𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐄.

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act five ━━ 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘆.
· 。ﾟ୧ ⋆. 𝗙𝗘𝗠𝗠𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗘. ₊˚.༄
━━━ THE LIGHT IS COMING,
❝ i never got to say goodbye ❞

• • ＮＥＷ ＹＯＲＫ, 𝟤𝟢𝟣𝟤

𝓜elody, Steve, Tony, Bruce and Scott dropped into an alleyway. The city of New York was being destroyed and their past selves were around the block from them current selves.

The brunette's eyes looked down as she recalled the day like it was just yesterday she played the God of Mischief in order to help a group of heroes who had no clue who or what she was, going against her people - against her father. Wanting to show that she was brave and capable of taking care of herself.

And now they were trying to get everyone back.

"All right, we all have our assignments. Two stones uptown, one stone, down. Stay low. Keep an eye on the clock." Steve was cut off by the past Hulk smashing a car and throwing it across the street, releasing a roar.

Melody winced as he swung a tire to a nearby alien soldier before chasing it down the street.

Steve looked to Bruce who hid his face in embarrassment. "Feel free to smash a few things along the way."

"I think it's gratuitous, but whatever." Bruce said removing his shirt and walking passed his friends.

The group of heroes watched as Bruce lazily let out a deep growl, smashing his hand on the roof of a car, and tossing a motorcycle.

Melody and Scott followed behind Steve and Tony towards the former Avengers tower.

Melody entered a vacant hallway before ascending to the top floor via the staircase.

Once she reached the top, she peeked in through the window seeing Tony and Scott hiding.

"I'm in." Melody said earning a nod from Tony.

"Remember, no contact with our past selves." Steve reminded the group.

She let out a low squeal seeing the 'STRIKE team' or HYDRA agents making their way into the room where her team and her past self was kept in.

She ducked her head, peeking into the messy room.

"If it's all the same to you . . . I'll have that drink now." Loki said looking up at Natasha who held the scepter to his neck, "You little minx." He glanced to Melody who narrowed her eyes at him.

"I don't know what that is alien man."

"God of Mischief, but I'll take that to sweetheart-" Natasha dug the scepter into his chest. "Joking."

"All right. Get him on his feet. No standing around, I'm closing up this door for later. By the way, feel free to clean up." Past Iron Man ordered the team of heroes. "You too new girl."

Melody smiled slightly watching the group.

"Ugh, Mr. Rogers. I almost forgot, that suit- did nothing for your ass." Tony said into his mic as he looked at past Captain America who spoke with a distressed Melody Lockhart.

"No one asked you to look." Steve remarked in offence.

"I think you look great, Cap. As far as I'm concerned, that's America's ass." Scott said as a matter of fact sending a salute to his past self.

Melody nodded in agreement from her spot though no one could see her.

"Uhh, magic wand?" Natasha questioned Steve.

"STRIKE team's coming to secure it." Steve nodded to Rumlow and his team.

"We can take that off your hands."

"By all means. Careful with that thing." Natasha said as she handed the scepter. She looked to the brunette who stood quietly off to the side, "What are we gonna do with you missy?"

"Unless you want your mind erased. Not in a fun way."

"We promise to be careful."

"Who are these guys?" Scott asked staring at the group from Tony's shoulder.

"Bad guys." Melody answered narrowing her eyes at the group.

"Yeah. They are SHIELD . . . Well, actually Hydra. But, we didn't know that yet." Tony explained.

"Seriously, you didn't? I mean . . . they look like bad guys."

"You're small, but you're talking loud." Tony remarked.

"On my way down to coordinate search and rescue." Past Steve said as he walked by the heroes.

"On my way down to coordinate search and rescue!" Loki mimicked as he transformed himself into Captain America. Past Melody let out a giggle as she stood next to two brothers. "I mean, honestly! How do you think you'll be-" He was cut off by Thor slapping a mouth guard over his lips, earning a frown from the brunette.

"Shut up." Thor demanded shoving his brother forwards.

"All right, you're up, little buddy. There's our stone." Tony informed Scott.

Scott squatted sticking out his backside, "Alright. Flick me."

"Whoa! Whoa, whoa." Past Thor held out his hand to the past Hulk who looked at them all in confusion.

"Hey! Buddy." Tony said as he sat on a briefcase, "What do you think? Maximum occupancy has been reached."

"Take the stairs!" Thor said as the doors began to shut, Loki waving in mockery as a roar was heard.

Melody's eyes widened as she panicked looking down seeing the amount of stairs she had to climb to get down.

