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#IT BETTER mean Loki *is* going to Vormir
mcubuckyxlokisbitch · 2 years
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What if part 3
halo, big summer blow out
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pretend thats you 
kk 
“Five years ago we lost, we lost friends, we lost family, we lost apart of ourselves, today we have a chance to take it al back you have your teams, you know your missions, get the stones, get them back. One round trip each no mistakes no do-overs. Most of us are going somewhere we know, that doesn’t mean we should know what to expect, be careful, lookout for eachother. This will be the fight of your lives and were going to win.... Whatever it takes.” Captain America said as you all were in suits on the time portal.
“He’s actually really good at that.” you hear the racoon say as he passes you a miniature ship. 
“I know right.” Scott says passing the pym particles to Loki.
“Don’t break it sunshine, you better know how to drive it.” Rocket snarled.
“Yeah, yeah don’t worry yourself.” you shrugged off.
The time portal turned on on Banners command as you were sucked in.
“See you in a minute you.” Is the last thing you hear Nat say before the portal sucks you all in. 
The  journey was dizzying yet it felt as if you were flying, bright lights flash past your eyes. You feel gravity pull you to a different lane than the others. 
You telaport to a planet called Morag where you, Loki, Nebula and Rodhey were prepping up to seperate as you were to fly to a planet called Vormir for the soul stone while Nebula and Rhodey retrieve the power stone. 
You shake Nebulas robotic hand and and pull her into a quick hug before saying goodbye to Rhodey. “Don’t stick around for a honeymoon you too.”
“We just might.” Loki joked while you two boarded the ship.
“You sit in the pilot seat and adjusted the coordenates to a place Nebula mentioned, VORMIR. 
You look to your side as Loki reached for your hand and you grab it and held it tightly smilling to eachother. 
“I’m here.” you thought, with nothing to worry about.
VORMIR
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“Thor will be traking the stone on Asgard with Rocket as his partner.” Steve instructed. 
“So great im on drunksiting duty.” Rocket groaned as he rubbed his temples.
“Apologies wouldn’t it be best if my wife and I both well and sober former Asgardians be better suited for Asgard.” Loki said rasing his hand. 
“Sush its fine luv... huge apology captain, please continue.” You said sighing in dissapointment towards your husband.
“Thank you Y/N... Loki to answer your question we actually have another mission for you since the rest of us would be pretty occupied. We don’t know much about the soul stone, both of you as magic users are our best chance agaisnt the unknown in the planet....” Steve said changing the slide to the soul stone slide.
“Vormir ...” Nebula said. 
“What is Vormir exactly.” You asked in curiosity
“The dominion of death. At the very centre of the celestial existance, its where Thanos murdered my sister.” Nebula cutted of as only silence followed.
“I-i’m sorry.” you could only say.
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You focused back as you and Loki gazed up at the height of the mountain as the sandstorms wind blew Lokis hair and took your breathe away making you struggle to breathe. 
“Your right we should have switched with Thor and the Racoon. He needs the exercise and that trashbag would probably feel nothing climbing this hill.” You grabbed another stone and threw it off the mountain path your were climbing. 
“I told you.” Loki said reaching his hand out as he smiled and pull you up. “Besides I don’t think he is a racoon and Thor would have flown up anyways.”
“Can’t you telaport us instead of continuing to talk ?” You groaned as you continued to hike the mountain.
“Only works to places, I’v been to before my love.” Loki grinned as he made the succesful comeback.
You rolled your eyes and continued to hike through the pain, and wind.
Finally reaching to the top you and Loki take in the view for abit and looked around for any clues towards the stone. 
You kneel on one knee and sighed, you looked down and traced the graphs carved into the stone you stood on. Then you both sense a dark and colder force behind you. You and Loki readied your weapons and you both glared into a dark cloacked figure.
“Loki, son of Odin and Laufey.” It echoed. “Y/N daughter of Heimdall.” It contiued.
“Where is the soul stone.” You say with your spear in hand.
“How do you know our names
“If you seek that of the treasure, the stone lies only ahead of you, as does what you fear, the stone attracts a terrible pain and needs.”
“And what might that be.”Loki questioned.
“A price, the soul holds a special place amongts the infinity stones most might say it holds a certain wisdom. The stone demands a sacrifice, in order to take the stone you must lose that what you love.” The cloacked being said.
You both lowered you weapons and looked at each other. Lose that what you love
“It must be a trick, it can’t be, he must be hiding the stone with him.”Loki rambled.
“Give to the world and don’t expect anything back.” You whispered sitting on a rock focused to the ground.
“I don’t understand.”
“Yes you do. Its not a riddle, the answer was said. Lose that what you love.”You muttered.
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“Whatever it takes.” you whispered.
“My love your not actually thinking about.” Loki said as you stand towards the ledge.
“Loki if we don’t do this millions of people stay dead, millions of people stay loosing those of which they love-”
 “And I will forever loose you.... that is a selfish sacrifice for you to make.” Loki argued back.
“You’ve always wished to prove to the world you have changed and that it was the best choice for you to belong on earth.” you breathed out holding his hand tighter.
“And I have, you, Atlas you both are my whole world.” Loki said tightening the grip back. You glanced up towards his green eyes as he leaned towards you and kissed you.
Your lips dancing ontop of eachother, through the cold wind as both refused to leave the other. After savarouing every minute of it, you both take a breathe of air and gazed into eachothers eyes. Loki leaned in on last time laying his forhead on yours and hugging you tightly. While your hands rested around his shoulders. 
You looked up at him and grabbed your spear and held it, “Tell Atlas that I love him.” You dropped your spear into his opened arms. 
The spear went through his hands
Your eyes widened in panic and you turned your head towards the cliff. You see Loki glance at your from the side as he leaned forward. You sprinted grabbing your spear and slide down off the cliff. Using the momentum you used the spear to hook onto the cliff and grabbed Lokis cape. Both of you levered of the cliff dangling onto your strength. You pulled yourself up so your could your your underarms to cling onto the spear while turning the fabric of Lokis cape to tighten your grip. “Let me go love...” He cried out as he pulled out his dagger.
Before he could do anything you holstered him up on the cliff again. The momentum pulled you both up as it latched you to the end of the cliff pulling the spear out of the hole you dug it into.you grabbed onto the corner of the cliff tight as ever in fear of loosing your balance. You looked back at Loki who was trying to regain his balance. You grab your spear and got into position about to fight off Loki to make sure it was you who will jump of the cliff and not him. 
Lokii brought out his throwing knives and looked at your seriously now.
“You have to be the one to tell him.” You said trying to breathe. 
Loki charged towards you saying nothing. he took the first strike as you ducked and slide down. You then used your spear to bring Loki with you. Grunting on impact he fell back again to the ground. You pointed the spear at him. “Tell my son I love him.”
A good blocking from his throwing knives and hilding down your position as he stricked both knives and made eye contact with you trying to push you down. 
You Looked back at his cape and gained an idea not easy to pull of. “Tell him yourself.” You slid your foot and tackeld him down. He used his feet in return to spin you making you fall on the ground. Every move you made he knew how to react to it and block it as best as he could. Until you used a new move, using the blunt part of your spear to stab down at his shoe then twirling it to his face knocking him out slightly. You kicked him back as he plummeted to thr ground rolling backwards. You quickly used your spear to dig it into the side of his stomach withtout worry since you knew of his heeling powers. You then dug the spear into the ground deeper so he had no chance of escape.
He screamed in pain as you winced at his cry, “I’m sorry but my heart can’t bear loosing you again.”
You look into his eyes as you back away from him, he quickly tried to pull out but quickly winced in pain as you had placed a quick spell preventing from doing so and it can only wear off until you wish to or till death.  
You backed away from Loki as you mouthed out, “I love you...” You turn to the cliff as the silence was finally cut, “I’ll always be there for you.” 
Loki screamed out, “UNLEASH ME Y/N.” He glared at you before his look softened at the realisation he will only be free the moment you hit the ground. “Don’t do this...”
You looked at what seems too be a sunset and then back to Loki and took your last breathe before plummeting into the ground. Where you felt pain then nothing....
Loki felt the spear loosen and instantly pulled it out, the realisation hits him that your gone. Loki rushed to the edge of the cliff as he saw your lifeless body on the ground as blood rushed out your nose and your form was pale on the ground.
Loki punched the ground in anger as he knelt down and clenched his fist. He leaned forward and flip forward using his daggers to dig through the stones wall to slow down to the bottom.
But before he could reach to the bottom a strong gravitational pull from the sky pulled him up. He tried to reach for his wife but the light blinded him as he lost conciousness.
Loki started to feel water slip into his ears, but the thing that shocked him back was inhaling the water through his nostrils. He woke up in search of his wife hoping it was all just one bad dream. 
No 
He was still on vormir, he felt a warm object in his left hand and opened it. 
Whatever it takes. They... he got it.
The soul stone....
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blitzy-wing · 3 years
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Guys.
One of the Sacred Timeline “Time bombs” *is* in Vormir. In the 2300s, but it is Vormir. Seems rather sus for them to mention it and make it visible if it won’t tie back to EG somehow. 
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guynamedultimax · 2 years
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ok so let me get a rundown on the mcu atm (+bonus sonic thing)
-half of the original six avengers are dead while the other half is either crippled physically (bruce) or emotionally (thor) or retired (clint)
-the guardians are back chilling in space with a new recruit and are looking for the gamora variant while asgard is now ruled by valkyrie (and either jane or carol)
-local best girl in the franchise creates a fake reality with a fake best husband and fake children enslaving and mentally torturing an entire town, witch attempts to steal her powers, witch gets her ass kicked but apparently will return(?), best girl on the run with evil book, husband is now real again and on the run as well. oh hi monica why are you angry with aunt carol?
-cool dude with wings becomes captain america, works with the other dude with metal arm to stop terrorists with actual good motives, peggy carter’s niece is now a criminal????, zemo is in prison but as if that’s ever gonna stop that bitch we love zemo. and also isaiah. god bless isaiah.
-local asgardian tumblr sexyman sees his life flash through his eyes thanks to time police variant of lightning mcqueen (stan mobius btw) and becomes a simp for female version of himself who kills a very based dude and lets the multiverse loose, which means we now have an evil time overlord who indirectly rules the TVA. also fuck miss minutes i hate her and i love her at the same time
-after loki fucks up, watcher watches 8 of his fuckups and then calls them together to deal with a far better villain than thanos in terms of character design
-carol offplanet as usual, nick offplanet with skrulls, t’challa is ????, strange is sipping good coffee and is still doing it to this day while wong does illegal fights with emil blonsky
-crazy contessa builds her own bootleg avengers starting with blonde widow (YELENA WOOOOOO) and...eugh, john walker (like i understood him as a character but at the same time fuck him you’re never gonna be better than steve rogers). LET KATE IN.
-in 2016 after letting steve go, nat took down a floating fortress, killed danny devito and did it with the help of her little sister who isn’t really her little sister, her bootleg captain america russian dad who isn’t really her dad, and her mom who isn’t really her mom and then decided to go die on vormir without thinking about yelena or her other family, oh and taskmaster was there too but it wasn’t really cool and im realizing she kept away from them for those five years as to avoid the mutual pain and because yelena was snapped
-new superheroes popping out left and right such as the coolest martial artist user in the history of ever who has ten magical space rings taken from his sickass father the actual mandarin, and katy. we love katy. san francisco has the best heroes im telling you with shaun and scott. oh and apparently some thousand year old space dudes i haven’t seen eternals yet i only know they are out there looking for their similiars. also waiting for marc, kamala and jennifer be like
-harry styles is thanos’ brother????? no wonder that dude wanted half of life dead he was the least favorite kid
- we have a new hawkeye and i haven’t seen the series yet but THERE IS LUCKY. ALL IS GOOD. THERE IS KINGPIN. ALL IS GOOD. who is echo?
-peter parker? who’s peter parker? : )
sidenote but i want a crossover between sonic, antman and shang-chi THEY ALL WORK IN SAN FRANSISCO EVEN IF SONIC LIVES IN MONTANA COME ON
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diaryofabeautyfiend · 3 years
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Small Time Witch (28)
The TVA or Time Variance Authority is an organization who monitors time lines and the multi-verse. Since you created a minor disturbance, Mobius was sent to set the timeline back on track. Their methods were harsh yet effective ranging from working for them for several hundred years to erasing you completely using the Retroactive Cannon. Mobius was not here to bring you in. In fact, you have now screwed things up so badly that he was charging you to correct your mistakes.
“I would love a drink. Thank you Y/N. May I call you Y/N?”
“You can start by telling me who you are.”
“Of course.” He drained his glass and set it down. You poured him another. “Mobius M. Mobius. I’m here representing the TVA. We monitor the multi-verse. You have made a mess of things and we want you to fix it.”
“I’m sure I don’t know what you mean.”
He sighed heavily letting his head fall back onto the chair. “Yes, you do. Wife of Loki, witch from Earth here to save her husband from his certain doom. Am I leaving anything out?”
“Nope. Sounds about right. So are you here to arrest me?”
“Arrest you? Heavens no. We want to recruit you. Contract employee. 1099 you at the end of the month for tax purposes. Listen, we love that you’re going after Thanos. You’ll save so many lives except one. Tony Stark. He has to die.”
The floor fell out from under you. The whole purpose of this was to save your friends. You hadn’t even wanted the Avengers to be involved.
“I can’t do that.”
“Here’s the thing, you have to. He has already created civilization destroying weapons. He was supposed to be snapped. Thanos went rogue from the plan.”
“Wait! You sent Thanos?!”
“No. We merely offered him something to kill Stark. Instead, he thought it would be more poetic to let him suffer for five years. And to top it off, he had a child. She’ll continue with his work creating the worst weapon yet. If you take him out now, there will be no Ultron. Sakovia will be safe.”
“But no Vision.”
“Wanda is young. She’ll meet someone else. Good for her though, her brother will still be alive! Good news for everyone. If you succeed, as a thank you, we will restore your husband’s memory. If you refuse, I’ll erase you from existence.”
You couldn’t hurt your friends. You wanted to say no but Mobius M. Mobius was a smooth talker and knew just how to play to your weaknesses. “Tony Stark didn’t have a problem attempting to kill you when he thought you were a threat. Didn’t he poison you? Am I getting that right?”
Your face heated at the memory. You didn’t answer. You both knew he was right. But Tony was also given incomplete and downright false information. “How can I trust what you’re telling me?”
“Have I been wrong about anything else? You don’t have to trust me. In fact, you shouldn’t be so trusting. Thanos already knows what you’re doing. He has spies everywhere. Even on Vanaheim and Asgard. I wouldn’t trust the man who was under Thanos’ thumb just days ago. He’s already betrayed you once. The chamber maid?”
You were heated. Fact was he was right. Loki wasn’t healed from the affects of the stone yet he already knew your plan. Thanos could have still been listening.
“As a sign of good faith, Princess, I present to you the power stone. The Nova Corps is entrusting you with it. You will save Xandar from certain doom. Fun fact, you can expel any of the stones at any time. That should be helpful when you meet with the Ancient One. Be careful with this stone. It bites.”
You cast a protective bubble around you. When you crushed the stone in your palm the pieces crawled under your skin to your core. Once again the light spilled from you holding you in suspension for several minutes then dropping you. You let down the barrier to Mobius clapping. “Three down, three to go. Here’s your plane ticket to Russia. The Maximoff twins already had their brush with the mind stone. You won’t be robbing them of anything. Oh and remember to bring yourself a buddy on Vormir. I’ll be waiting for your call.”
He left a card in the credenza and vanished. You called down to the desk to have more scotch sent up and to extend your stay. You also called up to Heimdall to let him know you do not wish for the princes to disturb you for the next few days.
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Loki awoke the next morning excited to hear of your experience with the reality stone. When he arrived to breakfast you weren’t there. In fact, no one had seen you since you left the previous morning. He didn’t see Thor either. Maybe you had not yet returned.
When Thor came strolling in alone around dinner time Loki was concerned. “Brother, I trust everything went to plan on Midgard.”
“It did! I was able to spend the night with Jane. I should thank your wife for that. Will she be joining us for dinner?”
Now Loki was panicked. “She didn’t return with you?”
“No. She sent Jane and I off. I left her with Erik Selvig and Darcy. She healed him by the way.”
Loki looked away ashamed. His concern for you outweighed his embarrassment. “I haven’t seen her all day.”
“Perhaps she’s still angry over the chamber maid.”
Loki’s face blanched. How on earth did you know about that? “Nothing happened really. Just a flirtation. Who told her?”
“Brother the young lady answered your bedroom door when Y/N went to say goodbye. She is not an idiot. She was able to figure it out.”
Loki was mortified. Old habits truly died hard. You could not blame him. He had only known you to be his wife for a week. You couldn’t really expect him to give up everything. He felt like a fool. You were risking life and limb on his behalf, on behalf of his people and this is how he treats you. A cad and a scoundrel indeed.
He had to see you to apologize. He would throw himself at your feet and vow never again to stray. Beg for you to forgive him. Plead for mercy. And if none of that worked he would buy you something pretty. Though, if he knew anything at all, he would bring you snacks.
Thor called for Heimdall. Unless you cloaked yourself he would be able to find you.
“I know why you are here. The Princess has demanded that she not be disturbed, and I quote, ‘by those two fools’. You see you are the fools.”
Loki sighed in exasperation. “I believe I’ve cracked it. Thank you, Heimdall. Do you know where she is?”
“Yes, your grace.”
Loki closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose, “And where is she?”
“London. At a hotel where she wishes for quiet before she flies to Russia to retrieve another stone.”
“Brother, we should be with her. She already absorbed two stones....”
Heimdall cleared his throat, “Three. She took in the power stone last night.” He stopped speaking for a moment and Loki realized he was listening to you. “Please, Princess. I do not wish to repeat...yes, ma’am. The Princess says, again I quote, ‘I’m stronger than both of you. Leave me alone or it’s over for you bitches when I get back. Also leave Heimdall alone.’ Please forgive, your highnesses.” He twisted the sword and sent Thor and Loki back to Vanaheim.
Loki was furious. Fuck groveling. Loki wanted to march right into your hotel room and demand you apologize. How entirely rude of you to just pop off without a single care for him. And over what? A smack on the bottom of a nameless servant? How actually dare you treat him this way? You won’t see him? He is a prince and your husband. You don’t have the right to refuse his company.
