Hello everyone,
Here is Chapter 85, enjoy. And also please read the Author's notes. I get the feeling some just skip that and it helps to explain why I wrong what I did. Thank you.
August 11th, 2023
Avengers Compound
After having to hear Thor's drunken version of where the Æther was, they determined the most likely place to retrieve the stone was on Asgard before Ragnorak happened as Thor called it. A break was needed, and so afterwards the group reconvened around lunchtime. Three recommended a Chinese takeaway place that delivered and so they ordered out. When the food arrived they re-entered the meeting to talk about the Power Stone, which meant Rocket would be explaining where to get this stone from.
"Quill said he stole the power stone from Morag." Rocket explained. Three looked up at the screen showing the power stone.
"Is that a person?" Banner asked as they ate the take-out.
"No Morag's a planet, Quill was a person." Rocket replied, it was an honest mistake Morag sounded either like a person's name or a planet. Either way, Three used her chopsticks to scoop up more noodles.
"Like a planet? Like in outer space?" Scott asked also eating his lunch. Three smiled and shook her head obviously Rocket meant a foreign world.
"Oh look, It's like a little puppy all happy and everything," Rocket petted Scott's head, "Do you wanna go to space? You wanna go to space, puppy? I'll take you to space."
"When did Quill take the power stone from Morag? Any guards or security?" Three asked wanting to distract Rocket from teasing Scott.
"Nah no security. He said he got it from an abandoned temple. Morag was uninhabited." Rocket said turning to her. It sounded like one of the easiest stones to get at least. From there Rocket gave a specific date that this Quill person had stolen the stone, Nat took notes. Soon after they finished eating and while Tony, Rhodey, and Thor were taking a break to either wash the dishes or sulk about being unable to drink any alcohol; the rest sat down to talk about the next infinity stone.
On the subject of the Soul Stone, Nebula took over. "Thanos found the soul stone on Vormir."
Rocket, Hulk, Scott, and Nat sat on a couch with Nat writing down the information on a notepad. While Clint sat in one of the other chairs with Three across from him and Steve stood close by. "What is Vormir?"
For a mere second Three thought Nebula might say it was merely another planet, boy was she wrong.
"A Dominion of death at the very centre of celestial existence," This got Nat looking up, "It's where Thanos murdered my sister."
Scott sighs. "Not it."
"I'm game." Three added and immediately got a look from Steve. The thought from him was: 'Over my dead body.' Three shook her head. She was not gonna be able to go near Vormir, after all, she was too suicidal.
'Kill Joy.'
Eventually, the others rejoined them to talk about the Tesseract. Briefly, Rhodey was asking Steve questions about this particular Infinity stone and where it was before SHIELD got a hold of it. Back around the 1940s, Red Skull leader of HYDRA was using the energy from the Tesseract to make weapons to win the war. It was near the end that Rogers fought Red Skull and the Tesseract burnt a hole in the plane making it drop to the bottom of the ocean.
"Then what happened to the Tesseract after that?" Rhodey asked.
"It's bottom of the ocean. After that, I had to crash the plane." Steve replied.
"Yeah, I've been meaning to ask why did you have to crash the plane anyway?"
"There were bombs on board."
"Bombs on board..." Rhodey repeated thinking over Steve's answer, "And you couldn't have jumped out before you crashed it?"
Steve sighed and was about to answer when the others joined them in the conference room.
"Alright everyone," Nat addressed the group, "Next stone of interest is the Tesseract, Aida has scoured SHIELD's files to find out where and when the stone was with SHIELD so she will start us off then Kat will give us a blow by blow of the Battle for New York."
"I will?" Three replied confused, when had she agreed to do this?
"Kat you above everyone else in the room will be able to recall everything that happened during that battle down to the last detail. We need this." Nat pointed out, so Three sighed.
"Alright..." Sitting down Aida started off.
"Alright according to SHIELD records Howard Stark found the Tesseract at the bottom of the ocean while looking for Steve Rogers. Sadly he never located Steve... For many years the Tesseract was carefully kept under lock and key and only occasionally studied. Somewhere in the 1990s, one Doctor, Wendy Lawson was permitted to use the Tesseract, then the records go from vague to non-existent. It was being used in something called Project Pegasus, but when Lawson died during a test run of an experimental plane no one knew where the Tesseract ended up until 1996 when guess who fell to Earth. Carol Danvers. The Tesseract was later located on Lawson's hidden alien craft and was returned to SHIELD. Supposedly it just appeared on Fury's office desk shortly thereafter. It went back into lock-up until Doctor Erik Selvig was called in to run experiments on it. Which called Loki and led to the battle of New York."
