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Assistant: Title: A Warning from the Future
        Author: SkylarkStark SkylarkStark 
        Chapter: 2/18 
        Summary: Sometime after the Chitauri Invasion but before SHIELD's fall, the Avengers and Nick Fury are transported to a movie theatre. With no sign of how they got there, five others and a raccoon, they are all given the ominous warning that the future of their universe depends on how well they watch a certain movie...
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            The movie begins and everyone understands that this is not a joke. The worldview of many is rocked and Thor's life has been upended with shocking revelations.
          
        

      
        
          Bold names = the on-screen character (if they are also watching the movie)Something I forgot to include in the first chapter: Constructive criticism is welcome! And let me know if it's unclear what part everyone's reacting to—one of my goals for this version is to take out as much movie-specific writing as I can, though there will be moments where I will go into detail because I want to be very specific with the reaction/thoughts of the characters.
            
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    Despite the countdown, no one moved just yet. Several were processing the information that had been dumped onto them. Others wondered why the universe was at stake and why watching a movie (of all things!) would change anything. And then there was Quill and Rocket, who couldn’t quite wrap their heads around the fact that they were amongst Terrans and not the other Guardians of the Galaxy.“Uh, guys? The movie’s about to start,” Peter pointed out.Everyone looked at the screen as the counter told them they had five seconds left. Fury walked over to the front row seats and pressed the pause button. The countdown stopped.“As much as everyone wants to know many things,” Fury said, addressing the group with commanding attention. “I suppose it is best if we do watch this… movie.”“But how can a movie reveal how our universe is at risk?” Thor asked.“I don’t think we’re going to get any answers standing around,” Shuri said. “I have more important things to do back home, so the sooner we get this over with, the sooner we can go home.”Most were in agreement. Natasha wanted to protest the collective agreement made by people walking to the seats, but she couldn’t think of a good reason why they shouldn’t. She followed Clint into one of the rows with the other Avengers. They, and Fury, sat at the edge for a hasty exit if needed.Why are you so on edge? Relax, but pay attention to the movie. And the people you’re with… said Clint’s subconscious. He wasn’t the only one to think those exact words. The thought bounced around everyone’s mind, and while some were momentarily confused, only Stephen picked up on the fact that it wasn’t his internal monologue.Whoever—or whatever—had brought them together had to be very powerful. Bring people from different times, claiming to show them the future through a movie, influencing how they felt through thought, taking away any special powers or abilities… his time as Sorcerer Supreme had meant that Stephen was familiar with each of those things.Separately.Stephen shook his head to clear his thoughts. He looked at where everyone sat.Rocket, Quill, Shuri, and T’Challa sat in the back row, while the Avengers and Nick Fury sat in the row in front. Peter sat next to Tony. Stephen sat next to T’Challa.Someone resumed the countdown. The lights dimmed, and the rustling of seats filled the cinema as everyone waited in anticipation. What were they about to watch?Of course, the film company logo rolled first. Everyone took a noted interest in the visuals, recognizing themselves and others. Unease settled amongst the group as they realized they would be watching themselves. But unprompted from the one who brought them here, it went away. As strange as it was to watch your future as a movie, their universe was at stake, and whatever this movie showed would be necessary to save it. Allegedly.“Has anyone heard of ‘Marvel Studios’?” Fury asked. His answer came with a shake of everyone’s head.As the logo finished, a voice-over broke through. What the distressed voice was saying made everyone’s blood run cold, but Thor’s heart started to beat faster since he recognized the voice of an Asgardian. A particular string of words caught the attention of everyone, but none more so than Thor.“Ok, wait a second,” Tony said, quickly pressing his pause button. “What the hell?”Thor felt like he was falling. Falling down a long, dark void with no speck of light. Why did Asgard have a refugee ship? Why was it under attack? Who could be powerful enough to dare attack a ship of Asgardians?