesty.." Bruce started, but was cut of by T'challa.
"Just T'challa, Dr Banner." He nods at Bruce.
"Call me Bruce. And I apologise for my actions there, it just.. um. That is my first fight as myself and not as the big guy, but that's not excuse for my behavior in a Fight which could potentially threaten the Entire Universe." At which T'Challa nods as a way to accept a apology, even while he didn't think an apology was required.
James Rhodes: I got two heat signatures breaking through the tree line.
"Negotiations?" Steve guessed.
"Probably." Gamora agreed.
[The heat signatures are Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian.]
"Where's your last partner? Is he okay?" Sam mocked.
[The carrier pilots swerve into U-turns, causing their craft to tilt and allowing the practiced soldiers to slide over one side into a run, never coming to a complete halt. A Dora Milaje shouts a command nearby as the last Wakandans join ranks.]
Jabari Warriors: MIE EFFA! (Win them!) YA HU! MIE EFFA! YA HU! MIE EFFA! YA HU! MIE EFFA! YA HU! MIE EFFA! YA HU! [M'Baku, Lord of the Jabari, rallies his soldiers with a war chant. He stops as King T'Challa nears him.]
"He seems in High Spirit." Rhody comments.
T'Challa: [Clasps wrists with M'Baku] Thank you for standing with us.
M'Baku: [Translated from Xhosa] Of course, brother.
"What did he said?" Tony asked.
"Of Course, Brother" Loki said absent-mindedly. Gaining Curious looks from Wakandians, and Shocked from Others. Strange seems to have a smirk at everyone's reaction.
"How do you know!?" Peter asked excitedly.
"Magic" Loki answered with a smug look, at which Strange gave a snort.
Loki and Strange were the only one to know Xhosa, because of their respective translation Magics. Strange's Temporary Self Spell from Book of Vishanti, and Loki's Permanent Asgardian Ritual by his Mother. Having a Secret Conversation in a Obscure Language is Impossible in Loki's Presence because of this Ritual, Thor doesn't knew about that, he seriously would have thrown a fit if he knew that him having to learn thousands of Languages for a century by Asgardian Scholars could be done in a Fortnight if he had chosen Magic to Study.
[The Black Panther, Captain America, and Black Widow walk to the edge of the barrier, where Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian stand. Proxima tests the strength of the barrier by drawing her sword across it consideringly.]
"That Ship really gave a big blow on the Shields, Seems about 60% of its efficiency has drop because of that one blow!" Shuri comments with a shiver, She had never seen anything affecting the Dome so much.
Natasha Romanoff: Where's your other friend?
Proxima Midnight: You will pay for his life with yours. Thanos will have that stone.
"He's Dead?" Bucky asked disbelievingly.
"I don't like the sound of that statement." Natasha comments.
"Its like they are trying to reassure us! That they are venerable, can be easily killed by us." Clint expands Strike Team Delta's thoughts.
"False Hope." Fury supplied.
"I don't think so. If they have tech to travel those ships, in Galactic Space, their Medical unit won't slack that much." Bruce whispered to himself.
Steve Rogers: That's not gonna happen.
T'Challa: You are in Wakanda now. Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood.
(A/N:This had Chills running down my spine.)
Proxima Midnight: We... have blood to spare. [She brandishes her sword with a snarl, and the ships behind her start raising their outer hulls to allow their "passengers" to disembark.]
"So.... Another Mindless Army of a Super Villain?" Maria asked.
"That's the Norm. I don't expect much else." Steve said.
[The three heroes return to the massed forces.]
Bucky Barnes: [A touch sardonically] Did they surrender?
"What a Question, Barnes!" Steve comments with a sigh.
Steve Rogers: Not exactly.
"What a Answer, Rogers." Bucky replies sarcastically.
[The Black Panther leads the Wakandans in the war cry "Yibambe!" telling them to hold fast as the Outriders bound toward the barrier; Proxima drops her sword arm down in the signal to attack.]
Bucky Barnes: [Flatly, astonished at the numbers of Outriders] What the hell.
Natasha Romanoff: Looks like we pissed her off.
"Anger affects Rational Thinking, Miss Romanoff. More Angry the opponent, More Chances of Mistakes." Vision supplied.
"If Hunt had been there, she would have been fuming." Natasha comments with a smirk at the inside joke between two partners. While Ex-Director having just a clue of from where did this joke came from.
