The Cloak of Levitation sets Doctor Strange down on a relatively stable outcrop as Thanos extricates himself from rubble. The Sorcerer Supreme makes a few passes with his hands, producing the familiar golden magic filigree circles, and slams his hands down on the rock before him, invoking the Seven Suns of Cinnibus as a lightning-like effect of immense heat jumping from rock to rock until it reaches Thanos, sending him flying - but he makes use of the erratic gravity to keep control and fire back a blast from the Power Stone. Strange blocks the purple plume with a wall of Mirror Dimension, which he then pushes back at Thanos. It shatters around the Titan, who suctions the magic into a miniature black hole with the Space Stone, volleying it back at Strange.
Just in time, Strange raises a shield and changes the dark energy into a swarm of aqua butterflies which return to their master. Before Thanos can counterattack again, Strange levitates and invokes the Images of Ikonn, giving him arms like a Hindu diety before dozens of Strange replications rush away, forming a circular wall around a snarling Thanos. They call cast magical cords, wrapping around Thanos's torso, arms and hands; he struggles to close his gauntleted fist, and uses the Soul and Power Stones to discover the real Strange among the many copies, blowing the duplicates away and sending the singular Strange reeling. Reality and Space pull Strange forward, Thanos grasping him by the throat once in range. Strange grabs futilely at Thanos's hand.
"You're full of tricks, wizard."
"No!" Thanos reaches for the Eye of Agamotto. He snaps the Eye off its chain.
"Yet you never once used your greatest weapon." Thanos crushed it in his hands.
"A fake." Thanos got extremely angry. He throws Strange hard enough that Strange's head hits stone and he passes out. Back in Heaven's direction she was still laying on a pile of rubble passed out. Most of her wounds had healed. Almost simultaneously, a red and gold device slaps into the palm of the Infinity Gauntlet, bracing the fingers open; and a red and gold Avenger makes a fast and hard entrance.
"You throw another moon at me or hurt the women I love, and I'm gonna to lose it."
"Stark"
"You know me?"
"I do. You're not the only one cursed with knowledge."
"My only curse is you." Tony shot a rocket out of his suit at Thanos.
"Come on!" Thanos screamed at Tony. Peter saw Heaven laying on the ground basically lifeless.
"Whoa. Hey Heaven. Wake up. Please" He roller her over and started CPR. Not long Heaven jolted up and took a deep breath of air.
"Peter?" Peter hug Heaven as tight as he could.
"Oh thank god. Your okay. I though we had lost you." Heaven smiled at him.
"I'm not that easy to kill." Peter helped her up and they went off to battle.
Back with Thanos and Tony.
The rockets all explode on target, momentarily shrouding Thanos in smoke. Before it clears, Iron Man piledrives into Thanos horizontally, using his single super-jet boot configuration. As he bounces off, he flips and sticks his landing, immediately reconfiguring his boots into ground clamps for stability and his gloves into rocket-driven battering rams, punching Thanos into a ruined wall behind him. Thanos shakes it off quickly, reaches forward and tears Tony's helmet off, revealing Tony's surprised expression before the suit recovers automatically and re-forms his head protection.
The Titan makes use of the fractional delay and punches back hard, sending Tony sliding meters away, giving Thanos time to rip the brace device off the gauntlet. He immediately uses the Power Stone to stream furiously lambent energy at his opponent, who forms a shield to kneel behind just as instantly, getting pushed back even further by the incredible force. Tony slides out from behind the shield, letting the angled energy push him away for a faster start, and whips back to Thanos full thrusters; he kicks at the Titan with his left foot, turning the boot into a ground clamp at the same time to pin the gauntlet, and keeps twisting while his left glove becomes a ram again, slamming into Thanos's face, cutting his cheek.
