"Is this everyone?" Daisy stepped towards Dr. Strange and whispered her worried question, the product of having glanced back at the securely enchanted room to host the war planning meeting. A chattering crowd was behind them, surrounded by portals which were now closing, however, the mass of people seemed too small for the mutant who had seen Thanos first hand and knew his army's capabilities. All she could hope for was that the fear in her chest could be transmitted by the way of words and muster those who gathered there for her into taking this situation seriously.

Humane beings had the flaw of not recognizing danger until it looked them in the face.

"What, you wanted more?" Stephen puffed, exhausted by the amount of explanation he had to give on repeat to everyone there.

Stark did not hesitate to join, speaking of some debt to pay back Daisy with; he was now conversing with Thor, trying to figure out what exactly has happened to their common friend, Dr. Banner, which went missing during Thanos attack on the asgardian refugees. Neither of them wished to declare their friend dead, especially since Loki's survival was a beacon of hope.

Next to them, Steve Rogers has also joined, feeling incredibly stiff in the gathering of quite odd people. He wanted to help but awkwardness would have made him feel out of place were it not for two close business colleagues indulging in a conversation with him: Rayna and Clint. The two were dusty, sporting dark circles as prized medals for how long it's been since their last proper sleep. Sierra Harss, currently representing K'un-Lun by the request of Danny, was silently seated at the end of the table on that side.

On the other side of the table were the weird fellas which made Steve gulp uncertainly. Erik Lehnsherr was by far the most frightening presence in front of heroes who knew him more for his crimes than good deeds, since they were considerably fewer. Beside him, Charles Xavier was restless too, unfriendly looking from the stress that even though he saw Daisy there with them, they haven't had the time to share a single word. She looked thinner, weaker, less alive than he remembered her and if the father's worry was not enough, then the pressure of concern for not being able to sense her telepathic waves anymore, even when this close to each other, was certainly enough of a reason to hold Erik's hand under the table.

Peter Maximoff, someone who'd easily gained a honest title of a brother to Daisy, has not joined this meeting. Instead, the others seat have been taken by Sol and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

"You should have given me more time to have the right to complain," Stephen frowned down at Daisy. There were two more seats at the table, saved for them, but just as the Sorcerer wanted to take a step forward, the mutant blocked his path.

"Actually, I need you to do one more thing for me... And I'll owe you big time, but the chains that got me occupied have also trapped Jean."

"The Phoenix Force is trapped and you only just tell me now?" Stephen's exclamation almost bypassed the hushed whispering state of their conversation in front of the one closing portal he now had to keep open.

"Something tells me you're the only one who can undo those chains in time for Jean to help us against Thanos. He took her off the game board because he knew she would help us win."

Stephen was uncertain of Daisy's words, precisely of her last assumption, however, being the Sorcerer Supreme meant that he had a duty to protect the realm and unfortunately for him, this realm was influenced by the existence of the Phoenix Force, as much as the other worlds. He nodded in agreement, accepting his mission, "You owe me big time, Miss Vince."

"Where'd the wizard go?" Rayna shouted just as the last portal closed with the leave of Dr. Strange and the sigh of Daisy Vince. The latter turned towards the table watching her in silence at last and walked to her seat, at the end of it, where Sol and Sierra would be on her sides. Daisy actively avoided looking her parents in the eyes, not because she didn't miss them, but because she knew she'd cry and now was not the best time to look weak in front of her future soldiers.

"He's busy...," Daisy's voice was much quieter than the storm coming with Rayna's tone, abrasive from whatever covered her and Clint in ash and bruises.

"We're all busy," Rayna's glare was merciless. "Busy cleaning up the mess you left behind with Anchor."

"Hey, calm down," Tony raised his hand and leant over the table to glance past his sunglasses at Rayna. He has shared his love for sunglasses with Sol briefly, but now, he indulged fully into the context of the meeting. "Daisy, you gotta start explaining why we are really here and what happened..."

"Is it true?" Steve's question quietened the table. His blue eyes turned to Daisy, perhaps just slightly unsure of his role there. "Did an alien trap you all this time?"

"Thanos," Thor answered for Daisy. "He trapped Daisy and killed my people when we were heading to Earth."

"He's after the Infinity Stones," Gamora added.

"What...," Tony blinked, focusing to understand, "what are those again?"

