*Author's note*

Well, well, well been a long time everyone hadn't it? Well you all asked for it and I hereby deliver. Here we go with the 2nd half of Mother Raksha. Now I should tell you that throughout this second half POV's will jump around but the most likely POV's will either be in Rauri's or 3rd Person. So I hope that's okay with you all. 

Now I should warn you that towards the end it gets a little too graphic so if you are squeamish of any kind just try and avoid the last part of the chapter. But I hope you all enjoy the LONG AWAITED SECOND HALF OF MOTHER WOLF RAKSHA IN INFINITY WAR :)

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*Rauri's POV*

23 days. Three weeks. Three. Bloody. Whole. Weeks. Ever since Thanos invaded our world and did exactly what he was set out to do. Trillions of people lost families and loved ones, and of course I'm no exception. I lost so many of my friends I finally got to bond with after being freed from Connor's control, and her.

The love of my life, my mate, my other half. (Y/n) Williams. Barely within 48hrs after saying I do, I hold her in my arms as she faded away into ash.

Now here I am here at the new Avengers facility in upstate New York along with Dean and Mitchell my betas. It was nightfall and I was currently sleeping outside the facility in an old 'wolf house' that was once constructed for my wife when she first joined the Avengers.

It was about the size of a mini mansion with an easy open access door for her to walk in and lay in on a large pieces of furniture big enough for her wolf form alone. So here I was lying inside of it, huffing out heavily in my wolf form.

Thinking of how I couldn't protect her, I should've stopped Thanos myself from snapping his damn fingers, if I had just ran over and ripped Thanos' arm off, none of this would've happened.

Suddenly my ears perked up from a deep rumble coming from the sky. I raced out and could see something, some sort of large shape. I don't know if the others could see or even feel this so I let out several loud barks and warning howls signaling everyone to get out here.

It was then Steve, Natasha, Rhodes, Bruce, Pepper Potts, Dean and Mitchell all came out and soon coming overhead was a large spaceship but it didn't look like it belonged to Thanos. My eyes however were on the woman that was glowing and radiating some sort of energy and she was single handedly moving the ship and lowering it to the ground.

Once the ship was safely down on the ground the energy faded and she turned to us. She looked to be about my age with medium length blonde hair and wore a red, blue and gold space-suit of sorts.

My attention then turned towards the doors of the ships opening and out came a very frail and weak Tony Stark. He was being supported by a blue robotic woman until Steve went up and helped him down the last set of stairs.

"Couldn't stop him." He panted out

"Neither could I."

"Hang on." They stopped and then Stark whispered so softly it was like it was wind blowing but of course thanks to my hearing, I heard it. "I lost the kid."

"Tony we lost."

"Is, uh...." But when Pepper walked right up to Tony they were both relieved to see the other alive after all this. They embraced each other and wept.

Seeing them together while it made me feel relieved that Pepper didn't have to go through what I am now, it still made me feel upset that my wife isn't here. I turned and began to walk away when I heard Stark say.

"(Y/n)?" I stopped and turned around phasing into my human form and said.

"Sorry to disappoint, but my wife is no longer with us anymore." He looked at me wide-eyed in shock but I didn't say another word as I walked back into the facility with my hands in my coat pockets and Mitchell and Dean walking behind me.

We were all in the main room with holograms of everyone that had disappeared from the Snap or blip as some of us have called it as Rhodes explained.

"It's been 23 days since Thanos came to Earth."

"World governments are in pieces. The parts that are still working...are trying to take a census and it looks like he did...He did exactly what he said he was gonna do. Thanos wiped out....50% of all living creatures." Natasha spoke brokenly.

"Where is he now? Where?" Tony asked from his wheelchair he was now sitting on as he was being given fluids from the dehydration and malnourishment he suffered up in space for the past 3 weeks.

"We don't know." Answered Steve. "He just opened a portal and walked through." Tony sighed before turning his attention to Thor who had isolated himself into a corner, brooding on his failure.

