A Three-Way Meeting

Seeing that no one had noticed for the moment, Ant-Man hurriedly called out, "Has anyone seen Hawkeye and Black Widow?"

Prompted by Ant-Man, Captain America immediately swept his gaze over the surrounding team members and realized that Black Widow and Hawkeye had indeed not returned.

"What happened? Tony, did your device malfunction?"

Tony was stunned as well, but fortunately, he had already finished the emergency treatment on Nebula, allowing him to free his hands.

"My device... honestly, I don't know whether an accident could happen either."

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Everyone else looked over in astonishment.

"What? You can't guarantee your device is safe!??"

Tony stood up and asked Scott, "We only had that many Pym Particles. How many test runs did you think we could do?"

After hearing Tony's words, Scott, Ant-Man, nearly had his jaw drop.

"So you had no idea whether we could make a safe round trip? We basically rode a roller coaster without seat belts???"

Tony frowned at Scott for a long while, then nodded. "That's a very apt analogy."

"Oh, damn it!"

Only then did Scott realize he had just taken a stroll past death's door. While celebrating his survival, he angrily demanded:

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"What good would telling you have done? No matter what, we still had to go, didn't we? Better not to say anything than make you worry about this and that!"

Tony shouted back, then took off his glasses and covered his forehead, trying to calm his overly agitated emotions.

The group stood there in silence. In the end, Captain America broke it.

"So Hawkeye and the others ran into an accident?"

"We can't be sure of that either. There are many reasons why they might not have returned... for example, they could have encountered a powerful enemy over there,