Just a warning, you can skip this chapter as it gets a little… weird. I've been working on this chapter for a very long time, you'll understand why.
The Quinjet flew towards the Avenger's compound.
"You guys went back to the compound!?" Rhodey yelped. "You'll get arrested!"
Steve winced slightly, and Wanda shuddered, thinking back to the Raft.
Inside, Rhodey was talking with a hologram of Ross.
Everyone tensed, even those who signed the Accords
"Ugh, him," Tony remarked, and Team Cap looked at him weirdly.
"But… you signed the Accords," Sam said.
"Doesn't mean I have to like the guy," Tony made a face.
"On a stolen Quinjet with four of the world's most wanted criminals," Ross said.
"You know they're only criminals because you've chosen to call them that," Rhodey stated angrily, "If it weren't for those Accords, Vision would have been right here."
"I thought you were all for those Accords," Scott said.
"I was all for them too, look at me now," Natasha shrugged.
"True," Scott said.
"I remember your signature on those papers, Colonel," Ross got up to face Rhodey.
"That's right," Rhodey said drily," But I'm pretty sure I'm paid for that."
"You are?" Peter asked.
"I'm in the military. I was kind of obliged to sign them. Biggest mistake of my life," Rhodey said sadly, looking at his legs.
"You have second thoughts?" Ross asked angrily.
"Not anymore," Rhodey said. There was a beep.
They turned to see the rogue avengers and Vision walking towards them.
"Mr. Secretary," Steve said calmly.
The hologram walked towards Steve in disbelief. "You've got some nerve. I'll give you that."
"You could use some of that right now," Natasha replied.
"OoF," Shuri and Peter said.
"Burn," Shuri said.
"The world's on fire," he continued. "And you think all is forgiven?"
"Half of the universe is at stake and he's talking about forgiveness?" Clint said with disgust. Tony fidgeted uncomfortably.
"I'm not looking for forgiveness, and I'm way past asking for permission," Steve said.
Bucky snorted slightly, elbowing his best friend and asking, "Since when did you ask for permission?" Steve rolled his eyes.
"Earth just lost it's best defender. So we're here to fight, and if you want to stand in our way, we'll fight you too."
Unnoticed by everyone, Tony smiled slightly at being referred to as Earth's best defender by Steve.
Ross glared at them for a few moments before turning to Rhodey, "Arrest them."
Shuri snorted. "One guy without his suit and his legs in casts, try to arrest Captain America, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Vision, and Falcon? That's gonna go well."
"Not happening," Rhodey said.
Rhodey merely swiped the hologram away.
Everyone applauded Rhodey's decision. Including Tony. Which was noticed by everyone.
"I thought you hated us or something," Scott said, completely oblivious.
"Well the apocalypse is coming, the Accords are useless now," Tony said uncomfortably, earning him a few more surprised looks.
"That wasn't the question Tony," Steve said. Tony looked away.
"Can we not talk about this and watch the movie?" Tony asked, though it sounded vaguely like he was begging.
The movie suddenly stopped.
"Oh come on!" Tony shouted.
There was an exaggerated sigh from the voice. "I really didn't want to ruin my nice TV room, but considering you won't all apologize to each other…"
"Mr. Stark!" Peter grabbed Tony's arm in panic.
"What's wrong, kid?" he asked, afraid that the voice might have done some sort of voodoo on Peter(as if).
"I can hear ticking."
Everyone paled.
Bucky ran over to the wall and put his ear to it to listen. He then straightened up and nodded confirmation.
"If you don't apologize to each other in… I don't know… one minute," the screen changed to show a one-minute timer, "IMMA BLOW THIS PLACE OUT OF THE SKY!"
"You can't do that!" Sam yelled.
"Yeah I can. And I don't want any measly I'm sorrys and that's it. I want emotional apologies, heart-to-hearts, the whole gig. And I don't just mean Tony and Steve, I mean all of you. Except for T'Challa, Shuri, Bucky, Scott, and Peter. And maybe Rhodey since he sort of apologized on screen. You guys are cool. Let's go. Starting now." The timer started.
"Vision, can you phase through the wall?" Steve asked.
Vision made his way over to the wall and walked right into it. And by that I don't mean through it.
Wanda ran over to Vision to help him up and to blast the wall. Nothing they did made a mark. Peter even picked up a couch and threw it at the wall. Multiple times.
"We're all gonna die," Peter said.
"LET US GO!" Natasha yelled at the ceiling. No answer.
45 seconds
"What do we do Captain?" Vision asked Steve. Steve was actually unsure, there was no one to fight and nothing to throw. So he went with the easiest way to get them out of this mess. He took a deep breath.
"I'm sorry for attacking you and leaving you in the Hydra base," Steve said in a rush.
Time seemed to pause.
"That's it?" Peter asked, raising an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" Sam asked defensively.
"You, all of you," Peter looked around the room fiercely, "should apologize to . And not just for the Siberia thing, I mean by leaving ."
"That's what I said."
"Peter…" Tony hissed.
"You people were his family! He loved you guys! You people were the few people he trusted. And you left him," Peter took a deep breath.
