Five.
"Oh yeah," Stephen began talking, catching the titan's attention, "You're much more of a Thanos."
"I take it the Maw is dead." Thanos spoke, and Stephen nodded, "This day extracts a heavy toll. Still he accomplished the mission."
"You May regret that," Stephen said, "He brought you face to face with the master of the mystic arts."
"And where do you think he brought you?" Thanos asked, "Let me guess. Your home?"
Elena could almost roll her eyes at how stereotypical this whole thing seemed. She pressed her back to the rock, she was in space. No longer on Earth.
She never even dreamed of this type of thing. When other kids were dreaming of being astronauts, she was dreaming of a life worth living. Anything other than what situations she had been in at the time.
But now here she was, far away from home, and mostly surrounded by people she had just met. Everyone except Tony.
"It was." Thanos used the stone to show what it used to look like, "And it was beautiful."
"Titan was like most planets," he started, "Too many mouths not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution."
"Genocide." Stephen guessed.
"But random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike." Thanos explained, "They called me a mad man. And what I predicted, came to pass." The image fell away.
"Congratulations, you're a prophet."
"I'm a survivor." Thanos corrected, "Who wants to murder trillions." Stephen stated.
"With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers. And they would all cease to exist. I call that mercy."
"And then what?" Stephen stood up, "I finally rest. And watch the sun rise on a grateful universe."
Elena pressed her lips together, his plan was to murder so many beings, and then just rest. That's it?
"The hardest choices require the strongest wills."he stated, eyes falling to the ground.
"I think you'll find," he started waving his arms, "Our will to be equal to yours."
That was the signal. It was time.
"Our?" He looked up quickly.
Tony crushed the titan with debris leftover from the spaceship. "Piece of cake, Quill." He stated.
"Yeah, if your goal was to piss him off." The man stated, "Ok guys, let's focus please." Elena stated.
Thanos screamed as the ship blew into pieces before glowing red and turning into a trillion bats all flying after Tony.
Peter shot a web at the titan's eyes, throwing him off as Drax attacked from below. Strange taking the front. Elena's goal was to attack from further away, avoiding the possibility of being crushed by Thanos.
Quill came in from the side, bouncing over floating pieces of rock and shooting at the purple giant. "Boom." The man flipped him off falling back into a portal.
"Don't let him close his fist." Strange instructed, the cloak, which flew from his shoulders.
"Magic." Peter stated jumping from one portal, landing a hit on Thanos before disappear into another one.
It really was fascinating to Elena how it worked, she'd have to pick Stephen's brain about it later.
"More magic!" Peter exclaimed, "Magic with a kick..."
"Magic with a..." Peter was cut off by Thanos slamming him into the ground.
"Ouch." Elena murmured at the sight.
Just as Thanos finally tore the cloak away from his hand, Tony hit him with an explosion. Thanos re-used the explosion channeling it to blast Tony.
However, Peter jumped in webbing Thanos' gauntlet and Elena stabbing his other arm, he shouted in pain, just before a large piece of debris hurtled him to the side.
Just then, someone Elena didn't recognize, jumped in, hitting him from above. "Well, well." He spoke.
"You should've killed me."
"It would've been a waste of parts!" Thanos shouted bittterly. Nebula hit him over and over again with the electrical stick. It vaguely reminded Elena of her sisters' widow bites.
"Where's Gamora?" Nebula shouted, "Damn, this Gamora girl is popular around here." Elena murmured to herself.
That was just moments before Thanos tossed the woman backward. And Elena slid forward slashing at the titan's leg.
Stephen, wrapped some sort of magical teathers around the gauntlet tugging at it. Drax slide from the other side.
Quill shot some sort of eletrical thing tying down Thanos' other hand, and Peter swung in from the other side, wrapping webbing around him. Tony took Stephen's place, pulling the gauntlet.
Which gave Stephen time to open the portal and drop Mantis on to Thanos. Mantis struggled but got him in an almost sleeping state.
"Is he under? Don't let up." Tony stated, and Elena moved to help him with the gauntlet.
"Be quick. He's very strong." Mantis stated.
"Parker? Help! Get over here." Tony instructed, and Peter quickly walked over. "She can't hold this much longer. Let's go."
Quill flew down in front of them, "Damn, this is harder than anticipated." Elena muttered tugging at the gauntlet.
"I thought you'd be hard to catch." Quill started, "is now really the time?" Elena asked, "you should get your ass over here and help us."
"Just a Minute." He said, "You're not so strong now, huh? Where's Gamora?"
"My Gamora." Thanos groaned, "No! Bullshit! Where is she?"
"He is in anguish." Mantis stated, "Good." Quill spoke bitterly.
"He...he mourns!" She exclaimed.
"What does this monster have to mourn?" Drax asked, and Elena looked up breifly also wondering.
"Gamora." Nebula realized and Quill turned around slowly, "What?"
"He took her to vormir. He came back with the Soul stone. Bt she didn't." Nebula explained.
"Okay Quill. You gotta cool it right now." Tony ordered, "Do you understand?"
"Don't engage. We almost got this off." Tony stated, "Deep breaths, Quill. Channel your anger into helping us get this thing off." Elena spoke gently, yet sternly.
"Tell me she's lying." Quill spoke, "Asshole! Tell me you didn't do it!" He yelled.
"Quill..." Elena warned, "I had to." Thanos spoke, "No you didn't." Quill shook his head.
"Quick! Stop!" She exclaimed as he hit Thanos in the head, breaking the sleeping spell Mantis had him under.
"Hey stop!" Tony shoved him off, leaving Peter and Elena working against the titan that was beginning to wake up.
Peter landed on top of Elena as they stumbled back when Thanos ripped the gauntlet back on. "Shit!" Elena exclaimed.
"Oh god!" Peter exclaimed stumbling off of Elena to jump forward and catch Mantis.
"Oh my god." Elena murdered softly as Thanos used the stone to pull the moon from the planet's gravitational pull.
It was going to destroy the planet. This is how Elena Reyes was going to die. On a planet in space, without most of the people who love her.
Who would even remember Elena? Her family? Maybe the first graders she had taught over the years? But soon enough she would be forgotten. Lost in the same battle as so many others.
Tony flew by, sweeping her out of the way, and then working to block one of the giant moon rocks...maybe hoping to slow it's inevitable crash into the planet.
The surface of the planet buckled, causing Elena and multiple others to fly into the air. Peter rushed around trying to save them all. "I'm sorry I can't remember anybody's names!" Peter exclaimed.
Meanwhile Stephen continued to fight Thanos below them. Elena tried to take slow breaths, as she hung from a web on a piece of floating space rock. What had her life become?
Last week she was watching movies on the couch with her girlfriend and now she was floating on a different planet completely girlfriendless.
"If you throw another moon at me, I'm gonna lose it." Elena heard Tony's voice through the coms. She found that a bit funny in her state of being low key delirious.
"Yeah me too."
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