New Metro Zone
Public Park, New York City, day. Tony Stark and Pepper Potts walk on having a conversation.]
Tony Stark: Slow down, slow down. I'm totally not kidding.
Pepper Potts: [Laughing slightly and talking over him] You're totally rambling.
Tony Stark: [Also talking over her] No, I'm not.
Pepper Potts: Lost me.
Tony Stark: Look, you know how you're having a dream, and in the dream you gotta pee?
Pepper Potts: Yeah.
Tony Stark: Okay, and then you're like, 'Oh my god, there's no bathroom, what am I gonna do?', 'Oh! Someone's watching,' ''m gonna go in my pants.'
Pepper Potts: Right. And then you wake up, and in real life you actually have to pee.
Tony Stark: Yes.
Pepper Potts: Yeah. Everybody has that.
Tony Stark: Right! That's the point I'm trying to make. Apropos of that, last night, I dreamt, we had a kid. So real. We named him after your eccentric uncle. Uh, what was his name?
Pepper Potts: [Nodding in understanding] Right.
Tony Stark: Morgan! Morgan.
Pepper Potts: So you woke up, and thought that we were...
Tony Stark: Expecting.
Pepper Potts: Yeah.
Tony Stark: [Becoming excited] Yes?
Pepper Potts: [Shaking her head] No.
Tony Stark: I had a dream about it. It was so real.
Pepper Potts: If you wanted to have a kid, you wouldn't have done that.
[Pepper unties his jacket sleeves and taps Tony's chest attachment.]
Tony Stark: I'm glad you brought this up, 'cause it's nothing. It's just a housing unit for nano particles.
Pepper Potts: It's not helping your case, OK?
Tony Stark: No, no, it's an attachment, it's not a-
Pepper Potts: [Insistently] You don't need that.
Tony Stark: I know. I had the surgery. I'm just trying to protect us. The future uses, and that's it. Just in case there's a monster in the closet, instead of, you know...
Pepper Potts: Shirts?
Tony Stark: You know me so well. You finish all my sentences.
Pepper Potts: You should have shirts in your closet.
Tony Stark: Yeah. You know what there should be? No more surprises. We're gonna have a nice dinner tonight. Show off this Harry Win-stone. Right? And we should have no more surprises. Ever. I should promise you.
Pepper Potts: Yes.
Tony Stark: I will. [Tony kisses Pepper.]
[Doctor Strange comes through a portal.]
Stephen Strange: Tony Stark, I'm Doctor Stephen Strange. I need you to come with me. Oh, uh, congratulations on the wedding, by the way.
[Tony and Pepper are understandably shocked.]
Tony Stark: I'm sorry, you giving out tickets or something?
Stephen Strange:We need your help. Look, it's not overselling to say that the fate of the universe is at stake.
Tony Stark: And who's "we"?
Bruce Banner: [Emerges from behind Doctor Strange] Hey, Tony.
Tony Stark: [Looking surprised] Bruce.
Bruce Banner: Pepper.
Pepper Potts: Hi.
Tony Stark: You okay?
[Bruce gives Tony a desperate hug, not answering. After everything he has been through. Then Tails emerged from behind the Doctor.]
Tony Stark: Miles?
Tails: Hey mister Stark, we have a lot to talk about.
[Back at the Sanctum Sanctorum.]
Wong: [Using magic to show the universe and five out of six Infinity Stones.] From the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then, boom! The Big Bang sent six elemental crystals, hurtling across the virgin universe. These Infinity Stones each control an essential aspect of existence.
Stephen Strange: [Each Stone lights up as Dr. Strange names them.] Space. Reality. Power. Soul. Mind. And Time.
[Dr. Strange opens the Eye of Agamotto, revealing the Time Stone emitting emerald light.]
Tony Stark: [Very attentive] Tell me his name again.
Bruce Banner: Thanos. He's a plague, Tony. He invades planets. He takes what he wants. He wipes out half the population. He sent Loki. The attack on New York. That's him.
Tails: Woah. If he gets the stones, we are in trouble. We saw what Doom and Eggman did with only two stones.
Wong: Just think what will happen if Thanos gets all six.
Tony Stark: [Speaking to himself] This is it... What's our timeline?
