Upstate New York

Aaron, Bruce, and Nebula were helping Scott with putting on the time travel suit while Scott, Rhodey, Gwen, and Pietro watched them work.

Aaron was playing his own music out loud, which everyone was okay with.

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Rhodey: Time travel suit? Not bad.

Aaron: Well, thank Gwen for that. She designed it.

Gwen: Hey, you helped out, too.

Aaron chuckles in response.

Bruce went to insert a vial of red fluid into Scott's suit, but he stopped him.

Scott: Hey, easy! Easy!

Bruce: I'm being very careful.

Scott: No, you're being very Hulk-y!

Bruce: I'm being careful!

Scott: These are Pym particles, right? And ever since Hank Pym got snapped out of existence, this is it! This is what we have! We're not making anymore!

Rhodey: Scott, calm down.

Scott: Sorry. We've got enough for one round-trip each. That's it, no do-overs. Plus, two test runs.

He inserts the vial into his suit, but he inadvertently shrinks down and grows back.

Scott: One test run.

Gwen: (sighs) For fuck sake.

Scott: Alright. I'm not ready for this.

???: I'm game.

They turn to see Clint standing in the doorway. He was sporting a mohawk and had a sleeve tattoo on his left arm.

Clint: I'll do it.

Short timeskip

Clint put on the time travel suit as Nebula calibrated it.

Bruce: Clint, now you're gonna feel discombobulated from the chrono-shift, don't worry about it.

Rhodey: Wait, wait a second, let me ask you something. If we can do this, y'know, go back in time, why don't we just find Baby Thanos, y'know, and...

He mimes wrapping a rope around Thanos's neck and strangling him.

Bruce: First of all, that's horrible...

Rhodey: It's Thanos!

Bruce: And secondly, time doesn't work that way. Changing the past doesn't change the future.

Scott: Look, we go back, we get the Stones before Thanos gets them, Thanos doesn't have the Stones.

Pietro: Mission accomplished.

Clint: Bingo!

Nebula: That's not how it works.

Clint: Well, that's what I heard.

Bruce: What? By who? Who told you that?

Rhodey: Star Trek, Terminator, Time Cop, Time After Time...

Scott: Quantum Leap.

Rhodey: Wrinkle in Time, Somewhere in Time...

Scott: Hot Tub Time Machine.

Rhodey: Hot Tub Time Machine, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure...

Pietro: Project Almanac.

Rhodey: Project Almanac...

Pietro: And this is just the movies we're talking about. We still haven't talked about other media. Doctor Who, Timeless, Dark...

Scott: The Umbrella Academy.

Pietro: Yeah, that too.

Clint: There's that one video game Cooper played that had time travel, I don't remember the name, though. It had Aiden Gillen in it.

Aaron, Gwen, & Pietro: Quantum Break.

Clint: Yeah, that's the one.

Rhodey: Basically, any form of media that deals with time travel.

Scott: Die Hard? No, that's not one.

Rhodey: This is known.

Bruce: I don't know why everyone believes that, but that isn't true. Think about it: If you travel to 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: Exactly.

Aaron: I think it depends of how you do it.

Everyone's attention diverted to Aaron.

Gwen: Right, Phillips.

Rhodey: I'm sorry, what are you talking about here?

Aaron: Back in Sokovia, I accidentally ran faster than the speed of light in order to save Pietro, and in doing so, I ended up reversing time. I think that's how Viktor Phillips went back in time.

Scott: Viktor's that psycho speedster Gwen talked about, right?

Gwen: Yeah. He went back in time to try and kill me. His great-grandfather ended up killing himself to stop him. Viktor got wiped from existence.

Scott: Wait, then why not have Aaron go light speed and get the Stones himself?

Aaron: Because it's riskier. Not to mention, There are some Stones that might have never been to Earth at any period in time. If I run to the past, I'd still be on Earth. Trust me, the Pym method here is better, because we can travel to any point in time and space.

Rhodey: Right, gotcha.

