Crack OC made her way out. No AoU spoilers, please.

[crashsmashtoska]

[Akilina types away on her futuristic smart phone, not looking up. Her expression is the sort of thing she's worn only a few times before, under far more dire circumstances, but at this point everything is dire.]

I can't afford your distractions. I've got a lot to get done and I'm still not sure how I'm going to do this. There's too many variables, the original plan Pymmie hatched up isn't going to work. I can't figure out who I'm supposed to kill right now but I can't wait until it's too late. I've got one chance to do this right.

And you want me to go play games? [Lina glances at her mun as if she's a complete moron.] I didn't 'make my way out', you couldn't leave me alone. I don't need this right now.

[Y'know, you're in the past here. There might be someone to help you out.]

...I know my parents and their friends saw a lot of crazy stuff. But they're not, themselves, crazy. I don't have enough proof on me to back up what I'm saying and I don't know how to find them, either. It's more likely 'Uncle' Loki is going to pop up and speed up the end of the world. So right now I need to get to Manhattan. I have to survey people, monitor them, try and narrow it down, make the right kills- [she breathes in, and then breathes out, shakes her head and tries to stabilize her voice back to something confident and cold.] I don't need anyone.

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[science_is_fun]

And what plan might that be? [At this point, Hank's going to assume "alternate universe" or "time travel". Prior to joining the Avengers, he would have thought of those as equally ridiculous conclusions to jump to, but his experience with the team had certainly changed that.

Besides, any plan that he would have come up with wouldn't have involved killing, or any violence if possible, but he couldn't speak for versions of him from other universes. From what he'd heard, the Hank Pyms of other universes were considerably different from himself; as much as he'd love to research the causes, he should focus on the problems in front of him.]

[crashsmashtoska]

Holy sh- you're Pymmie, I mean, Ryland's, dad. Alive. [She reels in the shock because 1), she can't let that be weird when that was potentially a thing from the get go, and 2), if she's going to get through this Lina needs to be calm and collected, like her mother. Pulling it together is a little easier when she has a job to do, and her expression becomes something less stunned than her initial reaction.] Sorry. Just - been a while since that was a thing.

Right. So. Ryland's plan was pretty simple. Go back in time, neutralize the people who would later go on to start the Latverian War and everything that leads to, and then if that's averted things'll be fine. Or at least not lead to the apocalypse.

The problem is that we never worked out who all the people who had to be taken out were before I went back. [Probably best not to tell him Ryland's probably dead right now. It's the least of her problems, even if she'd like his help pouring over the data.] I'm having to try and narrow down my criteria before I get to it.

Sorry, posted with the wrong account at first!

[science_is_fun]

It happens. [It's not uncommon in a place like this, but still hard to get used to.] I've met replacements of mine who I've never heard of, learned about daughters that I may or may not have - it's never easy.

I'm not sure it will be that simple, particularly if Latveria's involved. Trying to murder people could easily lead to the conflict that you're trying to stop. [He doesn't know much about Doctor Doom, but from what Reed's said, Doom has weapons in his labs which make the combined nuclear arsenal of the various governments of the world look like spitballs by comparison.] What happened? I realize you're missing a few of the details, but maybe we can work something out with what you do know.