Bruce Banner: No telling. He has the Power and Space Stones, that already makes him the strongest creature in the whole universe. If he gets his hands, on all six Stones, Tony...
Stephen Strange: He can destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of.
Tony Stark: [Leans against a cauldron, stretching like he's about to go for a run.] Did you seriously just say "hitherto undreamt of"?
Stephen Strange: Are you seriously leaning on the Cauldron of the Cosmos?
Tony Stark: Is that what this is... ?
[The Cloak of Levitation smacks Tony's arm, surprising him.]
Tails: WOAH! That's cool.
Tony Stark: [Looking offended] [Straightening himself] I'm going to allow that. If Thanos needs all six, why don't we just stick this one down the garbage disposal?
Stephen Strange: No can do.
Wong: We swore an oath to protect the Time Stone. With our lives.
Tony Stark: And I swore off dairy, but then, Ben & Jerry's named a flavor after me, so...
Stephen Strange: Stark Raving Hazelnuts.
Tony Stark: It's not bad.
Stephen Strange: A bit chalky.
Wong: A Hunka-Hulka Burning Fudge is our favorite.
Bruce Banner: That's a thing?
Tails: Eh, a Super Sonic is my favourite.
Tony Stark: Whatever. Point is: things change.
Stephen Strange: Our oath to protect the Time Stone cannot change. This Stone may be the best chance we have against Thanos.
Tony Stark: And still conversely, it may also be his best chance against us.
Stephen Strange: Well, if we don't do our jobs.
Tony Stark: [Slightly condescending] What is your job exactly, besides making balloon animals?
Stephen Strange: [Completely calm] Protecting your reality, douchebag.
Tails: You seriously can't tell who's sarcasm is better.
Bruce Banner: Okay, guys, could we table this discussion right now? The fact is that we have this Stone. We know where it is. Vision is out there somewhere with the Mind Stone, and we have to find him now.
Tails: Ohhh.
Tony Stark: [Awkwardly] Yeah, that's the... thing.
Bruce Banner: What do you mean?
Tony Stark: Two weeks ago, Vision turned off his transponder. He's offline.
Bruce Banner: What? Tony, you lost another super bot?
Tony Stark: I didn't lose him. He's more than that. He's evolving.
Stephen Strange: Who could find Vision, then?
Tony Stark: [Quietly to himself] Shit. [To the other men in a normal tone] Probably Steve Rogers.
Stephen Strange: [Sighing in exasperation] Oh, great.
Tails: [Speaking in a sarcastic tone.] Terrific.
Tony Stark: Maybe. But... [Sighs]
Bruce Banner: [Missing the events of the United Heroes' Civil War] Call him.
Tony Stark: It's not that easy. God, we haven't caught up in a spell, have we?
Bruce Banner: No.
Tony Stark: The United Heroes broke up. We're toast.
Bruce Banner: [Rather surprised and slightly let-down] Broke up? Like a band? Like The Beatles?
Tony Stark: Cap and I fell out hard. We're not on speaking terms.
Bruce Banner: [Almost pleading] Tony, listen to me. Thor's gone. Thanos is coming. It doesn't matter who you're talking to or not.
[Tony hesitates, before pulling out the cellular phone Steve mailed him, muttering 'flip phone'. It seems as though he brings it everywhere, always ready to call his lost friend. Before clicking "Call", he pauses, distracted by an unusual rumbling.]
Tails: Guys, what's that?
Tony Stark: Say, Doc, you wouldn't happen to be moving your hair, would you?
Stephen Strange: [Looking up at his forelock fluttering] Not at the moment, no.
[Tony looks at the Hulk-made opening through the ceiling and sees debris flying by outside. He exits the Sanctum through the front door and scans the chaotic surroundings, the camera shaking around in this following long take to illustrate the chaos - people running and screaming in alarm, traffic becoming impossibly tangled, a litter-filled wind like a nor'easter's. A woman falls nearly at his feet and he helps her up.]
Tony Stark: You okay?
[The woman ignores him and runs away. A car crashes in on a pole behind Tony.]
Tony Stark: Help him! Wong, Doc, Miles.
Bruce Banner: Go! Got it!
Tony Stark: [Putting on his sunglasses]J.A.R.V.I.S., what am I looking at?
J.A.R.V.I.S.: Not sure, I'm working on it.
