Steve Rogers Imagines

Endgame Pt1

A/N: Its finally here, well 1/3 of it is..... As you may have guessed by the title i've had to split endgame up into 3 (hopefully only 3) parts! because ya know there is a lot to unpack in this. enjoy and dw i won't keep you waiting long for the next parts, or at least i'll try not to.... 

Steve's POV

"oh god" I mutter. "steve where's (Y/N)?" nat asks me her voice shaking, I glance up at her and back down to the floor where (Y/N) once was "oh steve" she mutters. I feel her arms wrap around my shoulders and I began to cry. This couldn't be happening. "we ah, we need to regroup" nat says as she wipes away a tear "find out who, who is still around" she continues. I knew she was right but I couldn't bring myself to leave this spot "steve, another attack could happen, I know its tough but we need to go" nat says, I glance up at her "I don't think I can" I mutter shaking my head. "you can, you need to fight for (Y/N), she isn't gone forever, we can get her back" nat says gently shaking my shoulder. I bite back the tears and look up at the sky nodding my head slightly "right lets gather everyone and get back to the compound" I say pushing myself up from the floor and walking out of the forest towards the jet. Everything was a blur from that point onwards, I spent the majority of my days looking at the growing list of missing people, faces of allies appearing on the screen. Bruce had been busy in the lab with this beeper thing they'd found, apparently it belonged to fury and was seemingly sending a message, we don't know who to though. Maybe Tony? He was still MIA, but Bruce said he was in space somewhere so maybe if he was still around we could find him. "this is a nightmare" I mutter as me and nat watch the figures rise, "I've had better nightmares" she says barely above a whisper. "hey" Rhodey says walking in "that thing has just stopped doing whatever the hell it was doing" he tells us pointing in the direction of the labs, I glance over at nat before heading over to the lab "what we got?" nat sighs as we enter. "whatever signal it was sending finally crapped out" Bruce explains, "I thought we by-passed the battery" I ask glancing over at Bruce. Rhodey shrugs his shoulders "we did, its still plugged it, it just stopped" he explains, "reboot it and send the signal again" I instruct them, but Bruce shakes his head "we don't even know what this is" Bruce says uncertain. "fury did, just do it please" nat sighs "and tell me as soon as you get a signal, I wanna know who's on the other end of that thing" she continues. Me and nat turn around to leave, stopping when we saw someone blocking our path, "where's fury?" the woman asks looking between the four of us. I glance over at nat "who are you?" Bruce asks, "could ask you the same question, but first where's fury" she demands her fists beginning to glow. "whoa wait we don't want to fight, fury's an ally, he's missing along with half of the universe" I say putting my hands up defensively, she glances over at me "we're the avengers, a team fury created, now who are you?" I ask slowly. She lowers her fists, "I'm Carol Danvers, a friend of fury's, that's his way of contacting me if I'm needed on earth" she says pointing over to the beeper. "well you definitely are" Rhodey mutters, she furrows her brows at him "what's going on, you mentioned about half the universe being missing" carol asks. We fill her in on what had been going on the past week, about the snap and basically everything, she nods her head slightly "well I can probably help you find your friend tony, and then we can work on getting everyone back" she explains.

