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- Wait! Are you serious? - Clint asked and looked at Tony with shock. He was really gonna buy it?

- Well... let's be honest. It is not like we have a choice. - Tony answered. He was tied up to the fucking chair. Even Thor couldn't break those bloody things, so his chances of escaping were very low.

- Earth's mightiest heroes. - Gamora said with a voice full of sarcasm. - Do you wanna know how mighty you are? - Gamora challenged, and then the projection changed.

They were shown an empty city… an empty stadium. Everything was dark and depressing.

- What the hell happened? - Steve exclaimed.

- Thanos believes that this is the only way to keep the balance of the universe. - Loki answered with a voice full of guilt. Clint sent him a dangerous look, but then Gamora decided to explain.

- It was all about the infinity stones. Tesseract is the space stone. Loki's scepter has the mind stone. There are six of these stones, and with all of their power... Thanos just snapped his fingers and killed half of the universe. He believed that there was too much life in the universe and too little resources. Killing half was salvation in his eyes. - Gamora explained and looked at horrified faces of the Avengers. Thor looked at Loki, who looked down at the ground. Loki knew about this. He knew what Thanos was up to.

"Where do we go, now that they are gone?"

Steve was sitting in a chair, he looked pale. He was nervous, grimacing. He looked like he lost a few pounds. There was silence in the room, but then the camera showed other people in the room sitting in a circle.

- My name is Patricia. - One of the women said.

- Hello Patricia. - all of them said, except for Steve, who was just sitting there, shaking.

- Woah, whoa... what the hell? - Tony said, looking at future Steve who looked like half of his present self. Not that he always cared about Capsicle, dah. He hated this guy, but well... What the hell happened to break that man?

Steve was in shock too, seeing himself in that state. Why was he in some kind of help group?

- PTSD. You should know, Stark. - Gamora said, and Loki rose his brow. How did she know anything about Stark? The Avengers who didn't know about Tony's Afganistan issues (almost everyone except Black Widow) looked at him with shock.

- I lost my son... he was preparing himself to go to school... and just like that... he turned... in..into... - she started sobbing. Steve's hands were shaking. He held his own trousers so hard, trying to hide it. Flashbacks of losing all of them. Everybody around him turning to dust in Wakanda. It was his fault. He wasn't the leader that they needed to win that war.

Future Steve's emotion wasn't said in any way, but they could feel it: the overwhelming guilt.

- I'm Steve Rogers... and I failed you all. - He said after Patricia was done.

- Why... why are you showing us this? Not how to prevent it? - Natasha asked, trying to control her feelings. It was kinda messed up that she could feel that guilt from this memory.

- Because you still don't believe me. I think that showing you how you will end if you don't listen to me will be good enough. - Gamora answered and shrugged.

Steve couldn't believe his own eyes. But... on the other hand, he saw that depressing, dark city that was left after this so-called Infinity War... and knew that was because he failed. How much could he handle before he breaks?

They were not shown the rest of the meeting, but they could deduce that Steve left after those words. He stood on the dark street, dealing with his panic attack. Blurred vision. Dust. Deaths. Fault. When he could catch a breath, he pulled out a pack of cigarets from his pocket.

- What is going on? - Thor asked when the vision blurred.

- Panic attack. - Stark answered without thinking. Then he realized what he said and just suggested with his deadly glare to not comment. - Smoking? Really? - Stark asked with a raised brow.

- I didn't know that you smoke. - A familiar voice said. Steve turned around to see Black Widow in the shadows. She stepped to the light.

- Nat is going to be blond. That's new. - Everybody thought, but nobody said.

- It is not like I am going to die from cancer. - Steve answered coldly. - What do you want Tasha? - he said.

- Is this helping? - She asked, looking at the doors.

Steve didn't answer.

- You were right... about Ronin. It's Clint. - Natasha said. - How did you know?

- Ronin? - Clint asked with a raised brow.

Gamora only rolled her eyes and didn't even stop the projection.

- Because if I had any strength left, I would probably be like him. - Steve answered. - Leave me alone Tasha. There is nothing that we can do. We lost. - Capitan answered and started to walking away. Black Widow didn't stop him.

- I can do it all night. Show you how the Infinity War will destroy you all... - Gamora said. Only Natasha tried to do something with the rest of her old team, but she was broken too.

- What is wrong with you Gamora? This is not like you. - Loki said, he was the only person who really knew that girl, and she didn't behave like herself.

- It is complicated... I'm complicated. I will explain it to you when the time is right. - she answered quietly and sighed.

Tony wanted to say that they saw enough, and that they were going to believe her, but Gamora started another memory.

