THE OTHER POSSIBILITY

Chapter 4

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As the Avengers charged at Thanos, Harry hang back to watch what would clearly be one hell of a beating. He knew to use his magic not to hurt others, atleast those on his team. The Marauders' greatest strength against the Death Eaters had been team work.

Unlike Harry and his little group of followers, the Death Eaters didn't have much discipline and always got overwhelmed whenever they faced two or more marauders. Harry had ensured that his friends knew to keep in sync with the rest of the team in that even if one sent spells in the direction which had a team member they would not be harmed.

They were all familiar with their magic and each others' that one could unleash a wave of pure magic towards another Marauder and everything around them would be destroyed except for that one Marauder.

Harry didn't have that here and he couldn't risk casting magic in the pandemonium below without harming the defenders. So he stayed back and observed the battle field ad he made strategies on his he would fight the being known as Thanos.

While the African princess had been explaining to him about the situation, he had taken a cursory glance at her thoughts and he could place a name on every individual charging at Thanos this instant.

Thor, the Norse god of Thunder, and wasn't that one hell of a surprise, was leading the charge, lightning streaming from the tip of his axe -wasn't he surpossed to have a Hammer?- directly at Thanos.

Behind him, Capt America and the African monarch in the black cat suit were running at abnormal speeds nearly catching up with Thor who clearly being propelled by lighting. Next to them was Doctor Banner in the giant ironman suit, the Hulkbuster and flying above them was Falcon and Warnachine.

The sexy redhead though currently sporting blonde hair had hung back next to the bald fierce kingsguard, both their weapons at the ready and looking like they wanted nothing more than to join in the charge. Next to them was the Winter Soldier with the Racoon parched on his shoulder.

Next to them was the tree-man growling to himself and a small distance behind them was the remaining army. The other beauty who used Scarlett energy that had been sent to destroy the stone had not yet come back and he was sure he she hadn't found it as no one had breached his wards yet.

Turning his attention back to the people charging at Thanos, Harry watched as Thor landed a few steps from the titan and pointed his axe at him. A beam of concentrated lightning shot towards Thanos. The titan raised the gauntlet on his hand and Harry could see the purple stone glowing brighter than the others.

The beam of lightning from Thor's axe flew towards Thanos only to stop a few inches from the gauntlet. It then seemed to collect together into a small ball that turned more purple than white and then Thanos tossed the over charged ball into the charging group of heroes.

The ball, a cocktail of lightning and energy from the power stone slammed into the god of thunder, lifted hin and together flew and landed in their midst and exploded with so much force sending everyone flying while leaving a small crater where it had landed. Harry erected a round shield around himself and the force had absolutely no effect on him.

With one move, Thanos had dealt with almost everyone in the group. Flacon and Dr. Banner had suffered the most as the former's wings had been burnt off and was lying down in a heap barely moving. Banner was also lying down unmoving next to War machine who was trying to get up to no avail. He had effectively taken them out of the fight.

Black Panther and Capt. America who had been a little ahead of the group had been affected the least and were already charging towards Thanos again. Black Panther's suit seemed to have absorbed some of the energy from the explosion and he was ahead of the Avenger. He leaped high in the air, catching Thanos off guard. Clearly the titan hadn't expected any of them to recover that fast.

Thanos made to back hand the man but the African monarch managed to duck under the blow and slid under Thanos' legs swiping at his right leg with his claws.

With inhumane speed and strength, Black Panther caught onto that very leg and somehow used it to pull Thanos' legs from under him making him land face first into the ground. He made to jump leap at the titan but he turned and a beam of energy sent the African flying curtsey of the space stone and by the time he landed, his body had transformed into five cubes with the help of the reality stone.

Thanos made to get up only to receive a drop kick right into the chest from Cap. America. Before he could recover a bolt of lightning slammed into him from the sky singing his armor and whatever little hair he had on his body. Another bolt erupted from Thor and flashed towards him but he raised his gauntlet and instead sent it to Steve who dodged it while also getting another bolt in the chest from an enraged god of Thunder.

Thanos was sent sliding across the ground and stopped mere inches from the destructive protective barrier of Wakanda. Bolt after bolt rained at his position easily passing through the barrier since it was made to stop physical objects. Grunts of pain came from where Thanos was being hammered and for a moment, the protectors dared to hope and Harry couldn't blame them as not many would be able to stand that much lightning raining on them not to mention stay alive.

When Thor felt that he had exhausted the anger he felt at the titan, he stopped the onslaught for a moment and everyone held their breath as they waited for the smoke to clear.

"Yes!" Thor cheered seeing the burned form of Thanos. The pile of burned flesh was twitching every few seconds but it was clear to everyone that Thanos was no more. The gauntlet was lying a meter away from him and those that could cheered along with Thor.

Everyone except for Harry.

Harry felt his wards inform him of someone teleporting within the wards he had set up in the lab. By all intents and purposes, no one was supposed to have been able to by pass the wards but clearly Thanos had no trouble doing just that.

The people who had come up with the wards in the first place had not accounted for the powers of a Space Stone.

Harry teleported back to the lab and found himself standing between Thanos and the beautiful African princess who was pointing her repulsor blasters at the unconcerned titan.

"Who are you supposed to be?" Thanos asked looking at Harry curiously. The cheers were still loud and clear from below.

