"Y/n! Let's go!" Bruno shouted as Y/n was coming down the stairs.

"Yeah, yeah," Y/n was now 15 as he saw Kamala and Bruno at his door step.

"So you can actually do magic now?" Bruno asked as they walked in.

"Pretty hard to believe but it's real." Kamala said as Y/n gave an unamused smile. Y/n gained golden mist around his hand and waved his fingers to the side, moving the two to be stuck on the side of the wall.

"Believe it now?" Y/n asked as they nodded.

"That's so cool! And that means..." Kamala started to freak out. "Were you the one that went to me to toe with the avengers?!"

"No way." Bruno couldn't believe it.

"You guys can't tell anyone about this okay?...even if there's a spell that allows me to brainwash the world into forgetting." Y/n said as the two were put on the ground. "Now... let's head to school."

Y/n put on his sling ring and made a portal to the back of the school. "After you."

"WHOA!!" Kamala went straight through.

Bruno was concerned, "this isn't gonna mess with my organs right?"

"Nope, should be fine." Y/n says asBruno walked through.

"Y/n, come to the New York Sanctum. I need your help."

"Strange?" Y/n wondered as he changed his clothes to the iron man outfit and then wore the sorcerer grab over it. The cloak went around his neck as Y/n then looked at the group as the portal closed. "sorry guys, you gotta cover for me. Something going on!"

"No problem!" Kamala said as Y/n closed the portal. He then opened another one and walked through.

"Hey, Strange, what's the..." Y/n looked and then saw... "Tony? What are you doing here?"

"Uh, new trick kid. Where'd you meet this magician?" Tony said as Strange looked at him.

"There are more important things at stake, Wong, explain it again." Strange asks.

Wong uses magic to show the universe and five out of six Infinity Stones. "From the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then, boom! The Big Bang sent six elemental crystals, hurtling across the virgin universe. These Infinity Stones each control an essential aspect of existence."

Each Stone lights up as Dr. Strange names them. "Space. Reality. Power. Soul. Mind. And Time."

Dr. Strange opens the Eye of Agamotto, revealing the Time Stone emitting emerald light. Tony looks at Y/n, "Well we already have the time stone, Y/n? How do we have two?"

Y/n uses magic in order to make a hologram image of the time stone in his palm. "The Ancient One had many theories, but we thought it was bonded to me from a different timeline, that way it kept the effects before the timelines were... 'erased'."

Tony didn't understand much so he moved on to Bruce. "Tell me his name again."

Bruce Banner looked at him. "Thanos. He's a plague, Tony. He invades planets. He takes what he wants. He wipes out half the population. He sent Loki. The attack on New York. That's him!"

"Wait you mean the big boss is coming here? To Earth?" Y/n asked him as Bruce nodded. "When is he arriving?"

Bruce shook his head, "No telling. He has the Power and Space Stones, that already makes him the strongest creature in the whole universe. If he gets his hands, on all six Stones, Tony..."

Stephen looked at him with seriousness, "He can destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of."

Tony looked at Strange, while he leans against a cauldron, stretching like he's about to go for a run. "Did you seriously just say 'hitherto undreamt of'"

Stephen looks at him unamused, "Are you seriously leaning on the Cauldron of the Cosmos?"

"Is that what this is?" The Cloak of Levitation smacks Tony's arm, surprising him. Tony looks offended and straightens himself. "I'm going to allow that."

"Hey, Mr. Stark, let's sit you back down. Okay? Okay." Y/n moved Tony back to the chair.

"If Thanos needs all six, why don't we just stick this one down the garbage disposal?" Tony asked as Y/n shook his head.

"No can do." Strange told him.

Wong nodded, "We swore an oath to protect the Time Stone. "

Y/n crossed his arms, "With our lives."

Tony didn't care, "And I swore off dairy, but then, Ben & Jerry's named a flavor after me, so...."

Strange knew, "Stark Raving Hazelnuts."

Tony looked offended, "It's not bad."

"No it really is."  Y/n stated.

Strange agreed, "A bit chalky."

Wong looked at Bruce, "A Hunka-Hulka Burning Fudge is our favorite."

Bruce was curious. "That's a thing?"

Tony shook his head, "Whatever. Point is: things change."

Strange shook his head, "Our oath to protect the Time Stone cannot change. This Stone may be the best chance we have against Thanos."

Tony looked at him, "And still conversely, it may also be his best chance against us."

Stephen crossed his arms, "Well, if we don't do our jobs."

Tony looked at him, slightly condescending, "What is your job exactly, besides making balloon animals?"

Stephen was completely calm, "Protecting your reality, douchebag."

Y/n sighed sarcastically, "wow, I seriously can't tell who's sarcasm is better."

Bruce looked at them all. "Okay, guys, could we table this discussion right now? The fact is that we have this Stone. We know where it is. Vision is out there somewhere with the Mind Stone, and we have to find him now."

Tony looked at him awkwardly, "Yeah, that's the thing..."

Y/n looks at him, "That's never a good sign."

"Two weeks ago, Vision turned off his transponder. He's offline." Tony said as Y/n looked at him.

"What, so you were tracking Vision...and then you lost Vision?!" Y/n was confused

Tony shook his head, "I didn't lose him. He's more than that. He's evolving."

Stephen looked at Tony, "Who could find Vision, then?"

Tony mutters quietly to himself. "Shit."

He then looks to the other men in a normal tone, "probably Steve Rogers."

Strange sighs in exasperation, "Oh, great."

Y/n crossed his arms, "Damn...is that the only option we've got?"

Tony sighed, "Maybe. But..."

Bruce said as he missed the events of the Avengers' Civil War. "Call him."

Tony looked at him. "It's not that easy. God, we haven't caught up in a spell, have we?"

Bruce shook his head, "No."

Tony explained. "The Avengers broke up. We're toast."

Rather surprised and slightly let-down, Bruce looked at him, "Broke up? Like a band? Like The Beatles?"

Tony tapped his shoulder, "Cap and I fell out hard. We're not on speaking terms."

"Tony, listen to me. Thor's gone. Thanos is coming. It doesn't matter who you're talking to or not." Bruce says, almost pleading.

Tony hesitates, before pulling out the cellular phone Steve mailed him, muttering 'flip phone'. It seems as though he brings it everywhere, always ready to call his lost friend. Before clicking 'Call', he pauses, distracted by an unusual rumbling. "Say, Doc, you wouldn't happen to be moving your hair, would you?"

Looking up at his forelock fluttering. "Not at the moment, no."

Tony looks at the Hulk-made opening through the ceiling and sees debris flying by outside. He exits the Sanctum through the front door and scans the chaotic surroundings, the camera shaking around in this following long take to illustrate the chaos -- people running and screaming in alarm, traffic becoming impossibly tangled, a litter-filled wind like a nor'easter's. A woman falls nearly at his feet and he helps her up. "You okay?"

The woman ignores him and runs away. A car crashes in on a pole behind Tony. "Help him! Y/n, Wong, Doc."

Bruce shouted, "Go! Got it!"

Tony puts on his sunglasses, "F.R.I.D.A.Y., what am I looking at?"

F.R.I.D.A.Y. hummed, "Not sure, I'm working on it."

Tony looked back, "Hey! You might wanna put that Time Stone in your back pocket, Doc!"

Stephen walks out with Bands of spells are readied around his forearms like Y/n. "Might wanna use it."

"We get it, you both are pretty ladies, now shut up and get ready." Y/n said as Tony looked at Strange.

"You teach him that?" Tony asked.

"I thought it was you?" Strange replied.

A mechanical hum grows louder as Tony approaches the intersection. As he turns the corner, he sees a huge circular ship floating over Bleecker Street. On a school bus, the hairs on Peter Parker's arms stand up. He looks out the window and sees the ship.

Peter taps his best friend in the seat in front of him. "Ned, hey. I need you to cause a distraction."

Ned turns around and sees the spaceship, "Holy shit! We're all gonna die! There's a spaceship!"

