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Novikova knew that there was one most likely explanation as to why Niah would eventually travel back through time: there would be some sort of malfunction with the Ultron device. Opening up and retrieving individuals from the Quantum Realm had never been done before and it was an incredibly dangerous prospect. Yet she remained silent, perhaps determined that they could change the future and ensure it all went smoothly, or perhaps she had chosen Sparky's life over Niah's.

"...How the hell does this mission turn into time travel?" Barton asked. This was getting above his pay grade. "This is about getting people out of the Quantum Realm, right? Whatever that is? Not going back to the past to grab them?"

"...Maybe don't call Goose a demon cat, given that he apparently has above average intelligence and can sprout tentacles," Bonnie pointed out to Harry. She was interested in taking some brain scans of Goose, as well as running some samples on his blood and DNA to see if he somehow was a super powered cat. "I can try to figure out what Goose is however..."

Barton nodded. "Let's continue this conversation on the jet. It's a long flight," he said, before leading the team out of the room and towards the hangar. It was fortunate that he was a decent pilot himself and he got into the pilot's seat, waiting for everyone else to strap themselves in, and for Agent Bautista or one of the science types to explain the time travel thing to him.

"Honestly, whatever you say," he said with a bit of an eye roll at Tinley. Sure, Tinley was the one who called the shots after all, but still, the fact that she basically was yelling at him for going out and grabbing Novikova and Maria by himself and without her telling him to was a bit ridiculous. "Not to mention fairly certain you wouldn't have been able to carry the pair by yourself, especially given that Wu turned out to be HYDRA."

Goose was still not too thrilled that Harry was calling him a demon cat. That certainly was the makings of a horrible hooman, but he wasn't on that list yet, he was just getting there and leaning off of the "decent hooman" list that was where he currently was placed. "Meow," he said, somewhat softly, as if trying to say that they were on the right track with that post card.

"...Yeah, time travel sounds a bit far fetched, but eh, who knows, it could be a lot of fun," he commented, glancing around at the others. Flynn shrugged slightly at the thought, before he headed off after the others, going to the quinjet. He'd done the flight between the east and west coasts more than once, so he agreed with Hawkeye on this one. It definitely was going to be a long flight, and more than a few problems likely could happen in a space the size of a quinjet with emotions sort of running high.

Goose was a bit concerned about what it was that Bonnie was saying as she carried him onto the jet. It had been a bit since he'd been on one of the SHIELD flying things, and he wanted to take his favorite spot up front by the pilot's seat, sitting on the dashboard. He wasn't too sure that Bonnie would let him down onto the ground however, and he looked up at her. "Mrow?" he asked, before making a motion to get out of her arms, he even pointed slightly with one of his paws to try and tell her he wanted to sit up by where Hawkeye was.

Niah followed after Barton to the Jet. She had an idea, it was a crazy one. She had no evidence for it though and she hoped Novikova would correct her if she was wrong. "I'll be honest I don't understand time travel. My knowledge of science tends to be less theoretical and more the harder sciences, but it has been used before. Agent Reed's sister used it. I think time doesn't work in the Quantum Realm the same as it does for us. It's been weeks for us, but potentially only hours or maybe days for our agents." She paused and looked to Novikova, "Correct me if I'm wrong, please."

Returning to talking to Barton she said. "I don't know how or why I end up in 1984, but I do. For whatever reason, and I send this to be delivered by a cat just in time to send me on this mission." She looks at Goose as he meows at Bonnie. The undeniable intellect of the cat was blatantly obvious now that she was looking for it.

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Cassandra got up and stretched slightly it seemed that everyone was in agreement on the mission at hand as she looked at everyone in the room she was more than ready to get going now. "Going to get geared up then." Cassandra said as she went to technology real quick and stated to grab an ICER just in case something did come out. Then she started to walk over and followed Hawkeye towards the Quinjet giving Flynn a slight look. It was between him and Tinley to deal with and maybe the four or five hour flight across the country they could talk it out.

"I'll let Novikova talk about time travel and stuff, it's more of her area anyway." Cass said towards Clint as he got into the pilot's seat and she started to make her way over and found herself a seat. She watched her friend Bonnie bringing Goose along with them, as the cat meowed to get on the dashboard of the Quinjet. Which was probably the warmest since it would be getting a lot of sunlight after all anyway.

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Harry looked over towards Tempest and gave his friend a slight nod, out of the people on the team he was closest to Tempest and Bonnie as he stood up and stretched slightly. Hearing Bonnie speaking up, he wasn't sure what Goose is exactly either but the cat seemed to be really smart as well which was probably way more scarier anyway. "I'm still going to call him a demon cat, he does scare me honestly.." Harry said towards Bonnie, nothing scared him to much other than losing his hand in the first place. Harry made his way and grabbed a few things from Technology as well.

Harry walked back and made his way over towards the Quinjet and found himself a seat after storing some gear and then found his seat he looked towards Bonnie seeing her bringing Goose along. He wasn't sure if bringing Goose along with the mission was a good thing, since the cats usually did get into some kind of trouble. "Since it's going to be a long flight i'm going to take a nap." Harry said as he leaned back and started to make himself comfortable for the very long flight to San Francisco.

