Dark Paradise*marvel*(Book One)

(enter wong and stephen strange)

"Seriously? You don't have any money?" Strange asks Wong incredulously as they walk down the stairs.

"Attach to material is detachment from the spiritual." Wong shrugs.

Strange stops and turns to look at him, "Yeah, I'll tell that to the guys at the deli! Maybe they'll even make you a mystical ham and rye!" 

Wong digs through the pockets of his robes. "Wait, I have 200!"

"Dollars?"

"No, rupees!"

"Alright, I'll buy. What do you want?"

"I would't say no to a tune melt."

Strange rolls his eyes and goes to walk the rest of the way down the stairs when he catches sight of young female with red hair and the most unique eyes he has ever seen. He quickly whips out his magic shield/weapon. The girl laughs and whips a hand in front of her that seems to break his magic. He stares at the girl in both wonder and confusion. "Who are you?"

Wong steps in front of him and says, "Hecate? Goddess of magic?" in disbelief.

'Hecate' smiles at Wong and says, "Yes and you are Wong, the sorcerer. It's a pleasure to meet you." She steps closer the pair and holds out her hand. 

"It's an honor! I've read and heard many stories about you!" Wong says and immediately shakes her hand. 

Hecate blushes a bit and looks over to Stephen, "Doctor Stephen Strange, I've heard of your work. It's a pleasure. I am Hecate, greek goddess of magic. Or Trivia if you prefer my Roman form."

"It's a pleasure. I used to learn about the gods and goddesses in my History classes. Sadly, never really paid much attention as I was much more into science." Strange says, still slightly confused.

Hecate laughs, "Understandable. Some of us can be a bit-" 

The goddess interrupted as something crashes through the roof and into the stairs. The three magic wielders run over to the crash sight, immediately going into defense mood. 

Hecate softens as she sees a familiar sight and sighs with relief, "Bruce-"

Bruce Banner groans and looks up at the three with wide eyes, "T-thanos is coming. He is coming."

Hecate's eyes go wide, "Oh, shit."

-------------*cue title screen and cut to Pepperony in the park*-------------------------------------------------------------------

Tony Stark walks besides his fiance, Pepper Potts as he rambles about dream he had the night before, "I'm totally not kidding!" 

"You're totally rambling!" Pepper says, rolling her eyes.

"No, I'm not!" Tony argues.

Pepper puts her hands up in defense, "You lost me."

"Look, you know when you're having a dream and you have to pee in the dream?" 

"Yeah, sure." 

"And then you're just like, oh my god, there's no bathroom! What am I going to do?" Tony exclaims, hand flying everywhere.

"And then you wake up and you have to pee?"

"Yes!" Tony exclaims.

"Everybody has that!" Pepper exclaims.

"Right, that's the point I'm trying to make is. Last night, I had a dream that we had a kid." Tony's mind wonders to Peter and Tyler for a split before he continues to say, "It was so real. We named him after your eccentric uncle! What was his name?"

Pepper raises her her eyebrow. "Right."

Tony snaps her fingers once he remembers, "Morgan!"

"So, you woke up and thought we were expecting?"

"Yes?" Tony questions.

"No." Pepper answers

"I had a dream about it! It was so real!" Tony says.

"If you wanted a kid," Pepper says and jabs her finger onto the the arc reactor, "you wouldn't have done that."

"I'm glad you brought this up, 'cause it's nothing. It's just a housing unit for nano particles." Tony explains.

"It's not helping your case." Pepper says, shaking her head. 

"It's an attachment, not a-" 

"You don't need it." Pepper interrupts.

Tony sighs, "I know I had the surgery.  I'm just trying to protect us. The future, as is, and that's it. Just in case there's a monster in the closet. Just letting you know." 

"Shirts. You should have shirts in your closet." 

"Yeah. You know what there should be? No more surprises. We're gonna have a nice dinner tonight. Show off this Harry Winston. Right? And we should have no more surprises. Ever. I should promise you." 

"Yes,"

"I will-"

A reddish/orange colored portal interrupts him and Stephen Strange pops out, " Tony Stark, I'm Doctor Stephen Strange. I need you to come with me." He glances towards Pepper, "Oh, uh, congratulations on the engagement, by the way."