"Well, Brandt is M.I.A. for more than 2 years, can't expect him to heard the kiddos to a Big Adventure like this." Clint replies sarcastically with a playful smile.
"That is if someone would have just told Brandt the situation." He had lost his playful smile at this last comment, he was serious about accompanying his family/friends in a fight like this.
"What was that about?" Sam asked after some seconds of silence at those bizarre comments.
"Don't ask, Tony had gone mad, trying to get those two to spill beans about some if not all of their inside stories, which they bring up everywhere." Bruce said, smirking at the fond memories of a genius trying all weird things just to get any of those two to tell him about their past missions and all things they reference.
"Hey! You never told me What exactly happened in that damn Budapest." Tony jumped up, as he remembered. "You promised to tell." He accused Clint.
"After we get out of here. Well have all the time in the world, I'll tell you then." Clint answered.
"Okay." Sat down a content Stark.
"Will he?" Bucky asked Steve in a whisper.
Steve shakes his head while looking at a Playful Smirk on Clint's face. He was greatful of Strange to get them here. Not only were they learning of a impending threat, but this time here is also helping in mending the bridge of Trust between all his Teammates. He knew, if not for coming here, it would have taken a very long time or Tony Sacrificing himself to get out of the Top spot of Clint's Revenge-List (read S*it-list). And he cannot find fault in Clint's Anger at the Billionaire, Unintentionally may be but Tony had given Clint's most guarded secret to Ross on a Silver Platter. It didn't take Ross much time to find the Non-existenting family of the Archer with Governmental Powers after he knew there was One.
Okoye: [Horrified, as the Outriders bombard the force-field, squeezing limbs and bodies partly through only to be bisected.] They're killing themselves.
"That loss of integrity came to bite you, isn't it?" Rocket asked rhetorically, but Avengers nods absent-mindedly.
[As a few Outriders managed to squeeze through intact, the Border Tribe take a knee and raise their shields. The Kingsguard behind them level their sonic spears over their comrades' shoulders, and on Black Panther's command, fire at the approaching monsters. The Winter Soldier uses his M-249 machine gun, and Bruce fires the Hulkbuster's hand repulsors.]
"Things are heating up." T'challa said.
Sam Wilson: [Sending Redwings into the fight as he flies, swooping to fire at them with his Steyr pistols] You seen the teeth on those things?
James Rhodes: Alright, back up, Sam. You're gonna get your wings singed. [He flies over the heaviest concentration of Outriders and drops a barrage of mines, all exploding fantastically.]
[Everyone notices a pack of Outriders starting to run around the force-field to the right of the defenders' position.]
"Oh Crap!" Scott sighs.
Bruce Banner: Cap, if these things circle the perimeter and get in behind us... there's nothing between them and Vision.
Steve Rogers: [Grimly] Them we better keep 'em in front of us.
Okoye: [To the Black Panther] How do we do that?
"You are not thinking about it, right." Shuri asked.
"If we didn't faced the crisis with Killmonger, things would have been differently." T'challa resigns, it was the only way now. If Wakanda hadn't had that Civil War recently, there would have been a different strategy to face them.
T'Challa: We open the barrier. [Putting his comm to his mouth] On my signal, open North-West Section Seventeen.
Dome Control: [Nervous and unsure] Requesting confirmation, my King. You said open the barrier?
T'Challa: On my signal.
M'Baku: [To Okoye] This will be the end of Wakanda.
A silent grief passed among everyone.
Okoye: Then it will be the noblest ending in history.
All heads dipped a little in respect of that sentiment.
[Captain America readies one of his Vibranium hand guards. The Black Panther shouts a command in Xhosa; the Border Tribesmen disengage their shields and stand, as the Black Panther walks out in front of them, never taking his eyes off the enemy.]
T'Challa: WAKANDA FOREVER!!!! [He crosses his arms in the Wakandan salute and closes his Black Panther helmet, charging for the barrier. The heroes and leaders are at the fore of the charge. Halfway to the barrier, the Black Panther shouts into his comm] Now!
[The Outriders pour through, distracted from trying to find any other access. The Black Panther and Captain America pull ahead rapidly due to their enhancements, and literally leap into battle.]
"Matching up with a Supersoldier speed. Enhanced?" Fury murmured to himself. Similar conclusion was made in many minds. They had thought of T'challa as a Man in Vibranium Suit, not that dissimilar than Tony, but keeping up with Steve had them wrecking their brain for previous feats of Black Panther in a new light.
