Back to the Beginning

Stephen was walking down on the stairs of sanctum, while Wong was closely following him behind; Beta was badgering him for tuna melt because he refuses to get attached to material things, if anyone asked Stephen it was because Wong’s broke ass couldn’t afford it. He too was nowhere near affluent like before but at least he was capable of providing for both himself and his daughter.

He chuckled once more while putting his hands in the pocket of his hoodie; when all of sudden there was a crash behind him; the ripples of Bifrost could be seen lingering. There was a man; upon closer inspection; Stephen realized it was Dr. Bruce Banner. He was mumbling, looking entirely out of his mind, “Thanos is coming; Thanos is coming.”

Both Wong and Stephen looked at the battered Omega and the distressed pheromones he was emitting; Stephen asked, “Who?”

A while later, Wong had given Dr. Banner some clothes to wear and he explained the entire situation to them. Stephen could feel the dread settling in his stomach; he was grateful that Sophie was currently in London Sanctum with Sachi; he nodded to Bruce and decided it was time to talk to Tony Stark.

He opened the portal in the middle of Central Park; where Tony Stark was currently jogging with Pepper Potts; they were discussing the changes that needed to be made in SI when Tony felt his instinct flare up. Before he could turn around, he heard a deep rich baritone voice of an alpha, “Tony Stark; I am Doctor Stephen Strange; I need you to come with me.”

Tony furrowed his brows, “I am sorry, are you giving out tickets or something?”

Doctor replied smoothly, “We need your help; It’s not overselling to state that the fate of the universe is at stake.”

Tony put himself between the Doctor and Pepper and asked, “And who’s we?”

Before the Alpha could answer, Bruce stepped out of the still open portal and said, “Hey Tony.”

The pheromones of anguish and pain were so thick; Tony had to still himself against Pepper when Bruce enveloped Tony into a bone crushing hug.

Tony hugged him back, shocked and slightly terrified at the strength with which he was being hugged and then turned to Pepper. “Pep-”

“I’m going to take the jet to California ” she agreed. Tony could kiss her, this was why she was his best girl. Pepper greeted, “It was nice to see you again Bruce.”

The scientist finally let go of Tony, though he kept a hand on his arm like the contact was the only thing giving him any sort of strength anymore, but smiled at her too. “You too, Pep.”

Then a second later, the Sparkly portal swallowed them entirely, but the panic attack that had been building since Tony spotted it vanished when, instead of space, they found themselves into a vaguely cozy looking museum/haunted house.

“Where are we? Hogwarts?” he questioned, still holding Bruce’s hand for support.

Stephen gave him a dry look - could he give any other type of look? So far all he had seen from the man was dry looks. “This is the New York Sanctum, where the Master of the Sanctum and Sorcerer Supreme now reside.”

He turned serious and said, “Let’s talk about the end of the Universe as we know it.”

Tony rather liked this one. “Let’s,” he agreed, coming to stand next to Bruce again.

With a wave of his hands, another monk Wong a Beta made a ‘hologram’ of their Universe appear. “From the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then, boom! The Big Bang sent six elemental crystals, hurtling across the virgin universe. These Infinity Stones each control an essential aspect of existence.”

Now it was Stephen’s turn as he pointed at each of the stones in front of him. “Space. Reality. Power. Soul. Mind.” Then he touched his necklace and a green stone appeared inside of it. “Time.”

Why was he walking around with an Infinity Stone like some piece of jewellery? Tony swallowed  the comment back and turned to Bruce. “You’ve seen him?”

The omega shuddered. “Yeah, Thanos. He's a plague, Tony. He invades planets. He takes what he wants. He wipes out half the population. He sent Loki. The attack on New York. That's him.”

“So, I was right,” said Tony, not above being a little bit petty.

Bruce stared at him in confusion, “What?”

“Nothing. Just remind me to tell everyone ‘I told you so’ if we manage to survive this. Actually,” he pulled out his phone. “FRI?”

“Yes, Boss?”