Tony Stark: Hey! You might wanna put that Time Stone in your back pocket, Doc!
Stephen Strange: [Bands of spells are readied around his forearms] Might wanna use it.
[A mechanical hum grows louder as Tony approaches the intersection. As he turns the corner, he sees a huge circular ship floating over Bleecker Street.]
[On a school bus, the hairs on Peter Parker's arms stand up. He looks out the window and sees the ship.]
Peter Parker: [Tapping his best friend in the seat in front of him] Ned, hey. I need you to cause a distraction.
Ned Leeds: [Turns around and sees the spaceship] Holy shit! We're all gonna die! There's a spaceship!
[Students scramble to the windows in the back to see the spaceship.]
[Peter quickly slides on one of his Stark-made webshooters, and webs the emergency exit lever on the opposite side of the bus.]
School Bus Driver, Stan Lee: What's the matter with you kids? You've never seen a spaceship before?
[Peter jumps out the window, clinging to the side of the bus and pulling on his mask before leaping over the side of the bridge, shooting a web-line and swinging free. He makes his way hastily towards the ship.]
[Meanwhile in the outskirts of the city, Sonic the hedgehog is on a run, keeping a low profile until he sees debris in the skies of New Metro Zone.]
Sonic: Woah, what's happening there?
[He then sees the ship causing the damage and decides to act.]
Sonic: Well it doesn't matter if I am on the run, people need help and I'm not gonna stand by and watch them suffer if I can do something about it!
[Sonic then ran towards the city.]
Tony Stark: J.A.R.V.I.S., evac anyone south of 43rd Street, notify first responders.
J.A.R.V.I.S.: Will do.
[Doctor Strange throws the Winds of Watoomb over Bleeker Street, and winks at Tony. The dust clears. Tony is begrudgingly amused for a split second.]
[Then Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian exit the ship by transmat.]
Ebony Maw: Hear me, and rejoice. You are about to die at the hands of the Children of Thanos. Be thankful, that your meaningless lives are now contributing to...
Tony Stark: [Echoing the familiarly defiant 2008 Tony Stark] I'm sorry, Earth is closed today. You better pack it up and get outta here.
Ebony Maw: [Looks at Doctor Strange] Stonekeeper... [Gestures to Tony] Does this chattering animal speak for you?
Stephen Strange: Certainly not. I speak for myself. [Magical shields are readied with his fists, stepping forward.] But you're trespassing in this city and on this planet. [Wong emulates him.]
Tony Stark: It means get lost, Squidward!
Ebony Maw: He exhausts me.
Cull Obsidian: [Two untranslated syllables]
Ebony Maw: Bring me the Stone.
Cull Obsidian: [Three untranslated syllables] [He drops his huge alien hammer and drags it along as he obeys his brethren.]
Tony Stark: Banner, you want a piece?
Bruce Banner: No, not really, but when do I ever get what I want?
Tony Stark: That's right.
[Bruce attempts to release the Hulk. Instead of Hulk coming out easily, the most that turns green is Bruce's neck.]
Tony Stark: Been a while. Good to have you, buddy.
Bruce Banner: I just... I need to concentrate here for one second. Come on, come on, man.
Tails: Um, where's Hulk?
Tony Stark: Where's your guy?
Bruce Banner: I don't know. We've sort been havin' a thing.
Tony Stark: There's no time for a thing.
Bruce Banner: I know.
Tony Stark: [Points at the approaching Obsidian] That's the thing right there. Let's go.
[Bruce gives out a loud grunt, but fails to release the Hulk. Doctor Strange stares at Tony and Bruce in disbelief.]
Tony Stark: [Glances at Doctor Strange] Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the wizards.
Bruce Banner: Tony, I'm sorry. [Stammers] Either I can't or he won't-
Tony Stark: It's okay. Hey, stand down. [to Wong] Keep an eye on him. Thank you.
Wong: I have him.
Bruce Banner: Damn it.
[As Cull Obsidian approaches the team, Tony dons his nanotech Iron Man suit in the space of three steps. He grows a shield on one arm to protect himself, then grows a set of blasters that easily throw the Dwarf back to Maw, who gestures and deflects his massive companion into some cars.]
Bruce Banner: Where'd that come from?
