Her golden hair drifted in the wind, and her blue eyes were as calm as two mirrors.
There was not a single scratch on her black jacket or jeans, not even a speck of dust.
She looked as though she had just stepped out of a store, rather than having just crushed an energy sphere condensed from the Power Stone with her bare hand.
Android 18's right hand was still clenched into a fist. She slowly spread her fingers and looked at her palm.
A thin red mark lay there, caused by the residual heat from compressing the energy sphere. But it was only red; there was no injury.
Thanos looked at her.
His body tensed slightly in that instant. It was not fear, but instinct.
His battle instincts told him that the being before him was unlike any opponent he had faced before.
Not Carol, not Tony, not Steve, not anyone.
This was an entirely different level.
"Who are you?" Thanos asked.
Android 18 raised her head, her blue eyes fixed on him.
"You don't need to know," she said.
Thanos clenched his left hand, the one wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.
The Power Stone and Soul Stone lit up simultaneously, purple and orange light gathering around his fist.
He did not intend to give Android 18 any time to react. He would erase her from this world with his strongest blow.
He threw a punch.
It was no ordinary punch, but a strike that compressed the energy of two Infinity Stones into his fist.
The path of his fist tore a black fissure through the air, a trace of space being ripped apart by force.
Energy waves spread from the surface of his fist, pushing everything around them outward and forming an invisible ring of impact.
Android 18 did