[Cut to a cafe somewhere, we see Bruce Banner, but not the same one that we remember. He looks more... Professor Smart Hulk.]
BRUCE BANNER: Come on, I feel like I'm the only one eating. [Pushing a plate forward] Try some of that. Have some eggs.
SCOTT LANG: I'm so confused.
BRUCE BANNER: [seriously] These are confusing times.
SCOTT LANG: Right. No, no, that's not what I meant.
BRUCE BANNER: [dropping the act] No, I get it. I'm kidding! I know. It's crazy. I'm wearing shirts now.
SCOTT LANG: Yeah! Wh...How? Why?
BRUCE BANNER: Five years ago, we got our asses beaten. Except it was worse for me. Because I lost twice. First, Hulk lost, then Banner lost. Then, we all lost.
NATASHA ROMANOFF: No one blamed you, Bruce.
BRUCE BANNER: I did. For years, I've been treating the Hulk like he's some kind of disease, something to get rid of. But then I started looking at him as the cure. Eighteen months in a gamma lab. I put the brains and the brawn together. And now look at me. Best of both worlds...
[Three children behind Bruce walk up to him tentatively]
GIRL: Excuse me, Mr. Hulk?
BRUCE BANNER: Yes?
GIRL: Can we get a photo?
BRUCE BANNER: 100%, little person. Come on, step up. [Holding out the phone to Scott] You mind?SCOTT LANG: Oh, yeah.
BRUCE BANNER: Thanks, [To the Children] Say "green"! [The children and Bruce say Green as Scott snaps the photo.]
BRUCE BANNER: Did you get that?SCOTT LANG: [leaning forward to hand back the phone] Don't you wanna grab one with me? I'm Ant-Man.
SCOTT LANG: They're Hulk fans, they don't know Ant-Man. Nobody does.BRUCE BANNER: Wait, no, no, he feels bad. No, he wants you to...he wants to...[to one of the boys] You want to take a picture with him, right? [The boy shakes his head vigorously.]
BOY: Stranger Danger.
SCOTT LANG: He's even saying no he doesn't. I get it. I don't want it either.
BRUCE BANNER: But, come on, the kid! But he...but you...
SCOTT LANG: I don't want a picture with them.BRUCE BANNER: [To the children] He's gonna feel bad. [To Scott] Sorry. They said they'd do it.
SCOTT LANG: I don't want it anymore.
BRUCE BANNER: No, no...you feel bad.SCOTT LANG: Just take the goddamn phone. [Maybe next time, Scott.]
GIRL: Thank you, Mr. Hulk.
BRUCE BANNER: No, it's great kids. Thank you very much. [Same time with kids] Hulk out!
STEVE ROGERS: Bruce.
BRUCE BANNER: [Awkwardly] Dab!
STEVE ROGERS: Bruce.
BRUCE BANNER: Listen to your Mom. She knows better.
STEVE ROGERS: About we were saying...
BRUCE BANNER: Right. The whole time travel do-over? Guys, it's outside my area of expertise.NATASHA ROMANOFF: Well, you pulled this off. I remember a time when that seemed pretty impossible time, too.
[The scene cuts to Tony Stark in the kitchen washing dishes after dinner. As he finishes the last of them, stumbles upon a photo of both Stark and Parker, with Parker holding his Stark Internship certificate. Tony finally knows what he's fighting for.]
[Cut to Tony talking to his computer, generating a holographic model of something he's working on.]
TONY STARK: Look at a mod inspiration, let me see what check out. So, recommend one last sim before we pack it in for the night. This time, in the shape of a mobius strip, inverted, please.F.R.I.D.A.Y: Processing...
TONY STARK: Give me that eigenvalue. That, particle factoring, and a spectral decomp. That will take a second.
F.R.I.D.A.Y: Just a moment.
TONY STARK: And don't worry if it doesn't pan out. I'm just kinda -
F.R.I.D.A.Y: Model rendered.
[In a complete shock of amazement, the render comes back as 99.987% successful. Tony falls back, bewildered by this discovery.]TONY STARK: Shit!
MORGAN STARK: Shit.
[Morgan, who has been hiding behind him all this time, giggles as she repeats the word Tony just uttered.]TONY STARK: [Whispering] What are you doing up, little mess?
MORGAN STARK: Shit.
TONY STARK: No, we don't say that. Only Mommy says that word. She coined it, it belongs to her.
MORGAN STARK: Why you up?
TONY STARK: 'Cause I got some important shit going on here. [Morgan gives Tony a taste of the incredulous] What do you think? No, I got something on my mind. I got something on my mind.
MORGAN STARK: Was it Juice Pops?
TONY STARK: Sure was. That's extortion. Great minds think alike. Juice Pops, exactly was on... [Looks back to the model, Then turns back] my mind.[In Morgan's room]
TONY STARK: You done? Yeah, now you are. [Tony wipes Morgan's lips and pushes her head onto her pillow] That face goes there.
MORGAN STARK: Tell me a story.
TONY STARK: A story... Once upon a time, Maguna went to bed. The end.
MORGAN STARK: [Giggling] That's a horrible story.TONY STARK: Come on, that's your favorite story. I love you tons. [Kisses Morgan on the forehead.]
MORGAN STARK: I love you 3000.TONY STARK: [Silently] Wow. [Turns off the lamp] 3000. That's crazy. [Closed the door] Go to bed. Or I'll sell all your toys. Night, night.
[Cut to the living room where Pepper is reading a book sitting on the couch. Tony paces in front of the fireplace.]
TONY STARK: Not that it's a competition, but she loves me 3000. You were somewhere on the low 6 to 900 range. [Pepper scoffs]TONY STARK: [Absentmindedly] What are you reading?
PEPPER POTTS: Oh, it's just a book on composting.
TONY STARK: [Still absentmindedly] What's new with composting?
PEPPER POTTS: Just -
TONY STARK: I figured it out, by the way.
PEPPER POTTS: You know, just so we're talking about the same thing -
TONY STARK: Time travel.PEPPER POTTS: [Amazed] What? Wow... That's amazing, and... terrifying.
TONY STARK: That's right.
PEPPER POTTS: We got really lucky.
TONY STARK: Yeah, I know.
PEPPER POTTS: A lot of people didn't.
TONY STARK: No, I can't help everybody.
PEPPER POTTS: It sort a seems like you can.TONY STARK: Not if I stop. I can put a pin in it right now, and stop.
PEPPER POTTS: Tony, trying to get you to stop has been one of the few failures of my life. [Tony smiles]
TONY STARK: I sometimes feel I should put it in a locked box and drop it at the bottom of a lake... go to bed.
PEPPER POTTS: But would you be able to rest?
[Cut to a lab in the Avengers Compound, we see Bruce fiddling with buttons on a panel. Scott is in his Ant-Man costume in front of his van, with the back open to show the Quantum Tunnel. Nat and Steve are beside Bruce]
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Avengers:Endgame
ActionAdrift in space with Amanda Quill and her aunt Nebula, Tony Stark sends a message to Pepper Potts as his oxygen supply starts to dwindle. Meanwhile, the remaining Avengers:Thor, Black Widow, Captain America and Bruce Banner must figure out a way to...