Ebony Maw: Hear me, and rejoice.

You have had the privilege of being saved by the Great

Thanos: know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right... yet to fail,
nonetheless. 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.

Thor: You talk too much.

Thanos: The Tesseract, or your brother's head. I assume you have a preference.

Loki: _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Loki: _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Thor: We don't have the Tesseract. It was destroyed on Asgard.

Thor: You really are the worst brother.

Loki:
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Thanos: Your optimism is misplaced, Asgardian.

Loki: _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Ebony Maw: Let him have his fun.

Heimdall: Allfathers… let the dark magic flow through me one last... time.

Thanos: That was a mistake.

Thor: NO!!! You're going to die for that!

Ebony Maw: Shh.

Ebony Maw: My humble personage… bows before your grandeur. No other being has ever
had the might, nay the nobility, to wield not one, but two Infinity Stones. The universe lies
within your grasp.

Thanos: There are two more Stones on Earth. Find them, my children, and bring them to me
on Titan.

Proxima Midnight: Father, we will not fail you.

Loki:
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Thanos: If you consider failure experience.

Loki: _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Thanos: "Undying?" You should choose your words more carefully.

Loki: _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Thor: NO!

Thanos: No resurrections this time.

Thor: No… Loki….

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~STEPHEN
STRANGE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Stephen
Strange: ______________________________________________________________________________

Wong: Attachment to the material is detachment from the spiritual.

Stephen
Strange: ______________________________________________________________________________

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Wong: Oh, wait, wait, wait, I think I have 200.

Stephen
Strange: ______________________________________________________________________________

Wong: Rupees.

Stephen
Strange: ______________________________________________________________________________

Wong: Uh, buck and a half.

Stephen
Strange: ______________________________________________________________________________

Wong: I wouldn't say no to a tuna melt.

Bruce Banner: Thanos is coming. He's coming...

Stephen
Strange: ______________________________________________________________________________
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Tony
Stark~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wong: From the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then, boom! The Big Bang sent
six elemental crystals, hurtling across the virgin universe. These Infinity Stones each control
an essential aspect of existence.

Stephen Strange: Space. Reality. Power. Soul. Mind. And Time.

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Bruce Banner: Thanos. He's a plague, Tony. He invades planets. He takes what he wants.
He wipes out half the population. He sent Loki. The attack on New York. That's him.

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Bruce Banner: No telling. He has the Power and Space Stones, that already makes him the
strongest creature in the whole universe. If he gets his hands, on all six Stones, Tony...

Stephen Strange: He can destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of.

Tony Stark:
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Stephen Strange: Are you seriously leaning on the Cauldron of the Cosmos?

Tony
Stark: ____________________________________________________________________________________

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

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Stephen Strange: No can do.

Wong: We swore an oath to protect the Time Stone. With our lives.

Tony
Stark: ____________________________________________________________________________________

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Stephen Strange: Stark Raving Hazelnuts.

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Stephen Strange: A bit chalky.

Wong: A Hunka-Hulka Burning Fudge is our favorite.

Bruce Banner: That's a thing?

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Stephen Strange: Our oath to protect the Time Stone cannot change. This Stone may be
the best chance we have against Thanos.

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Stephen Strange: Well, if we don't do our jobs.

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

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Stephen Strange: Protecting your reality, douchebag.

Bruce Banner: Okay, guys, could we table this discussion right now? The fact is that we
have this Stone. We know where it is. Vision is out there somewhere with the Mind Stone,
and we have to find him now.

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Bruce Banner: What do you mean?

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Bruce Banner: What? Tony, you lost another super bot?

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Stephen Strange: Who could find Vision, then?

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Stephen Strange: Oh, great.

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Bruce Banner: Call him.

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Bruce Banner: No.

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Bruce Banner: Broke up? Like a band? Like The Beatles?

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Bruce Banner: Tony, listen to me. Thor's gone. Thanos is coming. It doesn't matter who
you're talking to or not.

Tony
Stark: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Stephen Strange: Not at the moment, no.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PETER
QUILL~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Peter Quill: Sing it, Drax!

Rocket: Why are we doing this again?

