His vision was blurry then-

He stood in front of the lab, the old lab he knew so well. It wasn’t destroyed, didn’t look abandoned. He walked closer to the door, slowly opened and pushed the doors open.

Jayce enters the room with a slight limp, his leg brace supporting his weight. He looks around at the familiar, yet strangely pristine, lab. He freezes when he sees Viktor -the younger version of him from years ago-working diligently at a bench, a faint smile of excitement on his face as he tinkers with an early hexcore prototype.

"Viktor?” his voice was soft, almost that it was only audible to him. Yet it caused Viktor to look up, he was a little startled "Jayce? You're late.", he gazed at the man a few feet away from him, now noticing the brace around his leg and Jayce's older, wearier appearance "What...happened to you?“