Nat was quickly jotting down notes for reference, then looked to Three who sighed and got to her feet. "I can only recount what I saw and heard prior to and during the battle. What happened after is down to you guys."
Three then went to the whiteboard and picked up a marker drawing a line across the board to display the timeline for the event. "The battle lasted two hours twenty-three minutes, and three seconds."
"Wow, you weren't kidding about her memory..." Scott whispered to Banner as Three wrote down how long the battle was at the bottom.
"Question." Rocket immediately said, "The Chitauri are the suckiest army in the galaxy and it took you guys over two hours to beat them? Why didn't you just blow up the mother-ship?"
"We didn't know that was a thing," Steve replied causing Rocket to burst out laughing.
"You didn't know that was a thing!" Tony got up and was pulling a shaver to use on Rocket but he dodged it still laughing.
"Rocket!" Three said sharply, "Unless you want to be shaved by Tony please keep in mind we don't have the knowledge on every race's weakness."
"Alright geez."
Now that they were listening again Three resumed giving the rundown on the battle. Going to the screen Three tapped it and brought up a sky-view map of New York from Stark Tower. "I was here at the Grand Hotel and was waiting for a meeting here... in this building."
As Three spoke she pointed out the buildings which were three blocks down from Stark Tower, Scott was way too curious as he asked. "What was the meeting for?"
"HYDRA, one Daniel Whitehall was looking to gain an object known as the Obelisk, which we now know contains Terrogen crystals which create Inhumans. He was close to closing the deal with a dirty Military General named Kingston. Who... was crushed by a giant worm thingy."
Shaking her head Three turned back to the board and drew a connecting line underneath the first on the left side. "At 1:27pm... I heard a loud booming noise from Stark Tower but ignored it. One minute seven seconds later... Aida detected energy coming from Stark Tower and it wasn't an Arc-reactor. Turning the scope of my rifle I saw the wormhole open up over New York and out came aliens."
Turning to the other screen Three brought up footage of the alien attack and the Avengers combating them. At one point she paused it on the aliens in question. "Five minutes, eighteen seconds into the fight a Quinjet crashed here with Steve, Nat, and Clint coming out...here."
Again Three pointed out where on the map then drew another line and clocked the time. "Next at... nine minutes thirty-five seconds Iron Man led one of the giant worm thingies right past my building down onto the street."
"In my defense, I didn't know you were on the roof at the time," Tony replied.
"Yeah I know... you were leading it to the Hulk." Three replied as she made more notes on the marker board. "The Chitauri let off a screech and I saw the Supergroup on the street below... here."
Again she pointed out where and continued. "You guys were looking up so I did too to see a lot of aliens dropping down. Even though I brought a lot of extra rounds I was worried I didn't bring enough. From there you guys fanned out... Iron Man took Barton to this roof, Thor flew up to this skyscraper. Nat and Steve remained on the ground... Hulk was sent after the Chitauri... and Iron Man... was flying around. I couldn't keep track of all of you. As soon as things kicked off I was shooting any aliens I saw down this street."
Three did her best to point out where and when the Avengers were, and what they were doing. Taking a drink of her coffee she continued. "At one-hour fifty-eight minutes was when I noticed a little girl under this overturned Taxi... here. Aida hooked me into the police radio where I helped instruct a cop to save her while I covered for him. There."
Three pointed out where the taxi and kid were, "And I helped them escape into the subway..."
For a moment Three stopped remembering what immediately followed and shivered. Being blasted back... Loki on the roof.
"Kat, you alright?" Steve asked bringing Three back to the moment.
"Yeah, yeah sorry... um, I uh got knocked back for a moment is all. Stunned me." Three replied.
"We need to know what happened, Kat." Nat pointed out, no doubt she knew Three was lying.
"It's not important..."
"It kind of looks like it is," Rocket added. Aside from Aida she never really told anyone about her encounter with Loki during or the mental attack after the battle.
"Well, it is nothing! Alright!" Three replied snappishly, then sighed hating that she had reacted like that, "I need a minute."
With that, she left the conference room. After a second Rocket spoke. "Geez, I forgot she is crazy."
"No... that's not it." Nat replied guessing there was more to it then a momentary crazy moment. Looking upward she called out. "Aida? Wanna explain?"
"Uhhh what makes you think I know?" The AI asked.
