Hydra's Hound

Alone

We've been back at the compound just under three weeks now, Tony is missing and we don't know if he dusted or not
We have a new recruit, Carol Danvers, she has super charged hands from an ion fusion combustion. From which she meet Fury, she's been helping search for both Tony and Thanos

I have shut everyone out, Steve, Pepper and Nat were the only ones I just about spoke to. Thor's been busy sulking to even talk to me about Loki. Which I had a lot to say about
So I've been busy doing my own things, one being grieving for Bucky
The second being more productive. I've been searching the entire afterlife for anyone who has dusted. Ive searched all the books of the dead, I've spoken to Anubis asking him to not let my family pass the gates of life. Pietro, who is a permanent resident in Castle DesMort, he has been helping me search while I'm up on earth.
There hasn't been a single mention of any of them, not only have they disappeared from the world, but they didn't even die. They're just gone

I did find Loki though. He didn't want to go to Valhalla just yet, the same as Pietro he's staying in my castle until he is ready. And I'm more than happy with that agreement, it means I get to see him.
He asks me to send messages to Thor all the time, but Thor won't even look at me

There is two bits of good news, I sensed that Pepper was pregnant, and when I asked her about it she seemed shocked at first but quickly told me everything. It was definitely Tony's kid, and she was so excited to be a mother, which I promised to help her. But she was terrified that Tony was gone. That.....that I understood
The two of us have spent more time together, and she happily said that I could be her child's Aunty, which I must say, lightened my mood by 90%

••••••••

I jumped up and out of my hell hole, another failed attempt to find any of my family in the afterlife.
I walked across my room to go sit outside and stare at the stars, but I felt the ground shaking beneath my paws, so I ran outside where everyone was gathering as Carol landed with a spaceship

"Who is it?" I asked Steve
"I think....Tony" he replied as we watched the ramp lower and a man supported by a blue woman walked out
Steve and Pepper both ran forward while I waited back
"I lost the kid" I heard Tony say

It took me a second, but I clocked on he meant Peter. So now we lost another person, I sighed in defeat. This is why I don't get attached to people

We all walked inside and I sat down on a seat, as a puppy a light fire on my back.

"It's been 23 days since Thanos came to earth" Rhodey stated
"World Governments are in pieces. Um, the parts that are still working are trying to take a census. And it looks like....like he did exactly what he said he was going to do. Thanos wiped out 50% of all living creatures" Natasha explained what happened to Tony who now sat in a wheelchair with an IV drip
The image of Bucky popped up on the screen along with everyone else, and my already broken heart clenched hard in my chest.

"Where is he now? Where?" Tony asked
"We don't know. He just opened a portal, and walked through" Steve answered
"What's wrong with him?" He pointed at Thor
"Ah hes pissed. Thinks he failed, which of course he did. But there's a lot of that going around ain't there?" Rocket replied
"It's until this exact moment I thought that you were a build-a-bear" Tony pointed at the raccoon
I wanted to laugh, but I didn't have the energy
"Maybe I am" Rocket mumbled

"We've been hunting Thanos for three weeks now. Deep space scans, satellites and we got nothing. Tony you fought him-" Steve ended that conversation
"Who told you that? I didn't fight him. No he whipped my face with a planet. While the blecker street magician gave away the store. That's what happened, there was no fight." Tony replied and he began to stutter and mumble
"Did he give you any clues, co-ordinates, anything?" Steve asked
I just shook my head having seen the replay of Peters death that Tony was unconsciously projecting. Tony made some weird hand movements and noises