Tony Stark: It's nano-tech. You like it? A little someth-
[Ebony Maw creates a spike of earth that throws Iron Man far up, and attacks the rest of the team with uprooted trees and other debris. Wong summons the Shield of the Seraphim.]
Stephen Strange: Dr. Banner, Mr. Prower. if you two and the Hulk won't be joining us...
[Doctor Strange teleports Bruce and Tails to a nearby park along with half a taxi. Iron Man returns and joins the fight, pushing a car thrown by Maw back at him. Maw cuts it in half and lets the pieces fly past him, untouched.]
Tony Stark: Gotta get that stone outta here, now.
Stephen Strange: It stays with me.
Tony Stark: Exactly. Bye.
[Iron Man flies through Ebony Maw's obstacle course but is cut short by Cull Obsidian's hammer, sending him through a building and into the park at high speed, plowing into the ground and fetching up against a tree.]
Bruce Banner: [Rushing over to Iron Man] Tony, you okay? How we doing? Good? Bad?
Tony Stark: Really, really good. Really good. Do you plan on helping out?
Bruce Banner: I'm trying. He won't come out.
Tails: [Also Rushes to Tony's side and sees Cull Obsidian.] TONY, BRUCE. LOOK OUT!
[Cull Obsidian arrives at the park and throws his hammer at Bruce and Iron Man.]
Tony Stark: Hammer. [Pushes Bruce out of the way.]
[Iron Man's energy beam deflects off Cull Obsidian's shield, slicing down trees. Bruce barely evades one.]
Bruce Banner: [Crawling out from under the branches. Desperate and confused] Come on, Hulk. What are you doing to me? [Starts slapping himself multiple times] Come out! Come out! Come out!
Hulk: [Half of Bruce's face becomes the Hulk.] Nooooooo! [Bruce falls back exhausted into his tree.]
Bruce Banner: What do you mean, "no"?!
[Iron Man is knocked down by Obsidian, who is about to deliver a decisive blow, but the alien's hammer is easily caught by Spider-Man.]
Peter Parker: Hey, man. What's up, Mr. Stark?
Tony Stark: Kid, where'd you come from?
Peter Parker: Field trip to MoMA.
[Cull Obsidian grabs Spider-Man and throws him away.]
Peter Parker: What is this guy's problem, Mr. Stark?
Tony Stark: He's from space. He came here to steal a necklace from a wizard.
[Wong and Doctor Strange fight Maw. Maw lifts several bricks from the ground and turns them into sharp points. He sends them towards Wong and Doctor Strange. The two make portals and boomerang them back towards Maw. Maw moves a car to protect himself, but one spike still hits his head, creating a cut. Angered, Maw uses a broken fire hydrant's water stream to knock Wong back several meters, rendering him unconscious.]
[Doctor Strange snaps a whip of magical energy to bind Maw's hands and yanks, but Maw flies forward with the pull and pins Doctor Strange upside-down against a building, using the bricks to trap the Sorcerer Supreme.]
Ebony Maw: Your powers are quaint. You must be popular with children.
[Maw tries to grab the amulet holding the Time Stone but jerks back when it burns his hand.]
Stephen Strange: It's a simple spell but quite unbreakable.
Ebony Maw: [Vehemently] Then I'll take it off your corpse.
[Maw pulls Doctor Strange away from the building and throws him to the ground. Doctor Strange starts the gestures to use the Eye of Agamotto, but utility cables first pin Doctor Strange's arms, interrupting the spell and closing the Eye, while another cable winds around his torso, then tightens around his throat.]
Stephen Strange: You'll find... removing a dead man's spell... troublesome.
Ebony Maw: You'll only wish you were dead. [Doctor Strange falls unconscious and to the ground; Maw raises a portion of street pavement to use as a carrier, but the Cloak of Levitation works its master loose of the cable spiral and flies Doctor Strange away.] NO!
Tony Stark: [Still fighting Cull Obsidian, as Doctor Strange passes through the park.] Kid, that's the wizard. Get on it.
Peter Parker: On it!
[Spider-Man chases Ebony Maw, floating speedily and upright on a small platform of burbling debris leaving a deep rut in the streets, who in turn chases the Cloak-driven Doctor Strange through Manhattan; Maw attacks him, throwing a Rocket Mortgage billboard at Spider-Man to be rid of him.]
Peter Parker: [Untangles himself] Not cool!