Pietro: (chuckles) I always wondered why I felt like I was shot, even though not a single bullet hit me. Thanks, Aaron.

Aaron: Don't mention it.

Bruce: Okay, there may be an exception to that rule, but that's the only one, it doesn't apply here, and it's best not to risk it.

Scott: (baffled) So Back to the Future is a bunch of bullshit?

Short Timeskip

Clint, in his time travel suit, was standing in the middle of the new bigger quantum tunnel that Tony and Rocket made.

Bruce: Alright, Clint, we're going in 3...2...1.

Clint shrunk down as he was pulled into the tunnel.

Aaron: Alright, return in 3...2...1.

Clint emerged from the quantum tunnel.

Clint: LILA!

He was on his knees, holding a baseball glove, as everyone ran to check up on him.

Natasha was the first to check on Clint as everyone stood back, with Scott holding some orange slices for him.

Natasha: Hey. Hey, look at me. You okay?

Clint: (gets up) Yeah.

He shows them the glove that he brought back, indicating one thing.

Clint: It worked...It worked.

He tosses the glove to Tony, who catches it.

Short Timeskip

Everyone was in the conference room.

Steve: Okay, so the "how" works. Now, we gotta figure out the "when" and the "where". Almost everyone in this room has had an encounter with at least one of the 6 Infinity Stones.

Tony: Or substitute the word "encounter" for "damn near killed" by one of the Stones.

Scott: I haven't. But I don't even know what the hell you're all talking about.

Bruce: 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.

Aaron: Our history, so there's way too many places to drop in, and not enough resources for us to go to all of them.

Clint: Which means we have to pick our targets.

Aaron: Correct.

Steve: So, let's start with the Aether. (turns to Thor) Thor, what do you know?

Everyone turned to Thor, who was asleep while wearing sunglasses and holding a beer can.

Natasha: Is he asleep?

Rhodey: No, I'm pretty sure he's dead.

Gwen noticed an empty beer can on the floor. She shoots a web at it and pulls it to her hand before throwing it as hard as she could at Thor's head, startling him awake.

Gwen: Hey, Lebowski, wake up!

Thor: (groggily) W-What's up?

Gwen: Tell us about the Aether.

Thor: Right.

He gets and walks to the front of the room and began talking about the Aether, aka the Reality Stone.

Thor: Uhh, where to start? The Aether, firstly, is not a Stone., someone called it a Stone before.

He points at Steve, who looked at Thor in confusion.

Thor: Um, it's more of a...kind of an angry sludge sort of thing, so...Someone's gonna need to amend that and stop saying that.

Gwen face palmed as Thor spoke.

Thor: Here's an interesting story about the Aether. My grandfather, many years ago, had to hide the Stome from the Dark Elves. Oooohh. (chuckles) Scary beings, so Jane, actually..

He enlarged a picture of Jane Foster.

Thor: Jane, she's...an old flame of mine.

Pietro got bored as he was struggling to stay awake.

Thor: She stuck her hand inside of a rock this one time, and then...and then the Aether stuck itself inside 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.

Scott was listening intently, fully engaged to Thor's story.

Thor: We were dating at the time, so I got to introduce her to my mother...(sadly) Who's dead, and umm... Oh, y'know, Jane and I aren't even dating anymore, so...

Bruce gestured Thor to stop, but he kept going.

Thor: These things happen, though, y'know, nothing lasts forever. The only thing...

Tony got up and tried to stop Thor from continuing.

Tony: Why don't you come sit down?

Thor: I'm not done yet. The only thing that is permanent in life is impermanence.

Tony: (applauds) Awesome. Eggs? Breakfast?

Thor: No, I'd like a Bloody Mary.

Short Timeskip

The Power Stone was next, and Rocket began explaining it.

Meanwhile, everyone ordered some food, with Aaron eating a large bowl of ramen and a 1 Liter bottle of Pepsi.

Rocket: Quill said he stole the Power Stone from Morag.

Scott: Is that a person?

Rocket: No, Morag's a planet. Quill was a person.

Scott: (perks his head up) Like...a planet? Like, in outer space?

