What If... Thanos Spared his Daughter?

## Fan Cast

Jeffery Wright as The Watcher

Ross Marquand as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull/Stonekeeper

Josh Brolin as Thanos

Zoe Saldana as Gamora

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw

Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange

Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man

Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Karen Gillian as Nebula

Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight

Terry Notary as Cull Obsidian

## Synopsis

Unable to kill Gamora, Thanos’ plan to erase half of all life is drastically changed.

## Prologue

Uatu the Watcher: A plan to alter the universe.  The mighty Titan Thanos, after capturing the assassin Gamora, has taken her to the planet Vormir.  Meeting Red Skull, Thanos was forced with a choice-The Soul Stone, a key to his plan, or his daughter.

## Chapter 1

Red Skull: Welcome, Thanos, son of A'Lars. Gamora, daughter of Thanos.

Thanos: You know us?

Red Skull: It is my curse to know all who journey here.

Thanos: Where’s the Soul Stone?

Red Skull: You should know…It extracts a terrible price.

Thanos: I am prepared.

Red Skull: We all think that at first. We are all wrong.

He leads them up the mountain.

Thanos: How is it you know this place so well?

Red Skull: A lifetime ago, I, too, sought the stones. I even held one in my hand. But it cast me out, banished me here. Guiding others to a treasure I cannot possess.

They come to the edge of the mountaintop.

Red Skull: What you seek lies before you. As does what you fear.

Thanos: What’s this?

Red Skull: The price. Soul holds a special place among the Infinity Stones. You might say it has a certain wisdom.

Thanos: Tell me what it needs.

Red Skull: To ensure that whoever possesses it… Understands its power… The stone demands a sacrifice.

Thanos: Of what?

Red Skull: In order to take the stone you must lose that which you love. A soul…For a soul.

Gamora begins to laugh at the irony of the situation

Gamora: All my life, I dreamed of a day…A moment when you would get what you deserved. And I was always so disappointed. But now…You kill and torture…And you call it mercy. The universe has judged you. You asked it for a prize, and it told you no. You failed. And do you wanna know why? Because you love nothing. No one.

Thanos: Except you, little one.

Gamora: No.  This isn’t love.

Thanos: I ignored my destiny once.

He grabs her.

Gamora: Please.  Don’t.

Red Skull: This is the only way.

Thanos: I’m sorry.

He holds her over the edge.

Gamora: Father…

He stops.

Thanos: I can’t.

Gamora sighs in relief.

Gamora: You’ve lost.

Thanos: Not yet.

He teleports away with the space stone.

## Chapter 2

Ebony Maw is torturing Stephen Strange.

Ebony Maw: Painful aren’t they? They were originally designed for microsurgery. And any one of them…

He turns to see Tony Stark in his Iron Man suit standing behind him.

Ebony Maw: …could end your friend’s life in an instant.

Tony: I gotta tell you, he’s not really my friend. Saving his life is more a professional courtesy.

Ebony Maw: You’ve saved nothing. Your powers are inconsequential compared to mine.

Tony: Yeah, but the kid’s seen more movies.

A hologram of Thanos suddenly appears.

Thanos: Maw. The rendezvous will no longer be on Titan.  You will head to the Sanctuary II on Vormir.

Tony and Peter both turn to look at the recording.

Ebony takes advantage of their distraction and attacks them.  He rips a microsurgery dagger out of Strange’s body and flings it at them.  It stabs Peter in the chest.

Peter: Ahhhh!

He crumbles to the ground.

Tony: Oh you’ll pay for that.

He fires a rocket from his shoulder and it hits the wall of the ship.  The explosion tears a hole in it, which sucks everything out, including Spider-Man.

Tony: Kid!

As the hole starts to pull on Ebony he uses his powers to cause several large sheets of metal to block the hole.

Tony Stark shoots at him with his repulsed lasers, hitting him in the chest with one.

He suddenly freezes.

Tony: What the heck?

Ebony holds his hands out and Stark’s suit begins to condense.  Tony screams as his armor collapses in on itself, crushing him.

