"So that's how Natasha, Gamora, and I were all resurrected. The difference is that Gamora stayed in another parallel universe..."
Tony was surrounded by a group of Avengers, rapidly explaining the reason for their rebirth. Seeing that the anger in everyone's eyes had not diminished, he tried to shift their attention again.
The method was to sacrifice a teammate so everyone could revel in someone else's misfortune.
"Guys, the snap in the previous world wasn't done by 'me,' but the me from this world really did die. Do you know what that means?"
"It means that when we traveled through the timeline to collect the Stones, we were actually traveling through parallel universes?"
Ant-Man Scott frowned deeply. If that was true, his theory would be riddled with holes. Their success in retrieving all six Stones had been nothing but absurdly good luck.
"No, I mean Star-Lord got cuckolded by his parallel-universe self."
Tony shrugged. "Gamora stayed in that world. If she got back together with Star-Lord, then the Star-Lord of this world would be... Wait, it seemed Star-Lord also cuckolded Gamora, so that made them even... Huh, no. The Star-Lord in that world had two Gamoras. Not only did he cuckold Gamora, he also cuckolded his parallel-universe self. He was the real winner in life."
"Then how can you be sure this is your universe and not another parallel universe?"
Scott thought the endless cuckolding story was great and the gossip was delicious, but the question that needed to be faced still had to be faced.
"That is indeed possible."
Tony nodded, then swept his gaze across the crowd. "Everyone, it's time for me to say goodbye and set off for the next world."
"Tony, stay!"
"Mr. Stark, we can't do without you."
"Yeah, don't go..."
After a long silence,