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𝖢𝖧𝖠𝖯𝖳𝖤𝖱 𝖳𝖧𝖨𝖱𝖳𝖸-𝖳𝖧𝖱𝖤𝖤 - 𝖳𝖧𝖤 𝖥𝖨𝖦𝖧𝖳 𝖮𝖥 𝖮𝖴𝖱 𝖫𝖨𝖵𝖤𝖲

❝ See you in a minute. ❞

𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐉𝐀 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐁. If the time traveling would really work they could bring everybody back. A smile made it's way onto her face but quickly vanished again as she saw that Barton wore on of the time travel suit.

The russian quickly approched the group as she could hear Rhodey who nodded at her before he turned to the others. "If we can do this, you know, go back in time— why don't we just find baby Thanos, you know, and-", he pantomimed strangulation.

"Okay, first of all, that's horrible", Banner exclaimed as he looked at Rhodey, but Ana raised her eyebrow considering it.

"It's Thanos!", the man next to her exclaimed at him.

"And secondly, time doesn't work that way. Changing the past doesn't change the future", Banner explained to the group.

Scott aggred with him as he placed a cap on his head, "We go back, we get the stones before Thanos gets them, Thanos doesn't have the stones! Problem solved!"

Clint nodded at him agreeing, "Bingo."

But Nebula interrupted the two as she worked on Barton's suit, "That's not how it works!"

"Well, that's what I heard."

"Who told you that?", Bruce asks Clint who continued to look at Ana who gave him a worried look. 

"Star Trek, Terminator, Timecop, Time After Time—", Rhodey began to list of the films drawing her attention towards him.

"Quantum Leap?", Scott added quickly as Rhodes went on.

"A Wrinkle in Time, Somewhere in Time—." Scott interrupted him again, "Hot Tub Time Machine?"

Ana finally joins in as she crossed her arms over her chest, "Hot Tub Time Machine, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, basically any movie that deals with time travel!"

Scott spoke up again, "Die Hard?", he furrowed his eyebrows, "No, that's not one—"

"Look, this is known!", Rhodey exclaimed as he looked at the green man.

Banner pointed at Rhodey, "I don't know why everyone believes that, but that isn't true. Think about it. If you go into the past, that past becomes your future, and your former present becomes the past, which can't now be changed by your new future!"

Nebula aggred with him, "Exactly!" Scott sighed as he looked at the ground, "So 'Back to the Future' is a bunch of bullshit?"

"Seems like it", Anastasija muttered before she looked at Barton again.

"Can someone tell me what is happening here?"

"Clint volunteered to travel back in time", Rhodey explained to her calmly.

"You really think that's a good idea?", Anastasija asked him as she walked next to the man who now left the lab and walked to the big platform Stark and Rocket had built for them.

"No. But I'll do it anyway." They stopped and he turned towards Ana who gave him a small kiss onto his cheek. "Come back in one piece", she told him as she clapped his shoulder before she walked back to the other's.

She stood inbetween Thor and Rhodey as she watched Clint who looked straight ahead and let out a deep breath.

"Okay, Clint. We're going in three— two—one!"

The platform activated and suddenly Clint disappeared leaving the platform empty.

Anastasija turned towards Bruce who shrugged at her with a faithful look on his face.

Suddenly Anastasija felt a warm hand in her shoulder, "He's goin' to be okay."

The blond woman looked over her shoulder and saw Steve who stood behind her giving her shoulder a squeez.

Even if this was the most inappropriate Anastasija felt a electric feeling rushing through her entired body as a warm feeling spread into her stomach. She placed a hand on his hand which still laid on her shoulder as she looked back ahead.

After a very short moment Clint appeared again, he sat on the platform, grunting as he had obviously no idea where he was.

Natasha immediately run towards him, as did the others.

"Hey, hey! Look at me!", she told him as she cupped his face with one hand.
Anastasija joins him and Natasha on the platform as he looked at them panting, "Yeah, yeah. It worked!", He told the group as he held up a baseball glove smiling.

"It worked", he repeated as he threw the glove at Tony who catched it smiling triumphantly.

"So this is how it works now we have to figure out the, when and the where", Steve stood infront if the team that had settled into the seats infront of the big holograms that showed the six different Infinity stones.

"Almost everyone in this room has had an encounter with at least one of the six Infinity Stones."

Tony stood on the others side of the holograms with a coffee in his hand, "Or, substitute the word encounter with 'damn near been killed by' one of the six Infinity Stones."

Scott spoke up as he sat next to Rocket, "I haven't— I don't even know what the hell you're all taking about now."

Bruce walked up and down, "Regardless, we only have enough Pym Particles for one round trip each, and these stones have been in a lot of different places throughout history."