Ebony Maw turns towards Strange.

Ebony: Now that there’s no more distractions, give me the stone.

## Chapter 3

Nebula is suspended in the interrogation room, with a Chitauri guard.

He begins putting her back together.

When he tries to fix her eyepiece she attacks him and knocks the alien unconscious.

Nebula walks over to the computer console, dragging her damaged leg behind her.

Nebula: Mantis, listen very carefully. I need you to meet me on Titan.

Proxima Midnight: You’re not going anywhere.

Nebula lunges at her, but she knocks her to the ground with her spear beforing shoving Nebula to the ground.

Proxima: We’re not done with you yet.

## Chapter 4

Thanos teleports inside of his throne room with Gamora.  Proxima Midnight, Cull Obsidian, and Ebony Maw are all waiting for him.  Nebula is lying on the ground.

Thanos looks at Maw.

Thanos: Where is the Time Stone?

Ebony Maw: Sire, he has resisted every attempt I have made to take it.

Thanos: And Corvus?

Proxima: He is in the medical, but will make a full recovery.

Thanos: And did you fail me?

Proxima: The Avengers showed up.  But we believe the stone is now in Wakanda.

Thanos: Then that is where I will go.

Ebony: Sire, what of the soul stone?

He looks at Proxima.

Thanos: Tell me daughter, would you die for your husband?

Proxima: If it could help you get a stone, yes.

Thanos: Then you two will go to Vormir.  The stone requires a sacrifice.

She leaves.

Ebony: Sire, why were you not able to retrieve the stone?

Thanos: I could not.

Gamora: Because he put off his plan.

Nebula: What?

Gamora: He doesn’t care about fixing the universe!  Not if his favorite child can’t be there.

Thanos: We can still get the stone.

Ebony: Thanos, if this is true…

He rises into the air.

Ebony: Then you are not worthy of ending half of all life.

He flings large shards of metal at Thanos.  Thanos blocks the attacks with the gauntlet.

A large shell of metal surrounds Thanos, but he tears through it.

Thanos: You’ll pay for that, Maw.

Nebula screams at him as she lunges towards her father. She kicks him in the face.

Gamora stands up and runs towards her father, but she gets knocked to the ground by Cull Obsidian.  He reaches down and grabs her with his robotic hand.

Gamora winces as the metallic claw clutches her throat.

Thanos points the Reality Stone at Nebula, causing her to turn into a pile of scrap metal.

He then turns towards Ebony and freezes him with the space stone.

Thanos: That is twice now you have failed me.

He steps towards his former ally and brandishes the infinity gauntlet close to his face.

Thanos: And there will be judgement for that.

He presses the Power Stone against his forehead.  Ebony Maw screams as his skin cracks in a purple glow.

His entire body explodes, splattering blood across the room.

Gamora looks in disgust at some of it smeared above her left eye.

Nebula screams in pain as she transforms back to normal.

Thanos turns to Obsidian.

Thanos: Take them both to the dungeon.  When you are done, bring me the Time Stone.

## Chapter 5

The Benatar lands on Titan.

As the bay doors open Drax runs out screaming.

Drax: Thanos!

Star-Lord flies out after him, shooting his blasters in every direction.

Peter: Where are you ya sociopathic shit?!

Mantis: We have come to kick your name and take your ass!

They look around, and see no one is in sight.

Mantis: Is this Thanos invisible?

Drax: Only if he is standing perfectly still.

Peter: He’s not standing still you dumbass.  He’s not here.

Mantis: But Nebula said she would meet us here.

Peter: Well look around!  Obviously she isn’t!

Drax: That lying robot!

Peter: Did you just call her a robot?

Drax: Yes, that’s what she is.

Peter: She’s a cyborg you dipshit.

Drax: But her arm is metal.

Peter: That’s what a cyborg is!  She’s part metal!

Drax: So she is Yondu’s offspring.

Peter: What?!

Drax: They are both blue.

Peter: I can’t even with you right now.

## Chapter 6

Cull Obsidian enters the interrogation room.  Dr. Strange is suspended there.

