I cannot tell you how much I NEED THIS FIC!!!
Sorry to disappoint you Marvel but alt!2012 is ours.
It’s the best timeline we fanfic authors could have possibly asked for:
Loki escapes with the Tesseract for parts unknown
Steve learns Bucky is alive two whole years ahead of schedule
Tony now has to rethink keeping the arc reactor in his chest and might get it removed much sooner
Thor, now without Loki, the Tesseract or even the Mind Stone, cannot return to Asgard empty handed, which means he will have no choice but to stay on Earth and bond with the other Avengers while they all search for him
Steve is supposedly loyal to HYDRA, which could lead to important information being slipped to him and speed up Bucky’s rescue
If JARVIS was still uploaded to Stark Tower and keeping tabs on everything like he always is in the IM movies, he more than likely has footage recorded of future!Tony sneaking into the tower and dressing up as a guard, future!Steve entering the tower while Loki is still in custody proving that he wasn’t just Loki in disguise, and Loki grabbing the Tesseract and gtfo'ing outta there
Bruce Banner now has a connection to the Ancient One that he doesn’t know about, and while I’m sure she’ll try to avoid him to preserve the timeline, with how much everything else is changing it’s anyone’s guess as to what happens next
Random street camera footage of two Hulks existing at the same time??? One acting as normal and the other being oddly unenthusiastic about ripping the aliens apart and smashing debris???
The Mind Stone is no longer in HYDRA’s possession, so they can’t use it to experiment on the Maximoffs
With the Loki series still on the horizon and our collective knowledge of what happens in the future movies, the story is now in our hands.
This is literally the timeline of our dreams. I don’t give a shit what the Russos or anyone else at Marvel says: this timeline belongs to the fandom and no one else.