And now we're meeting Bill Foster and finding the old suit. This is just filled with laughs.
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Later, everyone was walking towards the university where Hank said Bill Foster worked. Scott, Hank, and Hope wore jackets, baseball hats, and sunglasses so they wouldn't be identified. Since Roxas, Lea, Xion, Naminé, Ven, Aqua, and Terra weren't criminals on the run, they were good.
"Guys, it's not a good idea to be out in the open like this." said Scott, worried.
"Relax. No one's gonna recognize us." said Hank.
"What, because of hats and sunglasses? It's not a disguise, Hank. We look like ourselves in a baseball game." scoffed Scott.
"Don't worry Scott, so far no one is questioning anything." said Terra.
"How dense are people these days?" Lea asked.
"Strange things happen in this world of worlds all the time." shrugged Hope.
"That's true." nodded Roxas. "Aliens, gods, you name it."
"It's like back at Disney Castle." giggled Xion.
"I wonder what the others are doing." pondered Ven.
"Probably watching stand up comedy." shrugged Aqua.
Disney Castle:
And Aqua was right. They were all watching stand-up comedy… in the afterlife.
Thanks to Duckworth, most of the residents were up in the afterlife watching deceased comedians do their routines.
Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Max sat in one row of seats made of clouds. Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, Lena, and Violet sat in the one in front of them. Isa, Hayner, Pence, Olette, Seifer, Rai, Fuu, Vivi, Scrooge, Ludwig, Beakley, and Launchpad sat behind them all.
"Who would've thought that you can watch comedy in the afterlife." mused Kairi, siping a drink.
"It is amazing." Riku nodded in agreement.
"And who would've thought that even after dying, these people still have it!" Sora said enthusiastically.
Rodney Dangerfield took the stand.
"My father was stupid. He worked in a bank, and they caught him stealing pens." he told them.
Everyone laughed.
"A girl phoned me the other day and Said 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home." continued Rodney.
Everyone laughed harder.
"My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I wanted a second opinion. He said, 'Okay, you're ugly too.'" Rodney continued.
The audience roared with laughter as Rodney bowed and left.
"They never stop being funny! A-hyuck!" laughed Goofy.
"And it was nice of Tito Puente to let Myde join his musical band for this." added Kairi, pointing over to the orchestra pit.
And sure enough, Myde was sitting with the deceased band members from Tito Puente's band.
"This is fantastic!" the Melodious Nocturne cheered. "I'm playing in an actual band!"
"¡Uno, dos, tres!" said Tito.
Myde and the band began to play as John Candy took the stand.
"It's nice to see him happy." giggled Olette.
"As Saïx, I used to think Myde, as Demyx, was always annoying." said Isa. "Now, I actually think this is nice." he added with a smile.
"You really are different from Saïx." mused Kairi.
"Thank you." the bluehead nodded.
"Roxas and the others would love this." said Sora.
"Wonder how the mission's goin'." wondered Mickey.
MCU:
Inside the university, an dark-skinned man with glasses and grey hair was teaching a large class. It was Bill Foster, Hank's old college from SHIELD.
"In an isolated system... particles co-exist in a stable phase relationship. If the system is interfered with, that stability becomes chaos." explained Bill. "Unpredictable. Dangerous. Beautiful. Isolated completely, a quantum system would revert back to separate states of matter. Each entangled with a distinct state of its environment."
Roxas, Xion, Naminé, Lea, Aqua, Terra, Ven, Scott, Hope, and Hank secretly enraged the room.
"In other words, the object in question would be both in and out of phase with multiple parallel realities." continued Bill. He then froze when he saw Hank, who gave him a knowing look.
Bill sighed before addressing his class. "Speaking of being out of phase with reality... I am noticing an unusually high number of glazed eyes out there among you." he joked.
The students chuckled.
"So, why don't we call it a few minutes early. That will be enough for today, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. You may go."
The students left as Roxas and Co. waited.
Later, they were all in Bill's office. They had told him the situation.
"It's incredible. Your link to Janet. It's Quantum entanglement, between the quantum states composed of her molecules and your brains." Bill said in amazement.
"Yeah. It's what I was thinking." lied Scott, making Lea and Terra snort in amusement.
Hank rolled his eyes.
"Do you guys just put the word 'quantum' in front of everything?" asked Scott.
"That does seem like it." mused Lea.
"Doctor, we need to find our lab." said Hope.
"It's the only way we can get Janet back." added Aqua.
"Hope, I'd love to help you but I don't have the equipment you're describing." apologized Bill.
"I told you this was a waste of time." Hank said in exasperation. "Come on. Let's go."
"Come on Hank, give him a chance." pleaded Xion.
"Don't condescend, Hank. You're the one who's on the run from the FBI." Bill reminded snidely. "All because you had to grow to a size that finally fit your ego."
