The Destiny War (Unofficial)

This is the first in a series of three movies meant as a capstone to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It involves time travel, which should be introduced in a prior installment in the cosmic movies, Limbo, which functions as a membrane connecting all possible realities and paradox, a phenomenon created when the main timeline diverges and which can be wielded with the Forever Heart to change the prime timeline permanently.

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Avengers Forever Pt 1

Destiny War

Prologue
On a planet outside our solar system peopled by Yondu’s race, a small group of terrorists are returning to their hideout with their stolen goods, a weapons cache they intend to use to start a resistance against the government. Suddenly, they freeze in mid step and sentence. As the POV widens, we see that the entire planet has been frozen in mid-whatever they were doing. An army of soldiers wielding weapons and equipment inspired by the Avengers destroys a large portion of the planet. A figure, concealed in shadow, sitting upon a floating throne and powerful enough to control time with a gesture comes upon the last surviving resistance fighter.

Figure: You have been punished for your rebellion. 1/3 of your infrastructure and population has been liquefied. It will take generations to recover. I charge you with remembering why this was done. I charge you with the burden of telling your people what happens when you cross The Avengers.

Act 1

New avengers segment. Dr. Strange freezes a group of criminals in the act of stealing weapons from an abandoned Hammer factory. It is eerily reminiscent of events in the prologue as Avengers drop out of the sky to stop the frozen terrorists.

Captain Marvel: This is what happens when you cross The Avengers!

During the fight, Coulson and the Agents of SHIELD, working secretly in support on the operation, get their cover blown and The Avengers reunite with Phil.

Back at his home, Coulson is attacked by Immortus and defended by Kang. New avengers are frozen in time as Coulson seems to remain mobile, in reality, Libra is extending limbo into our dimension to collect Phil for Kang. He reveals the importance of Phil’s role in human development and how being a pivotal part of the time stream grants him an intuitive ability to use the Paradox in Limbo to achieve desired results. Libra encourages Phil to summon allies and uses his mastery of Limbo to manipulate who Phil chooses.

IMMORTUS: A thinking villain. Very proper and doesn’t consider his actions villainous. He believes he is operating in humanity’s best interest. Wields temporal powers and has access to all of history to summon allies. He compels obedience with his technology.

KANG: Full of rage and cunning, Kang is a warrior born into a time of great peace. He used a time machine to go to Ancient Egypt where he was worshipped as a God. After an encounter with the Avengers, he is inspired to become a true Conqueror of all time. He uses advanced weaponry and defenses. He also has armies of loyal followers from his adventures in the time stream. His soldiers are loyal and die for his glory willingly.

TEMPOS: A reluctant slave of Immortus with the power to reconstitute himself from any injury.

The Forever Avengers

PHIL COULSON, the McGuffin

YELLOW JACKET aka Darren Cross (from the ant man movie time period after he betrayed Pym and developed his own super suit. Wasp knows what he did but ant man doesn't).

CAPTAIN AMERICA aka Steve Rogers. This is Cap from his lowest point. (can sub in an original avenger besides Cap if Chris Evans isn't available. Second choice is Ed Norton as Hulk. That guy deserves another bite at the apple and he can play an older, crueler Hulk like Maestro or that weird Hulk, Kluh from axis)

HAWKEYE aka Clint Barton (can be recast as younger Hawkeye pre-avengers)

WASP aka Hope Van Dyne (From the future where she is an Avenger)

HANK PYM, Ant-Man from the past. Fresh faced, nerdy and wearing the first iteration of the ant man suit. Fascinated with the weirdness around him and distracted by any new phenomenon the avengers discover. Also a good exposition receptacle as he predates all other characters and is extremely curious.

CAPTAIN MARVEL aka Carol Danvers. Carol’s from the future, knows more about The Destiny War than she lets on and appears in the post-credits sequence as the Red Skull’s hostage and the revelation that Loki and Skull are working together.

THE PUNISHER aka Frank Castle. An Avenger from the future, inspired by them to fight crime even though he has no powers. He kills with futuristic weapons and causes friction in the group between the more violent Avengers and the old-school heroes. He believes that Yellow Jacket is from his time period and has reformed.

