Lila Barton firmly gripped her bow tightly as she was was aiming it towards the target. Her father, and a retired Avenger Clint Barton was holding up a few arrows while mentoring his daughter how to use a bow.

''Okay, hold on. Don't shoot. You see where you're going?" The retired Avenger asked his daughter.

"Mhm." Lila nodded her head in response.

''Okay, now let's worry about how you get there." Clint told her as he corrected his daughter's foot to the proper position, and adjusted her shooting stance, ''Here. Can you see?" 

''Yeah." Lila answered.

"You sure?" Clint wanted to be sure.

''Mhm." Lila assured him, nodding her head.

Clint smirked at the idea that just popped into his mind. He pushed Lila's hair in front of her face while covering her left eye, "How about now?... Alright. Ready your fingers.

''Hey, you guys want mayo or mustard, or both?" Laura's Barton's voice sounded in their ears.

''Who wants mayo on a hotdog?" Lila asked her father.

''Probably your brothers." Clint replied, jokingly as he turned to look at his wife, "Uh, two mustard, please! Thanks, mama.''

Laura nodded her head, as she turned her attention towards her youngest child, Nathaniel who was playing baseball with his brother, "Nathaniel, mayo or mustard?"

"How about ketchup?" Nathaniel asked, taking neither of the options offered to him.

''Mind your elbow." Cline instructed his daughter, who readied herself before releasing the arrow and it hit the target directly in the middle of the target. A perfect bullseye, "Hahaha! Good job, Hawkeye!" He smiled down at his daughter. It looked like all the training paid off. That, and his daughter actually took his advice to heart. He held his hand to her and they high-fived, "Go get your arrow."

Lila nodded her head and made her way over to the target to get the arrow.

''Hey guys! Enough practice, soup's on!" Laura called over to them again.

"Alright, we're coming; we're hungry." Clint responded with a nod of his head, as he turned around to where his daughter was supposed to be standing, but much to his suprise no one was standing there. His smile faded away alone as all he could see of his daughter was her bow, lying the grass, not noticing ashes flying away alongside the wind.

He took a step forward, looking behind a tree, excepting her to be standing there, but there was nothing there, "Lila? Honey?"

He didn't received any response. The barn, that was the nearest place where Lila could have ran off was locked, so this wasn't an option. He took a step backwards, and called out for his wife, "Hey, babe?!"

The retired Avenger's eyes peered to the picnic table where his wife and two sons were supposed to be sitting by, but they weren't there, they just disappeared just like his daughter, "Babe!" He called over to his wife again, dropping the arrows on the ground and leaving it behind. It didn't matter to him, all he that he cared about now was his family. Family that wasn't here anymore, "Laura!"

He whistled, with panic growing bigger and bigger with each second, as his eyes were looking around across the fields around him, "Boys!"

He ran, heading directly at the picnic table to see a baseball bat and a glove that his sons were playing with on the ground, with ashes laying next to them. His darted towards a tray with food, it along the hot-dogs they were going to eat layed on the ground, next to the ashes that used to be his wife.

"Boys!" He began to run across his surroundings, his eyes being wide with horror. He called out for his family over and over again.

"Laura!"

"Lila!"

But no one responded to his calls

No one could...

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Everything was quiet on Homeworld. A planet that was once filled with gems now seemed to be a shadow of it former self. The gems who were spared from the Decimation were looking up at the screen which was playing the transmissions from the Diamonds once in a while, wanting Blue Diamond to finally explain to them what happened. Why did their friends and loved ones dissolved into ash and there was nothing they could do to stop it.

Speaking of Blue Diamond, the last one of the Diamonds sat on her throne, most of her face being covered by a hood. Blue Pearl and Yellow Pearl were in the throne room with her, the two pearls getting everything ready for the transmission Blue Diamond was going to broadcast across all colonies. She didn't actually remembered the last time when she felt that sad, but she knew she had to be in a stable condition. With her being the last one of the Diamonds, she was needed in Homeworld more than ever, and she promised to Steven that she'll never make anyone cry again, and she was going to keep that promise.

"My Diamond." Blue's Pearl spoke up in her usual quiet tone as Blue Diamond looked down at her, "We're ready to broadcast."

"Thank you, pearl." Blue Diamond said to her pearl in response.

