Chapter 2: Trouble is coming
Summary:
SPOILER WARNINGS INFINITY WAR!
So I was very tempted to just post a chapter with only the words
END THEN INFINITY WAR HAPPENED.
But I didn't!
It took me a while to update this chapter! Mostly work and personal reasons, but this chapter did fight me!
I also had to watch a hundred clips of Infinity War to get the right timeframe!
There may also be a lot of mistakes! NO BETA READ!
BTW, I don't own any of the character nor the movie!
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
New York, 177A Bleecker Street
As Strange and Wong descant the stairs, discussing their lunch idea's, a bright light appears behind them.
With a loud buzzing a portal opens up behind them and whatever came through, crashes through the stairs and into the ground, leaving a crater in its wake and a big hole in the stairs.
Both men turn around as one, immediately falling into a fighting-stance. Strange summons his cloak, while Wong summons the orange magic circles around his hands, as they walk up the stairs and peer into the hole.
Inside of it lays a large green man, but strange enough, he appears to be shrinking, all the while grunting and groaning.
In a rough voice the changing man whispers, "Thanos is coming..." while gasping for breath, straining his lungs.
"He is coming!" The man tries again, now fully changed into a crumpled mess of a man, covered in scorch marks, ashes and dust.
Strange and Wong turn and exchange looks, concern on that of Wong's and confusion on that of Strange's. It's clear that Strange, now a serious look on his face, has no fear for the man who crashed into his house, while Wong looks like he can't believe what's happening.
Strange turns back to the man in the stairs and opens his mouth.
"Who?"
New York, Central Park
"Slow down, slow down!"
"Stop your rambling, you totally lost me."
"Look, you know how you're having a dream and in the dream you gotta pee?"
"Yeah?"
"Okay! And then you're like oh my God! There's no bathrooms what I'm gonna do? Oh someone is watching and,-"
"So, you realize that in real life you actually have to pee?"
"Yes!"
"Yeah, but everyone has those?!"
"Right! That's the point I'm trying to make here! So last night I dreamed, I proposed, that last night I dreamed that we had a kid. So real! We named him after your centric uncle, what was his name again? Morgan? Morgan!"
"Right... So, you woke up and we were...?"
"Expecting."
"Yeah"
"Yes!"
"NO."
"I had a dream about it, it was so real!"
Tony and his soon to be wife, Pepper, are taking a stroll through the park. Carefree and without any fear, the two walk and talk and sometimes they even argue just for the sake of it.
Pepper secretly has to smile at Tony's dream, a small smile around her mouth, but then she taps the little light on his chest, while staring him intently in the eye.
"If you wanted to have a kid, you wouldn't have done that." She says curtly, before taking a step back.
"I'm glad you brought this up, it's nothing, it's just a housing unit for nanopores,-"
Stark tries to talk himself out of it, before the conversations can take a wrong turn, but ends up only making it worse.
In the end Pepper takes a deep breath and lets out a sigh as she looks away from Tony.
"You know me so well; you even finish all my sentences..."
Tony ends and realizes that even though Pepper doesn't agree with his choice to keep wearing the suit, she loves him. His hands come up without a thought as he starts rubbing her shoulders and telling her about the nice dinner, he is going to treat her to.
And he makes another promise to her, "we should have no more surprises, ever. I should promise you."
Pepper's face lightens up and a large smile adores her face, her blond hair swinging behind her as she agrees with Tony's words. Tony stops talking, just taking her in and then leans forward for a chaste kiss, to which Pepper responds to enthusiastically.
The two of them are completely distracted and not aware of their surroundings, as a strange glowing portal opens up behind Tony.
"Tony Stark?"
The low voice of a strange male interrupts their make-out and together they quickly turn around towards the interrupter. Pepper looks confused, while Tony is already taking the man in, looking for a threat.
"I'm Doctor Stephen Strange. I need you to come with me." The man proclaims, while staring serious at the two.
Tony pushes Pepper away, not sure who the man is and what the glowing portal behind him is, but instinct is telling him to keep Pepper as far away from it as possible. Pepper grabs his outstretched arm and together they stare at the man without saying a single word.