Students scramble to the windows in the back to see the spaceship. Peter quickly slides on one of his Stark-made webshooters, and webs the emergency exit lever on the opposite side of the bus. The School Bus Driver, Stan Lee looks unamused, "What's the matter with you kids? You've never seen a spaceship before?"

Peter jumps out the window, clinging to the side of the bus and pulling on his mask before leaping over the side of the bridge, shooting a web-line and swinging free. He makes his way hastily towards the ship. Tony looks down the street. "F.R.I.D.A.Y., evac anyone south of 43rd Street, notify first responders."

"Will do." Y/n throws the Winds of Watoomb over Bleeker Street, and winks at Tony. The dust clears.

Tony is begrudgingly amused for a split second. "Nice work, kid."

Then Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian exit the ship by transmat. "Hear me, and rejoice.. You are about to die at the hands of the Children of Thanos. Be thankful, that your meaningless lives are now contributing to the balance of-!"

Tony glared at him, "I'm sorry, Earth is closed today! You better pack it up and get outta here."

Ebony Maw turns to Strange and Y/n, "Stonekeepers...[Gestures to Tony] Does this chattering animal speak for you?

"Well he is my boss so..." Y/n gets his glove ready in one hand and magic in the other as he takes a fighting stance.

"Certainly not. I speak for myself."Magical shields are readied with Strange's fists, stepping forward. "But you're trespassing in this city and on this planet."

Wong emulates him. Tony looks at Maw, "It means get lost, Squidward!"

Maw looks at Cull. "He exhausts me. Bring me the Stone."

Cull Obsidian drops his huge alien hammer and drags it along as he obeys his brethren. Tony looks at Bruce, "Banner, you want a piece?"

Bruce shakes his head. "No, not really, but when do I ever get what I want?"

"That's right." Bruce attempts to release the Hulk. Instead of Hulk coming out easily, the most that turns green is Bruce's neck. Tony looked at him, "Been a while. Good to have you, buddy."

Bruce looks at him, "I just... I need to concentrate here for one second. Come on, come on, man."

Y/n looked at him. "Where's Hulk?"

Bruce shook his head. "I don't know. We've sorta been havin' a thing."

"There's no time for a thing." Tony points at the approaching Obsidian. "That's the thing right there. Let's go."

Bruce gives out a loud grunt, but fails to release the Hulk. Doctor Strange stares at Tony and Bruce in disbelief. Tony glances at Doctor Strange, "Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the kid and the wizards."

Bruce stammers, "Tony, I'm sorry. Either I can't or he won't..."

Tony pays him on the back. "It's okay. Hey, stand down. [to Wong] Keep an eye on him. Thank you. Kid, looks like it's you and me."

"I can handle that." Y/n says as he formed a magic hammer in his hand. As Cull Obsidian approaches the team, Tony dons his nanotech Iron Man suit in the space of three steps. He grows a shield on one arm to protect himself, then grows a set of blasters that easily throw the Dwarf back to Maw, who gestures and deflects his massive companion into some cars.

Bruce looked at him, "Where'd that come from?"

Tony looks back, "It's nano-tech, you like it? A little something like..." Ebony Maw creates a spike of earth that throws Iron Man far up, and attacks the rest of the team with uprooted trees and other debris. Y/n dashed for him and tried to slice him, Maw held his hand up to hold the magic in place with his mind. Maw tried to plunge his hand into Y/n's chest but Y/n used his time stone to land a punch, which slowed the alien down. Y/n then made a whip and threw the alien down the street. Maw throws some cars at him as Y/n makes a buzz saw of magic which cuts it in half. Maw tried to lift the ground from under him but Y/n used his time stone to reverse the battlefield and the split car flies back at Maw which he moves to the side, but while his focus was away, Y/n appeared on top of it and kicks him back. Y/n then aims his glove at Maw's head but he was hit by Obsidian's hammer. Y/n goes flying through a building. "GAH-!!!!"

"KID!" Tony shouts as he rushes back. Wong summons the Shield of the Seraphim.

Stephen looks Bruce, "Dr. Banner, if the rest of your green friend won't be joining us...."

Doctor Strange teleports Bruce to a nearby park along with half a taxi. Iron Man returns and joins the fight, pushing a car thrown by Maw back at him. Maw cuts it in half and lets the pieces fly past him, untouched. Tony looks at Strange. "Gotta get that stone outta here, now."

Strange looks at him. "It stays with me."

"Exactly. Bye." Iron Man flies through Ebony Maw's obstacle course but is cut short by Cull Obsidian's hammer, sending him through a building and into the park at high speed, plowing into the ground and fetching up against a tree.

Bruce rushes over to Iron Man. "Tony, you okay? How we doing? Good? Bad?"

Tony gets up, "Really, really good. Really good. Do you plan on helping out?"

Bruce was sorry, "I'm trying. He won't come out."

Cull Obsidian arrives at the park and throws his hammer at Bruce and Iron Man. "Hammer."

Tony pushes Bruce out of the way. Iron Man's energy beam deflects off Cull Obsidian's shield, slicing down trees. Bruce barely evades one. A whip came around Obsidian's hammer as Y/n is seen flying in the air with the cloak and pulling it back. "Kid, you can fly now?"

"Yes, I can." Y/n said as Tony fired beams at Obsidian as the monster tried to cover with his hands. Y/n flew around him to tangle him up, while Tony did the same to burn the alien around. Obsidian grabbed the whip before throwing Y/n at Tony as they slammed on the ground. "Alright, Protection spell, you're welcome."

Tony got a symbol that flew into him as he had another hidden armor under. Y/n did the same to him. "So you know magic?"

"Uh...yeah. Long story." Y/n said as Obsidian tried to hit him with the hammer but Y/n zoomed through him and appeared above Obsidian and latched onto him, blasting his beam into the back of Obsidian's head. "God damn, you have a tough skull!"

"RAHHH!" The creature shouted as Tony looked.

"Keep on it, it's working!" Tony said as his hand changed into a glove as he slammed it across the alien's face. Y/n then leaped off into a portal before Obsidian could hit him again.

Bruce was crawling out from under the branches. Desperate and confused, he looks around and starts slapping himself, "Come on, Hulk. What are you doing to me? Come out! Come out! Come out!"

Half of Bruce's face becomes the Hulk. "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

Bruce falls back exhausted into his tree. "What do you mean, 'no'?!"

Obsidian grabbed Y/n with his hand as Y/n quickly made a portal under them as a portal opened in the sky. Obsidian squeezed on his neck before the cloak went off and wrapped around Obsidian's face. Y/n is free falling in the sky as he quickly waved his hands around to make bolts that slam into Obsidian and force into the ground. The cloak then comes back onto Y/n's arms as he dives towards the ground. Iron Man is knocked down by Obsidian, who is about to deliver a decisive blow, but the alien's hammer is easily caught by Spider-Man. "Hey, man. What's up, Mr. Stark?"

Tony looked at him, "Kid, where'd you come from?"

"Field trip to MoMA-!" Cull Obsidian grabs Spider-Man and throws him away. Y/n comes back and fires more bolts at the alien in conjunction with Tony's beams. "What is this guy's problem, Y/n?"

"Uh, long story short, aliens who've come to steal a stone." Y/n said as he gave Peter a protection spell. Wong and Doctor Strange fight Maw. Maw lifts several bricks from the ground and turns them into sharp points. He sends them towards Wong and Doctor Strange. The two make portals and boomerang them back towards Maw. Maw moves a car to protect himself, but one spike still hits his head, creating a cut. Angered, Maw uses a broken fire hydrant's water stream to knock Wong back several meters, rendering him unconscious.

Doctor Strange snaps a whip of magical energy to bind Maw's hands and yanks, but Maw flies forward with the pull and pins Doctor Strange upside-down against a building, using the bricks to trap the Sorcerer Supreme. "Your powers are quaint. You must be popular with children."

Maw tries to grab the amulet holding the Time Stone but jerks back when it burns his hand. Strange smiled, "It's a simple spell, but quite unbreakable."

Ebony Maw glared at him. "Then I'll take it off your corpse!"

