Tears of an Angel

Steve sighed tiredly. Another failed test. Maybe he should've taken his own advice. For the last year he had been in charge of a support group for those unsnapped. It was always the same people who came. Joe had been talking about his date.

"-How things have changed, and my job, his job... How much we miss the Mets. And then things get quiet... He cried as they were serving the salads."

"What about you?" Jim quietly asked.

"I cried..." Joe paused in thought. "Just before dessert. But I'm seeing him again tomorrow, so..."

"That's great." Steve said encouragingly as images of Sam with his own support group flooded his mind. A forced smile grew on his face. "You did the hardest part. You took the jump, you didn't know where you were gonna come down. And that's it. That's those little brave baby steps we gotta take. To try and become whole again, try and find purpose.

"And I get it, it's hard. Sometimes feels impossible." Steve sighed looking down. "I lost my two best friends to the Snap. Two great men who I'd lay down my life for. And they were gone just like that. There was nothing I could do to stop it." He shook his head, looking up. "But then I see these- these kids. Spider Girl. Venom. Human Torch. The Fantastic Four. They are making this world something better. They've found a new purpose after the Snap despite everything they lost. "We've got to move on. The world is in our hands. It's left to us guys, and we got to do something with it. Otherwise Thanos should have killed all of us."

He's been trying to believe this. Trying to move on like Payton somehow managed to, but some days just felt...

He increased his visits to Natasha after his and Johnny's confrontation, making sure to avoid the younger heroes. He shouldn't have abandoned the team.

He walked quietly into the room, staying back as he saw the ongoing meeting.

Natasha sat at the desk with a sandwich in front of her. Flash sat on a chair nearby playing with a Rubik's cube. Harley sat backwards on another chair, his elbows resting on the back of the chair. The holograms standing in front of them.

"Nat," Okoye was saying. "It's an earthquake under the ocean. We handle it by not handling it.

Harley nodded before looking toward Carol. "Are we seeing you here next month?"

"Not likely." Carol said almost apologetically.

"What, you gonna get another haircut?" Rocket said bluntly.

"Listen fur-face," Carol spat. "I'm covering a lot of territory. The things that are happening on Earth, are happening everywhere, on thousands of planets. Besides if Payton doesn't have to be here, neither do I."

"All right, all right, that's a good point. That's a good point." Rocket muttered.

"Where is she?" Nebula asked curiously.

"Out in the cabin with Pepper and Morgan." Harley explained as Flash rubbed his arm whispering to himself.

"She's been pushing herself too hard again." Natasha supplied. "So Pepper, and I, thought she needed a day away from everything."

"Fair enough." Carol said mostly to herself. "But you might not see me for a long time."

"Alright." Natasha said. "Uh, well. This channel is always active. So, if anything goes sideways... anyone's making trouble where they shouldn't... comes through me."

The rest all agreed before ending their call. Except for Rhodey.

"You think she should've been here?" Harley asked the hologram.

"No," Rhodey shook his head. "This was just a check in. She didn't need to be here. Deserves the rest." He looked between Harley and Flash. "All of you do."

"Sleep's for the weak!" Flash jokingly declared.

Natasha rolled her eyes. "Where are you?

"Mexico. The Federales found a room full of bodies. Looks like a bunch of cartel guys. Never even had the chance to get their guns off."

"It's probably a rival gang." Harley dismissed.

"Except it isn't." Rhodey continued as Natasha stiffened. "It's definitely Barton. What he's done here, what he's been doing for the last few years... I mean, the scene that he left..." Natasha looked away. "I gotta tell you, there's a part of me that doesn't even want to find him."

"Just keep us updated." Flash said softly his gaze turning to Natasha.

Rhodey bit his lip. "Nat..."

"Please." She whispered.

"Okay." Rhodey nodded as the hologram ended.

Both boys looked away as Natasha forced back tears.

"You know I'd offer to cook you dinner but you seem pretty miserable already." Steve said finally announcing his presence. Both Flash and Harley stood up, hints of undeserved admiration still lingered in their gazes.

"You here to do your laundry?" Natasha asked.

"And to see a friend."

"Clearly, your friend is fine."

Steve continued in. "You know I saw a pod of whales when I was coming up the bridge."

"In the Hudson?" Natasha asked.