Gamora: It's a distress signal, Rocket. Someone could be dying.

Rocket: I get that, but why are we doing it?

Peter Quill: 'Cause we're nice. And maybe whoever it is will give us a little cheddar
cheese for our help.

Gamora: Which isn't the point.

Peter Quill: Which isn't the point... I mean… if he doesn't pony up….

Drax: We'll take his ship.

Rocket: Exactly!

Peter Quill: B-b-b-bingo!

Mantis: We are arriving.

Peter Quill: All right, Guardians. Don't forget, this might be dangerous, so let's put on our
mean faces. Groot, put that thing away. Now. I don't wanna tell you again.

Groot: I am Groot! (Translation: Shut up, bitch!)

Rocket: Language!

Gamora: Hey!

Drax: Wow.

Peter Quill: You got some acorns on you, kid.

Rocket: Ever since you got a little sap, you're a total d-hole. Keep it up, and I'm
gonna SMASH THAT THING TO PIECES!

Mantis: What happened?

Rocket: Looks like we're not getting paid.

Rocket: Wipers! Wipers! Get it off!

Peter Quill: How the hell is this dude still alive?

Drax: He is not a dude. You're a dude. This... this is a man. A handsome, muscular man.

Peter Quill: I'm muscular.

Rocket: Who are you kidding, Quill? You're one sandwich away from fat.

Peter Quill: Yeah, right.

Drax: It's true. You have gained a little weight….

Peter Quill: What? Gamora, do you think I'm…

Mantis: He is anxious. Angry. He feels tremendous loss and guilt.

Drax: It's like a pirate had a baby with an angel.

Peter Quill: Wow. This is a real wake-up call for me. Okay. I'm gonna get a Bow-flex. I'm
gonna commit. I'm gonna get some dumbbells.

Rocket: You know you can't eat dumbbells, right?

Gamora: It's like his muscles are made of Cotati metal fibers.

Peter Quill: Stop massaging his muscles. Wake him up.

Mantis: Wake.

Thor: Who the hell are you guys?

Gamora: The entire time I knew Thanos, he only ever had one goal: To bring balance to the
Universe by wiping out half of all life. He used to kill people planet by planet, massacre by
massacre....

Drax: Including my own.

Gamora: If he gets all six Infinity Stones, he can do it with the snap of his fingers, like this.

Thor: You seem to know a great deal about Thanos.

Thor: Your father killed my brother.

Peter Quill: Oh, boy. Stepfather. Technically, she hates him as much as you do.

Thor: Families can be tough. Before my father died, he told me I had a half-sister... that he
imprisoned in Hel. Then she returned home, and stabbed me in the eye, so... I had to kill her.
It's life, isn't it, I guess. Goes round and round and... I feel your pain.

Peter Quill: And I feel your pain, as well. I mean it's not a competition, but I've been
through a lot. My father killed my mother, then I had to kill my father. And that was hard.
Probably even harder than having to kill a sister. Plus, I, came out of it with both of my eyes--

Thor: I need a hammer, not a spoon…. How do I open this thing? Is there some sort of a
four-digit code maybe… maybe a birth date or something….

Peter Quill: What are you doing?

Thor: Taking your pod.

Peter Quill: No, you're not! You'll not, be taking our pod today, sir.

Rocket: Quill. Are you making your voice deeper?

Peter Quill: No.

Drax: You are. You're imitating the god-man. It's weird.

Peter Quill: No I'm not.

Mantis: He just did it again!

Peter Quill: This is my voice!

Thor: Are you mocking me?

Peter Quill: Are you mocking me?

Thor: Stop it. You did it again.

Peter Quill: He's trying to copy me.

Thor: Would you stop doing that? He's doing it first.

Gamora: Enough! We need to stop Thanos. Which means we need to find out where he's
going next.

Thor: Knowhere.

Mantis: He must be going somewhere.

Peter Quill: . Knowhere? It's a place. We've been there. It sucks. Excuse me, that's our
food.

Thor: Not anymore.

Gamora: Thor… why would he go to Knowhere?

Peter Quill: If it's with the Collector, then it's not safe. Only an idiot would give that man a
stone.