T'Challa: [Over his comm] How much longer, Shuri?
"Seriously! Have some patience Brother." Shuri said irritatedly, it wasn't even half a hour and her brother thought she would have done majority of work, does he not remember what she said.
Shuri: We've barely begun, brother. [A delicate and intricate construction of gold light hovers at her eye level; as she manipulates it, the waldo tools reproduce her commands on the Mind Stone itself.]
T'Challa: You might want to pick up the pace.
[Simultaneously, Thor prepares to open the iris of Nidavellir.]
"Thor! Think again for Odin's Sake." Loki said without any emotions in his voice. Only Thor and Spies were the one who saw the concerns in Loki's eyes and pleading in his voice, others saw it as if Loki was doing a formality of trying to stop his brother and nothing more.
Thor: Allfathers, give me strength.
Eitri: You understand, boy? You're about to take the full force of a star. It'll kill you.
Thor: Only if I die. [Takes deep breaths.]
"That's just what he means, pointbreak." Tony explained with a flinch himself. Watching one of his friend risk his life just to get a chance at taking revenge for his people, friends and Brother.
Eitri: [Boggled] Yes. That's what... "killing you" means.
[Thor grasps the two levers and pulls them down and towards himself, slowly opening the iris. The stream of stellar energy blasts pasts him and into the forge once again.]
Eitri: Hold it! Hold it, Thor!
[Eitri watches the metal ingots melt while Thor is looking increasingly charred. Finally, Eitri is able to tip the cauldron, pouring the metal into the mold just as Thor passes out.]
Many eyes widened at the resistance of Asgardian against the full power of neutron star. Small curses runs through some mouths at unconsciousness of God of Thunder.
[The jet carries him into the forge, Rocket follows hastily and landing after Thor bounces limply off a structure to land on the floor. Groot finally looks up from his game at the thump Thor's body makes.]
Rocket: [Kneeling over Thor] Thor! Say something. Come on. Thor, you okay?
"Do he looks Okay?" Quill asked, while he doesn't like the man that much, 'I mean seriously who could be that much dashing and handsome to make his teammates look down on someone as perfect as .......I got carried away' *cough**cough*, but he doesn't want Thor dead.
"Do not worry for me, my friends. It is nothing but just small injury, my Asgardian body can take small burns like this." Thor said very confidentially, with that much confidentially that no one will ever believe to be true.
[Eitri clumsily and urgently pulls the mold, still glowing red-hot, onto the floor, breaking it loose from its frame, then starts punching the mold itself with his metal fists to free the ax.]
Rocket: I think he's dying!
Core Avengers flinched at just the thought of death of someone they thought would outlive everyone of them.
Eitri: He needs the ax! Where's the handle? Tree, help me find the handle!
[Stormbreaker's two sections -- the hammer and the ax-blade -- lay glowing on the floor. Groot looks sadly at Thor, then scowls with determination.]
Everyone leans forward, praying Groot has thought of something, they do not want to see another teammate/friend lose a fight with death.
[He stands, and extends his fingers towards Stormbreaker, growing them at extraordinary speed. As he twines them around the two parts, he cries out at the burning pain but does not hesitate, slamming them together and locking them permanently into one structure. He raises it above his head, and with a mighty cry, chops his extended arm with his other hand to sever it at the right length.Thor's fingers twitch, and the new weapon levitates in a crackle of lightning echoed by the sparks between Thor's fingers.]
"My humble thanks, friend Tree." Thor said to the person who just saved his life on-screen.
"Groot. I am Groot, I Am Groot! (It's Nothing. But try not to repeat it, cutting of my hand hurts bad!)" Groot stated with a serious look but twitching of the tip of his mouth gave him away.
Thor laughed as Loki smirked, Loki was starting to like the teenage Groot, or to be exact, he was starting to like Groot's quick tongue.
[The remaining Avengers and Wakandans are struggling against the Outriders. The Winter Soldier goes down, and fights off Outrider fangs snapping at his head. Captain America and the Black Panther still fight side-by-side. War Machine hovers over the breach, pouring ammunition into the flood of bodies until a huge hammer -- Cull Obsidian's -- knocks him out of the sky and to the ground. The Hulkbuster is dogpiled and pinned.]
