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✮ avengers: iw - 1 ✮

[Marvel Opening Credits]

[radio transmission sound]

Asgardian PA: 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. 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!

"What...?" Thor says in disbelief.

"That can't be possible," Bruce says as he shakes his head.

[Inside the ship, Ebony Maw walks among the bodies of dead Asgardians. He steps over them as he speaks with no mind, as if they were scattered pieces of dirty clothing on a bedroom floor.]

Ebony Maw: 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... For even in death, you have become Children of Thanos.

"Thanos?" Loki whispers. Thor notices his sister's reaction to the name and wraps an arm around her shoulders. Loki doesn't pull away.

[Loki is seen with the Black Order. She watches Thanos.]

Thanos: [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. [grabs Thor by the head.] It's frightening. Turns the legs to jelly. But 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 Power Stone.]

Thor: [exhaustedly spitting blood from his mouth] You talk too much.

Thanos: [to Loki] The Tesseract, or your brother's head. I assume you have a preference.

Loki: Oh, I do. Kill away!

[Thanos sets the gauntlet on Thor's face. The red ring glows brightly. Thor suffers in pain.]

Loki: [cringing and looking away from her brother's pain and has just thought for a few seconds] ALRIGHT, STOP!

Thor: We don't have the Tesseract. It was destroyed on Asgard.

[Loki glances at Thor like she knows something he doesn't. She lifts her right hand into the air and the Tesseract reveals itself]

Thor: You really are the worst, sister.

"I should have left it on Asgard for it to be destroyed," Loki says guiltily.

Loki: [While holding the Tesseract out to Thanos and advancing] I assure you, brother, the Sun will shine on us again.

Thanos: Your optimism is misplaced, Asgardian.

Loki: Well, for one thing: I'm not Asgardian. And for another... We have a Hulk.

"That's my line!" Tony exclaims.

[Loki dives out of the way as The Hulk emerges and fights Thanos. Punches are exchanged and Thanos is forced into the wall of the ship. Ebony Maw stops Cull Obsidian from interfering.]

Ebony Maw: Let him have his fun.

[Thanos defeats Hulk and dumps him to the ground. Thor tries to interfere but Ebony Maw binds him to the ground.]

"What?" Bruce says as he stares at the screen in shock.

Heimdall: Allfathers... let the dark magic flow through me one last... time.