United, we fall.
Nebula stares at her sister, they were in the future. Somewhere this Gamora and the whole Sanctuary II weren't supposed to be in. Gamora stares back.
Nebula knows that look. That look of curiosity. She remembered seeing that look when Gamora first looked at her new sword, asking Thanos what does it do because they all knew that if Thanos were to give just a plain sword, it wouldn't be Thanos.
"Tell me something," Gamora speaks, "In the future. What becomes of you and me?"
Memories drip into her head. Their first time being freed, Nebula had spent a lot of time trying to track down Gamora to kill her and prove to Thanos that she was the best. That she killed the fiercest woman in the galaxy. She wanted to decapitate her and show the head to Thanos. That Thanos did cheer for the wrong daughter and should've cheered for Nebula instead. And she nearly did many times. It was until that Gamora consistently saved her so many times that Nebula decided that taking her anger out on Gamora wasn't where the anger should go. It should've gone to killing the abusive fucker she once called father.
Nebula speaks truthfully, "I tried to kill you. Several times."
Gamora rolls her eyes.
"But eventually, we become friends. We become sisters." Nebula finished and it was as if that line spoke to Gamora. Gamora holds her hand out and Nebula looks up, confused.
"Come on," Gamora says with a hesitant smile, "We can stop him."
Nebula takes her hand.
To say that Kate is terrified was an understatement. She's underground (most likely in the sewer system since it smells), alone with the infinity gauntlet, the lighting not even helping as it was a neon red. Kate quickly becomes paranoid and breathes in. She was robbed before and wouldn't want to go through it again.
"Cap?" She asks through her intercom and received nothing in return.
She hears steps.
Kate grabs a flashlight arrow that he made just for jokes but now looks like Kate was using it. She pulls the arrow back and lets it fly. The light shines throughout flying and Kate sees... she sees the monsters that could be under the kid's bed.
"Oops." Kate says before the monsters go ahead and run, her feet reacting before her mind as they run wherever they wished.
Kate runs and runs as she can hear the monsters getting closer and closer. She grabs the explosive arrows and plants them randomly on the bars before running backward and blowing them up using one arrow.
It knocked out some but not most as Kate flies towards the end of her run and looks around hurriedly, trying to think of a solution as she can hear the monsters and sense their hot breaths from meters away.
"This is the hook arrow thing," Clint says with a smile, "You aim, fire, and woosh! You're being pulled!"
"You make everything an arrow, Clint. Why?"
"You never know when you're gonna need it."
And Kate was immensely grateful as Kate aims to the top of the building, and fires before being pulled upwards. The monsters not chasing after her thankfully. She ends up closer to the land, coughing and clutching her side in pain. "That," She breathes, "Is a workout."
Kate sees Nebula, "Don't I know you?"
"Father, I have the stones." Nebula says.
"You have what?" Kate asks, standing up quickly preparing for a fight but wasn't prepared for the true Nebula and a green woman. She was slender, green skin, her hair maroon and black, her eyes are analyzing the situation as to see which ways are to neutralize and which preferable method she can kill.
"Stop." The green woman orders.
"You're betraying us?" Not-Nebula asked.
"You don't have to do this." Nebula offered.
"But..." Not-Nebula looks around, "I am this."
"No, you're not." The green woman said gently but also firmly.
"You've seen what we become." Nebula says to Not-Nebula.
"Nebula, listen to her."
"You can change."
"He won't let me."
Without warning, Nebula shoots Not-Nebula right in the head. Not-Nebula falls and Nebula only looks at the younger version of her on the floor. Not by Gamora's hand but by her own.
Kate grabs the infinity gauntlet, "Hi, I'm Kate."
"What's he been doing?" Peter asked Thor.
"Absolutely nothing." Thor spits.
"Where're the stones?" Steve asked.
Peter gestures to the dirt, "Under all of this. All I know is that he doesn't have it."
"So, we keep it that way." Steve concludes.
"You do know it's a trap, right?"
"Don't care much. I've been through worse if I'm being honest," Peter replies with a smug smile, "I'd share my trauma's but then Thanos would know them all."