Obsidian grabs the Eye of Agomotto with his cyborg hand, resisting its protective spell.  He crushes it in his hand and sees that their is no Time Stone.

Cull snarls at the magician and raises his axe into the air to crush him.  The Cloak of Levitation whips around his arms, holding him in the air.

Doctor Strange waves his hands, creating a sling ring underneath him that leads to the inside of a volcano.  The cloak of levitation lets go, causing Cull to fall through.  The portal closes at the last minute, chopping off both of his arms.  They, along with his axe, lay on the floor.

Stephen: You know I almost feel bad for him.

His cape deactivates the suspension device, and floats back onto its master's shoulders.

## Chapter 7

T’Challa, Steve, and Natasha walk to the edge of the barrier, where Thanos is standing.

Steve: So you’re Thanos.

Thanos: And you are Captain America.

Steve: You know me?

Thanos: I am cursed with knowledge.  And I will have that stone.

Natasha: That’s not gonna happen.

T’Challa: You are in Wakanda now. You will have nothing but dust and blood.

Thanos: I have blood to spare.

An army of Outriders, Sakaarans, and Chitauri teleport down to the surface.

T’Challa, Steve, Natasha run back towards the rest of the Wakandans.

Bucky: Did they surrender?

Steve: Not exactly.

T’Challa and the other Wakandans begin shouting yibambe.

T’Challa: Hold fast.

Bucky: What the hell?

Natasha: Looks like we pissed him off.

T’Challa: Ready Shields!

The Sakaarans and Chitauri hold back as the Outriders push themselves through the force field.

Okoye: They’re killing themselves.

They begin picking off the aliens who manage to penetrate the shield.

Sam: You see the teeth on those things?

Rhodes: Alright, back up, Sam. You’re gonna get your wings singed.

He flies over a section that has been breached and drops several explosives.

The Outriders begin circling around the barrier.

Sam: Cap, if these things circle the perimeter and get in behind us…There’s nothing between them and Vision.

Steve: Then we better keep ’em in front of us.

Okoye: How do we do that?

T’Challa: We open the barrier.

He puts his hand against his ear.

T’Challa: On my signal, open North-West Section Seventeen.

Wakandan Officer: Requesting confirmation, my king. You said open the barrier?

T’Challa: On my signal.

M’Baku: This will be the end of Wakanda.

Okoye: Then it will be the noblest ending in history.

Part of the force field dissolves.

T’Challa: Wakanda Forever!

He crosses his hands over his chest as his Black Panther helmet covers his face, leading the army as they run toward the barrier.

They begin fighting against a large swarm of outriders.

T’Challa: How much longer, Shuri?

Shuri: We’ve barely begun, brother.

T’Challa: You might want to pick up the pace.

Back by the now gone barrier, a Sakaaran approaches Thanos.

Sakaaran: The barrier has fallen.  We can attack.

Thanos: Bring me the stone.

Sakaaran: What will you do?

Thanos: Wait.

## Chapter 8

Gamora and Nebula are both locked in a cell.  The red energy of a laser gate blocking their escape radiates around them.

Gamora: This is all your fault.

Nebula: What?!  How is this my fault!

Gamora: You had to get yourself captured!  If you hadn’t been there I never would have had to tell father where the stone was!

Nebula: You got captured too!

Gamora: If you had been with us instead of trying to kill him alone you could have protected me!

Doctor Strange: You’re both at fault.

They turn to see the sorcerer supreme looking at them, the door unlocked.

Nebula: You’re one of the Wizards.

Gamora: Where is the Time Stone?

Stephen: Safe.  Now we need to head to earth.

Gamora: No, we need to get to Vormir.  That’s where the Soul Stone is.

Stephen: We are nowhere near Vormir.  Meanwhile, the Mind Stone, and your father, are both on Earth.

Nebula: Then we send someone else to Vormir.

Gamora: I have an idea.

## Chapter 9

Peter Quill is on Titan, scanning the planet while Drax stands near him.  Mantis is jumping around in the low gravity.

