**Note** This story takes place in the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes TV show universe with some of my own twists. It begins after episode 4 of season 2. In this version Janet (Wasp) is stuck at her smaller size due to a mishap with Pym particles, other than that the characters are basically the same as in the show. Also in this adaptation Hank's (Ant Man) Ant Man gear was damaged in the battle with Loki. Also many of the events after season 1 have been altered. In this story the Skrull's attempts at swapping bodies has been a failure for the most part therefore they aren't a current threat. The Kree are a threat, but they don't plan to attack until much later on. Basically I've changed the events from episode 5 of season 2 on.
After taking care of Loki back in Asgard, Janet had been hoping for a nice long break from all of the crime fighting. Not that Janet didn't enjoy being an Avenger, she loved it in fact, but ever since becoming an Avenger free time had become scarce. Within the few days after returning from Asgard, Janet had been kidnapped by Doctor Doom, magicked by the evil Enchantress and attacked by alien soldiers, definitely not Janet's idea of relaxing. This time right now was actually the most time she'd spent undisturbed for a long time.
Janet sat comfortably on her bed with a cheesy romance novel and a cup of warm tea in hand. As much as Jan loved her fellow Avengers and all, her favorite time was time spent in her room. Janet's room was located off of the mansion's living room, a 7 inch tall door right beside the fireplace. The room was a lot like a studio apartment for someone 5 inches tall, complete with a mini kitchen stocked full of all of the necessities, a sitting area, a bed space and a even full bathroom through a door near the back of the room. All of it was made possible by Hank Pym, who had used his self made shrinking disks to make everything appropriately sized for her.
Janet knew Hank did it all to make up for what he'd done, she could see the regret and guilt in his eyes whenever he looked at her. It had been Hank who had made Janet the Wasp, at her request of course. After her father's death at the hands of an alien entity unleashed during one of his experiments, Janet went to her father's colleague Doctor Hank Pym. Jan knew of the things Doctor Pym had done with his so called Pym particles, with a desire to avenge her father's death, Janet convinced Doctor Pym to do to her what he had done to himself. In the beginning the change in size required a release of Pym particle gas, but after a while her body absorbed enough particles to cause cellular mutation due to repeated exposure to Pym particles. While Hank genetics made him unable to absorb the Pym particles as such, Janet's did not and the size became permanent.
In an attempt to make up for what Doctor Pym saw as his worst mistake, Hank made it so Janet would be able to grow a pair of translucent insect wings on her back through genetic modifications. Using Pym particles once again, Hank also made it possible for Janet to harness and augment her body's natural bioelectric energy to be release from her hands in powerful electric bursts. Though Hank often corrected her and went on to explain the scientific definition, Janet insisted on calling this ability her 'stingers'. After all of it, she did manage to get her revenge, sending the horrible creature called Pilai to prison with the help of Ant Man.
Sure, being several feet smaller than a normal human wasn't the easiest thing in life to deal with but had it not been for what Hank had done Janet never would have been able to join the Avengers and become a real life superhero. Being constantly the size of an insect made life living around the much taller Avengers a bit uncomfortable, but she had her little room to go to and Hank could always shrink down to her size. Though Hank continued to punish himself even after two years, Janet refused to blame him and in fact had grown to care for him in way she had never cared about anyone else before.
Jan and Hank's relationship was a strange one, they weren't girlfriend and boyfriend and yet they were more than just friends. If it were not for Hank's constant obsession with his science stuff as well as his continuing guilt, they would probably be dating by now. Hank just wasn't good socially, he seemed to prefer hanging around ants than human beings. In fact Hank didn't really like being an Avenger, not only was not fond of violence, he also just didn't do well with others. It had been Janet who had convinced him into joining the team and it often seemed like she was the only one keeping him around. Hank had already tried quitting the team but had been forced back into battle with the attempted takeover by the evil Ultron and then the whole Loki thing. Janet hadn't seen since coming back from Asgard, he had successfully avoided the last couple of fights. Jan hoped he'd show up soon, she really wanted to talk to him, to try to convince him to stop trying to quit the team.
Just then Janet heard the loud and slightly earth shaking footsteps that announced that someone was out in the living room. She knew it could have been any of the Avengers, but she jumped to her feet and peeked out the door just in case. To her pleasure, Janet had been right, the footsteps did indeed belong to Hank Pym.
Jan could help but smiled at the sight of her...more-than-a-friend-but-not-a-boyfriend as she stepped out of her little room and flew up to normal sized human eye level. Hank could be the greatest guy in the world at times, but a majority of the time he was his difficult work obsessed self.
Unfortunately, Hank's Ant Man gear had been seriously damaged by an especially powerful magic blast from Loki the other day, meaning he couldn't change to Jan's size. Hank had promised to fix it, that was the only reason Janet had given him a pass on missing the past few 'Avenger's Assembles'. She hoped he'd gotten the gear up and running again, it would be nice to be able to hug more than his finger or something.
"Hey you're back." Jan said cheerfully, flying beside Hank's head as he walked, who was showing no sign of stopping to talk.
"I knew you'd come back, this is where we belong." She said, following Hank as he headed to the lab.
"I know you're not sure about this, but after what we did up in Asgard I think we can really make this work." She continued, not yet noticing how one-sided the conversation was and how less than excited Hank looked.
"Jan-" Hank finally said as he walked into the lab.
"You know, I was thinking maybe we could upgrade my stingers, add a little more punch to them." Jan chattered as she landed on one of the various clutter covered tables in the lab.
"Do you think there's a way to make me fly faster, because that'd be-wait, what are you doing?" She finally seemed to realizing what was going on as Hank began to fill a cardboard box with his lab stuff.
Hank let out a long sigh as he placed a shrinking disk onto the now full box causing the box as well as its contents to shrink to a pocket size.
"Jan, I know you find it difficult to accept this but I'm done." Hank said, tossing another shrinking disk onto his oddly shaped dome lab thing.
After pocketing the dome lab Hank turned and began to make his way out of the lab forcing Janet to fly after him.
"I know you don't really like all the fighting and stuff, but maybe you could help in other ways or something." Janet said, the once cheery tone gone.
As he walked into the foyer Hank let out another exasperated sigh, his eyes down on his feet with a very glum expression on his face.
"The Avengers just isn't for me Jan, maybe it is for you-"
"What about Ant Man, we're supposed to be a team Hank." Janet cried now flying directly in front of Hank's face with her arms crossed over her chest.
"I can't fix the Ant Man gear." Hank said sharply, avoiding Janet's eyes.
"What do you mean you can't fix-" Janet began but was quickly cut off.
"I just can't." Hank suddenly yelled frustratedly, causing Janet to jump back a few inches in the air.
For once in her life Janet was rendered speechless. Hank hardly ever yelled, he just wasn't the kind of person to raise his voice, especially against Janet. She simply stared at Hank with wide eyes full of hurt surprise.
"I'm sorry Janet, but I'm leaving." Hank said darkly then stepped around Janet and went out the door, leaving Janet to stare after him in misery.