Steve, Bruce, Clint, Thor and Peter all stand in front of a beautiful lake while morning the loss of Natasha "Do we know if she had family?" Peter quietly asks "Yeah, Us." Steve says "What?" Thor asks "I just asked him a question–" Peter tries explaining but Thor cuts him off "Yeah, you're acting like she's dead. Why are we acting like she's dead? We have the stones, right? As long as we have the stones, Cap, we can bring her back, isn't that right? So stop this shit. We're the Avengers, get it together." "We can't get her back." Clint whispers with tears in his eyes "W-What?" Thor asks "It can't be undone. It can't." Thor dryly laughs "I'm sorry. No offense, but you're a very earthly being. Okay? We're talking about space magic. And "can't" seems very definitive don't you think?" "Yeah, look, I know that I'm way outside my paygrade here. But she still isn't here, is she?" "No, that's my point–" "It can't– be undone. Or that's at least what the red floating guy had to say. Maybe you wanna go talk to him, okay? GO GRAB YOUR HAMMER, AND YOU GO FLY AND TALK TO HIM!" Clint's anger is quickly replaced with grief "It was supposed to be me. She sacrificed her life for that goddamn stone. She bet her life on it." In a burst of anger, Bruce grabs a bench and hurls it across the lake, His anger spent he turns and looks at the others "She's not coming back. We have to make it worth it. We have to." "We will." Steve says
Peter carefully places the stones in the gauntlet he made while Bruce and Rocket watches. With nervous precision, Peter manipulates the machine and carefully places all six stones into the gauntlet. "Boom." Rocket jokes, Peter and Bruce jump a bit, and quickly groan at Rocket's joke. They then go into another room with the finished gauntlet "All right. The glove's ready. Question is, who's gonna snap their freaking fingers?" Rocket asks "I'll do it." Thor says "Excuse me?" Scott says "It's okay.", Peter holds Thor back from grabbing the gauntlet "Wait, wait, Thor, just wait. We haven't decided who's gonna put that on yet." Steve says "I'm sorry. What, we're just sitting around waiting for the right opportunity?" "We should at least discuss it." Scott says trying to reason with Thor "No, no, sitting here staring at that thing is not gonna bring everybody back. I'm the strongest Avenger, okay? So this responsibility falls upon me. It's my duty." "It's not about that." Peter says
"It's not that– Stop it! Just let me!" he tears up quickly "Just let me do it. Just let me do something good. Something right." "Look– It's not just the fact that that glove is channeling enough energy to light up a continent, I'm telling you, you're in no condition." Peter says "What do you– What do you think is coursing through my veins right now?" "Cheez Wiz?" Rhodey says "Lightning." "Yeah." Peter lets go of Thor. "Lightning won't help you, pal. It's gotta be me. You saw what those stones did to Thanos. It almost killed him. None of you could survive." Bruce says "How do we know you will?" Steve asks "We don't. But the radiation's mostly gamma. It's like...I was made for this."
"Good to go, yeah?" Peter asks "Let's do it." Bruce says putting the iron gauntlet on. "You remember– everyone Thanos snapped away five years ago and just bringing them back to now, today. Don't change anything from the last five years." "Got it." "F.R.I.D.A.Y., do me a favor and activate Barn Door Protocol. Will you?" "Yes, boss." "Everybody comes home." Bruce puts on the gauntlet, which nanobotically expands to fit his hand, and the power surge overwhelms him. He grunts in pain. "Take it off! Take it off!" Thor shouts " "No, wait. Bruce, are you okay?" Steve asks "Talk to me, Banner." Peter says " I'm okay. I'm okay." Bruce says fighting the pain.
Bruce screams, fighting through the intense pain coursing through his body courtesy of the gauntlet, and manages to snap his fingers. He faints and the gauntlet slides off his arm, Clint kicks it away. "Bruce!" Steve yells running over to him "Don't move him." Peter says going over "Did it work?" Bruce asks "Worth a shot. It's over. It's okay." Thor says, Scott walks towards the outside windows and sees plants and birds. Clint hears his phone ringing and sees it's his wife calling. "Honey." Clint says unable to speak from pure happiness, "Guys, I think it worked!" Scott shouts happily, Bruce opens his eyes and sees the Sanctuary II up in the sky and a single missile heading towards the base blows Scott away. Then a continuous array of missiles destroys the base completely and everyone sinks below to the underground.
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