Six stones. One gauntlet created by Tony. Everything they all needed to reverse what Thanos had done. And they did. Bruce actually wore the new gauntlet, snapped his fingers and brought everyone back.

Then Thanos came. He laid waste to the entire Avengers base and stated his new plan of desecration: wiping out the entire universe this time and rebuilding it in his own image. Tony, Captain Rodgers, and Thor stood up to the mad titan with the utmost bravery. But was it enough?

They fought hard and well, Steve even proving himself strong enough to wield one of Thor's hammers. But just when it seemed like the three bravest Avengers were doomed, they returned. All the previously decimated heroes came to their aid. The wizard and boy from Titan, a woman with a similar shrinking-suit to Scott Lang, Pepper Potts with a similar power-suit to Tony, Okoye's lost countrymen, and of course, the Guardians of the Galaxy—Quill, Drax, Mantis, and Groot. All them and more arrived to stop Thanos, once and for all.

"AVENGERS! Assemble."

And Nebula was one of them.

The army of Avengers clashed with the Chitauri, the Black Order, and Thanos himself. Priorities were made: keep the Gauntlet away from Thanos. From there, they were not quite certain. That's what they were trying to figure out.

Nebula and Gamora—the past Gamora that Nebula convinced to join them—stuck close to Rocket and Groot as he laid fire on the Chitauri with Bucky, the so-called Winter Soldier. The sisters had their backs to cover with Groot, as they was gunless.

"We're no good here," Nebula said to Rocket. "We need to find our own target if we're going to be useful."

Rocket ceased his fire, looking down the hillside. He pointed towards something. "How about that?"

Nebula carefully peaked her head over the mound, and she spotted him with wide eyes. Down the sloping hill was Thanos himself, walking alone, his duel-blade in hand.

Nebula slipped back into cover, looking at Rocket, worried. "You think we should do this?"

Rocket cocked his gun and looked at Nebula. "Go kick his ass, Neb. If anyone deserves to take him down, it's you and your sister. You two got this in the bag."

"I am Groot," Groot said with an encouraging smile.

Nebula smiled as well, feeling assured. She looked to Gamora. "You're ready?"

Gamora nodded, smiling herself. "Yes. Let's end this, together."

Rocket fired a few more bursts. He looked to Bucky. "You wanna give 'em an opening?"

Bucky snorted with a smirk. "Gimme a sec." He leapt up onto the mound firing his gun with a shout, drawing attention from some more Chitauri. When one drew close, he leapt over the alien beast, driving his vibranium arm through its chest with a yell and pulling it to the ground as he landed. "Go!" he yelled to the sisters.

"Right!" Nebula yelled. As Rocket and Groot began aiding Bucky, her and Gamora leapt over the mound theirselves, ducking and rolling under the bullets and lasers as attention was drawn away from them. Running down the rubble-filled hillside, the warrior sisters hurried towards Thanos.

"Come on! This way!"

"Right behind you!"

They ran and leapt across the remnants of the ruined Avengers base. Nebula looked up, spotting Tony and Pepper fighting back-to-back, flying and firing lasers all around them. Nebula smiled. Tony had come so far from Titan. To see him fighting alongside his lover was something special.

A moment more, and she and Gamora reached the bottom of the hill, sliding down the dirt and rolling to their feet a ways behind the mad titan. "Thanos!" Gamora yelled.

He stopped upon hearing her voice, turning around to look at them with surprise. "My daughters..."

"We are not your daughters," Nebula denounced. "We've never been. That is why Gamora betrayed you, yet again."

Thanos scowled. "You only do so because you are foolish, near-sighted. You can't possibly comprehend what I must do for the universe."

"It is you who are near-sighted!" Gamora refuted, sword pointed at him. "Destroying the universe will never save it!"

"This universe cannot be saved," Thanos spat, stalking closer. "That is why I must rebuild it!"

"THANOS!"

He whirled around, only to be tackled to the ground by Drax. The titan threw the knife-wielder off of himself with a growl.

Drax slid backwards towards the sisters. He steadied himself with knives still drawn and looked at his fellow warriors, emboldened. "Nebula, Gamora. I will aid you."

Gamora furrowed her brow. "How do you know my name?"

Drax did a blinking double-take and furrowed his brow too. "We all know each other's names, do we not?"

"Drax," Nebula said with a sigh, "this... She forgot everything. She's from the past."

"Oh. I see." He looked at her. "Gamora, in the future, you and I become the fastest of allies."

"I wouldn't go that far," Nebula said with a roll of her eyes.

"F-Fair acquaintances."

"Perhaps even a little less."

"If he'll help us fight Thanos," Gamora cut them off, turning back to the titan, "then that's enough..."

Thanos stood back up with a scowl, clutching his blade. "You vermin."

"We are no pests, Thanos!" Drax shouted back, a knife pointed at him. "Because of you taking our families from us, we became each others' family instead. These two women you call your daughters? I now call them my sisters."

He looked at them both, and smiled. "Metaphorically."

Thanos narrowed his eyes. "If you will stand against me together, then you will all die together."

"That's a risk we are willing to take if it means stopping you," Gamora returned.

"So be it," Thanos spat back.

"It will," Nebula uttered.

All three warriors yelled as they charged against Thanos, and the battle raged on.

Notes: BOOM surprise double-publish lol! Those three all deserved some sort of final confrontation with Thanos. I saw Nando V. Movies' "Changing The Endgame" idea, and I wanted to do just a small exchange between Nebula and Thanos, but then it snowballed into this lol. I suppose this was for the better, eh? Also side note, what with Nebula being a big part of Endgame, I was kinda disappointed to not see her wield the Gauntlet like she does in the comics. But Tony was pretty deserving to wield the stones himself since the MCU is its own thing, so I would be satisfied with just an interaction like this. Not to mention Neb seems to be part of the Guardians for realsies now it seems! The hunt for past Gamora begins!

And with this, I proudly mark the end of this fic! I hope you enjoyed it thoroughly!