Thor: Or a genius.

Gamora: How do you know he's not going for one of the other Stones?

Thor: There's six stones out there. [Thanos already has the Power Stone because he stole it
last week, when he decimated Xandar. He stole the Space Stone from me when he
destroyed my ship and slaughtered half my people. The Time and Mind Stones are safe on
Earth. They're with the Avengers.

Peter Quill: The 'Avengers'?

Thor: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Mantis: Like Kevin Bacon?

Thor: He may be on the team. I don't know. Haven't been there in a while. As for the Soul
Stone, well, no one's ever seen that. No one even knows where it is. Therefore, Thanos can't
get it. Therefore, he's going to Knowhere. Hence, he'll be getting the Reality Stone. You're
welcome.

Gamora: Then we have to go to Knowhere now.

Thor: Wrong! Where we have to go, is Nivadellir.

Drax: That's a made up word.

Thor: All words are made up.

Rocket: Hold up, Nidavellir is real? Seriously? I mean, that place is a legend. They make the
most powerful, horrific weapons to ever torment the Universe. I would very much like to go
there, please.

Thor: The rabbit is correct, and clearly the smartest among you.

Rocket: Rabbit?

Thor: Only Eitri the dwarf king can make me the weapon I need. I assume you're the
captain, sir?

Rocket: You're very perceptive.

Thor: You seem like a noble leader. Will you join me on my quest to Nidavellir?

Rocket: Lemme just ask the captain. Oh, wait a second, it's me! Yeah, I'll go.

Thor: Wonderful.

Peter Quill: Except for that I'm the captain.

Thor: Quiet!

Peter Quill: That's my backpack.

Peter Quill: Look, this is my ship. And I'm not goin' to… Wait, what kind of weapon are we
talking about here?

Thor: The Thanos killing kind.

Peter Quill: Don't you think that we should all have a weapon like that?

Thor: No. You simply lack the strength to wield them. Your bodies will crumble as your minds
collapse into the madness.

Rocket: Is it weird that I wanna do it even more now?

Thor: A little bit. Yeah.

Gamora: If we don't go to Knowhere and Thanos retrieves another stone, he'll be too
powerful to stop.

Thor: He already is.

Rocket: I got it figured out. We got two ships, and a large assortment of morons. So me and
Groot will go with the pirate-angel here, and the morons will go to Knowhere to try and stop
Thanos. Cool? Cool.

Thor: So cool.

Peter Quill: For the record… I know that you're only going with him because it's where
Thanos isn't.

Rocket: You know, you shouldn't talk that way to your captain, Quill. Come on, Groot. Put
that game down, you'll rot your brain.

Thor: I bid you farewell and good luck, morons. Bye.

PETER QUILL~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Peter Quill: Gamora. Do you know if these grenades are the "blow off your junk" kind or the
gas kind? 'Cause I was thinking I might hang a couple on my belt right here. But I don't want
to--

Gamora: I need to ask a favor.

Peter Quill: Yeah, sure.

Gamora: One way or another, the path that we're on leads to Thanos.

Peter Quill: Which is what the grenades are for. [Gamora silences him with a look.] I'm
sorry. What's the favor?
Gamora: If things go wrong… If Thanos gets me… I want you to promise me… you'll kill me.

Peter Quill: [A beat. Confusion.] What?

Gamora: I know something he doesn't. If he finds out… the entire Universe could be at risk.

Peter Quill: What do you know?

Gamora: If I tell you, you'd know, too.

Peter Quill: If it's so important, shouldn't I?

Gamora: Only if you wanna die.

Peter Quill: Why does somebody always have to die in this scenario?

Gamora: Just… trust me. And possibly, kill me.

Peter Quill: I mean, I'd like to. I really would… [Gamora silences him by covering his mouth
with her hand.]

Gamora: Swear to me. Swear to me on your mother.

Peter Quill: [A beat. One that rests with him significantly.] Okay.

[The two kiss, until an odd crunching sound startles them. Drax is standing in the corner.]

Peter Quill: Dude. How long have you been standing there?

Drax: An hour.

Peter Quill: An hour? Are you serious?