"There's fewer ships, cleaner water."

"I saw the same thing when I was in Venice." Flash added shyly. "Except you know with dolphins instead of whales.

"If you're about to tell me to look on the bright side." Natasha spoke with slight bitterness and a forced smile. "I'm about to hit you on the head with a peanut butter sandwich."

"Sorry. Force of habit." He sat in the seat directly across from her, the boys having returned to their seats. "You know, I keep telling everybody they should move on and... grow. Some do. But not us."

"If I move on, who does this?" Natasha said almost desperately.

"Maybe it doesn't need to be done."

"And if it does." Harley offered. "We're always here to do our part."

"I used to have nothing." Natasha admitted. "And then I got this. This job... this family. And I was-I was better because of it. And even though they're gone I'm still trying to be better."

"I think we both need to get a life." Steve said.

"You first."

A holographic notification appeared in front of Harley. He sighed before swiping it open. Camera footage pops up in front of them, showing Scott Lang with his Quantum Realm Van behind him.

"Oh! Hi. Hi! Is anyone home? This is Scott Lang."

Flash groaned annoyed. "Another eager fanboy?"

"It's your turn." Harley said about to swipe away the message.

"Wait." Natasha said as both original Avengers stood.

"-I had my mask on." Scott continued. "You wouldn't recognize me.

"Is this an old message?"

"It's live." Harley confirmed.

"Ant-Man?" Scott desperately continued. "Ant-Man, I know you know that. I need to talk to you guys."

Scott then explained his idea to them. Use the Quantum Realm to time travel.

"You do know how crazy this sounds right?" Harley said, a large smile growing on his face as he rapidly typed on his computer, Flash hovering behind him. "If this actually works-"

"We can get everyone back." Steve quietly finished, a genuine smile growing on his face. "Can y'all do it?"

"Yeah this is way above my pay grade." Flash said stepping back. "I'm not even out of school yet." He then tilted his head. "You're right. She is."

"You think so?" Harley asked looking at him, apparently on the same page as Flash. 

"She's smarter than you and I combined." Flash pointed out. 

"Who is?" Scott asked oblivious. 

"You remember the Spider Kid who wrapped your legs?" Steve asked. 

"She's that young?" Scott asked in awe. 

"She's that smart." Flash corrected. "I'm not smart enough to solve this-"

"I'm smart enough to build anything needed, but I'm not even sure how to start on a project like this. Payton may be the only one who can though." 

And of course he messed it up. Why didn't he just stay quiet? She was scared. He couldn't blame her though. She was probably scared this wouldn't work. But he needed this to work. He needed to have his friends back. He-

Steve looked up at the sound of an engine got closer, to see a black Audi was driving up.

*******

Payton left the cabin early that morning. It was on the drive she decided to make a call.

Payton sighed hearing the voice mail. "Johnny." She begun after the beep. "I- Something's come up. We may have a way to bring back the Decimated. I don't know if you'll be back before we bring them back or not. But I-" She sighed. "Please just call me back as soon as you get this."

She hung up as she arrived at the Compound. She spotted Steve standing outside looking dejected. She sped up, stopping in front of him. You're not doing this for him, Payton thought as she got up. This isn't about him.

"What's wrong?" Payton said with a fake pout. "Did it go wrong? He turn into a baby?"

"Among others things yeah. What are you doing here?"

"I'm here for Morgan, for Clint and Nat. Not you." Payton sighed as she walked to the trunk. "I figured it out. I hate how obvious it was. But what we need is a Time Space GPS. And you," She opened the trunk revealing his shield. "Need this. Turns out Tony kept this in the garage. So I need to get this out before Morgan tries taking it sledding."

"Payton-" She ignored him, handing it to him.

"Morgan needs her father. And Clint needs his family. And so do billions of others. But let's not screw up the rest of the world. Please. Are we getting the others?"

"Working on it." Steve said as they walked in.

"What does the roster look like?"'

"Well Nat's on her way out to find Clint."

"She found him?" Payton asked, following him inside. "How did she do that?"

"I didn't ask." Steve said as Natasha began walking down the hall. 

"Glad you could make it?" Natasha greeted. 

"Glad I could help." Payton moved to hug her mentor, only to end up on the ground. "I don't know what I did, but ow."