Maw pulls Doctor Strange away from the building and throws him to the ground. Doctor Strange starts the gestures to use the Eye of Agamotto, but utility cables first pin Doctor Strange's arms, interrupting the spell and closing the Eye, while another cable winds around his torso, then tightens around his throat. "You'll find... removing a dead man's spell...troublesome."

Ebony Maw smirks, "You'll only wish you were dead."

Doctor Strange falls unconscious and to the ground; Maw raises a portion of street pavement to use as a carrier, but the Cloak of Levitation works its master loose of the cable spiral and flies Doctor Strange away. "NO!"

Tony and Y/n were still fighting Cull Obsidian, as Doctor Strange passes through the park. "Peter, that's the wizard. Get on it."

"On it!" Spider-Man chases Ebony Maw, floating speedily and upright on a small platform of burbling debris leaving a deep rut in the streets, who in turn chases the Cloak-driven Doctor Strange through Manhattan; Maw attacks him, throwing a Rocket Mortgage billboard at Spider-Man to be rid of him.

Peter untangles himself, "Not cool!"

Maw bends all the utility poles in the path of the fleeing Cloak, finally snagging the loyal garment and ripping it loose of its master. Spider-Man scoops up Doctor Strange before he hits the pavement, but before he can get away with the unconscious Doctor Strange, a cone of blue light starts pulling the mage inexorably upwards. Spider-Man grabs a light pole to anchor himself, but Maw uproots it, sending Doctor Strange, Cloak and teenager on their way to his ship.?"Uhhh, Mr. Stark? I'm being beamed up!"

"Hang on, kid." Cull Obsidian's hammer doubles as a claw, pinning Iron Man to the ground and shorting his suit. Y/n grabbed the back of Obsidain and blasts more intensely with his magic making a darker green beam.

"GAAAAAAH-!!" Obsidian hits Y/mn off as Y/n used a magic shield to protect himself but Obsidian breaks through them and keeps makin his way towards Y/n with his blades. Before Obsidian can deal the final blow, Y/n smirked and slows time down.

He looks at Wong, "now!"

Obsidian is sent through a portal instead. The alien turns and leaps to return the same way, but Wong closes it rapidly -- only Obsidian's severed hand makes it back to the park. Bruce kicks the hand away with a noise of disgust.

Iron Man shakes himself free of the Dwarf's weapon, now powerless. "Wong, you're invited to my wedding. Kid..."

Y/n looked at Tony, "Go! I can hold him off! I'll be fine!"

Tony was worried but begins to fly towards the large ship. "When I get back, you can help think of baby names."

"Wait are you guys having a kid!?" Y/n shouted.

"Give me a little juice, F.R.I.D.A.Y." Iron Man's foot thrusters morph together into a single larger jet and increase his speed considerably. Ebony Maw walks towards the controls of the ship, Doctor Strange's unconscious body floating face-down behind him, and prepares to leave Earth's atmosphere.

"Mr. Stark! I'm still down here, what do you want me to do?" Y/n asked as he looked around, starting to rewind the damage.

"Find the rest of the avengers on Earth, find Vision, bring them together. Sending a gift to help you out. Unlock 17-A. While you're at it, Unlock 18-P." Two pods launch from the upstate Avengers headquarters and curves up to the accelerating circular ship.

Meanwhile, back in New York. A pod comes crashing into Y/n as it formed around his costume. "Whoa, what is this?"

(Personally, I like to imagine green instead of the red and blue)

"Hello, I am J.O.C.A.S.T.A., your new A.I." she said as Y/n looked around, the cloak came back on.

"Whoa, is this nanotechnology? I have an A.I! So cool!" Y/n shouted as he shook his head. "Wait, Tony! Peter!"

"I cannot reach them. They are out of the Planet's orbit."  J.O.C.A.S.T.A stated.

Y/n tilted his head, "uh...yeah that's not good at all. Alright, head home, quick snack. Then find the avengers."

Y/n opened a portal and slowed down time. But the camera shows normal time. Bruce finds Tony's flip-phone in the debris on the street and picks it up thoughtfully. Wong opens up a portal back to the Sanctum. Bruce looks at him, "Where you going?"

Wong looks at him, "The Time Stone's been taken. The Sanctum remains unguarded. What will you do?"

Bruce looks while holding Tony's cell phone, "I'm gonna make a call."

Wong nods in understanding and closes the portal. Banner holds Steve Rogers' cell phone and makes a call. A portal opens up as Y/n looks at him already done eating, "here, we have no time to waste...burritos?"

Meanwhile some time later, the Quinjet arrives at the upstate New York Avengers HQ while Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes deals with the red tape in the holographic person of Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross (Lt. Gen., USA Ret.).

Secretary Ross looks at him. "Still no word from Vision?"

James shook his head, "Satellites lost him somewhere over Edinburgh."

Secretary Ross sighed, "On a stolen Quinjet with four of the world's most wanted criminals."

James crossed his arms, "You know they're only criminals because you've chosen to call them that, right, sir?"

Secretary Ross scoffed, "My God, Rhodes, your talent for horseshit rivals my own."

James glared, "If it weren't for those Accords, Vision would've been right here."

Secretary Ross smirked, "I remember your signature on those papers, Colonel."

James was a little bitter, "That's right. And I'm pretty sure I almost paid for that."

We see James standing up without leg bracers due to Y/n's influence. Secretary Ross looked at him. "You have second thoughts?"

James shook his head, "Not anymore."

The fugitive Avengers enter the room, Vision supported by Sam. Steve looks at him. "Mr. Secretary."

Secretary Ross scoffs, "You got some nerve. I'll give you that."

Natasha Romanoff smiles, "You could use some of that right now."

Secretary Ross shakes his head, "The world's on fire. And you think, all is forgiven?"

Steve Rogers sighed, "I'm not looking for forgiveness. And I'm way past asking for permission. Earth just lost her best defender. So we're here to fight. [Steve takes a step forward, looking right at Ross] And if you wanna stand in our way... we'll fight you, too."

Secretary Ross looks at Rhodes, "Arrest them."

"All over it." Swipes off hologram; the computer beeps twice. "That's a court-martial. It's great to see you, Cap."

Steve hugs Rhodes. "You too, Rhodey."

Natasha gets her own embrace. James looks at them. "Well. You guys really look like crap. Must've been a rough couple of years."

Sam Wilson nodded, "Yeah, well, the hotels weren't exactly five star."

"Uh, I think you look great." Rhodes and Natasha long round to see Bruce walking in from the opposite end of the room. "Uh... heh... Yeah. I'm back."

Natasha looked at him. "Hi, Bruce."

Bruce Banner nodded, "Nat."

Sam started whispering, "This is awkward."

"Then this is gonna be worse." They all turned to see Y/n walking through a portal with Chinese food for everyone.

"Are you guys seeing this?" Sam asked as Rhodes looked at him.

"Yeah, got me the first time too...Dude, you were supposed to be here? Did you use the stone again?" Rhodes asked him as he nodded.

"Yeah, I did. Also know this good Chinese place, figured I'd get us some food. Well real food." Y/n said as he placed it down. Y/n took down his nano suit as everyone recognized him then.

"You look different, Kid." Natasha said as Y/n took out some chopsticks and ate some noodles.

"Yeah, learned some magic, fought off a deity, god, Spirit? I'm not sure." Y/n said as he put the noddles down for a second. "I feel like I should apologize for before. Last time we met..."

"You kicked our asses." Sam said as Y/n nodded.

"Not mine." Natasha stated.

"After you betrayed us, I was going to rewind you to when you were in the air but I saw..." Y/n looked at Rhodes. "Rhodey in danger so I let you go. But still...I apologize for my actions."

"It's okay. But this is a interesting combination." Steve said as he looked at Y/n and Bruce. "So what's going on...?"

Cut to a shot of Y/n, Natasha, Bruce, Steve, Rhodey, Sam, Wanda, and Vision in another room. They all were actually eating the food Y/n brought. James looked at everyone. "So we gotta assume they're coming back, right?"

