Chapter 16

"So we are one step closer to finally stopping Seth!" Wasp cheered. The sizechanger had woken up on a bed in the Moonray's infirmary. Her ribs were healing quickly thanks to her superhuman abilities. She had been knocked out for all the time that they had been in the tunnels under Hamunaptra. She had woken up just as the Moonray had cleared Egypt and had hit the blue Mediterranean Sea.

Janet looked at Hank who had not left her side since she was brought in to the infirmary. She had a smile on her face, something that shouldn't be for someone who had nearly all of their ribs broken by an ancient snake warrior who had served Seth for centuries before she was mummified alive along with her sisters.

"Yeah! We got the Book of the Dead! The reason why we came to Egypt in the first place!" Hank said as he took Janet's hand in his own. He gave her hand a kiss. "With it we can take away the power that Seth has gotten over the years and end all of this before it gets any worse!" he said as he looked at Janet.

He was glad that she had not seen the fighting that the Avengers had done in the tunnels with the monsters done there and the Serpent Sisters along with each other. He really didn't want her to see what had happened to Rogers, but he had a feeling that she was going to find out. Janet was always the member of the Avengers who was always seeing to the other Avengers. He knew it wouldn't take her long to get out of the bed that she had been put on to see the other Avengers and the Book of the Dead.

"Do you think that is all we need do to end Seth? From what I had seen before blacking out in the desert by seeing his lackeys in action I think he is the toughest thing that we have ever faced before!" she spoke up in a small voice. The sound of fear was clear in her voice.

They knew that the Book of the Dead was there only hope in defeating Seth, but there was also the fear that it was not going to work. They knew that the Book of the Dead could give Seth back all of his powers and more. The Book of the Dead was needed to be protected and hidden so Seth could not use it all. That was why they were heading back to the Black Archives in London. There it will be transported to the other UNIT base outside of Stirling where it would be hidden from the rest of the world.

"Well Cap and Nightshade both think so!" Hank replied. He looked out of the window that was beside him from where he sat. He could see that they were over land now, but he didn't know if it was mainland Europe or if they were over Britain now. He hoped that they were getting closer to Britain. Being in the Moonray was given him a headache and making him feel strange. He should be in full scientist mode being in the alien jet, but there was something that was just making him fell strange. Maybe it was because of the strange size differences in the inside of the Moonray than in the outside. The Infirmary was a large room in the Moonray, but then again every room in the Moonray was large. The Moonray was bigger on the inside much like the Doctor's TARDIS. The only difference was that the Moonray was larger on the outside other than in the inside.

"They also think that a dagger can also give the final blow to kill him! I hope that is right and not some religious story that has been told to give us hope!" Hank continued to speak when he looked back from the window and looked back at Janet. She still looked pale, but he had been advised by the Moonray that she was on the mend. All the wires that connected her to the machines that surrounded her bed adding her in her healing process.

"Hank!" Janet said as she took his hand in her own hand. She had that series look on her face that Hank knew that he was in trouble. "We are use to science! Thor and Nightshade are us to the other side of the board! They know more about this than we!" Janet continued to speak to him when she knew she had his attention.

Hank sighed and looked out the window. "Your right! Before we joined the Avengers we never thought we would be in the same room as the God of Thunder from Norse mythology and two alien creatures from another world!" he admitted. He knew he should be annoying Nightshade with questions about the Moonray and how it works, but right now he wanted to make sure that Janet was fine after her run in with the Serpent Sisters. He also found that being with Janet he didn't have to recognise that he was inside a jet that controlled by AI. Artificial Intelligence was something that Hank nor Bruce wanted to discus after the whole Ultron event that had destroyed Sokovia as the rouge AI tried to wipe out all human life from the face of the Earth. Being with Janet allowed him not to interact with the Moonray that was talking to Nightshade.

"You have to admit it!" Janet wheezed as her eyes became heavy once again. Healing took a lot out of her that she found it hard to remain awake as she talked to Hank. She could already feel the medicine that was being pumped into her bloodstream aiding her in healing. She would not be long in bed before she was up and about. She couldn't wait to teach those Serpent Sisters a thing or two about messing with her.

"Admit what?" he asked bringing Janet out of her thoughts.

"That you are finding this a lot better than being cooped up in your lab for days and now seeing the world at all!" she said without hesitation. She remembered that Hank had always been in his lab for days and would not even come out of it to get food or to clean himself. It had always been her to drag him out of his lab. And then it all changed when they were brought in to be the first members of the Avengers.

Hank looked at Janet more seriously than before. "I do find it better than me being locked up in a lab! But at the same time I miss the quiet that comes with being alone in my lab!" Hank replied. He missed his lab without Stark and Banner walking in without him saying they could walk in. He also did appreciate his teammates helping him but at the same time he didn't like how much they helped him.

The two sizechangers were brought out of their thoughts when the Moonray hit a bad bit of turbulence. The lights that glowed a bright blue suddenly shifted into a warning red colour.

"Should that be happening?" Janet asked.

Hank looked series at the ceiling. He sighed as he fought the ongoing battle that was ragging inside of him. "Moonray?" he asked the AI that was in control of the jet. Something that he hadn't liked when he first heard that it was the Moonray that was piloting the jet rather than Nightshade or Edward.

"Yes Ant-Man?" the Moonray asked. It sounded in pain, but Hank put that aside. It was a machine. It wasn't meant to fell like him and Janet. It was just some fancy programming that had been put together on an alien world.

"What's going on?" he asked. He was never going to treat it like a person like Nightshade and Edward.

"I am experiencing power failure which should not be happening! I am powered by a supernova! The only way that I can have this problem is if someone was to interfere with my powersource! There is also something that Nightshade and Edward are looking into!" the Moonray responded again.

"Alert-" the Moonray spoke up again so suddenly that Hank didn't like at all. He could tell that there was something wrong. That was only confirmed when he felt the ground meeting the underbelly of the Moonray. The sound of metal crunching against the ground that it had meet so suddenly.

The red lights were snuffed out as a warning sound echoed througout the corridors of the Moonray.

"That really isn't good!" Janet whispered as she slowly removed herself from the bed that she had been placed into.