"Please correct me for any mistakes, I have not read the comics but have watch all the movies, and I'll base their characters to what the movies portrays them. Credits to the MCU."
Chapter 1
All the dust in Wakanda fell quietly, a trickle of rain poured, but it never wash the pain away. Banner got off the dented and damaged Hulk-buster and he silently walked towards Thor who was kneeling, using his new weapon to support him.
His clothes were nearly drenched in the downpour. He stopped a few steps from Thor when he heard him muttering words. Was he praying? Crying? Who wouldn't though, after almost everyone disappeared? He could barely remember what happened after Ragnarok, on that spaceship, he was the Hulk that time, and Hulk feels sad, so was he and he too had tears in his eyes now.
"Thor... "Banner called softly, he didn't want to stop Thor from grieving, who was he grieving though? His people? Valkyrie? He just can't remember the events but the Hulk's feeling inside him were the same as Thor's. And that makes him confused and in pain.
Thor began another set of prayer, he lifted his face up and laid his weapon down, the rain hiding his tears. The prayer mentioned names of his people, his friend, and then Loki. And Banner stood there in silence, realizing how much Thor had lost. And he felt utterly crushed for his friend, to lose his home, his people, and his brother all in a span of three days.
He walked back to where the survivors were, he saw those that survived the snap, there was Steve and Natasha. He also saw a few of Wakanda's soldiers, the woman named Okoye. The Raccoon alien. And Rhodey sitting confused. But none of them had dry eyes for what happened, if not for Thor's shower, those tears would've been visible.
An hour later.
The rain stopped and Thor had joined everyone inside the palace. Wakandans were busy in the aftermath, everyone prepared for a funeral pyre for tonight. The raccoon named Rocket sat across him, Banner joined them.
Banner handed them a towel. "Here I'm sorry for your losses, Thor." Was all Banner could say. Rocket nodded at him as a thank you.
Thor silently thanked him and accepted the towel. He dried his hair first and left it there, hiding his face in the shadows. Banner patted him in the back.
After Thor, he went to check on the others, Steve and Natasha were in one of the Palace's dining areas, and he heard from the guards that Okoye went to inform Shuri about the events, Rhodey left for the Avengers Facility to check if the government is still intact and the casualties inside their circle. Even though it was a bit awkward to meet Natasha, he still asked them, trying to pull them away from where he couldn't reach them.
Thor followed, he went to sit with them and he helped lighten the mood. "There is still a way to undo this." He proposed and placed the towel on the table.
A second ago, Banner thought Thor was already too depressed to reach out, but now with his rather positive suggestion, he was wrong.
"Glad to see you in a good mood again, Thor." Banner greeted as Thor sat next to him.
"Believe me, friend Banner. I am actually not. But it does not mean I should brood over forever, losing something is hard. And losing my brother three times, is harder. My home and my people, the hardest. "Thor replied heavily. "But there may be another way. "
Steve changed positions, now he was looking at Thor and Banner. "Tell me, what...how-" he paused probing for a sensible question. "What should we do now?" Steve pinched his nose bridge, he was clashing between sadness and anger, and all he did was to stay calm. "There's no word about Stark yet too. What now? "
Shuri came in to join them, even her eyes numbed in red. "So you are Thor? I'm a fan of how you produce sparks. My name is Shuri. "She introduced herself and Thor smiled at her, she sat next to Natasha.
"So what were you planning Thor?" Natasha started.
"Ah yes, we might be able to undo the snap, Lady Natasha. If we could return to the past and undo everything before it will happen. "Thor answered, earnestly and with hope.
Shuri chuckled at the idea. "That is impossible, Science had never proved Time Travel Theories yet. But if it was, I agree with that, no matter how dangerous altering the past is."
"The Wizard named Strange had manipulated time, using the Time stone. But if we find another way we could reset this. "Thor explained.
Suddenly Steve's phone rang and it was Scott Lang. He answered the phone and asked to put it on Loud speak.
"Glad to hear you guys are alive." Scott greeted from the phone, sounding sad. They all figured he too lost someone important.
"And we're glad to hear you're alive too, Scott." Natasha called back.