"All that for a drop of blood." He smiles briefly punches Iron Man, sending him pinwheeling, then starts beating him with his fists. Tony attempts to block the blows with his forearms, but Thanos is relentless, picking him up by the helmet and blasting his midsection with the Power Stone. The gaps in nanite coverage are now gaping, as the armor loses the ability to recover from the intensity and extent of the damage. Tony lands hard from the Power blast, struggles to one knee and fires his right hand repulsor at the inexorable Thanos; the beam is easily deflected by the gauntlet. He gets to both feet as the suit tries to complete repairs, adding the beam from his left hand as well. Thanos walks right up to him, and backhands the incomplete helmet completely off Tony's head. He crosses his arms to block a blow from Thanos's gauntlet, and has his left hand caught over his head. In desperation, he forms what's left of his right glove into a shortsword, which is also easily caught by Thanos, snapping it off clean and driving it through Tony's left side.
"TONY!" Heaven screamed but Peter pulled her back before she could do anything. She was sitting there crying uncontrollably. The fight is over. Thanos walks Tony back until he sits, and places the gauntlet almost comfortingly on Tony's head.
"You have my respect, Stark. When I'm done, half of humanity will still be alive. I hope they remember you." Tony was just a little distracted with the pain, and blood drooling out of his mouth, and compromised breathing. Thanos raised the gauntlet, closing his fist, all four Stones glowing.
"Stop! Spare his life... and I will give you the stone." Strange said sitting up the best he could after getting his ass kicked.
"No tricks." Strange shakes his head as Thanos points all four Stones at him instead.
"Don't..!" Tony said looking at Strange. Strange reaches up and plucks the Time Stone out of its hiding place in the stars. He opens his hand, the scars on his fingers and their inherent trembling particularly obvious now, and the Stone floats to Thanos's bare hand. Strange watches him intently, as he takes the Stone and drops it into the thumb setting, the energy pulse making the Titan wince.
"One to go." An energy blast hits the gauntlet right in the empty Mind Stone setting, and Thanos grimaces in surprise. Quill came in screaming in incoherent rage, helmet up, firing with both hands and flying straight for Thanos. Thanos doesn't even bother responding to the assault - he just leaves. Quill flies through where Thanos had been and crashes, rolling several times.
"Where is he?!" Quill screamed. Tony stitches up his stab wound as well as he can with his suit functions; he has no breath for answers. Heaven walked over to Tony as best as she could.
"Did we just lose?" Quill said with fear in his voice. Tony looked at Strange.
"Why did you do that?"
"We're in the Endgame now."
On Titan, the remaining members of the Guardians and Avengers collect themselves - Mantis props up Star-Lord, Spider-Man helps Tony to his feet, Drax helped Heaven to her feet, and Nebula manage to limp over on her own.
"Something... is... happening." Mantis said as she turned to dust. We all looked around and watched as Drax, Quill, and Strange all started to turn to dust a disappear.
"Tony, there was no other way." Strange said right before he faded. Then Peter felt it.
"Mr. Stark? I don't feel so good..." Tony rushed over and caught him.
"You're all right." Tony said his voice was shaky. Heaven looked at Peter and she started to cry.
"I don't know what's- I don't know what's happening. I don't-" Peter started to cry in Tony's arms.
"I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go, Mr. Stark, please. Please, I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go..." There was a short silence before Peter spoke again. Heaven walked over to him and Tony. She place a hand on Tony's shoulder to help him calm down.
"I'm sorry." Was all Peter could say before he disappeared. I could see Tony's heart break when he watched him disappear. Tony had always thought of Peter as a son. And now he's gone.
"He did it." Nebula said referring to Thanos winning. Heaven helped Tony up.
"So what now?" She said.
"We go home."
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Hello Darlings! Thank you for reading! This will be the end of book 1. I will be writing book 2 here soon so please be patient! Thank you all for you amazing love and support! I love you, 3000 my Darlings!!! 😘🖤
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FanfictionMy name is Heaven Raven. I never expected to go from working as a slave to hydra to working along side the avengers. I never expected to go through what I went through. And I certainly never expected to fall in love with the son of the man who actua...
