*NAT'S POV*

"But- just to make things better- If you get the stones from Thanos now, it'll make everything easier. You don't have to do all this time travel stuff," the blue... robot... alien said. Her name was Nebula. She came in saying she was on our side but the daughter of Thanos.... It seems she wants to kill him as much as we do. "Get the stones, come back, get everyone back. In and out. Back to normal." She makes it sound easy.

Thor ended up asking a stupid question about how she made her voice so 'mysterious sounding.' Rocket told him off for it. "Shall we get going? My ship should hold all of you."

I happened to look over at Tony and I could see his hands shaking. He swallowed hard and spoke.

"Yeah...Yeah...Let's get this over with." He looked really spooked. I could see a hand trail down to his stomach. He rested it tenderly over the spot where his still healing wound was.

"Hey Tony?" I asked when we were alone. "Do you think you're up for this?" "What? Yeah of course. Why not kick some purple nutsack huh? I'm in the mood," he joked, sounding confident. I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Stark, I'm an ex-assassin and spy. I can read people like a book- and right now, you are about to have a panic attack." "Ok- I could live without you saying that." "Sorry."

He hummed not really paying attention. "Well I'd better go get my suit. See ya." He walked away with a bit of speed.

Within a few minutes the team was meeting outside at the ship. Shuri was getting it ready. "To think I used to never believe in aliens... here we are. First the Chitauri now there's this purple alien thing that wiped out half the universe," Clint mumbled.

I smacked him in the back of his head. "Ow..." "Ya know Clint, you're an idiot. I'm pretty sure you're making everyone edgy."

Murmured agreements scattered. "Oh heh sorry." "Are we done standing here?" Nebula asked. "Uh-Yeah."

"Hey Nebula?" "Hm." "How'd you get my ship?" "I stole it." "Wha- Why?!" She just shrugged.

Rocket groaned. "Ok here's the rules; One, don't puke on my ship, Two; Don't puke on my ship, and Three; I will literally throw you out into space if you puke. On. My. Ship. Capiche?" "...Yeah..."

Soon enough we finally got there and I could see Tony's knuckles were white from clutching onto his seat to stop his shaking hands

"C'mon..." Nebula said, coldness in her voice. "Shuri. Bruce stay in here. We'll call you if we need backup." The two nodded.

"He's over there..." she pointed to a small hut. "He really did get a retirement place after destroying the universes' lives..." "Mhm." "Alright let-lets get this over with," Tony mumbled.

"Ok everyone wait for my signal." We stood outside the small hut and he eventually made a hand gesture, telling the team to go. We smashed inside and held him in place despite his struggles to escape.

"Where are the stones?!" Thor boomed. Thanos pulled against our grasp. "They're gone!" He grunted. "They can't be gone! Nothing can destroy them-"

"But the stones themselves," the titan finished. "Why the hell would you destroy them?!" Rocket yelled. "Why do you think? Someone else could break in here and use them themselves. Why are you here? To have some stew?" Sarcasm coated his voice.

There was a moment of silence. I looked at everyone. They were all mixed with disbelief and grief. Tony looked like he lost a part of himself. He looked empty. I could see a small tear streak down his face before he wiped it away quickly.

His breathing quickened and his eyes became dark. "We have no chance now- no fucking chance-" Anger building inside of him, he walked up to Thanos and punched him.

His head whipped to the side but when he turned back around, a small drop of blood dripped. He chuckled.

"All that... for a drop of blood, Stark?" He visibly winced. "You can't beat me. None of you can get more than a drop of blood out of me-" Thor yelled in anger. He pulled his axe up and sliced Thanos' head.

"Drop of blood my ass." The god hissed. The whole team stared at him in disbelief. "...What- what did you do..."

"I took his advice and went for the head." His whole body was shaking. "We can't get Loki back now... We can't get anyone back!"

"Let's...Let's go home..." Steve instructed. I stiffly nodded.

"Hey guys. Any luc-" Bruce started to ask but stopped when he saw our faces. He looked at me with confusion. I just shook my head sadly. "No luck. Thanos is dead though." "How?" "Thor decapitated him." "Oh wow...wow."

"What do we do now?"

"Plan B?" "I guess so."

*TIME SKIP*

When we got back, everyone retreated to their rooms. I'm pretty sure we all got our hopes up pretty high. We thought we could get everyone back as fast as they were gone. It's only been a week since the snap but it feels like forever already. For all we know... It could take a really long time.

I noticed that Pepper sped over to Tony right before he got the the room. She whispered something in his ear and his eyes widened.

Huh... I wonder what that's about...

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