"Oh for crying out loud." Terra said in exasperation.
"That wasn't me in Germany. It was this idiot." said Hank, gesturing his head over to a Scott.
"Really?" Bill asked in disbelief.
Scott silently nodded.
"Going that big must've been exhausting." mused Bill.
"I slept for three days straight. You have no idea." said Scott.
"Three days?" Naminé asked in shock.
Scott nodded. "It made me lightheaded."
"Actually, I do." corrected Bill. "Back in the day, I was Hank's partner in a project called 'Goliath.'" he told them.
"Excuse me, you were my partner?" Hank asked incredulously.
"The only thing more tiring than going that big, is putting up with Hank's bullshit." said Bill.
Scott and Bill chuckled. Lea chuckled in amusement as well.
Hank just seethed, which made all the chuckling stop.
"How big did you get?" asked Scott.
"My record? Twenty-one feet." Foster replied.
Lea whistled, impressed. "Now that's tall."
"And I thought Sark was tall." said Ven.
"Mr. Staypuft was bigger." reminded Roxas.
"Not bad." said Scott.
"You?" asked Bill.
"I don't…" Scott trailed off, waving it off.
"No, really. I'm curious." said Bill.
"Yeah, how big did you grow?" asked Ven.
"Sixty-five feet. Yeah." Scott grinned
"Whoa!" Bill bragged in surprise, while also impressed. "Huge.
"Sixty-five." nodded Scott.
"Now that is ginormous." said Lea, impressed.
"He's not wrong." giggled Xion.
"If you two are finished comparing sizes…" said Hope. "We need to figure out a way to track down the lab."
"And the great Hank Pym hasn't figured that one out yet?" Bill asked mockingly.
Aqua, Terra, and Hope groaned in annoyance.
"Strange. He had all the answers back in the day." said Bill. "That's why I left the project."
"Left? I fired you." Hank corrected.
"Best decision I ever made." said Bill, ignoring the older scientist. "Hank was a terrible partner. Temperamental. Stubborn. Impatient. Sooner or later he just pushed everyone away.
"Just the mediocrities." said Hank.
"Janet was the only one who could endure him and chose to stick it out." said Bill.
"Watch it, Bill." glared Hank.
"She paid the price though, didn't she?" Bill challenged.
"You son of a bitch!" seethed Hank, chafing forwards, only to be restrained by Scott and Hope.
"Both of you control yourselves!" scolded Aqua.
Lea pointed at Bill. "And don't you go all Donald-blaming-Scrooge-for-everything on us." he said warningly.
"You mean how he blamed McDuck for Della's disappearance?" asked Bill.
The seven world travelers blinked in shock.
"How do you know that?" asked Roxas.
"SHIELD and SHUSH are allies." said Bill.
Hank sighed. "He's right."
Bill smirked.
"We keep tabs on everything." confused Hank, ignoring the smirk. "Your mouse friend, King Mickey, is a good ally too. That's how we learned about what happened to Della."
"Makes sense." shrugged Xion.
"We didn't come here to listen to you two squabble. I'm trying to save my Mother." said Hope.
"Hope's right." said Roxas. He turned to Bill. "Look Bill, save the smack talk for later and at least try to help us."
Bill sighed. "Alright."
Scott then noticed something outside. To his horror, he saw Woo and several FBI agents outside talking to some people.
"It's Woo." he told them, to Roxas and Co.'s horror.
"What's he doing here?!" Ven asked in shock.
"Someone must have seen me." Scott said worriedly.
"Relax. If this is about you they'd be in your house by now." said Hank, taking out his phone to look at the security feed in Scott's house.
On the footage, everyone saw the ant wearing headphones and playing the toy drums.
"Well he's rocking out." mused Naminé.
"What are you, fifteen?" Hank asked Scott.
"Aw lay off, sometimes adults like doing kids stuff too." said Lea. "Me, Terra, sometimes Isa, even our friend Lena likes doing stuff with Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, and Violet. And she's a teenager while their not even in their teens yet."
"It's true." nodded Xion. "They do a lot of kid things. Watch Darkwing Duck, do some karaoke nights, they even do burping contests."
"The FBI are outside and this is what we're discussing?" asked Hope incredulously. "Come on. We gotta go, right now."
Scott, Hank, and Hope out on their hats and glasses as they and the seven world-travelers went for the door.
"Wait!" called Bill.
They stopped to look at him.
"You might be able to improvise that tracker. If you modify the defraction units on one of your regulators." Bill told them.
"Oh yeah, just like how Even and Ienzo used the DNA from Aqua's armor to track her down in the Realm of Darkness." said Roxas.
Bill gestured to Roxas. "Similar to that."
"That could work." nodded Hope.
"I don't know what that means." said Scott.