Tony raises an eyebrow at the man and stares at him in confusion, "I'm sorry, are you giving out tickets or something?"

"We need your help. Look, it's not overselling to say that the fate of the universe is at stake." Stephen says.

"WE? Who's we?" 

Bruce and Hecate pop their heads through. 

Tony's eyes widen at the sight of his friend and aunt. "Cate? Bruce?'

"Hey, Tony." Bruce says and steps through to hug him. 

Tony hugs back with major confusion. "What the hell?"

"Hey, Pepper! Congrats on the engagement that I had to hear about through every media outlet before Tony called me." Hecate says with a slight glare at Tony and a smile at Pepper. 

"How many times do I have to say sorry?!" Tony squeaks out. 

Hecate just smiles before just going back through the portal. 

"Damn, I didn't even get a hug." Tony says, slightly disappointed before going through the portal himself.

-------------------------------------------------back to the sanctum----------------------------------------------------------------

"Why didn't I get a-Oof!" Tony starts before Hecate slams into him with a hug, he immediately sinks into the hug. "Must you hug me this hard?" He says, even though he's hugging back just as hard.

"I'm your aunt, I'm allowed to." Is the only response he gets. 

They separate after a moment as they think of what Strange had said. "So, the universe is at stake. Again."

Wong projects an image of the infinity stones, " From the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then, boom! The Big Bang sends six elemental crystals, hurdling across the virgin Universe. These Infinity Stones each control an essential aspect of existence." 

"Not really." Hecate says, cringing a bit.

"What do you mean Not Really?" Wong asks.

Hecate gets up from her spot, "The stones were created by some of the gods. Zeus, Odin, and-" She pauses.

"And?" Tony chokes out, thinking he already knows the answer.

Hecate makes eye contact with him and says, "Me."

"Why didn't any books or legends ever mention this?"

"Because we didn't want anyone to know! We had to keep our part out it. So we changed the story."

"Why?" Strange asks.

"Because we couldn't have anyone trying to trick us into finding any of them. Not even Thor or Loki, Odin's own sons, know about us creating them!" Hecate says, looking at Tony yet again, who flinches at the mention of the villain and his teammate.

"Oh my god." Tony mutters.

Hecate says and walks up to the projection of the stones and points them out, "Space. Reality. Power. Soul. Mind. And Time." Hecate says and eyes Strange's 'necklace'.

"Tel-tell me his name again." Tony stutters out, still thinking about what his aunt just revealed to him.

"Thanos." Bruce answers. "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 was him."

Hecate nods slightly in agreement. 

"What's our timeline?"

"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..." Bruce says.

"He can destroy life on a scale hither to undreamdt of." Strange says. 

"Did you seriously just say that?" Tony asks incredulously.

"Are you seriously leaning on the Cauldron of the Cosmos?" Strange claps back.

Strange's cloak hits Tony's arm off the cauldron.

"I am going to allow that. So, if he needs all six stones, then why don't we just throw that one down the garbage disposal?" Tony asks pointing to the time stone.

"I wouldn't work." Hecate whispers.

"We swore an oath to protect the stone with our lives." Wong says.

"And I swore to lay off dairy-" Tony starts.

"Because you're lactose intolerant and I forced you to!" Hecate says. 

Tony whips around to Hecate, "That is not the point!" He says before turning back around, "But, then Ben and Jerry's named a flavour after me."

" Stark Raving Hazelnuts." Strange said, with a bit off disgust.

Tony makes a offended noise, "It's not bad."

"It's chalky."

" 'A Hunka-Hulka Burning Fudge' is our favorite." Wong says.

"That's a thing?" Bruce asks.

"This is a thing that you guys think we should discussing?" Hecate snaps. 

"Oh, like, how we should have discussed you being a creator of the Infinity Stones?!" Tony snaps back at Hecate.

Hecate flinches and Tony softens, "Look, I'm sorry, Aunt Cate. I just can't believe you didn't tell me."

Hecate puts a hand on Tony's shoulder, "I'm sorry too. I should've told you. If there was anyone I could've trusted with this information, it's you."

Strange interrupts, "Anyway, what was your point?" 

Tony quickly regains his composure, "Right. Um, things change."

"Our oath to protect the Time Stone cannot change. This Stone may be the best chance we have against Thanos." Stephen argues.

