[hr][hr][center][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/6g8onsz41/6a8a04c0ca1b1adbb23631ae5dfd661b.png[/img]
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/YCnJKP9t/f0549d81c187c9ac94771f8b0f60080c.png[/img][hr][img]https://i.postimg.cc/qvST58jp/tenor.gif[/img][hr][@BlueSky44][@Kirah][@Nallore][@FantasyChic][@Bee][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]Pym Technologies: October 22nd, 2020 - 6:28 P.M.[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr]	Seven weeks. Four Days. Two Hours. Twenty Eight Minutes. Eight Seconds.

	That was how long it had been since the team, now under the new codename of the Secret Warriors, had been a whole unit. The war between HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D. was at a stalemate, with each side holding onto key facilities and largely keeping the public unaware of the conflict. Yet there was a price to all of the constant fighting and secrecy - the agents they had lost were still trapped in the quantum realm. Theresa Sparks and Raynor Blake had been listed as missing at first.

	Death certificates were issued three weeks ago. Director Fury spoke at their joint funeral. Theresa had had family and friends in attendance - but the same was not true for Raynor. No matter how hard S.H.I.E.L.D. staff tried, no one was able to reach his family. His empty casket was buried along with the agents lost to HYDRA who were unclaimed - Sparky was buried in Florida. 

	Luminous had been imprisoned in the Raft, along with Baron von Strucker. Agent Abercrombie tried her very best in the interrogation, but the HYDRA leader hadn't given too much information that S.H.I.E.L.D. could work with. He did however allude to the fact that HYDRA had two more enhanced in the field - the Fenris twins - and that there were still those in S.H.I.E.L.D. loyal to HYDRA and its cause. Tempest had managed to find that most of HYDRA's financial activity seems to now be focused in Germany. 

	Colonel Rhodes spent a few days in recovery with the team, before he went to stay with his friend, Tony Stark. Every time Sami was mentioned, he seemed a bit freaked out almost, but he never explained what was going on with him. On the bright side, Cass and Harry ended up giving the Playground some much needed upgrades once it was secured, giving the team a place to call home again. [hr][center][youtube]https://youtu.be/44qHu3cwMgo[/youtube][/center][hr]	[color=697017]"Dominika - it's good to see you,"[/color] Hank Pym, founder of S.H.I.E.L.D. and owner of the distinguished Pym Industries, greeted her as she came into the room. [url=https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IRV_1649.jpg]Her hair was an even darker brown this time[/url] and she wore a thick pair of shades. She took them off however, wearing blue contacts - not only did they help with disguises for this unauthorized project she was undertaking, but they blocked out her powers. 

	[color=add3ff]"How's Hope?"[/color] Novikova asked, pulling two flash drives from her pocket. One of them was labelled as [i]P.H.I.L., Gen III[/i] and the other contained the plans for Project Ultron. Although the project was technically Stark Industries property, the idea itself didn't belong to the Starks. Hank Pym had come up with it ages ago and Howard Stark had stolen it from him, claiming credit - and with a final insult, Howard shut the project down. Hank's work would never see the light of day. There had been a brief period in which Howard's son, Tony, had been working on it again with his friend, Banner, but they hadn't managed to get it to work. 

	[color=697017]"She's good - still with that idiot,"[/color] Hank mused, taking the devices from Novikova. [color=697017]"Did anyone see you?"[/color]

	[color=add3ff]"The Starks were all out for the day,"[/color] she answered smoothly. [color=add3ff]"Head of Security - Hogan - was with them as well. I think the CEO too. No one important was home - certainly not the Avengers, they all moved upstate."[/color]

	[color=697017]"Good, good...Now, how familiar are you with a device owned by the X-Men called Cerebro?"[/color]

	[color=add3ff]"We studied it at the academy in one of my courses,"[/color] Novikova responded calmly. She knew what Hank was getting at, but she decided she'd let him have his moment. He was a legend in her field of work and when she came across this idea of his, she couldn't pass it up. It was a concrete way to save their people from a fate worse than death. The rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. was too busy fighting HYDRA to care or even wonder if it was possible they could have survived. 

