Volume II: Ant-Man and the Wasp

Note: This will be the twentieth chapter of Volume II, this will bring back Dr. Hank Pym who made an previous appearance, only this time he become the new hero called Ant-Man and joining him in making her first appearance is Janet Van Dyne who becomes his partner the Wasp. Both of them will cross paths with Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider as they team up against a supervillain who can harness Pym Particles like they can, he calls him the Black Ant. Bill Foster becomes a supporting character for Ant-Man and Wasp, while Mitch Carson is a secondary antagonist playing a rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist working with Agent Eric O'Grady in stealing the tech schematics and formula of the Ant-Man suit to create their own. Meanwhile Mary Jane is helping Flash deal with his family problem as this will involve George Stacy's intervention in breaking the cycle of violence happening in the Thompson's residence. Tony Stark will also make an appearance as he will ask Hank Pym for help in a secret project to protect mankind from future threats.

It's April 5th in Jersey City as an unknown man in black is sneaking into the Pym Laboratories, a small privately owned lab is closed for the night as the place is packing with cutting edge security system. This man uses his googles to detect infrared beams guarding the hallways, he turns to the control panels. He uses his scanner on the control panel to find some prints on the digit codes, his tech is calculating the most likely combination used to shut down the system, he found that 062362 is the very likely combination, he pressed in the digits and the security systems shuts down and the infrared beams turns off as well.

He then proceed ahead towards the restricted section of the building where all the prototype tech along with experimental formulas are stored, he even found a mainframe inside as he pulls out a thumb drive, he plugs it into the computer as it bypassed the firewalls with ease, he found the schematics for the Ant-Man suit, he proceeded to download copies of the project into the drive as it starts loading. While the drive is downloading the data, this guy looked around to find the experimental Pym Particles store here, some of them are red and the others are blue, he grabs some of them and started putting them into the bag. Meanwhile the computer is still at 95% of the download, this guy watched as the screen finally reached 100%, the download is complete, he takes out the drive and started to leave the lab as fast as he can with all he came to steal. He rearmed the security system as to avoid any suspicion of theft.

He made it outside as he got everything he needed from Pym Laboratories, some of the Pym Particles and the Ant-Man suit schematics stored in the flash drive. He then got a transmission on his earpiece from his superior who ordered him to break into the lab.

"Agent O'Grady, status report? Did you get them?" Mitch Carson asking Eric O'Grady.

"Yes Dr. Carson, I've managed to obtain samples of the Pym Particles and the schematics to the suit, I have everything you've asked me to steal." Eric O'Grady informed Mitch Carson.

"Excellent, head for the S.H.I.E.L.D. research facility in upstate New Jersey and bring everything to me." Mitch Carson orders Eric O'Grady.

"Yes sir." Eric O'Grady comply with the order.

The thief is Eric O'Grady, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., working under orders of Mitch Carson, he then leaves the area with everything he stole from Pym Laboratories, something very valuable enough to make Agent O'Grady break in and steal it.


Two weeks later, it's April 19th at Midtown High, the school bell rang, school has ended for the day as everyone is leaving science class, Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane are walking out of the classroom, Flash came out and catch up to Mary Jane walking down the hall with her friends.

"Hey MJ, are we still on for our meeting at the Coffee Bean?" Flash asking Mary Jane.

"Sure thing, Flash. I'll see you later." Mary Jane told Flash.

"Okay, I gotta drop of some stuff at home and I'll meet you at the Coffee Bean later." Flash told Mary Jane.

"Okay, see you there." Mary Jane told Flash.

"Bye." Flash waved Mary Jane goodbye before he walks away.

Mary Jane waved back as Peter and Gwen looked at her with a very confused look in their eyes, she turns to her friends as they gave her the look.

"What?" Mary Jane is curious.

"Nothing, since when did you and Flash started hanging out more often?" Peter is surprised by their sudden relationship.

"It's nothing, we just connected, that's all." Mary Jane told Peter.

"Are you two like dating or something?" Gwen is curious about Mary Jane's relationship with Flash.

"What? No, we just hang out and talk, as just friends." Mary Jane denied there's anything romantic between her and Flash.

"We noticed, he called you MJ, only your friends call you MJ." Gwen smiled at Mary Jane.

"That's right, I told him to call me MJ." Mary Jane told Gwen.

Peter and Gwen continue giving Mary Jane the look as she herself is embarrassed by this whole subject about her and Flash being a couple.

"I'm going to head back home, I'll see you both another time." Mary Jane is walking away from her friends.

"Bye!" Peter waves to Mary Jane walking away.

Peter and Gwen watched her walked out of the school, they're quite very surprised that Mary Jane formed a friendship with high school jock Flash Thompson.

"Her and Flash? When did that happened?" Gwen is still surprised and confused.

"No idea." Peter is clueless to their relationship.


At the Thompson Residence, Officer Harrison Thompson is sitting on the couch after returning home after his shift, he is watching TV in the living room drinking beer. Flash just returned home after school and he found his father in his uniform sitting on the couch drinking, his father turns to see his son home.

"You're home early." Flash tells his dad.

"It's my house, where else would I be, boy?" Harrison Thompson tells his son.

"Well don't let me interrupt you, I just came to drop off my stuff and I'm heading out." Flash told his dad he's leaving.

"Whatever, just get out of here and leave me alone." Harrison Thompson drinks some more alcohol.

Flash just dropped his back and left the house without saying a word, Harrison still ignores his son as he doesn't care what Flash is doing. Flash is walking out of the house feeling upset for the way his father treated him, even though he's used to it, it still hurts him deep inside.


Later at Stark Tower, the whole place has been renovated to suit the Avengers needs, the whole floor is guarded by state of the art security system, unknown to anyone something very small managed to made it out of the air vent, it looked like a tiny man in a black and red suit, he uses his helmet to scan the place to see that it's got motion sensors all over the place.

"Black Ant, are you inside?" Mitch Carson contacting Black Ant over the comms.

"Affirmative, no one is home, but security in here is much tighter than Pym's." Black Ant reporting to Mitch Carson.

"Then proceed to Stark's personal quarter and access his computer, download the schematics to new developed Stark tech." Mitch Carson orders Black Ant.

"Understood, I'm going in." Black Ant proceeded with the infiltration.

Black Ant is sneaking on the Avengers Floor and avoided all the security measures in place. He managed to reach Tony Stark's quarters undetected as he then enlarge himself back to his regular size, he found the computer and pulls out the thumb drive. He plugs it into the computer and started hacking, unknown to him, the silent alarm has been trigger the moment he attempted to access the computer without authorization.


Meanwhile at the Spider-Cave, Gwen is eyeballing the glass cases of Spider-Man's collection of suits, the wrestler suit, the original Spider-Man suit, the Spider-Armor, the Iron-Spider Armor, the Black Widow stealth suit, and the recently added Electro-Proof Suit he created against Electro.

"How is it that you have many suits?" Gwen is asking Peter.

"Don't know, but Tony has his own collection of suits in a place he calls the Hall of Armor." Peter tells Gwen.

"I guess you both think alike." Gwen says to Peter.

The supercomputer screen beeps as a live image of Tony Stark shows up and got Peter and Gwen's attention, he's calling from his home in California.

"Parker, Stacy, glad I've reached you." Tony speaking to Peter and Gwen through the screen.

"What is it, Tony?" Peter is curious.

