"I've set the devices to take you to New York during the alien invasion." Hank Pym said. He handed each of the four time machines to Tony, Steve, Nebula, and Scott. The each took it and placed it around their hand using the straps attached. Once you get the information you need, you will set the destination like this." He took one of the devices and demonstrated how to change the date and location of their destination by rotating the circular device clockwise or counter clockwise.

Shuri stepped up to the group. "When you get there, you can use these…" she handed them some modified Kimoyo beads. "… to get the readings on the stones that we need. Just hold it to the stone, or whatever is holding it, for about a minute. Then it will send all the information to me."

"And make sure that you are seen as little as possible." Hank added. "Especially by your past selves. We have no idea how they might react to seeing their future selves."

"So go back in time, place this thing on the magical space stones, and don't be seen by ourselves." Scott said, going over all of the instructions. "Shouldn't be too hard."

"Okay, when you are all ready, press down on this button here, and then it should take you back." Hank said.

"What do you mean 'should'?" Asked Tony.

"Okay, all of you need to activate them at the same time so you don't come out to far from each other." Hank said as he began to leave the room. "We'll be counting you down from outside the room, just in case you guys explode."

"Explode?" Scott said. But Hank was already outside of the room before he could respond. They all turned towards the window where Shuri, Bruce, Natasha, Hope and now Hank were standing.

Hank's voice came over the speaker in the room. "I'm going to count you down from 10." He explained, and then started counting.

"Alright," Scott started. "Let's hope we don't die."

They all stood ready. Tony was wearing some civilian clothing, hiding the chest piece he had on that contained all the nanobots for his suit. Scott and Steve were wearing their superhero suits, and Steve had the shields that Shuri had given him on his wrists. Nebula had her batons strapped to her legs.

"3…2…1..Now!" Hank said over the speaker. They all activated their devices at the same time and were suddenly transported to the quantum realm. Tony had one second to look at this strange realm that he hoped he could one day learn more about. But then he was pulled through it and all of the sudden he was in the middle of an alley way in New York city.

He fell over when he arrived, grabbing a nearby dumpster to pull himself back up. His legs were a little wobbly, but he looked around to see were the others were. Scott had appeared further down the alley way. He looked at Tony, "Where are Cap and the uhhh, blue alien girl?"

Almost on cue, they heard a scream from one of the buildings, and then Nebula jumped out of one of the windows and landed next to Tony. Some one looked out of the window Nebula had jumped out of, and looked at the people below. She turned and ran away, screaming, "aliens are invading." Over and over again.

"Making friends, are we?" Tony asked Nebula.

"She'll get over it." Nebula responded.

The three of them walked out onto the street. Tony and Scott were in front, while Nebula stayed back in the alley, so that she did not frighten anymore New Yorkers.

"Not that I'm complaining, but I don't think I see any aliens flying around right now." Scott said as he looked around the sky above him.

"The invasion hasn't started yet." Nebula said. "If it had, there would be a lot more destruction here."

All of the sudden, they heard someone jumping down one of the fire escapes in the alley. It was Steve. He landed and walked over to the rest of the group. "She's right, the invasion hasn't started yet. I landed on the roof, and Stark Tower hasn't even been touched yet."

"Well then how long do we have to wait?" Scott asked. Then they heard what sounded like a jet plane flying over them. They all looked up, and Tony saw his past self flying towards his own tower in the suit that had been damaged after he tried to repair the heliicarrier.

"Not long." Tony said. He started walking in the direction of Stark Tower. "Once the portal opens, the tesseract will be unguarded until Natasha gets up to close it. That will be our chance."

"And what about Loki's scepter?" Steve asked. "He had it with him for most of battle."

"We'll have to figure that one out." Tony said.

"That doesn't sound like much of a plan." Steve said.

"Well then why don't you come up with one." Tony replied.

Steve stopped walking and grabbed Tony by the arm to hold him back. "This is the problem with you Tony. You don't think to plan ahead. You just fly into the battle, repulsers first, and figure everything else out later. We can't take these chances here."