"And still conversely, it may also be his best chance against us!" Tony argues back as he steps closer.

"Only if we don't do our jobs!" Strange says and steps closer to him.

"What is your job? Besides making balloon animals?" Tony says.

"Protecting your reality, douche bag!" Strange sees getting in his face.

"Okay guys, can we table this discussion right now? The fact is that we have the stone. We know where it is. Vision is out there somewhere with the Mind Stone, and we have to find him now." Bruce interjects.

Tony steps away from the sorcerer and doesn't make eye contact with his friend, "Yeah, that's the thing." 

"What do you mean?"  

"Two weeks ago, Vision went offline. He turned off his transponder." 

"What, Tony? You lost another bot?"

"I didn't lose him! He's evolved! He's more than that!" 

"Who could find Vision?" Strange asks

Hecate and Tony make eye contact and have a silent conversation, Hecate nods slightly and Tony sighs before turning to Bruce and the Sorcerers.

He feels the phone in his pocket burn as he says, "Probably Steve Rogers." His breath hitches and Hecate looks down to the ground.

 "Okay, then, let's just call him then?" Bruce says.

"I-it's not that easy." Tony says and laughs a bit, "We haven't caught up yet have?"

Bruce shakes his head.

"The Avengers broke up. We're toast." Tony shrugs.

"Broke up? Like a band? Like the Beatles?" Bruce exclaims. (no like my chemical romance, bruce.)

"Cap and I fell out. Hard. We're not on speaking terms." Tony says quietly.

"What he means is, he and Steve got a divorce, because Steve was sneaking Bucky Barnes around, the kids had to choose a parent to live with, and then they had a fight, the rest is history." Hecate says, stepping in for Tony. 

Bruce looks at the two in sympathy before just looking at Tony, "Tony, listen to me. T-thor's g-gone. Thanos is coming. It doesn't matter who you're talking to or not." 

Tony makes eye contact with him and then Hecate, before whipping out the old phone and hovers over the call button for Steve's contact. He's just about to press it when there's a strange whirring noise from outside. He snaps the phone closed and the five run out the door. They look up at a giant wheel in the sky.

Tony looks around  to see different items flying around in the sky. A woman falls right in front of Tony and he bends down to help her, "Are you okay?"

A car then crashes into a pole and Tony turns to the two sorcerors, "Go help them!" 

"I got it! Go!" Bruce says, volunteering himself to do it. 

"Hey, Doc, you might wanna get your time stone thingy working and start using it!" Tony calls out.

Tony turns to the three behind him. Wong and Strange have their 'strange' orange/red magic hands ready and Hecate has her green magic ready. 

--------------------------------------------------------*to the bus*------------------------------------------------------------------

*peep harrison in the background ;)))*

Peter Parker is sitting on the school bus when he feels the hair on his arm literally stand up. His head snaps up and over to his girlfriend, Tyler O'Brien to find her doing the same thing. She snatches her backpack up and jumps over to his seat. They look out of their window to see the spaceship. They exchange a look before they both hit Ned on his shoulder.

"Ned! We need you to cause a distraction!" Peter tells his best friend.

"What-" Ned asks turning around and then seeing the spaceship, "HOLY SHIT!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!" 

Peter and Tyler climb out of their window as everyone else tries to see the spaceship. They both dig through their bag for their suits. Tyler being easy to put on by a push of a button on her wrist. Just a upgrade Cate and Tony gave her.

"Wait, wait!" Tyler says before Peter puts his mask on.

Peter whips his head up, "What's wro-" He tries to say before Tyler kisses him. 

She pulls away and smiles up at him, "Good luck."

He gives a smiles and pecks her lips, "You too." 

And with that they are off to save the world.

Again

---------------------------------------------------*back to where we were*---------------------------------------------------------

"Friday, evacuate everyone south of 43rd street!" Tony says.

"Will do!" The A.I. responds.

The small group stop at the sight of Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf step out. 

Ebony Maw spreads his arms out dramatically, "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..."

"I'm sorry Earth is closed today! You better pack it up and get out!" Tony interrupts.

Ebony Maw ignores Tony and face Strange, "Stone Keeper, Does this chattering animal speak for you?"

