Hidden Secrets

Part 299 & 300

*Everyone is eerily quiet as Tony watches the names and faces of his missing team on the screen.*
TS: Turn it off.
NR: He really did it.
Y/N: Half of all living creatures. Gone.
TS: What now?
SR: I'm not sure.
TS: That's a first. Do you have any bright ideas?
Y/N: We could really do without the attitude right now.
RR: I thought you were the genius. What about you?
TS: Right up until now, I thought you were Build A Bear.
SR: Tony, we really need your input.
TS: I don't think so.
Y/N: What? Why not?
TS: We're Avengers. We don't lose. We've never lost. This time, we got our asses handed to us on a silver platter.
SR: You're right. I know that, but...
Y/N: We can't go back. We have to move forward.
TS: Very uplifting. Your husband is rubbing off on you.
NR: So you're not going to help?
TS: We have a winner.
Y/N: Uncle Tony, please. There has to be a way.
TS: How are the kids? You still have three of them, right? Or did you lose one?
SR: Tony, you've gone too far.
TS: You know what? You're right. I should stop. As a matter of fact, I will. I'm done.
*Tony gets up out of his wheelchair and rips the IV out of his arm.*
TS: I'm going to start a new life. A new home, wife, maybe a kid ot two.
SR: Tony...
TS: I'm serious, Rogers.
Y/N: Would you please calm down?
TS: Let me give you a going away present.
*Tony rips the housing unit for his suit off of chest and puts it in Steve's hand.*
TS: Here. Take it. I won't be needing it anymore.
*His legs get weak and he falls to the floor.*
Y/N: Tony!
TS: Leave me alone! I'm fine!
*After saying that, he passes out.*

*Moments later, Rhodes returns to the conference room.*
Y/N: Is he going to be ok?
JR: Bruce sedated him. He'll be out of it for a while.
CD: I'll be back.
NR: Where are you going?
CD: To kill Thanos.
Y/N: Wait a minute. I'm not sure how things work where you come from but here we work as a team.
NR: So let's find him first.
SR: Then we'll deal with him together.
JR: We have no clue as to where he might be.
N: I might know.
*Everyone turns to see Nebula standing in the doorway.*
N: He always talked about where he would go once he was done.
Y/N: Where would that be?
N: He called it The Garden. Unfortunately, I never learned what planet it was on.
RR: Guess what I found out? When Thanos snapped his fingers, he created a power surge that made Earth ground zero for that energy. I've never seen anything like it. Until last night.
Y/N: What do you mean?
RR: That same power was formed here. On this planet.
Y/N: He used the stones again.
Ban: If we can get those stones...
Y/N: Then we can bring everyone back.
SR: It won't be easy.
NR: Whether it is or isn't, we owe it to everyone we lost to at least try.