It took some time, First Bruce had to figure out the quantum bridge... thing. Then he had to figure out how to work it.. THEN he needed to figure out how to time travel. Days later he finally got it and Scott was going to be the first to try it out considering he already had experience with the quantum realm. Natasha, Steve and I watched. Bruce had Scott fire up the van. Steve reported "Breakers are set, emergency back up generator is on stand by." Bruce said "Good, because if power goes I don't want to lose, uh, tiny here in the 1950's" Scott then said "Excuse me" Natasha then said "He's kidding. You can't say things like that." Bruce then stammers "Sorry.. It was a...bad joke." Scott slide glanced at me and I shook my head. Natasha then muttered "Were you kidding?" Bruce said "I have no idea We're talking time travel here. Either it's all a joke or none of it is." I then said "Time travel is no joke Bruce, it's possible all right.. And the implications from it are even more possible." Natasha looked over at me "You really don't think it's a good idea do you?" I shook my head "Not for rookies messing around with time, no. Time cop over there doesn't know what he's doing." She then smiled at me and placed a hand on my arm "That's why you are here hun, a time travel veteran who knows what he is doing." I shrugged "Even expert time travelers make mistakes, but we are getting ahead of ourselves here. Lets make sure we can actually time travel first."

Bruce then gave Scott the thumbs up "We're good, put your helmet on! Scott, I am going to send you back a week, let you walk around for an hour, and bring you back in 10 seconds." I then said "Remember.. Don't talk to anyone.. Don't touch anything.. And do not... do not..go anywhere you already were." He looked at me "Dude.. I've seen back to the future, We're good." I pursed my lips "That's what I am worried about...oh Sara is going to kill me. Light er up Bruce." Steve then said "Good luck Scott, you've got this." He just smiled and said "You're right.. I do Captain America" He then was sucked into the van. Bruce then said "On the count of three...Three, two, one." Scott came back.. But it was not scott.. A kid. "Guys.. Uh... this doesn't feel right." "Hold on" Bruce said. He then pressed a button and Scott disappeared and came back an old man. "Can you bring him back?" Steve asked, Bruce said "Give me some room I'm working on it." He pressed another button and in old man Scott's place was a baby. Steve said "It's a baby." Bruce said "It's Scott!" Steve retorted "As a baby!" Bruce said "Well he'll grow!" I then said "Bring Scott back Bruce.. Now." Bruce said "Okay, when I said kill the power, kill the power. And... kill it!" Natasha shut it off. Scott was back. He said "Somebody peed my pants. But I don't know if it was baby me or old me... or just me me." Bruce then said happily "Time travel!" I just shook my head and walked away 'What? I see this as an absolute win" I just kept walking. Natasha then called out "David!" I waved her away "I'm going to train." She knew better and let me be.

I entered the training room. I then tapped by chest piece and my suit formed over top of me. I then said "EDI, commence training module Wakanda-2" Holograms starting showing up of the creatures we had fought in Wakanda 5 years before. I started aiming and blasting repulsor blasts at them, the hologram disapearing as they were hit. Before long there were too many to blast from a distance. Glowing red blades formed over my hands and I began to slice at them, twisting around to get them all. I slashed at one, then the next, I then dropped to one knee, twisting around and slicing a different one on the other side of me. I then jumped up and used my feet boosters to back flip away from the fight. I landed and one of the blades disapeared. I then began to blast with my left hand, slash with my right to any which came too close. Before long the training program was done. It had taken me less and less time to finish it over the past couple years as I had used it a lot to train. The creatures we fought were erratic, uncaring to personal injury.. Unpredictable. In all my time fighting I had never fought an enemy like that.. Ultron Bots, Chitauri, Monster, Orcs. They all had an ounce of self preservation.. A tactic I could predict for and use to my advantage in a fight.. These creatures did not. The only enemy close to that were the Laughing Dead. The Men Galbatorix had enchanted to feel no pain, however they still cared if they died, and did not swarm. These creatures seemed to swarm and have a hive mind, where they only cared about their goal, not how many of their kind died to achieve it. I learned that unpredictability could only be fought by one thing.. Instinct. No kind of technique needed to fight those who fought with no self preservation. I needed to use my own will to survive against them and fight on the defensive, not offensive. Not that I would ever fight that army again.. But It was good to be prepared for any sort of enemy.