"What's wrong with him?" Stark asked.

"Oh, he's pissed. He thinks he failed. Which, of course, he did...but you know there's a lot of that going around, ain't there?" the raccoon Rocket explained.

"Honestly, until this exact second I thought you were a Build-a-bear." Tony said to Rocket.

"Maybe I am."

"We've been hunting Thanos for three weeks now. Deep space scans...and satellites, and we got nothing. Tony, you fought him." Steve explained before Tony retorted sarcastically.

"Who told you that? I didn't fight him. No, he wiped my face with a planet....while the Bleecker Street magician gave away the stone. That's what happened. There was no fight, cause he's not beatable."

"Did he give you any clues, any coordinates, anything?" Tony then sputtered out, like he didn't even care which really pissed not only me, but Mitchell and Dean off as well.

This was the famed and great Iron-Man?

"I saw this coming a few years back. I had a vision. I didn't want to believe it. Thought I was dreaming."

"Tony I'm gonna need you to focus." Said Steve.

"And I needed you." Tony snapped back. "As in, past tense. That trumps what you need. It's too late, buddy. Sorry." He sniffled before continuing as he tossed his plate of food across the table before standing up, "You know what I need? I need a shave. And I believe I remember telling all youse..."

As Rhodes tried to calm him down, Stark actually took his IV and ripped it right out of his arm as he continued to rant.

"Alive and otherwise, that what we needed was a suit of armor around the world! Remember that?" The Ultron fiasco. I had heard about that, in fact Connor and I were still in Sokovia when it all went down, just before the city blew up to hell. "Whether it impacted our precious freedoms or not. That's what we needed."

"Well that didn't work out, did it?" Steve said softly glaring at Tony.

"I said we'd lost. You said, 'we'll do that together too.' And guess what Cap? We lost. And you weren't there. But that's what we do right? Our best work after the fact? We're the 'Avengers'. We're the 'Avengers'. Not the 'Pre-vengers'."

"Okay." Rhodes said as he tried to stabilize Tony before he would collapse right to the floor.

"Right?"

"You made your point. Just sit down, okay?" Rhodes advised him urgently. But as my love has said, Tony Stark was a stubborn idiot, and now I was witnessing first had just how stubborn this billionaire was.

"Okay. No, no, here's my point. You know what? She's great by the way." He said pointing toward the woman who had introduced herself as Carol Danvers.

"Tony, you're sick. Sit down."

"We need you. You're new blood. Bunch of tired old mules. I got nothing for you, Cap. I got no coordinates...no clues, no strategies, no options. Zero. Zip. Nada. No trust, liar." Tony said as he walked right up to Steve and got in his face but Cap wasn't affected by it at all. He then ripped the arc-reactor from his chest and forced it into Steve's hand. "Here, take this. You find him, you put that on...you hide." I could just sense that he was ready to pass out.

And my instincts were correct as Stark fell to his knees and Rhodey, Steve and Carol who were the closest to him tried to help him up, but ever stubborn fool he was tried to say he was fine until he finally collapsed unconscious from dehydration and lack of nourishment.

I stood up from the corner in wolf form and walked right up to him and lifted my paw to gently move his lower half so that it was even to how he was laying. I looked up to Rhodes and he gave me permission.

I then gripped onto Tony's robe and slung him onto my back. I pressed my paw against his arm that hung over my neck before giving him that final buck for him to be fully lying against my back. Pepper then led me to his bedroom and both her and Rhodes got him into bed while Bruce gave him a sedative to help him stay asleep and rest up.

Now that I was back standing beside Dean and Mitchell along with Nat and Steve. Rhodes explained to them about Tony's condition now when Carol spoke up.

"You guys take care of him, and I'll bring him a Xorrian elixir when I come back."

"Where are you going?" asked Steve.

"To kill Thanos." She spoke proudly as she walked away. We all looked at each other before going after her.

