Sorry, it took so long. Stupid thing didn't wanna work

The team were a bit traumatized about what they saw on the Asgardian vessel.

Nonetheless, they continued to watch the movie.

Tony Stark and Pepper Potts were walking through New York City, wearing jog suits.

Tony was speed walking, trying to catch up with Pepper. "Slow down, slow down." He had finally caught up to her, stopping at her side. "I'll spell it out for you."

"You're totally rambling," Pepper stated.

"No, I'm not," Tony told her.

"You lose me," Pepper replied, continuing to walk forward.

Tony continued to walk, trying to keep up with her.

"Look, you know how you're having a dream, and in the dream you gotta pee," Tony told her.

"Yeah," Pepper confirmed.

"Okay," Tony told her. "And then you're like, 'Oh, my God. There's no bathrooms. What am I gonna do? Oh, someone watching.' "

"Right," Pepper told him. "

'Oh, I'm gonna in my pants,' " Tony continued.

"And then in real life you actually have to pee," Pepper told him.

"Yes," Tony told her. "Yeah," Pepper told him. "Everybody has that."

Tony began to walk backwards, still looking at her. "Right, that's the point I'm trying to make. Apropos of that, last night I dreamt we had a kid. It was so real." He had caused Pepper to stop walking and stay frozen in place. "We named him after your eccentric uncle. Uh, what was his name?" He snapped fingers, realizing what it was. "Morgan."

Tony sat there, shocked. He had never dreamed that he'd have children. Not intentionally, at least.

"So you woke up...Pepper began.

"Naturally," Tony interrupted.

"...and thought we were..." Pepper trailed off.

"Expecting," Tony finished.

"Yeah," Pepper told him.

"Yes?" Tony asked.

"No," Pepper answered.

"I had a dream about it," Tony told her. "It was so real."

"If you wanted to have a kid..." Pepper trailed. She unwrapped the sweatshirt that he was wearing, removing it, revealing the arc reactor symbol on his chest. She pointed at it, placing a finger on it. "You wouldn't have done that."

"I'm glad you brought this up, 'cause it's nothing,"Tony told her. "It's just a housing unit for nanoparticles."

"You're just helping your case, okay?" Pepper asked.

"No, this is detachable," Tony replied. "It's not a..."

"You don't need that," Pepper interrupted.

"I know, I had the surgery," Tony told her. "I'm just trying to protect us... and future usses and that's it. Just in case there's a monster in the closet. Instead of you know..."

"Shirts," Pepper finished. "You know me so well," Tony told her.

"God," Pepper stated.

"You finish all my sentences," Tony told her.

"You should have shirts in your closet," Pepper replied.

"Yeah," Tony agreed.

"You know what there should be? No more surprises. We're going to a nice dinner tonight. Show off this Harry Winston. Right? And we should have no more surprises. Ever. I should promise you."

"We all know that you'd find some way to break it," Steve joked.

"Yes," Pepper told him.

"I will," Tony told her. Tony and Pepper leaned in, sharing a kiss.

Suddenly, a large circle and an orange, sparkler like portal opened up. Dr. Stephen Strange walked through it. "Tony Stark."

Tony and Pepper both broke away from their kiss, quickly turning to look at the man in front of them.

"Like just now," Natasha told them.

Stephen stepped forward, walking completely out of to the portal. "I'm Dr. Stephen Strange. I need you to come with me."

Pepper grabbed Tony's arm, squeezing it in fear.

"Oh, uh, congratulations on the wedding, by the way," Stephen stated.

"So, you're finally tieing the knot," Clint stated. "About time."

Wedding? Tony reflected. He knew Pepper was the one for him. But, he hadn't thought about getting married any time soon. But, this was the future. So, it made sense for he and Pepper to get married eventually.

Tony took a step closer, looking at the man strangely. "I'm sorry, you giving out tickets or something?"

"We need your help," Stephen replied. "It's not overselling it to say the fate of the universe is at stake."

"And who's 'we' ?" Tony asked.

And as if on cue, Bruce came walking through the portal stood next to Stephen, looking Tony straight in the eye.

"Hey Tony."

Tony was speechless and shocked. "Bruce."

Bruce walked closer, turning to Pepper. "Pepper."

"Hi," Pepper greeted shocked.

"You okay?" Tony asked.

Bruce quickly pulled Tony in for hug, squeezing him tight. Pepper placed a hand Bruce's back, trying to comfort him.

The scene changed to inside the Sanctum. Tony was sitting in a chair, with his arm propped up to support his head, watching Wong.

