A/N: Okay, okay, I know I said I was done, and I know you all hate me with how it ended, but I have a way to redeem this fic! I finally have inspiration, and I'm excited. I hope this helps, and explains some things, and we'll see how it goes. I'm giving up and going fluffy.

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Thanos laughed louder. "As I said, Odinson. Your lying is far from convincing."

"Thanos."

Thor whirled on his brother angrily. Valkyrie's sword inched closer to his throat.

"Don't think I won't, trickster."

Loki almost smiled. "No, I have every confidence you will." He closed his eyes for a moment, his smile turning cold. "Yet you forget what I can do, also."

And he vanished.

Thor swore loudly. "Loki!" His scream reverberated through the ship, raw with pure hatred and anger.

"My prince." Heimdall did not flinch as Loki appeared behind him. The trickster panted, leaning back against the wall.

"You saw?"

"Of course." Heimdall turned to face him.

"Did you know I had it?"

The Watcher nodded once.

Loki stared at him, raising his hands slightly. "Why didn't you say anything?"

"I waited to see what you would do with it. The device you have built on the lower deck assured me that the Tesseract was in the right hands."

Loki leaned his head back, a tight, but grateful look shining in his eyes. He held out the cube. "Take it. Get everyone through the portal. My seidr will do the rest. It will take them to a safe planet, far away from here."

"And what do you plan to do, my prince?" Heimdall's deep voice seemed to pierce him more than his golden eyes.

Loki smirked slowly, a dark look entering his eyes. "One last trick. With all that I have left."

Heimdall nodded slowly. Loki returned the nod.

"Convince my brother. Save my people, Watcher."

"Of course, Your Highness."

"I'm not your prince." Loki smiled sadly before his form shimmered once again, disappearing.

Heimdall looked down at the pulsing blue stone in his hands. "No. You're our savior."

Loki appeared on Thanos' ship. He stumbled slightly, the magic draining him ever so slightly. He panted as he pulled a very specific metal cube from his cloak. He had spent years in Asgard preparing it for this moment. A simple transformation spell, and a trickle of power drained from the limitless source that was the Tesseract. It wouldn't fool Thanos for long, but perchance it would be enough…

"Hurry, Thor."

"Heimdall! Loki…"

"Has provided us with an escape, my king." The Watcher held up the Tesseract before his king's face.

Thor blinked at it in shock. "He gave it to you?"

"He has contrived a way to get our people to safety. To open a portal."

Thor meet Heimdall's gaze. "Do you trust him?"

"I do, sire."

"Then get our people through the portal. The Mad Titan is here. I'll buy you as much time as I can." Thor turned to go, but Heimdall's next words stopped him in his tracks.

"Loki has gone to distract him."

"He what?"

Thanos turned in his throne, smiling to see his little trickster, kneeling before his feet.

"My lord."

"Ah, Loki. Have you redeemed yourself?"

The black-haired prince stood, extending the Tesseract with a smile. "I believe this is what you wanted."

Thanos laughed. "Well done."

"I trust you remember the terms of our deal?" Loki's smile turned just a little colder.

Thanos laughed again, smile turning cruel. "Surely you are not so foolish, princeling?"

Loki raised his chin, his smile vanishing. "I have delivered your Stone as promised. I have obeyed your orders. Now Asgard is mine."

"No, princeling. Do you really believe I would let the king race of the galaxy survive? The people of Asgard will burn as their world has."

"You wouldn't dare."

Thanos bared his teeth. "Of course I dare. Asgard is a threat. The galaxy will fall to its knees when it realizes I have brought about their destruction. After all. If you want to win a fight, start with the biggest guy in the room, no?"

"Asgard is mine! You swore to me, Thanos! You swore you would let me have them!" Tears were gathering in Loki's eyes as he screeched.

"What is this, princeling? Is this sentiment?" Thanos bent closer to him. "Surely not for the realm that cast you out. You are not of their blood. But perhaps you are of their heart?"

"You swore on your seidr, Thanos," Loki hissed.

"Ah, but you see, with the Infinity Gauntlet, I will reshape reality in my image. So what is truth? What is promise? Only what I demand them to be."

"Please. Please, they're broken. They won't stand against you, they're refugees!"

"Yet your brother? Midgardian's defender? Surely he would marshall an army for their defense. I cannot take that risk, princeling. Asgard was also doomed to die. After all, Ragnarok has come, has it not?" Thanos smiled cruelly. "I am only finishing what you started."

"No." Loki's whisper as an anguished, furious plea.

"Target the Asgardian ship."

"No, Thanos, you can't!"

The Titan stood, his expression morphing into a glare. "I can. And for your impudence…

"You get to watch."

Metal plates retracted behind Loki, revealing a glass window. Loki barely had time to turn when a blast sliced through the garish blue metal ship the Asgardians had escaped on.

"No!" Loki's scream tore past his throat like a knife. Blood seemed to bubble along the anguished cry, stabbing and slitting as it was ripped from his lips. He fell to his knees, staring in horror at the rubble that was all that was left of his people.

"And to think," Thanos mused, "all this grief for the people who hated you." Loki didn't speak.

"At least your brother died hating you as much as you hated him."

Thor raced to the escape pod. It was his only hope of getting to Loki. Perhaps…

The roar of a blast sung in his ears for a split second before something collided with the back of his head and knocked him unconscious.

Thanos began to laugh. "Foolish little trickster! Did you think I would fall for it?" He crushed the imitation Tesseract in his fist.

Loki stood, crocodile tears whisking off of his cheeks with a shimmer of green. "In my defense, it was worth a shot."

Thanos's laugh turned to a sneer. "I will let your people run, and I will retrieve my Infinity Stone from the wreckage. But you, my trickster…"

Loki fell to his knees as pain surged through his head. The Other came to stand in front of him, snarling down at the prince.

"Your use has come to an end."

Thor felt his body falling through space. He thought briefly of Loki, of how he must have felt when he fell through the void. Was this what he would do for an eternity? Drift among the stars?
He crashed against something hard. Apparently not.

"Wipers! Get it off!"

A/N: Okay, okay, kind of a cheap ending and still not the best, but better at least? Also, for those of you who haven't seen the Infinity War trailer...one, WHY? But two, the last line is said by Rocket Raccoon when Thor falls on the Guardians' ship. ;)

Alright, now I'm really done! Because Infinity War, and yes. Thank you all for your reviews and your support! I hope this ending was at least slightly more satisfying. :)