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The clock struck three in Pym's lab, located at Pym Technologies in San Fransisco. For some of those gathered there, everything was brand new - they had never seen the helmet looking device to Pym's right, with numerous wires hooked up to an enormous circuit board. They knew very little of the gigantic device, lined with copper wile and looking almost like a gateway across the room. Maybe they were shocked by the various ants and other bugs crawled all over the floor, moving whenever someone took a step in order to clear space - or maybe they were just disgusted.

Others would notice the little differences - changes from their meddling with the timeline. Scott Lang, the current Ant-Man, stood by the Quantum Tunnel, looking eager as he finally got to put his engineering degree to use and he helped to get things set up. Hope van Dyne, the current Wasp, was busy at work calibrating all of the machines and equipment. Everything was right - it was cosmic, written in the stars that if they were to rescue her mother and the stranded agents, it would have to be within the next few hours or the probability fields would go out of alignment. The red-pink synthezoid was lifeless on the slab, a hole in his forehead awaiting his power source - a mini arc reactor stolen from Stark Industries by Agent Novikova.

"Dr. Bautista... Huh," Pym chuckled, recognizing the time traveler in the room. "If this doesn't free Janet, I'm going to kill you for not telling me what would happen to her."

"Calibrations are complete, Dad," Hope interrupted, while Scott flashed a thumbs up to Dr. Pym.

Barton was watching silently from the distance, his arms crossed. He claimed that he could observe things better that way, when he had a bit of space separating him and his targets. Of course, Dr. Pym and the other scientists in the room had more or less asked him to back off. There were so many expensive pieces of equipment in this room, it was enough to make anyone from Sci-Tech swoon and keel over in absolute happiness and joy.

"Dr. Chase, how are her vitals?" Pym then asked. Bonnie had lowered the helmet onto Novikova's head, standing by with a variety of medical tools at her disposal. She was essentially the go-to person in the room when it came to keeping people alive and she had some experience when it came to working with the enhanced.

"...Brainwave activity is heightening," Bonnie murmured. "We're not in the danger zone, however, so I believe you can proceed." The blonde scientist then gently removed Novikova's glasses, in order to allow her natural abilities to kick in and help guide the Vision through the Quantum Realm.

"...Maria, no matter what happens... I love you," Novikova whispered.

"Initiating Vision's Quantum Realm retrieval program in three... two... one..." Hank screwed in the arc reactor into the Vision's forehead and then pressed the return button on his keyboard. The synthezoid started to spark, its limbs twitching slightly as Novikova began to scream. Her body instantly began to convulse as she started to have a seizure.

"She's seizing!" Bonnie announced. The gateway was sparking as well, but the portal had failed to open yet.

"Hope, increase the power," Pym instructed, a bit of worry in his voice. "Full throttle."

"We're at full power," Hope confirmed as Novikova's screams finally hit a plateau, but her pain did not. Every fiber of her being felt like it was imploding and exploding at once, a million little supernovas throughout her body. The Quantum Tunnel roared to life, a gigantic yellow glow emanating from it as the Vision opened his eyes and rose.

"... This is strange," the Vision stated, before gliding over to the portal. The synthezoid reached inside and began the extraction process. As he pulled his arm back out of the tunnel, he was holding a teenage girl with blonde hair, dressed in a white and blue and pink outfit reminiscent of Spider-Man.

"...What universe is this?"

The Vision repeated the process three more times, retrieving Agent Sparks. He then pulled out Agent Raynor and the Asgardian looked like he had an acute case of scurvy. His skin was the color of ash and he was covered in sweat, hardly drawing breath. "He requires urgent medical attention," Vision explained, before pulling out an older woman with long, elegant white hair.

"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. Novikova's screams ceased as she passed out from the pain, the Quantum Tunnel powering down yet the Vision remained active, observing the scene around him with interest.

He had, after all, just been born.

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Roman had been stationed at the Triskelion following the tragedy of his team and the HYDRA mole. It was incredibly early in the morning, the sun having scarcely risen, but he had been called here for a debriefing on the entire situation. It had been scheduled to happen at five in the morning, but with the entire fiasco of Director Fury being fired and the appointment of Maria Hill as Acting Director, things were more chaotic than normal at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s base of operations.

Eventually, a woman with short curly red hair, dressed in a black leather suit came up to him. Her eyes were striking - intense and almost divine, yet similarly calculating. "Agent Carter?" the Black Widow asked, giving him a slight smile. "I'm Agent Romanoff - I'm here to debrief you on what happened yesterday." She then motioned for him to follow her, leading him down the hallway and through a series of doors until they reached an interrogation room. "Please, sit," she added, sitting down at one of the seats across the table. There was a box of Dunkin Donuts with a variety of choices and two cups of coffee as well. "S.H.I.E.L.D. thanks you for your service - but we need to understand exactly what happened... Can you start at the beginning?"

