Peter's life changed in 2014, many people's lives changed in 2014. Thanos came and he had conquered Earth. Everything is engulfed with chaos as alien invaders came to the broken planet. Their world's had changed. They all lost. But humanity is not defeated easily. Heroes rise.

Visions of scarlet and silver seen protecting Eastern Europe. A doctor mended the wounds of those who survived New York. Sorcerers appeared in London and Hong Kong, fighting. In the woods, a young girl with bow and arrows endured. Peter vowed to avenge his family.

The world will be Avenged.

Disclaimer: I don't own Marvel or the characters. I own nothing here except for the plot.

Cross-posted in Ao3.

Prologue

The world lay wasted, half of the world dead, and heroes were no more.

Things changed on that fateful day. A massive alien ship, bearing hordes of armies descended upon them- it was an attack. New York was first to fall from the invasion. Many had died and survived from the terror. The most notable death on that day was of Tony Stark. Iron Man.

Many remembered the man's harrowed and crying face. Images and videos of the carnage around him circulated all over the globe. Even the war-torn Sokovia had seen the carnage. Pepper Potts, Col. James Rhodey, and a man named Happy Hogan were all dead in front of Tony Stark. Behind him was a huge hulking figure.

It was after the event did the people of Earth would know the name of their conqueror. He was Thanos the Mad Titan. His army composed of monsters that know no pain. His generals were the Black Order ready to serve him.

The Titan fashioned himself as a god that had come to sentenced Earth. His first order was to find and execute the Avengers. They were the heretics of his grand plan. Everyone remembered how Tony Stark tried to defeat him, how he lost. Everyone remembered the sharp blade of the Titan's sword decapitated Tony Stark's head. The double-edged sword shined with blood.

He was the first Avenger to fall.

Tony Stark was gone. The brilliant inventor who reinvented himself. The man who had risked his life on the first battle of New York. A symbol of redemption, a symbol of the future gone. He doubted his heart many times over, but he, even with his big ego, was a good man. He was a hero, a teammate, a friend, and an inspiration.

The world was burning in a frenzy. Everyone felt the terror of what was to come.

After New York, the Mad Titan had set his sight to the rest of the world. Hundreds of skyscrapers, thousands of homes, and millions of lives destroyed. The hunt for the remaining Avengers continued with the Black Order scouring.

Dr. Bruce Banner was next. They had found him when they invaded the city of Boston. Hulk had come out with uncontrollable rage against the Black Order. Hulk remained to protect the people and seek vengeance.

They had killed his friend. They had killed Tony. All he felt was a pure rage. He could not wound the Titan. His gamma radiated body could not keep up the bruises, the broken bones, and open wounds. The Black Order trapped him. It was no use. His strength was not enough.

Thanos relished on the opportunity to quarter the Hulk. Again he had shown Earth that he was unstoppable. The body of the doctor desecrated by the flocks of flesh-eating birds and rodents. The sight was revolting. Fire crumbled the city of Boston to ashes.

The strong Avenger that had torn apart the first invasion laid defeated. The genius scientist laid dead. His heart full of anger also possessed kindness. Most who had met him would say he was gentle, eccentric, and calm. It unnerved the people first due to his green transformation. He died trying to avenge his friend, trying to protect the people.

People tried to find hope with the remaining Avengers.

There were four more alive.

Nobody knew where they were, but rumors circled. Thor was an Asgardian, a foreign alien. Hawkeye, Clint Barton was a secret agent. Natasha Romanoff and Steve Rogers had hidden from the world after the fall of SHIELD.

But in the shadows of this new mad world, the surviving Avengers rallied groups of the population. Rumors of Hawkeye, Captain America, and Black Widow destroying alien ships surfaced. The liberation from internment camps of the captured humans testified about the heroes.

They were always vanishing before the Black Order could stall or capture them.

But Thanos was anticipating.

The trail of the Mad Titan had sent the world burning. The alien invaders would slaughter and ruin any city suspected harboring them. Cities were gone, people had fled to the woods, but they were all hunted down. The Titan's madness was peculiar. His army always spared half of the groups of people found. Nobody could give reason to his madness.

Then one day, another image appeared. Shocked marred on everyone's faces, it was the image of Hawkeye bound and tear stricken. But people noticed two headless bodies with him, a young boy and a pregnant woman. Then there was a little girl crying at the heel of a blue alien.

"Don't cry, Lila, be brave. I love you."

Those were the final words of Clint Barton, a father, not an Avenger. Blood splayed all over the young girl and the blue alien. His body fell with a thud, head rolling next to the woman's headless pregnant body. A loud screamed echoed. Nobody could forget the sound of helplessness.