"We are loosing?" Peter asked shell-shocked, he never thought he would see Avengers on the backfoot in any fight.
"Its about numerical advantage. Thanos uses sheer number of his troops to overwhelm his opponent." Gamora explained.
"Well that explains the dumb armies under his banner, Chaturai and this Dogs...."
"Outriders." Gamora interrupted.
"Chaturai and Outriders are there to overwhelm and thin our number and to tire out all of the survivors." Strange explained a possible strategy of Mad Titans mind.
Bruce Banner: There's too many of them! GYAH! AAAAHHHHH!
[Suddenly, a large beam of rainbow-hued light lands in the middle of the action, and an ax flies out of it, wreathed with lightning and tearing through the Outriders, freeing the heroes. It flies back to the light and into its master's hand just as the beam cuts out, revealing Thor, Groot and Rocket, who chambers a round in his large gun. Black Widow, Captain America and the Black Panther pause in astonishment. Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian pause in apprehension.]
"Now that is what I call an Entry! Come on Quill you gotta learn the Dramatics or you'll remain a looser!" Rocket mocked.
"Heyy-"
"You are right Rocket! But you seriously think if a Looser like Peter can learn it." Drax asked with a serious face, shocking everyone in the room, who didn't see a single ounce of mockery on his face. And top of that, Mantis at his side had taken a similar face.
Bruce Banner: [Opening the Hulkbuster's helm and laughing with joy] AH-hahaha! You guys are so screwed now!
"It seems someone cut your head and placed it on that robot! Does that make you a half-human half-robot happy man?" Mantis asked innocently.
Her innocence was not shared with any other person besides Drax, who was debating over a logical explanation given by Mantis and pure fictional explanation given to him by everyone else there. Everyone else was horrified and confused, they urge for innocence like her for themselves but also pitied for her, she may be innocent but she had no tact or filter inbetween her brain and mouth.
Thor: BRING ME THANOS! [He charges toward the hordes of Outriders, followed by Groot and Rocket, lightning gathering around him until he finally launches himself into the air, lands in the densest concentration of Outriders and makes a crater where they had stood.]
[Cut to Titan, where Thanos arrives, finding only fresh debris from Ebony Maw's ship.]
Stephen Strange: [Sitting] Oh, yeah, you're much more of a "Thanos."
"Must you Antagonise Him?" Steve asked. Only got a Shrug as the Answer.
Thanos: I take it the Maw is dead. This day extracts a heavy toll. Still, he accomplished his mission.
"At least show some remorse at death of someone you called your 'Children'." Sam seethed.
Stephen Strange: You may regret that. He brought you face-to-face with the Master of the Mystic Arts.
He said 'Master of Mystic Arts' not 'Sorcerer Supreme', it seems things changed even before I brought them here to Change the Future. What's the purpose of this? Why get everyone together like this? If 'One Above All' is that much powerful as it is said, why not just stop the Mad Titan? Why give him mental of Sorcerer Supreme this time around, while he did not held the position in the future that was shown? Is it just a game for the One being? Is Planet Earth and it's Residents are just his Playthings? Why?
"Where is everyone else?" Peter asked, only seeing Strange and Thanos there.
"Its a Ambush. Sneak-Attack." Carol told him.
Thanos: And where do you think he brought you? [Star-Lord crouches behind wreckage with his weapon ready, behind Thanos and to his left; Spider-Man peeks from above and behind Doctor Strange.]
Stephen Strange: Let me guess. Your home?
Thanos: [Smiling reminiscently] It was. And it was beautiful. [Thanos curls his gauntleted fist and activates the Reality Stone to show Strange Titan before it was destroyed -- green lawns, intact buildings, water-filled ponds, strolling citizens, the jack-like structures hovering and connected to the ground-based buildings with beams of energy.] Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, and not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution.
Stephen Strange: Genocide.
Several people winched at that.
Thanos: But at random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman. And what I predicted came to pass. [He relaxes his fist; the Stone stops glowing and the illusion fades back into the true state of Titan.]
"Congratulations! You can give Trelawney a run for her money!" Shuri sarcastically comments.
"Yeh are a Seer, Thanos." Clint continued in a thick Hagrid Accent.
Stephen Strange: [Sarcastically] Congratulations. You're a prophet.
Some chuckled.
Thanos: I'm a survivor.
Stephen Strange: Who wants to murder trillions.
Thanos: With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers, and they would all cease to exist. I call that... mercy.