Drax: I've mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still... that I become invisible to the
eye... watch.

[Drax stands motionless, then very slowly raises his hand towards his mouth]

Peter Quill: You're eating a zarg-nut.

Drax: But my movement... was so slow... that it's imperceptible.

Peter Quill: Mmm, no. [Quill and Gamora shake their heads.]

Drax: I'm sure I'm invisible.

Mantis: Hi, Drax.

Drax: [Knowing when he is beat] Damn it.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~THANOS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~

Peter Quill: This place looks deserted.

Drax: I'm reading movement from the third quadrant.

Peter Quill: Yep. I'm picking that up, too. Let's put it down right here.
[The four Guardians disembark and sneak into the Collector’s collection room, which is in
ruins. Thanos is threatening the Collector while the Guardians hide behind rubble.]

Collector: I don't have it.

Thanos: Everyone in the Galaxy knows you'd sell your own brother if you thought it would
add the slightest trinket to your pathetic collection.

[Quill stops, and holds up a fist meaning 'halt' in the silent language of soldiers. Everybody
walks quietly past him.]

Thanos: I know you have the Reality Stone, Tivan. Giving it to me will spare you a great deal
of suffering. [Thanos places a heavy boot on the middle of the Collector's chest and
presses.]

Collector: [Strained] I told you. I sold it. Why would I lie?

Thanos: I imagine it's like breathing for you.

Collector: Like suicide.

Thanos: So you do understand. Not even you would surrender something so precious.

Collector: I didn't know what it was.

Thanos: Then you're more of a fool than I took you for. Last chance, charlatan. Where's the
Stone?

Drax: Today...

Peter Quill: [Grasping the danger] Drax. Drax.

Drax: ...He pays for the deaths of my wife and daughter.

Peter Quill: Drax, waaaaait! [Drax draws his long dagger from his leg scabbard.] Not yet,
not yet, not yet. [Drax gives him a look and heads towards Thanos. Quill hurries as quietly as
possible to catch up.] Drax, Drax, Drax. He doesn't have the Stone yet. We get it, and then
we can stop him. We have to get the Stone first. Yeah.

Drax: No. No. For Ovette. For Camaria.

[Quill starts to struggle with Drax when Mantis puts her hand on the back of Drax's head.]

Mantis: Sleeeep. [Drax is knocked out, his falling body causing a loud crash. Everybody
ducks.]

[Thanos looks towards the sound, then picks up the Collector and throws him into a
collecting case before walking towards the disturbance.]

Peter Quill: Okay. Gamora, Mantis, you go right. I'm... [Gamora moves towards Thanos] The
other right!

[Gamora leaps on Thanos from a stack of boxes, swinging her sword at him. He snaps the
sword-blade in half, and Gamora stabs him in the throat with the stub, his lower jaw sagging
and himself letting out a hoarse groan, then he is stabbed in the chest with the red-jeweled
dagger.]

Thanos: Why? [He falls down] Why you? Daughter… [He holds his hand out to her, blood
pooling out from his neck wound, before collapsing completely. Gamora breaks down,
sobbing.]

Peter Quill: [Surprised] That was quick.

Collector: Magnificent! Magnificent! Magnificent!

[Suddenly, Thanos' disembodied voice fills the room.]

Thanos: Is it sadness I sense in you, daughter? In my heart, I knew you still cared. But one
ever knows for sure. Reality is often disappointing.

[The scene disappears -- everything in the room is destroyed and/or on fire, the Collector
waving bye-bye as he and his case vanish.]

Thanos: That is, it was. Now… reality can be whatever I want.

[Thanos is quite alive and undamaged. He has the red Reality Stone seated in the Infinity
Gauntlet.]

Gamora: [Her face still wet, but no longer crying] You knew I'd come.

Thanos: I counted on it. There's something we need to discuss, little one.

[Gamora hesitates for a beat, then reaches for her broken sword. Thanos grabs her by the
back of the neck and swings her around in front of him.]

Drax: Thanos!

[With a pulse of the Reality Stone, both Drax and Mantis are 'disassembled' -- Drax is turned
into a stack of tumbling cubes, and Mantis becomes a ribbon version of herself.]