Wanda Maximoff looked at them. "And they can clearly find us."

Bruce nodded, "We need all hands on deck. Where's Clint?"

Natasha shook her head. "After the whole Accords situation, he and Scott took a deal. It was too tough on their families, they're on house arrest."

Bruce was confused. "Who's Scott?"

"Ant-Man." Steve explained.

Bruce raised an eyebrow, "There's an Ant-Man and a Spider-Man?"

Y/n looked at him, "You dealt with Black Widow name and this is where you draw the line?"

Natasha looked at him, "what's wrong with Black Widow?"

Y/n shook his head, "alright focus. Thanos at the moment has the biggest army in the universe. He's not going to stop until he gets all the stones. My next guess is...he'll be going for the Mind stone."

Natasha looked at Vision, "Well then, we have to protect it."

Vision shook his head, "No, we have to destroy it. I've been giving a good deal of thought to this entity in my head, about its nature. But also, its composition. I think if it were exposed to a sufficiently powerful energy source, something, very similar to its own signature, perhaps... its molecular integrity could fail."

Vision addresses Wanda as he nears her. "And you, with it. We're not having this conversation."

Vision looked at her. "Eliminating the stone is the only way to be certain that Thanos can't get it."

Wanda looks at him. "That's too high a price."

Vision takes her face gently in both hands. "You and Y/n have the power to pay it."

Wanda walks away with her food., distressed. Vision looks back. "Thanos threatens half the Universe. One life cannot stand in the way of defeating him."

Steve's eyes diverted down "But it should. We don't trade lives, Vision."

Vision walks toward Steve. "Captain, 70 years ago, you laid down your life to save how many millions of people. Tell me, why is this any different?"

Steve takes a breath, but before he has a chance to answer, Bruce speaks. "Because you might have a choice. Your mind is made up of a complex construct of overlays. J.A.R.V.I.S., Ultron, Tony, me, the Stone. All of them mixed together. All of them learning from one another."

Wanda looks at them. "You're saying Vision isn't just the stone?"

Y/n crossed ate his orange chicken. "Tony said he was evolving. If we just take out the stone, the parts of Vision will fix themselves. And if not, I'm sure I can use magic to help out."

Natasha looked at him. "Can we do that? Can't you do that with magic?"

Y/n shook his head. "If I use my hands, there's no guarantee I wouldn't break something. Without precise work, I would just end up ripping the stone from his forehead, killing him."

"What about you, Bruce?" Sam asked as he shook his head.

"Not me. Not here." He stated.

Rhodes crossed his arms. "You better find someone, and somewhere fast. Ross isn't exactly just gonna let you guys have your old rooms back."

Steve looked at the gang. "I know somewhere."

A green flash rings out as the food suddenly comes back. Sam picks out more food, "don't mine if I do."

Cut to rural Wakanda, as King T'Challa and Okoye walk together, accompanied by two Kingsguard. "You'll have the Kingsguard, and the Dora Milaje have been alerted."

T'Challa kept walking, "And the Border Tribe?"

Okoye looked at him, "Those that are left."

T'Challa nodded, "Send word to the Jabari as well. M'Baku likes a good fight."

Okoye looks at the camp, "And what of this one?"

T'Challa smiled, "This one may be tired of war."

James "Bucky" Buchanan Barnes is seen at a small distance throwing a bag from a pile on the ground onto a partly-filled cart, while two village children watch. "But the White Wolf has rested long enough."

The party reaches Bucky. A Kingsguards-man sets an elaborate and high-tech-looking equipment case down on the cart, opens the lid, and steps back. As the Winter Soldier approaches, he sees a new Vibranium arm in the case.Bucky Barnes looks with resignation, "Where's the fight?"

T'Challa looked at him, "On its way."

Cut to the Quinjet where Sam is piloting Y/n, Rhodey, Steve, Natasha, Wanda, and Vision. Steve and Natasha look at Y/n from the other side, "what's your take?"

"On the magical time stonekeeper?" Natasha says as Y/n was closing his eyes. "Well last time we saw him, he was on 'Team Iron Man'. So I guess Tony must have saw something in him."

"Yeah, but he's still just a kid." Steve said as Natasha looked at him.

"And you felt like a kid when you went into the war." Natasha said as he looked at her. "If you're so worried about him, then go talk to him."

Steve looked before he nodded, Y/n seemed worried when approached. "At ease."

"Kinda hard to do that when Captain America is walking towards you." Y/n said as Steve sat down next to him.

"Then don't think of me as anything but Steve Rogers." Steve said as he looked at him. "You seem stressed. With all that's been going on, you just have been on a streak of no breaks."

"No. I had a couple months. Only to find out that another alien invasion is happening." Y/n said as Steve looked at him.

"Did you talk to your mother?" Steve asked as Y/n nodded. "Seeing as you're here, I'm guessing it went well."

Y/n chuckled, "yeah, it did...at first, she was mad at me for leaving for months with only one letter, but...then we made an agreement to work together to make the world a better place. She would have to trust me...and I'd have to trust her."

"And Fury?" Steve asked.

"Fuck Fury, I had half a mind to keep him in a never ending portal." Y/n stated as they both laughed. "He'll call when he needs something, and I'll see if I can do anything."

"You're very mature for...a fifteen year old." Steve said but patted his back. "But this is war, I'd make your final calls. Once we get there, it'll be blocked."

"Alright, gotcha." Y/n said as he pulled out his phone.

He called Kamala, she sighed on the other line, "what did you do now?"

Y/n was offended, "why is it something I always did!?"

Kamala raised an eyebrow as they FaceTimed. "Because Maria couldn't find you and that's saying something."

"Yeah well...something did happen." Y/n gained a serious tone. She suddenly was taken back and got worried, "I'm about to head into a battle I have no idea if I'm coming back from. So this might be my last call...I just wanted to say...I...I..."

"Just spit it out." Natasha said as Kamala was confused.

"Huh? Who was that?" She asked as Y/n flipped the camera around to show the avengers. "NO WAY! BLACK WIDOW!!"

"Hey, kiddo." She says as Y/n shows her Captain America, Vision, Wanda, Etc.

"Oh? Is that his girlfriend?" Sam teases as Steve waved.

"Hi there, Miss." He said before everyone tried to look at the phone, Y/n pushed them back.

"Guys come on, move!" Y/n said as they all eventually went away and Kamala giggled. Kamala looked at him as he sighed, he smiled at her, "thanks for everything, Kamala Khan."

"No, thank you, Y/n Hill." She said as Steve patted his back. Y/n hung up the phone. He sighed before he put it into his pocket.

"Thanks." Y/n says to Steve.

"No problem, I wish...I had done something similar before I said goodbye to my friend." Steve says as he looks at Y/n, touching his shoulders. "Congratulations, You're an Avenger now."

Steve Rogers walks up to the pilot's seat as Y/n takes a minute to relish in a accomplishment, "Drop to 2600, heading 0-3-0."

Sam nods, "I hope you're right about this, Cap. Or we're gonna land a lot faster than you want to."

The Quinjet passes through a camouflage force field into Wakanda's Golden City's valley and lands at the airfield outside the palace. King T'Challa and the Dora Milaje approach to greet the arrivals. Okoye walks with King T'Challa and a band of the Kingsguard to the landing pad. "When you said we were going to open Wakanda to the rest of the world... this is not what I imagined."

T'Challa looks at her, "And what did you imagine?"

Okoye kept walking, "The Olympics. Maybe even a Starbucks."

The occupants of the Quinjet disembark, Y/n, Steve and Natasha leading, followed by Bruce and Rhodey, with Vision and Wanda slowly taking up the rear. "Should we bow?"

Rhodes looks at him seriously, "Yeah, he's a king."

"Seems like I'm always thanking you for something." Steve shakes hands with King T'Challa.

"Y/n, I can see you have grown since the last time I've seen you." T'Challa said as Y/n looked smug.

"And you look even better than ever," Y/n raised his fist up as T'Challa gave him a fist bump.

