The Demigod From Asgard - A Steve Rogers x Reader Story

Chapter 84: The EPR Paradox

Warnings: Language! Angst! Alcoholism! Grief! Thor's POV?

It was only a few days later when Bruce said he had worked this whole time travel thing out, or at least he said he did. So they decided to test it, Scott volunteering to be the test dummy since he had quantum realm experience.

Steve had already dropped JJ off at school and was in the hanger of the Avenger's compound making sure that if it went wrong the entire state of New York wouldn't loose power.

"Okay, here we go, time travel test number one!" Bruce announces "Scott fire up the uh, van thing"

"breakers are set," Steve says as he walks back over to the group "emergency generators are on standby"

"good because if we blow the grid, I don't wanna lose uh Tiny here in the 1950s," Bruce says gesturing over to Scott with his thumb.

"Excuse me?" Scott says looking up from his helmet that he was fiddling with.

"he's kidding" Nat chuckles reassuring Scott "you can't say things like that," she tells Bruce.

"it-it was a- a bad joke" Bruce stammers, Steve and Nat exchanging a glance when they heard the hesitancy in his voice.

"you were kidding right?" Nat asks quietly once Scott had walked away.

"I have no idea! We're talking about time travel here, either it's all a joke or not of it is" Bruce points out "we're good" he says loudly to Scott giving him a thumbs up "get you're helmet on"

"Scott I'm gonna send you back a week, let you walk around for an hour the bring you back in 10 seconds, make sense?" Bruce asks turning to Scott.

Scott waves his hand dismissively "perfectly not confusing" he states.

"good luck Scott, you got this" Steve says giving him a nod of reassurance.

Scott gives him a proud smile back "you're right, I do Captain America" he says before disappearing into the van.

Steve waits with bated breath as Bruce counts down ready to pull Scott back. The machine whirs and someone appears out of it, but it wasn't Scott, it was a ten-year-old boy.

"uh guys?" the boy says looking down at his arms "this doesn't feel right"

"what is this?" Steve mutters in shock.

"what is going on?" Bruce says at the same time, worry in his voice.

"who is that!" Nat exclaims in confusion "is that Scott?"

"yes its Scott!" Boy Scott exclaims before being sucked back into the machine.

"what's going on Bruce?" Steve asks moving to get a better look just as an old man appears out of the van.

"oh, my back!" old man Scott complains.

"hold on a second," Bruce says getting more worried by the second "can I get a little space here?" he asks looking at Steve.

"yeah, yeah, yeah, can you bring him back?" Steve asks moving away from the controls to stand by Nat, this really wasn't going to plan.

"I'm working on it" Bruce promises, pressing multiple buttons and hitting the controls, sending the old man back into the machine.

The next version to appear was a baby, both Steve and Nat looking at it in shock, this was going very wrong fast.

"it's a baby" Steve states in disbelief.

"its Scott" Bruce points out.

"As a baby!" Steve argues getting agitated now.

"he'll grow!" Bruce reasons.