CHAPTER NINETEEN:
I land down with the four others in 2012 down the side of a building. We see a Chitauri pass down the street, scaring off civilians.
"Didn't miss that." I murmur.
"All right." Steve says. "We all have our assignments. Two stones uptown, one Stone down. Stay low, keep an eye on the clock." A loud roar is heard and we look back down the main street, Hulk from 2012 passes by, smashing absolutely everything on its way. I glance back at our present day Bruce-Hulk, of who was extremely embarrassed. "Feel free to smash a few things along the way." Rogers tells him.
"I think it's gratuitous, but whatever..." He walks away from us, pretending to smash things in a more sarcastic and purposely fake sort of way.
I sigh and turn back to the other three. "Let's hope this doesn't go too bad."
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I walk with Steve in my old suit towards the elevator.
"So, when this is over, you thinking about coming back to the states?" He asks me.
"I have a farm... In Ukraine... And a dog..." I inform him.
"It's never too late." He shrugs, the doors of the elevator open to the H.Y.D.R.A agents and both me and Rogers get in. The doors close and there's a silence for only a moment.
"Captain, Aerus." Sitwell says. "I thought you were both coordinating search and rescue?" And I thought you were dead I think in my head.
"Change of plans." He says to him.
"Hey, Cap. Air." Rumlow says.
I fake a smile. "Hey, Rumlow." I notice the others in the elevator start to get more suspicious, their guards up.
"We just got a call from the Secretary. We're running point on the scepter." Steve says. I stay quiet.
"Sir? I don't understand." Sitwell says.
"We got word there may be an attempt to steal it." I tell him.
"Sorry, Air. Cap. I can't give you the scepter." Rumlow, of who was holding the case, tells me.
"I'm gonna have to call the Director." Sitwell says, taking his phone out.
"That's okay." Steve says. "Trust me." He leans over and doesn't even seem to attempt saying the two words quietly. "Hail Hydra."
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"Steve Rogers saying hail hydra? Who is he!?" I mock.
We walk around on the bridge and stop suddenly. 2012 Steve Rogers stood in front of us.
"Oh you gotta be shitting me." I hear Steve next to me say.
"Language." I mutter.
2012 Steve goes onto coms, staring at us. "I have eyes on Loki, he's in control of Aerus, too."
"Bullshit." I scoff. Steve looks at me. "Sorry." I apologise.
He puts the case down slowly, staring at himself. "I'm not Loki. And I don't wanna hurt you." 2012 Cap runs forward, clashing his sword against Steve's I rush forward and kick him off his feet. He kicks me back and does the same for when Steve goes to attack.
"I can do this all day." He says.
"Yeah.. I know." Steve mutters, getting up he throws his shield the same time the other Steve does. I rush forward and tackle him to the ground. He pushes me off and runs over to Steve, them two begin to fight as I go for the scepter. That was up until one of them kicked it off. I look down and watch it fall down to the ground level and sigh.
"Oh fuck this." I jumped down to the level below, and then the level below that. I see the two Captains crash down, falling below to the bottom level and I sigh. "Idiots." I call before jumping down. I see them both stand up for a moment, staring at each other. I roll and take hold of the scepter but they begin to fight again (like total children).
"DO IT, AIR." Steve tells me.
"STOP STRUGGLING." I tell him. Which was easier said than done, I guess. I hit the Steve behind him with the back of the scepter and he only gives Steve from my present time more shit.
"Bucky... is..." I realise what he's saying and I widen my eyes. "...alive."
2012 Captain America lets him go and looks over at him, before he can even question it, I put the scepter to his chest and he falls to the ground.
"Well, that was one way to do it." I say to him, he picks up a compass off the floor and puts it away and I raise an eyebrow.
"That is America's ass." He says, looking at his own ass.
"Come on, then, Captain America." I mutter.
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"Cap, Air." We turn around and see the two idiots in a smashed up car. Whoever came up with the idea of sitting in the car was what I wanted to bet on. "Sorry, guys. We got a- problem."
"Huh. Yeah we do." Scott says, annoyed.
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"Well, what are we gonna do now?" Steve asks.
"Give me a break, Steve." Tony says. "I just got hit in the head with the Hulk." He says, still in the car.
"You said we had one shot. This-this was our shot. We shot it. It's shot. Six stones or nothing. Six stones or nothing-" Scott begins
I sigh. "You're repeating yourself. You know that, right? You're repeating yourself-"
"You're repeating yourself. You're repeating yourself. You know- no-"
"Dude come on-" Tony begins.
"You never wanted a time heist. You went on board with the time heist-"
"I dropped the ball."
"You ruined the time heist."
"Is that what I did?" Tony looks over at him, shocked.
"Yeah!"
"Are there any other options for the Tesseract?" I ask Tony.
"No, no. There's no other options. There's no do-overs. We're not going anywhere else. We have one particle left. Each. that's it, alright? We use that- bye bye. You're not going home-"
"Yeah, well if we don't try, then no one else is going home, either." Steve says.
"I've got it. There's another way." Tony says, standing up out of the car. "To retake the Tesseract and acquire new particles. We'll stroll down memory lane- you two." He says, pointing at me and Steve,"Military instillation, Garden state."
"When were they both there?" Steve asks him.
"They were there at a- a vaguely exact idea-" Stark says.
"How vague?" I ask him. Scott talks in the background but we don't listen.
"I know for a fact they were there. And I know how I know." He says to the two of us.
Steve sighs and looks at me and I only shrug. "Well, looks like we're improvising." I take the scepter off of him and hand it to Scott.
"Get that back to the compound." I tell him.
"Suit up, you two." Stark says.
"What's in New Jersey?" Scott asks.
"0-4." Stark says the numbers and we copy them in. "0-7."
"EXCUSE ME."
"1-9-7-0"
"Are you sure?" Steve asks him.
"Cap. Captain. Steve, sorry. America. Rogers. Look, if you do this-" Scott says, all of us looking at him. "-and it doesn't work. You're not coming back."
I breathe out heavily and look down at the ring on my finger. "Thanks for the pep talk, pissant." Stark says before turning to me. "Do you trust me?"
I sigh and think for a moment. "Yeah." He looks over at Steve.
"I do." He says.
"Your call." I tell Steve.
"Here we go." He says, before we travel... Again.
a/n- okay but you all thinking Aerus was gonna go to Vormir is v funny ha ha bold to assume I could add that much trauma to a character-