It had been nearly a month now since the snap, and still no sign of tony, carol hadn't come back either. I was stood in the bathroom shaving, I'd finally cut my hair and shaved off the beard. I wasn't on the run anymore, heck didn't have anything to run from anymore. I put down my razor and sighed as I looked at myself in the mirror, wondering if (Y/N) would be happy I got rid of the beard. She did say she liked it, but I knew she hated being on the run and everything about it. I could picture her walking in, wrapping an arm around my waist smiling up at me saying "welcome back cap" with a small smirk. lost in my own thoughts I slowly began to notice the mirror was shaking, I look at it confused, grabbing hold of it to steady it to realise the shaking was coming from outside. I grabbed a jumper and ran outside with the others to see carol returning with a space ship, pepper looking up at it quietly begging for it to be tony. As the ships stairs descend I see a painfully thin tony being led out by a blue cyborg type woman. I run over to help him down, "couldn't stop him" tony says quietly, and I instantly knew who he was on about, "neither could I" I sigh as I help him over to pepper. "hang on" tony mutters stopping, he takes a few shaky breaths "I lost the kid" he mutters quietly. My heart sinks at the thought of peter turning to dust in front of tony "tony we lost" I mutter not quite being able to bring myself to say who. "where's (Y/N)?" tony asks, I look down at the floor desperately trying to hold back the onslaught of emotions "oh" he mutters sadly "is um—" he starts before pepper runs over "oh my god" she says mutters repeatedly sobbing into tony's shoulder as he hugs her. they begin to walk inside with the others, I wait for a moment trying to steady my breathing, I glance back at the ship to see rocket and the girl holding hands in silence both of them looking at lost and depressed as we were. A couple days later I was lent up against a table as we talked about thanos once more, "its been 23 days since thanos arrived on earth" Rhodey says as we look at the updated list of those that we'd lost, the familiar faces of Bucky, Sam, Wanda and (Y/N) flashing up on the screen. "world governments are in pieces" nat says as I stare at the picture at (Y/N) before it changed to someone else "the parts that still are working are trying to take a census and it looks like he did, he did exactly what he said he was gonna do" nat continues "thanos wiped out 50% of all living creatures" she finishes. "where is he now? where?" tony asks, I glance up at him "we don't know" I mutter shrugging my shoulders "he just opened a portal and walked through" I explains. Tony sighs fiddling with his wheelchair slightly "whats wrong with him?" he asks pointing over to thor, who was sat brooding in the corner. "oh he's pissed, he thinks he failed, which of course he did, but there's a lot of that going around ain't there?" rocket says, tony looks over at him slightly confused "honestly until this exact second, I thought you were a build-a-bear" tony says making me silently chuckle. At least he still had his humour. "we've been hunting thanos for three weeks now, deep space scans and satellites and we got nothing" I explain, "tony you fought him" I begin before he interrupts. "who told you that?" he asks "I didn't fight him, no he wiped my face with a planet while the Bleecker street magician gave away the stone, that's what happened, there was no fight cause he's not beatable" tony says getting visibly agitated "okay—" I say trying to interrupt "did he give you any clues, any coordinates, anything?" I ask him. Tony splutters making a small salute type gesture "I was this coming a few years back, I had a vision, I didn't wanna believe it, thought I was dreaming" tony says. I get up slightly "tony, I'm gonna need you to focus" I tell him, "and I needed you" tony says looking over at me "as in past tense, that trumps what you need, its too late, Buddy. sorry" tony says "you know what I need, I need a shave" he continues standing up from his wheelchair knocking a glass over in the process. "and I believe I remember telling all youse" he says trying to pull out his IV as Rhodey tries to stop him, "alive and otherwise, that what we needed was a suit of armour around the world, remember that? Whether it impacted our precious freedoms or not, that's what we needed" tony says getting more and more worked up. "well that didn't work out did it?" I tell him, "I said we'd lose, you said 'we'll do that together too' and guess what cap? We lost, and you weren't there" he says looking directly at me. I take a deep breath trying to keep my emotions in check because everything he was saying was true "but that's what we do right? Our best work after the fact? We're the 'Avengers' , we're the 'Avengers', not the 'Pre-vengers' right?" tony says stumbling slightly. Rhodey moves to help "okay, you made your point, just sit down okay?" Rhodey says calmly. Tony tries to break from Rhodey's grasp "okay, no, no here's my point, you know what? She's great by the way" tony says pointing over to carol. "tony you're sick, sit down" Rhodey pushes, "we need you, you're new blood" tony continues breaking from Rhodey's grasp "bunch of tired old mules, I got nothing for you cap" tony says walking over to me pointing a finger in my face "'ive got no coordinates, no clues, no strategies, no options, zero, zip, nada, no trust. Liar" he states he then rips the arc reactor off his chest "here you take this, you find him, you put that on, you hide" tony putting it in my hand before falling to his knees. We all rush forward "tony" I say going to help him up, "I'm fine" he mutters making everyone step back "let me—" he starts before fully collapsing on the floor. "shit tony" Rhodey says, as I help him grab tony "lets get him to the infirmary" I say.