"Big, purple, mistakenly proportioned."

"I'll make Cam explain later. I'll bear it in mind if we wind up in a situation where that makes sense."

"What is the plan."

"We beg him to come do famine relief and then ambush him."

"I don't like that plan."

"Well, we won't bring you."

"If it fails the prospects for future famine relief are not encouraging."

"Loki says her extradimensional buddies can take him, so there's no long-term where we're stuck here with Thanos. And - if it'd been ten percent maybe it'd be unclear whether we should risk making things worse. Fifty, not so much, how much worse can things get?"

"Much worse."

"Please excuse him, he's been tortured by an evil god for entirely too many subjective centuries."

"Honestly I think we could do with more doom and gloom around here."

"Anyway, my buddies can definitely take Melkor, taking Melkors is standard operating procedure. Thanos is actually more than a speed bump with all six stones, stones are a big deal even with a few hundred universes cased for goodies."

"Well, we'll get a peek at Nick Fury's diary and see what he's got."

"Yup. Maedhros, when do you think I should go check if they've managed anything?"

"I don't know anything about the complexity of the task but likely not for a few hours, at least."

"Okay, I can be a few hours patient."

Engineers get back to work on whatever they were working on before retrieval of Nick Fury's diary. The conversation is whispered and fast-paced but seems to involve vibranium nanites.

Loki sends another update letter. Asks Maedhros if they have anywhere that would benefit from healing magic nowish.

"Not that I know of, not more than people here -"

"There is an endless supply of people here you could tap but not if it's gonna keep you up at night, plan's undoing all this."

"Yes, that's why I asked about ones in Arda, which is likely to continue to progress forward in time, so if Sauron's been doing cute things with prion diseases I'd like to know, but if it's quiet now that's fine."

"It's been quiet for the last several decades."

"How long has this war been going on?"

"Three hundred years."

"How many universes are there?"