Chapter One

They were gone.

Bucky, Wanda, T'Challa, Vision, Sam and Groot.

All of them turned into a pile of ashes, dust in a matter of seconds by the hand of Thanos. Steve didn't know Groot, the tree like alien but the Raccoon called Rocket did, and he knew that the anguish in his eyes was the exact same ones he held in his along with everyone else. Princess Shuri, T'Challa's younger sister was being held by General Okoye and M'Baku, both of whom were trying to hold back tears as the young woman cried.

They all were quietly processing what just happened, what Thanos did to them and the universe. Steve's mind instantly went to Tony. Where was he? What was he doing? Steve didn't want to think Tony Stark gone in a dust of ashes like the others, because Tony Stark would not vanish like that. No, Tony wouldn't be forgotten, disappear into ashes like that.

All of them were in Shuri's lab, the corpse of Vision covered in a simple white sheet away from them. He couldn't look at him, because looking at the white sheet would just be a reminder of everyone that is gone. Instead, he looked to Natasha who was silently tearing up. He reached out and squeezed her hand, she squeezed back. Words never uttered, they never did have to speak.

Steve looked at everyone who survived. Bruce and Rhodey talked quietly, probably about Tony. Thor stood quietly to the side, eyes glassy as if he was in another far away place. All of them suffered by Thanos, one way or another, they all lost and now they had to fight somehow. The man in question came up to the duo, sitting across from them. Thor gave them a smile but like everything that happened, it came tumbling down. Steve and Nat had their arms wrapped around him as he sobbed about the loss of his people, of Hemidall, and his brother, Loki. It was a shock for them.

Loki... dead?

It felt unheard of to them, to hear that Loki, the god, the man who wanted to take over New York years ago, died a hero.

Now Thor had none from his home, just the Avengers. Steve wanted to take everyone's pain and shove down a dark hole but he couldn't. What he could do was to stand back up and avenge the fallen, to make sure they would not be forgotten. He pulled away and stood up.

Everyone's eyes were on him, all of them waiting to see what the captain would do.

"We need a plan, a place to recover and hide."

Tony watched the blue robot (her name was Nebula, he thought he heard someone say it vaguely) telling him as she started to launch the ship into the atmosphere, away from the planet. Away from the losses of Peter, Strange, Star-Lord, Drax and Mantis.

"Earth. I know a place we could recover on Earth." Tony croaked. He hoped T'Challa would be fine if he hid with them. Maybe Steve and the others regrouped, maybe he wasn't too late, Tony thought to himself. He hoped, that he wasn't late, he hoped.

Nebula pressed the last two buttons on the screen and with a jolt, the ship flew towards their destination. It felt like a few minutes, maybe an hour as the view of Earth came into Tony's sight. It looked peaceful, but Tony knew it was far from that. He told Nebula the location and she was entering Earth's atmosphere, straight to Wakanda. As they were coming to land he could see a dome with creatures dead. Something in his gut collapsed and by looking at Nebula, she had the exact feeling as well. They flew past the scene of battle towards the city. They landed on a tarmac, where a group was waiting with weapons pointed straight at them.

"Hold your fire! That's my team's ship! That's my ship!" A voice spoke just as the hanger opened revealing the Avengers. A raccoon came towards them with a worried look it was trying and failing to mask. "Nebula. Where's everyone?"

Nebula was holding back tears as she broke the news to Rocket. The raccoon jumped onto her shoulder and stayed there as tears silently fell down his cheeks.

Tony just looked around and let a breath as he noticed Rhodey, Thor, Bruce, Natasha and Steve. But he knew some were missing and it made his gut twist the way Rhodey and Steve looked at him because he knew that the others who were here disappeared just like Peter. He did not know he was on his knees, crying but when Rhodey held him, it felt like nothing would be the same.

Bucky woke up on grass. Last thing he remembered was Steve, he was calling out to him because he was disappearing. Slowly getting up, he surveyed the place, it was covered with splotches of trees, a big wide field and what looked like ruins from a temple. It was quiet, too quiet for Bucky's tastes. As if, in any moment an explosion would go off underneath him.

But he knew that this was not Wakanda.

Something was wrong.

Where the hell was everyone? Where was he? How does he get home? Those were the thoughts running through his mind as he made his way to the temple. Maybe there was someone who knew where he was, at least that's what Bucky was hoping for.

As he got closer, he noticed a small figure hunched over. It looked to be a child, crying silently clutching her right leg tightly. Bucky didn't want to scare the child but he wanted to know if she needed help. As if sensing someone was watching, the little girl looked up and locked eyes onto his. She had fear but... not to him. There was pain and anguish in those big eyes, something no child should have but they were in hers. She was green and had dark violet hair, it's tips ending in light purple.

"Hi." He said softly. "I'm Bucky, what's your name kid?"

She sniffled. "Gamora." It came out quietly. "He brought you here. Thanos, he brought you here. He brought more. He brought my family here."

"Well, Gamora why don't we find the others. Lets find my family and yours."

The little girl looked at Bucky and at his outstretched metal arm. She tentatively took it, lifting her up and placing her on his shoulders. He was mindful of her injured leg. He looked up at her and knew that somehow, she must have been one of the first ones Thanos killed. But he knew that others were on here just like him and Gamora, that maybe T'Challa or Shuri was here. He didn't want to think of the latter being here... it would break him.

They could find the others and get back home.

They had to.

NOTES: This is an AU and just me trying to cope after watching Infinity War... If you have not seen the movie please mark this for read later and go watch this. I do not want to spoil it for anyone, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. #ThanosDemandsYourSilence Also, this is sort of an idea of where the other six characters are at...along with others. So, here you go!

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