We Need More Time

Prologue

Dimension 455
SHIELD - New York

"With this device, you will be able to travel to different points in their time period." Max, the head scientist of SHIELD-NY, states while giving Abby a bracelet that matched her own. Which had been a gift from her late parents.

"I'm not taking this off, Max." Abby shakes her head while looking at the real one that hadn't left her wrist in years. "No, not happening." 

"Good thing I have something else." Max sighs before handing her a small watch. "It has the same gimmicks and everything, maybe even easier to navigate." 

"I'm not sure I'm the right person to do this," Abby admits while shaking her head. "I know it's been five years since we lost everyone but I...it feels like it happened yesterday and I know that if I go back there...I don't know if I can handle it." 

"Abby," Max sighs while placing his hand on her arm. "If anyone is capable of doing something for us, it's you. Tony and Steve left this world in your hands to protect, they wouldn't have done the things they did if they didn't know you were going to be here after them. I know we have lost so many good people but with that came so much more. We wouldn't have the Shadow Force without any of this." 

"And we're the ones that stand between everything out there and here." Abby finishes while blowing some of her dark, blonde hair out of her face. "I know the speech that John gives the recruits." 

"Director John is just trying to give new hope after everything that happened," Max states as she starts to walk away from him. "You helped write it." 

"Actually, I just gave him notes from my parents." She whispers while staring out the windows that led to nowhere but another hallway in the base that they were stationed in. "None of that was me." 

"Yet all of it was." Max insists. "Abby, listen to me, you can do this. You are Agent Twelve! Decendent of the three greatest superheroes that have ever graced this Earth, all of their amazing qualities are inside you!" 

"Where am I going?" Abby demands after a few seconds of silence. "How do I have to act? Is there a me there?"

"There was in dimension 834." Max clears his throat. "But it's the opposite of what happened here. You were the one to use the stones to kill Thanos, you are the only one that's died." 

"Okay," Abby slowly nods while swallowing the lump in her throat. "So I'm erased from the timeline then?"

"Yes," Max confirms while dashing to his computer. "Every scenario with the other you in it has been erased for you to jump. I just have to put it back after you leave. Hopefully, other you isn't as stubborn as you are."

"Funny." Abby scoffs as she to bends down to look at the monitor. "When am I leaving?"

"Tomorrow morning, once I finish your suit." Max nods. "Don't worry, I'll make it cool."