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During the battle of 2023, Tony Stark snapped and died, but then he woke up in a... theater?

In 2023, Steve Rogers returned the hammer to its original place. He thought about the silhouette of the love of his life from the blinds and he made a split second decision. When he tried going back, though, he opened his eyes to a theater.

In Wanda's house, Wanda closed her eyes and then found herself in a theater.

Sam and Bucky were chilling on their couch when the surroundings changed.

Natasha Romanov fell and fell until she didn't and found herself unharmed.

In 2014, Pietro Maximoff fell to the ground with bullet holes in his body and woke up completely healed.

In 2016, the acadec team found themselves falling through a purple hole.

In 2024, right after London, Michelle, Ned, May and Happy fell to the ground and woke up somewhere else.

Clint and Kate Bishop found themselves submerged in the dark right after Kate received the picture of her mom with kingpin.
Yelena also submerged into darkness after she sent the photo.

In 2018, Loki heard his neck and fell to the ground, he got up somewhere else.

The guardians and Thor woke up in the theater.

2018 Gamora fell down the cliff until a portal swallowed her.

In 2024, Peter Parker sat in his tiny apartment. His spider sense flared up and it was too late before he was sucked into the portal.

On earth 1610, Miles Morales was sucked up a portal, he managed to grab his suit before he landed in the theatre.
Earth 65, Gwen Stacy was fighting her doc ock when the portal removed her from the situation.
Earth 616, Peter B was patrolling the streets when a very familiar portal opened up and all he could think of was, 'Not again!'
Earth 90214, Peter Benjamin Parker was admiring the rubrics cube when a hole in the floor swallowed him up.
Earth 14512, Peni Parker was making adjustments to sp//dr but she was rudely interrupted by an interdimensional portal. (Sorry Peni!)
Earth 120703, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield's Peter) was stitching up his suit but of course, a portal had to interrupt.
Earth 96283, Peter Parker was chasing a car thief when the portal swept up both of them. (The car thief was spat out three seconds later)

Stephen Strange, Wong, Katy Chen, and Shang Chi were taken by the portal exactly two seconds later.

In 1950, Peggy Carter, the Howling Commandos, Daniel Sousa, Jason Wilkes and Jack Thompson were listening to Howard Stark explain his new invention. He went to demonstrate and it blew up. They woke up in the theater.

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“What the fuck…?” Quill got up slowly, looking around.

The guardians and Thor woke up one by one, just as confused.

“Gamora?” Quill walked up to her and pulled her into a hug when he was sure she wouldn’t hit him in the nuts again.

“Quill, what happened?”

“I should be asking you that! What the eff? You died!”

“I thought I died too!”

They stared at each other, then breaking their eye contact for another hug. Quill thinks he heard Rocket gag, but honestly, who cares?

They tried to make sense of the situation before deciding to wait until the other strangers woke up first.

“What his happening?” One of the kids twenty feet away from them asked.

“Guys, I cahn’t feel mah tong.” A blonde one with blue eyes said, face twisting up into a grimace.

“Ow, my head.” A asian girl with tan skin winced before crouching down and holding her head in her hands.

“Is that Thor!?” Another tan kid with dark hair asked loudly pointing at the Thunder God.

“Ow, Flash, my head!” The second girl scowled up to him.

“Fuck your head.” And then all physical pain was forgotten as the kids ganged up on Thor, asking him question after question, their voices overlapping and turning into incoherent noise. Only a girl with curly hair and a boy with side parted brown hair were left standing on the kids’ previous spot. The girl was quickly scribbling on her sketchbook, eyes flitting towards the crowd and the paper rapidly. The boy was gaping, as if frozen in shock.

Quill was not jealous, he wasn’t, and if Rocket tries to say any different then he’s lying.

The Avengers woke up too, which may have startled him.

The children started freaking out even more, a sweaty guy and a pretty woman had joined them in consciousness. The only kid that wasn’t freaking out was a teenage girl who was sketching all of them.

When one of the Avengers in particular woke up, Quill and the others started freaking out, because there was Tony Stark , standing clear as day, along with other supposed to be dead Avengers.

“Tony?” Captain America— he was apparently alive,Quill totally did not freak out when he met him, he didn’t— blurted out, bemused. “How- how are you–”

“How am I what, cap? Also where are we? Cause I remember being on the battlefield fighting the purple raisin guy.”

“Oh my god.” The ant guy breathed out, “Tony, what year is it for you?”

“What are you asking Scott? It’s 2023, we did the time heist thing but Thanos came bashing in and then you all came in and we were fighting and–”

“Oh Tony, oh no,” Captain America’s face was scrunched up in turmoil.

“What’s happening?” A voice sounded out, it was the really powerful and scary lady, her name was probably Wanda, Quill didn’t really bother with names. 

A red skinned guy and a blond haired one popped up too. The avengers stared at them both with wide eyes.

“Wanda?” the blond dude asked, turning to the lady—her name was Wanda, Quill mentally fist pumped— “What happened to you? Why- why do you look so old?”

“Pietro?” the bow and arrow guy asked, his voice shaking, he took a step towards the Pietro guy. The girl that was standing next to him was left hovering around awkwardly.

“Clint, you got old too, what the hell?” Clint pulled the Pietro guy into a hug, which the blond weakly accepted. Wanda jumped into the hug as well.

When they pulled apart, Wanda was crying and Clint’s eyes were damp. “But- but how? I thought you died- I- the bullets–” Pietro hugged her again, cutting Wanda’s words off.

“I don’t know, I fell to the ground and that’s it, I was here.”

“I hope that doesn’t mean you all are dead too,” an amused voice called out, all heads snapped towards her, “That would mean my noble sacrifice was for nothing.”

“Natasha!” Clint ran towards her and enveloped her in a hug, the blonde that was standing with the other girl that was abandoned by Clint also ran towards the red head.

“There is no way we’re all dead, Bucky and I were just chilling on the couch when we came here.” The guy with the metal wings said.

“And I was just in my cabin,” Wanda agreed.

“Well then how did we–” Captain America began but was interrupted by another voice.

“Steve!” All heads snapped towards the person.

“P-pegs?”

“Steve,” the guy with the horrible mustache breathed out, “How are you alive?”

“Are we dead? Howard, did your invention kill us?” The blond, uptight looking guy asked sharply.

Yet another voice interrupted, “M-Mr. Stark?” This time, Stark’s head turned more urgently than before.

“Is that Peter?” The blonde one in the group of kids asked quietly.

“He looks older,” another one said back.

“Pete? Peter, are you okay?” The kid teared up, stumbling into Stark’s arms. He sobbed into the older man’s shirt. Speaking of which, Quill realized that their clothes have been changed into casual-er ones.

“Peter, what’s wrong?” The pretty woman from before walked towards the kid. Peter’s eyes immediately locked onto the woman and he got even sadder . Quill did not think that was possible.

He felt horrible for the kid, he remembered threatening to fry him and he immediately scrunched up his face at the memory. 

The kid fell into the woman’s arms now, sobbing harder. “M-may, I thought- I thought you–”

Another person interrupted, this was getting annoying. “Peter 1?”

Peter pulled back, wiping his tears and looking towards the voice, “P-peter 3?” his voice was still raw and cracking from the crying. “What are you do-doing here?”

“Umm, I don’t really know? Are you okay? You were like, crying ten seconds ago.” The ‘Peter 3’ looked older than the kid but had brown hair and brown eyes, and the similar suit/costume except it had a bigger spider symbol.

“Peter, who is he?” Stark asked, instinctively placing a protective hand in front of the kid.

“Uhhh, this is–”

“Peter Parker, nice to meet you.” Peter 3 interjected.

“You’re not Peter Parker,” Stark stated simply before pointing a finger at the kid, “He’s Peter Parker.”

“Technically, we’re both Peter Parkers.” At the confused look basically everyone shot the kid, he continued, “Multiversal dimensions, he’s me from another universe.”

“What!?” The kiddie group burst into a bunch of shocked exclaims, followed by the adult group exclaiming. 

Amidst the chaos, the spidey group woke up. The others noticed when Peter B let out a loud exasperated: “NOT AGAIN!”

All the heads snapped towards them. 

In all their glory, a brunet with a belly in sweatpants with a spiderman top and his mask in his hand. There was also a blonde in a white spiderman suit with ballet shoes. A black kid in a cooler version of the spiderman suit. A black and white 19 year old in a noir version of the spidey suit. A japanese girl with a spider shaped robot behind her. Another brunet with a spider suit on except it had white web things.

Peter three’s eyes widened, “You’re like-”

“SHH,” The guy in the black suit said, “this has happened way too many times for it to be cool anymore.” He muttered to himself rather loudly. He looked back up again, “Yes, we’re like you, no we will not be engaging in nerd talk with you, no matter how cool that would be.”

The last brunet, Peter 3, and the kid pointed at each other and gave out shouts of, “Peter 1!” “Peter 2!” and “Peter 3!”

A hole opened on the ceiling, Pepper Potts, Nick Fury, Dr. Strange, Maria Hill, and Monica Rambeau dropped in. After a few seconds, T’challa, Shuri and Okoye dropped in too. And then Loki dropped in, who Thor immediately rushed towards.

“BROTHER!” Thor shouted and enveloped a very startled Loki into his arms.

“He’s alive? Again ?” The bow and arrow dude— Clint —asked, exasperated.

“Or maybe you’re all just dead,” the red head woman shrugged.

“Pep!” Tony rushed towards the strawberry blonde woman.

“Alright!” A voice from the ceiling echoed cheerfully. “This was all exhausting to create, so please, let’s just get on with this.”

“Who are you?” Captain America asked.

“You can call me Author.” The voice— Author answered. “I bought you all here from different times and universes because I thought it’d be fun. Anyway, you’re all going to watch movies about all that happened in 2018 and the final battle of 2023 and then you’re going to watch all that comes after. Also, none of you are dead, don’t worry.”

“Why?” Gamora asked.

“I just told you,” Author drawled, “For fun. Also, I’m going to send you guys to 2017 so you can get together and save the world and shit without all the casualties this time.”

“Why would you do that for us? What do you want in return?”

“I want to do it because I’m emotionally attached to you guys and here in my universe, I just keep seeing you people suffer and honestly, it’s not good for me, so here we are.”

Nobody answered so Author continued, “Anyway, please introduce yourself and the year.”

The one with the belly started, “I’m Peter B Parker, these guys just call me B to avoid confusion, and I’m spider-man.”

The one in the white suit went next, “I’m Gwen Stacy,” Peter 3 stiffened at that, “Just call me Gwen, I’m Ghost Spider.”

The really cool suit guy spoke up, “I’m Miles Morales, Spider-man, I took over for my Peter Parker when he… died.” Stark stiffened at that.

The black and white guy, “Peter Benjamin Parker, Spider-man Noir.”

“We call him Noir or Benjamin to avoid mixing him up with B.” Miles stated.

“I’m Peni Parker, I’m genetically bonded to sp//dr,” she pats the robot behind her, “Don’t worry, he doesn’t bite unless you hurt him.” 

“I’m Peter Parker as well, and Spider-man. I don’t think Peter 2 is going to work here…?” 

“We’ll call you Tobey and Peter 3 is Andrew.” 

“Why those specific names?”

“That’s what you guys are called in my universe, anyway, introduce yourself please.”

“Umm, I’m Peter Parker, Spider-man, Call me Andrew, I think?”

“Is every Peter a spiderman?” One of the kiddies asked The kid.

“I don’t know, Flash, I’ve only known two of them for more than 5 minutes.”

“Well,” Gwen started, “it’s usually a Peter Parker that’s a Spider-Person, or some variation of Peter Parker, like Peni. Or it’s someone else taking the pedestal of Peter Parker or, like in my case, it’s someone close to Peter. It might be different in some universes, I don’t know.”

“Yep, there you go, anyway, continue the introductions.”

“I’m Peter Parker, Spider-Man also, from 2024, you can call me…” 

“Peter, just call him Peter, doesn’t matter. Or you can call him Tom, that’s what he’s called in my universe.”

Tony grimaced, “Peter’s better,” he agreed, “anyway I’m sure almost all of you know who I am, but there might be some that don’t—” He threw a look to the ones from the 1950’s— “I’m Tony Stark, Iron Man. 2023”

“You’re my son?” Howards asked, eyebrows shooting to the hairline.

“Unfortunately,” Tony replied flatly.

“Steve Rogers, Captain America. 2023”

“Steve, how are you alive? You still haven’t told us.” Peggy asked.

“Uhh, I was frozen when I crashed into the ocean, the serum kept me alive.”

“What about Sergeant Barnes?” Howard spoke up.

“I was kidnapped by Hydra, sort of maybe got brainwashed and became their weapon, they cyrofreezed me between missions so I didn’t age much. I also got Hydra’s version of the super soldier serum. Also, hey, I’m Bucky Barnes, White Wolf, nice to meet you. I’m from 2024”

“Sam Wilson, Falcon, Captain America, whatever you want. 2024” 

Steve smiled, “So you did accept the shield.”

Sam shrugged, “It was a hard choice, but better than John Walker I guess.”

Before Steve could ask who that was, the introductions started up again. “Wanda Maximoff, Scarlet Witch. 2024” 

“Pietro Maximoff, 2014, yeah that’s it.”

“Clint Barton, Hawkeye. 2024”

“I am Vision, I am a humanoid created by Anthony Stark, Bruce Banner, Thor and Helen Cho, 2018”

“Shuri, 2023, princess of Wakanda.”

“T’challa, 2023, King of Wakanda, Black Panther.”

“Natasha Romanov, Black Widow, 2023.”

“Yelena Belova, Also Black Widow, 2024.”

“Kate Bishop, 2024.”

“Pepper Potts, CEO of Stark Industries, 2023.”

“Thor Odinson, God of Thunder, 2024.”

“Loki, God of Mischief, 2018.”

“Dr. Strange, yes that is my real name, Sorcerer Supreme, 2023.”

“Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel, 2024.”

“Nick Fury, Director of SHIELD, 2024.”

“Maria Hill, 2024.”

“Howard Stark, 1950.”

“Peggy Carter, 1950.”

“Jason Wilkes, 1950.”

“Daniel Sousa, 1950.”

“Jack Thompson, 1950.”

“Scott Lang, Ant Man, 2024.”

“Hope Van Dyne, Wasp, 2024.”

“I am Mantis, 2024.”

“Rocket, 2024, I am not a racoon.”

“Peter Quill, Starlord, 2024.”

Ned leaned over to Peter. “Do people actually call him that?”

Peter shook his head, “No, but he gets hissy when we point that out.”

“Gamora, 2018.”

“Nebula, 2024.”

“I am Groot.”

“I am Drax, the Destroyer, 2024.”

“Is that really what people call him?” Pepper asked quietly, Tony shook his head.

“James Rhodes, War Machine, 2024.”

“Bruce Banner, the Hulk, 2024.”

“Brunnhilde, King of Asgard, 2024.”

“Betty Brant, 2016.”

“Flash Thompson, 2016.”

“Sally Avril, 2016.”

“Abe Brown, 2016.”

“Jason Ionello, 2016.”

“Cindy Moon, 2016.”

“Charles Murphy, 2016.”

“Michelle Jones, my friends call me MJ, call me Michelle, 2024.”

“Ned Leeds, 2024.”

“May Parker, 2024.”

“Happy Hogan, 2024.”

“Alright,” Author boomed, “Let’s get on with it.”

They were all transported into their seats, and so it began.

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[Comic pages flit through the screen. 

Iron Man is shown, his back facing the camera, the Hulk follows, Black Panther and Black widow appear. Ant Man and Starlord materialize. Thor is shown charging at the camera with his hammer and Groot is in the background. Captain America appears. A scene with him throwing his shield towards the camera while an explosion happens in the background. Asgard is shown. Wanda using her powers in 2014 is shown. Sam lands in his falcon wings. Doctor Strange and Hulk tearing things apart is shown. A scene from Civil war happens in the background. Scenes of Tony Stark. 