“Thor…?” Bruce tried. “Thor, are you ok?”Thor blinked, coming back to reality. “Yes…” No. “Let's continue. Maybe… Maybe this will show us why… why Asgard’s people are there.”At a brief shot of the refugee ship in space, Peter noticed Tony paling. However, he didn’t get to ask his mentor about it as the setting shifted.Bile built up in people’s throats at the site of the slaughtered Asgardians. Shuri couldn’t help the gasp of disgust from leaving her lips.“They’re not saved, you @ssh@l@,” Clint spat out at the alien’s—Ebony Maw’s—monologue.Despite the carnage, the sight of Loki marked a shift in the room’s atmosphere.“What the hell?!” (Natasha, Tony, and Fury.)“What’s he doing there?” (Steve and Bruce.)Clint growled, “He’s probably the one who called this “Thanos” guy. Wouldn’t put it past him.”“Isn’t he that guy who attacked New York all those years ago?” Peter asked, looking around.But everyone shut up when Thor spoke.“How is this possible? He’s supposed to be dead.”Everyone blinked.“What do you mean, dead?” Steve asked.Thor (seemingly handling this situation remarkably well) answered, his eyes not leaving the screen.“A few months ago, Jane, Loki, and I ended up on a deserted planet. Long story short, we fought a group of Dark Elves. Loki died while fighting one.”No one had any response. But if this was the future, and Loki was very much alive, where was he?The movie showed Thanos picking up a battered Asgardian off the ground, and the spies quickly confirmed it was Thor.“This is only going to get worse, isn’t it?” Tony mumbled. Everyone nodded, praying On Screen Thor wasn’t dead.Thanos gave his speech about destiny, each line striking the group differently.“I know what it’s like to lose.” Tony couldn’t help the creeping uneasiness building up inside of him. He couldn’t help but be reminded of everything he’d failed at, what he thought he’d failed at. What he had seen through the portal.“To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to fail nonetheless.” Fury couldn’t help but wonder, Were the Avengers enough? He blinked, finding it surprising that a movie managed to make him have these doubts.Meanwhile, Steve momentarily found himself back in 2012 after waking up from the ice. That frightened blind run as modern New York blurred past while his brain tried to comprehend his lost life.“Dread it, run from it… Destiny arrives all the same.” An unexplainable unease grew within Quill, but he pushed it down, following the single instruction to not miss a thing. “I don’t think this Loki fella is working for Thanos,” Rocket deducted, recognizing the Power Stone.Thor nodded; he noticed that Loki’s face did not hold any triumph but rather, uncertainty.Thor’s response surprised everyone, especially the Avengers. They all knew the Asgardian as a serious, almost Shakespearian speaker, so when did he become less serious? It didn’t escape the attention of the Avengers that Thor’s hair had been cut far shorter, and one eye was covered.Loki was then given a choice: Give up the Tesseract or have his brother’s head burnt off from his body. Of course, Loki chooses the latter, and Thor only feels disappointed.“Nice to see that even in the face of death and complete destruction, your brother still hates you,” Tony quips. No on comments.Clint felt the anger and rage build inside him but managed to set a poker face.T’Challa noted that even Thanos is genuinely surprised at Loki’s choice but carries the request through.“Please don’t die, please don’t die,” Peter mumbled. Tony considered covering the teen’s eyes but didn't.To everyone's equal surprise, Loki shouts, wanting Thanos to stop. They all breathe a (some small) sigh of relief as Thanos does so. That didn't stop curiosity from taking them over.“Why is he being so nice?” Clint asks, hiding the shock in his voice. This Loki was very different from how he acted a few years earlier…“It could have something to do with the refugee ship,” Shuri suggests.Everyone did a doubletake at the reveal that the Asgardians did not have the Tesseract. But it didn't seem too surprising—a few years had passed since the Battle of New York; maybe Asgard had hidden it off-world. But why else would Thanos be so confident in attacking a refugee ship?Oh, never mind, The Avengers and Fury think when Loki reveals he has the Tesseract.A bigger shock to the Avengers (and the rest surprised) is Loki announcing himself as Thor’s brother.“Did he just… Did Loki just call you…?” Steve asked, voicing everyone else.“And what does “The sun will shine on us again,” supposed to mean?” Quill asked.It was getting too much for Thor. The movie had barely started, and he could barely comprehend half of what had been revealed. Thor had seen Earth movies before. They had at least another two hours of this. First, Asgardians had been forced onto a refugee ship (the only logical conclusion being that Asgard had been destroyed). Loki was alive, not dead, and willingly proclaimed himself as his brother. What more could there possibly be?“I don’t understand…” Thor muttered. “What more can there be?”At this point, no one—the Avengers especially—thought the opening of this movie could surprise them. So much had been revealed in such a short time. Surely, the next scene would start soon. Nothing more could be revealed. Absolutely noth—