"Someone you have never met before." Harry answered calmly with his hands clasped behind his back. "Why are you here, Thanos."

"I could tell you, 'for the stone' but I imagine you already know that." Thanos replied. "You are a powerful one, I can feel it. More powerful than any sorcerer I have ever come across."

"You have met others like me?" Harry asked curiously with a raised eyebrow and Thanos nodded.

"I have, and I can help you learn to harness your power to your full potential." Thanos told and Harry shook his head.

"Well, I appreciate for the offer but I will have to decline." Harry told him. "Would you be willing to leave the stone alone?"

"I am afraid I can't." Thonos replied. "I have learned that things do not happen by themselves but made to happen by those who have the power. The universe is at a risk of destroying itself and I have taken the responsibility to help save it from itself."

"And admirable ambition." Harry said while try to project his thoughts to the princess. "Though I am afraid it is not appreciated."

How long?

The African beauty jumped at the sudden voice in her head.

"They wiil when they see the results." Thanos replied. "If you get out my way, I could help you and with your potential you could end up in my Order."

How long do you need before the stone can be destroyed?

This time she seemed to have caught on that Harry was trying to talk to her.

It is ready.

Good.

"Too bad." Harry stated to Thanos and flared his magic dropping the wards altogether.

Four things happened at the same time. The flare of magic that had been directed at the wards filled the room. All the electronics in the room short-circuited letting out bright sparks making the princess shriek in fear. Harry grabbed the princess and teleported out of the room back to the still cheering group of heroes. Wanda Maximoff who had been trying to find the lab all this time burst into the room in a flurry of scarlet energy which she directed straight into Thanos' back.

The premature celebrations abruptly cut off with Harry's appearance though the wizard didn't wait to see the reactions as the fight up in the lab was pretty clear to every one given the explosions and debris falling from the building. Harry teleported back to the lab conveniently in front of a downed Wanda and directly in the path of a blast of purple energy that had probably been intended to kill the woman.

Harry instinctively encased himself and Wanda with a bubble of pure magic dropping which absorbed the beam if energy before exploding outward. Thanos, not expecting that was blasted through the shattered window and fell down the street.

"You're OK?" Harry asked the scared woman, it seemed like she has been resigned to her fate.

"Yeah." She replied breathless. "Thank you for saving us."

"Us?" The girl looked behind her to see the still form of the humanoid robot who had preveresly been having the mind stone on his head.

"Don't be hasty." Thanos growled as he appeared with a flash of blue light from the Space Stone.

Harry spun around, the Elder wand materialising into his hand as he turned, a blasting curse already at its tip. Harry activated the flying enchantments of his armor and released three blasting curses in quick succession as hr flew towards the Titan. Thanos erected a blue shield that blocked the curses but he had to step back from the force of the impact as each curse slammed into his shield.

Just before slamming into the shield, Harry suddenly stopped and let his magic flow forward with a simple word on his mind.

Finite

Why he did it, he wasn't sure but he instinctively knew that it would be able to dispell Thanos' shield. It probably had something to do with the itching of the scar on his chest or more specifically the circle representing the ressurectiob stone. He idly noted that the orange stone, the Soul Stone was glowing with the same intensity as the Space Stone yet he he knew Thanos wasn't using it.

Thanos blinked in surprise as his shield disappeared but that was all the time he got before getting a Reducto in the face. Thanos flew from the force of the spell to the ground where Harry had teleported and was already waiting for him. The ground had been covered in spikes and Thanos cried out as each spike penetrated his usually near impenetrable skin while blood was spurting from the wounds.

A motion of Harry's hand and the sharp ends which had passed through elongated and twisted again piercing him for the second time before pinning him in the ground. Surprisingly, the Titan was still alive though barely.

"Get the gauntlet from him." Shiru shouted as she came with the rest of the Avengers towards where Harry was standing before the downed form of Thanos.

Harry's eyes widened and he spun around to look at Thanos his hand making a summoning gesture but it was already too late. The green gem, the Time Stone glowed brightly and Thanos was covered in a green bubble of energy and when it disappeared, Thanos was standing there as fresh as he had been when he had just arrived while in his other hand he held the yellow Mind Stone.

"You are good. I'll give you that." Thanos said as he made to place the mind Stone in its place on the infinity gauntlet. "But not good enough to stop me. For I. AM. INEVITA_."

"Avada kedavra." Harry made a final attempt to stop what he knew would be happening soon enough but instead of falling lifelessly when the green curse struck him, Thanos recoiled like he had been struck by a hard blow but he was still very much alive. The orange Soul Stone was glowing even brighter than any of the others had been glowing before whenever Thanos used them and had a fast-fading green glow of the killing curse.

Well, FUCK

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AN: Hiya fellas, that is chapter 4 for you. I know many of you may be complaining about how easily Thanos handled the Avengers but he has five freaking infinity stones. That was hardly bound to be a fair fight. As for Harry's beating him that fast, well Thanos had no idea he would be facing him so had no idea on how to deal with him as he seemed to easily negate whatever he was trying.

Now though, he has a little idea on what Harry is capable of so the rematch next chapter shouldn't be one sided like this one.

A little spoiler, I plan to do Endgame so you should know that Thanos will be snapping his fingers one way or the other even if the defenders will win.