Peter: The hell happened to this planet? It’s eight degrees off its axis. Gravitational pull is all over the place.

Drax: This shall be our advantage.  Thanos is coming to us.  And when he arrives, I will cleave his head from his neck.

Gamora: Quill. Peter. Come in.

Peter: Gamora?

Gamora: Yes, Peter, it’s me.

Peter: I thought I lost you.

Nebula: You need to go to Earth!

Peter: What?!  You said he was on Titan!

Gamora: Well he’s on Earth now.  Fighting the Avengers.  We already contacted Rocket.  He’s heading to Vormir to get the Soul Stone, but we need to protect the Mind Stone.

She disconnects.

Peter Quill activates his mask.

Quill: Let’s go kill that son of a bitch.

## Chapter 10

A Q-Ship hovers above Vormir.  A bright ray of white energy shoots down from it, bringing Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight to the surface.  As they walk they hear something and turn around, pointing their blades towards the noise.

Red Skull: I assure you, you have nothing to fear from me.

Red Skull: Welcome Corvus, son of Thanos.  Proxima, daughter of Thanos.

Corvus: What are you?

Red Skull: Consider me a guide. To you, and to all who seek the Soul Stone.

Proxima: Then give it to us.

Red Skull: Come this way.

They walk to the top of the mountain and look down.

Red Skull: What you seek lies in front of you.  As does what you fear.

Proxima: We were told it required a sacrifice.

Red Skull: The stone demands a sacrifice. In order to take it, you must leave behind that which you love.  A soul for the soul.

Corvus: If I must die to get the stone, so be it.

Proxima: You will not be the one to fall.

Corvus: I must.  I cannot bear to see you die.

The bifrost opens up, sending Thor flying down towards them with his axe.

Thor: You both die now!

## Chapter 11

Meanwhile, the battle on Earth still rages on.  The Hulkbuster suit picks up an Outrider and throws it into the distance.  A Chitauri Gorilla rushes at him, and they begin fighting.

Bruce: This thing’s already kicked the crap out of the Hulk!

The Gorilla knocks him to the ground.

Bruce: Hulk. Hulk, I know you like making your entrance at the last second, well, this is it, man. This is the last, last second.

The Gorilla grabs one of the suits arms and tears it off.

Bruce: Ahhhhh!  Hulk!  Hulk!  HULK!

His skin turns green for a few seconds.

Hulk: NOOOO!!!

Bruce: Oh, screw you, you big green asshole! I'll do it myself!

He attaches the hulkbuster's detached hand onto the Chitauri and slams down on its controls.  The rockets from the glove send it flying into the air.

Bruce: See ya!

The Chitauri Gorilla crashes into the roof of the force field and disintegrates.

Bruce: Hulk, we got a lot to figure out pal.

Meanwhile, the other avengers are still fighting the rest of the army, but are getting overwhelmed.

Captain America gets dog piled by several outriders, while T’Challa and Bucky Barnes are working together to hold back a group of Sakaarans.

Suddenly a sling ring opens up inside the portal, and the Benatar crashes down from the sky, shooting out missiles at Thanos’ army.  The ship smashes into a Gorilla when it lands, killing it.  Star-Lord, Drax, and Mantis all rush out.  A second Sling Ring opens, and Dr. Strange, Nebula, and Gamora exit.

Peter: Where are you ya big grape!

## Chapter 12

As Thor rushes to the ground brandishing Stormbreaker, Groot falls to the ground while Rocket shoots at the Black Order with a gun.

Thor swings his axe out towards Proxima.  She blocks it with her spear and the two engage in a duel.  Rocket fires several lasers at Corvus, but he deflects the blasts with his Glaive.  One shot hits Rocket’s jet pack, causing him to fall to the ground.

Corvus walks towards him, raising his blade to kill him.  He suddenly gets punched in the back of the head by Groot.

Groot: I am Groot!

He runs towards Corvus and the two fight.

Rocket turns towards Red Skull, pointing this gun at him.

Rocket: Okay, I’m only going to ask this one time.  Where’s the Soul Stone?

Red Skull: What you seek lies in front of you.  As does what you fear.

