Cut to Titan, where Thanos arrives, finding only fresh debris from Ebony Maw's ship.

Stephen Strange sits on what may have been plaza steps once. "Oh, yeah, you're much more of a Thanos."

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

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

"And where do you think he brought you?" Thanos asks as Star-Lord crouches behind wreckage with his weapon ready, behind Thanos and to his left; Spider-Man and Mystic peek from above and behind Doctor Strange.

"Whatever happens, I love you," Peter says, de-helmeting.

"Always. We're not going to let a crusty grape ruin the world, or us." Kat smiles. 

"Always." Peter smiles. The two share a tender kiss, before going back to the matter at hand. 

"Let me guess. Your home?" Strange answers.

Thanos smiles 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."

"Genocide." Strange spat.

"But at random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman. And what I predicted came to pass." Thanos relaxes his fist; the Stone stops glowing and the illusion fades back into the true state of Titan.

"Congratulations. You're a prophet." Strange sarcastically says.

"I'm a survivor." Thanos retorts.

"Who wants to murder trillions." Strange says.

"With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers, and they would all cease to exist. I call that... mercy." Thanos mimes snapping his fingers

Strange stands. "And then what?"

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

Strange summons his Mandalas, entering a fighting pose. "I think... you'll find... our will... equal to yours."

"Ours?" Thanos 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 flies in. "Piece of cake, Quill."

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.

Kat jumps up, lifting up multiple jacks and throwing them at Thanos, but the Power Stone destroys them almost immediately. Silver energy swirls around Thanos, as Kat lifts him up and begins to slowly destroy his armor, (A/N: Like what Wanda did in Endgame) but Thanos musters up the energy to use the Space Stone to throw her back.

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.

Quill 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 mine on Thanos' back. 

Quill sticks his landing, he disengages his helmet, flips Thanos a bird, and falls backward into a portal. "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." 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

"Magic!" Peter punches Thanos in the head and vanishes through a portal to the lower right before reappearing above Thanos. "More magic!" 

Peter 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!" Peter 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.

"Insect!" Thanos snarls. 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.

Mystic regains balance, and starts flying over to Thanos, as 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-ling, pulling the much lighter teenager towards him, and punching him on his way past, sending him flying toward Kat. He tears the webbing free of the gauntlet just in time for a small spaceship to attempt to crash-land on him.

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.

"Well, well." Thanos smiles.

"You should have killed me." Nebula snarls.

"It would've been a waste of parts!" Thanos roars.

Nebula 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.

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 an electric trap onto the ground to Thanos' right, the tangle-field holding down his unarmored hand.

Kat jumps in and uses her magic to pull Thanos' gauntlet slowly out, silver magic anchoring herself to the ground. 

Spider-Man swings in, webs Thanos' chest then wraps it around behind him, digging his Iron Spider legs into the ground to anchor himself, right behind Kat

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 sleep.

Iron Man, having returned, is pulling on the gauntlet as well. 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.

While pulling. "Is he under? Don't let up." Tony says.

Mantis starts to cry. "Be quick. He is very strong."

"Hang in there!" Kat yells as the gauntlet slips some more.

"Parker, help! Get over here." Peter drops his web-line and hurries to help Tony with the gauntlet. "She can't hold him much longer. Let's go."

"This completely sucks." Kat sighs, as she keeps on pulling at the gauntlet.

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?"

"My Gamora...?" Thanos groans.

"No, bull-shit. Where is she?" Quill snaps.

"He is in anguish." A shocked Mantis says.

"Good." Quill snarls. 

Mantis cries. "He... he mourns."

"What does this monster have to mourn?" Drax snaps.

"Gamora." Nebula looks up.

Peter Quill pauses. "What?"

Nebula realizes with horror and sadness what has happened. "He took her to Vormir. He came back with the Soul Stone... but she didn't."

Tony grasps the danger immediately and de-helmets. "Okay, Quill, you gotta cool it right now, you understand?" Quill slowly turns to Thanos. Tony shouts his pleads desperately. "Don't, don't, don't engage, we've almost got this off!"

"Tell me she's lying." Quill's enraged. "Asshole! Tell me you didn't do it!"

Thanos grunts. "I... had... to."

While starting to tear up; quietly. "No, you didn't...! No, you didn't...!" Quill continues to rage and then pistol-whipping Thanos twice in the face, causing Mantis to let go in pain. "NO, YOU DIDN'T!"

"Quill!" Iron Man leaps for Star-Lord's arm, re-helmeting and leaving Spider-Man to pull off the gauntlet.

Tony starts talking to the struggling Star-Lord. "Hey, stop! Hey, stop! Stop! Hey, stop! Stop!"

"It's coming! It's coming! It's coming!" Peter and Kat get the fingers completely loose. We got it! We 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 and Mystic to stumble back, and then throwing Mantis away off his shoulders.

Peter sees Mantis with far too much air under her. "Oh, God." Peter 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.

Tony 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.

Kat lift up another moon, sending it straight at Thanos. He destroys it, but Kat has the higher ground, and she repeatedly fires large structures at him. Thanos uses the Space Stone, and Kat falls down, tired and beaten.

"You're a strong girl." Thanos strokes her head. "But not strong enough." Thanos uses the Space Stone to knock Kat unconscious.