Forge (Avengers x Male Blacksmith Reader)

Endgame : Part 3

-Timeskip-

You're at the Avengers HQ and the Quantum platform everyone looks around to see all the recovered stones.

BRUCE BANNER: "Did we get them all?"

RHODEY: "You telling me this'll actually work?"

(Y/N) : "well... better believe it"

There's a pause as everyone starts to realize someone is missing.

BRUCE BANNER: "Clint, where's Nat?"

The silence from Clint tells them all they need to know. The mission was completed but at a dire cost. Sadness overtakes everyone. Bruce falls to his knees and pounds the floor in grief.

-Timeskip-

outside HQ. Lakeside, Tony, Steve, Thor, Clint, and Bruce are mourning their fallen teammate and friend.

TONY STARK: "Do we know if she had family?"

STEVE ROGERS: "Yeah. Us."

THOR: "What?"

TONY STARK: "I just asked him a question–"

THOR: "Yeah, you're acting like she's dead. Why are we acting like she's dead? We have the stones, right? As long as we have the stones, Cap, we can bring her back, isn't that right?"

(Y/N) : "yeah... We're the Avengers, we can do anything"

CLINT BARTON: "We can't get her back."

THOR: "Wha– what?"

CLINT BARTON: "It can't be undone. It can't."

Thor dryly laughs.

THOR: "I'm sorry. No offence, but you're a very earthly being. Okay? We're talking about space magic. And "can't" seems very definitive don't you think?"

CLINT BARTON: "Yeah, look, I know that I'm way outside my paygrade here. But she still isn't here, is she?"

THOR: "No, that's my point–"

CLINT BARTON: "It can't– be undone. Or that's at least what the red floating guy had to say. Maybe you wanna go talk to him, okay? GO GRAB YOUR HAMMER, AND YOU GO FLY AND TALK TO HIM!"

Clint's anger is quickly replaced with grief

CLINT BARTON: "It was supposed to be me. She sacrificed her life for that goddamn stone. She bet her life on it."

In a burst of anger, Bruce grabs a bench and hurls it clear across the lake. His anger spent, he turns to the others with a resigned look on his face

BRUCE BANNER: "She's not coming back. We have to make it worth it. "

(Y/ N) : "We have to... For her..."

STEVE ROGERS: "We will."

-Timeskip-

inside the Lab, You, Tony, Bruce and Rocket wait for the stones to be placed into your gauntlet.

Tony : "Are you sure this would work?"

(Y/N) : "Are you really doubting my skills?"

Tony : "touché..."

Tony carefully places the stones in the gauntlet he made while Bruce and Rocket watches. With nervous precision, Tony manipulates the machine and carefully places all six stones into the gauntlet

ROCKET: "Boom!"

Tony and Bruce jump a bit, and quickly groan at Rocket's joke.

(Y/N) : "yea... I'm not falling for that... "