winter rose

"If I had known that something like this would happen in the middle, I would have simply let Pierce get the Rubik's Cube and Aunt Perry appeared on the stage."

Tony finished a long sentence in one breath, and Perry understood what he meant.

"So, we got the Mind Stone and the Time Stone now, but it just happened that the Space Stone failed?"

He left her with a blank stare.

So Perry rolled his eyes at him too, and neither of them said anything.

"Then what should we do? There is no rush in terms of time, but there are not enough Pym particles."

"Can't we go back and find a way?"

Ant-Man Scott shook his head.

"Those were the last bottles since Hank Pym disappeared."

"Uh."

Perry suddenly thought of something and looked at Tony.

"...I remember before, I mean years ago, Dr. Pym said Howard—"

She paused, and changed her words under Tony's puzzled eyes.

"Say Howard took his stuff. So, don't you have any extra at home?"

"..."

His face suddenly stretched to Strange's length.

"No! No!"

"Ok."

Perry shifted his gaze knowingly.

"Then we can also go to a time and space where there are both Rubik's Cube and Pym particles. For example, after the development of Pym particles, and after Howard got the Rubik's Cube—"

She suddenly met Steve's eyes.

The two spoke—

"SHIELD, 1970."

Perry was wearing a white shirt and skirt over a white lab coat.There was a pen in the breast pocket, and even the long black curly hair was tied into a low bun for the occasion.

"Look, this is an era we missed."

She pushed Steve, who was dressed as a plumber, and winked at him.

"Honestly. If everything went smoothly without accident, we should be like this in this day and age."

But Steve raised his eyelids to look at her, but said nothing.

"All right, Aunt Perry."

Tony, who was busy adjusting his tie, interrupted her.

"You should still remember the way to the S.H.I.E.L.D. laboratory."

"To steal things from Dr. Pym who has such a bad temper, I might have lost my way in fear. But I think you have to come to steal Pym particles, otherwise why would Hank fight with Howard later. "

As Perry spoke, he put on a white protective mask.

"Then now, Dr. Carter is going to do what a doctor should do. See you in ten minutes, both of you."

She turned around and walked into a small door to bypass several safety exits, and soon entered the experimental floor through the escape passage of scientific research personnel.

Familiar with the style of the S.H.I.E.L.D. experimental area of ​​the last century, Perry still remembers those years with Margaret——

Hold on.

Margaret? !

She was stunned suddenly, and stopped directly in the corridor where the experimenters came and went.She remembered, of course she remembered. In 1970, Peggy Carter was promoted to Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., the organization she and Howard founded.

and also.

Not only Margaret, she can even see 53-year-old Howard in this time period!

It was a Howard she had never seen.

Hank Pym's laboratory is at the end of the corridor, and through the glass, she can even see the young version of the doctor.

But she stopped and just stood there.

A little assistant with a thick record passed by, but was tripped to the ground by an invisible force under his feet.

Perry immediately turned around and knelt down to help pick up the materials.

After the little assistant thanked her and left, Perry nodded, and looked at the record sheet in her hand that needed to be signed after she walked away.

"Steve?"

She tapped the headset and asked in a slightly anxious voice.

"How long will it take you?"

There was a rapid breathing sound from the other end of the headset, and Steve seemed really anxious, as if he had fallen into a small predicament.

"Soon Perry—"

"It's not enough for you to send Dr. Pym away. I didn't expect him to have an assistant in the laboratory to help him with his personality."

She walked forward slowly, and when she turned at the end, she glanced at the laboratory with only one person.

"And the Pym particles don't know where to put them. I need to spend time looking for them."

"then you--"

"But I have a way, Steve."

She walked to the stairs with the flow of people leaving, and looked at the sign that said office area.

"The longer you delay Pym, the better. For example, there is an escape tunnel next to the exit of the external elevator. If he suddenly falls into it and faints, it's actually not a big deal."

After speaking, she turned off the communication device.Go to the office area on the 3rd floor.

Few people walk in the stairwell because they are tired.

But Perry was not afraid of getting tired, she trotted up the stairs, and in the few tens of seconds, she changed the color of her hair and the color of her eyes.The thick medical mask only shows a pair of eyes, which is really not a big deal as long as there is no eye contact.She could have changed her entire face and just appeared in front of her with an ordinary public face, but she somehow seemed to hope that she would recognize it, but she didn't.

Finally, she walked to the door of her office, but the knock on the door did not come down.

"what's up?"

The female voice behind her was gentle and familiar, she asked like this.

Perry blinked, turned, and lowered his eyes too.

"This is Mr. Stark's material entry and exit approval."

She handed over the report sheet with both hands, her eyes fixed on the toe of the shoe.

Her hands were shaking, her eyes dodged, and her body flinched.She knew that this was a hidden taboo for secret agents, but she couldn't help it, she couldn't help it.