  “And for another, we have a Hulk.”
The people from Earth (minus Quill and Rocket) stared in shock as Hulk burst forward, already throwing punches.“Ok, this is getting ridiculous!” Tony shouts, throwing his hands up.Bruce was hyperventilating as hundreds of questions fired through his brain: What am I doing in space? How is the Hulk there? Why were we with Asgard in the first place? Are Hulk and I willingly working together?“How did you get there?” Steve and Shuri ask at the same time, both looking at Bruce.“I’m trying to work that one out myself…”“What could happen in the future to lead to this?” Clint breathed, scratching his head. Natasha muttered something similar.“Enough!” Fury raised his voice. Everyone went quiet. “Remember: We get no information if we sit here doing nothing. Does anyone want to inform us?” None of the future people answer because not even they know. “Ok then, someone resume the movie.”The viewers cheered, excluding Quill and Rocket (who had no clue about what was happening or how any of this was particularly important), Fury, and Stephen, hoping that Hulk could overpower Thanos. Even Bruce, who is not the biggest fan of the Other Guy, couldn’t help but feel a little happy at the reaction.But silence fell like a blanket when Ebony Maw held up a hand to prevent another alien—Cull Obsidian’s—from joining the fight. While Hulk lay on the ground, defeated, silence permeated every corner of the cinema. A gasp rippled from someone, but no one knew who. Even Quill and Rocket refused to believe that the Hulk had been defeated.“Is… Is it even possible to subdue the Hulk in a fight?” Steve muttered.At this point, Bruce was shaking uncontrollably. How… No, no, no. This couldn’t happen.Could it? Bruce wondered. Despite the tension, Peter and Shuri couldn’t help but let out a small snort as Thor whacked Thanos with a pipe.“Who’s that?” Both Peters ask at the same time.“Heimdall,” Thor answered, curious about what the Gatekeeper would do.Heimdall uttered a spell, recreating the Bifrost, and directed it to the Hulk-turning-back-to-Bruce. Bruce heaved a sigh of relief.
  “That was a mistake.”
“Oh sh@t,” Tony and Fury mumbled at the same time.Thor closed his eyes too late and witnessed a spear shoved through Heimdall’s chest. His onscreen counterpart yells out the despair of Thor’s thoughts. But like the viewer, Thor was helpless as a piece of metal covered his mouth, curtsy of Maw’s telekinesis. The Tesseract was crushed, and Thanos added the Space Stone to the gauntlet. At the sight of an Infinity Stone—even the uninitiated understanding its unmatched power—everyone took a moment to take it in.“There was an Infinity Stone in there this whole time?!” Clint exclaimed. He looked between Fury, Tony, and Bruce a few times before asking, “How was that never picked up?”“The Tesseract was always emitting—”“I meant physically.”“Oh. Um,” Bruce looked at Tony, who unhelpfully shrugged.“There were some scientists who suspected something might be inside the Tesseract. They theorized it was the power source but claimed...” Fury paused to work out how to explain it succinctly. “... various radiation scrambled their equipment too much to properly find out.”Satisfied with the answer, everyone turned back to the screen. Clint apologized for pausing it, but only Natasha, Fury, and Steve (who were sitting closest to him) heard it.Rocket and Quill grimaced when the Space Stone sent out a minor shockwave, remembering their encounter with the Power Stone. Thanos announced, “There are two more Stones on Earth,” and the room erupted again.“What!?” Almost everyone—Quill being the loudest—shouts.“Thor,” Natasha asked, “do you know any of this?”“SHIELD currently has Loki’s scepter,” Fury said. “Maybe there’s another in there?”“Then what—and where—is the other one?” Steve asks.Throughout the following discussion, Stephen was deep in thought. How could Thanos know that the Time Stone was on Earth? Could he track where the Stones were?Fury was just as—if not more—confused than the others. Shouldn’t SHIELD have picked up on the other if there were two Stones on Earth? It would have been emitting a similar energy signal as the Tesseract, but they hadn’t found it; they didn’t even know it existed.“All I know is that the Aether is on another planet,” Thor answers Steve’s question. “The Aether is supposed to be the Reality Stone.”“What about the others? If we can find them,” Steve started, a plan already forming in his mind, “we could stop this future from happening.”