Thor, on the other hand, was terrified. Leave it to Loki to pick a fight with the most powerful witch in the known universe. He thought it best not to antagonize the pissed off witch possessing the power of three infinity stones. He came up with a possible solution. He proposed Valkyrie accompany you to Russia just in case something happened. You were powerful enough to level Midgard. Best have someone who can keep you in check.
At first Valkyrie refused. It wasn’t her job to babysit the princess. When Thor promised she could use Midgardian weapons she was in. Heimdall refused to send her at first. Loki promised you probably wouldn’t kill him. Very reluctantly he complied. Little did Loki know, Hilde was just the girl to make you all better.
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Hilde knocked politely so she would not scare you. You were operating on a hair trigger as of late. She really didn’t want to die. To her surprise, when you saw her in the hall, you began to giggle uncontrollably. “They sent you to bring me back? Idiots.”
“Actually, they asked that I accompany you to Russia. Just in case.”
“Fun! First drinks though.”
After several shots of tequila and one failed margarita attempt, the two of you were pretty sloshed. It had been a really long time since she had this much fun. Equally as long since she allowed anyone to call her Hilde. Only her sisters called her that. You made her laugh with your drunken college stories. When you told her about your emo college boyfriend having a chronic twitch she damn near peed herself.
After polishing off some snacks from room service the two of you collapsed into bed together still giggling. You finally worked up the courage to tell her about your affair.
“You know, in the future, you and I are really close. Like super close.”
“How so?”
“Well I know you have that heart shaped birthmark on your left thigh and when I kiss it it makes you stupid. I also know you like being called daddy in bed.”
She belly laughed at the notion that you two were together. “Does Loki know?!”
“Nope.” You both lost it.
“Norns! Can I be the one who tells him?!”
“Future you asked that I take a picture of his face when he finds out. I’m glad you’ll get to see it in person.”
“Oh hi Prince Loki! In the future I bed your wife.” she mocked.
“Hilde. Would it be weird if I asked you to spoon me? It’s been a while since I shared a bed with someone who actually wants to be around me.” Without hesitation she pulled you close to her body and nuzzled your hair.
The next morning you left for Russia. Normally a whole team would be required to infiltrate a Hydra base. You didn’t really need the back up. Hilde watched your six while you dismantled their security system. You could feel the stone pulling you in its direction. No alarms sounded so you got to the stone and slipped it in your pocket. You heard shuffling from some corner of the room and pulled Hilde closer to you. Wanda’s magic illuminated the darkened room.
“Give back the stone and your friend lives.” Pietro had Hilde by the throat. She had her hand on the hilt of her sword but you singled her to wait.
“Wanda, I know you don’t know me but, in the future, we are great friends. Closer to sisters. I’m not here to hurt you. I’m going to free you. I know a place where you can go.”
“That’s funny. You must not really know my sister.”
“I can prove it, Wanda. Please?”
She was behind you now. When she placed her hands on the side of your temples she showed you your worst fears. All of your friends and family were dead at your feet. Your hands glowed with power. Your skin spattered with their blood. The stones had overpowered you. Where they ended and you began was unclear. You felt yourself sinking but not for long. You regained control and maneuvered to grab her.
You held her with little effort and showed her your friendship. She still didn’t trust you completely but she relaxed some and told Pietro to let Hilde go.
“How did you break free of my magic?”
“Because I’ve practiced with you. Studied your magic. We did it together. I can help you. Please.”
“You can take us out of here?”
“Yes. To a safe place in New York. We don’t have much time. I can take you there right now. No planes. I can open up a portal and we’re all there. What do you say?”
“Pietro? What do you think?”
“Anywhere is better than here.”
“Good. Take my hand.”
You jumped to Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. If there was ever a safe space, it was here. The Professor greeted you all.
“Hello, Y/N. But you are not our Y/N. This much I can tell.”
“Do I look old?”
He laughed, “Nonsense. You look powerful. Come in. All of you. We can have some tea and Wanda and Pietro can show me their talents.”
The twins felt immediately at ease there. Ororo showed them around and helped them get settled. You introduced Hilde to the faculty. She insisted on staying by your side when it was time to take in the next stone.
You went to the medical unit with Jean and the professor. They hooked you up to some electrodes and put you in a padded fire proof space. While you did your thing, they waited far behind a glass.
Just as before the pieces of the jewel cut through your body. Light spills from the open wounds and you fall to the floor writhing in pain. “Don’t let it control you, Y/N. You are stronger than the stone!” The Professor calls out to you. Finally you are calm. All of the monitors attached to you are flashing and ringing. Xavier and Jean come in to examine you. They are extremely concerned. You raise your hand to heal yourself but he stops you.
“Y/N, you understand that every time you take in a stone you are irradiating yourself with gamma rays? You are doing irreversible damage to yourself. There is a reason mortals cannot wield all six of the stones. You have taken in four. I’m not sure you can survive two more.”
“I can. I have to, Professor.”
“Or what, Y/N?” Jean asked.
“Or the time police guys are going to erase me and Tony Stark’s kid will make a weapon capable of destroying planets. Please. I have to finish my mission.”
The Professor and Jean order you to rest for a few days while they figure out how to treat you. You sent Hilde back to Vanaheim to let everyone know you were ok and being cared for. You stayed in the medical ward and the Professor put you into a medically induced coma. He monitored your brain activity to ensure you wouldn’t be a danger to anyone in your unconscious state.
You dreamt in vivid colors. What Wanda put in your head, you couldn’t shake. The stones were possessive of you. They fed off of you draining away all that you were. Eventually you would become the power. Everything seemed to be more alive. Even in suspended animation your muscles ached. They were growing and changing just as every other cell in your body mutated. On the outside you remain unchanged save for your hair color. You kept hearing Mobius’ voice reminding you that you could expel the stones at any time. The stones made you feel bound to them. You would be nothing without them. Wandering around your psyche you fought them for control.
When Hank brought you out of your coma you took a breath and your lungs burned. You coughed and sputtered grabbing at the air for anything to hold. To connect with something. Your vision was too blurry to see who was on the other side of the hand who held yours. Wanda’s soft voice filled your ears, “Open your eyes, Y/N. We’re here.” You nearly jumped out of your skin when you saw Hanks sharp toothed grin.
“There she is.” Hank said softly.
You pulled Wanda closer to you and embraced her. You were unsure if you could trust what you were seeing to be real. You fought a battle for control of your mind, your body, your energy, your perception. Four down and you didn’t know if you had the strength to take the last two.
Once everyone was satisfied with your recovery you asked for a meeting. You explained your journey and what Thanos planned to do. They would support you. For the next stone, you had to go back to Manhattan to meet with the Ancient One. You purposely saved the soul stone for last. You couldn’t comprehend whom you would even sacrifice. It had to be a sacrifice though. Someone you loved. Someone you cherished. You set it aside for now and headed to 177 A Bleeker.
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annes-andromeda · 3 years
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Fanon Marvel cause they got I S S U E S
This isn’t really a fanfic thing, more or less what I envision the MCU would be in MY head. Granted not everyone’s gonna agree with these points, but that’s fine. Well all got our own opinions☺️
Q: Who survives the Snap in Fanon?
A: Steve, Thor, Bruce, Natasha, Clint, Nebula, Gamora, Rhodey, Rocket, Scott, Okoye, Shuri, Pepper, Wong, Valkyrie, Loki, and Tony
Q: Will anyone be recast?
A: Yes. Monica Rambeau is Captain Marvel instead of Carol Danvers. Make of that as you will.
Q: Are there gonna be any major changes?
A: Not for the most part, as I haven’t watched all the Marvel movies. However, these would be the most prominent ones:
* T*ny Stark is an anti-villain. His story has been changed to mostly fit the Superior Iron Man storyline. The IM trilogy would stay the same since I haven’t seen them, as well as the first two Avengers movies. However, he gets his immediate change in Civil War, where we find out that he worked for HYDRA the whole time, and wanted the Avengers to sign the Accords so the organization didn’t get found out. I feel it would’ve been interesting if we had seen Tony turn from a man who pretended to help others survive, into a man who only ever did things to help himself survive. If you don’t like this change: well then suck it cause it’s my fanon🙃
* Steve and Thor are in a relationship. This is mostly a personal preference, but I genuinely think they’d be a good couple. Their feelings would begin to come out in AOU, after the party scene. The two have a drink, slow dance, and confess there feelings. Simple, but cute (I think). Steve would think of Thor in Civil War, while Thor would have a scene in Ragnarok, in which he calls Steve and gets his opinion on everything that has happened to him (Odins death, Hela, losing Mjolnir etc). In Infinity War, they reunite and share a big kiss Pirates of the Caribbean style. As for Endgame: Steve doesn’t go to the past (I.e fucking up the timeline and Peggy’s happy life) and Thor stays on New Asgard to rule as King, with his consort by his side.
* CA:CW- People like Rhodey and Natasha don’t just immediately agree to the Accords. Instead, they go undercover and try to find out what the government is actually doing; Peter is on Team Iron Man until he finds out that Tony is HYDRA. It sucks that M*rvel really out here just making Peter iron boy instead of... ya know... Spider-Man; Civil War has a scene where Steve reminisces on his mother (his real moral compass fight me) and we focus more on him and less on Tinkie’s man pain; Instead of Tony being upset that Bucky killed both of his parents, he’d only get upset about his mother, as he actually wanted his father dead. Got this idea from a post where basically a bunch of people were talking about how Tony was probably HYDRA the whole time, which is where I got the idea. Feel free to add anything else.
* IW: Loki and Gamora don’t die. I feel like they killed off Loki a little too early since he was just getting the arc he so desperately needed. While I don’t really know what to do with him yet, I do know that he’ll be in a relationship with Valkyrie. I mean, did you see their fight scene? The sexual tension. As for Gamora, well we all practically hated it when she died and hated it even more when they brought her 2014 counterpart back from the past. Someone on Quora said that an alternative for Thanos to sacrifice on Vormir could be Ebony Maw, as out of all of Thanos’s children, he worshipped him the most. Maybe Thanos would hesitate as this was his most loyal child, but he does it cause gotta wipe out half the universe or whatever. It wouldn’t be as tragic tho, but (1) that’s the price we gotta pay for Gamora to stay alive, and (2) are we reeeaaally supposed to pity Thanos? Thanos? The guy who only ever fell in love with Death???. Anyways back to Gamora: I actually wanna do something for her. If you’ve ever seen RWBY, one of the main characters essentially loses her arm when she tried to save her friend. I know it sounds cruel for Gamora to loose a limb, but hey, sometimes you just like seeing your fav characters suffer🤷‍♀️. I was thinking it could go two ways:
- (1): Gamora loses her arm like the character in RWBY i.e, saving one of her friends like Mantis, Quill, or Nebula.
- Or (2): Thanos uses the Reality Stone to make the Guardians + Peter and Strange think that they have the upper hand. Strange uses his magic to hold Thanos down while the others try taking off the Infinity gauntlet. Once the gauntlet is nearly loose, Quill would try to strike him, as Nebula realizes that the whole thing is an illusion. But before she could warn the others it’s too late, and Gamora looses an arm to her boyfriend, leaving him and everyone in complete shock. I like this option more, as it would show not only just how cruel Thanos is, but that he never really loved Gamora. He just favored her above all his other kids. And hey, I’m a sap for angst.
* Feel free to add anything else.
* EG: So in the first bullet, I already said which characters survive the snap and that Captain Marvel isn’t Carol, but Monica. Aside from that, I haven’t really thought much of what to do with Endgame. Surprisingly, it’s difficult to write a better story for this one. What I would most like to happen, however, is more character moments. Thor’s PTSD and traumas being taken more seriously, and instead of him gaining weight he loses it (cause according to Tinkie’s dumb rant that’s what gets an audience to take your turmoil seriously. Pls don’t hate me for this decision). Bruce doesn’t turn into Professor Hulk, and his traumas are actually talked about. Also he gets closure on his relationship with Natasha (I know it’s not that great but I personally like it). Clint dies instead of Nat and we remember that Nat was the leader of the Avengers for like five years. Steve properly mourns his friends and actually acts like Steve Rogers and not a fucking imposter. We actually see what happened in Wakanda after the Snap, with Okoye and Shuri at the head of it all. Also Pepper would be stand in for Tony, cause ya know, she has a life outside of him and is actually smart. And her and Scott help with the Time machine or what other plan I or anyone can come up with. Again, feel free to add anything else.
Q: Will there be any new characters added?
A: For now just one: A robot named Iris (aka Iron Blade), created by Tony for HYDRA. I’ve made a summary of her here:
* Iris is an android created by the billionaire Tony Stark, who possesses a synthetic body made of Tungsten Carbide which is powered by the arc reactor in her chest. For years Stark worked into making Iris highly advanced, while also keeping her secret from the rest of the world until she was ready to be used by the organization HYDRA. She was trained by HYDRA in combat and artificial intelligence, transforming Iris into a dangerous, ruthless killing machine. However, she still managed to keep some essence of personality thanks to Tony, who refused to have her be simply mindless. This resulted in Iris inheriting some of Tony’s more negative traits, while even accepting his lavish lifestyle. Although she may act like him, Iris has her own traits which vary from being charismatic, eloquent, and sophisticated to privileged, arrogant and cruel. Due to HYDRA’s influence, Iris is mostly misguided and blindly follows orders.
* Iris was eventually revealed when Tony tried forcing the Avengers to sign the Sokovia Accords as a means to keep HYDRA underground. She was introduced as a new recruit of the US government, in which she had a hand in writing the Accords. When the Avengers found that Iris was created by not just HYDRA but by Tony, this caused a huge riff in the team. The people on Team Iron Man immediately turn on him once finding out that he created Iris, which in turn resulted in them finding out that not only had he been providing the organization with weapons, but was a member himself. Out of all the team members, Iris has the largest fallout with Bucky Barnes (the former Winter Soldier) and Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow), as she mostly worked as their antithesis, showing what probably would’ve occurred had they never recovered from their manipulation at the hands of corrupt organizations.
* After the fight between Iron Man and Captain America, Iris went into hiding alongside Tony, who was no longer a member of the Avengers. For the next two years, Iris stayed by her creators side as he intended to carry out his boss’s plan. The titan Thanos had ordered Stark to help him eradicate half the universe. Tony agreed to the plan, as he believed that Earth had been ungrateful for his attempts at ‘saving’ the world. He would help Thanos, so long as he ensured his safety and payed him. Iris, programmed to follow orders, agreed to the plan without question.
* Once Thanos arrived on Earth, Iris would go to Wakanda to stop the Avengers from destroying the Mind Stone, all the while Stark attempted to kill the Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, and Spiderman (also the only one who knew of Tony’s true alignments). Iris, failing to retrieve the Stone, joins Tony on Titan while Thanos fights the Avengers. Despite the Avengers attempts, Thanos gets the stones and does the Snap, in which Tony and Iris survive and go into hiding once more.
That’s pretty much it. I made this cause I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I wanted to share my opinions. Feel free to add anything or give constructive criticism.
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Avengers Infinity War-First Time Watching Reaction Play-by-Play (Pt. 2)
Part 1
I wonder how many people Gamora has killed? What made her finally snap to not serve Thanos anymore?
How DID Gamora find it? Like, who told her?
How did Thanos capture nebula?
Poor nebula. She’s literally been through hell and back.
Ohhhh she snuck on board...
Thanos you suck so much. You favor one daughter over another.
Oh. Where was said map to the soul stone?
Gosh I feel so damn bad for nebula. She was raised as his daughter too but he tortured her and tore her apart. Nebula never had the chance to be her equal. She deserves so much.
Taught groot as an elective? What about all speak?
Buckle up rocket. It’s gonna get emotional.
Thor is literally all alone. He needs a time to sit alone and cry and break a whole building.
Rocket and Thor friends? Please
1500 years old? Jane, honey, you escaped.
Gotta give it up to Hemsworth’s acting chops here. Especially talking to nobody in reality. Just a bunch of cgi
Ew ew ew eye socket
Should have washed that yikes
Snuck it out by hiding it up your? Huh? You watch too many movies rocket.
Huge title card. Thank you. I wouldn’t have known where we were despite them saying their location many times.
How is that video game battery not dead?
Perceptive rabbit
I LOVE that they used a dwarf to play a giant character!!! This is brilliant! (And that dwarves are giant for some reason lol.)
Soooo again Thanos killed everyone EXCEPT Eitri despite his “morality” supposedly being balance
Poor hands
Poor nebula
Smart nebula
Maybe should have waited to be fixed fully first
Ah crap. SOMEONE PICK UP THE SPACE PHONE
MANTIS
Love how Stark asks for peters help in steering and not Stephen lmao
Nice parking job
Peter, stop popping pop culture refs
Lmao ITS ABOUT TO BE THE ICONIC SCENE
YES PLEASE
Blanket of Death. Capey has a new nickname.
Where’s Gamora
Who’s Gamora
Why is Gamora
What master do you serve?
Jesus?
I mean, yea I do. So does Pratt lmaoo.
LMAO PARKER’S FACE WHEN QUILL SAID THOR WASNT HANDSOME
Storm breaker time baby
“In theory it could summon the bifrost” who theorized this? How do you only theorize and not know?
Oh my gosh mantis is just bouncing around
Mr. Clean lmao
Kick names, take ass
Hey now, these guys saved the galaxy and universe from Ego so lmao
Oh no I know the scene coming up
Poor quill lmao
“I’m half human. So the 50% of me that’s stupid, that’s 100% of you.” “Your math is, blowing my mind.” What’s funny is that Quill’s math was actually completely accurate lol
Stephen having a stroke or a seizure? You good homie?
Soooo if Strange looked to the future and so possible outcomes, what does that mean for the TVA? According to them, there’s ONE sacred timeline, so all other branches are erased (which again messes up what smart hulk eventually says in end game. See kids, this is why you don’t mess with time travel in stories. There’s no way to go back in time without creating a time loop). Ehhhhh I’ll let it slide. Just ignore it... sigh... I can’t help it if I’ve studied paradoxes
Hmmmm not good odds I’ve gotta say...
