"Five years ago, we lost. All of us."

The sun shined through the windows of the Avengers headquarters, sending arrays of light into the building, allowing them to spread across the floor of the headquarters.

It was when the door to the armory opened, and the group of the Avengers marched into the building, that was completely silent just a second.

''We lost friends... We lost family... We lost a part of ourselves.''

Steve Rogers lead the group of the Avengers, which consisted of humans, aliens, and gems alike, through the building, wearing the Quantum Suit, as his shield was resting on his forearm. His face was filled with pure determination. Natasha Romanoff walked behind him, confident expression on her face. Her hair tied into the ponytail that was falling down her back. Alongside her, Tony Stark, Scott Lang, Clint Barton and Nebula marched forward, all of them wearing the Quantum Suit.

''Today, we have a chance to take it all back."

Garnet and Amethyst followed the group as they were the next ones in the march of the Avengers. Garnet's visiors were covering her eyes, just like the Quantum Suit covered her entire body. A confident smile formed on Amethyst's face as she walked by her side. Jasper and Peridot were right behind them, the orange gem and green gem walked side by side. Jasper marched proudly in her Quantum Suit, her helmet was already on her head. Peridot's Quantum Suit shielded her Arc Reactor, as the small green gem adjusted her visiors, a determined expression on her face. This was the chance all of them were asking for these 5 years, and they had to make it work.

''Get the stones, get them back."

Azurite and Shi'ra marched by each other sides, their bodies covered with the Quantum Suit. Azurite summoned his claws a moment before stepping out from armory, and they were already resting on his fingers, as Shi'ra's plasma casters, old and new alike rested on her shoulders. Rocket Raccon marched between them, the talking raccoon willing to do all he could to bring the only family he ever had back. Right behind them, Thor Odinson, James Rhodes and Bruce Banner marched at the end of the group. The final end to the brave souls willing to take that jump. To try the chance that was given to them.

''One round trip each. No mistakes. No do-overs. Most of us are going somewhere we know.''

The teams were set. The time machine was ready. They all reached the Quantum Tunnel and walked up the pathway to stand on its center. Everyone took a moment to observe one another, to take note of every team and every Avenger present. The largest team was Steve and Tony's. They were, in total, Captain America, Iron Man, Ant-Man, Hulk, Garnet, Azurite, Peridot and Jasper. Their mission lied with the most Infinity Stones, so they needed the numbers.

Next to them, the smaller team consisting of Thor, Rocket and Amethyst stood ready for the time heist they've been preparing for these past few days. Their mission would lead them to the home of the God of Thunder to the time when Reality Stone happened to to stuck in the body of Thor's former love, Jane Foster.

Right by their side stood the smallest team at the ready, just like everyone else. Black Widow and Hawkeye were side by side. The best friends meeting the eyes of Captain America and Iron Man. Their mission was to the Soul Stone. They had to acquire by any means necessary, no matter what.

The final team consisted of James Rhodes, Nebula and Shi'ra, each of them standing proudly in their Quantum Suits, which even managed to overcome Rhodey's War Machine armor. Their mission was The Temple of the Power Stone in 2014 on a planet called Morag. When they would find the Orb, then they would find the Power Stone.

''But it doesn't mean we should know what to expect. Be careful. Look out for each other. Today you're a team, all of you. You're all Avengers. This is the fight of our lives. And we're gonna win. Whatever it takes." Steve said with a nod directed at Iron Man. Tony Stark smirked to him, watched as Steve sent that same promise to the rest of his team. To every Avenger willing to take that risk, "Good luck."

"Impressive speech." Garnet said, sending Captain America a smile and a thumbs up.

"Oh, thank the stars, I thought I was the only one that got chills from this." Amethyst stated, placing her hand on her chest.

"Aye, he's really good at that." Rocket commented, looking up at the first Avenger.

"Right?" Scott nodded his head, chuckling, looking quite excited about this time travel thing.

Tony cleared his throat, ''All right. You heard the man. Stroke those keys, jolly green."

Banner was pressing the coordinates onto the machine as he answered, "Tractors engaged."

''You promise to bring that back in one piece, right?" Rocket said to Clint, addressing to the his shrunk ship in Clint's hand

''Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I'll do my best." Clint promised, observing the shrunk ship in his hand.

"So, it is Rocket's ship then?" Jasper asked, remembering the debate they had over who's ship Natasha and Clint should take with them to Vormit. Azurite's or Rocket's.