Blue Pearl nodded her head in answer to her Diamonds words as she glanced over at Yellow Pearl who was ready to start the broadcast at any second. She gave her a quick nod of her head, telling her to start. Yellow Pearl instantly responded to that and after pressing a few buttons on the computer, the image of Blue Diamond could be seen across all colonies.

"Greetings my loyal subjects...'' The last of the Diamonds began.

Every gem colony was watching her message, only this time, there were much less gems watching it as half of gem population was decimated.

"I'm certain that many of you may be wondering what happened..." She continued, taking a small pause, "It's Thanos... It appears that he did exactly what he was planning to do...."

Centi along with the surviving gems from Little Homeworld made it back to Beach City, the crowd of confused humans and gems approached them, wanting to get answers what happened.

"He erased half of all living creatures from existance..."

They told them everything, their arrival in Wakanda, fighting off Thanos' forces, and finally about their desperate attempt to hold back the Mad Titan as long as possible as one of the Avengers was trying to destroy the Mind Stone, which ended up with Thanos snapping his fingers. They told them about everyone who wasn't spared from Thanos' snap, and many of them broke down at this news. Greg and Connie's parents were one those who broke down into tears, after hearing that Steven and Connie were one of those who weren't spared from Thanos' snap.

"Including..." Blue Diamond paused for a moment, looking over at now empty thrones of White Diamond and Yellow Diamond, "White Diamond.... Yellow Diamond.... and..."

Azurite was sitting on the couch in a room in the Avengers headquarters. His device on his hand was opened as he was watching Blue Diamond's broadcast.

"...And Steven." Blue Diamond's voice was on the edge of breaking down, but she was doing a good job at hiding it, "...The next months are going to be hard for all of us, I'm not excepting all of you to be in condition to do anything, but we all are going to need each other."

Shi'ra, Amethyst, Garnet and Rocket in the same room as he and were also watching her entire broadcast. The Kratai sighed as her device closed down, once the broadcast ended, "Well, she seems to more stable than I thought she'd be."

"That's a good news, compared to everything we got since Thanos snapped." Amethyst stated, remembered how worried they were about Blue Diamond's state after they heard that Yellow Diamond and White Diamond died in Thanos's snap, especially after informed them that Steven and Spinel after she asked them about them.

"I wouldn't say it now, guys. She may have look to be in stable condition in this broadcast, but she could have just showing us to be stable in the broadcast. We don't know how she is behind the camera." Garnet stated, wanting it to be true, because as Amethyst it would be actually a really good news, compared to every news they were receiving with each passing day, but she knew that it was still a possibility.

"If you say so, Garnet." Amethyst said, turning around to Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff who stood in front of a computer that who was showing them how many people were erased from existance. All four of them walked over to them to see how many lives were lost, and hoping that it finally stopped, but they found themselves to be wrong. The death toll was currently at 3.2 billion, and it was still growing with each passing second.

"This is a nightmare." Captain America stated.

"A nightmare? I wish it was a nightmare, because you can wake up from one. You can't wake up from what is happening now." Amethyst pointed out.

"I agree. I've had better nightmares." Natasha agreed with her.

"Hey!" James Rhodes' voice suddenly came from the other side of the room, as he was walked into this room to inform them about something, "So that thing just stopped doing whatever the hell it was doing."

"What do you mean it turned off?" Rocket titled his head to the right, in confusion.

"It was working since you guys found it on that street, why did it turned off out of sudden?" Shi'ra added.

"I don't know. I'm just here to tell you about it." Rhodes answered.

"Let's go see it." Captain America told everyone, to which they nodded their heads, and began to follow Rhodes into the room where they kept Fury's pager. Shi'ra stopped for a second and looked over at Azurite who was still sitting on the couch.

"Azuri..." She didn't even had to finish what she was saying as Azurite hopped off the couch and followed the rest into the room where they kept the pager.

"How is he doing?" Natasha asked the Kratai.

"Well, he started talking with us again, so he is in a better condition, but it's still away from perfect." Shi'ra answered, as Natasha nodded her head in understanding.

"What about you guys?" Natasha asked her another question.

"I'm just trying not to think about everyone we lost. Amethyst and Garnet are doing the same, as for Rocket, I'm not exactly sure." Shi'ra answered, earning another nod of understanding from Natasha.

