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(Y/N) HELD THE angry glare and prepared herself to attack, two identical balls of blue mist shimmering in her hands as she nearly hurled one directly at the mad titan when a strong orange shield pushed her back. She frowned at this, and tried to move around it but her efforts were useless.

Stephen lowered himself to the ground and didn't look back after placing the protective shield around (Y/N), walking towards Thanos since he didn't want her in the fight. He clapped his hands together and two orange shields formed in his hands as he crashed them to the ground, an orange blast breaking through the reddish rocks while Thanos blocked it.

Thanos directed a purple blast straight to Stephen and he stopped it before it even got close to him, forming the mirror dimension and pushing it forward to hit him with it. Thanos broke the wall with his gauntlet and absorbed all the broken glasses, forming a black hole with all of them before he hurled at Stephen.

The sorcerer was quick enough to stop it from hitting him and when it collided with his hands, it transformed into a flock of light green butterflies that flew all around Thanos. Stephen hovered back in the air and raised his arms, more and more pairs of them forming right behind them with the same hand motion in all of them before it dispersed into a group of Stephen copies, all forming orange ropes to wrap them around Thanos's body.

Thanos closed his fist and all the different copies of Stephen disappeared, making the original stagger back in the air just before Thanos dragged him with the gauntlet to grab him by the neck, a sick and twisted smile on his face.

"You're full of tricks, wizard," he sneered.

Stephen grunted and couldn't utter a protest as Thanos ripped the Eye of Agamotto from his neck, "Yet you never once used your greatest weapon."

He crushed it when it was in his palm, hoping to see the Time Stone when there was nothing inside it. Thanos threw the broken pieces into the ground while Stephen let out a strained yell.

"A fake," was all Thanos said before he threw Stephen away towards the rocks, the man dropping unconscious just as he hit the floor.

Thanos prepared to close his fist once again but a strong pull stopped him, the angry look returning to his eyes when he recognized the blue mist wrapped around the gloved hand. (Y/N) got into view with one hand held in front of her, which was the one that stopped him from doing anything else.

Another blast of energy was thrown at him and he lost his balance for a small second, and (Y/N) used this as an opportunity to get closer to him without being sent back.

"You don't know what to do with your power," Thanos sneered as he got to his feet. "You should give it up, (Y/N)."

"You know who I am?" she asked, the angry look still not leaving her eyes.

"I do," Thanos nodded. "I know more about you than you ever would."

"Should we test that theory?" (Y/N) tilted her head to the side and her eyes glowed blue.

Thanos seemed to enjoy this answer, since the twisted smirk returned to his face as he prepared himself for a small fight he thought he would have against her. (Y/N) took a sharp breath and the spheres of energy formed once again in her hands.

"Come on!" Thanos taunted.

(Y/N) hurled a blue blast at him and he blocked it with his arms and the gauntlet, but she didn't stop at this. Her hands kept firing blasts of blue mist at him to stop him from having the time to close his fist and attack her back with one of the stones. Thanos crashed against a giant rock behind him after (Y/N) got close enough to him, but that didn't last long.

He used his leg to push her back to the ground and tried to pin her down with his own foot, but (Y/N) stopped him right before he could with a ball of energy in her hand, using it to throw Thanos a few feet away behind her.

(Y/N) used the time to stand from the ground but wasn't prepared for the next attack, since Thanos was able to form a fist and the Reality Stone in his hand glowed, and a bright red blast was hurled at her, which she stopped right on time with a long energy beam that slowed down his pace to her.

Thanos opened and closed back his hand and fired another red blast that she wasn't able to block and (Y/N) resisted the pain when she hit the ground and stood on her ground, her eyes widening when she saw how the Power Stone in the gauntlet shone and picked two enormous boulders from the ground and took them high in the ground before aiming them directly at her.

She saw how the boulders were ready to collide right on top of her and she opened her arms in a V-motion, her eyes and hands glowing blue as the boulders stopped in midair with her powers. (Y/N) saw how Thanos's face nearly paled, and she waisted no time in throwing them back at him.

The weight of the rocks crushed Thanos underneath it, and he broke through it with a cut through the side of his bald forehead, blood dripping from it.

"How disappointing," Thanos said, his hand reaching up to touch the dripping blood. "You don't know the true color of your power. All that effort only caused the smallest drop of blood."

(Y/N)'s breath hitched and prepared for another blow of him when she saw the familiar outline of Tony's suit closing in, standing right in front of her to receive the punch instead of her. Tony's eyes were pleading at her to not interfere, and all she could do was stay frozen in her place. Thanos noticed this and kept hitting him directly in the face, then proceeding to grab him by the helmet without much of an effort.

Thanos held Tony by the head and threw him back with the punch in the ribs, but Tony got back up on his knees and fired a laser beam that Thanos was able to redirect with the gauntlet. He got closer to him with every step, and Thanos got to hit him square in the face to break the last part of Tony's helmet.

Tony formed a knife from his nano suit and prepared to strike it in Thanos's side but he was way quicker, breaking the knife from the suit and using it for his own benefit, stabbing Tony in the abdomen, the weapon cutting through him.

Tony grunted and panted when he realized what happened, being forced to walk backwards into a rock that Thanos was guiding him towards, kneeling down to his level as he grabbed the man by the head. "You have my respect, Stark."

"When I'm done, half of humanity will still be alive," Thanos got up to his full height. "I hope they remember you."

Thanos moved back to forcefully grab (Y/N) by the arm, his grip being too tight that her arm would be marked with a bruise in the next day. He didn't care about this and threw her to the rocks besides Tony, directing the glowing gauntlet at the two.

"Stop," another voice interrupted. Stephen panted and tried to sit up to face the titan. "Spare their lives. . .and I will give you the stone."

"No tricks," Thanos seemed to consider this and now aimed the gauntlet at Stephen, who shook his head at his statement.

"Don't."

"Stephen — "

Stephen raised a hand in the air and the Time Stone appeared in his fingertips, glowing in a bright green color. Thanos, hungry for his victory, extended his hand forward to accept the stone, all while Tony and (Y/N) watched in horror.

The Time Stone levitated in the air and Thanos took it in his hands with a quick motion, moving to place it in its respective place as the stone itself seemed to be pulled in. The green glow didn't disappear and Thanos seemed to gain more strength along with power.

"One to go," he muttered.

A blast stopped him from doing anything else and Quill screamed at the top of his lungs as he charged at him, flying with his own boosters and guns in hand but didn't get to cause any damage, since Thanos disappeared behind a grey and blue portal without leaving a trace.

Quill rolled in the ground and the helmet disappeared from his face, pointing desperately at the air. "Where is he?"

(Y/N)'s moved her hands and blue mist closed the open wound in Tony's side, not answering to the question since she was distracted. All Tony did was stare back at him as he winced in pain.

"Did we just lose?"

Tony looked at Stephen. "Why did you do that?"

"We're in the endgame now."