Reversing the Past

Thor, who had already lost an eye and whose Mjolnir had long been crushed by the Death Goddess Hela, grabbed a steel bar from the ground and swung it fiercely at Thanos's back.

Even at full strength, he had struggled to shake Thanos. In his current battered state, it was even more impossible.

"Is this the last hope you have to resist? How utterly pathetic."

Thanos turned to look at Thor and sent him flying more than ten meters with a punch. He slammed viciously into a broken metal pillar, his body sinking into it.

Ebony Maw casually curled a finger, using Psychokinesis to twist the metal wreckage around Thor into a cage that trapped him, leaving him unable to move.

"Arghhh!"

Thor struggled furiously, but under Ebony Maw's psychic suppression, he could only watch helplessly as Thanos turned and seized Loki by the throat.

Not far away, the dying Heimdall looked at Thor, imprisoned within Ebony Maw's metal cage, then at Loki, whose throat was clutched by Thanos and who could barely resist. At last, his blood-stained gaze settled on the unconscious Hulk lying unattended nearby.

"Father of the Gods... let dark magic flow through my body once more..." Using the last trace of divine power within him, Heimdall summoned the Bifrost and sent the unconscious Hulk away.

Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight immediately noticed Heimdall's little move, but neither dared touch the Bifrost beam, which possessed enough power to destroy a planet.

By the time Thanos and the others reacted, Hulk had already vanished into the far reaches of the universe within the Bifrost, his whereabouts unknown.

Thanos looked toward the direction where the rainbow beam had disappeared. Carrying Loki, he walked over to Heimdall, looked down at him lying on the ground, and sighed helplessly.

"That was