Galactic Savior | Avengers✔️

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everyone comes home

AS the Avengers stared at each other in the circle they reappeared in, Steve immediately felt something was wrong as the Quantum Suit deactivated itself from his body.

Bruce looked around with a laugh. "Did we get them all?"

"You telling me this'll actually work?" Rhodey exclaimed.

Tony's eyes fell to the empty spot between Steve and himself. He turned to those who went to Space, seeing Clint fall to his knees and Natasha holding a hand to her face.

"Clint, where's Marlene?" Steve asked, his voice weak.

Rocket shook his head. "No, no!" he yelled. "Where is she!?"

No one answered. No one knew what to do or say.

Steve stormed out of the room, Tony following close behind as Rhodey put a hand on Rocket's head. The Avengers all walked outside to see Steve standing with Tony close beside him.

Marlene could not be dead. It just did not sit right with their hearts.

"Do we know if she was planning this?" Tony asked mockingly.

Natasha's head snapped to his. "What?"

Tony refused to cry though his heart screamed for him to mourn. It did not sit right. She was not dead. "She's some big prophet in the stars, right? When she was Elsa, she had a shit ton of powers. Maybe she knew this was going to happen. Maybe she'll come back with one of her silly portals—"

"Tony," Steve said softly.

"No!" Tony yelled. "She's not dead, Cap."

"Then, where is she?" Steve snapped with too many expressions running through his head. "She just wanted her life to mean something again... she thought by getting these stones... by getting the people back, it would take away that guilt. She didn't realize what it would cost, in the end," he finished with a tear leaving his eye.

Thor looked around in confusion. "What?"

Steve frowned. "I just—"

"Yeah, you're acting like she's dead," Thor boomed. "Stark's right. 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?" He growled out, "So stop this shit. We're the Avengers, get it together!"

Clint shook his head from his spot near Natasha. "We can't get her back."

"Wha–what?"

"It can't be undone. It can't," Natasha explained.

Thor laughed dryly. "I'm sorry. No offense, but you're both very earthly beings. Okay? We're talking about space magic. And can't seems very definitive don't you think?"

Clint grew angry. "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." Clint began to shout. "Maybe you wanna go talk to him, okay? GO GRAB YOUR HAMMER, AND YOU GO FLY AND TALK TO HIM!"

He paused as grief overcame him. "She just got a bit of her powers back. She was so fucking excited to have a piece of herself back. She sacrificed her life for that goddamn stone. She bet her life on it."

Suddenly, Steve picked up the nearest bench and broke it in half before throwing it as far as he could. He turned with anger in his eyes. "She's not coming back. We have to make it worth it. We have to."