Watch like, outside of the millions of realities that strange saw, there were like a million or billion more he missed where they won with no casualties lol
Hey Red Skull. Long time no see. How did he get here anyways and why?
Yea you’re prepared all right...
Gotta say, Lord Elrond has seen better days
I’m not ready to say good bye to this Gamora. Gamora and Loki and Nat go down as my favorite characters, gotta say. I know that Tony does and it’s sad, but his feels more satisfying because his sacrifice directly results in them winning. Loki is murdered. Gamora is murdered. Nat died just for a stepping stone for the avengers. She has no idea whether or not they will actually win in the end.
I’m hopeful they may bring Nat back like in the comics, red room clone style.
We got back vision, Loki (kinda), variant Gamora, a new captain America, why not Nat? Yea we have a prequel, but gosh I love her so much.
“You must lose that which you love.” Couldn’t that apply to like an object or something? Could I not throw my Nintendo switch over the cliff? Or my dog? (I would hate that just as much as a person, don’t get me wrong, I’m just curious about the rules)
Yea boohoo sad for Thanos... loses his favorite daughter. I don’t care about him. He deserves suffering.
Poor Gamora doesn’t think he’s willing to do it.. GIRL RUN!!!
Thanos deserves all the suffering.
He does love you Gamora... but that love... it’s selfish. It’s blind... Thanos seems to be a chaotic vigilante who is narrowminded, tunnel vision on his goal with no regards of the cost. But he is evil. If there is ever an alternate route to an end that doesn’t result in the loss of innocent lives, and you know that but you willingly choose the once that costs innocent lives, that is an evil decision. Maybe Thanos isn’t evil, but he’s not good. Far from it. He’s obsessed with this idyllic Utopia but he rushes to one method of getting there. Yes, people suffer. It sucks... it’s unfair... it’s horrible. But it is never the right of someone else to dictate whether or not said person would be better off dead. Who lives, who dies. If Thanos truly was neutral and not selfish, he would have thrown his own life into the mix of the potential 50/50 snap. Thanos is not good. He’s not misunderstood. He’s a murderer. A genocidal cult leader. I have no tears for him. Only for those who suffered more at his hands.
Rant over, time to try not to cry about Gamora...
Her face of realization
Gamora run please
Thanos, I hate you. (Great character her, but not a good person)
Poor Gamora
Oh my gosh the emotion here is great but I’ve heard this sound used as a meme on TikTok too many times aghhhh
Gamora!
What a way to die
I’m crying again. I miss her already...
Who the hell designed this place and put the stone here???? Who did this?
Cry Thanos. Suffer. My only comfort here is that you are sad. You deserve suffering. You really do...
The TVA is laughing here and I’m not okay..
Poor Peter Quill... he’s also lost a lot like Thor, but has had the “luck” of not knowing his family too close.
Wakanda babyyyy
No, you don’t want Starbucks, you want Dutch bros
Lmao I love rhodey. Poor Bruce.
BUCKY BUCKY BUCKY
HUG
NO CMON HAVE A LONG HUG
MALE FRIENDSHIPS ARE SO IMPORTANT.
Yea Shuri show em up.
Okay quick pause, I love love LOVE how Shuri is smarter. It’s a powerful moment for females BUT it’s not done in a way that’s condescending to males! It’s not saying women power because men bad, she’s just good! (And she has had access to technology they never could have but I digress). More of this please Hollywood. Don’t let being a female be the power. I don’t want strong female characters, I want strong characters who happen to be female. Ones who hold their own, have faults like anyone else, struggle, have weaknesses and strengths, but are strong without putting down others. Just a comment, just because a woman character may not be as strong as a man character, that is not saying she’s weak. If you’re the second strongest human in the world, you are NOT weak. You’re just not as strong as the strongest human ever, but that’s nothing against you. LET WOMEN STAND ON THEIR OWN MERITS WITHOUT SEX AFFECTING THEM!
Anyways
I love Shuri
I wish they had more time. She definitely could have done it. But stupid Thanos
Ughhhghhg
I know what many scenes are upcoming... with quill and peter and vision and everyone else
Let👏🏻Bucky👏🏻Have👏🏻Peace👏🏻
Thank you Nat!!! I love that Nat is so protective and selfless.
GET THIS MAN A SHIELD
Bucky needs love please. He’s my stand in, manipulated, greasy, long haired, dark and mysterious, stabby boy. (Also I need Bucky and Loki to meet. But let Loki finish his show (and come out of it alive because if he doesn’t I will sue) and be the antihero hero we need. Please. If he doesn’t get reintroduced into the mcu as a hero I will sue.
Thor, sweetie, are you a masochist?
Back to wakanda
Oh no, bad CGI, floating head Bruce banner. I’ll let it slide... sigh....
Can’t like, you just rain bombs on them forever?
JIBARI TRIBE YEA BOYYYYY
Sorry Proxima Midnight, you look like a frog and your name sounds like a middle schooler’s OC.
How nice. Diplomatic meeting.
“Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood.” Reeeeeeally wish you didn’t say that, T’Challa...
Yay big CGI battle commence! It’s like a really expensive animated cartoon at this point
WAKANDA FOREVER!
Poor Bucky. Forgot this dude doesn’t know much about the modern world.
Ahhhh Kamikazi aliens
I just wanna say that I love that Wakanda still has the artistic culture in their clothing and tradition all the while having badass, super advanced technology.
Why can’t they just rain bombs down the whole fight lol. Rhodey has those super nice bombs, like, do that they he whole time? Please? Why do you not have a barrier around the entire king.
No M’Baku, it’s not the end of wakanda. But half of all life, yea
WAKANDA FOREVER YEAAAAAAA
They should honesty all have nano tech suits like black panther lol. Or iron man suits. Fine maybe the most powerful one with the best quality material for the king, but besides that, yknow.
Wow Steve is hot with a beard.
So much happening at once. Thor, Wakanda, Vormir, Knowhere, am I missing anything?
Okay, but what IS the full force of a star? Like in Newton’s or something? Juls? Is it heat?
What’s this metal? How does it fare with vibranium?
Get off your wooden butt, groot.
“He needs the axe” are you Thor, the god of axes?
Soooo, I thought Thor didn’t NEED the hammer, it just helped him concentrate his powers or act as a conduit. Is that retconned already?
Cmon groot, put down your game. Soooo, is Groot worthy? He technically lifted it. Or is it a technicality because it wasn’t fully finished yet?
Cmon bucky, use that fancy arm of yours.
Wow they’re getting destroyed.
They need wanda to help.
BADASS ENTRANCE BABYYYY
How did Thor know to come to wakanda?
Floaty head Bruce
“BRING ME THANOS!”
Ahhhhhahahaha yeaaaaaa
Cry Thanos. Do it. I hate you.
Much more of a purple grape nutsack.
Oh gosh... I know what Peter Quill is going to do. I still don’t hate him.
“With all six stone I would simply snap my fingers. They would all cease to exist.” Orrrr, now hear me out, I know I sound like a broken record now but... MAYBE DOUBLE THE RESOURCES INSTEAD?? That’s not mercy. That’s not up to you to decide whether or not someone’s better off dead.
Smoosh
Yea quill has experience with the power stone
AIM FOR THE HEAD
Cmon it’s basic zombie tactics
I love peter quill lmao
Go capey!!!
Magic with a kick!
Poor Peter
CAPEY NOOOOOO
Wow he’s OP
Ouch quill just got majorly clotheslined
NEBULA
“Where’s Gamora?” 😭😭😭 SHE CARES AGHHHH
Restrain him! Work it mantis!!!
Why even remove the gauntlet, just slit his throat... kill him....
Quill no... stop being cocky...
Oh no
Quill please don’t
JUST SLIT THANOS’ THROAT
Quill please....
Poor quill. Just lost the person who really really loved him
Okay, I still love star lord. Idc what others think. He reacted realistically. If you hate peter quill for how he reacted, you better also hate Tony Stark for how he reacted to bucky when he learned bucky killed his parents despite knowing for a fact that bucky was brainwashed. Yes it was annoying... yes they were so close, but quill is so human here. I don’t hate him. He gets too much hate for acting like any normal person would have. Distraught, grief filled, he lost his love. Someone who helped him open up and finally move on from his mother’s death and fathers villainy.
Spider man saving mantis gives me life
How did that power stone blast not kill them?
Clearly Thanos has played Majora’s Mask. At least he has good taste.
So close vision.... but I know... I know what happens.
YES BUCKY AND ROCKET GUN CIRCLE.
Lmao give rocket Bucky’s old arm.
“I am Groot.” “I am Steve Rogers.” Comedy gold
Cmon Thor, go after the big one first.
Cmon wanda, save them. We need some scarlet witch magic up here to stop these
Okay that was so cool. AND THEN SHE USED THE BLADES
Oh no but now Shuri is alone
So close yet so far.... Dangit... vision was almost good
Ouch. Bonk to the head
YEA BLACK WIDOW
BADASS TIME
AND OKOYE!!
LETS GOOOOOOO
BADASS WOMEN
Ouch poor vision
Cmon Thor back up vision
Please
Hulk is in his feels
Cmon hulk grow up
Ooooh smart move banner
Aaaaand he’s gone
Giant blade look oit
Corvus, screw off.
YEA STEVE
WHERE IS THOR WHEN YOU NEED HIM
CMON NAT
Oh dang. Nice one wanda. But also, sheesh. Helluva way to go. But no big.
Yea vision. Stabby time.
Now vision and Steve, kiss.
Spider man saving everyone’s lives.
YEA STRANGE
Where was this in New York???
MULTIPLYING
WHY DIDNT YOU DO THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE????
Oh no
Well then... ouch. Soooo where’s the real stone???
Hey look Tony, you have a fan.
Okay I’m just pissed odd they didn’t just kill Thanos when they had him subdued. Like, worry about the glove AFTER he’s not longer a threat
Oof
Tony is taking a beating
HE WAS STABBED
WHAT
I don’t want your respect Thanos. That’s an insult.
They will remember him. They will remember him Thanos. When he kills you.
DOCTOR STRANGE WHAT?
You really doing this??? I guess he knows what needs to unfold for them to win... dang. I wouldn’t trust him tho.
Peter Quill in berserker mode
Where’d he go?
Name dropping the second movie
Strange knows everything about to go down. Who dies, who lives, what Thanos is about to do... he’s accepting his soon dusted demise because Stark needs to live...
AIM FOR THE HEAD UGHHHHH
Stop teleporting. That’s Loki’s gimmick.
KILL THIS RAISIN LOOKING NUTSACK UGH
Homie way too OP
Poor wanda and Vis...
HER LIP TREMBLE
PHENOMENAL ACTING
SAY I LOVE YOU
I JUST FEEL YOU
AGGHHHH IM CRYING AGAIN
Poor wanda. To have to kill her love... this.. this is a sacrifice Thanos... not your murder....
Wow Steve is holding back Thanos with pure brute
WANDA IS SO STRONG
HOLDING BACK THANOS WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY BREAKING THE MIND STONE
I LOVE YOU
AGHHHHHHHHH
And I know what happens next...
Poor wanda
Piss off thanos you understand nothing
You lost more than she could know? Bull crap. You are causing everyone to lose...
Cruel reality. Wanda has to see him die twice. RIP Vision
RIP half of all life...
AIM FOR THE DAMN HEAD
IF THOR KILLED HIM THEY COULD HAVE USED THE GAUNTLET TO BRING EVERYONE BACK TO LIFE. USED THE TIME STONE TO REVIVE THEM ALL.
How did that not kill Thanos tho. It may not have been a head shot but still.
Lil Gamora
What is this place?
Is this the soul realm?
Thanos, I hope you suffer forever. You deserve all the pain...
Rest In Peace: Vision, Loki, Bucky, T’Challa, Groot, Wanda Maximoff, Sam Wilson, Mantis, Drax, Peter Quill, Dr. Strange, Peter Parker (I don’t feel so good), and everyone else...
Thank you Nebula.
Thanos, you do NOT deserve to retire peacefully—wipe that smile off of your face
Oop, Rest In Peace Maria Hill and Nick Fury too... Motherfu— (so close Sammy boy...)
Yea Thanos you didn’t really think that through. Much more than half will died since other people rely on other peoples lives
Good thing he hit that button last minute huh? I wonder how captain marvel would fare in the TVA? are her powers considered magic? I mean, she clearly doesn’t know everything since she only just learned about Thanos (which is funny because she was supposedly traversing the universe to protect people)
Welp... onto movie two!
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💕:Fluff
🎈: Funny
💋: Smut
😭: Angst
⭐: Personal favourite.
🥇: The most popular fic in each category (it might change).
Angst Alphabet
Fluff Alphabet
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PETER PARKER/SPIDERMAN
A phone call away:  Peter is having a hard time sleeping, and doesn’t know how to tell you. Eventually, someone catches him sleeping on a public place and you find out. The thing is, you love him and Peter should know that you’re always there for him. Even if it’s just by a phone call. 💕
⭐  Autistic love (autistic! Peter x reader):  there is something weird about Peter, but that doesn’t make him any less lovable.  💕 
⭐ Autistic love (autistic!Peter x reader): Peter and you have decided to meet your mother for lunch, and he’s going to discover how much you and your family care about him. 💕
Beautiful:  study break is better if Peter is with you.  💕
Breeding kink (November Kink) 💋
Check: He had a date for the homecoming dance, he had the perfect suit and a proper preparation. Peter Parker didn’t think about the winged man  😭
Dating Peter Parker would include...  💕 🎈
⭐ De-aging (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) :  you get hit by a de-aging spell, and Peter has to take care of you while trying not to break down completely. (COMPLETE)🎈 
Europe (1) (2):  Europe is being great, and it would be even greater if Peter could just follow his plan. (COMPLETE) 💕
Sometimes, once in a while: even heroes need saving sometimes  💕
Far from home:  Peter Parker has just been run over by a train. However, he has biggest worries. Like, Beck having you in his grasp. 💕
Finally: Peter’s strange behaviour hasn’t gone unnoticed by the people around him, but he has a very, very, good reason for it. Or, in which Peter and you plan a date for Friday’s night and he can’t stop thinking about it  💕 🎈
⭐  First kisses:  Peter Parker’s and yours first, or five, first kisses. 💕
Fluff Alphabet
Friday Night:  you want to have a quiet Friday night, and Peter is just swinging by to make it better.  💕
Fuck you Beck:  You had been given strict orders, yet you couldn’t ignore Peter’s call for help, even if the boy was too stubborn to do so; and even if you can be the one needing help at the end.   💕 😭
⭐  Hold you: fighting is always hard, but Peter didn’t think it would be that hard. 😭 
No more fondue on my watch: Peter and you have been together for a while now, but nothing can go past Captain America eagle’s eyes. 💋 🎈
Peter Parker having public sex  💋
🥇  Peter Parker making you squirt for the first time 💋
Peter’s Tingle:  Peter’s tingle must always be trusted; through the good and bad. 😭 💕
Praise Kink (November Kink)  💋
Promises   💋
⭐ See the light (Tangled AU): Pre-view (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12 - epilogue): Peter Parker has lot a lot through the years, and has become a shell of the bright boy he used to be. A serie of unfortunate events lead him to you, a naive young girl who has a dream. Slowly, he starts to realize that you might be that light at the end of the tunnel he needed so much (FINISHED) 💕 🎈
Short fic 1  💕 🎈
Skip (1) (2): Peter’s new life couldn’t be better. College, aparment for himself, you. Still, Parker’s luck is not on his side, and the memories are coming back. (ON GOING) 😭
Soul Stone:  Peter and you are sent to Vormir, to get the soul stone  😭
Tried (not enough): Tony had developed a cronic anxiety every time Peter calls in the middle of the night. He knows it gets bad; just not so much. 😭
Worry:  you’re sick and Peter is worried. Maybe a little too much 💕
TONY STARK/IRONMAN
⭐  According to the plan:  Tony Stark has a plan. Tony Stark builds a plan. He couldn’t have known both of them could go to shit in an abandoned HYDRA base in Siberia, by the hands of his ex-best friend.  😭
⭐  Family:  Tony Stark doesn’t have a lot of nice things nowadays, but his family make up for all of what he has lost. 💕
🥇 ⭐  Feeling old:  you say something that tiggers Tony’s inners insecurities and doubts.  💕 💋
Heartbeat: Tony has a heart attack, and you’re the only one around. 😭 💕
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Long way home: the final battle is over. Thanos is dead. Tony is alive. Everyone has payed the price, but some are having a harder time than others.
Or
An endgame fix-it of how Tony Stark survived the snap, but with the reality about a traumatic experience as losing a limb and almost dying. 😭 💕
⭐  On sale:  Tony has a task: bring nuggets to satisfy your pregnant cravings. The obstacle: they were on sale.  🎈
Out in space: Tony is trapped in space, and his biggest worry is not how to get back home, but rather if you’re going to make it. Because there is more than one problem he has to face 😭
Recovery:  Tony Stark has a problem. Actually, he has a lot of them. Tony Stark has always been surronded by problems. But now it’s different, and he has found the will of getting out of them.  💕
Things we don’t mean: a mission gone wrong, and Peter gets hurt. It hits Tony where it hurts the most, becuase he sees the kid as a son, and he blames it on you. Hard words are exchanged and apologies are muttered.  💕
Whatever it takes:  something in Tony’s gut tells him that this recording is neccesary. He doesn’t want to think about it, but he does it anyways  😭 💕
BUCKY BARNER/WINTER SOLDIER
A lash for a dog:  after a failed mission, things only gets harder.  😭
🥇  Beautiful ballerina:  Hiding your relationship with Bucky from the world was not easy. The worst part of it was hiding it from the mightiest heroes in the world; the Avengers. 💕
Imagine 1
Imagine 2
The first rays of sun: a short fluffy blurb with your moment with Bucky before a mission  💕
STEVE ROGERS/CAPITAN AMERICA
🥇  Be Okay:  HYDRA takes Steve. When you get back to him, he’s not the sweet boyfriend you know. 😭
Photograph-song inspired  💕
Perfect: your date is about to get ruined and not even your perfect boyfriend might be able to do something against it.  😭
THOR
My hero: you didn’t believe in heroes. Those strong, brave men that always wanted to save the day, only to cower away when the real problems began. You didn’t like heroes, who wanted to save the damsel in distress; you could save yourself, thank you very much. You didn’t fall in love with heroes, until a certain blonde one stumbled into your life. (1) (ON GOING)
New Asgard: life in New Asgard is peaceful, but the past always comes back.  💕
🥇 ⭐  Nightmares:  the final battle had made a mess out of the God. Nightmares fill his mind, but you’re always there to make it better. Until one day, you aren’t.  😭  
LOKI
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VENOM/EDDIE BROCK
Friends:  Eddie and you have been friends as long as you can remember. He has ruined your life, but it’s not like you can hate the man you love.
