Confronting Thanos

The Benatar warps, leaping into jump space.

After a whoosh, it arrives above a ominous orange planet. As it maintained orbit, Carol flew towards the planet.

"I'll head down for recon. If I don't return in fifteen minutes, you'll know that I found him." She said.

"Good luck Captain Marvel." Superman remarked.

The others wait on the flight deck, tense.

Natasha looks at Steve, who was staring at a compass in his hand: Peggy Carter's yellowed photo still inside.

"This is going to work, Steve." She informed him.

"It has to." The black-haired young man and red-haired young woman said at the same time.

"I know it will Ash, Misty. Because I don't know what I'm going to do if it doesn't." Steve let out a sigh

Just then, Carol flew up to the other side of the glass.

"No satellites, no ships, no armies. No ground defense of any kind. It's just him." Carol explained over her communicator as she returned to the ship.

Bruce tilted his head in confusion.

"That's enough." Nebula replied.

"It makes things easier honestly." Superman commented.

The others exchange a look.

On Titan

Smoke curls from the chimney of a solitary lodge.

Inside the lodge, a pot boils over a fire. Then...Thanos limped over to it, his left side was paralyzed and arm blackened. A shell of his former self.

He stirred the pot. Suddenly, a armored hand bursts out from the fire, grabbing Thanos' gauntlet...and preventing Thanos from closing his fist.

Thanos jerked back at the Hulkbuster springs inside. Carol crashed through the side, pressing her leg on the arm with the gauntlet while placing him in a headlock.

Then Superman broke through the wall and grabbed a hold of his other arm.

Thor crashes through the lodge, severing the arm with the gauntlet as the others enter.

It lands right next to Rocket.

"Check to see if the stones are still inserted into the gauntlet, Rocket." Ash instructed. He turned it over...and his face goes slack.

"Oh no." Rocket muttered.

"The stones, they're gone!" A bipedal rabbit exclaimed.

"In the name of all that's holy, where are the stones?!" An African-American boy named Carver Descartes shouted.

"Start talking!" Korra demanded.

"Where are they?" Steve asked, fiercely.

"Answer the question." Carol said in a low and dangerous tone before tightened her grip around Thanos' neck, applying more pressure to it.

"NOW!" Superman snapped, his eyes glowing red. He was ready to incinerate Thanos with his heat vision after everything he's done.

"The universe required correction. After that, the stones served no purpose beyond temptation." Thanos explained to the group in front of him.

"You murdered trillions!" Bruce shouted, angrily shoving him to the ground with the Hulkbuster.

"Including our friends!" A talking pink starfish yelled.

"You disintegrated our friends and families!" A brown-haired young man named Takato Matsuki said, enraged.

"You should be grateful." Thanos said, as he chucked mockingly.

"Grateful?!" A humanoid gray squid angrily exclaimed.

Bruce then punches Thanos in the face, knocking him to the floor.

"Where are the stones, Thanos?" Misty demanded, tears forming in her eyes.

"Gone. Reduced to atoms." He informed them.

"You used them two days ago!" Bruce exclaimed, yelling.

"I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me. But the work is done. It always will be." Thanos told the group, straightening himself out. "I am...inevitable."

"Come on guys, we have to tear this place apart. He has to be lying." A black-haired young man with pale green eyes said.

"Or worse, maybe Bowser and his family have the stones." A yellow bear added.

"You're wrong bear, they weren't with me when I destroyed the stones." Thanos corrected him.

"And it doesn't sound like he's lying." Superman pointed out.

"Exactly." Nebula said in agreement. "My father is many things, a liar is not one of them."

"Thank you, daughter." Thanos said out of appreciation. Nebula looked down with slight discomfort.

"Perhaps I treated you-" He was unable to finish speaking as Thor raised Stormbreaker and used it to decapitate him.

Nebula slowly touched her own cheek with a shaking hand, where gore was splattered.

"Thor!" Ash exclaimed.

"Pika!" Pikachu said.

"What?" Bruce questioned.

"What did you just do?" Rocket asked him.

"I went for the head." Thor said weakly. He then walked away, and Steve looked at Thanos's severed head on the floor.

"You killed him!" Korra shouted in a accusing tone.

"Why did you do that, Thor?" Takato asked in disbelief.

"Because he deserves it." Thor answered.

"What are we going to do?" A small platypus named Flaps questioned.

"I don't know Flaps, for the first time in my life I really didn't know." A young boy with yellow hair and purple eyes stated.

Then Superman interrupted.

"The stones have been destroyed, so there's no longer a reason to stay here. We should return to earth and come up with another plan to reverse the Snap." Superman suggested. They agree with this and board the Benatar, then fly away from the planet.