The camera is zoomed out to reveal. “MARVEL STUDIOS”]

“What is Marvel Studios?” Steve Rogers asked. 

“You guys are sort of fictional characters in my universe. You know how Star Wars has a franchise? You guys’ franchise is Marvel studios.” Author explained.

The audience quietly agreed to not question it. They already had enough crises, they didn’t need more by pushing it.

[Statesman overvoice: “This is the Asgardian refugee vessel Statesman. We are under assault, I repeat we are under assault.]

The asgardians collectively grimaced, they remembered this day clear as crystal.

“What’s happening?” Betty asked.

“You’ll see,” Thor said simply.

Statesman Overvoice: “The engines are dead, life support failing. Requesting aid from any vessel within range. We are 22 jump points out of Asgard. Our crew is made up of Asgardian families. We have very few soldiers here. This is not a warcraft, I repeat, this is not a warcraft.”

[The vessel is shown being attacked by enemy ships. 

On the inside of the vessel, an injured Heimdall is shown.]

Ebony Maw: Here me and rejoice, you have had the privilege of being saved by the great titan. 

Tony scoffs, “Saved.”

[He steps over dead or injured asgardians]

Ebony Maw: You may think this suffering. No, it is salvation. Universal scales tip toward balance because of your sacrifice.

“They’re insane,” Katy’s face twisted into a grimace.

“It gets worse, don’t worry.”

[His ugly ass face is shown]

Ebony Maw: Smile, for even in death, you have become children of thanos. 

[Loki is shown. Thanos’ back is turned towards the camera]

Thanos: I know what it’s like to lose. [He walks towards Loki] To feel so desperately that you’re right… [He stops] yet to fail, nonetheless. [He picks up Thor] It’s frightening, turns the legs to jelly. But I ask you, to what end? Dread it, run from it, destiny arrives all the same. [The children of Thanos appear to be keeping Loki from running. Thanos arrives near Loki] And now it’s here, or should I say… I am. [The power stone pulses. Thanos holds Thor by his head.]

Thor: You talk too much.

“Thor, shut up man, he’s literally about to kill you.” Clint tells him.

Thanos: The tesseract… Or your brother’s head. [He brings the power stone close to Thor’s head.]

Thanos: I assume you have a preference.

Loki: Oh I do. Kill away.

The Original Avengers besides Thor groan.

“Loki, come on man.” Tony was highly disappointed.

“Oh just watch.” Loki scoffs.

[Thanos presses the power stone to Thor’s head.]

“He’s going to die!” Mantis exclaims.

“Just watch,” Loki repeats.

[Loki’s eyes flit towards Thor who’s in very much pain.]

Loki: Alright, stop!

“Oh hey, you do have a bit of humanity left.” Clint remarks.

[Thanos lets go.]

Thor: We don’t have the Tesseract. It was destroyed on Asgard.

[The tesseract appears in Loki’s hand.]

Thor: You really are the worst brother.

“You aren’t,” Thor tells Loki.

[Loki approaches Thanos.]

Loki: I assure you brother, the sun will shine on us again.

Thanos: Your optimism is misplaced Asgardian.

Loki: Well, for one thing, I’m not Asgardian. And for another, We Have a Hulk.

“I wanna sue for copyright!”

“Shut up Stark!”

[Hulk crashes into Thanos as Loki dives towards Thor. Hulk and Thanos fight. Cull goes to fight but Maw stops him]

Ebony Maw: Let him have his fun.

“What?” Cindy asked incredulously.

[Thanos wrenches Hulk’s hands off of him and punches him. They fight, Thanos is totally winning. Thanos picks him up and smashes him to the ground.]

“Oh, my, god,” Flash breathed out in shock.

[Thor goes to hit Thanos and gets thrown away. Maw traps him in metal debris.]

Heimdall: Allfathers, let the dark magic flow through me one last time.

[Hulk is teleported to earth]

Thanos: That was a mistake.

[Thanos stabs him]

The audience screams with on-screen Thor.

Thor: You’re going to die for that.

[Thor is gagged.]

[Thanos breaks the tesseract and puts the power stone on his old ass looking gauntlet]

Thanos: There are two more stones on Earth. Find them, my children, and bring them to me on Titan.

Children of Thanos: Father we will not fail you.

Loki: If I might interject, if you’re going to Earth, you might want a tour guide.

“Ugh, what are you doing now?”

Loki: I do have a bit of experience in that arena.

Thanos: If you consider failure experience.

Loki: I consider experience experience. Almighty Thanos, I, Loki, Prince of Asgard Odinson, the rightful king of Jotunheim, God of Mischief, do hereby pledge to you- [Loki summons a dagger behind his back]

“A dagger?! What happened to your magic stuff?! You can’t kill Thanos with a fucking dagger!” Sam exclaimed.

“Maybe I wasn’t trying to kill him,” maybe I was trying to make sure Thor doesn’t die.

Loki: -my undying fidelity. [He goes to stab Thanos but is stopped by the space stone]

Thanos: Undying? [He grabs Loki’s hand] You should choose your words more carefully. [The dagger clatters to the ground.] 

[Thanos grabs Loki by the neck, slowly choking him. Thanos looks at Thor as Loki begins to struggle.]

Loki: You… Will never be.. A god.

[Loki’s neck cracks.]

Winces echo around the theater as Thor starts dissolving into tears, Loki awkwardly patting his back.

Thor: (muffled) NO!

[Thanos drops Loki’s body before Thor.]

Thanos: No resurrections this time.

[The ship starts getting destroyed and Thanos teleports out of there. Thor is left cradling Loki’s body]

Thor: No, Loki. [He starts sobbing over his brother’s body. The ship completely explodes.]

Loki’s eyes go wide, “You idiot!” He scolds Thor, “I sacrificed myself so Thanos leaves one of us alive and you just stay there?! In an exploding ship?! Why didn’t you save yourself!?” Thor has no answer.

[The scene changes to the bifrost carrying Hulk. It goes into the Earth’s atmosphere.]

Dr. Strange: Seriously? You don’t have any money?

Wong: Attachment to the material is detachment from the spiritual.

“Sure, but you still need money.” Steve said

Dr. Strange: I’ll tell the guys at the deli, maybe they’ll make you a metaphysical ham on rye.

Wong: Oh. Wait, wait, wait. I think I have two hundred.

Dr. Strange: Dollars?

Wong: Rupees

Dr. Strange: Which is?

Wong: Uh, buck and a half

Tony snorts, “What? The whole ‘protecting our reality’ thing doesn’t pay well?”

Strange sighs, frustrated.

Dr. Strange: Ugh, what do you want?

Wong: I wouldn’t say no to a tuna melt.

[Bruce crashes through the roof and makes a hole in the stairs.]

[Wong and Strange hurried over, Strange’s cloak coming over.]

[Hulk turns back into Bruce.]

Bruce: (fearfully) Thanos is coming, He’s coming.

[Strange and Wong look at each other.]

Strange: Who?

‘AVENGERS INFINITY WAR’

“Oh,” Tobey said, “Avengers, weren’t you talking about those guys earlier?”

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Everyone in the theater was very confused, and freaking out, they didn’t let it show, and they thought they were doing a good job.

The acadec team are literally in a room with a shit ton of heroes and they were watching a movie with them. This was the most unrealistic and exciting thing that had ever happened to them. They didn’t know how they were keeping their shit together.

And Peter was Spider-man, they didn’t know how to react to that, so they didn’t. They did  wonder how Flash felt now, he had been bullying his idol.

And now the multiverse was real, and there were different versions of Peter?

The ones from the 1950’s were confused, they didn’t understand how the movie looked so real and in color, they didn’t understand how Steve and Bucky were alive even if they explained it. They didn’t understand how Howard had a son. And now there were aliens but everyone acted like it was normal. But they kept quiet, maybe it would make sense later.

The Avengers were also kind of freaked. Apparently some of them had died. And honestly, they sort of knew, they were taken right from the moments they thought they would die.

Tony looked at Peter beside him, the kid looked so different. Gone was the joyful kid that would constantly make pop culture references. He looked so exhausted and sad. Tony wondered what happened after he died. He grasped the kid’s hand as a comforting gesture which Peter smiled at.

The spidey gang didn’t really have an opinion about all this. They didn’t know why they were here, they didn’t even know these people, but, might as well.

Tony Stark: Slow down, slow down, I’ll spell it out for you-

Pepper Potts: You’re totally rambling.

Tony: No, I’m not.

Pepper: You lost me.

[Tony and Pepper are walking through a park]

Tony: Look, you know how you’re having a dream, and in the dream you gotta pee.

Pepper: Yeah

Tony: Okay. And then you’re like “Oh my god, there’s no bathrooms, what am I gonna do? Oh someone’s watching-”

Pepper: Right

Tony: “Oh, I’m gonna go in my pants.”

“I’ve never had that,” Rocket said.

“Yeah, but you’re also a talking raccoon, so.”

Pepper: And then you wake up and in real life you actually have to pee. 

Tony: Yes.

Pepper: Yeah, everybody has that.

“I don’t,” Gamora and Nebula say at the same time.

“Yeah, but you’re aliens, so.”

Tony: Right, that’s the point I’m trying to make. Apropos that, last night, I dreamt we had a kid. It was so real.

A knowing smile stretched across the avengers’ faces (At least the ones that knew about Morgan, the others were just clueless.)

Tony: We named him after your eccentric uncle.

Tony snorts, “‘Him’.”

Tony: Uh, what was his name? 

Pepper: Right.

Tony: Morgan! Morgan.

Pepper: So you woke up-

Tony: Naturally

Pepper: and thought that we were…

Tony: Expecting. Yes?

Pepper: No.

Tony: I had a dream about it, it was so real!

Pepper: If you wanted to have a kid, [she opens the knot of Tony’s jacket’s sleeves] you wouldn’t have done that. [She taps the arc reactor.]

“What is that?” Howard asked.

“Arc reactor,” and Tony offered no further explanation.

Tony: I’m glad you brought this up because it’s nothing. It’s just a housing unit for nano particles.

Shuri snorts, “Nanoparticles? What year is this?”

“It was 2018.”

“2018? I figured out nanotechnology two years before that.”

Tony looks at T’challa, “Can I have her?”

T’challa playfully narrows his eyes and pulls Shuri into his side, “You will not be taking my sister away from me, Stark.”

“Yeah, what am I gonna do in your plain old lab anyway? Wakanda is so much better.”

“Wakanda?” Peggy spoke up, “Isn’t that the place where-”

“Where you white people stole our vibranium to make Captain America’s shield? Why yes, yes it is.” Shuri interrupted.

“I thought wakanda was a third world country?” Jason Wilkes spoke up.

“That’s what you think, we’re actually the most technologically evolved country on Earth.”

“Pay attention please,” Author spoke once again.

Pepper: You’re not helping your case, okay?

Tony: No, this is detachable, it’s not a…

Pepper: You don’t need that. 

Tony: I know I had the surgery, I’m just trying to protect us, and for future uses, that’s it. Just in case there’s a monster in the closet. Instead of, you know-

Pepper: Shirts.

Tony: You know me so well, you finish all my sentences.

Pepper: You should have shirts in your closet. 

Tony: Yeah, you know what there should be? No more surprises. We’re going to have a nice dinner tonight. Show off this Harry Winston. Right? And we should have no more surprises, ever. I should promise you.

“Guess we just can’t stop the surprises,” Pepper turns to Tony and kisses him.

Pepper: Yes.

Tony: I will.

[They kiss.]

Tony: Thank you.

Strange: Tony Stark.

[Strange walks through the portal.]

Strange: I’m Dr. Stephen Strange. I need you to come with me. Oh, uh, congratulations on the wedding, by the way.

“Yeah, congrats Tony,” Steve says.

Tony: I’m sorry, you giving out tickets to something?

Strange: We need your help. It’s not overselling it to say that the fate of the universe is at stake. 

“It’s really not overselling, damn,” Sam said, heaving a heavy sigh.

Tony: And who’s we?

[Bruce walks through the portal]

Bruce: Hey, Tony.

Tony: Bruce.

Bruce: Pepper.

Pepper: Hi.

Tony: You okay?

[Bruce hugs Tony.]

Wong: At the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then [There’s a short explosion] Boom! The big bang sent six elemental crystals hurtling across the virgin universe. [five stones are shown.] These infinity stones each control an essential aspect of existence. 

Strange: [The blue stone glows,] Space. [the red one glows,] Reality. [purple one glows,] Power. [orange one glows,] Soul. [The yellow one glows,] Mind. and Time, [He opens the Eye of Agamotto.]

Tony: Tell me his name again.

Bruce: Thanos. He’s a plague Tony. he invades planets, he takes what he wants. He wipes out half the population. He sent Loki, the attack on New York, that’s him.

Tony: This is it. What’s our timeline? 

Bruce: No telling, he has the power and space stones. That already makes him the strongest creature in the whole universe.

“I wouldn’t go as far as to say the strongest. I’m sure there are much stronger creatures than him. They just don’t care for mortal life.” Loki objected.

Bruce: If he gets his hands on all six stones, Tony…

Strange: He could destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of.

Tony: Did you seriously just say ‘hitherto undreamt of’?

Strange: Are you seriously leaning on the cauldron of the cosmos?

[Stange’s cloak slaps Tony and he shoots Strange an offended look.]

Tony: I’m going to allow that. If Thanos needs all six, why don’t we just stick this one down a garbage disposal?

Strange: No can do.

“We really should have, though,” Tony said.

Wong: We swore an oath to protect the time stone with our lives.

Tony: And I swore off dairy, then Ben & Jerry’s named a flavour after me.

Strange: Stark Raving Hazelnuts.

“What is that?” Nebula asks.

“Ice cream,” Tony answers.

“It sounds horrible.”

Snorts of laughter were let out by the Avengers.

“It’s good!”

Tony: Not bad.

Strange: A bit chalky.

“It’s not chalky!”

Wong: A hunk of hulk of burning fudge is our favorite.

Bruce: That’s a thing?

Tony: Whatever. Point is, things change.

Strange: Our oath to protect the time stone cannot change. And this stone may be the best chance we have against Thanos.

“No,” Tony objected, “Wanda, Carol, Thor and you were the best chance against Thanos, they were strong enough.”

Tony: Yeah, so conversely, it may also be his best chance against us.

Strange: Well if we don’t do our jobs.

Tony: What is your job, exactly, besides making balloon animals?

Strange: Protecting your reality, douchebag.

“Look at that, Tony found his ego soulmate,” Natasha said, drawing chuckles out of the avengers.

Bruce: Okay guys, could we table this discussion right now? The fact is that we have this stone. We know where it is. Vision is out there somewhere with the mind stone and we have to find him now. 

Tony: Yeah, that’s the thing. Vision turned off his transponder two weeks ago. He’s offline.

“I apologize.”

Bruce: What? Tony, you lost another superbot?

Tony: I didn’t lose him. He’s more than that. He’s evolving.

Vision smiled softly.

Strange: Who could find vision then?

Tony: Shit. Probably Steve Rogers.

Strange: Oh great.

Tony: Maybe. But…

“What happened? Why aren’t you calling him?” Howard asked.

“It’s alright, it’s my fault.”

Bruce: Call him.

Tony: It’s not that easy. God, we haven’t caught up in a spell, have we? The Avengers broke up, we’re toast.

Bruce: Broke up? Like a band? Like, like the beatles?

“Oh, I love the beatles!” Quill perked up.

“Everybody loves the Beatles, Quill.”

Tony: Cap and I fell out hard. We’re not on speaking terms.

Bruce: Tony, listen to me. Thor’s gone, Thanos is coming. It doesn’t matter who you’re talking to or not. 

[Tony walks away and takes out the phone Steve gave him. He goes to call Steve when he hears noises. Tony looks around.]

Tony: Say doc, you wouldn’t happen to be moving your hair, would ya?