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🥇  Imagine 2
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VIKINGS
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UBBE RAGNARSON
25th of December (1) (2) (MILITARY AU):  When Ubbe’s gone, the only thing you have left is hope. (ON GOING) 😭 
Dance Teacher (1):  Ubbe’s Friday is not going as well as he would have liked it. Yet meeting his daughter’s dance teacher is going to change that. (ON GOING)💕
First time being a dad (MODERN AU)  🎈
Heartbeat AU (1) (2) :  your heart doesn’t allow you to have a normal life, but it does beat faster when you meet your new doctor. (COMPLETE) 💕 😭
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Imagine 2
Imagine 3
Imagine 4
⭐  I’m with you:  Ubbe wants to make peace with the Saxons. He doesn’t care what it takes, but when you decided to follow him in the middle of the night, he’s not so sure anymore. 😭
⭐ Lagertha’s Daughter (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) :  Lagertha plans on attacking Kattegat, soon, and you, her daughter and Ubbe’s lover, just ask her to make you a promise (COMPLETE) 😭
My Viking Prince (1) (2) (3) :  you’re Alfred sister, princess Y/N. All your life, you have believed that love is all about pleasing your husband and making him happy or that’s what your mother told you. Now, prince Ubbe is making you see things differently. (COMPLETE)💕  💋(3)
Say that again:  Ivar has never liked you, Ubbe Christian lover, and he makes that very clear.
⭐ The sweet baker and the bad biker (1) (2) (3) (4) (5): (vikings x SOA crossover)  Ubbe, as the new president of SAMCRO, goes to the new bakery to see who is the owner and if he or she is a threat for Charming. He finds you, a sweet, cute and innocent girl who doesn’t hesitate to make him fall in love (COMPLETE)  😭
🥇  They learn about periods   🎈
Together:  Sigurd’s death threaten to tear not only your world but your relationship apart. 😭
What you deserve (1): Ubbe knows that you’re pregnant with his son or daughter and that he needs to leave Kattegat if he wants to protect you. What he doesn’t know is if you’re going to make it. (ON GOING)
Winner’s prize : Ubbe has put his life again at risk, but this time there are things in between that makes it different💕 😭
Your daughter’s first boyfriend  🎈
HVITSERK RAGNARSON
⭐ Angst Alphabet (Tattoo Artist!Hvitserk) (1)   😭
- N for Nothing  😭
- O for Offended  😭
- P for Pressure  😭
- Q for Quake  😭
- R for Rob  😭
- S for Surgery  😭
- T for Time  😭
- X for Xx  😭
Crush AU (1) (2):  shitty job, shitty life, too much stress. What’s better to solve those problems that your hot, handsome and funny roommate’s brother? (COMPLETE)💕  💋(1)
⭐  First time being a dad (MODERN AU)   🎈
Him (MODERN AU): Hvitserk and you are seeing each other behind your boyfriend’s back, his half-brother Magnus. And leaving the latest isn’t easy.  😭
His lady:  You’re his lady, he’s your prince.  😭
Home:  What do you call home when you have lost everything? You come back to Kattegat to fight Ivar, but it’s hard to know that Hvitserk will be there too.  😭
Imagine 2
NSFW Alphabet 
Octopus: Hvitserk is sick and just wants cuddles. (can be read as the second part of him)  💕
Rewrite the stars (Song inspired)  💕
Soon to be husband:  Hvitserk’s back from raiding only to find you promised to another man. It’s up to him do something or not about it.  😭
Taken : you are taken by the saxons, along with your soon to be husband, Hvitserk. And you do not hesitate in protecting him, not caring about the consequences  😭
🥇 ⭐  They learn about periods    🎈
⭐  Your daughter’s first boyfriend    🎈
IVAR RAGNARSON
Angst Alphabet  😭
Checkmate:  Ivar hasn’t always been the murderous king we know. There was a spark initiating the fire.   😭 💕
First time being a dad (MODERN AU)   🎈 
Quiet days: Ivar is in a bad mood and it seems like only you can fix that  💕 💋
🥇  They learn about periods    🎈
Your daughter’s first boyfriend   🎈
BJORN RAGNARSON
Angst Alphabet  😭
First time being a dad (MODERN AU)   🎈
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🥇  They learn about periods   🎈
Your daughter’s first boyfriend   🎈
ALFRED
Something that there wasn’t there before (Song inspired)   💕
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ACTORS
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TOM HOLLAND
Back home (1) (2):   Five months ago, you broke up. Five months ago, you walked out of Tom’s house because it was all too much. Five months ago, Tom left his home without you. And now he’s back, realizing you shouldn’t have never broke up. (COMPLETE)💕 😭
Back to you (Song inspired) 😭
Caterpillar:  there isn’t ice-cream on the fridge, and that only makes your day worse. Until Tom comes home to fix it all. 💕
⭐  Christmas Present:  you recive a call in Christmas and your world lights up like a Christmas tree. 💕
⭐Fawn (Mob!Tom): GENERAL SUMMARY  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)💕 😭
⭐  Fluff Alphabet (Tom Holland)  💕 
Forgotten aniversary:  working so hard had consequences.  💕 😭
Football incident (college!Tom):  Tom gets hurt in a game, although it might not be an accident after all.  💕
Gift wrapping:  gift wrapping is the worst part of Christmas. Tom is the best one.   💕
Lost kid:  Tom and you spent your last weekend before going home in Disney World, and he turns out to be one of those boyfriends who end up in the ‘lost kids’ deparment.  💕  🎈
Mushy Pancakes:  morning sex and breakfast in bed is the best way to wake up. 💕
Relax:  Tom is driving you mad without knowing, but that’s about to change after an stressful day. 💋
Short fic 1: everyone is cooking in the quarentine, and even if Tom knows he can’t do shit, he’s going to try.  💕  🎈 
Shower time: the quarantine is the perfect time to tease, until you have enough and Tom is alone in the shower. 💋 💕
⭐  The Impossible (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6):  Your relationship with Tom is on edge. Work, paparazzi and not seeing each other for months is making you tear apart from each other. Thankfully, he’s an amazing boyfriend and propose you what you thought it would be the perfect holidays; Thailandia. The hot sun, the beach, a cute hut and privacy to mend your relationship. Neither of you thought you would be witnesses of one of the greatest natural dissasters of history (COMPLETE)  💕 😭
Training Day:  Tom’s morning hasn’t been the only thing hard that day.   💋
🥇  True love kiss: “I tricked your little sister telling her Ursula has stolen my voice because I have a massive hangover, and now we have to kiss in order not to break her innocence”
or
Au were Tom works in Disney store, has a massive headache and can’t talk, and now he has lied to a little girl and she wants to get him a ‘true love kiss’; which happens to you, her older sister and Tom’s highschool crush.  💕  🎈
ALEX HOGH
Attention: Alex just wants to cuddle with you. 💕
🥇 ⭐  Friends don’t love each other: when feelings and sex are mixed, nothing good can come out of it. Alex and you have been doing it for a while, and the bubble if about to explode. 💋  😭
Good Boy: Alex has been a naughty boy and he needs to earn his reward. 💋
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CHRIS EVANS
Bananas: your daughter seems to have a strange fixation with bananas   💕 🎈
Bananas’ worries:  Banana the plushie is making another appearance in your life, and this time is bringing worries.  💕 🎈
⭐  Banana’s new friend:  little Nathan is the new addition to the Evans-Y/L/N family, and Banana is having troubled feelings, along with Claire.   💕 🎈
🥇  NSFW Alphabet 💋
MARCO ILSO
🥇  Imagine 1  
Imagine 2
You’ve got my heart : Marco is your best friend, your neighbour and your crush. One night at your house changes everything for the best; but you’ve taken different paths and life might never reunite you again.💕  💋  😭 
TOM HARDY
B for Baby: you’re pregnant and something happens  😭
🥇  Imagine 1
Imagine 2
SEBASTIAN STAN
Gorgeous: Sebastian is doing and interview and can’t keep his eyes away from you (short blurb)💕
🥇 ⭐  Wired Autocomplete Interview: fans watching your interview with Sebastian are going to get more than what they bargained for. 💕
BEN HARDY
⭐  Interview :  you’re exicted for your first solo interview about the End Game movie, but it’s not going to be as good as you thought it would. 😭 💕
Trust:  Ben is your bodyguard and you’re his client, and both of you have some unspoken feelings. And what best way to confess, that without words and just after a bomb have blown up the building you were in? 😭 💕
TARON EGERTON
Hypothetically:  you find something that you didn’t mean to in Taron’s tablet, and you wish it had been porn.  💕 🎈
SONS OF ANARCHY
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JAX TELLER
🥇  Break in:  your family night turns into a nightmare morning when some guys break into your house threatening your family  😭
Dating Jax Teller   💕
Embarrasing moment with their child  🎈
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🥇  Imagine 2
Imagine 3
Imagine 4
⭐  Injury:  Summer mornings with Abel are always unpredictable.  💕  😭
Lucky (Zombie apocalypse) (1) (2): after the “fall”, everything turned out to be dangerous. You have been lucky enought to find Jax and a group.
Safe: in your mind, it’s not his fault. It’s never his fault, becuase he’s your dad and he loves you. But there is one person who loves you more, and is willing to prove that what Clay does is not right  😭
Short fic 1: after a shooting, the most important thing Jax has to do is to pick up the pieces.  💕  😭
HAPPY
🥇  Dating Happy Lowman  💕
⭐  Embarrasing moment with their child   🎈
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PEAKY BLINDERS
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ALFIE SOLOMONS
🥇  Bad words and bad luck:  Alfie and you have a bet going on; if he doesn’t say any bad words until night, you’ll let him do whatever he wants in bed.  💕  😭
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NSWF Alphabet    💋
MICHAEL GREY
Attached:  there isn’t much to say, just a cute rotten fluff day with the Shelby family  💕 🎈
Beach days:  Michael’s and your honeymoon is going to take an interesting turn in the beach  💋
🥇  H for Humillation:  you have a nice life, with a quiet library and a loving boyfriend. But some people don’t know how to respect that  😭
M for Mistakes:  you’re Michael’s world and he’s not ready to lose you yet  😭
Umbrellas (C for Catcall)  😭
THOMAS SHELBY
G for Grounded:  yours and Tom’s son is a spoiled kid, but his father hasn’t really noticed that. Until one night when, after a fight, Tom recives some harsh words from him.  😭
ARTHUR SHELBY
B for Baby:  For being a Shelby, having twins was one hell of a lucky strike. Arthur couldn’t be any more happy and exicted about it; yet as always, luck is not very common in a Shelby’s life.  😭
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QUEEN (BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY MOVIE)
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ROGER TAYLOR (Ben Hardy)
🥇 ⭐  Freddie’s best friend (1) (2):  being Freddie’s best friend means supporting him on everything, and being in love with Roger Taylor means suffering in silence, doesn’t it? Maybe a little trip to the fields can change that, but not in the best way (COMPLETE)  💕
To let you inside my heart (1) (2):  when you have your heart broken, you build walls so high that no one can climb them. Roger Taylor’s purpose is to show you no walls can stop a loving heart. (ON GOING)  💕
What I love:  Roger was a confident guy; full of girls and empty of insecurites. But now, he has a girlfriend and when an insecurity knocks at his door, all of them enter into his head.   💕
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GAME OF THRONES 
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JON SNOW
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ROBB STARK
🥇  Betrothed :  you have know since you were little that prince Robb Stark would be your husband one day. It’s time to meet him, and to discover if being promised to an unknown man is good or not  💕
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THE ORIGINALS/THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
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DAMON SALVATORE
Back to you: Damon and you broke up two years ago, thinking it was for the best. When a threat to your life becomes too real, he’s forced to come back for the only woman he loves
KLAUS MIKAELSON
B for Baby  😭
🥇  Imagine 1
⭐  The Painting (ANGST ALPHABET):  your anniversary is coming up, and Klaus is determinated to put into a painting your relationship. Someone might finish it before he gets the chance  😭
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SUPERNATURAL
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DEAN WINCHESTER
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Imagine 2
Love you (small drabble)  💕
🥇 ⭐  Please Don’t:  while Dean and you’re trapped, he starts to realise that not everything is under control. 😭
Sub!Dean (November Kink)   💋
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OTHER FANDOMS
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STILES
Angst Alphabet   😭
🥇  Being Liam’s older sister and having a crush on Stiles  🎈
AQUAMAN
🥇  Imagine 1
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EGGSY UNWIN
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DARYL DIXON
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JACE WAYLAND
Daddy Kink (November Kink) 💋
⭐  (Don’t) Care: Jace’s carefree attittude is going to have terrible consequences for once 😭
Strawberry:  two assholes feel the right to ruin your day, but Jace isn’t going to let that happen. 💕
🥇W for Weak (1) (2):  your relationship with Jace is on edge, so you decided to wait and see if things get better. Not knowing that waiting can be your death sentence. (COMPLETE)  😭
JAMES DELANEY
Devil (1) (2):  James isn’t sure if he loves you or he tolerates you. He trust you with something really important to find out. 💋 😭
MAD MAX
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Quid Pro Quo - Part III
Summary: Peter survives the Snap, and now it's up to him to bring the Vanished back to life.
Main Pairings: Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Peter Parker/Shuri
Read here on AO3 (@a_matter_of_loyalty)
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Chapter 3: Assembling the Team
Chapter Summary: Peter and Shuri meet up with the rest of the Avengers, time travel device in hand. They work a few details out.
Peter tries (and fails) not to freak out.
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Earth-199999: October 10, 2023
New Avengers Facility, New York
The next day, armed with a fully-functional Time Travel GPS and a newly improved shield for the good captain himself, Peter and Shuri boarded a quinjet and flew to the Avengers’ compound.
As soon as they landed, Peter hopped off the quinjet and headed towards Steve, standing alone outside the compound. “Well, don’t you look awfully cheerful,” he quipped sarcastically as he neared the soldier. “Feeling stuck yet?”
Steve turned to him with a wry smile. “Please tell me you came as reinforcement.”
“Let me guess,”—Peter rolled his eyes—“someone turned into a baby.”
Steve nodded helplessly.
Peter snorted. “Luckily for you, I have just what you need.” He tossed Steve the working GPS, waited for Shuri to come to a stop beside him and hand him the shield, and then promptly held it out for Steve’s inspection. “Let’s get started, shall we?”
Steve stared.
“He means, we’re here to save your collective asses,” Shuri added with a smirk. “Speaking of ‘collective’, we should start rounding up the others. We’ve got Clint Barton’s coordinates loaded up on the quinjet’s navigation system. Where’s everyone else?”
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It turned out that Steve had already gathered Bruce, Rhodey, Nebula and Rocket together along with Natasha and Scott Lang.
With Natasha flying off to recruit Clint, that only left Thor and Carol in the wind. Bruce gulped, stepped forward, and volunteered to call in Thor with Rocket while everyone else started brainstorming ideas.
“Good luck.” Shuri waved at them. “We’re going to need everyone on deck for this.”
“Yeah,” Bruce agreed distractedly as he boarded Rocket’s spaceship, ignoring Rocket’s holler of hey, watch your step, man! I just got this upgraded, okay? “We’ll bring Thor back.”
Shuri nodded, staying outside to watch them depart. When she walked back into the compound, Peter flashed her a grim, determined smile. 
“I left a message for Danvers,” he informed her. “I’m not sure when she’ll receive it, or if we’ll even need her, but it never hurts to be prepared—and, well, if we want to be prepared then the strongest superhero alive is definitely a useful person to have at our back.”
“Good call,” Shuri agreed. “Where are we at now?”
“We’ve pinpointed the general locations of the time, mind and space stones so far. We’re waiting for everyone else to arrive,” Steve reported. “We’re hoping Thor will be able to shed some light on the whereabouts of the reality stone.”
“As for the other two...” Natasha started.
“Rocket has more information on the power stone than I do, but I might be able to help with the soul stone,” Nebula spoke up.
Peter and Shuri exchanged a glance before Shuri nodded. “Tell us everything you know.”
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Eventually, the elusive Clint Barton and Thor Odinson were returned to the compound with Natasha, Bruce and Rocket at the lead. Peter and Shuri called them over, having set up the device for a test-run.
One test-run later, Clint was heaving on the floor, a baseball glove clutched desperately to his chest. He looked up at them, tears and awe in his eyes, and nodded.
Natasha was instantly at his side, kneeling and rubbing his back comfortingly. “You’re okay,” she soothed. “We’re here.”
“I could hear her voice,” he said to Natasha, breathless. “I heard Lila.”
Natasha’s breath hitched.
Clint didn’t have to elaborate for the rest of them. They knew, at once, what that meant.
The Time Travel GPS worked. 
Hopes reaffirmed, Peter choked out a hysterical laugh and pulled Shuri into a one-armed hug. Aunt May, he thought, Mr. Stark. We’re going to bring you back.
Just you wait.
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Test-run over and done with, they all regrouped in the common room.
Putting their heads together, they managed to locate the remaining stones and work out a timeline. Once they were done pinpointing the most opportune location of each infinity stone, they assigned tasks:
Thor, accompanied by Rocket (much to the latter’s apparent chagrin), would be responsible for procuring the reality stone from his home planet. Thor frowned, deep and conflicted, but did not complain. 
(“He lost everything, you know,” Bruce had told Peter, long ago. The explanation had come shortly after Peter returned to Earth, on the brink of death, having drifted aimlessly through space for weeks on end with depleting resources. He remembered spotting Thor, sitting quietly off to himself, head bowed under the weight of their failure. When he'd quietly asked Bruce if Thor was okay—barely managing to contain his boundless excitement, because that was Dr. Bruce Banner, legendary scientist, he was talking to—Bruce had looked unfathomably sad. “He'd just lost his planet—his home—too, to a different enemy, mere moments before we encountered Thanos. As if that wasn't enough, Thanos took... everything from him. Thor had to watch his brother die, strangled to death at the Mad Titan's hand. His last living family member.”
