Volume 6: Secret Invasion Chapter 15 Mason is addicted to doing side quests and his luck is definitely good
Hope van Dyne.
The daughter of Dr. Hank Pym and Dr. Janet van Dyne. In some parallel worlds, this girl will inherit her mother's mantle and become the second-generation Wasp.
But the girl who is currently undergoing joint treatment by Mason and Hank should not have gone down that path yet.
She is also much younger than Ms. Hope, the "young woman" in the Ant-Man family rescued by Mason in his hometown world. She looks only seventeen or eighteen years old.
Her waist and abdomen were burned by strong electric current and the wounds were seriously aggravated due to the lack of proper treatment. Given her current condition, if everyone had arrived a few days later, they would only have harvested a corpse.
However, for the alchemist master and first aid expert, this injury is more than just incurable.
The operation was completed in just half an hour and Hope's hot body temperature was lowered through the method of "physical cooling".
It has to be said that Mason has also used the ability to control water and convert between three states in new ways in the field of first aid.
This emergency surgery made the furry beast Hank look at this young foreign compatriot with new eyes. He was a good fighter, smart, and had strong hands-on skills. He was truly an all-rounder.
Harley had previously told Hank that Mason was only eighteen years old and had only debuted as a hero three months ago. This made Hank very suspicious that the boy in front of him was a genius. Otherwise, it was impossible to explain how an ordinary boy could grow to this point in just three months. Even if he studied like crazy without sleeping for twenty-four hours a day, he couldn't do it, right?
"There are a lot of things in there that look very sophisticated, but it's like a bunch of Kryptonians knocking around and making a fight!"
When Harley saw Mason take off his medical gloves and let Hank take over the next job, she hurried forward with an exquisite but twisted metal device and told Mason what she and Old Wolf saw in the laboratory inside the base.
She waved her hands in an exaggerated tone and said:
“There’s also a burned-out quantum tunnel inside, very similar to the one we found in the wasteland, and a submersible that was also blown up.
It must have been attacked.”
"Or perhaps it's possible that the Pyms chose to blow up the machine themselves in order to prevent something from 'escaping'."
Mason pushed the frame of his glasses on his nose and looked at the metal kit in his hand, which was obviously the internal component of some precision device. He glanced at Hope who was still unconscious, and then he and Harley walked into the dim laboratory in front of them.
Three drones were released, emitting bright lights to dispel the darkness, and then a scene like a passing storm was seen.
There were exploded metal parts everywhere, and right in front of them, as Harry had said, there was a quantum tunnel device that was obviously used to enter the microscopic world, but it was completely destroyed.
Logan walked around in the wreckage looking for clues. In his hands were a torn suit, the remains of an explosive detonator, and a partially burned storage hard drive.
"No fourth person has ever come in. I can guarantee that."
He handed the thing in his hand to Mason and said:
"The fighting scenes here should be the 'family entertainment session' between Ant-Man and his wife. I've always heard that old Pym is a very violent guy, and he beat his wife more than ten years ago.
At that time, this matter spread all over the hero circle and became famous. Their divorce lawsuit even reached the internal scope of S.H.I.E.L.D.
From then on, old Pym was given the nickname "domestic violence man", but his wife disappeared soon after. At that time, some people suspected that the cruel old Pym killed her out of hatred.
But now it seems that this is not the case.”
"Let's see if there are any Pym particles left. We can't make that thing now, so having more tubes is a good thing."
Mason said to Harley, and she immediately brought her two dogs to search among the ruins.
These clues are enough for Mason to deduce the whole picture of the matter. The general plot should be similar to that of a certain movie, except that there is no second-generation Ant-Man son-in-law to disrupt the situation. It is basically a sunset love story of old Pym who goes deep into the quantum world to find his wife.
However, something obviously went terribly wrong in the final moments of this supposedly heartwarming story.
"Where the hell does this damn quantum tunnel that old Pym opened lead to?"
Mason frowned as he looked at the storage hard drive in his hand, a question arose in his mind.
He doesn't know much about the quantum world, but it is now certain that the zombified Wasp is the source of infection of the zombie virus in this world.
But how did she get infected? Are there zombie disasters in the quantum world? Or has the Star Society's pollution tactics penetrated into the microscopic realm?
This is not right!
If the technological capabilities of the Star Society were really this advanced, they would have conquered the parallel world long ago. Why would they still need to recruit cannon fodder to explore?
"No contamination remains, Mason."
Uncle Wolf took the detector given to him by Mason and walked around the base. He came back with a cigar in his mouth and said to him:
"Is this damn thing basically over?"
