Henry Pym wasn't use to failure, and he didn't like it one bit. He had graduated high school at age 12, and had his first degree from Seattle Technical University at age 14. When he was 16 years old, he helped save the world from alien invaders, the Dire Wraiths, with the aid of Forge and space knight Rom. Soon afterwards he joined the world's premiere super group, the Avengers League, as a technical consultant, eventually becoming a hero himself under the names Goliath and Ant-Man. He had helped pioneer the field of Artificial Intelligents (AI), even creating one of the world's first fully functional AI units, Jocasta. He had received countless rewards and even now was considered one of the great scientific minds in all the world.

Right now, none of that mattered. Pym could not figure out how to restrain this creature. He marveled at the data so far collected about the creature. It seemed to have a non-terrestrial origin, and its genetic patterns bared no similarity to anything he had seen before, or was on record within the Avengers League or SHIELD databases. The flames, which the creature generated, were not normal flame, and given time, seem to be able to burn through almost anything. Attempts to drain the creature's energy seemed to also prove futile, as the creature seemed to have an almost inexhaustible amount of energy. Henry had now begun working on creating some type of cooling chamber, but the amounts of cold needed to supplicate the creature seemed enormous, and Henry wasn't sure that Hugo, especially with all the energy already needed to supply the facility, could bare it.

"Is everything all right sir? I heard a crash," said a female voice that Pym instantly recognized as his computerized assistant Jocasta.

Pym turned to look at her. She was, as of yet, one of his greatest creations. She was a very spectacular vision, looking like a tall, well-shaped woman, only where skin and bones could be, there was instead steel and wires. She had been Pym's companion for over a fifteen years now, and now Henry didn't know what he would do without her.

"I am fine Jocasta, just a little frustrated," Pym said in a calm, restrained voice, " I'll assume it must be 6pm, since you are here in the lab. Are there any messages?"

"Several sir," said Jocasta, in her expressionless tone, "first, Henry Gyrich…"

Pym groaned and rolled his eyes. If Henry Gyrich was calling, it could only mean one of several things. Either he trying to get Pym to come work for the government, or he wanted information on someone else who he wanted to get to come work for the government. Gyrich was a thorn in the side, and a pain in the rear, and Pym had no patience for him right now.

"Next, please," said Pym in an annoyed tone.

"Ben Foster called and said he has the proto-type draining device they used on Parasite last year. He said it is being shipped-first class, and should arrive tomorrow morning."

Excellent, thought Pym, hopefully he can use the device to create something to restrain and funnel energy from Brimstone. Then, a brilliant idea struck Pym. He considered the possibility he could take the energy-draining device and convert the energy into something useful for Hugo, maybe lessening the strain upon the facility's already strained energy consumption. He quickly began to type himself a memo and a reminder to study the idea when the machine arrived in the morning. He also made himself a reminder to place a call to Ben in the morning and discuss the idea with him. He then stopped typing and looked up, and indication for Jocasta to continue her message relay.

"Finally, Forge called from Las Vegas on the secured line. He said it was very important, and that you need to contact him at The Platinum Tower casino as soon as possible."

Pym was in total shock. Something would have to be very wrong for his friend Forge to force himself to go to Vegas. Henry Pym placed a call to The Platinum Tower, the casino and hotel owned by mutual friend Simon Williams, and talked with his long-time friend Forge. Forge told him of his assault by the Reavers*, the prophecy of Destiny, and suspicions he had of a conspiracy against him and others. Pym agreed that this sounded very serious, and that tomorrow afternoon he would fly out to Vegas and discuss this whole situation with him and determine a course of action.

*The whole Forge situation took place in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Spotlight: Forge

When Pym got off the phone, he gave a number of orders to Jocasta in order to prepare for his departure to Las Vegas tomorrow. He went online to the parcel carrier, and made sure that the delivery from Foster would arrive early morning, so he could spend, at least, a couple of hours examining it, then made plans to depart to Las Vegas in his personal plane. He gave Jocasta a list of items he would require for his trip, then decided to give the whole Brimstone problem a few hours rest, deciding to go relax in his study with a glass of wine and some CNN.