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So I'm thinking...in a desperate attempt to escape the quantum realm, Scott uses the time vortex. He jumps into the future and that's how he meets old man Tony, at the beginning of Avengers 4?
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Read about the after credits scene for Ant-Man and the Wasp
My A4 theory
My guess is that Avengers 4 will pick up with Scott escaping the Quantum Realm by going through the time vortex described in the film and winding up in the future (yes, Hank, Janet and Hope get dusted). In the film Scott is warned to stay away from an area known as the time vortex (so much for no time travel Russos).
Maybe Scott goes into the vortex, which kicks him out in a place 4-5 years from the events of Ant-Man and the Wasp and Infinity War. This is how we see the older Cassie (as cast for A4) and introduces us to an older Tony (the gray haired Tony in the set photos). The two then go back in time using the Pym Particles and Quantum Realm, kicking off the events of A4.
This would go to explain why Tony is the only character who looks older in the set photos. And it would explain why no one else went back in time yet. Until Scott re-emerged, they didn't know the technology existed.
I could see the future timeline with future Cassie and Tony being a "Through a glass, darkly" kind of deal. In this timeline, Cassie never became Stature (because her father disappeared and her access to Pym Tech did as well with Hank and Janet going away). The Avengers are most likely dead and gone after another failed encounter with Thanos (aside from Tony because he never got over Pepper and Peter getting dusted). So Scott seeks out Tony because it's the only person he knows left that can help him go back to his own timeline (Marty McFly and Doc Brown). Tony then uses this to his advantage to correct mistakes of the past (and also the new Pym Tech provides a road to the Infinity Stones).
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