Stephen Strange: [Stands] And then what?
Thanos: I finally rest... and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
Stephen Strange: [He summons his Mandalas, entering a fighting pose] I think... you'll find... our will... equal to yours.
Everyone leans forward, this would be the first time they would see Thanos fight with numerical disadvantage.
Thanos: Ours? [He looks up to a see a chunk of wreckage descending rapidly on him, too rapidly to react -- and powered by Iron Man. He is subsequently crushed by it.]
Tony Stark: [Flying in] Piece of cake, Quill.
Peter Quill: [Triggers his mask and follows] Yeah, if your goal was to piss him off!
[The wreckage on top of Thanos erupts in purple, as he bellows in rage. He turns the hovering fragments into a flock of bats with the Reality Stone and swarms Iron Man with them, driving him back through the ruins.]
[Spider-Man webs his eyes, and swings in to kick him in the face at the same time that Drax leaps from cover, blades in both hands, to knee-slide behind Thanos and try for a tendon slide across the back of the Titan's knee.]
[Doctor Strange jumps through a portal and summons a sword of golden energy, dueling with Thanos while Drax attacks similarly on his other side. Thanos punches Drax through a ruined wall, then shatters the blade with one hand and tears the web from his eyes. He advances on Doctor Strange and kicks at him, but Strange's shield absorbs the damage -- the Cloak lifts him free of the ground.]
[Star-Lord has been making his way back on the ground, and shoots Thanos from behind. Thanos uses the Power Stone to shoot balls of energy at Star-Lord while Star-Lord leaps towards Thanos using magical platforms thrown in his path by Doctor Strange, the last one placed above Thanos' head so Star-Lord can flip over him and slap a Grenade on Thanos' back. Star-Lord sticks his landing, he disengages his helmet, flips Thanos a bird and falls backward into a portal.]
"I've never imagined of you doing support." Tony comments. His behaviour towards the Sorcerer was because, Tony didn't like Magic. It was way too unpredictable, doesn't follow the unbreakable rules of the universe. And the only experience he had with magic before Strange was Loki, which didn't make accepting Magic easier.
Strange only raised a eyebrow. It seems Tony's attitude towards him has taken a U-turn.
Peter Quill: Boom!
[The explosion knocks Thanos to his knees and dazes him briefly.]
Stephen Strange: [Whispers to the Cloak of Levitation] Do not let him close his fist.
Every One beesides Guardians nods their head and almost simultaneously thought 'noted', this observation would help them way much now.
[The Cloak swoops off Doctor Strange's shoulders and wraps itself tightly around Thanos' armored hand, who starts tugging at this unexpected wrapping.]
[Doctor Strange starts throwing portals everywhere. Spider-Man leaps through one on Thanos' left]
Peter Parker: Magic! [He punches Thanos in the head and vanishes through a portal to the lower right before reappearing above Thanos] More magic! [He yanks Thanos' head down hard, then leaps into a portal in front of him. He leaps through another portal high and behind Thanos] Magic with a kick! [Delivers a flying kick and falls feet-first into an exit, then appears on his right] Magic with a--
[Before he can finish Thanos turns, grabbing him from the air, and throwing him to the ground, with his hand around his neck.]
Most flinched, he was just a kid. Fighting arguably the most powerful being except Living Tribunal.
Thanos: Insect!
[He then throws him at Doctor Strange, knocking them both down. Thanos finally tears the Cloak away and is then promptly surrounded by fiery explosions as Iron Man bombards him. He sucks all the flame into the gauntlet with the Power Stone and fires it in a stream at Iron Man, hitting him dead on and sending him far away, plowing through a massive fallen machine.]
"That stream was Lightning fast." Wanda comments, everyone was enthralled by the fight. There wasn't a second of rest, someone was fighting Thanos at any given second.
"It would have been better if it was Lightning." Tony murmured. Thinking of his first encounter with Thor.
[Spider-Man leaps from behind, more conventionally this time, while Thanos concentrates his fire on Iron Man, webs the gauntlet and drops down in front of him, pulling hard -- but Thanos yanks on the web-line, pulling the much lighter teenager towards him, and punching him on his way past. He tears the webbing free of the gauntlet just in time for a small spaceship to attempt to crash-land on him.]
"Even a Crash Landing of a spaceship cannot phase him, let alone hurt him." Scott sighs with both his hand in air.
