The New Avenger

Infinity War Part 7

Thanos arrives on Titan, finding only fresh debris from Ebony Maw's ship

Strange was sitting on what may have been plaza steps once "Oh, yeah...you're much more of a 'Thanos.'"

"I take it, the Maw is dead. This day extracts a heavy toll. Still, he accomplished his mission."

"You may regret that. He brought you face-to-face with the Master of the Mystic Arts."

"And where do you think he brought you?"

Star-Lord crouches behind wreckage with his weapon ready, behind Thanos and to his left; Peter peeks from above and behind Doctor Strange.

"Let me guess. Your home?"

Thanos smiling reminiscently. "It was. And it was beautiful."

Thanos curls his gauntleted fist and activates the Reality Stone to show Strange Titan before it was destroyed -- green lawns, intact buildings, water-filled ponds, strolling citizens, the jack-like structures hovering and connected to the ground-based buildings with beams of energy.

"Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, and not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution."

"Genocide."

"But at random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman. And what I predicted came to pass."

He relaxes his fist; the Stone stops glowing and the illusion fades back into the true state of Titan.

"Congratulations. You're a prophet." Strange says sarcastically

'I'm a survivor."

"Who wants to murder trillions."

"With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers, and they would all cease to exist; I call that... mercy."

Strange stands. "And then what?"

"I finally rest...and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. "

"The hardest choices require the strongest wills." Strange says

He summons his Mandalas, entering a fighting pose. 

"I think you'll find our will...equal...to yours."

"Ours?" Thanos asks

He looks up to a see a chunk of wreckage descending rapidly on him, too rapidly to react -- and powered by Tony and Astrid. He is subsequently crushed by it.

"Piece of cake, Quill." Tony says as he flies in

"Yeah, if your goal was to get him mad!" Star Lord says

The wreckage on top of Thanos erupts in purple, as he bellows in rage. He turns the hovering fragments into a flock of bats with the Reality Stone and swarms Tony and Astrid with them, driving him back through the ruins.

Peter webs his eyes, and swings in to kick him in the face at the same time that Drax leaps from cover, blades in both hands, to knee-slide behind Thanos and try for a tendon slide across the back of the Titan's knee.

Strange jumps through a portal and summons a sword of golden energy, dueling with Thanos while Drax attacks similarly on his other side. Thanos punches Drax through a ruined wall, then shatters the blade with one hand and tears the web from his eyes. He advances on Strange and kicks at him, but Strange's shield absorbs the damage -- the Cloak lifts him free of the ground.

Astrid summons the rocks on the ground and shoots them towards Thanos. She flies towards him and punches his face and kicks him. Thanos throws her to the side.