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Cassandra remained close by with her friend Bonnie, she knew a lot about technology but when it came to Quantum Physics and the like she didn't know any of it. She watched as Agent Novikova was hooked up to the device that would hopefully bring their fellow agents home now, looking over towards Bonnie and gently gave her friend a pat on the shoulder. She could assist her friend if something did happen as she looked at the vitals. She remained pretty quiet for the most part having flown from the East Coast to West Coast, and at three in the morning also was pretty draining. "Just let me know what you need me to do Bonnie." Cassandra said to her best friend.

Once Hank gave the go ahead to start the retrieval, Cass tensed up a little bit as she heard Novikova's screams as the android Vision started up. He then started to pull out a young girl first, wearing something akin to a Spider-Man costume. Then out came Sparks, and Raynor who looked like he was on death's door right now, which she quickly rushed over towards him and picked up Raynor to take him over towards the little medical area Bonnie had set up.

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Maria stood right by Novikova and gently held onto her hand giving her girlfriend a smile for a moment, and leaned down and gave her a loving kiss. "I'll love you no matter what." Maria said to her girlfriend as Hank started to lower the helmet thing down over her head, she didn't leave her side. Her gloved hand held onto Novikova's tightly as she looked around the room, Hank Pym's people were tending to the machine and getting it started up. While everyone else in the room was kind of spread out, but she turned her attention back over towards Novikova.

Once the machine started up Maria held onto Novikova's hand tightly she wished that she could have taken her powers instead and switched places with her so that she wouldn't be in this amount of pain. As Novikova started to convulse from the amount of pain as the Quantum Tunnel activated and Vision as well. One by one Vision started to pull out everyone from the Quantum Realm, and once everyone was out and the Quantum Tunnel shutdown Maria quickly pulled off the helmet off of her forehead. "Novi wake up please?" Maria said softly as she reached over and held onto Novi tightly.

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Harry remained in a corner in the room while looking over at all of the technology that was in the room which did amaze him quiet a bit, wondering what they all were meant to do. Though he wasn't much of a fan for the ants that were in the room, Hawkeye was on the other side of the room while Bonnie and Cass were both in the little medical area set up. While the two lovers were together as well, he leaned himself up against the wall to watch everything unfolding.

Then they started things up, hearing Novikova screaming as the Quantum Tunnel was activated and then one by one Vision started pulling their people out of the Quantum Realm. He went over towards the young looking girl wearing the Spider-Man suit, and helped her back up to her feet and looked at her for a moment. "Whats the last thing you remember?" Harry asked her, while looking at Vision as he started to look around the room. "He isn't going to start going all Terminator and connecting to Skynet or something right?" Harry asked looking over at Pym.

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Tinley watched as Novikovz got geared up for her mission into the Quantum Realm. A lot rode on this and she was not about to admit she had a knot in her stomach. She knew no one else was anywhere near prepared enough to make this trek. Even with Pym and the other brainiacs monitoring, and the use of Vision, didn't settle her nerves. Before Novikova went in, she walked over to her. "You got this. I know you can do it." She let her and Maria have their moment before it commenced.

Tempest meanwhile was having a field day with all the tech around her. She had landed in Pym's good graces with her knowledge and felt happy to be aiding the team in monitoring their success. She checked the consoles when fired up. "All looks clear here." Once they were in, she kept an eye out on their readings.

Tinley watched the portal, muttering under her breath. Anyone within earshot would hear her mutter, "Come on, you got this..." over and over. Was it more for their benefit or hers. She didn't know. At this point, she figured something would go wrong. Soon though, they came through. Tinley ran up to check. First on Novikova, but slowly the others as well. Raynor. Sparky. They were back. She let out the sigh she had been holding in since they first entered. She would have chewed both of them out for even going there in the first place, but she also still felt incredibly guilty. She wouldn't blame them if they were pissed off at her too. This was out of her wheelhouse though.

Tempest reacted quickly, running up to them. "Dr. Renoir here. Anyone got aches? Pains? Migraines? And not just from me talking? Let's get everyone to a chair or something and I can do a once over for anything." There was another person though. One she did not expect. A girl, obviously, and she had no idea where she was. "Ok get them all somewhere and I'll begin healing. Need to do it quickly though. They've been through a lot."

The man knew why he had been summoned here, at this early hour in the morning. However, it was not something that he overly looked forward to handling. He had never particularly enjoyed debriefs, and with the topic of this next debrief he knew full well that he would be dealing with sensitive topics at hand. As he saw the woman approaching him, Roman's eyes went wide. He immediately knew who the beautiful woman before him was, and also knew that typically when she was involved in wasn't exactly a good thing. He was going to die today, he thought with a dark humor as he followed along silently.

Whenever she began to speak, Roman's face clearly displayed a flash of anger. Sitting across from her, he shook his head in response to the woman. "Do not thank me for my service. I killed the woman I loved and failed to save the rest of my team. By no merit does that mean I have done any service worth thanking." He shot back quickly, as it became increasingly clear that Roman directly blamed himself for the tragedy. Without much of waiting for a response, he began to explain the circumstances that led to his team's deaths. Starting from the moment HYDRA was discovered within Shield, and ending with the death of the mole. Hopefully, that would be enough for Shield.