Peter Quill: [Moving in, his blaster pointed right at Thanos] Let her go, Grimace!

Gamora: Peter…

Peter Quill: [To Gamora] I told you to go right.

Gamora: Now? Really?

Peter Quill: You let her go!

Thanos: Ah, the boyfriend.

Peter Quill: I like to think of myself more as a Titan-killing long-term booty call. Let her go.

Gamora: Peter…

Peter Quill: Or I'm gonna blow that nut sack of a chin right off your face!

Gamora: Not him.

[Quill hesitates. He does not shoot anyone.]

Gamora: You promised! You promised.

Thanos: Oh, daughter. You expect too much from him. [to Quill] She's asked, hasn't she? Do
it. [There is a very tense and unpleasant pause. Thanos rolls his head and shoves Gamora
towards Quill’s gun, egging him on.] DO IT!!
Peter Quill: [Tearing up] I told you to go right.

Gamora: I love you, more than anything.

Peter Quill: I love you, too.

[Quill screws up his eyes and pulls the trigger -- but a stream of bubbles comes out. Thanos
was playing him.]

Thanos: [Genuinely sincere] I like you.

Ebony Maw: In all the time I've served Thanos, I've never failed him. If I were to reach our
rendezvous on Titan with the Time Stone still attached to your vaguely irritating person,
there would be... judgement.

Tony Stark: Wow you're a seriously loyal piece of outerwear, aren't you?

Peter Parker: Yeah, uh, speaking of loyalty....

Tony Stark: What the--

Peter Parker: I know what you're gonna say.

Tony Stark: You should not be here.

Peter Parker: I was gonna go home--

Tony Stark: I don't wanna hear it.

Peter Parker: But it was such a long way down and I just thought about you on the way...

Tony Stark: And now I gotta hear it.

Peter Parker: ...And I kinda stuck to the side of the ship. And this suit is ridiculously
intuitive, by the way. So if anything, it's kinda your fault that I'm here.

Tony Stark: What did you just say?

Peter Parker: I take that back. And now I'm here in space.

Tony Stark: Yeah. Right where I don't want you to be. This isn't Coney Island. This isn't a
field trip. It's a one-way ticket. You hear me? Don't pretend like you thought this through. You
could not have possibly thought this through.

Peter Parker: No. I did think this through.

Tony Stark: You could not have possibly thought this through.

Peter Parker: It's just .. you can't be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man if there's no
neighborhood. Okay. That didn't really make any sense, but you know what I'm trying to say.

Tony Stark: Come on. We got a situation. See him down there? He's in trouble. What's your
plan? Go.

Peter Parker: Um. Okay, okay... uh... Okay. Did you ever see this really old movie, Aliens?

Ebony Maw: Painful aren't they? They were originally designed for microsurgery. And any
one of them...
Ebony Maw: ...Could end your friend's life in an instant.

Tony Stark: I gotta tell you, he's not really my friend. Saving his life is more a professional
courtesy.

Ebony Maw: You've saved nothing. Your powers are inconsequential compared to mine.

Tony Stark: Yeah, but the kid's seen more movies.

Peter Parker: Yes! Wait what are those?!

Peter Parker: Hey, we haven't officially met.

Stephen Strange: We've gotta turn this ship around.

Tony Stark: Yeah. Now he wants to run. Great plan.

Stephen Strange: No, I want to protect the stone.

Tony Stark: [Irritably] And I want you to thank me now. Go ahead, I'm listening.

Stephen Strange: For what? Nearly blasting me into space?

Tony Stark: Who just saved your magical ass? Me.

Stephen Strange: I seriously don't know how you fit your head into that helmet.

Tony Stark: Admit it. You should have ducked out when I told you to. I tried to bench you.
You refused.

Stephen Strange: Unlike everyone else in your life, I don't work for you.

Tony Stark: And due to that fact, we're now in a flying doughnut billions of miles away from
Earth with no backup.

Peter Parker:

Tony Stark: No. You're a stowaway. [Waggles a finger between himself and Dr. Strange] The
adults are talking.