"How long have you been in talk with Clint?"

"How long have you known about that?" Payton asked taking her hand and pulling herself up. 

"You first."

"I'm not in talk with Clint." Payton corrected. "He randomly pops up, we talk. He promises not to kill anyone in exchange for me not saying anything. It was either that or never hear from him."

Natasha sighed. "Fine. When did you get good at keeping secrets?"

"Why does everyone keep saying I'm bad at keeping secrets? I've managed to keep a secret identity for seven years now." 

*******

A couple of hours later, they were already putting the devices together. Harley was working on their watches. Payton, Venom, Rocket and Bruce putting the platform and testing area together.

"Watch it." Venom passed Thor, who had gained weight since the last time she saw him, as he dragged a large pipe to the machine.

"How's it going RJ?" Payton asked from where she hung upside down from the ceiling, installing a couple of panels.

"Slowly."

"Maybe you're just not as good as you think." Payton teased.

"Watch it. You're only a genius on Earth."

Payton smiled when she felt something hit the back of her head. "Hey!" She looked over to see Clint had arrived.

"Clint!" Payton greeted, flipping onto the ground, and rushing over. "I didn't think you'd come."

"You sure this all will work?" Clint asked as they walked.

"I'm like 88% sure."

"And the other 12%?"

"A lot of potentially weird things." They stopped as they saw Scott freaking out.

"I'm not ready for his."

"I'm game." Clint interrupted. "I'll do it."

"Clint-"

"Just tell me what to do."

After Clint was in costume, Bruce gave him the basic run down.

"Let me ask something." Rhodey said. "If we can do this, you know, go back in time, why don't we just find baby Thanos, you know, and..." He made a strangling motion.

Payton couldn't help but laugh as Bruce's disturbed face. "First of all that's horrible-"

"It's Thanos."

"-And secondly, time doesn't work that way. Changing the past doesn't change the future."

"Look," Scott said.  "We go back, we get the stones before Thanos gets them. Thanos doesn't have the stones. Problem solved."

"Bingo."

"That's not how it works." Nebula said boredly.

"Well, that's what I heard." Clint said.

"What? By who? Who told you that?" Bruce said incredulously.

"Star Trek." Payton automatically said. Even if it wasn't right, she still knew her movies.

"Terminator," Rhodey continued. "TimeCop, Time After Time -"

Scott added. "Quantum Leap -"

"A Wrinkle in Time, Somewhere in Time -"

"Hot Tub Time Machine -"

"Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." Payton added.

"Basically, any movie that deals with time travel." Rhodey said exasperated.

"Die Hard?" Scott added. "No, it's not one..."

"This is known."

"I don't know why everyone believes that," Bruce said.  "But that isn't true. Think about it: If you travel to the past, that past becomes your future. And your former present becomes the past. Which can't now be changed by your new future."

"Exactly." Nebula added.

"So Back To The Future's a bunch of bullshit?"

Payton laughed before looking back at Clint in what appeared to be a similar Ant Man costume.

Bruce pushed a couple more buttons, turning to Clint. "Alright, Clint. We're going in 3... 2... 1!"

Payton tensed seeing him vanish. This'll work. It has to.

After a minute, Clint appeared, stumbling as he arrived and falling to his knees. A baseball glove tight in his grip.

"Hey," Natasha rushed to him, Payton right behind them. "Hey, Look at me. You okay?"

"It worked." He said breathlessly as he looked to Payton, handing her the glove. "It worked."

Payton took it from him, smiling down at it. They were coming home.

*******

"So the 'how' works." Steve said as they gathered in a meeting room. "Now we got to figure out the when and where. Almost all of us had an encounter with at least one of the six Infinity Stones."

Flash looked over to Harley. "What does that make us?"

"Late." Payton told them, as Harley flicked a paper ball at her. She caught it before tossing it back.

"Regardless," Bruce added. "We only have enough Pym Particles for one round trip each, and these stones have been in a lot of different places throughout history."

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

"Which means we have to pick our targets." Clint summarized.

"Let's start with the Aether." Steve turned to Thor. "Thor, what do you know?"

They all looked over to see Thor looked to be sitting up, but was unresponsive.

"Is he asleep?" Nat asked incredulous.

Payton shot a web over, yanking his glasses off and towards her, before tossing them to Flash.

