5 Let's End This

"Well, what do you want?" Deadpool asked.

Thanos just gazed at him and said, "You're alive."

"What do you mean?"

"It cannot be you... I saw you die. I killed you!"

"Did you? Wait, you killed me? I thought you used your space and time gems to transport me here? Indeed, why is that so... Curious, very curious..."

"I did not. Who under the stars is better suited than I to be Death's consort?" Thanos raised his left hand to closely study the golden over-sized thing. "I used Gauntlet's full power to wipe you out from existence."

"But here I am," Deadpool said bluntly as he stood up to walk around that small cottage. "Alive and well, as I should be. Wait a minute... I'm not here because I did something to your chin? What does have got to do with..."

"My chin?"

"Yeah, I was stroking it, remember? As it states in the summary?"

"That never happened. I did what I did for the sake of Death. You are not worthy of her and you must not exist," the eyes on Thanos' somber face glimmered when he said that.

Deadpool saw that Thanos gripping his left hand.

"Damn it, smugscholar, change the summary quickly! Before the readers find out! There's a continuity error!" Deadpool wanted to say but it was stuck in his throat. "Okay, Deadpool, you must think fast. Surely he's here to get rid of you for good! Pick up your katana and have it at him!"

As he reached out to his back, he realized that his weapons from Earth did not come along with him.

"Shit."

"Not even the Living Tribunal could save you now. Don't speak of just one soul but all the souls in the universe are in my hands. Your tiny existence will be wiped from this universe good. Farewell, Wade Wilson."

As Thanos said that, Deadpool screamed and jumped towards Thanos in an attempt to get his glove off. The Mad Titan easily grabbed Deadpool with his right hand before slamming him to the wall, where it broke and Deadpool flew out of the cottage.

Rolling on the dirt, Deadpool groaned, "Well, it looks like Eternity's guardian won't be here to help me this time, huh?"

"Whatever tricks you played on me before will no longer work now," Thanos remembered the last time he tried to kill Deadpool in order to capture Death's heart for good. He tried to slay Eternity because *spoilers* and that led to *spoilers* which eventually gave Deadpool the strength to beat Thanos for good.

Of course... he did not have the Infinity Gauntlet at the time.

But now...

Just as Thanos was about to get rid of Deadpool for good, he felt a ball of fire hurtling towards him.

"Leave him alone!" a young girl with long flaxen hair draped over her shoulders had appeared before Thanos. Whatever clothes she was wearing had burned to ashes as she leaped at Thanos to stop him from harming her savior.

He did not expect a little human girl to stand in his way and as her flaming body rushed towards him, the power gem on his Gauntlet began to shine brightly as he punched her backwards.

The force which slammed against Anna was a mighty one. Her frail body crashed into the earth and she started to bleed from her orifices. She would have died had it not been for her determination.

As Deadpool looked at her, he knew that her health had improved from yesterday and that she was in a perfectly good condition. But who knew that she would step in and get herself hurt just for him?

"FUCK YOU, THANOS! LET'S END THIS!" Deadpool cracked his bones back into place, crawled back up and limped towards Thanos.

"Hmm..." Thanos ignored Deadpool as he studied Anna whose flaming body burned even more. "This sure is... fascinating."

Thanos then turned to look at Deadpool who was still slowly limping him, and said, "Indeed. Let's end this."

Tightening his grip on the Infinity Gauntlet, all of the gems on it began to shine brightly and in a split second, light began to shine across the cosmos.

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In the castle backyard stood a single cottage, which was covered with wooden planks and had two windows. There was a pond in front of the cottage with a circumference of roughly nine and a half yards, and it was filled with river water, making it not only fire-resistant but also modifiable. Piled atop the ground were several iron ingots, which came from a blacksmith and were placed there by Carter.

Roland had chosen this location for the cottage because of its proximity to a well, but it was still too crude to be a laboratory. He shook his head, realizing that building a perfect lab overnight was not possible. He would need Barov to collect the resources before he could build an official workshop.

"How are you? Did you sleep well?"

Roland turned around and asked Anna, who seemed confused. He saw that she was in a better condition than she was in yesterday and smiled.

"You should rest for a couple more days, I suppose," Roland walked around the beautiful young girl who glowed with vitality.

"Your Highness, what can I do for you?" Anna asked Roland, wondering why he had saved her and spent so much effort just to hire her.

Roland then began to tell her that what she did was not wrong, and wished for her to train herself. She wanted to argue that her power belongs to the devil but Roland kindly assured her that the power belonged to no one but herself.

After that, Roland oversaw her training and exercise.

She took quite a number of tries in order to maintain her fire-wielding powers and after the twenty-fourth attempt, she successfully conjured flames on her hands and it spread all over her arms.

In panic, she accidentally shot a ball of fire in the direction of Roland, and the poor ugly youth cannot dodge in time.

WHOOSH.

Now engulfed in flames, Roland's clothes began to burn like Anna's did but he had no immunity whatsoever to the fire.

He was an ordinary mortal.

A poor ugly mortal who had reincarnated from Earth.

"Just when I thought that life would start anew... I die again," Roland excruciatingly cried to himself as he felt the burning flames seeping through his skin and he fell onto the ground.

As Anna was screaming in panic, the servants tried their best to douse the fire.

Roland felt his soul seeping away from his body and the pain was becoming lighter and lighter. But all of a sudden, he heard two voices speaking to him...

"Wade... Wade!" a deep voice said.

"FUCK! WHAT JUST HAPPENED? DID I DIE AGAIN?" a familiar voice started to bitch.

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Author's Notes:

I read through some comments and reviews and I truly appreciate the input and support. Initially, I wanted him to go back to Earth and stop the fanfic at chapter 5 as I've gotten the badge but it looks like you guys are really keen on the development. Thus, I will be continuing it from a fresh new perspective.

So what happened? Thanos used the gems to get rid of DP for good and RTW's timeline is fixed. Roland is back (yay!) but Deadpool... isn't gone? What do you think about this new direction?

I've received questions as to why I did not include the 'voices' that were in the comics and the answer is that I cut it out for the sake of simplicity. I intended to end the fanfic at 5 chapters and didn't bother to add it in. But now... as we are progressing, we'll be seeing that as well as a whole lot more DP stuff that wasn't included.

So do drop a comment as to whether you'd like me to continue butchering both these good works of fiction up or you'd rather I stop here. I'll release an epilogue for chapter 6 if there is a mixed reception or if everything thinks I should just end it here.

Thank you and do check out my 'Gate - Thus the Imperialemacht Fought There' crossover fanfiction. It has a stable release and is as good as fresh hotcakes my Canadian maple syrup.