Thor nods and smirks, "Good. Just as long we are all in agreement," Thor brings his hands out and both Mjnoir and Stormbreaker go to his hands, his civilian clothing fading away to armor, his hair braided and in ponytails, "Let's kill him properly this time."
They all walk over to Thanos. The madman that caused them pain. He looked happy if anything. He was sitting down on the rubble, his double sided-sword on the floor, golden armor covering him except the head. He looked somewhat younger and shorter than what Peter remembered but he has to remind himself of this threat. Thanos is more than the occasional burglary or assault.
He's the man that killed half of most planets he set foot on, his justification being mercy and not running out of resources. He killed Loki and murdered his daughter for the stones. He doesn't let anything stand in his way. Not even his loved ones.
They were feet away from the madman when he finally speaks, "You could not live with your own failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me. I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you've shown me that's impossible. And as long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist."
Peter shrugs, swallowing his fear, "We're all stubborn."
" I'm thankful. Because now, I know what I must do," Thanos stands and puts on his helmet while grabbing his double-sided sword, "I will shred this universe down to its last atom. And then...With the stones you've collected for me, create a new one. Teeming with life, but knows not what it has lost but only what it has been given. A grateful universe."
Peter tries not to imagine his kid sobbing saying he wasn't feeling so good and then they both disappear along with the memories and fade into nothingness.
"Born out of blood." Steve simply says.
"They'll never know it. Because you won't be alive to tell them."
And with that being said, they all begin to fight. Peter, Thor, and Steve going straight at The Mad Titan.
"Canopy! Canopy! Canopy!" Rhodey shouts as he falls out the damaged suit and goes to get Rocket who was close to drowning. With his arms, he grabs the nearest crowbar and lifts it to get the raccoon out.
"THANKS!" Rocket shouts as he goes on top of Rhodey and Rhodey covers him.
"RHODEY!" He can Bruce shout and they both sigh in relief as Rhodey examines for possible ways out but couldn't because the water was getting them all.
"Mayday! MAYDAY!" Rhodey shouts through his probably damaged intercom, "DOES ANYBODY COPY! MAYDAY!"
"I COPY!" He can hear Scott Lang and for once Rhodey was happy to hear Scott on his intercom, "Wait! I'm here! I'm here, can you hear me?"
Bruce holds onto a structure while Rocket tries to keep Rhodey upward. The place smelled of sea and garbage and was filled with so much metal and titanium. It was so dark that Rhodey could mistake the water for an onyx black. Rhodey couldn't see a way out without a little bit of light. But the water was still rising regardless. Rhodey's legs weren't working and Rocket can't support the dead weight. It'd pull them both down.
"I'll see you on the other side." Rhodey declares.
"Don't give up!" Scott yells, "I'm coming!"
It was up until Rocket yells, "YOUR SUIT! YOUR SUIT! USE IT"
Rhodey's eyes widened, "YOU'RE A GENIUS ROCKET!"
"When am I not?"
Rocket helps Rhodey swim to his damaged suit and Rhodey pressed a few buttons before FRIDAY says, "Passcode."
"FUCKING PASSWORD." Rhodey yells as the water was reaching his chin and was Rocket had to jump on his head to maintain air. From the water, he can hear the suit. And the suit grabs him by the legs and goes up from there.
"Oh yeah." Rocket mutters with a smirk.
"THOR!" Peter shouts as the Iron legs stretch out towards Thanos, "HIT ME!"
Peter can hear both hammers hit together and send lightning to Peter's suit which absorbs it and uses it on Thanos by the Iron legs and his web-shooters.
It only started to go bad when Thor hit Stormbreaker and mjnoir but Thanos was quick and made use of Peter as a shield. As he was hit with a mjnoir, Peter was thrown to the side and clutches his abdomen with a pained wince.
"Get up, Peter." He can hear Karen say and with struggle, he gets up slowly but surely.
He lifts his head to see Thor on the floor with Thanos on top putting Stormbreaker into his chest and for a minute, Peter didn't know what to do.
Help Thor by using himself or help Thor by doing the unthinkable.