"From the dawn of the Universe, there was nothing. Then, boom!" Wong explained as he uses magic to project an image of the Galaxy. Then an image of an explosion appears then reveals The Stones. "The Big Bang sends six elemental crystals, hurdling across the virgin Universe. These Infinity Stones each control an essential aspect of existence."

Everyone-minus Thor, leaned in, trying to learn as much about The Infinity Stones as possible.

Thor already knew plenty about The Stones. But nonetheless, he was astonished. Not only did Midgardians possess access to powerful sorcery. But they had knowledge of The Infinity Stones. Wow.

"Space. Reality. Power. Soul. Mind." Stephen listed off as the stones showed themselves. Then he placed his hands on the Eye of Agamotto. "And Time." Then he made a gesture with his hands to open the Eye, revealing the Time Stone.

Thor sat there with his mouth wide open. The Time Stone was on Earth, under the protection of a human this whole time. And Earth is to believed to be one of the weakest planets in existence. Man, were they wrong.

"So, when did he gain possession of a Infinity Stone?" Natasha asked.

"And where did he learn magic?" Bruce asked.

Everyone glanced at Thor.

Thor quickly shrugged. "I have no idea. I didn't even know humans knew about the Infinity Stones, let alone possess one.

Realizing that they weren't going to get any answers from each other they all reluctantly turned back to the movie screen.

Tony stares at this then to Bruce and said. "Tell me his name again."

"Thanos." Bruce replied as he walks up to Tony. "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."

Everyone glanced at each other. Thanos was the reason for bringing the Avengers together in the first place. And when Loki failed to deliver the Tesseract, he decided to get it himself. Makes sense.

"What's our time line?" Tony asked him as he paces around in place.

"No telling," Bruce replied, quickly. "He has the Power and Space Stones, that only makes him the strongest creature in the whole Universe. If he gets his hands, on all six Stones, Tony..."

Tony walks over to the side of the staircase and leans against a cauldron.

"He can destroy life on a scale of hither to hundredth of," Stephen finished as he walks up next to Tony.

"Did you seriously just say hither to hundredth of?" Tony asked.

"Are you seriously leaning on the Cauldron of the Cosmos?" Stephen asked,annoyed .

"Is that what that is?" Tony asked just as the Cloak of Levitation smacks Tony's hand off of the Cauldron. Tony, shocked by this, looks towards Stephen as he raised his eyebrows at him.

A few chuckles were released at the sight of Tony being smacked by a magical blanket.

"I'm going to allow that." He said, pointing at Stephen. "If Thanos needs all six, why don't we just stick this one down the garbage disposal?" He said as he points at the Eye of Agamotto.

"Did you seriously suggest placing one of the most powerful things in existence in the garage disposal?" Clint asked.

Tony simply shrugged.

"No can do," Stephen replied, firmly.

"We swore an oath to protect the Time Stone with our lives," Wong informed him.

"And I swore off dairy, but Ben & Jerry's named a flavor after me, so..." Tony said, shrugging.

Tony smirked. In the future he gets a ice cream flavor named after him. Sweet.

"Stark Raving Hazelnuts," Stephen replied.

Tony turns to him and said. "It's not bad."

"A bit chalky," Stephen remarked.

"A Hunka-Hulka Burning Fudge is our favorite," Wong replied.

"That's a thing?" Bruce asked him, shocked.

Bruce sat there, feeling joy rise in him. Not the ice cream flavor itself. But, the very concept that someone would name something in his honor. I guess people really see me says hero, he thought to himself.

"Whatever," Tony exclaimed. "Point is, things change."

"Our oath to protect the Time Stone cannot change," Stephen said. "This Stone may be the best chance we have against Thanos."

"And still conversely, it may also be his best chance against us!" Tony exclaimed, angrily.

"Only if we don't do our jobs." said Stephen.

"What is your job exactly, besides making balloon animals?" Tony asked, sarcastically. You and Stephen glare at him until Stephen speaks. "Protecting your reality, douchebag." He said, in a low voice.

Tony and Stephen glare at each other when Bruce speaks up. "Okay guys, can we quick cable this discussion right now? The fact is we have the stone. We know where it is. Vision is out there somewhere with the Mind Stone. And we have to find him now."

"Yeah, that's the thing." said Tony.

"What do you mean?" Bruce asked as Tony walks up to him.

"Two weeks ago, Vision turned off his transponder," Tony replied. "He's offline."

"What?" Bruce asked, exasperated. "Tony, you lost another super bot?"