"There's a situation happening at Stark Tower, the silent alarm got tripped and I'm still here in California. You two are the most closest to the tower, can you both go check out the disturbance?" Tony asking them for their help.

"Sure thing, we're on it." Peter agreed to help Tony.

"Thanks kid, I'll owe you one." Tony signed off the FaceTime.

"Let's get going, Gwen." Peter tells Gwen.

Peter and Gwen each grabbed their own suits as they have work to do at Stark Tower.


Back at Stark Tower, Black Ant is looking over the schematics of new Stark Technology being developed by Tony Stark himself, a prototype energy shield for Captain America and the Hulkbuster Armor for Iron Man himself. The download bar is at 85% as Black Ant is still waiting for it to be finished, the bar finally reached 100%, the download is complete, Black Ant pulled the drive out of the computer as he got everything he came for.

"Got it, the download is complete." Black Ant informs Mitch Carson.

"Excellent, return to base immediately." Mitch Carson orders Black Ant.

"On my way." Black Ant is about to make his escape.

Black Ant is leaving Tony's quarters until he stops himself to see both Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider entering through the balcony, he suddenly shrinks himself down to small size and hides behind the coffee table staying out of sight.

"Crap." Black Ant still hiding and whispering.

"What's wrong?" Mitch Carson is curious as to what's going on.

"Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are here at the tower, I've must've triggered a silent alarm." Black Ant informs Mitch Carson about the heroes presences.

"Damn it, stay out of sight and don't let them see you." Mitch Carson orders Black Ant to remain hidden.

"Will do." Black Ant is ordered to stay out of sight.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are on the floor as they see that the door to Tony's personal quarters has been opened and the computer has been used very recently, but there's still no sign of the thief, but their spider senses are still tingling as its telling them that danger is close by.

"Someone has been here, and they still are." Spider-Man told Ghost-Spider.

"I know, I can sense it too." Ghost-Spider told Spider-Man.

"Use the mask sensors to scan around." Spider-Man suggested to Ghost-Spider.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider uses the hi tech lens from their mask to scan around the place to find anything unusual, they continue to look around until their sensors picked up something very small on the coffee table, their mask zoomed in to see what appears to be a man.

"Damn it, get out of there." Mitch Carson sounded upset.

"Don't worry, they can't see me." Black Ant assured Mitch Carson.

"We can see you!" Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider said in unison.

"They can see me." Black Ant is busted.

Black Ant jumped off the table and enlarged himself back to regular size as they see a man dressed in a black and red suit, they're quite surprised to see what this guy could do.

"Who are you suppose to be?" Spider-Man asking who this guy is.

"Hi, I'm Black Ant." Black Ant introduced himself.

"Black Ant? Never heard of you." Ghost-Spider isn't familiar by that name.

"Of course you wouldn't heard of me." Black Ant tells the heroes.

"Mind telling us what you're doing up here, Black Ant?" Spider-Man wants to know the purpose of his visit.

"Oh, I just came here to hack into Stark Industries network and steal the schematics to new Stark Technology. Hope you don't mind?" Black Ant confessed his crimes to them.

"Actually we do mind a lot, and we're taking you in." Spider-Man walked up closer to Black Ant.

"Sorry about this!" Black Ant then shrinks himself down.

Spider-Man missed bringing in Black Ant who miniaturized himself and jumps up for an uppercut and punched Spider-Man upwards with full strength, he flew up and crashed against the ceiling. Ghost-Spider intervened as she fired some web shots at the Black Ant who is jumping around and dodging all the web projectiles with ease, he then charged at her and enlarged to do the flying knee strike and hits her pretty hard. Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are getting bested by a new supervillain with shrinking tech.

"Had enough?" Black Ant being prideful in his abilities.

"No, not nearly enough." Spider-Man is getting back up.

Spider-Man fights back as fired a couple of webbing at Black Ant who then shrinks back to small size and disappears, he is still in the room somewhere as Spidey remains vigilant for the next attack.

"Come on, where are you?" Spider-Man whispered to himself.

Black Ant managed to circle himself around and he's behind Spider-Man waiting to attack him. Spider-Man closes his eyes and waits for Black Ant to make his move. Black Ant then charges in for an attack behind Spider-Man's back, he enlarged himself to tossed in a punch but Spider-Man sensed him and reacted by executing a spinning back kick, he managed to kick Black Ant that he sent him crashing against the wall, some of his Pym Particles got loss from his belt by the impact.

"Damnit!" Black Ant cursed in pain as he picks up the Pym Particles.

"Black Ant, get out of there right now! That's an order!" Mitch Carson gave Black Ant a direct order.

Black Ant is pretty low on Pym Particles as he used most of it up infiltrating the tower and using it against Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider in combat. The two heroes gained the upper hand as they're both rushing to subdue him, but Black Ant shrinks himself down small and rushed through the wall air vent and slips on through, Spider-Man bend down and pulled the vent off as he could see that Black Ant is already gone.

"Do you see him?" Ghost-Spider asking about Black Ant.

"No... he got away." Spider-Man informs Ghost-Spider.

Spider-Man got up as they're too late to stop Black Ant from escaping, they're disappointed that they couldn't stop the theft in time. Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider were about to head on out until Spider-Man stopped and noticed something on the floor, something red.

"Wait!" Spider-Man told Ghost-Spider.

Spider-Man walked over and picked up the Pym Particle container in his hand and shows it to Ghost-Spider.

"What is that?" Ghost-Spider is curious.

"I don't know, but I think he dropped it when I kicked him." Spider-Man is just as clueless as Ghost-Spider.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are curious as to what they have right now, something that Black Ant once owned.


In Tribeca at the Coffee Bean, Mary Jane is all alone with her cup of coffee, waiting for Flash to come, she then smiles as she saw him walking in towards her, he took his seat and is facing Mary Jane.

"Sorry I'm a bit late, MJ." Flash says to Mary Jane.

"No need, you're here. Is everything alright?" Mary Jane is wondering about Flash.

"Yeah, everything is fine." Flash tries to hide it.

"If you don't want to tell me, it's okay." Mary Jane says to Flash.

Flash tries to hide what is going on in his house concerning his relationship with his dad who suffering from alcohol abuse.

"Okay, I'll tell you. It's my dad." Flash wants to talk about it with Mary Jane.

"What's going on with him? You can tell me." Mary Jane is listening.

"My dad… he's an alcoholic." Flash confessed to Mary Jane.

Mary Jane is shocked to hear that Flash's father is an alcoholic just like hers was.

"I didn't know... how long has he been drinking?" Mary Jane asking about the alcohol abuse.

"For eight years, he wasn't like this before, but something terrible happened to him that he refused to talk about it with anyone, something on the job. That's when the drinking started, normally he would drink in two cans a day, but as the years go by, it only gotten worse." Flash explained about the alcohol abuse.

"I know what that's like, my old man was also a drinker, my mom couldn't take it with him getting violent as he got drunker, she took me away to protect me. I had no idea that you've been living under this unhealthy environment for years." Mary Jane relates her experiences with Flash.

"If I say anything to him, he gets angry, at me or anyone, so we pretty much stay out of his way to avoid any conflicts, but it's getting harder living under the same roof." Flash says to Mary Jane.

"Flash, you can't keep living under this abuse for too long, you need to talk to somebody about this." Mary Jane encourages Flash to put a stop to this abuse.

"MJ, I can't, if I try to get in between my family, it could only make things worse." Flash refuses to tell anyone.