"Because you and Kat are close," Nat replied, and for a few minutes, it was quiet until Aida spoke. "After the kid and cop were safe... Kat was knocked back by a blast and the next thing she knew Loki was on the rooftop with her. It was not a pleasant encounter..."
"What did he do?" Rhodey asked.
"Aside from showing a disturbing interest in her? He got to her... he knew she was afraid of ending up like her fellow lab-rat Six. Really creped her out before she knocked his sorry butt off the roof. The worst came after the battle..."
"You mean when he mentally attacked her and she pulled a reversal?" Tony asked.
"Yeah... she umm never told you guys what happened in that mental attack did she?" Aida asked. Now that Aida mentioned it, the details of the mental attack were rather vague. Without much prompting, Aida explained why.
Steve soon found Three pacing outside and muttering to herself. After what Aida just told them he had not intended to dredge up such a painful memory. Had they known what Loki fully did in his mental attack they would have glossed over that or not asked her to recount the battle at all. One question that was now circling his mind was: Did Bucky know about this? It seemed very unlikely that Three would have spoken of the mental assault she suffered even to her husband. Steve sighed as he came outside to hear her muttering. "No, don't want to talk about. I won't talk about it. I won't!"
"Kat?" Steve said softly coming forward, but she was still muttering and didn't seem to hear him. So he stepped in front of her stopping her, "Hey..." Finally, Three looked up surprised, "Hey you okay?"
Three looked down and shrugged, "I... I don't want to talk about it."
"Talking helps. I'm here if you need me." Steve offered. For a moment it seemed she wouldn't answer then she wiped her eyes.
"You won't tell Bucky will you?" She asked softly, Steve frowned normally he told Bucky everything but he could guess why Three didn't want Bucky to know. Three didn't want her husband to think less of her.
"I promise," Steve said. Wiping a tear from her cheek on her sleeve Three looked out at the pond.
"I was in the shower... I had come home battered, bruised, and covered in dirt, grime, and drywall dust. So I went to take a shower. The next thing I know is I am not alone...he is there." The next set of words begin to break. "I tried to fight him off, but couldn't..."
Immediately Steve pulled her into a hug as he shushed her. "Hey, it's okay. I know you would have fought him. It's okay."
For a few minutes, he held her and comforted her until she calmed down. Once confident enough to speak further they sat down as Three played with her nails and continued telling him more. "I'll spare you the details... I remember them well enough and I don't want to give a blow-by-blow. Needless to say afterwords he let on that this entire encounter was inside our minds... so as Stark said I reversed it and ended up attacking him. Vaguely I heard someone say 'Get a muzzle for him', then passed out on the shower floor."
"Did he say why he attacked you?" Steve asked after a moment.
"No other than some weird attraction to me. Being the God of Mischief I imagine he did it because he knew I had a fear of it and wanted to scare me. To him it was probably some sick evil prank, the only problem is I remember everything..." Three replied then smiled, "But I am glad I turned the tables and mentally kicked his ass."
Steve gave a faint smile, while what happened was terrible at least Three could say she kicked Loki's ass mentally. Who else could make that claim? For a few minutes, they sat out there until both heard someone shuffle up and looked back to see Thor.
"Uh, I umm came to..." Right then Thor looked like he wanted to be anywhere else but here. Still, he cleared his throat, "What my brother did was unforgivable, and I am sorry. He should never have attacked your mind or... I'm sorry."
Again Thor looked down, "I know this probably will not help or put your mind at ease, but in the end, Loki tried to kill Thanos. He did try to be the good person my family and I thought he could be, after his many failings. It doesn't make up for his past deeds, I know this... but he died trying to redeem himself."
For a lengthy couple of minutes, the trio remained unmoving as Three thought about what Thor was saying. Then feeling he overstayed his welcome Thor started backing away. "Anyway, I uhh better go..."
"Thor?" Three called out stopping him, "If Loki did try to kill Thanos then he did redeem himself." While personally forgiving Loki might have been a bit beyond her capability, she could at least accept that he died redeeming himself. Thor needed that much, the Asgardian had lost his family, his home, and most of his people. Thor merely smiled a little then left once more and Three turned back to Steve who had a raised eyebrow. "Hey, I said Loki redeemed himself because Thor felt bad enough. I was being nice."
"I know," Steve said.
Once Three calmed down Steve eventually talked her back into breaking down the battle for New York and so after washing her face she came back in to explain further. The others sat down waiting for her to explain and she was careful not to read their minds as she could guess Aida had spilled the beans. "Right so... I am guessing Aida filled you in on some of what happened. After I kicked Loki off the roof, the Hulk landed there too."
