Iron Lightning; Valuable [ II ] P. PARKER

XXI. SEE YOU IN A MINUTE

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
"see you in a minute"

"Hey, hey. Look at me. You okay?"

Clint Barton just arrived back from test running the newly built time machine, he was on his knees and breathing hard. Natasha was by his side, helping him up.

As Clint sat up, he threw a baseball glove towards Tony, "Yeah, it worked," he said panting. "It worked."

A smile formed on Tony's face, it worked.

As soon as they heard the news, everyone gathered into the office area to start figuring out where and when to travel back to get the stones.

"Okay, so the "how" works. Now we gotta figure out the when and the where. Almost all of us has had an encounter with at least one of the six Infinity Stones," Steve started off.

"Well, I'd substitute the word "encounter" for damn well near been killed by one of the six Infinity Stones," Tony cut in.

"I haven't, I don't even know what the hell you're all talking about," Scott said, also jumping in.

"Regardless, we only have enough Pym Particles for one round trip each, and these stones have been in a lot of different places throughout history," Bruce said getting back on track.

"Our history," Tony emphasized. "So, not a lot of convenient spots to just drop in."

"Which means we have to pick our targets," Clint said.

"Correct,"

"Let's start with the Aether. Thor, what do you know?" Steve asked making everyone turn his way.

Thor didn't answer, he was sitting on a chair in the corner with his sunglasses on being very still.

"Is he asleep?" Natasha asked.

"No," Rhodey said. "I'm pretty sure he's dead."

Once they get Thor woken up and back on track he stands up and walks to the front, "Where to start? Umm...," he takes his glasses off and taps the screen with them.

"The Aether, first, is not a stone, someone called it a stone before. It's more of a... an angry sludge thing, so... someones gonna need to amend that," he puts drops in his eyes. "Here's an interesting story though, many years ago... My grandfather had to hide the stones from the Dark Elves," He wiggles his fingers to imitate a spooky ghost. "Wooooh! Scary beings. So Jane," An image of Jane Foster pops up on the screen making Thor jump slightly. "Oh, there she is. That's Jane... She's.. an old flame of mine... She— she stuck her hand inside a rock this one time... and then the Aether stuck itself inside her... And, she became very, very sick. So I had to take her to Asgard, which is where I'm from. And we had to try and fix her. We were dating at the time, you see. I got to introduce her to my, my Mother... who's dead," Thor's face starts to fall and he seems on the verge of tears.