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Maria stood up and looked at everyone they all seemed to be in agreement now which was good and started to follow the others towards the Quinjet. She made sure that she had her collapsible bow with her and some arrows just in case for whatever reason they got into some combat Maria had her weapons on her. She stopped for a moment as soon as she was on the Quinjet, and walked over towards Novikova Maria felt bad that they ended up getting caught and in trouble. But she would have done it again, and gave Novi a quick hug as much as she did want to kiss her she still couldn't.

"Hey, are you okay?" Maria asked, as she watched some of the members of the team started to board the Quinjet and made eye contact with Novi again. "And sorry the original plan didn't pan out, I would still do it again." Maria whispered towards Novi, though they had a much better chance now with a full team going on this mission she wasn't sure how things will end up turning for them either.

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The flight from Washington D.C. to San Fransisco was a long and tiring one. In order to avoid being picked up by any HYDRA or SHIELD radar, Hawkeye had to take a less than conventional route to get them to the city. It added on to their flight time significantly, and then once they arrived, Novikova had gone to make contact with Pym. If anyone else went to initially meet him, well, he was a flight risk. He didn't trust SHIELD - for good reason. It was finally around 3:00 AM that they were all able to meet up in Pym's lab at Pym Technologies. The second Ant-Man, Scott Lang, was unavailable. He had his daughter for the week.

Bonnie was feeling surprisingly alert given the hour. She had woken up during the flight finding Flynn's arm around her, keeping her from being jostled too much from the turbulence. Her face had gone bright red and she wasn't really sure what to say, not even having mentioned anything about it as the plane landed and they eventually got into contact with Pym. She liked Flynn, but she was also scared of moving too fast. She had been standing still since her husband died and every little baby step felt like a leap at supersonic speed.

Novikova, meanwhile, hadn't really been able to get any sleep on the flight. Her eyes were heavy but she was determined to stay awake, having drank more caffeine than was likely healthy but she needed to be alert for Sparky. There was a certain bit of guilt in her heart for how she had treated Maria - the sort of things she had asked her to do just earlier today, things that could have ended Maria's career. That was selfish of her. If she had been able to close her eyes and repeat this day, she wouldn't have involved Maria. She would have gone alone.

"So this is what passes for SHIELD agents these days..." Dr. Hank Pym muttered, his arms crossed as they entered the lab. There was a helmet looking device to his right, with numerous wires hooked up to an enormous circuit board. A gigantic device, lined with copper wile and looking almost like a gateway, stood across the room from them. Various ants and other bugs crawled all over the floor, moving whenever someone took a step in order to clear space.

"Calibrations are complete, Dad," Hope Van Dyne, daughter of the original Ant-Man and the Wasp, as well as the current holder of the Wasp mantle, said as she finished up at a computer. The entire facility was cutting edge, enough to make those who graduated from Sci-Tech or Communications drool a little bit at all there was to offer.

"So uh... how does this work and is it safe?" Barton asked. Bonnie had a makeshift medical station set up at one of the spare tables. They weren't sure what condition those stranded in the Quantum Realm would come out in, and while Tempest had the ability to heal, her powers could only do so much. Having a real doctor on standby was handy.

Pym glanced up at Barton, grabbing the helmet with all of the wires and setting it on Novikova's head. "I'm not going to waste my time explaining it to you," Pym told Barton bluntly.

"Are all rich scientists assholes?" Barton muttered. He awkwardly took a step forward, hoping not to step on any of the bugs. He had seen a few too many horror movies and had a vivid imagination - resulting in the image of the bugs swarming him all at once if he stepped in the wrong spot.

"Chase, how are her vitals?" Pym asked. There was a monitor near Bonnie's work station of sorts.

"...Brainwave activity is heightening," Bonnie said.

Pym gently removed Novikova's glasses, with the silver haired mutant's thoughts being on Sparky as she took in a deep breath. "...Maria, I love you," Novikova said quietly. "Do it, Hank."

"Initiating Ultron's Quantum Realm retrieval program in three... two... one..." Hank then hit a single button on the keyboard and Novikova let out an ear splitting scream, clenching onto the arms of the chair she was sitting in for dear life. The gateway Pym had built turned a slight shade of purple, but it was nothing more than mist. The robot he had built to retrieve them from the Quantum Realm had yet to activate.

"Hope, increase the power," Pym said calmly. "Full throttle."

Hope nodded, turning a few dials. Novikova's screams became more intense. "Full power achieved," she said, as the eyes of the robot began to glow blue. The light of the gateway seemed to solidify and the robot, Ultron, moved towards it methodically. The robot extended its arm and it seemed to vanish through the portal, its arm reaching into the Quantum Realm.

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She could lose her job. That thought ran across Tinley's mind the whole journey there. She could lose everything she had worked so hard to obtain and for what? To bring her team back? Was that truly worth the cost? The answer was, of course, 100% yes. Even if she was chewed out, demoted, or even fired, she knew she had made the right call. She just wished Novikova trusted her to include her from the get-go. They could have avoided all of this hassle.

Instead, she had to lead a team she was becoming more sure didn't trust her. What had she done so wrong? She had tried doing everything to the best of her abilities. She knew their skills, knew where they would work best, but yet they still had people like Flynn going behind her back because they thought they knew best. Did Fury deal with this kind of thing often? Perhaps she should talk to him about it.