"They pulled straws. You may guess who lost." Shi'ra informed, smiled at her roommate as she stood with her team. Jasper gave an amused chuckle in response while Azurite rolled her eyes in response as they stood side by side with Cap's and Stark's team.

"It is safer for Rocket's ship to go instead of mine because his ship is more modern than mine." Azurite pointed out.

"Whatever you say, brother." Shi'ra send him a grin in response.

Natasha smiled excitedly, "See you in a minute."

She slapped her left wrist.

Clint followed.

Peridot did too.

So did Rhodes.

Every Avenger on the Quantum Tunnel pressed down on their Time Travel GPS, as the red lights on their suits started to ignite themselves.

As the masks materialized over their faces they were ready.

Ready to go back in time. Ready to bring every Infinity Stone to their times. Ready to bring everyone that Thanos' killed in his snap back.

Just like Cap said. Whatever it takes.

Then the entire group of the Avengers shrunk down microscopic size and only continued to shrink from that point on as they fell into the limitless world of the Quantum Realm. Those four teams all split up at different intervals, going to different vortexes, going to different place at a different time in history

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New York 2012

A massive blue and black hole in the sky could be seen hanging right above the city of New York, allowing an army of beings from space attack the city, unleashing an army of Chitauri chariots, Leviathans, and foot soldiers onto the city.

Luckily the city wasn't completely helpess towards the invasion. A certain group of remarkable people stood among the the battlefield, against the forces that were clearly outnumbering them. The Chitauri sliding down the building they were covering lowered their mask, screaming towards this group of these people.

The Incredible Hulk roared at his enemies.

Clint Barton loaded another arrow onto his bow.

Thor Odinson twirled his hammer, glaring at the army of Chitauri.

Natasha Romanoff reloaded her pistol.

Steve Rogers tightened his shield.

Tony Stark landed between him and the Hulk in his Iron Man armor.

They stood together, as a team, the team that stopped Loki Odinson, the team that saved the New York City.

Elsewhere, another group of remarkable people and gems alike appeared in the alleyway away from them, right after a shock wave his the same alleyway. They grew from their microscopic sizes and grew to their original height, well it didn't made much difference to one of them as she was already one the smallest people they've met.

Captain America took a step forward, his shield in hand, as he observed his surroundings to see if they had made it to the correct time. When he noticed the portal right above the city, he knew that they traveled to the correct place at the correct time. He turned back to his group as their suit shrunk into the devices on their hands.

''All right, we all have our assignments. Two Stones uptown, one Stone, down. Stay low. Keep an eye on the clock." He spoke up to the group to which they nodded their heads in understanding.

Out of the sudden, a roar brought their attention to the street. Holding a car above his head, Hulk slammed the vehicle onto the Chitauri, killing it the moment the vehicle crashed upon it. But the green beast wasn't done with the Chitauri. He proceeded to hop over the car, over and over again. A nearby alien spotted it, even raised his weapon to attack the Hulk, but in the last moment decided it wasn't a good idea and ran away, right before the hulking beast ran after him.

Everyone turned back to Bruce Banner the moment Hulk disappeared from their sight. Banner covered his head, embarassed.

"Feel free to smash a few things along the way." Steve told him.

Banner sighed as he ripped his shirt off his body, saying, "I think it's gratuitous, but whatever.''

He stepped out from the alleyway and walking towards the nearby car. He lightly punched it, making a small dent, all while making growling noises. He picked up a motorbike and threw it at the building, wincing as it hit the wall, before turning back to his team.

Everyone stared weirdly at Bruce's tries to imitate the Hulk as Peridot spoke up to them, "At least he's trying..."

"...Yeah" Azurite agreed with her.

Jasper was about to step forward and join Banner as he felt two hands on her shoulders. She took glances between two sides. Garnet was on the right, Azurite was on the left.

"Good luck, Jasper." Garnet told her.

"Do your best to get that stone, friend." Azurite added. He'd never except that a gem that called him defective during their first meeting would become one of his closest friends.

Jasper gave both of them a nod of her in response as their hands left her shoulder. She stepped forward and shared a quick look with Peridot, the two of them having history of being the gems that came to Earth all those years ago where they came across Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst and Steven. Now both of them were here, traveling back in time to bring half of the universe back to life.

She walked up to Banner who was waiting for them, saying, "Let's go." to him.

Bruce nodded as both of them went off to the Time Stone, doing their best to not get spotted by anyone in the city. Him being here would not raise any suspicious but Jasper's presence would definitely raise some.