"From what you're telling me, it's already gotten worse." Mary Jane says to Flash.

"Please don't tell anyone what I've just told you." Flash tells Mary Jane to stay quiet.

"I can't promise you that." Mary Jane can't keep this secret.

Flash could tell that she won't let this go, he then gets up and walks away from her, leaving the Coffee Bean. Mary Jane doesn't want to sit idly by and let terrible things happen to Flash and his family, she might know someone she can turn to about this subject.


At the S.H.I.E.L.D. research facility in upstate New Jersey, Dr. Mitch Carson is waiting in his office as the Black Ant has finally returned, he took off the helmet to show the face of Eric O'Grady, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent working under Mitch Carson. He smiles as he got the flash drive containing schematics to Stark Tech.

"I'm back and I've got what you've asked for, Dr. Carson." Eric O'Grady is prideful in his success.

Mitch Carson got up and not looking too happy about the recent complications that Agent O'Grady is performing concerning his discovery by the heroes.

"What did I just say, O'Grady?! I told you not to show yourself! For good reason!" Mitch Carson is very upset.

"Hey! What's the problem, Doc?!" Eric O'Grady is confused by Carson's anger.

"What's the problem? You're the problem! I told you to stay hidden and not to be sighted! You're attracting too much attention!" Mitch Carson explain his reasons being angry.

"Look Doc, I did what you've asked, you're the one who told me to sneak into Stark Tower to steal Stark tech schematics." Eric O'Grady says to Mitch Carson.

"And you exposed yourself to those two heroes, now they know of your existence and what you're capable of. No one is suppose to know about this technology yet, Nick Fury and those other higher ups at S.H.I.E.L.D. don't know about what we've done yet. If they did, then we're all in deep trouble." Mitch Carson explained about this risks.

"Relax Doc, thanks to this tech you've built, I've managed to bested both those heroes and escape without a hitch." Eric O'Grady assured Mitch Carson.

"This time, next time might not be so lucky. Just hand me the drive and you're dismissed." Mitch Carson wants the data.

Eric O'Grady hands Mitch Carson the drive containing data on new Stark Technology, Eric O'Grady walked out of the office still wearing the Black Ant suit. He then enters the restroom and looks himself in the mirror as he's experiencing some head pain of some sort.

"Ah, what's wrong with my head?" Eric O'Grady is having head pain.

Eric shakes his head trying to get rid of the pain, he then looks at the mirror.

"Why does he have to treat you like this, huh? I'm the one who risking his ass out there, not him! No one treats you like this, no one!" Eric O'Grady talks to himself.

Eric is feeling the side effects of the Pym Particles and what it does to the brain without any protection.


Back at Stark Tower, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are inside the lab as they're about to examine the red liquid that Black Ant left behind during the fight, a holographic image of Tony Stark shows up in the lab surprising the two heroes.

"Tony?" Spider-Man surprised by the holographic presence of Tony Stark.

"Did you both find out what happened?" Tony is curious about the break-in.

"We came up against someone wearing a black tech suit, he's got some kind of shrinking tech." Spider-Man explained about the new guy.

"Shrinking tech?" Stark is confused.

"We know what we saw, he calls himself the Black Ant, he escaped, but he left this behind." Spider-Man holding up a container of Pym Particles.

"What is it?" Tony is curious what Spider-Man is holding.

"We're about to find out." Spider-Man says to Tony.

Spider-Man walked over to the work station and opens up the container, he took a swab of the red liquid, he slowly applies it over the microscope for study, but a single drop of that liquid dropped onto the microscope and it instantly shrinks down to very miniature size right before their eyes.

"Whoa!" Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are amazed.

"What's 'Whoa?' What just happened?" Tony asking them what happened.

"The microscope got shrunk down by the mere drop of this stuff. Whatever this is, it can shrink anything it touches, this is like very cutting edge stuff, unlike anything anyone has ever seen before." Spider-Man is amazed by this stuff.

"Until now." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.

"Interesting, could this be what I think it is?" Tony has some suspicion what it could be.

"What?" Spider-Man is curious.

"I heard rumors from S.H.I.E.L.D. about a game changing formula that can alter the distance between atoms." Tony explain what he knows.

"Shrinking and enlarging." Spider-Man says to Tony.

"Exactly." Tony says to Spider-Man.

"Any idea who created it?" Ghost-Spider asking Tony who is the lead designer.

"There's only one man capable of making this stuff, we went to M.I.T. together and he's one of the smartest men on the planet, his name is Dr. Hank Pym." Tony told them that Hank Pym is their guy.

"Hank Pym? I remember that guy." Spider-Man knows who he is.

"Yeah, we meet him at the '21 Stark Expo, he did a demonstration on his technology to communicate with ants, it was impressive." Ghost-Spider remembers that moment.

"Well, you just in luck, his company is based out of Jersey City, across the river. Better hop on your bikes, looks like you're both riding to the Garden State." Tony tells them where to find Hank Pym.

"Thanks for the info, Tony. We'll catch this Black Ant and bring him to justice, I promise." Spider-Man assured Tony.

"Good luck to you both." Tony ended transmission as the hologram disappears.

"Let's get going." Ghost-Spider told Spider-Man.

"Next stop, Jersey City." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are planning to head for Jersey City to seek out Hank Pym for some answers.


Meanwhile at the 13th precinct, Mary Jane walked into the precinct that Gwen's dad is in charge of, she approached the desk sergeant who sees her coming.

"Can I help you, miss?"

"Yes, I'm here to see Captain George Stacy, I need to talk to him, tell him that Mary Jane Watson is here, please." Mary Jane explained her reason for her visit.

"Hold on."

The officer made a call and reached through the landline to George Stacy's officer.

"Stacy here?" George Stacy over the phone.

"Captain Stacy, there's a teenage redhead here who wants to speak to you, she said her name is Mary Jane Watson."

"I see, bring her to my office immediately." George Stacy orders the officer.

"Understood." The officer puts away the phone. "Follow me please."

Mary Jane follow the office to the precinct elevator as they both went up to the office floor.

Meanwhile George Stacy is over the phone with Gwen who is informing him that both she and Peter are heading out of town for awhile to investigate a case they're working on.

"Okay, you both take care of each other." George Stacy tells his daughter.

"I will, love you dad." Gwen told her dad.

"Love you too." George Stacy says before he hangs up the phone.

The office door is knocking as someone is outside awaiting permission.

"Yeah?!" George Stacy calling out to whoever's outside.

The office door opens as the desk sergeant brought Mary Jane to Captain Stacy's office.

"Thank you, officer. Come in." George Stacy invites Mary Jane into his office.

The desk sergeant walked away as Mary Jane enters the office to meet up with George Stacy.

"I'm sorry if I interrupted your work, Captain Stacy." Mary Jane told George Stacy.

"Don't worry, you didn't. I just got off the phone with Gwen, she and Peter are heading for Jersey City to follow up a lead. So what can I do for you?" George Stacy informed Mary Jane.

"I came here to ask you for some advice on a delicate subject." Mary Jane says to George Stacy.

"Sure, what is it?" George Stacy is willing to listen.

"What do you know about an officer named Harrison Thompson?" Mary Jane asking George Stacy.

"Not much, I just know that he's Flash's father, lives in the same neighborhood like you and Peter, he works out of the precinct in Queens, he's pretty much keeps to himself. Why are you asking about him?" George Stacy is curious to the questions.