Tony turns away from him. "I didn't lose him. He's more than that. He's evolving." He walked away from him.

"Who could find Vision, then?" You asked him. Tony looks up then looks around before he lets out a sigh. "Probably Steve Rogers." He replied and you groan as Stephen mutters. "Oh, great."

"Maybe. But..." Tony trails off as he thinks.

"Call him," Bruce pleads.

Tony turns his head towards him and said. "It's not that easy." Then he turns to face Bruce and said. "God, we haven't caught up in a spell, have we? The Avengers broke up. We're toast."

Everyone leaned in closer, all looking shocked. Why in the hell would Earth's Mightiest Heroes disband?

"Broke up?" Bruce asked. "Like a band? Like The Beatles?"

"Cap and I fell out hard," Tony stated. "We're not on speaking terms."

Steve and Tony glanced at each other, questionably. What did he mean by 'fell out hard'? They soon both looked back at the screen.

Bruce walks closer to his friend. "Tony, listen to me. Thor's gone. Thanos is coming. It doesn't matter who you're talking to or not."

Tony pulled out a flip phone, opening it, about to call Steve until something stopped him.

There was a very faint noise he could hear. He looks around to see where it was coming from only to see Stephen's hair were moving slightly, like a wind was blowing them.

"Say, Doc, you and wouldn't happen to be moving your hair, would you?" Tony asked Stephen.

"Not at the moment, no," Stephen replied.

All four men look up at the hole in the roof and see debris flying overhead. Tony look towards the door and see people running past the door, they all looked like they were running away from something.

Tony walks out on the street to see civilians running and screaming in terror. Stephen, Wong and Bruce were not far behind him as a woman falls in front of Tony.

"You okay?" Tony asked the woman as he helps him up.

The woman nods just as a car comes hurtling towards them but thankfully hits a pole instead of them. The woman ran away.

"Friday, what am I looking at?" Tony asked his AI as he puts on his glasses. "Not sure. I'm working on it." She said then Tony turned to Stephen. "You might wanna put that Time Stone in your back pocket, Doc!"

Stephen instead opened his necklace, did a few hand motions, and conjured green rings around his wrists. "Might wanna use it."

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, a school bus drives down the road when the hairs on a young teenagers, Peter Parker, arm stands up. Peter looks at his arm then out towards the window to see the giant spacecraft. As he stares at it, he pats his friend's, Ned, shoulder then pulled off his ear bud. "Ned, hey. I need you to cause a distraction." He says, quietly, to him.

Ned turns and sees the ship and said in fear. "Holy shit! We're all gonna die!"

The bus load of teenagers heard him and started to run over to the side of the bus and stare at the ship as Peter pulls out his web shooters and aims a web at the emergency exit lever and pulls it down, opening the window wide enough for him to climb through. "What's the matter with you kids? You never seen a spaceship before?" The bus driver asked as Peter sticks to the side of the bus, puts on his mask and swings off.

"Who's that kid?" Steve asked. "Who'd get a kid involved in this?"

"Friday, evac anyone south of 43rd Street, notify first responders," Tony ordered as all of them walk towards the wall of dust.

"Will do," Friday said.

Stephen then moved his hands really fast and fluid like. Then he thrusted the spell forward and blew away the dust, making it easier for them to see. He then turned to Tony and gave him a wink as a beam, from the ship, slams down and two figures appear before them.

One figure, called Cull Obsidian, was a huge and reptilian looking creature, carrying a giant hammer. The other figure, Ebony Maw, was a smaller one but he was tall and thin with his hands in the praying position. He smiles as he speaks to four men. "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 was once again annoyed. These aliens were speaking as if being murdered was something to celebrate.

"I'm sorry Earth is closed today," Tony quipped. "You better pack it up and get out of here."

Ebony Maw turned to Stephen, "Stonekeeper, does this chattering animal speak for you?"

Tony quickly frowned. How dare some alien call him a animal?

"Absolutely not. I speak for myself." Stephen lifted his hands straight up in the air, made small circles and then two orange shields formed around his hands. He took a fighter's stance and said, "You're trespassing in this city and on this planet."

Wong followed Strange's example and stepped forward.

"It means get lost, Squidward," Tony shouted.

The team couldn't help but to burst into laughter. He did somewhat resemble Squidward Tentacles.

Ebony Maw scowled and turned to his adoptive brother, Cull Obsidian. "He exhausts me. Bring me the stone."

Cull Obsidian roared and slowly started walking towards them.

"Hey, do you want a piece?" Tony asked Bruce as he turns to face him.