“Schedule a big serving of ‘I told you so’ for everyone who has called me paranoid since the Invasion. Especially the rouges and the undead one-eyed pirate.”

“That’s what you’re thinking about?” complained Bruce and Tony shrugged.

“There is nothing more important to me in life than proving myself smarter than the idiots I surround myself with and who dare to keep forgetting that I’m  smarter than them all.” Stephen rolled his eyes, and Tony turned serious again. “Okay. So, what’s our timeline?”

Bruce turned sober again. “No telling. He has the Power and Space Stones, that already makes him the strongest creature in the whole universe. If he gets his hands, on all six Stones, Tony...”

“He can destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of,” finished the Alpha, looking a little glum.

Which was terrible of course but, “Did you seriously just say 'hitherto undreamt of'?” he asked, leaning on one of their witchy cauldrons.

The other gave him a pointed look. “Are you seriously leaning on the Cauldron of the Cosmos?”

In his defense, Tony hadn’t known what it was. However, even before he could move away from it, Stephen’s cloak moved by itselfand smacked his arm. 

There was a second in which Tony just stared at the garment both offended and confused before he straightened himself up. “I'm going to allow that.” He focused back on the doctor. “If Thanos needs all six, why don't we just stick this one down the garbage disposal?”

In usual annoying alpha manner, Stephen shook his head. “No can do,” he said.

Wong clarified, “We swore an oath to protect the Time Stone. With our lives.”

“And I swore off dairy, but then, Ben & Jerry's named a flavour after me, so...” he said, mindlessly, now mostly studying the beta.

“Stark Raving Hazelnuts,” remembered Stephen and Tony blinked at him. The taller alpha looked at him impassively.

“It's not bad,” he said, now studying Stephen carefully.

The now magician noticed and smirked, “A bit chalky.”

Wong shrugged. “A Hunk of Hulk of Burning Fudge is our favourite,” he said.

Bruce looked entirely confused, and God, how Tony had missed him. “That's a thing?”

“Whatever. Point is, things change,” said Tony, doing his best not to eye Wong questionably.

It was Stephen who spoke. “Our oath to protect the Time Stone cannot change. This Stone may be the best chance we have against Thanos,” he said seriously.

Because the fate of the world was at stake here and he was a professional he commented. “And still conversely, it may also be his best chance against us.”

“Well, if we don't do our jobs.”

He said, “What is your job exactly, besides making balloon animals?”

Stephen remained annoyingly calm. “Protecting your reality, douchebag,” he said, his iridescent eyes focused on Tony’s.

“Okay, guys, could we table this discussion right now?” thankfully interrupted Bruce. Because Tony was really not known for his self-control. “The fact is that we have the time stone. We know where it is. Vision is out there somewhere with the Mind Stone, and we have to find him now.”

Well, wasn’t that fun. “Yeah, that's the... thing.” He didn’t quite look at Bruce this time.

Bruce frowned. “What do you mean?”

Tony sighed. He really didn’t want to have this discussion with Vision’s theoretical step father. “Two weeks ago, Vision turned off his transponder. He's offline.” Bruce opened his mouth, "Tony, you list another superbot." Tony interrupted him. “Look, i didn't lose him. He's more than that, he is my son and guess I didn’t do as well as I could considering i was a single mother.”

Stephen looked a little pained, which Tony noted down in his head immediately. “Who could find Vision, then?” 

Good grace.“Shit,” he muttered. Of all the people he did not want to bring up in front of these people, “Probably Steve Rogers.”

“Oh, great,” said Stephen, done with this conversation already.

“It’s a maybe. But...” 

Bruce was clearly confused. “Call him.”

Like it was that easy. “It’s not that simple.” He huffed. “The Avengers broke up, we are toast; the pack is no more.”

The other omega looked even more confused. “Broke up? Like a band? Like The Beatles?”

The genius omega elected to ignore his entire sentence. “Cap and I fell out hard.Teams were chosen, a metaphorical divorce happened and now we’re not on speaking terms.”

