What If... the other 50% were snapped?

Chapter 12: The Time Heist Wraps Up

1995 S.H.I.E.LD. Headquarters...

Sam and Peter, wearing suits, are walking down a hallway toward an elevator. Scott and Hope are shrunk and standing on Peter's shoulder. Peter and Sam walk into the elevator in silence and Sam presses the button. It begins to move. It stops and the doors open. 1995 Nick Fury enters, nodding once before turning his back on them and pressing the button once more. Peter inhales, looking nervous and Sam steps lightly on his toe. Peter nods and lets out his breath as the elevator moves once more.

"You new here?" 1995 Fury asks without looking back at either of them.

"Yes sir," Sam replies. 1995 Fury does not respond. The elevator dings and the doors open. 1995 Fury exits and the others follow him out and down the hallway toward a door.

"This would be so much less complicated if we brought Fury with us," Scott whispers.

"Or way more complicated," Hope retorts.

"It would appear we are headed in the same direction," 1995 Fury states, stopping to turn around and look Sam and Peter in the eye. Sam starts to open his mouth. "Are you lost?" 1995 Fury continues. "Because there's only one room over here and it is definitely not one you have clearance for." Sam and Peter look at eachother. "My office." 1995 Fury adds. Sam nods to Peter and Peter sighs.

"I'm very sorry about this Mr. Fury, sir," Peter says as he shoots webs and wraps up a shocked 1995 Fury. Hope flies at 1995 Fury and puts a miniscule piece of cloth in his mouth, she makes it grow to gag him. Sam picks him up and throws him over his shoulder with the help of Peter who is pulling on 1995 Fury with webs. Scott jumps into the keyhole of the door to 1995 Fury's office and then grows big enough to break the lock open. Sam and Peter enter and Scott follows them in.

"I'll keep watch," Hope says, fluttering over to hover outside the door. Inside the office, Sam sets 1995 Fury down on the floor. 1995 Fury's eyes follow Sam as he walks across the office to the desk where Peter is looking around. Small Scott dives into one of the drawers to look inside. 1995 Goose, who had been hiding in the corner, jumps up onto the desk.

"Ooh kitty!" Peter says brightly. Sam rolls his eyes and continues looking around while Peter scratches Goose behind the ears. 1995 Fury struggles to get free of the webbing and Sam shoots him with a tranquilizer dart. Suddenly, with no warning, Goose's mouth opens up and tentcalces shoot out. He grabs Peter. "AHHHH!" Peter shouts as Goose swallows him and retracts his tentacles, closing his mouth.

"Shit!" Sam squeals, backing away from Goose. "That thing is not a cat."

Meanwhile on Morag...

"Gamora," 2014 Thanos turns to his daughter. She looks up at him. "Deal with the man who's gawking at my ship below."

"Yes father," 2014 Gamora answers and walks out of the room.

Meanwhile 1995 S.H.I.E.LD. Headquarters inside of Goose...

"Oh my god oh my god," Peter squeaks from inside his Iron Spider suit in the Belly of Goose. He looks to his left and sees a glowing blue light. "What-?" he makes his way towards the light, rolling and walking and falling around Goose's organs. "Oh wow..." he whispers as he reaches the light and it is revealed to be the tesseract. He picks up the tesseract. In his left hand and puts his right up to the side of his head.

"Guys! Guys! I have it! I'm in the cat and I have the tesseract!" Peter's voice comes through Sam and Scott's earpieces. Scott, who is now normal sized, looks at Sam.

"What the actual fuck?" Sam says under his breath.

Meanwhile on Morag...

2014 Gamora walks slowly towards Quill. Quill's hands are up in the air and his gun is on the ground in front of him. 2014 Gamora stops a few feet from Quill resting the muzzle of her gun against his forehead.

"Hey Gamora," Quill says nervously.

"How do you know my name?" 2014 Gamora replies with a slight trace of paranoia.

"Look, could you please lower that?" Quill says, gesturing to the gun with his hands still in the air. 2014 Gamora raises her eyebrows. "I've got a lot to explain, but I promise, I'm a friend and I'm not here to hurt you," Quill continues. 2014 Gamora does not move the gun at all, holding his gaze with a fierce intensity. He blinks. "Alright, I guess I can start explaining while you have that pressed to my head; that's fine." 2014 Gamora glares at him, still not speaking a word. "Ok, I know this sounds crazy, but I'm from the future," Quill tells 2014 Gamora, who does not react at all to these words. "And in the future," Quill continues. "You and I... we uh... we were in love," Quill pauses to let the words sink in. 2014 Gamora tilts her head slightly but other than that, she keeps her impassive composure. "Look, you gotta come with me. Thanos gets all the stones in the future and he does it..." 2014 Gamora inhales sharply at these words. "He wipes out half of the universe," Quill whispers.

"Why should I come with you? Why should I trust anything you say?" 2014 Gamora spits out, glaring at Quill.

"We can stop him. If we go back, we can stop him. Me and some uh... coworkers... we invented time travel! Can you believe that? We invented time travel, so we could get the stones from the past and now all we gotta do is go back. We just gotta go back and fix everything. Just come with me and you can escape Thanos for good, I know you don't like him or living here, working for him. C'mon please," Quill begs. Gamora hesitates but before she can say a word, 2014 Nebula comes sauntering over to her.

"What's taking so long," 2014 Nebula mutters to 2014 Gamora. 2014 Gamora turns her head to her right to look at 2014 Nebula. "It looks weak," 2014 Nebula states without looking at 2014 Gamora. Quill's eyes wander back and forth between the two sisters. 2014 Nebula raises her gun to point at Quill but 2014 Gamora reacts fast.

"No!" she shouts, knocking the gun out of 2014 Nebula's hand with the hand that it is not holding her own gun to Quill's head. 2014 Nebula turns her head slowly to stare at 2014 Gamora. "He might be of use to father," 2014 Gamora explains hastily. "He knows about the stones." Quill opens his mouth but 2014 Gamora cocks her gun and he falls silent. 2014 Nebula nods and shoots a net around Quill. Quill yelps as he falls on his back and 2014 Gamora and 2014 Nebula begin to drag the net containing him towards Thanos' ship.

"Oh fuck," Quill whispers to himself.