Bruce bows awkwardly to King T'Challa. James gives a fake shocked expression, "What are you doing?"

"Uh, we don't do that here." T'Challa dissuades Bruce with a motion of his hand; Bruce shoots Rhodey a look, and is answered with a big grin. He fist bumps Y/n as Y/n smiles. "So how big of an assault can we expect?"

The group begins to walk back into the administrative building. Bruce follows,  "Uh, sir, I think you can expect quite a big assault."

Natasha looks around, "How we looking?"

T'Challa looks at them, "You will have my Kingsguard, the Border Tribe, the Dora Milaje, and..."

Bucky smiled as he walks toward Steve, passing some Kingsguard taking Vision and Wanda to another facility. "A semi-stable, 100-year-old man."

The two friends share a hug. "How you been, Buck?"

"Uh, not bad, for the end of the world." Bucky says before looking at Y/n. "Oh..."

"Yeah, sorry about dropping that road roller on you. Hehehe." Y/n couldn't deal with the awkwardness. Bucky rather scarred just walks away.

In Shuri's lab, Shuri scans the Stone with her kimoyo beads while Vision lies on the examination table. She flips her hand over and studies the hologram projected over her palm. "Whoa. The structure is polymorphic."

Bruce looked at her. "Right, we had to attach each neuron non-sequentially."

Shuri looks at Bruce, "Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?"

Vision looks at Bruce as if to ask the same thing. Bruce was uncertain, "Because, we didn't think of it."

Shuri reassures, with a smile. "I'm sure you did your best."

Wanda looked at them, "Can you do it?"

Shuri nodded, "Yes, but there are more than two trillion neurons here. One misalignment could cause a cascade of circuit failures. It will take time, brother."

Y/n looked at her, she was quite beautiful. "How long will that take, miss."

Shuri giggled and stared at him, "As long as you can give me. And Shuri is fine. You are?"

Y/n blushed a little, "oh uh sorry, I'm Y/n Hill."

"Well Mr. Hill, thank you for containing the unstableness of the mind stone." She smiled as Y/n nodded.

"Yeah, Y/n's fine, by the way." Y/n said as Shuri gave a small laugh before she looked at him again.

Okoye looked at the two before looking at T'Challa, who wouldn't believe what he was seeing. "can't your 'magic' do something?"

"Huh-? Uh, no unfortunately not. Im not skilled enough to remove it safely." Y/n and Shuri broke eye contact as they went back to what they were doing. Natasha raised an eyebrow to which Y/n looked at her unamused, Y/n then was surrounded by green bands as he crossed and started to float. His head suddenly started to shift in different ways.

"What is he doing?" Wanda asked as Bruce looked.

"He must be using the time stone to do something." Bruce said as Steve looked at him.

"Y/n, can you hear us? Y/n!" Steve said as Y/n fell down as Steve caught him. "You're okay, you remember where you are?"

"What did you just do?" Shuri asked as Y/n caught his breath.

"Strange said I'm not supposed to...but I looked forward in time. I viewed alternate futures." Y/n said as everyone moved closer to him. "To view all the possible outcomes of this battle...of this all."

"How many did you see?" T'Challa asked.

"14,000,605." Y/n said as Steve looked at him in the eye.

"How many did we win?" Steve asked.

Y/n looked at him...as if seeing something and realizing what must be done. Forming a plan he didn't even know he was making. He looked at Steve, "One."

If on cue, Okoye's kimoyo beads chime an alarm; she flicks one bead into her palm, where it projects the globe with a pulsing location marker. "Something's entered the atmosphere."

Outside, Sam and Bucky look up at the sky. Over the Avengers' comm, "Hey, Cap, we got a situation here."

The defense shield over the Golden City destroys one of the alien vessels when it slams into the field at full attack acceleration. Bucky smiled, "God, I love this place."

James who is also outside, and now in full War Machine armor watches three more ships burn through the sky. "Yeah, don't start celebrating yet, guys. We got more incoming outside the dome."

The shock waves and debris from the ship landings destroy acres of forest and boil up against the dome. The lab has an excellent view of the landing sites. Captain America and Black Panther look at each other in concern over the scope of what they'll be facing. Vision tries to sit up and slide off the exam table. "It's too late. We need to destroy the stone now."

Natasha moves toward Vision. "Vision, get your ass back on the table."

T'Challa looks at them. "We will hold them off."

He, Okoye and the guards head for the door. Y/n makes a portal to the front lines as people start to fill in. Steve looks at Wanda. "Wanda, as soon as the stone's out of his head... you blow it to hell."

Wanda nodded, "I will."

T'Challa looks around and points at Steve, "Evacuate the city. Engage all defense procedures. And get this man a shield."

Everyone goes in as Y/n is about to go in. "Wait."

Y/n looks back to see Vision. "If it comes down to it...and Wanda cannot."

"Vision..." Y/n said.

"Promise me, Y/n...that you'll do it..." Vision looked at him as Y/n nodded.

"I promise." He said before he looked at Shuri. "Shuri, Godspeed."

"You too, Y/n." She says before Y/n hops in the portal and it closes. Wanda looks at her with a smirk, Shuri smiles and looks away. "I'd focus on your loved if I were you."

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. Y/n is flying with his arms crossed.

Natasha sees Bruce. "How we looking, Bruce?"

Bruce is 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--!"

Bruce 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."

James looks at his scanner, "I got two heat signatures breaking through the tree line."

The heat signatures are Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian. 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.

"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.

T'Challa clasps wrists with M'Baku, "Thank you for standing with us."

M'Baku, Translated from Xhosa, "Of course, brother."

Paradox, 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.

Natasha looks at her, "Where's your other friend?"

Proxima Midnight: looks at them. "You will pay for his life with yours. Thanos will have that stone."

Steve shakes his head. "That's not gonna happen."

T'Challa nods, "You are in Wakanda now. Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood."

Proxima Midnight smiles. "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. The four heroes return to the massed forces.

Bucky asks a touch sardonically, "Did they surrender?"

"Sure, something like that." Y/n says as he gets spells up his arms and magical shields on his hand. 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, astonished at the numbers of Outriders. "What the hell."

Natasha nodded. "Looks like we pissed her off."

"Good, now I don't have to hold back." Y/n says as the Outriders bombard the force-field, squeezing limbs and bodies partly through only to be bisected.

Okeye looked, "they're killing themselves."

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. Sam sends Redwings into the fight as he flies, swooping to fire at them with his Steyr pistols. "You seen the teeth on those things?"

James looks around. "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. Bruce looks at Steve, "Cap, if these things circle the perimeter and get in behind us... there's nothing between them and Vision."

Steve says grimly, "Then we better keep 'em in front of us."

Okoye looks to T'Challa. "How do we do that?"

"We open the barrier." Putting his comm to his mouth. "On my signal, open North-West Section Seventeen."

Dome Control was Nervous and unsure. "Requesting confirmation, my King. You said open the barrier?"

T'Challa: On my signal.

M'Baku looks at Okoye. "This will be the end of Wakanda."

Okoye says, "Then it will be the noblest ending in history."

Y/n looks at them, "no...I can rewind the damage after this is all over..."

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. "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. Y/n flies ahead, blasting bolts that shoot into the ground and then rise, destroying many of the monsters. The Black Panther and Captain America pull ahead rapidly due to their enhancements, and literally leap into battles. "How much longer, 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 says, "You might want to pick up the pace."

Y/n is seen passing by Rhodey in the air as Y/n blasts more bolts in the ground as they rise up in pillars. "How we looking Rhodey?"

"Keep at it kid, until you drop." Rhodey said as Y/n rewinded the battlefield, making debris crash into the aliens and giving Rocket and Bucky more areas to shoot. "I'm so glad you're on our team."

Y/n lands on the ground as one of the aliens leap at him, Y/n kicks them back before slamming the body to the ground. Y/n makes a magic sword and stabbed it through before throwing the sword in the air, catching many leaping aliens and splitting them in half. Y/n uses his whip and flies around a large heard of them before tying them up and using a portal to slice them all in half. He missed one behind him but the cloak broke it's neck. "Thanks."

