In the dark, forgotten core of the Quantum Realm, a single chronometric anchor flickers.

Tell the rebels: their resistance is a footnote in a chapter I already deleted.

Yeah. But I’m your idiot.

Hug…? What is… hug?

Kang is vulnerable. Scott shrinks to ant-size, crawls inside Kang’s suit, and expands . The armor rips apart. Kang falls to his knees.

You think you know small? I was king of small. Then I got smaller than small. I found the place where atoms go to have existential crises.

You were smarter than me, Darren. You had the formula. But you wanted control. I just wanted to hug my daughter.

I’m not caging you. I’m forgetting you.