Thor was walking through Avengers headquarters. The God of Thunder dressed himself in a hoddie, as he opened a can of beer, taking a sip of it, looking around himself. Rocket, Stark and Peridot were working on building the time machine, even though Stark was absent for most of the time  to work on his personal project, Azurite and Amethyst carried supplies back and forth for the others to piece together and construct the machine. Jasper, Nebula, Rhodey, Scott and Banner were working on the suit that they were going to use during the time heist if this will end up working,

"On your left!" Thor's heard Amethyst voice as he turned around to see her. Amethyst shapeshifted herself into Purple Puma, because it would make it easier for her to carry it.

"You look different." Thor observed, eyeing the gem.

Amethyst just sent him a smile as she came over to Rocket and Peridot who were working on something underneath the platform, "Hey, Peri! Raccoon! New delivery!"

Rocket's eye twitched, as he groaned, knowing that she called him a raccoon just to annoy him, it happened before, "Be careful gemmy, you're not a genius.''

"I thought you got used to it." Peridot stated, glancing over at Rocket, recalling all the times Amethyst called Rocket a raccoon, neither on the mission, or in Beach City as the talking raccoon and Nebula were staying there from time to time. At first, Rocket was reacting like to any other person that called him a raccoon, but as the time passed he just stopped reacting to it. The small green gem thought he had gotten used to it.

"No, I didn't." Rocket said as he went back to work. Peridot and Amethyst shared a look with each other, before the first one went back to work on the time machine, as Amethyst walked away from them to get more things.

As she went to get more things, she walked past a room where Banner, Nebula, Scott, Rhodey and Jasper were working on a suit, well Nebula and Banner mostly did. Jasper and Rhodey were watching them, standing by each other side, eventually saying something or handing them a tool as Scott was standing in the middle, wearing the Quantum Suit. It was white, black, and red in color. It looked awfully similiar to his Ant-Man's suit.

"Time travel suit? Not bad." Rhodey stated.

Bruce looked down Scott's suit and was about to put something that looked like a strange red liquor in glass test tube in it, which Lang didn't fail to notice, "Hey, hey, hey! Easy, easy!"

"I'm being very careful." Banner stated, looking at Scott in confusion.

"No. You're being very Hulky." Scott shook his head.

"I'm being careful." Banner disagreed, confusion not leaving his face.

Scott held up the red glass bottle as he started explaining what it was to them, and how careful they should be with it was if they wanted their mission to succeed, "These are Pym Particles, alright? And ever since Hank Pym got snapped out of existence, this is it. This is what we have. We're not making any more."

"Calm down." Rhodey told him.

"We know how important that it." Jasper added, "That's why I'm keeping my hands off it." 

"Sorry. We've got enough for one round trip each. That's it. No do-overs. Plus two test runs." Scott said as he accidentally pressed a button, and screamed before shrinking. A moment later he grew back to his normal size, and looked over at the group around him, "One test run."

Rhodey sighed with exasperation as Jasper put her hand on her forehead, saying, "And we should be careful with it?"

''...All right." Scott took a deep breath, before shaking his head, thinking about what happened the last time when he was testing the time travel along with Shi'ra, "I'm not ready for this."

"I'm game." A voice that was unknown for Jasper and Nebula, but known for Banner, Scott and Rhodey rang through the room as everyone turned in the direction of it and saw Clint Barton, "I'll do it."

Not long after Clint's arrival, a few minutes to be exact, Barton had switched places with Scott and was now standing in the middle of the room as Banner and Nebula started working on his suit. The work they had done on Scott had to be repeated but they didn't seem to mind it. Ant-Man stood in the back of the room, along with Jasper and Rhodes.

Nebula pressed something on Clint's shoulder, as a small control panel opened. She began pressing some buttons, as Banner spoke up to Barton, "Clint, now you're gonna feel a little discombobulated from the chronoshift. Don't worry about it."