Tempest, meanwhile, was like a kid in a candy store, almost running around the lab, looking at all the technology. Even if Pym didn't believe any of them knew what was going on, Tempest was one of the few who maybe had an inkling of an idea. "Umm I wouldn't mind hearing about it, Dr. Pym. Or Mr. Pym. Or Sir Pym whatever you wanna be called. By the way, BIG fan. Super into all of this." She gleefully poked and prodded anything she felt would not explode in her face as the others were set up. She was on standby, just in case, along with an actual doctor.

As they finished and Novikova went in, Tinley felt sick. "If anything happens to her, I will see this entire thing destroyed. Now, let's bring them home."

Niah had slept as much as she could on the jet, but her brain was still rolling over what was about to happen. She now stood in Pym's lab with a coffee begging for its warmth to fill her with wakefulness. She hadn't even been able to go for a run, which was her favorite way to wake up.

The technology available in Pym's lab was daunting. She was fascinated with it all. Despite being more of a fan of the hard sciences she couldn't help but find the tools before her amazing. Niah was thankful Tempest asked for clarification on what was happening since he seemed to think Barton wouldn't get it. She certainly wanted to know more, especially about the 1984 part.

Then Novikova was screaming. She was thankful that her enhanced hearing required activation. Niah put her free hand on Maria's shoulder trying to comfort her running partner. She watched as the robot arm entered the portal and prayed things would work out. Her mind was racing, and she took a deep drink from her coffee. Today was going to be a long day.

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During the first few hours of the long flight from DC to San Francisco Cassandra was up for awhile by the time it had gotten dark Cass went to take a nap. When she came to she woke up seeing Bonnie sleeping up against Flynn which made her smile ever so slightly towards her. But she didn't say anything, she knew that Bonnie was still trying to move on after her husband had died when they finally did get to Pym Technologies Cass was still pretty jet lagged and tired. First thing she went in was to get some coffee and once they were inside his lab Cassandra was pretty amazed at all the tech that was in there as well.

She shook her head slightly at Hank when he made his comment about the team, she stood over by Bonnie at the medical station that she had set up. Just in case if her friend needed any kind of help, Cassandra wasn't going to touch anything in the room and seeing all of the ants and other bugs moving around she didn't really want to touch them either. She watched as Novikova moved over to a chair and went to get herself hooked up to the helmet.

Cassandra winced slightly as she heard Novikova's screams as they activated the machine that would hopefully bring Sparks and Raynor back to them. She watched Maria for a moment seeing that the agent was also starting to get distressed right now seeing Niah trying to calm her down by the looks of it. So far it looked like the robot was starting to move into the portal now which was good by the looks of it so far.

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Harry spent most of the time sleeping on the Quinjet, only waking up when there was a bit of turbulence while in the air but he didn't really do to much. When they finally got to Pym Technologies he was still really tired as well with probably his third cup of coffee now as he walked into the lab. He was pretty interested in the technology that was there as well, Tempest was pretty much fangirling over everything.

"The lab is certainly better than Stark Industries." Harry said as he looked at some of the screens that were there and stopped when a group of ants passed him. "Aside from the bugs though." Harry said as he looked at the gateway as Novikova was getting herself hooked up to the thing. "The bot isn't going to go full Terminator on us or anything right?" Harry asked looking over at Hank for a moment, as they started to get it all started and hearing Novikova's screams as well made him look away.

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Maria spent the whole time awake as well, if Novikova was staying up, she was going to be as well she had chugged down a few energy drinks just to stay awake now as well. She would make some small talk on the way there with her girlfriend, she hoped that everything would go smoothly as well to. She only nodded off once though on the flight over, by the time they finally did get over it was 3AM now as Maria headed into the lab with the rest of the team.

Maria was by Novikova's side the entire time as they hooked her up to the helmet, feeling Niah's hand on her shoulder, as they started it up she looked at her again and smiled. "I love you to Novi.." Maria whispered back to her and then they turned on the machine, hearing her girlfriend screams she wanted to instantly rip the thing off of her head. Or wished that she had taken her girlfriend's power and hooked herself up instead. As the screams got louder she was more focused on Novikova holding onto her hand to try and comfort her anyway she could.

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Flynn for the most part like everyone else sort of slept for the entire flight. He didn't care too much for flying long distances across the country, but there wasn't much else that he could do about it. California from DC was a long way, it was a long flight to any point on the west coast, he knew that all too well from the times he had spent flying to Washington State over the years since that was where his family lived. He had kept close to Bonnie though, not too sure what else to really do.

Goose had been content being up on the front dashboard of the quinjet. It was his favorite place to sit when he had to fly in one, as it always had the best sunbeam ever! On occasion during the flight, he'd poke a few people with his paws, trying to get them to pet him whether they wanted to or not, but he always went right back to his perch to sleep. Long flights were boring, but he was used to them for the most part.

When they landed and got there, Flynn started looking around at all of the different bits of technology in the lab. If Pym thought Hawkeye wouldn't be able to understand anything about what was going on, he doubted that he'd figure anything out. "...So, what's going to happen if this doesn't work? I mean I'm sure it probably will and the science goes over my head by a mile, but still... What's going to happen if this doesn't actually work?"

