Beyla ~ (Loki)

33.

I'm not sure how many days it has been. Months? Feels like it. Both Tony and Nebula force me to eat what little food we have left. We will run out of oxygen by the morning. I sit silently with my back against the wall awaiting death. I seem to always be waiting for death. I close my eyes resting, "I'm on my way Loki."

A vast bluish nebula illuminates the space surrounding the ship. I walk to the front of the ship, seeing the illuminating light. She gets under the ship, forcing us to move, forcing us to earth. I turn the dagger in my hand, only remembering him.

~

A bathroom in the Avengers compound. Steve Rogers holding a blade, having just shaved off his beard. He sighs and looks into a side mirror. The mirror suddenly starts shaking, slowly at first, and then severely. The remaining Avengers run to the yard. Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Bruce Banner, and James Rhodes walking out looking at something, the Benatar carried by Carol Danvers as she lands the spacecraft. The landing gears deploy as they touch down. The entry hatch opens, and Tony, Beyla, and Nebula walk out, Tony being supported by Nebula and Beyla. Steve runs to Tony to help him stand up. Tony grips Steve's arm as he joins him.

Tony shakes, "Couldn't stop him." Steve shakes his head, "Neither could I." I see Thor in the back as he trails out of the building. "Beyla." He rushes towards me, scooping me in his arms. "You're pale." I push past him. "Beyla, you're boned. You need to-" "GO AWAY." I growl pushing stingers into his arm. "Ouch!" He glares as I walk away. I sit at the back table glaring at my fingers. Why am I still alive?

Rocket sits down with Nebula and takes her hand, both silently mourning their losses. In the Avengers Compound. The heroes are sitting in a living room area. Tony is sitting at a table, getting the blood for healing. A holographic casualty report lists the names and faces of those lost to the Decimation. "It's been 23 days since Thanos came to Earth."

"World governments are in pieces. The parts that are still working are trying to take a census. And it looks like he did... he did exactly what he said he was gonna do. Thanos wiped out fifty percent, of all living creatures." "Where is he?" I mumble from my seat catching their attention. "We don't know. He just opened a portal and walked through. We've been hunting Thanos for three weeks now. Deep Space scans, and satellites, and we got nothing. Tony, Beyla, you fought him."

Tony shakes his head, "Who told you that? I didn't fight him. No, he wiped my face with a planet while the Bleecker Street Magician gave away the stone. That's what happened. There was no fight. He's unbeatable."

Steve turns to me, "Did he give you any clues, any coordinates, anything?" I scoff, "He gave me the privilege of life. I get to live on without the ones I love." I stab Loki's dagger into the table. Thor stares at the green craftsmen's work in wonder.

Tony points to the woman who saved us. "You're new blood. Bunch of tired old mules!" Tony walks right up to Steve's face, his voice hushing down to a venomous whisper. "I got nothing for you, Cap! I got no coordinates, no clues, no strategies, no options. Zero. Zip. Nada. No trust. Liar." After a moment, Tony rips his Arc Reactor from his chest and shoves it into Steve's hand. "Here, take this. You find him, and you put that on. You hide." Tony falls to the ground. Steve is by his side and everyone is starting to gather. Tony falls into a heap, unconscious.

Carol Danvers stands, stomping past me, "Where are you going?" "To kill Thanos." I pick up my dagger and stand to follow her. Steve and Natasha share a look before walking after her. "Hey, you know, we usually work as a team here, and between you and I, morale's a little fragile." "We realize up there is more your territory, but this is our fight too."

Nebula speaks from the back, "Don't bother. I can tell you where Thanos is. Thanos spent a long time trying to perfect me. And when he worked, he talked about his great plan. Even disassembled, I wanted to please him. I'd ask "where would we go once his plan was complete?". His answer was always the same: "To the Garden."

"That's cute, Thanos has a retirement plan." I stare at Nebula, "Where is he?" Rocket stands on the table pulling out a holographic map. "When Thanos snapped his fingers, Earth became ground zero for a power surge of ridiculously cosmic proportions. No one's ever seen anything like it... Until two days ago." A hologram of a planet pops up, with a shockwave visibly traversing the surface. "On this planet."

"Thanos is there."

"He used the stones again."
"Hey, hey, hey. We'd be going in short-handed, you know."
"So let's get him... Use them to bring everyone back." I look at everyone as they set the plan. "And what? Die trying?"

Nat nods her head, "Even if there's a small chance that we can undo this... I mean we owe it to everyone who's not in this room to try." "If we do this, how do we know it's gonna end any differently than it did before?"

Carol crosses her arms, "Because before, you didn't have me." "Hey, new girl, everyone here is about that superhero life. And if you don't mind my asking, where the hell have you been all this time?" "There are a lot of other planets in the universe. And unfortunately, they didn't have you guys." Thor, who has been eating a snack behind all this time, stands up and walks over to Carol. She looks behind at him. He holds his hand up and catches Stormbreaker as it flies over to him, missing Carol by inches. But Carol doesn't even flinch, instead, she smiles at the God of Thunder. Thor nods, "I like this one."

~

The ship jumps forward into a wormhole, everyone holding onto their seats for dear life. The ship slows down, and the ship hovers in orbit of the planet seen in the hologram previously. Carol hovers in front of the Benatar. "I'll head down for recon." A shot of the passengers inside the ship preparing for the impending confrontation.

Thor grabs my hand giving me a squeeze. "This will work, Beyla." I tear my hand away, "It's not going to bring him back."

Carol approaches the ship. "No satellites, no ships, no armies, no ground defenses of any kind. It's just him."

Carol flies through the roof, knocking Thanos down, and grabbing his neck. Bruce in the Hulkbuster armor bursts from the ground, and grabs Thanos' Infinity Gauntlet arm. I release bees commanding them to go under the gauntlet and sting his hand to shreds. Thor flies in and slices off the Infinity Gauntlet. Rhodey flies down with Rocket and aims guns on Thanos' head. Captain America walks in his Winter Soldier Outfit, with Natasha right behind him, staring murderously at Thanos. Rocket goes over to the sliced-off Infinity Gauntlet and kicks it over, as everyone realizes that there are no stones in it. Steve demands, "Where are they?"

Thanos groans out, "The universe required correction. After that, the stones served no purpose, beyond temptation." Bruce screams punching Thanos, "You murdered trillions!"

"You should be grateful!"

I lean down pressing the dagger to his throat, "Where are the Stones?" "Gone. Reduced to atoms. I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me. But the work is done. It always will be." Thanos sits himself a little straighter. Glaring into my eyes, "I am... inevitable."

"We have to tear this place apart, he-he-he has to be lying." Nebelua, "My father is many things. A liar is not one of them." "Ah, thank you, daughter. Perhaps I treated you too harshly." Thor's face filled with rage as he raises to summon Stormbreaker, and before anyone can stop him, slices Thanos' head off. Thanos' limp body falls to the floor. I wipe off some of the blood spatter on my cheek.

Rocket looks over Thanos' head as it rolls. "What... What did you do?" Thor looks broken, realizing what he has done. "I went for the head." I stumble back following Thor as he walked out of the shed. We have no purpose anymore.