Loving Yous A Little Bit Hard Sometimes / Bruce Banner

5. End Game

"One." Alisha repeated. "Thats... not reassuring."

'We need to turn the ship around' Stephen demanded.

''Oh great now he wants to run.' Tony replied snarkily.

''I want to protect the stone-'

''And I want you to thank me.' Tony countered. 'Go ahead I'm listening.''

"Tony!" Alisha whined.

'For what are you blasting me into space?' Stephen spat back.

''Who just saved your magical ass?' Tony told him.

''I seriously don't know how you fit your head into that helmet.' Stephen told him.

'I wonder that too some days.' Alisha teased.

'Not helping Lida.' Tony informed her. 'Admit it if you ducked out when I told you to, I tried to pull you out and you refused.' Tony went on.

''Unlike everyone else in your life I do not work for you'' Stephen reminded him.

"Guys can we not stand around with our dicks in our hands, we have bigger things to worry about, like our eminent doom." Alisha reminded him.

"Are they holding their dicks?" Mantis questioned confused.

"Figure of speech." Quill corrected.

''And due to that we are now in a flying donut million miles from Earth with no back up!' Tony reminded him

'I'm back up.' Peter said 'and Alisha's here and-'

'No, you are a stowaway. the adults are talking.' Tony told him as Alisha wrapped an arm around peter.

'I'm sorry I'm confused is the child your ward now?' Stephen questioned.

'This ship is self-correcting it's course... I thinks it's on auto pilot, Tony.' alisha cut in.

'Can we control it? Fly home?' Stephen asked Tony but turned to Alisha, he wasnt getting anywhere with Tony, Alisha was a voice of reason, a sarcastic voice but a reasonable one. 'can you get us home?' Stephen pleaded.

''Yeah sure... let me just browse the manual to an alien spaceship...' Alisha teased. Stephen's lips pursed and Alisha glanced around moving to the control panels. "I can start poking around but no guarantees I won't make things worse." she offered, honestly.

''I'm not so sure we should though.' Tony added.

"Under no circumstances can we bring the time stone to Thanos!' Stephen told him 'I don't think you quite understand what at stake here.'

'No it's you who does not understand. Thanos has been inside my head for six years since he sent an army to New York and now he's back!' Tony yelled at him '-and I don't know what to do, so I'm not so sure if it's to our benefit or his but you saw what they did and they can do but what if he's not expecting it?' Tony pondered 'so I say we take the fight to him Doctor. Do you concur?' they both looked to ALisha as if she was the deciding vote. Tony was right, this evil man had been inside their heads taunting them for years, it was time to take him down.

''I'm in. lets take him down.'' Alisha agreed. "But we are going to need to work together, Tony!" She added looking between her brother and Stephen.

'All right Stark we go to him but you have to understand if it comes to saving you and the kid or the time stone I will not hesitate to let either one of you die. I can't because the universe depends on it' Stephen informed him.

'Nice great moral compass what about ALisha? What did she ever do to you? She called you friend... You sacrifice her too?' tony asked.

'Tony stop.' Alisha begged. "The stones are bigger than us... he is a stone keeper for a reason. I trust him." Stephen nodded to her.