Tony shouted under his breath.
Everyone sprang into action instantly!
Thor's Thunderfire Battleaxe,
Captain America's shield,
Captain Marvel's photon energy,
and everyone else's attacks instantly pinned the unprepared Thanos to the ground.
They used every restraint they could think of!
"The gauntlet! Where's the Infinity Gauntlet?!"
Tony roared anxiously as he searched Thanos from head to toe and scoured the cottage.
But he found nothing.
In the end, Natasha spotted it first.
On a flat rock by the hut's entrance, she found something.
It was nothing like the world-destroying divine artifact known as the Infinity Gauntlet!
It was a battered chunk of scrap metal that barely resembled a glove!
There was no trace of any stones on it, and even its energy fluctuations were so weak they were almost nonexistent.
"Th... what's this?"
War Machine Rhodey pointed his gun at the thing,
unable to believe it.
Thanos, pinned to the ground, did not struggle.
He merely looked at them with a calm gaze chilling enough to freeze the heart.
Slowly, he spoke in a hoarse, weary voice:
"You... came for this?"
"Where are the stones?! Where are the Infinity Stones?!"
Thor roared, pressing his battleaxe against Thanos's throat.
The corner of Thanos's mouth twitched.
The burned half of his face looked even more grotesque, yet his eyes remained unnaturally calm.
There was even a trace of mockery in them:
"Gone. Reduced to atoms."
"To ensure... the fruits of victory..."
He tilted his head slightly and glanced at the faintly glowing crops in the vegetable patch.
As though those were his greatest masterpiece.
"They... fulfilled their purpose. To continue existing... would only tempt... new conflicts."
"So... I used their last remaining power... to destroy themselves."
Boom!
The news struck like the heaviest funeral bell.
It rang in every Avenger's heart!
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