Endgame Rewrite

Chapter One

Ten Years Later

A therapy session is taking place with Bucky Barnes and seven other people.

"So I, uh..." a man says. "Went on a date the other day. It's the first time in ten years, you know? I'm sitting there at dinner... I didn't even know what to talk about."

"What did you talk about?" Bucky asks.

"Same old crap, you know?" he replies. "How things have changed, and... my job, his job... How much we miss the Mets. And then things get quiet... He cried as they were serving the salads."

"What about you?" another man asks.

"I cried... just before dessert," the man says. "But I'm seeing him again tomorrow, so..."

"That's great," Bucky says. "You did the hardest part. You took the jump, you didn't know where you were gonna come down. And that's it. That's those little brave baby steps we gotta take. To try and become whole again, try and find purpose. I went in the ice in '45 right after I met the love of my life. Woke up 70 years later. You gotta move on. Gotta to move on. The world is in our hands. It's left to us guys, and we got to do something with it. Otherwise... Thanos should have killed all of us."

In San Francisco in a self-storage facility with a sign saying "U-STORE It, SELF STORAGE", with its interior filled with stored stuff and junk and Luis' van from "Ant-Man and the Wasp", behind a metallic fence with a label named "BARTON". A rat crawls over the van's rear windshield and accidentally activates the controls for opening the Quantum Realm, haphazardly activating the Quantum Tunnel. The rear door busts open, flinging Scott Lang outside the van.

Scott grunts as he pushes away a cushion out of his body, and deactivates the helmet, but still grunting in pain, as he sweeps away sparks from an electrical failure out of his suit, then try to stand up. "What the hell?"

He manages to stand up, as another electrical failure sparks out of his gauntlets, and now looks around in a confused look.

"Hope?" Scott calls.

Inside a security office, a security guard is reading a book as he looks upon his security screen, seeing something going on in one of the storage facilities. In the cameras, it shows Scott in his casual clothing, shouting, waving a sign with the word "HELP" written on it.

Outside the facility, he pulls out a pushcart and looks back seeing the guard giving a stern look from far. He walks around until reaching his hometown, finding a post filled with MISSING posters, abandoned houses, a wrecked car, nothing but desolation. He then sees a kid in a bike pass by.

"Kid!" Scott shouts. "Hey kid!"

The kid stops his bike as he stares back in a serious look.

"What the hell happened here?" Scott asks.

The kid still stares at him and is almost about to tear up, but immediately turns away from him and move on. Scott still gives the same confused look, as he arrives in somewhat a memorial called "THE VANISHED", with all the names of the people who became victims of the Decimation. As Lang arrives on one of the engraved stones, he immediately drops the handle in shock.

"No," Scott says. "Please. Please, please." He moves on to check the other side of the engraved stone. "No, no, no. No." Lang excuses aside a young couple as he keeps on checking another engraved stone if his daughter's name is on one. "Excuse me, sorry. No, Cassie, no."

Lang checks the rest of engraved stones if his daughter's name was in one.

"Please, please, please, please..." Scott repeats like a mantra. "No, Cassie."