Thor and Banner looked at each other, asking if they knew him, both shrugged at the same time.
"Hey, so when, uh," Scott paused to think, "When Cap told us about the infinity stones, and how powerful it was, and its abilities, Hank kinda brought out an old project. He said it would be a big help if something unexpected happened. So he was tweaking it then suddenly, bam! He and Hope turned to dust, and wasn't able to finish looking on it. So does anyone know a dude that has a degree in fixing Time Traveling devices, can you ask them for help?"
"A time machine!?" Shuri couldn't believe what she was listening to.
"More like a device... Calling it Time Machine is old school. Um so? "Scott waited for volunteers.
"Can you move it the Avengers Facility?" Banner suggested.
"Wha- who's that? Avenger's facility!? Are you out of your mind? I'm a fugitive, I should be on house arrest you know, luckily with all the chaos, the authorities are down to half. And boy, I hope Ross got dusted too. "
Steve advised in the background, "That's not nice Scott."
"Yeah, but the Authorities aren't around. And this is Doctor Bruce Banner by the way." Bruce introduced.
"Just bring it here." Shuri raised. "In Wakanda."
"But that's... Countries away. "
Shuri rolled her eyes, "Alright, but if Stark tech's no good, then let's fix it here in my place."
"Deal." Scott then turned the call down and everyone looked back at Thor.
"Well there's your plan, Thor. Everyone get ready to leave. "Steve pointed out.
Everyone stood up and prepared.
Shuri and the gang, including their visitor from space, Rocket, arrived in the afternoon at the Avengers Facility, they did rest for a few hours during the flight, using one of her private jet. Steve and Natasha still felt a bit nostalgic and nervous with the place even though they were there yesterday. For Banner, it's the second time he got in ever since he returned from space.
There were only a few security guards left and some offices empty. And those that tried to apprehend them didn't pried to kick them out. They were confused and desperate for help, they needed the avengers as a whole, to fix this.
If it can be fixed.
FRIDAY greeted them each, with Rhodey, who arrived before them, when they entered the main office. Shuri couldn't stop herself from giving a little critic on Stark's AI.
"You remind me of Tony, everything techy is a competition." Natasha teased the girl. Shuri looked flabbergasted.
Thor is impressed at the upgrade on the Avengers facility, there were already new buildings and wide spaces built in a span of time. "The construction of the building has greatly expanded, the Man of Iron has been busy, are there additional Avengers now?"
FRIDAY was the one to answer him since none was open to tell him, "None so far, the Boss was recruiting the Spiderman but he turned it down. The current Avengers are Colonel James Rhodes and the Boss, Vision is listed as 'inaccessible' since three weeks ago."
Thor frowned and looked at his company, focused keenly on the Captain. "What about the Captain? Lady Natasha and Wanda? Our friend Barton?"
FRIDAY filled him in, "They are currently fugitives. Clint Barton is currently on House Arrest for aiding them."
"What happened?" Thor asked to everyone. Natasha suggested to tell him on another time.
In the background, Rocket whistled from behind them, "You humans have a lot of issues."
A door to their right revealed Happy Hogan, panting from running. "I- I knew you would come." He took a breath and regained his stern look. "This way please everyone." Happy leaded the way. He led them behind a hidden entrance. Rocket stayed behind, having a chat with FRIDAY about the technological advances humans had made so far.
They followed Happy underground, and it was like a maze surrounded by thick walls. "Tony ordered the construction for this underground laboratory even before this building existed. But he ignored it when the Avengers became official. It was continued not long ago, now it's finished. "He started for a conversation, it was silently awkward. "This lab is for restricted experiments and inventions he makes. So far there's only three projects he's currently researching in to. "
Shuri responded. "Three huh? Let me guess. His nanotech suits, his BARF glasses, and... Hmmm... Surprise me with the last one, sir. "
"Uhm. It's classified. "Happy answered. "And you only got nanotech correct. "
They reached a door with a label "LAB 12" plated on it. Happy opened it. "This is the Lab you will use, it is designed for Quantum and Atomic related science stuff, Mr. Scott Lang is already inside. Go in."
