Realization

This Dark Energy was extremely rare and immensely powerful.

When the Rainbow Bridge broke, All-Father Odin had used Dark Energy to send Thor and Apocalypse back to Earth to stop Loki.

The energy spent on sending just two people had made Loki call it extravagant.

If Dark Energy was extracted from a Giant Atomic Nucleus, and there was only one such nucleus in a space the size of the Solar System, its value made sense.

Dr. Pym rubbed his hands excitedly. "I want to dive into this research right now. If your connections could get us some Dark Energy from Asgard, that would be even better."

Apocalypse had proposed the original hypothesis, but if Dr. Pym could prove it, he would earn the same standing as the man who had conceived it.

After all, Nobel Prizes often went to theoretical physicists and experimental scientists together.

But Dr. Pym glanced at the Quantum Chamber and held himself back.

Rescuing his wife Janet came first.

"Be careful, everyone. This time, we'll shrink straight past nuclei, neutrons, and quarks to reach the Quantum Realm."

As the Quantum Chamber's machinery hummed, the view before them changed rapidly.

The chamber's actual speed was slow; it had only basic movement capabilities. Yet it felt as though they were traveling at the speed of light.

They felt themselves pressing onward as one bizarre sight after another flashed past.

Thump!

The Quantum Chamber gave a slight jolt and stopped.

Outside, countless ribbons of colored light seemed almost solid, interweaving to form a vast, fantastical world.

Beneath their glow lay a stretch of solid ground.

The sound they had just heard was the Quantum Chamber landing on it.

But this land was nothing like Earth's surface.

Colored light continually formed protrusions that vanished just as quickly.

Huge structures also