A/N: In this version, Guardians 1 is getting taken place eight months prior and Guardians 2 happened 4 months ago. Just to avoid confusion… alright, carry on…

The Great Earthquake of New York

Rose Waters landed in the ships' throne room with a thud, her feet gently getting placed on the ground along with the other Children of Thanos and Dr. Strange, who was stuttering from blood loss as Thanos waved a dismissive hand.

"Get me the Time Stone, whatever it takes." Thanos muttered and Rose turned around swiftly, ready to follow the rest of them, though, in the back of her mind, she knew that Thanos had other things planned for her. Those beliefs were quickly confirmed when a large, metal hand gets placed on her all too small shoulder.

"Stay." Thanos mumbled, which was all it took for Rose Waters gave him a sharp nod before she turned around and stood quietly as Thanos walked over to his chair, as if it's been a long, long day. He sits down with a thud as Rose took large strides towards him, despite her petite figure, but stopped before she reached the stairs, her wide blue eyes looking up at him and one of her knees on the ground in a sign of respect. It was Rose who was the first to speak up.

"Gamora, Nebula." Rose whispered softly. "Where are they?"

"I think the better question is where you were," Thanos replied, the helmet that was resting on his head slightly slanted. He was intimidating for sure, but to Rose Waters, he was nothing new. Just the same old man that she's known for her entire life, the one who no longer seemed to intimidate her, no matter how brutal he was. She's seem so much blood, so much war, in her eighteen years of life, that nothing really struck her as intimidating anymore.

"I mourned for you." The being spoke as if mourning was uncommon, as if one shouldn't do so. "We all did." Define all.

"I'm terribly sorry, my Lord." Rose replied, her voice emotionless, yet sincere. "I was caught in the crossfires of the Nova Corps and was taken hostage for months before I managed to break free." A pause in her words, yet she doesn't dare look up at her Lord. "I later stumbled upon Earth and went on a quest to find a way off the planet, but the technology wasn't sufficient enough to leave the atmosphere, so I was forced to live with the commoners until I found a way. Later, I found out that the Time Stone was located on the planet, so I attempted to retrieve it for you."

"The Mind Stone is still located on in this system." Thanos mumbled underneath his breath, not giving the girl's story a second thought. And why would he? After all, Rose was never one to doubt his ways and she wouldn't start now. "But not the… Tesseract."

"I thought that the Asgardians has possession of the Space Stone." Rose replied, her blue eyes still watching the stone in front of her, the purple one glittering on his glove. The room felt impossibly more deadly than before, the very air feeling saturated in pure evil. Yet, it was so familiar, that for the first time in the past year, she felt as though she could finally breathe.

"Yes, until we found a certain… clue that said otherwise. Evidence found by Maw to be exact, that said that the Collector had both of the Reality and Space Stones. The traitor of the mind stone, Loki… He was shown giving the Tesseract to the man. That is where we will go to next."

"And go to it we shall." Rose replied and she stood up, her head slowly quirking to one side. "And rescue the dying planet as we do."

Thanos stood up from his chair and took the few steps down so that he stood on even ground with Rose, who didn't even flinch. She was just above his hip, so Thanos crouched down so that his face was in front of hers. Then, he spoke, his words haunting.

"I missed you, Rose."

When Rose replied, it was with a twisted, brutal smile on her face, her eyes shining.

"As did I, Father."

"Wait… Wait, excuse me." Tony Stark said once everyone had heard what the teenage boy had said. "Are you sure that you're talking about the same person, kid? Because last I heard, she was an alien from outer space!"

In response to his question, Peter Parker nodded quickly, his eyes not daring to even blink as he replied. "Yeah, a hundred percent, Mr. Stark. That was her."

"F.R.I.D.A.Y., please search Peter's physics class for Rose Wat-"

"Dude!" Peter hissed, his eyes suddenly turning as large as saucers as he glanced at the large pile of superheroes that casually stood worryingly around him. "Secret identity!"

