Chapter 5
Stephen enters the kitchen as the others follow him still in shock but also surprised. “So wait hold up, what are you doing?” As everyone looks at Stephen confused on why is he going towards the fridge. “Making a sandwich. Do you know how long it’s been since I’ve eaten solid food?” But then Steve slams the fridge shut as Stephen looks at him with an annoyed expression. “You look ridiculous by the way” But all Steve can do is roll his eyes. “It’s been 22 years, Stephen. Where the hell have you been?” Steve demanded as Stephen sighs, muttering “it’s been longer than that.” Opening up the fridge to find some ingredients. “What happened to you?” Peter spoke up as Stephen is now on a stool so he can reach the counter as she begins to slathering mayonaise on the bread.
“What do you think happend? I decided to test my limits of time jumping and see how far I could go. Turns out, pretty far.” He says so casually. Meanwhile, Loki elbows Tony as Tony groans giving Loki five pounds as Stephen carries on. “Dad always warned me not to go too far into the future. On account of jumps only working one direction. And this time he was right.” As he takes a bite of the sandwich muttering “I needed this right now.”
Wanda sits down as she keeps looking at Stephen, wanting to figure out more about what has happened to him. “But wait, how did you get back?” She asked as Stephen says something still eating his sandwich. “By protecting my consciousness backwards into suspended quantum state version of myself that exist in every multiverse.” Tony looks at Stephen like he was crazy. “That makes no sense” as Stephen scoffs. “It would if you were smarter. Granted it did take me a little time to work out all the nuts and bolts of it” Wanda just looked at Stephen more intrigued and says “how much time” as he looked at her and said “ummm.. 52 years. Give or take” Tony looked at him in shock and also surprised. “Wait you’re sixty two!” He shouted as Stephen rolled his eyes at how surprised Tony was. “No dumbass, my consciousness is 62. My body’s Still ten. But the point is, dad said it couldn’t be fine but I did it so.. where is the old bastard anyways? I would love to rub it in his face” But then everyone went quiet as Steve sighs and looks at Stephen. “He died three days ago” which Stephen looked almost shocked but it was hard to tell by his face. “Natural causes?” He asked as Steve just shrugged. “Well that complicates things” Stephen mutters as Steve looked now more confused. “What kind of things?” He asked Stephen. Stephen ignored what Steve said as he looked at the others. “What’s today’s date? The exact date?” He asked quickly as Wanda was confused but still gave a answer to him. “Ummm.. the 14th I think?” But then Stephen asked “of what?” Like he needed the specific date. “July” Peter mutters Stephen heard it and sighs. “Not much time” Stephen mutters as gets up and disappears. The others looked at each other confused. “Wait what?! Number five!” Steve shouted but there was no response. Stephen had disappeared again.