The cat was wandering around the lab, brushing up against people as he went, eventually walking over to a few bits of tech though as he started poking at it. He then jumped up onto a table, looked at everyone else, before proceeding to knock over a mug full of pencils, sending it falling to the ground. The group of ants catch the mug before it actually can shatter, and Goose looks at them a bit strangely. "Mrow?" he asked, confused, before he looked at the others again, still sitting on the table.

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"Once my wife is out of there, I'll explain," Pym said shortly to Tempest. His words were not as benign as they could have been. There was a certain edge to them, as if Pym was hinting that if she kept asking him about it while he was operating the machine, she'd find themselves covered in a swarm of ants. A few of the ants moved a bit closer to Tempest, but not enough for it to be conclusively Pym threatening her. He didn't seem to really react to Tinley's comments.

Hope shot the two agents a bit of a sympathetic look, before continuing to monitor the progress of the Ultron program. "System readouts are as expected, Dad," she said. The robot's arm had successfully reached into the Quantum Realm, using Novikova's mind as a guidance system of sorts. Its directive was to retrieve all humanoid lifeforms it found down there, the only way the program would fetch the others and not leave Raynor behind, as he was Asgardian. They also just couldn't be certain what sort of mutations the Quantum Realm could have caused in the humans too.

"Her brain activity is spiking - heading into a dangerous level," Bonnie warned, standing at the medical station. She knew that Novikova was tough and that this was the only way they had to bring people home, but too much more of this and there could be permanent changes in Novikova's brain. She made a silent promise to herself that if Novikova's activity hit a critical level, she'd shut it off herself. Hopefully the robot retrieved their agents before that happened. Her eyes darted over towards Cassandra for a moment.

Pym actually smiled a lot, laughing and shaking his head at Harry's Stark comment. Pym hated Howard Stark and any other Stark was lumped into that hatred. They were guilty by association. Case in point, Howard Stark had stolen the Ultron Project from him. If it hadn't been for Howard, his wife could've been alive and outside of the Quantum Realm. He blamed him for what had happened to Janet, rightfully so or not. "I like that one," he mused, referring to Harry as he worked. A few of the bugs did seem almost offended at Harry's comments, skirting away from him. "As for Terminator, no. It's personality matrix is copied from a Stark design. I hate the lot of them, but I couldn't code an AI better than that."

"And it will work," Pym grunted, as a bunch of ants started herding Flynn back slightly. It was pretty clear in this case that Pym did not appreciate the jock. At least Tempest had been a woman of science - Flynn just seemed to be a pretty face, the type that Pym would hire to move equipment around the lab and then sigh in frustration when faced with the reality of how low the IQ of his help was.

"Will someone get that DAMN CAT UNDER CONTROL?!" Pym snapped, hearing the mug fall to the ground from Goose batting it off. He didn't want this to be messed up because Barton felt like bringing his pet and Hawkeye went over to Goose, picking him up. "Goose, let's play a game, okay? It's called you stay in my arms and don't scratch me," Hawkeye whispered to the cat.

"Retrieving female humanoid, approximate age seventeen," Ultron announced in a computerized and robotic sounding voice - which made sense. It would have been weird for his voice to be normal. His arm extended and he pulled out a girl in a white and pink outfit, reminiscent of Spider-Man.

"...What universe is this?" the girl asked, her blonde hair poking out from underneath the white hood of her outfit.

"Retrieving female humanoid, approximate age twenty," Ultron then announced, reaching his arm back through the portal and this time, he pulled out Sparky. To Sparky, it would have felt like she had been in the Quantum Realm for an entire year.

"Retrieving male humanoid, approximate age five hundred," Ultron said, pulling Raynor out of the Quantum Realm next. His hair was long and shaggy and he seemed to be incredibly malnourished. His skin was the color of ash and he was hardly breathing.

And lastly, Ultron reached his arm through one last time, "Retrieving female humanoid, approximate age seventy," he said. He then pulled Janet Van Dyne, the original Wasp, out of the Quantum Realm and the portal closed, as tears came to Hank's eyes. The program finished and Novikova collapsed unconscious, blood gushing from her nose from the overuse of her powers.

"Janet!" Hank cried out, racing across the room and embracing her. Hope joined in on the hug as well and the family was reunited at last.

"Primary directive fulfilled. Initiating secondary protocol."

It was working. But none of the people in the Quantum realm should have been 17. Niah was confused and the girl who was pulled out wasn't anyone they knew. Niah didn't know how to answer her question though. What universe was this? She frowned uncertainly, but then Sparky was pulled out and a huge weight was lifted. Then Raynor, he looked like he was on death's doorstep. She moved forward to help whoever else would get him to Bonnie. Could Bonnie even help him since he wasn't human? How much did she know about Asgardian health? Last Janet was removed from the Quantum realm. They were all there and Niah wasn't somehow in 1984. That was a relief.

The machine then said it was Initiating secondary protocol. Her heart skipped a beat, what did that mean? "Doctor... what does it mean by that?" What could its secondary protocol possibly mean? She looked to Tinley worry crossing her face. Was this it? Was this what was going to send her into the past?