Bruce took his attention again. “Tony, listen to me. Thor's gone.” Wait What? “Thanos is coming. It doesn't matter who you're talking to or not.”

Which was simply rude. But fate of the universe.

Then he nodded. “Yeah,” he agreed, finally unearthing the monstrous flip phone from his pocket that he had taken to wearing around ever since Vision had gone off the rail in his love rendezvous. 

God, if they won against Thanos and Vision managed to stay safe Tony would ground him for the rest of his life.

“It’s the only number on the phone,” he said, handing it over to Bruce who looked reproaching but accepted it nevertheless. Then he turned back to Stephen, staring at the man intensely.

“What?” asked the alpha after a couple of seconds.

Tony blinked. “Say, doc. You wouldn’t happen to be moving your hair, would you?”

Stephen said impassively, "Not at the moment, No."

When they got out of the Sanctum and on the road, there was chaos everywhere. 

People were screaming and running on a the streets and smoke was filling the air. Which was pretty normal for New York, of course, but coupled with the people trying to flee made for a rather apocalyptical image.

People were simply running around like headless chicken; not waiting for any explanation cause they were an experienced bunch. What with surviving New York Invasion just few years ago.

“FRIDAY, what am I looking at?” He asked, pressing his glasses on his face.

His youngest AI yet came to life immediately. “Not sure, I'm working on it.”

Considering what Bruce had just been trying to tell them about Thanos...

“Hey!” he called, turning around but not stopping in his stride. “You might wanna put that Time Stone in your back pocket for now!”

Like the stubborn alpha he was, the other man kept walking behind him, now with some red flaming circles around his forearms. “Might wanna use it,” He answered.

Tony bit back what he wanted to say to that and approached the intersection. And there in the sky... a black flying donut ship. It was kicking up a lot of dust as it came to a stop in the middle of Bleeker Street, but it seemed like the majority of New Yorkers were smart enough to have fled the place already.

“FRIDAY, evac anyone south of 43rd Street, notify first responders.”

“Will do,”

Suddenly the magician started to make his strange hieroglyphics in the air and the dust cleared up like it had been recalled by an invisible vacuum. Which was honestly infuriating, did Tony ever say how much magic annoyed him?

The alpha met his eyes and then proceeded to wink at him.

What an infuriating asshole!!

That’s when the evil aliens decided it was time to descend from their evil donut in a cascade of blue light. One of them looked a little bit like a squid/man with grey skin, and the other was... big. Like a gladiator, big and mean.

The squid spoke first, his tone of voice alone telling Tony that he must be a villain. Honestly with that vocabulary and that face, there wasn’t anything else he could have been.

“Hear me, and rejoice. You are about to die at the hands of the Children of Thanos. Be thankful, that your meaningless lives are now contributing to-”

Tony did not want to sit and listen to Squidward of all people telling them they were going to die. “I'm sorry, Earth is closed today. You better pack it up and get outta here!” He shouted at them, immensely satisfied at the hint of annoyance on the alien's face.

But like the impolite villain he was, he didn’t answer Tony, instead turning to face Stephen. “Stone keeper,” he said, vaguely gesturing towards Tony. "Does this chattering animal speak for you?”

CHATTERING ANIMAL? How dare he?

And the infuriating alpha didn’t even try to defend his honour. “Certainly not. I speak for myself.” Which why would he? Just because he winked at Tony earlier and Tony couldn’t stop thinking about how hotter the alpha looked it didn’t change the fact that they were facing end of the world as they knew it.

He needed to focus, and Stephen was still speaking. “But you’re trespassing in this city and on this planet.” He said, making the glowing circles appear again.

“It means get lost, Squidward!” added Tony for emphasis.

Which made Squidward even more annoyed. “He exhausts me.” 

One point for Tony!

The big gladiator made some weird noises - and how come they could understand Squidward? and Squidward spoke up again. “Bring me the Stone.”

Big Gladiator made some other noises and then dropped his huge alien hammer and dragged it onto the ground as he approached them slowly like a predator.

