"Time. Space. Reality. It's
more than a linear path. It's a
prism of endless possibility, where
a single choice can branch out into
infinite realities, creating alternate
worlds from the ones you know. I
am the Watcher. I am your guide
through these vast new realities.
Follow me and ponder the
question..."

"In your universe, the Avengers were formed by Nick Fury, to see if they could be something more than just normal people. To fight the battles they couldn't. Although this was the plan, it wasn't until Phil Coulson's death did the Avengers truly come together. But in this universe, Nick Fury sent his right hand partner to go check it the problem..."

Thor runs into the detention section where he finds Loki, escaping. "NO!"

Thor charges at his brother. Loki walks up to him and crouches down to attack. Thor only goes through him. The false Loki dissipates into nothingness. The real Loki comes out from behind the cell door, which closes on Thor, locking him up. Loki smiles. "Are you ever not going to fall for that?"

Thor, in a fit of anger, slams Mjolnir onto the glass cell. To his surprise, the cell door only cracks, but violently shakes the ship. Loki stands there in caution, as does his guarding soldier. Loki smiles; walks over to the control panel. "The humans think us immortal. Should we test that?"

Suddenly, the soldier falls down like a tree. Maria stands there, holding two ancient weapon prototypes. "Get away from that switch, Loki! If you know what's good for you!"

Loki moves away from the switch. Maira looked at him, "You recognize this? We started working on the prototype after you sent the destroyer. I'm not sure what it does yet, you'll find out if you move.

A loud gasp comes out Maria as she's impaled through the heart, the real Loki stands behind her. Thor shouts, "Nooo!"

Loki sends Agent Coulson against the wall. Maria slumps down, breathing fast. Loki makes his way to the control switch. He gives his brother one last look. Thor looks at him, hopeful. Loki opens the hatch. Thor still hopes. Loki hits the button and drops Thor out of the ship. Loki has no remorse as he looks down. He closes the hatch and proceeds to leave. A weak voice speaks to him. "You are destined to lose, Loki."

Loki turned to loon at her. "Am I?"

Maria looks at him, "an illusion, do you really want to hurt people? Is it really in your nature."

Loki glared at her, "Your heroes are scattered, your floating fortress falls from the sky...where is my disadvantage?"

"You lack conviction." Maira claimed.

Loki seemed annoyed and offended, "I don't think I..."

Maria shoots Loki with the weapon and causes Loki to be blown through the wall behind him. "Glad to know that's what it does."

Soon, Fury runs in finding Maria still alive, barely. "Sorry, Fury. They got me."

Nick looked at her, "Just stay awake. EYES ON ME!"

Maira chuckled a bit as the blood poured out. "No. I'm tapped out. Tell Y/n...I love him, and I'm sorry..."

Nick seemed saddened and glared at her. "You can tell him yourself. That's not an option."

Maira looked at Fury. "It's okay, Nick. This was never going to work... if they didn't have something... to..."

Maira looks away, sighing her last breath. Nick Fury looks on grimly at Maria. The medical team arrives. Y/n is seen with his head on the desk at school as he hears something. "I love you."

"Mom?" Y/n lifted his head confused as a tear went down his eye.

Back in the Helicarrier. "Agent Hill is down."

Agent Coulson is being treated for a gash on his head, listens on his headset, standing up. "Paramedics are on their way."

"They're here." Fury tells them. Steve and Tony listen in as well. "They called it."

Later at the bridge, Fury gathers Tony and Steve back into the briefing room, everyone there has a look as if in a daze. A look of numb shock is shown on their devastated faces. "These were in Maria Hill's pockets. Guess she never did get you to sign them for Y/n."

Fury throws Maria's card, but it was actually Coulson's Captain America  Trading cards on the table towards Steve. Steve picks them up, stained with blood. Fury looks at them. "We're dead in the air up here. Our communications, location of the cube, Banner, Thor. I got nothing for you. Lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming. (A BEAT) Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract. I never put all my chips on that number though, because I was playing something even riskier. There was an idea, Stark knows this, called THE AVENGERS INITIATIVE. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Maria Hill died still believing in that idea, in heroes."

Tony gets up and walks off, not wanting to hear it anymore. Fury looks at the rest. "Well, it's an old fashioned notion."

Tony look at the empty cell container. He stands not saying a word. Steve walks in. "Was he married?"

Tony shook his head, "No. but she has a little troublemaker of her own."

