Life Dies In The End

Chapter 47

"What do we do now?" Stark's voice broke me from my thoughts as the moon continued to rain down, hitting my forcefield and bouncing off.

"We stop him from getting that stone, no matter what." I paused, having to focus on strengthening my shield for a moment. "If he gets that stone, everyone on Earth won't stand a chance. Unless there's some heavy hitters, you guys gained in the past few years."

"I mean there's Vision, but he's not that big into fighting." Stark mumbled, causing me to send him a confused look. "The red guy, you met him."

"Not the point." I snapped, as I noticed Strange fighting Thanos and losing. "We gotta get to him."

"Alright," Stark sighed as his suit grew a giant blaster. "Open the shield and I'll destroy that final piece of rubble."

Stark gestured to the final piece of the moon hurtling towards us. I gave one last look to Stark before I lowered the barrier. A beam headed for the rubble, before hitting it and causing it to shatter into smaller pieces.

I glanced back towards Strange. Thanos had him by his neck as he pulled the necklace from Strange's neck. Thanos crushed the necklace and dropped its pieces to the ground, decoving that it no longer contained the time stone, something we had all collectively decided on. Thanos tossed Strange to the side as Stark and I headed towards him. Stark deployed some of his nanobots, they surrounded Thanos's gauntlet, preventing him from killing Strange. Stark landed in front of Thanos as I reached behind him.

"You throw another moon at us, and I'm gonna lose it." Stark spoke, looking at Thanos.

"Stark." Thanos glanced back at me. "Eir Odinsdottir."

"You know us?" I asked as I took a few steps towards Thanos.

"I do." Thanos looked back to Stark. "You're not the only ones cursed with knowledge."

"Our only curse is you." Stark snapped back, before deploying bombs towards Thanos.

Thanos used the gauntlet to block the blasts as I rushed towards him, summoning two swords to my hands. Thanos turned quickly, using the reality stone to turn both of my swords into snakes. I cursed as they bit into my arms.

I quickly ripped both of them off of me and went to face Thanos again, only to be pulled into the ground partially. The reality stone was starting to get on my nerves. With one of my legs stuck in the ground, I was left watching as Thanos and Stark fought.

Stark held his ground for a while, managing to land a blow and finally draw a drop of blood from the Titan. It didn't stay like that for long. Thanos gained the upper hand, destroying most of Stark's suit in the process. Thanos tossed Stark a few meters away, causing a curse to escape my lips. Thanos would kill him at this rate.

I looked down at my trapped leg knowing the only way out. I mumbled a few words as I summoned a dagger to my hand. This was going to hurt like a bitch. I sighed, glancing up at Stark as Thanos stalked towards him. I had to do this or half the universe would die.

I drove the blade into my leg, a curse escaping my lips as I forced myself through the pain and dug the blade deeper. The blade hit the bone as I finished cutting the flesh and tendons in my leg. Both of which were trying to grow back. I needed to move quickly otherwise, I'd have to do it all over again. I couldn't cut through the bone with a blade, I'd need to break the bone. I glanced back towards Stark as he tried to hold back Thanos from pushing him back to the ground. Moving quickly, I snapped the bone in my leg, causing a screamed curse to escape my lips.

I summoned a sword to my hand as I used it to push myself to my foot. It would take longer to grow back, but the blood had already stopped pouring from my leg so that's a good thing, I guess.

I looked up at Stark as Thanos broke a blade from off his suit and drove it into his side. I cursed as Stark crumpled to his knees. I went to move only to hear Strange's voice fill the air, stopping Thanos from killing Stark.

"Stop." Strange groaned as he sat up leaning his back against a debris. "Spare his life and I will give you the stone."

"No tricks?" Thanos looked towards Strange, shocked at his willingness to hand over the stone.

Strange shook his head no as Thanos pointed his gauntlet towards him. What the hell, Strange? One man's life for trillions. That didn't seem like much of a choice to me. If Stark dying meant Thanos didn't win, I'd allow it in a heartbeat, so would Stark.

"Don't." Stark protested, feeling the same as me.

Strange didn't answer as he raised his hand into the air and summoned the time stone to his hand. Thanos extended his hand to Strange, waiting for the stone. Strange sent the stone one last look before, using his magic to send it to Thanos. Taking the stone, Thanos placed it in his gauntlet. The power surged through his body as he smirked.

"One to go." Thanos smiled, but it was cut short by two blasts landing on his gauntlet.

Quill flew towards Thanos, only to have Thanos disappear through a portal. Quill rolled to the ground, anger coursing through his veins. He sprung to his feet quickly and glanced around rapidly for Thanos.

"Where is he?" Quill's eyes locked on Stark as he gave him a defeated look, causing realization to cross Quill's face. "Did we just lose?"

"Why would you do that?" Stark looked towards Strange, clearly lost on his actions.

"We're in the endgame now." Strange answered, not giving anymore clues on why he did it.

I sighed as I crumpled to the ground, my leg already growing bone and flesh. Thanos would be going to Earth now and with what Stark said, the red man, Vision, if he really wasn't a fighter, that meant the mind stone wasn't safe. Thanos would get all of them. The only shot we had left was if the people with Vision were stronger than 5 infinity stones. The only way I could help them was by giving them a warning.

Loki, we failed. He's coming for the mind stone. Brother, whatever happens, don't die, please. 

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