Bruce looks at Tony then said. "No, not really. But when do I ever get what I want." Then he closes his eyes and tries to summon up the Hulk.

"Been a while," Tony told him. "Good to have you, buddy."

Bruce's neck was turning green but nothing was happening. "I just...I need to concentrate for a second." Bruce mutters as he groans and strains to bring the Hulk out but nothing was happening.

Bruce looked worried. He had never had problem letting The Other Guy out before. In fact, it was keeping him in that was the problem. So, why wouldn't The Other Guy come out now? When he was needed more than ever? He sat there trying to find a reasonable answer.

Stephen looked over at Bruce with concern as Cull Obsidian began to walk towards them.

"Where's your guy?" Tony asked.

"I don't know," Bruce told him. " We've sorta been having a thing."

"There's no time for a thing," Tony told him. " That's the thing right there. Let's go." He patted Bruce's shoulder.

Bruce, once agains tries to summon the Hulk but nothing happens but him screaming out in pain. He leans over on his knees as he catches his breathe.

Stephen and Wong stare at the two in confusion.

Tony turned to Bruce. "Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the wizards."

"I can't...He won't..." Bruce said, fearfully.

"It's okay. Stand down." Tony said, quickly. He then turned to Wong. "Can I leave you with him?"

Wong nodded. "I have him."

Tony turned his attention back to the aliens. He began to walk casually towards them as he starts to pull off his glasses just as the nano-bots in his reactor start to form around his body, turning into a brand new Iron Man suit. His Iron Man suit materialized around him, starting at his chest and spreading to the rest of his body until he was safe and sound in the suit. Four metal half circles deployed from the suit's back and fired four repulsor beams at Cull Obsidian and sent him flying backwards. Ebony Maw tossed him to the side to prevent him from crashing into him. The half circles folded into themselves and connected back to the suit.

The team all stared in amazement.

Tony was the most impressed. He had never been able to develop a suit with such advanced technology before. What was the secret to unlocking it?

"What was that?" Bruce asked, impressed.

"Nano tech, you like? It is pretty basic techno-"

Tony took a mental note. He had to remember that.

Ebony Maw rose his hand up and Stark was flung into the air with a shout of surprise. Ebony Maw then used his power to pull out a tree and flung it towards you guys but Wong got in front and made a shield to cover all of you. Stephen turned to Bruce. "Dr. Banner, since your green friend will not be joining us…" He created another portal and pushed Bruce in, sending him to a grassy park. He closed the portal and stood with Wong.

Bruce landed in the grassy park, standing up. "Come on, Hulk. What are you doing to me?" He then began slapping himself, as a effort to unleash The Hulk. "Come out! Come out!"

Suddenly, Bruce's face was split in two. Half Bruce Banner and half Hulk. The Hulk then screamed. "No!" Bruce's face then returned back to normal, causing him to stumble back. "What do you mean no?"

Bruce sat there, traumatized. Never, ever has The Other Guy done that.

Natasha was also confused as to why the big guy was refusing to come out. Maybe he was still sour about his beating with Thanos.

Meanwhile, Stephen tried to do a spell as a car comes at the, but Tony comes flying back and shot the car back towards Ebony, who raised his hand and made the car split in half.

"You gotta get that stone outta here, now," Tony said to Stephen.

"It stays with me," Stephen said to him, firmly.

"Exactly. Bye!" Tony said and he takes off after Ebony but Cull wakes up and uses his axe and knocks Tony away from Stephen and Wong.

As Cull goes after Tony, debris fly up in the air next to Ebony, who turns them into spears and aims them at Stephen and Wong but Stephen summoned portals as one portal took them in and the other poetal aimed those spears back to Ebony, who used a car to block them but there were too many as one hits the side of his head. He yelped in pain then glares at the two of them.

He raised his hand and a huge spurt of water, from a hydrant, shoots out and knocks Wong back.

Stephen then summoned a whip but Ebony caught it and Stephen pulled Ebony toward him. Ebony hurled towards him, grabbed him and flied towards the side of the building and used his powers to make the bricks form around Stephen's body.

"Your powers are quaint. You must be popular with children." Ebony said as he reaches out for the Eye of Agamotto but the spell that was protecting the artifact comes on as Ebony wraps his fingers around it. Ebony screams out in pain and pulled his hand back, seeing that the spell left a mark on the palm.

"It's a simple spell but quite unbreakable," Stephen sneered at him.

"Then I'll take it off your corpse." Ebony exclaimed, angrily, and he grabbed the collar of the Cloak and pulled him put of the wall.

