Book of One-Sh!ts

[Avengers: Infinity War] Sodom and Gomorrah

There was a cry in the universe that day, a loud shrieking chilworthy cry, and it proved that Thanos had won. Every living creature sobbed at the piles of ash next to it. Everyone knew that there was no hope. There would never be any hope again, so long as Thanos had the gauntlet.

What they didn't realize is that hope would come to them in the most mysterious way.

Yes, Thanos had won. Yes, people were dead. However, people died all the time. There was no stopping death, only advancing it. Death herself could feel the imbalance in the universe. She knew that something atrocious had happened. She looked at the massive increase in souls pouring into the underworld. She was furious, madder than she'd ever been in a long time.

There was an order to the way things took place. There was a simple sequence of events to how people were supposed to die. Mass destruction was not one of them. The entire universe was not supposed to be wiped out like this.

If there was one thing that Death hated more than Life, it was when idiots took her job into their own hands. There is a natural order; Thanos disrupted that order when he destroyed half of the universe's population. Thanos would have to suffer the consequences. He would have to pay dearly for what he'd done. There would be no excuses. There would be no hope. There would only be punishment worthy enough to fit the crime he had committed. Death would ensure this fact.

Thanos smiled to his achievements as he sat staring at the planet he'd supposedly 'saved' along with the universe. He looked at the golden gauntlet in his hand and grinned knowing that he'd won.

If only he knew just how terribly he lost.

The beautiful scenery around him transformed into a decaying mass of destruction. Everything vanished into thin air piece by piece and at the center of it all was a mass of shadows. A figure in the shape of a woman appeared. Her fury made itself evident with the ground she walked across. Each step she took the ground beneath her decayed and vanished. Thanos couldn't imagine what would face him. He couldn't have imagined that he'd pissed off the very entity that took life away.

The woman walked closer and closer to Thanos. He was too mystified to move. This powerful man, who had just destroyed half of the entire living entities across the universe, was frozen stiff before the sheer amount of power walking towards him.

"Hello, Sodom," the woman spoke. The voice sent chills down his spine. He couldn't think of the right things to say. Thanos hadn't begged for mercy a day in his life, but he was beginning to think now would be a good time to start.

"I'm sure I don't need to tell you who I am, do I? We are very well acquainted as it is," the woman's piercing gaze didn't waver, she only seemed to get more and more furious as the one-sided conversation continued, "I am Death. I am the very entity that has had to collect and collect the souls of the millions, billions, trillions upon trillions of souls that you have brutally destroyed. I'm the one who cleans up Life's messes and I've let you go about your business all this time. I thought it wouldn't get out of hand. I liked you, Sodom, I really did," Death paused for a moment to maintain her composure. She was about to lose it and kill him in an instant, but that simply wouldn't do.

"I thought we had an arrangement. I thought you would kill the beings I didn't really like. I don't care about how people die, as long as it's within certain limits. But look at you, Sodom, look, you've gone and made a huge mess that I have to clean up," Death pointed her finger at Thano's face. Her nail was long and black like the air around her. Her voice was calm but cruel. The nail hadn't even brushed up against his nose but Thanos knew it was dangerous. He was sitting before the thing everyone feared.