Tony cringed slightly at the property damage before turning to Bruce. “Banner, you want a piece?”

Bruce made a face at him. “No, not really, but when do I ever get what I want?”

“That's right.” And well, Tony would feel bad but then again didn’t Bruce just try to make him call Rogers of all people! He deserved this.

And then Tony had to watch a little embarrassed as Bruce tried to turn green and the only thing that did was his neck.

At least the scientist looked a little embarrassed himself. “I just... I need to concentrate here for one second. Come on, come on, man.”

“Where's your guy?” he asked, watching again as Bruce tried and failed.

Bruce shook his head, pushing himself more, clenching his teeth until it hurt, “I don't know. We've sort been having' a thing.”

“A thing?” he asked, watching Big Gladiator approaching. “There's no time for a thing.”

“I know-”

Tony pointed at the approaching Big Gladiator. “That's the thing right there. Let's go.”

Bruce gave a loud grunt but nothing happened. And Stephen and Wong were both watching them in disbelief their cool magic mandalas on their arms aal ready for fight. 

Tony glanced at the doctor and got closer to Bruce. “Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the wizard and my possible new boyfriend.” He whispered.

And maybe he went a little far or something cause Bruce looked near tears. “Tony, I'm sorry,” he said, stammering. “Either I can't or he won't-”

He got worried in the face of his friend’s obvious distress. “It's okay. Hey, stand down.” He assured, and then gently pushed towards Wong. “Keep an eye on him. Thank you.”

The man simply nodded. “I have him.”

He barely heard Bruce muttering ‘damn it’ behind him as he turned once more towards Big Gladiator. Before the man approached them, Tony pulled on the strings of his tracksuit and tapped his Arc Reactor, letting his crowning jewel, the Bleeding Edge suit crawl all over him through nanotech in three steps flat. He formed a shield to cover him just as the Gladiator tried to axe him to death and then grew a set of blasters to shoot him away from Tony.

Okay, maybe he was showing off a little. And considering the way both of alpha’s eyebrows were raised in surprise, he was doing something right.

His omega best friend wasn’t quiet in his admiration. “Where'd that come from?”

Tony grinned behind his mask. “It's nano-tech. You like it? A little something..”

And then he was being attacked by Squidward which was just rude. He had not sign up for this utter disrespect, it was just uncalled for.

He barely saw Stephen doing something with his hands that disappeared Bruce into nothingness before he was back into the fight, dodging a car thrown to him by Squidward and throwing it back to him.

So, he moved closer to the doctor  and to have his back. “Wizard, you need to get that stone out of here. Now.”

Stephen’s expression was resolute when he turned to Tony. “It stays with me,” he said.

Any other time Tony would have been very turned on by the assertive tone of Alpha's voice.

This time he simply nodded, hoping that the alpha understood him clearly when he said, “Exactly. Bye.” Then he shoots up towards the neat obstacle course Squidward had set out for him before being very rudely thrown out of the way by the Gladiator who of course was still alive and ended up crashing through a wall and into the trees of Central Park.

Fuck aliens man.

“Tony, you okay?” called Bruce, appearing in his field of vision. Oh good, Stephen hadn’t vanished him. Just put him away from harm’s way. “How we doing? Good? Bad?”

What kind of question was that?! “Really, really good. Really good. Do you plan on helping out?” he half asked half demanded and Bruce looked dejected once more.

“I'm trying. He won't come out.”

So many jokes that he couldn’t make because aliens were fighting them and now there was a hammer being thrown at them 

“Hammer!” he shouted, pushing Bruce out of the way and deflecting the Gladiator’s shield with unibeam.

He tried to attack once more but he saw him coming and threw him on the ground, before trying to hammer him further into the ground.

And then the Spiderling was there, holding the hammer away from Tony’s fragile body with his bare hands alone.

“Hey, man. What's up, Mr. Stark?”

Oh, for the love of god. “Kid, where'd you come from?!”

Peter shrugged. “Field trip to MoMAAAH,” he shouted as he was thrown away by the Gladiator.

