against time.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO || mission accomplished

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO, mission accomplished

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STEVE SWUNG HIMSELF over the small railing, landing on the ground with the scepter. He sighed as he left his gaze on the building for a little while, wondering how differently things would go for his past counterpart and Ivanna this time.

"Cap-"

Steve turned around to see Scott and Tony seated in a broken car. Tony was slumped over, a lost look on his face.

"Sorry, buddy. We got a...problem,"

"Huh," Scott looked up, "Yeah, we do."

"Well, what are we gonna do now?" Steve questioned and looked between the two men.

"You know what? Give me a break, Steve," Tony snapped, "I just got hit in the head with the Hulk."

Steve sighed, "I just got electro-"

"You said that we had one shot. This-" Scott interrupted, not listening to the two men bickering, "this was our shot.We shot it. It's shot. Six stones or nothing. Six stones or nothing-"

"You're repeating yourself, you know that?" Tony sounded annoyed with Scott at this rate, "You're repeating yourself."

"You're repeating yourself. You're repeating yourself. You know-" Scott sighed, "No."

"Dude," Tony heaved a sigh, "come on."

"You never wanted a time heist, you went on board with the time heist-" Scott was cut off when Tony spoke.

"I dropped the ball,"

"You ruined the time heist,"

"Is that what I did?"

"Yeah!"

"Are there any other options with the Tesseract?" Steve finally broke up the verbal argument, wanting to focus on more important matters at hand.

"No, no, no. There's no other options.There's no do-overs. We're not going anywhere else. We have one particle left. Each. That's it, alright? We use that-" Scott sighed, "Bye, bye. You're not going home.

"Yeah, well if we don't try, then no one else is going home, either," Steve intervened.

"I got it.There's another way. To retake the Tesseract and acquire new particles. We'll stroll down memory lane," Tony suggested, a memory dawning on him, "Military installation, Garden State."

"When were they both there?" Steve pressed.

"They were there at a-" Tony trailed off, "I've a vaguely exact idea."

Steve pressed his lips together, unimpressed with Tony, "How vague?"

"What are you talking about? Where are we going?" Scott looked between the two men as they approached each other.

"I know for a fact they were there-"

"Who's they?What are we doing?" Scott interrupted frantically.

"And I know how I know,"

"Guys, what's up? What is it?" Scott continued asking his questions, and getting ignored.

"Well, it looks like we're improvising," Tony admitted.

"Right. What are we improvising?"

Tony finally looked back at Scott, taking the case the scepter was in and holding it in his direction, "Scott, get this back to the compound."