Steve seems sad, "I'm sorry. She seemed like a good person."

Tony shook his head, "she was an idiot."

Steve raised an eyebrow. "Why? For believing?"

Tony looks at him. "For taking on Loki alone."

Steve defended her, "she was doing her job."

Tony looked at him, "she was out of his league. She should have waited. She had a kid to get back to. She should have..."

"Sometimes there isn't a way out, Tony." Steve told him.

Tony walks away. "Right. How did that work for her?"

Steve looked at him, "is this the first time you've lost a soldier?"

Tony turns around sharply. "WE ARE NOT SOLDIERS! I am not marching to Fury's fife!"

Strve glared at him. "Neither am I! He's got the same blood on his hands as Loki does. Right now we've got to put that aside and get this done. Now Loki needs a power source, if we can put together a list..."

Tony looking at the blood stained wall, "He made it personal."

Steve looks at it. "That's not the point."

"That is the point. That's Loki's point. He hit us all right where we live. Why?" Toby asked.

"To tear us apart." Steve nodded.

"He had to conquer his greed, but he knows he has to take us out to win, right? That's what he wants. He wants to beat us and he wants to be seen doing it. He wants an audience." Tony told Cap.

"Right, I caught his act at Stuttengard." Steve added.

"Yeah. That's just a preview, this is opening night. Loki's a full-tilt diva. He wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built in the skies with his name plastered... (PAUSE) Sonofabitch!"

"And so, the Avengers were formed but that was not all."

Y/n is seen looking at the door as Steve Rogers enters the door. He explains the situation and puts his hand out, Y/n slowly takes it.

"A family was formed. Y/n Hill, taken in by Steve Rogers, was trained to be a hero, and becomes Natasha's younger brother in a sense. Trained with the best of the best, when Y/n had control of his powers, Y/n brought Peggy Carter from the past to live with Cap as Y/n was able to make two same people live in the same timeline. The current Peggy, and the past Peggy. In a way, you could call it a Paradox. In a sense, Peggy became Y/n's mother while Steve, his father. During the issue with Winter Soldier, he worked with Steve Rogers and Natasha to take down foes. During the Civil War, Y/n is on Steve's side, and easily wipes the floor with the other side, besides Vision."

"WHOA!!" Y/n is seen blocking with a green and black Star shield like Cap's. A beam comes at him as it deflects onto the plane.

"Y/n...was that you?" Steve asked.

"Uh...sorry dad." Y/n says as he rewinds the plane.

"Eventually, Y/n is able to clear everyone's names. He learns gadgets and such from Tony Stark, learning the secrets of the world from T'Challa and Shuri. He reunites the Avengers and helps bring back life after Thanos snapped away life, him as well. Y/n Hill-Rogers becomes Earth's Mightiest Hero... undercover, of course."

Y/n is seen with red hair and green eyes as he yawns into his bed. "Y/n! Breakfast!"

Y/n tries to go back to sleep as Peggy walks into the room, she raised an eyebrow at him, "hmm, another late night?"

"You could say that. Run in with a Norse god, that's always fun." Y/n said as he slowly turned around.

"I will never get used to you saying stuff like that so calmly." Peggy said as Steve is seen knocking on the door.

"Is there a meeting going on in here?" Steve asked.

"Only a meeting about the times, Dad. History repeats itself, ain't that what you said?" Y/n said as Steve laughed.

"Yeah but..." Steve and Peggy look at Y/n's shield in his bag. They look around all the workout equipment, school work, pictures with Aliens. "I think you've caused a change."

Y/n was shocked and looked up at him, "r-Really?"

"Yeah, I do." Peggy added as she patted her son's back. "Now come on, eat breakfast and head out."

Y/n smiled bright and got up with Steve as they headed to the door. Y/n is then seen walking into the school in his area. The Watcher is seen in his shadow. Y/n smiles, "well, seems like everything is in order."

"You think?" Cassandra Lang asks as she kissed his cheek.

"Oh right, Cassandra Lang, 15 years old. The Blip left her to fend for herself a lot. But in this universe, it seems things are quite different from normal."

"Good morning to you too, can I get a real kiss?" Y/n asked as Cassandra put her finger to his lips.

"Maybe later, we need to head to class for now." Cassandra pulled his arms along as she intertwined them. Y/n rolled his eyes with a sigh.