Banner visibly cringed, and Three looked at him. "No worries Banner once you saw we were on the same side you resumed alien smashing. You even smiled after I shot a Chitauri that had been about to attack you."
"Oh okay, that... that's good."
"Yeah unfortunately immediately after you left Aida informed me a nuke was heading for New York. So not so good. This was the moment they launched a jet to carry the nuke and launch it... so at approximately two hours fifteen minutes into the battle the nuke was about to hit, and we were going to be at ground zero had Stark not redirected the nuke."
Again Three was writing out the timetable on the whiteboard, "Meantime we were gradually being overrun. As stated I could not see everybody or keep track but I do know multiple space crafts were shooting at Hulk, so I started shooting at them gaining the attention of some of them. I ended up nearly being shot off my roof and was clinging to the side when suddenly the whole army went dead."
"So this is at Two hours..." Nat asked trailing off.
"Two hours nineteen minutes and forty-five seconds." Three answered, "I pulled myself back onto the roof grabbed my rifle and looked through it. A beam from Stark tower shot up closing the portal just as Stark fell through. Apparently unconscious, Hulk caught him and got him safely to the ground, but was not moving until the Hulk roared at him." Seeing the look on Banner's face, Three added, "Worked better than CPR no one wanted to kiss Stark right?"
Steve smiled as Nat laughed. "From there I turned my attention back to the building where Whitehall was supposed to be. Only to find only a dead General Kingston and half the room missing. In short no Whitehall, but Coulson got him later..."
"Anything else?" Nat asked.
"Nope, I checked you guys one last time and saw you were heading for Stark Tower then snuck out of the Grande Hotel. Battle ended at Two hours twenty-three minutes and three seconds." Three replied.
By this time it was getting late and many headed off to bed leaving just Nat, Tony, Kat, Aida, and Banner lying in the conference room continuing to talk about where to get the stones. Namely this talk involved the Time Stone, While on one table Nat and Tony laid opposite to one another, Three lay on the further table up with her legs dangling off and Banner on the floor beside their tables.
"What about that time stone guy?" Nat asked
"Doctor Strange." Banner answered.
"Yeah, what kind of Doctor was he?"
"Ear-nose-throat meets rabbit-from-hat," Tony replied.
"No no, he was a neurosurgeon wrote a paper on cutting edge procedures. I remember reading it when pretending to be a nurse." Three replied.
"So real doctor huh?" Tony asked.
"Yep."
"Nice place in the village though," Banner added.
"Yeah on Sullivan Street?" Tony asked
"Mmm, Bleecker street." Banner corrected as he cleaned his glasses.
"Wait, he lived in New York?" Nat asked. Immediately Three looked over at Nat as she seemed to be onto something.
"No he lived in Toronto," Tony replied sarcastically, "Have you been listening to anything?"
"Uh yeah, on Bleecker and Sullivan." Banner replied.
"Guys. If you pick the right year, there are three stones in New York." Nat pointed out, this got
Banner sitting up.
"Shut the front door." Banner said sitting up to look at Nat.
"Oh shit Nat's right... Tesseract, Time stone, and Mind Stone. All three are in New York in 2012." Three said smiling at Nat and giving her a high five.
"So that means we can get three of the six infinity stones just from New York alone." Banner said.
"We need to wake the others, they're gonna wanna hear this," Tony said hopping off the table and leaving the conference room. Immediately Three, Nat, and Banner followed suit. Nat went to wake Barton, Banner headed to off to get Thor and Rocket. Meanwhile Tony went to get Rhodey and Nebula, leaving Three to wake Scott and Steve. Luckily Scott was not really asleep, he had been on the phone with his daughter Cassie when Three knocked on his door. The man answered, and immediately told Cassie just a sec before asking Three what was up.
"Nat figured out something big, head for the conference room."
"Alright," Scott replied then spoke into the phone, "Cassie, I'll have to call you back." From there Three headed down the hall to Steve's room and knocked. A moment later he opened up.
"Kat, what is it?"
"Nat figured out where the other Infinity stones are. C'mon." Immediately Steve followed her to the conference room where the screens already showed all six Infinity stones. The first screen showed New York and underneath the Blue Tesseract, the yellow Mind, and green Time Stones. The second screen said Asgard and had the red Reality stone. Lastly, the third screen said Morag/Vormir and beneath it showed the purple Power and orange Soul stones.
