-Unbetaed and non native speaker so please kindly point out any mistakes.
-Warning: spoilers for Infinity War.

Finally Thanos' finger snap of Doom had been undone in Wakanda. Unsurprisingly, Tony didn't feel like celebrating. Unlike what others who believed the tabloids thought, winning wasn't everything. He just wanted all those deaths caused by the Snap of Doom were undone. It seemed Steve Rogers and his fellow survivors also thought the same. They just waited. They expected some miracles.

The first one to return was Bucky Barnes to the joy of Steve. Tony was happy for them. They had been separated often enough and for too long. Rogers and he had buried the hatchet. They had lost a lot and not working together would mean losing more. It helped that Steve apologized and hugged him as soon as they regrouped in Wakanda after his return from Titan.

The rest of the Avengers turned up one by one to be greeted by their fellow team mates. The Scarlet Witch was not too thrilled to return to the living. Tony could relate.

T'Challa appeared to the cheer of Shuri, Okoye, and the rest of the Wakandans. He bowed at Tony to thank him before greeting his fellow teammates.

The first member of the Guardians of the Galaxy to appear was Drax. Rocket the Raccoon was so happy, he threw out his tough racoon act and hugged Drax's legs. The big alien just patted Rocket's head. Groot turned up next. He naturally said "I'm Groot" to which Rocket replied "I miss you too, my stupid son." Rocket hugged Groot tight without any reservation. Mantis appeared next followed by Peter Quill. The last one who appeared was Gamora . Nebula immediate ran to hug her.

Tony needed to thank the blue alien properly. Without her, they wouldn't have won against Thanos even with the firepower they had with their latest ally, Carol Danvers.

He nearly gave up until he heard someone called "Mr Stark". A blur of blue and red zoomed in and hugged him.

Tony hugged back.

"I'm so sorry, Mr Stark. I really scare you."

He patted the kid's head. "Yes, I age nearly ten years because of you." He didn't exactly exaggerate. "Don't do it again."

"I won't."

He knew someone was still missing. A certain stubborn wizard whom he had grown to respect. He needed to speak his mind about giving up the time stone and being cryptic. Was there really no other way?

"Where is the wizard?"

"Do you mean Doctor Strange? He created a few portals for us to step through. He was right here with me in wherever we were. He asked me to step through the portal first and he would follow. He should be here soon."

They waited and waited. There were more people turning up. A lot of them were confused why they ended there. SHIELD tried their best to explain.

A lot of them were already transported back. The rest of the Avengers asked Tony whether he wanted to return. It had been five fours since Peter Parker turned up. Tony shrugged. Perhaps the wizard wanted to remain anonymous and opened a portal to his own Sanctum first. But why would he lie to Peter? From what Peter told him, Strange had been very protective of Peter the whole time. He wouldn't lie to the boy.

They had a brief gathering at the palace. Tony would have admired the architecture more if he wasn't dead tired. He slept as soon as his body hit the mattress. He still had the nagging feeling that the sorcerer was missing but his logical mind told him that Strange was a powerful wizard who could take care of himself.

His nagging feeling didn't go away so at the next day he called Wong who had also helped them a lot in the last few months to ask whether Strange had turned up.

Wong didn't sound too happy because Strange hadn't turned up in the Sanctum or Kamar-Taj. In fact, none of the sorcerers or acolytes had seen him.

Tony asked Wong to keep him posted and he would do the same if he heard any news about Strange.

For a few weeks, Wong had exhausted any magic means and Tony all the available technology at his disposal but Strange was still MIA.

After six weeks, they had given up searching and hoped for the worst. Perhaps he didn't make it.

Three months later

Tony was in a super boring meeting (to be fair, nearly all meetings were boring) with SHIELD, his phone vibrated at his pocket. Ignoring Fury's glare (he had saved the world a few times and had helped resurrected half of the universe so he should get some free passes), he took out his phone and read the text. It was from Wong.

"We found Stephen in a basement of a cult we infiltrated. He seems to have his memory removed by spells and he also lost his magic. I'd bring him to the Avengers compound as soon as I can because it was not safe to bring him to the Sanctum or Kamar-Taj."

Tony guessed asking Strange why was being cryptic had fallen to the bottom of his list of questions.

-The real plot started from the next chapter. I really couldn't say more without revealing any twists (I might be very bad with making twists) but Stephen Strange became a Sorcerer Supreme not only because of his magic.
-If you want me to update my existing WIPs instead of creating a new one, please yell at my muse, not me.