I decided I needed to calm down a little from earlier events so I de-activated my suit. My anger at them messing with time now dealt with, I needed to re-center myself. I went to the wall and pressed a button. My Bow popped out. Well..not my bow. This used to be the Green Arrow's bow. Barry got the mask, I got the old bow Oliver used for 4 out of his 8 years as the hooded vigilante. I took a moment to look at the old bow. It was the same one I used through most of me tenure as the Blue Arrow/Blue Lightning, only this one had a greenish tiny versus my blueish one. I then pulled a quiver full of blue tipped arrows from the wall and put it on. I next said "EDI, Start module...Oliver-1" A tennis ball shooter appeared and began firing one tennis ball after another. I took a deep breath and calmly aimed and fired arrow after arrow, it connecting with the tennis balls and pinning to the wall. More and more tennis balls were fired even faster, so fast I had to notch multiple arrows at a time to hit. Each one hit perfectly. I module ended and I heard clapping. I turned to see Tony standing there, something attached to his hand. He said "You know, I created this technology so that we could get actual practice fighting enemies.. Not so shoot tennis balls." I nodded and said "This is how Oliver trained..I use it to calm myself" Tony nodded to me and said "You know David..it's about time I told you. I knew it was you.. The night in the forest 11 years ago. The night we captured Loki. I knew you were the same person who I fought a few years previously in the hood." I looked at him in shock "What?" Tony chuckled "I'd like to say it was the fighting technique, the voice or something. However while JARVIS did record some similarities, that wasn't what tipped me off. It was the sword. Kveykva. The same sword used to deflect my repulsor blasts back at me in our fight back in 2009. It is kind of hard to forget the black blade." I shook my head "I should have realized not to use my sword.." He smiled "It was good you did... otherwise Iron Thunder would have never been born." I looked at him questioningly and asked "What do you mean?" He laughed "What, did you think I just gave you a suit because you asked nicely?" I bit my lip "Well.. Uh.. Yeah." Tony shook his head "No. I knew you could be trusted with it. After we parted ways in a draw.." I interrupted "After I beat you, you mean." He shook his head and repeated "After we parted ways in a draw, I did more research into the guy I witnessed you assassinate. He funneled money into different terrorist organizations responsible for millions of deaths over the years. And it turned out he was a key backer behind Hammer Tech's research into Iron Suits which would have been used to control the world." I nodded "He was a templar who was continuing their age long goal of complete control." Tony nodded back "You helped save the world that day, so I knew I could trust you with a suit. I thought making the suit a lot like your hooded suit in design would have been a dead give away." I chuckled "Well the version of me you met in the forest was almost a thousand years younger than the one you fought in 2009. Time travel is funny that way." He smiled and nodded "That is why I am here talking to you now, however come to think about it I guess I am responsible for all those lives saved by the Grand Mentor of the Assassins as he never would have existed without me."

He then paused and continued "I figured it out. Time travel. Using the Quantum realm to do it and navigating its time vortex's. I cracked time travel." I narrowed my eyes slightly "I thought you agreed it was too dangerous." He nodded "I did.. But then I started thinking about the kid. Peter. He got into this mess because of me, much like you did. However while you got your success story from it.. He did not. I owe him a chance to come back. However that is why I wanted to talk to you. You are truly our expert on time travel and its consequences. If you don't think we can pull this off I will pull the plug right now." I stood there silently, looking at Oliver's bow. Thinking it over. I then said "Oliver Queen gave up his life so that we could have a second chance at life. This universe we live in now was created by him. He was able to right many wrongs, reverse so many deaths, however he could not undo the snap. Time wants to happen and will find a way to happen no matter what changes we make. We can not change our pasts. However we may be able to change our future. Back in Wakanda, Future me died to protect this me. He gave a pep talk before the fight, saying never to give up hope. He knew he would die in that battle. He said he did it so that the millions of lives I will one day save are saved. I don't think I would tell us to no give up hope if there wasn't any. Maybe we were meant to succeed. That was why Oliver couldn't correct it as it didn't need correcting. I think maybe if we return the stones to their places in time, we could pull this time heist off. We can't fuck this up though.. I will not have had Oliver die for nothing." Tony nodded 'Agreed...We are going to need the whole team for this though." I nodded back and said one simple word "Agreed."