After the Snap, the world is without the Armored Avenger, the Star Spangled Man, the God of Thunder, The Archer, and The Spy.
Years later, when an old friend arrives with an idea that gives them a bit of hope and a plan to get the Infinity Stones...
Peter, Harley and Bruce had been hard at work getting ready for "Operation: Reverse Snap". Yes, it was Peter's idea to call it that but no one complained. They all agreed it held meaning.
After an hour of designing a gauntlet of their own for the Stones, another for the constructing of it, the gauntlet was finally done.
Using nano-technology, they had made a nice sized gauntlet with a red and silver design.
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Next thing was placing the Stones in the gauntlet just as they were ten years ago. Thankfully, Bruce remembered...and there was imagery from Hulkbuster Mk. 2 armor that helped as well. So with that, Peter and Harley began the placing of the Stones within the gauntlet. Despite a terrible joke on Rocket's part for scaring them while working, they soon finished it.
After that, they were all together in the lab, watching as Rocket and Bruce were putting on the finishing touches on it.
"Glove's almost done." Rocket said, "Question is, who's gonna snap their frickin' fingers?"
"I could do it." Torunn said, stepping up.
"Torunn, wait. You don't know what it'll do to you." Ava said, jumping in front of her and holding her back.
"But we do know what will happen if I don't, it means Thanos won. Ten years in the future, all this work to try and reverse it and he still won. I can't have that. None of us can."
"I agree, I do." The Latina sympathized with her, "But that thing has enough power to destroy an entire universe. What if something goes wrong and it kills you?"
"She's right, Tori." Jamie jumped in, concern for his girl apparent in his voice. "We can't risk it. We can't risk you getting hurt."
"Well then what's next? Because we're running out of options. Plus, with my lightning and strength, I just might be able to make it."
"Lightning's not gonna cut it, Tori." Bruce interjected. "It's gotta be me."
All eyes went to the Green Avenger at that. He wasn't being boastful or tough, he was being protective and humble.
"I've seen what those stones can do. We saw what they did to Thanos, they almost killed him...none of you would survive." He said.
"How do we know you will?" Viv asked, worry in her voice.
"We don't. But I made a promise to take care of you kids to your parents. And I failed that once we lost Nikki...I'm not gonna lose anymore of you."
Though they didn't want to lose him either, they couldn't argue with his reasoning.
"Besides, the radiation's mostly gamma. It's...almost like I was made for this."
They didn't want to accept it, they didn't want to lose Bruce either. But they also knew he would hear any of it if they objected. He was a "man" on a mission. A mission to protect his loved ones. He wasn't going together them die again....not again.