As they were making their way to for the place where they would find Stephen Strange, and more importantly, the Time Stone, the Masters of the Mystic of Arts have taken the action to protect the city from the invasion of the Chitauri, their job was normally to protect the Earth from mystical threats, but sometimes, in the situations like this they had to take the action to battle the things like Chitauri.

The Ancient One stood on the roof, doing her best to protect her sanctum with the powers of Sorcerer Supreme. The Chitauri Chariots that even passed the building with no intentions of attacking it were taken out with her Eldritch Magic. She paused and titled her head to the side, orange disk spinning over her hands sparked, but she did not attacked because it neither Chitauri Chariot, or Chitauri foot soldier.

Bruce Banner and Jasper landed on the roof, and the first thing they did, without taking a look around if anyone was on the roof beside them, was to walk to the nearest door.

''I'd be careful going that way. We just had the floors waxed." She spoke up to them, as they turned to the source of her voice and saw her.

''...Ma'am, we're looking for Doctor Strange." Banner said to her after a moment of looking at her.

''You're about... five years too early. Stephen Strange is currently performing surgery about twenty blocks that way." the Ancient One explained, "What do you want from him?"

Jasper's eyes went down towards the necklace Ancient One wore, coming to a realization that Strange wore the same during their battle with Thanos on Titan five years ago. She took step forward, pointing at the Eye of Agamotto, "We came here for that."

The Ancient One looked down at her necklace, now knowing the real reason why these two came here in the first place, "Ah! I'm afraid not.''

Jasper and Banner shared a look with each other, before they took a step forward, with Banner saying to Ancient One, "Sorry, but we didn't came here to ask."

''You don't wanna do this." the Ancient One warned them.

''Ah, you're right, I don't." Bruce said, extending his hand towards the Eye of Agamotto to grab it.

"We need it far more than you do..." Jasper added

The moment when Bruce was about to grab the Eye of Agamotto, was the moment when the Ancient One took the action to protect the relic she swore to protect. She slammed her hands on Banner's and Jasper's chest, watching how Astral Plane accepted their bodies. Bruce and Jasper could only watch how their now lifeless bodies crashed down on the roof, as they hovered above them.

''Let's start over, shall we?" She told them.

"What happened to us?" Jasper asked, with Bruce nodding his head in agreement, looking down at her body in shock, having no idea that anything would be possible on her.

"Don't worry, both of you. It completely harmless. I can give your bodies back whenever you ask for." the Ancient One assured them, "Which is not going happen soon considering there is something both of you wish to discuss with me."

''We don't have time to discuss! We need that stone by any means!" Jasper told her, knowing that other were counting on her and Banner to get this stone, "You'd never guess what happens in the future!"

"I wouldn't say that." the Ancient One smirked.

Bruce Banner sighed, rubbing his palms, "There was a guy named Thanos. He wiped half of all life within the universe with all six of the Infinity Stone five years ago in 2018. One of them is hanging on your neck. All of us tried our best to stop him but we couldn't. They made him too powerful, none of us could hold him off for long. After he wiped half of life, we managed to track down his location three weeks later. We all thought it'll be our chance to bring everyone back but we were wrong. He destroyed the stones two days before we found him. "

Jasper continued, "For the next five years we've been dealing with the effects, until we finally found a possible way how to undo everything he did. We need to bring your stone back with us, to our time."

"So, can you help us?" Banner asked the Ancient One, in more of pleading tone.

''No." Her answer was simple and quick.

''Why?" Jasper asked her, raising her brow. Why wouldn't she help them?

"I'm sorry, I can't help you, both of you." the Ancient One apologized for them for refusing to help, "If I give up the Time Stone to help your reality, I'm dooming my own."

''With all due respect, I'm not sure the science really supports that." Banner stated, technically it was more of mutter but the Ancient One was able to hear what he said without problem.

The Ancient One stared at both of them, her expression hardening at the horrible truth her visitors were unaware of. She lifted her arm up, releasing a line of Eldritch Magic across her, Jasper and Bruce. The magic formed a projection between all three of them. All of the Infinity Stones were circling around the projection of the timeline she created to explain to know everything they didn't know.

''The Infinity Stones create what you experience as the flow of time. Remove one stone and that flow splits.'' Ancient One began explaining what would it meant for her timeline if one of the Infinity Stones just disappeared, removing the one resembling the Time Stone in her projection. Bruce and Jasper narrowed their eyes watching how the projection of timeline changed out of the sudden. Changed into a black sicked version of reality.