Rocket: What the hell are you talking about?

Red Skull: The stone demands a sacrifice. In order to take it, you must leave behind that which you love.  A soul for the soul.

Rocket: Dammit, I don’t have time for this.

Rocket shoots him.  Red Skull’s lifeless body falls to the ground, a searing hole in his cloak.

Proxima Midnight gets shoved to the ground by Thor.  She tries to stand up, but he kicks her down.  Proxima fires the laser in her spear, shocking Thor.  She forces him back, but he walks towards her using Stormbreaker to block the shots.

Groot lunges towards Corvus, but the alien chops off his arms, leaving him defenseless.  Corvus then chops off Groot’s lower body.  Groot falls to the ground.

As Thor is about to behead Midnight, Corvus blocks the attack with his Glaive.

He slashes Thor at his arm, causing him to scream in pain.  Proxima swings her spear down at Thor along with Corvus.  Thor desperately tries to block the attack, but can’t hold off their combined might.    He sends lighting to blow both of them back, and tries to attack Proxima, but is stabbed in the chest by Corvus.  Thor screams.

Corvus: You’re an Asgardian, but you’re dying like any man.

He then shoves Thor to the ground, injured.

Rocket: Thor!

He shoots a barrage of lasers at Corvus.  The first one hits him in the shoulder, and the next ones hit him square in the chest.  Corvus falls to the ground by the cliffside.

Proxima: No!  She rushes to her husband, while Rocket runs over to Thor.

Proxima: Not again.  Please don’t die.

Corvus: This is the only way.  I love you, Proxima.

He pushes himself over the cliff, and falls.

As his body strikes the ground a storm begins.  A giant gaping hole of energy opens above Vormir.  A bright light envelopes Proxima, and she disappears.

## Chapter 13

Shuri is in her lab, working on fixing Vision while Wanda stands by.  The room suddenly shakes.  They look out the window to see Threshers, giant metal saws, crash through the trees and dig through the ground, shredding everything in their paths.

T’Challa: Fall back!  Fall back now!

Some groups of Threshers split into individual wheels, cutting down dozens of Wakandans.

War Machine flies over one alongside Falcon.

Rhodes: Focus fire on the left flank.

Sam: I’m doing it.

Their attacks do almost nothing against the steel.

A set of Threshers is heading directly towards Okoye and Black Widow.  They are about to be slashed to bits, but Wanda jumps into the battle and picks it up with her magic.  She then throws the saws at a large group of aliens, crushing them all.

Okoye: Why was she up there all this time?

A Sakaaran witnesses this rushes to Thanos.

Sakaaran: She’s on the field.

Thanos smiles and teleports away.

He appears inside of Shuri’s lab.

Several Dora Milaje run at him, but he shoves them all back with his fist.

Shuri begins frantically typing on her computer, but freezes in place.

Thanos walks towards her.

Shuri: You cannot do this.

Thanos: The universe will perish if I don’t.

Shuri: If you care about life, then you will let me save him.

She points to Vision.

Thanos: No tricks.

## Chapter 14

Rocket, a newly regrown Groot, and a dying Thor are on Vormir.

Rocket: Dammit! She got away!

Thor: Rabbit, listen to me.  Thanos must not get all of the stones.  Stop him.  Avenge me …

Thor dies.

Groot: I am Groot.

Rocket: I know.  I know.

Groot picks up Stormbreaker.  The axe’s handle reforms to his body.

Rocket: Let’s go kill Thanos.

## Chapter 15

Falcon: We need to get to Vision.

Okoye: I’m on it.

Natasha: Hey guys, we’ve got a spaceship coming in.

They all look into the air and see a Q-ship entering the barrier.

Bruce: I’m reading some sort of energy signal from inside that thing.

Steve: It’s a stone.  We can’t let it reach Thanos.

Rhodes: I’m on my way.

Bucky: The rest of us will head to Vision.

Doctor Strange opens up a sling ring and enters it.

He walks into Shuri’s lab, staring down Thanos.

Thanos: Tell me wizard, where is the Time Stone?