"Certainly not, I speak for myself. But he is right. There's no trespassing on this land!" Strange says.

"It means get lost, Squidward!" Tony says.

"Really, Squidward? I was thinking more towards Voldemort." Hecate suggests as she steps forward.

"Hecate, good to see you as always." Ebony says to the goddess.

"Ebony, I would've preferred not to have seen you again, but here we are." Hecate quips.

"You know the asshole, Cate?" Tony asks.

"He's exhausting. Give me the stone!" Ebony says.

Tony turns to Bruce, "You wanna piece?" 

"No, but, when I actually get what I want?" Bruce asks.

"That's my boy."

Bruce then tries to release the Hulk and fails to do so. He groans a bit.

"It's been awhile. Good to have you." Tony says as Bruce repeatedly tries.

"Look, I need to concentrate for a moment." Bruce says and squeezes his eyes shut, "Come on, man." He repats over and over to himself. 

Tony steps forward and places a hand on his shoulder, "Where's our guy?"

"I don't know. We're having a thing." Bruce groans in frustration.

"Yes, there is a thing, And he's right there!" Tony says, pointing to Ebony and Dwarf.

Bruce tries once more and lets out a loud grunt as he fails yet again.

"Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the wizards and my favorite aunt!" Tony says.

"You do that yourself Tony. Everyday!" Hecate cuts in.

"What is this degrade Tony day?" Tony asks.

"Also a thing you do everyday! Speaking of which we will talk about that when this is all over!" Hecate says with a pointed look at Tony.

"Not the point, Cattie!" Tony says. "Alright, stand down, Bruce."

Black Dwarf advances towards them and Tony steps forward his Iron Man suit seeming to come out from his skin.

Bruce's eyes widen in awe, "Where did that come from?"

"Nano-types! You like it?" Iron Man asks before firing repulsor at Dwarf, sending him flying into Ebony. 

“So if your green alter ego doesn’t want to show himself,” Strange says before creating a portal and sending Bruce to the park. 

"You little-" Ebony says before shooting a piece of debris towards the group and Hecate's hands shoot up, and green light surrounding the debris before she pushes forward, sending him back down again.

Ebony cries out and Tony is suddenly sent flying towards the park. He crash lands where Strange has sent Bruce. The doctor shoots up and over towards Tony. 

“Hey, Tony! You okay? How we doing? Good? Bad?” 

“Really good! You planning on helping?” 

“I’m trying! He won’t come out!” Bruce groans.

Black drawf decides that it’s a good to show up to where the two geniuses are. Tony automatically shoots an energy beam towards him. The beam cuts through a tree and the tree collapses towards Bruce.

Bruce climbs out from under the tree. “Come on, Hulk! Come on!” 

Hulk pops out for a moment, just to scream, “No!” 

“What the hell do you mean? No?” Bruce asks. 

Tony continues to fight with Black Dwarf. Dwarf grabs a piece of car to throw at Tony, but the piece is intercepted by a string of webbing. 

“Hey, Mr. Stark! What’s up?” Peter Parker calls from where he was swinging and Tyler was flying with her fire power.

“Kids! Where did you come from?” Tony asks incredulously.

“Field trip.” The teens say in unison. 

Hecate shoves an ear piece that connects to Tony into her ear, “Tony? What’s going on?” 

“Hey, Cate!” The teens say as the piece connects to their suits as well. 

Hecate pauses when she hears the young voices, “You brought the kids in?! What the hell Tony?” 

“I did not!” Tony defends himself. 

“He really didn’t! We jumped off a bus.” Peter jumps to his mentors defense. 

“PETER NOT HELPING!” Tyler shouts as she flies closer to where Hecate is. “Hey, Cate. How are you?” 

Hecate smiles, “Hi, Tyler. I’m okay. How are you? And congrats on how you haven’t killed Peter yet.” 

“I’m great! And thank you! It’s honestly a challenge I have to face everyday." Tyler jokes.

Peter makes an offended noise as Hecate laughs. 

"Tyler, Hecate, this is not the time!" Tony says, even though he is laughing as well.

"Are you really telling me that now is not the time?" Hecate asks, incredulously.

"No?" Tony ask. 

"That's what I thought!" Hecate says as the two teens smile. 

