"Get out of the way!" Tony yelled.

The four had just stepped through the purple portal and landed when a deafening tearing sound came from above.

A wrecked interstellar cruiser, the size of three football fields, crashed straight down on them.

Tony raised his hands, and a miniature black hole instantly formed in his palms, unleashing a deafening gravitational wave.

The massive ship was forcibly swerved less than ten meters above the four people's heads, grazing Hulk's shoulder as it crashed into the nearby wasteland.

Yellow dust mixed with rusty metal fragments flew everywhere.

Hulk didn't even move; the golden light protecting him deflected all the fragments.

"Welcome to the End of Time." Tony lowered his hands and looked around. "Looks like there isn't even a helipad here."

Vision slowly descended, and the light from the Space Stone on the Infinity Gauntlet dimmed.

He looked around, his gaze settling on the endless mountain of garbage.

The broken head of the Statue of Liberty is stuck diagonally in the soil.

The iconic A sign of the Stark Tower has been broken in two.

Not far away, there was even a World War II submarine bearing the Hydra emblem.

"This place is practically a cosmic-level landfill." Tony kicked aside an Ultron robot with only half a head left at his feet. "Did that old bastard, the Remnant, like to litter?"

"There really is something here calling to me."

Loki flexed his wrist, amusement in his eyes.

Just then.

Another blue portal opened up in the sky.

A complete space carrier fell out of it, its engines still roaring as it tried to regain altitude.

"S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier?" Tony looked up to confirm the insignia on the hull, only to find it was the insignia of S.H.I.E.L.D. "S.H.I.E.L.D.? Here to die?"

The mothership had not yet had time to stabilize itself.

A purple storm suddenly erupted on the distant horizon.

No, that wasn't a storm.

It was a purple cloud that blotted out the sky.

In the mist, one could vaguely make out the faces of people writhing in agony.

"What the hell is that?" Tony's hands lit up with black hole particles again.

The purple cloud was moving at an absurd speed, rushing towards the space carrier in the blink of an eye.

There was no explosion.

There was no loud cracking sound of metal breaking.

The clouds and mist penetrated the space carrier.

In less than three seconds.

The massive war machine, along with the life forms inside, was completely decomposed within the purple mist.

Not even a single metal slag fell off.

The purple mist let out a burp and tumbled and swirled in the sky.

"Looks like the host here isn't very hospitable." Tony's veins bulged on the back of his hand, and the energy output of his armor instantly soared.

"Namo Amaterasu!"

Hulk clasped his hands together, and his originally green, massive body began to glow with golden light, while his golden hair stood on end.

The golden Saiyan rage intertwined with Buddhist teachings.

"This giant purple sweet potato looks disgusting." Hulk's eyes widened. "This humble monk will go and give it a thorough physical exorcism!"

Hulk's legs were slightly bent, and the ground beneath his feet was cracked in large areas.

Just as he was about to leap into the air, the ground beneath his feet suddenly collapsed into the ground.

A rusty metal hatch was suddenly kicked open from below.

"Hey, green muscle monster! Are you trying to lure that monster over here?!"

An old man wearing a yellow-green retro bodysuit poked half his body out of the hole. He wore an exaggerated golden bull-horned helmet on his head and looked somewhat similar to Loki.

"Get down here, all of you! Now!" the old man waved his hand impatiently.

Hulk abruptly stopped moving and looked down at the withered old man.

"Loki, do you have a long-lost grandfather in Asgard?"

Tony turned his head, looked at Loki standing next to him, and then at the old man in the hole.

"I don't have any relatives with such vulgar taste."

Loki's smile vanished instantly as he stared at the horned helmet on the old man's head.

"If you want to die in Elios's mouth, keep standing! If you don't want to die, get down now!"

Another young Black man poked his head out of the hole, holding a golden dagger in his hand, his face full of vigilance.

Upon closer inspection, the young Black man was also holding an alligator in his arms.

Even the crocodile was wearing a small golden bull horn helmet on its head.

