I enter the Avengers compound, heading for the lab area, finding Bruce fiddling with buttons on a panel. Scott is in his Ant-Man costume in front of his van, with the back open to show the Quantum Tunnel. They smile at me as I walk over.
"Okay, here we go." Bruce says, "Time travel test number one. Scott, fire up the uhhh... the van thing."
Scott opens the portal. Steve walks over.
"Breakers are set, emergency generators are on standby," Steve says.
Nat joins Steve and me as we walk over to Bruce and Scott.
"Good." Bruce replies, "'Cause if we blow the grid, I don't wanna lose Tiny here in the 1950s." Scott, Nat, Cap, and I give Bruce a panicked look.
"Excuse me?" Scott says.
"He's kidding." Natasha tells him then in a hushed tone to Bruce, "You can't say things like that!"
"Just... It was a bad joke." Bruce says, stammering.
"You were kidding, right?" Natasha asks him.
"I have no idea. We're talking about time travel here. Either it's all a joke, or none of it is." Bruce tells her in a whisper then loudly while giving Scott a thumbs up: "We're good! Get your helmet on, Scott. I'm gonna send you back a week, let you walk around for an hour, then bring you back in 10 seconds. Makes sense?"
"Perfectly not confusing," Scott says.
I snort, and Nat shoots me a look, and I just smirk.
"Good luck, Scott." Steve says to him, "You got this."
"You're right." Scott says confidently, "I do, Captain America."
Bruce presses a button, and Scott disappears into the Quantum Tunnel.
"On the count of three." Bruce says, "3... 2... 1!"
Bruce presses a button, and someone in the Ant-Man suit comes back. A teenager appears out of it.
"Uh, guys?" the teen asks, "This... this doesn't feel right."
"What is this?" Steve asks.
"What's going on?" Bruce questions.
"That... who is that?" Natasha asks.
I tilt my head, "What the hell?"
Bruce pushes another couple of buttons, trying to fix the problem.
"Hold on," Bruce says, panicking.
"Is that Scott?" Natasha asks.
"Yes, it's Scott!" Teen Scott says.
Teen Scott gets sucked back into the quantum tunnel, and it appears to be an old man in the Ant-Man suit.
"Ow! My back!" the old man says.
"What is this?" Steve asks.
"What the fuck?" I ask, confused.
"Can I get a little space here?" Bruce asks.
"Yeah yeah." Steve says, "Can you bring him back?" Steve moves over by me, out of Bruce's way.
"I'm working on it!" Bruce says tapping the side of the button pad, trying to pull back Scott.
After a moment, another person appears in front of us. This time, it's a baby in the Ant-Man suit.
"It's a baby," Steve says.
"Way to state the obvious there, Stevie," I say and he glares at me.
"It's Scott," Bruce says.
"As a baby!" Steve exclaims.
"He'll grow," Bruce replies.
I bust up laughing, earning annoyed looks from Nat and Steve. "Oh, come on that was a funny comment, I might be 28 but I can still have fun and be amused by this shit"
They shake their heads, unamused.
"Bring Scott back!" Steve tells Bruce.
"When I say kill the power, kill the power," Bruce says motioning to Nat.
"Oh my god," Nat says rapidly, walk near to the generator.
"And... Kill it!" Bruce says.
Nat pulls down a lever, and everything shuts down. Scott, the normal Scott, gets spewed back out again.
"Somebody peed my pants," Scott says.
I snort at that.
"Oh thank god," Natasha says.
"But I don't know if it was, "baby" me or, "old" me... Or just "me" me."
Bruce holds up his hands in a dramatic way, "Time travel!" he exclaims.
Steve says nothing. He simply shakes his head and walks away.
"What? I.. I see this as an absolute win!" Bruce says.
I shake my head and follow after Steve.
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Battle Scars (A Bucky Barnes Fanfic)
Fiksi Penggemar"We both bare battle scars from what we've been through, physically and mentally but the point of battle scars, is that they show we fought and came out stronger than before" Nineteen-year-old Vega Stark is the daughter of Tony Stark, otherwise know...