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Flynn blinked, looking around at the room around them, seeing who all was there. No, there was no way that things had really been reset so quickly. How? What the hell even really happened with that whole thing? Everything was so confusing, especially considering the fact that instead of Ultron being the one who was there pulling people out of the Quantum Realm, it was Vision. Had that been what Niah had been doing? Why the hell did she race off like that and do everything by herself?

"...Anyone else getting a slight sense of deja vu here?" Flynn muttered, not really talking to anyone in particular. This whole thing was beyond strange, and now they were here, back where everything started and everything went horribly wrong. Not to mention... Bonnie was alive again. Problem was, as of right now, they didn't have any sort of relationship here, and he knew better then to push something like that. If it happened, it would happen, if not he was content with the idea that she was alive and well.

Sparky, on the other hand, wasn't in really the best place mentally really when it came to how everything was when it came to getting out of the Quantum Realm. She hadn't expected really to be pulled out of the Quantum Realm, or really being able to get out of the Quantum Realm anytime soon. However the next thing she knew, she was being pulled out of the Quantum Realm along with Raynor, Janet, and some other girl that she didn't really recognize. One thing was clear though, Raynor hadn't been in the best shape before they were pulled out.

"Ray?" Sparky said instantly, going over to him and ignoring everyone else in the room. "Ray? Can you hear me?" she said a bit louder, a worried expression on her face as tears started coming to her eyes. She was freaking out, afraid that she was going to lose him after everything that had happened to them. "Please wake up, say something to me Ray..." Sparky added softly, essentially ignoring what Tempest had said. She was more or less tunnel visioning on Raynor, concerned that he wasn't going to be okay, and she was afraid at the moment.

The world shifted and Niah was back in 2020. Her hand went to her neck reaching for a necklace that wasn't there. She prayed that it wasn't there for the right reason. She took a deep breath and nodded at Pym. "Sorry for snapping, and fair." Niah said softly to him. She didn't actually know if it would work this time. Unlike the rest of the team, she watched the machine as it reached into the quantum realm. Niah was ready to tear it apart if she needed to. Her heart tightened.

Gwen was out first, just like she had been last time. "I don't know which universe it is sorry. But we have a spiderman here." Then the others were being pulled out. Flynn asked if any others were having deja vu, and she only gave him a small nod in response. Her jaw tightened looking at him and anger boiled in her stomach. Niah turned away from him and looked at every person in the room that had died. Tears welled in her eyes. They had another chance at least.

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Bonnie had to make a split second decision. Tempest's powers would be needed extensively here and of the two critical patients, neither of them could afford to wait. She understood more the issues with Novikova than she did with Raynor. There was so much about Asgardian physiology that was just unknown. "Renroir, handle Raynor. Cass, I need you to find me an inhibitor for Novikova, before she rips this room apart by the seams." The young doctor had yet to even look in Flynn's direction, completely focused on the task at hand. Despite Maria's pleas, Novikova wasn't waking up. The silver haired mutant continued to convulse on the table, the metallic tools in the laboratory starting to shake at the same rate.

"...Grand mal, shit," Bonnie cursed. There were various different types of seizures and this was one of the worst. But for the most part, those seizures stopped within a few minutes, but Novikova hadn't ceased. It was most likely brought on by the use of her powers to guide Vision into the Quantum Realm, yet Bonnie couldn't be certain. She'd never seen a grand mal seizure of this severity before. "Keppra - I need Keppra, Cass! As soon as possible!" The longer it took to stop Novikova's seizing, the more likely she would have permanent brain damage from this.

Spider-Gwen looked a bit dazed and confused. "... I was fighting Doc Oc and then it all went dark," she explained. "She had some sort of device to open up portals between the worlds..." Niah's mention that the had a Spider-Man caused Spider-Gwen to tilt her head slightly. She had never met anyone else quite like her before. But with the individuals who looked like they were on death's door at the moment, she didn't feel like now was the appropriate time to grill them with questions about this strange world.

"I'm not familiar with that reference," Vision answered Harry, before a split second later. "I see - it was a joke relating to the destructive tendencies of robotic lifeforms." Dr. Pym didn't have a reaction to Harry's question, too busy reuniting with his wife. Scott, the current Ant-Man, had gone over and joined the little reunion as well. His dream had come true - after all of this time, he had his wife back, his partner in crime, his Janet.

Raynor was passed out on the ground still and with Sparky hanging over him, it was going to be difficult to move him but Barton was up to the task. "Hey, you need to let go so we can help him," Barton told Sparky gently, before removing her hands. He then picked up Raynor and brought him over to a chair near Tempest, hoping that she would be able to heal the Asgardian. "Have you ever healed a god before?" he asked. He figured if she couldn't, maybe he would be able to get in touch with Thor, see if Asgardian medicine could help Raynor. Sure, they had their disagreements but Raynor was a hero and a good man in Clint's book.