"Roar!" The crocodile roared, opening its massive jaws at Hulk.

Hulk scratched his bald head, golden light dancing between his fingers.

"This little lizard is quite unique."

The purple clouds in the sky seemed to sense something, and their enormous bodies began to slowly move in their direction.

"No time to explain!" The old man stamped his feet in frustration, and a burst of green magical energy shot out from his hand.

Vision could have easily blocked it, but realizing that the energy was not aggressive, he simply let it pull him along.

The green energy transformed into several ropes, which wrapped around the waists of the four people and dragged them into a narrow underground bunker.

boom!

The heavy metal hatch slammed shut above their heads.

The old man placed his hands on the hatch, and layer upon layer of green isolation magic arrays quickly formed.

The shelter was dimly lit, with only a few nearly broken emergency lights flashing.

Tony broke free of the magical ropes, and the Iron Hammer flew back into his hand automatically, its dark golden lightning illuminating the entire underground space.

"Okay, someone explain to me what kind of weird zoo this is?"

Tony's gaze swept back and forth between the old man, the young black man, and the alligator.

The old man slumped to the ground, panting heavily.

"Turn your lights down! Do you want to kill everyone?!" the old man roared in a low voice.

"In the Void, too bright a light source will attract death," the black man Loki reassured the crocodile in his arms.

"Who exactly are you?"

Loki stepped forward, his chaotic magic subconsciously circulating within him. He could sense the same magical aura emanating from the other man.

But these people look really cheap.

"You don't even recognize yourself anymore?"

The old man raised his head, his wrinkled face full of exhaustion.

"We are all Loki."

"I am Old Loki, he is Boastful Loki, and this is Crocodile Loki."

The old man pointed to himself, then to the black man next to him.

"Are you guys playing the worst joke in the entire universe?"

Loki's facial muscles twitched twice.

"Is that scaly reptile also Loki? When did Asgard become an incubation base?"

Loki pointed at the crocodile.

The crocodile opened its mouth in annoyance and bit Loki's finger.

Loki reacted quickly, pulling his hand back and kicking out with the momentum.

The black man, Loki, quickly grabbed the crocodile and dodged away.

"Don't insult it! It was arrested by the Time Bureau for eating a neighbor's cat!" the black Loki protested loudly.

"Alright! Quiet down, all of you!"

The elderly Loki stood up, leaning against the wall, and looked at Tony and his three companions with a scrutinizing gaze.

"You are not variants that were cut out."

"You don't have that stench of despair on you."

"We're here to find someone," Tony said, calming the lightning on his armor. "A kid named Harry wearing some homemade junk."

"This place is full of junk," the old Loki sneered. "The Time Bureau dumps everything that doesn't belong in the Holy Timeline here."

He pointed to the hatch above his head.

"This is the end of time, a garbage dump."

"That purple cloud up there just now is called Elios."

"It is the scavenger of this place; it devours all living things."

"Those who tried to fight it all became its snacks."

Hulk snorted, and the golden light on his body flickered faintly.

"This humble monk hasn't even unleashed his full power yet; I should have let it taste the mighty Heavenly Dragon earlier!"

Old Loki looked at Hulk like he was an idiot.

"Hey big guy, I don't understand what you're spouting."

"But even if you're incredibly strong, can you hit a storm that has no physical form?"

"Alios is a living, breathing storm entity; it has no weaknesses!"

"Nothing in this world is without weaknesses. If it is, then my firepower isn't strong enough." Tony tapped his mask.

"We need to find our companions. Since you've survived here for so long, you should have some clues."

Vision stepped forward, the four gems on the Infinity Gauntlet glowing faintly in the dim light, seemingly demonstrating their power.

Old Loki stared at the glove, and his whole body shuddered.

"Infinity Stones?" He took two steps back, staring at Vision as if he'd seen a ghost.

Loki, the black man, also widened his eyes, and even the crocodile in his arms stopped struggling.

"I think the only vision I remember was of a single gem, right?"

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