Chapter 13

"So? Where's the Tesseract or probably now known as the space stone? And Tony Stark and the others with him?" Strange crossed his arms and stood in front of Jane, T'challa and Loki while Bruce went to a room to change into something more decent. After the portal sucked them in, they appeared inside the Sanctum and were already sitting on the couches, while Loki was placed on the longer couch. Jane had to revisit the moments that happened ago and she was definitely sure that this building crumbled and was way beyond repairable, but here they are standing inside of it, unless it was another building, she doesn't really know how the sorcerer's portal works and where they were dropped in. She needed to take a lot of notes after this, she got teleported and its worth spending time to research about it, another type of bifrost maybe, and she got to witness this Strange person heal Loki using green glowing magic.

"Thor took it. I don't know, but they should be with Thor or they are still on Vanaheim. Now-" Loki answered coldly on the couch and then glared at the artifact that hung on Strange's neck. "It is my turn to ask a question, healing spells do not take that quick nor does spells for rebuilding structures. With that period, I take you reversed time. You have the Time stone? "

"You could've started with a thank you? But I'll take what you said a compliment." Strange smirked at him. "Yes, I'm the keeper of the Time Stone, and don't even think about stealing it."

"Uhm." Jane sounded, and Loki snapped then glared at her. "What is wrong with you? Why are you so snappy already, you just gotten healed, aren't you happy about it?"

"What he performed was not the art of healing!" He growled on gritted teeth, "He reversed the time of my wounds, making me feel the pain of my magic forcibly returning to me just after it was stripped away no thanks to Sif, do you have any idea how excruciatingly painful that is? Not to mention he also reversed my other wounds from before this day. The different pains seems to be returning, I cannot focus well right now! It is-" Loki's eyes are twitching from Strange to Jane and to T'challa who was sitting there silently with his body trembling slightly.

"Well any normal person should've collapsed after it because of the pain, but I guess you were able to endure it. So good job." Strange replied and then walked away from his vision only to reappear behind him. "Let me just take a strand of your hair."

"Do not attempt to—argh!" Loki didn't even had enough endurance to stand up and stop strange from whatever he was doing.

Then Strange reappeared beside T'challa while gesturing his arms around, casting a spell on Loki's hair on something, "I hope it's not too stuffy here your Majesty, I did just had it rebuilt."

"It is comfortable, sir." T'challa replied, not looking bothered about the magic and stuff around him.

"My name is Stephen Strange, I'm a neurosurgeon and also a Master of the Mystic Arts, currently the protector of the New York Sanctum and the Eye of Agammoto… etc. etc. like the avengers, well there really isn't an avengers anymore since they broke up, us sorcerers protect the Earth from enemies from other-dimension and well your Reality."

Bruce then appeared in the room wearing a white two-piece clothing that looks like it is used for training. "Broke up? What do you mean? L-like a band?"

"Ah, Doctor Banner, nice to meet you, heard you disappeared for two years, I wish I could shake hands but you see I'm kinda busy with something." Strange answered and focused back on his spell while Jane and Bruce shook hands together while T'challa was silently guarding Loki's movements.

Bruce sat next to Jane which was nearer to Loki's own couch, he then looked at guy, his eyes are slowly turning bloodshot, and he seemed to be trembling a bit and about to collapse. "Are you alright? You don't look okay, but your wounds have healed and so are your clothes. Maybe you should rest?"

"No not yet. I still need him to confirm something for me." Strange said but his eyes didn't trailed off from the spell he was casting.

"Can I ask what you are doing, Dr. Strange?" Jane asked this time.

"He is trying to locate Thor." Loki spoke, but this time he didn't sound angry, just a tad irritated, the painful effects of his past wounds must've been wearing off or he was just too good at enduring the pain.

Strange just nodded at his statement. "It'll take a bit longer though, I mean he isn't on Earth. Oh I got a hit." Then Strange opened his palms up and an Image appeared showing Thor, Stark, Scott Lang, a giant creature, a woman with an antennae, and a wood alien, the last three were unknown to everyone in the Sanctum, they were doing something with a huge mechanism.

Loki held his breath after the image appeared, it seems that Thor was safe and pretty far from what his visions showed him. "That is Nidavellir. The home of the dwarves. The Tesseract is hidden inside that magic pouch Thor carries around his hip." He pointed it out.

"Okay, then do you know the coordinates for Nivadellir?" asked Strange.

"Of course, it is basic knowledge on Asgard to know the coordinates of worlds in the nine realms."

"So-" Strange then gestured his right hand, leaving his left to maintain the image, and called upon another image that showed a set of numbers.

Loki frowned upon seeing the picture and worried over it, "What does those coordinates indicate?"

"The space stone readings, I just received a report from my fellow sorcerers that a powerful energy from the Space Gem was used on that location, if Thor has it then why is there another gem present? Unless Thor used it, but from the image on them, they didn't even bother about the infinity stone he carries."

"But that's the universal coordinates for Earth."

It was getting harder to breathe. He was able to repair the gauntlet using the time stone, but he wasn't able to prevent the changes that those humans did to the past, and so Time wanted to erase him from his solitude. The green gem flickered on his glove, passively altering everything beyond his direct command, and before he could gain control over it, it faded into existence, and so was he but with the other stones, particularly the Space, Soul and Reality stone, he was able to maintain his self all the while observing how Time repairs itself from the changes made in the universe's history.