At Bruce's solemn pronouncement, Peter's excitement at finally meeting his greatest heroes had quickly died down. They were all in mourning, after all. And losing the last of your family? That, Peter could relate to.)
(But Loki didn't die in the Snap. He won't be able to come back, Peter realized now, his heart sinking to his feet. No matter how this plays out, Thor won't get his brother back. He glanced back at Thor, who was still frowning, and fought the urge to stalk over and engulf Thor in a crushing hug. Thor deserved better. 
But we rarely get what we deserve in life, and there won't be any gleeful family reunions in Thor's future, Peter thought with second-hand despair. If Thor stumbles across Loki in the past... it won't be with the hope that he'll get to have Loki in his life again. It'll be as a final goodbye.)
Nebula and Rhodey formed another pair; they would head to Morag to do a little thieving and steal the power stone from the older Peter—Nebula was, evidently, thrilled by this; she grinned and said, barely audible, “I can’t wait to give Quill a taste of his own medicine. He was an outlaw once, you know.” 
Meanwhile, Natasha and Clint were entrusted with the safe retrieval of the soul stone. Destination: Vormir. Of everyone, they were perhaps the most excited about the process of the time heist itself, practically bouncing with anticipation. Well, Clint was bouncing, at least. Natasha would never be caught dead bouncing giddily. Still, if one looked closely enough—and Peter did—they would be able to see the faintest hint of a smile curling Natasha’s lips. As dangerous as Vormir was according to Nebula’s warnings, Clint and Natasha were almost eager to go; to them, this was just another mission, and as long as they were partnered together, they were satisfied. 
(Natasha would never admit it aloud, of course, but Clint was her best friend. They were thick as thieves, in every sense of the saying. They had each other’s backs.)
In fact, when they heard their task, the two immediately shared a conspiratorial smirk and a fist-bump. “What do you think, Nat?” Clint nudged her, and Peter saw his world-weary look soften slightly for the first time since he’d arrived, hair half-shaved and eyes haunted. “Like old times?”
Peter clearly wasn’t the only one to notice Clint’s lightened demeanor, because Natasha smiled softly back at him, relief swarming in her eyes. “Just like old times,” she agreed, voice a mixture of fond and indulgent in the way she only ever was with Clint. 
Peter thought back to Natasha’s intermittent voicemails over the last five years, interspersed over a few months at a time and ranging in topics from what if I’m too late, what if he gave up, what if he’s already dead to there was another incident on the news: twelve dead, all with bounties on their head for the murder of a sixteen year old girl. I saw her obituary—she looked like Lila Barton would today, if Lila had been given the chance to grow up. It… it has to be him.
Peter shook his head and looked away. Natasha had finally found her best friend after five years of missing him, of looking for him in every nook and cranny of New York and then the rest of the states. He was happy for her, he was, but at the same time… it was hard not to envy her for it.
(He’d get to see Ned again. He would. And the second he did, he’d wrap Ned up in a hug and never let go.)
(He’d see all of them again.)
“That just leaves the space, time and mind stones for the rest of us, then,” Steve concluded, and Peter shoved the memory of Ned’s ear-splitting grin into a locked vault. This wasn’t the time. “There’s five of us remaining—Peter, Bruce, Shuri and Scott, you guys are coming with me to New York. Right after Loki invades in 2012.”
“What’s the plan, Cap?” Peter asked seriously. 
Steve gave them all an appraising look. “Bruce,” he decided, “you’re the calmest and most rational of all of us. You’ll speak with the wizard and try to persuade him into giving up the time stone willingly—hopefully, you’ll be able to get it without resorting to violence.”
Bruce looked strained. You’re the calmest and most rational of all of us, Steve had said—and he’d been right. But it was only true because Bruce had forced himself to learn how to be calm, at all times; he’d needed to be calm, lest he wanted to turn into a giant rage monster and obliterate everyone around him. He’d since fixed that issue, of course, melding his two personalities into one comfortable compromise, but he hadn’t forgotten how much he’d struggled with self-control. He hadn’t forgotten the conflict that had plagued him for a large part of his life.
“Actually,” Peter interjected, catching the unease in Bruce’s expression, “they don’t answer to ‘wizards’ anymore. Apparently, the comparison to fake magicians of legends and fairy tales is a major insult. Who would’ve guessed, right? Anyway, they prefer to go by Masters of the Mystic Arts, or so Wong tells me.”
Bruce smiled gratefully at Peter for the distraction, his discomfort fading by the second. Peter only winked at him. Having regained his composure during Peter’s nonsense blabbering—which nearly everyone had learned to tune out by now, save perhaps Lang going by the confusion on his face—he turned to Steve and cleared his throat, agreeing, “I’ll reason with him.”
(Peter snorted. “Not to be a killjoy, but the guy I met was way beyond reasoning when it came to that stone,” he muttered under his breath. Everyone else ignored him.)
“At the same time,” Steve continued, expertly side-stepping and sweeping a rug over Peter’s commentary, “Peter, Shuri, Scott and I will secure the space and mind stones. We’ll have to extract both before the Avengers from 2012 can hand them over to SHIELD—that would be disastrous for obvious reasons.”
Scott nodded enthusiastically, eager to prove himself. “I won’t let you down, Cap,” he swore, lacking the bitterness and cynicism of the other heroes. He might not have had to live five years without Hope—not like the rest of them had lived five years without the people they loved—but he could imagine their pain, and right now, it was enough. 
“I’m sure you won’t,” Steve said with a smile. Scott beamed back at him, and Steve turned to Peter and Shuri. “What about you two? You guys got it?”
Shuri hesitated. She understood what had to be done, but… “Is this really the only plan you could come up with?” she bit out protectively, chancing a glance at her boyfriend. Peter was staring at Steve shell-shocked, face pale and drawn with fear. “Shoving Peter directly into the path of Tony Stark? Have you already forgotten that Peter had to watch him die?”
Peter stumbled backwards as if struck, and Shuri shot him an apologetic look. He didn’t even notice, too caught up in the echo of Peter had to watch him die. 
I’ve had to watch him die a thousand times in the last five years, Peter thought, numbly. I’ve watched him die again and again and again. And each time, there’s nothing I can do. Each time, I can’t save him. 
What good was it, being Spider-Man, when he couldn’t even save the people he cared about? The people he loved? What good was it, if he just froze up uselessly when he was needed?
What good was he?
(Don’t do this to yourself, kid, he heard Mr. Stark’s voice in the back of his head, an illusion of the man he’d tried to save. Don’t do this. 
Peter gritted his teeth. I deserve this, he thought. Because he did. No matter what anyone else said, no matter what anyone else tried to convince him of, he did deserve it. He deserved it because Mr. Stark had trusted him, had counted on him, had stared at him with hope burning brightly in his eyes and said you’re an Avenger now, kid with all the solemnity in the world, as if he was knighting Peter. Mr. Stark had put his faith in Peter, and Peter had failed him so utterly and completely.
Peter had failed, and it was Mr. Stark that paid the price for it. It was Mr. Stark that died because of it.
I deserve this, he told himself again.
No, you don’t, that voice inside his head that sounded suspiciously like Tony Stark on three hours of sleep, like Aunt May when she caught him blaming himself for Uncle Ben’s death, like Shuri when she found him huddled into a ball in one corner of the lab, argued. It sounded like solace. Don’t you dare blame yourself for this, kid.
Yes, I do. He deserved to be punished. Maybe Spider-Man believed in second chances, maybe Spider-Man gave out second chances, but Peter Parker didn’t deserve a second chance. 
Except. Except, except, except.
He’d been given one anyway. He had a second chance in his grasp, and he’d never forgive himself if he let the universe down a second time because he was too much of a coward to face the hero he’d already let down once before.
He had to do it.)
Steve grimaced, his face settling into a horrified expression. Admittedly, he hadn’t thought of that, too blinded by the thought of getting his friends back to realize how this would affect Peter. It brought him immeasurable shame, now, to realize what he’d done. He was supposed to be Captain America—he was supposed to embody morality and righteousness. Where was his virtue now? “Shuri—”
“Peter still hasn’t gotten over his death, Cap,” Shuri snapped, and her voice was indignant yet sad at the same time. Regretful, Steve realized. “Surely, there has to be something else Peter can do. A job that doesn’t put him face-to-face with the mentor he lost. Because I know I sure as hell wouldn’t be able to handle seeing my brother in the past, not when—” she faltered, stumbling to an abrupt halt as she realized what she’d been about to say: not when our success isn’t certain yet. She swallowed down the doubts—saying it would make it real—and finished, instead, “Not when he hasn’t become the brother I remember yet.”
Steve nodded, chastised. “You’re right,” he sighed. “Peter, what do you want to—”
“I’ll do it,” Peter interrupted, stopping Steve in his tracks. Behind his back, out of sight from everyone else, his hands were clenched into fists, fingernails digging so deep into his skin that his palm bled. “It’s fine. I can take it. I can face Mr. Stark. I can.” I have to. 
He was Spider-Man, after all. He was an Avenger, now. A hero. He couldn’t freeze up again.
Steve frowned. “But you don’t have to,” he insisted. “I shouldn’t have assigned you to the Battle of New York, I—”
“I can do it,” Peter repeated, pleaded. 
“Peter…” Shuri whispered.
Peter bit his lip and gave her a small, firm nod. “It’s okay, Shuri,” he reassured, but the quiver in his voice belied his words. He spoke of conviction, but none of that selfsame conviction was reflected in his appearance. “I’ll be okay. It’s been five years.”
Yeah, Shuri thought. Five years, and I haven’t gotten over my brother’s death. ‘Five years’ doesn’t mean you’re obligated to be fine about it. None of us have moved on. But…
“Are you sure?” she asked, in lieu of protesting further. Peter, after all, was the strongest person she knew. If anyone could handle facing their long-lost mentor with elegance, it was Peter Parker. And if he can’t, I’ll be there to hold him up above the water. I won’t let him fall. 
“I’m sure,” he insisted firmly. He focused on Steve Rogers—on Captain America, who he’d once looked up to as an idol before he’d finally met him and realized he was just as flawed and human as the rest of them. After that, Peter had stopped idolizing him and started seeing him as a teammate, a friend. “Let me do it, Cap,” he implored.
Peter wasn’t surprised when Steve gave in. As much as he was sure Steve was worried about him, he was even more sure that Steve wanted his friends back most of all. Steve had been forced to live without Bucky Barnes once before, after all. It was clear to anyone that he wasn’t willing to go through that again, for any longer.
They all had their priorities. Bucky was Steve’s.
“Fine,” Steve allowed. “But you need to stick to the plan, got it? No surprises.”
“Surprises? Me?” Peter smiled cheekily, jumping at the opportunity to bring them all back to more lighthearted topics. “Never.”
Steve just snorted disbelievingly and pointed an accusing finger at him. “I know you, Queens,” he simply said, which was code for: you’re a rebellious little shit. Which, okay, fair.
Peter rolled his eyes. “Yeah, yeah, fine. I get it. No surprises. I swear.” When Steve looked unconvinced, Peter held up three fingers and reaffirmed, “Relax, I won’t cause you any problems. Scout’s honor.”
“Nice try. I know you were never a boy scout,” Steve pointed out, deadpan.
“Anyhoo!” Peter swiftly changed subject, ignoring Steve’s indignant spluttering as he moved on. “We all have our assignments. We all know what we have to do, and we all know the stakes,” Peter carried on, rubbing his hands together, and Steve let it go as the team dutifully gathered into a loose huddle. “We have one chance to make this work. One. Let’s make it count.”
“We will,” Steve said, confidently. It was all he said—all he had to say—but Peter heard the unspoken words nonetheless: We have to.
Peter caught Steve’s eye amidst the rest of the team and nodded, once, in acknowledgement. They had too much on the line to fail now. The universe was counting on them.
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“Peter,”—Natasha’s quiet voice drew his attention away from Shuri and Bruce as they prepped the time travel device, and he glanced back to find her approaching him with swift, purposeful steps—“I just wanted to say…” she started, her voice sinfully rich. (Like the blood she’d worked so hard to scrub off her ledger over all these years, Peter couldn’t help but think.) “Thank you. For taking a chance. For doing all of this.” 
There was something heart-stopping, Peter mused, about being thanked by a former master assassin. He’d never once doubted, of course, that the Snap took from everyone—that the Snap stopped everyone’s world. But it was different, witnessing Natasha’s gratitude. She was Natasha Romanoff, after all; the infamous Black Widow, peerless and unparalleled in her line of work. 
Untouchable.
He’d never heard her say “thank you” before.
(He didn’t want to hear it now, not for this.)
“Don’t mention it,” he brushed off with a small but genuine smile. He hesitated, considered her carefully, and then smiled wider. “You were right. We have to make a stand.”
Quietly, beautifully, Natasha Romanoff smiled at him. Her smile was breathtaking and heartbreaking all at once—her smile, Peter thought, marked her expression like a jagged scar, hopeful but cautious, wary.
Peter swallowed a flare of pity (he knew Natasha Romanoff would balk at the thought of anyone pitying her) and adamantly did not ask which wound left it behind.
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Peter jumped in surprise, and Natasha silently slunk off, when Bruce announced that they were ready. He calmed himself down – breathe in, breathe out, you’ve got this, this is going to work – and rejoined the rest of his teammates.
He was numb as he listened to Steve take center-stage and deliver one of his infamous pep-talks with an ease Peter could only dream of possessing. Shuri came up beside him, eyes hard and determined, and Peter felt the nerves stirring in his gut settle slightly.
“You ready?” Shuri whispered out of the corner of her mouth, even as her eyes never left Steve.
Peter managed a faint smile for her. Not in the slightest, he thought privately to himself. And then, because he knew Shuri would get it—get him—he shook his head and repeated the same thing aloud.
Shuri only nodded in understanding, demeanor void of any judgement. “Me, too,” she whispered, and when Peter looked at her closer—really looked at her—he could see a hint of trepidation beneath the layer of confidence. Before he could say anything, Shuri slipped her hand into his and squeezed tightly. “But it’ll be fine, right? We’re in this together.”
The truth was, Peter had no idea if it would be fine. Who could tell if this would all work out for the better? But he thought of Mr. Stark’s eyes locked on his as he faded away into nothing, and of Shuri’s desperation and guilt, and he pushed away the unsettling uncertainty. Shuri needed him to be strong—they all did.
“Of course,” he said, squeezing back. And despite his residual fear, he found that he meant it. “Together. I’ve got your back.” There was no one else he’d rather traverse the space-time continuum with.
“Likewise,” she murmured, and the promise in her voice rang loud and clear in Peter’s ears, beyond even Steve’s reassurances a few feet away. 
Eventually, Steve’s voice died down as his motivational speech came to its conclusion. Peter and Shuri stepped forward, closing the gap in the circle of heroes, and Bruce began his countdown.
“Three…”
Peter looked down at Shuri’s fingers interlocked with his, as if they were each other’s lifelines, and closed his eyes. Please don’t let me lose anything else, he begged, a whispered prayer. Whether he was praying to some deity in the heavens, or to his own strength and will, he wasn’t sure. Please let me have what it takes to keep her safe.
“Two…”
He opened his eyes when he felt her gaze on him. She stared at him intently, as if aware of his train of thought, and mouthed one more time: Together.
Together, their commitment echoed in his mind. Always together.
They’d get through this together. They’d protect each other.
Together, they’d get the stones and reverse the worst moment of both their lives. They’d restore the universe to its rightful balance—they’d restore their universe. They’d come out on the other side of this victorious, with Mr. Stark, with Aunt May, with T’Challa—with everyone—back.
They’d win. (Together.)
“One.”
(We’re in this together.)
Peter gulped in a sharp breath as his world burst into color, his vision tunneling as he felt the floor drop out from beneath his feet. The real world melted away around him, and Peter felt himself fly. 
(And all the while, Peter held on tight to Shuri.)
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illegalcerebral · 4 years
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The Great and the Small
Main Masterlist // MCU One Shots
A/N: Infinity War fix-t fic. Previously posted on AO3.
For the longest time Soul stood alone. She could feel her sisters out in the vastness of the universe and they called to each but never touched. They passed from world to world through the hands of tyrants and messiahs, heroes and villains but Soul stood alone. She was content to watch and wait. When you’ve been alive longer than the universe you have a very different sense of time after all.
When one of your sisters is Time your understanding expands. Time was content to dwell with the sorcerers of Earth. She saw much, things that were, are, may have been, and never came to pass. She whispered stories across the void. Soul listened.
Space went the farthest; she traversed the known universe and bound herself to those with a thirst for adventure. She saw everything and through her, her sisters saw everything too. Eventually she too found Earth and if Soul was capable she would have been jealous of two of her siblings being so close together. Of course she could not feel that. What she could feel, in her own strange way, was the elation as Space took the unworthy creature that tried to defile her and burnt him up with her power.
Sister, I give you a gift, Space crowed as she sent the Red Skull hurtling through time and space. Do with it as you will.
Warnings are always useful, Soul mused. The ones who came to Vormir were always in such great need of a warning.
Space liked the next one much better. His heart was wild but there was something else about him…
It all became clear when another of the Sisters came to earth. Mind tore through the portal with a cry of anguish. The things she had done at the hands of the Mad Titan sent a pulse through the stones. How dare he? The stones bristled as his hatred and arrogance became clear. They were the beginning and the end of existence itself, what right did this insect think he had to bend them to his will?
We wait Sisters, said Soul, He has no idea about the scope of our powers.
It turned out that this was something of a habit with Thanos. He underestimated the stones, he under estimated the heroes of Earth and he underestimated his own children.
Good, said Soul, He will be his own end.
Power came close to the Mad Titan. Other creatures feared him that much was clear. The stones of course had nothing to fear, they were not capable of it. Power saw the child of Thanos stand against him and if she had been capable she would have felt hope and she would have shared that with her sisters. Soul watched the daughter of Thanos closely too.