The four's moment is ruined by Black Dwarf coming back and attacking them yet again.

Tyler was thrown into a brick wall and The rest into trees.

”Oh I love how they get an easy landing” Tyler groaned

Hecate laughs while using her magical powers

Peter and Tony were trying to distract Black Dwarf as Tyler and Hecate use a technique they learned together. That was throwing Fire balls and interfering into Hecates green mist.

As they did, what Tyler called, Super Fire Power-up Peter was being tossed around like a rag doll 

“What the hell is this guys problem!?” Peter yells

Hecate did her thing and blocked Black Dwarfs every move. Tyler shot for the eyes, that was something Cate taught her. Peter went for the legs and Tony shot at the guy rapidly.

”Tony I don’t think this is working!” Cate said

”Yeah she’s right Mr. Stark...” Peter followed.

Tyler's eyes light up, "Wait, Cate! Remember when we were fighting that really big guy while we were training? Pete had his legs, I shot at his eyes, and then you-"

Hecate gasped and she lit up with mischief, "I knocked him into the Empty! Oh, Tyler, you're a genius!"

"You're the one who taught me!" Tyler says, smiling at the compliment.

"What's the plan here?" Tony said as he continues to shoot Drawf.

Hecate immediately leaps into commander mode as she tells every ones orders, "Tony lead Dwarf into open spot in the park. Peter and Tyler, go for legs and eyes just like we taught you. I'm going to open a portal that will send to the Empty where he inevitably die. Once open said portal, Tony, you and I will have hit him with nearly everything we've got to make sure he falls." 

As everyone nods and gets to where they need to be, Hecate works on creating the portal. The ground open up, a large circle leading into a pitch black and never ending space. 

"Okay, we got him!" Tyler yells out, covering the Dwarf's eyes completely. 

"Okay, good job kids! Tony, you ready?" Hecate says as her hands are covered in green mist.

"Let's light him up!" Tony yells out as he fires his repulsors. 

Dwarf finally falls into the pit and the four heroes sigh in relief. However their relief is short lived when Ebony Maw flies past them at light speed with a tied down Strange following him. 

"Oh, shit!" Tony and Peter say in unison as they both race after them, Peter going slightly faster than his mentor. 

"Cate, what do we do?" Tyler asks frantically as her incredibly stupid boyfriend climbs up the space craft. 

"Follow him, Tyler! I have to go check on Banner! Keep me up to date! Good luck kids!" Hecate says as split ways. 

Tyler rushes to her boyfriend's aide when she notice he will soon stop breathing, trying to help until she notices the she can't breathe either. 

"FRIDAY! Deploy A-17 and 18." Tony says as he quickly approaches the craft. 

Peter stares down at his new "iron spider" armor with awe, And Tyler with a mask just like Bucky Barnes, thankful for finally being able to breath. 

"Oh my god!" Tyler exclaims in excitement. 

They both hear Tony laugh slightly as says, "Happy trials, kids! Friday send'em home." 

The two yelp as they feel themselves being carried away. "Luckily" for them, they end up sent to what seems like a back entrance. 

"Tony where are Tyler and Peter?" Hecate asks as she finishes checking up on Bruce. 

"Don't worry I sent them home!" Tony answers quietly as he enters the craft. 

"Are you sure?" 

"I don't know!" 

"Tony..." 

"I'm kidding! Of course I did! I don't want my so- i mean, intern and his girlfriend getting hurt."

"Okay, Tony. Just be careful."

"Wait, you're not coming up here?" Tony asks in confusion.

"No. I'm-"

"Where are you going then?" Tony asks.

Hecate sighs and pulls out her phone, her finger hovers over the contact lovingly named 'King of Cats.' "I'm going somewhere I haven't been too in awhile."

Tony falls into more confusion before just saying, "Okay, just be careful, Aunt Cate."

Hecate smiles before saying, "You too, Tony." She disconnects her earpiece and presses call. "Hey, T'Challa."

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bruce Banner walks among the rubble and dust(cries). He finds a familiar looking flip phone lying in the dirt. When he picks it up, he notices a contact under an even more familiar name and quickly presses call.

"Tony?" A hopeful voice says after immediately picking up.

"N-no it's Bruce. Look, Steve, we need your help."

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------