Brothers

2023 Part Two

Everyone gathers in the main hanger as Clint tests out the time travel machine, that Tony built. "Alright Clint," Bruce explains, "We're going in three, two, one." Suddenly, Clint gets sucked into the floor. He reappears a few seconds later on his knees gasping for air.

Natasha runs over to him, "Hey. Hey, look at me. You okay?" she asks worriedly.

"Yeah. Yeah," Clint replies panting he holds up the baseball glove in his hand. "It worked," he says, "It worked."

•••

Percy creates a rainbow and throws a drachma in it, "Oh Fleecy do me a solid, show me Carter Kane at the 21st Nome." The rainbow shimmers and a guy with short brown hair and brown eyes appears.

"Percy!" the man exclaims, "What's going on?"

"We can fix it!" Percy exclaims grinning.

Carter stares at him in shock, "What? How?"

"Time Travel," Percy explains.

"Oh, I see, this is a joke. Come on man. That was mean," Carter sighs going to kill the connection.

"No, I'm serious. We figured it out!" Percy exclaims, "Well Tony Stark did. But anyways the Avengers are going back in time to retrieve the stones. Then, we can make our own gauntlet. Boom, everyone's back.

"Just like that?" Carter asks unconvinced.

"Well you know how things are for us. So, I'm pretty sure it's not going to be just like that. But we can do it!" Percy explains.

"Do you need any help. What can I do?" Carter asks.

"Just, be on standby in case anything goes wrong," Percy replies.

"Okay, talk to you soon," Carter says killing the connection. 

Percy meets up with Annabeth in the hallway, "Did you tell Magnus?" he asks.

"Yup, he's ready just in case," Annabeth replies, "And Carter?"

"Same," Percy replies before walking back to the other Avengers.

•••

Everyone sits around in the compound as the pictures of the infinity stones flash on the screen, "Ok so the how works, now we got to figure out the when and the where," Steve says, "Almost everyone in this 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," Tony interrupts.

"Well I haven't" Scott remarks, "but I don't even know what the hell you're all talking about."

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

"Our history. So, not a lot of convenient spots to just drop in, yeah?" Tony explains.

"Which means we have to pick our targets," Clint says

"Correct," Tony remarks.

"So, let's start with the Aether," Steve suggests, "Thor, what do you know?" Everyone turns and looks at Thor who is motionless in his chair.

"Is he asleep?" Natasha asks.

"No, no. I'm pretty sure he's dead," Rhodey comments.

They finally get Thor to wake up, and he staggers up to the screen. "Uh, where to start...um? The Aether, firstly not a stone. Someone called it a stone before." Thor points at Steve, "Um, it's more of an angry sludge sort of thing so someone's gonna need to amend that and stop saying that. Here's an interesting story, though, about the Aether..." Thor starts rambling and Percy sighs. This was going to take a long time.