Stephen pulls away from Ebony then started to activate the Time Stone but some wires came up and wrapped around Stephen's arms. Stephen looked down as the Eye closed and the Stone deactivated. Then the wires wrapped all around Stephen's body, then up to his neck.

"You wouldn't. Removing a dead man's spell...Troublesome." Stephen gasped as he tried to catch his breathe.

"You'll only wish you were dead," Ebony stated as he clenched his fist and the wires wrapped tighter around Stephen's neck until he passed out.

Ebony smiles as Stephen falls over and lands on the pavement. Ebony lifts up the piece of pavement and begins to fly off as the Cloak struggles to free Stephen. Luckily, the Cloak wiggled and freed Stephen out of the trap and starts to fly away. "No!" Ebony screamed as the Cloak flies Stephen to safety.

Meanwhile, over at the park, Tony and Peter Parker aka Spider-Man, who finally showed up, were fighting Cull when Stephen flew past them.

"Kid, that's the wizard," Tony informed. "Get on it."

"On it!" Peter exclaims and web slings towards Stephen.

Suddenly, a couple of poles folded over and grabbed the Cloak. Stephen's body flied off but Peter came in time and webbed up Stephen. "Gotcha!" He shouts and he swings away with Stephen.

The Cloak latches around your shoulders and the two of you fly after Peter continued to swing away with Stephen until a beam comes down, pulling Stephen and Peter. Peter grabbed the light post with one hand and the other hand held the web attached to Stephen. "Mr. Stark? I'm being beamed up." Peter calls out as he struggled to get free but unfortunately he couldn't pull away from the beam and continued to be pulled towards the ship with Stephen.

"Hang on, kid," Tony told him.

"Give me a little juice, Friday." Tony said as he flies after the ship. Then the legs of his suit formed into a rocket launcher and he takes off after the ship. Meanwhile, Peter was crawling on the side of the ship, trying to figure a way in. "Unlock 17-A." Tony commanded and from far away a pod shoots out of his home and towards the ship. "Kid, you gotta let go. I'm gonna catch you." Tony said to Peter.

"But you said save the wizard!" Peter exclaims as he crawled a few feet then he pulled off his mask. "I can't breathe!"

"You're too high up. You're running out of air." Tony informed him.

Peter nods and said, breathlessly. "That makes sense." Then faints and falls backwards. Fortunatey the pod opens up and latches onto Peter, forming his new suit, the Iron Spider. Peter wakes up and catches himself before he falls and slowly stands up. "Mr. Stark, it smells like a new car in here." He shouted as Tony flied up next to him.

"Happy trails, kid. Friday, send him home." Tony said and flies to the side of the ship while a parachute opens at the back of Peter's suit, sending him flying off.

"Aww, c'mon!" Peter shouted while Tony landed on the side of the ship and used a laser to cut a hole in the ship.

He climbed inside as Friday said. "Boss, incoming call from Miss Potts." Then she switches on the phone.

"Tony? Oh, my God. Are you all right? What's going on?" Pepper's frightened voice asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just think we might have to push our 8:30 res." Tony said as he looks around him.

"Why?" Pepper asked him.

"Just 'cause I'll probably not make it back for awhile." replied Tony.

"Tell me you're not on that ship." Pepper begged but Tony stays silent for a moment before saying. "Yeah."

"God, no. Please tell me you're not on that ship." Pepper started to beg and Tony could hear the tears in her voice.

"Honey, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know how to say this. Pep...

Tony looked down, sadly. He hated making Pepper worry. And that's exactly what he did every time he put on one of his suits.

"Come back here, Tony. I swear to God...Come back here right now! Come back!" She begged and Tony closes his eyes in despair. "Boss, we're losing her." Friday told him. The last thing Tony heard from Pepper was her begging him to come back home until the call goes static and ends.

Outside of the ship, Peter was crawling up the ship again and started to look for a way inside. "Oh, my God." He exclaimd as a small compartment door opened. Peter then crawled inside of it. "I should have stayed on the bus." He said to himself as the door closed.

"Yeah, probably should have," Clint muttered.

Meanwhile, Bruce had picked up the flip phone Tony had dropped. He then looked at Wong, who had opened another portal leading to the sanctuary. "Where are you going?"

"The Time Stone's been taken," Wong informed. "The Sanctum remains unguarded. What will you do?"

"I'm gonna make a call," Bruce answered.

Wong nodded before he stepped into the portal and closed it behind him.

Bruce then blew some the dirt off of the phone, before opening it up. He then scrolled down to Steve Rogers' name.