"We heard you had a major breakthrough?" Rocket asked.
"We did, Nat pointed out that all three of these stones are in New York in 2012." Tony said gesturing to the first screen.
"Which in short should make getting three of the six Infinity stones that much easier. The Tesseract and Mind stones are literally right next to each other..." Three added.
"While Strange has the Time stone." Banner interjected.
"You sure about this?" Steve asked hopeful that it just might be that easy.
"Yeah, hey Kat when was it you read that medical article Strange had published?" Nat asked.
"July 9th, 2009." Three answered, and like many she guessed in the next two years Doctor Steven Strange would become a master of the mystic arts and come to possess the Time stone. This meant they had an even better chance of getting all the stones especially with three being in New York. Thus it was decided where and when to get the stones from.
"All right. We have a plan. Six stones. Three teams. One-shot." Steve said as the group looked at the screens. Now that they knew where and when to go for the stones it was down to deciding who would get which.
"So who is getting which ones?" Rocket asked.
Three frowned at the screens. "Never been to Asgard, Morag, or Vormir..."
"Thor's been to Asgard, so he might know it better than the rest of us." Banner pointed out. Still, Thor going alone didn't sound good especially since he wasn't sober half the time. He would need someone to keep him in check.
"So who is going with Thor to Asgard?" Nat asked.
"Shit, I'll go." Rocket said when no one readily answered. Three might have volunteered but she had no desire to encounter Loki again.
"That leaves Morag and Vormir..." Nebula pointed out.
"You know I did offer to go to Vormir-" Three started.
"And the answer is no," Steve said firmly.
"Is that because Nebula mentioned it is a dominion of death?" Three asked.
"That and you're on the New York team, kit-kat." Tony added. Three sighed when both Captain America and Iron Man put their foot down there was no point arguing.
"Clint and I will go to Vormir," Nat added effectively shooting down any possibility of Three going there.
"That leaves Morag and New York." Rhodey pointed out.
"Well since Clint and Nat are going to Vormir, it would be a good idea to have those that fought in the Battle of New York there..." Three said looking at Tony and Steve.
"This is payback for denying you the field trip isn't it?" Tony teased.
"No that isn't it. Yes, I may be able to recall every detail of the fight down to the last second, but I have no clue what happened afterwords which makes for actually getting the stones a bitch." Three pointed out.
"Add to that we are not getting one stone but three a larger team for New York is needed," Banner added. Thinking a moment it was Tony that spoke up.
"Fair enough... good point Galadriel."
"Since neither Nebula nor I were in the battle of New York, we can go for the power stone on Morag, right?" Rhodey asked looking to Nebula.
"Sounds fair."
"So that just leaves us to decide who is going for which stone in New York..." Steve said thinking.
"After the battle getting those stones will be a pain. SHIELD won't just let us walk in and take them, not to mention HYDRA." Three said folding her arms as she thought.
"We'll also be contending with ourselves," Tony said.
"I know Back to the Future doesn't apply, but minimizing contact with our past selves sounds like a good idea." Scott offered.
"He's right unless you really want to freak out the 2012 Avengers." Three said as she began to pace, "Banner you met Strange before... maybe you should go for the Time Stone. You might have better luck convincing him to part with it."
"That's a good point. Besides I am not exactly one that can blend in now." Banner agreed.
"Alright so Banner will get the Tine stone from Strange, that leaves the Tesseract and Mind stone." Steve said then noticed Tony had grown quiet, "Tony?"
"I got an idea," Tony said thinking, "After the Battle... Loki's sceptre was confiscated by SHIELD and obviously, HYDRA got a hold of it."
"Obviously," Steve replied.
"Meanwhile we were gonna let Thor take Loki and the Tesseract back to Asgard. SHIELD at first tried to stop us until Fury okayed it." Tony continued, "That's our window... I was still using the old arc-reactor back then. Scott can shrink down and cause a mild... disruption to it."
"What kind of disruption?" Scott asked warily of what Tony might be suggesting.
"A mild cardiac dysrhythmia."
"Woah! Wait a minute, you guys are complaining about me being suicidal but you want Scott to mess with your past self's arc-reactor?!" Three asked.
"It won't be that bad," Stark argued.
"She makes it sound bad." Scott pointed out.
"That's because it will cause a surge from the arc-reactor which could trigger cardiac arrest...meaning possible heart attack!" Three argued.
"Relax, here look..." Tony went to the screen and called up the schematics for the arc-reactor so that he could show her what he was thinking. "See? Right there... Tiny pulls this, it will cause a short circuit."