"Don't have too." said Lea. "Just go along with it."
Terra opened the doors and they bolted out.
"Thank you. Thank you." said Hope as they exited.
Bill said brining as he sat back down in his chair.
Roxas, Lea, Xion, Naminé, Terra, Aqua, Ven, Scott, Hope, and Hank ran trough the halls as Woo and the FBI ran inside in another direction.
"Nice, they missed us." smirked Lea.
"Good." said Terra. "Come on, let's go."
A little while later, Woo and the FBI entered the office. Bill was pretending to look over some papers.
"But Doctor, campus police says they ID'd both Pym and Van Dyne." said Woo.
"I don't know what to tell you, agent. I haven't talked to Hank in thirty years." Bill lied while remaining calm. "I can assure you I'm the last person he would wanna visit."
"Oh, come on. You expect us to…" began Agent Stoltz.
"Hey, hey." interrupted Woo, calming him down. He tuned to Bill. "Why is that?"
"Simple. We hate each other's guts." Bill replied.
Down the road, Hank drove through town with Hope in the passenger's seat and Scott, Roxas, and Co. in the back.
"So I'm a terrible partner? Foster, he hasn't had one good idea in his unremarkable career." scoffed Hank.
"But his idea about the defractors could work." remained Hope.
"At least give the guy some credit." said Roxas.
"He's right." said Terra. "His idea can help us find the lab and then we can get Janet home."
"Fine, one decent idea." said Hank in acceptance. "Except I eliminated the defractors when I upgraded the suits."
Scott then seemed to have an idea. "So if we had an old suit, we might be able to track down the lab?" he asked.
"Yes. But we don't." said Hank.
"What if we did?" asked Scott.
All eyes fell on Scott while Hank listened.
"What do you mean?" asked Hope.
"What are ya hiding Scott?" asked Lea, rising an eyebrow.
"I mean... life's funny…" began Scott.
Hope's eyes widened. "Oh, my God. "You didn't destroy the suit."
"What?!" Hank asked in shock.
Everyone was surprised.
"Well, it was your life's work, Hank. I couldn't destroy that." replied Scott.
"That's true." nodded Xion.
"Before I turned myself in, I shrunk it down and mailed it to Luis." explained Scott.
"You sent my suit through the mail?!" Hank asked in shock and disbelief.
Lea burst out laughing. "That's like sending Sora his Keyblade through FedEx!" he chortled.
"Or getting a glider off Amazon." giggled Naminé.
"Hey, the postal service is very reliable, you know?" Scott said defensively. "They do tracking numbers now. Like UPS."
Hope smiled in amused disbelief.
"Where is it?" asked Hank.
"It's in a very safe place, alright? Don't worry." said Scott.
Scott's house:
Luis was taken to Scott on the phone as he looked on one of the shelves.
"What, the trophy? No, it's not here." Luis told him.
The van:
"What do you mean it's not there? Where could it be?" Scott asked in shock.
Scott's house:
"I-I've looked everywhere. It's not here." said Luis.
The ant then started making noises at one of the house plants.
"Hey. Get away from the plant." said Luis.
The van:
"But I put it back after Cassie and I were pla…" began Scott before trading off as he remembered what Cassie said to him during their game. "Show-and-tell." he muttered before handing up.
Scott's house:
"Scotty?" asked Luis.
When he got no response, Luis pocketed hi phone, just as the ant knocked over the plant,
"No, stop!" scolded Luis.
The van:
"Well, the good news is, I know where it is." Scott told everyone.
Brookemont Elementary School:
The van pulled up to the Elementary school just as the bell rang.
"So this is where Cassie goes to school?" asked Aqua.
"Yep." nodded Scott. "And in two years, she'll be off to Junior High." He sniffed a little. "I'm so proud."
"Just like Goofy when Max graduated." snickered Lea, remembering seeing the graduation video Goofy took.
"And how Donald will be when the boys graduate." added Roxas. He turned to Hank. "So what's the plan Hank?"
"Scott and Hope will enter the school, find Cassie's backpack, get the suit from the trophy, and then come back." said Hank.
"Seems easy enough." said Ven.
"Should we come too?" asked Xion.
"Probably not a good idea for teenagers, a 20-year-old, and someone over 20 to enter an Elementary school." said Terra.
"He's right." said Aqua. "We'll only go in if there's trouble."
"Makes sense." nodded Xion.
"Alright." said Hope, grabbing her Wasp suit. "Let's go."
Inside:
Scott and Hope flew through the halls, Scott riding on a flying ant.
"Whenever you go back to school, isn't everything supposed to look so much smaller? This place seems huge." commented Scott.
Suddenly, Scott grew a few feet and fell off the ant. "Ah!"
He tried to shrink again, but nothing happened. "What is it?"
"It's the new regulator." Hope groaned as she flew back to him.