"Oh... Congratulations on the wedding by the way." The man says subsequently, the serious look falls from his face and it almost sounds like he finds it unnecessary to say it.
Tony feels himself getting angry with the strange man.
"I'm sorry, you're giving out tickets or something?" He asks annoyed, waving his hands at the man.
"We need your help." The man tries again, but when Tony doesn't respond he says, "Look it's not overselling it but the fate of the universe is at stake,-"
"Yeah? And who is we?" Tony interrupts the man before he can explain himself any further.
Then Bruce steps up from behind the man and looks at the two of them with a pained expression.
"Hey Tony." Bruce says, looking weary as he looks at Pepper, "Pepper.".
"Bruce..." Tony almost whispers, disbelieve on his face while taking in the sight of his friend.
"Hey.." Pepper breaths and she looks unsure whether she should hug him or not.
But before the two of them can say anymore, Bruce falls into the arms of Tony and Tony can't help himself. His arms fly op to hug Bruce back, the couple exchanges a look of concern, while they both rub Bruce's arms.
The look in their eyes say enough.
Trouble is coming.
San Fransisco, prison
"Quit your antsy twisting. What are you ten?"
"No, I don't know, what should I be feeling?"
"Huh? Really hè?!"
"Alright fine, have it your way."
"I have waited long enough; I can wait a little longer."
The guard lowers his coffee-cup and looks up from the newspaper he is reading, Kasady is murmuring to himself again. The murder had taken that peculiar quirk up a few weeks after his latest interview, with that investigation journalist. Kasady's therapist had only nodded at their new found observation and simply had said that he would add Schizophrenia to the list of disorders.
And then the stupid asshole hadn't even told the journalist anything useful and had greeted the man in some psycho way. For only madmen wound themselves to write welcome with their own blood. He had to bring the fucker to the infirmary too, dragging the bastard with him, while he had only laughed.
The guard, a middle-aged man, lets out a sigh, as his stomach rumbled. That remembered him, Kasady had had trouble keeping his food down, the day after the interview.
At first the guards had thought that Brock, the journalist, had taken something with him into the prison and fed that to Kasady. But after re-watching the cams and talking with the security who had searched Brock, who couldn't tell them anything, they had let that thought go. And had decided together that Brock probably had a cold and had accidently gotten Kasady sick too.
The cold had lasted for a little less than a week and for a while the murderer had looked fine. But oh boy had they been wrong! The fucker had faked his own death and one newbie had rushed into the cell, which was, well, it was something they had all warned him for. Don't get close to Kasady, no matter what he says or does, but yeah no one had thought the crazy would scratch open his own throat...
And then... well everything happened to fast, Kasady raise from the dead, like a ghoul eating his last supper. He had overthrown the guard, who had bend down over him, on the ground and had ripped the guy's throat out with his teeth.
His teeth!
Another loud rumble for the guard's stomach made himself known. The man shakes himself from his disturbing thoughts and nods to himself, lunchtime has arrived. He sits up from the chair on which he had slumped down, he shoots a quick look at Kasady.
Only to find the redhead staring at him intently from the edge of the cell bars, chewing on his nails, the smirk on the prisoner's face unsettling.
The guard frowns and sneers back just as ugly, before turning around towards the sound of metal doors opening.
"Elliot! Lunchtime! I'm taking over."
A younger guard, an old friend from the now dead guard shouts towards him and Eliot feels another sigh come up.
Kasady had murdered this guy's friend and Elliot had to probably take the psycho to the infirmary after his lunch was over.
He packs up his coffee and paper, tipping his fingers against his head in a mock salute and looks over his shoulder.
"Be nice to each other. Kasady." Then turning towards the younger guard, almost sticking his finger into the young guy's eye, "You too, Jacob."
"I don't even know what you mean!" Jacob, blinks innocently, a large grin on his face. Duo to his freckles and light blond hair, he indeed looked like an angel.
Elliot grumbles and shoulders his way past the younger guard.
"I promise I won't make a mess!" Jacob yells after him, as he opens another iron door, letting out a deep sigh and rubbing the back of his head.
A shiver runs down his back and he shoot a quick look over his shoulder, Jacob is still staring at him, waiting for him to leave, even giving a little wave. Elliot feels the little hairs on the back of his arm stand up, he gives another low growl and rubs a hand over his goosebumps.