"Well, that's what it looks like so far. We contained the zombie outbreak in its first phase. We just saved the world, man."
Mason took the detector and played a joke on Logan.
The latter curled his lips and said nothing. It's just about saving the world. As Wolverine, his life is full of such stories. It's not surprising.
He turned and went out to check on Hope, and a few minutes later, Harley had a reward.
She dug out a box from the ruins of the destroyed quantum tunnel. It was filled with Pym particles, enough for Mason to use for a long time .
This stuff works amazingly well.
After all, with a special time-changing device, it can allow fighters of multiple levels to complete "time travel". In the real world, any item that can be linked to time must be taken seriously.
"Mason, Hope is awake. She is weak but conscious. She wants to talk to you."
Hank's loud voice rang out outside the laboratory. Mason walked out and saw a young girl lying on a makeshift bed with an oxygen mask on, blinking her eyes and anxiously searching for something.
Harry felt a little uncomfortable seeing this scene.
She hid behind Mr. K, seemingly not knowing how to tell the poor girl who had just lost her parents this cruel reality. Mason sighed, stepped forward and said to Hope:
"The danger has been controlled. Apart from a few people, there are no more casualties. Let me ask you, did you blow up the quantum tunnel?"
"Um."
Hope from the hospital bed nodded.
She was very smart and had become her eccentric father's experimental assistant at an early age, so she could naturally hear the subtext in Mason's words.
It felt terrible to lose her parents, but the kind girl felt relieved that the "world-class crisis" caused by her family was ended before it spread.
She said to Mason in a soft voice with difficulty:
"I overloaded the energy tube of the quantum tunnel, which was an illegal operation. The explosion almost killed me, but at least the monsters didn't come out with me.
This is a mistake…
It was a mistake from the beginning, ahem."
"Don't be impatient, take your time."
Mason took out a potion to replenish Hope's energy and injected it into her vein, then diluted a stimulant for her to drink, so that she could clearly tell what she knew.
After she regained some of her spirit, the girl, who was obviously frightened by the previous incident, told the whole cause and effect clearly without the need for anyone around her to ask.
"My dad was trying to save my mom!
More than a decade ago when I was a child, they started an experiment funded by SHIELD to explore another world , but the quantum spacecraft my mother was riding in crashed unexpectedly.
Since then, my father has become anxious and even crazy.
Although his experiment was stopped, he has been conducting research in private. A year ago, we conducted an experiment in California that almost caused quantum collapse. After being expelled, he started over here. "
Hope painfully recalled his life over the past decade, and said uncomfortably:
"He has completely gone insane. I can't persuade him at all. I also hope to see my mother again. Only she can control my father's increasingly crazy behavior.
We built a quantum tunnel here.
After a few successful experiments, he would descend into the quantum realm himself to bring back my mother.
Everything went smoothly.
I was outside maintaining echo positioning and guiding them on the way back, and I saw them coming back, two of them sitting in the submersible.
At that moment, I thought I had regained my family and loved ones, and I thought all the suffering was over.
but……"
She covered her eyes and could not continue speaking.
People around could also imagine the horrific scene of the child going to pick up but seeing two zombie monsters. What's more rare is that in that situation, Hope actually gritted his teeth and blew up the quantum tunnel to prevent more zombie monsters from rushing out of the quantum world.
"You, my young friend..."
Logan reached out and patted Hope on the shoulder, and said seriously:
"You are the real hero!"
"It's inappropriate for you to say this now, Logan. You're really not good at comforting people."
The furry Hank had worked with Dr. Pym before, and he could probably guess Hope's desperate and painful mood at the moment, so he glared at Logan and drove him out to explore the way.
Hank couldn't just sit back and watch as his old friend passed away, leaving behind this poor orphan.
He planned to take the weak Hope back to the Mutant Academy, where there were sufficient equipment and conditions to treat her, and it would also become the child's new home.
But when Hope was placed in the Isu bio-pod that Mason always carried with him, Mason asked her one last question:
"Do you still remember the phase coordinates of the quantum tunnel you opened?"
"Well, I have kept the experimental data. Give me some time and I will be able to extract the coordinates of the microscopic world."
Hope looked at the person who saved her, she bit her lip and said:
“But I think it’s better for this secret to be forgotten forever!
Although I don’t know what terrible thing happened to my mother there, there is no doubt that the quantum world is not safe and we should not go there again.”
"No, Hope, I now suspect that there is something wrong with the quantum tunnel opened by your father."
