We Weren't Always Like This

Locutus of The Tribal Conglomerate 

of The People of The Mor-Loxx :

Come a little closer -- I don't bite. 

Do I surprise you? 

The Time Traveller :

A little. Yes.

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

Hmm. We weren't always like this. 

After The Moon fell from The Sky, 

The Earth could no longer sustain the species. 

Some managed to stay above. 

The rest of us escaped underground. 

Then centuries later, 

when we tried to re-emerge 

into The Sun again, we couldn't. 

So we bred ourselves into castes. 

Some to be our eyes and ears. 

Some to be our muscles and sinews. 

The Time Traveller :

You mean, Your Hunters. 

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

Yes. Bred to be predators, 

but bred also to be controlled. 

You see, my caste concentrated on expanding 

our cerebral abilities. 

The Time Traveller :

You control their thoughts. 

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

Not just theirs. 

The Time Traveller :

The Eloi. So it's not enough that 

you hunt them down like animals. 

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

That's their role here. 

The Time Traveller :

To be Your Food? 

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

Yes. And for those who are suitable, 

to be breeding vessels for our other colonies. 

You see, I'm just one of many. 

The Time Traveller :

I don't understand how you can sit there 

and speak so coldly about this --

Have you not considered the Human Cost of... 

of what it is you're doing? 

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

We all pay a price... 

Alexander. 

Don't worry.

You're safe. I control them.

 

Without that control, 

they would exhaust the food supply 

in a matter of months. 

The Time Traveller :

Food Supply? 

They're Human Beings! 

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

Who are you to question 800,000 years of Evolution? 

The Time Traveller :

This is... 

This is a perversion of every Natural Law. 

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

And what is time travel but your pathetic attempt to control The World around you,

your futile effort to have A Question answered? 

Do you think I don't know you, Alexander? 

I can look inside your memories, 

your nightmares, your dreams. 

You're A Man haunted by those two most terrible words : 

"What if....?" 

"Look at you!"

"Daddy!"

"Who's that? 

Is it Daddy?" 

"Daddy!" 

"And we're still having lots of fun -- Right?"

"Right."

"Da-da! Daddy."

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

You built your Time Machine because of Emma's Death. 

If she had lived, it would never have existed. 

So how could you use your machine 

to go back to save her? 

You are the inescapable result of your Tragedy, 

just as I... am the inescapable result... 

of you. 

You have Your Answer -- 

Now go. 

The Time Traveller :

I believe you have something that belongs to me. 

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

We all have our Time Machines, don't we? 

Those that take us back are Memories... 

and those that carry us forward... are Dreams. 

The Time Traveller :

You're forgetting one thing.

Locutus of Mor-Loxx :

Huh? 

The Time Traveller :

"What if..?" 

What are you doing with it? 

The Time Traveller :

Changing The Future. 

Avengers Endgame - Nebula and War Machine - Retrieve The Power Stone

Quill on Morag dancing to "Come And Get Your Love", we then pan over to Rhodey and Nebula hiding in the background watching Quill dance and sing to their perspective without music.

RHODEY: 

So he's An Idiot?

NEBULA: 

Yeah.

Rhodey knocks out Quill and Nebula rummages around to take Quill's tool.

RHODEY: What's that?

NEBULA: The tool of a thief.

[Nebula uses the tool to open the door that leads to The Orb A.K.A The Power Stone. Nebula tries to walk in but is stopped by Rhodey.]

RHODEY: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...This is the part where spikes come out with skeletons on the end and everything...

NEBULA: What are you talking about?

RHODEY: When you break into a place called the temple of the Power Stone, There's gonna be a bunch of booby traps–

[Nebula just shakes her head and walks in.]

RHODEY: Okay. All right. Go ahead.

[Nebula forces her hand inside the force field protecting The Orb while it melts away the exterior plating on her arm. She successfully retrieves The Orb and hands it to Rhodey all the while Rhodey watched the whole thing happened.]

NEBULA: I wasn't always like this.

RHODEY: Me either. But we work with what we got, right?

[They just both look at each other solemnly.]

RHODEY: Sync up. [They both suit up.] Three.. two.. one...

[Rhodey is the only one who disappears while Nebula is left behind unable to move, then she riddled with pain on her head. She falls to the ground.]

[Sanctuary II. 2014 Nebula is being scanned in synch with her future self. A memory is played, coming from future Nebulas head.]

BRUCE (Memory): You murdered trillions!

THANOS (Memory): You should be grateful.

NATASHA (Memory): Where are the stones?

THANOS (Memory): Gone. Reduced to atoms.

BRUCE (Memory): You used them two days ago.

THANOS (Memory): I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me. But the work is done. It always will be. I am inevitable.

[Memory pauses.]

GAMORA (2014): What did you do to them?

THANOS (2014): Nothing. Yet. They're not trying to stop something I'm going to do in our time. They're trying to undo something I've already done in theirs.

GAMORA (2014): The stones...

THANOS (2014): I found them all. I won. Tipped the cosmic scales to balance.

[Thanos (2014) caress Gamora (2014) and she kneels down]

EBONY MAW (2014): This is your future.

THANOS (2014): It's my destiny.

[Maw resumes playing the memory]

NEBULA (Memory): My father is many things. A liar is not one of them.

THANOS (Memory): Ah...Thank you, Daughter. Perhaps I treated you too harshly...

[Thanos gets beheaded in the memory, Gamora (2014) is shocked and stands up]

THANOS (2014): And that, is destiny fulfilled.

EBONY MAW (2014): [Dangerous voice.] 

Sire, your Daughter...

[Maw (2014) telekinetically wraps a chain around Nebula (2014).]

NEBULA (2014): 

No!

EBONY MAW (2014): ...is a traitor.

NEBULA (2014): 

That's not me. It's not. I could never... 

I would never betray you. Never.

[Thanos (2014) releases the chain around Nebula (2014) neck and holds her head in his palm]

THANOS (2014): I know. And you'll have the chance to prove it.

[Thanos (2014) makes sure Nebula cannot travel back to 2023. Nebula is stuck in 2014.]

NEBULA: 

No! He knows! 

[Runs back to the ship and gets on the comms.] Barton? Barton, come in. Romanoff? Come in, we have a problem. Come on! Come in, we have a prob....

Thanos knows. 

Thanos… 

He knows.

Nebula looks up in horror just to be abducted by the Sanctuary II. 

The scene cuts to Steve, who has just defeated himself, 

jumping down from a building with the scepter