When they made their way to the room where they were housing the transmitter device, they saw Bruce Banner analyzing it, and Garnet being the first one to ask him about this device, "What have we got?" 

"Whatever the signal is sending, it finally creeped off." Banner answered, staring at the device.

"I thought we bypassed the battery." Captain America stated.

''We did. It's still plugged in, it just... it just stopped." Rhodes explained.

"Maybe we should send the signal again." Amethyst offered, trying to figure out what they should do now.

"We don't even know what this is." Banner pointed out, pointing at the pager.

"I'm just trying to think of we should do with this thing now." Amethyst said to him.

''Fury knew what it is. Just do it, please." Natasha said, agreeing with Amethyst's idea, "You tell me the second you get a signal. I want to know who's on the other end of that thing.''

Banner nodded his head at her words, as Black Widow turned around, only to be find herself face to face with a blond-haired woman she never meet in her entire life. The others turned around as well, looking just as confused as Black Widow at the presence of this unknown woman.

"Where's Fury?" She asked them.

"...Who are you?" Shi'ra asked, having no idea who this woman was. This question was on the minds of everyone here.

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Things were looking bad for Tony, Nebula, Jasper and Peridot, and if they were honest with themselves, it was just a gentle way to put it. They were stuck in the ship which once belonged to Quill and his crew for days, and they honestly had no idea for how longer they were going to be inside of that ship. They couldn't use ship Shi'ra ship to get out of Titan as they found her ship to be unable to take them home after Jasper crushed into it.

Jasper and Peridot found Quill's zune and and turned it on so that the silence wasn't defining. The song that was now playing was called "Dear Mr. Fantasy.", and as it could be heard across the ship, the two gems along with Stark and the daughter of Thanos were sitting by one table, playing an Earthy game called paper football. Peridot and Nebula were playing against each other, as Tony was instructing them how to play it. The small green gem understood the rules pretty quickly, but Nebula was having hard time understanding them, but Tony was patient.

"Wrra!" Nebula growled, making Peridot jump back a little, as she tried to catch the paper football.

"No. You don't need to do that, because you're just holding a position." Tony said to Nebula, explaining her the rules of this game. Nebula flicked a paper football and it landed a couple inches away, 'Oh, yeah, that was close." She once again tried to flick a paper football towards Peridot. She inwardly smiled when she got a goal, "That's a goal, you and the dorito are now one apiece."

"I would like to try again." Nebula stated, flicking another paper football towards Peridot. The green gem stared at her, noticing that it was probably the first time Nebula was experiencing something like that in her entire life. It reminded her of her older self when she arrived on Earth and started learning how to live on this planet.

Tony gave both of them a half smile, "You two tied up. Can you feel the tension? It's fun." 

Peridot, deciding to give Nebula this round, poorly flicked a paper football at her, "Oh, no."

Nebula flicked another paper football at Peridot, and scored another goal, winning this round.

"And you won." Tony looked over at the cyborg. The daughter of Thanos jumping back for a second, looking like her mind was trying to process what just happened. Did Stark just said that she won? She won?!

"Well." Peridot said  as she hopped on the table and offered her hand to Nebula, "It was a fair game."

Nebula hesitated for a second but after a moment grabbed Peridot's hand and shook it, as Tony asked them, "Have fun?

"... It was fun..." Nebula said after a moment of thinking what to say back, to which Peridot nodded in agreement.

"Okay, orange hulk, now it's our turn." Tony said to Jasper, as the two of them switched places with Peridot and Nebula.

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Tony was now sitting on the floor of the Guardians ship, being now more skinner and and weaker with malnutrition. He looked down at Iron Man's busted helmet. His  hand reached forward to turn on the helmet. 

"This thing on?" He asked himself as the helmet scanned him. The Avenger leaned against the wall while taking deep breaths, "...Hey, Miss Potts... Pep. If you find this recording, don't post it on social media. It's gonna be a real tear-jerker. I don't know if you're ever going to see these. I don't even know if you're... if you're still... Oh god, I hope so. Today is day 21, uh 22..."

Tony was standing at a window to gaze out into space, waiting for his impending doom to arrive.

