The Next Avengers: The Legend(MCU)

Team One: New York(2012) - Face Off

***New York(2012)|Sanctum Sanctorum***

Maddie and Ava's bodies laid unconscious against the parapet of the roof seeming as though they were just napping.

The Ancient One paced back and forth while Mad and Ava waited in their "ghost forms".

"No. No, it can't be done." She finally said before walking away.

"Ma'am, Please. Please!" Ava begged her as she and Maddie both followed her.

"I'm sorry, I truly am, but I can't! If I give up the Time Stone to help your reality, I'm dooming my own."

"Ma'am, with all due respect, I'm not sure the science supports that." Maddie said calmly as he could while blocking the woman's path.

Seeing that these two couldn't be convinced with words, though not for lack of trying on both ends for different reasons, she decided a different approach.

Thrusting her hand out, she created a projection of a glowing straight line. And circling this line were the six Infinity Stones.

"The Infinity Stones create what you experience as the flow of time," she began to explain, " remove one of the Stones," she flicked the projection of the Time Stone away and from it's spot, a dark, menacing line emerged away from the straight glowing line, "and that flow splits... Now this may benefit your reality, but my new one, not so much. In this new branched reality, without our chief weapon against the forces of darkness, our world will be overrun. Millions would suffer. So tell me, young brawn, can your science prevent all that?"

Maddie stood there stumped as he contemplated this scenario. The wise woman had definitely painted a vivid picture of what could happen if they took the Time Stone, but what could they do? Then, an idea came to him.

"No...no, it can't... but what if we could erase it?" When he said that, a look of confusion but curiosity came to the Ancient One's face. "We could return the Stones to each timeline at the exact moment it was taken, so that, chronologically, in that reality..." Maddie took the Time Stone projection and brought it back to the line and placed it back in its original slot. Once it was back, the projection of the dark new reality line slowly disappeared.

"-it never left.." Ava said, understanding Maddie's idea as she watched the dark line disappear.

Seeing this, the Ancient One began to walk away again. Theoretically, this idea could work, but there was something else. "Yes but you're leaving out the most important part... in order to return the Stones, you would have to survive."

"We can, we will! I promise." Ava said, stepping up.

The woman scoffed at that. "I can't risk the safety of this reality on a promise. It is the duty of the Sorcerer Supreme to protect the Time Stone."

"Well then why the hell did Strange give it away?" Ava retorted.

Hearing that, the Ancient One froze in her tracks before turning and looking directly at Ava. "What did you just say?

"Strange, he gave up the Stone to Thanos."

"Willingly?"

Ava nodded.

"Why?"

Since she wasn't there, Ava could only go off what she was told by Peter. "To spare a life... he said that there was no other way."

The Ancient One took a breath as she realized that this changed things, a new path had presented itself.

With that, she flicked her wrist in the direction of the unconscious bodies of the two, making them rise and float towards them until they reconnected and Maddie and Ava were back in their bodies again.