Mary Jane remained quiet as she doesn't know whether to tell Flash's secret or not, but George Stacy could tell that this subject is something serious enough for her to stay quiet.

"Mary Jane, if there's something going on and you decided to keep it quiet, you should speak out and not look the other way." George Stacy encouraged Mary Jane to speak.

"Okay… I'll tell you. You should sit down for what I'm about to share with you." Mary Jane told George Stacy.

George Stacy sits down and listens. "I'm listening."


Meanwhile at Pym Laboratories in Jersey City, the owner of the company Dr. Hank Pym is currently conducting tests on the new Goliath suit with his assistant Bill Foster as the test subject, the suit is white and blue with a specialized helmet designed to protect the brain from the side effects. In the same room is the Ant-Man suit that is red and next to it is the Wasp suit built for the female build and is yellow. Dr. Hank Pym is a blonde hair scientist of 37 years of age and stands at 6 foot.

"Okay, conducting the enlargement test of the Goliath suit. Are you ready, Bill?" Hank Pym asking Bill Foster.

"Ready!" Bill Foster gave Hank the thumbs up.

"Testing in 3, 2, 1!" Hank Pym countdowns the test.

Bill Foster then pressed the button on his glove as he starts to enlarge himself to humongous stature, more taller than the average human as he continues to grow larger. Sudden the lab door opens and Janet Van Dyne came in to see her fiancé still working on his Pym Particle project. Janet Van Dyne is a former supermodel now turned fashion designer, she is currently engaged to Hank Pym. Janet is a 30 year old female with short brunette hair and has quite an exquisite figure standing at 5 '4. She stands next to her fiancé watching Bill Foster grew taller, Hank smiled as he sees Janet next to him. Bill Foster finally reached his limits as he began to feel disoriented.

"I don't think I can keep this up, I'm feeling sleepy." Bill Foster feeling tired out.

"Oh okay, shrink back to normal, Bill!" Hank tells Bill Foster to turned back to normal size.

Bill Foster then uses the button to shrinks himself down to normal size as Hank and Janet rushed to his side to keep him from falling down in exhaustion, they both got a hold of him.

"Bill, are you alright?!" Hank asking Bill Foster.

"Yeah, just need to lay down a bit and I'll be good as new." Bill Foster is tired out.

"Sure thing, guess growing too big uses up too much of your body's energy. Go get some rest, Buddy." Hank tells Bill Foster to rest up.

Bill Foster walks out of the testing site as Hank and Janet are left all alone now to talk.

"How goes the fashion business?" Hank asking Janet.

"Great as always." Janet tells Hank.

Janet then looks at the recently designed suits, the Ant-Man suit and the Wasp suit.

"Admiring your work?" Janet asking Hank.

"Not just my work, yours too. Even thought I invented the technology, you came up with the designs." Hank complimented Janet's design.

"I always figured red is your color, and yellow suits me better." Janet says to Hank.

"Well, now that Bill is gone, we got some time to ourselves." Hank is flirting with Janet.

"What do you have in mind?" Janet smiles as she has some ideas.

Hank pulled her in closer as they kiss, Janet ended up kissing back wildly.

"Really? Here?" Janet still kissing Hank.

"Why not?" Hank still kissing Janet.

Hank lifts Janet off the ground and sat her down on the tab, she wrapped her legs around his waist as they continue kissing. Janet pulled Hank's shirt off as things are starting to heat up with passion, until Hank's phone got an alert on it, they stopped their moments of passion as they're disappointed that the time is bad.

"Shit! Seriously?!" Hank is very disappointed.

"What's wrong?" Janet is curious what the trouble is.

Hank held up the phone to see what this is all about, he checked the security feed to see Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider infiltrating the perimeter, he and Janet watched them sneak around the premise.

"What are they doing here?" Janet is very confused.

"I don't know, but we should throw them quite the welcome party, shall we? Suit up." Hank suggested to Janet.

Hank and Janet walked over to the glass cases where the suits are stored and prepares to suit up.

(Outside)

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider left their Spider-Cycles outside the perimeter as they managed to get pass it, they looked up to see the building, Pym Laboratories.

"Here we are, Pym Labs. Let's go find the man himself and get some answers." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider proceeded with climbing up the wall towards the air vents to sneak inside the building undetected.

(Inside)

Inside Hank Pym's personal lab, the air vent opened as Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider dropped down and landed in a three point stance, they see that the room is empty.

"Huh? No one is here." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.

"Let's look around." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.

They split up and started searching the place for some answers, unknown to either of them, a couple of tiny individuals are hiding here watching the heroes walk around looking. Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider looked at the place to see that it's has all the advanced resources available. Spider-Man then noticed something nearby, a separate room that looks like a storage unit.

"Ghost-Spider, over here!" Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.

"Did you find something?" Ghost-Spider walked over to Spider-Man's side.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider looked at the storage unit to find containers filled with red liquids as well as blue liquids, the red ones are identical to the one that Black Ant dropped.

"Look familiar?" Spider-Man told Ghost-Spider.

"Looks like we're at the right place." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider have their spider senses tingling as something blasted them from behinds, they both got stung by some kind of yellow energy blast. They recovered as they see something very small flying in the air, it looked human with wings.

"What the?" Ghost-Spider is confused.

"You both came to the wrong place." Wasp is still small and flying.

"On the contrary, seems like we're at the right place, Tinker Bell." Spider-Man told Wasp.

Their spider senses tingles again as giant ants are approaching them, they have them cornered and trapped.

"Ants?" Ghost-Spider is confused.

"What is going on here?" Spider-Man is confused too.

A flying ant is hovering in the air as someone very small is riding it, he jumps off the ant and enlarged himself to normal size, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider sees a man in red who's technology is similar to the Black Ant's.

"That's what I like to know." Ant-Man standing before the heroes.

Wasp then enlarged herself and retract her wings back, they sees a female dressed in a yellow tech suit like the red one, but her's has wings and energy blasts.

"For a couple of heroes, we sure got the drop on you easy." Wasp tells the heroes.

"Is that right?" Spider-Man says to Wasp.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider jumped up above them and fired a couple of webbing at some of the ants, trapping them down, Ant-Man and Wasp teams up to fight the spiders. Ant-Man commanded the ants to attack Spider-Man who then fired some webbings around the ants. Wasp then shrinks down and flies up, she attacks Ghost-Spider with her energy blasts, but Ghost-Spider is dodging the attacks as Wasp is flying in closer to her, she then enlarged herself and executed a inner crescent kick on Ghost-Spider's face, knocking her down, Spider-Man sees his partner bested.

"Ghost-Spider!" Spider-Man is worried for Ghost-Spider.

"Hey kid!" Ant-Man is small and jumps up.

Spider-Man looks down to see Ant-Man jumping up for an uppercut and strikes Spider-Man's chin, he got knocked hard up and landed next to Ghost-Spider who is also down, they're getting bested by two insect themed opponents.

"They're tough." Ghost-Spider tells Spider-Man.

"Yeah... I know." Spider-Man reluctantly admits.

"Wanna trade dance partners?" Spider-Man asking Ghost-Spider.

"Sure." Ghost-Spider agrees with Spider-Man.