“Apart from the Reality Stone, I don’t know where the others are. As Fury said, Loki’s scepter may contain the Mind Stone. The Tesseract—Space Stone—is on Asgard. It is not known where the Time Stone is, and no one has ever found the Soul Stone. Similarly to the Time Stone, the Power Stone has been lost for centuries.”“It’s on Xandar,” Quill announced.“Why?” Thor asked.“Can we just get on with the movie? I’d like to know how the Nova Corps managed to lose it,” Rocket said, irritated.Loki offered his help to Thanos—Clint wasn't surprised, scoffing at it—but is turned down. No one can help the small laugh that escaped their lips when Loki tried to plead his case.However, Loki slowly moved forward, saying, “Almighty Thanos, I, Loki, Prince of Asgard… Odinson,”Thor is silent, trying to convince himself that what is being shown is fake. What made him have a change of heart? he wondered.
  “The rightful King of Jotunheim, god of mischief, do hereby pledge to you, my undying fidelity.”
Everyone leaned in closer, anticipation growing at the knife materializing in Loki’s hand.But Loki’s attack was frozen in place by the Space Stone, and Thanos’s next words sent chills down the viewer’s spines.
  “Undying?”
“Uh oh,” Bruce mumbled.Thanos knocked the knife out of Loki’s hand and lifted him by the throat.“Sh@t, sh@t, sh@t,” Tony mumbled.Thor felt like he should look away. In his mind, he is hoping—no, praying—that what will happen doesn’t happen.Loki’s desperate struggle against Thanos’s grip makes the non-Avengers shift uncomfortably. Peter squeezed his eyes shut while the others watched in horror.“You… will never be… a god,” Loki barely gasped. All Thanos does is smile.The sound of bones cracking rang out from the theatre’s hidden speakers. No one spoke. One of Earth’s greatest threats, gone after such a simple action, after being led on for the killer’s own amusement. Even Clint couldn’t feel happy at Loki’s demise.Thor couldn’t bear it anymore. His entire life seemed to have been upended in just under ten minutes. His people on a refugee ship. Slaughtered at the warlord who sought out the Infinity Stones. Loki—the brother who had gone his own path but had seemingly changed his way—dead. Again. Thor knew that it was permanent this time.All this hasn’t happened yet, a voice told him. There’s still time to change it.But how much time between now and this future? The viewers didn't say anything—a hopeless emptiness in their chests—as the Statesmen ship is destroyed by the activation of the Power Stone. Some, however, frown slightly as Thor crawled over to Loki.“Get out of there, you idiot,” Rocket uttered, thinking of shouting it instead, but ultimately decided against it.“We have to stop this,” Thor announced.Everyone nodded in agreement. But they didn’t even know what had caused the Asgardians to flee (Was it Thanos? Some thought) in the first place, so how could they stop it?A moment of relief is felt as the Bifrost is shown shooting through space. It appears over New York and then in the reflection of the glass symbol of the Sanctum Santorum. Wong and Stephen are talking. Some viewers exchanged confused looks with one another, and others turned to ask Stephen, but his expression indicated his own curiosity.“Why would you be in this?” Rocket asked. He vaguely remembered Stephen saying something about magic not working…“Why would a raccoon be with be with us?” Stephen shot back. He ignored Rocket’s growl.Wong and Stephen are soon interrupted by the Bifrost appearing behind them. They turned around, and the Cloak of Levitation came to attach itself to Stephen.“Oh, please don’t tell me your wizards,” Tony groaned.“We’re not,” Stephen answered.“Good.”“We’re sorcerers.”“Same thing!”Fury frowned when he saw this and Wong’s conjured spell. Why hadn’t these two come up on SHIELD's radar? Were there more like them? Bruce gasped out that Thanos was coming, with Stephen and Wong looking at each other, the former asking who “Thanos” was. The music built up, dramatically cutting to the title card: The Avengers logo is in the background, with the name spinning into Infinity War.“Who’s the ‘Avengers’?” Rocket asks Quill.“No idea. Probably them,” Quill says, pointing to the group.Meanwhile, another thought comes to Steve.“Wait. Does this imply there are other… Avengers movies…”“Does that mean our kidnapper potentially knows everything about our lives?” Peter asks, a little frightened at the idea.“And with that creepy thought in mind…” Shuri said as the next scene started.
  
  

    
      
        
        
          This is why I like buffer chapters... I forgot how long these chapters were and underestimated how much I would be writing. And with IRL stuff keeping me busy for the next couple of months (possibly), I think finishing this by March 2024 is going to be difficult. I'll still try to upload once a week.'
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