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Natasha didn't lack compassion, but her face was neutral and collected as Roman talked. She didn't interrupt him or push him too much, allowing him to slowly come to terms with what had happened. His details more or less matched the official report that they had been compiling so far, something that was a comfort. "Thank you, that information is helpful," Natasha told him softly. She then nodded her head and two agents came into the interrogation room, carrying a polygraph with them. The science behind them was dubious at best.

"I hope you understand, we need to confirm your allegiance," Black Widow explained. "Given everything that happened - and everything that is happening - we can't trust blindly." The agents then moved over to Roman and attached the various cables to him. Some of them were on his head, some of them on his fingers. They then put a bracelet on Roman's wrist and instantly, he would begin to feel stiff and heavy. "The bracelet inhibits your powers - prevents you from altering technology - and can only be removed by entering a sixteen digit code."

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Cassandra looked towards Bonnie once she told her what to do and nodded quickly towards her friend. "Sure thing, on it." She said as she quickly started to look around, but she wasn't able to find an inhibitor for Novikova as she opened up the various drawers in the room. She eventually found the Keppra that Bonnie had mentioned, and quickly went over towards the chair that Novikova was seizing on as she quickly started to administer the medicine. Cassandra then started to try and hold Novikova's head still, she looked over towards her friend.

"I cant find an inhibitor for her, see if you can find one." Cassandra told her, as she occasionally looked around the room as the various metal tools started to shake as well. She was worried that the tools would start flying around the room and hurt some of the people in the room. Doing her best to try and keep Novikova as still as possible.

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Maria continued to hold Novikova's hand as she could hear the pieces of metal starting to rattle as Novikova's powers were going haywire, Cassandra was searching around for whatever medical thing that Bonnie had told her to find. Maria didn't have any clue what she could do right now other than watch her girlfriend in a lot of pain right now as well. Then Cassandra brought the medicine that she needed and administered it to Novi.

She took off her glove she knew that it was related to her powers, and seeing the pieces of metal rattling everywhere she didn't want to hurt Novikova right now. And Cass couldn't find an inhibitor around either as well, she held Novikova's hand and closed her eyes as she felt Novi's power going through her. When she stopped Maria noticed that Novikova had stopped breathing and looked over towards Bonnie. "She isn't breathing!" Maria yelled loudly.

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Harry looked at the girl for a moment as she mentioned fighting someone, he wasn't really sure who she meant as Harry looked around at those in the room again. "You got a name?" Harry asked her, as everything that was metal in the room started to shake as well, and started to worry him a little bit. Before Vision answered his question turning to look at the android for a moment, he wasn't to sure about Vision all that much yet anyway.

"Yes it's totally a joke." Harry said as he rolled his eyes a little bit before looking over at those who were in the medical area that was set up. Raynor looked like he was in the worse condition out of all of them, though he did hope that everyone would make a full medical recovery as well.

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Tinley could sense the tension. Despite having their people out, they were injured or worse. Tinley listened to Bonnie, impressed by the girl's command of the situation. She decided to take matters into her own hands. Tinley entered Novikova's mind. She had done this before to get the girl to wake up, so this shouldn't be different. Right?

Tempest meanwhile had prepped herself to play healer. She sidled up to Raynor, aware of Theresa's grip on him. Barton took control, able to allow her room to work. "Well I mean, I played a lot of World of Warcraft as a healer. I'm sure I healed a God in there at some point, yeah? Should be a piece of pie." Tempest calmed herself down, aware of her racing heart. She began to work on Raynor.

Tinley had entered Novikova's mind. There, she tried to issue a command. "Wake up Novikova. You have someone very worried about you." However, something was different here. Tinley could sense there was something wrong in Novikova's mind. Something had affected her. Tinley snapped back out. Novikova was awake, but... "There's something wrong with her mind. It's been damaged. I don't know if I can fix it." She would need healing, but could Tempest achieve that feat?

Tempest had started healing Raynor. It proved difficult at first, but she managed to return his normal color. She checked him out, confident he was at least in stable condition. "Well, he's stable for now. I could probably do more in-depth stuff with more room and other equipment and doctors and whatnot, but as of right now he is not in danger." Tempest looked at the others, unsure where to direct her attention next. The Spider girl or whoever she was or Novikova? "Who needs help next? I can do my best."

So it was polygraph time? Every good agent's favorite time of the workday, he was certain. Nothing quite made one's day go from meh, to absolutely stellar like being grilled about stupid things while a machine that was only correct a fraction of the time tried to tell them if you were lying. But here he was, being the lucky agent who had to waste his time with this crap when he could have been doing literally anything that didn't involve being grilled about how he shot his lover by a very scary woman. His disdain certainly did show on the agent's face as they got set up, though thankfully he was able to hold his tongue on the whole stream of sarcasm that had crossed his mind at first.

