In space, Heisenberg possessed the power to fly freely, while Thanos clearly could not.
Thus, Heisenberg unleashed a spectacular beating on Thanos!
In just a few minutes, Thanos endured over eight hundred blows from Heisenberg's fists.
After this relentless assault, Heisenberg finally hurled Thanos toward Earth with a mighty strike!
Thanos, lacking the ability to fly, plummeted toward the planet in the blink of an eye, but it wasn't over yet.
Heisenberg accelerated after him, delivering a brutal punch to his chest!
After the first blow, Thanos accelerated instantly, but Heisenberg pursued relentlessly, landing a second punch!
A third punch, a fourth punch…!!!
By the time Heisenberg slammed Thanos into the atmosphere, Thanos' speed had surpassed 30,000 Mach!
What does 30,000 Mach mean?
No one could clearly see the flames engulfing Thanos as he fell; they only saw a flash of red light before he crashed into the ground, his figure vanishing entirely!
Time seemed to freeze, until the next instant, when the land near Thanos' impact site began to ripple like fragile waves, surging violently.
Just like a boulder dropped into a lake, an incredibly intense shockwave swept through everything.
In just two seconds, the entire battlefield was nearly devoid of anyone standing.
After the violent tremors, the earth shattered into tiny fragments, and Heisenberg's strike had turned New York into a deep, dark red crater 300 meters deep and 14 kilometers wide!
Even the Avengers suffered casualties, especially the warriors of Wakanda.
Fortunately, Strange and the sorcerers of the Ancient One reacted swiftly, pulling most of their allies into the Mirror Dimension in time.
Otherwise, the Avengers would have suffered 90% casualties from that single blow!
Why?
Because over 90% of Thanos' forces that had emerged from the portal were annihilated!
As the dust settled, the battlefield, once obscured, gradually came into view.
Ebony Maw, protected by the Infinity Stones, stared in shock at the army around him, now reduced to ashes and dust.
This was Thanos' army, and it was his army too!
But everything, absolutely everything, had vanished in that single, instantaneous shockwave!
Ninety percent, a full ninety percent!
Even the remaining 10% of the soldiers still alive on the battlefield could barely walk smoothly.
The insect-like landing ships, which should have been soaring in the sky, lay on the ground like steamed dumplings, their connected Chitauri warriors lifeless, unable even to twitch.
Looking at this army, then at the Avengers hiding in the Mirror Dimension, no one understood the phrase "the tide has turned" better than Ebony Maw.
In the past, Ebony Maw would have fled this cursed battlefield long ago.
But now…
He gazed deeply at the Infinity Gauntlet on his right hand, though it held only four stones.
Yet, from another perspective, four Infinity Stones were enough to revive Thanos and grant him the power to kill Heisenberg!
All he had to do was hand the gauntlet to Thanos, to him…
"Ughhhhhh!!!"
At that moment, a heart-wrenching scream echoed from the depths of the vast crater, where Thanos lay.
His armor was completely shattered, and his exposed chest bore clear cracks.
Yet, even so, he continued to struggle, desperately trying to rise!
Watching Thanos like this, Ebony Maw froze.
The next moment, he burst into a chilling laugh, his smile piercing, every curve of his lips brimming with ambition.
"My boss is the invincible Thanos, not the failure he is now.
Thanos, you've lost the right to wield this power, utterly defeated!"
He muttered to himself, then with a wave of his right hand, a flash of blue light erupted, and he vanished from the battlefield in an instant.
…
Meanwhile, at the center of the crater…
Thud!!!
A heavy sound echoed as Heisenberg landed beside Thanos.
Thanos paid him no heed, continuing his futile struggle to sit up from his prone position.
But despite his efforts, he managed only to lift his upper body slightly.
Seeing this, Heisenberg sighed in boredom.
"Tsk, tsk, enjoying the taste of defeat?"
As the words fell, Thanos abruptly abandoned his attempt to rise, instead lying calmly on the ground.
He moved his massive jaw, swallowing the blood trickling down his throat, and mumbled indistinctly to Heisenberg:
"My destiny should not be this!"
"Of course, you shouldn't have ended up like this, but who asked you to cross paths with me?"
Heisenberg chuckled, summoning a bio-energy field. In the desolate center of the crater, he crafted two barely passable chairs from the shattered rocks.
The chairs faced each other. Heisenberg sat in one, and with a glance, Thanos floated into the air.
Feeling his body levitate, Thanos coughed violently, spitting out mouthfuls of blood. The tightness in his chest eased somewhat.
Then, Heisenberg placed him in the opposite chair.