"Hey." Carol stopped and turned back towards the two Avengers as Nat continued, "we usually work as a team here. And uhh—between you and I, morale's a little fragile."

"We realize up there is more your territory, but this is our fight too." Steve stated.

"You even know where he is?" asked Rhodey.

"I know people who might." She stated arrogantly.

"Don't bother." The robotic woman, Nebula spoke up from the other side of the room. "I can tell you where Thanos is."

We were now in what looked like a study room/bar as Nebula explained to us where her 'father' was at.

"Thanos spent a long time trying to perfect me. And when he worked, he talked about his Great Plan. Even disassembled I wanted to please him. I'd ask...where would we go once his plan was complete? And his answer was always the same....." she walked towards the table where Rocket stood on and she finished, "To the Garden."

"That's cute. Thanos has a retirement plan." Rhodey said sarcastically.

"So where is he?" I asked. It was then Rocket activated a hologram projection from the center of the table and he explained.

"When Thanos snapped his fingers; Earth became ground zero for a power surge of ridiculous cosmic proportions. No one's ever seen anything like it. Until two days ago," the holograph changed from an image of Earth to another planet that made the same surge of energy as Earth did as Rocket explained. "On this planet."

"Thanos is there." Nebula said. Nat leaned against the table right up to this new planet as she said.

"He used the stones again."

"Hey, hey, hey." Bruce chuckled nervously. "We'd be going in shorthanded, you know?"

"Look he's still got the stones, so...." Rhodey said before Carol interrupted him.

"So let's get him. Use them to bring everyone back."

"Just like that?" Banner asked skeptically.

"Yeah. Just like that." Steve stated bluntly.

"Even if there's a small chance that we can undo this... I mean, we owe it to everyone who's not in this room to try." Dean stated.

"If we do this, how do we know it's gonna end differently than it did before?"

"Because before you didn't have me." Carol said.

"Look new girl. Most of us have done the 'superhero' thing hell my friends and I are still adjusting to it. But if you don't mind me asking, there the hell have you been for the past 20 years?" Mitchell snapped.

"There are a lot of other planets in the universe. And they didn't have your buddies or these guys." It was then Thor finally stood up and walked right up to Carol.

The two of them just stared at each other till Thor extended his hand and I could hear a rumble in the distance and soon flying right past Carol was Thor's new weapon Stormbreaker. And she didn't even flinch. Thor set his axe down staring down at Carol before saying.

"I like this one." Steve then turned to the map before saying.

"Let's go get this son of a bitch."

If you had told me 10 years ago that I would be flying in a spaceship with the Avengers, a mutant raccoon, and an enhanced Air force pilot, I would've told you that you were completely bonkers.

But here I am, in a spaceship. Everyone with their battle suits on or at the ready for Banner. Mitchell, Dean and I were hanging in the back since due to our animal enhancements we had better balance to survive the space jumps we would be making to reach this planet.

"Okay, who here hasn't been to space?" asked Rocket as he turned to us. Nat, Steve, Rhodey, Mitchell, Dean and myself raised our hands as Rhodey questioned why and I heard Carol chuckle. "You better not throw up on my ship."

"Approaching jump in three....two....one." Suddenly like an airplane taking flight but much faster, we went through the space jump. The galaxy zipping right by us almost giving me a visual whiplash until finally we arrived at the Garden.

Carol was now outside of the ship and hovering in front of us as she told us she would head down there for recon. Once she left, I looked down at my wedding band and felt my heart aching once more.

"We'll get her back man." I heard Mitchell say. "All of them."

"We better. Because I don't know what's gonna happen to me if I don't." I pleaded. As quick as she left, Carol returned with some shocking news.

"No satellites, no ships, no armies, no ground defenses of any kind. It's just him."

"And that's enough." Nebula stated. Took the words right out of my mouth.

*3rd Person POV*

In the garden a statue of Thanos' armor hung in pride as a settlement mark of him claiming this garden as his own after doing what he had set out to do.