Stephen: I swore an oath to the stone.  I will never surrender it.

Thanos: I think you will soon realize…

The entire lab is enveloped in red energy, revealing that Vision is dead, the lab is destroyed, and Thanos is wielding the Mind Stone.

Thanos: That I have ways of changing your mind.

## Chapter 16

War Machine fires several tank missiles out of his shoulder at the Q-ship, managing to penetrate a hole into the side.

Before he can attack again, he is rammed into by a Chitauri Chariot.  The Chitauri attempts to stab Rhodes, but he shoots him with a repulsor beam.

Two more Chitauri riding it attack.  One grabs Rhodes from behind, while the other aims his blaster at him.  He ducks from the attack at the last second, chasing a shot from the second Chitauri to hit the one grabbing him.  Rhodes then tackles the Chitauri with the gun and throws him off the chariot.  The Chitauri shoots him one last time before falling to his death, damaging one of his repulsors on his foot.

Rhodes then falls over the edge and begins falling towards the battlefield.

Rhodes: Oh no, not this again.

At the last second he activates a parachute in the suit, landing safely.

Rhodes: Why couldn’t he have put that in the last suit?

Star-Lord flies through the air and tumbled into the Q-Ship, where he sees Proxima waiting.

She clubs him with her spear, knocking Quill to the ground.  Proxima tries to stab him, but he rolls out of the way.  He tries to shoot her, but she knocks both of his guns out of his hands.  She then shoots at him with her spear, but he flies into the air.

He throws a magnet at her, which rips the spear from her hands.  Proxima leaps into the air and kicks him, knocking Peter to the ground.  As he tries to stand up she kicks him.  Proxima picks up her spear and prepares to shoot him.  Something suddenly pierces through the back of her head, killing her.  Sam Wilson lands in the Q-ship, having shot and killed her.

Falcon: Need a hand?

Peter: Shut up.

He stands up, grabs his blasters, and walks over to the Soul Stone.  Quill is about to pick up the Infinity Stone, but, before he can, a Chitauri Leviathan crashes through the Q-ship, tearing it apart.  The Soul Stone falls to the ground as the Q-ship explodes.  Falcon and Peter both quickly fly out.

The leviathan swoops down towards them both.

Sam: Guys, we’ve lost the Soul Stone.  It’s somewhere on the battlefield.

Natasha: I’ll get it.  Someone needs to take out that Leviathan.

Rhodes: Can’t, I’m grounded.

Bruce: Don’t worry, I’ll do it. I’ve got experience with these things.

## Chapter 17

Doctor Strange activates his Tao Mandalas and rushes at Thanos.  The Titan fires a blast of energy from the mind stone, but Strange opens up a portal and enters, appearing behind Thanos.  As Thanos whirls around to hit Strange, the cloak of levitation whips around his neck.  Thanos grasps at the cloak, only to be hit from an energy blast by Strange.  The wizard raises out his hands and creates dozens of duplicates of himself, all surrounding Thanos.  Each duplicate lassos the alien with magical energy, holding him back.  Thanos clenches his fist, causing purple energy to destroy all of the duplicates and knock the real Strange back.  Thanos picks up the Cloak of Levitation and tears it in half.

Stephen: You did not want to do that.

Thanos hurls dozens of stones at him with the space stone, but the sorcerer creates a shield to block them.  While trying to hold off the rocks, Thanos sends another beam of energy from the mind stone straight towards Strange. But, he blocks the attack with a shield made out of the mirror dimension.

Strange opens the eye of Agomotto and green energy flies towards Thanos.

The Titan tries to block the attack with the infinity gauntlet, barely holding it back.

He looks at his weapon and sees the gold of the gauntlet beginning to corrode.

Thanos falls to his knees while trying to resist the attack, and is running out of energy.  Thanos sees a large chunk of debris behind Strange, and uses the space stone to hurl it towards Stephen.  He grunts in pain as it hits him in the back of the head, causing him to end the spell.

Thanos walks towards the injured Strange.

Thanos: You are full of tricks, wizard.

