Brad did not turn down Dr. Pym's invitation to stay for dinner.
Although a robot could not digest food, Brad agreed to visit Dr. Pym's home simply to reassure him and show that both he and the organization behind him truly valued him.
Soon afterward, Brad met Dr. Pym's wife, Janet van Dyne.
She was a beautiful woman with short hair and an elegant bearing.
In Brad's visions of the future, there was little information about this woman. In some universes, she lived happily with Dr. Pym, while in certain unusual futures, Janet's life was unhappy, even somewhat miserable.
But as far as this universe went, Brad had used Skynet to look up information on this "Wasp."
Janet's father was the Dr. Dain mentioned earlier, the only person who had ever appreciated Pym's talent.
He was a rather wealthy scientist.
After graduating, Dr. Pym had worked at Dr. Dain's research institute for a time. That was when Dr. Dain discovered his talent, and after Dr. Pym struck out on his own, he even provided the funding to help him establish Pym Technologies.
Dr. Dain was also the only person around whom Dr. Pym would let go of his almost paranoid sense of persecution.
Back then, Pym was still very young and had only just founded Pym Technologies. By chance, he observed an extremely rare subatomic particle that produced unexpected strong interactions with matter.
Dr. Pym excitedly shared this discovery with Dr. Dain, who generously funded his further research into it.
And Pym truly was gifted. In just three years, he successfully extracted these particles and named them Pym particles.
But later, during an experimental accident, Dr. Dain died in a laboratory at Pym Technologies.
Surveillance cameras were not yet widespread at the time, so Brad could only find a single