When no one could give a clear definition,  Sierra interfered quietly, from the seat she was leant back into. "They're part of the very essence of the singularity at the beginning of our universe, elemental crystals controlling each an aspect of existence. There's six of them: space, mind, reality, power, time and soul."

"That sounds dangerous," Clint noted.

"It is," Gamora agreed, passionate on taking part in this, though few presents knew of her vendetta against the one calling himself her father. "They are," she repeated. "Thanos aims to gather them all and with that power, he'll be able to carry out his plan of wiping out half of all life. Nothing but a snap of his fingers and we lose."

"That if he gets all the stones," Daisy continued the judgement, shedding one ounce of hope.

"How many does... Thanos have?" Steve's approach was tactical, alas taking seriously Daisy's war initiative, even if he had at first insisted they should at least consult with SHIELD before doing anything, if not even announce some higher ups. Mass panic was a danger, but should the people have the right to know this handful of supposed heroes might be signing Earth up for a galactic war?

"Two," Peter Quill pointed on his fingers. "He took the Power Stone by destroying a whole planet and he also got the Space Stone from the asgardians."

"We know the locations of the others though," Daisy sighed in, having noticed the panic form in Tony's eyes. She was still avoiding looking at Charles and Erik and for that, her hands were shaking and they had to be hidden under the table. "The Mind Stone was last in Loki's Scepter."

"Scratch that," Rayna shook her head firmly. "HYDRA has it now..."

"We took it back once," Tony argued.

"Not permanently," Clint agreed with Rayna with a nod. "We checked the stocks and we had a security breach. The Scepter is likely with HYDRA and Anchor too."

"They're working together now?"

"For a while, yes," Rayna answered Daisy bitterly. While the famous mutant disappeared, the likes of Rayna and Clint, perhaps aided by Captain America and the Falcon sometimes, had to deal with organized crimes directed by these organizations no one could phantom yet how to take down properly. She was worried by more urgent matters: Earth destroying itself from the inside.

Daisy's lip quivered before she gulped away her sadness and continued. "The Reality Stone was given onto Taneleer Tivan by the asgardians, however, we must assume Thanos will get his hands on it soon because Sol confirmed Taneleer no longer has it in his possession. The Time Stone is protected by Dr. Strange, so it should be safe and well... We have the Soul Stone."

"Hi!" Sol smiled brightly, waving the confused pairs of eyes.

"The plan is not to protect the stones as much as it is to stop Thanos before he gets the chance to track them all down and retrieve them for the Gauntlet," Daisy cut to her true theme of the meeting. "We will have the element of surprise when we take the fight to him. He's not expecting resistance."

"Elements of surprise don't last," Steve voiced, thoughtful in his own experience. "And something tells me we are largely outnumbered the second Thanos figures out we are attacking him in his home... assuming that's where we are going."

"We can't attack him on his Mother Ship," Thor immediately noted, smacking his fist down on the table."

"Loki knows where Thanos regroups his army."

"You want to trust Loki?" Tony accentuated. "Correct me if I am wrong, Dee, but didn't Thanos supply Loki with the army of Chitauri?"

"He was tortured by Thanos," Sol added in the favor of the God still sleeping on the ship, watched over by Drax. "I think he hates him as much as any of us."

"There's a lot of assumptions here, Miss Vince," Steve sighed. "We barely won that fight against the Chitauri and now we are talking about transporting the Avengers to space? To fight an unknown number of aliens and a man who has defeated you..."

Daisy watched everyone in disbelief. No one from Earth saw the danger the way she had seen it and alone, there was only so much the Guardians and Thor could do. But of course, she forgot to check on her parents, until Erik's voice pierced through the conversation.

"You didn't the X-Men on your side when you faught the battle for New York," he sternly reminded Steve. "We showed you once what we can do against invading aliens and we are threatened again. Thanos picked on one of our own so with or without you, we will fight back and make him regret his choices." Alas Erik met eye to eye with Daisy and her heart broke. She's been so scared of this reunion, of having to apologize for being so late home, so slow on doing the right thing, but the certain support he was giving her was somehow ten times as emotional than what she prepared herself with.

"Just tell us the goal," Charles reassured her with a nod, bringing her attention away from the tears which glassed her gaze.

"We can't destroy the Infinity Stones," Daisy sniffed her nose, "but we can kill Thanos."

Over the hum of the meeting, one single voice stuttered scared at the conclusion. "Kill Thanos?" Sierra finally leant forward and looked up at Daisy in disbelief. "Isn't that," she tried to awkwardly laugh the uneasiness away, "a bit radical?"

