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(ELEANOR RIGBY)
CHAPTER SEVEN-----▹

TITAN

There was nearly complete silence on the dead planet when Thanos arrived. Nothing but the fragments of the ship Peter, Tony, and Stephen arrived in was in sight.

"Oh yeah." Stephen broke the silence, immediately retaining the attention of Thanos. "You're much more of a Thanos."

"I take it the Maw is dead," Thanos spoke for the first time since his arrival. Stephen nodded silently in reply.

"This day extracts a heavy toll." Thanos walked forward towards Stephen, "Still he accomplished his mission."

"You may regret that." Stephen spoke, "He brought you face to face with the Master of the Mystic Arts."

Tess was crouched nearby behind some rubble, looking around waiting for the plan to begin playing out.

"And where do you think he brought you?" Thanos asked, taking this time to tell his oh-so-tragic story.

"Let me guess. Your home?" Stephen noted, "It was."

The red stone, Tess thought it might be the reality stone, lit up as an image projected around them. "And it was beautiful."

Stephen also looked around at the newly formed image, "It was like most planets. Too many mouths. Not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction. I offered a solution."

"Genocide." Stephen stated, "But random. Dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman."

Fair enough Tess thought to herself.

"And what I predicted came to pass." The image faded away, back to the dead-looking planet.

"Congratulations. You're a prophet." Stephen spoke sarcastically, "I'm a survivor." Thanos corrected.

"Who wants to murder trillions." Stephen noted, "With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers." he explained showing the motion.

"They would all cease to exist. I call that mercy." Thanos spoke, Stephen stood up, walking toward him, "Then what?"

"I'd finally rest...watch the sunrise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills."

"I think you'll find our will equal to yours." Stephen spoke, and Thanos looked up alarmed, "Our?"

A piece of the ship was pushed down upon him, Tony Stark flying behind it, "Piece of cake, Quill."

"Yeah, if your goal was to piss him off," Quill replied, clicking on his helmet, sure enough, he was correct. A purple glow showed up as the rubble turned into birds, shoving Tony backward.

Peter and Tess swung in, shooting webs over the titan's eyes, Drax going in from behind, aiming at his legs.

Stephen joined in from the front, and Quill from the side. This wasn't as easy as Tess and the rest had hoped. Quill certainly was not over-exaggerating.

"Don't let him close his fist." Strange whispered to the cloak, as it floated off of his shoulders. The red material wrapped around Thanos' fist, as Peter and Tess jumped from on portal to another, "Magic."

Peter jumped back through, whacking his head, "More magic."

Tess kicked through the next portal, "Magic...with a kick."

This time, however, Thanos pinned the Parkers to the ground, "Insects." he snarled, flinging them into Dr. Strange.

Tony flew back through sending explosions around the purple bastard, but Thanos counter reacted, with one of the stones, blasting Tony.

"Nope," Tess stated swinging a web around the gauntlet, still getting thrown to the side moments later, "Ouch."

Someone they weren't quite expecting made an appearance next, Tess didn't recognize her but was glad that Thanos had another enemy.

'An enemy of my enemy is a friend', after all.

"Well, well, well." Thanos spoke, "You should've killed me." Nebula spoke, "It would've been a waste of parts."

Nebula attacked him over and over again, "Where's Gamora?"

Just as Thanos tossed her to the side, Stephen came flying back up, some sort of red thing wrapping around his gauntlet. Quill blocked his other hand with an electrical device, and Peter and Tess wrapped him up with webs.

Tony took Strange's place to begin pulling the gauntlet off of the mad titan's hand, Mantis dropped from a portal.

"Is he under? Don't let up." Tony instructed, "Be quick. He is very strong."

"Parker. Help get over here." Tony half-shouted, "Me?" both Tess and Peter asked at the same time, "One of you! She can't hold him much longer, let's go!"

Quill flew up in front of them, "Thought you'd be hard to catch. For the record this was my plan." he stated.

"You're not so strong now, huh?" he taunted, "Really? You're going to taunt him? How old are you twelve?" Tess asked, "Says the literal child."

"I'm sixteen, dipshit." she corrected, "Where is Gamora?" he returned his attention to Thanos.

"My Gamora." Thanos groaned, "No, Bullshit. Where is she?" he repeated.

"He is in anguish." Mantis noted still fighting Thanos' strength, "Good."

"He..he mourns!" she cried, "What does this monster have to mourn?" Drax wondered out loud.

"Gamora." Nebula whispered.

Quill turned slowly to face her, "What?" Nebula sighed, "He took her to Vormir. He came back with the Soul Stone. But she didn't."

"Hey Quill, you gotta cool it, right now. You understand?" Tony spoke carefully, "Don't, don't engage, we almost got this off."

"Tell me she's lying!" he exclaimed, "Asshole! Tell me you didn't do it!"

"I had to." Thanos groaned, "No you didn't." Quill shook his head, "No you didn't."

Suddenly Quill punched him several times breaking Mantis' grasp, "Quill!" Tony exclaimed, "Hey, stop, stop." Tony let go to pull Quill away, leaving just Peter pulling on the gauntlet, Tes tried to help, but just before the Parkers could remove it, Thanos became fully conscious.

Thanos flung Mantis off his shoulders, Tess and Peter immediately scrambling to save her, "Oh god!"

Thanos knocked them all way beating them down, there was no stopping any of this now. Especially as the titan's eyes landed on the moon, and he began to pull it down through the atmosphere.

Tony flew quickly to try and slow the impact, but it still tore through the planet's outer crust, sending waves of debris throughout the surface.

Tess couldn't even bring herself to scream.