Then they placed the bracelet on him and suddenly everything felt heavy and stiff. A small curse left his lips from the... exceedingly uncomfortable feeling of his powers being nullified. Roman glared at the thing for a long few moments as if attempting to will it off of him. Eventually, he let out a long sigh before sitting back in his chair. "Still wager I could get this thing off given some time. Either way." He said before pausing long enough that there would be a clean slate on the polygraph readings so they could establish a baseline. "Agent Roman Carter, Born in London." He said calmly, just wishing for the damned debrief to be over already.

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Flynn was still wondering how things got shifted back so quickly, they had only been in the past for what felt like 30 minutes, how had everything shifted so quickly? Well whatever happened, it had become obvious that Niah had something to do with it, considering the fact that Pym had acknowledged her. What had she managed to do? Though he was partially curious as to what Fury would really think about Raynor, considering the guy clearly had pulled a gun on in him way back when. It would just be something interesting that would happen later supposedly.

Sparky wasn't too keen on the idea of really leaving Raynor at the moment, but considering the fact that Hawkeye was more or less moving her to the side, she didn't really fight back. She heard the words and conversations around her, but she wasn't too sure what she could do, if anything. Sure, she has enough medical knowledge to probably get by, but considering all of the chaos around her, she figured it was probably best if she just stayed out of the way. Instead, she found herself going over to being up against a wall, and just sort of slid down to the ground.

"...So anyone else finding it weird that the android thing or whatever he is is sitting there learning things in a few seconds, like really? One minute he didn't know what it was you were talking about the next second he does... It's just a little strange," Flynn said, before figuring that it probably wasn't a good idea to just stand around and do nothing, he figured that he might as well make some comment. Sure, he still hated Vision, but that entire timeline didn't exist anymore, so he couldn't just say that he didn't like the android for no reason.

Over by the wall, Sparky saw that Novikova was having problems, and she started to panic slightly once more. Raynor had just been pulled away from death's door, and now it looked like Novikova was walking towards it. She just looked over at them, wondering what the hell they could do to help them, when she felt something fuzzy rub up against her. Looking over, she saw that it was Goose, and she picked up the cat, holding him in her arms, not sure what else she should do in the situation.

At least Vision hadn't started killing them, by now in the old timeline Novikova had already been killed by the robot. She wasn't looking so great and Niah feared that maybe Novikova was destined to die in this moment. She would be in the way if she tried to help and part of her wished that Tempest had gone to her first. "Should we be concerned with you?" She asked Vision. She knew a version of 'Vision' had worked for Ultron, though that Vision had been apparently forced into the situation.

Niah was nervous about the interaction with the machine knowing its potential. Her attention was focused on it, as much as she wanted to help and comfort her friends there was one other person in the room who knew what all had happened, who had experienced it first hand, and wasn't unconscious on the floor. It also happened to be the one person she currently trusted the least. Niah wasn't certain if she trusted the robot more than Flynn. The fact that they were back in 2020 meant she should trust Vision more because that was the condition of returning.

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Ordinarily, Bonnie would have bit Cass' head off for administering medicine to a patient - there was a reason people had to go to medical school and receive a license in order to do that. But given the circumstances, she let it slide. Cass' injection had been done properly as well which helped. The Keppra was designed to stop seizures, but before it could even properly work, Maria used her powers of absorption on Novikova and the scientist fell still. And before Bonnie could even begin CPR, Tinley had used her powers of mind control and Novikova gasped for air, her eyes opening up widely. Her hair had somehow gone back to its natural silver shade, despite the intensive dye job she had done - was that due to overuse of her powers? "Maria..." Novikova gasped, her eyes darting around wildly. She didn't need Tinley's powers to know that something was seriously wrong with her mind. There was something there that hadn't been there before... something dark.

"... I think there's a glitch in my code," she whispered to her, not daring to look at her girlfriend or anyone else for that matter. Her glasses had been set aside somewhere and she didn't want to have to see all of those realities right now - she had seen so much while helping Vision navigate the Quantum Realm, enough to know that whatever horrors had come their way, it was nothing compared to what was going to happen.

Meanwhile, Raynor's eyes were fluttering lightly - it looked like he was on the edge of consciousness. Thanks to Tempest, his skin had returned to a normal shade and he was breathing evenly. She was right - he was stable now, he would pull through. Bonnie bit her lip slightly, looking over at Tempest as she tried to triage the patients in her mind again. "See what you can do for Novikova," she suggested. There wasn't much Bonnie could do for her right now without extensive scans. The doctor then rose to her feet and walked over to Raynor, kneeling down next to him and checking his vitals. "He's fine, I think," she informed Sparky, mostly double checking on the patient for her peace of mind.

"Dr. Chase - come give Janet a once over," Pym then requested, finally pulling his attention away from his family.

"I'm fine, really," Janet protested. She smiled kindly at Bonnie. "I'm stronger than my husband knows."

Gwen nodded at Harry's question. "Of course I do. Doesn't everyone? I'm the Amazing Spider-Gwen," she introduced herself.

"How is it strange?" Vision asked Pym, the android seeming a little more human and personable with each passing second. "My system is designed to be able to process trillions of bits of information each second and to organize them by relevant connections between content items. I learn as you do, only at an accelerated rate... You are Frederick Flynn, born in Seattle Washington. Your adoption files are sealed and you grew up with several brothers. I've calculated who your birth parents are with 97% accuracy. Would you like me to share that information?"