[The ship drags Thanos along for a distance, burying him under debris. He stands just as the pilot leaps in a great arc to punch him, landing in front of him with an energy-blade at the ready.]
Thanos: Well, well.
Nebula: You should have killed me.
Thanos: It would've been a waste of parts!
"What the..., And he calls himself Father!?" Quill sneered. It seems Thanos successfully made himself most hated father even among Tony, Thor, Peter(Quill) and Clint.
Nebula: [She runs at Thanos, attacking him with her sword] Where's Gamora?!
[Thanos punches her away. Doctor Strange uses the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak to pinion the gauntlet, pulling Thanos' fingers open and trying to pry the gauntlet off his hand.]
"You seriously have too many tricks up your sleeves!" Tony said exhausted. Here he was thinking that he was the most versatile man in any fight with his amazing nano-suit, what a cruel way to puncture his ego.
[Thanos tries to pull free, as Drax slides in from his right, kicking his knee and knocking him off-balance, then wrapping himself around Thanos' kneeling leg.]
[Star-Lord shoots a electric trap onto the ground to Thanos' right, the tangle-field holding down his unarmored hand.]
[Spider-Man swings in, webs Thanos' chest then wraps it around behind him, digging his Iron Spider legs into the ground to anchor himself.]
Everyone moved to edges of their seats. It seems this part was planned beforehand, this give everyone a reassurance that this is all going according to whatever one outcome Strange foreseen.
[Doctor Strange opens a portal straight above Thanos' out of which drops Mantis, landing on the Titan's shoulders, her hands on his temples. He bellows as she tries to put him under.]
[Iron Man, having returned, is pulling on the gauntlet. Doctor Strange reapplies the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak to reinforce the trap's hold on Thanos' right hand, and the Cloak helps him pull. Thanos is finally subdued enough to incapacitate, not fully asleep.]
Tony Stark: [While pulling] Is he under? Don't let up.
"Yes!!" Tony jumped out of his seat, now they can take the gauntlet from Titan's hand without much difficulty. And it seems he wasn't the only one out of his seat, only Fury was still seated. Tony goes to the not-a-wizard and brings up his right arm with his open palm towards Stephen, waiting for a high5.
After 5 long seconds of Tony standing like a statue with his arm in air and Sorcerer eyeing him as if mad for even proposing the idea of a high5.
"No" was the short answer from Doctor.
"Come on.." Tony whines. This turns everyone's attention towards the two.
Stephen crosses his arms and turns away from Tony. But Tony remains in that posture even his smile doesn't diminish.
Strange gives a suffering sigh. And claps his hand with Tony's outstretched arm in a high5 without any enthusiasm.
"AWESOME FACIAL HAIR BROS!" Tony stated with a most satisfying look on his face.
"I Hate You" Strange said with no heat, just defeated. "Where and When the heck did he come up with that!" Stephen murmurs.
"Here and Now, Stephen." Tony called out in between laughs from everyone else.
Mantis: [Starting to cry] Be quick. He is very strong.
Tony Stark: Parker, help! Get over here. [Spider-Man drops his web-line, and hurries to help Tony with the gauntlet] She can't hold him much longer. Let's go.
Peter Quill: [Flies over to join the others, stands 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?
Thanos: My Gamora...?
Peter Quill: No, bull-shit. Where is she?
Mantis: [Shocked] He is in anguish.
Peter Quill: Good.
Mantis: [Crying] He... he mourns.
"And now he mourns!? What is actually going on his deranged mind up there!?" Maria said shocked.
Drax: What does this monster have to mourn?
Nebula: Gamora.
Peter Quill: [Pause] What?
"Shouldn't tell him." Tony murmurs, drawing parallels with his truth reveal inside Siberian bunker.
Nebula: [Realizing with horror and sadness what has happened] He took her to Vormir. He came back with the Soul Stone... but she didn't.
Tony Stark: [Grasps the danger immediately and de-helmets] Okay, Quill, you gotta cool it right now, you understand?
[Quill slowly turns to Thanos,]
Tony Stark: [Shouting his pleads desperately] Don't, don't, don't engage, we've almost got this off!
"Oh God!" Was the general sentiment. Everyone looked anxious, worried about what's to come next. All of them knew this could potentially go downhill very fast, but clinging to the option of quill would pull himself together before a dire mistake.
Peter Quill: Tell me she's lying. [Enraged] Asshole! Tell me you didn't do it!
