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

Chapter 15: The Gauntlet

Field in Wakanda...

"We need to snap everyone back!" Dr. Strange shouts at Sam who's flying overhead of the battle, clutching onto the gauntlet and raining fire on Thanos' army.

"Give me the Time Stone then," Sam shouts back.

"You can't handle the power of all 6 stones."

"Neither can you," Sam retorts, flying away from Dr. Strange and landing beside Bucky and Peter. "Hey," Sam greets them. Bucky nods and Peter waves excitedly as jumps on top of a large alien and makes it fall to the ground in a confused stupor with a touch of the scepter. "Can't believe you gave that to the kid," Sam yells at Bucky. Bucky shrugs and continues fighting. "Hey kid!" Sam yells to Peter. "Sorry but I need that," Sam says gesturing to the scepter.

"Here you go Mr. Wilson," Peter says, handing it over.

"Thanks," Sam replies and takes flight. Sam flies over to Shuri who's fighting off aliens with the help of Fury and Hill. Sam lands beside them all and helps, using the scepter. "How much will the Vibranium Gauntlet protect the person who snaps?" Sam asks Shuri.

"I'm not sure," she yells in response as she shoots an alien. "I haven't had the chance to spend a lot of time studying the stones.

"Well we gotta snap everyone back," Sam yells as he spins through the air, kicking 5 aliens to the ground. "Who do you think can handle the power?"

"Likely none of us," Shuri shouts back. "Someone will probably have to die. Wanda might be able to if she was in a better state mentally; but even then I don't know she'd survive."

"Why didn't you say this all before we left? What did you think was gonna happen when we came back?"

"That dude Quill, who disappeared, he was half god. Hank and I thought he could handle it," Shuri explains.

"Well he's gone, so now what?"

"Let me know when you figure it out," Shuri yells back. "While you're here, have you figured out how Thanos got here?"

"Shit!" Sam lands on the ground. "Quill! He got the pym particles from Quill," Sam exclaims, taking flight towards Thanos' ship. Sam lands next to Wanda who's still fighting 2014 Thanos in front of his ship. "WANDA! Stop that for now, we can fix everything, just come with me!" Sam shouts at her. Wanda drops the debris she had been holding in the air onto 2014 Thanos and turns to Sam as 2014 Thanos makes his way out of the debris. Wanda follows Sam through the air as he flies into the ship. They reach the room where Quill is suspended by 2014 Ebony Maw. 2014 Gamora and 2014 Nebula stand guard at the entrance to the room. They both raise their weapons when Wanda and Sam land in front of them. Wanda pushes them aside with magic and they go flying out of the ship to land on the ground where 2014 Thanos is. Wanda and Sam walk in with confidence

"Guys! Oh thank god!" Quill says as they enter the room.

"Silence," 2014 Ebony Maw barks and makes a rope snake around Quill's mouth.

"Yeah really shut up man," Sam adds. "You literally brought Thanos to us. How'd you mess up that bad?" Sam continues as Wanda and 2014 Ebony Maw engage in a magic battle. "Idiot," Sam says under his breath as he begins trying to rip Quill's magical ropes to no avail. Wanda points her left hand at Quill instead of 2014 Ebony Maw and Quill's ropes fall away. Sam grabs Quill before 2014 Ebony Maw can get a hold of him again and flies away out of the ship while Wanda continues fighting 2014 Ebony Maw.

"You gotta give us the Time Stone," Sam says, landing next to Dr. Strange and sets Quill down. "Shuri says Quill's the only one who has a chance of surviving the power of all the stones."

"A chance?" Quill asks with extreme concern. "You said for sure I could do it." Sam ignores Quill and looks imploringly at Dr. Strange. Dr. Strange stares back with an intensity in his eyes. Then he raises his hands and uses the spell to remove the stone from his necklace. He takes the stone and carefully hands it to Sam. Sam puts the stone into the Gauntlet and then takes the Mind Stone from the scepter and puts that in the gauntlet as well, making it almost complete; only the power stone missing.

"Remember," Dr. Strange tells Quill. "When you snap, make sure you bring everyone back who disappeared when Thanos snapped; but don't change anything that happened in the time since then. Don't mess with anything that is. Just bring them back."

"Yeah, okay, I got it," Quill assures Dr. Strange.

"We gotta run Dr." Sam says. "Thanks for the stone." Dr. Strange nods and Sam takes a hold of Quill in his hand that is not holding the Gauntlet; and flies away. Sam lands next to Bucky who's using his Vibranium arm and Power stone to absolutely destroy a roaring alien. The alien falls back dead. And Bucky straightens up, turning to Sam. "The Stone," Sam explains. "Shuri says Quill is the only one who can handle the power of all 6 to snap,"

"Well good thing he decided to show up," Bucky says, nodding to Quill as he takes the Power Stone from his arm. "Aaagh," he groans as he places the stone into the Gauntlet Sam is holding; making it complete. Sam holds out the Gauntlet to Quill; who hesitates and then cautiously puts his hand in it.

"RAAAUUuuugh!" Quill bellows as he raises his arm up and crackling energy moves around his Gauntlet arm. Quill snaps his fingers.