"Don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. You didn't see him. After Siberia he just locked himself in his lab, drinking."
"Thank god for Pepper Potts," Rhodey muttered.
"I'm not saying didn't do some bad things too, the Accords were a terrible idea, my girlfriend MJ helped me see that. And Mr. Barnes wasn't responsible for killing your parents, and you know that. He was brainwashed, it wasn't his fault.
"You guys are the Avengers! You guys were my heroes! You're supposed to be an unstoppable team of superheroes that didn't split up no matter what! I idolized you guys! I always dreamed of fighting with the Avengers, and at the airport, I thought I was finally getting that chance. But I wasn't fighting with the Avengers. I was fighting against them. I was fighting for them to split up. And they did."
"You guys are the Avengers. Figure something out. If a 16-year-old kid can tell you everyone made mistakes and you should apologize to each other, what are you all just sitting around for?"
There was a bit of a long silence.
"Is that true, Tony?" Wanda said gently. Tony's flinch confirmed it.
"Oh my god, I had no idea, Tony," Steve said, defeatedly.
"This is all my fault," Bucky said miserably.
"No, it's not. It's mine," Steve and Tony said at the same time. They looked at each other.
"I tried to kill you and left you in there to die," Steve sat next to Tony on the floor, looking rather shocked Tony blamed himself.
"I was the one that lost it and attacked Bucky in the first place," Tony argued.
"I shouldn't have kept the secret of your parent's death from you," Steve said mournfully. "I just didn't want you to be upset. This is mostly my fault."
"No, I get it. You were just trying to protect your friend," Tony looked down. "I shouldn't have reacted like I did. It was just kind of overwhelming. I wasn't thinking straight. You just wanted to preserve the last bit of your old life after Peggy… left. And it's not really your fault. Those accords were pretty dumb," Tony sighed. "We both screwed up big time didn't we?"
"Friends?" Steve grinned, offering his hand.
Tony smiled back and took his hand, shaking it. "Friends."
The Avengers applauded and whooped.
"Sorry for betraying you," Natasha looked at Tony. "I thought it would stop the Avengers from breaking apart. I thought I was doing the right thing."
Suddenly just like that everyone started apologizing. (And Shuri had miraculously regained use of her kimono beads and filmed the whole thing.)
"Sorry for blaming you for… everything," Wanda blushed, sitting next to Tony. "I was confused and scared and lost… almost everything." She looked at Vision, who was trying to apologize to Rhodey for the billionth time about his legs. ("Vision I told you a billion times it wasn't your fault.")
She tried to speak again but was cut off because, to her surprise, Tony (who you know isn't one for feelings but it was a very emotional time for him) gave her a hug. It was a little awkward but said a lot.
"It's fine," Tony whispered in her ear. "I get it." They broke apart. "I wish I did something about getting you out of the Raft immediately. You're not that traumatized about that place are you?" Tony added as a small joke. Wanda snorted and punched him lightly, slightly relieved the man started spewing dark jokes about everything again.
"And sorry for locking you in your room," Tony rubbed the back of his head. "I was trying to keep you safe. You know, because the whole Sokovia thing… and I thought you couldn't handle yourself, so… yeah," Tony said awkwardly.
"Yeah," Wanda said.
(More apologies were going on and honestly I couldn't think of anything, I was more focused on the other stuff. WANDA IS STILL A GOOD KID OK LEAVE ME ALONE.)
Immediately the timer on the TV, which was forgotten in the moment, let out a beep and stopped.
"Now that wasn't so hard, was it? You can thank me later."
"Did you disable the bomb?" Bucky asked warily.
"Actually there was no bomb, I was just messing with you guys."
"But I heard-" Peter said.
"This is my world, I can do whatever I want. Including making the walls make that noise. Bombs don't tick anymore man."
"You bitch," Shuri snarled. "You scared us half to death."
"Ahahahahaha… that's kind of ironic… just watch the movie."*
The timer vanished and was replaced by the movie, which continued playing.
He smiled at Steve. "It's great to see you Cap."
"You too, Rhodey," Steve walked forwards and clasped hands with him. Natasha followed suit to hug him.
"Wow, you guys look like crap," Rhodey joked. "Must have been a rough couple years."
"Yeah, no shit Sherlock," Sam said.
"Yeah, well the hotels weren't exactly five-stars," Sam smirked.
"Uh… I think you look great," a voice from the corner of the room said. Bruce came forward, looking very awkward. "Yeah… um… I'm back."
Everyone just stared at him. "Hi Bruce."
"Nat," Bruce said after a while, fiddling with his hands.
"So are you two still…?" Steve asked Natasha. Natasha shrugged, looking rather conflicted.
"I threw him off a cliff…" Natasha whispered.
"This is awkward," Sam whispered.
"Yeah…" Clint sighed, also referring to the awkwardness in the room.
"So we got to assume we're coming back, right?" Rhodey said.
"And they can clearly find us," Wanda added.
"We need all hands on deck, where's Clint?" Bruce asked, looking around.
"Good question, where's Clint?" Clint asked.