''Wai-Wait a second, let me ask you something." Rhodey said as everyone except for Nebula looked at him, "If we can do this, you know, go back in time, why don't we just find baby Thanos, you know, and..." He made the motion with his pointing finger, wrapping an invisible rope around in front of him before tightening both of his fists outwards. It took a second for others to catch on.

"I'm in." Jasper said, raising her hand.

"First of all! That's horrible!" Banner stated in disgust.

"It's Thanos." Rhodes pointed out.

"If you can do it, then I can take care of baby Thanos. I was trying to kill Steven when he was younger." Jasper stated, as everyone, even Nebula gave up what they were doing and looked at her, "What? Don't look at me like that. Peridot tried to kill him too."

Bruce shook his head, "And secondly, time doesn't work that way. Changing the past doesn't change the future."

''Look, we go back, we get the stones before Thanos gets them..." Scott explained with a small pause in the middle, "Thanos doesn't have the stones. Problem solved."

"Bingo." Clint agreed with Scott.

''That's not how it works." Nebula pointed out, shaking her head.

"Well, that's what I heard." Clint explained, rolling his eyes.

"What? By who? Who told you that?" Bruce asked Clint, looking at him.

Rhodes started counting his fingers, "Star Trek, Terminator, TimeCop, Time After Time..."

"Quantum Leap." Scott cut in.

"A Wrinkle in Time, Somewhere in Time..." Rhodes continued.

"Hot Tub Time Machine." Scott added, jokingly.

"Hot Tub Time Machine. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.'' Rhodes agreed, though Scott looked him strangely because of him agreeing about Hot Tub Time Machine, "Basically, any movie that deals with time travel."

Jasper looked between these two, "There are that many movies about time travel on this planet?"

Her question went without answer as Scott said to himself, ''Die Hard? No, it's not one..." 

"This is known." Rhodes argued.

"I don't know why everyone believes that, but that isn't true." Bruce sighed, looking down at Rhodes, "Think about it: If you travel to the past, that past becomes your future. And your former present becomes the past. Which can't now be changed by your new future..."

''Exactly." Nebula nodded her head in agreement.

''So... Back To The Future's a bunch of bullshit?" Scott stated, looking down.

Everyone in the entire facility, included them stopped when Tony Stark's voice rang out and declared, "Avengers to the armory. Got a surprise for you. And yeah, I'm referring to everyone when I'm saying that."

Everyone abandoned their work, for a moment anyway and made their way over to the armory.  They stepped through the sliding steel doors into massive armory. The entire group looked over at Stark as he held one burning blue light in his hand, Amethyst and Rocket could see Peridot forming an excited grin on her face as she instantly knew what it was. Everyone inspected it and it turned out to be an Arc Reactor.

"Peri, mind stepping forward?" Tony asked the small green gem.

Peridot nodded her head as she stepped forward towards Tony without hesitation, as Azurite asked them, "What is going?"

The small green gem turned over to them for a second, her attention was mostly focused on Garnet, Amethyst, Jasper, Azurite and Shi'ra, "Remember when I told that I've been working on a project with Tony?" All five of them nodded their heads, remembering it, "This is this project."

She walked over to Tony and stood in front of him as Stark placed Arc Reactor on her chest. Peridot didn't close her eyes and didn't seemed to stressed out as she had done this before when she was testing it with Tony during her visits. The nanobots snuggled their way onto her chest comfortably, right on the star on her clothing as gem gazed down at it. She looked up at Stark who nodded his head at her. She pressed her hand on the burning light of the Reactor and pressed it two times. The suit started overcoming her entire body as she stared at everyone's reaction. Amethyst's, Jasper's, Shi'ra's, Rocket's and Azurite's jaw dropped and their eyes bulged when they witnessed it.

The nanotechnology overcame her body,  from her feets to even her triangular hair. Her suit looked like a smaller version of Tony's and Rhodey's suits. Some parts of her armor were painted green, in the same places like the red parts of Tony's armor. A huge golden star was placed right under the Arc Reactor.

Her mask disappeared, revealing her grinning face, "So, what do you think?"