She wanted to scream, she wanted to rush to hug her, she wanted to say out loud how much she loved her right away, and she wanted to tell her about the future and the future.

But she can't.

She can't pretend to be a nonchalant doctor, nor can she do what an agent should do as conscientiously as before.

She couldn't hold back those gushing emotions, just like the trembling of her shoulders at this moment.

"what happened to you?"

Peggy's tone was concerned, and her movements were gentle when she took the report.

"Are you ok?"

She shook her head.

Paige quickly signed the name.Handing back the list, she twitched slightly when Perry reached out.

So she raised her eyes subconsciously.

When their eyes met, Peggy's expression suddenly became serious.

recognize me, recognize me...

She didn't know why she thought this way, but she couldn't think of anything.

Recognize me, recognize me.

sister.

Please.

As Peggy approached step by step, she also opened her eyes a little bit.

Finally, she stopped and raised her hand to Perry's masked face—

Wipe away the tears from her eyes.

"Did something happen?"

she asked again.

Perry took a deep breath, lowered his head, and smiled like a girl who had lost her love and pretended to be strong.

"It's just... some emotional things."

"Ah, so."

Peggy nodded, looked away, and looked at her again.

"Then don't make yourself too sad."

She blinked.

"……it is good."

The report is handed out.Peggy pushed open the office door and walked past her.

The wooden door is gently closed, and the printed glass sees through the unclear figure.

Perry looked at the figure, and it took him a long time to realize that his vision was blurred by tears.

So she wiped away the tears herself, and turned and walked to the elevator.

Vault doesn't, Secret Vault doesn't.

Not even the lab found a trace of Howard.

Of course, Perry actually knew that he might not come to S.H.I.E.L.D. today.But if she didn't search desperately, she always seemed a little unwilling.

But why not be reconciled.

That Howard who has never seen is no longer young?Your wife is really a fairy who didn't say it?Or is it the treat that hasn't been eaten yet?

No, she has seen it, said it, and eaten it.So she is not sorry for Howard, but...

Guilt.

It's 10 minutes.

Even if Pym fell into the escape tunnel, he was almost awake by now.Perry rushed into the inner elevator, and when she passed the half-hidden tunnel, she glanced——

no one.

There was a great uneasiness in my heart.

The elevator opened, and Perry trotted all the way to the end of the experiment corridor.The lab was empty, and she walked straight to the glass case where the Pym particles were shining brightly.The middle four rows were empty, so Perry took the three on the right.

When going out, an experimenter who was also wearing a mask happened to come in.After Perry took the particles, she could no longer have eye contact with people, but just passing by, she suddenly seemed to realize something.

So she turned around, and he turned back in the same way.

Four eyes facing each other.

Perry's eyes widened suddenly.

"Where have you been!"

As soon as he stepped out of the main entrance of the building, Steve, who sprang out from the corner, pulled Perry past him.The strength in his hands made Perry clearly aware of his attitude.

Angry, angry, wanting to hit someone.

"You're not in the experimental area at all—"

She took out three Pym particles and pressed them on his chest.

"But I got it, Steve. I'm not your man, and you don't have to."

"What are you doing!"

Tony walked over quickly with his throat pressed, and looked back from time to time.

Steve snatched the three tubes of Pym Particles, and Perry turned to see a sneaky Tony, who followed his line of sight to a car.

There are also two people in front of the car.

She thought she knew who it was.

But they were too far away, too far away.

She tried her best to look over there, but the face was blurred, not even as clear as in her memory.

She couldn't hear what Howard and Jarvis were saying, and they turned quickly into the old car.

"It's time to go back."

Tony looked at Perry in a daze, hesitated for a moment, and said it anyway.

"He said that Carter once told him that he would definitely marry a fairy in the future."

"It is clear."

She smiled and looked away.

"Not that Carter."

The quantum suit once again covered the whole body, and the shuttle between the time and space tunnels was as short as an instant.

When he landed, Perry once again knelt on the ground gloriously because of dizziness.

It seemed that someone rushed over, she thought someone was helping her, but the next second she was hugged tightly.

She struggled to raise her head, looking for the person hugging her in the field of vision full of dark spots.

"Thank you, Perry."

It's Natasha.

"Thank you."

"So...you really killed him."

She grabbed Natasha's hand and stood up, looking around at all the comrades who had returned safely.

"Who did you kill?"

Steve still couldn't forget the original question.

"Oh, he's an old friend of yours."

Perry looked at Natasha with a smirk, and the latter looked at Clinton with the same look.

The meaning is very simple, no one should tell the captain.

"Exchanging souls for souls, who said you have to have the soul you love the most?"

She walked down the steps with Natasha, not forgetting to turn to look at Steve.

"Mr. Lying Red Skull's soul is executed, the current Supreme Commander of Hydra pronounces the sentence, and the Black Widow, the agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., executes it."