"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 warcraft!" 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.
" 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. Universal scales tip toward balance because of your sacrifice. Smile..." Maw says. Corvus Glaive stabs one of the lingering Asgardians. ".for even in death, you have become the Children of Thanos."
Loki stands with the Black Order. He watches Thanos, shrouded in darkness and light, looking out the large window.
"I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right...yet to fail, nonetheless." Thanos says as he lifts Thor by the neck of his breastplate, the latter struggling feebly. "It's frightening. Turn 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." Thanos holds up his hand to reveal the Infinity Gauntlet, which already hosts the violet Power Stone. Now being held by Thanos with one huge hand wrapping around Thor's head; blood drools from his mouth
"You talk too much." Thor states
"The Tesseract, or your brother's head. I assume you have a preference." Thanos states
"Oh, I do. Kill away!" Loki answers. Thanos' face expresses surprise briefly before presses the gauntlet to Thor's left temple. The Power Stone glows brightly. Thor screams hoarsely. Loki starts to lose his cool demeanor almost immediately as Thor suffers, and breaks after only a few moments. "ALL RIGHT, STOP!"
"We don't have the Tesseract. It was destroyed on Asgard." Thor states. Loki glances at Thor like he knows something he doesn't. He lifts his right hand into the air and the Tesseract reveals itself. "You...really are the worst brother." While holding the Tesseract out to Thanos and advancing
"I assure you, brother...the sun will shine on us again. And we will have my dearest daughter back!" Loki says
"Your optimism is misplaced, Asgardian." Thanos says
"Well, for one thing, I'm not Asgardian." Loki states "And for another...we have a Hulk." Thanos looks to his right just as a green and very angry mass slams into him. Loki dives for Thor, pulling both of them out of the way as the Tesseract skitters across the floor, and the Hulk charges Thanos. The Hulk pummels Thanos, forcing him backwards and shoving him into the wall of the ship. Maw stops Cull Obsidian from interfering.
"Let him have his fun." Maw said. Thanos pries the Hulk's hands away; an expression of surprise and fear crosses his green face. Before he has the chance to throw more punches at him, The Mad Titan hits him in the neck, and quickly turns the tide of the battle in his favor. After several hard blows (and a knee to the face), Thanos picks up the Hulk and slams him to the deck, defeated. Thor slams a metal bar across Thanos' back to no avail. He is then kicked across the deck by Thanos and is promptly bound in metal debris by Ebony Maw to keep him from interfering further.
"That was a mistake." Thanos says He borrows Corvus's glaive and stabs Heimdall through the heart, twisting the blade in the wound.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Thor yells "You're going to die for that!" Ebony May seals Thor's mouth shut with a pair of metal braces. He kneels before Thanos, offering up the Tesseract
"My humble personage...bows before your grandeur." Maw says "No other being has ever had the might, nay the nobility, to wield not one, but two Infinity Stones. "The universe lies within your grasp." Thanos crushes the tesseract to reveal a blue stone and places it on the gauntlet. Thanos is momentarily rocked by the surge of energy that pulses as the stone seats in its setting.
"There are two more Stones on Earth. Find them, my children, and bring them to me on Titan." Thanos states
"If I might...interject... if you're going to Earth, you might want a guide. I do have a bit of...experience in that arena." Loki offered
" If you consider failure experience." Thanos snapped
"I consider experience, experience. Almighty Thanos, I...Loki...Prince of Asgard......odinson... The rightful King of Jotunheim... God of Mischief...o hereby pledge to you..." Thor squints and notices a dagger materializing in Loki's hand. "...my undying fidelity." Loki braces himself, thrusts upward with lightning speed and attempts to skewer The Mad Titan's neck, but is frozen in place by the Space Stone's power before the point could strike home.
""Undying?" You should choose your words more carefully." Thanos twists the dagger out of Loki's hand with his right hand, then takes hold of Loki's neck with the gauntlet and lifts him to eye level. Loki struggles, kicking, as his throat is squeezed. He makes eye contact with Thor before he increases his force on Loki's neck. Loki eventually gives up on trying to set himself free.
"you...will never be...a god." Loki gasps. Thanos crushes Loki's neck, killing him.
"NO!" Thor yells. He walks over and drops Loki's body in front of Thor.
"No resurrections this time. Where is his daughter?" Thanos raises the gauntlet, sends violet Power fire through the remains of the Statesman, and uses the Space Stone to teleport away with the Black Order.
"No...Loki...." Thor is released from his bonds. He crawls over to Loki's body -- which, unlike in The Dark World, has not returned to its Jotun form -- and lays his head down on Loki's chest, shedding tears for all that he has lost. The ship explodes.
Little did Thanos know who he had to defeat...........
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