#the actual series order itself can be confusing because uhh in order to understand the full story you sorta have to play/watch every single

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Chapter 10; Figuring out the when and where

*Author’s note*

Okay guys as promised now that I made it safely to my sister’s place. You all will get a nonstop update from me of my finished and complete Bad Wolf series. I hope you all are ready for the binge read because you’re in for a wile ride my dears :)

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*3rd Person POV*

Back at the Avengers facility, the team was finally assembled.  Bruce and Rocket went to Norway to get Thor who had drastically taken his failure to a whole new level.  Not only was he in denial, he had also drunk himself to a stupor.  

He now sported a beer gut that would make his once good friend Vostagg envious.  His hair was also long once again but unruly kept and his beard resembled what a redneck would sport.

He wore baggy clothes and held a can of beer in his hand as he walked through the facility.

“You’re drifting left, one side there Lebowski.” Tony said as he was pulling of cart of supplies while also having some kind of tube draped over his shoulder, all these tools were for the quantum time machine. “Rachet, how’s it going?” he called out to Rocket who was working on the machine.

“It’s Rocket. Take it easy, you’re only a genius on Earth, pal.” Rocket spoke up taking a break between hammering some things together to make the panel stable.

Meanwhile in another room, Scott, Nebula and Bruce were working on the time machine suit that each person had to wear in order to survive in the quantum realm.

Scott was wearing the suit while Nebula punched in the codes and continued to make sure the suit was stable enough for high speed time travel, while Bruce went to grab the important ingredient that would help the suit work, the Pym Particle.  As Rhodey came in he said.

“Time travel suit, not bad.” As Bruce activate the part of the side belt where the Pym particle was supposed to go, Scott opened up his helmet so that he could speak as he warned Bruce.

“Hey! Hey! Hey! Easy, easy!”

“I’m being careful.” Said Bruce.

“No you’re being very—hulky.”

“I’m being careful.” Bruce argued with him.

“These are Pym Particles, alright. And ever since Hank Pym got snapped out of existence this is it! This is what we have. We’re not making anymore!”

“Scott, Scott calm down.” Rhodey said trying to calm him down.

“Sorry. We’ve got enough for one round-trip each. That’s it. No do-overs. Plus two test runs.” Scott explained trying to get the Avengers to understand just how dire this was.  But as soon as he put the Pym Particle in place, he let out a yell as he felt himself quickly shrink before returning to normal size. “One test run.” Scott said bluntly. “Alright. I’m not ready for this.”

“I’m game.” They all turned around and there stood Clint. “I’ll do it.” It was then Clint got in the suit and as Nebula began working out the coding’s for the suit Bruce explained to him.

“Clint, now you’re gonna feel a little discombobulated from the chronoshift don’t worry about that.” Clint nodded and that’s when Rhodey said.

“Wait a second, let me ask you something. If we can do this, you know…go back in time, why don’t we just find baby Thanos you know and?” he then made the motion of wrapping a chord around Thanos’ neck before tightening it, otherwise basically killing Thanos as a baby.

“First of all that’s horrible.” Bruce stated.

“It’s Thanos.” Rhodey argued.

“And second, time doesn’t work that way. Changing the past doesn’t change the future.”

“Look, we go back and get the stones before Thanos gets them. Thanos doesn’t have the stones. Problem solved.” Scott said.

“Bingo.” Stated Clint.

“That’s not how it works.” Nebula stated.

“Well that’s what I heard.”

“Wait, but who? Who told you that?” asked Bruce and it was then Rhodey began listing all the movies that dealt with time travel.

“Star Trek, Terminator, Time Cop, Time after Time.”

“Quantum Leap.” Added Scott.

“Wrinkle in Time, Somewhere in time.”

“Hot tub time machine?”

“Hot tub time machine. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Basically any movie that deals with time travel.”

“Die Hard? No that’s not one.”

“This is known!”

“I don’t know why everyone believes that but that isn’t true. Think about it; if you travel to the past…that past becomes your future….and your former present. Becomes the past. Which can’t now be changed by your new future.” Bruce said trying to explain to Rhodey the real truth of time travel.

“Exactly.” Nebula agree.

“So Back to the Future is a bunch of bullshit?” Scott asked in a tone that felt like he had been living a lie.

*Morowa’s POV*

Thanks to Stark and Rocket, the quantum time machine was now fully complete.  With Clint now all suited up and standing at the center of the machine, we were ready to do our first test run to see if we can successfully maneuver throughout time with the new suit involved.

“Alright Clint. We’re going in three…two….one.” the machine activated and soon he shrunk down and disappeared.  I stood by Bruce and Steve and I asked him.