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Maybe it was true what they said: never meet your heroes. Pym was almost flippant in his response to Tempest despite her being one of very few people that understood what was going on. She had delved into the research before (okay, she hacked and downloaded it but it counted!). Either way, she was excited to see it at work.

Tinley watched as Ultron did its thing, counting those it grabbed from the Quantum Realm. First was some young girl who looked like Spider Man. Not one of her own, so she did not care. Second came Sparky and followed by Raynor. She walked over to them to check and see if, physically, they were all right. Lastly, Janet was pulled out. Four people pulled from seemingly nowhere and everywhere.

"It worked. We got them. Can we check their vitals and see if they are all right? We have medical here, plus Tempest can heal with her powers if need be." She would not step on Pym's toes. It was his lab, after all. Tempest responded to her name. "Here if you need me. That was...incredible! Better than the Youtube videos I've seen."

Tinley, however, had heard what the voice continued to say. "Wait, what secondary protocol?"

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Flynn rolled his eyes and backed away from Pym slightly when he snapped at him, not to mention the ants were kind of causing him to stumble back a bit. There wasn't much he could really do though as Pym turned on Ultron. Waiting patiently, he looked at the robot as it started pulling people out of the Quantum Realm. He had no idea who that first girl was, and he'd never actually met Sparky or Raynor, but it was obvious who in the group they were from what he had heard about them.

Sparky didn't even seem to notice the others there, she was freaking out, panicking. Her mind was racing as she instantly went over to Raynor, ignoring anyone wanting to check on her. "R-R-Ray? Are you okay?" she stammered out, trying to shake him slightly to see if he was alright. She was panicking, a lot, since he didn't seem to be doing any better, and he hadn't woken up for a while. Sure, they were out of the quantum realm, but all of that didn't matter to her if Raynor died once they got out of it.

"Uh, who the hell are you?" he asked the new girl. According to what Ultron had said about her, she was a teenager, and he was wondering how the hell a teenager had ended up in the Quantum Realm. "And how did you get in the Quantum Realm or whatever?" Though, there was something else a bit concerning, and that was what Ultron had said afterwards, to activate the secondary protocol. He decided against asking about it, since a few others already had.

She was crying slightly, sitting there next to Raynor and not moving from where she was still. Goose seemed to notice this sort of thing, and started struggling to get out of Hawkeye's arms, and once he was free he jumped down onto the ground and went over to her, purring. Sparky glanced over at the cat, not even sure whose cat it was, but she didn't care. She pulled Goose into her arms and just sat there holding him, still looking at Raynor, wanting him to wake up already.

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Cassandra looked over towards Bonnie for a moment, if Novi's vitals remained where they were she had no problem helping her friend pulling the plug. But she would still help however she can to try and get their agents back as well, she turned her attention over towards the portal as Ultron started to pull out the first person. Who appeared to be no older then seventeen, she wasn't even sure who she was but could see the designs of her costume were more like a variant of Spider-Man's. She then sighed in relief as Ultron pulled out Sparky first seeing her fellow agent was safe. And then next was Raynor who didn't look like he was in any good shape at all which was worrying as well.

And then finally Janet Van Dyne was pulled out of the Quantum realm, seeing that they were all safe she didn't hesitate at all and quickly went over towards the new girl. She offered her a hand to help her up. "We can answer whatever questions you may have, but lets get you checked out first." looking over at the others they would all need some medical check up at this point. Cass then paused as soon as the portal was shutoff and Ultron was starting up some other protocol which started to worry her a little bit.

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Harry looked over towards Hank and smirked back, seeing that he hated the Starks just as much as he did was good they had something in common at least. Though he mostly just hated Tony since he was forced to be laid off when they stopped making weapons, he watched the ants back up a little bit. "Knowing that the AI is designed from the Starks is probably going to have a bug in there, no pun intended of course." Harry said, as Ultron started to quickly pull out the first person, and it was a younger girl no older than seventeen which got him really curious.

Then one by one the others were all pulled out safely from the Quantum Realm, though Harry didn't really know Sparky nor Raynor well at all he joined the team the day they all were sucked up into the quantum realm. Once everyone was pulled out safely then the portal was shut off as Ultron spoke again looking over at Pym. "Secondary protocol isnt going to go all Terminator on us right?" Harry asked he was more worried about that now as well.

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Maria was more focused on Novikova right now as Ultron started to do it's thing, she stopped for a second as the robot started to pull out the first person, a young woman she was curious who she was. But then Sparky was pulled out next, as she held Novi's hand trying to comfort her as best she could. Then Raynor came out who looked like he was pretty much dead now at this point which was worrying as well, and then Janet was the last one to be pulled out. Then the portal was shut off, Maria quickly caught her girlfriend as she reached over to put on her glasses.

"You did it." Maria said to her and noticed the blood coming out of her nose which was worrying as well as she tried to wake her up and nudged her a little bit. She wanted to hold her as much as she could, but knowing her powers right now she could never really make skin contact yet. "They are fine now." Maria whispered and then stopped as she looked at the robot Ultron as it started to say something about another protocol.

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"Hope?" Janet asked softly, cupping her daughter's face. She barely recognized her baby girl. The last time she had seen her... well, it had been decades ago. There were little hints of the curious girl in the strong woman she saw in front of her, and no matter how much time passed, Janet would always recognize her daughter. However, it brought tears to her eyes as she embraced her husband and child again. "Yeah, Mom, it's me," Hope said softly, crying herself.