"May I have this dance?" Natasha asked as she is shooting the aliens back. Y/n nodded as Y/n punched an alien back before throwing it at Nat. Nat let off rounds at it, splitting it in quarters. "Your hand to hand combat is good. Maria taught you well."

"Yeah, well that's not gonna save my ass here." Y/n used Guardian Victini and gave her protection.

"Thanks." She said as Y/n took off again. Y/n saw some shots from the ships as he raised magical barriers to reflect the shots.

Explosions rang out before Y/n
waves his hands, "JOCASTA, any updates?"

"No word from Tony nor Peter." She said as she pulled up a screen. "Unibeam is ready."

"What the hell is a unibeam?" Y/n asked as a green beam shot out of Y/n's chest. "THIS IS AMAZING!"

Midnight saw Y/n and threw a spear at him, it sliced Y/n side as Y/n went down. "SEAAAAAH!!!"

"Y/n!" Steve saw Y/n get surrounded by the aliens as the cloak protected him most of the time. Steve threw the shield at the aliens, it knocked them back before Y/n got up.

"Yeah, Peter is right. That thing defies the laws of physics." Y/n said as the area shined green. "RAAAAAAAAAHHHH-! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Y/n released a spell as the ground started to change. "Y/n! What the hell did you do?"

"Careful, the land from the past is rising up again!" Y/n said over the comms.

"What?" Bucky was confused until he saw an alien leap at him and a Panther statue rose and killed it.

Y/n makes a portal under some aliens as they fall through, T'Challa then throws some beads at them as the foes explode in the sky. "Whoa! I didn't know they could do that!"

"I'd be happy to show you some other time." T'Challa said as he kicked a foe into a rising pillar as the pillar fell, killing it.

Y/n was shocked, "really?"

"Yes, it seems my sister has taken a liking to you." T'Challa said as Y/n blushed and walked up to him.

"Really? Because I was nervous about it all. I don't want to look dumb in front of you guys, especially her. Well not especially her I mean, kind of sort of but not really? You know I mean like..." Y/n fumbled as T'Challa looked at him in silence. "Right, fighting a war. I'll take your offer and shut up."

Y/n flew away as he soon reversed the battlefield back to normal and made holes in the ground that rose the aliens in the air, leading for Sam and Rhodey to shoot them up. 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. Bruce shouts out, "There's too many of them! GYAH! AAAAHHHHH!"

Y/n sees and flies over, "HANG ON! I'M ON THE WAY!"

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. Y/n, Black Widow, Captain America and the Black Panther pause in astonishment. Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian pause in apprehension.

Bruce opens the Hulkbuster's helm and laughing with joy. "AH-hahaha! You guys are so screwed now!"

"BRING ME THANOS!" Thor 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. Back in Wakanda, Shuri is working steadily to complete the Mind Stone's removal; Wanda stands by tensely. The Kingsguard, Borderers and Jabari have little success going against Cull Obsidian's chained hammer -- he either sends them flying or punches them into the ground. The Black Panther gets free of his other sorties, leaps and uses all his collected kinetic energy behind a punch that lays Obsidian flat.

Rocket having found a clear spot. "Come and get some, space dogs!"

Another wave of Outriders heads right for the raccoon-oid. The Winter Soldier, having come up behind Rocket, grabs him with his mechanical arm, holds him at arms length and spins 540 degrees, firing his own M-249 at the same time. "Come on, get some, get some! Come on, get some!"

The Winter Soldier drops Rocket, who looks up at him with an impressed gleam, "How much for the gun?"

Bucky snaps off another burst, "Not for sale."

"Okay, how much for the arm?" The Winter Soldier just gives him a look and moves off. "Oh, I'll get that arm."

The tides of battle cause Thor, using Stormbreaker to great effect, and Captain America together. They take a breather.

Steve looks at him panting, "New haircut?"

Thor grins, "Notice you've copied my beard."

Captain America nods, wearily gesturing at his own face with a shield-covered hand. Groot skewers three Outriders with his right arm. "By the way, this is a friend of mine. Tree."

He gestured towards Groot with Stormbreaker. In full battle snarl, Groot shouted, "I AM GROOT! (Translation: You gonna help me or what?!)"

Steve formally, but bemused, "I am Steve Rogers."

Stormbreaker suddenly flies out of Thor's hand as Y/n leaped in the air, "TO ME, JOHNATHAN!!"

Y/n caught the axe and swarmed lighting in the sky. He then shot a huge cannon from his back and lighting storm from the sky. The foes were disappearing as Thor seemed worried. "It...it seems the tiny warrior is worthy."

"He's full of surprises." Steve said as the two kept fighting. In Shuri's lab, a deep rumbling can be heard even at their height. Wanda looks down on the battlefield, and sees movement through the blazing forest between the troopships and the dome. When the disturbance reaches the edge of the trees, it turns 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.

T'Challa looks at the group, "Fall back! Fall back now!"

Wanda watches as at least one set of Threshers separates into individual wheels and starts veering all over the battlefield, and then looks anxiously back at Vision. James looks at Sam, "Focus that fire on the left flank, Sam."

"I'm doing it." The two fliers use their firepower to crack a Thresher but cannot find a weak spot. Black Widow with her escrima sticks and Okoye with her augmented spear have drifted together when they're suddenly in the path of a Thresher. Both women cringe at their seemingly inevitable shredding when the Scarlet Witch lands in front of both 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 -- the perfect place to throw a Thresher. Black Widow straightens with a pleased smile, Okoye with an amazed look.

Okoye, a touch indignant. "Why was she up there all this time?"

The Children of Thanos help answer that question. "She's on the field. Take it."

Corvus Glaive kills one of the guards just outside the lab, alerting Shuri to the problem. She starts hastily disconnecting her equipment from Vision's systems; he gasps at the sensations. The Dora Milaje engages Glaive but is sent skidding across the floor. Shuri finishes her shutdown, grabs one of her sonic panther-paws and fires at Glaive. The Dora attacks again, and Glaive sends both her and Shuri through the balcony railing and onto the main lab floor. Vision is not where Corvus Glaive expects to find him. Vision is, in fact, charging at him and knocking him out the window to fall many meters down the face of Mount Bashenga.

"Guys, we got a Vision situation here." Sam says before his is tackled by a leaping Outrider and grounded.

Steve shouts. "Somebody get to Vision!"

"I got him!" Bruce has figured out the Hulkbusters repulsor thrusters and makes a beeline for the android.

"On my way." Wanda is clobbered by Proxima Midnight's pommel and rolls down into the large ditch from the Thresher before she can move.

She jumps down next to the Scarlet Witch. "He'll die alone. As will you."

Natasha aims her gun at her. "She's not alone."

Okoye silently brandishes her spear on the other side of Proxima and nods at Black Widow. Proxima leaps for Black Widow, who has joined her sticks into a full staff. She blocks Proxima's blow with an electrical crackle while Okoye runs around the slope to also attack from the front. Corvus Glaive kicks Vision, knocking him down; as he attempts to rise again, Cull Obsidian shows up and swings his hammer in a full arc, throwing Vision even further. He painfully starts to climb to his feet again when a whooshing overhead interrupts the fight as Bruce Banner lands the Hulkbuster between the aliens and the android. He takes a defensive stance, pointing one hand's repulsor at each.

"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--!"Cull Obsidian jumps forward, grabs Bruce's right arm and Bruce in reflex grabs Obsidian's hammer; a jet fires, taking the two of them in a random direction, to the base of a waterfall. "Guys! Vision needs backup now! Where is Y/n?!"

Obsidian pulls the Hulkbuster up and kicks it in the small of the back. He tries to change into the Hulk while fighting Cull Obsidian in the Hulkbuster armor, "Hulk. Hulk, I know you like making your entrance at the last second, well, this is it, man. This is the last, last second."

Bruce extends his left hand protectively; Obsidian grabs the armor's hand, chops 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, "Ahhhhh! Hulk! Hulk! HULK!"

Banner's face briefly becomes the Hulk, "NOOOO!!!"