Mason squatted beside the bio-capsule and explained softly:
“I suspect that Dr. Pym made a miscalculation and accidentally opened a quantum tunnel to another world, and the failed experiment of exploring another world more than a decade ago was actually successful.
Your mother was the first hero to set foot in another world.
Unfortunately, her luck was not good and she happened to encounter a dimensional disaster.
Do you understand the concept of phases and parallel worlds? Hope.
If you can, you will understand what I am talking about.
What I want to tell you is that I have seen the source zombie virus that infected your parents before, and I am sure that the dangerous plane where zombies are rampant has been completely sealed by my organization.
There is no way it could have been leaked through normal channels!
And you...
Your father's actions may have opened a 'second door' outside the currently solid seal. Do you understand the danger of this action?"
Hope's face changed drastically.
She understood Mason's description and nodded without much hesitation.
"Let me take a break. I will help you extract the coordinates of that quantum world later. But you must have professional equipment and sufficient knowledge of quantum theory..."
"Don't worry about that. I have another 'Pym family' over there."
Mason soothed:
“I will take you to meet yourself in the other world and your mother in the other world. Although this cannot make up for your psychological trauma, I feel that you will get along well with them.
Now rest, child."
He closed the Isu bio-chamber himself, activated the biological monitoring and healing functions, and looked back at Harley.
Robin had a lot of questions to ask, but Mason shook his head.
The matters concerning the World Gate and the 2149 Zombie Universe are absolute secrets in the Star Club. For Harley's sake, it is better not to tell her. Besides, Mason has no confidence in his little cutie's ability to keep secrets.
I’m afraid that if she has too much fun tomorrow, she’ll go around telling everyone about this with a loud speaker, and that’ll be the end of us.
However, after the World Gate itself sealed the 2149 universe, Mason actually found a way to reach that dimension again in this unknown world.
It's hard to say whether this is good or bad.
But knowledge is neither good nor evil, and if used properly, perhaps this clue can be helpful in the future.
"The Ant-Man family and their little sister from another world will have something to do from now on."
Mason released two sentinel robots to lift Hope's bio-capsule, and followed Hank out of the base. He looked at the white snow and the endless primeval forest outside, and thought to himself:
"The project of rebuilding the quantum tunnel in Osborne Tower should also be put on the agenda. I hope the old Green Goblin is ready to spend a lot of money. Building a complete quantum tunnel is not a small project."
"Beep, beep"
Just as the group got on the dog sled and prepared to return to the Mutant Academy, the flip phone in Mason's pocket suddenly vibrated.
This broken thing seems to be useless, but Mason modified it so that its communications cannot be tracked, so the old phone can continue to shine in the other world.
Of course, in order to avoid embarrassing telecommunications fraud or harassing message bombardment, Mason's phone number is only given to those who have important tasks.
"Hello, Mr. Zhang?"
Mason answered the phone and greeted John Parker in Wakanda:
"I'm a little busy right now, what can I do for you?"
"What else?"
Mr. Zhang's complaining tone was so unpleasant that I could hear his displeasure even through the phone. He said unhappily:
"That energy signal! The one you asked me to track, it's here, in New York City. I sent the exact coordinates in a text message. The energy signal flashed twice ten minutes ago.
The person who took your friend away seems to have gone out.
If I were you, I would rush over and rescue the unfortunate guy.
In addition, the signal is located near the Sanctum Sanctorum, which has been blocked by the mages of Kamar-Taj for a long time, so if you want to sneak in, remember to keep a low profile.
I mean, if we get caught, don't fucking give me away!
A conscientious entrepreneur like me can't afford to offend a guy of Doctor Strange's level... That's it, Aunt May wants to go out for a walk, she is quite interested in the customs and culture of Wakanda.
From what Aunt Mei said, I guess I will have to spend a lot of money to build her a retirement home here in the future.
Damn it! It really was better to push this troublesome old woman into the river... Hey! Aunt Mei, stay there, I'll help you walk.
Oh my god, please walk slower, you are old and you might fall."
Mr. Zhang hung up the phone. Mason looked at the phone in his hand and then at Harley and the two X-Men beside him. He thought for a moment, took off the emblem of the Demon Hunter Cat School from his neck and stuffed it into Harley's hand, and told her:
"I'm going back to New York. I won't be taking you with me this time, but you have to be on the alert as my backup plan. If I don't contact you within three days, use this thing to call for the hunters to come and rescue us."
Seeing that she had become the backup plan for the little sweetheart, Harley nodded vigorously, but asked worriedly:
"Will it be dangerous this time?"
Mason shook his head and replied:
"I guess I will encounter not only dangers, but also opportunities, provided that I can survive."