[Sonic then rushes to the scene and assists Spider-Man.]
Peter Parker: Wait, SONIC?
Sonic: Hey Pete, need some help?
Peter Parker: Yep, definitely.
[Maw bends all the utility poles in the path of the fleeing Cloak, finally snagging the loyal garment and ripping it loose of its master. Spider-Man scoops up Doctor Strange before he hits the pavement and Sonic runs behind him, but before they can get away with the unconscious Doctor Strange, a cone of blue light starts pulling the mage inexorably upwards. Spider-Man grabs Sonic who is in the air being beamed up. He also grabs a light pole to anchor himself, but Maw uproots it, sending Doctor Strange, Cloak, Sonic and a teenager on their way to his ship.]
Peter Parker: Uhhh, Mr. Stark? We're being beamed up!
Tony Stark: Hang on, kid. [Cull Obsidian's hammer doubles as a claw, pinning Iron Man to the ground and shorting his suit. As Obsidian jumps towards Iron Man, blades ready to end this fight, he is sent through a portal instead. The alien turns and leaps to return the same way, but Wong closes it rapidly - only Obsidian's severed hand makes it back to the park. Bruce kicks the hand away with a noise of disgust.]
Tony Stark: [Iron Man shakes himself free of the Dwarf's weapon, now powerless.] Wong, you're invited to my wedding. [Iron Man begins to fly towards the large ship] Give me a little juice, J.A.R.V.I.S. [Iron Man's foot thrusters morph together into a single larger jet and increase his speed considerably.]
[Ebony Maw walks towards the controls of the ship, Doctor Strange's unconscious body floating face-down behind him, and prepares to leave Earth's atmosphere.]
Tony Stark: [Still in pursuit of the ship and his protege.] Unlock 17-A. [A pod launches from the upstate Avengers headquarters and curves up to the accelerating circular ship.] Pete, you gotta let go, Wait is that Sonic? Doesn't matter, I'm gonna catch you two.
Peter Parker: But you said save the wizard! [Spider-Man, gasping from lack of oxygen, pulls off his mask] I can't breathe!
Sonic: [Also losing breath.] Tony, a little help please.
Tony Stark: You're too high up. You're running out of air.
Peter Parker: Yeah! That makes sense.
[Peter passes out, free-falling, but not for long before the pod reaches him. It attaches itself to him, becoming the Iron Spider suit. Now being able to breathe, Spider-Man lands on a bottom part of the ship, standing up heroically.]
Peter Parker: Mr. Stark, it smells like a new car in here!
Tony Stark: Happy trails, kid. J.A.R.V.I.S. send him home.
J.A.R.V.I.S.: Yep.
[A large parachute extends from the new suit, snatching Spider-Man free of the ship's hull and him spiraling back to Earth.]
Peter Parker: OH, COME ON!
[Iron Man quickly grabs Sonic and latches onto the hull and cuts a hole to board the ship, looking for wherever Strange and Ebony Maw went.]
Tony Stark: Hey, Sonic. You good?
Sonic: Yeah, thanks Tony.
Tony Stark: Don't mention it.
J.A.R.V.I.S.:Sir, incoming call from Miss Potts.
Pepper Potts: [Sounding heavily worried] Tony? Oh, my God. Are you all right? What's going on?
Tony Stark: Yeah, I'm fine. I just think we might have to push our 8:30 res.
Pepper Potts: Why?
Tony Stark: [While looking at the ship around him] Just 'cause I'll... probably not make it back for a while.
Pepper Potts: Tell me you're not on that ship.
Tony Stark: Yeah.
Pepper Potts: God, no. Please tell me you're not on that ship.
Tony Stark: Honey, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I don't know what to say.
Pepper Potts: Come back here, Tony. I swear to God….
Tony Stark: Pep….
Pepper Potts: Come back here right now! Come back!
J.A.R.V.I.S.: Sir, we're losing her. I'm going, too….
[Spider-Man is revealed to have managed to shoot a web to the outside of the ship, foiling his parachute, and clambers inside a slowly-closing chamber.]
Peter Parker: Oh my God! [Looks at the rapidly-receding planet behind him] I should have stayed on the bus...
[Ebony Maw, hands engaged in the ship's steering mechanism, accelerates into hyperspace.]