Steve's POV
We decided half of us would go to the top of the mountain and the rest would stay and guard the ship. Since Carol, Thor, rocket and nebula knew the most about this place they'd go with me and tony up to the mountain.
I looked to my surroundings, purple, purple and more purple even the floor was purple, except the water covering it had a strange illusion to make you think that you were walking on the sky. The massive dark mountain was a good walk away so we decided to get going.
We walked directly ahead, tony and I walked a little behind from the other four. I looked down into the water. It was strange, even though I walked on the water and slashed it as I trotted along it did not wet my feet. Very, very unusual.
As if tony read my mind he said "does this weird you out that our feet aren't wet?"
"Very weirded out" I agreed
"What have you doing during these past few years?" Tony asked out of the blue
"Stopping and fighting terrorists" I simply answered
We chatted for a while until we came close to the mountain, so close that we could notice that there was a sort of temple or pillars up the very top.
"Who's ready for a climb eh?" Rocket said still looking up.
"It's going to take a while" carol pointed out
"Better get going then" tony started to walk off in-front of us. We followed.
We got to the very base of the ominous mountain to find a stair well of sorts. We went up them with no hesitation. We climbed the stairs for almost an hour until we sat down for a five minute break. After that we got up and continued to trudge up the never ending stairs.
Not long after that I noticed that there was something different up ahead.
I stopped and pointed forward "look, the stairs are ending"
"Finally, I didn't know how much longer my legs could hole me up" Rocket puffed
We kept going until the seemingly endless stairs ended. There were rocks all around us, the ones in front formed an arch way that almost seemed like a little room. We looked around to see more climbing ahead.
"Seriously" nebula commented
"More climbing I guess, I swear if there is nobody here and we did all that climbing for nothing I am going to loose it" Carol said
"Let's keep going then" Thor started to walk but was cut off by a strange voice that seemed familiar.
"Welcome" the voice said. Then the figure appeared in front of us. He looked like the grim reaper, with his black hood and cape.
"Welcome, Thor odinson, Rocket raccoon, nebula daughter of thanos, Carol Danvers, Tony Stark" he paused and turned to me "and captain Steve Rogers" he said in an almost darker voice.
"Who are you? Are you the stone keeper?" Carol asked
"The stone is no longer here" he said
"Would you know if thanos, big purple guy with a stupid chin, has come here after he collected the stone?" Tony wondered
"No he is not here" the Erie voice said
"Ughhhhhh" Rocket complained
"But there is other use of your being here" he told us
"Who are you?" I asked with a demanding tone
He looked towards me, but I still couldn't see his face. And why did his voice sound so familiar, it was on the top of my tongue.
"You want to know who I am captain Rogers?" The mysterious man asked "But you already do know"
"What?" I said in return
He raised his arms to his head and lifted off the hood. His face was now visible. His red, no nose face was completely visible
"Red skull"
Natasha's POV
I was leaning against the side of the ship watching Steve and the rest leave towards the mountain. I wanted to go with them but I knew I had to stay with the ship, even though there was absolutely nothing else around us. I realised I had been staring so long that they were almost out of sight, I looked down to the watery ground and stared into my reflection.
'I wonder what they'll find up there, what if thanos is up there. That's means they'll be dealing with him alone.'
My thoughts were interrupted by Clint, who came over and stood next to me.
"Whatcha thinking about" he asked not making eye contact
"Nothing" I shrugged "also I forgot to ask you, how are you dealing? With the whole family disappearing thing."
"I don't know, guess I'm just feeling a bit...alone"
I looked up and met his gaze. I gave a half hearted smile and he returned it.
After a minute or so of silence between us Clint spoke up.
"So you and Bruce not a thing anymore?"
I breathed out a laugh "what about Steve?"
"Oh no no no, him and Sharon are getting pretty close in that area" I rejected the idea.
"Who then? Anybody at all?" He probed
I tried to hide the huge grin on my face.
"Just tell me" he said
"If we ever get him back" I started
"Sam?"
"No! Bucky!" I practically screamed
Clint just looked down and tried to cover his smile "Natasha Romanoff just told me her crush"
"Yeah, well don't get used to it" I snarled
He made a slight laugh.
"What are we doing here?" I asked in an annoyed voice
"On this planet?"
"No, like, why are we HERE, shouldn't we be out THERE helping to search?" I gestured around us
"But what If something happens HERE" he pointed to the ground
I rolled my eyes to indicate he had won. This time.
"Want to go back on the ship, chat a bit more? I feel like we haven't seen each other in ages" I said
"Sure"
Steve's POV
I swung a fist at red skulls face, he easily dodged it. Tony ran towards me as I went to throw another punch, he stopped me before my arm reached halfway up my side. He grabbed me and held me back.
"What has gotten into you you Who is this Guy?!" I said whist struggling to keep me from beating the crap out of this red faced jerk.
"I assure you captain Rogers, we are on the same side" I stopped struggling and tony let his grip on me go.
"And how am I supposed to trust you" I accused
He was about to say something when tony stood between us and look at me directly in the eye
"Who. The hell. Is this?" Tony said with annoyance
"This, is red skull the leader and creator of hydra. The man I thought died over 80 years ago." I practically spat the last sentence to red skull
"The stone sent me out here. This is where I have been for one hundred years. Now I believe that you had a question for me?" He looked at Thor
"Do you know where thanos is?" Nebula questioned
Red skull paused. He looked away, then back at us.
"He is on titian, he has suffered great loss, but, he is proud, watching a sunset over a nourished area on his home planet" he told us
I looked at him sceptically 'he's hiding something' I thought to myself
"Anything else you want to tell us" I suggested
"Actually yes" he turned to Thor
"Something to tell him" red skull narrowed his eyes on Thor
Thor seemed surprised. He had that 'Who? Me?' Look on his face.
Then red skull turned around and said "come on out, asgardian"
Then a voice from where he was looking
"For one, I am not asgardian"
A figure appeared. I looked to Thor
"brother?!"