"Kill before being killed," Erik explained.

"Thanos shows no mercy," Gamora added, "and he will not stop destroying and killing in his madness. Putting him down is the only way."

"I am not contesting that," Sierra gulped towards the intimidating green woman and searched some reasoning into Daisy's eyes. Unlike their first meeting, at Stark's party, Daisy was staring at her lost, disconnected; telepathy was not on her side anymore. "But I don't think you realize the impact his death might have."

"What do you mean?" Steve inquired, interested, unlike the mutants, rather decisive in the way they have crossed their arms at their chest.

"I mean," Sierra's face lightly flushed red, because taking the whole attention of the conversation upon herself added onto the pressure of not making a fool out of herself at the first ever hero meeting she was invited to -more or less. "We don't know what we are truly walking into, who Thanos is scaring or who he is controlling. Fine, say we kill him, but are we really sure we are ready for whoever is out there stronger than Thanos? Powerful good people will always challenge powerful bad people out."

Tony has heard that before and so did Steve. It was a fact on the way the world worked. Putting out fire with fire was only going to burn the world down, but did they really have a choice? By Daisy's description, proved by the Guardians, Thanos will not stop until he had killed half of the universe. Crazy as it seemed, murder seemed to be the only way out of the war which with or without them was happening still.

They only had to decide if they wanted to turn a blind eye or do something about it.

Finally, out of the silence, Daisy sighed, "Look, Sierra, I like you... but sincerely, I don't even know what you are doing here." She watched woman's eyes widen in the delight of noticing, even without her telepathy, she could get inside her head. "Danny's the warrior and if he's busy, that's fine. He shouldn't have sent you here."

"Indeed," Erik sealed the conclusion with which his daughter nullified the comment brought at the table. "Civilians shouldn't be involved in this anyway."

"The sooner we finish Thanos off, the better, so who's with me on this one?" Daisy, boosted by the nods of her dads, managed a little smile towards them, before directing it at the other fellow mutant in the room. "We could use the Blue Soldier-"

"Use this," Rayna raised her middle fingers at Daisy with a sarcastic smile, while getting up. "I knew you wanted me here just for the Blue Soldier and sincerely, fuck you for that!"

"Where are you going?" Tony raised his eyebrows at Clint Barton, also following Rayna to stand.

"Man, I did my share when aliens invaded Earth," Hawkeye sighed. His sigh travelled into a yawn which painted the pause in his speech. "But going to space? I have to agree with the war criminal there, this ain't for civilians like me. Good luck out there, but I'll stay grounded and try to keep the evil humans from taking over."

Sierra Harss also got up, following the two. "I will talk in K'un-Lun about this," she voiced. Daisy's eyes slightly widened for she forgot Sierra was there as the representative for a realm to be feared. Alas, Sierra's eyes met Daisy's coldly, "But I wouldn't hold my breath for our help in this madness you are starting."

The room Steven has left them in had an exit system which opened back the portals they came through. Two portals opened and the three disappeared, allowing Daisy to nervously look at the remaining few.

"I'm in," Tony sniffed away the silence. "I'll get all my suits ready, try to call Rhodey and not alert the military about what we are planning to do. If Thanos is responsible for the shit with the Chitauri, I've got your back on this one, Dee."

Steve nodded, taking a nuance from Tony's unexpected selflessness, dipped in the fear he hid behind his sunglasses. "I'll help too and try to get Bucky and Sam on this as well."

"You know we are with you on this one," Gamora immediately signed up the Guardians and Sol.

"Me and my brother will get revenge for our people," Thor declared as well.

"We'll call the X-Men," Erik decided before Charles could have a say. "As many as you need." Thanos made his daughter suffer and he will, in return make that alien wish he was never born. It was a revenge of deepest love which fuelled Erik's decisiveness: thinking he'd lost Daisy again almost killed him.

"So are we like Avengers 2.0 now?" Tony leant back in his chair and nudged Steve and Thor.

They weren't avenging though, Daisy knew. They were preventing a future filled with destruction.

author's note:    this team-up really needs a name lmao 😂😂😂 but my brain can't function on names right now sooo, this chapter will have to do with what it implies..

idk, how do you guys like it so far?
how do you like the judgement of some characters on the matter? like, as you have noticed, my main four ocs all have very different approaches...