For want of a Phil
I OWN AND REGRET NOTHING!
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For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost
...Or in this case, for want of martyr, the team was lost
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The last several hour had been very 'interesting' for Phil Coulson. Last night he'd finally gotten to bed after Fitz had been sucked inside the Monolith...and woke up in a bed and house that wasn't his.
He quickly did the standard S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent tests for such a situation. After eliminating 'dream world' and dysfunctional hologram...he was left with 'alternate reality.
Here, he never became an agent. And apparently married someone named Lilly and had two kids named Dipper and Mabel...they seemed quite happy-
He then panics when he sees the date! The Chitauri invasion was a week from now! Quickly he uses a special 'alternate universe' code for just this sort of situation to immediately get in contact with Fury.
He quickly gives him the lowdown on everything: Loki, the Chitauri, The Mandarin, The Dark Elves, Hydra, and Ultron.
Fury tells him he'll handle it. He also tell him that they'll talk more after the invasion. For the moment he advises that Phil gets out of town(since here, he lives in New York), and keeps his head down until he contacts him.
Even though this family wasn't(technically) his; they belonged to another him. Who was apparently quite happy with them. So before doing anything else, he focused on their safety.
He Learned that the kids were currently spending the Summer in...Gravity Falls? Huh, why dose that name sound familiar? Thinks Phil as he leaves a message for Lilly at work; telling her to meet him at Gravity Falls.
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Lilly was confused when her husband called out of the blue and tells her to drop what she's doing and meet her on the other side of the country...She was even more confused when a portal opened up in front of her outside her office building and she was swept up by a purple giant!
"Alright, the woman is my new plaything! A deals a deal, give me the stone!" Shouts the giant. Lilly watches in horror as a demonic creature wearing a business suit and no face hands the giant a strange glowing gem...
...7 days later...
Phil hangs his head in defeat as he listens to the report...New York was a crater. Since he hadn't been there to matyr himself; the Avengers never came together as a team and were killed. Since there was no Iron Man to redirect the nuke; New York was Wiped off the map. And since Iron Man never destroyed the Chitauri Control ship; (even though the portal was down) there were still small, active remnants of the Chitauri laying waste to the countryside...All in all a much darker time line.
On the bright side, Fury got a brief message to him. As horrible as the aftermath was, Fury was able to take advantage of the chaos to purge SHIELD of HYDRA.
Phil took whatever comfort he could from that as he drove into Oregon...
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Stan laughed. What a rube! He comes in with a diamond the size of my head...and he thinks it's a paperweight! The best buy of my life...and it was under a 100$! HA!
While Stan laughed. The 'Rube' was assuming his true form outside the Shack. Enjoy your 'meal ticket' while you can old man...others will come for it soon enough.
Thought Loki as he turned his back to the Shack...and the Tesseract...
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TO BE CONTINUED?
AN: THIS IS NOT A SPIN-OFF OF 'A PINE TREE DIVERGES IN THE WOOD!' This is it's own separate thing.
AN: I know it says "in-progress" but really I just don't like boxing myself into a corner. For now this is more of a one-shot that I might continue one day...but probably won't.
But, hey. Feel free to use whatever elements you want from this, if you want! Or maybe give me ideas?
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