As they appear, they are in mid-sentence, motion or state of injury from the moment which they are plucked. Yellow Jacket appears from a fight in Ant-Man. Captain America falls to the ground and is in critical condition from Winter Soldier, if that is his lowest point at the time of production. Wasp and Yellow Jacket are about to brawl when Pym shows up and asks why they are wearing his tech he just invented. New Avengers present when Libra (Red Skull yet to be revealed, features hidden in his hood) sends Coulson's consciousness into the time stream blur then unfreeze as themselves from a different era as they are recruited. Like Captain Marvel from the future.

The Forever Avengers appear in Limbo and are shortly under attack by Tempos (Frost Giant serving Immortus and cannot be permanently killed, he keeps reforming) who tracked them into limbo at his master’s behest. Before Tempos ambushes them, they verify Libra’s story with a disguised Limbo Loki.

LIBRA: Alexander Lukin is a part of the Zodiac, a criminal group themed around celestial bodies, at some point in the future. His body was destroyed and his consciousness existed on in Limbo permanently, only able to observe the myriad of realities connected through Limbo. He embraces balance above all else and was more or less reformed by the time he became aware of the looming Destiny War that threatened all things in balance. Spurred to action after years of observing, he searched Limbo for a body with which to return to the prime reality. He found Red Skull and attempted to take over his body. Schmidt proved too strong and rejected Lukin, leaving him weakened and unable to communicate with others. As a result of the attempted mind jacking, Red Skull now has Libra’s mastery of Limbo and the Balance and escapes Limbo and puts himself in a position to gain from the Destiny War. 

LOKI: He's always in the void since he fell off the rainbow bridge, when he escapes it just creates a duplicate Loki, leaving the original trapped. This explains the weird inconsistencies: it was a different Loki in the end credits of Thor than the original, who is forever trapped in limbo. Another copy is pulled out by Thanos to invade earth on his behalf and after he dies on the Dark World, a third iteration escapes and takes over Asgard.

Loki: Some of us break out occasionally, many of us are recruited by entities with access to Limbo who need a capable leader they can control. We always regret leaving. It’s a mixed blessing that I, the true Loki, cannot leave. Sometimes, the shadows that get out are caged again and I absorb their memories. I care not to have them. They are me, but they are not me. It is quite disconcerting.

Libra leads them deeper into limbo where Tempos cannot follow.

Libra explains that Phil’s prominent role in the Avengers origins and the storied history of the heroes throughout humanity’s destiny has the potential for greatness and tragedy at a scale that will affect the rest of creation more than any other event in history/present or future.

Since Phil’s resurrection has been revealed, Phil has become a source of Paradox, a power that can be controlled and manipulated with the Forever Heart (A device built by Kang, but never used) to change time, something that is usually impossible. Changing events in the past only creates a new divergence from the main timeline, which remains intact regardless.

Immortus, at the Time Keepers’ behest, will attempt to change time and eliminate that power. Immortus believes that Phil’s ancestors or perhaps even Phil himself will someday become a despot, leading an army of Avengers who conquer the known Galaxy and destroy more intelligent life than any other force in existence. The Time Keepers believe that this future will be a threat to their own well-being. Kang is fighting his future self, Immortus, in an attempt to preserve free choice and the future that he believes is humanity’s destiny. To become rulers of all creation, with him as the ultimate supreme authority among humanity.

The forever avengers decide to confront Kang and Immortus head on and go to Chronopolos where the battle over Phil has continued unabated. Chronopolos is destroyed, Kang is left for dead. Immortus claims the Forever Heart, draining the Paradox out of Coulson to power it, which grants the holder the ability to wield Paradox to change and create new prime realities. The Forever Avengers escape in the Time Sphinx, Kang’s first time machine that he used to travel back to Ancient Egypt where he became a God King.

Libra takes his leave at this time. Ant-Man and the other scientist heroes are able to use the equipment to find locations where Immortus has used the device and split into three teams to investigate. They must stop Immortus’ agents (Loki) from disrupting past events or the world the Avengers know will cease to exist.

