A month after the snap, and everyone was still reeling. Bruce went back to being a doctor. Loki was in Tronsberg, Norway. Nebula and Mantis went back to space. Tony went to live with Pepper in the countryside. Steve, Sam, Bucky, and Natasha were still in the avenger headquarters in upstate New York.

Steve sat at the dining room table next to Natasha who was eating her lunch. "You know," he started.

"If you're going to tell me to look on the bright side," she said hasitily, "I'm going to throw what's left of my sandwich at your face." She inhaled half of her sandwhich to make the conversation go quicker.

He continued, "I'm told New York City is almost done with the clean up efforts. Lots of people made money on the scap of all of the abandoned and destroyed cars that were filling up the streets."

"Good for them," she said sarcastically.

Without warning, a full pitcher of ice water was suddenly poured down Steve's back under his undershirt. He screeched in shock and leaped out of his seat to see Bucky standing behind him with a now empty water pitcher in his hands.

"What in the hell, Buck!" Steve shouted as he danced the ice cubes off of his back.

"That's payback," Bucky replied.

"For what!" Steve demanded.

Bucky put the pitcher on the counter and explained, "From back when you had poor circulation and you'd come up to me and say, 'My hands are so cold, Buck, feel them! Feel my hands! They're like ice!" He pushed his hands at Steve but he moved away from him. Soon they were running around the table while Natasha stared at him for being so childish. Bucky continued, "They're so cold! They're like icicles! Feel my fingers Bucky!"

Steve stopped eventually and pushed him away hastily, then said, "Alright I get it! How long have you been waiting to do that?"

"Since I could remember that you did that sort of thing to me," Bucky answered, "so for about three years now. I was waiting for the right moment."

Steve gave Natasha a pleading look and asked, "You couldn't have warned me?"

"I was wondering what the ice water was doing just sitting on the counter," she replied, smiling, then added, "honestly, Steve, didn't know he was going to do that."

"She didn't," Bucky said.

Steve stared at him and said, "You better watch your back from now on."

Bucky asked, "What are you going to do to me? I have faster reflexes than you."

"We'll see about that," Steve said as he grabbed Natasha's cup of water and tried to throw it at Bucky. He took Steve's hand in midair and aimed the cup back at Steve's face, making the water inside splash back at him instead.

Natasha stood up with her now empty plate and said, "His reflexes are faster than yours." She put the plate on the counter and walked out of the room. Steve was right behind her to change into new shirts and walked right passed Sam.

"Are the appliance delivery people here yet?" Sam asked.

"No," Bucky said sternly as he sat at the end of the table.

"They said it'd be either this week or next week," Sam said as he walked around the kitchen island, "and they said that the week before too, man. I just want a working oven and fridge again. What's all over the floor?"

"Steve had an accident," Bucky replied seriously. Sam gave him a WTF look but didn't say anything as he carefully walked around it to the otherside of the table toward him. Bucky asked, "Did anyone even ask Loki if he could fix things with his powers after he broke them?"

"Even if he can, do you think he would?" Sam asked as he sat next to him.

"I don't know," he answered, "I don't know most of the people we even saw in Wakanda or why Thanos wanted to kill everyone. I've been on ice. Couldn't he make double the rescourses instead of killing half of all life?"

"That's," Sam said, "uh...that's a good point actually. I can break some of it down for you if you want. You ever heard of Norse mythology?"

Bucky stared at him and said, "No. Why would I have?"

"What they didn't talk about that in the 40s or anything?" he asked sarcastically.

"Even if they did," Bucky said, "do you think I'd remember it?"

Sam pointed at him and continued, "So, in Scandinavia they have ancient Gods, Odin is the big one, the one in charge, and then his sons are Thor and Loki. Turns out they're just aliens that used to be on Earth 1,000 years ago."

"What?" he asked, incredulous.

"Yeah," he said, "I know. That's who they are. Thor is a big blonde guy that has lightning powers and a big hammer that only he can lift...well I guess it's an axe now, kind of. Anyway, Loki is his brother who just likes messing around but now he's a mess because...well, you know what happened. Are you getting all of this?"

Bucky started, "I don't-" then he realized he didn't want to sit through more of that confusing conversation and continued, "sure. Yeah. It makes sense."

"Hey," Natasha said as she walked up behind both of them, "Scott Lang is at the front door. What are you two doing ignoring him?"

Bucky asked, "Who is that?"

"The tiny dude that got huge at the airport when we were fighting Tony," Sam explained, "come on, you remember." He patted his metal arm.

"Don't touch me," Bucky said.

Scott walked around their kitchen and paced nervously around Natasha, Bucky, and Sam as Steve mopped up the floor by the table. He said, "So, half of all life is just...gone? It vanished into thin air? Like poof? Like half of the people in existence never existed in the first place?"

"We've been talking about it for a month now," Sam said, "where have you been this whole time?

Steve said, "We thought you were dead with everyone else, Scott."

He explained, "There's this thing called the quantum realm. It's where you shrink down and enter a different space time where it doesn't move the same way as our time does. I was in there when the snap happened."

Bucky froze and looked at everyone else to see if they heard the same craziness that he just did. "What?" Sam asked.