"Negative, Dr. Niah Bautista," he then answered her. "I am here to help."

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Natasha ignored Roman's complaints about the cuff. How could they trust him to perform the test properly if he had access to his powers? Of course, everyone in S.H.I.E.L.D. knew that polygraphs were hardly a reliable science, but that wasn't the point in using them. No, they were just another tactic of the well seasoned interrogator. People tended to make desperate moves and gambits when they believed there was even a chance of wrongdoing being detected. The real lie detector in the room wasn't the polygraph at all - it was the Black Widow.

"You lost your parents in the Battle of New York - can you describe those events?" Natasha asked, locking eyes with him. She wasn't going to come out and ask him if he was HYDRA. No, she knew that no HYDRA agent with a good cover would be so stupid as to answer affirmatively.

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Cassandra backed up away from Maria and Novikova, to let the two of them have some space she remained pretty close as she looked around at those in the room, she was glad that now everyone was doing alright which was good. She wasn't really a medical professional either and Bonnie probably would have chewed her out by now for administering the medicine to Novikova. As the Vision started to speak addressing Flynn's question raising an eyebrow when he brought up Flynn's file as well which was interesting as well. And then Niah's question as well was a little bit weird as well.

"What do you mean? He seems to be pretty helpful so far." Cassandra said towards her, she certainly did want to find out as much as possible about Vision since it was something she did actually know quiet a bit as well. Novikova was awake and well by the looks of it which was good as well. Cassandra moved back over and saw Sparky was kind of by herself at the moment and moved over towards her as Goose was getting the attention from her. "How are you feeling?" Cassandra asked her offering Sparky a hand to help her up if she needed it.

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Maria looked over her shoulder at Tinley as she came over and used her powers to get her to breathing again, the moment she did Maria ran over and hugged her girlfriend as tightly as she could. She held her tightly she really did want to kiss her to ensure that she was going to be alright. But she couldn't really since she used her powers on her just now, and she wasn't sure if she had caused her harm either and when Novi said that there was something wrong with her was also really troubling for her.

She hugged her again, and whispered to her, she would still have her back. "Whats wrong?" Maria asked her as she went to sit down next to Novi and started to look around for her glasses, taking another look as she noticed her hair was silver again. She was sure that it was probably overuse of her powers, Maria looked over towards Tinley and gave her a slight nod, she was actually glad that Tinley managed to bring her back. Maria was able to find Novikova's glasses, and picked them back up gently putting them over her eyes. "How's that?" She asked.

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Harry looked at Gwen when she answered his question, though he had never met the actual Spider-Man here she probably would like him by the looks of it. "Well it's nice to meet you i'm Harry." As he introduced her, and looked at those in the room who seemed to be tending to those who were all pulled out. It certainly wasn't his area of expertise so he didn't really jump in on the medical treatment right now the couple were doing their own thing right now.

[color=steelblue["We will certainly try and find a way for you to get back to where you are from."[/color] Harry offered her while Flynn spoke to the living Terminator right now. "Well he is a robot, robots are better than humans when it comes to learning." Harry said shrugging slightly, he wasn't a robotics expert but he was pretty sure that they learned a lot faster than a human ever could. "The Purple Terminator seems to be fine he hasn't ripped anyone's heads off yet." Harry said shrugging slightly towards Flynn.

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Tinley agreed with Novikova's assessment of her own mind. A glitch was the best way to describe what she felt. She had been in a few minds during her tenure with her powers, and it felt like nothing she had ever experienced. "Tempest is going to come to help you if she can, but I need you to think. To do your best. What happened in there? Do you remember anything that could be impacting your mind? Or was it just the trip alone?" Tinley didn't want to sound concerned, but even she couldn't hide the sound of sympathy in her voice.

Tempest nodded her approval and left to go check on Novikova. She put her hands to her head, hoping to address the concern. However, what had happened was unlike anything she felt. For some reason, whether it was her own power malfunctioning or Novikova's powers, or even the glitch in her mind doing it, but Tempest had a vision. She saw them inside a giant statue of Iron Man, much like the Statue of Liberty. Only instead, outside in big, electronic lights, was a list of people most wanted by some group named SWORD. She didn't recognize most of the names, but she caught three of them, at least. Cassandra, Niah, and Harry.

She was brought back and let go. She looked around the room. "Umm....Tinley, mind if I talk to you over there a smidge?" Without waiting a beat, she moved over. She passed by Pym, "You need to hear this too, I feel." She didn't know who else to turn to about this. Tinley was their leader and Pym was smart.

