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// Chapter 3: The Injured Stranger  
// Story: Six Gems (Volume 1) 
// by Blondlionezel 
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Meanwhile, Fluttershy was peacefully tending to her garden and animals. Fluttershy was the kind and gentle sort, who tended to abandoned and hurt animals. She was tending to a small mink when the quiet was shattered by a loud bang!

“Huh? What was that?!” Fluttershy jumped in fear. She decided to muster some courage and look around the wreckage. All she could find was a small ship and a large, purple, muscled man with red eyes.

“Help...me...” The man asked Fluttershy with tears in his eyes.

“Oh my...” Fluttershy gasped as she pulled the man out of the wreckage.

“Thank you...” The man thanked Fluttershy before he became unconscious...

A few hours later, the man had awoken in a pink bed with fluffy covers. He didn’t know where he was, and if he was even still alive.

“Oh...you're awake...” Fluttershy noticed as she walked up to the man.

“Where am I?” Asked the man.

“You’re at my cottage. I take care of injured, sick, or abandoned animals. My name is Fluttershy” Fluttershy answered.

“My name is Thanos...” Thanos responded.

“Well it’s nice to meet you, Thanos” Fluttershy greeted.

“Say...do you know where I can find six gems?” Thanos asked Fluttershy.

“Six Gems...no, I can’t think of any...” Fluttershy responded.

“Then have you seen my gauntlet?” Thanos questioned Fluttershy.

“Oh yes! I found it near the crash site, and I’m glad I found it!” Fluttershy answered. She walked out of the room, picked up the golden gauntlet, and returned it to Thanos. Thanos looked at her and smiled.

“Thank you” Thanos thanked Fluttershy. He then put on his golden gauntlet and began to walk out of Fluttershy’s cottage.

“Your welcome...” Fluttershy responded to Thanos. 

“Say...are you sure there aren’t six gems around here?” Thanos asked Fluttershy one last question.

“No...but I know where to look!” Fluttershy responded, “The Golden Oaks library!”.

“Golden Oaks Library? Where is that?” Thanos asked for directions from Fluttershy.

“I can take you there” Fluttershy told Thanos.

“Well then, shall we go?” Thanos asked Fluttershy.

A few minutes later, they had reached Golden Oaks Library, which was also Twilight Sparkle’s house. Thanos began to look around, rummaging through books and binders filled with magic and incantations. Fluttershy was looking through a book on parrot care. Suddenly, Thanos found a box that had six gems inside of it.

“I found them!” Thanos exclaimed, giving off an evil laugh.

“You found what now?” Fluttershy asked Thanos nervously, before gasping in horror.

“I found the Infinity Gems!” Thanos declared as he put the Infinity Gems into his Infinity Gauntlet.

“Stop! Those are the Elements of Harmony! You can’t use those!” Fluttershy told Thanos.

“What will you do about it?” Thanos chucked as he blasted Fluttershy with a ray that transported her back to her cottage.

“Why am I back here?!” Fluttershy worriedly asked as she felt a pulse of pure dread. She then went back to the Golden Oak’s Library to find Thanos, but he was already gone. She had to warn the others.

Meanwhile, back in space, Thanos had reached his dark, crimson lair. It was a gloomy place, filled with relics of death and destruction.

“I did it...I found them...” Thanos declared as he placed the last Infinity Gem on his Infinity Gauntlet. A surge of galactic powers had begun to flow through his body, giving him Omnipotence...