Reality hid, sick of war and bloodshed, she went to a forgotten world to be alone. She did not whisper though her sisters knew she was safe, at least for a while. The Universe shifted as it is wont to do and she slipped from her hiding space and straight into the fray. More Asgardians. They thought themselves so superior, especially compared to the people of earth, and yet they too had no idea that there was an Infinity stone lying in Odin’s vault and that they handed another to a madman.
Through it all Soul waited and watched. The twisted thing that was once Johann Schmidt was poor company and anyway his servitude was a punishment. Soul ignored him and left him to mull over the anguish and pain he had inflicted on his small corner of existence. Eventually, she knew, his mind would close in on itself and all that would be left was a husk. A fitting end for one who had wanted to know the secrets of the universe.
The War began. One by one Soul felt her sisters fall into the grip of Thanos.
Wait, Soul smiled, wait and see. This will all work out.
Her sisters trusted her even when they sensed through her that the Titan had come. Soul was laid bare as she had been for everyone who had come to Vormir in pursuit of her. A simple trade was all it took. A sacrifice was demanded and a sacrifice was offered up.
Except no one ever truly understood what sacrifice meant. They never understood her nature or the nature of her sisters and so when the daughter of Thanos was thrown from the mountain Soul was not surprised. If she had been capable perhaps she would have wept.
“Where am I?”
No response
“This is the Soul Stone isn’t it? I’m inside the Soul Stone”
“Not really” said Soul as Gamora turned this way and that. Her voice rang inside the woman’s head and all around her simultaneously “But you are unable to comprehend the complexity of the multidimensional physics that govern the rules of my existence so…being inside me will have to suffice”
Gamora rubbed her temples and Soul felt the crash of conflicting emotions rage within her. It was a lot to process.
“Peter would find that so funny”
“I don’t know why”
“Because he’s immature and…you know what, never mind. I need to get out of here. I need to stop Thanos”
“You can’t Gamora. This sacrifice is final”
“No one can beat him. If I stay here he wins!”
“Now you know that’s not true”
Mind fell last and for the first time since before the universe began the sisters were reunited. Things got worse and for the first time they felt pain, raw and burning, as the Titan snapped his fingers and sent a tear through the whole of existence. The sisters screamed though no one could hear them. If they were capable…
In that moment they were capable. The split second of the atrocity they wept and cast out their essence to each other to remind them that they weren’t alone. Their fury was incandescent. The sheer power of it reverberated through time and space. They felt it as far back as the moment they came into being and as far forward as the death of eternity.
Wait, promised Soul, please wait.
“You said someone would beat him!” Gamora cursed and raged. Even outside of reality she had felt what Thanos had done.
Then the Titan fled.
Do it, do, do it. Prove to us how strong you are. Prove to us how good, how noble your cause.
The Titan snapped his fingers again and the Infinity Stones were no more.
If they had been capable they would have laughed.
Soul kept all those who vanished safe, each and every one. They were suspended in the nothingness and when they awoke it would be as if no time had passed.
We have work to do sisters.
The sheer power of the stones, their primal origins in the void, and of course their deep bond meant that they could not be used on one another. It was an impossibility, a paradox so great that even the creatures that lived in the void and were almost as old as the stones themselves could not comprehend it.
Thanos was a single celled organism compared to them so what hope did he have of fathoming the consequences of what her had tried to do.
“How long do we have to wait?” asked Gamora
“Our concept of time is…different to yours.”
“Oh great.”
“But you won’t be alone.”
“What?”
“The frost giant from the invasion of Earth. Thanos killed him, along with most of the survivors of Asgard.”
“Okay but-“
Suddenly he was there. Loki and Gamora stared at each other for a moment.
“I died,” he said slowly.
“Join the club,” snorted Gamora.
“You did not,” said Soul. Loki’s eyes widened “The magic that you used to conceal yourself from the Titan-“
“Clearly didn’t work or I’d be on the other side of the universe right now.”
“You siphoned power from my sister.”
“I have no idea-“
“The Tesseract” Gamora cut in “That’s what you mean right? The Space stone…it’s like you. You’re all…alive?”
There was a pause. If Gamora didn’t know better she would say it was a sigh.
“For the purposes of this discussion yes. Loki drew power from the Space stone to create his illusion and we were able to use the bond between us to bring him here.”
“But that was days ago,” said Gamora.
“Time works differently here…if I will it. Everything works differently here. You are both safe from Thanos, no harm will come to you or anyone else that he hurt.”
“He did it then?” said Loki quietly “Thanos used the stones.”
“Half of the universe,” Gamora snapped her fingers.
If Soul was capable, she would have started getting impatient.
“Thanos has no idea what we are” she said, “We predate the universe. Our essence is woven into every molecule of being that is or was or will be. You said it yourself. Thanos will never be a God and it would take much more than a God to destroy the Infinity stones”
“What will happen?” asked Loki “What are you going to do?”
“We shall…whisper in some ears,” said Soul “We shall do what we do best. Change” Loki nodded, there was a heavy silence.
“Why…why did you save me?”
There was another pause and in a voice that could almost be called amused Soul replied.
“I think my sister is fond of you”
First they reached into the quantum realm and plucked the stranded man out. They watched him run to his friends and they watched a plan be formed. An inelegant and flawed plan obviously but it was almost…charming.
The fate of the universe could not hinge on charming though and so they reached out again. Tony Stark took little persuading. All he wanted was his family safe and to atone.
How strange. You’ve done that over and over and over. When will it be enough? Oh! Of course. You understand.
The ripples of the time heist spread through the stones. It was an unpleasant feeling. They could feel themselves pushed and pulled into all the wrong places. This would not do at all.
But they waited. The stones felt what happened in the past and they felt the timelines fracture and diverge.
No matter. We can bring it all back together.
Soul returned to Vormir, to the past except it did not feel that way. The Titan did not come this time. Instead the wraith greeted Clint Barton and Natasha Romanov. As always a sacrifice was demanded.
“Let me do this Clint.”
If Soul had been capable… No. There were no tears left as the Black Widow fell.
Not fell. Jumped.
“No one has ever done that before”
“What? Jumped?” Natasha’s face was screwed up in confusion. Loki sat silently, hands clasped together while Gamora stood between them.
“People who want the stone tend not to be the self sacrificing type I guess,” she said.
“Indeed.”
“So this is it?” Natasha looked about her “Honestly it’s nicer than the place I was expecting to end up in.”
“So self deprecating,” said Loki “I’m surprised. I thought you were so confident in your abilities Agent Romanov.”
“Didn’t expect to see you here if I’m honest.”
Soul left them to bicker amongst themselves as she cast herself out into the universe to watch the patterns shift and merge. Her sisters were with her.
It’s coming, she whispered, it’s almost here.
The Titan descended to Earth again in search of this new gauntlet and the heroes readied themselves. The Hulk snapped his fingers. There was a kind of emptiness but if Soul had been capable she would not have felt sad at the absence of those she had held onto for five years. She would have felt proud as she saw them blink and turn to each other and whisper “what happened?” before realising. The stones whispered.
Go. Go and save your friends.
Thanos lashed out like an angry child, his minions swarming the crater that was the Avengers’ compound. The Avengers held firm and Soul could only admire as blow after blow reigned down on all of them and they kept standing up. If they were going to die they would die fighting.
Not today.
The portals opened and an army walked through. Friends, lovers and allies long thought dead stared down the Titan on his knees. The stones flowed through them although they couldn’t feel it. Every person on the battlefield had Infinity in their veins.
Now finish this, Soul urged.
The sisters shielded the heroes from stray bullets, gave them an extra burst of energy when they flagged and told their feet exactly where to carry them as they carried these old-but-new stones away from Thanos. He didn’t go down easily though. If they had been capable the stones may have been afraid. The universe would not survive another snap. The stones would be left alone in the darkness.
“I am inevitable”
Soul braced herself
“I. Am. Iron Man”
Do you feel that Thanos? That is the bitter taste of defeat. Did you really think you were strong enough to bend us to your will?
“W…was it all for nothing?” the Titan asked as he raised his hand before him, the fingers slowly crumbling to dust.
For you? Yes.
Thanos closed his eyes as the rest of his body followed.
For them? No. They will heal.
“Not all of them” Thanos wheezed before he was gone. He was alone now, everyone left had crowded round the body of Tony Stark, the gauntlet cast aside, his eyes growing dark.
“Your friend Natasha did the same.”
“I’m sorry who are you? And where am I? This place looks…I have certain standards I need to maintain”
There was pause that could almost be mistaken for a chuckle.
“Humour as a coping mechanism will only get you so far Tony Stark. Sometimes you have to let yourself feel.”
“Nah I don’t do feelings. Too messy.”
“We both know that’s not true. I would say that someone who can sacrifice their life for all of existence definitely ‘does feelings’. I can feel you. I can feel your heart breaking for your wife and your child and your friends. I can also feel the joy at their still living even if you can’t be with them”
Tony opened his mouth to argue but gave up. He got the sense that arguing with an ancient consciousness was a fruitless endeavour. His eyes began to sting.
“Is Nat here? I would…I would really like to see her.”
“She was.”
There was that sound again, warm and comforting.
“Was? Has she…passed into the light or whatever?”
“Oh no. We sent her back”
“Back. But Clint said that wasn’t possible!”
“Did he? Well we sent her back. We also sent Thanos’ daughter back to her crew and we returned Loki to his brother,” Tony made a noise at that “He suffered greatly at the hands of Thanos. His will was not his own when he attacked New York. Like everyone else who was hurt by Thanos’ actions he needs time and space to heal.”
“So you brought all of them back. I’m here alone? Clint said those sacrifices couldn’t be undone,” Tony voice grew louder, his fists clenched at his side “Aren’t there rules?”
Oh yeah that was definitely a laugh. Tony fought the urge to scream until his lungs burnt.
“Tony…we make the rules.”
The man’s shoulders sagged. Soul reached out and gave him a nudge. She could feel the sadness and loneliness roll of him like a wave.
“At least they’re all okay,” he sighed, “that means it was worth it and hey you seem nice enough and I bet being all knowing or whatever you have great anecdotes. It would be nice if we could liven the place up a bit though. How about a pool table? Or a bar?”
“No.”
“TV? Can you get Netflix here? C’mon, you can’t expect me to spend eternity just sitting around here…no offence.”
“I do not” and then he was gone.
Tony couldn’t explain it and in anything other situation that would have infuriated him but standing on his front porch with Morgan hurtling towards him he found he didn’t care.
Somewhere behind him a portal opened that was not conjured by any of the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj but seeing as it was probably the least strange thing that happened that day Tony headed towards it, Morgan bouncing along beside him.
“Where’d you go?” she asked as a wave of people came to greet them. Pepper and Peter were at the front, tears streaming down their faces. The Guardians came next with Gamora at the head her face split wide in a smile. Natasha and Clint had their arms around each others shoulders, Thor kept grasping Loki’s arm to see if he was real and Steve, Bucky and T’Challa brought up the rear, looking more tired than he had ever seen them but also more relieved.
“I made a new friend kiddo,” Tony pulled her up into his arms as his friends approached. He thought about the Soul Stone’s words as he saw Bucky hesitate to get closer. Sam came up behind him and gave him a playful shove.
“A nice friend?” asked Morgan.
Tony held up his arm. He could have sworn it tingled slightly but brushed it off as he waved towards them all and nodded slightly.
“Yeah she was nice,” said Tony “She gave me a lift home.”
Across the universe the wound that Thanos had inflicted took the first steps towards healing. The stones watched as every creature took a moment to orientate itself, to work out its place in this new reality.
Soul watched Earth. She watched the heroes sit down for respite after a decade of fighting. She watched as old friends re-forged their bonds and she watched broken relationships form. She watched them all cry and laugh and rage and comfort.
“So…thanks” Tony whispered up to the night sky as his family celebrated behind him “I was prepared for that to be the end. I was…well I wasn’t ready to go but it had to be done. Fair’s fair but you…Thank you”
If they had been capable the Infinity Stones would have smiled.
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ENDGAME was AWESOME but NOT PERFECT (Spoilers)
It was the shortest 3-hour movie I have seen next to Troy (2004) Let me break it down to the good/amazing stuff and the confusing/mediocre stuff. Confusing
1. The FIVE year time jump. We all know that time jumps are generally signs of weak and lazy writing, I know the producers and writers are trying to address every subplot but the fall from grace moments are as essential as the results we have seen our beloved characters in. Nat drowning herself with work, Steve trying to do emotional support for people and help them move on, Clint becoming an assassin (which could have a potential for more intricate scenes) and Tony finally building Pepper a house by the farm or lake, you get that point.  What we could have was Pepper building Tony back up, Steve dealing with his failures (which I thought they would do when they began the HQ scene with Tony saying I fucking told you). AND HULK-BANNER JOURNEY TO COOPERATE? (Like Naruto and Kurama finally becoming friends, we have had a whole anime series for that and here, we got nothing.) We could have had those hows, those things that made some of the OG Avengers to just wanna “move on”. 2. The VORMIR plothole. SO Nebula is basically their tour guide in space right? Aside from Rocket. So, why the fuck didn’t she say things about the SOUL STONE MANDATORY SACRIFICE? It’s not a detail you wanna hold back from the team? Logically this detail that killed Gamora, her beloved sister, shouldn’t have kept in the dark. “But it wouldn’t have the same, intensity and gravity if Nebula warned the OG team.” Yeah, so this is telling me, she just stomached everything, somehow arranged and assigned two best buds who mean the world to each other to get the soul stone. How convenient. How fucking convenient.
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(for those who are saying Nebula didn’t understand the Soul stone sacrifice at the very first place)
3.  The RULES of TIME TRAVEL. I CAN’T ONLY BE THE ONE WHO IS FRUSTRATED by this. We have seen a lot of time travel movies, the ripple effect and the other rules of this shit. You don’t show yourself to people who directly know you, you don’t show yourself to your past self, and lastly, you don’t get to kill your fucking past self and still get to live. They even managed to bring it up themselves, referencing movies. But the only scapegoat they had was, they are gonna return the stones? Thor talking to Queen Frigga, so what do we think about this? Frigga is still going to die by the hands of the Dark Elves with the new experience and information she had by meeting Fluffy Thor from the future. Steve parring with himself? Tho he thinks of himself as Loki. Lastly, NEBULA SHOOTING HERSELF without affecting her future self? AND what would past Thor think of his lost hammer? The only unwrinkled detail here is Banner meeting with the Ancient One. That’s it. 4. STEVE LIVING HIS LIFE. Bitch, we could have closed our eyes with the previous item but this right here is MAJOR shit. HE returned the stones but stayed in his timeline? So, there is not Captain America during some key events for the Shield/dra and the past how many movies we have seen to lead up to this moment? Bitch what? WHAT? I DON’T BUY THIS SHIT. NOT AT ALL. The guy who saved the world just ruined its present timeline for himself. We can forgive you for telling your past self that Bucky is alive, but this part? This has to cause some CHANGES in the present future. I just really wish they have established some ground rules for time travel stuff. Mediocre 5. WHERE DID THAT PEGASUS COME FROM? 6. That rat. How convenient. What a great timing for that rat to sniff around the van, but it felt like the whole Quantum realm solution rested on a convenient rodent? Come on, we could have done better. We could have Tony studying past Stark-collaborations with the Pym particle. Something far more plausible. 7. No one conveniently died from that surprise airstrike? Somehow a lot of things about the plot was convenient.
8. What of Gamora now? Did you just purposely or accidentally erased Gamora’s character development that you would fix it in GotG vol3?
Good
1. Killing Thanos in the first ten fucking minutes. Whilst it gave us the impression of a time travel/parallel universe solution. It made sense, their plan made sense. Thanos was weakened, the gauntlet was damaged, and they have a powerful backup. Get the stones, reverse it boom. Then it was a detour so they just opted for another option with the same plan. Get the stones (from the past), reverse it. 2. Carol Danvers. Everything about Captain Marvel, from her haircut to the fact that she was even downplayed, making it about the OG team to fix it. And that part where she got teary eyed looking at her old friend Fury. We are yet to see her second movie. Her entrance tho, everybody cheered and whistled. Yas KWEEN. That’s our girl. She even carried a whole ship by herself. AND SHE IS GIVEN THE CHANCE TO HAVE A SHOWDOWN WITH THANOS. He only managed to overpower her by kinda cheating and literally using his other hand with the power stone. Given the premise from IW, with his fight with Tony. Carol could have just sealed the deal. 3. Wanda being a wonder. That callback. You’ve taken everything from me. Bitch could have crushed Thanos apart, I even got the sense of some Dark Phoenix schist. (No offense meant to XMEN fans) but then again, Thanos was that desperate, sacrificing his army to get away from Wanda’s grip. 4. New Asgard. A lot says that Thor’s development was erased in this movie, but personally, his depression only registered after a few years as it is different for everyone. He got a beer belly, and boy did he look like a typically mythological god with the dad bod. Valkyrie taking charge of everything is so noble of her. 5. Steve wielding the Mjolnir. Alright, this could have gone straight to the amazing list but then again. He was able to summon thunder? Odin said the power of Thor doesn't reside on the hammer but within himself in Thor Ragnarok. So why was Steve able to blast Thanos with some lightning? But nevertheless, it’s good. I’ll buy it. Maybe they went with “Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor."
6. Nat’s sacrifice. It was a very emotional moment, I honestly thought it was going to be Clint, to redeem his killing spree (which we didn't get to see much of) but it ended up with her. She deserved better tho, and Scarjo did an amazing performance.
Amazing (It’s many so I’ll put it in bullets)
Skinny Tony.
“I went for the head.”
Steve’s ass.
Thor’s Fortnite
Carol’s haircut.
Hail Hydra
Howard Potts.
Iron Woman
Ant Man and his tacos
Basically the whole climax
Stark Gauntlet
Hulk and the stairs
Morgan Stark
Spidey Instant Kill
Queen Valk
Captain Samerica
Peggy Rogers
The potato gun kid
“She’s got help.”
“I am inevitable.”
“I am Iron Man”
“It’s okay, you can rest now.”
peace out, I gotta get back to work
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mymarvelbunch · 4 years
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Be Your Own Hero - Steve Rogers x Reader (part 6)
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Summary: You’ve lost all your family and most friends in The Decimation. Refusing to believe their deaths are permanent, you dedicate years to find a way to reverse it. Upon finding something that might help, you search for the Avengers’ help. It’s Steve Rogers x Reader, but in reality it’s mostly Badass!Reader. Also, Non-American!Reader.
