"All right, that means we need to rethink the plan..."
The moment the truth came out, the air seemed to freeze.
Now that Miles knew he and Nurr were the ones who had taken Conqueror Kang away, he steadied himself and began thinking again. Clues and images raced through his mind, rearranging themselves as he tried to find a workable plan in the tangle of paradoxes.
"At this point, the current 'me' has just been exiled by Conqueror Kang. Scott, you're escaping with Aurora. Soon you'll meet up with the current Dr. Pym, and then Conqueror Kang will capture all of you..."
Scott Lang's face darkened. "Seriously, I'd rather not relive that..."
"Given the gap between those events, I'd guess Kang had already gone after the TVA agents during the original loop."
Miles ignored him and continued, "Kang controls spacetime technology too. The TVA's tech probably couldn't do much to him, so those agents won't hold him up for long."
"After that, he sent Hank and me into the Probability Storm," Scott Lang said with a sigh. "Then Miss Aurora forced her way through the Quantum Lockdown and took control of the Energy Core. That's how we got free..."
"And after that, you showed up again and fought Kang. That was our original history."
"Right."
Miles nodded. "Then I have no more questions. Let's go!"
He took out the golden Energy Core again, only to frown. "Wait..."
"What is it?" Cyclops asked.
"If we travel through time now, we'll have to pass through Hypertime again. Immortus must have laid plenty more traps by now. We might even run straight into that monster called Alioth..."
Miles remembered Alioth as a troublesome monster, a living void that could devour spacetime. Even with Nurr and Cyclops helping him, they would struggle to defeat