Strange: Not at the moment, no.

[Wind blows. Tony snaps the flip phone shut and all four of them look at the door. Civilians are seen running and screaming through the glass. Tony walks out the sanctum looking around the chaos. A woman trips and Tony helps her up.]

Tony: Friday, what am I looking at?

“Who is friday?” Peggy asks.

“My AI. Jarvis used to be my AI, but an accident happened and I made Friday.”

“Jarvis? As in Edwin Jarvis?” Howard asks.

“Yeah, I named my Jarvis after him.”

FRIDAY: Not sure, working on it.

Tony: Hey! You might want to put that time stone in your back pocket, Doc!

Strange: I might want to use it.

[a huge donut ship is shown]

[Peter’s arm hairs stand up.]

“What was that?” Rocket asks.

“Oh umm, I have this sixth sense thing that alerts me of danger.”

“How would that even work?” Rocket presses.

“I don’t know, I don’t generally understand my powers.”

[Peter looks up then at the donut ship. He pats Ned to get his attention.]

Peter: Ned, hey, I need you to cause a distraction.

“No, kid, no, please just stay in the bus,” Tony pleaded, already knowing what’s going to  happen.

Ned: Holy shit. We’re all gonna die! [he gets up and moves to the windows] There’s a spaceship!

“Yeah, sure, that works,” Natasha muttered.

[They all rush to look at the ship. Peter snaps on his web shooters. He shoots a web at the emergency exit hatch and pulls. He jumps out through the exit.]

Stan Lee: What’s the matter with you kids, never seen a spaceship before?

“I know that guy, I’ve seen him before, I know it.” Tony points at the screen.

The rest of the theater mutters out their agreements.

“That is Stan Lee,” Author informs, “He created your universe.”

They all freeze, “Does that mean he’s god?” Steve says slowly.

“Sort of? He started the marvel universe and made most of you guys with his co-writers. He’s a legend on my Earth.”

Before anyone can say anything, the movie starts again.

[Peter puts on his mask on the side of the bus and grabs his bag.]

“How are you staying put on the side of a bus?” Quill was confused.

“I’m sticky?”

“Are you seriously putting on your mask on the side of a bus? Literally anyone could see you. I thought you wanted your identity to be a secret,” Tony scolded the kid. Which earned them both soft smiles from the audience.

Scott smirked at Clint and the archer smirked back. They both mouth ‘Dadvengers’ to each other.

[Peter jumped off the bridge and attached a web to swing, he did a mid air swing before shooting another web, he swung low enough to touch the water before resuming swinging towards the spaceship.]

“Awesome,” the kiddies (Besides MJ) breathed out. Their schoolmate was a superhero!

Tony: Friday, evac anyone south of 43rd street. Notify first responders. 

FRIDAY: Will do.

[Strange pushed the ship away from the ground and winked at Tony.]

 [Maw and Cull were beamed down to the ground. Maw began his stupid speech that I seriously do not want to write down.]

Tony: I’m sorry, Earth is closed today. You better pack it up and get outta here. 

Maw: Stonekeeper, does this chattering animal speak for you?

Clint snorted, “Chattering animal.”

Strange: Certainly not, I speak for myself. You are trespassing in this city and on this planet.

[Wong and Strange summon their magic circle thingies]

Tony: He means get lost, squidward. 

Maw: He exhausts me. Bring me the stone.

Tony: Banner, you want a piece?

Bruce: No, not really but when do I ever get what I want? Okay, push! [his neck turns green.]

Tony: It’s been a while. It’s gonna be good to have you buddy.

Bruce: Okay shh, let me just, I need to concentrate here for a second. Come on, come on man. 

[Cull smashes a car. Bruce still can't get the Hulk online.]

Tony: Where’s your guy?

Bruce: I don’t know, we’ve sorta been having a thing. 

Tony: It’s no time for a thing. That’s the thing right there [he points at Cull] Let’s go!

[Bruce still can’t transform.]

Tony: Dude, you’re embarrassing me in front of the wizards.

“You do enough of that on your own, Stark,” Strange remarked, smirking.

Bruce: I’m sorry, either I can’t or he won’t.

Tony: It’s okay. Hey, stand down. Keep an eye on him, thank you.

[Tony pulls the strings to his jacket and taps the arc reactor, the nanoparticles cover his body as he takes off his glasses and walks towards Cull]

“Awesome.” Katy says in awe.

[A shield forms as Cull hits him. He punches the giant and fires repulsors at him. Cull is thrown back. Maw pushed him to the side. The repulsors retract back into the suit.]

Bruce: Where’d that come from?

Tony: It’s nanotech. You like it? It’s a little something I-

[Tony is sent flying upwards by Maw. Maw throws trees at them and Wong forms a shield. Strange opens a portal behind Bruce.]

Strange: Dr. Banner, if the rest of your green friend won’t be joining us- 

[Bruce falls through the portal along with half of a taxi.]

“Ouch,” Bruce mutters half heartedly.

[Tony throws a car in Maw’s way, which is cut in half.]

Tony: Gotta get that stone out of here, now.

Strange: It stays with me.

Tony: Exactly, bye.

[Tony charges towards Maw before Cull throws his hammer thing at Tony. Tony lands in the park where Bruce rushes to him.]

Bruce: Tony, you okay? How are we doing? Bad? Good? 

Tony: Really, really good. Really good, you plan on helping out?

Bruce: I’m trying, he won’t come out.

[Cull throws his hammer at them again and Tony saves Bruce. Cull’s shield reflects Tony’s lasers. Bruce almost gets trampled by a tree.]

Bruce: Come on Hulk, what are you doing to me? [He slaps himself] Come out! Come out! Come out! [Half of his face turns green] NO!! [his face turns back] what do you mean, no?!

[Tony is fighting Cull and he gets thrown back. Cull goes to hit him with the hammer when Peter stops it.]

“Fuck yeah! You go kid!” Rocket cheers.

“How’d you catch his hammer?” Nebula asks.

“Super strength?”

Peter: Hey man. What’s up Mr. Stark?

Tony: Kid, where’d you come from?

Peter: Field trip to Mo - [Get thrown away by Cull]- MA!

[Tony shoots him with laser and Peter gets up, shooting his webs]

Peter: What’s this guy’s problem Mr. Stark? 

Tony: Uh, he’s from space, he came here to steal a necklace from a wizard.

“That’s one way to sum it up,” Pietro says.

[Peter gets caught in Cull’s hammer and is thrown away, Tony shoots lasers at the giant.]

May, Ned, MJ and Tony tense at the throw. 

Peter shoots a web towards a building and towards the half taxi. He throws the helf taxi towards Cull.]

[Maw, Strange and Wong are shown fighting. Maw traps Strange with bricks.]

Maw: Your powers are quaint, you must be popular with the children.

[Maw goes to grab the necklace but is burnt]

Strange: It’s a simple spell but quite unbreakable.

Maw: Then I’ll take it off your corpse.

[He throws Strange to the ground. Strange goes to use the time stone but is trapped with vines. The eye closes. A vine is wrapped around Strange’s neck and body.]

Strange: You’ll find removing a dead man’s spell quite troublesome. 

Maw: You’ll only wish you were dead. 

[The vine tightens and Strange passes out. Maw picks him up with the concrete. The cloak pulls him out of the bindings. They fly through the fight between Cull, Peter and Tony.]

Tony: Kid, that’s the wizard, get on it.

Peter: On it!

[Peter swings towards Maw and Strange but Maw throws an Ad board at peter.]

The audience collectively flinches.

[Peter resumes swinging towards them with a ‘not cool.’ The cloak is caught in a street light and Peter shoots a web at Strange.]

Peter: Gotcha.

Strange smiles, “Thanks kid.” He’s rewarded by Peter’s beaming face.

[Strange just caught in the beam causing Peter to be pulled towards him as well. Peter holds onto a street light but Maw rips the pole out of the ground. Now Peter, Strange and the cloak were being pulled up.]

Peter: uh, Mr. Stark, I’m being beamed up.

Tony: Hang on, kid.

[Cull goes to stab Tony when he is teleported to somewhere snowy. Wong waits until Cull’s hand is through the portal to close it, causing Cull’s hand to be cut off.]

Tony: Wong you’re invited to my wedding.

[He flies up. Peter is shown sticking to the donut ship.]

Tony: Give me a little juice friday. [He flies faster] Unlock 17-A

[Peter is crawling up the ship, his breath coming out in little pants.]

Tony: Pete, you gotta let go, I’m gonna catch you.

“Let go, Peter,” May says fearfully.

Peter: But you said save the wizard!

“No, going to space is not what I meant!”

Peter: [taking off his mask] I can’t breathe.

Tony: We’re too high up, you’re running out of air.

Peter: Yeah, that makes sense.

[17-A flies past Tony and Peter starts falling.]

“No!” May, Mj, Ned, Andrew and Tobey exclaimed.

[The nanoparticles spread across Peter’s body and the iron spider suit activates.]

KAREN: Iron spider suit online, welcome Peter.

“Who is that?” Miles asks.

“She’s Karen, she used to be my AI.”

“Used to?” Tony asked, “She is your AI.”

Peter looked at Tony for a moment before pursing his lips and nodding, “Right, yeah.”

Tony’s expression scrunched up in confusion.

Peter: Mr. Stark, it smells like a new car in here!

The audience chuckles at the statement.

Tony: Happy trails kid, Friday, send him home.

FRIDAY: Yep.

[A parachute opens at the back of Peter’s suit.]

Peter: Oh, come on-!

May let out a sigh, “Thank god.”

Tony snorts, “You’re not going to like what happens next.” Peter turns pink in his seat.

May lets out another sigh, one of frustration this time, what did he do?

[Tony makes a hole in the ship and goes inside.]

FRIDAY: Boss, incoming call from Miss Potts.

Pepper: Tony? Oh my god, are you alright? What’s going on?

The audience winces at the worry in Pepper’s voice, she was terrified.

Tony: Yeah, I’m fine. Just think we might have to push our 8:30 res. 

Pepper: Why?

Tony: Just cause I’ll probably not make it back for a while. 

Pepper: Tell me you’re not on that ship.

Tony: Yeah.

Pepper: God, please tell me you’re not on that ship.

Tony: Honey, I’m sorry. I’m sorry, I don’t know what to say.

Pepper clutched her husband’s hand tight, tearing up.

Pepper: Come back here Tony, I swear to god. Come back right now.

FRIDAY: Boss we’re losing her.

[Peter was zoomed in on, hanging to the ship with his web.]

“Peter Parker, what the fuck?” May got up from her seat.

The people who had witnessed May’s wrath silently prayed for him. Peter got up and started back crawling from seat to seat. “Alright, May, I know how bad that looked-”

“Peter,” May started walking towards him, alarmingly calm.

“Mr. Stark?” Peter called out.

“Sorry kid,” Tony had experienced angry aunt when she found out about Peter being Spiderman and that was when he decided to never provoke her even a little bit.

“Alrighty,” Peter and May suddenly reappeared in their seats, “As much as I’d love to see that, movie first.”

Peter: Oh my god! [He climbs on and the doors start closing] I should’ve stayed on the bus.

“Yeah! Yeah, you should have!” Tony scolded.

Chapter Text

Loki was quite unfazed by the whole watching a literal movie about their lives. Weirder things had happened, the key is to appear calm… while wreaking a hellstorm on the inside.

He had just watched himself die… perhaps this was the state that the mortals called ‘So stressed that I’m calm.’

He surveyed the room for the umpeenth time. 

The avengers had gotten new members, the red haired woman seemed particularly strong. 

He looked over to the oddballs that introduced themselves as the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ a pretentious name if you ask him, two of them were even daughters of Thanos! Loki decided to steer clear of them for the time being. 

His gaze flitted over to the eye-patched man and his blonde friend, she seemed powerful as well, weaker than the redhead, but powerful nevertheless. 

There were children as well, there was nothing special about any of them, Loki didn’t understand why they were here, but didn’t question it out loud.

The people at the top were simply not cared about by Loki. A few of them seemed to have connections with Stark, Rogers or the man with the metal arm but it still wasn’t good enough. The brunette woman had a leader-like aura around her, and the man with a bad mustache (Tony’s dad) seemed to be intelligent, for his time.

The spider-child next to Stark seemed strong, he was quite young for a warrior, though. It almost made Loki worried. The child on-screen seemed youthful and carefree. The child behind Loki seemed drained, like everyone he cared about had vanished, slipped through his grasp.

The spider… people in front of Loki were quite strong as well, half of them were children too.

The movie unpaused.

[the screen showed Maw jumping through a jump point.]

[back on earth, the flip phone was shown lying on the ground. Bruce picked it up, as wong opened a portal]

Bruce: Where you going?

Wong: Time stone’s been taken, the sanctum remains unguarded. What will you do? 

Bruce: I’m gonna make a call. 

[wong nods and closes the portal.

The changes to the guardians. 

‘SPACE’

Rubberband man starts playing

“Is- is that the spinners?” Cindy asked.

“Yep,”Quill said proudly.

[Quill is lip syncing the lyrics]

Quill: Sing it Drax!

Drax: [Sleeping]

[Gamora is lip syncing the lyrics too

Rocket yawns]

Rocket: Why are we doing this again?

Gamora: It’s a distress signal, Rocket. Someone could be dying. 

Rocket: I get that, but why are we doing it?

Quill: Cause we’re nice. And maybe whoever it is will give us a little cheddar cheese for our effort. 

“Quill,” Thor said, “Seriously?”

“I’m sorry!”

Gamora: Which isn’t the point.

Quill: Which isn’t the point. I mean, if he doesn’t pony up-

Drax: We take his ship.

“What ship!?” Thor exclaimed.

“I apologize,” Drax said, staring at Thor.

Rocket: Exactly!

Quill: Bingo!

Rocket: All right!

[Gamora andQuill looked at each other,Quill shook his head.]

Mantis: We are arriving.

Quill: Alright guardians, don’t forget, this might be dangerous so let’s put on our mean faces.

[Groot is shown playing arcade defender.]

Quill: Groot, put that thing away, now, I don’t want to tell you again.

Clint and Scott smirked at each other again.

Quill: Groot.

Groot: I am Groot.

[Shocked exclamations came from the guardians.]

“I don’t get it, he just said, ‘I am Groot’?” Kate asked.

“Groot’s vocabulary extends as far as ‘I,’ and ‘am,’ and ‘Groot,’ specifically in that order.”

Quill: You got some acorns on you, kid.

Rocket: Ever since you got a little sap, you’re a total d-hole. Now, keep it up and I’m gonna smash that thing to pieces. 

[The guardians arrived at the ruins of the refugee vessel.]

Mantis: What happened?

Quill: Oh my god.

Rocket: Looks like we’re not getting paid. 

[Thor lands on the ship’s window]

Rocket: Wipers! Wipers! Get it off

[Thor opens his eye.

He is put on the table, rocket sniffs him.]

Quill: How the hell is this dude still alive?

Drax: He is not a dude. You’re a dude. This is a man, a handsome, muscular man.

Quill: I’m muscular.

“You’re really not.”

Rocket: Who are you kidding,Quill? You’re one sandwich away from fat.

Barely concealed laughter echoes around the theater.

Quill: Yeah, right.

Drax: It’s trueQuill, you have put on weight.

Quill: What?

[drax motions to his chin and stomach.]

Quill: Gamora, do you think I’m-

[mantis uses her powers on Thor]

Mantis: He is anxious, angry. He feels tremendous loss and guilt.

“How do you do that?” Ned asked, amazed.

“I can sense others' emotions, and alter them.”

Drax: It’s like a pirate had a baby with an angel.

[Gamora starts caressing Thor’s arm.]

Quill: Wow, this is a real wake up call for me. Okay, I’m gonna get a bowflex, I’m gonna commit. I’m gonna get some dumbbells.

Rocket: You know you can’t eat dumbbells, right?