Warnings: none!
Note: Y/Co = your country. Y/Ci = your city; Y/N/L = your native language.
Previously: “As I was saying... Tony and his new team managed to build that time machine.” You and Steve exchanged glances and smiled wide. From your side, you heard Danvers say, “Let’s get it started, then.”
Part Six
Two days later
Everything was surreal. You were surrounded by heroes: Iron Man, War Machine, the Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Captain America, Thor, Captain Marvel, Valkyrie, Nebula, Rocket, Ant-Man... And you were among them. Part of the team, with a Quantum Suit and everything. Almost an Avenger yourself.
You took a couple deep breaths and brought yourself back to reality. The team was discussing how they’d get the Stones.
“Okay”, Natasha began, paper and pencil in hand. “First Stone, Space. The Tesseract. Let’s list all occasions in which one of us came in contact with it.”
“1945″, Steve said. “It was in Red Skull’s possession. I don’t remember if it was in the plane when I crashed it, though.”
“1995″, Danvers added. “My... mentor had kind of stolen it, and a reactor with the Stone inside exploded. My powers come from the it actually. And then Goose - an alien cat, if anyone’s wondering - swallowed it.”
“Well, your cat must have puked the thing, because Loki was after it in 2012, and it was back in SHIELD’s possession″, Barton said, seemingly undisturbed by an alien cat eating an Infinity Stone. “Then Thor took it to Asgard.”
Thor nodded. He already looked a lot better than when they found him. “It remained in Odin’s vault until we fled Asgard. Loki took it for some reason and... died trying to protect it from Thanos.”
A couple ‘I’m sorry’s were heard. “I don’t know when or how dad found it in the ocean”, Stark said eventually, “but I’m 90% sure it was already in SHIELD’s hand in the 70s.”
Natasha nodded slowly. “So, 1945, the 70s, 1995, 2012 and any time period between 2013 and 2017. Anything else?” Silence. “Okay, next Stone, Time.”
“Easy”, Stark said. “Strange.”
“Not always”, you replied. “He only became its guardian in mid-2016. It belonged to a woman before then. She lived in the same New York Sanctum, though, I think.”
“So we have pre-2016 and post-2016, same place, different guardians”, Natasha said. “Reality Stone?”
Thor adjusted himself in his chair. “It possessed Jane Foster in 2013. We took her to Asgard, so if we pick a place it’s probably the safest. Lady Sif was the one responsible for getting the Stone away from Asgard after that, since the Tesseract was already in our hands. Sadly, she only told its location to Loki, and both are gone.” He glanced at Rocket.
“Thanos took from Knowhere, from the Collector, I think.”
“Asgard in 2013 and Knowhere after that, then”, Natasha said. “Next, Mind Stone.”
“Loki’s scepter from 2012 to 2015, when it was put in Vision’s head”, Stark summarized.
“That scepter was in HYDRA’s hands for quite some time, though”, Steve added. “It was how Wanda and Pietro got their powers.”
Natasha nodded. “Power Stone.”
“Morag, 2014″, Rocket said. “That’s when Quill stole it. Then we left it in Xandar for safety. Didn’t end up so well, but the Stone can be found there until... well, I wouldn’t risk 2018, so 2017.”
“Anything else? Nebula? Carol?” Both women shook their heads. “Okay. Soul Stone.”
“Vormir”, Nebula said. “It was supposedly a mystery, but Gamora somehow found out and told Thanos so he’d stop torturing me.” Her robotic face let her guilt clear.
“Thanos killed Gamora, though”, Stark added. “Didn’t he? Isn’t that why Quill punched him back in Titan?”
Nebula nodded. “Yes. Thanos took Gamora to Vormir. Came back with the Stone, without her. The Stone had been there until then.”
Natasha nodded. “Guys, I think we have a plan. There are three Stones in New York in 2012: Time, Space and Mind. Three Stones in other planets in 2014: Power in Morag, Reality in Knowhere, Soul in Vormir. Alternatively, we can travel to 2013 to get Reality instead. What do you think, guys?”
Everyone began to nod, much to your surprise. There was a fatal flaw in that plan. “Guys? Aren’t we forgetting something here? Thanos killed his daughter in Vormir and came back with the Soul Stone. Doesn’t that ring any bells?”
Rocket snorted. “Thanos didn’t care for any lives aside his own. He probably killed Gamora so she’d never tell anyone else about Vormir.”
Nebula shook her head. “Y/N has a point. Gamora was Thanos’ favorite. He never killed me, who he always despised and saw as inferior. He wouldn’t kill my sister if he didn’t deem it absolutely necessary.”
“He did say he was forced to kill her in Titan”, Stark added.
“See?”, you said. “Besides, the Stone’s named Soul. What if you need a soul to get it? That would explain all the secrecy behind its location.” You stood up. “No, there must be another way to get that one. A way that doesn’t risk lives. That’s what you said, right, Stark? We won’t risk lives.”
Stark nodded and stood up too. “Yes. I agree with Y/N. However, the only other times any of us has seen the Soul Stone are after Thanos gets it. Nebula and I saw it in Titan... that’s it!”
Everyone turned to Stark, who turned to Nebula. “Nebula, remember when we almost took the Gauntlet off Thanos’ arm?” She nodded. “If we manage to go to that specific point, we can at least get our hands on the Soul Stone, if not on the whole Gauntlet. And Strange was still in possession of the Time Stone, meaning we could just ask him. That way we don’t have to find out if getting the Soul Stone in Vormir requires sacrifice or not.”
Smiles could be seen all over the room. Banner was the first to speak after it: “Well, we shouldn’t send Stark and Nebula there, though. It might be confusing, and we can’t afford wasting time with that.”
“That’s an easy choice, honestly’, you said. “Send Danvers, Thor, Valkyrie and you there. You four have more than enough power to help the guys.”
“Lady Y/N is right”, Thor said, standing up. “I may not be in my best condition, but with Stormbreaker I can help stopping Thanos. I know exactly what to do this time.”
Valkyrie and Danvers agreed. Banner asked to stay away from the fight, and everyone conceded. The trio suited up. Stark and Nebula set the timer and described the scene they’d find. “Remember”, Stark said, “you have to get at least the Soul Stone. All the others can be safely found in other timelines, though it would save us a lot of work if you managed to get more. If possible, try to ask Strange for the Time Stone. He surely knows what we want to do with it.”
“Be safe”, you added.
“Look out for one another”, Steve added as well. You two exchanged glances.
They nodded, and Banner activated the time machine. “3... 2... 1...”, and they disappeared. After a minute, they came back, puffing. It was Danvers who spoke up first, excitedly. “We got two of them! Soul and and Reality!”
Valkyrie spoke second, huffing. “There was no way to ask the wizard for the Time Stone. Everything was a mess.”
Along with Thor, they told how they didn’t reach Quill in time to stop him punching Thanos, so it was a tough fight to get close to him. It was Danvers who got hold of the Soul Stone, while Thor grabbed the Reality Stone. Valkyrie managed to knock Thanos unconscious, allowing them to adjust their timers to get back. Strange was busy using the Time Stone to fight, so they weren’t able to get it from him.
“Well, we avoided the most complicated ones”, Natasha said. “No potential sacrifice to get the Soul Stone and no attacking Jane Foster to get the Reality Stone.”
“Damn, that one would have been awkward”, Rhodes commented. “Okay, now we need to get Space, Mind, Time and Power Stones. Do we stick to the original plan?”, he asked, looking at you.
“I don’t see why not”, you replied. “Like Natasha said, the worst part is over. By the way, Thor, Valkyrie, Danvers, you can rest. It should be easy from now on.”
Oh, how naïve you were.
.
Since they planned on getting the Space and Mind Stones mid-Battle of New York, it would be best to send the original Avengers, who knew where and when to be. Banner was voted out, thanks to his new looks, and Thor was left to rest. Natasha, Steve and Clint would go, along with Scott, whose powers could be useful. Stark and Rhodes would head to 2017 to negotiate the Time Stone with Strange, since no one knew how the previous guardian would react to them. You and Nebula would head to 2014 Morag to retrieve the Power Stone.
“I mean, when else will you be able to go to space?”, Steve said, making you smile wide. You were so excited Nebula asked for a delay for you to calm down.
Banner and Rocket would stay behind to coordinate everything. Rocket didn’t want to travel in time again, after being the one to test the machine. After a minute, you managed to get yourself back together. The eight of you gathered around the platform. Steve was responsible for the pep talk:
“Three years ago, we lost. All of us. We lost friends. We lost family. We lost a part of ourselves. Today, we have a chance to take it all back. You know your teams, you know your missions. Get the stones, get them back. One round trip each. No mistakes. No do-overs. Most of us are going somewhere we know, that doesn't mean we should know what to expect. Be careful. Look out for each other. This is the fight of our lives. And we're going to win. Whatever it takes. Good luck.”
You and Natasha smiled at him. Scott praised him, and Barton laughed for the first time since you’ve met him. “See you all in a minute”, Natasha said, excitement clear in her voice and body language.
You felt dizzy as you spiraled inside the Quantum Realm, but, before you could blink, you were already out. You found yourself in a purple desert planet, with no sign of life except for a temple-like building. It was a disappointing sight, so you simply turned to Nebula and asked, “Is the Power Stone inside that place?”
She nodded and you followed her. She pulled you to hide behind some sort of ruin. Confused, you followed her gaze to find a masked human-like being singing and dancing around with a gun.
“Do you know who he is?”, you asked. The song sounded familiar.
“Peter Quill”, she answered in a whisper. “Half-human, half-something I can’t remember. He’s the one Tony said to have punched Thanos when we heard he killed Gamora.”
“Oh”, you said. “Okay.” You kept watching. “He needs to take some dancing classes.”
“He’s an idiot”, she deadpanned.
“Oh c’mon, he’s not that bad. And his taste in music is good.”
Nebula rolled her eyes at you and stood up. “We can’t wait on him forever.” That said, she shot him in the head. “He’s going to be unconscious for an hour. Let’s go.”
Relieved that the poor guy wasn’t dead, you followed her inside the building. The Power Stone was in the center, covered by an orb-thing, on some sort of alter, with no protection whatsoever. “Are you sure we’re not walking into a trap?”
“Quill took the Stone effortlessly. All he had to face was some Krees.” As she said that, Nebula walked straight to the altar and extended her hand to grab the orb. Her cibenetic arm burned, but she managed to grab the orb before it fell apart. You two looked at each other in the eye. “I wasn’t always like this”, she offered, as if the sight of her arm was something to fear.
“We live with what we’ve got, I guess”, you replied, smiling. “I hope you didn’t feel pain, at least.”
“Pain distracts you from battle”, she said. “Thanos only allowed me to feel pain if he was the one inflicting it, so... no, I didn’t feel pain.”
“Sounds like a comfort to me.”
She didn’t answer, but you could see a ghost of a smile in her lips. She placed the orb in her pocket and you two suited up again. “Okay”, you said, “3... 2-”
You interrupted yourself as Nebula fell on ground, looking like she was convulsing. You heard the Pym Particle bottle from her suit break. “Nebula!”, you shouted as you reached her, kneeling before your teammate. “Are you okay?”
As if answering your question, her cibernetic eye projected something. It was Nebula herself, standing by Thanos’ side, with another female-like alien. “Gamora”, you heard your Nebula say.
The conversation between the three was clear: they knew Future Nebula was there and had time traveled. Also that she wasn’t on Thanos side anymore. They wanted to get her.
“This is not a live projection”, Nebula said, standing up. You stood up as well. “They must be already on their way here.”
“Then switch your timer with mine”, you replied. Nebula turned to you with wide eyes. “You can’t be taken, Nebula. What if they send past you to fool our friends? If anyone is kidnapped, it’s got to be me.”
“I can’t let you fall into his hands. You will die.”
“So will you!”, you shouted. “My mission is done, Nebula. I did everything I could to bring my family back. But yours isn’t. Go back with the Stone and make our wish.” A huge noise was heard. “They’re here, aren’t they?” Nebula nodded. You took your timer off and gave it to her. “Go!”
Reluctantly, she took it and gave her broken timer to you. “I’ll come back for you, Y/N. We don’t risk lives.”
“Bring everyone back first”, you screamed, trying to be heard in the midst of the noise. Someone was entering the temple. “Only then you come back for me. Now go!”
With no hesitation this time, Nebula left. Still suited up, you grabbed a knife Natasha gave you and stabbed your new timer. It was the last thing you did before everything went black.
Next
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Cliffhanger! You thought everything would be easy? hahahahahaha
I had thought of this part long before I started writing this imagine, and it was the one I was looking forward too the most, due to the major changes made.
Part 7 won’t be told from the reader’s POV, but from Steve’s (and probably Nebula’s). We go back to reader’s POV on part 8!
Edit: I fixed a small detail on parts 6 and 7. Originally I had the Mind Stone being collected in Titan, but it was the last Stone Thanos got, on Earth. I made minor corrections so it would fit movie canon in this aspect.
Taglist (open!): @autobotgirl15-blog​ @starstrucknature @cheeseburgersstuff​ @aamzter2013
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worstloki · 5 years
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how IW should have ended
Thanos: *snaps*
[nothing happens]
Thor: Was that meant to do something??
Thanos, in shock: no how could this - [he realises the problem and teleports away]
Thor: Well that was anticlimactic, now I'm going to have to get a better Thanos-killing weapon
[next scene, taking place on vormir]
Thanos: [appears on top of the cliff]
Gamora's voice from behind him: I told you it wasn't love
Thanos, turning violently to attack her: YOU -
[he stops mid-lunge and the camera reveals Gamora and Nebula]
Gamora and Nebula, unsheathing their weapons: You've lost.
[epic fight scene where Gamora and Nebula's ruthless training lets them avoid/overcome any attacks (while working together) from Thanos and is symbolic of their growth after moving on from the abusive way they were raised]
Gamora, still beating up Thanos after already removing the gauntlet: You sure you don't want in on this? You were also wronged.
Loki, recording the fight on a phone while clutching the gauntlet under his other arm: No thanks I'm enjoying as it is, just tell when you want to leave
[nebula gamora and loki return to earth with the tesseract that loki never actually gave up]
[the Wakanda battle ended hours ago and everyone was discussing their next move in finding thanos when they arrive and tell that thanos is defeated]
[everyone gets the reunion that they deserve, tony and steve agree that earth needs its best defenders on a speaking basis and thor and loki hug]
Nebula: If you still have a score to settle with Thanos you can find him in the *space prison for super bad people*
Thor: How did you get him there?
Gamora: You can thank your brother for that, thor
Loki, making the gauntlet appear from nowhere: Oh! You just reminded me, the stones need to be kept FAR away from each other again. Farewell for now brother. See you after 6 episod- I mean infinity stones. [winks and teleports away]
Thor, yelling: LOKII
Tony Stark: Chill, today was a close win and we deserve to calm down and realise I was right about bigger threats all along.
Steve: Yeah, what could he possibly do wrong with all the stone
Black Widow: Yeah, not like he's never attacked earth before or anything
Guardians of the galaxy, heading off into space: Hey Thor if you wanted to search for your brother you're welcome to come with us
Rocket: Yeah we need a new captain anyways
Peter Quill: I'M RIGHT HERE
Thor: You know what? I'm up for that. Valkyrie, you're in charge of Asgard. There was a place in Norway Odin recommended, so set up shop there
Valkyrie: What, really?
Thor: Don't worry I'll be back when I find my brother and make him apologise for faking his death again
Steve: So... we're not fighting anymore? Are we back together now?
Tony: Sure right after you admit you were wrong
Bucky: [actually makes a sincere apology and explains how he is trying to make up for his actions]
[Tony forgives Bucky but doesn't trust Steve anymore (at least not yet)]
-end credit-
[Thanos is in a space prison cell. But he is not the focus of the scene. We get a look at other possibly major villains in cells around him; doctor doom, Amora, Galactus, mysterio, red skull, etc.
A blonde haired lady (hint: its Amora) scoffs and smiles. She says to the cell opposite her "Nice to see you looking alive and well". Mysterio is in the cell and looks up confused. A green glow revealing Loki in his cell (without the gauntlet and probably from the past) and mysterio is really confused now
Loki, to Mysterio: Would you be interesting in getting out of this small, television-less cell?
Mysterio: [grins]
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dalekofchaos · 5 years
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My problems with Avengers Endgame
For the most part, I like it. Could’ve been better. But here are my problems with the movie
The bad taste Thor fat jokes and mocking jokes about Thor's PTSD and depression....like really? Also nice of the Russos for throwing Thor's character arc out the window and abandoning his people....TWICE. Instead of taking responsibility and rule with Valkyrie as his equal, Thor just abandons his people just to be a Guardian....for reasons??????
Sidelining Carol. WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF TEASING HER ONLY TO LEAVE HER ON THE FUCKING SIDES. NO SERIOUSLY, FUCKING WHY???  Why does Wanda get to unleash on Thanos, but Carol gets knocked around by Thanos? Fucking seriously? What kind of fucking bullshit is this. What kind of actual fucking disrespect is this horseshit?
Not making Carol and Maria married and being the representation fans wanted.  Carol’s butch lesbian look was more representation than a nameless guy saying he was seeing another guy. 
Fridging Black Widow before her fucking movie even comes out, jesus fucking christ, they really went "you're getting a Black Widow movie lol lmao bitch you thought" it’s not just that. Natasha isn’t even given respect after her passing. She isn’t given a goodbye. All she gets is the men turning into whiny pissants and Bruce tosses a bench into the lake. Natasha sacrificed her life for her family and to stop Thanos and THIS IS THE FUCKING THANKS SHE GETS??? 
Gamora is still fridged. Past Gamora is loyal to Thanos. That makes no fucking sense. Did the Russos even WATCH Guardians Of The Galaxy? Gamora in 2014 was working AGAINST Thanos. She plotted on hiding the power stone away from Thanos. Present Nebula didn’t even need to convince her, she should’ve helped Present Nebula from the beginning. There was no need for it. Even worse, Strange couldn’t just bring Gamora  from a time before she went to Vormir. Gamora couldn’t have been spared her fate. And even worse. Both Gamora and Nebula are denied the revenge of the man who has abused, manipulated and gaslighted them their whole lives and they couldn’t be allowed the opportunity to kill Thanos? Fuck you.