"You know, if it wasn't for the existential terror of staring into a void of space, I'd say I'm feeling better today. The infection's run its course, Thanks to the blue meanie the green dorito and the orange hulk back there. You'd like all of them. Very practical. The meanie being only a tiny bit sadistic, the dorito being a small nerd or the orange hulk being like... I actually can't find words how to describe, she is determined that's for sure. Some fuel cells were cracked during battle, along with the other ship, but we figured out a way to reverse the ion charge to buy ourselves about 48 hours of time..."

Tony, Nebula, Peridot and Jasper were working tirelessly on the fuel cells of the ship.

"But it's now dead in the water. We're 1000 light years from the nearest 7-11. Oxygen will run out tomorrow. And that'll be it, at least for me and meanie, the dorito and the orange hulk don't need to breathe, but they're not fan of being here with our bodies... And Pep, I ... I know I said no more surprises, but I was really hoping to pull off one last one. But it looks like... well you know what it looks like. Don't feel bad about this. I mean, if you grovel for a couple of weeks, and then move on with enormous guilt. I should probably lie down. Please know that... when I drift off, I will think about you. Because it's always you..."

With that, Tony turned the helmet off. He rubbed his thumb over the left eye, and then leaned down, to what would be his last sleep. Nebula, Jasper and peridot walked over to him, and carried him to Drax's seat, and laid  him there. They walked away dejected, the two gems realizng that soon enough they would be the only ones left alone in this ship.

Suddenly, a vast bluish light illuminated the space surrounding them. There was a light on his face, which grew brighter and brighter until he was to open his eyes. He finally caught the glimpse of what, or rather who was the source of this light. He saw a blond-haired woman, who was wearing a suit with mixed colors of red, blue and gold. It was Carol Danvers, a woman known as Captain Marvel.

Back in the Avengers headquarters. Steve Rogers was holding a blade, having just shaved off his beard. He sighed and looked into a side mirror, before it suddenly started shaking, slowly at first, and then severely. Everyone who were in that bulding at this time heard that, and quickly ran out towards the exit to see what was going on outside. Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Bruce Banner, and James Rhodes , Garnet, Amethyst, Azurite, Rocket and Shi'ra walked out of the Avengers headquarters, and looked at something. A spark of hope grew inside of Shi'ra, Rocket and Azurite as they recognized this ship. Their friends could have been there! Carol landed the ship ont he ground as the landing gears deployed as they touch the ground. The entry hatch opened, and Tony, Nebula, Jasper and Peridot walked out, with Tony being supported by Nebula and Jasper.

Steven ran up to Tony and helped him to stand as everyone else that just arrived in this ship split up to talk with everyone they know. Peridot slowly walked over to Garnet and Amethyst, a small sigh of relief leaving her mouth as she was happy that they were okay. 

"We couldn't stop him." She spoke up to them, her eyes changing directions between Garnet and Amethyst.

The small green gem could feel Amethyst giving her a small pat on her shoulder, as Garnet said to her, "Neither could we."

Peridot looked around her surroudings, to see the woman who she assumed to be Pepper Potts she heard so much about during all these days she spent with Tony inside of the Guardians ship, hugging Tony, as these two were sharing a tearful reunion with each other. Her eyes then went to Nebula to see the daughter of Thanos sitting on the hatch of the ship, holding hands with Rocket as they were mourning for the family they lost, and at last, her eyes finally went to Jasper who went over to Shi'ra and Azurite, clearly relieved that they were okay. The large orange gem offered them a sad smile, which faded just a moment later.

"Where's Bismuth?" Peridot asked, just a second after she was done with looking around herself, noticing that some of them were missing. Amethyst and Garnet didn't said anything, "Pearl?" Again, silence, "...Steven?"

"...They're all gone. Connie is gone too." Garnet's reply only confirmed Peridot's suspicion, the fusion normally stoic expression showing pain of all of the loved ones they lost.

"What about Lapis? Where is she?" Amethyst then asked her about whereabouts of Lapis Lazuli, even though the answer seemed to be pretty obvious to her. She just wanted to be sure.

"She fell apart into ash and there was nothing I could to stop it. She and all of the Guardians that were with us after Thanos snapped did." Peridot explained, her eyes going down on the ground, staring down at it, sadly.

