A few things.

This takes place about a week before IW.

I am writing this because there are literally only 2 fanfics of this I can find.

And if I owned any of this, Peter and Loki would not be dead.

There is language.

Edit: You may or may not want to watch IW again while reading this? I don't know, it just gives a little description or a quote about what the Avengers are discussing, so everything else is kinda unimportant. And if you have never seen it... you're outta luck buddy.

Tony Stark groaned and rolled onto his back and sat up. He felt nauseous, like he was going to throw up. What did he eat?

"Where am I?" he muttered. "Where's the lab?"

"Tony?" a familiar voice said. Tony's eyes immediately snapped to the goddamn star spangled-man-with-a-plan Rogers. He narrowed his eyes in suspicion.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" he growled. Steve glared back.

"I don't know. Did you do something?" he accused.

"Oh sure, blame me," Tony says.

"Mr. Stark?" Tony looked behind him. Peter was staggering to his feet, looking confused. "Where are we?"

"I don't know kid," he looked around. All the Avengers, except for Bruce and Thor, were groaning and staggering to their feet. There was also a teenage black girl that looked similar to T'challa. They were in a fairly large room with a large screen TV in front of them. A lot of couches sat behind them.

"Who are you?" Natasha pointed at Peter. She reached for her gun or a knife, only to find nothing. "What the- Where are my weapons?"

"Relax, he's-" out of the corner of his eye, he could see Peter mouthing 'don't tell them' behind Natasha's back. "-my intern."

"Thought you said interns were a waste, Tones," Rhodey looked at him weirdly.

"Peter's different. Who are you?" he pointed at the teenage girl.

"Princess Shuri of Wakanda," Shuri replied coolly.

Tony suddenly noticed Bucky was sitting behind Steve, looking like he wanted to disappear. He was about to open his mouth to say something about it when a voice suddenly called out.

"Ok, I'm gonna intervene here before a brawl starts. There will be absolutely NO FIGHTING. I just got that TV and I do not need it to be broken a week after I bought it thank you very much."

"Who's that," Bucky calls sharply. "Where's the voice coming from?"

"I already removed all weapons from you people," the voice continues, ignoring Bucky, "But seeing that some of you have super strength and powers and stuff I'm not taking any chances."

"Who are you," Tony demanded, looking up at the ceiling. "Some kind of AI?"

"No. And I don't feel comfortable sharing my name. Anyways, I brought-"

"Kidnapped," Wanda muttered.

"-you here to my theater to watch this movie of your near future."

"How'd you get a movie of our future?" asked Peter. "Actually, no. How do you even know our future? Are you some sort of seer maybe? Like Trelawney in Harry Potter?"

"No, I just walked into a library, checked out 'Avengers: Infinity War' and decided to throw all of you into a theater and force you to watch it."

The voice sounded so serious only Scott laughed (yes Scott was there).

"Really?" Natasha asked, doubtful.

"Sure. Anyway, any other stupid questions?"

"Yeah," Sam raised his hand. "How long is this movie, and what if we need to go to the bathroom."

"Two hours and forty minutes, and you won't have to. I placed my own sort of magic in here to make sure you don't miss a second of this movie. You won't have to go to the bathroom."

"Snacks?" Peter asked hopefully.

The voice laughed. "I like the way you think kid. Here you go."

"WOAH!" Scott, Clint, Shuri, and Peter yelled as a coffee table full of food materialized out of thin air.

"Sweet," Peter says, grabbing a sandwich. "AND IT'S FROM DELMAR'S! YES! Look Mr. Stark!" He waved it in Tony's face.

"Enjoy. Feel free to make comments. Oh, and the people in this room are Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, James 'Bucky' Barnes, James Rhodes, Peter Parker, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, T'Challa, Shuri, Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff, Scott Lang, and Vision. Bruce Banner and Thor are occupied at the moment, so that's why they're not here."

"That was… weird," Steve says.

"Whatever, let's just watch the movie, I have a country to run," T'Challa says, plopping on a couch next to Shuri and grabbing a handful of her popcorn.

When they all settled, (Vision, Wanda, Natasha, and Clint on one; Tony and Peter on another; T'Challa and Shuri on another; Sam, Bucky, and Steve on another; and Rhodey and Scott in their own little chairs) the TV turned on. Ominous music started to play.

"This is the Asgardian refugee vessel."

Everyone gasped.