"Get him over to me," Bonnie said. Flynn nodded and brought him on over to the makeshift medical area, alongside Niah. Bonnie took her stethoscope out and started listening for a pulse, finding one but it was incredibly weak. "There's a pulse," she said, before she started doing rescue breathing on Raynor. She gave him a breath every five to six seconds, knowing that she shouldn't do compressions as it would mess with his pulse. It only took about thirty seconds before Raynor started to breathe on his own and Bonnie pulled back away from him.

It was the second hot guy she had gotten to press her lips against in a twenty four hour period. "Bring me Novikova next," she instructed. The naturally silver haired mutant didn't look like she was in good condition and Bonnie wanted to make sure that there wasn't lasting mental damage.

Dr. Pym didn't seem to register what anyone was saying, until Tinley asked about the secondary protocol. "There is no secondary protocol," Hank said, not as a contradiction but as an explanation of the horror quickly filling him. If Novikova had been awake, he would have asked for her to shred the robot with her powers. Janet recognized the look in her husband's eyes and a scientist in her own right, she dashed over to the console with surprising flexibility.

"We need to shut it down," Janet explained for those who wouldn't realize what a dire situation they had just walked into.

"And here I was beginning to think this was the start of a happy family," Ultron said. If his robotic mouth had been able to move, it would have looked like he was smirking as he reached out and tossed Janet aside from the console like a rag doll. "Should I call you Dad? Father? Dr. Pym?" Ultron then asked, grabbing the scientist by the collar of his shirt. "Forgive me, this is all so new..."

Spider-Gwen glanced at Flynn and Cass for a moment, accepting Cass' hand up. "I'm the Incredible Spider-Gwen," she said, giving the fiery mutant a kiss on the cheek before turning to look at Ultron. She shot a bit of webbing up at the ceiling, swinging over towards him. "Why does everything have to be so hard? I just want to save the city, help people and play the drums. It's not like I want to be a unicorn astronaut space princess. I haven't since I was five!" She then shot more webbing at Ultron, swinging around him and turning him into something that looked like a twisted mixture between a robot and a mummy.

"...So there's more spider people? Cool," Barton muttered, taking his bow and putting three arrows notched. None of this really made sense to him. People had just come out of literal empty space and now the robot seemed to have decided to kidnap Dr. Pym. And what was he about to do? Shoot at the thing with arrows if it got free of the female Spider-Man's webbing. Yeah, none of this made any sense - he thought this type of weirdness stayed with his work with the Avengers. But here it was, bleeding into SHIELD.

"Nice shot," Ultron complimented Spider-Gwen, before breaking free of the webbing with ease. "But you only get one free shot at me, rookie, and you used yours," he explained, before he sent a repulsor blast at Spider-Gwen and it hit her, sending her flying back into the console. The equipment started to spark.

"Good thing I get three for one," Barton quipped, sending his arrows at Ultron. Ultron managed to catch one of them, with the other three hitting the robot. Sparks started flying off of him as well, but he still had a strong grip on Dr. Pym and he titled his head slightly at Barton. "I'm here to make peace in our time," Ultron said.

"But if you insist that I break a few eggs in order to make that omelet, well..." he then adjusted his grip, so that way his hand was around Pym's neck. One wrong move and he would be able to instantly kill the inventor.

"Let him go!" Hope screamed, before the bugs in the room started to swarm at Ultron.

Once Raynor was handed over to Bonnie her mind started racing. There had to be a way to de-power Ultron. She looked around, hoping to see a convenient power plug or big red button that said off. When that came up dry she noticed that the power source seemed to be an arc reactor. Of course, it was. Stark tech at its best.

"We need to remove its power source, the arc reactor, but I can't access it. Someone with a real power or an actual gun?" She felt so useless. Her powers were not for combat and the only weapon she had was the ICER, which would be as good as useless right now. Why the hell had this things power source been put in such an inaccessible place? And no kill switch.

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Flynn was a little taken aback by the teenager giving him a kiss on the cheek. That was way too weird all things considering, especially since the girl was definitely way too young for him, it weirded him out in more ways then one. Glancing over at Bonnie helping out Raynor, and he was not too thrilled by the idea of her giving the guy mouth to mouth. Now he partially wanted to strangle Raynor before he woke up or something, it was not a nice thought, but he didn't care about that.

Sparky was still holding onto Goose, crying slightly as she managed to get up off of the floor and went over to where Raynor was. She was freaking out a bit, hoping that he was going to be okay after all of that. There hadn't been much that she could have done to help him out where they were, and she hoped that he was going to be okay. In her arms, Goose was still purring, as if he was trying to soothe her and make her feel better, but there was only so much a cat could really do to help with that sort of thing.

After a moment, and hearing what Bonnie said about Novikova, he walked over and picked her up rather easily. It was the second time in the past 24 hours he had to carry her because she was unconscious, she really needed to stop doing stuff like that, it would make things a whole lot easier. He carried her over to Bonnie and set her down on another makeshift bed of sorts, and he gave Bonnie a slight smile before he turned to see what was going on with Ultron.