"Our history. So, not a lot of convenient spots to drop in", Tony told them as Banner walked past him.

Clint who had crossed his arms over his chest spoke up from the corner of the room, "Which means we've got to pick our targets."

"Correct."

"So let's start with the Aether", Steve drew their attention back to him. And honestly as professional as Anastasija was, she could hold back her thoughts about how good looking he was in that white shirt.

"Thor what do you know?", Steve asked the God which made them all look at Thor who sat in the other corner of the room and beer in his hand and his sunglasses on.

But the God didn't reacted to what he asked. "Is he asleep?", Natasha asked the rest of the group curious.

"No, no. I'm pretty sure he's dead", Rhodey said as they all continued to watch him. At some point Thor stood up and walked infront of the holograms.

"Uh— where to start? Um—", he took off his sunglasses as he looked at the red infinity stone. "The Aether, firstly is not a stone. Someone called it a stone before", he pointed at Steve who furrowed his eyebrows at the man.

"It's more of an angry sludge sort of a thing— so someone's gonna need to amend that and stop saying that."

Anastasija and Clint exchanged a sceptical look before they continued to listen. "Here's an interesting story, thought, about Aether. My father, many years ago had to hide the stone from the Dark Eleves."

He chuckled to himself, "Ohh. Scary beings." They all looked at him seriously as he continued, "So jane actually, oh there she is." A picture of a beautiful woman appeared on the monitor.

"Yeah, so Jane was an old flame if mine. You know she stuck her hand inside a rock this one time and then Aether stuck itself indside her and she became very, very sick. And so I had to take her to Asgard, which is where I'm from and we had to try and fix her. We were dating at the time, you see and I got to introduce her to my mother-", he suddenly got sad and sighed.

"Who's dead and, um— oh, you know, Jane and I aren't even dating. anymore, so— these things happen you know. Nothing last forever. The only thing that—." Tony grabbed him by the arm, "Why don't you come sit down?", Tony asked him friendly as he tried to dragg the God away.

"I'm not done yet. The only thing that is permanent in life is impermanence", he started laughing as the others exchanged confused and worried glances.

Tony clapped with his hands, "Awesome. Eggs? Breakfast?" The God shook his head, "No. I'd like a Bloody Mary."

— Next up was Rocket, "Quill said he stole the Power stone from Morag."

"Is that a person?", Banner asked as he ate something. "No, Morag is a planet!" Rocket walked down the table as he looked at him. "Quill was a person!"

Anastasija grabbed the chinese food box that stood in front of her, it was already evening and she was starving.

"Like a planet? Like in outer space?", Scott asked the Raccoon as he looked at him with big eyes eating his food.

"Oh, look. It's like a little puppy, all happy and everything." He patted Scotts head who looked slightly confused.

"Do you wanna go to space? You wanna go to space, puppy? I'll take you to space!"

Anastasija started to chuckle as she nearly choked on a noodle. "So to get Power stone, we have to go back to space?", she asked as she cought.

"Correct", the Raccoon jumped off of the table. Tony stood up as well, "Okay guys, that's enough for today, let's go to bed."

They all stood up one after the other until only Steve and Anastasija were left picking up the plates and threw out the trash.

Anastasija's washed one of the glasses as she looked at Steve who placed a plate on the counter. "It's insane", she let out a breath.

"What?", the blond man questioned with a irritated smile on his face.

"Everything", the gestured to the table were they had just sat. "Time travel and the fact that we actually managed to succeed", she chuckled as she leaned against the sink with her back.

"When was something not insane?", he questioned her as he leaned against the counter on her opposite.

A light smile mad it's way onto her face as she threw the towel she had just played with on the counter besides her.

"It's been a long time since New York", she looked at him amused while he eyed her closely a smirk playing on his lips. "Is everything all right?", she questioned him confused.

He nodded at her as he blinked a couple of times, "Yeah, everything is fine. It's just, maybe I have a bad timing— but I need to tell you in case anything goes wrong."

Anastasija eyed him before she looked directly into his eyes, "Spit it out", she chuckled at him impatient. "It's strange, after all this time", he stopped as he let out a deep breath. "—I'm still madly in love with you."

Anastasija breath hitched in her throat, although they had been together before neither of them had said 'I love you' before. The russian was speechless as she stared at him with wide eyes.

Steve got slowly nervous as he looked at her rubbing his neck embarrassed. "Okay, uh—maybe I should—", he gestured to the door as he wanted to walk away. But Anastasija quickly took a step forward and placed her lips onto his.

Steve who was surprised by her action but he quickly placed his left hand on the back of her head and his right hand on her waist as he gave it a squeez.

Anastasija moved her hands through his hair as he let out a quiet moan. She jumped up before he placed her onto the kitchen counter kissing her intensive.