Garnet smirked at at her at gave her a thumbs up, Steve was awestruck, and everyone else, just each showed their amazement in their own ways.

''Uh..." Amethyst thought what to say. When Peridot told them that she and Tony were working on something many things went through her mind, but a thought that Peridot would get her own suit armor never crossed her mind.

"We called it Iron Gem." Tony spoke up, pointing at Peridot.

"Mark 1." Peridot added.

"That was... unexcepting." Shi'ra said, showing her awe towards the suit. Stark smirked, having something for the Kratai as well.

"What about her metal powers?" Jasper asked, "Aren't they going to do anything to the suit?"

"We did some tests while we were working on it. She will be able to use her metal powers, and they will not do anything to her suit as long as she will not try it to use it on it." Tony explained.

"I tried to use it, once." Peridot said, "It didn't end well." 

"There's also something I have for the Predator." Tony called over to Shi'ra. The Kratai rolled her eyes at the nickname. She was getting a lot of comments from humans that she was looked similiar to the creature from some science fiction movie.

"What is this?" Shi'ra asked as she walked over to him.

Tony picked up a briefcase from the floor and opened it, revealing a weapon that looked just like Shi'ra plasma caster. Shi'ra eyed it in confusion as Peridot said to her, "Remember when I asked you to borrow me your plasma caster because I wanted to check something in it?"

Shi'ra nodded her head, "Yes, I do. You returned it a week later."

"She took it to me. I inspected it and started working a new version which you're seeing here. Now you're able to fire as many shots as you want to, without having it recharge it during the fight. You can recharge it whever you want. Like after the fight." Tony explained.

Shi'ra laughed as she carefully picked her new plasma caster and placed it on her other shoulder, "Thank you. I appreciate it." Tony nodded his head at her, as she asked, "Will I be able to use both of my plasma casters at the time?"

Tony gave her another nod in response, "Yes, but the older version of it will stil have to recharge."

The Kratai smiled at him, "I know I said that already but thank you."

"Alright." Stark said, "That's everything I wanted to show you." He looked over at Clint who was still wearing the Quantum suit, "I think we should prepare ourselves for the final test."

Everyone nodded their heads to that and went off to prepare everything for the final test as they had only test run left and had to be prepared for it. Peridot pressed the Arc Reactor on her chest and her suit dematerialized from her body. She looked over at Tony, wanting to be if she should took it off or not, but he shook his head, saying that her suit was ready.

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Everything was ready for the final test. The platform they were going to use for the time heist had been completed and Quantum Suit on Clint Barton's was ready, along with it's user. He was standing on the platform, waiting for Bruce's to give the call as Banner  was standing in front of the control panel along with Steve, Natasha, Scott, Tony, Peridot, Azurite, Garnet, Shi'ra, Jasper, Amethyst, Nebula and Rocket.

 ''...Alright, Clint. We're going in..." Banner said, as Clint readied himself for what was going to happen, "3... 2... 1!"

A white helmet popped on Clint's head as he went into the Quantum Tunnel. He flied through the tunnel into an opening before growing into his normal size. He found himself in completely different place than Avengers headquarters, and seemigly different time. He recognized this place. It was his family home. His old family home when his family was still alive.

His helmet went off his head as he looked around  in bewilderment. He rised up to his feet and went over to his family home, spotting something on the ground just in front of the entrance. It was a baseball glove on the ground, presumably belonging to one of his sons. He lowered his hand towards it and picked it up. It was when he heard a noise from inside the house, the voice of someone who Clint hasn't seen for five years.

''Cooper? Where are my headphones?" Lila Barton's voice rang through his ears.

"Lila..." He muttered to himself, recognizing his daughter's voice before he heard the device on his hand started beeping, telling him one thing. The end of his visit was nearing. He rushed for the door, calling out his daughters name but only manages to open it before he shrinked back to go back to his times.

"Yeah, dad?" His daughter asked as she went into the room, but much to her confusion finding none there, "Dad?"

