Steve Rogers
[Walking up to the pilot's seat]
Drop to 2600, heading 0-3-0.
SW Sam Wilson
I hope you're right about this, Cap. Or we're gonna land a lot faster than you want to.
O Okoye
[The Quinjet passes through a camouflage force field into Wakanda's Golden City's valley and lands at the airfield outside the palace. King T'Challa and the Dora Milaje approach to greet the arrivals] [Walking with King T'Challa and a band of the Kingsguard to the landing pad]
When you said we were going to open Wakanda to the rest of the world, this is not what I imagined.
T'Challa
And what did you imagine?
O Okoye
The Olympics. Maybe even a Starbucks.
Bruce Banner
[The occupants of the Quinjet disembark, Steve and Natasha leading, followed by Bruce and Rhodey, with Vision and Wanda slowly taking up the rear.] [to Rhodes]
Should we bow?
JR James Rhodes
[seriously]
Yeah, he's a king.
Steve Rogers
Seems like I'm always thanking you for something. [shaking hands with T'Challa, while Bruce bows awkwardly to him.]
JR James Rhodes
[to Banner, mock shocked]
What are you doing?
T'Challa
Uh, we don't do that here. [He dissuades Bruce with a motion of his hand; Bruce shoots Rhodey a look, and is answered with a big grin] So how big of an assault can we expect?
Bruce Banner
[The group begins to walk back into the administrative building.]
Uh, sir, I think you can expect quite a big assault.
Natasha Romanoff
How we looking?
T'Challa
You will have my Kingsguard, the Border Tribe, the Dora Milaje, and...
Bucky Barnes
[Smiling as he walks toward Steve, passing some Kingsguard taking Vision and Wanda to another facility]
A semi-stable, 100-year-old man.
Steve Rogers
[The two friends share a hug.]
How you been, Buck?
Bucky Barnes
Uh, not bad, for the end of the world.
R Rocket
[Having found a clear spot]
Come and get some, space dogs! [Another wave of Outriders heads right for the raccoon-oid. The Winter Soldier, having come up behind Rocket, grabs him with his mechanical arm, holds him at arms length and spins 540 degrees, firing his own M-249 at the same time.] Come on, get some, get some! Come on, get some! [The Winter Soldier drops Rocket, who looks up at him with an impressed gleam] How much for the gun?
Bucky Barnes
[snaps off another burst]
Not for sale.
R Rocket
Okay, how much for the arm? [the Winter Soldier just gives him a look and moves off] Oh, I'll get that arm.
Steve Rogers
[The tides of battle cause Thor, using Stormbreaker to great effect, and Captain America together. They take a breather.] [panting]
New haircut?
Thor
[grinning]
Notice you've copied my beard.
Thor
[Captain America nods, wearily gesturing at his own face with a shield-covered hand. Groot skewers three Outriders with his right arm.]
By the way, this is a friend of mine. Tree. [Gestures towards Groot with Stormbreaker]
G Groot
[in full battle snarl]
I am Groot!
Steve Rogers
[formally, but bemused]
I am Steve Rogers.
T Thanos
[Walking closer to the Scarlet Witch]
I understand, my child. Better than anyone.
Wanda Maximoff
[Snarls]
You... could never.
T Thanos
[Reaches down to presume to stroke her hair, as if in comfort]
Today, I lost more than you can know. But now is no time to mourn. Now... is no time at all. [He reaches forward, clenching the gauntlet, emerald filigree surrounding his wrist, making a gesture very similar to that Doctor Strange made when activating the Eye of Agamotto. In response, a bead of yellow light starts gathering in on itself as time is reversed and growing in size, solidifying into an intact and conscious Vision]
Wanda Maximoff
No! [She lunges for Vision and is swatted away.]
[Thanos picks up Vision by the throat, lifting him to eye-level, and digs the fingers of his right hand into Vision's forehead, digging out the Mind Stone. He pulls it loose, and Vision goes limp and colorless; he tosses the lifeless android aside like trash. Bringing his gauntleted hand up, he slowly moves the Mind Stone over the last empty setting, and drops it in. The energy surge is much more than any previous – his torso is wreathed with iridescent static and he bellows from the sensations.]
