𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒~ 𝐵.𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑠

FIFTY THREE

"Okay, here we go. Time travel test number one. Scott, fire up the uhhh... the van thing." Bruce says as he Scott, Steve Nat and I were stood in a lab at the compound ready to try it out. Scott opens the portal, "Breakers are set, emergency generators are on standby." Steve informs. "Good. 'Cause if we blow the grid, I don't wanna lose Tiny here in the 1950's." All of us simultaneously give Bruce a panicked look.

"Excuse me?" Scott asks, "He's kidding." Nat tries to assure Scott with a small laugh before she turns to Bruce. "You can't say things like that!" She tells him in a hushed tone, "Just... It was a bad joke." Bruce confirms badly but Scott buys it and moves away.

"You were kidding, right?" Natasha asks him quietly now that Scott wasn't near us, "I have no idea. We're talking about time travel here. Either it's all a joke, or none of it is." Bruce whispers making me insanely worried. "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?" He tells Scott loudly, even giving him a thumbs up. "Perfectly not confusing." Scott nods, "Good luck, Scott. You got this." Steve assures him me nodding, "You're right. I do, Captain America."

Bruce presses a button, and Scott disappears into the Quantum Tunnel. "On the count of three. 3... 2... 1!"
Bruce presses a button, and someone in the Ant-Man suit comes back. A teenager in appears out of it, "Uh, guys? This...this doesn't feel right." The teen says making my eyes widen, "What is this?" Steve asks. "What's going on?" Bruce asks, "That...who is that?" He pushes another couple of buttons, trying to fix the problem. "Hold on." Bruce says panicking.

"Is that Scott?" The teen turns to us wide eyed, "Yes, it's Scott!" Teen Scott gets sucked in back into the quantum tunnel, and it appears to be an old man in the Ant-Man suit. "Ow! My back!" Old Scott now says. "What is this?" Steve asks again. "Can I get a little space here."

"Yeah yeah. Can you bring him back?" Steve asks as we both move, "I'm working on it!" 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." I watch the whole thing speechless, "It's Scott." Bruce tries to shrug it off. "As a baby!" Steve says raising his voice in disbelief. "He'll grow, Rosalie raised one baby she can raise another." Bruce shrugs as I turn to him, "Bruce! Bring Scott back!"

"When I say kill the power, kill the power." Bruce says motioning over to Nat, "Oh my god." She says rapidly walking near to the generator, "And... Kill it!"Nat pulls down a lever, and everything shuts down. Scott, the normal Scott, gets spewed back out again. "Somebody peed my pants." Normal Scott says, "Oh thank god." Nat and I both breathe out relived. "But I don't know if it was "baby" me or "old" me...Or just "me" me."

"Time travel!" Bruce exclaims holding his arms up dramatically Steve says nothing. He simply shakes his head and walks away, "What? I..I see this as an absolute win!"

"You ok?" I ask as I make my way to Scott with a plate full of orange slices I had them ready remembering how he needed them back during the whole airport fight. He nods with a slight wince and smiles gratefully at me as he takes the plate.

• • •

Tony had come to our rescue with an actual solution that would actually work thank god because I knew Bruce wasn't going to get it. Now all that was left was assembling the team.

"Rocket!" Dean yells running over to the racoon who groans, "alright kid you know I like you but I gotta go." He says trying to get free, "Dean let rocket go." I tell the young boy who begrudgingly agrees and decides to go and find Scott. Honestly I think Dean thought Rocket was a teddy which was an easy enough mixup for a four year old.