Steve, Thor, Banner, Rhodes and Shuri paraded inside. While Natasha stayed a bit with Happy. "I'm glad you're alright Happy."
"Miss Romanov, the same to you."
"Is Pepper...?"
Happy looked sad, and it scared Natasha, "Happy? Is Pepper... well? "She asked again, biting her lip, vexed for the probable answer.
Happy closed his eyes and shook his head slowly, he looked back at Natasha. "She turned to dust. Just like the others. Nat. Tony would be devastated, or worse, he might fall into depression, I cannot see him like that again. What should I do? Lie to him? "
Natasha calmed him down, putting a hand over his shoulder. "Happy, calm down. If it's possible, try to ease the truth to him. Even I know how dangerous Stark could get into."
"The truth." Happy gritted. "They were supposed to get married, Natasha, after that Tony would quit being an Avenger, that was their plan. And now this happened. He was so depressed after the team broke up, he was hospitalized six times due to alcohol and caffeine overdose, and thank the Gods he didn't plan to off himself yet."
Steve's ears caught their last bit of conversation and he joined them. "What!? Off himself? "
"Huh? No. No he didn't cap, relax. Just too much alcohol because of stress and Ross always on his tail. "Happy assured. "Now I just hope he returns safely. "
"We hope too." Cap said and Natasha nodded.
Scott stepped near the door and said to them, "Uhm, guys? Can we start now? Doctor Banner? Doctor Shuri? "Scott looked at the two.
Banner nodded. "Just reminding you, but I'm a physicist, Mr. Lang, I'll only give inputs on this and Shuri here will do the handiwork."
"Leave it to me." confidently she said and added, "Can I see Mr. Pym's papers on this first. By the way I'm no doctor, but feel free to call me that." And the two, along with Scott went to study the documents.
The device Hank Pym was working on looked like a simple wrist watch, there were a total of six prototype watches in the lab.
"This could only work in theory." Shuri said, flipping the pages of the documents. "The notes says that in order to travel through time, we need to fabricate the components that reverses particles to their previous states, this would only work if you broke something and want to revert it in order to fix it. On a larger scale, say the whole expanse of the universe," She waved her arms out. "It would be possible. As I clarify, in Theory. No one had succeeded on identifying reverse particles. "She continued to flip the pages aggressively.
"That theory only works for reversing matter. What we need should transport a being to the past. "Suggested Banner. "But that would mean that this device which was designed for reversing particles wouldn't be helpful at all. "He sighed.
"There is another document regarding particle deconstruction." Scott grabbed the pile of clipped papers from another pile of scattered documents. "Reconstructing matter also falls under teleportation, I heard Hank coming up with an idea to use reconstruction for matter teleportation, would it be possible to alter that theory and fit it in Time Travelling?"
Bruce squeezed his eyes as he thought deeply. Using matter reconstruction is the same as reversing matter, it is broken down and built again. So no matter how many Theories they come up with, they always end up in Matter reconstruction. "Oh great, we're stuck in a loop. " he combed his hair with his hands in frustration.
Scott grabbed another pile of documents and said, "Well that leaves us with the Quantum Realm then. This is the most recent study he was researching on."
Those that has nothing to contribute to the three decided to return to the lobby and rest. They met up with Rocket, who was enjoying what he dubbed as Terran Coffee, while Rhodey went to Tony's office to discuss politics with the remaining government officials. Thor sat quietly, almost praying, in a couch facing the window. Rocket joined him. Steve went to call in private and Nat sat at the couch behind Thor, now they were sitting back to back.
AN: About Particle Reconstruction and how it can be theorized as Teleportation, I heard this from Discovery Channel or that Science Channel something- anyway they said Teleportation can be achieved by reconstructing matter, so what I wrote were loosely based on that Theory. But those doesn't matter, because it is confusing, and I'm not even a scientist, I'm a programmer hahaha.
I do hope you enjoyed reading this. This will have multiple chapters, it'll include characters that didn't appear in the movie (Cap Marvel, Val, Kraglin). This fanfic is basically just existing speculations and Fan Theories mashed up together with my own set of speculations.
I wrote this in Word 2013, so I hope the grammar, the dialogues and the spellings are alright. Do correct me for mistakes.