Gamora: It’s like his muscles are made of cotati metal fibers.

Loki scrunched his nose up in disgust and Thor just beamed at the compliment (?)

Quill: Stop massaging his muscles.

Amused chuckles echoed throughout the audience.

Quill: [Looks at Mantis] Wake him up.

Mantis: Wake.

[Thor jerks up violently, earning shocked exclamations from the guardians.]

Thor: Who the hell are you guys?

[time skip]

Gamora: The entire time I knew Thanos, he only ever had one goal. To bring ‘balance’ to the universe by wiping out half of all life. 

The spidey and the 1950’s gang’s eyes widened. “Wow,” Andrew said, he looked over to mini-peter, he couldn’t believe that’s what he fought against.

Gamora: He used to kill people, planet by planet, massacre by massacre.

Drax: Including my own.

Gamora: If he gets all six infinity stones he can do it with the snap of his fingers like this [she snaps her fingers.]

Thor: You seem to know a great deal about Thanos.

Drax: Gamora is the daughter of Thanos. 

Thor: Your father killed my brother.

“Thor.”

“It’s alright, I did not do anything reckless.”

[Thor gets up and walks over to her.]

Quill: Step-father, technically and she hates him as much as you do.

[Thor puts a hand on her shoulder.]

Thor: Families can be tough. Before my father died, he told me that I had a half-sister that he imprisoned in Hel. then she returned home and stabbed me in the eye. So I had to kill her.

“Okayyyy, that- that’s quite a lot to unpack there buddy.” Pietro laughs nervously because ‘what the fuck.’

[Quill scowls at Thor’s hand on Gamora’s shoulder] 

Thor: That’s life though, isn’t it? I guess. Goes round and round. I feel your pain.

Quill: I feel your pain as well, because— I mean it’s not a competition but [Gamora walks away] I’ve been through a lot. My father killed my mother and then I had to kill my father. That was hard.

“Your dad, killed your mom?” Flash asked. What was wrong with these people?

“Yeah, he was also a planet.”

“Okay, everyone stop talking, this is way too much. I’m still processing Thor getting his eye stabbed by his sister,” Rhodey called out.

[Quill keeps talking.]

Thor: I need a hammer, not a spoon. [he walks away] How do I open this thing? Is there some sort of, uh… [He goes to the screen] A four digit code, maybe? Maybe a birthdate.

Rocket: Uh, what are you doing?

Thor: Taking your pod.

“You say that like it’s just something casual,” Bruce commented.

[Quill starts making an idiot out of himself until Gamora interrupts]

Gamora: We need to stop Thanos. Which means we need to find out where he’s going next. 

Thor: [walking past Gamora] Knowhere.

Mantis: He must be going somewhere. 

Quill: No, no, Knowhere? It’s a place, we’ve been there, it sucks.

“What’s Knowhere?” Kate asks.

“It’s the decapitated head of a celestial,” Gamora explains.

Quill: Excuse me, that’s our food.

Thor: Not anymore.

Gamora: Thor, why would he go to Knowhere?

Thor: Because for years, the reality stone’s been safely stored there with a man called the Collector.

Quill: If it’s with the collector, then it’s not safe. Only an idiot would give that man a stone.

Thor: Or a genius.

Gamora: How do you know he’s not going after one of the other stones?

Thor: There are six stones out there. Thanos already has the power stone because he stole it last week when he decimated xandar. He stole the space stone from me when he destroyed my ship and slaughtered half my people. The time and mind stones are safe on Earth, they’re with the avengers.

Quill: The avengers?

Thor: Earth’s mightiest heroes.

Mantis: Like Kevin bacon?

“Who’s Kevin Bacon?” and Quill makes a highly offended face in response.

Thor: He may be on the team. I don’t know, I haven’t been there in a while. As for the soul stone, well, no one’s ever seen that. No one even knows where it is, therefore Thanos can’t get it, therefore he’s going to knowhere, hence, he’ll be getting the reality stone. You’re welcome.

Gamora: Then we have to go to Knowhere now. 

Thor: Wrong, where we have to go is Nidavellir. 

Drax: That’s a made up word.

Thor: All words are made up.

Rocket: Nidavellir is real? Seriously? That place is a legend. They make the most powerful, horrific weapons to ever torment the universe. I would very much like to go there please.

Thor: The rabbit is correct and clearly the smartest among you. Only Eirtri the dwarf can make me the weapon I need. [To Rocket] I assume you’re the captain, sir.

Rocket: You’re very perceptive.

Thor: You seem like a noble leader, will you join me on my quest to nidavellir?

Rocket: Let me just ask the captain. Oh, wait a second, it’s me! Yeah, I’ll go

“You let that go to your head, it was my ship,”Quill gritted out.

“Oh, get over it!”

Thor: Wonderful!

Quill: Except for that I’m the captain.

Thor: Quiet.

Quill: That’s my backpack.

Rocket: Go sit down.

Quill: Look, this is my ship, and I’m not going to… Wait, what kinda weapon are we talkin’ about here?

Thor: The Thanos killing kind.

Quill: Don’t you think that we should all have a weapon like that?

Thor: No, you simply lack the strength to wield them. Your bodies would crumble as your minds collapsed into madness.

Rocket: Is it weird that I want to do it even more now?

“...Yes,” Steve replied with a sigh.

Thor: Mmm, a little bit, yeah.

Gamora: If we don’t go to Knowhere and Thanos retrieves another stone, he’ll be too powerful to stop. 

Thor: He already is.

“Mmm, Wanda could take him,” Clint remarked.

Rocket: I got it figured out. We got two ships, and a large assortment of morons. So me and Groot will go with the pirate angel here [he motions to Thor] and the morons will go to Knowhere to try to stop Thanos [Gamora walks away] Cool? Cool

Thor: [Smiling] So cool. 

Quill: For the record, I know that you’re going with him because it’s where Thanos isn’t. 

“Cause you’re a coward, and you know it.”

Rocket: You know, you really shouldn’t talk that way to your captain,Quill. Come on groot [groot starts walking towards them, still on his game] Put that game down, you’ll rot your brain.

[They get into the pod.]

Thor: Bid you good luck and farewell, morons.

“You know,” Tony started, “Sometimes, I really forget how much of an asshole you are sometimes.”

“What did I ever do to you, Stark?”

“You tried to smash my head in, the first time we met.” The avengers that were there tried to hold in their laughter at the memory.

“We had a bit of a misunderstanding there.”

“You hit me with your lightning,” Tony deadpanned, “Lightning, Thor, Lightning.”

“It charged your suit?”

“Lightning,” he repeated.

“I apologize?”

“Fuck you.”

Andrew and Tobey looked at mini-them in concern, this was the team he was in? Mini-Peter just waved off their concerns with a small smile, the older Peters relaxed a bit.

[The pod takes off, leaving the remaining guardians there.]

Chapter Text

[The scene switches to a bedroom. Vision opens the curtains. Wanda is sitting on the bed. A pulse sounds and Vision’s hand goes to his forehead, he gasps in pain. Wanda looks up]

Wanda: Vis? [Vision’s finger is on the mind stone glowing in the middle of his human forehead.] Is it the stone again?

Vision: It’s as if it’s speaking to me.

[Wanda walks over to him]

Wanda: What does it say?

Vision: I don’t… I don’t know, but something. 

[Wanda’s hands go up to Vision’s face when the stone glows brighter. Vision kisses her hand.]

“Umm, why is he kissing your hand?” Pietro pointed to the screen and looked at Wanda.

Wanda turns a light shade of pink and pushes her brother’s head to the screen, “Just watch.”

[Vision holds up her hand to the stone.]

Vision: Tell me what you feel.

[Wanda uses her powers]

Wanda: I just feel you. 

Wanda tears up, remembering what Vision said before he died.

[Vision holds her face in his hands and they both connect their lips in a soft kiss.]

“What the fuck,” Pietro says with a flat face, he looks at his sister. “What, the, fuck? Did you just kiss the Vision? What’s next? You’re marrying a microwave?”

Wanda scoffs, “That’s rude.” She takes Vision’s hand in hers and leans towards him, shooting her brother a nasty look.

Pietro throws his hand up and looks back at the screen with a scoff.

[The scene changes. They are now walking in the street, hand-in-hand.

‘SCOTLAND’]

Wanda: So, there’s a 10:00 am to Glasgow which would give us more time together before you went back. 

Vision: What if I missed that train?

Wanda: There's an eleven.

Vision: What if I missed all the trains? [They stop walking, he smiles at her] What if this time, I didn’t go back?

Wanda: But you gave Stark your word.

Vision: I’d rather give it to you.

“Harsh,” Tony said, “Predictable, but harsh.”

Wanda: Well, there are people who are expecting me too, you know. We both made promises.

Vision: Not to each other. Wanda, for two years, we’ve stolen these moments, trying to see if this could work and… I don’t know. You know what, I’m just gonna speak for myself. I- I think, I- I think-

Wanda: It works.

Vision: It works.

“I cannot believe I’m actually seeing Vision stutter,” Natasha chuckled, the other avengers laughed in agreement.

[they both smile at each other.]

Vision: Stay. Stay with me.

[Wanda hesitates.]

Vision: Or not. If I’m overstepping-

“Aww, Vision, you’re so adorable!” Tony teases, the other Avengers nodding in agreement.

[He gets cut off by Wanda walking towards a screen. The screen displays New York getting attacked.]

Wanda: What are they? 

Vision: What the stone was warning me about. 

[Vision looks at Wanda and kisses her hand.]

Vision: I have to go. 

Wanda: No, Vision. Vision, if that’s true, then maybe going isn’t the best idea.

Vision: Wanda, I- 

[Vision gets stabbed and transforms back to his android form. Corvus  Glaive throws Vision aside and growls at Wanda. Wanda goes to use her powers but is blasted away by Proxima Midnight. Wanda crashes into a glass window.

Corvus tries to remove the mind stone from Vision but Wanda blasts them both away. Wanda lifts Vision and flies away with him. She crashes on the ground and stops Vision from crashing too, she pulls him towards her and helps him sit down somewhere else.]

Vision: The blade, it stopped me from phasing. 

“But, aren’t you made of vibranium?” Jason asked.

“There are stronger substances in the world than vibranium,” Vision answered.

Wanda: Is that even possible? 

Vision: It isn’t supposed to be. My systems are failing. 

[Wanda tries to stitch up his stab wound]

Vision: I’m beginning to think we should have stayed in bed.

[Corvus comes towards them again and Vision pushes Wanda away. Vision and Corvus start fighting. Proxima charges at Wanda and they both start fighting as well.]

Corvus: Give up the stone, and she lives.

[Vision flies and smashes Corvus into a building.

The scene switches to Wanda and Proxima fighting. Wanda get blasted off again, she uses her powers to cushion her fall.]

Pietro and Vision tense at that.

[Proxima goes to stab her, but is stopped by Wanda’s powers.

The scene switches to Vision and Corvus again. Vision throws him across the roof and fires a beam at him. Corvus reflects the beam with his weapon.]

The audience tenses.

[Corvus reflects the beam back to Vision and Vision is thrown against the wall. 

Wanda hears Vision’s yell and throws Proxima at the burning vehicle. 

She flies up to Vision. 

Corvus is attempting to remove the stone again.]

Wanda: Hands off.

[Corvus is sent flying into a window.]

The audience cheers.

[Wanda supports Vision and flies off the rooftop. Proxima fires a beam at her, causing them both to fall and crash into a train station. Wanda walks towards Vision.]

Wanda: Come on, come on. Come on, you gotta get up. You gotta get up. Come on, hey. [Vision falls down against the railings.] Hey, we have to go.

[Vision shakes his head, and holds up his hand to Wanda’s face.]

Vision: Please, please leave.

The audience wince at Vision’s begging.

Wanda: You asked me to stay, I’m staying.

Vision: Please. 

[Proxima comes crashing down, followed by Corvus. Wanda stands in front of Vision, her powers activating. 

A train goes past, Proxima and Wanda look at it. 

A figure is seen after the train leaves.

Proxima throws her staff at it, but the man catches it. Steve Rogers comes into the light]

The audience cheer rather loudly.

[Sam flies in and kicks Proxima into a store. He fires missiles at Corvus. 

Steve throws the staff and Natasha catches it. She charges towards Corvus and stabs him. She kicks him away and the staff is pulled away from her towards Proxima. 

Steve takes Corvus’ staff and blocks Proxima’s attack with it. Natasha and him engage in a fight with Proxima.

Sam kicks her towards Corvus and points his guns at her.]

Proxima: Get up.

Corvus: I can’t.

Natasha: We don’t wanna kill you, but we will.

Proxima: You’ll never get the chance again. 

[They’re beamed up. The staff in Steve’s hand is taken as well.

The ship disappears.

The rogues walk towards Vision and Wanda.]

Sam: Can you stand? [Sam helps Vision up.]

Vision: Thank you, captain.

Steve: (nods with a small smile) Let’s get you on the jet.

[the jet takes off]

Natasha: Now, I thought we had a deal. Stay close, check in, don’t take any chances.

Wanda: I’m sorry. We just wanted time. 

Sam: Where to, cap?

Steve: Home.

Chapter Text

Nick Fury did not trust anyone in this room. But then again, when did he trust anyone? 

He kept his defenses up high and alert, it was nice to Carol again, he’ll admit. And Goose in his arms, purring, that was nice too.

But how dare he be a fun person? He gave everyone in the room a stink eye, especially Loki.

The kid beside Stark seemed to not like him, (This Fury is before the Mysterio bullshit.) But then again, most people didn’t. This kid seemed to have a personal grudge against him. But then again , most people did.

[There were shaky breaths and a shush]

Woman: We’ll be safe, we’ll be safe.

Gamora tensed at the woman’s face.

[Behind the door, there were screams, energy blasts and people running.

The woman held a younger Gamora. There was an explosion and the woman put her hand on Gamora’s mouth when she screamed. 

A soldier burst in and the woman screamed.

Leviathans flew in the air and the Z ehobereians were being killed by Thanos’ soldiers.]

Maw: Zehobereians-

Gamora: [Being dragged away by a soldier] Mother! Where’s my mother!?

Maw: -Choose a side, or die.

[the soldiers were dividing people.]

Gamora: Mother! [Hits the soldier’s arm]

Maw: One side is a revelation, [the soldier leaves] the other an honor known only to a few.

[Thanos approaches Gamora.]

Thanos: What’s wrong, little one?

Gamora: My mother, where’s my mother?

[Thanos crouches down to her level.]

Thanos: What’s your name?

Gamora: Gamora.

“Oh, that’s you,” Peter muttered quietly, glancing at Gamora. She was staring at the screen with her jaw clenched.

Thanos: You’re quite the fighter, Gamora. [holds out his hand] Come, let me help you.

Quill looks at Gamora and holds her hand.

[Gamora looks at his hand and holds his finger. They both walk towards a temple. Thanos crouches again, he pulls out a knife.]

Thanos: Look, [It opens] Pretty, isn’t it? [He holds it on one finger] Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. Not too much to one side or the other. [He hands it to her.] Here, you try.

[She takes the knife.]

Maw: Now, go in peace to meet your maker.

[She tries to balance it. 

Thanos’ soldiers kill her people behind her. Gamora goes to look because of the screams, but Thanos stops her.]

Thanos: Uh uh, concentrate. [She balances it] there. You've got it.

[The scene switches to grown up Gamora with the same knife.]

Quill: Gamora. Do you know if these grenades are the blow-off-your-junk kind or the gas kind? Because I was thinking about hanging a couple on my belt right here. But I don’t want to if they’re the-

Gamora: I need to ask a favour.

Quill: Yeah, sure.

Gamora: One way or another the path that we’re on leads to Thanos.

Quill: Which is what the grenades are for. [Gamora looks at him with an unimpressed face] Um, I’m sorry, what’s the favour?

Gamora: If things go wrong- If Thanos gets me. I want you to promise me you’ll kill me.