"Alright, alright. Still, hard to believe I have to finish the school year. Many people are now graduated." Y/n says as Cassie sighed.

"Yeah, not everyone gets it easy. Take me for example, but, you helped save the world. The universe actually. And now it's all back to normal." Cassie said as Y/n got flustered a little.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." Y/n then saw many people wearing Paradox Merch. "Wait I have Merch?"

"Yeah, you got Merch." Cassie said as Y/n was confused.

"What? How come I didn't know about this sooner?" Y/n said, genuinely excited that he was popular.

"Well, someone did just get back from run in with Loki." Cassie says as she starts swinging her arms, as Y/n's arm starts to go back and forth.

"He fakes his death so many times, to think one of them could've been permanent if I hadn't paused time." Y/n says as he then sees a Thanos shirt.

Cassie frowns, a little angry. "I'm still not totally on board with him being 'reformed'."

"He's done a lot of bad, however with the help of T'challa, I think we finally broke through to him." Y/n says as he also looks at Gamora's face on the news as she is seen dealing with space threats. She is then helped by Nebula, Fat Thor, and the guardians. "A chance was given to make a deadly enemy our ally, to pull that off is to win half the battle. The world has changed, it's in our hands now. We gotta do something with it."

"Right, I know we will." Cassie said as the two sat down. Y/n smiled as a woman is seen giving lessons. "Miss Octavius?"

"Yes?" Olivia asked as she went over to Cassie. Y/n meanwhile as working on his suit in secret.

"If I wasn't so busy dealing with Eddie, I bet this would've been way easier." Y/n said as he started to repair the suit. "I wonder if I could ask Strange so I could learn some magic. He'd probably decline it though."

"WOOOP! WOOOP! WOOOP!" The alarm went off as Olivia looked at the class. Y/n looked at the bell, it seemed like it was different.

"Alright, everyone head to the shelters! Single file! Even though I know you're ain't gonna follow it. Let's go!" Olivia said as Y/n and Cassie crouched down hidden.

Y/n started to suit up and looked at Cassie. "Wanna take any bets?"

"Alien? Maybe Fisk?" Cassie asked as Y/n nodded.

"That's a good choice, I'm thinking bigger." Y/n says as a blue screen popped up, Y/n started to track something as Y/n nodded. "You don't mind if I..."

"If I cared if my boyfriend was a superhero, I would've just broken up with you." Cassie claimed as Y/n kissed her lips, she sunk into them before Y/n pulled away and snuck out the back.

"Fair call! You owe me a longer kiss later!" Y/n shouted as the alarms illumined the dark hall. Y/n started to run but as he ran, he started to change more and more into his costume.

"In this universe, through all this great accomplishments, he had no magic. Instead, he took inspiration from his parent and those around him to become his best self."

His uninform is dark green with black stripes across his chest and white stripes that run down the side of his ribs to his knees. His shield is green and black. The bulletproof nomex and kevlar uniform seems to be upgraded by Stark as the uniform features a communicator in his black repulsor gloves, straps the allow him to magnetically latch his shield to his back and Y/n can call back his shield, which can electromagnetically attach to his gauntlet. Y/n placed his shield on his back as he started to glow green, with his hair turning green. He made it to the school roof before zipping forward and forward to reach the place. Y/n eventually landed on a rooftop, a blue cloud with dark aura started to appear just above him. "Now, what do we have here?"

Out of the cloud, a blue haired figure with blue eyes is seen. But... he looked a lot like. In fact, exactly like Y/n. "Oh no...don't tell me this is like a Winter Soldier program."

"Afraid not, but rejoice. Apocalypse sends his regards." The boy said before he suddenly appeared behind Y/n, Y/n quickly raised his shield and blocked the kick, Y/n was kicked off the roof as he quickly rewinded time as Y/n went for the punch this time, but the boy caught it. "Oh? Do you have a plan to beat me? Or are you gonna cry?"

"Who needs a plan? I got a shield and time powers." Y/n punches the boy as the boy slowed down, but y/n was still moving at normal time. Y/n opened his palm and fired off a replusor blast which launched the boy back. The boy disappeared in a portal as portals started to open up all around Y/n. "Okay, maybe a small plan would be great!"

Blue beams were shot out as Y/n raised the shield and deflected the beams. Y/n then threw the shield at the boy, who got hit back but the boy flew in the air and raised his hands. Gravity started to flip as Y/n looked around, "hey! Stop! You're gonna hurt someone!"