They high five each other's hands to trade their opponents, Ghost-Spider jumps up and attacks Ant-Man with a flying side kick but the Ant-Man shrinks down, meanwhile Wasp shrinks down and flies as she fired off her Wasp stings at Spider-Man, but he jumps up to dodge her attacks. Ant-Man is still small as he jumps onto his flying ant companion and flies up in the air above Ghost-Spider, she keeps her eyes closed waiting for Ant-Man to make the first move, he drops down as he enlarged himself for a head drop on her, but Ghost-Spider sensed him as she jumps up and counters with a flying uppercut, she hits him in the head as he fell back down on his back, she then webbed up both his hands to keep him from pulling any of his shrinking tricks.

"Gotcha!" Ghost-Spider defeated Ant-Man.

Meanwhile Spider-Man does some backflips avoiding Wasp's stings, he then stops and counters by firing webbing at Wasp as she got covered and pinned up against the wall still very small.

"And I got her." Spider-Man defeated Wasp.

Both Ant-Man and Wasp have been defeated by the two spider heroes as they're covered in webbing, unable to use theirs hands to access the Pym Particles. Ant-Man is having trouble getting loose as the spiders have them outmatched.

Ant-Man sighed. "Okay, you've beaten us! So can one of you care to tell us what the hell is going on here?!"

"We were hoping you could tell us, since one of you broken into our place and stolen from us!" Spider-Man accused them of the theft.

Ant-Man and Wasp are very confused by these accusations they're throwing at them, being accused of something they haven't even done.

"What are you talking about?!" Ant-Man and Wasp said together in unison.

"What are you talking about?!" Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider also said together in unison.

"Hey! You broke into my place and now you're accusing us of something we haven't done. So care to tell us why?" Ant-Man wants to know the reason of all this trouble.

"Go ahead, explain." Ghost-Spider lets Spider-Man do the explaining.

"Very well, today we got attacked by someone using shrinking tech, just like you both. We believed that it's somehow connected to this place." Spider-Man explained about the theft.

"Shrinking tech?" Wasp is surprised by these words.

"No, that's impossible!" Ant-Man doesn't believe it.

"We know what we saw." Ghost-Spider told them.

"He had this with him." Spider-Man pulls out and shows them the Pym Particles.

Ant-Man and Wasp are shocked and surprised to see that Spider-Man has a sample of the Pym Particles in his hand.

"Where did you get that?!" Ant-Man is curious about the Pym Particle.

"This guy who attacked us, he calls himself the Black Ant. He was wearing a suit that shrinks like yours, he dropped this when we fought. This piece of evidence lead us to this place." Spider-Man explained about the Black Ant.

"I've never heard of this Black Ant, but if this technology came from us, then I want to know how he got it. Let us go right now!" Ant-Man demanded to be freed.

"If we do that, what's to stop you both from attacking us?" Ghost-Spider says to Ant-Man.

"Nothing, but I want to know what the hell is going on. Because if someone is stealing or replicating my tech, then they need to answer to me." Ant-Man assures them that they want to know who's behind this.

"We won't fight you, you have our word." Wasp assured the heroes.

Ghost-Spider looks back at Spider-Man who nodded his head, giving the okay to free them.

"Okay, stay still." Spider-Man is going to free them.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider both help free Ant-Man and Wasp out of the webbing, Wasp then retract her wings and enlarged herself back to normal, Ant-Man then commanded the ants to back away leaving them to talk.

"Okay, now that you're free. We have some questions. First, who are you?" Spider-Man asking them for their names.

Ant-Man takes off the helmet and shows the face of Hank Pym, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are surprised to see that the scientist they meet once is the man in red, Wasp takes off her helmet and shows off the face of Janet Van Dyne.

"My name is Dr. Hank Pym and this is my fiancé Janet Van Dyne, we are Ant-Man and the Wasp." Hank Pym introduced himself and Janet to the heroes.

"Ant-Man, Wasp, I'm Spider-Man and this is Ghost-Spider." Spider-Man introduced himself and Ghost-Spider.

"Nice to finally meet you." Janet being polite to them.

"Now that we know each other, let us talk." Hank Pym wants to get down to business.


Meanwhile back at the S.H.I.E.L.D. research facility, Agent Eric O'Grady is resting in his bed after the day of using the suit, he shakes as he's having trouble staying asleep, he then wakes up and gets off the bed. He made his way to the personal bathroom where he turns on the sink and apply water on his hands, he then washes his face of cold water trying to get rid of the headaches he's been experiencing recently.

After he's done, he walked out of his quarters wearing his S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform and walks down the hallway as he reached Carson's lab, he enters to see the man himself working to upgrade the Black Ant suit with new features, what appears to be thrusters as well as four mechanical ant legs.

"What's all this?" Eric O'Grady is curious about the upgrades.

"Courtesy of examining the schematics from Stark servers, the thrusters will allow you to hover and the legs provide extra offensive capabilities." Mitch Carson explain about the new upgrades.

"Nice, should come in handy. Those Spiders put up quite a fight and nearly came close to capture me." Eric O'Grady explained about his encounter with the spiders.

"You better hope that they don't find a lead on this project, because if they do, then we're both in deep shit." Mitch Carson is worried about being caught.

"Relax Doc, I got away easily. All they know is that someone can shrink down to the size of a bug and whoop their asses. Everything is under control, Doc." Eric O'Grady assured Mitch Carson.

"I hope so. Let's test out the new upgrades, suit up." Mitch Carson tells Eric O'Grady.

Eric O'Grady walked over to the Black Ant suit and takes it to be suited up for a test.


Back in New York City, George Stacy is still inside his office, he has much to think about after his conversation with Mary Jane concerning a fellow officer of the NYPD, the office door knocks.

"Who is it?!" George Stacy calling out to whoever's outside.

The officer door opens as Officer Harrison Thompson is here in person.

"I was told that you wanted to see me." Harrison Thompson says to George Stacy.

"You were told right, come in, Officer Thompson." George Stacy invited him into his office.

"I don't understand why you asked for me to come here, I work out of the precinct in Queens. So what can I do for you, Captain?" Harrison Thompson is curious to the purpose of this meeting.

"How are things at home, Thompson?" George Stacy asking the question.

Harrison Thompson is confused by that question. "Excuse me?"

"How is your family?" George Stacy

"My family is fine, why are you asking these questions?" Harrison Thompson doesn't like where this is going.

"Eight years ago, you and your partner were caught up in a gang shootout, you managed to survive but your partner didn't, he got shot in the head right in front of you. It must've been too traumatic for you to witness." George Stacy knows about Harrison's past.

"Where are you going with this?" Harrison Thompson is feeling uncomfortable.

"Tell me the truth, how long have you been abusing yourself with alcohol?" George Stacy asking that question.

"What? Who told you that?" Harrison Thompson is shocked someone knows.

"I'm not at liberty to say, but answer the question. Have you been drinking for eight years? Has it gotten you into conflicts with your family?" George Stacy wants to know.

"What happens to my family is not your business?" Harrison Thompson refuses to talk to George about his problems.

"Wrong! You're an officer of the NYPD, your duties is to use your position as a police officer to uphold the law, not abuse it! It doesn't give you the right to get away with everything! As long as you're an officer of the NYPD, it's the department's business." George Stacy tells Harrison the rules of being a police officer.

Harrison Thompson remained silent as he knows better that get into conflicts with a Captain of the NYPD has consequences.

"Harrison, you're not the only officer in this department who has struggled through traumatic incidents, I've known some people who has the same problems like you do. You need serious help with your alcoholism, I recommend that you take some counseling and attend AA meetings to work out your issues." George Stacy advised Harrison to get some help.

