A/N: Hey guys. Sorry this is a day late. Had a very emotionally exhausting day yesterday. But you don't want to hear about that, you want to read! Okay, enjoy :)

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"It was a long battle, but when Grandpa got us out of there, he told us to go save you first. But I disobeyed, even though I wanted to, so badly." Callie explained, and I patted her hand as I put down her plate of pancakes the next morning. She was already healed of the large wound, but I didn't want to take any chances on the internal.

"I suggested going back to when you first figured out the link with the Infinity Stones," Elijah said, mouth full of food. I sent him a look and he shut it, chewing and swallowing before saying, "Sorry."

"It would have been too soon in the timeline and could have messed up the future even further. Besides, we were what? Only 6 months old at the time?" Callie said rhetorically.

"And you still came back despite all the ways this can mess up the future?" I asked, "Please tell me I showed you Back to the Future?"

"Of course," Elijah said, before chugging the jug of orange juice. I stared horrified, "Didn't I teach you manners young man?"

"Sorry Mom," He said ashamed. I shook my head and turned to Callie saying, "So, you thought that changing history would make things better?"

"Mom, where we came from, we had already lost everything. I didn't see how things could get any worse." She explained, making me pause. Her tone and the emotion she was hiding, they both were hiding, made me think. I already changed the other dimension's timeline. Maybe this way, I could save both.

"So, this defense system. How does it work?" I asked, and Elijah dropped a USB on the table.

"Everything you already made possible is on that drive."

"ARSENAL, private server." I said, plugging the drive into my tablet.

"Restricted access from you father ma'am?"

"Everyone. Hack proof this thing." I said, as the contents were copied to my tablet. I watched as calculations, materials, blueprints were all downloaded. I was amazed that I had come up with this, but then again, I shouldn't have been.

"LUCY, when is the exact date of the first attack?"

"May 25th, 2018. The fight will take us to the outer reaches of the galaxy. The guardians assembled a force of Nova Corp and any alien willing to fight, but it was not enough. Dr. Strange lost the Time Stone, Vision lost the Mind Stone, the Collector was killed by Thanos's army trying to smuggle the Tesseract and the Aether out of Thanos's reach, and Asgard fell after trying to protect the Power Stone that was transported from Xander to protect its citizen's."

"And all our family perished?" I asked, wiping a tear from my eye.

"Grandma Pepper was saved, as were the kids."

"Kids? Plural?"

"Oh, right you haven't heard yet..." Elijah said, shaking his head at Callie.

"What haven't I heard? If it pertains to this future I'm going to save, I should know. I won't tell anyone."

"You are currently carrying twins, that will be our cousins, Niklaus and Anna."

"And Auntie Wanda is pregnant with our cousin Vera, as of right now in the timeline."

"Auntie Darcy and Uncle Fitz get pregnant by accident next month and have our cousin Jeremy Leo. Jane and Thor get pregnant and immediately get married on Asgard, and then have our cousin Freya, in honor of Thor's mother."

"You know that Maria is pregnant right now with Uncle Loki's child, Halvard Nicholas. Daisy will be pregnant soon with cousin Gabriel, and Jemma will be in a year with Pietro's twins, Samuel and Elena."

"What. The. Fu-" I stopped myself by screaming the word in my head, but my kids expressions said it all.

"Okay, Pepper and my Dad made it out, with you and all the little ones. The Barton's?"

"Grandpa didn't get to them in time when he heard that Uncle Clint had been compromised again by the Mind Stone. Thanos sent a force to execute them in front of Clint."

"Dammit," I whispered, thinking of my niece and nephews trapped and scared as they were picked off one by one.

"Why weren't they moved to the base for safety?"

"Laura was pregnant at the time and we didn't want to risk moving her. It all seemed so reasonable at first."

I took their plates to the sink, and looked at the clock. I wasn't supposed to go in today, but after I heard what I did, I needed to start on the proposal. I wasn't wasting anymore time, if it meant I could save the lives of my family and the galaxy. As I wiped my rivers of tears from my cheeks, I turned to the kids and said, "Is there a way for you to know if I changed the future or not?"

"It isn't until you do something, either bring up the idea to the UN, or building actually starts that I want to tempt to see if we fixed it or not."

"So, you keep the memories of your time-jump, and you can do that over and over again without problems?"

"I can't do it more than three times before I start to notice major differences."

"Meaning?"

"Um, okay, so you know how in Back to the Future, they created an alternate timeline where Bif was employed by George? And then the Bif from the future changed everything all over again by going back to the lowest point in Bif's life after the school dance and that's when he started using the Almanac?"

"Yes."

"So imagine our timeline like the drawing that Doc Brown showed Marty. We created an alternate timeline, and then another timeline was created that differed from the ending of the first alternate timeline."

"Three different endings from the same original timeline," I said, rubbing my forehead.

"And if I do anything else to change them, it might as well be the multiverse."

"If I had known before you got your powers," I said, staring at the ceiling, "I might not have allowed the Terrigenesis."

"But then we don't come back to warn you, and you and Ollie die."

"I named him Oliver?" I said, wiping away fresh tears. I was crying for the son I had yet to conceive. Callie stopped and looked at Elijah, who said, "We've told her everything else. What's the worst that could happen?"

"Oliver Hayden." She replied to me and I nodded. Feeling the stress beginning to weigh down on me, I said, "I need to do something, like yesterday, if you think we are gonna be ready in time."

"You will Mom."

"How do you know?" I asked, sitting down and rubbing a hand over my face. Taking said hand, she smiled at me, "Because you taught me that hope is the greatest power. It reunites family, cures disease, and promotes unity. And right now, you and the Avengers, SHIELD… they need to be a united front to stop the Infinity War."

"Catchy name," I joked, smiling at her, "You have a very strong heart, the both of you. To have faced such odds and not lose your hope, I must have done something right raising you."

"We have a strong mother." Elijah said, taking my other hand.

"I don't know what I did to deserve you guys in a past life, but it must have been something big." I whispered, before clearing my throat and saying, "Now, I should call your fathers and check in for the day."

"That might be a problem, because they are on their way to surprise you with us today. They will be here in two hours."

"Damn, okay. Plan B." I said, tossing them a set of keys.

"Wait, you already have a Plan B?" Elijah said, confused as he caught the keys and I picked up any trace of them from the apartment.

"Your great grandfather had a penthouse here. I didn't want to take it from my father while I was here because, well, it's really old and there is no surveillance of the building. I promised your Auntie Nat I would be safe because I had an early warning system in place with ARSENAL, but there is barely internet there. I'll give you the address, as well as some money for food and clothing."

"But Mom, what if Grandpa comes there?" Callie asked, as I grabbed my coat and scarf, wrapping them around Callie.

"Tell him to call me. Do not tell him any of what you have told me so far. You are a friend's kids who needed shelter for a few days while you get over the death of your parent's."

"It's not a total lie," I smirked to them, grabbing my car keys.


A/N: Just a reminder that my tumblr account has a lot of visuals to help you see my thought process