Young Avengers: Child's Play [1]

Twenty-Two

Emma POV

"It looks like the ships is self-correcting," Tony said to everyone, "The thing is on auto-pilot."

This left Peter and myself to walk over, curiously. Doctor Strange crosses his arms on his chest as he walked over after Peter and I were already eye balling the controls.

"Can we control it? Fly us home?" He asks.

Tony glanced away from Doctor Strange, though I seemed to be less concerned with it. I was more amazed with the technology in front of me.

"Stark!" Doctor Strange yells.

His outburst gained Tony's attention as well as Peter's and mine. The wizard seemed impatient and so was I.

"Can it fly us home?" He asks again.

"Yeah I heard you." Tony replied.

"And?" Doctor Strange said.

I look directly at the wizard after studying the tech, "He can't take us home." This gained everyone's attentions, "One he can't fly a plane and also secondly, this tech is way above his knowledge."

Tony looks at Doctor Strange, "And even if I could, at this point I don't think we should." Tony said.

Tony seemed to have a point, if they remain on Earth something worst like Peter and I helped fight against could be far worst. We heard Tony and Strange argue on and on about this Thanos and apparently how powerful he is.

"I vowed to protect the stone," Strange said, "And since Thanos is after all the Infinity Stones, I need to be guarding it. Now flying in the middle of space!"

Peter leans near me, "But if we're in space away from Thanos, doesn't that mean he's keeping it safe?"

I shrug, "I don't know."

Strange seemed annoyed with it. Us. Tony. Everything. This entire situation he was stuck in with us.

"Under no circumstances can we bring the Time Stone to Thanos. I don't think you understand what's at stake here." Strange said.

Strange was walking forward near Tony. Peter and I weren't sure if we were going to have to break up some sort of fight between them.

"What? No!" Tony yells back at Strange, "It's you who doesn't understand that Thanos has been in my head for six years since he sent an army to New York, and now he's back!"

Tony let out a deep exhausting breath and turns to see Peter and my expression. We looked worried, a lot more than earlier. So this Thanos guy really means business and is worst.

Tony rubs his forehead with his hands briefly before exclaiming, "And I don't know what to do. So I'm not sure if it's a better plan to fight on his turf or ours. But you saw. What they did, what they can do. At least, let's hope he's not expecting it. So I say we take the fight to him, Doctor."

There was a moment of silence.

"Do you concur?" Tony asks.

"Alright, Stark. We go after him," Strange pauses and looks at myself and Peter before turning to Stark, "But you have to understand if it comes to taking the kids, you, or the Time Stone, I will not hesitate to let either of you die. I can't. Because the universe depends on it." Strange said.

Tony makes a face, "Alright. Good moral compass."

Tony moves pass Strange and looks at Peter and I. The two kids who sneaked aboard to this risky mission. Tony does a sort of knighting thing to myself and Peter.