Thanos touches the Mind Stone to Doctor Strange’s forehead, causing his eyes to turn blue.

Thanos: The Time Stone, now.

## Chapter 18

Natasha: The Soul Stone is somewhere in that rubble.

Okoye sees a glint of orange in the vast pile of rubble.

Okoye: I see it!

Rogers: Someone get that thing to Maximoff.

Okoye runs towards it, but gets punched by a Chitauri Gorilla.

It growls and pounces at her, but she stabs it in the chest.  The attack does little to it, and he grabs her.  The Gorilla throws her onto the ground.  She lays unconscious on the battlefield as it lumbers towards her.  As it prepares to crush her with its bare fists, T’Challa kicks it in the face.  The Black Panther then stabs its chest with his claws.  It shrieks in pain before falling to the ground and dying.

Wanda flies towards the stone, but a Leviathan attacks her.  Dozens of Chitauri jump off from its sides and surround her.  She chuckles at them, and her hands begin glowing. Her eyes turn red as she tilts her head, causing the Chitauri to turn on each other, ending with them all being shot.

The Leviathan barrels down on her, but she suddenly freezes it.  As Wanda moves her hands, the Chitauri’s armor begins twisting around it, causing the beast to scream in pain.  As another Leviathan flies near it, she pushes them into one another, causing both to fall from the sky.

Meanwhile, the third Leviathan continues chasing Peter and Sam.  As they fly away from it, they turn on their backs and shoot at it.

It screams as bullets hit its face.

The Hulkbuster crashes into the monster and gets in a headlock with it.

Bruce pushes back at it with the repulsor boots, but the creature is gaining ground.

Banner: I don’t remember these things being so strong in New York.

## Chapter 19

Gamora, Nebula, Steve, and Bucky enter Shuri’s lab.

They see Thanos standing in the wreckage, holding the Time Stone.

Thanos: Fun isn’t something someone considers when destroying half of the universe.  But this … does put a smile on my face.

As he sets the stone in the gauntlet, green electricity surges through him.

Nebula rushes at him with her sword, but a sling ring opens up behind her.  The foot of Doctor Strange flies out of it, hitting her in the back of the head.  The mind-controlled wizard shoots magical beams of energy at her while exiting his portal.

Steve: Someone handle him.

Bucky shoots his light machine gun at Strange, but he blocks it with a shield.

Gamora charges at her father, but he teleports away with the Space Stone.

Gamora: No!

Strange creates a whip around Steve’s hand, and pulls him to the ground.

He then shoots magical energy out towards Gamora, Nebula, and Bucky, knocking them aside.

With Steve strangled, Strange walks towards the others.  He holds out his arm, causing black and red chains to clench around them.

Seeing his friend in trouble, Steve rolls over the edge of the mountain.  As he falls down, the whip attached to him pulls Strange too.  Both falling towards the forest, Captain America grabs onto Doctor Strange and pushes him underneath him.  They land onto the tree tops, hitting Strange in the back of the head.

He wakes up from the trance and looks around.

Stephen: He has the stone. Thanos has the Time Stone!

Rogers: Calm down for a second.  You okay?

Strange: We’re in the Endgame now.

## Chapter 20

Thanos teleports into the middle of the battlefield.  He looks out to see the vast destruction everywhere, and in the center - the Soul Stone, the final piece to his plan.

The Watcher: The event that starts our story will end it.

Natasha reaches the Soul Stone first and gives it to Wanda.

Natasha: You know what to do.

She combines her batons together into a long staff and runs towards Thanos.

Wanda faces the Soul Stone and activates her magic.

Natasha is the first to reach Thanos.  As she attacks him with her staff, he swats her attack away.  The spy falls to the ground.  M’Baku rushes at him next, but is blown back by the power stone.  Falcon swoops towards Thanos, but is covered in blue energy.  Wilson passes through the alien and crashes to the ground.  As he tries to stand up, the energy dissipates, causing one of his wings to get stuck in the ground.

Drax: Thanos!

