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"We're doing our own version of the origin story of Ultron....We were crafting our own version of it where [Ultron's] own origin comes more directly from the Avengers we already know about. The other thing is in the origin story there was Hank Pym, so a lot of people assumed he was going to be in the mix, but he's not. We're basically taking the things from the comics for the movies that we need and can use. A lot of stuff has to fall by the wayside." Weddon's words. I highlighted the important part, and that is Hank Pym will dont show up in AoU. Maybe he will be mentioned, but that is as farest as it gets.

They werent looking for Red Skull, because they never knew that he was teleported away. Most likely, no one in HYDRA until Chitauri invasion knew Tesseract can be used for transgalactic transport. And Rogers would probably not even knew that Red Skull was teleported away. Maybe he do, but he will dont tell it, just that Red Skull is gone.

The reason for the faciltiy where Tessract is in beginning of Avengers, is that it is Project PEGASUS, which was joint operation of NASA and couple of other organizations for its use of energy to power the Earth with energy, or research of it to create new source of energy to help humanity. And to eventually start "Phase 2", making new Tesseract-powered weapons to defend the world.