Story of Lion Man

Chapter 34

This is the thirty-fourth chapter. Hope you enjoy it.

Ryan emerged from the platform back in the present. He looked around at everyone as their time travel suits come off, noticing somehow Stark and Rogers were wearing different clothes, and that Thor had his famous old hammer again. "Did we get'em all?" He heard Banner ask. "Are you telling me this actually worked?" He heard Rhodes ask. He then looked at Barton, who had a sad look on his face and then he noticed that Romanoff wasn't with them. "Clint, where's Nat?" He heard Banner ask. Barton didn't reply, though the look on his face made Ryan realised the answer: she was dead. He hung his down in mourn as he heard the sound of feet touching the platform, then he heard a loud thump, and guessed it was Banner. Soon, after Ryan, having De-Lionized, had given them his most sincerest condolences, most of the Avengers went out to mourn their fallen friend.

A while later, they had placed the gathered Infinity Stones onto a red metallic gauntlet or glove, and were all gathered around it in a room, except the space girl Nebula. "All right, the gloves ready. Question is, who's gonna snap their fricking fingers?" Rocket asked everybody. "I'll do it." Thor spoke, which made Ryan look at him, before he approached the glove. "Excuse me." He heard Stark ask. "It's okay." Thor replied. "Whoa, whoa, whoa." Stark added as he and Rogers moved in on Thor. "Thor, just wait. We haven't decided who's gonna put that on yet." Rogers said to him. "I'm sorry, what, we were all just sitting around, waiting for the right opportunity?" Thor asked rhetorically. "We should at least discuss it." Lang said. "Together." Ryan added from the corner where he stood. "Look, look, sitting here, staring at the thing is not gonna bring everybody back. I'm the strongest Avenger, okay? So this responsibility falls upon me." Thor spoke, before Stark then started backing him away from the glove. "Stop it! Just let me! Just let me do it. Let me do something good, something right." Thor insisted, his voice getting emotional again. "It's not just the fact that that glove is channelling enough energy to light up a continent, I'm telling, your in no condition." Stark explained. "Dude, what do you think is coursing through my veins right now?" Thor asked him. "Cheer whiz?" Rhodes asked. "Un-burned calories? Obesity?" Ryan added, before Thor pointed his right index finger at Ryan and Rhodes. "Lighting." He said to Stark. "Yeah." Stark mustered. "Lighting." Thor repeated. "Lighting won't save you, pal. You saw what those did to Thanos. They almost killed him. None of you could survive." Banner then said, which made Ryan (who didn't exactly know what he was talking about) look at him as he walked towards the glove. "How do we know you will?" Rogers asked. "We don't. But the radiations mostly Gamma. It's like, uh... I was made for this." Banner explained.

A minute later, Banner held the glove in his hands. "Good to go, yeah?" Stark asked him. "Let's do it." Banner answer. "Okay, remember, everyone Thanos snapped away 5years ago, you're just bringing them back. Now, today. Don't change anything from the last 5 years." Stark explained. "Got it." Banner replied. Ryan stood on Lang's right as he held his head upwards, pointing his hid left as he drank his last red Lion Serum vial. He moved the vial away from his mouth as he Lionized in less than a second, moving his head left to right as he did, then looked towards Banner again as everybody else suited up. "FRIDAY, do me a favour and activate "Barn Door"protocol, will you?" Stark asked his suit. Ryan then saw some blast doors close by the room entrance behind Stark, noticed the sunlight in the room was dimming, seeing the shadows of blast door closing above them heard similar sounds behind him, looked over his left shoulder to see several blast doors close behind him and the others. He then looked back at Banner. "Everybody comes home." Banner said, before he started moving his right hand into the glove, which began mechanically expanding to suit his hand. The moment it completed expanding and fitted him, the glove began zapping lines of different colours, and began moving up his arm, and burning it in an orange colour, making him groan. "Take it off, take it off!" Thor yelled. "No, wait. Bruce, are you okay?" Rogers asked. "Talk to me, Banner." Stark added. "I'm okay. I'm okay." Banner answered painfully. A minute later, he then lifted his hand up with a yell, moved his fingers into a snap position, then snapped them. A loud zapp! filled Ryan's ears, along with bright white light, making him shut his eyes for a second and opened them, before Banner then fell onto his back, the glove falling off his hand. "Bruce!" Rogers cried as he knelt down by Banner. "Don't move him." Stark spoke before he then sprayed some grey stuff all over Banner's burned arm, before the blast doors started opening, sunlight filling the room again.