See the Future

Conversations

Chapter 3: Conversations

Main Theatre

Tony didn’t know what to think. This entire situation was bizarre.

After that little reveal of Peter’s best friend Ned finding out, Stan had reappeared. He’d told everyone that they’d all be having regular breaks in between the movies.

Movies.

A recording of moving images that tells a story and that people watch on a screen or television for entertainment.

Is that all they were? Entertainment for those cosmic beings in the sky? Nah. The sky was probably too pedestrian for them.

Not like I’m any better, Tony thought.

This being, Stan, acted kind. The only problem was that he was pretty much all powerful. Tony knew from experience, if you had that kind of power, it would corrupt you. That was why he was so adamant about the accords.

Left unchecked, people like Captain America and Iron Man would be corrupted.

Steve couldn’t see that.

We’ll do that together too.

But he wasn’t there.

When Tony had to keep grappling with the power hungry politicians who just wanted their own superhuman task force rather than a team of heroes, where was Steve?

…

No.

Don’t think like that. You’ll just get angrier.

No sense getting angry now.

Tony looked around. There were multiple doorways that weren’t there before. Each of them were labelled.

The sleeping quarters were labelled with whoever would sleep in them. He peeped into the one titled ‘Avengers Initiative’. Separate rooms for everyone.

Thank god.

Tony took a look at the labels of the other rooms.

GotG. There were seven rooms. The names seemed to be obscured to his vision.

Weird, he thought.

When he had looked at the Avengers room, he’d seen them all perfectly. Maybe it was because he was one of them? But Steve was in there.

Tony frowned. Steve wasn’t an Avenger.

The other labels included MotMA, WW, SH, SHIELD, GotG and CV.

Why were they abbreviated, and Avengers wasn’t?

Tony vocalized his question to May.

She stared, confused. “Only Avengers Initiative isn’t abbreviated? But that doesn’t make sense. I don’t see it.”

Tony frowned. “So which ones do you see?”

She pointed at the one titled CV. “That one. It says Civilians.”

Understanding dawned on Tony.

The one where you were supposed to go was the one you could see. For the others, you would just see abbreviation.

Tony looked up to Peter’s hiding spot. He was staring, confused at the door titled WW.

He gestured for Peter to come down. He stared, unsure, before jumping down.

Tony nearly had a heart attack before remembering that Peter was superhuman and a fall like that was barely anything to him.

Some of his classmates stared at where he had just dropped to, making Tony realize why he was up there in the first place.