Not that he went far, he was Peter. No matter how many times Tony child proofed his house or the Compound, the little omega always found a way inside. Sneaky little spider.

“What is this guy's problem, Mr. Stark?” 

Such a long story. Sure, he could tell him about Thanos and the Infinity Stones, but the essence of it was that, “He's from space. He came here to steal a necklace from a wizard.”

Peter nodded like it all made sense and joined the fight.

They were in the middle of fighting Big Gladiator together when he saw Cloak flying away with Stephen. For a second Tony had the very unpleasant thought that the alpha was dead. But then he saw him breathing and the ugly scowl on Squidward’s face and pushed away that fear.

“Kid, that's the wizard. Get on it.”

Peter swung towards him. “On it!”

It had seemed like a good idea at the time, and yet less than a minute later Peter’s voice came though the comms. “Uhhh, Mr. Stark? I'm being beamed up!”

Oh hell no. No one took his kid and his possible new boyfriend from him. “Hang on, kid!” he shouted, trying to free himself from the Gladiator’s hammer of doom. If it wasn’t being so bothersome Tony would seriously have to wonder what it was made of because it was very cool.

And then there was a bit of magic thingy and suddenly Big Gladiator fell into a portal and the only thing to make it out was his hand. He turned towards the new comer; the omega girl looked barely twenty years old. She was wearing golden and orange robes. Wong was standing beside her; She then turned towards the space ship that was still in the earth’s atmosphere ignoring him entirely.

Tony nodded his head to Wong. “Thank you.” The other just nodded and Tony flew towards the large ship. “Give me a little juice, FRI.”

He could see Peter now, still holding onto the ship as it flew out of the Earth’s atmosphere. “FRIDAY, unlock 17-A. Pete, you gotta let go. I'm gonna catch you!”

“But you said save the wizard!” answered the teen. Why was everyone around him so incredibly stubborn?! “I can't breathe!”

His irritation disappeared and worry took its place because damn it, that was his kid. “You're too high up. You're running out of air.” He said, trying to reign the panic he felt as he watched Peter swaying a little.

“Yeah! That makes sense,” managed the boy and then he fell. Tony didn’t have time to have an anxiety attack about Peter falling to his death like Rhodey before the pod reached him and attached itself to him, becoming the new and improved Iron Spider suit.

Peter straightened himself and landed on his feet on the bottom of the ship. “Mr. Stark, it smells like a new car in here!”

Tony smiled at his enthusiasm. Now that Peter was now, which meant he could focus on saving the alpha then possibly slap him for not listening to him. “Happy trails, kid. FRIDAY, send him home.”

“Yep.”

Tony watched the parachute get deployed and throw Peter back towards Earth, and couldn’t help a snort when he heard him shout, “OH, COME ON!”

And then he was finally in the ship.

+++

Pain was an old friend, sure. But at least with Dormammu it was one single very long painful experience. Even the pain in his hands was somewhat preferable to what he was experiencing right now, floating on a ship in space surrounded by glass needles. The lack of sterility alone was enough to make him gag. He felt relieved that Sophie was safe at Kamar taj away from this madness.

Hell, he was used to the physical pain. Just hearing the alien in front of him speak hurt his already fried brain. 

“In all the time I've served Thanos, I've never failed him,” was saying the alien again. Seriously, did the villains ever get tired of monologuing, "If I were to reach our rendezvous on Titan with the Time Stone still attached to your vaguely irritating person, there would be... judgement.” He clenched his teeth at the pain when the needles breached his skin. “Give me... the stone.”

At the very least he knew that the Cloak of Levitation was somewhere on the ship; probably. Wong wouldn’t be there, he wouldn’t be stupid enough to leave the Sanctum unsupervised; no matter how many rules they had broken between the two of them, that was one that they wouldn’t break. And he trusted the beta to protect both earth and Kamar taj in his absence.

He was half unconscious when he had been dragged on the ship, so he had no idea where Stark was or if he was still following him at all.

