Midnight Love

Prologue: Earth-616

A redhaired woman sits in a chair crying when a man with dark brown hair walks in looking at her. He walks over sitting in front of her.

"What's wrong love?"

"It's so stressful trying to run the Avengers and not to mention half the world disappeared five years ago."

"Come here."

She walks over to him and sits on his lap snuggling against her husband of nine years. He rubs her back and kisses her head.

"We can always retire, it could be time we move on."

"If we move on who does this?"

"Maybe it doesn't need to be done."

"But-"

"No I know what you're going to say, that you haven't wiped the red from your ledger but you have, you've done more than enough to wipe it all out."

"You've gone soft on me."

"I know, you made me soft."

They both chuckle and share a kiss.

"I think it's time we hang up our weapons, leave this job to the super powered people instead of us humans. We could move somewhere, out in the country. Start a family. What do you say Tasha? Do you wanna start a family together?"

"I'd love to start a family with you Y/N."

A camera footage pops up in front of the couple, showing Scott Lang with his Quantum Realm van behind him.

"Oh! Hi. Hi! Is anyone home? This is Scott Lang. We met a few years ago, at the airport? In Germany? I got really big, and I had my mask on. You wouldn't recognise me."

"Babe is this an old message?" Tasha stands up.

"It's the front gate." Y/N stands up too.

"Ant-man? Ant-man, I know you know that. I need to talk to you guys."

Scott is now inside the Avengers Compound, pacing worriedly in front of Y/N and Natasha. After Scott proposes his idea, the couple and Scott pick up Steve and head to Tony's house.

Tony is walking back to the house with his daughter Morgan when the four of them step out of the car. Tony sighs. He isn't looking forward to the conversation that is about to happen.

As Scott, Steve, Nat and Tony talk, Y/N has his arms around his wife's waist swaying side to side not really paying attention to anything other than his wife.

Y/N heads to New York 2012 with Steve, Tony, Bruce and Scott while his wife heads to Vormir with her best friend. 

Clint jumps off the cliff after Natasha grappling her to the side of the cliff. 

"Tell my family I love them."

"No please Clint, don't do this. I need you."

"It'll be okay."

Clint kicks himself off plummeting to his death as Natasha screams. Everyone is back in the Avengers HQ standing on the platform. Nat falls to her knees crying and Y/N rushes to his wife.

"What happened?"

"Clint... he.. we...."

"I've got you, it's okay. I'm here."

He holds his wife as she cries into his chest, sadness overtaking everyone. Clint was their teammate, their friend, their family and now he was gone all because of Thanos. 

During the battle, Stark looks at Dr. Strange in question, is this the one they win? Strange points over to Y/N who is punching aliens with his fists that are covered by armour from Tony.

Tony shoots Y/N in the back with a repulsor making him turn around in question after Nat caught him. Tony holds up one finger, Y/N nods knowing what he has to do.

"I love you Natasha."

"I love you. Why are you saying this in the middle of battle?"

"I'm sorry."

He runs towards Thanos and pulls on the gauntlet before he is punched away by the big grape. 

"I am inevitable."

Thanos snaps his fingers, but nothing happens except a metallic clink. He sees the infinity stones are missing. Y/N has the stones in his own gauntlet, the gamma radiation coursing through him, to Thanos' shock. 

"And- I- am- Y/N Brock."

Y/N snaps his fingers with a loud clang and a blinding flash of white light. Thanos and his army begin to turn to dust. 

Y/N stumbles to a rock leaning against it, his right side fatally injured. Tony flies in kneeling down to his long time friend.

"Friday?"

"Life functions critical."

Tony tears up looking at his friend as Yelena runs over. 

"Y/N?"

She runs over to her best friend as tears begin to form in her eyes. 

"Hey-Y/N? Can you hear me? It's Yelena. Hey. We won, Y/N. We won. You did it buddy. You did it."

She kneels as Y/N is unresponsive. Yelena breaks down and hugs him. The only person other than her sister that she could depend on, dying and she can't do anything to stop it.

"I'm sorry Y/N..."

Yelena is led aside to grieve while Nat sits in front her husband. 

"Y/N love, can you hear me?"

Y/N is barely able to move his head, but manages to look Nat in the eyes.

"I love you."

He whispers quietly. She puts her hand on his cheek and he weakly puts his over hers.

"I love you. Please don't go. I already lost my best friend today, I can't lose you too."

His hand moves putting it on her chest. She hugs him crying as the life leaves his eyes. Everyone begins to kneel in honour of a fallen hero, Y/N Brock. 

He never had a codename, just like Clint and Natasha, he had no powers. They honoured a fallen hero, a son, a friend, a husband.....