	[color=697017]"I think that we can exploit your mutation to get a message through to them - and if you can get me the coordinates before the probability fields change alignment, we can use Ultron for its true purpose. The damned Starks wasted it, claiming it could be a peacekeeping protocol...But the original idea behind Ultron was in order to probe the quantum realm - to [i]tunnel[/i] into it and collect data and information about the microverse."[/color]

	[color=add3ff]"Assuming the probability fields don't collapse when we observe them,"[/color] Novikova pointed out. Quantum things had a nasty habit of vanishing as soon as they were seen. The entire realm was a universe filled with ghostly action, violating the laws of locality and every scientific principle that had been established in classical physics. 

	[color=697017]"My hypothesis is that if you yourself are on that quantum scale, your observations will not cause the collapse of any wavefunction,"[/color] Pym argued. [color=697017]"Your friends are Schrodinger's cat - we just need to send another cat in to find them."[/color]

	[color=add3ff]"Einstein would be rolling in his grave..."[/color] Novikova said, eyeing the helmet like device Hank had built. She then nodded and sat down, putting it on her head. [color=add3ff]"Let's do this, then."[/color][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/NjMVmhdP/3caa888dca8d512c52e35d1577c18676.gif[/img][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]The Quantum Realm: October 24th, 2020 - 1:00 P.M.[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr]	It was hard to really keep track of time in the Quantum Realm. Had they been there for weeks? Months? Years? The Wasp had been trapped in the Quantum Realm since the late 70's and she had had no idea that about fifty years had gone by. The world had forgotten her and continued to move on, while she was forced to stay still. She taught Raynor and Sparky how to survive in the Quantum Realm, their minds adapting over time so that way they could function and survive. Did they have food, water, shelter? Not really. But somehow, they managed to survive anyways - the realm sustaining them just as it imprisoned them.

	[color=3DC22F]"We need to move,"[/color] the Wasp told her companions. She frowned. Janet always seemed to have a special sort of sixth sense, telling her when one of the creatures inhabiting the Quantum Realm was near. [color=3DC22F]"Come on, now,"[/color] the Wasp added.

	Raynor was looking a little weaker with each day that passed in the Quantum Realm. He wasn't human - his body was adapting differently. It seemed that humans took to the Quantum Realm better than Asgardians did, as his complexion was like ash. [color=d86615]"Come on, Lana,"[/color] he mumbled to Sparky. He had gotten into a habit of calling her the name at times. He rubbed his wrists, hoping that they wouldn't need to fight. He felt so tired, as if all of his cells were on the point of complete exhaustion, but he wasn't going to tell the others that he was dying. 

	They had other things to worry about. He gave Sparky a slight smile. [color=d86615]"You can zap things."[/color][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/PrLppMpj/tumblr-nvjbsod-FKm1sh40dyo1-500.gif[/img][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]The Playground - Location Classified: October 24th, 2020 - 1:00 P.M.[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr]	Hawkeye was off-site for the day, having a meeting with Fury and other members of S.H.I.E.L.D. leadership in regards to new intel that Agent Renoir had managed to obtain for them. He had asked Agent Abercrombie and Agent Reed to look after the base while he was gone and ensure that no one was going out without a buddy. HYDRA was still a threat, even with their diminished funds, and he didn't want to lose another teammate. 

	Novikova was in the shooting range, her newly dyed dirty blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail. She wasn't wearing her glasses since it was just her in the room and she held out her hand. Instead of having various pistols by her, Novikova had small little metal rods. She had discovered that not only could she control earth, but she could bend and manipulate metal as well. It was harder considerably and gave her massive headaches, but sometimes it was nice to focus on something entirely. 

	She tried to summon the rod into her hand, but instead it rolled and fell off of the table. [color=add3ff]"I should have expected that..."[/color] she said with a sigh. 

	Meanwhile, Bonnie was in bio-engineering and research. After Tinley had gone through Secondary Terringenesis, and especially given Harry's loss of his hand, she was attempting to study the crystals. She had had them crushed up into a fine powder and kept it inside of a glove box, in order to prevent anyone from coming into contact with them. Slipping her hands into the gloves, she reached into the small fridge and unlocked it, taking out the little jar of fine terrigen powder. [color=f6989d]"Alright, let's try something new with you today..."[/color] Bonnie mumbled, measuring out a little bit. 

	Putting the main jar back into the fridge, she placed the sample she had taken into the antechamber and shut it. Walking around to the outside opening, she opened the antechamber up and grabbed the powder, before placing the small sample on a microscope slide and she slid it underneath what looked like a glorified microscope. [color=f6989d]"Raman, come on baby, work with me here..."[/color]