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The irritable Rocket Raccoon looked around at the Avengers, who were either doing their own work or staring into space.
His face was full of frustration at their failure to get their act together.
But how could a little raccoon show that kind of frustration?
Rocket Raccoon walked up to each of them, drawing their attention to himself.
Future Tony sighed. "So what can we do?
Go beg Kamar-Taj to stop worrying about their own universe and save ours instead?
Or protest in the streets because this planet doesn't care about freedom and human rights in another world?"
Rocket Raccoon darted over to Future Tony. "What I mean is, even if we can't borrow the Infinity Stones directly from this world, we should at least figure out our next step, right?
Could we ask them to lend us equipment so we can keep researching Py... ter particles?
Those particles, anyway. Or see if they have some way to help us bring everyone else back."
Rocket Raccoon walked back to the middle of the group. "You can't just stay here and laze around every day, can you?"
In truth, they hadn't been lazing around. They had only been here for a day.
It was just that they had lost their companions and found a way to bring them back, only for that method to require someone else's consent.
That feeling made every day seem like a year.
Future Steve stopped running and addressed the group. "You might not understand why we're so discouraged, let alone feel what we're feeling."
He turned his gaze toward Rhodey, Nebula, Scott, and the others.
"Yeah." Future Tony sighed and picked up where he left off. "The four of us reached Blue Star first. None of you were on Blue Star, so we were