What if it was the opposite? Rewrite

We're done again

A few weeks later Steve was in a bathroom ate the Avengers Compound holding a blade, having just shaved off his beard. He sighed and looked into a side mirror. Then it started shaking, slowly at first then severely. A few minutes later Steve, Natasha, Bruce and Rhodey were in the yard walking out looking at something, the Benatar carried by Carol Danvers as she landed the spacecraft. The landing geared deploy as they touch down. The entry hatch opened and Peter and Nebula walked out, Peter being supported by Nebula. Steve ran to Peter to help him stand up. Peter gripped Steve's arm as he joined him.

"Couldn't stop him." Peter said.

"Neither could I." Steve said.

"I lost Mr. Stark."

"Queens, we lost."

"Are, uh...?" Peter said struggling to ask about Pepper and Harley.

"Oh, my God! Oh, my God!" Pepper said and he embrace.

"It's okay."

Rocket sat down with Nebula and took her hand, both silently mourning their losses.

Later in the Compound they were sitting in a living room area. Peter was sitting at a table, getting blood for speeding up the healing. A holographic casualty report listed the names and faces of those lost to the Decimation.

He had lost the only person he'd ever love.

He lost Harley.

"It's been 23 days since Thanos came to Earth." Rhodey said.

"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 said.

"Where is he now? Where?" Peter asked.

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

Meanwhile a sullen-looking Thor was sitting on a bench, seemingly deep in thought.

"What's wrong with him?" Peter asked.

"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 said.

"Honestly, until this exact second, I literaly thought you were a Build-A-Bear."

"Maybe I am."

"We've been hunting Thanos for three weeks now. Deep Space scans, and satellites, and we got nothing. Peter, you fought him." Steve said.

"Who told you that?" Peter asked surprised. "I didn't fight him. No, he wiped my face with a planet while the Bleecker Street Magician gave away the store. That's what happened. There was no fight."

"Okay."

"He's unbeatable."

"Did he give you any clues, any coordinates, anything?"

"Pfft! I saw this coming a few years back. I had a vision. I didn't wanna believe it. Thought I was dreaming."

"Queens, I'm gonna need you to focus."

Then Peter started to seethe.

"And Tony needed you. As in past tense. That trumps what you need. It's too late Capitan. Sorry." he said and stood up pushing things off the table with a clatter getting everyone to wince at the noise. "And I believe I remember Tony telling all youse -" he said and went for Steve.

Then Rhodey quickly came in front of him, trying to stop him.

"Peter, Peter, Peter!" Rhodey said.

"Alive and otherwise what you needed was a suit of armor around the world! Remember that? Whether it impacted our precious freedoms or not- that's what we needed!"