Bruce glared and grits his teeth, "Oh, screw you, ya big green asshole! I'll do it myself!"

Bruce charges the alien, jumps into the air and delivers an effective punch with his remaining hand -- swat, punch, hammer -- except that blow is caught by Obsidian, who punches back, knocking Bruce flat. Obsidian changes his left hand armor into a pointed weapon, and lunges forward to deliver a likely fatal blow, when Bruce grabs the detached Hulkbuster arm out of the water, holding it so Obsidian impales that instead, and slaps the controls. "See you later, Alligator!"

The repulsors fire, taking Cull Obsidian high into the air -- high enough, in fact, to intersect the defense dome. The Hulkbuster arm drags Obsidian against the field to grotesque destructive effect, ending in a very final explosion. "Hulk, we got a lot to figure out, pal."

Proxima Midnight alternates heavy blows between her two opponents, but all three of them duck as a single-wheel Thresher tears overhead, the ditch sparing them most of the danger from the wheel-blades. Proxima uses the distraction to kick Black Widow in the face, sending her to the ground. She then grabs Okoye by the shoulder and weapon and throws her meters away. Simultaneously, Corvus Glaive and Vision struggle in the forest at the foot of Mount Bashenga. Glaive grasps Vision's shoulder and uses the leverage to plunge his blade once more into the android's chest.

Corvus Glaive smirks. "I thought you were formidable, machine. But you're dying, like any man."

He yanks his blade out, and Vision collapses. As he bends over his fallen opponent to retrieve the Stone, he's tackled by Captain America at full speed.

"Get outta here!" He exchanges blows with Glaive, using his arm-shields as offence as well as defense, then turns to Vision again. "GO!"

Black Widow splits her staff back into a pair of sticks to block Proxima Midnight's sword blows, and finally knocks it from her hand. The alien takes to her bare fists instead, knocks down and pins the Black Widow. Proxima triggers an arm-blade from her left-arm armor, and stabs at Black Widow, who barely manages to block the blade with her crossed sticks. As the edge starts to dig into Black Widow's neck anyway, scarlet energy grabs the alien and tosses her into the air right into the path of another passing Thresher. Dark blue blood spatters the women below. The Scarlet Witch sits up, sighing with relief, her hands still shimmering.

Natasha admits, "That was really gross."

Captain America keeps blocking Corvus Glaive's staff weapon using his shields, finally knocking it from the alien's hands just before he's thrown over a fallen tree and pinned, Glaive's hand at his throat. Even with his physical abilities, Captain America's struggling -- until a glaive-blade pierces Glaive's chest, and is pushed all the way through. Vision raises his enemy in a perfect mirror of the first attack on him, and holds him for a moment, before dropping Glaive's corpse to one side and collapsing exhaustively. Steve helps him back up, "I thought I told you to go."

Vision quoted, "We don't trade lives, Captain."

M'Baka bashes another Outrider -- the ground game has improved considerably with the addition of the God of Thunder. His tribesmen are equally successful around him. "MAYEFA! YA HU HU!"

Thor is in the air, using Stormbringer on the Outrider drop ships which are now retreating. He is having considerably more success than the Wakandan Dragon fliers firing on the fleeing ships. Y/n feels his stone acting up, "GAH-!GAH-!"

"Hey, kid, what's wrong?!" Rhodey asked over the comms as Y/n looked at the distance and started to let of green aura. "Kid! What's the matter."

"My magic and stone radar is going crazy... it's him." Y/n says as everyone's heart drops. The wind picks up. It feels... strange. Eerie.

Steve Rogers looks at them. "Alright, everyone to my position! We have incoming!"

He is joined by the Black Widow, Falcon, Okoye and the Black Panther in short order. Bruce sees the blue-black clouds of a Space Stone relocation just before Thanos steps forward, and confirms this isn't just another member of the Black Order. "Cap. That's him."

Steve says, "Eyes up. Stay sharp."

Bruce reaches Thanos first, lunging forward fist-first -- but Thanos uses the Space Stone on him, renders him immaterial until the Hulkbuster is half-buried in the stone of the cliff behind him, and freezes Bruce in place. Captain America is sent flying by purple energy before he even gets to strike a single blow. The Black Panther, armor fully charged kinetically, leaps high and with claws extended, but is easily grabbed by the throat and punched to the ground, his armor discharging violently. Falcon stoops, strafing with both Steyr pistols, but is felled when his wings become rubbery and unable to sustain flight.

Vision looks at Wanda, "Wanda. It's time."

Wanda looks around. "No."

Vision shakes his head. "They can't stop him, Wanda, but we can. Look at me. You have the power to destroy the stone. You must do it. Wanda, please. We...are...out of time."

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

Vision nods, "Yes, you can. You can. If he gets the stone, half the universe dies. It's not fair. It shouldn't be you, but it is. It's all right. You could never hurt me.... I just...feel you."

The Scarlet Witch extends a trembling hand and starts beaming her energy at the Mind Stone. War Machine joins the fight, firing his guns at Thanos until he uses the gauntlet to crush his armor around him and toss him aside. The Winter Soldier runs in firing, and is punched away by the Power Stone. Okoye activates the Vibranium-powered elements on her spear and flings it; Power stops it inches from Thanos, and throws her and it aside while wrapping the Black Widow in inescapable bands of earth. Groot stabs his hands into the ground to wrap Thanos in cables of roots, which he breaks easily.

"The apprentice." Thanos says as Y/n lands on the ground, Y/n immediately tries to slow time down and leave them in a time loop, but Thanos broke it. "You hold a time stone...how interesting."

"I don't understand how someone could do this..." Y/n says as he uses his magic to make multiple.

"Even Strange couldn't understand either, you two are alike." Thanos said as he tries to turn Y/n into string with the reality stone but Y/n disappears and was behind him, Thanos tried to teleport behind Y/n and punch him but Y/n made a portal and cut off his hand, the glove with it. "GAH-!"

"Damn, that was easy." Y/n said before time reversed and Thanos smiled.

"Nice play." Thanos had a time loop already on as it disappeared.

"Fuck." Thanos slammed his fist into Y/n's face, using power stone which sent the boy back through trees. The Scarlet Witch watches all this over one shoulder, and turns back to Vision to add her left hand to her tearful effort. Captain America slides under one blow and comes up swinging his deployed arm-shields, punching Thanos in the gut and chin. He grabs the gauntlet, keeping Thanos' fingers un-clenched. Thanos looks very briefly impressed at Captain America's efforts as he screams before slamming a fist into his head and rendering him insensible. Y/n comes back and spilts himself all over, using a whip to retrain his hand as Thanos tries to clench his fist, Y/n pulls with all his might as Thanos pulls him into the gauntlet and slams him away.

"Stay down." Thanos said as he bonded the ground with Y/n as Y/n was buried alive. A green cannon shot out at Thanos as he used the Space stone to get way before Y/n rose again, the cloak retained his hand as Y/n channeled his fist.

"RAHHHHH!!" Y/n was bleeding hard as his suit wasn't fixing itself, a punch as some blood came out of his mouth. Y/n looked at Wanda. "KEEP GOING!!"

The Scarlet Witch looks over her shoulder again and nods at Y/n.

Y/m blocked a punch with s magic shield but Thanos started to lift the environment and slam it at Y/n. Y/n used the barrier to try and protect most of the debris as he punched was soon crushed again, this time, he wasn't moving much.

Vision looked at Wanda and said very softly, "It's all right. It's all right. I love you."

At those words, the yellow Mind Stone finally starts to crack. Vision's face is overcome by an expression of joyful peace, and as the crystal fragments completely, a pulse of pure yellow energy explodes from him, shuddering the trees for many meters around his epicenter. Wanda's and Thanos' energy subsides.

Thanos walks closer to the Scarlet Witch, "I understand, my child. Better than anyone."

Wanda snarls, "You could never..."

Thanos reaches down to presume to stroke her hair, as if in comfort. "Today, I lost more than you can know. But now is no time to mourn. Now... is no time at all."

