At A2's command, she stepped through the dark doorway first. The Tang Sword trembled faintly on her back, ready for battle.
The other three followed her into the mysterious golden spacetime fortress.
The moment they entered, the chaotic spacetime currents outside were cut off. Everything inside was quiet, orderly, and cold.
Rows of glowing energy conduits lined the straight metal corridor. The entire fortress ran indefinitely on its own power.
Fine spacetime dust drifted through the air, each mote holding a sealed memory of time.
Scott's expression changed. "There's a battle up ahead!"
This was no mere building. It was the core base of Kang the Conqueror's spacetime mothership, anchored deep within the Quantum Realm.
At the center of the battlefield, an old man was bound to an energy pillar by restraints. He was the man they had come to find—Hank Pym.
Scrapes covered his body, and his Pym Particle launcher had been forcibly removed. Unable to break free, he could only watch the brutal battle before him.
Just as the legion's soldiers prepared to launch a final assault and wipe out the Resistance, a cold, detached woman's voice rang across the battlefield.
A2 walked slowly out of the passage. Her crimson gaze swept over the enemy, and an invisible pressure seemed to muffle half the gunfire.
The legion commander eyed the three strangely dressed newcomers, who carried no visible technology, and sneered.
"Outsiders? You dare interfere in Emperor Kang's battle? Kill them all!"
Scott immediately raised a hand to activate his Ant-Man Suit and shrink out of harm's way. But what he saw next froze him in place.
Space trembled beneath A2's feet. She accelerated past the speed of sound and plunged into the enemy formation.
Her blade flashed in every direction. There were no fancy moves; each strike