Thanos took a step on the planet's soil he landed. He looked at his arms, his feet, they were faded in color even the gauntlet that was still on his hand but one stone was missing, indicating that he was not part of this universe's timeline. He then heard civilization nearby, happy cheers and calls, singing a merry song. He followed the noise and a sad sight greeted him. The town was overcrowded, those blue-skinned people bumping into each other as they danced around, not minding the others they push and stepped on. Little creatures surrounding the adults, looking for a chance to steal from them. The buildings, the structures all loomed over them as if it was going to swallow the people once it crumbles.

Realization hit him, his ambition was prevented. He then looked back at the gauntlet and the existing stones that remained, and then thought 'It was only delayed.'

He left that ugly town and came up with a plan. He was able to complete his destiny, now he needed to help complete his present self's own destiny and this time completely preventing the opposing persons from ruining it.

"Stark." He whispered the name, he thought of the Earthling as the leader of that opposing group, his ambitions were not as far from his own goal, to save the universe, but Stark's was more on creation, a direct opposite to his own. It could have also been his fault how the remaining group was able to change history, persuading them to do it, his plans. "We shall meet again."

He chose to use the space stone, commanding the gem to take him to the SanctuaryII, and make a deal with his self.

Gamora yelled at Drax to stop him from attacking, obeying Proxima and Glaive's demand. Proxima held Peter hostage, the blade of her spear slightly caressing the skin on his neck. The fight began before their ship was able to enter Knowhere. The collector's home was tattered in pieces after the brawl, Rocket was missing from the place, Tivan was there near one of his glass cases bruised and bleeding, and both Gamora and Drax couldn't move because of Peter and the outriders that appeared surrounding them.

"Tell us where the location of the Soul Stone is and your boyfriend lives." Said Proxima, the blade slowly sinking into Peter's skin.

Gamora's mouth quivered, hesitating to reveal the stone's location. She bitted her lip to stop herself from trembling, focusing back on Peter.

"Gamora I'm about to die here!" Peter cried nervously. "Gamora!"

"Shut it, Peter! Lives are at stake here! We shouldn't let Thanos get to the stones!"

Proxima rolled her eyes at the squabble and looked at Glaive for approval, she then released Peter and slid her spear under his feet knocking him down to the ground and then stabbed him on the side of his stomach.

Peter screamed in pain, the blood unable to gush out from his wound due to the spear still inside his skin.

"NO!" she shouted, she felt her knees losing strength at the sight but she firmly stood.

He gasped, forcing his self to stop his cries and to move his focus back on Gamora to lessen the pain, "Gamora… Please." Peter scrunched his eyes, stopping his thoughts from thinking about the blade and the pain.

"Relax, sister. I purposely did not hit his vital points, If my knowledge of Terran body structure is correct. You should thank me. So?" Proxima waited for her answer but it took too long so she nodded at Glaive and he lifted his own weapon and he was already recoiling it for a direct hit to Peter's body.

"Vormir!..." Gamora gave in, her eyes starting to tear up on looking at Peter's pained expression. "It's in Vormir." She whispered.

Proxima grinned and commanded the Outriders to take Gamora away, "No! Why take me!? I already told you where it is!" She tried to battle the Outriders grip, all the while focusing on Peter's face.

Peter opened his eyes again and saw Gamora getting dragged away. Glaive followed Gamora and told her, "We need to know the exact location." He then walked pass Drax and knocked him with his spear, throwing Drax towards the already damaged collections in glass cases.

"Drax! Peter! Don't you dare kill them, or else you'll never get anything from me!" Her cries fading from a distance.

Peter called her too but he noticed Proxima still there, the spear still impaled on his stomach. "What? You going to torture me?"

"I won't do that to you, she did say not to kill you. But the torture is for Gamora once she won't start being obedient after this." Proxima smiled mischievously, and pulled the blade out quickly, the blood gushed out of his wound like waves, sending stings of pain to Peter. Proxima scrunched at the blood stain on her weapon and decided to wipe the grime on Peter's clothes.

Peter immediately tried to cover the wound with his hand to prevent losing more blood, he tried to look at the wound but couldn't even tell how much blood he had lost since his ravager coat was already drenched in it.

Proxima walked away and once she was outside the ring of outriders surrounding them, nearing their ship and saw Gamora looking back at her. She smirked at her and pounded her spear to the ground making a loud echoing thud, "Kill them."

"NOOOOO!" was all Gamora could shout after their ship hovers and the remaining Outriders infiltrated Tivan's home.

AN: okay so I originally thought of bringing Hela back and join forces with Thanos to balance the firepower but then I'll need to think of a way on how Hela would fight beside him cuz the probable scenario with her would be to go steal the power stone to regain her powers and then go ransack a nearby planet and steal their army to go start her conquest so she'll be opposing Thanos, so instead I brought another Thanos so we have two Thanos yey :D Also, the time stone disappeared from the old Thanos, I based that on that cool theory that the Time stone couldn't appear where there's another existing Time stone, there should only be one Time stone in one timeline, may it be past, present or future.

Have a nice day!