Act 2

The Forever Avengers travel to Iron Man (2008), Thor (2010) and Captain America (2011)

In Iron Man, the focus point is the first arc reactor which is the basis for all the technology of the future Avengers’ army in the prologue. Loki intends to stop Coulson from saving Pepper so Stark will become bitter, hell-bent on revenge and such a brutal drunk that he dies, penniless in the streets when his last working arc reactor malfunctions after a short and brilliant five year career as The Warmachine. We see that possible future in a short cameo by Stark, playing the older version of himself who doesn't actually lose his fortune, he just gets mugged while binge drinking and they crack the reactor. Instead of trying to save himself, he kept drinking while the power leaked away.

Yellow Jacket, Hawkeye and Wasp go, faces no one would recognize or even question unless they get in the same room as their past double.

The Captains go to Thor, again, no recognition.
In Thor, Loki is trying to undo Thor’s bargain with Phil which led to him joining the Avengers. Instead, Jasper Sitwell has Thor labeled an enemy and arrests Jane Foster. When Thor returns. He is a wrathful God. He destroys the prison holding Jane and comes into battle with Stark in his Warmachine persona.

Coulson, Pym and Castle take Captain America: The First Avenger. Phil gets to meet Steve Rogers briefly before he is transformed and is humbled by how heroic Steve is before he became a superhero.
This is the stringer segment as the movie spans all of Cap’s war career. So between the other segments, we cut to Phil and his team serving with the Howling Commandos on the fringes of the frames. Phil saves Cap from Loki after the plane wrecks and lovingly lays him to rest in the arctic. Loki intended to murder Steve on the aircraft and prevent his miraculous resurrection in the modern era that heralded the beginning of the Avengers’ legacy.

Act 3
After averting disaster, it is revealed that Coulson is Kang and Immortus’ prime self, that Coulson is destined to be lost in time, be trapped in Ancient Egypt, and eventually return as Kang to lead the Avengers army of the future.

It is decided that Phil must not be resurrected, but his shadow work in Agents of SHIELD must still go unchanged. They develop a complex plot where a future LMD from Kang’s armory is reprogrammed with Phil’s current memories up to the moment he died. Kang, Phil and Immortus are physically identical. This LMD, and only Nick Fury would know, would be fooled into believing he is Phil Coulson resurrected until his cover is blown, then a program would activate and the LMD would reveal itself.

Coulson: C’mon guys! We have a time machine, we have multiple generations of Earth’s mightiest, we have every piece of technology in seventy centuries of time, and what? Three genius scientists? THREE! We can make this work. C’mon! Somebody?

Pym: He’s right. We’re forgetting one ingredient. With access to Limbo, we can traverse space instantly. We can literally be anywhere, any time in creation. This is a riddle. This is a thought experiment. We need… a white board.

The Destiny War

The Avengers have a huge battle in the confusion of 2012's invasion with hundreds of Lokis all trying to stop the Forever Avengers from altering the time stream further. The battle rages across the entire marvel cinematic universe (and on the TV shows, but that isn't part of the theatrical release, except maybe at special screenings.) and Limbo and Chronopolos. During the battle, Alexander Lukin gains some control over Red Skull’s body and reveals his duplicitous nature. He further explains when one of the Avengers seek out his Limbo shadow, which the Skull severely weakened when he won the contest of wills and took his ability to travel between Limbo and the next world:

Nothing is what it seems and in fact Phil does not need to die. He is the ancestor of Kang and Immortus, not their original self. But another descendent of Phil is one of the future Guardians of the Galaxy who lead the resistance against Kang’s avengers. Humanity has the potential for both great good and evil.

LIBRA: Balance demands we allow humanity to choose its own destiny.

The Forever Avengers and every super hero available to do two weeks of FX work gather to attack the Time Masters, Immortus' puppet masters and the true architects of the darker future which better suits their needs. In truth, with Coulson as their moral compass, the Avengers never falter and always know what the common man would do in the worst and best circumstances. They trust him and he represents the best and worst of humanity. He's done dark things for the greater good, but he's always known which direction the light shines.

In the post credit sequence, the future captain marvel is being held by Red Skull and he reveals that he and Loki have used the Destiny War to gain the ability to truly escape limbo and get revenge. Behind them in the shadows are every villain ever in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Captain Marvel: You think you can control this… madness? You think yourself a “master” of these animals and strange forces, but they will consume you Schmidt. Again.

Red Skull: What an appropriate choice of words, Liebchen. We truly are “masters,” my dear, Masters of Evil.