“Where exactly did you send him?”

“It was Nat’s idea.” I then turned towards her and she said.

“I want him to have a chance of what we can bring back.” At hearing that I knew I didn’t need to ask him just where he had gone. Within ten seconds Bruce counted down and soon the machine activated again and Clint screamed out a name, my guess is that it was probably his daughter’s.

We all raced up to him and Nat knelt down in front of him and said to him as she held onto him.

“Hey, hey, look at me. You okay?” Clint was a little dazed but whispered assuringly to her that he was okay. As the two of them stood back up Clint said the two most hopeful words we were all desperate to here.

“It worked.” In his hand he held a baseball glove that probably belonged to his sons and he said to us louder this time as he tossed Stark the glove. “It worked.”

We were now in the meeting room with visuals of all six infinity stones on screen.

“Okay so the how works. Now we gotta figure out the when. And the where.” Steve said. “Almost everyone in the room has had an encounter with at least one of the six infinity stones.”

“Or substitute the word “encounter” for “damn near been killed” by one of the six infinity stones.” Said Tony.

“Well, I haven’t.” Scott piped in. “But I don’t know even know what the hell you’re are talking about.”

“Regardless, we only have enough Pym Particles for one round-trip each. And these stones have been in a lot of different places throughout history.”

“Our history.” Stated Stark. “So, not a lot of convenient spots to just drop in, yeah?”

“Which means we have to pick our targets.” I finished his thought.

“Correct.” He said pointing to me.

“So, let’s start with the Aether. Thor, what do you know?” Steve said towards Thor.  We all turned to the god of thunder who was lounging in one of the chairs in the corner but he was unresponsive.

“Is he asleep?” asked Nat.

“No. No I’m pretty sure he’s dead.” Answered Rauri. He then walked up towards the god and slapped him over the head waking him up.  Thor let out a loud snore and when he saw that his beer had fallen to the floor, he groaned. “If you would kindly sober yourself up, we’d like to know about the Aether while we’re still young!” Thor looked at my son in law and that’s when he said.

“You know my sister had a wolf just like you. Much, much, much bigger though. It could’ve killed you if it wanted to. Bruce you remember my sister’s pet.” Wow, he must be so drunk that he could probably see Rauri in his wolf form at this state.

“I’d rather not talk about that right now.” I could notice Rauri’s claws starting to come out as his anger was slowly starting to boil.  Damnit Thor don’t you know never to piss off an angry Irish man.

“Thor please. The Aether. Tell us what you know of it.” I said trying to get his attention on me and not on Rauri.  He let out an exaggerated groan and exhale as he said.

“Of course witch warrior.” He walked up to the monitor which held out “REALITY STONE”. “Um, where to start? Um…” he took off his shades before continuing in a sluggish manner, “The Aether, firstly, is not a stone. Someone called it a stone before.” He pointed to Steve who just looked at him confused. “Um, it’s more of an angry, sludge sort of thing…so someone’s gonna need to amend that. And stop saying that.” He said as he did something with his prosthetic eye he had gotten from Rocket.

Oh dear god we are not gonna get anywhere with this.

“Here’s an interesting story, though, about the Aether. My grandfather, many years ago had to hide the stone from the Dark Elves. Ooo scary beings. So, Jane, actually.” The monitors then transitioned form a picture of the stone as well as the Dark Elves to a picture of Physicist Jane Foster. “Oh there she is.” He touched the screen with his shades as he continued, “Yeah so, Jane was an old flame of mine.”

Dear god please someone stop him. Or at least tell him to get onto the point.

“You know, she stuck her hand inside a rock this one time….and then the Aether, stuck itself inside her. And she became very, very sick. And so I had to take her to Asgard, which is where I’m from…and uhh we had to try and fix her. We were dating at the time, you see….and I got to introduce her to my mother….whose dead, and um…..” at this point Thor began to grow sad.

Oh boy here we go.

“Oh, you know, Jane and I aren’t even dating anymore, so….” At this point Bruce gave the signal to Tony to get him to stop talking and end this discussion before Thor had a breakdown.  Thank god for Stark.

As Thor continue to mumble about how things never last forever and it was then Tony came up to him and said.

“Why don’t you come sit down?”

“No I’m not done yet. The only thing that is permanent in life is impermanence.” He then lets out a laugh and that’s when Stark offers him breakfast but Thor says he’d like a bloody Mary.

What in the hell did I just witness here?

Next up was the Power Stone.  As we all gathered around the table eating some Chinese takeout, Rocket was walking around the table explaining to us how the Guardians of the Galaxy came into contact with the Power Stone.

“Quill said he stole the Power Stone from Morag.”