He stood in between her legs as she kissed him again but before anything else could happen Natasha suddenly walked in a shampoo bottle in her hand.

"Hey Ana, can I use your—", but the red head stopped as she spotted the two. "Wow!", she quickly turned around as the two quickly let go of each other.

Anastasija quickly jumped from the kitchen counter as she put her hair in the right place. "Um— what did you asked?"

Natasha peeked over her shoulder before she turned around again, "I just wanted to ask if I could use your shampoo", she told her sister a big smirk on her face. "Of course you can", the russian answered her immediately.

"Okay, I'll be on my way then", Natasha awkwardly pointed at the door before she quickly left.

Steve and Anastasija looked at each other as she let out a chuckle and placed her hands over her face. "Oh God, I feel like I am a teenager getting busted by my mum."

Steve chuckled as well as he eyed the blond woman closely. Anastasija looked up at him before she leaned up and gave him a small kiss onto his lips, "Goodnight, Steve."

"Goodnight, Ana."

The next morning they all met early in the meeting room again. Nebula was the one who stood up as the soul stone appeared on the small monitor.

"Thanos found the soul stone on Vormir."

"What is Vormir?", Natasha asked her curious as she wrote everything down next to Ana.

"A domain of death— at the very center of celestial existenc."

They all looked at Nebula shocked before the blue woman continued. "It's where Thanos murdered my sister."

Everyone looked to the ground, not knowing what to say to her.  "Not it", Scott told Natasha quietly as everyone remained scilent.

Later that day Anastasija laid on a long table next to Tony as she played with her pen, "That Time stone guy—"

"Doctor Strange", Banner told her as he laid next to them on the floor looking at the celling.

"Yeah, exactly. What kind of doctor was he again?", she asked the two as she looked at the celling as well.

"Ear-nose-throat meets rabbit-from-hat", Tony explained to her as he laid a hand on his forhead.

"Nice place in the village, though", Banner spoke up again. "Yeah, on Sullivan Street?", Tony asked him unsure.

"Mm- Bleecker Street"

"Wait, he lives in New York?", Anastasija suddenly asked them as she stopped playing with her pen.

"He lives in Toronto"

"Uh, yeah on Bleecker and Sullivan", they both answered her at the same time.

"Have you been listening to anything?", Tony asked her as he turned towards the blond russian.

"Guys! If you pick the right year, there are three stones in New York", Anastasija suddenly told them with wide eyes. The two immediately shut up as they both sat up. "Shut the front door!", Tony exclaimed as he looked at her.

Anastasija chuckled as she sat up as well, "And I thought you two were the Geniuses. Guess not."

They all looked had joined the three in the meeting room as they looked at the Holograms' again, "All right we have a plan. Six stones, three teams, one shot.

They all stood next to each other still looking at the Holograms' before they decided to split off to get suited.

After that they all walked through the hall to the big time traveling divice from Tony. The hole team stept onto the platform and lined up in a circle.

Anastasija stood inbetween Steve and Natasha as she held her hand into the middle like the others did and looked at Steve.

"Five years ago, we lost. All of us— We lost friends, we lost family. We lost a part of ourselves— Today, we have a chance to take it all back. You know your teams, you know your missions", he looked at each of them as they still had their hands in the middle. 

"Get the stones, get them back. One round trip each. No mistakes. No do-overs. Most of us are going somewhere we know, that doesn't mean we should know what to expect."

He looked at Anastasija and then at the others, "Be careful. Look out for each other This is the fight of our lives. And we're going to win."

He looked at Stark and then at Anastasija, "Whatever it takes."

Steve gaze fell back onto the team as he nodded, "Good luck."

"He's pretty good at that", Rocket spoke up  as they all took their palaces.

"You heard the man. Stroke those keys, Jolly green", Stark shouted at Bruce who stood by his computer tipping and pressing buttons.

Clint looked at the little space ship in his hands. "You promised to bring that back in one piece, right?", Rocket asked him seriously as he corssed his arms over his chest.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'll do my best", Clint smiled at him unconvinced.

"As promises go, that was pretty lame", Rocket muttered to himself as he looked away from Clint.

Anastasija turned to Steve who already looked at her. The woman quickly got onto her feet and placed her lips onto his as he did the same with her. The kiss didn't last long but as they broke the kiss Anastasija's cupped his cheek with her right hand.

"Promise, you come back to me", she said to him as they made eye contact. "Promise", he answered her as he smiled like a drok.

"Take care", he added as she got back into her former position and nodded at him.

Bruce tapped something into his monitor that was on his arm before it started beeping.

Natasha looked at the others as she smirked widely, "See you in a minute."

The platform above their heads started turning and their helmets started to close before the floor disappeared and they are sucked into the divice.

❝ Whatever it takes ❞