“Woah! Woah, woah, let’s take a step back,” Rocket exclaimed, “You asked this idiot to kill you?”

“Just watch, Rocket.”

Quill: What?

Gamora: I know something he doesn’t. [She walks away] And if he finds it out, the entire universe could be at risk.

Quill: What do you know?

Gamora: If I tell you, you’d know too.

[He walks towards her]

Quill: If it’s so important, shouldn’t I?

Gamora: Only if you want to die.

Quill: Why does somebody always have to die in this scenario?

[She gets close to him]

Gamora: Just, trust me. And possibly kill me.

Quill: I mean, I’d like to. I really would. But you- [Gamora covers his mouth.]

Gamora: Swear to me. Swear to me on your mother. [her hand slips off]

Quill: Okay.

[They kiss.

A crunch is heard and they look towards the sound.

Drax is standing there.]

“Seriously?”

“Drax.”

“How’d you guys not notice him?”

“He can turn invisible, apparently.”

“Wait, really?”

“Yes.”

“No.”

“Yes, I can.”

“No, he can not, don’t listen to him. He likes to think that he’s stronger than everybody.”

Quill: Dude, how long have you been standing there?

Drax: An hour.

Quill: An hour?

Gamora: Are you serious?

Drax: I’ve mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still, that I become invisible to the eye. Watch.

[he stands still before slowly moving to eat his Zarg-nut.]

Quill: You- you’re eating a Zarg-nut.

Drax: But my movement was so slow that it’s imperceptible. [They both shake their heads at that.] I’m sure that I’m invisible.

Mantis: Hi Drax. [Mantis walks in with a smile.]

Drax: Damn it. [He walks away.]

Chuckles echo around the theater.

[the ship arrives at Knowhere]

“Ew,” Kate and Peter say at the same time at the sight of the head.

[‘KNOWHERE’

Quill: This place looks deserted. 

Drax: I’m reading movement in the third quadrant.

Quill: Yep, picking that up too. Let’s put down right here..

[they exist the ship.

They’re seen sneaking into the Collectors place.]

Collector: I don’t have it. 

[They walk in quietly

Thanos: Everyone in the galaxy knows you’d sell your own brother if you thought it would add even the slightest trinket to your pathetic collection.

[Quill holds up his hand as a sign to stop, but they keep walking anyway.]

Thanos: I know you have the reality stone, Tivan. [Thanos is seen walking towards Tivan.] Giving it to me will spare you a great deal of suffering. [He steps on Tivan.]

Tivan: (Wheezing and choking) I told you. I sold it. Why would I lie?

Thanos: I imagine it’s like breathing for you.

Tivan: Like suicide.

Thanos: You do understand. Not even you would surrender something so precious.

Tivan: I didn’t know what it was.

Thanos: Then you’re more a fool than I took you for.

Drax: It’s him.

Thanos: Last chance, Charlatan. [He applied more pressure] Where’s the stone?

Drax: Today…

Quill: Drax, Drax.

Drax: …He pays for the deaths of my wife and daughter.

The audience was shouting out their protests at this point.

Quill: Drax, wait.

[Drax pulls out his weapon.]

Quill: Not yet, not yet, not yet. Drax.

[Drax walks away and Quill follows him. He tries to stop the destroyer.]

Quill: Listen to me, he doesn’t have the stone yet. If we get it, we can stop him. We have to get the stone first. 

Drax: No. No, for Ovette, for Camaria. [Drax pushes past and Mantis puts him to sleep.]

The audience lets out sighs of relief before:

[Drax falls forward with a loud noise.]

There were shouts of frustration let out now.

[The guardians duck and Thanos looks their way.

Thanos lifts Tivan up and throws him aside.

He walks toward them.]

Quill: Okay. Gamora, Mantis, you go right. [Gamora leaves, not listening to quill.] The other right.

[Gamora charges towards him with a yell and swings her weapon at him. 

She tries again but Thanos stops it and snaps it in half.

Gamora stabs him in the neck with the remaining part.

She takes out the knife Thanos gave her and stabs him in the heart. 

Thanos holds the knife.]

Thanos: Why? [He falls to the ground.]

“Is he seriously asking her the reason right now?! With all the shit he put her through?!”

[Gamora’s face twists into sadness.]

Thanos: Why you, daughter?

“Bitch,” Nebula spits out, glaring at the screen.

[He holds out his hand as Gamora dissolves into sobs.]

“Wait, he’s dead!” The people who do not know what happens dissolve into cheers.

“Calm your asses,” Author says, “There’s still, like an hour and forty minutes left.”

The people calm down and imagine all the things that could happen next.

Quill: That was quick.

[Tivan bursts into claps and cheers.]

Thanos: Is that sadness I sense in you, daughter? In my heart, I knew you still cared.

[Everything turns into how it actually was. Fake Thanos disappears and everything turns out destroyed.]

Thanos: Reality is often disappointing. [Real Thanos appears.] That is, it was. Now, [the reality stone glows] reality can be whatever I want.

Gamora: You knew I’d come.

Thanos: I counted on it. There’s something we need to discuss, little one.

[Gamora reached for her weapon but Thanos grabbed her by the neck.]

Drax: THANOS!!!

[The reality stone glows and Drax is turned into shapes, Mantis is turned into thin stripes.]

“What sort of mind fuckery is this!?” Howard was very freaked out right now.

Quill: [Pointing a gun at Thanos] Let her go, grimace.

Gamora: Peter.

“Wait!” Jason called out and the movie paused. “I completely forgot about it! You’re Peter Quill!”

“Yeah?” What was the kiddie saying?

After a beat, the rest of the acadec team’s eyes widened and their head’s snapped towards Quill.

“Dude!” Cindy yelled.

“You’re that guy who disappeared without a trace! You were one of the biggest missing persons cases. There’s a Buzzfeed unsolved video about you!” Sally said with wide eyes.

“What’s Buzzfeed unsolved?”

“Oh my god,” Ned said, his voice turning into a higher pitch. He looked at Peter, “Why didn’t you tell me you met Peter Quill!?” Without giving Peter a chance to answer, he looked back at Quill. “Were you really kidnapped by aliens?”

All the kiddies gave him expectant looks, “Yes?”

Kate, Shuri and Peter got up with wide eyes. All three gasped loudly, “Ryan was right!” they yelled simultaneously.

A look of horror crossed through Clint, T’challa and Tony’s faces. 

“There’s more of him,” Tony muttered, which Clint and T’challa followed with their own “There’s more of her,” together.

Quill just stared at the kiddies, terrified. He didn’t understand anything they were saying. Tony, Clint and T’challa stared at the man with a pitiful and understanding look.

Most of the people in the theater had no idea what they were talking about either. But the ones that did, did.

Quill: I told you to go right.

Gamora: Now? Really?

Quill: You let her go!

Thanos: Ah, the boyfriend. 

Quill: No, I like to think of myself more as a Titan-killing long term booty call. Let her go.

Gamora: Peter. 

Quill: I’m gonna blow that nutsack of a chin right off your face.

Gamora: Not him. [they stare at each other for a moment.] You promised. You promised.

[Quill moves his gun towards Gamora.]

Thanos: Oh daughter. You expect too much from him. She’s asked, hasn’t she? Do it. [he pushes her towards the barrel of his gun.] Do it!

Quill: [Tearing up] I told you to go right.

Gamora: I love you more than anything.

Quill: I love you too.

“Quill, don’t you dare.”

[Quill fires the gun but only bubbles come out, his gun disappears into bubbles as well.]

Thanos: I like him. [Uses the space to portal out.

Quill is left alone, looking lost.

Drax and Mantis get up, turning back to normal.

Quill kneels down to get Gamora’s sword.]

Well, fuck , thinks about literally every person in the room.

Chapter Text

Peter Parker was tired, he couldn’t make out if this was a dream or a hallucination. Maybe Mysterio hadn't really died and now he was just looking at his illusions. But it felt so real, it felt like Mr. Stark’s warmth, like May’s smile. And even if it wasn’t real, he didn’t think he’d want to leave.

He lost everybody, but now, they’re all here. Everyone forgot that Peter Parker existed, but they all knew who Peter Parker is. And it felt good, it made him want to melt into tears and just unbox all the inside stuff.

[The Quinjet landed at the compound.

The scene switches to Rhodey.]

Ross: Still no word from vision?

Rhodey: Satellites lost him somewhere over Edinburgh.

Ross: On a stolen quinjet with four of the world’s most wanted criminals.

“Criminals?” Peggy asked, “Steve, what?”

“Uhhhhh.” The Avengers snorted and looked at Steve expectantly.

“Yeah, Cap, tell her what.”

“Well, I sort of didn’t sign a document and went against everything it stands for. So, now I’m a war criminal,” he finished off with a grin and sat back down.

“Yeah, okay, sure, that’s everything ,” Natasha says.

Rhodey: You know they’re only criminals because you’ve chosen to call them that, right, sir?

Ross: My god, Rhodes, your talent for horseshit rivals my own.

Rhodey: If it weren’t for those accords, Vision would’ve been right here.

Ross: I remember your signature on those papers, colonel. 

Rhodey: That’s right. [He walks forward, his leg braces whirring.] And I’m pretty sure I’ve paid for that.

Tony tenses at the braces. He hadn’t been fast enough to catch him. He’s the reason why he was there. He-  

Peter and Pepper placed their hands on his and gave them a comforting squeeze with a gentle smile.

Ross: You have second thoughts?

Bruce thought he was about to break his teeth with how tight his jaw was clenched. He hated Ross, he despised him. He couldn’t believe it when he found out that Ross was involved in the accords.

Rhodey: Not anymore.

[The door opens and the rogues walk in.]

Steve: Mr. Secretary.

Ross: You’ve got some nerve. I’ll give you that.

Natasha: You could use some of that right now.

Ross: The world’s on fire, and you think all is forgiven?

Steve: I’m not looking for forgiveness, and I’m way past asking for permission. Earth just lost its best defender, so we’re here to fight. And if  you want to stand in our way, we’ll fight you too.

Ross: [Turning to Rhodey] Arrest them.

Rhodey: All over it. [he turns the holograms off.] That’s a court martial. [He smiles] It’s great to see you, cap.

[They shake hands.]

Steve: You too, Rhodey.

[Natasha and Rhodey hug.]

Rhodey: Wow. You guys really look like crap.

The audience chuckles.

Rhodey: Must’ve been a rough couple years.

Sam: Yeah, well, the hotels weren’t exactly five star.

Bruce: Uh, I think you look great. [Bruce walks towards them] (hesitating) Uh, yeah, I’m back.

Natasha: Hi Bruce.

[pause]

Bruce: Nat. 

[another pause]

Sam: This is awkward.

“Right? So much unresolved tension,” Clint remarks. Then gets smacked by Natasha.

[The scene changes]

Rhodey: So we gotta assume they’re coming back, right?

Wanda: And they can clearly find us.

Bruce: We need all hands on deck. Where’s Clint?

Natasha: After the whole Accords situation, he and Scott took a deal. It was too tough on their families. They’re on house arrest.

“You could’ve called me, but thanks I guess. I got some quality time with my family before they blipped.”

Bruce: Who’s Scott? 

Steve: Ant-Man.

Bruce: There’s an Ant-man and a Spider-man?

Scott gasps loudly and looks over to Peter, beaming, “Bug Bros!” 

“Spiders are actually arachnides, but okay!”

Natasha hums thoughtfully, looking over to Peter, “How about an arachnid family?” Peter perks up at the name.

“Hey, I want in! I’m a black widow too!” Yelena smacks her sister’s shoulder.

“Yes! Arachnid fam! Wait, what are Scott and I gonna be then?”

“How about furrvengers?” Shuri suggests. Peter and Scott perk at the idea. 

Scott turns to Hope, “Hope, you can join too!” Hope raises an eyebrow but smiles and nods anyway.

“Mister Falcon sir, do you want to join? Since you have the wings and all.”

“...I’m good.”

“Brother! You should join!” Shuri insists.

“Wait, why furrvengers?” Tony asks.

“Cause they’re technically furries?” Shuri said, like it was obvious.

“Yeah, my fursona is a spider, Mister Scott’s fursona is an ant, Miss Hope’s fursona is a wasp.”

“And my brother’s fursona is a panther,” Shuri finished off with a grin.

“Do I want to know what a furry is?” Tony asked hesitantly.

“Not really,” all the people that knew what a furry was said genuinely at the same time.

[Rhodey nodded thoughtfully.]

Bruce: Okay, look, Thanos has the biggest army in the universe, and he is not gonna stop until he gets… Vision’s stone.

Natasha: Then we have to protect it.

Vision: No, we have to destroy it. [Steve looks at Vision] I’ve been giving a good deal of thought to this entity in my head, about its nature. But also its composition. [he walks towards wanda] I think if it were exposed to a sufficiently powerful energy source something very similar to its own signature, perhaps. Its molecular integrity could fail.

The avengers tense as they remember how Vision died.

Wanda: Yeah, and you with it. We’re not having this conversation.

Vision: Eliminating the stone is the only way to be certain that Thanos can’t get it.

Wanda: That’s too high a price.

[Vision cradles her head]

Vision: Only you have the power to pay it.

[Wanda walks away, Vision’s hands slipping away from her.]

Vision: Thanos threatens half the universe, one life cannot stand in the way of defeating him. 

Steve: But it should. We don’t trade lives, Vision.

Vision: [walking towards Steve] Captain, 70 years ago, you laid down your life to save how many millions of people? Tell me, why is this any different?

Bruce: Because, you might have a choice. [Bruce walks towards Vision] Your mind is made up of a complex construct of overlays. Jarvis, Ultron, Tony, me, the stone, all of them mixed up together, all of them learning from one another.

Wanda: Your saying Vision isn’t just the stone?

Bruce: I’m saying that, if we take out the stone, there’s still a whole lot of Vision left. Perhaps the best parts.

The avengers winced as they remembered how well that went.

Natasha: Can we do that?

Bruce: Not me, not here.

Rhodey: You better find someone and somewhere fast. Ross isn’t just gonna let you guys have your old rooms back.

[Steve looks up]

Steve: I know somewhere.

[The scene changes to a black panther statue then zooms in at Wakanda.]

The ones who hadn’t seen it before were pleasantly awed.

[A few warriors, Okoye, and T’challa are seen walking

‘WAKANDA’]

Okoye: The Kingsguard and the Dora Milaje have been alerted.

T’challa: And the Border Tribe?

Okoye: Those that are left.

T’challa: Send word to the Jabari as well. M’baku likes a good fight.

Okoye: [foreign language] And what of this one?

T’challa: This one may be tired of war, but the White Wolf has rested long enough.

“White Wolf?” Dum Dum asked. 

“The Winter Soldier brings back bad memories, so I changed it to White Wolf.”

“ I wanted to call him the Broken White Boy, but nobody respects my suggestions anymore.”

“Shuri, naming him that was a terrible idea.”

“It was not,” She perks up and looks at Bucky, “We can change it now!”

“That would’ve been extremely funny, but I think I’ll stick to White Wolf.”

“Aw, okay.”

[The scene changes to a small farm. Bucky throws a sack somewhere.

They arrive at the farm and one of the soldiers sets down a case. The soldier opens the case and walks away. Bucky walks towards the case. 

A vibranium arm is seen.]

Bucky: Where’s the fight?

T’challa: On it’s way.

Chapter Text

Yelena did not know what to make of the situation. Which was scary, she always knew what to make of the situation.

Her sister was alive, and her killer was right beside her, but Natasha didn’t seem to be mad at him? According to their kidnapper, the deceased were taken moments before their deaths. But Clint Barton and Natasha seemed to be friends?

Natasha held her hand tightly, as if she could detect Yelena’s bloodlust for Barton. Yelena squeezed her sister’s hand and Natasha looked at her and shook her head before looking back at the screen. Natasha loosened her hold into a gentler one, a more loving one.