"Take the stairs. Take the stairs!" Hulk exclaimed slamming the doors opened walking past Melody who stood frozen in the corner starring at the large green man stomp down the stairs.

"All right, Cap. I got our scepter in the elevator just passing the 80th floor." Tony informed Steve peeking his head out and seeing Melody looking at him wide eyed.

"On it. Head to the lobby."

"Alright. I'll see you there." Tony said pressing on his ear piece. "You comin' little mermaid?"

Melody nodded and took his hand as the two made their way to the large windows and dove out, Tony held onto the brunette as he approached the bottom level of the tower.

Melody adjusted her glasses that sat on the middle of her nose as she glanced from the corner of the room where their past selves walked out of the elevator and was met with a group of HYDRA groupies.

"Thumbelina do you copy? I've got eyes on the prize." Tony, who was disguised as an agent asked Scott. "It is go time."

"Bombs away."

Melody glanced out to the large windows seeing a group of large figures dressed in green and gold armour making their way through the crowds of New Yorkers who eyed them oddly.

"Kepa . . ." Melody trailed off her eyes watered as she looked at her father, grandfather and- "Kai." She whispered in disbelief.

"Melody." Tony whispered earning no reply he glanced over seeing the brunette walking towards the exit, "Melody! Do not go outside."

"What's happening?" Scott asked.

"Nothing, focus on what you have to do." Tony remarked looking from where his past self was then to Melody who stared as her family reached the entry way of the tower.

"Is, is that Axe body spray?" Scott questioned.

Tony sighed, "Yeah, I had a can just for emergencies. Relax. Melody! Move it, Stuart Little. Things are getting dicey up here. Let's go."

"You promise me you won't die?"

Melody walked forwards dodging bodies as her eyes were trained on the three males who entered the room.

"You're only giving me a mild cardiac dysrhythmia." Tony said looking back to Scott with frantic eyes, hoping the brunette across from him would stay in place.

"Melody Lockhart!" Callisto's eyes were narrowed on his daughter who stood next to Thor and Loki.

"Who are you?" Past Thor questioned the men.

"I can ask you the same thing." Callisto remarked glaring at the blonde man who squinted looking down at the brunette who hid behind his large arm her eyes peeking over seeing her father and grandfather standing tall over the humans.

"I don't know what kind of Cosplay convention you're all having but I need that case." Alexander Pierce demanded Tony Stark.

The group began to argue as they all grabbed the silver brief case.

"Grab zirȳla." Callisto ordered fed up with the groups immaturity, as guards began to walk to past Melody who continued to deny her father's orders.

"Hey watch it, buddy." Natasha said defending the brunette next to her, she rose her hand in front of Kai's chest who rose a brow at the red head in annoyance.

Tony argued with Scott over his mic as Melody began to run towards her father and Kai only to be flung across the room curtesy by the former Hulk who began to roar at the humans who ran for their lives in fear.

The briefcase fell onto the floor as Tony grabbed it and began to walk away with it only to be shoved back by Hulk's arm.

The briefcase slid across the floor as Loki looked down than to the occupied group then grabbed the cube and disappeared.

"LOKI!" Thor called out looking for his brother.

"That wasn't supposed to happen was it?" Scott asked.

"We blew it." Tony said as he rolled over and approached Melody helping her up and out of the tower, Scott rushing behind the duo.

"I just have to talk to him, one more time." Melody pleaded Iron Man who shook his head dragging her away from the tower. Her eyes locked on her father, and grandfather spoke with Steve and Tony. Then to Kai who stood with her past self trying to cheer up. "I just need to talk to him one last time."

Tony sighed as they rounded a corner.

"You can't." He denied, "I'm sorry but you can't. I know, I understand you want to have one more moment with your family. But we can't, it's too late now."

"Well they're still back there . . ." Scott pointed behind them, stopping once he saw Tony's glare. "Yeah, we messed up."

Tears breamed Melody's eyes as she leant against the brick wall and fell to the pavement.

"I never got to say goodbye." She whispered clutching her knees to her chest. The two men frowned at the brunette who whimpered quietly to herself.

"𝓒ap." Tony called out as Steve dropped into an abandoned ally across from them three. "Sorry, buddy. We got a problem."

"Huh. Yeah, we do." Scott scoffed.

Steve looked down seeing Melody with tear stained cheeks. He looked to Tony with accusing eyes, the brunette shook his head with a solemn look on his face.

