(AN: hey its been a while........like a really long while, school started and I'm pretty sure my friend who was working with me on this completely forgot this existed anyways I'll probably be working on this alone rn so I'm sorry if it keeps getting worse.... enjoy then?)

"And just how are you going to do that, the last I heard, my sister was thrown down a pit" Nebula spat, obviously annoyed at the Avengers. "Even if we do find her, which is very unlikely, she'll still be dead," Nebula said.

"I'll explain on the way," Tony said, urgently motioning towards the door.

_________YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD TIMESKIP____________

"Alright," Nebula said, slamming down into a chair in the cockpit of Rocket's ship. "Please tell of this genius plan you conceived in your mind-womb" She growled, voice dripping with sarcasm.

Tony swiveled around to meet her eyes. "I think I know a way to get them back. To get them ALL back." He ventured. "You know how Thanos has the Time Stone?"

"Yes," Nebula replied.

"Well, we have this woman who is capable of getting it from him and using it. She can turn back time to before they... left." Tony said, getting up from his seat. "We can stop Thanos from getting the stones in the first place. We can prevent the war before it happened." He moved to the front of the ship. "Her name is Carol Danvers and if you don't help us she will throw you in a black hole."

"Why would she even care?" Nebula argued, leaning forward in her seat. "She has no reason to care about Thanos."

"Her daughter happened to be one of the random 50% that Thanos snapped away," Tony stated.

"Snapped away, so that's what we're saying now, sounds stupid. You haven't even told us your plan, right now we are just flying in blind. Hell, we don't even know where we are going!" Nebula said, voice rising.

The silence following her uncharacteristic outburst only added to the weight in the plane. Tony had come to the conclusion that people say when you lose someone, that your heart hurts, but it was so much more than that. There was the sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach every morning when you lose your grogginess and realize all over again that they're gone. There's the red, puffy, stinging of your eyes after you've cried yourself to sleep the previous night. There was the painful scratching of your raw throat when you wake up screaming from a nightmare of losing them all over again. The pain was everywhere, consuming every good thing left in life, leaving the survivors with only painful memories and fantasies that could never be.

Natasha cleared her throat. "Uh.... Tony the plan?"

As soon as she said that Tony was sucker-punched back into reality. "Yes, the plan..... The plan." He started to murmur to himself confusing the people in the ship.

"Hey, Tony?" Steve asked, "are you sure you got a plan, I know you are anxious but we can't just run in there and just expect to kill Thanos."

"I- I know Steve I know, here's the plan".

Tony got up and walked towards the front of the room and turned to face the other occupants. "As for how to find Thanos: The Infinity Gauntlet gives off large waves of quantum energy. Bruce and I figured out how to track it using this radar, Danvers will meet us there. Once we find Thanos, we will attempt to subdue him while Carol goes for the gauntlet, similar to what we did on Titan but this time... this time it's going to work, it has to work.

The team watched him, his distress was obvious, it isn't easy being the one in charge especially under these circumstances. No one wanted to speak, try to get the plan clarified but the way Tony was standing there just staring at the edge off the table made them uneasy maybe even scared. In complete honesty, the people in the spaceship were nearly sure they were going to die but they also knew it was worth it, they had nothing left, no more help, no more friends, no more family. Nothing. All they could do was fight, for everything they'd lost.

Tony looked up. "This is our endgame."