Avengers: Endgame Page #16

CLINT BARTON:
I'm starting to think– we mean different people here, Natasha.

NATASHA ROMANOFF: For the last five years I've been trying to do one thing: Get to right here. That's all it's been about. Bringing everybody back.

CLINT BARTON:
Oh, don't you get all decent on me now.

NATASHA ROMANOFF: What, you think I wanna do it? I'm trying to save your life, you idiot.

CLINT BARTON:
Yeah, well, I don't want you to, because I– Natasha, you know what I've done. You know what I've become.

NATASHA ROMANOFF: I don't judge people on their worst mistakes.

CLINT BARTON:
Maybe you should.

NATASHA ROMANOFF: You didn't.

CLINT BARTON:
You're a pain in my ass, you know that?

[Both Clint and Natasha lean their heads against each other]

CLINT BARTON:
Okay. You win.

[Clint smiles and knocks Natasha to the ground]

CLINT BARTON:
Tell my family I love them.

[Natasha returns the favor by tackling Clint to the ground]

NATASHA ROMANOFF: You tell them yourself.

[Natasha electrocutes Clint and she runs towards the cliff. Clint gets up and shoots an explosive arrow knocking her down. Clint then runs towards the cliff and jumps. Natasha jumps after him and hooks him up to a grappling hook]

CLINT BARTON:
Damn you!

NATASHA ROMANOFF: Let me go.

CLINT BARTON:
No. Please, no.

NATASHA ROMANOFF: It's okay.

CLINT BARTON:
Please– [Natasha kicks the wall, falls off the rope, and plummets to the ground.] NO!!!

[The shot shows her body on the ground, dead. A boom in the sky sends Clint in a pool of water with the Soul Stone in his hand. He hits the ground out of sadness. His Quantum Suit activates and he shrinks back to the present day, soon joined by the others returning from their journeys. Cut to the Avengers HQ and the Quantum platform everyone looks around to see all the recovered stones.]

BRUCE BANNER:
Did we get them all?

RHODEY:
You telling me this'll actually work?

[There's a pause as everyone starts to realise someone is missing.]

BRUCE BANNER:
Clint, where's Nat?

[The silence from Clint tells them all they need to know. The mission was completed but at a dire cost. Sadness overtakes everyone. Bruce falls to his knees and pounds the floor in grief.]

[Cut to outside HQ. Lakeside, Tony, Steve, Thor, Clint, and Bruce are mourning their fallen teammate and friend.]

TONY STARK:
Do we know if she had family?

STEVE ROGERS:
Yeah. Us.

THOR:
(confused) What?

TONY STARK:
I just asked him a question–

THOR:
Yeah, you're acting like she's dead. Why are we acting like she's dead? We have the stones, right? As long as we have the stones, Cap, we can bring her back, isn't that right? [GROWLING.] So stop this sh*t. We're the Avengers, get it together.

CLINT BARTON:
We can't get her back.

THOR:
Wha– what?

CLINT BARTON:
It can't be undone. It can't.

[Thor dryly laughs.]

THOR:
I'm sorry. No offense, but you're a very earthly being. Okay? We're talking about space magic. And "can't" seems very definitive don't you think?

CLINT BARTON:
(to Thor) Yeah, look, I know that I'm way outside my paygrade here. But she still isn't here, is she?

THOR:
No, that's my point–

CLINT BARTON:
It can't– be undone. Or that's at least what the red floating guy had to say. (shouts) Maybe you wanna go talk to him, okay? GO GRAB YOUR HAMMER, AND YOU GO FLY AND TALK TO HIM!

[Clint's anger is quickly replaced with grief]

CLINT BARTON:
It was supposed to be me. She sacrificed her life for that goddamn stone. She bet her life on it.

[In a burst of anger, Bruce grabs a bench and hurls it clear across the lake. His anger spent, he turns to the others with a resigned look on his face]

BRUCE BANNER:
She's not coming back. We have to make it worth it. We have to.

STEVE ROGERS:
We will.

[Cut to inside the Avenger's Lab. Tony carefully places the stones in the gauntlet he made while Bruce and Rocket watches. With nervous precision, Tony manipulates the machine and carefully places all six stones into the gauntlet]

ROCKET:
Boom!

[Tony and Bruce jump a bit, and quickly groan at Rocket's joke. Scene cuts to another room with the new finished gauntlet. Everyone is gathered around it.]

ROCKET:
All right. The glove's ready. Question is, who's gonna snap their freaking fingers?

THOR:
I'll do it.

TONY Stark:
Excuse me?

THOR:
It's okay.

EVERYONE:
(holding up Thor) No, no, no, whoa. Stop. Stop. Wait a sec. Wait, wait–

STEVE ROGERS:
Thor, just wait. We haven't decided who's gonna put that on yet. THOR: I'm sorry. What, we're just sitting around waiting for the right opportunity?

SCOTT LANG:
We should at least discuss it.

THOR:
No, no, sitting here staring at that thing is not gonna bring everybody back. I'm the strongest Avenger, okay? So this responsibility falls upon me. It's my duty.

TONY STARK:
It's not about that–

THOR:
(hushes everyone up) It's not that– Stop it! Just let me! (he tears up) Just let me do it. Just let me do something good. Something right.

TONY STARK :
Look– It's not just the fact that that glove is channeling enough energy to light up a continent, I'm telling you, you're in no condition.

THOR:
What do you– What do you think is coursing through my veins right now?

RHODEY:
Cheez Whiz?

THOR:
Lightning.

TONY STARK:
Yeah.

BRUCE:
Lightning won't help you, pal. It's gotta be me.

[Thor lets go of Tony. Sorry, Thor. Maybe next time.]

BRUCE BANNER:
You saw what those stones did to Thanos. It almost killed him. None of you could survive.

STEVE ROGERS:
How do we know you will?

BRUCE BANNER:
We don't. But the radiation's mostly gamma. [He takes a good look at the gauntlet] It's like...I was made for this.

[Nebula (2014) sneaks off to the Quantum portal and activates it]

TONY STARK:
Good to go, yeah?

BRUCE BANNER:
Let's do it.

TONY STARK:
You remember– everyone Thanos snapped away five years ago and just bringing them back to now, today. Don't change anything from the last five years.

BRUCE BANNER:
Got it.

[Everyone gets ready and suits up]

TONY STARK:
F.R.I.D.A.Y., do me a favor and activate Barn Door Protocol. Will you?

F.R.I.D.A.Y.:
Yes, boss.

[Avengers facility goes on lockdown]

BRUCE BANNER:
Everybody comes home.

[Bruce puts on the gauntlet, which nanobotically expands to fit his hand, and the power surge overwhelms him. He grunts in pain.]

THOR:
Take it off! Take it off!

STEVE ROGERS:
No, wait. Bruce, are you okay?

TONY STARK:
Talk to me, Banner.

BRUCE BANNER:
I'm okay. I'm okay.

[Thor gives a double thumbs up, scene cuts to Nebula (2014) opening the Quantum Tunnel and brings the Sanctuary II to the present. Bruce screams, fighting through the intense pain coursing through his body courtesy of the gauntlet, and manages to snap his fingers. He faints and the gauntlet slides off his arm, Clint kicks it away.]

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