A MAD TITAN SUDDENLY APPEARS from a ripple of black that tears through the orange sky. His dark eyes slowly skate across the desolate landscape that stretches out in every direction around him, searching, searching, always searching for them. Thunder and lightning cracks through the desolate planet before his eyes. The titan's wandering gaze finally comes to a sharp stop when it finds that a confident man with a maroon cloak sits comfortably across from them.

"Oh yeah." Stephen slowly hums out, studying the titan, "You're much more of a Thanos,"

"I take it that the Maw is dead... This day extracts a heavy toll. Still, they accomplished their mission," Thanos says.

"You may regret that," Stephen threatens casually, "They brought you face to face with the Master of the Mystic Arts."

The titan moves closer to the two, "Where so you think they brought you?"

"Let me guess." Stephen lowly says, "Your home?"

"It was," Thanos quietly concedes and then the reality stone hums within the gauntlet.

Then the world around them changes to something from long ago, lush and green and populated.

"And it was beautiful. Titan was like most planets: too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution,"

"Genocide?" Stephen offers in disgusted disbelief.

"At random." Thanos confirms so plainly, seeing nothing wrong with what he wanted, "Dispassionate, fair. For rich and poor alike. And they called me a madman..." the world is pulled back into reality, dusty, and devastated, "And what I predicted came to past."

"Congratulations, you're a prophet." Stephen spits out with narrowed eyes.

"I'm a survivor,"

"Who wants to murder trillions!"

"With all six Stones, I could simply snap my fingers," he raises his hand and then does as he says, "And it would all cease to exist. I call that... mercy,"

Stephen slowly stands and takes a few steps down the platform, "And then that?"

"I finally rest. And watch the sunrise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills." Thanos says.

Stephen swiftly brings his hands together and then his hands are glowing with power once more, "I think you'll find our will equals to yours."

"Our?" Thanos lifts his head just in enough time to see a gigantic column flying down through the air towards his suddenly small-looking form.

Tony's eyes are concentrated when he smashes the huge column straight into Thanos just as he raises his gauntlet and the purple stone ignites. Dust rushes out from around the crashed titan.

"Piece of cake, Quill!" Tony quickly chirps with a half-smirk, gliding through the air.

"Yeah," Quill sasses with a frown, flying after him, "If your goal is to tick him off!"

Suddenly purple energy bursts the column apart and shows a screaming Thanos underneath, his fist shaking with the power of the purple stone. With a rageful yell, the titan unleashes his gauntlet on everyone around him. Everyone dives in with everything they have, eager and completely willing to do their part to take the titan down. As the fight continues, Peter suddenly starts swinging in through orange portals, hitting Thanos in every which way that he can.

"Magic!" The boy announces with a punch across Thanos' face.

"More magic!" With another punch, Peter disappears and reappears with a foot in the titan's face, "Magic with a kick!"

As Thanos gets more and more disoriented, Peter swings in and happily yells, "Magic with a-"

Before he can finish though, Thanos snatches Peter around the neck and smashes the boy so hard into the dirt that the very ground beneath him cracks and splinters. "Insect!" Thanos says.

"Ugly purple grape!" Briana and Cat mumbles. Thanos then tosses the boy into the two girls only for them to hit directly at Stephen who has only just managed to get back to his feet. The four let out pained and quiet groans as they hit and tumble across the rocky ground.

No one moves for a long moment, till they all wake up and slowly stand up.

Thanos is engaged one some kind of hand-to-band combat with an unfamiliar blue woman who is taking the titan on head-on. "Where's Gamora!?" The blue woman demanded.

Stephen snapping a crimson band around Thanos' gauntlet, Drax snatching onto his legs, Quill magnetizing his free arm to the ground, Peter swinging in to web up his chest, Briana and Cat used their abilities to blind Thanos, Tony lands to pull free the gauntlet, and Mantis falls from a portal above to rest her hands on his skull.

Thanos screams in denial, straining against the strength of everyone until Mantis' antennas glow a pale yellow and then the titan's eyes change to a strange murky white.

"Is he under?" Tony breathes heavily, still trying to hold onto the gauntlet. "Don't let up!"

"Be quick!" Mantis winces with a pained whine, "He is very strong!"

"Parkers! Munchkin! Help!" Tony yells over to the three kids, "Get over here, she can't hold on much longer, let's go!"

The three teens rush over and try to yank the gauntlet off. Quill quickly lands a few feet away, running the last few steps to slow down before he sets down a dark glare upon the titan.

"Thought you'd be harder to catch," Quill mocks. "For the record, this is my plan,"

Tony rolls his eyes at the man's childish expression.

"Not so strong now, huh?" Quill gets in his face to angrily interrogate, "Where's Gamora?"

Thanos struggles against Mantis, growling, "My Gamora,"

"No. Bullcrap. Where is she!?"

The titan just growls and doesn't respond again.

"He's in anguish!" Mantis cries out.

"Good!" Quill hisses in disgust and glares at the titan.

"He— he mourns."

"What does this monster have to mourn!?" Drax grunts our from the ground, struggling to hold the titan in place.

"Gamora," a low voice slowly speaks up from behind them all.

With a look of absolute horror, Quill slowly — painfully — turns to face the blue woman, Nebula, and whispers, "What?"

"He took her to Vormir. He came back with the soul stone," Nebula struggles to continue, "She didn't,"

Quill's eyes fill with tears, and he feels the numbness in his heart break with rage.

And Tony is the first to recognize it — after all, he's seen it so many times in the mirror.

"Okay, Quill," Tony's mask pulls back so that he can try to level, try to connect, with the other man, "You gotta cool it right now. You understand?"

Quill doesn't seem to hear me, slowly turning to Thanos with rage lighting a fire in his eyes.

"Don't, don't! Don't engage!" Tony screams in desperation, his grip firm on the gauntlet. "We almost got this off!"

Nebula just slowly closes her tear-filled eyes.

Quill turns to the titan and demands, "Tell me you didn't do it!"

"I had to." Thanos groans.

"No, you didn't. No, you didn't." Quill desperately and slowly shakes his head before being completely overtaken by grief and screaming, begin to beat the titan. "No! You didn't! You didn't!"

Thanos' head jerks back and forth, his eyes flashing back and forth to normal as Quill continues to beat him. Mantis sucks in a pained gasp and her hands drop.

As Drax's grip of the titan loosens, Tony hurriedly lets go of the gauntlet to dive and grab the man around by the arm, "Stop, stop!"

The three teens don't give up, their metal feet diving into the ground as they keep trying to tear the gauntlet off. "Almost got it! It's coming! I got it! I got it!"

And as the gauntlet finally comes loosen in the teens' hands, the haze in Thanos' eyes fades and Thanos throws his head up onto Mantis' chin, yanking the gauntlet back from the three teens' and then hurling the yelling empath far away from him. Briana leaps into the air, catching Mantis midair and tumbling to the ground with her safety. 

He kicks Drax off of him before taking down the rest of the charging guardians, throwing Stephen hundreds of feet away, and smashing Tony back away from him. When everyone is down, Thanos turns up the sky, raises his fist, and bares his teeth.

Then, a gigantic orb within the sky begins to shudder and pull.

As Thanos screams and thrusts his fist forward, an entire moon is yanked from above and then begins plummeting towards the waiting ground below. Fiery rock and moon come hurtling down, dust and smoke infecting the air. The world is blown to bits and then the moon collides into the Iron Man suit, driving him towards the ground, and then smashing him completely within the dust.

And then it's just Thanos.

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