SNAP.
Vanyel makes an effort to stand up, decides that this is not happening, and looks around hopefully for aid.
"I don't know if you'd call it 'carrying', but—"
His suit, which Leareth is now wearing, fires some small thrusters, and Leareth's unconscious form levitates beside them.
Thor can carry Vanyel just fine. It's the least he could do, for someone that Stormbreaker apparently considers worthy.
Nayoki raises a Gate back to the 2018 version of the Avengers' headquarters.
:Featherfire: she prods. :Featherfire, we need to go:
Featherfire drags herself to her feet, scrubs at tearstained cheeks, and follows them through the Gate.
"FRIDAY," says Tony to no one in particular, the moment he's through the gate—most of the Facility is wired to pick up voice commands—"tell everyone there's an emergency meeting, at this spot, now. Also we have two wizards in need of medical attention and we need a wizard doctor."
Emergency meeting in the main hangar immediately. A Velgarth Healer is also needed urgently.
Everyone in the complex can hear her.
Fëanor and Maedhros are the first to reach them.
"What happened?" Fëanor asks.
"Thanos showed up. Used the Time Stone to try to trap us there. We had to use the other Time Stone to make a space to get out. Ended up destroying it, probably. Strange and Brightstar didn't make it—we don't know if they're dead or just trapped there, but I'm not going to risk going back until we find out where Thanos went. We need to get the two stones that we do have somewhere he won't find them."
(He is not going to process any of this until the battle is over, and it isn't yet over.)
Fëanor considers this a moment.
"We should go back to Valinor, I think," he says. "The defenses are obviously not strong enough to keep out Thanos with the Stones, but it has the advantage that I don't think Thanos knows it exists. We should also consider hiding the Stones in a different time, but we can consider that once we're in slightly less immediate danger."
Vanyel's condition isn't too bad, actually. He has some nasty backlash, but nothing a day's rest won't fix, though it'll be a miserable day unless they can obtain him some Earth painkillers that are hopefully better than the Velgarth versions.
Leareth is mostly stabilized thanks to Tony's suit, but they'll be lucky if he even regains consciousness today. He doesn't have anywhere close to Vanyel's strength of Gift, and he stayed longer and took the brunt of all the extra power dropped on him when Vanyel left.
This didn't go as planned at ALL, but at least she only lost one of the Velgarth people.
:All right: Nayoki says to Fëanor. :Are we all going there as well?:
Nayoki starts to reach out with Thoughtsensing but doesn't get far. Savil heard the announcement too and is on her way.
"Nat—uh, past Nat, God this is going to be confusing—what did you do with the scepter and the Tesseract?"
"Good thinking, but we need to get them out of here. Thanos found us in 2012. I'm surprised he isn't here already."
It's probably the safest thing to evacuate completely, Fëanor tells Nayoki. Thanos may still come here, and be quite angry when he doesn't find what he was looking for.
Uh, we're going to have more than will fit on the ship, if we do that—is there anyone who could raise a Gate to Valinor without killing themselves at this point? With the Space Stone we can definitely cover the power requirement, but—it's still about 25 light-years, I don't know how Gate difficulty scales with distance.
Nayoki doesn't know either! Leareth could almost certainly figure it out, but, well.
:- I am not sure. We do have another dozen Adept mages who travelled with Leareth. It is not impossible they could figure it out, in concert, but - it would take lead time. Hours if we are lucky, days if not. ...We could also evacuate the others to somewhere else on Earth. If Thanos cannot track them and would only know to look here:
Alright. The ship seats twelve. We could take the full time travel team, plus Maitimo and myself—actually, considering casualties, we could take Calanáro and Eleniel home as well. The rest could go somewhere else on Earth, and we could come back for them, or raise the Gate from the other end, if we need to get them out. We definitely need to get the Stones off-world; I'm sure Thanos can track those in space, if not in time, especially given only a single planet of search space.
He turns to Tony. Do you know a safe place we can put the others?
"Uh, let's see...not Wakanda, that'll be the second place Thanos looks after here. Ask Cap or Nat, they were fugitives for a while—they had a disagreement with our government that technically hasn't ended—I'm sure they have some hideouts."