Yelena glanced at Barton. He was tense, clearly at her presence, but also at her sister’s unexpected reincarnation. She sat back in her seat with a deep inhale and exhale. She followed her sister and looked at the screen.

[The scene switches to Dr. Strange being bound with needles hovering on top of him.

He wakes up, wincing and panting.]

Maw: In all the time I’ve served Thanos. I have never failed him. [He stops when he’s more than a few inches away from Strange’s face.] If I were to reach our rendezvous point on Titan with the time stone still attached to your vaguely irritating person. There would be… judgement. 

[A needle floats close to Strange’s cheek and pierces it. Strange tries to contain his pained gasps.]

The audience winces in sympathy. Loki shrinks down on himself, remembering the events before he invaded Earth.

Maw: Give me [The needles hover closer, Strange lets out a pained grunt.] The stone. [The needles hover close to the time stone, but the protection spell activates.

Tony is seen on top. Glancing down carefully. The cloak of levitation sneaks up behind him and pats his arm. 

Startled Tony points his repulsor at the Cloak.]

Tony: Wow, you’re a seriously loyal piece of outerwear, aren’t you?

Peter: [Lowering himself down from the ceiling.] Yeah, uh, speaking of loyalty.

Everyone laughs at the sight of Tony’s expression.

[He flips down and his mask extracts.]

Tony: What the-

Peter: I know what you’re gonna say.

Tony: You should not be here.

Peter: I was gonna go home.

Tony: I don’t want to hear it.

Peter: But it was such a long way down, and I just thought about you on the way-

Tony: And now I gotta hear it.

The audience snicker at their banter, Clint and Scott look at Tony and smirk evilly at the same time. Tony was horrified and confused at their expressions.

Peter: -And kinda stuck to the side of the ship. And this suit is ridiculously intuitive, by the way, so, it’s kinda your fault that I’m here.

Gasps and laughs sounded around the theater.

“You did not just say that!” Shuri exclaimed, unable to contain her grin, “Oh my god. ”

Tony looked at Peter and the kid just sunk into his seat in response.

[the cloak and Tony’s head snapped towards him.]  

“Dude, even the cloak knows you fucked up,” Ned said.

The cloak unhappily flapped around beside Strange until the sorcerer shushed it.

Tony: What did you just say?

Peter: I- I take that back. And- and now I’m here in space.

Tony: Yeah, right where I didn’t want you to be. This isn’t Coney island. This isn’t a field trip. This is a one-way ticket. You hear me? Don’t pretend you thought this through.

Peter: No, I did think this through. I did think this thro-

Tony: You could not have possibly thought this through.

Peter: You can’t be a friendly neighbourhood spider-man if there’s no neighbourhood.

The theater was engulfed in silence for a bit before May bit out, “Yeah, but you can’t be a friendly neighbourhood Spider-man, if there’s no Spider-Man!”

The spideys stayed quiet, they knew how overwhelming the urge to save and help was, it was like a multiversal spider-thing.

[they stared at each other for a moment]

Peter: Okay, that didn’t really make sense, but you know what I’m trying to say.

Tony: [sighs] Come on. We’ve got a situation.

[they both walk over to where Tony was standing]

Tony: See him down there? [points at strange] He’s in trouble. [Peter crouches down] What’s your plan? Go.

Peter: Um, okay, okay, uh okay. [He stands up] Did you ever see this really old movie, ‘Aliens’?

“Are all your plans based off of old movies?” Rhodey asked, “Also Aliens isn’t that old.”

“It is that old, and yeah, pretty much.”

“I remember you defeating me with the plan based off of the AT-AT walkers.”

“Oh yeah, that was awesome.”

“Didn’t you get thrown into a bunch of wooden boxes like ten seconds later?”

“Mr. Stark, we do not talk about that.”

“I’m sorry for throwing you into the boxes, Peter.”

“It’s fine.”

“Peter,” May said, holding her head, “Did you get thrown into a bunch of boxes?”

“Uhh, yeah?” Peter was already backing off.

May started taking deep breaths to calm herself down, this kid was going to give her a heart attack.

[The scene switches to the needles penetrating Strange’s skin. He screamed and panted in pain.]

Maw: Painful, aren’t they? They were originally designed for microsurgery. And any one of them… [He turned around to find Tony pointing his repulsors at him.] Could end your friend’s life in an instant.]

Tony: I gotta tell you, he’s not really my friend. Saving his life is more of a professional courtesy.

[An object floats towards Maw and stops.]

Maw: You’ve saved nothing, [another object enters] your powers are inconsequential compared to mine.

Tony: Yeah, but the kid’s seen more movies. [He shoots a missile, causing a hole in the ship.

Maw is sucked into the hole. Followed by Strange.

The cloak tries saving him but Strange slips off. 

Peter shoots  a web at Strange. He holds onto a pipe, but it breaks, they both start getting pulled into the hole. The spider legs emerge from Peter’s suit and hold onto the ship’s walls.]

Peter: Yes! Wait, what are those?

[Peter manages to pull them both back into the ship and Tony plugs the hole.

Maw is seen dead outside the ship.]

“I still cannot believe that your plan to save me was based off of a movie.”

“Oh hush, like you could come up with something better.”

Peter: (To the Cloak) Hey, we haven’t officially met. [He holds out his hand and the cloak floats away] Cool.

The audience chuckle and aww at the scene.

[Tony’s suit retracts]

Strange: We gotta turn this ship around.

Tony: Yeah, now he wants to run. Great plan.

[Tony walks to the front of the ship.]

Strange: No, I want to protect the stone.

[Strange follows Tony.]

Tony: And I want you to thank me. Now, go ahead, I’m listening.

Strange: For what? Nearly blasting me into space?

Tony: Who just saved your magical ass? Me.

Strange: I seriously don’t know how you fit your head inside that helmet.

Tony: Admit it, you should’ve ducked out when I told you to. I tried to bench you, you refused.

Strange: Unlike everyone else in your life, I don’t work for you.

“I don’t work for Tony.” Rhodey tried to defend his best friend.

Tony: And due to that fact, we’re now in a flying donut, billions of miles from Earth, with no backup.

Peter: I’m back up.

Tony: No, you’re a stowaway. The adults are talking.

Strange: I’m sorry, I’m confused as to the relationship here. What is he, your ward?

“Yes.” Echoed most of the superheroes.

Peter: No. I’m Peter, by the way.

Strange: Doctor Strange.

Peter: Oh we’re using our made up names, I’m Spider-Man then.

The audience snorted and snickered. 

[Strange throws an exasperated look at Peter and walks away.]

Tony: This ship is self-correcting its course, thing’s on autopilot.

Strange: Can we control it? Fly us home?

[Tony’s silent.]

Strange: Stark.

Tony: Yeah?

Strange: Can you get us home?

Tony: Yeah, I heard you. [He hesitates.] I’m thinking I’m not so sure we should. 

Strange: Under no circumstances can we bring the time stone to Thanos. I don’t think you quite understand what’s at stake here.

Tony: No, it’s you who doesn’t understand that Thanos has been in my head for six years. Since he sent an army to New York and now he’s back!

“What?” Pepper asked.

“In New York, when I carried the nuke through the portal.”

Wanda stilled in her place, remembering the stuff she made him see.

“Why didn’t you tell us?” Bruce asked.

“I did tell you, you fell asleep.”

No one talked after that.

Tony: And I don’t know what to do. So, I’m not so sure if it’s a better plan to fight him on our turf or his, but you saw what they did, what they can do. At least on his turf, he’s not expecting it. So, I say we take the fight to him. Doctor, do you concur?

Strange: Alright, Stark. We go to him. But you have to understand, if it comes to saving you or the kid or the time stone, I will not hesitate to let either of you die.

All the people in the audience that had developed an emotional attachment to Peter in the past hour glared at Doctor Strange.

Strange: I can’t, because the universe depends on it.

Tony: Nice, good, moral compass. We’re straight. [he walks towards Peter] (sighs) Alright Kid, [he does the knighting thing] You’re an Avenger now. [He walks out of frame.

Peter smiles but tames his expression back to seriousness.]

The audience cooed at the adorableness.

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I just want to tell yall that I'm probably not going to be updating for some time because my brain prefers social media dopamine rather than the dopamine i get from doing stuff i like.

I'm also trying to finish like three wip fanfics. So I'll probably update after those or whenever ig.

Buh bye.

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"Alright, I'm bored so we are going to react to you guys in my universe."

"What?" Author did not provide the question with an answer.

"First, the legendary OG six!"

"Robert Downey Junior, born on April, 4th 1965. He is fifty-six years old and plays Anthony Edward Stark AKA Ironman. He has a net worth of 300 million dollars (Idk, I'm relying on Google) and is one of the most paid actors in Hollywood. He starred in the first MCU movie made."

"That looks so much like Tony," Pepper said, a bit creeped out.

"Of course he's rich in both universes," Clint muttered.

"He got my smirk right!"

"I'm not done," Author said, sounding a bit dead, she was alright. "He has three children with his wife, Susan Downey."

"Huh."

"Next!"

"Chris Evans, born on June 13, 1981. He is forty years old and plays Steven Grant Rogers AKA Captain America. He has a net worth of 80 million dollars (again, google). He is not in any relationship as of now."

"The veins!" A student explained and then proceeded to faint.

"When the fuck?" Bucky asked and then turned to his best friend and jumped into Sam's chest, staring at the captain wildly. "When did you become so hot!?"

"Dude, are you seriously just noticing this now?" Sam asked, adjusting the man so Bucky is laying down, his midpart on Sam's lap and his legs on his previous seat, his head was cushioned on Sam's arm. A few people raised their eyebrows at the two but just waved it away.

Bucky's head snapped towards the Falcon and he tried to sit up, only to be pushed down again. "Yes!?" 

"He likes to think that I'm still the reckless 90-pound asthmatic who liked to pick fights with people," Steve said, tired.

"Don't you still try to pick fights with people?" Tony asked.

"And you're still reckless too," Bruce added.

"I am not."

"Dude, you tried to punch Thanos in the face."

"Steve!"

"I didn't thin- Ow! Stop hitting me!"

After Bucky calmed down (Read: Sam whispered something in his ear and Bucky turned into a red tomato and slowly sank down into Sam's lap) the Author moved on.

(The websites from where I'm getting these images from are so weird. I can't even.) 

"Chris Hemsworth, born on 11th August 1983. He is thirty-eight years old and plays Thor. He is an Australian actor and has a net worth of 130 million dollars. He is married and has three children."

"Why is everyone younger than me?!"

"Wow, your actor's like, a thousand four hundred and sixty something years younger than you." Bucky said, eyes widening by a few millimetres.

"And Steve's actor is sixty-nine years younger than Steve." Natasha added.

"Wait, you're Australian?" Kate asks.

"I can assure you that I am Asgardian."

"Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if you were Australian," Clint mutters.

"Now that the big three is done, let's move on." Author said.

"Scarlett Johansonn, born on November 22nd, 1984. She is 37 years old and plays Natasha Romanoff. She has a net worth of 165 million dollars. She is married to her third husband, Colin Jost (I had literally no idea she was married.) and has two children."

"You look so pretty Miss Romanoff!" Peter says.

Natasha smiles at the kid.

"Jeremy Renner, born on January 7th, 1971. He is fifty years old and plays Clint Barton AKA Hawkeye. He is an actor, singer and is running a real estate business. He has a net worth of 80 million dollars. He is a divorcee and has a daughter."

"Why are we all rich- How are we all rich?"

"The MCU is a huge franchise and the Avengers make a lot money. Anywho, the last one!" (I forgot about Bruce, ngl.)

"Mark Ruffalo, born on November 22nd, 1967. He is fifty-four years old and plays Bruce Banner AKA The Hulk. He is an actor, director and producer and has a net worth of 35 million dollars."

"You look quite handsome Bruce," Thor remarked, putting an arm around the scientist.

Bruce flushed at the compliment and leaned into Thor, mumbling a quiet 'thanks,' and fiddling with his sleeves. 

The Avengers smirked at the interaction. 

"And that's it!" Author said cheerfully and the screen turned black.

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Katy Chen really did not know what to make of the situation. Honestly, she thought her best friend being a really good fighter, having a super badass sister, an evil dad and seeing mythical creatures was the craziest things that were going to happen in her life. But, obviousy not.

She hadn’t really gotten the whole ‘people from different timelines thing’ but really, she did not give a fuck.

So she did what she did best, leaned back and watched the drama.

[the screen zooms into Thanos’ ship.

Gamora is shown sitting in Thanos’ throne room.

She gets up when she sees Thanos walking towards her with a bowl in his hand.]

Thanos: [handing her the bowl] I thought you might be hungry.

[She takes the bowl and looks at him. She throws the bowl towards his throne, causing it to shatter.]

Gamora: I always hated that chair.

Thanos: So I’ve been told. Even so, I’d hoped you’d sit in it one day.

“Sick bastard,” Quill grumbled out, holding Gamora's hand.

Gamora: I hated this room. This ship. I hated my life. 

[she starts walking away from him.]

Thanos: You told me that too. [he starts walking up the stairs.] Everyday. [he sits down on the steps.] For almost twenty years.

Gamora: I was a child when you took me.

Thanos: I saved you.

“First he says killing is saving, then he says not killing is saving. Pick a side!”

Gamora: [she looks at him] No. No. We were happy on my home planet.

Thanos: Going to bed hungry, scrounging for scraps. Your planet was on the brink of collapse, I’m the one who stopped that. Do you know what’s happened since then? The children born, have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It’s a paradise.

Gamora: Because you murdered half the planet.

Thanos: A small price to pay for salvation.

Gamora: You’re insane.

Thanos: Little one, it’s a simple calculus. This universe is finite, it’s resources are finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist.

“That’s the fucking point, life is born, and at one point, it’ll die, no matter what you do.”

Thanos: It needs correction.

Gamora: You don’t know that!

Thanos: I’m the only one that knows that. At least, I’m the only one with the will to act on it. For a time, [he stands up] you had that same will [he walks to her] as you fought by my side.

“That’s because you manipulated me to do it?”

Thanos: Daughter.

Gamora: I’m not your daughter. Everything I hate about myself, you taught me.

Thanos: And, in doing so, made you the fiercest woman in the galaxy. [she looked down] That’s why I trusted you to find the soul stone.

[she looked up to him again]

Gamora: I’m sorry I disappointed you.

Thanos: I am disappointed.

“Cry, bitch.”

Thanos: But not because you didn’t find it. [he leans down to her level] but because you did. And you lied.

[a gate opens behind them. 

Gamora walks in.

Nebula is suspended in the air.

The camera angle changes and shows Nebula dismantled.]

Winces echo around the theater.

“Oh shit.”

[Gamora touches her sister’s shoulder.]

Gamora: Don’t do this.

Thanos: Some time ago your sister snuck aboard this ship to kill me-

Gamora: Please don’t do this.

Thanos: And very nearly succeeded. So I brought her here. To talk.

[Thanos holds up his fist and the stone glows, Nebula is dismantled further apart. She screams in pain]

Nebula flinches.

Gamora: Stop, stop it.

[she walks towards Thanos and puts her hands on his.]

Gamora: [on the verge of tears] I swear to you on my life, I never found the soul stone.

[Thanos pulls away and looks at his minion.]

Minion: Accessing memory files.

“Oh, shit .”

Nebula (memory): You know what he’s about to do. He’s finally ready and he’s going for all the stones. All of them.

Gamora (memory): He can never get them all.

Nebula (memory): He will!

Gamora (memory): He can’t , Nebula. Because I found the map to the soul stone, and I burnt it to ash. I burned it.

“Why did you tell her!?” Rocket exclaimed, angry.

“I wasn’t thinking!”

Thanos: You’re strong… Me. [He walks behind her] You’re generous… Me. But I never taught you how to lie, that’s why you’re so bad at it. [He lifts his hand] Where, is, the soul stone?

The audience grit their teeth.

[She doesn’t respond.