Steve asked, "What you're saying is that time doesn't work the same way there?"

"Is anyone eating this orange?" Scott asked as he took it out of the fruit basket, "Anyway, you said this snap happened a month ago, but I was only in the quantum realm for an hour." He started peeling apart the orange.

Bucky said, "So time goes slower in the...realm...you mentioned?" He looked over to see if anyone else was as confused as him and they were.

Scott continued, "Not just that. We can pick points in time we can sprout up in. Well, not points in time exaclty, more like other realities where we also exist in a different timeline. We can go back and get the stones before Thanos in those timelines and set everything back to the way it was before! Do you have anything to wash this down with? Like soda or something?" He grabbed the fridge door.

"No!" Sam said, "Don't!"

Scott opened the fridge and the broken shelves cascaded onto the ground with a crashing sound. "What's happened to your fridge?" he asked, "It looks like someone took a sledgehammer to it."

"A God got angry and happened to be here," Natasha answered.

Steve asked, "What were you saying about the stones?"

"Oh," he said as he struggled to put the shelves back, "sorry. So yeah, we could go back in time and get the stones before Thanos and do our own snap to make everything back to the way it was before. It's simple!" The shelves cascaded to the ground again.

"You can just leave that stuff there," Sam said as he watched him awkwardly move the broken shelves, "man, just, stop."

"Sorry," Scott said as he left them on the ground and struggled to close the fridge door again.

Bucky stepped up and said, "I got it."

Scott asked, "Is there anyone we could talk to about this?"

As Bruce walked through the front door the next day, Natasha shouted from upstairs, "Don't slam the-!" There was a bang as the door slammed shut and the glass in the window next to it shattered. She closed her eyes in annoyance.

"Oops, sorry!" Bruce shouted, "The window next to the door fell out of the frame. I forgot it was already cracked."

Natasha walked down the stairs to meet him and said, "The window delivery people are supposed to get here eventually someday. Whenever they have time since they're short on people." She stopped as soon as she saw him in the foyer. "Bruce?"

"It's me," he said, in his Professor Hulk form.

"What?" she asked, "How?"

Sam walked down the stairs and said, "I heard glass breaking down here. What in the...what?" He stared at Bruce.

"Hi," he said awkwardly, "I came after I got the text from Nat." He held up his phone that was dwarfed in size compared to his giant hand.

Natasha said awkardly, "Come in."

In the living room, everyone stood around the room and in front of the holographic screen, the tall dark brown table, and the white couches together.

Bucky asked, "Who are you?"

Steve explained, "This is Doctor Bruce Banner, he was a pioneer in gamma radiation and then an accident happened and now he can turn into the Hulk...who he is now...but as Bruce. I didn't know that could happen." He stared at Bruce.

Scott said, "I am so confused. I thought Hulk and Bruce were separate."

"They were," he explained, "and then I combined the brawn and the brains into one. Hulk no longer controls me because I am him! Isn't this great?"

"Sure," Sam said uneasily.

Scott asked, "Okay well can you help us out with the quantum realm time travel thing?"

"Tony would be better at this," he confessed, "the more people we have on this the better. We should get Nebula, Mantis, and Loki too, just in case."

Bucky said, "That sounds like a horrible idea."

"What?" Bruce asked, "Why?"

"Well Tony doesn't want to come within 100 miles of this place because of him," Natasha explained as she pointed to Bucky, "Loki is an emotional wreck right now. Nebula and Mantis are off world. It's not looking good."

Bruce said, "Well, Steve, Scott, and I can talk to Tony personally. Nat, you contact Nebula and Mantis. Sam, Bucky, you two head over to Norway and try to talk Loki into coming back. We're going to need his help getting some of the stones even if he doesn't know anything about time travel."

"He did have the tesseract right before Thanos took it," Natasha said, "he has to know where and when in time to get it."

Sam said, "Man, it's going to take forever for us to find a flight over there and back."

"Find a flight?" Bucky said, "It's going to take forever to get through the airport! It would be easier and faster to have our own plane."

"The only one we know with their own plane is..." Sam said, not finishing his sentence. Bucky instantly knew it was Tony and he wasn't going to lend them a plane.

"Shit," Bucky whispered, esasperated.

Steve said, "Have fun."

Natasha giggled and said, "I thought you were going to say 'language' again."

Bucky stared at Steve in confusion. "Nothing, it's nothing," Steve said, then explained completely esasperated, "I said 'language' one time, ONE TIME, after Tony sweared and now I never hear the end of it!" He shook his head in shame. Bucky chuckled to himself and smiled at him. Steve asked, "What's so funny?"

"Your mom would say that to us all the time growing up," he replied, "remember? 'Watch your language, boys!'"

"Great," Steve said sarcastically, "and now there's that going to be thrown in my face. Thanks a lot."

"You're turning into your mother!" Bucky laughed.

Steve couldn't help but smile. "You know what!"He said jokingly as he grabbed the coffee cup off of the table, took the lid off, and tried to throw it in Bucky's face. Bucky tilted it toward Steve instead and it landed in his face. "Ah that's still hot!" He tried to wipe it away as everyone stared at them in confusion. "Don't you have a flight to find?" Steve asked halfheartedly.