The pain snapped his back out of his thoughts to the alien who was torturing him. “Painful aren't they? They were originally designed for microsurgery. And any one of them...”

Stephen would have liked to ask the alien about what kind of microsurgery happened in space, but then there was a loud thump behind them and Stark was standing there, in full Iron Man suit, repulsor ready to fire.

“... Could end your friend's life in an instant,” finished the alien, steadying himself.

Tony didn’t move an inch. “I gotta tell you, he's not really my friend. Saving his life is more a professional courtesy.”

What a douchebag.

Squidward moved towards Tony, pulling up two weird metal objects towards him with his Telekinesis. “You've saved nothing. Your powers are inconsequential compared to mine.”

“Yeah, but the kid's seen more movies.” Exasperating omega said.

Stephen didn’t even have time to wonder what kid, before Tony was blasting the side of the ship sending the alien out in space in an instant. Unfortunately for all involved, Stephen was also pulled away by the sudden depressurization and pulled straight towards the hole.

Then with a collaboration between Spider Man - who had legs in his suit?! - the Cloak and Tony and SOPHIE he was pulled back, and the hole was fixed in moments by Tony himself.

He had just taken a deep breath trying to squash the building panic; he turned towards his daughter and folded his arms against his chest, “what in the Vishranti’s name are you doing here?”

His infuriating daughter just shrugged and said, “You think I would stay behind when you were clearly in danger, Dad.” She turned towards Spider man and said, “Besides, I am not the only one.”

The situation suddenly became worrisome for him, there were three very distressed omegas in the space ship. His daughter, the spider kid and Stark. He could smell the scent of fear and anxiety rolling off from both the little ones.

He opened his arms wide and said, “Come here, Butterfly.” He then proceeded to let calming and soothing pheromones out as his daughter tucked herself in his embrace; after a while he opened his eyes and looked at the other kid inside the ship and offered another arm, “You can hug me too if you like; spider kid.”

He retracted his spider suit and for the first time Stephen’s heart gave out, the kid was even younger than his daughter; may be fifteen or sixteen. The youngest omega looked at Tony and then made his way towards the wizard.

Stephen was embracing both kids in his arms on each side and his chest rumbled in contentment after scenting both the kids. The scent of fear and unease gradually decreased and both omega’s scent became much more bearable.

He then stepped out of the hug and scolded, “Its my job to protect you; not the other way around.”

Sophie rolled her eyes and said, “Hong Kong.”

As if that one incident was enough to explain her trust issues and need to always be around him. Tony’s fear was still lingering in the air, so Stephen looked at his daughter and they both had a silent conversation between them and after which his daughter turned towards spider kid and said, “Come on Peter, we can snoop around see what the ship is actually like.”

Spider kid started bouncing on his feet and turned towards older omega and said, “Can I please Mr. Stark?”

Tony just nodded exasperatedly; The man was back to Stephen in seconds once they left, his suit automatically disappearing “We’ve got to turn this ship around.”

Tony scoffed, stopping beside him. “Oh, so now you want to go back. Even though I tried to get you to leave earlier! Now you want to run!”

How had Stephen so quickly forgotten how infuriating this omega could be? “No,” he said, forcing himself to keep calm. “I want to protect the stone.”

“Oh, you do?” said Tony, condescendingly. “Well maybe you should have listened to me! And you know what I want? I want you to thank me now. Go ahead, I'm listening.”

“For what? Nearly blasting me into space?” Demanded Stephen a step away from crossing his arms like a sullen child.

Tony had no such qualms. “Who just saved your magical ass? Me.”

The sheer audacity “I seriously don't know how you fit your head into that helmet.”

The shorter man glowered at him and came to stand even closer to him. “Admit it. You should have ducked out when I told you to. I tried to bench you. You refused.”

“Unlike everyone else in your life; I don’t work for you.”

Tony scoffed, “And due to that fact, we are now in a flying donut billions of miles away from Earth with no backup!”

Stephen could smell the scent of fear and distress rolling off in waves from the omega; he sighed and enveloped the small man in his arms; and let out soothing pheromones once again.