Thor startled awake at the sudden movement. "Where to start? Umm... The Aether, first, is not a stone, someone called it a stone before. It's more of a... an angry sludge thing, so, someone's gonna need to amend that. 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. Harley and Flash exchanged a puzzled look.

"Wooooh, scary beings. So Jane," An image of Jane Foster pops up on the screen. "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 Mother... who's dead."

A strange look crossed Thor's face as if he were on the verge of tears.

Flash got her attention and mouthed 'Is he ok?'

Payton shrugged as Thor restarted.  

"And oh you know, Jane and I aren't even dating anymore, these things happen though you know, nothing last forever, the only thing permanent in life is impermanence."

"You want another drink?" Flash asked.

"I'd like a Bloody Mary, thank you." Thor said before plopping back into his chair.

---

After ordering some food, Rocket went up next, standing on the table as he spoke. "Quill said he stole the Power Stone from Morag."

"Is that a person?" Scott asked around a mouthful of food.

"Morag's a planet. Quill was a person."

"A planet? Like in outer space?"

"Oh, look. It's like a little puppy, all happy and everything." Rocket ruffled Scott's hair. "Do you wanna go to space? You wanna go to space, puppy? I'll get you to space."

"Be nice, Trash Panda." Harley said. "He's completely new to all this.

Next Nebula stood explaining what she knew about the Soul Stone. "Thanos found the Soul Stone on Vormir."

"What is Vormir?"  Natasha asked plainly.

"A dominion of death, at the very center of Celestial existence. It's where... Thanos murdered my sister."

'I had to.' Thanos had said in a pained voice as Mantis struggled to keep him sedated.

His obsession with the stones had killed her.

"Not it." Scott said quietly.

"I volunteer not to go there either." Harley whispered. Payton suppressed a small laugh.

---

Payton was starting to stack the empty take out carts as Nat was lying on a table surrounded by papers, and Bruce lying down on the floor.

"That Time Stone guy..."

"Doctor Strange." Bruce added.

"Yeah, what kind of doctor was he?"

"Ear-nose-throat meets rabbit from a hat." Payton supplied as she passed the leftovers to Flash. A black ripple traveled over him before he began eating. Apparently Venom was still hungry.

"Nice place in the village, though." Bruce thought out loud.

"Sullivan Street?" Flash asked through a mouth full.

"Hmm... Bleecker."

"Wait, he lived in New York?" Natasha asked.

"Oh my gosh," Payton saw where Natasha was going with this. "If we pick the right year, there are three stones in New York."

Bruce sat up in surprise, "Shut the front door."

"Now who goes where?" Harley asked as the rest regathered.

"New York 2012 will need the biggest group." Steve reasoned. "The Space Stone, Mind Stone and Time Stone. So who works best in New York?"

She and Uncle Ben were supposed to be enjoying a day in the city. It was supposed to be a good day.

Ash floated like snow. Unseeing brown eyes staring back at her.

"I'm stuck!" Explosions. "Help!"

"Payton?" Steve had asked.

Payton blinked, leaning back before looking to them. Apparently she had zoned out. "I'm not going to New York. Not on that day."

"Payton-"

"She's not going." Flash defended. "She can go on a different mission."

Steve looked like he wanted to argue.

"That's fine." Nat assured.

"I can transport Scott to the top of the tower just as easy." Harley added.

"So that makes me," Nat began. "Steve, Bruce, Harley, Scott for the New York team."

"And the rabbit and I will go to Asgard." Thor proudly proclaimed.

"Can I go with y'all?" Flash asked, a shy smile on his face.

"Why not." Rocket said shortly. "More the merrier.

"I'll go to Vormir." Nebula said.

"No." Payton argued. "You said the Power Stone was in a temple. You're the best choice to get past any defenses it would have."

Nebula thought for a moment, a glimmer of something Payton couldn't quite identify in her eyes, before nodding.

"And I'll go with you as back up." Rhodey volunteered.

"Guess that leaves us for Vormir." Payton smiled at Clint.

Clint gave her a calculated gaze. "Guess so."

"We leave tomorrow." Steve proclaimed. "So everyone get some rest."

*******

Payton sat on the ceiling as she played against Flash, Harley and Scott in Mario Kart.