Tony was starring daggers into Steve's eyes. Scott stood a little away from them, wondering if they might start fighting. Nebula was annoyed. After a few seconds, she said "Listen you stupid humans, we need to get to the stones now. So we need to move."

Just as Nebula finished saying that, they heard an all to familiar noise come from the top of Stark Tower. They all looked over and saw the portal open up above the city, and the Chitauri started flying out.

"We need to move now." Steve said. They all started running towards the tower as civilians started to run in the other direction. The Chitari were flying all over the city now, and they could see the trail of destruction heading there way.

After running a few blocks, they stopped to see all the destruction. Tony and Steve had forgotten how much damage had been done in such little time.

"We need to get up there fast." Steve said, pointing towards the top of Stark Tower.

"How do you suppose we do that?" Scott asked. But as he did so, a Chitauri Chariot flew down the street they were on, blasting towards them. Steve raised his shields and Tony stood their with his Iron Man suit on while Scott ran for cover, but Nebula ran towards it, jumped off the roof of a car and landed on the chariot. Soon it flew past, and all Tony, Scott and Steve could see were a few Chitauri bodies fall off of it before it turned around and flew back towards them. It slowed down as it reached them, and pulled into a stop as the group saw that Nebula had taken control of the vehicle.

"I got your ride up now boys." She said. "Get On." Steve and Scott got on the Chariot while Tony was about to start flying up to the tower before Steve grabbed him by the arm.

"Wait Tony." He said. "What if someone sees two Iron Men in the sky? Or what if you see yourself?"

Tony thought about what Steve said before he pulled his arm out of his grasp and begrudgingly got on the Chariot.

"Hold on to something." Nebula said in here robotic voice. Then the flying vehicle was off at incurably fast speeds. They flew up the tower, and the Chitauri forces they encountered on the way were getting significantly more troublesome. Tony was blasting some that got a little too close, while Steve blocked some of the fire with his shields.

Eventually they got to the top of the tower. Nebula slowed the speeder down and they all got off.

"Who's that?" Scott asked, looking towards the unconscious body lying on the roof with them.

"Thats Dr. Erik Selvig." Steve told him. "Loki forced him to build that." Steve pointed at the device that had opened the portal, allowing all of the Chitauri forces in.

As Scott and Steve were speaking, Tony had spreading moved towards the Tesseract and placed the device Shuri gave them on the force field that was around the Cube. Luckily it was still able to collect the data they needed.

"Okay, we got this one, where is Loki's Scepter?" Tony yelled at the rest of the group.

Scott looked at the destruction around the city. "Ummm. I'm going to guess that Loki has it." He said this as he saw a Chariot with Loki on, causing a lot of destruction as it flew threw the cities of New York City.

"Well then we need to get it." Neblua said as she walked forwards and pointed her gun towards Loki.

"Wait." Steve said as he grabbed Nebula's gun and pushed it downwards. "We can't change the timelines too much."

"When else will we get the chance to hold the stone?" Nebula snapped back.

"Just wait. We'll get our chance." Steve said.

As he said this, another chariot flew by, shooting at them as they stood on the roof. Tony fired back, while Nebula continued to watch Loki fly around, waiting for her chance to get the stone.

Eventually, as the others were busy fighting a few of the Chitauri, Nebula saw an explosion on Loki's chariot, and he crashed on a balcony just a few stories below them. She saw him stand up, but then a large green humanoid creature slam into him and they both flew into the building. She looked closer and saw that the scepter was still on the balcony.

Nows my chance, she thought. She jumped over the edge to go get it and get the data they needed. Scott, who was close by, saw her jump down. "Wait.." He yelled. "Where are you going?" He quickening jumped and followed her. When he landed, he saw why she had jumped. She was holding the device to the scepter and getting the data they needed.

"You didn't have to follow me." She said.

"Well I kinda thought… Oh Shit!" He saw something behind Nebula that terrified him more than anything he'd seen in his life of crime-fighting. Nebula looked towards what Scott was looking at.

"What is that?" She asked.

"That's the Hulk." Scott said in fear. Hulk looked at the two time travellers in front of him with anger and all of the sudden he jumped towards them.