Everyone comes home

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Back at the compound, Shuri uses the controls and brings them all back. They all appear.

"Did we get them all?" Bruce asks. They all look and 6 of them are holding a stone each.

"Are you saying this worked?" Clint asks, befuddled.

They look to Sam and don't see Bucky.

"Hey, Chicken Wings, where's the Terminator?" Peter asks. Sam looks up sadly and they all realize in persuit or saving the universe, they lost a friend.

Outside, they're processing. "Did we know if he had family?" MJ asks them.

"Yeah. Us." Clint says.

"What?" Thor asks.

"What?" Peter asks.

"What are you doing?" Thor asks.

"I was asking him a question." MJ replied.

"Yeah, no, we're acting like he's dead." Thor says to their faces.

"We have the stones, right?" Thor says, "and as long as we have them, we can bring him back. Isn't that right? So stop this shit, we're the Avengers. Get it together." Thor says.

"No, we can't get him back." Sam says. "What?" Thor asks him. "It...can't be undone." Sam explains.

"Look, I'm sorry, no offense, but you're a very earthly being, and this is space magic we're dealing with here." Thor explains. "And can't seems very definitive, don't you think?" He asks.

"Yeah, Look, I know I'm stepping a little outside my pay grade here. But he isn't here, is he?" Sam asks. "No, but that's my point." Thor says. "We can-" "it can't be undone!" Sam yells, getting frustrated.

"Or that's at least what the 100 year old Nazi said." Sam says, remembering what Red Skull said. "Maybe you wanna talk to him, okay? Go grab your hammer, you go fly and go talk to him!" Sam yells at Thor. "It was supposed to be me...he gave his life for that stone to bring everyone home, he bet his life on it." Sam says and they stand in silence until Bruce throws a bench miles away.

"He's not coming back." He says. "We have to make his sacrifice worth it." Bruce says. "We have to." He finishes.

Peter stands up and let's go of MJ's hand. "We will." He says standing tall. "Come on, we've got some fallen to avenge." He says and starts walking back to the compound.

"So, now we're all Avengers?" Clint asks, remembering what Peter said back in 2012. MJ raises her middle finger to him as they keep walking.

Inside, they're working on the gauntlet and are carefully placing the stones on the gauntlet. They're waiting to see if it worked or blows up in their faces. The stones seem to be working and nothing happens.

"BOOM!" Rocket shouts, making Bruce and Peter jump. Peter gets ready to punch him and calms down. Later, they have the gauntlet all together and ready. "Okay, the gloves ready. But the question is who's gonna snap their fricken fingers?" Rocket asks.

"I'll do it." Thor says, walking towards the gauntlet. They all stop him and complain.

"What? We think that standing here is gonna bring everyone back?" Thor asks.

"We should at least discuss it." Scott says.

"Look, sitting here, staring at that thing isn't gonna bring anyone home." Thor complains.

"Look, it's not just that that thing has enough power to light up an entire continent." Peter starts.

"You're in no condition, Thor." MJ finishes.

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