The Legacy of the Avengers

Chapter 17

Third Person POV
"What do you mean, 'Thanos is coming back'?" Castiel couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"He's coming back," Thea told them again.

"How do you know that?" Castor interrogated.

"I had a dream," she looked to all of her friends. As she told them her entire dream, they couldn't believe what they were hearing. At times, Thea had to stop talking because she was crying and wasn't able to go on. Reliving her memories was not a fun thing to do.

Some of the others didn't actually think it was possible. "Well, he's dead, and it was just a dream. It wasn't real," Tau tried to reason out.

"No. I could feel his presence," Thea closed her eyes. "My dreams almost always end up meaning something. Similar to my father."

"But," Leanne agreed with Tau, "he's dead. He can't come back to life just so suddenly."

"I don't know either," she sighed. "But I know he's coming back."

"Thea, he's dead, for Christ sake! Aren't you listening to us?" Castiel was getting fed up. "Dead. D-E-A-D!"

Thea stood up, "People thought your dad had died more than a couple times. I pretty sure Thanos could do the same with some help."

"Ooo she gotcha there," Artemis smirked.

"Well, what can we do about it? Tell Fury?" Toni questioned.

"We could try," Brooklyn nodded.

"He won't believe us," Alek spoke up.

"But when we're right," Nicole put in, "and he isn't, it'll be great leverage for later."

"But if we aren't, he'll never trust us again," Echo said.

"I'm going to tell him," Thea walked to the door.

"Well you aren't going alone," Brook followed.

"We're a team," Leanne added.

"We do things together," Echo finished Leanne's sentence.

"Even if we think you're batshit crazy," Castiel rolled his eyes.

Soon all of the team had followed Thea outside. "So how are we going to approach him with this?" Alek asked.

"We could do...like...a west side story thing...with the snapping and stuff," Thea spoke up.

"What's West Side Story?"

Alek, Brook, Thea, Toni, and Nicole looked to the gods like they were insane. "You don't know West Side Story?" Brook asked.

"Why do you think we asked?"

"I keep forgetting you're not from Earth," Thea sighed.

"Wait, you can eat Earthly food, but you don't know much about Earthly culture?" Alek asked.

"Hey, don't blame us," Leanne raised her hands. "It's all our parents."

"Well, anyways, what you do is snap..." Thea and Toni showed everyone their little routine for what they we're going to do once they arrived at the central office. Since it was a normal school day, other kids were watching all this going on. They would giggle and laugh to their friends; making fun of this group for doing theater choreography. Some wanted to join in, but by that time the group of teens had already gotten into the office.

"We need to see Fury," Brooklyn told the secretary.

"What for?" She kept typing at her desk.

Castiel made his way to the front desk, "Ma'am we have an urgent need to see Headmaster Fury. Needs we cannot discus with other certain people-"

"If it's a complaint, you can file it here," she pointed it to a stack of papers. "If there's a harassment problem, there's a website you can go to online. If something is wrong in your dorm-"

"It's about Thanos," Thea interrupted.

The secretary looked up to her, "Okay. I'll send a message to him, and he'll talk to you when he can, I'm the meantime-"

"We're not going anywhere until we talk to him," Toni also interrupted.

The secretary sighed. She mumbled a few things to herself while picking up her phone. "Hello, Fury, we have a group of kids here that needs to talk to you about him." A voice came across the other ends but the group couldn't hear what it was. "I know sir, but they refuse to leave until you talk to them. I can't have them here for another hour and a half....Theadora Stark, Brooklyn Rogers....yep....alright, I'll send them in," she nodded to the group.

"Remember, just like we rehearsed," Thea smirked.

They went down the hall and found his door. They opened it and did their whole thing. Fury just watched, amused by how much thought they put into this. Once they finished with their snap, he spoke up, "You done?"

"Yes," Nicole nodded.

"Okay, now what was so important that you motherfuckers had to interrupt my lessons?"

"Lessons?"

"That's none of your business."

"Well, Thea had a dream last night. She's positive it means that-" Brooklyn tried to explain.

"Thanos is coming back." Her roommate finished.

Fury stood contemplating whether this is true for a second before busting up laughing. He was laughing so hard, he was nearly crying. "Oh you motherfuckers got me on that one," he laughed. "You nearly had time on that one," he sighed, before going deadpan, "but really, what is it?"

"I'm serious, Fury," Thea wasn't having it this morning. "We talked. When someone's dead and I dream about them, I don't normally feel much of a presence. But him, hundred percent alive."

"Well, I can assure you, your father did his job and killed-"

"Actually, Tony Stark didn't kill anyone," Leanne spoke up.

"Yeah, he just disintegrated them," Echo agreed.

"And if the Avengers can bring back ones that have disintegrated, who's to say that other beings can't?" Castiel nodded.

Thea, for the first time in a while, was filled with relief. She had never thought about those different factors. Things were starting to add up, and she was happy about this.

"Nobody's strong enough to hold the power of the stones."

"Hulk was," Tau added.

"My father was," Thea agreed.

"Hulk is the Hulk. He could do anything," Fury waved it off. "But Tony Stark died. He died because he was just a man and those stones can do serious damage to a normal human."

"Well, I know that he's coming back," Thea stood her ground. "So when he comes to attack Earth, don't call the old Avengers. Don't call for anyone actually."

"Thea-"

"Let us handle it," she continued.

"Thea."

"Because if you can't trust us enough with this information-"

"Thea, let's-"

"Then trust us with at least that."

"Thea! Let's go," Alek grabbed her arm. "We have to get to class. If he's not going to believe us, let it be. Don't dig yourself a ditch just yet."

They started to walk out but before the trio (Leanne, Brooklyn and Thea) turned in unison to Fury and snapped.

"Alright, let's go," Thea nodded.