"Hank, what's going on with this suit? How much of a work in progress is this?" called in Scott.
The van:
Roxas, Hank, Ven, Aqua, Terra, Lea, Xion, and Naminé watched the scene through the ant cams.
"Now he's the size of a toddler." chuckled Lea.
"More like the size of Webby, Violet, and the triplets." mused Xion.
"Despite the fact that this isn't good, it is a bit funny." admitted Terra, making everyone chuckle.
Inside the school:
As Scott tried to shrink, the bell rang again.
"Uh-oh." Scott said worriedly.
Then, the students left their classrooms.
"Oh, no. No, no, no." cried Scott as he ran in the opposite direction.
He hid in the janitor's closet.
"Come on! Come on!" he muttered, hitting the belt buckle, only for him to grow to a larger size, hitting his head on the ceiling.
The van:
Everyone couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Epic fail!" chortled Lea.
Janitor's closet:
Hope couldn't help but giggle at Scott's misfortune as the former criminal's mask removed itself.
"What, are you laughing?" muttered Scott, embarrassed. "Please, can you just…"
"Okay. Okay." laughed Hope as she went to Scott's buckle and grew to normal size.
Hope removed the buckle and looked inside. Some of the circuits looked fried.
"What do you see?" came Hank's voice over the com.
"The sizing coils are malfunctioning." said Hope. "Just let me…"
Hope pressed something, which electrocuted Scott.
"Oww!" he yelped.
"Sorry." Hope apologized.
"It's all right." wheezed Scott.
"Okay. All right." said Hope, pressing something buttons. "Try it now."
Scott's helmet went over his face and he shrunk to normal size. He and Hope stood in front of one another.
"So…" began Scott before suddenly shrinking to the size of a child. He tried to grow again, but nothing happened.
"Awesome." he said sarcastically.
"If only Cap could see you now." Hope teased, bending to his level.
The van:
Everyone laughed.
"Now he's Mickey and Donald's size." giggled Naminé.
Janitor's closet:
"Hilarious." Scott said sarcastically. "What are we gonna do?"
Hope looked over to see a bin with clothes labeled, "Lost and Found." An idea flew into her head. (LOL)
Hallway:
Scott snuck out into the hall wearing a blue hoodie. As he and Hope stepped/flew out of the closet, Scott was spotted by a teacher.
"Hey!" he called, making Scott freeze. "Where's your hall pass?"
Scott said and did nothing.
"Hey, I'm talking to you." called the teacher.
Scott then ran down the hall, his sleeves flailing.
"Hey! Hey…" called the teacher, designing it wasn't worth it.
Scott ran down the hall and looked at all the classroom doors before spotting one that read, "Mrs, Broadwell."
Cassie's teacher.
Scott opened the door and quickly ran inside, Hope flying in behind him as he quickly shut the door.
Scott and Hope made their way through the classroom and over to the cubbies. Scott spotted Cassie's back back on one of the high sections.
He tried to jump to grab it, but he had no success.
"You can do it. You almost got it!" Hope cheered teasingly, much to Scott's annoyance.
Hope then grew to normal size and grabbed the backpack. She deployed her mask as she handed the bag to Scott.
Scott opened it and took out the trophy.
The van:
"'World's Greatest Grandma'?" Hank, Lea, Aqua, Terra, Ven, and Xion read in confusion.
"It was all they had left." said Roxas, making Naminé giggle.
Cassie's classroom:
"Oh, Peanut." Scott whispered fondly as he looked at the trophy. He then took off the bottom, revealing the Ant-Man suit he wore the first time he became Ant-Man, taped onto it.
He took it off and handed it to Hope, just as the bell rang. Scott placed the trophy back in Cassie's bag and Hope put it back in her cubby.
"Okay. Let's go." said Hope.
With that, the two ran off, Hope shrinking down to wasp size again.
Outside:
Hope flew to the van as Scott ran down the stairs.
Lea opened the door. "Get it!" he called.
"Thanks Lea." said Hope as she flew in.
"Got the suit?" asked Aqua.
Hope showed her the shrunken suit.
"Nice." the bluehead smiled.
Scott ran into the van, but struggled to sit on the seat, much to everyone's amusement.
"Hiya, Champ! How was school today?" Hank teased.
"Hahaha. Alright, get your jokes out now." scoffed Scott. "Can you fix the suit?"
"So cranky." tease Hope.
"You want a juice box and some string cheese?" asked Hank as Lea shit the door.
"Do you really have that?" asked Scott.
"Bam!" said Ven, revealing a juice box and some string cheese.
"Alright!" cheered Scott.
"Where'd those come from?" asked Hope.
"We wear magic garments." replied Roxas. "We packed some snacks for the trip."
Hope nodded as Hank drove away from the school.
To be continued…
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