The girl was alone, left alive with the headless bodies.

Countless countries had fortified and readied their weapons of destruction against the invaders. The Americans launched nuclear missiles against Thanos' army, but it was of no use. The monsters breed to fast, too many, his army unnumerable. The once great and invincible United States of America was a wasteland. Canada was in a brink of ruin.

The Central and South Americas faced the destruction of the horde. Cities, forests, and lives slaughtered. Many fled to the mountains in hiding, and many died trying to save their loved ones. Cries for help remained unheard.

The halving of the population continued.

Europe continued to fortify itself, and crime halted on all fronts. The rebels, terrorists, and governments united in the face of the alien invasion. Their hate and ideologies- shunned to fight for humanity.

Asia braved itself to fend off the horde. Millions armed themselves in Africa. Guns spread to the populace of Australia, a nation that sworn them off.

There were no heroes to save them. Three of the vaunted Avengers lay dead already.

Then news of a man in red and blue hunting down the army of Thanos. Hope reignited, was this Captain America? They heard of a team of vigilantes with him led by a one-eyed blind man. The strongholds that the Mad Titan built were falling. People cheered, they could win. Onwards they held on to fight.

But there was no stopping of the invasion. A week later, Earth's sky darkened, hundreds of spaceships bombarded the people. Northern Europe blazed in flames. Massive lands of Australia became craters. Many islands and cities wiped off from the surface.

Blood overflowed the streams and tracts of land.

Death came and took the souls of the fallen.

Death came to the young, old, men, women, and children.

Another unfortunate news arrived. Natasha Romanoff failed to evade the Black Order.

She was providing intel to survivors in America and strategies to other nations. Her intelligence about the Titan's army benefited many, a hero through and through. The red in her ledger wiped by the blood of her death. Millions mourned as they watched her die by the hand of the Titan.

War against the invaders raged on. Humanity would not lay like lambs to slaughter. They were furious.

The heart of the people thirsted for revenge. Captain America rallied the people to destroy the Mad Titan. Many speculated that there was something more between him and the spy. Witnesses recounted how the calm captain cried in agony over her death. At first, they were successful in destroying the strongholds in the east. But Steve Rogers became reckless as time goes by.

One by one the team of Captain America were gone, hunted down by the Black Order. The last taken was Fury, in his dying breaths trying to call an old friend. But jamming signals halted it. They were alone.

It was a matter of time.

A mission gone wrong had delivered Captain America to Thanos' lair.

Thanos enjoyed the anger on the captain's face. Steve Rogers was kneeling on the floors of his throne. The Titan had ordered Maw to send projections for the people of Earth to watch. The child of Odin was still a thorn he could not pluck. Thanos knew the difference between him and the King of Asgard Odin. Once he defeated those who seek to undo his destiny, he would destroy Asgard. When he comes back taking the gauntlet prepared for him in another world, he will renew this universe.

"You will not take Earth!" Steve growled. "The people's rebellion does not die with me. We are all Avengers and one day. One day, we will defeat you! We will avenge Earth!"

"I already had taken this backwater planet of yours," Thanos boasted. "My destiny has been set to stone. You and your people should be glad, for I had brought balance against your greed. Now, the Avengers are no more."

With great flourish, Thanos beheaded Steve Rogers. Blood sprouted from the captain's body as it fell. Red, that was the last moment that the people saw of the Titan. Mysteriously, after the death of Steve Rogers, Thanos left the planet with his army. But the blue alien and his army remained on Earth. More came to invade Earth.

The planet lay beaten and ruined below its oppressors. Rumors of powered beings emerged from the rubble of the Titan's madness. Visions of scarlet and silver seen protecting Eastern Europe. A doctor mended the wounds of those who survived New York. Sorcerers appeared in London and Hong Kong, fighting. In the woods, a young girl with bow and arrows endured. And a boy from Queens vowed to avenge his family.

The Avengers were gone, but their spirits were alive.

The rebellion continued.

The survivors will avenge Earth.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is only a prologue.

1. The Thanos that we see here is different from 2018 Thanos. This Thanos hadn't experienced the pain and journey for the Infinity Stones. I want to show his madness, his arrogance.

2. I think Thanos only has small knowledge of how the Avengers time travel works. He and the Black order just reverse engineered it as in line by canon. Reversing the technology doesn't mean they know the full picture of how it works or its consequences. Nebula isn't an engineer nor was she there when Tony invented the machine. Besides canon is vague.

3. Some of our heroes are gone, but some lives on. More would be revealed later on in the story.

Constructive criticism is appreciated. 🙂