“Is that a person?” asked Bruce.

“No Morag’s a planet. Quill was a person.” Rocket stated.

“Like—like a planet? Like in outer space?” asked Scott almost not believing what he was hearing.

“Aww look. It’s like a little puppy all happy and everything. Do you wanna go to space? Do you wanna go to space puppy? I’ll take you to space.” Rocket mocked Scott as he ruffled his head but Scott moved his head away a second later, not wanting to be babied.

Truthfully I envy Scott. I mean out of all of us, he’s the most innocent out of us.  He didn’t have to deal with interdimensional threats, or alien invasions, or robot apocalypses.

By early morning Nebula was telling us about the Soul Stone, which was one of the hardest stones said to find because no one not even the sorceress supreme when she was still alive knew where it had been relocated at,

“Thanos found the Soul Stone on Vormir.”

“What’s Vormir?” asked Natasha as she took notes.

“A dominion of death. At the very center of celestial existence. It’s where—Thanos murdered my sister.” Nebula told us gravely. After that all just went quiet for what felt like eternity till Scott piped in.

“Not it.”

Now it was my turn to talk about the Time Stone. I was with Nat, Stark and Bruce in the room and I explained as I sat on one of the lounge chairs while Nat and Tony lay across the table and Banner was lying on the ground.

“Okay Morowa, the Time Stone. What do you know of it?” asked Stark.

“Well in order to not go off on a full lecture of what the sorcerers do. I’ll try to make it brief. When the six infinity stones were first spread out throughout the reaches of the galaxy. One stone alone fell to the Earth first. The Time Stone. Where it was found fortunately by the very first sorcerer. Agamotto. And we’re fortunate he was the one to find it, out of all the six infinity stones, the Time Stone is the most powerful and the most dangerous. If used in the wrong hands or misused in anyway, it can alter time itself. Creating space paradoxes, time loops, force you to relive the same event over and over again for all eternity. Or risk not being born at all. Agamotto then create a special weapon to help harness the power of the Time Stone, the Eye of Agamotto. It is the duty of the sorcerer supreme and all the sorcerers he takes in to protect not only the time stone, but each of the sanctums our first teacher created. One in London, one in Hong Kong, and one here in New York.”

“Wait, wait there’s a sanctum in New York? Say isn’t that where that Doctor lived?” asked Nat.

“Yeah it was uhh—Bleecker Street?” Bruce said confused.

“Yes. 177A Bleecker Street. In fact I think if I recall at the time Loki came to Earth a few years ago, the Ancient one herself had the Eye of Agamotto with her.” I answered.

“So…..if we pick the right year, there are three stones in New York.” I grinned at Natasha.  It was then Bruce sat up and said.

“Shut the front door.”

It was finalized.  3 stones in New York 2012, Asgard 2013, and Morag and Vormir 2014.

“Alright, we have a plan. Six stones, three teams. One shot.” Steve said as we gathered around the main meeting room.

Later that day, all dressed up in our time travel suits, we walked towards the machines getting ready to do our Time Heist, get the stones, come back and then bring everyone back that was snapped away three years ago.

“Five years ago we lost. All of us. We lost friends, we lost family, we lost a part of ourselves. Today, we have a chance to take it all back. You know your teams, you know your missions. Get the stones, get them back. One round-trip each. No mistakes, no do-overs. Most of us are going somewhere we know. That doesn’t mean we should know what to expect. Be careful, look out for each other. This is the fight of our lives….and we’re gonna win. Whatever it takes.” Steve said as we all gathered around the entrance of the machine and put our fists together, assembling together.  “Good luck.”

“He’s pretty good at that.” Said Rocket.

“Right?” Scott asked astoundingly.

“Alright you heard the man. Stroke those keys Jolly Green.” Said Tony as Bruce began punching in the coordinates.  

“Tracker’s engaged.” I saw Clint look down at his palm and Rocket said.

“You promise to bring that back in one piece right?”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I’ll do my best.” Clint responded.

“As far as promises go, that was pretty lame.” Bruce then came and stood between Scott and Steve.  I turned to Rauri and nodded to him and I reached out telepathically.

‘You remember what we talked about right?’

‘Yes mum. I’ll try not to be too hard on him.’ I nodded again and that’s when Nat said with a small smile.

“See you in a minute.” With that the machine began to activate and all our helmets came up.  I exhaled until suddenly feeling that jolt as I and the rest of the team began to shrink.  I followed close behind Tony, Scott, Bruce and Steve as we headed towards our destination.

This was it. I knew we were gonna bring everyone back, we just had to.  I may have lost my first child, but I refused to lose my second one knowing that there is a chance to bring her back.