Jasper approached two of her roommates, offering them a quick, and a rather sad smile which faded a moment after. Azurite was staring at her for a good moment, happy that she was okay. Happy that at least one more of his firneds made it out alive, after losing so many people and gems he cared about in the decimation. The large orange gem could feel her eyes shooting open in suprise as Azurite embraced her, holding her as tightly as he could, but he wasn't the only one, a second later, Shi'ra embraced her as well. The suprise from the sudden hug from them eventually wore off and she hugged them back, wrapping her hands around them. The three friends shared a hug with each other, being happy that they're okay, simply being there for each other.

The hug lasted a few more seconds until they released each other from the hug, as Azurite spoke up to her, "We're so happy to see that you're okay." 

"I'm happy too. You have no idea how worried I was that you may end up fading away." Jasper told them as her eyes went to the ground at what she was going to say, "Guys. I know that you may have to deal with a lot of bad news in the last days, but you need to know that Quill, Mantis, Drax and Gamora are..."

"We know. We realized that when we saw you, Peridot, Nebula and this guy who I assume to be Stark step out of their ship, and they weren't with you." Shi'ra told her.

"Rocket..." Azurite casted a quick glance at Rocket to see him, still holding hands with Nebula as they still sat on the hatch of the Guardians' ship.

"What's about Rocket?" Jasper wanted to know.

Azurite bit his lips, Jasper could see a small tear sliding down his cheek. He wiped it from his face as he said, "He's all alone. Groot is gone too."

"Good thing Nebula is here." Shi'ra said, gesturing towards the cyborg. Rocket and Nebula wouldn't call themselves best friends, but they were going to need each other.

"Yeah..." Azurite agreed with his sister.

"And Shi'ra, there's one more thing I need to tell you..." Jasper was interrupted by the Kratai.

"My ship is gone." Shi'ra said what Jasper was going to say, "I know, otherwise you wouldn't come here in the Guardians' ship."

Jasper nodded her head as she was about to ask another question, "Guys, if you two are here, then what about Orange?" Silence was the only answer she had to receive to realize that Orange Pearl wasn't spared from Thanos' snap, so she asked about another one of her friends, "Centi?"

"She survived but most of her crew didn't. Terra was the only one who survived. They went back to Little Homeworld along with other survivors while all four of us decided to stay here with the Avengers." Shi'ra explained.

Jasper sighed, having no idea for who it was going harder to take, for Centi who lost almost her entire crew, or Terra who lost not only her fellow crewmates but also her beloved one, and she honestly didn't wanna know. Another sigh escaped her mouth as she asked another question, "What about Spinel?''

Again, silence was the only answer she had to receive to know that Spinel, just like Orange wasn't spared from Thanos' snap. It became even more clear for her when she saw Spinel's necklace coming out from Azurite's pocket, "I'm sorry about it, Azurite. I know how much you cared about her."

Azurite said nothing to her in response, just nodded his head to show her that he heard her.

"...Hey, sis." Amethyst voice suddenly came from behind Jasper as the said gem turned around to see the small purple gem looking up at her.

"Hey." Jasper said, looking down at her.

"I'm glad you made it out of it okay." Amethyst said to her.

Jasper nodded her head at Amethyst, thinking what to say to her, "Same to you."

"We let you two catch up." Shi'ra said, as she turned towards Nebula who was leaving the hatch, "I and Azurite are going to talk with Nebula."

Shi'ra did as she told them to. She and Azurite made their way over to the daughter of Thanos to talk with her, "Nebula." she said to her, once they approached her.

''Shi'ra." Nebula said to him as she turned to Azurite, "Azurite."

"It's good to see you again." Azurite was the next to say something, rubbing the back of his head, thinking what to say next, "...We're glad to see you made it out alive."

Nebula just nodded her head at his words.

"We're sorry... about Gamora." Shi'ra added. She considered Nebula a friend of hers, even though they only met two or three times.

"I will kill my father and I won't rest until I'm dead to reverse the horror that he has done. It's what....It's what Gamora would do...and even if." Azurite and Shi'ra could see her struggling to get the words out as the tone of her voice was full of hatred at the mention of her father, a lone tear falling from her eyes, trailing over the metal plate on her cheek, "Even if she can't be brought back...I would rest easy knowing that I brought justice to her killer. To the man who dared call himself our father."

Even though he was hesitating at first, Azurite placed his hand on her shoulder, and said, "Get in the line. We all want to get him."

Nebula just gave him another silent nod in response.

It was just a moment before everyone made their way back into the Avengers headquarters.

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Here we go with Endgame!