Tony struggled against his hold for a while and then all the fight drained out of his tired body. He put his nose onto the alpha’s scent gland and took a deep breathe; trying to centre himself in the middle of chaos.

He was vaguely aware that he had known this alpha for all but two hours and currently he was letting him scent him. But Tony couldn’t care less about it; his kid was somewhere in space right in the middle of danger. He was going through all the horrible scenarios in his head; calculating the probability of upcoming fight. He was going to ground that little shit once they were safely back on earth that is.

He stepped out of the alpha’s embrace, his cheeks flaming red; he mumbled a vague thank you to the man and turned towards the bridge that led to the console on the ship.

Magician followed him a bit and then asked, “Can you turn this ship around? Fly us home?”

Tony ignored his question and eyed the ship critically; wish he had Friday here with him. She could scan the shit of this donut and he would be able to research more about space travelling.

The annoying alpha pestered him, “Stark? Can you get us home?!”

Tony sighed and turned towards him, “Yeah, heard you. I am thinking I’m not so sure we should.”

Alpha declared resolutely, “Under no circumstances, can we bring the Time Stone to Thanos. I don’t think you quite understand what’s at stake here.”

Tony immediately interrupted him, “It’s you who doesn’t understand that Thanos had been inside my head for six years. Since he sent an army to New York and now he’s back. And I don’t know what to do. So, I’m not so sure If it’s better plan to fight him on our turf or his… but you saw what they did and what they can do. At least on his turf he’s not expecting it. So, I say we take the fight to him, Doctor. Do you concur?”

Alpha is about to say something equally infuriating when both Peter and his daughter steps inside the console room ending their spat in an abrupt manner.

Sophie eyes both of them suspiciously and sighed, “You were fighting again, weren’t you?”

Magician walked to her and wrapped his arm around her shoulders, “When we are back on earth, you are grounded until ever.”

The young omega smiles and agrees readily, “Fine with me, as long as all of us get back to earth safe and sound.” She raised her left eyebrow knowingly until her father agreed with her. Huh, so the little one has more power over the alpha. Did not see that coming.

Both of them seem truly father and daughter; both have the same iridescent eyes; which keep changing colours. The alpha has black hair with two remarkable white streaks of hair on the side and dear god; both of them have sharp cheekbones that could cut through glass. Pale skin and rosy cheeks make them look so youthful well, one of them is youthful. Alpha must have had his daughter when he was quite young.

He shook his head and turned towards his runaway spider. Peter is looking at him with doe eyes and such hopeful look, he doesn’t want to berate him anymore. He will save it for when they are back on the safe green earth.

A few hours later

“Hey, what's going on?”

Stephen heard the young spider exclaim behind him; He and Sophie were meditating until they reached their unknown destination.

“I think we're here,” he said, moving to stop closer to them.

Tony glanced at them, ignoring and stepping to the side. “I don't think this rig has a self-park function.” He finally said, watching the planet quickly approaching. He turned to Spider Man. “Peter, get your hand into this steering gimbal. Close those around it. You understand?”

Spider boy - Peter, nodded, moving. “Yep, got it.”

Tony put his suit back on. “This was meant for one big guy, so we gotta to move at the same time.”

“Okay. Okay. Ready.”

The ship started to gain momentum and head straight for a large structure on the orange planet and Peter suited up too. “We might wanna turn. Turn! Turn! Turn!!”

Stephen found himself in the middle of them and threw up the Shields of Seraphine to try and soften the landing a little bit. It worked as in they didn’t end up dead, but the ship landed harshly anyway, losing a good chunk of itself to the ground of titan.

Stephen helped the older omega get back on his feet when he had lost his momentum and fell to the ground; he asked “You alright?”

Tony grunted, “That was close.” He patted Stephens’s forearms and said, “I owe you one.”

Sophia was looking at their surroundings when Peter dropped down from the sealing dangling, “Let me just say, if aliens wind up implanting eggs in my chest or something and I eat one of you, I am sorry.”