Thanos closes his fist and Nebula starts screaming in pain again.

Gamora looks at her and looks away again, face scrunched up in pain. Nebula continues screaming.]

“No, don’t!” Nebula exclaims, already knowing what’s going to happen.

Gamora: Vormir!

[Thanos unclenches his fist.

Gamora lets out a huff, deprived of any humour.

She walks towards Nebula and caresses her face.]

Gamora: The stone is on Vormir.

Thanos: Show me.

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Kate Bishop had stopped stirring up a hellstorm not to long ago, but she was still freaking out a bit. She was in a room with all of the heroes she can think of!

And the woman that tried to kill Clint was here as well, but that was not important right now. Plus, she looked pretty not bloodthirsty. 

Also, spider-man was younger than her? He blipped, so that meant that he started Spider-manning when he was fourteen? That was so cool , a bit concerning, but so cool .

And there was Princess Shuri . The literal genius of Wakanda.

And Loki, Kate didn’t like him much because of New York. Her dad died because of him.

Also, the multiverse exists? 

This was crazy. Much crazier than meeting your childhood hero.

[the scene changes to the pod Thor, Rocket and Groot were in.]

Groot: I am Groot.

Rocket: Tinkle in the cup. We’re not looking, what’s there to see? What’s a twig, everyone’s seen a twig before.

Groot: I am Groot.

Thor: Tree, pour what’s in the cup out into space and go in the cup again. [Thor is looking out the window, his back towards the camera.]

Cindy grimaces, “Gross.”

Rocket: You speak Groot?

Thor: Yes, they taught it on Asgard, it was an elective.

Groot: I am Groot.

Thor: You’ll know when we’re close. Nidavellir’s forge harnesses the blazing power of a neutron star. [he walks away and sits down] It’s the birthplace of my hammer. It’s truly awesome.

[rocket turns and looks at Thor, then turns back again]

Rocket: Okay, time to be the captain.

“You can’t be something you’re not.”

“Shut the fuck up, Quill.”

[rocket walks towards a screen.]

Rocket: So, dead brother, huh?

“Dude, you need to get better at this talking thing.”

“I said shut the fuck up, Quill.”

“Out of all the conversation starters in the world, you chose to talk about his dead brother?” Loki grimaced a little.

“The shut the fuck up applies to everyone in this room.”

Rocket: Yeah, that could be annoying.

“Thanks.”

Thor: Well, he’s been dead before. But, no, this time I think it really might be true.

Thor looks at his brother hesitantly. Loki notices his gaze and purses his lips awkwardly, “Yeah, it was true.”

Thor takes a sharp breath, swallowing down his pain. Bruce puts his hand over the god’s and squeezes comfortingly.

Rocket: And you said your sister and your dad?

Thor: Both dead.

Rocket: But still got a mom though?

Thor: Killed by a dark elf.

Rocket: A best friend?

Thor: Stabbed through the heart.

“Thor, are you okay?” Steve asks.

“I- I have really good therapists if you want to- ya know.” Tony adds.

Thor simply smiles at them and doesn’t answer.

Rocket: You sure you’re up to this particular murder mission?

Thor: Absolutely

“Not,” Bruce adds. Thor gives him a betrayed look which the scientist simply returns with an innocent smile.

Thor: Rage and vengeance, anger, loss, regret, they’re all tremendous motivators. They really clear the mind. 

Peter snorts, “Don’t I know it.”

The spidey team snorts and sniggers, murmuring out their agreements.

The audience (most of them) give them horrified looks. 

Peter looks at Tony and raises his eyebrow, “What? You think I just woke up one day with superpowers and went ‘oh hey! I’m going to become a superhero! ” 

“How d- Oh, I’m afraid to ask- How did you become a superhero?”

“I don’t know, it had something with my uncle bleeding out in my arms.” Another round of horrified looks.

“Peter,” May says, a half-horrified, half-worried, half-regretful and half-tired look on her face.

Miles just snorts again, “Same.” Because covering up emotions with humour is such a good idea.

“It was my best friend for me… right after he tried to kill me.” Gwen says, a distant look in her eyes betraying the smile she forced onto her lips.

“Harry?” Tobey asked.

“No, Peter.”

“Oh- kay.”

“It’s always the best friend,” Peter B mutters.

The horrified looks never left the audience’s faces.

“Again, I have very good therapists.”

Thor: So, I’m good to go.

“You are not good to go,” Loki says.

“Shut up, you tried to stab Thanos with a dagger .”

“I was trying to save you.”

“No one asked you to.”

Rocket: Yeah, but this is Thanos we’re talking about, he’s the toughest there is.

“Again, I am sure there are stronger creatures.”

Thor: Well, he’s never fought me.

“Yes, yes he has, Thor.”

Rocket: Yeah he has.

Thor: Well, he’s never fought me twice.

“Thor, your desperation is showing.”

Thor: And I’m getting a new hammer, don’t forget.

Rocket: It better be some hammer.

[Thor chuckles.]

Thor: You know, I’m 1,500 years old. I’ve killed twice as many enemies as that. And every one of them would have rather killed me, but none succeeded. I’m only alive because fate wants me alive. Thanos is just the latest in the long line of bastards and he’ll be the latest to feel my vengeance. Fate wills it so.

Rocket: And what if you’re wrong?

Thor: Well, if I’m wrong then, what more could I lose?

“Okay, Thor, no. Bad Thor, you’re not alone.” 

“Yeah, I’m here,” Bruce mutters, squeezing Thor’s hand.

“We do not stan a sad Thor, someone give Thor a hug.”

Bruce gives Thor a hug.

Rocket: I could lose a lot. [Thor walks away] Me, personally, I could lose a lot.

“Aw, you do care!” Quill says, grinning.

“Shut up.”

“I am Groot.”

“No, be quiet, Groot.”

[Thor sits on the seat next to Groot. Rocket pulls out an eye out of his bag and walks up to Thor.]

Rocket: Well, if fate does want you to kill that crapsack you’re gonna need more than one stupid eyeball. [He hands the eye to the God.]

Thor: What’s this?

Rocket: What does it look like? [Thor examines the eye] Some jerk lost a bet with me on Contraxia.

“So he gave you his eye?”

Thor: He gave you his eye?

Rocket: No, he gave me a 100 credits. I snuck into his room later that night and stole his eye.

“What the fuck?” Rhodey had no idea what the fuck was wrong with these people.

“Rocket, you have to stop doing that.” Gamora pushes his shoulder lazily.

“This is normal?” Bucky asks.

“What the fuck?” Is he the only normal one here?

Thor: Thank you, sweet rabbit.

“Rabbit?” Peter asks.

“I may have a hand in that,” Loki says, sheepishly.

“What?”

“When we were children, my brother showed me a painting that looked exactly like Sir Rocket’s race. (“...Sir Rocket?”) He told me it was a rabbit.” Thor’s eyebrows furrowed, “Is it not right?” 

Thor looked like a puppy, none of the audience wanted to burst his bubble.

“No, you’re right Thor, he is a rabbit,” Rhodey said, smiling tightly.

[Thor removes his eyepatch and puts the eyeball in]

The audience collectively makes noises of disgust.

Rocket: I would’ve washed that. The only way I could sneak it off Contraxia was up my…

The audience makes louder noises of disgust.

“Not to mention that it was in someone else’s eye socket!”

[BEEPING]

Rocket: Hey, we’re here!

[The eyeball twitches and moves around, Thor taps against his temple a few times. The ball twitches and moves for a few more seconds but eventually settles.]

Thor: I don’t think this thing works. Everything seems dark.

[Thor stands up]

Rocket: It ain't the eye.

[the screen zooms out to show a dark Nidavellir.]

Thor: Something’s wrong. The star’s gone out. And the rings are frozen.

[the pod enters.

‘NIDAVELLIR.’

The pod lands.]

Rocket: I hope these dwarfs are better at forging than they are at cleaning. Maybe they realised that they live in a junk pile in the middle of space.

“That’s… insensitive.”

Thor: This forge hasn’t gone dark in centuries.

Rocket: You said Thanos had a gauntlet, right?

Thor: Yes, why?

Rocket: It look anything like that?

[the camera moves to show the gauntlet’s model]

Groot: I am Groot.

Thor: Go back to the pod. 

[Thor turns only to be punched by a dwarf.

Thor lands with a thump.

The dwarf kicks Groot as well.

The dwarf stomps over to Thor]

Thor: Eitri, wait!

[Eitri stops growling and pauses.]

Thor: Stop! Stop.

Eitri: Thor?

[Thor nods.]

Thor: What happened here?

Eitri: You were supposed to protect us. Asgard was supposed to protect us!

Thor: Asgard is destroyed. Eitri, the glove. What did you do?

[Eitri walks away.

He slumps to the floor with a thump.]

Eitri: Three hundred dwarfs lived on this ring. I thought if I did what he asked, they’d be safe. I made what he wanted. A device capable of harnessing the power of the stones. (stutters) Then he killed everyone anyway. All except me. ‘Your life is yours,’ he said. ‘But your hands are mine alone.’

The audience winces at the sight of his hands. 

Thor: Eitri, this isn’t about your hands. Every weapon you’ve ever designed, every axe, hammer, sword, it’s all in your head. Now, I know it feels like all hope is lost. Trust me, I know. But together, you and I, we can kill Thanos.

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May Parker was worried. She knew that whatever happened with Mysterio had affected Peter negatively. But, Peter looked worse… Like he lost everything, as if everyone in his world had turned away. That couldn’t happened, right? She would always be there with him.

…Did she abandon Peter in the future somehow? But she wouldn’t do that to him. She had vowed to herself that she wouldn’t leave her kid, ever. Right?

But the look in Peter’s eyes was so sad , like he didn’t believe this was happening, but would stay even if it wasn’t real.

The glances he gave her were longing and miserable. The older Peter—Peter B—gave her the same looks. 

Tony and May shared several concerned looks since Peter clutched them like they would disappear in his hands at any moment.

May Parker didn’t understand what was going on, but her kid was hurt, so she did what she always did, she reached back and held Peter’s hand.

[The scene switched to Nebula. One of Thanos’ minions was fixing her parts (?).

The part around her eye popped out.]

The audience try their best not to express their startle and a bit of disgust.

[The minion pushes it back in.

Nebula takes this chance to snap its neck.

Her eye fits back in.

The screen switches to her walking while her left leg drags on the floor. 

She snaps her hand back into place and goes to the screen.]

Nebula: Mantis, listen very carefully. I need you to meet me on Titan.

[The scene switches to the ship Peter, Tony and Strange are on. It’s hurtling through space.]

Peter: Hey what’s going on?

Strange: I think we’re here.

Tony: I don’t think this rig has a self park function.

[Tony goes to the steering thing.]

Tony: Get your hand inside the steering gimbal. Close those around it.

[Peter follows the instructions.]

Tony: You understand?

Peter: Yep, got it.

Tony: This was meant for one big guy, so we gotta move at the same time.

Peter: Okay, okay. Ready.

“Dude,” Sally breathes out, “You flew a spaceship. You stepped on another planet . Peter, I do not think you realize how awesome that is.”

“It wasn’t as fun as you think. I mean, I got threatened to be fried-” Quill winces- “fought a meglomaniac alien-” Tony winces- “and then died .” Strange winces. “It’s- It’s not as pumped up as everyone makes it out to be.”

[The ship is shown to be near crashing into a star shaped thing.]

Peter: We might wanna turn. Turn. Turn! Turn !

[The ship crashes into one of the structures and starts breaking apart.]

“I swear to fuck if my kid got hurt, Stark.”

“Don’t worry May, I wasn’t injured.”

Peter pants and his mask covers his face again.

Strange creates a shield around them.]

Peter: (whispers to himself) Awesome.

[The ship crashes down and stops after a few seconds.

‘TITAN’

Tony gets up and his helmet retracts to his neckline.]

Strange: You alright?

[Strange pulls Tony up.]

Tony: That was close. I owe you one.

[Peter lowers down on a web, upside down.]

Peter: Let me just say, if aliens… wind up implanting eggs in my chest or something and I eat one of you, I’m sorry.

Some people smiled at the dorkiness while others were just confused.

“Implanting eggs in your chest?” Mantis asked.

“Yeah, you know, like in… Nevermind.”

Tony: I do not want another single pop culture reference out of you for the rest of the trip, you understand?

“You both look like two dads annoyed by their son,” Bruce teased, making the other Avengers laugh.

“Dadvengers,” Scott and Clint mouthed to each other again.

Peter: I’m trying to say that something is coming.

[As if on cue, a ball rolled in and landed in front of the three. It blasted them all away.

The gotg come in, ready to fight.]

Drax: THANOS!!!

[He throws a knife at Strange, which the sorcerer blocks with a shield.

Drax yells and Strange’s cloak flies to him, interrupting him mid-battle cry. 

Drax falls to the floor, trying to fight against the piece of cloth.

Quill started blasting at random and flew up into the air.

Tony followed him and blasted a missile with landed in front of Quill.

Tony tackles Quill to the floor. Quill lands on his feet and laughs, pressing a button. A thing on Tony’s armour activates and pulls him to a machinery. Tony tries to pull away but fails.

The camera changes to Spider-Man. He sees Mantis above him and shrieks.

Mantis’ antennas glow. Spider-Man starts backing off.]

Peter: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Please don’t put your eggs in me!

“Why would I do that?”

Nobody gives her an answer.

[Spider-Man webs her up, standing on his feet now.

Quill flies in and kicks him down.]

Quill: Stay down, clown.

“What the fuck did you just say to my kid?” May looks at Quill with a dark look.

“Uh, I- Um.”

“May, it’s fine.”

[Quill shoots him but Spider-Man leaps into the air, dodging the blasts.

Spider-Man tries to jump at him but Quill traps him in electric rope (?) and he falls down.]

That earns Quill dark looks from some (most) of the superheroes. He silently sinks down intot his seat.

Drax: Die, Blanket of death!

[Drax tries to choke it.]

That draws out a few laughs from the audience.

[Tony manages to pull away from the magnet thing and flies to Drax.

The cloak lets go of Drax and Tony aims a repulsor at his face.

Quill takes Peter and wraps an arm around his neck, his blaster in the other hand. He points the blaster at Peter’s head.]

Quill: Everybody stay where you are, chill the eff out.

[Quill retracts his mask and points at Tony.]

Quill: I’m gonna ask you this one time. Where is Gamora?

[Tony’s mask retracts as well]

Tony: Yeah, I’ll do you one better. Who is Gamora?

Drax: I’ll do you one better. Why is Gamora?

The audience cracks up while the Guardians just sigh and face palm.

Quill: Tell me where the girl is or I swear to you I’m gonna french fry this little freak.

That earned Quill deathly glares from everyone that had gotten attached to Peter in the time they had been here. 

“I’m sorry?”

“Peter,” May looked at her nephew, “Why didn’t you break out of that rope?” They both knew he was strong enough to do that.

“My sixth sense wasn’t going off?”

“So you were just going to wait till your sixth sense goes ‘oh hey, this guy’s gonna blow your head off’ five seconds before I pulled the trigger?”

“I have very quick reflexes.”

Tony: Let’s do it! You shoot my guy and I’ll blast him! Let’s go!

[Tony’s repulsor morphs into a bigger weapon.]

Drax: Do it Quill! I can take it.

Mantis: No, he can’t take it!

Strange: She’s right, he can’t.

Quill: Oh yeah, you don’t wanna tell me where she is? That’s fine, I’ll kill all of you and beat it out of Thanos myself. [He presses the blaster barrell harder into Peter’s temple] Starting with you.

Strange: Wait, what, Thanos? All right, let me ask you this one time. What master do you serve?

“What century do you think this is?”

Quill: What master do I serve? What am I supposed to say? ‘Jesus’?

Tony: You’re from Earth.

Quill: I’m not from Earth, I’m from Missouri.

“That’s on Earth, man.”