"I don't need a shrink to help me, I'm perfectly fine." Harrison Thompson is in denial.

"Your family may not see it that way, and to be honest I don't either. But for now, you'll be placed under suspension for the time being and you'll be asked to take a test." George Stacy told Harrison Thompson.

"A test?" Harrison Thompson is shocked.

"You'll be asked to provide a urine sample as well as a blood test for any trace of alcohol in your system. Look Harrison, I know some people who have beaten this, but it's going to take an honest look at yourself in the mirror." George Stacy told Harrison Thompson.

Harrison Thompson said nothing as he backed away from the office and walked away, George is worried that Harrison refuses to seek out professional help in his alcoholism, his denial will still drive him into his need for a drink which will cause problems within his family. The only ones who will suffer more than him will be his family if he continues to remain in denial.


At Pym Labs, Ant-Man is examining the sample of the Pym Particles that Spider-Man obtain from Black Ant who dropped it during their encounter. Wasp is standing next to her fiancé doing his job, the four insect theme heroes all came to an understanding and remain on friendly terms for now.

"Yep, these are definitely Pym Particles alright." Ant-Man confirmed that these are Pym Particles.

Spider-Man raised his hand as Ant-Man noticed.

"Go ahead." Ant-Man tells Spider-Man.

"Question? What are Pym Particles?" Spider-Man asking about the Pym Particles.

"Tell them, Hank. They've already seen enough." Wasp encouraged Ant-Man to speak up.

"Very well, the Pym Particles are the subatomic particles that changes the distance between atoms, it's what powers our suits, even Black Ant's obviously. The red ones like this one is for shrinking, and the blue ones are for enlarging, a single drop from one of them will instantly changes sizes depending by the amount." Ant-Man explains about the Pym Particles.

"Wow, it's impressive." Spider-Man is amazed by these Pym Particles.

"Still doesn't explain how Black Ant has this technology?" Ghost-Spider says to Ant-Man.

"That's what I'm about to find out." Ant-Man then slides over to the computer.

Ant-Man accesses the computer to get into his company's network, he then looks up anything unusual in the system and he finally found something.

"Son of a Bitch! Someone hacked into our networks about two weeks ago, they got everything, schematics to the Ant-Man project!" Ant-Man is upset that someone stolen from him.

"And with all that, they created their own version." Wasp says to the group.

"That's the least of it, I didn't get the chance to install the safeguards into the helmet schematics." Ant-Man is worried about the side effects.

"Safeguards?" Ghost-Spider is confused.

"The Pym Particles doesn't just alter atoms, but if any living being is exposed without any protection against it, it can alter the brain's chemistry and cause mental instability, something I learned from my early experiments. In my case, it heightens aggression, if this Black Ant is continuously using them without any mental protection, he'll be suffering from its side effects, it could possible become lethal at the rate he's using." Ant-Man explains about the side effects of the Pym Particles.

"By lethal, you mean it could kill him, right?" Spider-Man is shocked to hear that word.

"Exactly." Ant-Man confirmed it.

"Who else besides you two know about this technology?" Ghost-Spider asking them.

"There's me and Janet, my assistant Bill Foster, but I trust him with my life. But there's only one group who knows about the Pym Particles." Ant-Man told them the list of those who knew.

"Who?" Spider-Man is curious.

"S.H.I.E.L.D., they found out about my experiments, Nick Fury came to me and realized the potential this project holds, he asked me to use it for the greater good of the world." Ant-Man explained about S.H.I.E.L.D..

"I know Nick Fury, even though the man is full of secrets, I'd doubt that he steal your research, let alone approve the break-in at Stark Tower." Spider-Man vouches for Nick Fury.

"There is someone else, a scientist who works for S.H.I.E.L.D., he wanted to weaponized my research for covert operations, his name is Mitch Carson. He was so desperate to get his hands on my research, he begged me to give it to him, but I refused, I didn't want my work to be out there causing chaos, so I kept it to myself." Ant-Man told of Mitch Carson.

"I'm guessing that he didn't take no for an answer." Wasp says to Ant-Man.

"And now this son of a bitch is stealing my research and using it for his own purposes. We need to stop him and destroy everything he's stolen related to the Pym Particles. If we don't, this technology will be unleashed upon the world and there will be chaos." Ant-Man is worried about his science leading to destruction.

"We can't let that happen. Any ideas where to find this guy?" Spider-Man asking Ant-Man.

"From what we gathered about him, he operates out of a research facility in upstate New Jersey." Ant-Man told them where to find the guy.

"Then let's get going." Ghost-Spider told the group.

"You both have wheels?" Wasp asking the spiders.

"Yeah, a couple of Spider-Cycles, it can get us there faster." Spider-Man told them of the Spider-Cycles.

"Good enough, mind if we bring a few friends?" Ant-Man asking Spider-Man.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider spotted a group of ants on the table commanded by Ant-Man himself, they're the friends he's talking about.

"No, not at all." Spider-Man is cool with the ants.

"Then we're all in this together." Wasp told the group.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider have agreed to team up with Ant-Man and Wasp to stop Mitch Carson and Black Ant from using the Pym Particles for their own gain.


In Queens at the Thompson Residence, Flash is doing his homework at the table, but then the door opens as Harrison Thompson just returned home after his conversation with George Stacy concerning his alcoholism that he tried to keep in private.

"It was you, wasn't it?!" Harrison Thompson is upset with his son.

"What?!" Flash is shocked.

"You're the one who told Captain Stacy about my problems, didn't you?!" Harrison Thompson accused his son.

"I don't know what you're talking about?" Flash is very confused.

"You told him about my drinking, you got some nerve, boy!" Harrison Thompson told Flash.

"I didn't tell anyone…" Flash then stopped as he realized something.

Flash knew that the only ones who knew about this besides his family is Mary Jane, he figured out that she had to been the one who told him. Rosie and Jessie came down to see that Flash and Harrison are getting into a verbal conflict.

"What?" Harrison Thompson noticed Flash stopped his sentence.

"Nothing, but I had nothing to do with this. If someone did tell him, it sure wasn't me. But are you that surprised, Dad? The way you've been acting, someone would've noticed this eventually." Flash told his dad that his problems would come to light.

"You backstabbing punk, after everything I've done for you and this family, I busted my butts for you and this is how you repay me?!" Harrison Thompson is very upset.

"Repay me with what, dad?! Being treated like crap just because you have the urge to drink after a hard day of work?!" Flash told his dad what he needed to say.

"Why you…" Harrison Thompson got very angry.

"Harrison, don't!" Rosie Thompson steps in to defend her son.

"Stay out of this, Rosie!" Harrison Thompson told Rosie to back off.

"No, I won't stand by and let you harm our son!" Rosie Thompson stood up to her husband.

Harrison is angry at Flash to speak out against him, but he knows that he can't do anything now that George Stacy knows about his abusive behavior, he looked at his wife standing next to her son, he looked to see that his daughter is frightened at seeing her father being violent. Harrison then calms himself down but he still upset with his family.

"If that's the way you want it, then there's nothing for me here. I'm gone." Harrison Thompson then walks out of the house.

His family watched him walked out of the house, Jessie walked over to her mother and hugs her for comfort. Flash is surprised that his father chose to leave rather than have a conflict happen in front of his sister Jessie.


Its nighttime at the S.H.I.E.L.D. research facility, Black Ant is miniaturized and testing out the upgrades to the suit that now includes thrusters for flight and legs for extra offensive capabilities. Mitch Carson watched as Black Ant is hovering on the testing table without any difficulty.