Tinley followed Tempest, giving a concerned look back at Novikova. She saw Tempest pull Pym aside too. "What is it? What happened?" Tempest shrugged. "I don't know how else to describe it. But I got a vision. And since that is not in my power set, I am VERY concerned. But the vision itself is concerning. I saw us inside a giant statue of Iron Man, which I mean hey, wouldn't mind that one bit if you know what I mean, but I digress. I saw a sign talking about some group named SWORD and their most wanted list. Some of the names were familiar. Lady Hellfire was Lady Cassandra Reed, Psychia was Niah, and Father Time was Harry. I can't make heads or tails of it. Perhaps someone with experience in visions could help, but as I said, this is out of my wheelhouse."

He almost wondered if he should just blurt out something about the whole... time travel stuff. They had done it, and that part still amazed the man, but honestly he just felt like... off. After going through everything in the old world, then suddenly being snapped back to a seemingly normal world, it struck him as odd. Of course, there was also the fact that he had helped save the world and yet he was stuck here. Doing this shit. Roman wanted to get this over with more than anything, not that he was nervous or angry they made him do it. He was more annoyed, and certainly not fond of how having his abilities limited really made him feel.

Looking at the Black Widow across from him, he wondered exactly what she was trying to play at here. He knew damn well that the woman across from him didn't need the polygraph to tell he was lying. She could easily read him like a book, she was trained in this shit. Not to mention that compared to some peers at SHIELD, Roman was an absolutely horrid liar. After a long sigh, he looked at her. "Look, I don't want to waste your time here with my emotional background. We both know you can read me better than any polygraph, and frankly the way the inhibitors make me feel while they're suppressing my abilities is... not fun. I'm not Hydra. Never have been, never will be." He said firmly. "My parents died trying to protect me during the Battle. The Avengers couldn't be everywhere, they tried to distract the Chitauri to let us all escape. Aliens got them. They cornered us and were going to use a grenade, before Captain America saved us all. So I joined SHIELD. Protect everybody else, Avengers can't be everywhere like I said." He finished, hoping that was enough for the Black Widow.

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"...What the hell are you going on about now you crazy robot?" Flynn asked Vision shaking his head slightly. He didn't know that he was adopted, so the android's claim that he was was a bit hard for him to really swallow. That whole thing was a bit strange, and a small part of him was really really curious as to who it was that Vision thought his parents were. However, since he still didn't trust the android, he simply shook his head in response to Vision's question.

"Yeah, thanks but no thanks, I don't trust you at all Vision and I probably never will. So I don't really believe that you'd figure out who my parents are, or if I was adopted which I don't think I am... So sorry for still being a bit dubious about just about anything you say. You may have got them out of the Quantum Realm, but whose to say you still won't go crazy and try to kill everyone... No one knows anything about that. So I'm just going to sort of tune you out if you don't mind."

Sparky was just sitting on the ground for a moment, petting Goose in her arms, as the cat was sitting there purring, almost like he was trying to soothe her. She was anything but calm, and she didn't really notice Cass walk over to her or what Bonnie had said about Raynor's health. It seemed like she was just tuning out everything and everyone, but after a few moments, she glanced up at Cass, and it was clear that she was trying hard not to start crying or something like that.

"I-I-I'm fine... Honest..." she said, looking at Cass, before she set Goose down and accepted her hand as she got up onto her feet. She glanced over at Raynor, taking a few deep breaths in order to try and calm down. It was clear that Sparky was still panicking, but it seemed like she was starting to relax somewhat, and perked up slightly when she saw that Raynor might start waking up and she walked over to him. "Ray? Are you okay?" she asked him softly.

"Yet being the operative word there Harry." Niah glanced at the engineer, remembering how he had died in a world she had hopefully erased. She closed her eyes trying to focus on the here and now. "But it looks like Pym has held up his end of the deal." She looked at the scientist. Thankful.

Niah, now that she felt at least comfortable enough with Vision to take her eyes off the machine, looked for Tinley. She had a lot to report. Months worth of information that only a few knew. Tempest was speaking with Tinley near Pym. She waited a moment seeing the intense look on their faces. Niah frowned uncertain and not wanting to interrupt.

It wasn't that Niah was particularly listening in to the conversation, as curious as she was about what was being said. It was that Tempest said her name Psychia. A name that only existed in the time of Ultron, the name she had taken when they had joined the Avengers. She sucked in some air. There was no way Tempest should have known that name.

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"... I think I'm what's wrong," Novikova whispered to Maria. She was doing her best to concentrate on Tinley's voice, but everything around her felt foreign and strange. As she looked at her field commander, it was like looking at her through shattered glass. She didn't manage to answer Tinley before Tempest came over and put her hands on her. She shared the experience of the vision with the hacktivist and Novikova shut her eyes, trying not to contemplate the horrifying meaning of what she had saw. "... I-I think I'm fine," Novikova then called out, raising her voice as she lied. "Is Sparky okay?"

"I believe so," Bonnie reassured Novikova. "You need to rest, okay? Tempest might be able to help you more - or we can try to call in a telepath to do some preventative maintenance to your mind," she theorized. They were verging outside the realm of science and logic, but Bonnie was a doctor she was going to recommend what she felt would be best for her patient. "But... Rest for now, okay? Doctors orders."