Clint screamed as he materialized back on the platform, the baseball glove falling from his hand. He breathed heavilly as he sat down on the platform, his helmet disappearing from his face as everyone rushed over to see if everything was okay with him.

Natasha Romanoff was the first one to make her way over to help, placing her hands on his cheeks and asking, "Hey, hey. Look at me. You okay?"

"Yeah." Clint assured her with a nod of his head.

"Guys, he did it..." Azurite said, glancing down at the glove Clint brought with him. He picked it up and glanced down at Barton, sending him a smile, "It works."

Clint Barton returned the smile. It really worked. Time travel was working!

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Everyone were seated in a room, having a planning session. Time travel was now possible and it was working, so now they needed to come up with a plan. They have been in that room for a while now, laying or sitting in different directions. Holograms displayed, showcasing all six of the Infinity Stones.

Tony, Steve and Bruce were pacing at the front, leading the planning of the mission. Natasha was sitting on the couch, one of her feets placed on the table. Rocket sat next to her, and next to him was Peridot. Clint and Rhodey were sitting on the chairs next to her, so did Shi'ra and Azurite on the other side of the room. Jasper and Amethyst were leaning against the wall. Nebula stood in the back of the room, Garnet standing next to her.

''Okay, so the "how" works." Rogers began, "Now we gotta figure out the when and the where. Almost all of us has had an encounter with at least one of the six Infinity Stones."

''Well I'd substitute the word encounter for damn well near been killed by one of the six Infinity Stones." Tony added.

"I haven't." Scott said as he shook his head, looking around the room, "I don't even know what the hell you're all talking about."

"Nobody filled him in about the stones?" Azurite asked, looking around the room, while pointing at Scott.

"I thought someone else already did that." Rhodes said.

"Me too." Amethyst nodded her head.

Bruce started explaning, "Regardless, we only have enough Pym Particles for one round trip each, 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." Tony continued.

"Which means we have to pick our targets." Clint stated.

Tony snapped his fingers, "Correct."

"Let's start with the Aether." Steve started the list with the red stone, as he looked over at Thor, "Thor, what do you know?"

Everyone turned to see Thor sitting on a chair with his sunglasses on. It was impossible to tell whether he was awake or asleep.

"Is he asleep?" Natasha asked, narrowing her eyes.

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

Garnet came over to Thor and her gauntlets appeared on her fists. She slammed them together, making a loud bang that rang through the ears of everyone. Thor jumped in his seat, almost breaking a chair he was sitting on, as he awoke from his slumber.

"What? What?" He asked, cringing at the loud noise that awoke him.

"I had to wake you up. You need to tell us about Aether." Garnet explained, gesturing towards the hologram with Aether. 

"Oh..." Thor said in response as he stood up from his seat.  He went over to the holograms and pointed at Aether, removing his sunglasses, "Where to start? Umm... The Aether, first, is not a stone, someone called it a stone before..." He pointed at Steve who furrowed his brows in confusion. He pulled a bottle of eye drops and dropped one his eye as he continued, "It's more of a... an angry sludge thing, so... someones gonna need to amend that. Here's an interesting story though, many years ago... My grandfather had to hide the stones from the Dark Elves...'' He wiggled his fingers to imitate a spooky ghost.

As Thor continued to tell them everything they had to know about Aether, everyone had different reactions because of the way he presenting it to them. Clint and Rhodey shared a quick uncomfortable look with each other. Nebula lifted her head up, not saying anything. Azurite and Shi'ra looked each other, neither of them having idea if they should say something or not.  Amethyst grabbed Jasper's hand, making her look down at her. She gave her a questioning look as Jasper shook her head and shrugged her shoulders in response. Rocket put his hand on his forehead, Peridot doing the same. Tony just stared at him, debating with himself if he should do something or not.Even normally stoic Garnet was showing signs of uncomfortableness. Scott was just doing nodding his head to everything the God of Thunder said, with smile that was fading from his face only to appear again a second later.

