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Ch. 49 Losing

~Y/n pov~

Thanos panted, "All that for a drop of blood."

He smiles briefly punches Tony , 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' gauntlet, and has his left hand caught over his head. In desperation, he forms what's left of his right glove into a short-sword, which is also easily caught by Thanos, snapping it off clean and driving it through Tony's left side. 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." Thanos tells him as he lets go, straightens and steps back, "I hope they remember you."

Tony's just a little distracted with the pain, and blood drooling out of his mouth, and compromised breathing.

Thanos raises the gauntlet, closing his fist, all four Stones glowing

Dr. Strange suddenly yells, "Stop!"

He sits up, sounding entirely damaged, "Spare his life... and I will give you the stone."

" No tricks?" Thanos asked.

"Don't..! " Tony pleaded.

Dr. 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' bare hand. Dr. Strange watches him intently, as he takes the Stone and drops it into the thumb setting, the energy pulse making the Titan wince.

Thanos grins, "One to go."

An energy blast hits the gauntlet right in the empty Mind Stone setting, and Thanos grimaces in surprise.

Quill screams 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. Star-Lord 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.

Quill frowns, "Did we just lose?"

"Why would you do that?" Tony asked Dr. Strange.

Dr. Strange strange howevee ignores the question, "We're in the Endgame now."

~*~

On Titan, the remaining members of the Guardians and Avengers collect themselves -- Mantis props up Star-Lord, Peter  helps Tony to his feet, Drax and Nebula manage to limp over on their own.

"Something... is... happening." Mantis disintegrates into ashes.

Drax started to dissolve, "Quill?"

Quill stares in horror.

Tony stares panicked at the slowly fading Quill, "Steady, Quill."

I looked around shocked at everyones dissappearence.

" Aw, man." Quill also gets disintegrated into ashes.

Dr. Strange calmly turned to Tony, "Tony, there was no other way."

I feel my hand starting to fade away, "What's happening?"

I let out a cry as Peter catches me, "No."

He yells out in pain.

"I love you!" I tell him as I fade away.

~*~

~Tony's pov~

Everyone was slowly disappearing , we just lost Y/n.

I turn and see Peter start fading.

" Mr. Stark? I don't feel so good..." Peter stumbles into my arms.

I try satying calm but am panicking, "You're all right."

Peter cried out, "I don't know what's -- I don't know what's happening. I don't--" Peter starts crying, "I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go, Mr. Stark, please. Please, I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go..."

I prop Peter carefully against a rock and sit next to him.

There is a short silence before Peter speaks again, "I'm sorry."

Peter fades into my arms.

I couldn't control it anymore, sobs racked my body and I fell forwards.

I lost the kid... Both of them..

" He did it." Nebula said.

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