Walking Time Machine

Chapter 1: 6 stones, 3 teams, 1...Loki?!

The Avengers were at the Avengers compound trying to figure out how they were going to find all the infinity stones and bring everyone back. It's been 5 years since Thanos killed half the universe and the avengers are determined to bring everyone back. Tony figured out how to time travel so it's game time now. Rhodes, Tony, Steve, Natasha, Thor, Clint, Scott, Rocket, Bruce/Hulk, and Nebula, are in the room discussing how they will get the stones and Steve speaks "alright. Six stones, Three teams, 1...LOKI?!" Loki appears right in front of the Avengers and falls to the ground. Everyone goes in a defensive mode except Bruce and Thor. "Brother? your...your not dead..? brother? Is that r-really you?" Thor asks and Loki slowly starts getting up from the floor. He's sweating, breathing hard, covered in cuts, and is wearing a dirty shirt, tie, pants, and shoes. "Thor?" Loki looks up and sees Steve, Tony, Thor, Bruce, a raccoon, a man he's never seen, Natasha, Clint, and another man he's never seen before and....one of Thanos's daughters Nebula. Loki catches sight of Nebula and starts backing away but Nebula stops him "it's fine, I'm a good guy now I'm not with my psycho father anymore" she says and Loki doesn't really believe it but stops backing up and everyone is still in defense mode so Loki explains himself. "Alright listenI'm Loki, but not your Loki" he starts and Thor interrupts "what? What do you mean you're not my Loki?!" Loki sighs and rubs his temples "it's complicated ok? But here's the thing I'm being pulled from past, present, and future and I don't know why the Hel this is happening but I'm exhausted at this point and I don't even know what I'm supposed to do I don't know what this is I'm just..lost at the moment" Loki says panting and Thor comes up to him and crushes his brother in a hug before finally letting go when Loki basically shoves him off per usual. "So you're not here for global domination then" Clint asks and Loki shakes his head "no..no I'm not" "ok ok wait how do we know that this thing your doing isn't one of your powers" Tony says and he does have a point but Thor speaks up "I know my brothers powers this isn't one of them" Thor says and everyone still looks skeptical until Loki glitches again and crashes into the table and Thor grabs him and stands him up "ok what the actual FRICK was that" Tony says and rocket cringes "dude your body tore apart that did not NOT look not painful" rocket says and Loki is shaking his head trying to clear it. "Please I need your help I don't know what I'm doing and honestly if you don't help then good luck hauling my pathetic unconscious body off the floor in about 2 minutes" Loki snaps and Steve says "what is this why are you...doing that" "I don't know for Norns sake damn it" Loki says frustrated. "Ok well clearly you're in a lot of pain...when you disappear how does it feel" Bruce asks and Loki answers "it FEELS like every ATOM of my body is getting RIPPED in HALF and put back TOGETHER in SECONDS!" Loki yells panting and they all kinda look at each other. "So wait your basically time traveling now?" Tony asks and Loki nods a bit "how the fu-" "LANGUAGE" Steve says and Tony rolls his eyes and Loki disappears and reappears one more time before actually falling unconscious while Thor catches him before he falls on the ground. They bring him in medbay and Bruce shakes his head and calls Tony over "I seriously don't know what is going on I mean I don't know why he's time traveling but I did a scan and it's bad Tony" Bruce says and Tony looks at him "how bad" "his muscles have thousands of micro-tears in them and he's very stressed out with all this stuff it's taking a toll and making him feel exhausted especially when he actually disappears from what he described it doesn't sound pleasant" Bruce says and Tony and Bruce look back at Loki and sigh, believe it or not this isn't the most strange thing they've encountered before"