He reaches forward, clenching the gauntlet, emerald filigree surrounding his wrist, making a gesture very similar to that Doctor Strange made when activating the Eye of Agamotto. In response, a bead of yellow light starts gathering in on itself as time is reversed and growing in size, solidifying into an intact and conscious Vision.

"NO!" She lunges for Vision and is swatted away.

Thanos picks up Vision by the throat, lifting him to eye-level, and digs the fingers of his right hand into Vision's forehead, digging out the Mind Stone. He pulls it loose, and Vision goes limp and colorless; he tosses the lifeless android aside like trash. Bringing his gauntleted hand up, he slowly moves the Mind Stone over the last empty setting, and drops it in. The energy surge is much more than any previous -- his torso is wreathed with iridescent static and he bellows from the sensations. Y/n looks up from the debris and slowly started to make his way to Thanos, wobbling and trying to make his way. As Thanos studies the completed gauntlet, a massive bolt of lighting strikes 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 pauses his attack, reverses his position, raises Stormbreaker above his head and hurls it -- Thanos fires the whole might of the gauntlet against it, but it only creates a rainbow-like bow-shock, not slowing the ax as it slams right into Thanos' chest.

Thor lands in front of Thanos, who is down on one knee; hatefully saying. "I told you. You'd die for that!"

He says reffering to the deaths of Loki and Heimdall. He takes hold of the back of Thanos' head and forces Stormbreaker deeper into his chest, staring angrily into his eyes while Thanos cries out in pain. Y/n makes a whip as it goes for Thanos.

Thanos weakly says, "You should have... you... [suddenly stronger] You should have gone for the head!"

He raises his gauntlet and snaps his fingers. "NO!"

The scene whites out. It cuts sharply to a view of Thanos his hand on his chest, no wounds visible. Thanos now seems to be inside the Soul Stone, where he sees a child and the pavilion from the home world of the Zen-Whoberi. "Daughter?"

The child turns around, revealing herself to be Young Gamora. "Did you do it?"

Thanos nodded, "Yes."

He looks down. "What did it cost?"

Thanos solemnly says, "Everything."

Now out of the Soul World, Thanos is snapped back to reality, and notices the damage inflicted on the gauntlet -- the metal scorched and distorted from heat, the stones no longer glowing. "What'd you do? WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

Thanos nearly seems to not notice Thor as Y/n's whip wraps around his neck. Before Y/n can snap it, Thanos uses the Space Stone and teleports away, leaving Stormbreaker behind on Wakandan ground.Steve stumbles into the clearing, holding his left side. "Where'd he go? Thor... Y/n...where'd he go?"

Y/n immediately used his stone but he couldn't go back in time. "Shit, shit, shit! Come on! Work!"

"Steve?" Bucky suddenly stumbles over, drops his gun and collapses into ashes, much to Steve's shock; he walks over and touches the ground where Bucky's ashes evaporated disbelievingly.

On the battlefield, Wakandan soldiers disintegrate to ashes, much to M'Baku's horror. T'Challa reaches for a fallen Okoye. "Up, General. Up! This is no place to die."

King T'Challa holds out his hand for Okoye. He suddenly disintegrates into ashes and, in anguish, Okoye falls back on the ground. Few seconds later, she gets up herself. "Kumkani?"

Groot slowly corrodes into ashes as well by Rocket. "I am Groot... [TRANSLATION: "Dad?"]"

Off-screen Okoye repeats herself. Rocket walks over, "No... no. No. No. No! Groot, no..."

Wanda is mourning over Vision. She then turns into ashes. An injured Sam turns to ashes, hidden in the undergrowth. James is seen searching for Sam, missing him by only a few feet. "Sam?"

Back to Okoye is is whimpering for her disintegrated king. James is still looking. "Sam, where you at?!"

On Titan, the remaining members of the Guardians and Avengers collect themselves -- Mantis props up Star-Lord, Spider-Man helps Tony to his feet, Drax and Nebula manage to limp over on their own. "Something's happening."

Mantis disintegrates into ashes. Quill looks behind him as he sees Drax disintegrate. "Quill?"

Quill stares in horror as he turns back to Stark. Tony staring panicked at the slowly fading Quill. "Steady, Quill."

"Aw, man." Quill also gets disintegrated into ashes.

Stephen turns to Tony, "Tony, there was no other way."

He finally gets erased. Peter's Spidey sense kicks in. "Mr. Stark? [Stark stares horrified at Parker,] I don't feel so good..."

Tony trying to be calm, his voice shaking as he looks at Peter in terror. "You're all right?"

Peter stumbles and is terrified. "I don't know what's -- I don't know what's happening. I don't--!"

Parker falls into Stark's arms, clutching him tight while beginning to cry. "I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go, Mr. Stark, please. Please, I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go... [There is a short silence before Peter speaks again] I'm sorry."

Parker disintegrates into ashes in Stark's arms. Tony falls forward from the lack of weight in his arms, before staring at his hands in disbelief. Nebula looks at Tony Stark, seeing Thanos' victory. "He did it."

Stark mourns silently at their failure. Back on Wakanda, the remaining team members, Captain America, Thor, War Machine, Black Widow, Bruce Banner, and Rocket are left mourning near Vision's dead body. Captain America turns over Vision's bleached corpse as Black Widow runs up to the other survivors. James asked, "What is this? What the hell is happening?"

Y/n starts to shake, "Ugh."

"Y/n...?" Rhodes asks as Y/n tries to use his time stone but it flickers. Y/n falls over. "No, no, no!"

"I was...using the time stone to...delay this...Grg! It hurts...!" Y/n says as everyone rushed over.

"I know, I know, you gotta hang in there." Natasha said as Y/n nodded. "Think about your friends, your family, alright?"

"Thor..." Y/n says as Thor walks over and knees down.

"I'm...im sorry." Thor says as Y/n smiled and shakes his head.

"No, it was the only way..." Y/n says as everyone was confused. Y/n started to disappear, chest outwards. He smiled and cried, he grabbed the stone and placed it in Thor's hands. "Now...you go make this right...(Y/n looks at the rest.) all of you.. Thank you...for giving me...a family. I always wanted a big one..."

Y/n fades away as Steve falls to the ground. The time stone glows orange and black in Thor's hands. Meanwhile, in a different place, in a rustic house on a terraced slope with a scarecrow made of discarded armor, Thanos sits down and watches the sun rise.
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Nick Fury looks at Maria, "Still no word from Stark?"

Maria Hill shakes her head. "No, not yet. Nothing from Y/n either. We're watching every satellite in both hemispheres, there's still nothing."

She receives three beeps from her device. The screen now shows Nick Fury and Maria Hill on Earth, driving in a car. "What is it?"

Maria looked at it, "Multiple bogeys over Wakanda."

Nick looked at her, "Same energy signatures as New York?"

Maria shakes her head, "Ten times bigger."

Nick steps on it, "Tell Klein. We'll meet him at- -!"

Maria looks ahead and warns him. "Nick, Nick!"

A car spirals out of control in front of them. They get out and Hill checks on the passengers. "They okay?"

Behind their vehicle, a motorcycle lies in the middle of the street with a concerned citizen approaching it. "There's no one here."

They hear helicopter rotor sounds from the direction they'd come, but it sounds wrong -- a Leonardo executive helicopter, tail rotor smoking from damage already, appears and crashes nose-first into a building. Screaming intensifies. The two are now witnessing civilians around them suddenly disintegrating. Fury looks at the chaos, "Call Control. Code Red."

Maria looks at her hands. "Nick?"

Fury turns around to see Hill disintegrating. "Hill?"

Fury then races back to their car and gets a what appears to be an old pager with extra gear attached out of his bag on the back seat. He sends out an emergency alert, mere seconds before his hand turns into ashes. "Oh, no...Motherf..."

Before he could finish the line, Fury corrodes to dust. The pager falls to the ground, red lights blinking on the additions; the camera zooms in and we see the device display "SENDING..." then display a red-blue-and-gold star insignia -- the symbol of Captain Marvel.