The Devil Or The Deep Blue Sea (Comp/ Editing)

Chapter 8

A/N: Hey there! So... I've taken down the polls if you hadn't noticed as only one of them had responded to it. And I apologise for the short chapter but I guess this was something I missed out before so I had to add it as a separate chapter before moving on to the next chapters.

"So.... off to search for Lang then?" Tony suggested and everyone agreed. It is going to be a long time to settle down after this.

"What is the last location he was found?" Rocket asked Tony and Bruce, who were trying to hack the cameras to find the location of Scott.

"According to the cameras, he had left in some truck with Hank Pym, Hope and someone else to an abandoned place where there are no cameras. So all I can say is that we need to go to this place" Tony said, pointing at the holographic map "and then split up and search for that truck. If luck is on our side, the four will be there but then again, with our shit luck... I don't know" he said.

"So... Then I guess we all must get ready to search for Lang then. I don't know how he will react to the news of his ex-wife and her husband vanishing" Clint said, shaking his head at Scott's plight.

It was also then that Tony remembered something, something that he had forgotten to do. "Holy bloody fucking shit! I am sooo dead! May... Holy shit I forgot to call May!" Tony exclaimed and rushed outside, taking out his phone on the way, screaming more bloody murder.

The team just blinked at this strange reaction of Tony before looking at each other. "Any idea who this May person is?" Steve asked. "I don't know Captain, more likely related to someone who disappeared." Shuri said.

"What if she is related to that spider kid?" Rhodey popped in, looking at his phone which had just pinged. "Yup, she is that kid's aunt." Now all they could do was sympathise with Tony and hope that he doesn't come out of the conversation scarred.

Meanwhile Tony was panicking as he saw his phone having all those missed calls and messages from May. How had he not noticed it before! And how was he going to face her? What was he going to tell her? Was he going to tell her that Peter was on the spaceship with him? Was he going to tell her that he had vanished in front of him and he couldn't do anything?

'Better now than never' Tony thought before calling May before he backed away out of fear and braced for whatever was going to be thrown to him. One ring... two rings and then it was picked up and there was May, waiting for a reply.

"Hey May..." Tony said quietly and that was the trigger for May to start talking. "Tony Stark! Where is Peter? Was he in that spaceship with you? What happened to him?" May asked frantically.

"May... um... Peter... he was on that space ship even though I tried to stop him from going but he somehow clung on to the ship and if it means anything... he fought well May. We all tried we really did but...." Tony trailed off, not wanting to face it right now.

"Tony... what happened?" May asked, fear laced in her voice. "May... he vanished May, in front of my eyes and I couldn't do anything May. I... I just... I am really sorry May that I couldn't do anything about it even though we tried our best. It should've been me May,  it should've been me May. I am really sorry..." Tony rambled, trying to convince May.

"Tony!" she yelled, trying to get Tony's attention and it worked. "Now listen. I don't blame you. It was his decision to go to space and fight and I am proud of it, even though I don't like it. SO do not blame yourself. And I guess you were left back to fix this Tony and I wholly believe in you for fixing this mess. Go and avenge the fallen and bring them back Tony." May said and cut the call.

All Tony could do was to stare at the phone as tears flowed freely after the conversation. After some time, when everyone came inside, they were shocked to see Tony Stark with tears in his eyes, staring at space. "Is everything alright Tony?" Rhodey asked. 

"That was unexpected" was all Tony could say before he wiped away the tears. "Come on, get ready people! We have an ant to find!" Tony said and everyone went their ways to prepare for whatever is to come.

A/N: So... that was the end of this chapter. Sorry for the length again but I couldn't ignore this part. Hopefully, if everything goes as per plan there are only 5 or 6 chapters left in the book and will mostly be completed by the end of the month...

Hope you all liked this chapter! All comments and criticisms accepted and appreciated. (This chapter should've come out 3 days ago but I am rewriting this the third time as it got deleted every time I tried to post it.)

Thank you all for reading!!!!!!!

Rasnak signing off :) ;)

UPDATED ON 4 APRIL 2019