Novikova nodded slightly, feeling incredibly drained as she closed her eyes. Her mind still felt like a mess, but the vision she and Tempest had had did shed some clarity on the problem - of course, there was no way that she was going to tell anyone what she had realized. There were some secrets that were better off staying secret - and if everything worked out, she was going to take this one to the grave.

Pym reluctantly parted from his wife and family for a moment, heading over with Tempest and Tinley. He had been studying Novikova's powers for a while, since they were key for his efforts in freeing his wife from the Quantum Realm. "Her powers are incredibly unstable," he eventually began, deep in thought. "There was already damage to them done by the Phase Three Experiments, permanently turning on her dimensional sight... I think it's likely that piloting the Vision and amplifying them caused you to temporarily share her dimensional sight, Tempest. Her visions show possibilities of what could be... so I think for now, there isn't anything to worry about. It's just another universe that you glimpsed, another timeline, another reality for us all."

Gwen nodded, taking out a piece of gum and popping it into her mouth. "Good. The sooner I get back there, the sooner I can kick Doc Oc's butt." She certainly was headstrong and confident, seemingly not even scared after everything she had gone through. Spider-Gwen had fallen through the Quantum Realm, coming out in the wrong reality, and she was hardly even phased.

The Vision, meanwhile, did not have the human intelligence and social skills to realize that just ignoring Flynn was likely to be the best thing. Instead, the android decided the best way to approach this situation was to reply to each of Flynn's remarks individually. "I am not crazy - I do not have a mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior, as is the clinical definition. You were adopted, Frederick, and I can access those records and bypass the security placed on them if you wish. As for trying to kill everyone... I must confess I do not understand the concept. Trying does not fit into the categories of doing and not doing - of success and failure. Do you mean to imply that I would kill everyone?"

Raynor's eyes flickered open fully. The lights in the room were blinding and he shut his eyes reflexively in an attempt to not go blind. Caught on the edge of awareness, he switched out to English and began speaking in his native tongue - the language of Asgard. "Lana? Er det deg?" he whispered, sounding like he could cry. He knew Sparky was there - he could hear her and once his eyes adjusted, he was going to be able to see her as well. They had managed it... He had saved his true love from certain death.

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"How did you escape?" Black Widow asked, looking for clarification from Roman. He had said that his parents had died so that way he could live, but he hadn't given her details beyond that. She didn't respond to his remarks about how this was a waste of time - she never let a man tell her whether or not something was worth the trouble. She didn't believe that he was HYDRA, but she needed to be certain. She was here to be thorough and she was going to do just that. No one had come to cut off the debriefing session and the polygraph was still operating, with Roman's powers inaccessible to him.

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Cassandra looked at Sparky she had a feeling that she wasn't fine really at all, she wasn't sure what they all had experienced down in the Quantum Realm in the first place either. She leaned down and picked up Goose in her arms, while Theresa went over towards Raynor Cass gently gave the cat a few head scratches while she listened to everyone in the room. Cassandra watched Tempest going to tend to Novikova before pulling Tinley and Pym away to talk privately. She was curious what it was that they were going to talk about, but she assumed that it was something medical related.

Cassandra listened to Flynn and Vision as they talked looking over at Flynn when Vision said that he was adopted was pretty interesting, though she thought that it would be something to personal to talk about. She turned to look over at Flynn he seemed to really hate him for some reason. "So, why again do you hate Vision? So far he hasn't done anything, he has helped pull out three of our own out of there." She pointed out towards him while still petting Goose.

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"We can get you all the help you need." Maria whispered to Novikova as she took a step back to let Tempest do her thing with Novikova, and then took a step back pulling both Tinley and Pym aside to talk privately. She really wasn't sure what it was that they were talking about, Maria turned her attention back to Novikova brushing some hair away from her girlfriend's face. She pretty much knew that Novi wasn't fine at all, but it would be something that they all will try and fix together. "Sparky is just fine, just try and get some rest, I wont leave your side okay?" Maria said, while looking over at Bonnie.

"Maybe we can call Professor X or something he could do something possibly?" Maria suggested she wasn't really sure if he would be willing to help it was the only name that she could think of right now. She looked at the others in the room, Vision continued to talk to Flynn about something she really wasn't paying to much attention to. She just sat down next to Novikova while holding her hand, sighing slightly she could have taken her place if she could.

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Harry leaned back slightly as he looked between both Flynn and Vision as the two of them spoke, the adoption bit was interesting he thought about asking but he wasn't going to just open up a can of worms about Flynn's family history either. Though he was curious why Flynn did hate the robot so much. Though Cassandra did beat him to that question and seemed that Raynor was now up and awake now at this point which was good. Harry wasn't sure who Doc Oc was at all when Spider-Gwen brought him up, he would be more than willing to try and help her get back.

Harry watched Tempest pulling both Tinley and Pym aside after she did her healer thingy with Novikova who looked like was getting some rest now at this point as well. He was curious what the there were talking about and did want to try and find out, he assumed that it was pretty much something to do with Novikova though at this point as well.