Now there was a space ship. Tony was sitting on the ground, tired and wounded. He looked at his destroyed helmet.

Tony felt an unpleasant shiver, knowing that he was going to be in space again... and not with a happy ending it seems.

- Is this thing on? Hey, Miss Potts. If you find this recording, don't feel bad about this. Part of the journey is the end. Just for the record, being adrift in space with zero promise of rescue is more fun than it sounds. Food and water ran out four days ago. Oxygen will run out tomorrow morning. That'll be it. When I drift off, I will dream about you. It's always you. - Then, he turned off the recording.

Tony felt tears in his eyes. Not because of his fate... but because it seemed that Pepper wouldn't leave him. Sometimes he believed that Pepper was too good for him, and that she would leave one day, but it seemed that he was going to leave her. He was going to die in space, alone. He wanted her to be here right now, next to him. He wanted to feel her support... but on the other hand, he didn't want to cause her pain, for her see how he was going to end.

- Miss Potts was the mother of that boy? - Nebula asked, looking at Stark.

- Who is she? What boy? - Tony asked with shock.

- What? No... Peter was not my kid. - Tony answered. - Not by blood anyway. - he added.

He had a flashback from the moment where Peter Parker turned into the dust. He was holding that kid in his arms, he could feel the weight of his body and after few seconds... he was just gone.

- He should've stayed on that damn bus. - Tony hissed with anger.

- There was nothing you could do to save him. Even if he was on earth, he would've died. - Nebula explained and Tony hid his face into his hands. He was too freaking tired for all of this. But it seemed like he was going to rest... for good this time.

Many people looked at Stark at that moment. He was the last person that they thought would be dealing with kids. Like, the last of the last. He was a grown up child himself, but maybe future Stark wasn't.

- Who...how... - Stark wanted to ask, but he couldn't find proper words.

- I will explain everything later. - Gamora answered.

Next in line was Thor.

- Okay, time to be the captain. - Rocket said.

- Wait, what? Talking Raccoon? - Bruce asked with shock.

- Well... we fought with aliens today, we have time traveling green lady over here... come on. A talking raccoon is least of our worries. - Natasha rolled her eyes. When others were in their own despairs, living through their own little apocalypse. She was trying to learn. That was Gamora's point, right? To teach them how to survive the Infinity War, right?

Thor was sitting, looking through the window in the space ship. His hair was shorter...

Thor wanted to ask what the hell happened to his hair, but he knew that is not the right time. Not after he saw future Steve and Tony totally broken. Now it was his turn it seemed.

- So, dead brother, huh? Yeah, that can be annoying. - Rocket tried to be helpful but wasn't his thing definitely.

- Well, he's been dead before, but this time I think it really might be true. - Thor answered. He saw in his mind the moment when they finally managed to put away their past behind. He was actually laughing with Loki again! That was too good to be true.

Thor didn't even notice the fact that his future self mentioned something about Loki being dead before. He looked at his brother, hearing him laugh again. Norns, last time he heard him laugh was ages ago.

But then his memory returned to the moment, where Thanos killed Loki before his eyes, and Thor was powerless. He couldn't save his own brother.

Loki felt a shiver, but... he had imagined worse, that Thanos was going to torture him again... Instead, that death was quick.

- And you said your sister and your dad? - Rocket continued.

- Sister?! - Both Asgardians shouted.

- Both dead. - Thor answered. Thinking about the time, when his father died... and Hela was free. When he left her to die with burning Asgard.

- Still got a mom, though? - Rocket was really trying! It was not his fault that Thor's life sucks.

- Killed by a dark elf.

Loki became pale. He... he could be angry at her. At her and Odin, but... he didn't want her to die. He gulped.

Thor was silent. Now he knew how Tony and Steve had felt when they saw themselves so broken.

- A best friend?

- Stabbed through the heart. – Heimdall's death was played.

Thor turned his eyes away. This was too much for him, he wanted to destroy something. Then he noticed little flashes of lightning on his fingers, something that didn't happen before. Not without his hammer.

There was talk about the fight with Thanos, so Thor was already broken before the real fight, before they lost.

- And what if you're wrong?

- If I'm wrong then... what more do I have to lose? - Thor asked and walked away.

- Don't ask that question Thor... what I learned from the future... things can always get worse. - Gamora answered with a sigh. She snapped her fingers and the bonds were gone, she didn't believe that they were going to attack her or Loki anymore.

- So... I believe you have questions. - She said when the Avengers were free, but the silence was her only answer. They were still too shocked to ask about anything.


Things that I wrote in italics are from the trailers of Avengers or from movie Avengers: Infinity War.

So, There is another chapter. Did you like it? I hope so! Leave some comment please :*

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