Thanos: I... had... to.
Most were out of their seats, angry and unbelieving at the Response of a Murder!
Peter Quill: [While starting to tear up; quietly] No, you didn't...! No, you didn't...! [He continues to rage and then pistol-whipping Thanos twice in the face, causing Mantis to let go in pain.] NO, YOU DIDN'T!
Most flinched when Quill lost his composure, while they didn't blame Quill for loosing it, but it didn't let them forget the reality of the situation that this could possibly make things worst.
Tony Stark: Quill!
[Iron Man leaps for Star-Lord's arm, re-helmeting and leaving Spider-Man to pull off the gauntlet.]
Tony Stark: [To the struggling Star-Lord] Hey, stop! Hey, stop! Stop! Hey, stop! Stop!
Peter Parker: It's coming! It's coming! It's coming! [Getting the fingers completely loose] I got it! I got it.... !
[Thanos wakes completely, now well and truly furious. He head-butts Mantis, grabbing the cuff of the gauntlet just as it is sliding off his hand, causing Spider-Man to stumble back, and then throwing Mantis away off his shoulders.]
Dread filled the rooms,.. .. again. Nothing was said, no one had any words to say, may it be consolidation, anger, sadness or frustration.
Peter Parker: [Seeing Mantis with far too much air under her] Oh, God. [He jumps and wraps his arms and legs around her, extending his spider legs to form a roll cage for a safe landing.]
[Thanos kicks Drax off his right leg and into Nebula and Star-Lord, knocking them down. He yanks on the Crimson Bands holding his right hand to throw Doctor Strange far away, and swats away Iron Man and his repulsor shots. The remaining Guardians jump up and charge him again, but he fires a pulse of indigo energy at them that knocks the three of them completely unconscious.]
[Iron Man zooms back in, his nanite arm cannon manifested, and is head-butted to the ground. Thanos looks at him for a beat, then raises the gauntlet towards Titan's moon. Iron Man stares, aghast. Thanos uses 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 go sailing into the air from the rebound.]
"Did he just...." Tony's voice trailed away, with a horrified look on his face he turns to face others all of whom had similar horrified look. Yes, they had learnt that he could wipe out half of everything with just a snap, but that was said for all stones combined, but throwing countless asteroids from the surface of Titan's Moon in the battlefield as if he was just throwing a ball at someone with using just a stone out of six was beyond reason. It means that even if they stopped him from collecting all six, he can very well do as he wished but slower and more horrific way.
~~
**Infinity**
5900 Words
Sir, I recommend You see this!
(I am busy with this Encrypted Message from Pirate)
That is why I highly recommend this, Mr. Stark
Login*GroupChat*-MyFreeloaderTenants
Cupid-
Tony, as I don't want to find a
new Pranking partner and rival,
I advise you to set all of our
Avengers Initiative ID's to default,
as well as on this group.
HottestManAlive-
And why would I do that, Legolas?
Cupid-
😒😒😶
'cause, My Training Partner and
2 of my emergency Glocks are
missing.
J.A.R.V.I.S.-
Sir, it appears that Team Elevator
is coming up to your floor from
Ms. Romanoff's floor, but no
apparent Life Signs are detected
inside it.
Cupid-
Seems she is on the move, be ready.
HottestManAlive-
Ohh.. GOD, stop her Barton,
I am changing it, Now...
HottestManAlive-
Done.
*MyFreeloaderTenants is now Avengers Group Chat*
*HottestManAlive is now Tony*
*Cupid is now Clint*
*RedDeath is now Natasha*
*BigGreen is now Bruce*
*Antique is now Steve*
Steve-
What's going on here? I just saw
you coming out of training area
with her, about 5 minutes back.
Natasha-
You know Nat, you could have used
Your own phone for this. It was just
beside your table. Now give me back
my phone.
Tony-
....whAt!??
Bruce-
........
Natasha-
By the way, Tony. Would you pick up
my arrow from elevator. And I would
highly recommend checking the
Dishwasher.
Bruce-
Why?
Natasha-
Just a hoax, he could potentially find
his Toy in it.
Clint-
Ahh yes, I would say don't go down to
your garage if you don't like pink.
Tony-
What did you do Barton?
Clint-
Nothing you don't deserve.
Logout*GroupChat*- Avengers Group Chat
(Sigh)
Tony Out.
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