"Which sends the earlier surge I mentioned." Three pointed out.
"Will you relax kit-kat. I am not suicidal," Tony said then pointed at the screen again, "Now if I know my tech, which I do. Another equally powerful surge will cause the arc-reactor to bypass this connection resetting it."
"So your hope is they have a defibrillator nearby?!" Three asked still not liking this.
"Galadriel you're slipping. I am saying Thor is a walking defibrillator." Tony pointed out.
"Ah, I see. So Scott pulls this plug causing a scene, and Thor gives you a little electro-shock therapy." Three said looking over the schematics, in theory, it could work and 2012 Thor might just do that if Stark looks to be at risk. "Alright, that could definitely work."
"See?" Tony smacked her on the back, "No reason to worry over me." Turning back to the others Tony continued, "So Tiny-Tim's with me, leaving Steve and Kat to get the Mind Stone from the SHIELD erm... HYDRA agents. Sound good?"
With that being decided, Three headed down to finish the watches that would carry a copy of Aida. Sadly on the eve of the Time heist Three encountered a slight problem—she could only make limited copies of the AI. Not everyone would have Aida on their wrists... but she could copy Aida four times. So she prepared four watches, and let Aida know of the issue.
"So only four watches?" The AI asked.
"Yep, since Nat and Clint will be separating from Rhodey and Nebula two watches for them." Three said.
"Do I get to pick who I am attached to?"
"Sure."
"Alright," The AI replied, "You for the New York team. Nat for the Vormir team... do you think Nebula would mind? I don't know her too well. She might not like wearing the watch..."
"You could ask her." Three pointed out.
"Mmm, she is a little... intimidating." Aida replied, "I'll go with Rhodey."
"Alright, and who do you want to go with when going to Asgard?"
"Ugh!" Aida replied.
"I'm kind of worried Thor might get drunk and throw up on me. Would Rocket mind?"
"Again you could ask him." Three suggested.
"I suppose I will..." Aida said then seemed to go quiet as she went through electronics to find Rocket. A couple of minutes passed before Aida spoke again. "Okay, I convinced him to let me hang out with him."
"That took a bit longer than I expected. He didn't want you attached to him or something?" Three asked as she finished calibrating the last watch for Rocket.
"He uh took some convincing. I had to remind him of who he would be travelling with," Aida replied, "He also wants those sweeteners..."
"Sweeteners?" Three asked confused then caught on and burst out laughing, Apparently, Rocket wanted to trick Thor into being sober again later. "They're all his."
After that Three finished up and headed for bed. Even if she hated sleeping she knew she had to because tomorrow was the big day of the Time heist, she would need to be alert. Heading to her room she laid down and oddly enough immediately fell asleep. Her last thoughts being that this could actually work, that they could succeed and bring everyone back. What was even more strange was she slept peacefully for the first time in years.
Author's Notes:
First off Thank you Fin-Fish, KEZZ, and Dezzal for the lovely reviews. I truly appreciate it and always enjoy reading the comments.
Next, you may have noticed my plea at the top of the chapter to please read the Author's Notes. I put that there because it feels like some simply skip the notes and miss vital information about why something was written in the first place. It saves me having to repeat myself as to why something is there if these are notes simply read. I have gotten some PMs from people complaining so I am answering them here. Endgame is depressing enough to write, and these are depressing times. A lot of us have to isolate ourselves from friends and family. I do not want to ADD to the depressing situation. So Yes the last chapter was light-hearted, for a REASON. If I had to write Three as depressing the entire time I am writing for Endgame I might want to slit my wrists. She has had five years to be depressed she can laugh a little. Also as I said my last Author's Notes: That last chapter.. is the last time you will see the Avengers and Agents together and whole. You've seen the movie, you know who dies, and you also know I do not deviate far from the movies, okay? Just please if you're not sure about something read the Author's notes from here on out don't PM me because I wrote something you don't like.
Now for this chapter, we get a more in-depth view of them discussing the stones and ultimately deciding on who goes after what. Also obviously giving an Aida watch to everyone would have meant that the past Nebula would have been known to the AI upon her return, so that is why only four watches could be made and a select few could wear said watches for the Time Heist. Naturally to avoid issues Aida chose Rhodey to be attached to in that particular group. I would go a little further into this chapter, but I just want to get it posted. So here it is, I do hope you enjoyed it, please leave a review (Don't PM please) A review, I like reviews.
Thanks,
Lesliezin