"Wait, your name is Peter?" Falcon questioned, his arms crossed. "I was getting more of, like a, Walsh or Tom vibe from you."

"Shhh...!" Peter Parker hissed as F.R.I.D.A.Y. finally responded to Tony's question.

"Scan done, sir. It's 99% match." The machine spoke as Tony cursed while Steve Rogers took a step forward.

"Same person?"

"Yeah, it's the same person. Why didn't we do the scan of all ID's in the city first?" Tony wanted to face palm himself so badly, and he probably would've if he didn't have his helmet over his face.

"Well, to make you feel better, she can teleport, so it was pretty logical to think that she's not exactly from Brooklyn." Black Widow chipped in as Spider-Man immediately put his hands in the air.

"Hey, I swear to God, I didn't know that she could teleport… or that she was an alien…" Peter rubbed his hands over his face, when a sudden strike of realization hit him. "Oh my God, I have a crush on a freakin' alien."

When every Avenger immediately turned their head to look at him, the almighty Spider-Man immediately tensed up and took a step back. "I said that out-loud… you know what, I'll just stand over here…"

Once Peter was out of the picture, the adults had a quick conversation, their voices low before the sudden ring of ambluences ran through the air. The noise almost immediately sent a flinch through half of the heroes, who quickly realized just how much destruction was around the city.

"I know that it's bad to run away and all…" War Machine muttered, his eyes glancing at his broken-up team. "But we really need to leave, ASAP. Aliens might've invaded, but frankly, that won't stop the government from doing their mightiest to turn us in… God, I went rogue for this…"

"Yeah, I'll get the Quinjet, and go back to Scotland-" Sam replied and widened his wings, completely ready for take off if Iron Man didn't butt in.

"I propose that we go somewhere else." Tony stated out of nowhere. Everyone's eyes immediately raced to the billionaire, suddenly intrigued as Tony took in a breath and quickly explained his plan. "Before Mr. Wizard got shot into space,-"

"His name is Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme." Wong interrupted as Tony turned ever so slightly to shoot the man a dirty look before continuing with his explanation.

"I had actually… bugged him." Tony took a sharp breathe of air, not really wanting to look at anyone. At his former teammates. "You know, those little tracking devices, except I've… configured them so that they can work away… Like, light years. So…"

"Sir, I don't mean to interrupt," F.R.I.D.A.Y interrupted. "but while looking for the tracking device, we've seemed to have lost all connection with it."

"God damn it!" Iron Man screamed and ran his hand through his hair, his suit quickly unconstructing before he nods his head once and looked back at everyone before sighing. "So… Scotland did you say?"

"Oh, Mr. Stark, I actually always wanted to go to Scotlan-" Peter's hopeful voice suddenly popped in right as the Quinjet began to land nearby, making everyone immediately begin to board.

"No, no, no, no." Stark replied and turned around as he crossed his arms. "We're going because we're fugitives. The government will lock us up if we get caught, but they don't even know who you are. So you're going to be the friendly-neighbourhood Spider-Man, not the friendly-around-the-world Spider-Man. Capeshe?"

In response, Peter just slightly slinked back in his spot and faintly nodded as Tony gave him a jolt of a head nod back before he put his suit back on and flew away to who knew where.

Scott Lang wasn't doing anything particularly interesting that day.

It was a combination of lounging at the beach with his daughter, having a little make-out session with Hope, and trying out the new, working version of the Ant-Man suit. All of it, however, added up to complete and utter exhaustion.

The reason for the new Ant-Man suit was because Hank Pym wanted Scott to go down to the Quantum realm for some more quantum energy. They would send more people, but bottom line, it was just too dangerous. Too dangerous for Hank Pym to even think about having his precious daughter's life on the line. Tomorrow would be a combination of tests and even more work, which meant that the next time that he would have spare time would probably be a few days from now, so Scott decided to relish in it.

