[Radio transmission sound]
"This is the Asgardian refugee vessel Statesman. We are under assault, I repeat, we are under assault - The engines are dead, life support failing. Requesting aid from any vessel within range. We are 22 jump points out of Asgard. [The voice becomes more desperate and pleading] Our crew is made up of Asgardian families, we have very few soldiers here. This is not a warcraft. I repeat this is not a warcraft!"
"Refugee's vessel? What happened?" - Sam asked a bit urgently.
"Ragnarok." - Thor and Loki answered in union.
"The prophesied fall of Asgard." - Vision explained.
[The ship is shown being hit by missiles.]
[Inside the ship, Ebony Maw walks among the bodies of dead Asgardians. Heimdall, badly wounded, reaches out as if he would stop Maw as he passes, but lacks the strength. Maw steps over them with no mind as he speaks, as if they were scattered pieces of dirty clothing on a bedroom floor.]
Thor choked in something between a scream and a sob. Loki looks several shades paler. Bruce is looking at the scene in shock.
"Hear me, and rejoice. You have had the privilege of being saved by the Great Titan... You may think this is suffering... no. It is salvation."
"And he says he's saving those people." - said Wanda, sounding horrified.
"Universal scales tip toward balance because of your sacrifice. Smile..." [Corvus Glaive stabs one of the lingering Asgardians] "For even in death, you have become Children of Thanos."
Gamora positively shudders with that sentence.
"Yeah, yeah, you'll smile when I kill you dead." - Quill mutters beside her trying to calm her down.
[Loki stands with the Black Order. He watches Thanos]
A lot of glares are sent in his way.
"I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right... yet to fail, nonetheless."
Tony sucks a breath, as he remembers Ultron and how it was supposed to protect the world.
[He lifts Thor by the neck of his breastplate, the latter struggling feebly.]
"It's frightening. Turns the legs to jelly. I ask you, to what end? Dread it... run from it... destiny arrives all the same. And now, it's here. Or should I say... I am."
Seeing the big enemy for the first time should feel different, but Tony only feels empty, years of hard work and sacrifice leading to that very moment.
[Thanos holds up his hand to reveal the Infinity Gauntlet, which already hosts the violet Power Stone.]
"If he has the stone, and it was on Xandar..." - Gamora starts. "He decimated the planet to get it." - Nebula finishes. The other Guardians look sad at the news.
[Thor is now being held by Thanos with one huge hand wrapping around his head; blood drools from his mouth]
"Mr. Thor, are you okay?" - Peter asks the god.
"Do not worry, child." - Thor tries to reassure him.
[Thor chokes.] "You talk too much."
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Is this what the future holds?
FanficWould something change if they knew about the future? Or would the result be the same? That, only fate knows... Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, only this story.