"That's the point." He said as he pushed Y/n down with a wave of his hand. Y/n started to crash through the floors, he landed in a nice room with a couple.

Y/n waved hi to them, "sorry bout this."

Y/n quickly waved his hand and fixed the repairs just as the evil him appears him front of him and pushed him through the window, "take a dive."

"Man, I miss the days when my final exams were the hardest part of my life." Y/n quickly hit the man off with his shield before he charged up a punch and knocked the man back. Y/n found himself about to crash into another window as he saw another evil him. "What the-?"

"Language." The other him said as he dashed for him. Y/n looked to see both of them, Y/n span in the air and threw the shield at one and shot the repulsor at it. The shield bounced off both their heads as the blast sent it in a circle at a faster speed, knocking the two back.

Y/n smiled, "That was BRILLIANT! LET'S DO THAT AGAIN!"

The other one disappeared as the boy charged again, increasing his speed. He went for a punch but Y/n went to block it. His stick his hand in a portal as it punched Y/n back. Evil Y/n made a portal under his leg and kicked the ground, feet started to rise from the ground and kick Y/n upwards. Y/n zipped around a portal attack and appeared behind evil Y/n, kicking him back as he went into a portal. Guessing he'd appear behind him, Y/n quickly leaped in the back to do a backflip, doing the massive shootout that Evil Y/n did. Y/n then got behind him and kicked his spine, wrapping his arm around the neck before slamming the head on the ground. "Please, just give up."

"Grrr-!" Evil glared and growled as he made many more versions of him. Y/n looked around before he leaped in the air to give a split kick, knocking two down. Y/n then quickly threw his shield around as that hit some, while that was going on, Y/n used the stone to increase his movements to match Evil. Y/n saw Evil let of a tiny flare, Y/n got a bad feeling and raised the shield while firing repulsor blasts.

A teal explosion rang out as Y/n is seen looking in the distance, "that was the power of...the space stone? He's obviously an evil me, but why did he choose me specifically to attack. He doesn't seem like he wants me to join his team."

Y/n slowed time down and shifted the battle into rewind. Suddenly, everyone was back on the building they started as Y/n glared at them. "Now you tell me who this Apocalypse guy is, and what do you want?!"

"The time to reveal is not yet." The boy said as he closed his hands before Y/n suddenly started to get sucked in.

Y/n looked at the boy, "A black hole here!? Are you crazy!? You're gonna level this whole planet!"

"Haha." The boy have a small laugh as Y/n started to get serious and appeared in front of the boy. "Huh?"

Y/n slammed the shield against his chin hard, making the man fling back into a building. Y/n throws the shield at the man, knocking the wind out of his chest before Y/n slows time and slams into his chest again. Evil goes through the building as y/n rolls on the ground. A portal opens above, leading to a ton of ocean water to come down onto him. Y/n is seen floating down the street in the water before Shark comes at him, Y/n's eyes shine orange for a moment before it goes back to normal. Y/n shakes his head and swims to the top as he started to loose air. "Gasp, what the heck? He can bring other stuff along with it."

"Yep. And what would Cap say if I left his son behind?" Evil opens his hand a portal come out, sand started to fly closer to Y/n and try to slice him up, Y/n revered the sand back to a couple seconds as a empty building was launched at him, Y/n touched it and accelerated it. It turned into ash as Y/n let of a sigh.

"He would say do as Y/n says!" Y/n glared at his Evil self. "You're flooding New York, and you're destroying the ecosystem!"

"Why, how are you lasting this long? I don't understand, the others didn't." Evil said as Y/n looked at him seriously as he reversed the effects.

"How do I keep getting back up? Simple. Bite me? I'll bite back. You hurt me? I'll just hurt you back. You kill me? I'll just walk it off." Y/n gets in his fighting postion again. "I can do this all night, Space Cowboy."

Evil hovered down to send more debris at Y/n as Y/n destroyed it with his shield, Evil appeared behind him as Y/n grabbed him and threw him over the shoulder and slammed him into the ground. Y/n noticed the space stone was lodged into his chest. Y/n quickly grabbed another him from a couple seconds ago as they both threw the shield at Evil. "It's either me, or Apocalypse. This is necessary evil. It's needed."