Tony raised his fingers and said, “I do not want another single pop culture reference out of you for the rest of the trip, do you understand?”

Peter shrugged his shoulders and said, “I am trying to say that something is coming.”

That’s exactly when a grenade rolled into view and three of them were thrown back by a strange energy pulse.

A strange man with weird tattooed red veins on his grey body shouted something and threw a blade at him, which Stephen easily deflected with a shield, before sending the cloak at its face, smothering him. There were two others with him, a man with a bug face helmet and some young girl with an Antenna.

Tony seemed to be handling bug face man alright, so he focused on the humanoid in the Cloak's grasp, trying not to feel offended and throw him in a Hell dimension when he heard him shout "Die, blanket of death!". No one was allowed to make fun of the Cloak like that, who did he think he was?

The scuffle did not last long and Tony was landing next to him moments later, his foot connecting with the humanoid while he turned to glare at bug man. 

Bug man who had Peter in his grasp, and was holding a gun to the omega’s head which really did not sit right with Stephen. His alpha was annoyed at his sheer nerve; that someone had dared to touch his pack. Wait what?! He started to look around to find his daughter. But she was nowhere to be found. Fuck.

“Alright, everybody, stay where you are... chill the F out,” Said the bug man, who then pulled off his helmet revealing, surprisingly human features. “I'm gonna ask you this one time. Where's Gamora?”

Tony took off his own helmet, and oh, he looked absolutely pissed off. “Yeah, I'll do you one better. Who's Gamora?”

The idiot under Tony’s foot, now freed of the Cloak, glared. “I'll do you one better. Why is Gamora?”

The one with Peter in his grasp tightened his hold on the boy. “Tell me where the girl is, or I swear to you, I'm gonna French-fry this little freak.”

Oh, the older omega was incensed. “Let's do it! You shoot my guy, I blast him. Let's go!” And holy shit where the hell did he get that cannon from?! 

“Do it, Quill! I can take it,” said the idiot under Tony’s foot.

The girl with the antennae hooped on his two feet like a hobbit, now spoke up, “No, he can't take it!”

Which he readily agreed, “She's right. You can't.”

Quill did not seem to care. “Oh yeah? You don't wanna tell me where she is? That's fine. I'll kill all three of you and beat it out of Thanos myself.” He turned to Peter. “Starting with you.”

Did he just say Thanos

“Wait, what. Thanos?” He shook his head once. “Alright, let me ask you this one time: what master do you serve?”

Quill looked at him like he was insane. “What master do I serve? What am I supposed to say? 'Jesus'?”

Tony looked as exasperated as he did. “You're from Earth.”

“I'm not from Earth. I'm from Missouri.” Oh goodie. Another idiot. He sniffed the air and came to the terrifying realization that this idiot was an alpha. Fuck, there were three unbonded omegas here, two of which were his kids. It did not sit well with the alpha.

The older omega seemed to think so too. “Yeah, that's on Earth, dip-shit. What are you bothering us for?”

“So, you're not with Thanos?” came Peter’s voice, a little out of breath.

“With Thanos?!” Quill sounded seriously offended. “No, I'm here to kill Thanos! He took my girl- Wait- who are you?”

Peter took his helmet come off. “We're the Avengers, man.”

The space idiot suddenly had his face in the nook of younger omega’s neck and he started sniffing him; “Wait, why do you suddenly smell so good?”

Stephen’s heart suddenly thundered under his chest; out of the blue; he saw Sophie’s golden magic wrap around the space idiot’s body and snatched him up in the air now, little spider was free from the alpha’s grasp.

Quill shouted, “What the fuck is this?”

Once Peter was safely behind iron man and him; Stephen nodded towards Sophie; she opened her pocket dimension and pulled two scent blockers from it. She threw one at Peter and applied the other on space idiot’s neck.

Stephen finally took a long breathe in relief. Now, the question was how in the Vishanti’s name were they going to win the fight against Thanos with those idiots around. The cards were definitely stacked against them. Stephen did not like their chances, not one bit.