The Next Avengers: The Legend(MCU)

Brace yourselves for this, guys. You've been warned.

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PREVIOUSLY

***Compound, Hangar***

"-three...two...one!"

Bruce pressed the button and the machine sucked all of the team into the Quantum Realm.

"Okay, preparing for reentry." Foster spoke up. "Scott, start the stopwatch and Betty, alert us when it reaches ten, please."

Following the instructions, Scott pushed 'START' on his stopwatch and he and Betty watched and waited until it reached ten.

Meanwhile, Bruce and Bill finished preparing for the return of the young ones.

"Ready?"

"Good to go." Bruce replied, "Scott, Betty, waiting on your signal."

Betty nodded before she and Scott counted it out. "Seven...eight...nine...ten!"

Once "ten" was said, Bruce and Bill went for it and pushed their controls, opening the way for the team to return. And within seconds, they all came through.

The helmets came down and everyone took breaths as they got their footing.

"You guys good?" Harley asked.

"All good!" Torunn replied breathlessly, giving a thumbs up.

Scott had run up onto the platform to his kids and hugged them tight out of relief that they were alright. And they were. In fact, they all were.

"Did we actually do it?" Riri asked excitedly, "Did we actually pull this off?"

"I think so!" PJ said, laughing with glee.

By the looks of it, the team had acquired the stones and made it back safe and sound...

Or so they thought.

The relief began to slip away when Bruce noticed that, one: the team that was supposed to go to Vormir seemed greatly troubled. And two: they were one person short. To be more specific...Nikki was missing!

Soon, the others noticed too.

"Guys, where's Nikki?" Maddie asked the Vormir team. No reply came. "Frankie?"

But still nothing. Nothing but silence and looks of sorrow and regret.

Now Jamie seemed to worry. "Frankie....where's Nikki? Where's my sister?!"

But Frankie was completely speechless and pain was written all over his face. Kate knelt down as he fell to the floor in anguish and hugged him with tears of her own coming down.

"Sam?" Peter called to the space hero.

But Sam stayed silent as he took off his helmet and revealed a face of pain and regret as he let his helmet drop to the floor.

This brought up worry and curiosity in everyone in the room, multiple questions as well. Like what happened to everyone when they left? Why was Frankie so distraught? And what happened to Nikki?

But it soon came to them as they remembered the worry of Vormir. A sacrifice was needed... Nikki. Nikki must've been the one.

"No... No! NO, NOOO!!!" Jamie cried out, shaking his head as tears swiftly began to form. "No! Tell me it isn't true! TELL ME IT'S NOT TRUE, DAMMIT!!!"