''Wooooh, scary beings. So Jane..." An image of Jane Foster popped on the screen, "Oh, there she is. That's Jane... She's... an old flame of mine... She... she stuck her hand inside a rock this one time... and then the Aether stuck itself inside her... And, she became very, very sick. So I had to take her to Asgard, which is where I'm from. And we had to try and fix her. We were dating at the time, you see. I got to introduce her to my Mother... who's dead..." He paused, looking down broken, and it looked like was on the verge of tears at the mention of his mother, Asgard, and Jane, which made everyone just stare at him, "...and oh you know, Jane and I aren't even dating anymore, these things happen though you know, nothing last forever.''

Tony finally stepped forward and tried to move Thor away, "Why don't you sit down?"

''I'm not done yet, the only thing permanent in life is impermanence." Thor finished his explanation about Aether.

"Awesome." Tony stated, "Eggs? Breakfast?"

"No." Thor declined his offer with, shaking his head, "I'd like a Bloody Mary, thank you."

By the time their meal which happened to be some chinese food they already started discussing another Infinity Stone. They all sat around one table, enjoying their meal, even Garnet and Peridot who were eating only from time to time were eating.

Rocket was pacing around the table in front of everyone, telling them about the Power Stone, "Quill said he stole the Power Stone from Morag.''

''Is that a person?" Scott asked.

Azurite shook his head, struggling to keep his food with sticks, "Morag is a planet as I recall. An abandoned one to be exact."

"A planet?" Scott asked, looking up at Rocket, "Like in outer space?"

"Oh, look. It's like a little puppy, all happy and everything." Rocket said,  imitating talking to a puppy, poking Scott on his forehead, "Do you wanna go to space? You wanna go to space, puppy? I'll get you to space."

"Hey, Nebula." Shi'ra said Nebula, noticing that the cyborg was having troubles with eating with sticks, "Do you want a fork? It'll be much easier."

"No." Nebula shook her head, her attention still focused on her meal, and more importantly the stick. She fought monsters three times larger than her, she could do it, "I can do this."

She tried to pick it up once again, but her meal fell down the moment she was about to take a bite. She groaned in frustation as Shi'ra held out a fork towards her. The cyborg sighed in defeat as she grabbed the fork and dug into her meal, finally having a chance to take a bite of her meal.

"See, I told you." Shi'ra said, giving Nebula a quick pat on her back.

"Oh." Azurite said, as he remembered something, opening his device and opening gallery to find a photo he took not that long ago, "Hey, Rocket!"

"Az?" Rocket turned to Azurite.

"Do you want to see Shi'ra as a baby?" Azurite asked, finding the right photo as Shi'ra's eyes shot open at this words. So did Scott's. Did Azurite seriously took a photo of them as a babies?

"What?" Rocket asked as he walked over to Azurite and looked over at the photo of Shi'ra and Scott at the time when they were turned into babies during their first test. The talking raccoon bursted into laughter the moment he saw it.

"You need to send me this!" Rocket shouted, between laughs.

Azurite pressed a few buttons on his device, and said, "Done. You can now find it in the files of your ship."

Rocket nodded his head, grateful, still laughing as he went over to his meal to finish it.

"You actually took a photo of us?" Shi'ra asked in disbelief. 

"Yes." Azurite confirmed with a nod of his head, sending her a quick smile. She was always the one to tease him about something, like the time when Spinel got him to sing the first phases of a song, or when he has to act as a stern teacher during his fight classes. He was glad the tables have turned around,  ''You were the one always teasing me about something." He pointed out, "I'm glad tables have turned around even for a second." 

Shi'ra shook her head, she and Scott looking embarassed over the fact that someone took a photo of them as a babies, "Good point..."

When everyone were done with their meal, they went back to the planning room. Nebula was standing in front of the entire group as she was telling them about the Soul Stone. Natasha was writing some notes of their in her notebook.

''Thanos found the Soul Stone on Vormir." Nebula informed Romanoff as Black Widow was taking notes of everything she said.

"What is Vormir?" Natasha asked, in business like tone.

