Asgardian PA: This is the Asgardian refugee vessel Statesman. We are under assault, I repeat, we are under assault- The engines are dead, life support failing. Requesting aid from any vessel within range. We are 22 jump points out of Asgard. Our crew is made up of Asgardian families, we have very few soldiers here. This is not a warcraft. I repeat, this is not a warcraft!
The ship is being hit by missiles. Inside the ship, Ebony Maw walks among the bodies of dead Asgardians. Heimdall, badly wounded, reaches out as if he would stop Maw as he passes, but lacks the strength. Maw steps over them with no mind as he speaks, as if they were scattered pieces of dirty clothing on a bedroom floor.
Ebony Maw: Hear me, and rejoice. You have had the privilege of being saved by the Great Titan... you may think this is suffering... no. It is salvation. The universal scales tip toward balance because of your sacrifice. Smile...
Corvus Glaive stabs one of the lingering Asgardians.
Ebony Maw: ...For even in death, you have become Children of Thanos.
Loki stands with the Black Order minus Proxima Midnight. He watches Thanos, shrouded in darkness and light, looking out the large window.
Thanos: I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right...yet to fail, nonetheless.
He lifts Thor by the neck of his breastplate, the latter struggling feebly.
Thanos: It's frightening. Turns the legs to jelly. I ask you, to what end? Dread it... run from it... destiny arrives all the same. And now, it's here. Or should I say... I am.
Thanos holds up his hand to reveal the Infinity Gauntlet, which already hosts the violet Power Stone. Surprising the others, Proxima Midnight comes flying through the area, landing harshly on the ground. y/n then emerges with his two axes before flipping down to their level. Thor grins. Cull Obsidian prepares to engage but Thanos calls him down, intrigued. y/n engages in a two on one with Proxima and Corvus. More surprisingly, he is winning. He swings the front of one of his weapons into Corvus Glaive's face- downing him, but intentionally living him alive. This however leaves him open to a blast from Proxima's weapon. It burns his chest and he falls down. Corvus stands on his face.
Thor: You talk too much.
Thanos: The Tesseract, or your friends. I assume you have a preference.
Corvus holds his weapon to y/n's throat.
Loki: Oh, I do. Kill away!
Thanos' face expresses surprise briefly before presses the gauntlet to Thor's left temple. The Power Stone glows brightly. Thor screams hoarsely. Loki starts to lose his cool demeanor almost immediately as Thor suffers, and breaks after only a few moments.
Loki: ALL RIGHT, STOP!
He does this in a nick of time, as Corvus was seconds away from penetrating y/n's skin.
Thor: We don't have the Tesseract. It was destroyed on Asgard.
Loki glances at Thor like he knows something he doesn't. He lifts his right hand into the air and the Tesseract reveals itself.
Thor: You... really are the worst brother.
Loki: I assure you, brother...the sun will shine on us again.
Thanos: Your optimism is misplaced, Asgardian.
Loki: Well, for one thing, I'm not Asgardian.
The Mad Titan listens.