Stephen Strange: I'm sorry, I'm confused as to the relationship here. Wh-- what is he, your
ward?

Peter Parker: No. I'm Peter, by the way.

Stephen Strange: Dr. Strange.

Peter Parker: Oh, we're using our made-up names. Um... I'm Spider-Man, then.

Tony Stark: This ship is self-correcting its course. Thing's on autopilot.

Stephen Strange: Can we control it? Fly us home? Stark?

Tony Stark: Yeah?

Stephen Strange: Can you get us home?

Tony Stark: Yeah I heard you. I'm thinking... I'm not so sure we should.

Stephen Strange: Under no circumstance can we bring the Time Stone to Thanos. I don't
think you quite understand what's at stake here.

Tony Stark: [Stalks over to Strange] No. It's you who doesn't understand, that Thanos has
been inside my head for six years since he sent an army to New York and now
he's back! And I don't know what to do. So I'm not so sure if it's a better plan to fight him on
our turf or his but you saw what they did, what they can do. At least on his turf, he's not
expecting it. So I say we take the fight to him. Doctor. Do you concur?

Stephen Strange: [Pauses] Alright, Stark. We go to him. But you have to understand... if it
comes to saving you or the kid or the Time Stone... I will not hesitate to let either of you die.
I can't, because the fate of the universe depends on it.

Tony Stark: Nice. Good. Moral compass. We're straight. Alright, kid. You're an Avenger now.

Tony Stark: Yeah, we got one advantage. He's coming to us. We'll use it. All right, I have a
plan. Or at least the beginnings of one. It's pretty simple. We draw him in, pin him down, get
what we need. Definitely don't wanna dance with this guy. We just want the gauntlet.

[Drax yawns.]

Tony Stark: Are you yawning? In the middle of this, while I'm breaking it down? Huh? Did
you hear what I said?

Drax: I stopped listening after you said, "We need a plan."

Tony Stark: [To Quill] Okay, Mr. Clean is on his own page.

Peter Quill: See, "not winging it" isn't really what they do.

Peter Parker: Uh, what exactly is it that they do?

Mantis: [As fiercely as an 8-week-old kitten] Kick names, take ass.

Drax: Yeah, that's right. [Agrees quietly as he settles into a stance facing the remaining
Avengers.]
Tony Stark: [Tony pauses with an expression of deep hopelessness] Alright, just get over
here, please. Mr. Lord, can you get your folks to circle up?

Peter Quill: "Mr. Lord." Star-Lord is fine. [Motions to Drax and Mantis,]

Tony Stark: We gotta coalesce. 'Cause if all we come at him with is a plucky attitude....

Peter Quill: Dude, don't call us plucky. We don't know what it means. Alright, we're
optimistic, yes. I like your plan. Except it sucks, so let me do the plan, and that way it might
be really good. [Peter Parker follows the conversation back and forth like a squash rally.]

Drax: Tell him about the dance-off to save the universe.

Tony Stark: What dance-off?

Peter Quill: It's not a... it's not... it's nothing.

Peter Parker: Like in Footloose, the movie?

Peter Quill: [Excitedly] Exactly like Footloose. Is it still the greatest movie in history?

Peter Parker: It never was.

[Quill frowns sadly at him.]

Tony Stark: Don't encourage this, alright?

Peter Parker: Okay.

Tony Stark: We're getting no help from Flash Gordon here.

Peter Quill: Flash Gordon? By the way, that's a compliment. Don't forget, I'm half
human. [Quill points at Stark and Parker] So that 50% of me that's stupid? That's 100% you.

Tony Stark: Your math is blowing my mind.

Mantis: Excuse me, but... does your friend often do that?

[Dr. Strange is sitting cross-legged, floating slightly above the ground, his hands poised in a
mystic gesture with the Time Stone glowing brightly in the Eye of Agamotto setting. Green
vapor-like energy flows from the stone, and more intricate magical energy patterns circle Dr.
Strange's forearms. The Cloak of Levitation flows behind him as if the Stone is creating a
strong breeze. His eyes are closed, and his head is jerking rapidly from side to side, the
motion blurring, but resembling looking for something.]

Tony Stark: Strange! We alright?