"Come on!" Scott whined as he crashed, Flash passing him up to get into second place. "How are y'all so good at this?"

"Raw talent." Flash offered a smug smile growing on his lips.

"Cheat codes." Harley not so discreetly coughed out.

"But your cheat codes aren't good enough for this." Payton hit Flash cart with a shell of her own just before claiming victory. Payton laughed at the boys collective dismay.

"Gonna have to be better than that boys."

"Fine." Scott said putting down his controller. "But can any of y'all do this?" Scott quickly moved his hand, so a card appeared out of seemingly nowhere.

"How'd you do that?" Flash asked in awe.

"Hey!" Payton looked over to see Clint standing by the door, arms crossed staring up at her. "Can we talk?"

"Sure." Payton flipped off the ceiling before jumping over. "What's-"

"In private."

"Sure." Payton nodded as the boys talked card tricks. "Lead the way."

Clint led her to the range.

"So what did you want to talk about?"

"Did you tell Nat about me?" He faced her, his muscles clenching slightly.

"I don't even know how she found you." Payton admitted. "It's weird how fast she found you. Are you sure she didn't have some tracker on you?"

"Nat also said you didn't want to do this at first. What changed?"

"I said no mainly to spite Steve." Payton responded. "He was kinda being a dick. When I cooled off, I got to work on it."

"Is that true?" Clint's face softened. "How?"

Payton raised an eyebrow. "You really want to listen to my science mojo?"

"I mean how was Steve bugging you?"

"Why did you say yes to Steve?" She asked instead, "During the whole Accords thing, why did you say yes to Steve?"

"Steve wasn't asking me to sign a document." Clint said. "He was asking me to help Wanda and fight evil super soldiers. I wasn't choosing Steve over Tony, I was just trying to do what's right. What were you even doing there?"

"Tony said he needed help bringing in Steve. That Steve was threatening to go rouge, and wanted me to web them up so Tony could talk to him."

"Did you know about the Accords issue?"

"Basics. But Tony said I didn't have to worry about it since I wasn't an adult. That he'd take care of me and Aunt May. And he did."

"Was he your father?" Clint asked.

"Biologically? No. But he- He made me feel safe like my uncle had. And like my dad had." Payton looked out into the range. "I have this one memory of my real dad... He was building a blanket fort with me in my room. But while dad was finishing it, I went inside. Apparently one of the walls wasn't up securely. So after I got in, the wall collapsed, and then the rest of it. I, of course, started crying. But Dad just took the blankets off me, and then pulled me into a hug... I'm not even sure if it really happened."

Clint put a hand on her shoulder. "He'd be proud of you. They all would."

She held the hand lightly. "And they're going to give you the biggest hug when they see you again."

Clint's eyes shined slightly. "Right. We watch each other out there. Understand?"

"No man left behind." Payton smiled. "Do you want to join the guys and me for another game?"

"Nah." Clint shook his head. "I was going to go train with Nat."

"You really miss getting beat up, huh?" Payton teased.

Clint laughed, ruffling her hair. "Go on. Get out of here."

Payton smiled before walking out. Laughing when she saw both Harley and Flash struggling to do Scott's card trick.

"Seriously how'd you do it?!"

*******

Payton woke up early the next morning. Johnny hadn't called her back yet. She let out a not so patient sigh as she was sent to voice mail again.

"Hey Johnny. It's me again. We're going through with the plan. Worked out the last of the kinks last night. And I- I'm so excited that you'll finally get to meet Tony. If everything goes right we'll be back in less than five minutes. Long story. I'll explain it to you later. But if something goes wrong, promise me you'll take care of the others. Please. I..." Her throat tightened. "... I'll see you soon."

Payton looked down at her phone. She had to come back. For him. And she had to bring Tony back for Pepper and Morgan. She couldn't fail. She wouldn't. Payton looked up at a knock on the door.

"Come in." She called out as she finished zipping up her uniform.

Harley walked in. "Hey."

"Hey." Payton stood. "Is everyone else ready?"

"Almost." Harley rubbed his hands together as he bounced on his heels slightly. "I can't believe we're actually doing this."

"I know. We're getting him back."

"Do you think he'll be proud of what we've done?"

