Forever and Always

Chapter 15

     "Do you even know where he is?" Everyone chased after Carol as she sped towards the exit of the building.

      "I know people who might." The confidence in her voice didn't take away from the fact that Carol might know people.

       "Might isn't good enough," Clara blurted out. "You don't have enough time to talk to people who might know where he could be." Carol, however, was being stubborn. She wanted to do this on her own.

       "Well it's worth a try."

       "Don't bother." Everyone went silent and turned towards the doorway. There stood the blue girl. Even her voice sounded very robotic. She was leaning against the doorframe, picking at dirt underneath her nails. "I can tell you where Thanos is." She took her attention off her fingernails and looked at everyone with her black eyes. "Thanos spent a long time trying to perfect me. And when he worked, he talked about his great plan. I'd ask him 'where would we go once his plan was complete?'" She worked with Thanos? Was she some robot created by Thanos or something like that? But even with all her mechanical attachments, she seemed more like a living thing than a complex machine. Even Vision had his robot aspects of him, and he was the most realistic moving robot she had ever seen. "His answer was always the same: 'to The Garden.'" The Garden, Clara thought. For someone like him, that sounds pretty lame.

        "Cute," Rhodey commented after the blue girl's sort of horrifying story. "Thanos has a retirement plan."

         "So where is The Garden, exactly?" Clara looked at the blue girl, seeing if she would respond, but Rocket answered instead.

         "Thanos snapped his fingers and Earth became ground zero for a power surge of cosmic proportions until two days ago..." Rocket pulled out a little tablet, and he tapped his claws on the screen. A few seconds after, a hologram, similar to the technology they had been using appeared. The hologram depicted a planet, and on the planet, a wave of some kind of energy surrounded the planet like a giant tidal wave. Nat bent down to examine the hologram.

        "He used the stones again."

"We have a location on him, finally, should we make a move?" Clara looked around the room, everyone looked on board, but also a little hesitant. Who wouldn't he though, they clearly got creamed last time they faced him.

"Hey, hey, we'd be going in short-handed, you know?" Bruce had a point. We had literally every super person last time we faced him, and he didn't even have all the stones until the very end. This time we'd be going into his territory while he is already in possession with all the stones, and we lost almost everyone.

"Well, we know how he uses the stones now." She pointed out. "We could finally plan out a decent plan instead of charging at him hopelessly."

"So let's go get him. Use them to bring everyone back." Carol sounded set on leaving right now. Doing this right now. Was it really that easy though.

"Just like that?" Rhodey also sounded a bit unsure. It was definitely easier said than done. They would have to get the gauntlet off his hand, then someone, we have no idea who, would have to snap their fingers, and god knows how much damage can be done with that much power. Clara wasn't even sure how it affected Thanos.

"Yeah, just like that." Steve didn't seem tot think of all the factors though. He just saw this chance as a way to win. Make up for our past mistake.

"But there is a lot more to consider. We can't just knock on Thanos's door and be like 'hey, mind if we use the stones now and use it to reverse every you've done?' He's gonna put up some kind of fight."