Trouble is coming...
New York, 177A Bleecker Street
After Tony had stepped through the portal, he ended up at Doctor Strange's house and Bruce and Strange explain the situation.
Tony can't believe it, but understands that that whatever is coming their way, it's bad. Just taking one look at how anxious Bruce is says enough.
He ends up arguing and annoying Strange, while leaning on some stupid cauldron, after that he grabs his phone. Whether it is to call Pepper, he doesn't know, because as soon as he grabs it the air in the atmosphere changes, the sound of chiming furniture echo's through the house.
Tony looks around and then up at Strange and asks, "Say doc, you wouldn't happen to be moving your hair, would you?"
"Not at the moment no?" Strange replies, the little strands of hair on his forehead head gently swinging in the wind.
The faces of the men in the room turn serious as the now low humming sound of something grows bigger and slowly, they turn towards the front door.
Through the door, the sound of screaming can be heard and people running in panic to be seen.
Tony walks towards the door and rips it open, the sound flood in and deafens the men behind him, who had grown used to the silence int the house.
Screaming and running people rush by, the wind howls through the street accompted by the screaming of the sirens.
Tony steps outside and starts running against the flow, searching for the threat, while pushing past the panicked people.
A woman falls before his feet to the ground, he reaches downwards, grabs the woman by the arm, but she screams and trashes out of his hold. Tony startles and let's go of the woman, the same time a car crashes into the lantern behind them.
"Help him!" Tony orders Bruce and Wong who came running.
"We got it!" Bruce replies back, while Wong rips open the drivers-side.
With that Tony turns around towards the source of the panic and quickly puts on his glasses and yells, "Friday! What am I looking at?"
"I'm not sure, I'm working on it." Even though she is a computer; she sounds concerned and anxious.
Tony then starts running and yells over his shoulder, "You might want to put that time stone into your back-pocket doc!"
"I might wanna use it." Strange replies back as he activates his magic and walks after Tony.
Once they reach the corner of the street and Tony is sure it's safe, they turn and look up.
And up.
Slowly descending is a giant silver alien ship, looking like a giant wheel. The sound it makes is deafening, sweeping up a storm through the streets and it takes everything down in its wake as it leisurely touches down.
Notes:
THIS IS THE END CHAPTER FOR disappearing to live a quiet life!
the rest of the story will be updated on s/13286251/1/Disappearing-to-Save-a-Life
So if you wanna continue reading this story, please click the link or search for: disappearing to save a life!
Also if you see any type of grammatic error or type fault please messages me!
I wanna thank everyone for their amazing comments and hope to update a little bit more on time then I did now!
But please bare with me, for the holidays started and toerists are everywhere and work is so busy!
I apologize for my English...
Hope to see you all next time!
IMPORTANT MESSAGE!
But I think that some of you already noticed the change in the first chapter!
What happend to Bruce?
you see I did some research and noticed a real big error in my story...
So, this is the timeline of 2018/11/the-official-timeline-of-all-the-marvel-movies/
As you can see, this is the official timeline of all the Marvel films! And my story takes place Between Captain America: Civil War/Spider-Man: Homecoming and Doctor Strange/Infinity War.
1943-1945: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
2010: Iron Man (2008)
2011: Iron Man 2 (2010), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Thor (2011)
2012: The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013)
2013: Thor: The Dark World (2013)
2014: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
2015: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Ant-Man (2015)
2016: Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
MY FIRST STORY TAKES PLACE BETWEEN HERE (disappearing to life a quiet life)
2016 through to 2017: Doctor Strange (2016)
2017: Black Panther (2018), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Thank to this I had to replace Bucky, from my earlier chapters with Rhodey and I even skipped him in some chapters! Because Bucky is in Wakanda...
It also means that officially speaking Bruce is not even on earth when my story takes place! So, I actually made this even more difficult on myself... I have decided to not remove Banner form the earlier story... because then the story wouldn't make a lot of sense anymore... But it is not like I can ignore Thor: Ragnarok...
So... IMPORTANT
I tried to fix it and decided that Banner never left the earth after Avengers: Age of Ultron. The rest I have hopefully explained in the story.