Rocket: (mockingly) Aw, look, it's like a little puppy, all happy and everything. (pats Scott's head) Do you wanna go to space? You wanna go to space, puppy? I'll take you to space.

Scotts puts his head down in embarrassment.

Short Timeskip

The Soul Stone was next, and Nebula was explaining it.

Nebula: Thanos found the Soul Stone on Vormir.

Natasha: What is Vormir?

Nebula: A dominion of death, at the very center of celestial existence. It's where...Thanos murdered my sister.

Everyone sat in silence as they were too stunned to speak.

Scott & Pietro: Not it.

Short Timeskip

Natasha, Tony, Aaron, and Bruce were talking about the Time Stone while figuring out where it could be.

Natasha: That Time Stone guy.

Bruce: Doctor Strange.

Natasha: Yeah, what kind of doctor was he?

Tony: Ear-nose-throat meets rabbit-from-hat.

Aaron: Ha-ha. (turns to Natasha) He was a world-renowned neurosurgeon before his accident. Blew almost all his money on treatments for his hands that never worked, spent the last of it on a one-way ticket to Kathmandu, where he became a sorcerer.

Everyone turned to Aaron in shock of his knowledge.

Aaron: I ran into a friend of his, Wong, about a year ago. He told me about Strange.

Bruce: Well, he had a nice place in the Village, though.

Tony: Yeah, Sullivan Street?

Bruce: Mmm, Bleeker.

Natasha: Wait, he lived in New York?

Tony: (sarcastically) No, he lived on Toronto. Were you listening?
Bruce: Yeah, on Bleeker and Sullivan.

Natasha: Guys, if you pick the right year, there are 3 Stones in New York.

The three geniuses gave it some thought, and, turns out, she was right.

The Time Stone.
The Mind Stone, aka Loki's scepter.
The Space Stone, aka the Tessaract.

All three of them were in 2012 New York.

Bruce: Shut the front door!
Aaron: Shut the fuck up!

Timeskip

The teams were set:

Team 1
New York 2012
Steve
Tony
Aaron
Bruce
Scott

Team 2
Asgard 2013
Thor
Rocket
Gwen

Team 3
Morag/Vormir 2014
Rhodey
Nebula
Pietro
Natasha
Clint

Steve: Alright, we have a plan. 6 Stones, 3 teams, one shot.

Everyone stood in the middle of the quantum tunnel in their time travel suits, except Bruce, who was firing it up, as Steve began his speech.

Steve: 5 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. Get the Stones, get them back...

(A/N: Pretend there's three extra hands)

Steve: One round-trip each, no mistakes, no do-overs. Most of us are going somewhere we know, that doesn't mean we know what to expect. Be careful, look out for each other. This is the fight of our lives, and we're gonna win.

He glances at Tony, then at Aaron.

Steve: Whatever it takes.

Steve: Good luck.

Rocket: (to Scott) He's pretty good at that.

Scott: Right?

Tony: (to Bruce) Alright, you heard the man. Stroke those keys, Jelly Green.

Bruce: Trackers engaged.

Clint was holding a shrunken-down Benatar in his hand.

Rocket: (to Clint) You promise to bring that back in one piece.

Clint: (unconvincingly) Yeah, okay. I'll do my best.

Rocket: As promises go, that was pretty lame.

Aaron: (to Gwen) Good luck, Gwen.

Gwen: You, too, Aaron.

Aaron: (turns to Pietro) Hey, Pietro.

Pietro looks at Aaron.

Aaron: Срећно, друже. [Good luck, buddy.]

Pietro: (chuckles) Срећно и теби, другар. [Good luck to you, too, pal.]

Bruce gets on the platform and activates the tunnel.

Natasha: (smiles) See you in a minute.

(A/N: IF I'M CRYING, Y'ALL CRYING WITH ME!!! AIN'T NO CHOICE!!!)

The tunnel began powering up as their helmets formed around their heads.

They were sucked into the tunnel as the three teams went to their respective destinations.

The Time Heist has begun.