“I was raised in space. And in space, everybody calls it Terra. Sorry, for getting it mixed up.”

Tony: Yeah, that’s on Earth dipshit. What’re you hastling us for?

Peter: So, you’re not with Thanos?

Quill: With Thanos ? No! I’m here to kill Thanos. He took my girl, wait, who are you?

[Peter’s mask retracts.]

Peter: We’re the Avengers, man.

“Ah, ah, ah!” Tony points a finger at him, “ Honorary Avenger.”

Peter holds Tony’s finger and brings it down. “ Not an Avenger, I quit.”

“You quit being an Avenger ?” Peter’s schoolmates (besides MJ) ask simultaneously, not believing that their teammate really did that.

“I was an Avenger for barely a day, and in that day, I got enough trauma to last me five lifetimes. Yes, I quit being an Avenger.”

“Tell me about it,” Clint snorts, followed by murmured agreements and a few sniggers by the other Avengers.

Clint looks at Kate, “Being an Avenger sucks ass.”

“Its worth saving all those people though.” 

[Quill lets go of the kid with a sigh.]

Mantis: You’re the ones Thor told us about!

Tony: You know Thor?

Quill: Yeah.Tall guy, not that good looking, needed saving.

The theater dissolved into laughter, while Thor just looked offended.

“Peter! Your face!”

Peter flushes and sinks down in his seat. Tony laughs and wraps an arm around him. The teenager melts into his embrace.

Strange: Where is he now?

Chapter Text

It had been a long time since Carol had seen Fury, or Goose. She had been away for two decades and eight years. Was she a little bitter about the fact that it took that long for Fury to page her? Sort of, yeah. Did she know that it was unfair on her (ex) girlfriend and her daughter to stay away that long? Yes. 

She couldn’t help it though, the universe was a big place and she had to keep it as safe as she could. Unfortunately, that didn’t give time for her to visit her (ex) family.

And yeah, sure, she was a bit confused and wanted to blast a hole in the wall and run away because Fury was right there and they used to be friends . Until her obsession to destroy the Kree drew them away, of course.

So yeah, she did nothing but pet the flerken in cat’s clothing, sue her.

[the scene switches to Nidavellir

All four are walking towards a mold.

The angle switches and a device lowers the mold.]

Rocket: This is the plan? We’re gonna hit him with a brick?

“It’s a mold,” Loki says, the tinnsiest bit offended.

Eitri: It’s a mold. A king’s weapon. Meant to be the greates in Asgard. In theory, it could even summon the Bifrost.

The people who were there in Wakanda smiled, remembering Thor’s dramatic entry.

Thor: Does it have a name?

Eitri: Stormbreaker.

Rocket: That’s a bit much.

“It is.”

Thor: So how do we make it?

Eitri: You’ll have to restart the forge. Awaken the heart of a dying star.

[The camera pans to the dying heart thing.]

Thor: Rabbit, fire up the pod.

“Thor. Tell you’re not doing what I think you’re doing.” Loki looks at his brother with a tired and tense expression. “Because that would be unbelievably daft.”

Thor smiles at him sheepishly.

Loki grits his teeth and exhales through his mouth, making a hissing sound. “You idiot.”

Chapter Text

Wanda Maximoff really hoped this wasn’t another Hex. That meant that what all the people in the room were not actually in control. It meant she was invading people’s minds again. It meant that she wasn’t going against the human rights of all the people that were supposed to be dead again. 

She really hoped that it was actually Vision and Pietro and Clint because she didn’t think she would survive losing any of them again.

She didn’t want to go through any of this again. She couldn’t live with the fact that she manipulated people’s minds, again. That she put them in pain, again.

She hoped that this was real. That the love of her life and her brother were really alive.

Wanda held Pietro and Vision’s hands tight, they gave back a squeeze.

[The scene switches to Titan.]

Quill: The hell happened to this planet? [The screen switches to Quill holding a yellow device.] It’s eight degrees off its axis, gravitational pull is all over the place.

[The screen switches to Tony. Mantis and Drax jumping in the background with Peter looking at them.]

Tony: Yeah, we got one advantage. He’s coming to us. We’ll use it. Alright, I have a plan.

[he turns around and walks towards them.]

Tony: Or at least the beginnings of one. It’s pretty simple, we draw him in, pin him down, get what we need. Definitely don’t want to dance with this guy. We just want the gauntlet. [Quill looks like he sucked on a lemon. Tony looks at Mantis and Drax.] Are you yawning?

[the camera switches to show that Drax was, in fact, yawning.]

Tony: In the middle of this, while I’m breaking it down? Huh? [Drax and Mantis look at him] Did you hear what I said.

“They most probably didn’t even bother to listen from the starting,” Gamora says, looking done with life.

Drax: I stopped listening after you said, ‘We need a plan.’

Tony: Okay, ‘Mr. Clean’ is on his own page.

Quill: See, ‘not winging it,’ is not really what they do.

Peter: Uh, what exactly is it that they do?

“Peter really be asking the real questions here.”

“Why did you say it like that?”

“God, you’re old Mr. Quill Starlord Sir.”

Quill just looked scandalized and still confused while Tony and Rocket just died laughing at the adressing.

Mantis: Kick names, take ass.

All the teenagers and young adults keeled over laughing.

“Okay, Mantis! With all the power I have as the princess of the most advanced country on Earth, I hereby pronounce you,” Shuri paused for dramatic affect, “as a meme.”

The gen z’s immediately broke out in a fit of cheers and ‘ALL HAIL THE NEW MEME’s. 

Mantis, even though confused, grinned at the happiness and humour that radiated from the people.

Tony Stark promptly died again, this time from a heart attack and was brought back by the Author in the span of two minutes.

Drax: Yeah, that’s right.

“These two are the definition of sharing a half of a single brain cell.”

“Like, not even a full braincell, just half of it.”

“Just half of it.”

[the screen switches to Tony already accepting the death of half the universe. Peter, not sure how to react, looks at Tony.]

Tony: [Sighs] Alright, just get over here, please. Mr. Lord, can you get your folks to circle up.

Quill: Mr. Lord, Starlord is fine.

“Starlord is worse.” 

“I am Groot.”

Quill just scoffs in response.

Peter leans over to Ned, “See? Hissy.”

[Quill nods at Drax and Mantis and they all move closer.]

Tony: We gotta coalesce. Cause if all we come at him with is a plucky attitude-

Quill: Dude, don’t call us plucky, we don’t know what it means.

“I have no idea what you were trying to with that, but it’s not working.”

Quill: Alright, we’re optimistic, yes. I like your plan except it sucks, so let me do the plan and that way, it might be really good.

“I mean, is he lying though?” Wanda asked

“Yeah, there was a reason why Cap and our two spies here always did the plans,” Bruce rolled his eyes fondly.

“I’m great at plans!”

“Right, remember that day where you said ‘I have a plan, attack,’ then jumped off the jet?” 

The original six chuckled at the memory. 

Pepper only sighed, “Tony…”

Drax: Tell him about the dance-off to save the universe.

“I…don’t even want to know.”

“Well, we wanna know! What happened?” Flash asked eagerly.

Tony: What dance-off?

Quill: It’s nothing.

Peter: Like in ‘Footloose’? The movie?

Quill: Exactly like Footloose. 

“What’s footloose?”

Quill looked incredibly scandalized. “The greatest movie in the history of movies!”

“I’m pretty sure that’s the Bee Movie.”

“Flash, I will push you off a fucking building.”

Quill: Is it still the greatest movie in history?

Peter: It never was.

Tony: Don’t encourage this, alright? We’re getting no help from Flash Gordon here.

Quill: Flash Gordon? By the way, that’s a compliment.

“Who’s Flash Gordon?”

“WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU KIDS?!” Quill was now sobbing.

Quill: Don’t forget, I’m half human. So that fifty percent of me that’s stupid, that’s a hundred percent you.

“That is not even-”

“Didn’t the other fifty percent try to take over the universe?”

“I still don’t want to know.”

“ We still wanna know!”

Tony: Your math is blowing my mind.

Mantis: Excuse me, but does you friend often do that?

Tony: Strange, we alright?

[the screen switches to Doctor Strange. He’s using the time stone to look into the future. He falls down with a yell.

The others walk towards Tony and Strange in the background.]

Tony: You’re back. You’re alright.

Quill: Hey, what was that?

Strange: I went forward in time to view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of the coming conflict.

Quill: How many did you see?

Strange: Fourteen million, six hundred and five.

“You should have looked for more,” Pepper says quietly, a lone tear slipping down her cheek.

All the people who knew what was going to happen looked down.

“Did you even look beyond the final battle?” Peter asks.

Strange raises his eyebrow, “What?”

Peter shakes his head quietly, on the verge of tears.

Tony: How many did we win?

Strange: One.

The people who didn’t know what was about to happen exclaimed in shock.

“Did we really win though?” Bucky asked.

“Yeah, the universe won, but not us. Never us.” Steve looked at all the Avengers that had died.

Chapter Text

Peggy Carter couldn’t believe that Steve and Bucky were alive. Losing Steve was like losing another brother. 

Unlike the lies people had made up that Steve and her were in love, their relationship was platonic. The rumours had originated from when Steve mentioned that he was in love with someone, he wouldn’t give up the name no matter how much they poked. So people just assumed it was Peggy because god forbid Captain America being in love with a man . 

Peggy knew better though, after walking in on Barnes and Steve in a compromising position, she had assumed that the love of his life was Barnes. Apparently not, since Steve denied all possibilities of that seriously. He still wouldn’t give up the name of the person he loved.

Anywho, the universe seemed like a sapphire mine to Howard, looking at the way he squirmed and twitched in excitment when the wonders of the future were displayed on screen. She could see the mad scientist light up in his eyes. She was getting quite worried, it felt like he was going to faint from all of the curiosity and excitement.

She couldn’t believe that Howard Stark had a son . She never thought he’d learn to settle down and be a father. It looked like he didn’t do a damn well job at it either, judging by how ‘Tony’ subtly glared at him every now and then. 

That stung a bit, she always imagined her friends having cute little children and them clutching at her skirt and calling her Aunt Peggy. She wondered if Tony was bitter to her as well. She hoped he didn’t. She really hoped he didn’t.

[The scene changes to a planet.

A blue portal opens up.

Thanos and Gamora are seen walking.

‘VORMIR’]

Clint inhaled sharply and jerked up in his seat. Natasha’s hand moved to his and she looked at him with an apologetic look. 

Swallowing his tears, he sat back in his seat, eyebrows knit together tightly and body tense.

Thanos: The stone had better be up there. For your sister’s sake.

“Bastard,” Nebula growled, her hands curling up into tight fists.

[The camera switched to a cliff covered by a bunch of clouds.

Thanos and Gamora walked in the rocky path.]

Red Skull: Welcome, Thanos, son of Alars.

[A floating figure in a cloak is shown.]

Red Skull: Gamora, Daughter of Thanos.

Thanos: You know us?

Red Skull: It is my curse to know all who journey here.

Thanos: Where is the soul stone?

Red Skull: You should know, it extracts a terrible price.

Thanos: I am prepared.

[The figure floats down.]

Red Skull: We all think that at first.

[Red Skull’s face is revealed.]

Peggy, Howard, the Howling Commandos and Bucky let out shocked exclaimations.

“How is he alive?!” Bucky asks.

“He did disappear before I crashed the Valkyrie.”

Red Skull: We are all wrong.

[The scene switches to large gates. And then to Red Skull, Gamora, and Thanos walking]

Thanos: How is it you know this place so well?

Red Skull: A life time ago-

“Eighty to ninety years ago.”

Red Skull: I, too, sought the stones. I even held one in my hand. But it cast me out, banished me here. Guiding others to a treasure I cannot possess. 

[They stand near the edge of The Cliff.]

Red Skull: What you seek lies in front of you, as does what you fear.

Gamora: What’s this?

Red Skull: The price. Teh soul holds a special place among the infinity stones. You might say it has certain, wisdom.

“You mean it’s cruel.”

Thanos: Tell me what it needs.

Red Skull: To ensure whoever possess it understands its power…

“Fears its power.”

[Thanos stands at the edge.]

Red Skull: The stone demands a sacrifice.

“A… sacrifice?” Tobey asks.

“Watch.” Is all he gets in return.

Thanos: Of what?

Red Skull: In order to take the stone, you must lose that which you love.

“That’s… inhumane.”

Red Skull: A soul… for a soul.

[Gamora breaks the tense silence with a chuckle.]

Gamora: All my life, I dreamed of a day, a moment… when you got what you deserved. And I was always so disappointed. [She walks to the right side of him] But now… you kill and torture… and you call it mercy. [She looks at him] The universe has judged you. You asked it for a prize and it told you no.

“I wish it said no,” she whispered.

Gamora: You failed. And you wanna know why? Because you love nothing. No one.

[Thanos stays silent for a moment before turning to her]

Thanos: No.

Andrew’s eyes widened, “No way… he’s not-” He turns to Peter, who only looks at him with sad eyes. “How-”

Gamora: Really? Tears?

[Thanos’ tRoUbLeD face is shown.]

Red Skull: They’re not for him.

[She looks at him, realization slowly dawning on her.]

The rest of the theater, the ones who didn’t know what happened, seemed to realize this as well. 

“He didn’t, right?” Abe asked fearfully.

No one answered.

“How could he just-” May clutched at her chest, horrified.

[Gamora looks back up at him.

Thanos slowly walks towards her. Gamora walking backwards in return.]

Gamora: No. This isn’t love.

Thanos: I ignored my destiny once. I cannot do that again.

“This can’t count, right?!” Pietro asked, “Just because he thinks he loves her, doesn’t mean he does, right!?”

“Love is an illusion. If you believe it’s there, then it’s there, in your eyes and the eyes of the universe. No matter if it’s healthy or if it’s mutual.”

“That’s bullshit .”

“Life is bullshit.”

Thanos: Even for you.

[Gamora is silent for a long moment before taking out a knife and trying to stab herself.

The knife dissapears into bubbles in her hands.]

Quill stayed silent, not being able to look at the screen. Every sound made felt muffled, like his ears were wrapped in a shit load of cotton. He felt numb, the love of his life died and he couldn’t save her. 

It was his fault, it was his fault, itwashisfault, itwashisfa-

“Quill, stop.”

Gamora clutched Quill’s hand tight and stared at him with a hard look. “It was not your fault.”

[Gamora starts crying.]

Thanos: I’m sorry little one.

“What the fuck!? He’s going to kill her and he’s apologizing?!” 

No one bothered to bring up the ‘Language’ joke.

[He grabbed her arm and started pulling her towards the edge.

She screamed her protests, trying to fight back.

And finally, Thanos threw her off the cliff. 

The camera zoomed into Thanos’ face and then switched to Gamora’s corpse]

Quill choked at the sight, covering his mouth with his hand. 

He felt like he was gonna puke, dots littered his vision. 

He felt faint rubbing on his back. Everything felt numb again. 

He tried to hold on as consciousness slipped away from him. 

And then,

Darkness.

Quill almost fell to the floor but Gamora caught him before he could hit anything. Drax helped her get him back to his seat and Mantis helped him stay asleep.

“Nebula,” Gamora said, turning to her sister, “Nebula, look at me.”

Nebula clutched her armrests tight, causing the fabric to tear a bit. She stared right ahead to the paused film, the image of Gamora’s corpse on the screen.

Gamora forced her sister’s face towards her. “I’m right here, I’m not dead right now. We’ll fix this. It’s okay.”

The rest of the theater just watched. They had dwelled in horrified silence ever since Thanos pushed the green extraterrestrial off the cliff. 

[The movie unpaused and showed Thanos looking down.

There was a huge portal thing above the cliff. It pulsed and the camera switched to Thanos again.

A flash of light and then black.

The camera panned onto Thanos laying in water.

He awakes and sits up. He looks at his gauntlet and then looks at the soul stone in his other hand.]

The audience felt like they saw the devil in that creature.