Part Of The Journey Is The End [4] Endgame

6-Good to see you.

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We drove to my dad's house, I really liked it there, it was beautiful, we saw him in the garden holding Morgan.We got out the car and my dad looked confused. We tried to explain to my dad what our plan was, he stayed silent and pored us some drinks.

"No—we know what it sounds like." Scott stuttered. "Tony after everything you've seen is anything really impossible?" Steve asked.
"Quantum fluctuation messes with the Planck scale which then triggers the Deutschland Proposition. Can we agree on that?" My dad asked.
"But dad-" I chimed in.
"In layman's terms, it means you're not coming home." He interrupted.

"I did." Scott shrugged.
"No. You accidentally survived. It's a billion-to-one cosmic fluke. And now you wanna pull a...What do you call it?" My dad asked.
"A time heist?" Scott smiled.
"Yeah, a time heist. Of course." My dad chuckled.

"Dad, you won't even consider-" I started saying.
"Zan, you wanna know why I didn't think of this before? Because it's laughable. Because it's a pipe dream." My dad cut me off.
I groaned in response.

"The stones are in the past. We could go back, we could get them." Steve sighed.
"We can snap our own fingers. We can bring everybody back." Natasha chimed in.
"Or we screw it up worse than he already has, right?" My dad shrugged.
"I don't believe we would." Steve shook his head.

"Gotta say it. I sometimes miss that giddy optimism. However, high hopes won't help if there's no logical, tangible way for me to safely execute said time heist. I believe our only outcome will be our collective demise." My dad rolled his eyes.
"There are rules of time travel though, so that sort of thing doesn't happen though dad, we can follow them and we'll be safe." I told him.

"Okay, tell me the rules then, kid." He asked.
"no talking to our past selves" I began.
"no betting on sporting events." Scott listed.
"I'm gonna stop you right there, Scott. Are you seriously telling me that your plan to save the universe is based on Back To The Future?" My dad asked.

Scott chuckled.
"Is it?" My dad asked again.
"No." Scott responded.
"Good. You had me worried there. Because that would be hourseshit. That's not how quantum physics works." My dad told him .

"Tony. We have to take a stand." Natasha sighed.
"We did stand. And yet, here we are." My dad shrugged.
"I know you got a lot on the line. You got a wife, two girls. But I lost someone very important to me. A lot of people did, Steve did, Natasha did, I know for a fact Rosanna is hurting like hell without the kid. And now we have a chance to bring everyone back, and you're telling me that you won't even-" Scott started to yell.

"I'm sorry, Scott. I won't even. I can't." My dad cut him off. We heard a door close and Morgan came and sat on my dad's lap.
"Mommy told me to come and save you." Morgan sat on my dad's lap.
"Good job. I'm saved." My dad sighed. I went over and picked Morgan up.

"I wish you'd come here to ask me something else. Anything else. I'm honestly happy to see you guys, I just...Oh, look, the table's set for six." My dad told us. "Tony. I get it. And I'm happy for you. I really am. But this is a second chance." Steve sighed.
"I got my second chance 21 years ago when I had my first kid, I risked her life and I'm not willing to put her in that danger again." My dad shook his head.

"There's a chance this could work, you're not gonna be able to sleep if you don't try it-" I started.
"That's enough!" He yelled.
"I'm going to the compound for a few weeks, ok? I'm going to take this chance." I told him. He kissed me on the top of my forehead and said goodbye.

"He's scared." I told Steve as we walked to the car. "He's not wrong." Steve agreed.
"Yeah, but, I mean, what are we gonna do? We need him. What, are we gonna stop?" Scott asked.
"No, I wanna do it right. We're gonna need a really big brain." Steve sighed.
"Bigger than his?!" Scott asked.