Earth, Wakanda.
Seconds before Thanos arrived through the Space Stone, Vision suddenly opened his eyes on the operating table. "He's here."
"Who?" Shuri asked in confusion.
"Thanos." Vision immediately sat up. Due to the surgery, he was not in great condition, as though he had just recovered from a serious illness. "I need to get there now."
"But the Mind Stone hasn't been removed yet." Shuri pointed at the yellow crystal on his forehead. "You're weak right now, extremely weak. Are you sure you want to walk into a trap?"
"There's no time, Shuri.
He's too powerful. They can't stop him." Vision said anxiously. "If I get there now, I might still improve our chances of winning.
But if he finds us first, we won't even have the strength to fight back. The outcome won't change either way."
"I'm going too," Mantis said.
"You?" Shuri raised a brow, doubtful of her abilities.
Mantis walked over to Shuri and pressed a hand against her forehead. "Sleep!"
Shuri naturally fell onto the operating table and drifted into sleep.
"Let's go!"
Vision nodded and flew out through the window with her.
A blue portal appeared in the middle of the battlefield, and a battered Thanos stepped out.
Nick Fury, who had been monitoring the battle from the Helicarrier, was the first to notice Thanos. The moment he saw the four Infinity Stones—red, blue, orange, and red—on the gauntlet of Thanos's left hand, his nerves began screaming wildly. "He's here."
"All units, attention. Thanos has arrived.
He's in the center of the battlefield."
"My master." Ebony Maw shook off Strange and used telekinesis to carry himself over on a wooden post, arriving before Thanos.
He froze when he saw the bloody wounds on Thanos's body, his tattered clothes, and the exhaustion he could not