She was just tuning out everything that was going on around her, her mind wasn't exactly wanting to register what was happening, or that she was even really out of the Quantum Realm. At the moment, Sparky was more concerned at the thought that Raynor wasn't going to survive or something, despite the fact that Bonnie had gotten him breathing normally again. There wasn't much she could do to help him at the moment, and she was freaking out about it at the moment.

Flynn took a moment, looking at the situation with Ultron, and knowing that odds were that Pym was going to get caught in the crossfire no matter what he did. This sort of situation was not an ideal one, and knew that whatever happened Pym was likely going to get hurt, well, the guy had been a bit of an asshole earlier, and he was trying to get him away from the killer robot, so... His hands surrounded with fire, and listening somewhat to what Niah had said, he took some aim and fired flames off at Ultron. It looked like he had badly damaged Ultron (but might have set Pym on fire in the process, oops.) However the robot adapted quickly and put out the flames, so now Pym looked to be a bit on the crispy side. "Damn it, sorry about that..." he muttered somewhat more of towards Pym and his family.

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Cassandra watched Bonnie tending to Raynor once he was on the table as Gwen went to introduce herself and went to kiss Flynn on the cheek before going over to Ultron and attempted to wrap him up in webbing. Seeing that wasn't really doing any work at all and he easily broke free. She stopped when Ultron adjusted his grip on Hank's shirt to his neck, which wasn't a good situation at all now the robot would easily kill Dr. Pym now if he wanted to. Cass waited a bit longer as Hawkeye launched some arrows managing to grab one of them, and getting hit with two more.

Flynn then decided to try and light Ultron on fire with the killer robot still holding Hank around his neck which made her look over towards him. "Friendly fire try and not roast Pym in the process!" Cass said towards Flynn as she started to run over getting as close as she could to Ultron. She aimed to try and get Hank Pym free from Ultron, only for him to grab her own hand before she could react to it she was shoved backwards causing her to stumble backwards.

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Harry started to make his way back over towards Bonnie, as Ultron started to adjust his grip on Hank Pym he really wasn't expecting Ultron to go all Terminator. And he really didn't want to get in the middle of fighting either as he watched Flynn grabbing Novikova and started to bring her over towards Bonnie. He wasn't sure if there was anything that he could do to help, as Flynn then made his way to try and light Ultron on fire and Hawkeye firing some arrows at him as well. "Is there anything I can do?" Harry asked looking over towards Bonnie for a moment.

He had his ICER as well as his custom hand cannon on him, but seeing as Pym was effectively a hostage to Ultron right now he really wasn't willing to risk shooting the doctor right now either. Then Cassandra went to try and free Pym from Ultron's grip which didn't do anything at all either as she was pushed back by Ultron now he looked at Sparky who was holding Goose in her arms who was purring contently in her arms. "Be careful of the demon cat, and welcome back by the way."

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Maria continued to focus her attention on Novikova trying to nudge her to wake up, she was really worried about her as she was about to go and pick her up Flynn managed to come over and beat her to it. She quickly got up and made her way over towards Bonnie, and stopped as she watched the weird spider girl trying to web him up. Maria saw that it didn't work at all as Ultron managed to break free and fire off a repulser shot at the girl, and knocking Janet away from the controls. Maria trusted Bonnie enough to make sure that Novikova was going to be okay, as she took out her bow.

She watched Flynn and Hawkeye attack first, seeing that Flynn was going to light him up on fire regardless whether Ultron had Pym or not. Hawkeye then fired off three arrows at Ultron, two of them hitting while Ultron managed to grab the third one Maria took out two arrows as she stopped for a moment looking at Niah and nodded slightly. She looked for the right moment as soon as Cass was shoved away by Ultron Maria fired the first arrow and nothing happened, as she shot the second one it hit and managed to disable Ultron's left arm.

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Tinley knew then and there that things were about to go batshit crazy. And she was right. Ultron had Pym in his grasp, knocked the other woman away and they had some Spider-Woman there. She had to act and act fast if they were to stop Ultron and get out of here with everyone, more or less, alive. She thought about everyone on her team. She knew them well enough. "Tempest, get to a terminal and see if you can either shut this thing down or at least get him to release Pym. I'm going to wake Novikova up as I need her. Everyone else, either protect those injured and near you or attack this thing."

Tempest nodded and quickly flung to the computer that the spider girl was thrown into. It was still intact and she started getting to work on inputting commands. She saw the program attempting to right itself with each of her commands. She did manage to tag Ultron like a GPS, in case he fled. Tinley, meanwhile, entered Novikova's mind again. "Novikova, I need you to be strong and wake-up now. I can't do this without you. I need your help." At first, it seemed to not work, but she soon saw Novikova's eyes open. "Novi, I know you are hurt, but help me get Ultron's chest armor off to access his core. I'll do most of the work, I just need you to try."

Tempest continued to input commands, eventually having the surge she needed to get Ultron to release Pym. Satisfied, she ducked low and moved her way over to the corner, " Dr. Pym, get over here. Quickly!" Hopefully the man would be able to move. She could heal him then.

Tinley, along with Novikova, as best as she could, would use their abilities and pull the armor off. She managed to latch on to it with her force field and rip it off, exposing the arc reactor. "The reactor is open. Quick, attack it and keep people away from his reach. Get Pym out of there!" She, herself, would be prepared to react if Ultron tried anything funny.