"After the whole Accords situation he and Scott took a deal," Natasha answered. "It was too tough on their families, they're on house arrest."
"You guys still could have invited us!" Clint complained.
"Who's Scott?" Bruce asked.
"Ant-man," Steve said.
"There's an ant-man and a spiderman?" Bruce asked.
"Yes! Bug Bros!" Scott said enthusiastically, holding out his fist to Peter, who enthusiastically fist-bumped him.
"Bug Bros?" Natasha raised an eyebrow.
"That is the lamest shit ever," Sam rolled his eyes.
"Do not look down on us bugs!" Scott said loudly.
"Ms. Black Widow Romanoff ma'am! Join us!" Peter grinned.
"Spiders aren't bugs," she deadpanned. Crushing their dreams.
There was an amused silence.
"Ok, look. Thanos has the biggest army in the universe, and he is not gonna stop until he gets…" he gulped," Vision's stone."
"Well then we have to protect it," Natasha said.
"No, we have to destroy it," Vision said, looking out the window. Everyone looked at him.
"What!?" everyone exclaimed, Wanda the loudest, looking horrified. Vision looked down rubbing his stone, knowing it was true.
"I've been giving a good deal of thought to this entity in my head about it's… nature, and also its composition. I think if were exposed to a sufficiently powerful energy source, something very similar to its own signature, its molecular integrity could fail," Vision concluded, looking at Wanda.
"English, please!" Clint said, looking frustrated and dreading what it meant.
Natasha scooted over and whispered it into his ear, not wanting Wanda to hear. Clint paled.
"And you with it," Wanda said. "We're not having this conversation."
"But it's the only way to be certain that Thanos can't get it," Vision pleaded.
"But it's too high a price," Wanda refused.
Vision placed his hands on either side of her head. "Only you have the power to pay it."
"Forget it," Wanda glared at Vision. "I'm not doing it."
Wanda walked away from him.
"Thanos threatens half the universe, one life cannot stand in the way of defeating him."
"But it should," Steve finally spoke. "We don't trade lives."
"But Captain, seventy years ago you yourself laid down your own life to save how many millions of people, tell me how is this any different."
Bucky muttered something that sounded a lot like "hypocrite."
"Because you might have a choice," Bruce spoke up. "Your mind is made up of a complex combination of overlays, Jarvis, Ultron, Tony, me, the stone. All of them mixed together, all of them learning from each other."
"Your saying Vision isn't just the stone," Wanda said.
"I'm saying that, if we take off the stone, there's still a whole lot of Vision left, perhaps the best parts."
"That… actually could work!" Tony said slowly.
"So Vision doesn't have to…" Wanda trailed off, not wanting to say it.
"Nope," Shuri said, closely studying Vision's stone.
"Can we do that?" Natasha asked, eyes wide.
"Not me, not here," Bruce shook his head.
"Well you better find someone, and somewhere fast, Ross isn't just gonna let you guys have your old stuff back," Rhodey said.
Steve looked down, thinking. Then he looked up as African drums began to play in the background. "I know someone."
"ME!" Shuri yelled, making everyone else wince.
The screen changed to show Wakanda, then to T'Challa and his guards walking up a hill. T'Challa was speaking to Okoye.
Someone set down a case and opened it. Bucky walked up to it, a metal stump where his left arm should be and looking like he hasn't showered in a month.
Everyone except for Steve immediately burst into laughter. Steve was trying to smother his giggles and Bucky looked offended.
"What?" Bucky asked.
"You look like Jesus," Peter wheezed.
The camera angled to show a new vibranium arm inside the case.
"Where's the fight?" Bucky swallowed.
"On its way," T'Challa said.
"I'm sorry," T'Challa told Bucky.
Thor this was bad XD
So… I don't know what happened there. It started out as a cute apology scene, then it got really… weird. I think I'm insane. I hated Civil War and I kinda hate the Russo brothers for the fight. But since only Rhodey and Team Cap apologized to each other, I decided to force them to apologize. BWAH HA HA HA HA… (evil laugh)
I try to paint everyone in a good light in this fic okay. Except for Thanos obviously. He can go fuck himself.
Also, you may wonder why I didn't make T'Challa apologize. He learned his lesson, he's good.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhh and you may think that this is kinda Team Ironman but I just felt like Tony would rather die than let his walls down so I had Peter, who only knows Tony's point of view, would be a good icebreaker. It was the only thing that worked. DON'T GET ME WRONG I LOVE TEAM CAP!
AND STOP HATING ON TONY AND WANDA THEY BOTH LOST EVERYTHING AFTER CIVIL WAR AND WERE TORTURED LEAVE MY BABIES ALONE! Honestly, I think they'd get each other better than the other Avengers if they just made up.
Apologizes not mentioned include:
-Tony apologizing about the Raft
-Pretty much everyone to everyone for dropping buildings or cars on each other.
-Yeah that's it.
-We're good.
AND I DON'T WANT ANY REVIEWS SAYING YOU HATE THIS GUY OR YOU THINK IM WRONG WE BOTH DON'T GOT TIME FOR THAT
*Because half of them died? Get it? Ha ha ha… *Cries*