He rushes towards his family’s killer and tries to stab him with his knives.  Drax stabs the Titan with one of the daggers in the face, causing minor damage. Thanos picks up Drax and throws him.  He crashes into a tree.

Meanwhile, Wanda begins pouring her energy into destroying the stone.  Red floods from her hands and attacks the crystal.

While this happens, Rhodes shoots at Thanos with several missiles.  Thanos crushes the missiles with the Space Stone, and then knocks War Machine down with it.  He flinches in pain as something hits him from behind in the shoulder.  He turns to see Bucky shooting at him.  He counters the attack with a beam from the Mind Stone.  An explosion from it knocks him, Gamora, and Nebula to the ground.

## Chapter 21

In the air, Banner is still trying to grapple the Chitauri Leviathan.  Star Lord takes a magnet and throws it at the alien, pulling off several of its metal plates.  It shrieks as Quill begins shooting it in the Leviathan’s now exposed flesh.  Distracted by the pain, Bruce gets the upper hand.

Peter dives down into the battlefield and shoots at Thanos.  As he gets close, Thanos punches him in the face.  Peter falls face first into the dirt.

Wanda looks as he walks closer to her and hastens her magic. Thanos approaches her. Captain America runs to him. He tries to punch Thanos, but he blocks the attack with the Infinity Gauntlet.  Steve grabs the gauntlet and begins trying to tear it off.  Thanos looks in shock at Rogers' pure strength, but shoves him to the ground.

Wanda sees this and uses one of her hands to push back Thanos while she focuses on destroying the Soul Stone with the other. Thanos struggles to resist her power, but is slowly making his way to her.  Cracks begin to form on the Soul Stone. Using all of her energy, she causes the Soul Stone to shatter into dozens of pieces.

In a final attempt to kill Thanos, Bruce shoves the Leviathan towards Thanos, sending the massive beast hurtling at the alien. Thanos holds out a single finger, glowing with the Power Stone’s energy.  As the Leviathan touches the Stone, it instantly disintegrates in a massive explosion.

Wanda looks at Thanos and sees the Mind Stone in his gauntlet.

Wanda: Vision … you killed him.

She begins crying.

Thanos: I understand, my child. Better than anyone.

As he walks closer to her, she snarls at him.

Wanda: You could never.

Thanos reaches down to stroke her hair.

Thanos: Today, I lost more than you can know. But now is no time to mourn. Now ... is no time at all.

He uses the Time Stone, causing a circle of green runes to surround his hand.  The Soul Stone magically reforms together and floats to his hand.

Thanos: I am sorry to have killed him. But there was no other way.

As he sets the final Infinity Stone into his gauntlet, a rainbow wave of electricity surges through him.  He grunts in pain as he unlocks the power of every stone.

He snaps his fingers.

## Chapter 22

Thanos teleports away, disappearing completely.

Wanda: No!

She shoots all of her magic at the black and blue cloud of smoke, but it does nothing.

Steve walks over to her.

Steve: Wanda, where’d he go?

Natasha: Steve …

She turns to dust.

Mantis: Something is happening.

Black Panther walks up to Okoye.

T’Challa: Come, Okoye. This is no place to die.

As he grabs her wrist, she turns to dust.  He watches in shock as his own body disappears.

Peter Quill: Aww man.

He turns to dust too.

By the mountain, Strange closes his eyes as he dies too.

Rhodes suddenly collapses onto the ground.

Steve: Rhodes, what’s wrong?

He takes off War Machine’s helmet to see that his suit is empty.

Falcon manages to tear off his jet pack, but disintegrates.

Steve, Drax, Mantis, Bruce, and M’Baku surround the grieving Wanda and look around.

Steve: Oh God.

## Epilogue

In a rustic house on a terraced slope with a scarecrow made of discarded armor, Thanos sits down and watches the sun rise.

The Watcher: This may seem like inconsequential events affecting the greater ultimate story, but rest assured, the change in reality…

Wanda screams as energy flows out of her. It begins forming a yellow shape until Vision appears. A red dome of energy shoots out around her, creating Westview.

Watcher: May doom the multiverse.