If there's anything that pissed Y/n off more than anything, it was that. Y/n shifted the ground as everything started going in reverse, Evil tried to throw a black hole at Y/n but Y/n rewinded Evil and Evil appeared in his hand, a blast shot out of Y/n's hand, pushing Evil to the ground. Y/n then stomped on Evil's back and aimed the repulsor at him. "I will not tolerate--I will not allow--any talk of the necessity of necessary evil. I have spent much of my life on that line and every time I've seen someone cross it, death and horror and shame was what followed. So I refuse to entertain it..."

"Then kill me!!! Get it it over with!" Evil shouted as Y/n removed his foot from Evil.

"No, I don't want to kill anyone. Bullies are the worst, no matter what universe they come from." Y/n smiled as he offered his hand. "I would like some answers though."

"This will be your tombstone! For the gods!" Evil teleported into the sky and forced gravity to get heavy. Evil started to make another bacl hole in his hand. "You're weak! Offering the enemy assistance?! You disgust me! Say goodbye."

"I guess even the gods can't do everything themselves."

Y/n looks around for the voice, sensing something or someone. "Who...who's out there...? I can feel you, I just can't see you..."

A tiny drone flew up in the air as the news's showed the whole situation. Cassie held her mouth and looked at Y/n. "Come on, babe, come on, Y/n. Get up."

Y/n was slammed on the ground as he groaned, slowly forced himself to get up. Gravity got heavier as Y/n couldn't lift his arm to rewind the effects, Evil figured that out. The black hole started to get bigger as well, Y/n closed his eyes starting to accept his fate. "No...not yet..."

Y/n tightened the strap on the shield as he pushed himself into the ground, gripping it as tight as he can. The ground started to go through the seasons as it started to rewind. Buildings shot out and well as construction as the past was brought back. One of the buildings hit Evil before Y/n leaped into one of the rising ones. On the way up, Y/n threw his shield at Evil, knocking him upwards and stunning him.  Y/n then leaped off and grabs Evil, his body starts to glow green as Evil screams. Y/n grabs the stone in Evil's chest."RAAAAAAAHHHH!! Who are you!??"

"Paradox: A Father of Time." Y/n eventually pulls it out and rewinds Evil to before he had any power. Evil tried to launch himself again but Y/n just knocked him out with the sword. "Don't mistake kindness for weakness."

The scene switched to Bruce and Shang Chi walking with Y/n. "So he just appeared out of nowhere and attacked?"

"Yeah I though were over that phase?" Banner said as Y/n nodded as they turned the corner, they seemed be at the Raft.

"He was speaking about gods and this guy called Apocalypse. Any of you know?" Y/n asked them as they shook their heads. "Well, anything else come up with him?"

"Well, his genes...there's a gene in here I've never seen before." Bruce said as Shang-chi was confused.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"I took samples like you asked and found his body has been changed to a certain degree. Something inside is laying dormant, waiting to be awoken." Bruce explained as Y/n sighed. "it's not exactly different from humans, just that one gene."

"For someone like him, that means trouble." Y/n says as Shang-Chi looks at him.

"But if there's anyone that can make this, make sense, it's you." He said as Y/n smiled.

"Thanks, but...it's better to leave him here until we have more information." Y/n said as he looked out to the city. "Now if you excuse, I have a date with Destiny."

"Ding dong." A doorbell rang as Scott got up.

"Coming!" Scott said as he opened the door to see Y/n with flowers.

Y/n wasn't looking at the door and smiled, "to the lovely lady?"

"Thanks but she's not hear yet." Scott says as Y/n gets flustered and looked at the door.

"A-Ah! Mr. Lang!" Y/n said as Scott snickered.

"Come on Y/n, we've saved the universe countless times together, I think you can call me something else." Scott says as Cassie makes her ways down stairs.

"Alright, Scott." Y/n says as Scott froze.

"That feels weird, but I'll allow it." Scott says as he sees Cassie and starts to walk away.

Cassie smiled as Y/n approached the door again. "Cough, let me try this again. To the lovely lady, may I take you out on a date this fine evening?"

Cassie giggled, taking the flowers. "you may, handsome lad."

She took Y/n's extended hand as they walked away, hand in hand. "How'd you know which ones were my favorite?"

Y/n hummed, "it's my job to remember the small details."

"You guessed, didn't you?"

"You bet I did."

"One death, one moment, can lead to a spiral change in the timeline. Leading to a universe quite like this. I...I never expected I would see a universe so peaceful. Maybe...maybe one day they all can be as peaceful as this."