Flame

Chapter 46

"Thumbelina, do you copy? We've got eyes on the prize. It's go-time." Tony tells Scott as we stand down in the lobby, watching our past selves.
"Bombs away. Is... is that Axe body spray?" Scott asks Tony
"Yeah, I had a can just for emergencies." Tony replies
"Can we focus, please?" I ask them getting slightly anxious in case this doesn't work
"I'm going inside you. Now." Scott tells Tony
"May I ask you where you're going?" Pierce asks our past selves
"To lunch and then Asgard. I'm sorry, you are?" Thor replies
"Alexander Pierce. He's the man, one of the folks behind Nick Fury." Past Tony explains to Thor
"My friends call me Mr. Secretary. I'm gonna have to ask you to turn that prisoner over to me." Pierce tells our past selves.
"Loki will be answering to Odin himself." Thor tells Pierce
"Oh, he's gonna answer to us. Odin can have what's left. And I'm gonna need that case, that's been SHIELD property for over 70 years." Pierce tells Past Tony who's holding the case
"Hand over the case, Stark." An agent says to him
"All right, move it, Stuart Little. Things are getting dicey up here. Let's go." Tony sharply tells Scott
"I'm not gonna argue who's got the higher authority here, all right?" Past Tony says
"You promise me you won't die?" Scott asks
"You're only giving him a mild cardiac dysrhythmia." I tell Scott
"That doesn't sound mild." Scott
"I need the case." Pierce says
"I know you got a lotta pull. I'm just saying..."
"Okay. Then give me the case."
"Do it, Lang!" Tony urges Scott, before we loose our chance "Window's closing. Pull my pin!"
"Here goes!" Scott says as we see past Tony drop the case making our past selves worry as he then falls to the ground. Scott pushes the case towards us and Tony grabs the case.
"Good job. Meet us in the alley. I'm gonna grab a quick slice." Tony tells Scott as we get ready to leave when suddenly, Hulk 2012 pushes me and Tony to the ground and the Tesseract slides to Loki.
"That wasn't supposed to happen, was it?" Scott asks us as both Loki and the case have now disappeared.
"Oh, we blew it."

"Cap–" Tony calls out as we see Steve walk out and head towards us."Sorry, buddy. We got a– problem."
"Huh. Yeah, we do." Scott adds
"Well, what are we gonna do now?" Steve asks us
"You know what? Give me a break, Steve. I just got hit in the head with the Hulk." Tony tells him
"You said that we had one shot. This– this was our shot. We shot it. It's shot. Six stones or nothing. Six stones or nothing–" Scott says
"You're repeating yourself, you know that? You're repeating yourself." I tell him
"You're repeating yourself. You're repeating yourself. You know– No." Scott says to me before turning to face Tony "You never wanted a time heist, you went on board with the time heist–"
"I dropped the ball." Tony says
"You two ruined the time heist." Scott says
"Is that what we did?" Tony
"Are there any other options with the Tesseract?" Steve asks us
"No, no, no. There's no other options. There's no do-overs. We're not going anywhere else. We have one particle left. Each. That's it, alright? We use that– Bye, bye. You're not going home." Scott rambles to us
"Yeah, well if we don't try, then no one else is going home, either." Steve tells us
"I got it. There's another way. To retake the Tesseract and acquire new particles. We'll stroll down memory lane. Military installation, Garden State." Tony explains to us
"When were they both there?" I ask Tony
"They were there at a– I've a vaguely exact idea." Tony says
"How vague?" Tony asks
"What are you talking about? Where are we going?" Scott asks
"I know for a fact they were there–" Tony says
"Who's they? What are we doing?" Scott interrupts
"And I know how I know." Tony
"Well, it looks like we're improvising." I say
"Right. What are we improvising?" Scott asks us
"Kart, Scott, get this back to the compound." Tony says as he hands us the sceptre before telling Steve the coordinates
"Are you sure?" Steve asks as he finishes typing in the coordinates
"Cap. Captain. Steve, sorry, America. Rogers. Look, if you do this, and this doesn't work, you're not coming back." Scott points out
"Thanks for the pep talk, pissant." Tony says to Scott before turning to Steve "Do you trust me?"
"I do." Steve answers
"Good luck"