It's been 5 years. I'm 22. All I've been doing is training, training for something like what just happen. I won't lose anyone again. Not under my dead body. Dad tried to give me the move on talk, it didn't work. He can't say to me "I was trapped under the ice for 65 years and I'm fine" because I did the exact same thing. Bucky is the closest one out of everyone to get me to move on. I can't move on though, I lost my boyfriend right in front of me.
Dad does support groups for people, Tony I think has a family now, Thor is somewhere, Bruce is in a lab, Clint I think is killing people, and Nat, Bucky, Rocket, Nebula, and Carol are helping people around the universe. I still live with dad, I mean I can't really be trusted alone. What I saw that day traumatized me to the point that I can't get it out of my head. Dad and I are going to Nat's tonight to do our laundry.
"I'd offered to make you dinner but you seem pretty miserable already" dad says to Nat when we come in.
"You two here to do your laundry?" Nat says
"And to see a friend." Dad says
"Clearly, your friend is fine." Nat says
"You know, I saw a pod of whales when I was coming over the bridge." Dad says
"In the Hudson?" I say
"There's fewer ships, cleaner water." Dad says
"You know if you're about tell me to look on the bright side, I'm about to hit you in the head with a peanut butter sandwich." Nat says. I throw one of my shirts at him.
"Sorry. Force of habit. You know, I keep telling everybody they should move on and grow. Some do. But not us." Dad says. I start to cry a little, same with Nat
"If I move on, who does this?" Nat says
"Maybe it doesn't need to be done." Dad says
"I used to have nothing. And then I got this. This job. This family. And I was better because of it. And even though they're gone, I'm still trying to be better." Nat says
"I think we all need to get a life" dad says
"You two first" Nat says. I hear Scott on the speaker.
"Oh, hi, hi! Is anyone home? This is uh, Scott Lang. We met a few years ago at the airport in Germany?" Scott says
"Is this a recording?" I say
"It's the front gate." Nat says. I start running to open it for him
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"Scott" dad says when he's pacing around the room. I'm still shocked
"Are you okay?" Dad says
"Yeah. Have either of you guys ever studied quantum physics?" Scott says
"A little over the past 5 years, why?" I say
"All right so, five years ago, right before Thanos. I was in a place called the quantum realm. The quantum realm is like its own microscopic universe. To get in there, you have to be incredibly small. Hope, she's my, um. She was my, she was supposed to pull me out. And then Thanos happened and I got stuck in there." Scott says
"I'm sorry, that must have been a very long five years." Nat says
"But that's just it. It wasn't. For me, it was five hours. The rules of the quantum realm aren't like they are up here. Everything is unpredictable. Is that anybody's sandwich? I'm starving."
"Scott. What are you talking about?" I say
"What I'm saying is time works differently in the quantum realm. The only problem is right now we don't have a way to navigate it. But what if we did? I can't stop thinking about it. What if we could somehow control the chaos and we could navigate it? What if there was a way that we could enter the quantum realm at a certain point in time but then exit the quantum realm at another point in time? Like before Thanos."
"I'm in." I say
"Wait. Are you talking about a time machine?" Dad says
"No, of course not a time machine. It more like a, yeah like a time machine.I know it's crazy. But I can't stop thinking about it. There's gotta be some way, it's crazy." Scott says
"Scott. I get emails from a raccoon so nothing sounds crazy anymore." Nat says
"So, who do we talk to about this?" Scott says
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We're outside of Tony's cabin
"We know what it sounds like." Scott says
"After everything we saw, is it really Impossible?" I say
"Quantum fluctuation messes with the Planck scale which then triggers the Deutsch Proposition. Can we agree on that? In layman's terms, it means you're not coming home." Tony says
"I did" Scott says
"No, you accidentally survived. It's a billion to one cosmic fluke. And now you wanna pull a, what do you call it?" Tony says
"Time heist" I mumble
"What?" Tony says
"A time heist?" Scott says
"Why didn't we think of this before? Oh, because it's laughable. Because it's a pipe dream." Tony says
"The stones are in the past. We could go back, we could get them." Dad says
"We can snap our own fingers. We can bring everybody back." I say
"Or screw it up worse than he already has, right?" Tony says
"I don't believe we would" dad says
"Gotta say it. I sometimes miss that giddy optimism. However, high hopes won't help if there's no logical tangible way for me to safely execute said time heist. I believe the most likely outcome will be our collective demise." Tony says
"Not if we strictly follow the rules of time travel. All right? It means no talking to our past selves, no betting on sporting events." Scott says
"I'm gonna stop you right there, Scott. Are you seriously telling me that your plan to save the universe is based on Back to the Future?" Tony says
"No." Scott says
"Goo you had me worried there. Cause that would be horseshit. That's not how quantum physics work." Tony says
"Tony. We have to take a stand." Nat says
"We did stand. And yet here we are." Tony says
"I know you got a lot on the line. You got a wife, a daughter. But I lost someone very important to me. A lotta people did. And now we have a chance to bring her back, to bring everyone back, and you're telling me that you won't even" Scott says
"That's right, I won't even. I can't" Tony says
"Not even for Peter?" I say. Tony goes silent and his daughter comes out
"Mommy told me to come and save you."
"Good job. I'm saved. I wish you were coming here to ask me something else. Anything else. I'm honestly happy to see you guys, I just. The table's set for six." Tony says
"Tony. I get it. I'm happy for you. I really am. But this is a second chance." Dad says
"I got my second chance right here, Cap. Can't roll the dice on it. If you don't talk Scott, you can stay for lunch." Tony says leaving us on his porch.
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