Tony briefly explained to Steve what had occurred with the space stone and how they were in other words - screwed.

"Well, what are we gonna do now?"

"You know what, give me a break, Steve. I just got hit in the head with a Hulk." Tony remarked.

"You said that we had one shot."

"This, this was our shot. We shot it. It's shot. Six stones or nothing. Six stones or nothing." Scott rambled in anger.

"You're repeating yourself, you know that? You're repeating yourself." Tony argued with Scott who glared at him.

"You're repeating yourself. You're repeating yourself." He mocked Tony who rolled his eyes.

"No! Come on."

"You never wanted a time heist, you went on board with the time heist . . ."

"I dropped the ball."

"You ruined the time heist." Scott argued.

Melody rubbed at her temples as Steve paced in his spot growing abdicated with the two men who continued to argue like children.

"SHUT UP!" Melody exclaimed as the sky above them darkened briefly before they returned slowly back to its natural state.

Scott parted his lips in fear, "He started it." He pointed to Tony who gaped at the man.

Steve sighed glancing to Melody who sat back on the hood of the car trying to calm herself down. He shook his head at the two, "Are there any other options with the Tesseract?"

"No, no, no. There's no other options."

"There's no do-overs. We're not going anywhere else. We have one particle left. Each." Scott explained to Steve. "That's it, alright? We use that . . . Bye, bye. You're not going home."

"Yeah, well if we don't try . . . then no one else is going home, either."

"I got it." Tony said as a look of realization crossed his face gaining the three's attention. "There's another way. To retake the Tesseract and acquire new particles. We'll stroll down memory lane. Military installation, Garden State." He said as Steve's brown furrowed at his words.

"When were they both there?"

"They were there at a . . . I've a vaguely exact idea."

"How vague?" Steve questioned.

"What are you talking about? Do you know what they're talking about?" Scott questioned looking to Melody who shook her head.

"I know for a fact they were there . . ."

"Who's they?"

"What are we doing?" Scott continued to ask the two men who ignored him.

"And I know how I know."

"Guys, what's up? What is it?"

Steve looked around them and nodded, "Well, it looks like we're improvising."

"Right."

"What are we improvising? Melody help me out here." Scott looked to the brunette who stood in front of Steve with questioning eyes.

"Scott, get this back to the compound. Melody-"

"No." Melody shook her head, "Let me come with you two, please." She practically pleaded the man. Steve shook his head, "I'm not going to beg you. I am coming."

Steve's jaw clenched, "I don't know if we'll come back from this." Melody looked down briefly, Steve's eyes softened, "That's what you want . . ."

"What?" Scott asked in disbelief.

Melody pleaded silently, Steve inhaled sharply trying to ignore her pleading doe eyes. Letting out a sigh he nodded, "Suit up."

"Are you serious?" Tony asked in disbelief, "I'm a much better guardian than you." He whispered to Steve who rolled his eyes.

"Zero, four-" Tony read out to both Melody and Steve who typed in the coordinates. "Zero, seven. One, nine, seven-"

"Excuse me . . ." Scott questioned looking between the three.

"Are you sure?" Steve asked earning a nod from Tony.

"Cap. Captain. Steve, sorry." Scott continued rambled. "America. Rogers. Look, if you do this - and this doesn't work, you're not coming back."

"Thanks for the pep talk, pissant." Tony said slightly annoyed with Scott's ramblings. "You trust me?" Tony asked Steve.

"I do."

Tony looked to Melody who nodded in agreement. Nodding he shrugged, "Your call."

"Here we go."

❨ 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄 ❩
🐚ঌ ࣪₀🧺 .˚🌿✦

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I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY STEVE SAYING "HAIL HYDRA" LIKE A BAD BITCH THEN WALKING OUT WITH HIS LITTLE SMILE IS THE CUTEST SHIT. LIKE WHEN TONY WAS HOPING FOR A SECRET DOOR IN AVENGERS AND HIS LITTLE YAY AND CHEER AH

im not fucking ok.

also im severally confused as to why present thor didn't do anything when he saw his brother locked up? i expected him to like stare at him in shock or have like a small moment rather then just sneak by his cell. wtf.

but we know he's alive so its fine but still. the way he has reacted to Loki's fake deaths then is real one wtf is with the russo brothers?

also if you use my layouts pls credit a shistar 🦋✨ thank youuu to those who do ily se much 🥰

𝗐𝗈𝗋𝖽 𝖼𝗈𝗎𝗇𝗍, 𝟤𝟧𝟢𝟪