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The End of the World starts like this. A single blow striking a little too hard, A punch not pulled back enough, and a man lying on the freezing floor, crying of a broken heart. Three things, the cold winter’s chill, a malfunctioning suit of armour and a broken heart, each of them would not be enough to kill a man with a heart made not of iron but of gold and bright blue phoenix fire. But all of them at once could.
So deep in Siberia, on the floor of a winter soldier facility, right next to a famous vibranium shield, Tony Stark dies.
Tony Stark dies in Siberia so no one brings back that patriotic shield back to America. So Captain America, not the person mind, the idea, dies with him. As the man known as Steve Rodgers will never pick it up again. Nor will anybody else as the famous shield ends up lost for the rest of time.
Tony Stark dies in Siberia so no one mentors one Peter Parker. Without Stark’s support with training, tech and subtle financial help, Peter ends up dying trying to stop some muggers in New York City. So Spiderman dies with Tony Stark
Tony Stark dies in Siberia so no one fixes James Rhodes’ legs, no one can help him learn to walk or fly or make the suits accessible to him. So War Machine Dies with Tony Stark.
Tony Stark dies in Siberia so Pepper Potts, still CEO of Stark industries, shuts down funding to the Avengers. After all Tony didn’t bring any new members in like Peter Parker, and the old members don’t really hang around without Tony there. So the Avengers dies with Tony Stark.
Tony Stark dies and no one is watching the stars for visitors. No one is watching to notice Thanos’s invading Army until it arrives.
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The End of The World goes like this. You’re Steve Rogers. You were born in 1918 and your best friend is Bucky Barnes. Now you stand at the front of an army from the hyper-advanced but also sort of secret African country of Wakanda ready to fend off an invading alien army in the year 2017. This is just your life now. But you have Bucky at your side again and you know up that somewhere out there Tony Stark, Ironman, is getting readying his own robot army or whatever to defend your planet and maybe you’ll meet up with Banner and Thor like last time (It’s still weird that this isn’t even your first alien invasion) and things will be fine again. Maybe scrap though by the skin of their teeth but still. Your confident, you have to be. Maybe this time, you can take Tony up on that offer to all live like some weird superpowered family in the Stark tower. The world might be going to shit, and might look and be totally different from everything you have come to know but Bucky is alive, Tony is alive and that’s all that matters. Once Tony calls, you two start mending those bridges. You might have to apologise to him but that’s ok. He will understand. Things are bleak but Hope is still alive.
You finally call the cell you send to Tony Stark’s home, He isn’t the one who answers.
It’s Rhodey who tells you.
He’s the one who says to you “Tony Stark is dead.”
And that’s how the end of the world starts for you.