"WHAT!" Tony yelled.

"Refugee?" Steve paled.

"What happened to Asgard?" Wanda murmured.

(Transmission continues)

"I thought Asgard had a huge army?" Shuri asked.

"There are innocent people on that ship…" Peter breathed.

(Enter Maw talking about being saved by Thanos)

"Saved! They were slaughtered!" Tony exclaimed while the others made noises of outrage.

(Maw continues)

"Sacrifice," Wanda scoffs. She was shaking. Vision moved closer to her.

(Camera shows Maw's face)

Everyone recoiled.

"He looks like Voldemort," Peter grimaced.

"Who's that?" Steve asked. Beside him, Bucky looked confused.

"Nevermind," he says.

("Become... Children of Thanos")

"So he's not the leader, this, 'Thanos' is," Vision said.

(Enter Loki)

This sparked shouts of outrage.

"Asshole!" Clint hollered at the screen.

"He's there?!" Tony says in disgust.

"Is that Loki?" Peter asked. "The guy that took over New York?"

"Yeah and I bet Loki is kissing up to his buddy Thanos," Clint sneered.

"Wait… but isn't he dead?" Natasha asked, thinking back to what Thor had told them the last time he was on Earth.

(Thanos picks up a body on the ground)

"Is that Thor?" Clint asks with horror.

"Yup," Steve says.

"What happened to his hair?" Scott asked.

"And that must be Thanos," Natasha says.

"He looks like a giant wrinkly grape," Peter cocked his head.

"Really Peter?" Tony looked at him in disbelief.

"No no, he has a point," Shuri says, also cocking her head. T'Challa rolled his eyes.

(Camera reveals weapons are pointed at Loki)

"Guys," Natasha says, "Don't think he's with Thanos."

(Infinity Gauntlet, Power stone)

"What's that?" Shuri asks.

"An infinity stone." Everyone turns to look at Vision, who is rubbing the stone in his forehead. "Thor spoke of them when he was last on Earth, remember? When I was born. This is one of them." He pointed to his forehead. "And so is that." He pointed back to the screen. Everyone but Scott, Peter, and Shuri nod in understanding.

"What?" Scott says blankly.

(Thor sasses Thanos and we get a better look at him)

"What happened to his eye?" Sam said.

("Kill away." - Loki)

A string of profanities came out of everyone's mouth, causing Steve to say "Language!", but cursing him anyways.

"ASSHOLE!" Clint roared.

(Thor is tortured by the Power Stone)

Peter whimpered and Tony put his arm around him. This did not go unnoticed by Natasha, who narrowed her eyes at them. Wanda was clutching at her face and everyone who knew Thor personally were paralyzed with horror, while the others were in discomfort.

(Thanos stops)

"Thank god," Tony breathed a sigh of relief.

"I thought Loki hates Thor or something," asked Sam in confusion.

"Something must have happened. I thought Thor said Loki was dead the last time he was on Earth anyway," Natasha says.

"Still an asshole," Clint muttered.

("Tesseract... Asgard... destroyed")

"Asgard was destroyed?" Shuri says.

Everyone was shocked and worried. Asgard was supposed to be a powerful empire, so whoever destroyed Asgard must have been extremely powerful.

(Loki why would you have the Tesseract why couldn't you let it explode)

"And of course he has it," Tony says.

("The sun will shine on us again." -Loki)

"What does that mean?" Wanda asks. Vision shrugs.

("We have a Hulk.")

Everyone just stared at the screen for a second, then they started to cheer.

"WHAT'S HE DOING IN SPACE?" Sam yells.

"WE THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD!" Steve screamed.

"He used my line!" Tony grinned.

"Really Mr. Stark?" Peter said, mocking what Tony told him earlier. Tony hit him over the head with a pillow. Everyone was too distracted to notice this exchange.

"Bruce…" breathed Natasha, staring at the Hulk like she saw a ghost(to be fair she kinda did).

(Thanos gets his ass beat.)

Everyone cheered.

("Let him have his fun." -Squidward)

Everyone almost immediately stopped cheering.

"Oh no."

(Oh how the tables have turned)

"WHAT THE FUCK!?" almost everyone yells, the volume making Steve and Peter wince.

"Owww… Mr. Stark, sensitive hearing remember…"

(Hulk gets his ass beat.)

Everyone gasped. The Hulkbuster took so much longer last time, and it had almost been torn apart in the process. Here was this giant grapefruit, throwing the Hulk on the ground without breaking a sweat.