"Of course." Payton walked up to him, placing a hand on his cheek. "He'd be an idiot to not be. And if he is an idiot, I'll help you fight him."

Harley laughed before wrapping her in a hug. "Promise you'll be safe out there."

"Only if you promise the same."

"Deal." Harley said, kissing her forehead in a brotherly manner before they separated. "Come on. The others will probably start worrying soon."

When they arrived, the others were gathering on the platform.

"Five years ago, we lost." Steve began. "All of us. We lost friends. We lost family. We lost a part of ourselves. Today, we have a chance to take it all back. You know your teams, you know your missions. Get the stones, get them back. One round trip each. No mistakes. No do-overs. Most of us are going somewhere we know. But it doesn't mean we should know what to expect. Be careful. Look out for each other. This is the fight of our lives. And we're gonna win." Steve looked to her. "Whatever it takes. Good luck."

"He's pretty good at that." She heard Rocket say.

"Right?" Scott said excitedly.

"Tractors engaged." Bruce announced as she moved to stand next to Clint.

"You promise to bring that back in one piece right?" Rocket asked Clint as he put the shrunken ship in his pocket.

"Yeah, yeah, I'll do my best." Clint said dismissively.

"As promises go that was pretty lame." Rocket mumbled.

"See you in a minute." Nat excitedly smiled before they all shrunk and travelled through the Quantum Realm.

*******

Flash looked around in awe. Never in a million years did he think he'd get to go to Asgard.

Like the old myths said, golden towers as far as the eye could see. And a bridge that looked like it was made out of light could be seen from the palace windows.

"Keep up, big and ugly." Rocket hissed as they walked through the halls.

"Right, right." Flash said almost skipping to keep up.

You are making us look bad.

"Shut up. No I'm not."

 Yes you are.

"There." Thor said coming to a stop behind a pillar. They could see a maid talking to a woman through the open door. "That's Jane."

"Alright," Rocket said taking charge as he pulled out his extractor device. "Here's the deal, Tubby: You're gonna charm her, junior's going to play look out, and I'm gonna poke her with this and extract the Reality Stone and get gone, lickety split."

"I'll be right back." Thor said, obviously not paying attention. "There's a wine cellar, that's just down there. My father used to have-"

"Thor we don't have time for this." Flash tried gently.

"Aren't you drunk enough already?" Rocket hissed.

They hid behind another pillar hearing a door open. Flash spotted a group of women walking out. The oldest woman in gold and teal clothes was telling the others surrounding her what to do, never pausing as she spoke.

"Who's the fancy broad?" Rocket asked.

"It's my mother." Thor said breathlessly as the door closed behind the girls. "She dies today."

"Oh. That's today?"

"I can't do this." Thor said stepping back as he began to breath heavily. "I can't do this. I shouldn't be here. I shouldn't have come. This was a bad idea."

"Come here." Rocket said waving him over.

"No, no, no. I think I'm having- I'm having a panic attack. I shouldn't be here...this is...this is a bad-"

"Come here. Right here."

"Thor just breathe." Flash said as he stepped closer to the duo. "List five-" Flash cut off as Rocket slapped Thor in the face. "Dude!"

"You think you're the only one who lost people? What do you think we're doing here? I lost the only family I ever had. Quill, Groot, Drax, the chick with the antenna, all gone."

Rocket's voice softened. "Now, I get you miss your Mom. But she's gone. Really gone. And there are plenty of people who are only kinda gone. But you can help them. So is it too much to ask that you brush the crumbs outta your beard, make schmoopy talk to Pretty Pants, and when she's not looking, suck out the Infinity Stone and help me get my family back?"

"Rocket's right." Flash said even as Thor seemed like he was about to bolt. "Look. My mom died when I was young. And I got stuck with a step mom who didn't care and a dad who tried. He was dusted so I felt alone. I'm never going to get my mom back. And I have to live with that for the rest of my life. But I have a chance at getting him back. You can get him back for me."

Thor nodded with a sniffle. "Okay."

"Are you crying?" Rocket asked.

"Leave him be." Flash defended as they turned back to the door.

You're little pep talk didn't work.

"What do you mean?" Flash looked back to see Thor was gone.

Told you.

"Shut up." Flash turned to Rocket as he groaned, grabbing his head. "So Plan B?

"What's Plan B?"

"Improvise."