Day 30. Endgame p3

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Author's pov
"So what you're saying is Vision is more than just the stone?" Sam asked and Bruce thought for a moment.

"What I'm saying is if you take the stone out Vision will still be there. Might even be the best parts of him," Bruce replied.

"How did you add the stone into Vision's head?" Shuri asked.

"We had to attach each neuron
none sequentially," Tony answered and Pete and Shuri tilted their heads.

"Why didn't you just reprogram the
synopsis to work collectively?" Peter and Shuri asked together.

"Because... we didn't think of it," Bruce said and Shuri smiled.

"I'm sure you did your best," she replied cooly and Pete giggled.

"Can you do it?" Wanda asked and Shuri blinked, "Yes but there are more than two trillion neurons here. One misalignment could cause a cascade of circuit failures. It would take time," Shuri replied.

"How long?" Steve asked and Shuri shrugged and said, "As long as you can give me."

"We don't have long Thanos could show up any second," Gamora pointed out and Strange blinked.

"Time is not a problem I can put the princess in a bubble where milliseconds pass and she feels like it's been hours, our problem is locating the soul stone," Strange said.

"Our problem isn't locating it, it's dealing with the cost that comes with finding the soul stone," Gamora answered.

"No one knows where soul is though," Mister pointed out and Gamora shrugged.

"I do, I found the map to the soul stone when I was helping my father look for the thing, I found the map and burned it to ashes," Gamora replied.

"Wait, wait, wait, I know I'm not the only one super confused here," Clint said and Sam, Wanda, Pietro, Bucky, Rhodey, Steve, Nat, Scott, Hope, Tony, Bruce, Vision and Shuri nodded.

"What are infinty stones? Who is Thanos? What is going on and can someone please tell that tree he has introduced himself a million times, we know his name is Groot!" Sam said and Strange rolled his eyes.

"Groot is his language, his vocabulary is limited to the words 'I' 'am' and 'Groot', he did say 'we' once though," Rocket explained.

"Oh, and the other questions?" Sam asked.

"At the dawn of time there were six elemental christals scattered across the universe each controlling a different aspect of the universe," Wong said.

"Space," Pete said and motioned to Tesseract.

"Reality," Wong continued and motioned to the Aether.

"Power," Mister continued and motioned to the orb, touching it to make the glass invisible to let everyone see the purple stone.

"Soul," Gamora said and Wong made an illusion of the soul stone appear.

"Mind," Nebula said and pointed to Vision's head.

"And time," Strange pointed out opening the eye of Agamotto for everyone to see the time stone.

"Thanos wants all six to be able to wipe out half of the universe simply by snapping his fingers," Nebula told everyone and it gave people chills.

"Ok but who is Thanos?" Sam asked and Nebula and Gamora shared a look.

"The two of us are his daughters," they chorused and everyone froze.

"You're children of Thanos?" Mister asked.

"Adopted children of that idiot and we've been on the run for quite some time," Gamora answered and Mister and Thor smirked at them pointing out the adopted thing like they always do.

"We don't have time for this we need to get the soul stone, and the princess needs to start with removing the mind from Vision's head," Strange said impatiently so Shuri nodded and Pete lead her to one of their labs.

"The thing with the soul stone is that we will need to loose that which we love," Gamora told them and everyone froze.

Shuri started the to work.

The heroes started to think of a plan or a loop hole...

Meanwhile

Thanos's pov
"I sense most of the stones are in the same location on Earth," one of my children reply.

Then we shall fetch the soul stone and then ambush those ones together.

"Yes sir," the child of mine, who's name I keep forgetting answers and we take off flying to Vormir as I recently discovered that soul is in there.

We land and and a figure wearing a cloak says, "Welcome, Thanos, son of A'lars. Ebony Maw son of Thanos."

I feel my hand go to cover my favourite son.

Where is the soul stone?

"You should know, it extracts a great cost," the figure says.

I am prepared.

"We all think that at first, we are all wrong," the figure answers and leads us to a cliff.

How is it you know this place so well?

"A lifetime ago, I, too wanted the stones. Held the Tesseract but it cast me out, sentenced to guide others to a treasure I can not possess," Red Skull answers.

"What you seek lies below, as does what you fear," Red Skull says. "Soul wants to see that the holder has a deep understanding of loss."

"To gain the soul stone, you must loose that which you love. A soul for a soul," Red Skull says.

"Sire, what now?" Maw asks and I feel tears leak accross my face.

"Sire, why are you crying?" he asks and I look sadly apon him.

"Those tears are for you," Red Skull tells my favourite son as I pick him up and throw him off the cliff.

Tears ever present.

Tears still present as I open my eyes with the soul stone in my hand and I place it on my gauntlet and get up to find the next five that are somehow bundled together.

Ready the ships, we're going to Earth.

"Yes sir," my two other son's reply as I sit and wait.

ETA to land on Earth on a field near the stones: 3 hours.

(An: so Thanos loves balance. I can't imagine him having a favourie child. Instead a favourie daughter and a favourite son, in order to keep his beloved balance. The reason I picked Maw was because he is the only one of Thanos's sons we see with Thanos oftenly and Maw says he never once failed Thanos. So Maw.)

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