"We're so screwed," Scott says.

(Thor hits Thanos)

"GET OUT OF THERE HE'S GONNA KILL YOU!" Peter screamed.

(Heimdal)

"What's he doing," Wanda asked.

(Bifrost)

Everyone sighed in relief.

"Oh thank god please come back to Earth," Steve begs.

(Heimdal dies)

"NO!" everyone else in the room screamed. None of them met Heimdall, but Thor always spoke fondly of him.

Wanda and Peter were already in tears, Wanda crying into Vision's chest. Peter was curled up into a ball and rocking back and forth. Tony, still in shock, put an arm around him and ran his hand through Peter's curls.

(Maw gives Thanos the Tesseract)

"Why do they want the Tesseract in the first place?" Bucky suddenly says, startling all of them. "I get that it's a really powerful artifact, but he's got an infinity stone, surely that's more powerful."

"Maybe," Vision realized something, "I think that's an infinity stone."

("...infinity stones")

"You were right Vis," Wanda whispered.

(Tesseract is crushed)

Everyone gasped at such a powerful thing being crushed like a grape.

(Space Stone)

"The space stone…" Vision whispered.

"It was inside…" Steve says. "Like the mind stone was inside Loki's scepter…"

"Speaking of which, where is that son of a bitch," Clint says scowling.

(Space goes in the gauntlet alongside power)

"This is bad this is bad this is bad… " Peter kept repeating to himself.

("...two more stones on Earth. Find them my children...")

"Those are his kids?" Shuri says, sipping her Starbucks. "Not seeing much of a resemblance."

"There's another stone?" Tony asks. "We got Vision over here, but where's the other one?"

"Let's just watch and see," Vision states calmly. "This is why we're here isn't it?"

Everyone calmed down and continued to watch.

(Enter Loki)

"Ass-" Clint is cut off by Natasha.

"Asshole, yes Clint we know, you hate the guy. But he is a coward," she mumbles as an afterthought.

("Odinson...")

"Really? He's betraying Thor and joining Thanos because the Hulk isn't around anymore, and then he goes saying he is accepting Thor as his brother now? Really?" Tony said in disbelief. Everyone shrugged.

(The dagger)

Everyone was silent for a moment.

"No way…" Clint said, still wanting to believe Loki's the bad guy.

"Stab him, stab him, stab him," Peter, Scott, and Shuri chanted.

(Loki lunges at Thanos)

Everyone leaned forward in their seat.

(Nope)

"NO!" everyone screams. Everyone started to curse Thanos.

"It. Was. So. CLOSE!" Wanda screamed, tearing at her hair.

(Choking Loki now)

"He's gonna die…" Peter whispered.

Natasha had killed people in far worse ways without feeling, yet she couldn't help but feel that this was brutal.

(He's dead)

Everyone looked sadly at the screen. True, none of them liked him very much, but everyone couldn't help but feel bad.

"Press f to pay respects…" Shuri couldn't help but mumble. Peter snickered slightly and T'Challa glared at her.

(Ship explodes)

"He's gone," Steve says sadly.

"Let's hope Bruce made it to Earth," Natasha said.

(The wizards)

"Who's that?" Sam asks.

"The man in the goatee is Dr. Stephen Strange, a neurosurgeon that went missing two years ago," Vision says. "I don't know who the other one is. He does not seem to be in my databases."

(Wizards are broke apparently)

"Monk?" Rhodey suggests.

("Um, a buck and a half.")

"Wow, even I have more money than that," Peter comments.

(Clothes change, cloak flies over)

"Magic! Cool!" Peter says, still recovering from the deaths early on in the movie.

"I can do magic too, look!" Scott made a card appear in his hand.

"No, I mean real magic," Peter told him.

"It is real magic," he whined, and Shuri shushed him by tossing an empty Starbucks cup at him.

("Who?")

This book is dedicated to the loving memory of Stan Lee, 1922-2018. I wanted to dedicate a chapter from my other fanfic to him, but it felt right to dedicate an entire book about the universe he created to him.

As Albus Dumbledore said, "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." Stan's mind was a whirlwind of imagination, but I think we can all say that he will have another amazing adventure.

May he rest in peace in a universe where gods are real, surgeons become sorcerers, science and magic are one and the same, and adventure is found in every corner.

Excelsior!