[As Thanos studies the completed gauntlet, a massive bolt of lighting strikes him, digging him into the ground and grinding him back for meters. Thor has arrived, eyes glowing with power, stooping down from the sky like a bird of prey. The God of Thunder pauses his attack, reverses his position, raises Stormbreaker above his head and hurls it – Thanos fires the whole might of the gauntlet against it, but it only creates a rainbow-like bow-shock, not slowing the ax as it slams right into Thanos' chest. ]
Thor
I told you... You'd die for that!
T Thanos
[He takes hold of the back of Thanos's head and forces Stormbreaker deeper into his chest, staring angrily into his eyes while Thanos cries out in pain]
You... should have gone for the head!
Thor
[He holds up his hand and snaps his fingers]
NO!
T Thanos
[Thanos is now briefly inside the Soulworld, where he sees a young Gamora on the home world of the Zen Whoberi]
Daughter?
G Gamora
[Beat]
What did it cost?
T Thanos
[Solemly]
...Everything.
Thor
[out of the Soulworld, Thanos is snapped back into reality, notices the damages inflicted on the scorched Gauntlet, and the stones are no longer glowing]
What did you do? WHAT DID YOU DO?!
Captain America
[Thanos closes his fist, Using the Space Stone to teleport away, leaving Thor left on the Wakandan field] [Stumbles into the clearing, holding his left side]
Where'd he go? Thor, where'd he go?
Bucky Barnes
Steve?
T'Challa
[Bucky suddenly collapses into a pile of ashes. Steve walks over and touches the ground where Bucky's ashes evaporated unbelievably. On the battlefield, Wakankan soldiers disintegrate to ashes, much to M'Baku's horror] [While reaching for a fallen Okoye]
Up, General! Up! This is no place to die. [He holds out his hand for Okoye. But T'Challa then turns into ashes and an anguish Okoye falls back on the ground]
G Groot
[Slowly corroding into ashes as well]
I... am... Groot... (Translation: "Dad?")
O Okoye
[Off-screen]
KUMANI!
R Rocket
No. No, no, no, no! Groot... No...
WM War Machine
[Scarlet Witch is mourning over Vision. She then turns into ashes. An injured Falcon turns to ashes, hidden in the brush] [Searching for Falcon, missing him by only a few feet]
Sam!
WM War Machine
[Okoye is seen hyperventilating fearfully over T'Challa's disappearance] [Off-screen]
Sam, where you at?!
Mantis
[Back on Titan, the remaining members of the Guardians and Avengers help themselves up from their battle against Thanos they had lost]
Something's happening. [She gets disintegrated into ashes]
Drax
Quill?
Tony Stark
[Drax gets disintegrated next]
Steady, Quill.
Peter Quill
[Staring around in horror]
Aw, man.
S Dr. Strange
[Quill turns into ashes also]
Tony. [Tony turns to Dr. Strange] There was no other way. [Finally gets erased]
Peter Parker
[Realizing that he's fading away]
Mr. Stark? I don't feel so good...
Tony Stark
[Trying to be calm]
You're alright.
Peter Parker
[Stumbling and terrified]
I don't... I don't know what's happening. I don't– [Parker falls into Stark's arms, clutching him tight and crying] I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go! Sir, please. Please, I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go. I'm sorry.
Nebula
[Parker disintegrates into ashes in Stark's arms.] [To Tony Stark, seeing Thanos' victory]
He did it.
WM War Machine
[Stark mourns silently at their failure it caused. Back on Wakanda, the remaining team members, Captain America, Thor, War Machine, Black Widow, Bruce Banner, and Rocket are left mourning near Vision's dead body.]
What is this? What the hell is happening?
Captain America
[Pause]
Oh, God.
[Meanwhile, in a different place, in a rustic house on a terraced slope with a scarecrow made of discarded armor, Thanos sits down and watches the sun rise.]
