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What We Have to Fight Against
“How do we exactly beat someone with these Infinity stones?” Captain Rogers asked surveying his broken and bruised team. “We have to figure how to get that gauntlet away from him, maybe one of use is strong enough to wield it and defeat him once and for all.” Thor answered. “What exactly can these stones allow Thanos to do, We can't find away to beat him if we don't know everything we have to fight against.” Natasha said fixing the bandage wrapped around her leg.
“There are 6 stones, each of them with a different ability that hold total control of that ability. The first one we encountered is the space stone, which was trapped inside the tesseract. It has the ability to teleport anyone throughout the universe-” Thor explained before being cut off by Steve. “I fought the Red Skull over the tesseract, when he held it in his hands; it looked as though he dissolved into thin air, and the tesseract fell into the ocean until Howard fished it out looking for me.” Steve said looking at Tony. “Pops might have been a genius, but sometimes he did some stupid things.” Tony smirked. “Is it possible the Red Skull isn't dead, just in a different part of the universe?” Cap questioned and was answered with a nod from the God of Thunder.
“The Aether is the next one, the one I thought was safe in the hands of the collector, it has the ability to alter reality, anything from opening portals through worlds to negating the concept of gravity. There is the power stone, which gives its wielder superhuman strength, energy blasts and the ability to wipe out all organic life when it touches a worlds surface. The time stone, which can speed up and slow down time, alter the past and visit the future. Then there is the soul stone, which traps the souls of people and beings in another world. One I'm not sure can be visited. And lastly, there is the mind stone. Its abilities are...well we all know what it can do.” Thor finished as he looked over at Hawkeye and Vision. “The only thing that has changed since Thanos ripped it out of my head is my omnipotence. I still have most of my abilities.” Vision said trying to reassure his teammates.
“What if we can get a hold of one of these stones, I have wielded an infinity stone before.” Dr. Strange interjected. “As have we.” Quill said speaking for his fellow guardians. “I don't think having the power stone on a world with almost 8 billion people is a smart choice, to many things can go wrong. But I have used the time stone to to stop Dormammu from ending the world as we know it. Maybe we can go to the future, figure out how to stop Thanos.” Strange suggested. “That could work, but any stone could be used to our advantage, we may fail trying for a particular stone. If any of us can get any one of them, do it, we can use any help we get.” Thor expressed. “You know, I'm getting sick of evil cosmic entities trying to take over the universe.” Star-Lord quipped. “Especially since I had to kill my dad to stop one.” Peter spoke as everyone turned and looked at him. “Long story short, man meets woman, man impregnates woman, man gives woman a brain tumor to get a hold of me and hope we can take over the galaxy together.” Quill stated with a slight air of sarcasm. “Man is also not a man but an ancient celestial being”. Gamora quipped. “The amount of questions I have is astronomical, but we'll save this matter for another day. There is a big purple guy we need to deal with first.” Tony quipped.
“I think me, Tony and Dr. Strange should talk strategy, maybe we can distract him to get the time stone.” Cap suggested. “We need to get the gauntlet off his had and someone to distract him long enough for someone to get the stone, save you genus's some time.” Nebula stated ever so sarcastically. “And how do we exactly get the gauntlet off of his hand?” Rocket chimed in, “Maybe if you ask your dad ever so nicely, he'll do a favor for his favorite daughter.” Nebula clapped back before looking at Gamora. No matter how hard she tried or what Gamora did, Nebula just couldn't let her sister be forgiven of their childhood. “This hating me cause I used to beat you in fights thing needs to stop, cause neither of us asked for it, he forced us to fight, we both were fighting for our lives and limbs, you cannot still blame me for winning. He's to blame for what happened to you not me, I am not the one who tore your hand off and replace it with metal!” Gamora scream before storming off followed by Quill as Nebula just stared off in the opposite direction. “I am Groot!” was chimed in condescendingly but the wooded teenager sitting next to Rocket.