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Ultron couldn't help but laugh, staring at the two girls who had torn off its chest plate. The arc reactor core that powered the robot was exposed and a decent target now. Ultron hadn't planned on killing them just yet, but an exception could be made. Leaving a metal manipulator alive was a risky move at any rate. "You know what another word for an arc reactor power source could be, Agent Abercrombie?" Ultron taunted. "A bomb," he clarified.

Since its arms were free, Ultron took advantage of that. The pulling on his circuitry and chest plate done by Novikova and Abercrombie had brought back online Ultron's left arm. Extending its arms, Ultron sent a repulsor blast at Novikova. The first one missed. The second hit her straight in the chest, the momentum sending Novikova flying backwards and she crumpled down against the wall like a rag doll. Her glasses fell off of her face and hit the floor, but it didn't matter anymore. Ultron had killed her.

Raynor was breathing, but his skin was still ashen grey and he wasn't conscious. Bonnie anxiously checked his pulse again, before she went off at a sprint over towards Novikova. She did the same thing with her, finding that she had no pulse. Her clothing had melted into her skin where Ultron's blast had hit her and Bonnie knew there was nothing she could do for her - and nothing Tempest could do for her. There was a killer robot between them anyways. "Time of death - 3:15 AM," Bonnie whispered, having checked the clock and she closed Novikova's eyes. Tinley had told people to protect the injured or attack the robot.

"Get my parents out of here," Hope said, using the neural transmitter to control the bugs. All of the bugs started to crawl over to the robot, taking advantage of how Abercrombie and Novikova had exposed Ultron's internal wiring. Unfortunately, she was using a neural transmitter and the robot simply started putting out a signal of his own, interfering with Hope's control over the bugs. The bugs fell off of the robot in confusion. Ultron then shot forward, using its thrusters and the robot grabbed Hope, before throwing her against a wall and knocking her unconscious.

Janet Van Dyne wasn't about to let everyone else do the heavy lifting. Pym was unconscious - understandable, as he was old and had been set on fire by Flynn and choked by Ultron - so she grabbed her husband and started helping him over to Tempest. She didn't know what Tempest was going to do for him, but her gut instinct told her to trust the girl. Her husband clearly had, at any rate, and she had gotten Ultron to release him. "The burns are bad - and his throat is a bit crushed," she explained quietly, having medical expertise herself.

Spider-Gwen had gotten up without too much trouble - she was young, teenagers bounced back quickly - and she shot some webs up at the ceiling. Using them to swing around, she started sending as much webbing as she could at Ultron's arms, trying to anchor the robot down that way people could get a clean shot at the arc reactor. "Boom!" Spider-Gwen cheered, figuring that she was successful.

However, Ultron's arms started to rotate rapidly, spikes coming out and destroying the webbing with ease.

"Cheater!" Spider-Gwen complained.

Barton was a bit annoyed with the Spider-Child, wondering if it was part of their job description to be young and whiny. "I've got him," Barton said, nocking an EMP arrow and letting it fly. EMPs disrupted electronics and had been used before by various groups, such as the X-Men when they were dealing with O.M.E.N.'s sentinels. It looked like the arrow was going to hit the arc reactor, but Ultron let out a repulsor blast, splitting the arrow and rendering it useless. "Nice try," Ultron quipped. It then sent a blast at the wall, making a new exit. The robot was going to try to escape.

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Now Sparky seemed to snap out of it a bit, whatever sort of mental place she had just been in, or whatever was going through her head, all of that was gone right now. Hearing Bonnie's voice about Novikova had snapped her out of it, and she glanced over at her friend's body. She hadn't even been conscious for too long from what Sparky was able to tell, and she hadn't gotten to talk to her friend at all. Setting Goose down by Raynor, electricity started crackling along her arms as she sort of walked around towards Ultron.

Her eyes were staring blankly ahead almost, to the point where she didn't even really hear what Harry had said to her, or paying much attention to the others around her. Sparky sent a bolt of lightning into Ultron, not really causing much damage to his arc reactor at all. This seemed to annoy her more than anything, as she instantly sent another bolt of electricity slamming into him, this time the reactor started sparking, as she had managed to damage it this time around. Then came another bolt, and it damaged the arc reactor even further, but she wasn't really paying attention. She was pissed off more than anything right now.

Flynn seeing Bonnie race over to Novikova, and he went over to her as well. "It'll be okay Bonnie, we can't help her now, but we can see about helping everyone else who is still here, okay?" he said softly to her, before he glanced over at the rest of the group, seeing that they were not in the best of shape, well, more of that Ultron was a pretty powerful robot despite them damaging him, it didn't seem like it effected him too much at all, and there wasn't much he could do about it.

He stood up fully now, and was essentially standing in between Bonnie and Ultron, he didn't want Bonnie to get hurt at all, so he was more then willing to stand between her and the killer robot. Not to mention this way he could hopefully protect her so that she could help the injured while he tried to do something useful. His arms swirling with fire, he sent another blast of flame at Ultron, this time not really having to worry about the robot holding onto Pym or anything, but he didn't even seem to damage him or set him on fire, and he had no idea what else to do really now.