Turns out, someone tried to do the second option as Mjlnoir starts to move. Thor wasn't summoning the hammer, neither was Thanos. Peter wasn't.
So, who-?
He sees the hammer fly to Thanos despite not going into someone's hands but once the hammer hits Thanos on the head, it flies back to someone he expected to lift the hammer.
Steve Rogers sure did look smug carrying both Mjnoir and the shield but who can blame him?
And Thor looked beyond amazed, shouting, "I KNEW IT!" Being proud of his friend who was carrying Mjnoir with ease.
Steve charges at Thanos, the Mjlnor spinning rapidly as he uppercuts the Mad Titan and proceeds to commit combo after combo, throwing both his shield and Mjnoir at Thanos before summoning lightning and hitting him with a lightning blast.
Peter only stares in pure awe as Steve effectively used both weapons but it wasn't long before Thanos gains the upper hand and stabs him in the leg and knocks Mjnoir out of Steve's hands.
Thanos was giving everything to Steve and Peter only had the same two choices and after seeing Mjnoir in action?
He goes and helps Steve with his iron legs and for a few seconds, the attention wasn't on Steve but on Peter. They go and fight, Peter dodging and Thanos punching.
Peter kicks the titan a few times before Thanos grabs Peter and looks at him, "I can squeeze your neck and watch your eyes bleed." He says to Peter.
Peter blows a raspberry and due to that, he was thrown to the left of Steve who still didn't recover enough.
Thanos took advantage and nearly beats him to a pulp. The shield was broken by the 3rd or 4th swing of the double-sided sword and Thanos threw Steve like a ragdoll.
"In all my years of conquest...violence..." Thanos speaks to Steve, "Slaughter... It was never personal. But I'll tell you now... what I'm about to do to your stubborn, annoying little planet... I'm gonna enjoy it. Very, very much."
And even with the broken shield and almost being the last man on this battlefield, Steve stands. It wasn't perfect as he stumbled but he still stood.
He stood as an army emerged from the opposing side. Peter can see the outriders that Steve once talked about, the Chitauri, and the children of Thanos.
Steve stood against everything and it took him now to admire that.
He was mostly slumped, as if he wasn't enjoying this. But he fixed his posture and stood against the odds, determined. Steve tightens his wound using the shield, and Peter could tell he was prepared to fight against an entire army.
One man versus the universe.
It wasn't until, "Peter." Karen greets Peter.
Peter looks in his Spider mask, "What's up Karen?"
"On your left." He can hear someone faintly say.
"Black Widow and Iron Man are in the vicinity," She says, "Lettings suits go free."
And as Peter and Steve stare in awe at the golden portals, he sees one army. The Dora. Being led by the Black Panther and Okoye with Shuri.
The Falcon enters the scene just above them. He sees Doctor Strange, Mantis, Quill, Drax, but no sign of Tony. Valkyrie, the Asgardians, Bucky, Groot, even the Scarlet Witch joins in as well.
"R.E.S.C.U.E is in tow." Karen alerts and to that, Pepper Potts herself, lands in front of him, looking at the opposing side with daggers in her eyes.
Just after he greets Pepper, he turns and sees every hero he'd ever seen together in one place. At the same time.
He also saw Iron Man.
But he didn't see Spider-Man yet. Peter bites his lip, the most nervous he'd ever been and he even fought the Mad Titan himself and he had his family back but not in the way he expects.
"Is that everyone?" He can hear Dr. Strange asks.
"What?!" A tired voice replies, "You wanted more?"
He indeed got more when Scott Lang emerged from the rubble and gently puts his hand out for Bruce, Rhodey, and Rocket to come out. Rocket on the shoulder of Rhodey.
Every superhero is currently standing against Thanos.
And Peter wouldn't have it any other way.
He was next to Steve and Thor while Iron Man was on top of them leading the air and Black Widow had to be somewhere. He watches the opposite army as Steve grabbed Mjnoir.
He looks at them as well, "AVENGERS!" Steve shouts.
Everyone got into their fighting position.
Everything was silent. Just for that minute. As if whatever deity wanted to hear what Steve had to say.
And he said it. Barely a whisper, he says, "...Assemble."
And everyone charges.