They watched carefully everything she was presenting to them, as the Ancient One continued, "Now, this may benefit your reality, but my new one...not so much. In this new branched Reality, without our chief weapon against the forces of darkness, our world will be overrun. Millions will suffer. So, tell me, Doctor, can your science prevent all that?''

"It's just like we assumed." Jasper muttered to herself, recalling what Banner told Rhodey in the moment when he asked if they couldn't just kill Thanos before he'd even have a chance to get close to the stones.

''No, but we can erase it. Because once we are done with the stones, we can return each one to its own timeline at the moment it was taken." Banner stated as grabbed the projection of the Time Stone, and placed it right back with the five other stones. The timeline went back to it's old shimmering state. The state before the Ancient One removed the Time Stone, "So, chronologically, it never left."

Though she had admit that she was suprised by Bruce's idea, because it was something she hadn't thought of, the Ancient One was still not conviced, "But you are leaving out the most important part. In order to return the stones, you have to survive."

''We will. I promise." Bruce assured her to which Jasper nodded her head in agreement.

''I can't risk this Reality on a promise." Ancient One stated, as Bruce's and Jasper's expressions fell apart at her words, "It is the duty of the Sorcerer Supreme to protect the Time Stone."

''Then, why the hell did Strange give it away?" Banner asked her. Tony, Peridot and Jasper told everyone about Strange giving the Time Stone to Thanos a long time ago.

The Ancient One's eyes shot open in suprise, "What did you say?''

''Strange, he gave it away. He gave it to Thanos." Banner repeated himself.

''Willingly?" the Ancient One wanted to know everything about the situation Bruce mentioned to her.

"Yes, he did it willingly! I was there when it happened. He just gave it away and when we asked him why he did, all he said was "We're in the endgame now"." Jasper confirmed what Banner just said to the Ancient One.

Ancient One titled her head to the gem, "You were there when it happened?"

"Yes. I just said it." Jasper answered, crossing her arms.

"Was there anything else he said that caught your attention?" the Ancient One wanted to know. Stephen Strange was meant to be the best of them, he wouldn't just give the Time Stone away. He just wouldn't.

"Before our battle with Thanos, before he arrived on Titan, Strange told us that he saw possible outcomes of how our fight with him will end." Jasper answered.

"He saw possible outcomes of your clash with Thanos? How many of them was there?" the Ancient One asked another question, coming closer to Jasper.

''14,000,605." Jasper responded, recalling the number of the outcomes Doctor Strange told her and everyone else on Titan.

''And in how many have you succeeded?" the Ancient One continued asking questions regarding everything Jasper knew about Strange.

Jasper sighed before replying, "...One."

The Ancient One stared at Jasper, as Bruce stated, "Maybe he made a mistake."

''Or I did." the Ancient One stated. Before Jasper and Banner had a chance to ask what she meant by that, she shot out both of their hands, pulling their bodies from the ground. She moved them towards Bruce and Jasper and merged them together, the two of them finally being able to use their bodies again. Then she moved one of her hands towards her necklace and opened it, pulling out the Time Stone. The stone was floating between her fingers, as she held it to Banner and Jasper, who only stared at her in confusion. Five minutes ago she was willing to die for the Time Stone, but now she was just giving it away for them.

They got their answer why she now giving it to them a moment later, "Strange is meant to be the best of us.''

''...So he must have done it for a reason." Banner stated.

Jasper nodded her head to that. Was this what Strange meant by saying "There was no other way?" before shattering into ash in front of her, Tony, Peridot, Peter, Nebula, just a second before all of them had to witness Spider-Man's demise? Did losing to Thanos when they tried to stop him was the only way to defeat him in the end? It all started to make sense to her. If they brought the stones back to their timeline and brought everyone back, then he wouldn't try to stop them because Thanos in their timeline was long gone.

''I fear you might be right.'' the Ancient One said to Bruce with fear overcoming her facial features.

As the Ancient One handed Bruce the Time Stone, he closed his palm over it, "Thank you."

"We appreciate it." Jasper said, understanding the risk the Ancient One was taking by giving them the Time Stone.

Her left hand gripped his large hands, while the other gripped Jasper's arm, as she looked up at both of them, her voice was practically begging them, "I'm counting on you. We all are."

In response to her words, Bruce and Jasper nodded their heads in understanding, as the Ancient's One hands pulled away from their bodies.

"One down..." Banner muttered to himself.

He and Jasper shared a quick look with each other, before they glanced down at their Time Travel GPS'.

They pressed them down as the Quantum Suit overcame their whole bodies.

Right after their masks closed tight, they shrunk down to microscopic size, returning to their present times.