Recovery

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WAKANDAN LAB

The surviving avengers and Okoye, Carol Denvers and Shuri are present in the lab. Shuri and her drones and machinery are working over Steve Roger's injured body, Nebula is sparring with a laser spear with a Wakandan guard, while Rocket is filling his bag with new weapons.

Okoye- How come you always get these kind of gifts for us?

Rocket- Its inside him.

Okoye- What?

Rocket- The blade. It would have been worth quite some space credits in the interstellar black market, but its free for you lady. As thanks to your hospitality.

Okoye- I was referring to the body. Wakanda has become a universal hospital for you outsiders.

Shuri- Its impossible to extract the blade without tearing through his organs. I can supplant it with artificial tissues, but the disruption has a 67 percent chance of being lethal.

Bruce Banner- Do we have an alternative?

Shuri- We can keep the blade in, but he'll be as good as dead. Even the slightest motion could result in the damage of the lungs, or the pancreas.

Tony Stark- If the blade is metallic, we pull it out through a magnetic extractor.

Shuri- There's a high chance of it still cutting through him.

Tony Stark- We'll use the AI to determine the precise trajectory of the blade. 

Bruce Banner- That's a good idea.

Shuri- Why didn't I think of that...

Banner smiles.  Shuri arranges a disk above Steve Roger's body, and AI projections flit around her and Steve Roger's body. She adjusts it, and it seems to avoid the vital parts indicated in red.

Shuri- Activating in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

The blade zooms out of the body and attaches itself to the disc, and Steve Rogers cries out, his eyes shooting open.

Shuri- Its okay, you are going to recover now. Relax, and sleep back.

Steve Rogers- Stark...

Tony Stark- I am here buddy.

Steve Rogers- Sorry...

Steve Rogers falls back to the stretcher, losing consciousness.

Tony Stark- Its okay.

Bruce Banner- We did our best.

Tony Stark- And we gotta do it again. Let's move.

Bruce Banner- Wait, let's ask Hank Pym if he knows where Scott Lang is.

Tony Stark- Okay.

HANK'S SPACESHIP, HOLDING FACILITY

Hank Pym- Our quantum projections, they seem not to require food, water or sleep.

Janet- It almost makes us superior beings.

Hope- Except we are stuck in this quantum bubble, and aren't even part of reality.

Hank Pym- Yeah...that.

Tony Stark and Bruce Banner enter, the others following suit.

Tony Stark- Your Antman gave us the ditch on Titan. Any idea why he did that?

Hank Pym- Lang...again.

Hope- Wait, Titan? What exactly just happened?

They narrate the events of the battle of titan. (imagine a flashback)

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