"A dominion of death, at the very center of Celestial existence. It's where..." Nebula paused for a second, "Thanos murdered my sister."

Nat looked up at Nebula, as awkward silence filled the room, everyone just stared the cyborg. The silence was thankfully broke by Scott, "Not it.''

By the time when they started discussing the Time Stone, it was already getting late. Everyone scrambled around the room, neither laying or sitting on the ground. 

Nat was surrounded by papers as she asked, while laying on the table, Tony was laying next to her, "That Time Stone guy..."

"He called himself Strange." Jasper said, leaning against the wall. She had a chance to meet this guy five years ago on Titan.

''Yeah, what kind of doctor was he?" Natasha asked.

"Ear-nose-throat meets rabbit from a hat." Tony answered.

"Nice place in the village, though." Bruce remarked, laying on the floor.

"Yeah. Sullivan Street." Tony confirmed.

"Hmm... Bleecker." Bruce muttered.

"He lived in New York?" Garnet said as realization began forming on her head.

"No. He lived in Toronto." Tony rolled his eyes.

"And Loki's scepter contained the Mind Stone?" Garnet asked.

"Yes." Steve said with a nod of his head, sitting on the floor.

"And the Tesseract contained the Space Stone?" Garnet asked another question, looking over at Thor.

Thor gave a lazy, "Mhm.." in response. It seemed like he was seconds away from falling asleep.

"Then..." Garnet said, "If we pick the right year, then there are three stones on Earth in the same city at the same time."

Bruce sat up in suprise, "Shut the front door."

Amethyst summoned her whip and used it to shut the doors.

Peridot's eyes widened in suprise, giving a suprised, "Oh. That's a rather welcoming revelation." in response as she removed her visiors to rub her eyes.

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The next day everyone were standing in front of the holograms displaying the different locations, the Soul and Power Stones in space in 2014. the Reality Stone in Asgard, 2013, and the Space, Mind, and Time Stones in New York City, 2012. 

They were ready to do this, they already had a plan, they formed it yesterday. They knew where to go and who should go where. All they had to do now was to get the stones and use them to bring everyone back.

"All right. We have a plan. Six Stones, three teams. One shot." Steve said, as he stood in the front of the group,  He and everyone else looking at the screens determinedly.

"Let's suit up." Tony declared, everyone agreed with him.

Everyone headed out from the room and went towars armory to get themselves ready for the mission.  Azurite walked along with Shi'ra, Garnet, Jasper, Amethyst and Peridot. All of them having one thing on their minds. They haven't contacted Little Homeworld, or Homeworld in days. They told the group that they will join them as fast as they can and split up to inform some gems about everything that happened in recent days.

Azurite and Shi'ra opened their device and each of them called different gems. Their calls were answered almost immediately. Azurite's device showed them Centi and Biggs Jasper while Shi'ra's device showed Blue Diamond, Yellow Pearl and Blue Pearl. All five of the gems they just contacted looked at the entire group.

"Oh my stars, you finally called. We've been actually growing worried that something happened to you." Centi asked, Biggs nodded her head to her question.

"You haven't contacted us in days." Biggs added.

"Something has something happened? Do you require our help?" Blue Diamond asked, bad scenario instantly appearing in her mind.

"No, we actually have some good news." Amethyst explained.

"Oh, what is it?" Centi wanted to know, crossing her arms.

"We want you to be ready for no matter what happens. You need to be ready for absolutely anything that may occur.." Garnet explained.

"What are you talking about?" Yellow Pearl asked, raising her brow in confusion.

Garnet's answer was, "What I'm trying to say is that we may have found a way how to bring everyone back." 

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Welp, there it is, the time heist starts in the next chapter.

FunFact: If any of you were wondering (you have no idea how stupid I feel posting it over 20 chapters since she appeared for the first time, and 11 chapters after she fell as a victim of the decimation) Orange Pearl looks like. (I don't own this image)

Just imagine that her gem is placed on her chest, instead of her hand.