A Titanic Tussle

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Thanos exited a portal to the barren wasteland known as Titan. He looked around at his surroundings, marveling at how far his civilization had fallen. He would have continued to gaze upon the landscape had you not spoken up.

Spider-Man: Oh yeah.

He turned his head and found Spider-Man sitting on a rock waiting for his arrival.

Spider-Man: You look like a Thanos. 

Thanos: I take it the Maw and Supergiant are dead.

Spider-Man: Yup. I don't suppose you care that much though. 

Thanos: This day extracts a heavy toll. Still, they accomplished their mission. 

Spider-Man: You're probably going to regret that, Barney. They've brought you face-to-face with someone extremely powerful. 

The rest of the team hid and listened in on the conversation.

Thanos: And where do you think they brought you?

Spider-Man: I'm assuming your home. 

Thanos: It was.

He clenched his fist, causing the Reality Stone to glow. The cosmic rock manifested its power by causing the illusion of a utopian city to wipe over reality.

Thanos: And it was beautiful.

Spider-Man: Wow. You're not wrong. So how did everything go to shit then? 

Thanos: Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution. 

Spider-Man: Genocide? Your solution to overpopulation was genocide?

Thanos: But random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman. And what I predicted came to pass.

He released the illusion, causing reality to return to normal with a wipe transition. 

Spider-Man: Congratulations, you're a prophet. 

Thanos: I'm a survivor.

Spider-Man: Who uses his trauma to justify killing trillions.

Thanos: With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers.

He raised his right hand and snapped it to get his point across.

Thanos: They would all cease to exist. I call that mercy.

Spider-Man: Yeah, I bet the guy upstairs would love that. Then what? Serial killers don't usually stop after just one batch. 

Thanos: I would finally rest... and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills.

Spider-Man: You are really sold on this, huh. Well then, I think you'll find our will equal to yours. 

Thanos: Our?

Spider-Man: Did you really think I was talking about myself earlier?

A large clump of debris hurtles towards Thanos. Iron Man is there, boosting the downwards motion of the scrapheap. Clenching his left fist, Thanos attempts to activate the Power Stone just seconds before he gets crushed. Once dust clouds were kicked up by the impact, a satisfied Tony relayed the "good" news to Quill.

Iron Man: Piece of cake, Quill.

Spider-Man: That's not gonna hold him.

You said while standing up, ready for the upcoming conflict. 

Quill: The kid's right. What are you trying to do, piss him off?

Quill activated his mask before flying into the battlefield. Fragments flew off of the monolith pinning Thanos to the ground. The Mad Titan rose, using the Power Stone to shatter the structure before activating the Reality Stone and transmuting the fragments. They became some sort of flying creature that swarmed Tony. He flew away, hoping to get the creatures off of his back.

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