GHOSTLY AVENGERS: ENDGAME

Chapter 3: Five Years Later.

It is a dark and gloomy day at the largely abandoned city of New York City. It is now the year 2023, five years since Thanos wiped out half of all life in the universe, which has come now to be called the Decimation. In the past five years, New York City, which was once a large buzzing metropolis, was largely abandoned. Survivors of the Decimation began to form communities outside the city, including a makeshift marina on Liberty Island. Citi Field, which had been left unused as the Decimation made the New York Mets stop playing, now held a therapy group formed by survivors, including Steve Rogers. And in the past five years, the victims of the Decimation would come to be known as the Vanished. Despite the destruction caused by Thanos, the world was slowly recovering. Anyway, inside the largely abandoned borough of Manhattan, Danny and Dani were maintaining the city's landmarks, despite being abandoned. They were currently maintaining the 9/11 Memorial Museum and the plaza that is next to the One World Trade Center, which they believe the maintaining that place is the most important to them. In the past five years since losing their family and friends, especially Sam and Jacob, Danny, now 29 years old, and Dani, now 25 years old biologically but 13 years old chronologically, has lost their will to fight. Danny couldn't continue to ghost fight since Sam isn't by his side. Same for Dani as she couldn't ghost fight without her boyfriend Jacob. Losing them as well as their family and friends has cause the two to go into a deep depression, which is the reason they lost the will to continue ghost fighting, although the ghosts haven't went to Earth since that dreadful day, and they haven't go ghost in five years as well. They have try to move on with their lives but it's not easy for them, hence why they moved out of Amity Park, Minnesota three years ago and now resides at the New Avengers Facility. Danny and Dani remained with the Avengers but still lost the will to fight and now just looking after the city. The depression and losing Sam took a toll on Danny as he doesn't look after himself as he has grown a full beard as well. He trims it but mostly doesn't look after himself. He is currently wearing a black shirt with white trimmings, has the iconic DP symbol on his chest and small Avengers logos on the sleeves, blue jeans and red converse shoes. The depression and losing Jacob took a toll on Dani as well. Dani does look after herself but she doesn't want to do anything. Despite that she wants to maintain the city, she mostly spends her time taking long naps, watching TV or eat. Dani is currently wearing a short black shirt with white sleeves, midriff exposed, has the white DP logo on her chest and small black Avengers logos on the sleeves, light blue jeans and red converse shoes. Anyway, Danny and Dani has just finished maintaining the museum and was now taking a rest inside an abandoned nearby apartment.

"So, once again, another gloomy day." Dani said, sounding depressed.

"Yep, but hey, someone has to make sure these landmarks, especially the World Trade Center site is maintained, especially the reflecting pools." Danny said.

"So, I've been thinking about all these past five years and I don't think I'm gonna date someone again, but I'm trying to take the baby steps and move on, but I can't stop thinking about Jacob. I wanted to have a future with him. Get married in a church and have children with him." Dani said, sounding depressed.

"Same. I'll probably stay single for the rest of my life, my heart belongs to Sam. I wanted to have a future with her, get married in a church and have kids with her. But yeah... I'm trying to take the jump. Take those little baby steps." Danny said.

"We gotta try to overcome the depression and try to become whole again." Dani said.

"Definitely. I agree with you Dani." Danny said.

"But what about ghost fighting? It's been three years since we left Amity Park." Dani said.

"I don't know, Dani. There hasn't been a ghost sighting since that day. All I can say is that we need to find our true purpose. But I do know one thing, we probably won't move on from our loved ones and will be depressed about that for the rest of our lives, but the world is in our hands. And not to mention we have each other." Danny said.

"Of course, Danny. You're the only family I got left... I don't know what would happen to me if Thanos had killed you." Dani said.

"Well, technically, Aunt Alicia survived, but I get what you mean, and that didn't happen. I'm still here and I'll always take care of you, Dani." Danny said.

"And I'll take care of you, Danny." Dani said.

The two Fenton siblings then shared a hugged while trying not to cry.

"Well, we should head back. Pretty sure Steve is almost done with that support group of his at Citi Field." Danny said.

...

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, California, at a self storage facility, a rat accidentally activates the Quantum Tunnel in Luis' Van, which had been impounded after the Decimation, finally pulling Scott Lang, better known as Ant-Man, out of the Quantum Realm. Scott groans as he hit the ground hard. Five years ago, Scott, after release from house arrest, despite helping Team Phantom the year before, and the return of the original Wasp Janet van Dyne, was at a rooftop in Luis' Van with a portable Quantum Tunnel for his girlfriend Hope and her family. His objective was to extract energy from the Quantum Realm to be able to continue curing Ava Starr, better known as Ghost, affliction. Scott went subatomic, harvested the needed energy, and then waited for Hope to finish the countdown to return him to the regular world. However, her comm went static. At first, Hope wasn't responding, Scott took it as a joke, but after multiple callings, he began to panic over what the big deal was. In reality, Hank Pym, Hope and Janet were all erased from existence thanks to Thanos, leaving Scott stranded in the Quantum Realm for the next five years, until now. Thanks to a rat, Scott is finally out of the Quantum Realm. Scott retracted his helmet and patted his shoulder before finally check his surroundings.

"What the hell?" Scott muttered.

Scott then think again, thinking something isn't right.

"Hope?" Scott called for Hope, not knowing her fate.

Moments later, Scott managed to escaped the storage cell thanks to a security guard who saw him on a security camera and let him go with some of his stuff. While looking around, he found a lot of missing person flyers and noticed the surroundings, now knowing something isn't right. He then saw a kid on a bike passing by him.

"Kid! Hey, kid!" Scott called out, making the kid stop and look at him. "What the hell happened here?" Scott asked.

The kid didn't reply and just instead rode away.

Now knowing about the Decimation, Scott then went to a memorial where the plagues honored those who vanished from Thanos' snap.

"Oh, my God!" Scott muttered.

Scott then began to worry, worried for the fate of his daughter Cassie Lang.

"Oh, please! Please, please! No, no, no. No. No." Scott said with worry and apologized to two people. "Oh, Cassie, no. No, no, no. No, no. Please, please, please. No, Cassie."

While Scott didn't find Cassie's name on the plague, he becomes horrified when he discovers his own name on the plague, the world thinking that he was one of the victims.

"What?" Scott said in confusion.

Moments later, Scott went to his ex-wife's house and knocked on the door. Scott then sees his daughter Cassie, now a teenager on the other side of the door's window. Cassie couldn't believe her eyes upon seeing Scott at the door. The first thing Cassie did was touch Scott's face to make sure it was in fact her father.

"Cassie?" Scott asked, couldn't believe that his daughter is now a teenager.

"Dad?" Cassie asked, becoming overjoyed that Scott is alive.

Cassie then cried with tears of joy before hugging Scott. Scott then look at Cassie one more time, still couldn't believe that Cassie has grown up.

"You're so big!" Scott said, making Cassie and himself laugh.

Afterwards, Scott and Cassie hugged each other again, wanting to make the reunion last for long.