Succubus ✔(Bucky Barnes X OC X Steve Rogers) AU

Chapter 1

Somewhere in Space-

"This thing on?" Tony taps the Ironman helmet as it lights up and he sighs leaning against the wall of the ship. Floating around space. He looks terribly ill. "Hey, Miss Potts...Pep. If you find this recording, don't post it on social media. Don't let Freyja post it either, I know she'll try to, to show how terrible I can look. I can't let her show that. But this- It's gonna be a real tear-jerker. I don't know if you're ever going to see these. I don't even know if you're....If Freyja......Oh god. I hope so. Today is day 21, uh 22." Tony closes his eyes in thought, " You know if it wasn't for the existential terror of staring into a void of space, I'd say I'm feeling better today. The infection's run its course. Thanks to the blue meanie back there." Tony looks off to the side, seeing Nebula walking away. "You'd love her. Very practical. Only a tiny bit sadistic. Some fuel cells were cracked during battle, but we figured out a way to reverse the ion charge to buy ourselves about 48 hours of time." His mind was imagining Pepper, thoughts of her smile, then floated to Freyja, his friend. His sister figure. Did they ever find her? Was she okay? Or did she get snapped like.....like the kid.. "But it's now dead in the water. We're 1000 light years from the nearest 7-11. Oxygen will run out tomorrow. And that'll be it. And Pep, I...I know I said no more surprises, but I was really hoping to pull off one last one."

"But it looks like....well you know what it looks like. Don't feel bad about this. I mean, if you grovel for a couple weeks, and then move on with enormous guilt. I should probably lie down. Please know that....when I drift off, I will think about you. Because it's always been you." Tony cracked a slight smile, "And tell Frey to leave my stash alone." With that Tony turns the helmet off.

Back on Earth-

Steve stands in front of the mirror in the bathroom he once shared with Bucky and Freyja. Holding a blade and shaving the beard he had grown off. He needed to hold it together. There were others going through the same as him or worse and here he was, groveling over his own loss. He was a hero, was..They lost though. Thinking of the last words Freyja was saying..What was she going to say? Was she going to tell him she loved him? Was she just trying to fill in the space? He wished he knew.

The mirror starts to shake.

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Outside the tower, Carol Danvers is seen bringing a ship down. Steve, Natasha, Bruce and Rhodey stood outside watching, as it lands, the hatch opens revealing Nebula helping Tony walk out. Steve runs to Tony to help him stand up, instantly Tony grips his arm.

"Couldn't stop him." Tony muttered.

"Neither could I." Steve hesitates, he knew he had to tell him. But before he could open his mouth to tell Tony the horrors of what happened.

"I lost the kid." Tony let out. Anyone could tell how that had hurt him. Steve intakes a harsh breath, thinking of the spider kid.

"Tony, We lost. I-" He stopped as Tony struggles a bit.

"Is, uh...?" He pauses as he goes to ask of his girlfriend and friend.

Pepper runs out, "Oh, my God! Oh, my God!!" She pulls Tony to her and embraces him tightly. Steve sighs. He has to tell him.

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The Avengers that were left, including the Guardians and Carol Danvers sat at a table. Steve kept his gaze on Tony, as a holographic casualty lists the names and faces of those lost in the Decimation. He was waiting for Freyja to flash by. He should have told him, instead of letting a list tell him. She was his best friend next to Rhodey.

Freyja's face flashed on the screen. Tony stared at her. He couldn't remove his gaze from hers. Thor was sitting off in the corner of the room, trying not to stare at his sisters picture. Steve just stared at Tony. His eyes were in pain. When Tony finally snapped his gaze to Steve, he looked angry, sad, defeated.

"It's been 23 days since Thanos came to Earth." Rhodey spoke, avoiding the list in front of them all.

"World governments are in pieces. The parts that are still working are trying to take a census. And it looks like he did.....he did exactly what he said he was gonna do. Thanos wiped out fifty percent, of all living creatures." Natasha spoke, her voice was broken up. They had no word from Clint other than the here and there news of him causing problems.

"Where is he now? Where?" Tony demanded, his ill voice was raspy and shakened. Steve looked at him.

"We don't know. He just opened a portal and walked through.."

"What's wrong with him?" Tony asked, his eyes on Thor, sullen-looking on a bench. He knew he had lost a sister, but this was more, it looked more.

"Oh, he's pissed. He thinks he failed. Which of course he did, but you know there's a lot of that's going around, ain't there?" Rocket spoke off to the side. Tony looked over at him in awe and shock.

"Honestly, until this exact second, I literally thought you were a Build-A-Bear." Rocket chuckled, shaking his head.

"Maybe I am."

"When did Freyja come to battle?" Tony asked. He wasn't even here, last he saw of her was for the mission that led to her being trapped. "And where is Loki?" He didn't look to Thor, he felt bad bringing it up, but he wanted all the information.

"My brother is dead, Thanos snapped his neck after we were trapped." Thor spoke, not looking at anyone. His gaze was locked on the window.

"Frey joined shortly before the snap. She came flying through space. I still don't know what happened with that." Steve mentioned, he looked at Thor. The pain they had all felt. The loss. It was the first time everyone felt connected in some way. "She fought well, Tony." Steve trailed off, looking at Tony. He just nodded at him as everyone fell silent.

"Well do we know where to find Thanos?" Tony asked, looking around.

"I can tell you where Thanos is." Nebula stood to the side, announced. "Thanos spent a long time trying to perfect me. And when he worked, he talked about his great plan. Even disassembled, I wanted to please him. I'd ask 'Where would we go once his plan was complete?'. His answer was always the same. 'To the Garden.'"

"That's cute. Thanos has a retirement plan." Rhodey scoffed. Steve stared at Nebula.

"So where is he?"

"When Thanos snapped his fingers, Earth became ground zero for a power surge of ridiculously cosmic proportions. No one's ever seen anything like it....until two days ago." Rocket explained as the hologram changed from the snapped to a planet with a shockwave visibly traversing the surface. "One this planet."

"Thanos is there." Nebula agreed.

"He used the stones again." Nat muttered, shocked. "Even if there's a small chance that we can undo this....I mean we owe it to everyone who's not in this room to try."

"If we do this, how do we know it's gonna end any differently than it did before?" Bruce spoke up.

"Because before, you didn't have me." Carol said, Rhodey just rolled his eyes at her.

"And where were you when all of this was going down?"

"There are a lot of other planets in the universe. And unfortunately, they didn't have you guys." Thor stood up and walked over to Carol. He stared at her for a moment before holding his hand up. Stormbreaker flies into his hand, missing Carol by inches. Yet, Carol didn't even flinch, instead smiled at the God.

"I like this one." Thor announced with a small smile. The first smile since his brother and sister died.

Steve stood up and nodded to Thor. Both thinking similar things. "Let's go get this son of a Bitch." Everyone looked at him shocked by his language.

I'm getting you back. Both of you.