...By watching a bit of TV of course. However, he really wasn't expecting to hear that an earthquake had happened in New York City, which seemed to have been caused by a giant purple grape from outer space just an hour ago.

To say that that startled Scott would be an understatement. It baffled him so much, that when he saw the spotty footage of the giant, space-man, he almost jumped off of the couch. It felt almost impossible that it was happening, and in New York of all places. The entire thing was just… just surreal. And for a second time too?

It was then, when Scott heard a couple of thuds against glass. At first, Scott thought that it was just his imagination, but when the knocks seemed to get harder and quicker, Scott finally got up to see what all the fuss was about. With his luck, it would probably be a family of raccoons trying to annoy the heck out of him...

However, to his great surprise, instead, he saw Tony Stark.

His Iron Man suit was dismantled and tucked away into his ark reactor, but what surprised Scott the most, was the fact that the patio door was actually unlocked and slightly open. Tony Stark chose to stay outside for some strange reason.

The moment that Scott Lang saw the famous billionaire, he immediately jumped back, his eyes wide as he tripped over his own two feet and landed on his bum. From there, he simply stared with wide eyes, almost not being able to comprehend what was being presented in front of him. His reaction was understandable, after all, the last time that Scott had seem Iron Man, it was when he was in handcuffs after attempting to help aid Captain America escape.

And it was then, when Scott spoke. "I swear to God that I don't know where Cap is-" He started when Tony Stark simply slided open the patio door and walked inside, his head occasionally glancing behind him, as if he was worried that someone might be following him.

"I need your help." Tony stated and walked around his home, as if he owned it. At his words, Scott simply shut his eyes and stuttered out the next sentence.

"That's exactly what Cap said." He mumbled and opened his eyes once more. "If this is about the whole New York attack thing-"

"No, no, no, you're not going to help me fight, you have a daughter for Christ's sake!" Tony responded and picked up a marble vase before shrugged and putting it back. "I need you to help me locate a man. His name is Doctor Stephen Strange."

"Who?"

"You know, renowned neurosurgeon, can perform these stupid magic tricks-"

"I can do that too." Scott replied as he got to his feet. Then, he casually grabbed a card out of what seemed to seem his sleeve. "See, magic."

"No, real magic. Like the kind that can make dulipcates of yourself and whatnot." Tony let out a soft sigh before looking back up at Scott. "Listen, he had this thing called a Time Stone, which can, apparently, reverse time or something. The big bad guys who attacked New York, yeah, they took him and the stone."

At his words, Scott Lang simply blinked up at Tony Stark, his hand letting go of the card before he took a step forward. "Wait a minute… You're not kidding are you…"

"Of course not!" Tony replied, his face scrunched up as he widened his arms, slighty wondering how that was so hard to comprehend.

"Like, I'd love to help, dude, but unless you need to shrink or grow something, I really can't do mu-"

"The quantum realm, I heard that you were doing tests there, which means that you have some pretty big scanners-" At his words, Scott simply took a step forward, his eyes narrowed and his face serious as he replied.

"How do you know that?"

"I have my sources, pal." Was all Tony replied with before he continued. "Anyways, those scanners must pick up some sort of… of energy signature, wasn't that how you found Janet Van Dyne." At one look at Scott's surprised face, Tony only nodded. "Yup, I know about that, you weren't very discreet, Lang. Anyways, if you could just scan a bit of the energy signature found in New York, that's all we need."

"…And why do you need it?"

"Simple, we're going to track down Strange, get the Time Stone, and live happily ever after. So are you with me, or not?" Scott stared at the genius for a minute, his eyes studying his own before he slowly, but surely began to nod his head, despite the fact that he had a feeling that he would regret it.

"Yeah… yeah… but, listen, we're going to need to invite my girlfriend too…"

A/N Sorry for the late update time, but with school starting back up and everything, it was just crazy. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I greatly appreciate it when you take the time out of your day to write me a beautiful review! Thank you all so much!

Anyways, I hope your day has been going by amazingly!

~Emily