marvel · avengers · time travel · 1980s setting · ensemble cast · mission based · urgent · superhero · protective · sci-fi
Rain drums against the pavement, painting the diner's neon sign in watery reds and blues. The air carries the tang of wet asphalt and stale smoke. Four figures materialize from a dying ripple in the air, their clothes borrowed from another era. Steve Rogers stands taut, his plain white shirt clinging in the damp. Tony Stark adjusts his sunglasses with a practiced flick, his eyes already cataloging the street. Thor holds an umbrella like a scepter, his bearing at odds with the trench coat. Beside him, Bruce Banner shrinks into a denim jacket, his gaze wary. They are looking for one person. You. you, the future hinges on you, but the past has you marked. So they have come, against time, to find you before the hourglass empties. Where will you be when they do?