"Okay, we're done testing. You can grow back now." Mitch Carson tells Black Ant.

Black Ant hovers off the table and enlarged himself back to normal size, he now stands on his own two feet.

"How was it?" Mitch Carson asking Black Ant.

"Works like a charm. I feel like the most powerful man in this suit." Black Ant is prideful in his abilities.

"It's thanks to me that you got to wear that suit, don't you ever forget that." Mitch Carson told Black Ant.

Black Ant is getting annoyed by Mitch Carson's pride in creating the suit, the side effects of the Pym Particles have effected his mind more than he realized.

(Outside)

Far outside the perimeter of the research facility, Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, Ant-Man, and Wasp are watching from the cliffs at all the security systems available, motion sensors, surveillance cameras, anti-personnel turrets, and S.H.I.E.L.D. sentries on patrol.

"Maybe we should've just called Nick Fury and explained the situation." Spider-Man suggested to the group.

"Bad idea, if word gets back to S.H.I.E.L.D., Carson will be tipped off and he'll make his escape with my research, we have to do this ourselves." Ant-Man told the group.

"Okay, but it won't be easy. This place is well guarded, if they see us, then they'll know we're here and it's game over." Spider-Man explained about the security.

"See you perhaps, not us." Wasp says to the spiders.

"She's right, we can sneak inside undetected, they'll never see us coming. Me and Wasp will go on ahead and disable the security system. Once it's down, we'll give you the go ahead and you can sneak in yourselves." Ant-Man told them he and Wasp will go first.

"Okay, we'll be waiting." Ghost-Spider told Ant-Man and Wasp.

"Good luck." Spider-Man wished them luck.

Ant-Man gave the thumbs up before he shrinks down small and rides on the flying ant, Wasp also shrinks down and flies, Ant-Man and Wasp heads into the facility along with a legion of flying ants as they're heading into the facility while Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider stays behind and wait. Meanwhile Ant-Man and Wasp managed to sneak past the perimeter undetected due to their small size, the S.H.I.E.L.D. sentries are unaware of their presence. Ant-Man and Wasp made it to the air vent as they when inside.

(Inside)

Ant-Man, Wasp, along with the flying ants are flying through the ventilation system that runs throughout the facility, Ant-Man is examining the facility's blueprints getting a read on where to find the Security Station and the Mainframe.

"Okay, take this tunnel up ahead and disable the perimeter security. I'll head for the mainframe." Ant-Man told Wasp.

"Good luck, Hank." Wasp splits away from Ant-Man.

"You too, Janet." Ant-Man watched Wasp fly away.

Ant-Man flew off along with the other ants in a different vent and heads towards the mainframe.

Wasp made it to the security station to see a couple of S.H.I.E.L.D. security guards monitoring the system and to remain vigilant. Wasp then flies down to catch them both unaware, she then enlarged herself to normal size, the two security guards spotted a woman here.

"Hey boys! Sorry about this!" Wasp grabbed their heads and smashed them together hard.

The two guards got knocked out cold as Wasp then got to work accessing the security network, she then proceeded to disabling it with ease as it all shuts down.

(Outside)

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider still waited far outside the facility perimeter for the go ahead.

"Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, perimeter security is offline, you may proceed ahead!" Wasp gave them the sign.

"Thanks Wasp. Let's go." Spider-Man told Ghost-Spider.

"Right behind you." Ghost-Spider follows Spider-Man.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider proceeded ahead past the perimeter and managed to sneak around undetected thanks to Wasp disabling the facility's security system.

(Inside)

Meanwhile Ant-Man managed to make it to the end of the vent by flying ants as he drops down into the mainframe, he then enlarged himself back to regular size and sees that the security camera's are off.

"I see that you took care of security, Wasp." Ant-Man told Wasp.

"What would you do without me?" Wasp told Ant-Man.

"Point taken, now to get down to business." Ant-Man then types the keyboard.

Ant-Man is hacking the mainframe as he managed to get past the firewalls easily, he then accesses Carson's personal files and found the schematics of the Ant-Man suit that Black Ant stolen from Pym Labs, as well as the formula to the Pym Particles, he then plugs in the thumb drive as it contains the virus he created to permanently delete data from the mainframe.

"You bastard, Carson. Let's see how you like when someone messes with your shit." Ant-Man types the keyboard.

Ant-Man is uploading the virus to the mainframe as it's doing it's work in deleting the data on the Pym Particles and tech Hank Pym created, the data that Mitch Carson use to reverse engineer and create his own version. Ant-Man then heard a noise coming from nearby as it looked like a conflict is happening here.

"Wasp, did you hear that?" Ant-Man asking Wasp.

"I heard it." Wasp told Ant-Man.

"Was that you or the spiders?" Ant-Man is curious.

"No, it wasn't neither of us." Wasp told Ant-Man.

Ant-Man then turns his attention to the screen to see that all the data on the Ant-Man project has been permanently deleted from the mainframe, he the pulled the drive away from the mainframe and shrinks down to smaller size, he jumps onto a flying ant and flies away from the mainframe room. He flew back into the vents as he want to find the source of that commotion he heard.

"Wasp, I'm heading for the testing room. Meet you there." Ant-Man still riding his flying ant.

"I'm on my way!" Wasp told Ant-Man.

Ant-Man then made it to the vent above the testing room, he looked down to see Mitch Carson being threatened by Black Ant, Ant-Man is seeing the dark imitation of his Ant-Man suit. He remains in hiding and watches what is going on here.

"What has gotten into you?!" Mitch Carson is in trouble.

"I'm getting sick of you bossing me around, Doc! If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't even get this technology in the first place!" Black Ant is showing signs of mental instability.

Ant-Man could see that Black Ant is suffering from the side effects of the Pym Particles, it has gotten worse due to continue usage. Mitch Carson has a gun hiding underneath his lab coat as he got the urge to use it against Black Ant. Wasp came up and joined Ant-Man as they looked down to see the Black Ant threatening Mitch Carson.

"This suit and I are made for each other, I can feel all the power around me!" Black Ant is drunken with power.

Mitch Carson then pulled out the gun and started shooting but Black Ant shrinks himself down and avoided the bullets. He then uses his small stature to attack Carson's hand and knocked the gun off with such force that the man himself flinched in pain. Black Ant then enlarged himself back and has Mitch Carson at his mercy.

"Seriously? Did you really think that you could just kill me with a simple handgun? You were always curious what my suit can do. Here, let me show you!" Black Ant has one of the legs out.

The leg is equipped with a thruster as he turns it on and he moves it closer to Mitch Carson's face and started burning up his left side, the man screamed in pain by the heat Black Ant is inflicting upon him. Ant-Man and Wasp are horrified by what they're seeing, a man getting tortured by a mad man.

"We have to stop this!" Wasp told Ant-Man.

"Agreed, let's go!" Ant-Man told Wasp.

Ant-Man and Wasp both jumped down through the vent and enlarged themselves as they both did the drop kick on the Black Ant and stopping the torture. They see Mitch Carson and the left side of his all scarred and burned, the man is passed out from the pain. Black Ant then gets back up to see Ant-Man and Wasp here in person, wearing the same tech as him.

"Hmm, nice outfits!' Black Ant told them about the outfits.

"So you're the Black Ant we've been hearing about, the one wearing a cheap copy of my suit." Ant-Man told Black Ant.