Limping along gathering food was the mad titan himself. He soon staggered up the four steps to his hut and prepared himself supper. As Thanos put down the pot to boil his dinner, the entire left side of his body was charred away, almost like he had been burned by something.

Then suddenly out of nowhere as he looked upward, a powerful blast was sent down towards him. He blocked it with the gauntlet that was also still burned from using the stones. Soon Carol tackled him across the hut and she rolled around but regained her footing as she charged at him.

She swung behind him holding him in a choke hold making Thanos scream and groan out. Suddenly out of the firepit, Bruce in the rebuilt Veronica suit, held his left arm which held the gauntlet as well as Dean who roared out angrily and came behind Thanos and held him around his torso crushing his ribs. While soon flying down was Rhodey as well as Mitchell who was in his dog form held and pulled the titan's other arm.

Encaging him in a trap allowing Thor to fly in and cut Thanos' left arm freeing the gauntlet and making the titan scream in pain, but of course they did nothing to spare him of the pain. Walking in through the now wide entrance were Steve and Natasha riding on top of the large black wolf that was Rauri.

He snarled at the titan and licked his lips baring his teeth as he snarled at him showing him that now they all had the upper hand and were not gonna submit to him this time.

But when Rocket turned over the gauntlet, he was horrified. The stones were gone.

"Oh no." he muttered as he looked up to everyone in fear. Steve and Nat looked down at the gauntlet before turning to the titan and Steve demanded.

"Where are they?"

"Answer the question." Carol hissed into his ear. Thanos groaned which caused Dean to squeeze his ribs tighter forcing Thanos to finally talk.

"The universe required correction. After that, the stones served no purpose...beyond temptation."

'You murdered trillions!' Bruce exclaimed as he pushed Thanos down to the ground. Weak and not even putting up a fight, Thanos weakly turned over and said.

"You should be grateful." Bruce then proceeded to punch Thanos in the face sending him back down.

"Where are the stones?" Natasha asked trying to remain strong but her wall was breaking down.

"Gone. Reduced to atoms." Said Thanos.

'You used them two days ago!'

"I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me. But the work is done. It always will be. I am....inevitable."

'He has to be lying! Mitchell, Rauri let's tear this place apart!' Dean spoke through the collar in his bear form but Nebula spoke softly.

"My father is many things. A liar is not one of them." Thanos sighed with relief and turned to Nebula and said.

"Ahh. Thank you daughter. Perhaps I treated you too harshly." Suddenly just before Thor could even lift up Stormbreaker, a flash of black pinned Thanos straight to the ground.

Rauri opened his mouth exposing his large canine teeth to the weak titan who for the first time in his life felt fear. His saliva dripped onto the titan's face as the Alpha's mouth drew closer. Licking his chops as he breathed his hot, foul breath upon his prey.

Then as quick as lightning he pounced. He gripped onto Thanos' head barking and snarling madly as blood began pouring. The sounds of gurgling as Thanos began to echo out as Rauri continued his assault, until everyone heard the bones of Thanos' neck snap off like a twig being broken in half as Rauri now held in his mouth the Head of Thanos.

He tossed it aside and snarled at it as blood continued to pour out from the rest of the body. Purple blood pouring out of his mouth onto the ground and down his black fur.

'Jesus.' Bruce spoke softly.

"What did you do?" Rocket said.

'What all wolves do. I went for the head. Something you should've done three weeks ago!' Rauri snarled at Thor.

Then as a final act of cold, heartlessness, he picked up Thanos' body by the arm and dragged it outside, with Mitchell and Dean walking silently behind their alpha.

Everyone was in shock. Nebula who was now crouched down on all fours by the head of her 'father' who now bore teeth marks and torn apart shred of flesh from where Rauri had indented into him. In some sort of mercy, she closed his eyes before bowing her head in solemn.

Everyone else just stood there in shock, defeat, regret, and sorrow. They all failed. It was too late, with the stones gone there was no way to bring everyone that had turned to ash back.

They lost.