Just a couple of feet away from him the air starts to glimmer and twist before him. The twist in the air resolves itself into a humanoid shape with dark blue skin wearing a grey suit. Thanos is reminded of the Galactic Bank's staff, very nondescript and easy to forget. The humanoid is carrying a black device in its hand, it looks down at it and taps it with one of this fingers.
"You are Thanos is that correct?" says the blue alien to Thanos, "Yes, and who might you be?" Thanos replies with slight rumble in his voice. "You can call me C9, I best get comfortable." C9 taps the device in his hand and a chair appears in front of Thanos, C9 sits down. "Do you mind if we have a 3D transcription made of our conversation?" C9 says. Thanos just nods in agreement.
Transcription Between C9 & Thanos
Universe: LarveM-27 CQ
C9: I am here to inform you of the consequences of your recent action within this particular universe. Would you like to disown your involvement and use of the UTs to wipe out half the sentient races in this universe?
Thanos: I do not wish disown anything, I stand by my actions!
C9: Are you aware that the UTs were never meant to be used in such a fashion?
Thanos: UT?
C9: Excuse me I tend forget when dealing with lower races, UT stands for Universal Tool. When a universe is created UTs are used in its construction. They are designed purely for the purpose of a creating a particular universe and cannot be used externally to that universe.
Thanos: We call them Infinity Stones and they seemed to work just fine to me.
C9: If you look really closely you will see their outer skins has become cracked which will only get worse. However we can discuss that later, first we must cover the consequences.
Thanos: What consequences I have saved a universe of limited resources by removing half of its population. Balance is key to any successful civilisation.
C9: My colleagues completely agree unfortunately in your arrogance you have not considered the large picture of your universe.
Thanos: Arrogance!
C9: Yes, lower races always think they know best when in fact you know so little about the environment you live in . Admittedly you are the first being to cause this level damage to a universe which why it was agreed you be informed personally.
Thanos: Who are you to tell me what I should and should not do?!
C9: Well this is the reason I was sent because I was contracted to create this particular universe, normally I do not returned to completed jobs but it was felt that this was a unique situation.
Thanos: Have you come to kill me then?
C9: Definitely not that is would be unthinkable, I just here to tell you what your universe's potential future is. Let us start with something small first, just a single planet. Let me bring it it up on the Holovision, there you go. This planet was known to its natives simply as Mmm. Planet Mmm was a perfectly balanced environment for its sentient race, flora, fauna and lower animals. Each species on the planet lived in a symbiotic relationship with each other, the planet was literally paradise.
C9: Then you clicked your fingers and within nine days the planet was a barren wasteland with a few microbes living beneath its surface. Their populations were perfectly balanced, you killed off half and the planet fell into a chaotic spiral never to recover.
Thanos: One planet means nothing in the larger scheme of the universe.
C9: Okay then lets goes larger then, have you been to the Steller-9 galaxy?
Thanos: Never heard of it.
C9: Not that surprising, it is one of the oldest galaxies in this universe. Long before you were born, the sentient race that evolved there invented technologies that allowed them to maintain all the stars in their galaxy. Stellar engineers of the first order, eventually each star in the galaxy became permanent homes to a single engineer. They kept the stars is perfect balance, they added or removed matter to keep a star from exploding.
C9: Before you snapped your fingers, that galaxy was home to several trillion different sentient races, the Stellar engineers helped create conditions so that more sentient races evolved. Without the engineers to maintain the stars well let me show you what the galaxy looks like now. You see that dark patch in the right hand quadrant, that's a black hole created by multiple exploding stars about thirty days after you did your thing. We have calculated it will consume the rest of galaxy in less than a galactic year.
Thanos: These are just isolated examples.
C9: I have a few billion other isolated examples and they are increasing in number.
Thanos: What will happen then?
C9: Well actually remember I told you about the cracks in the UTs?
Thanos: I thought the stones were intelligent, can't they repair themselves?
C9: Yes they are, in order to do their individual jobs they had to have a high level of intelligence. Thing is they do not work well together your misuse of them and the fact you placed them together is a very dangerous thing to do, hence the cracks in their outer skin. They are likely to be very unhappy to be stuck on that golden glove. Between them they have the power to create an universe and to unmake one!
Thanos: You mean they going to explode?
C9: Not sure, we have never been in this situation before if they do then the universe will just blink out of existence otherwise the universe will continue for a short time until the chaos you created spirals the universe into oblivion.
Thanos: How the hell was I supposed to know this happen!?!?
C9: I think you are a flaw in my design of the universe, next one we will remove the bug that caused you to exist. Now that you have been informed that you are the destroyer of a universe I shall be going.
Thanos: What happens if I take stones off the gauntlet and send them to different ends of the universe?
C9: You forget they are intelligent and have long memories, you might appease them a little but you still have the consequences of your action to solve. It is not impossible to fix.
Thanos: Can you fix it?
C9: Maybe but the client failed to pay his hardware maintenance this eon plus the client would to have to raise maintenance request before we could even start looking at it.
Thanos: Who is the client?
C9: I suppose you would call him God, I understand pray helps.
Thanos: Will he hear me?
C9: Unlikely clients that do not pay their hardware maintenance have larger issues to worry about than a single universe. Time I left and let me you congratulate on being the most stupid arrogant sentient being in the multiverse to date.
C9 got up from his seat and disappeared, Thanos's frown had deepened considerably, his smile completely gone.