[Dr. Strange snaps out of his trance and falls forward, letting out a cry.]

Tony Stark: You're back. You're alright.

Peter Parker: Hey, what was that?

Stephen Strange: [Panting] I went forward in time to view alternate futures. To see all the
possible outcomes of the coming conflict.

Peter Quill: How many did you see?

Stephen Strange:14,000,605.
Tony Stark: How many did we win?

[Dr. Strange stares intently at Tony for a moment.]

Stephen Strange: [Pause] One.

Steve Rogers: [Walking up to the pilot's seat] Drop to 2600, heading 0-3-0.

Sam Wilson: I hope you're right about this, Cap. Or we're gonna land a lot faster than you
want to.

[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]

Okoye: [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?

Okoye: The Olympics. Maybe even a Starbucks.

[The occupants of the Quinjet disembark, Steve and Natasha leading, followed by Bruce and
Rhodey, with Vision and Wanda slowly taking up the rear.]

Bruce Banner: [To Rhodey] Should we bow?

James Rhodes: [Seriously] Yeah, he's a king.

Steve Rogers: Seems like I'm always thanking you for something. [Shaking hands with King
T'Challa.]

[Bruce bows awkwardly to King T'Challa.]

James Rhodes: [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?

[The group begins to walk back into the administrative building.]

Bruce Banner: Uh, sir, I think you can expect quite a big assault.

Natasha Romanoff: How we looking?

King 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.

[The two friends share a hug.]

Steve Rogers: How you been, Buck?

Bucky Barnes: Uh, not bad, for the end of the world.

[In Shuri's lab, Shuri scans the Stone with her kimoyo beads while Vision lies on the
examination table. She flips her hand over and studies the hologram projected over her
palm.]

Shuri: Whoa. The structure is polymorphic.

Bruce Banner: Right, we had to attach each neuron non-sequentially.

Shuri: Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?

[Vision looks at Bruce as if to ask the same thing.]

Bruce Banner: [Uncertainly] Because, we didn't think of it.

Shuri: [Reassuringly, with a smile] I'm sure you did your best.

Wanda Maximoff: Can you do it?

Shuri: Yes, but there are more than two trillion neurons here. One misalignment could cause
a cascade of circuit failures. [To King T'Challa] It will take time, brother.

Steve Rogers: How long?

Shuri: As long as you can give me.

Okoye: [Her kimoyo beads chime an alarm; she flicks one bead into her palm, where it
projects the globe with a pulsing location marker] Something's entered the atmosphere.

[Outside, Sam and Bucky look up at the sky]

Sam Wilson: [Over the Avengers' comm] Hey, Cap, we got a situation here.

[The defense shield over the Golden City destroys one of the alien vessels when it slams into
the field at full attack acceleration.]

Bucky Barnes: God, I love this place.

James Rhodes: [also outside, and now in full War Machine armor watching three more ships
burn through the sky] Yeah, don't start celebrating yet, guys. We got more incoming outside
the dome.

[The shock waves and debris from the ship landings destroy acres of forest and boil up
against the dome. The lab has an excellent view of the landing sites. Captain America and
Black Panther look at each other in concern over the scope of what they'll be facing.]

Vision: [Struggling to sit up and slide off the exam table] It's too late. We need to destroy
the stone now.

Natasha Romanoff: [Moving toward Vision] Vision, get your ass back on the table.
T'Challa: We will hold them off. [He, Okoye and the guards head for the door.]

Steve Rogers: [To Wanda] Wanda, as soon as the stone's out of his head... you blow it to
hell.

Wanda Maximoff: I will.

T'Challa: Evacuate the city. Engage all defense procedures. [He stops, turns, and points at
Steve] And get this man a shield.

Rocket: I don't think you get the scientifics here. These rings are gigantic. You wanna get
them moving, you're gonna need something a lot bigger to yank 'em loose.

Thor: _

Rocket: Leave that to you? Buddy, you're in space. All you got is a rope and a--

Thor: Fire the engines!

Rocket: Nnnyah!

Thor: MORE... POWER... RABBIT!

Eitri: Well done, boy.

Thor: That's Nivadellir!