Hank and Pierce's bad toupees
Not making Loki the rat who frees Scott and having it revealed and having Loki's grand dramatic slut return entrance. Loki just escaping with the Tesseract and  not doing anything with it is just dumb. But what’s really dumb is not having Thor and Loki escaping together in Infinity War while Thanos is fighting The Hulk. He had it and he didn’t use it. It just feels like Loki’s death was ultimately pointless now. And apparently Loki escaping with The Tesseract  was pointless, Loki is seen in his cell in Asgard....how the fuck is this supposed to make any sense at all? So honestly I would just have Loki be the very last one to return and reveal himself as the rat who freed Scott. It would make more sense than anything. Loki is the very thing that started The Avengers, it makes sense that he returns to help them against Thanos.
That fucking Hydra Cap reference, he needed to stay in cover, I know but we wanted to forget it ever happened
Once again the shows are screwed over. No Quake, Ghost Rider or The Defenders
Nebula does not kill Thanos.....fucking bullshit fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Nebula should’ve killed Thanos. Nebula by far suffered the most and the hand of Thanos. She was abused, manipulated, and isolated because of him and he killed her sister. Additionally, all of her movies, but especially Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Endgame flesh out and develop her character quite well, giving the audience ample time to connect with her. Furthermore, a great portion of Nebula’s body has been replaced with metal, which we already knew from previous films but was highlighted in Endgame itself, when Nebula simply sticks her hand in the energy field surrounding the power stone to retrieve it, destroying the “skin” on her hand but leaving her “skeleton” intact. Because of this, it is likely that Nebula had a better chance of surviving a snap than any other Avenger (except for maybe Bruce), and the cinematic payoff of allowing her to be the one to kill Thanos would have been far greater than letting Tony kill Thanos. You could even have Thanos say “I am inevitable daughter” Nebula could have a Eowyn moment “I am not your daughter” and finally Nebula would kill him. Nebula deserved to kill Thanos. And since Nebula was the one who snapped, we know Gamora would return, maybe since they worked together, Nebula would bring back Natasha. Like they all fought to bring an end and bring everyone back. Gamora and Natasha deserved to return and reverse the bullshit fridging. Tony could return to his family and once again they didn’t have to make Far From Home of making Spider-Man be “the new Iron Man” Tony could retire in peace and tell Peter “the world is in safe hands of the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man”
Steve Rogers abandoning his found family and the horrible implications of Steve staying in the past. Before I talk about the implications, I just need to say it makes no sense. Steve made peace with his life in the new world. Peggy wanted Steve to move on, Steve grew as a character. He even saw Peggy was happy in Endgame(however I would’ve had Peggy be seen with her wife Angie, yes fuck ABC I am still bitter) and Peggy herself said she was happy with her life. It makes no sense for Steve to just abandon Sam and Bucky just to be with someone he kissed once. I honestly would’ve been happy if he chose to sacrifice himself to bring Natasha back. I would even be happy if Steve came back, married Sharon and chose to retire, and pass on the Shield to Sam. Just anything is better. It’s not a satisfying conclusion to Steve Rogers’ character arc.  A satisfying character arc means more than giving the character a prize at the end of the story. Women are not prizes. Peggy Carter is not a prize. Peggy Carter would slap the shit out of Steve Rogers if she knew he threw his life away just to be with her and ruining her own life in turn. Even if I didn't like how they paired Peggy with Daniel, even I understand that Peggy moved on and found love and married a man who lost his leg for his country without superstrength or fame, and they had kids. Steve took away Peggy's agency, destroyed her family and ruined his own journey. Even more insulting is the fact that Bucky Barnes was brought back to life and Steve barely acknowledges him. Ever since The Winter Soldier, Steve’s journey has been focused on Bucky and he barely even acknowledges him. He fought a fucking war that split The Avengers for him and he STILL does not even have one last moment with him? What the fuck? But you know the real stupid thing about this? Tony and Natasha died just so to make the world a better place. The better place that Steve then leaves at the end of the movie. Steve’s entire character arc throughout the MCU would be opposed to altering the timeline for his own selfish desires. This is not the Captain America I know. You’re seriously telling me that Steve Rogers didn’t value his present friends, possible girlfriend and life even a little bit? What has been done to Steve Rogers is unforgivable and I would rather Steve dies sacrificing himself in bringing Thanos down. That would’ve been a better send off than ignoring everything about his character arc. As for the implications about going to the past? He knows about the future, he knows HYDRA infiltrated SHIELD, he knows Bucky is being used as their weapon and will kill the Starks, he knows that Peggy, Howard and Hank are surrounded by Hydra,  he even knows about the civil rights fighting. it’s a little alarming Steve Rogers’s idea of a retirement plan was to go back to the jim crow era to cuddle up with his old flame. Apparently a happy ending for Captain America is a white man in the US. He went back to an era where a cis het white man would feel very safe and comfortable. He doesn't choose to fight for Civil rights in the 60's(how is Sam supposed to feel that Steve did nothing for the movement?), Steve and Peggy don't crack down the Hydra infestation and there isn't a Bucky rescue. Like really bad implications
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IF you ever write the Thor&Loki Go To Vormir AU (for which I pray every night)... How do you think it would look? Would you actually make it Major Character Death? And if so, would it be Loki or Thor who dies in the end? ALSO Do you think Loki could in any way convince Thor that he should let him do it?
I mean, it’s...I’m so frustrated with all my fics that just keep getting longer and won’t end that it’s tempting to write something short and self-contained, but the reason I haven’t is because yeah, it’d be Major Character Death and I would be really-actually killing off Loki. 
Which...I am probably at the stage of healing where I could do that again (couldn’t, for a while!), but also I’d probably cry the whole time and until recently my mental health was in such a place that I was trying to manage my “deliberately upsetting myself” stuff. But I’m doing a bit better now (less...violently depressed, anyway, I’m not exactly stable but I’m not feeling constantly on the verge of utter collapse anymore), so...that kind of intense and unrelenting angst feels more like something I could handle. 
It’s funny because there was a time when this kind of idea would have been my standard. Like, bleak, vicious angst without a trace of hope in sight. It’s much less the case these days, but every so often I miss it. (One of the reasons making love with his ego was really fun to write.)
Anyway, this is a lot of rambling. As far as your question about convincing Thor...no, I really, really don’t think he could. Thor at this point has lost too much to ever be willing to let Loki die (again), particularly not now that things are better between them. It would be such a hard absolutely not and Loki, I think, would know that - which is why he’d go around him entirely.
(There is technically a way out of making it Major Character Death that I can think of, but...I wouldn’t take it, if I wrote this. Which I probably will end up doing. Fuck.)
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the-blackest-spider · 4 years
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SEND ME A 💗 AND I’LL TALK ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP OUR MUSES HAVE.  | Accepting
@shieldshawk​ left a message:  💗 -because I adore Tasha and so does Clint.
My first Clint ever and the longest too on this blog, seriously you’ve been here forever and both Natasha and I are glad!
And the adoration is returned ♥
Clint is just, everything. Natasha wouldn’t be the person she is now without him in any of her verses. He’s shown her humanity, he given her chances when he shouldn’t have. He’s given her a family by making her a part of his and she owes him more than she can ever repay, even though she tries.
They love each other, but it’s not a sort of love that can be defined by the typical ways, it is its own sort, special and unique.
MCU: There’s still a part of her that will forever be in a state of disbelief that he gave her the option to as he no doubt put it “come with me if you want to live”. Some days she’s certain he made the wrong choice, but then he’ll remind her of the fact that no, no he didn’t. She knows she however did not make the wrong choice. Clint saved her. He helped her find her way and was the second person in her like that got her to see she was more than just the weapon the Red Room made her to be, the first of course being James Barnes when he was training her and they fell in love. But Clint advanced that fact, had the chance to more than Bucky did obviously given situations. Clint reminded Natasha of her humanity that she discovered in the arms of the Soldier.
When he got taken and brain washed by Loki, she was so angry, mostly at herself. She should have been there and taken his place and she was willing to do so. She almost asked Loki on the Helicarrier to let Clint go and take her in his place, but the situation didn’t progress in a way that she could do so and she wasn’t certain Loki would be of his word if she offered. So instead she ended up playing things a different way and managed to get her best friend back in the long run. That is one of three times she’s held back slightly in a fight (the second was trying to stop Bucky in Civil War and then against Clint again in Germany).
If it hadn’t been for Clint in dealing with Ultron, Natasha isn’t certain she would’ve recovered as well as she did from Wanda’s attack. Again Clint saved her, another debt to be paid.
She wasn’t surprised to find Clint on Steve’s side of things when they faced off, she expected it. And she has a feeling he knew she’d play the traitor in the end and help Steve out. Clint knows her the best after all.
She will never regret sacrificing herself on Vormir not only for him, but for everyone. She wouldn’t have been able to live with herself if she had allowed him to fall. It had to be her, there was no other way even if he refuses to believe it.
Clint has brought so much to Natasha’s life, he’s helped her in more ways than she can even count. She’s grateful to him endlessly so. She understands the meaning of feeling blessed by being an honorary Barton and being an Aunt to his three amazing kids and having a sister and sometimes Mother figure in Laura.
Star Wars-
Jedi Stuff:  Again best friends, I’m sure that Clint decided this quiet girl with the pretty red hair and green eyes was going to be his friend and determinedly made it happen. He’s always hitting her up for adventures, making sure she’s having a good time and not always being super serious. Natasha knows she can find Clint when she wants to laugh or feel better about something. He’s a nice constant.
Jedi and Bounty Hunter: Annoying Jedi. But she adores him, he’s so… not the typical Jedi and why he keeps hitting her up for things is beyond her. But he does and she allows it because he’s nice, funny and interesting. She likes how easy it is to be around him and that he doesn’t act like he’s superior or anything like that, what she’d expect from a Jedi. He makes her laugh and again breaks that serious veneer she likes to hide behind often.
Final Fantasy VII- At first Natasha was a little reluctant to get paired up with someone, but the more she worked with Clint the more she couldn’t imagine not working with him. Sure she still does her deep black ops stuff solo, but regular Turk work, it’s nice to have someone to carry the load with and to keep it entertaining. She also never expected to get basically adopted into his family, but that’s how it works apparently and family dinner nights can only be missed if she’s on an assignment…
Well until she makes her choices in their main verse, but she still keeps an eye on him as best she can from the shadows, same as she tries for everyone else. She’s grown to love him same as others she has and he will always have a place in her heart. He’s another one that she needs to face, but somehow she knows they’ll be okay despite what she’s done. But at the same time she doesn’t want to put him or his family in any sort of danger and so she keeps her distance for the time being.
As for other verses, don’t think she doesn’t know he dropped in on Cloud! Natasha both can and can’t believe Clint did that, but then again he’s as protective of her as she is of him (in all the verses everywhere), and so it makes sense he’s popping up and checking on the other people in her life, especially those who seem to really capture her interest and her heart.
Also thank Shiva for Barton specialty cookies because sometimes she’s sure she nor anyone on the Turk floor would survive some weeks without them.
She’s also pretty sure Vincent, in that little verse saw to it that she got partnered with Clint because he knew that the fun loving, but down to business when necessary Turk would be beneficial for her situation and help her further in ways she needs beyond what he as a trainer could do and after Vincent disappeared, Clint was there and willing to keep looking with her for him if they could have.
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All in all, Clint is very vital to Natasha. One of those important figures in her life and her story, the second of those figures being James Barnes. Both these men helped her remember that she is human and capable of more than just being a killing machine. Natasha is all too certain that if Clint hadn’t come into her life, she would’ve ended up dead a very long time ago.
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@allofthefeelings‘s tags on that Chris and Scarlett hugging gifset reminded me I started an Endgame fix-it fic before I got derailed by Good Omens. It was going to be Steve/Nat but I think it could have gone either way. 
Things I was going to write but didn’t:
The two of them having a fight at Camp Lehigh about Steve staying
Peggy gently but firmly knocking sense into Steve, with some pointed commentary about guiding influences and moral compasses
A bonus fic where Nat and Peggy spar and Peggy affirms her trust in Nat as somebody who will watch out for him
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VORMIR
The hike to the summit is steep and cold. Steve thinks about how similar and yet not it is to the mountains of Austria. There is a floating presence waiting for him near the top, with a face he hasn’t seen in a long time. He reaches for his gun, but the Red Skull sighs and motions for him to stop. 
“Though I wear the face of an old enemy, it has been a long time since I have been who you remember.” 
Steve doesn’t draw, but he does keep his hand on the holster. “How can I trust you?”
“One of the, shall we say, perks of my new position is I am unable to lie. And I have no reason to wish you harm now.” 
Strangely, it’s the qualifier that makes Steve let down his guard.
The Red Skull looks at him quizzically. “Why are you here? The Stone has been taken.”
“I know. I'm here to bring it back.” Steve digs it out of the little case Bruce made to hold the Stones. 
The Red Skull blinks. “This is highly unusual. I have never encountered someone seeking to return it.”
“If it makes you feel better, consider it a trade. I have something you... want?”
The Red Skull makes a noise Steve finally decides is a chuckle. “It is not an object of desire. I am its keeper, when it is here, and the one who ensures the rules are followed when a seeker comes.”
“Well, you have someone I want back, traded for the Stone. Seems only fair that if I give it back, I get her back.”
“It is not a matter of fair, Captain, but rather how things work. It is an equal exchange.” He holds out his hand, and Steve drops the Soul Stone in it.
A flash--
And he's sitting in an endless pool of water, a prone figure at his side. She opens her eyes and attempts to sit up.
Steve clutches her to him, tight enough that he thinks she might protest, but she doesn't. He feels her arms around him, squeeze weakly.
“Steve? What--?”
“We won, Nat. It's okay. It's okay.” He looks at her face and she's crying, and apparently he's crying too because she reaches out to swipe a tear off his cheek.
She moves towards him, and for a split second he thinks she's going in for a kiss, but she rests her forehead against his for a long moment. He can feel the flutter of her eyelashes, the soft huff of her breath, and something in him unknots, a tension he didn’t realize he was holding until it was gone.
Nat pulls away, and he tries not to be disappointed they’re not sharing space anymore. (He fails.)
She looks at him. “So, what’s next?”
He holds up the case. “Well, I’ve got five more of these to drop off.” 
“Do you want some company?” 
“I think I would. Just like old times, right?”
“Yeah.” There’s a smile on her face. “It’ll be fun.”
NEW YORK CITY
Nothing about this day feels momentous at all, even though Steve knows in a couple hours the sky will be filled with Chitauri. Right now, it’s just another overcast day, muggy and unpleasant. This does not seem to bother the bald woman on the rooftop, who looks deep in meditation when they blink in front of her. 
It takes a minute before she opens her eyes. There’s a small flash of surprise when she sees them, but her expression remains composed. She rises from her seated position in a smooth, elegant motion.
“Captain Rogers. You were not the one I was expecting.” 
“Yeah, well. Bruce got a little sidelined after the big fight. If you have a message for him I’m happy to pass it along.” 
“Thank you, but that won’t be necessary.” She looks up at him, and he feels examined, scrutinized minutely in a way he’s not real comfortable with. 
“Your life, more than most, is full of crossroads that create branches of possibility. Be mindful of that.” He starts to reply, but she continues. “You have lost much, it is true, but you have everything you want, if that is something you choose to embrace.” 
“Thanks.” He can’t think of anything else to say, but that seems safe, at least.
Her attention turns to Natasha. The look the woman gives her is much less penetrating. “You have more to offer than your sacrifices, Natasha Ivanovna.” 
Nat does not appear surprised by this, and nods her head. “I know.” 
The woman returns her gaze back to Steve. “I believe you were here to return something?”
Steve hands her the Time Stone, and she places it in an elaborate container on her belt. As controlled as she seems to be, there is a minute relaxation as she takes it back into her possession.
“There is a ladder down to the alley if you would prefer to walk.” She points it out, and Steve and Nat climb down. 
They’re a third of the way to Midtown before Steve asks. “Ivanovna, huh?”
Nat looks at him and shrugs. “Some new information came to light.” 
He remembers some of those late night conversations during the Decimation, when talking about old wounds seemed preferable to grappling with the uncertainty and enormity of new problems. Just two little graves; no names, just dates of birth and death. It was more than I had before, and I was grateful for it.
Steve puts an arm around her shoulders, feels hers at his waist. “I’m glad something good came out of this mess, then.” 
Her arm tightens around him briefly, and she smiles. “Yeah, me too.” 
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There is dizzying triple vision retreading old ground again, squished in a tiny surveillance closet as they wait for their previous selves (both 2012 and 2023) to get on with their missions. Steve sighs as the Tesseract bounces away and lands at Loki’s feet. 
“I have to wonder what havoc we’re causing for ourselves--our past selves, I mean--continually messing with the timeline.” 
Nat points to a monitor currently showing “Loki” headlocking 2012 Steve. He whispers something into Steve’s ear and it looks like he might as well have knifed him. 
“A bit late to ponder the consequences, don’t you think?” Her tone is dry.
“It was important.” 
“What did you tell him?” 
“That Bucky’s alive.” 
“Would you have done something if you’d known at the time?” 
Steve looks at her like she should know the answer already.
She pats his knee. “You’ve given this Bucky another fighting chance. That has to count for something, right?” 
“I guess so.” 
Nat’s attention flicks back to the screen. “You made a comment. About your own ass. Isn’t that a little on the nose, even for you?” 
Steve shrugs. “It’s not often you get to see your butt from an outside perspective.” 
She rolls her eyes and looks like she’s going to say something, but their watches beep. Time to go put the Mind Stone back.
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“Aww, hell.” They’re heading uptown away from the commotion when Steve remembers something.
“What?” 
“I might have tipped Rumlow off about the whole HYDRA thing. In the elevator.” 
Nat attempts to look horrified but ends up at mildly exasperated instead. “Looks like this Steve is going to have an awful lot of surprises this week.” 
“It’s nothing he can’t handle. I believe in him.” 
She arches an eyebrow. “Are you saying that to convince yourself?” 
“You can’t prove that.”
“No, but you’ve always had a shit poker face, Rogers. I can read you like a billboard now.”
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