Eitri: Damn it.

Rocket: "Damn it"? What's "damn it"?

Eitri: The mechanism is crippled.

Thor: What?

Eitri: With the iris closed I can't heat the metal.

Thor: How long will it take to heat?

Eitri: A few minutes, maybe more. Why?

Thor: [Standing up on the pod hull] I'm gonna hold it open.

Eitri: That's suicide.

Thor: So is facing Thanos without that ax.

Natasha Romanoff: How we looking, Bruce?

Bruce Banner: [Leaping jogging along, keeping up with the carriers, and utterly
delighted] Yeah, I think I'm getting the hang of it. Wow! It's like being the Hulk without
actually-- [he stumbles on a rock, and a carrier goes by, from which Okoye gives him a
dubious look. He stands] I'm okay. I'm okay.
James Rhodes: I got two heat signatures breaking through the tree line.

[The heat signatures are Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian.]

[The carrier pilots swerve into U-turns, causing their craft to tilt and allowing the practiced
soldiers to slide over one side into a run, never coming to a complete halt. A Dora Milaje
shouts a command nearby as the last Wakandans join ranks.]

Jabari Warriors: MIE EFFA! (Win them!) YA HU! MIE EFFA! YA HU! MIE EFFA! YA HU! MIE
EFFA! YA HU! MIE EFFA! YA HU! [M'Baku, Lord of the Jabari, rallies his soldiers with a war
chant. He stops as King T'Challa nears him.]

T'Challa: [Clasps wrists with M'Baku] Thank you for standing with us.

M'Baku: [Translated from Xhosa] Of course, brother.

[The Black Panther, Captain America, and Black Widow walk to the edge of the barrier, where
Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian stand. Proxima tests the strength of the barrier by
drawing her sword across it consideringly.]

Natasha Romanoff: Where's your other friend?

Proxima Midnight: You will pay for his life with yours. Thanos will have that stone.

Steve Rogers: That's not gonna happen.

T'Challa: You are in Wakanda now. Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood.

Proxima Midnight: We... have blood to spare. [She brandishes her sword with a snarl, and
the ships behind her start raising their outer hulls to allow their "passengers" to disembark.]

[The three heroes return to the massed forces.]

Bucky Barnes: [A touch sardonically] Did they surrender?

Steve Rogers: Not exactly.

[The Black Panther leads the Wakandans in the war cry "Yibambe!" telling them to hold fast
as the Outriders bound toward the barrier; Proxima drops her sword arm down in the signal
to attack.]

Bucky Barnes: [Flatly, astonished at the numbers of Outriders] What the hell.

Natasha Romanoff: Looks like we pissed her off.

Okoye: [Horrified, as the Outriders bombard the force-field, squeezing limbs and bodies
partly through only to be bisected.] They're killing themselves.

[As a few Outriders managed to squeeze through intact, the Border Tribe take a knee and
raise their shields. The Kingsguard behind them level their sonic spears over their comrades'
shoulders, and on Black Panther's command, fire at the approaching monsters. The Winter
Soldier uses his M-249 machine gun, and Bruce fires the Hulkbuster's hand repulsors.]

Sam Wilson: [Sending Redwings into the fight as he flies, swooping to fire at them with his
Steyr pistols] You seen the teeth on those things?

James Rhodes: Alright, back up, Sam. You're gonna get your wings singed. [He flies over
the heaviest concentration of Outriders and drops a barrage of mines, all exploding
fantastically.]

[Everyone notices a pack of Outriders starting to run around the force-field to the right of
the defenders' position.]

Bruce Banner: Cap, if these things circle the perimeter and get in behind us... there's
nothing between them and Vision.

Steve Rogers: [Grimly] Them we better keep 'em in front of us.

Okoye: [To the Black Panther] How do we do that?

T'Challa: We open the barrier. [Putting his comm to his mouth] On my signal, open North-
West Section Seventeen.

Dome Control: [Nervous and unsure] Requesting confirmation, my King. You said open the
barrier?

T'Challa: On my signal.

M'Baku: [To Okoye] This will be the end of Wakanda.

Okoye: Then it will be the noblest ending in history.