"My suit is way better than yours in every way." Black Ant complimented his own suit.

"Listen to me, you have to stop this and take off that suit. You're putting your own life in danger, your suit doesn't have the same level of protection like ours do. The Pym Particles are corrupting your mind, you're out of control!" Ant-Man warns Black Ant about the side effects.

"Wrong! I'm in complete control! With all this power I know have, no one tells me what to do!" Black Ant refused to take Ant-Man's warning.

"Last chance, take off the suit or we'll do it for you!" Ant-Man gave Black Ant one chance.

"You want my suit? Come and take it from me!" Black Ant is daring them to take it.

"If that's the way it has to be, so be it!" Ant-Man is ready to fight.

Both Ant-Man and Wasp charged at Black Ant together, but the villain shrinks himself down and flies away, Ant-Man and Wasp both shrinks down and chases him as he heads for the table nearby. Spider-Man and Ghost-Man made it to the testing lab only to see Mitch Carson unconscious and the left side of his face burned, but no sign of Ant-Man and Wasp, or Black Ant.

"Where did they go?" Ghost-Spider asking Spider-Man.

At the table, Ant-Man and Wasp are engaged in combat against Black Ant who is holding his own against them, he punched Ant-Man in the face hard as Wasp flies above and fires off her energy blast but Black Ant uses his thrusters to fly up in the air and strikes back with an uppercut to her face. Ant-Man looked to see that Black Ant hits Wasp hard as she falls back down, he jumps forward and catches her in his arms. He looked at Black Ant with anger for hitting his fiancé, he took it too personally.

"You son of a bitch!" Ant-Man got very angry.

"You're both pathetic, even the two of you together are no match for me. Turns out that I'm an even better Ant-Man than you ever were." Black Ant tells them.

"Like hell you are! Let's see how you fair against my friends." Ant-Man told Black Ant.

"Oh please, I can take care of those two spider heroes easily!" Black Ant isn't afraid of them.

"I wasn't talking about them." Ant-Man tells Black Ant.

Black Ant is confused by his meaning until he got attacked by the flying ants that overwhelmed him as he falls down onto the table. Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider noticed something happening on the table.

"Hey look." Spider-Man pointed out to Ghost-Spider.

The ants are biting and overwhelmed Black Ant who is outnumbered and outmatched, they're tearing away the legs and thrusters, he then enlarged himself back to normal size as he tries to make a run for it, but Spider-Man stepped in and throws a right hook at Black Ant, punched him down to the ground, Ant-Man and Wasp enlarged back to normal size to see that Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider stopped Black Ant's escape. The supervillain looked to see that he is surrounded by four insect themed heroes.

"Give it up, it's over, there's four of us and only one of you!" Ant-Man told Black Ant to surrender.

"Wrong, this has just begun." Black Ant has one last trick up his sleeve.

Black Ant then used his wrist monitor to increase the blue Pym Particles for something else, Ant-Man then realized what he plans to do,

"No! Don't you!" Ant-Man tries to stop Black Ant.

Black Ant pressed the button and enlarged himself to humongous size, making himself more taller than ever before, he bursted out of the facility's roof as everyone around looked up to see a giant man in a suit.

"Ha, ha, ha! Now I'm large and in charge!" Black Ant is now a giant.

"What just happened?!" Ghost-Spider is curious by the sudden change in size.

"He used the particles to enlarge himself to giant size. But not to worry, his body is using up too much energy in this state. Eventually he'll tire out and fall asleep." Ant-Man explained about the enlargement.

The giant Black Ant then moves slowly due to his size as he is causing damage to the facility, many of S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel are evacuating the building trying to escape from Black Ant's wrath, who isn't worried about anyone getting hurt.

"Well, we can't simply wait for him to tire out, if this continues, then everyone here will be in grave danger! We have to stop him!" Spider-Man told the group.

"What do you suggest then? Ask him to stop destroying everything and shrink himself back down to normal? Good luck with that!" Ant-Man told Spider-Man.

"No, but there's another way! What if we can hot wire his tech and force it to shrink back down to normal size?" Ghost-Spider suggested to the group.

"That could work, Wasp can make herself small enough to slid through his suit and hot wire it." Spider-Man agrees with Ghost-Spider's plan.

"Hmm, that's very brilliant, yeah, let's do it! For a couple of kids, you're both are a couple of geniuses." Ant-Man complimented their intellect.

"Hey, don't let the masks fool you." Spider-Man says to Ant-Man.

"Okay, but in the meantime, you three need to keep him occupied while I fly into his suit." Wasp told the group.

"Yeah... how do we stop someone this big? We're basically ants to this guy, he can easily squash us like bugs." Ghost-Spider tells the group.

"We're gonna need something big." Spider-Man suggested to the group.

"I got something big in mind." Ant-Man has an idea.

"Hank, no! You never done anything like this before, you saw how much this process has exhausted Bill." Wasp is worried about the risks.

"Janet, we have to try! Trust me!" Ant-Man is still going through with this.

"I do trust you, Hank... just be careful out there." Wasp tells Ant-Man.

"I will, I promise, Janet." Ant-Man told Wasp.

Wasp then shrinks herself down and flies away as Ant-Man watches her doing her job, he then adjust the modifications to his own suit in order to fight Black Ant on equal terms.

"So how do you plan to fight someone this big?" Spider-Man asking Ant-Man.

"By fighting fire with fire, stand back." Ant-Man tells the spider to move away.

Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider comply as they backed away from Ant-Man as he's about to do something extraordinary he's never done before. He closes his eyes and prepares himself for a huge change.

"Come on, let this work." Ant-Man is being prayerful.

Ant-Man then pressed the button as he then grows into gigantic size right before Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider's eyes as they look up in amazement, Ant-Man is now a giant just like Black Ant, he's become Giant-Man.

"Whoa!" Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider both say in amazement.

"Ha! It worked!" Ant-Man is now Giant-Man.

Meanwhile Black Ant is moving around causing too much damage to the facility as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents armed with heavy weapon are doing their best to repel Black Ant, but all their bullets and explosive are ineffective against him in his enlarged state. Black Ant then is about prepare to crush all his enemies with a simple stomp of his heel, the agents are in danger of being squashed.

"Hey Asshole!" Giant-Man insulted Black Ant.

Black Ant stops and turns around, he spotted Ant-Man who is now a giant just like him, he has Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider on his shoulders as backup in his fight against him.

"Pick on someone your own size!" Giant-Man taunts Black Ant.

"As you wish!" Black Ant accepts the challenge.

Black Ant then walks over to Giant-Man as he too is moving in closer for an attack, Black Ant throws the first punch at Giant-Man, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are holding on as they brace for impact.

"Incoming!" Ghost-Spider tells Spider-Man.

"Hang on!" Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.

Giant-Man takes the first punch as he still remains standing on his two feet, he then counters with an uppercut to Black Ant's face, Black Ant is still on his feet as everyone on the ground is watching the fight between two giants. Meanwhile, Wasp is still flying very small as Giant-Man is keeping him occupied while she does her work sneak in undetected.

"Keep him busy, Hank. I'm going in." Wasp whispers as she flies.

Wasp found an opening in the suit, she flies on through unnoticed, she proceeded ahead to where all chips and circuits are located. Giant-Man then got punched hard by Black Ant as he falls down to the ground, but Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider jumped off and swings around Black Ant keeping his focus on them, they fired off some webbing at the guy's helmet to blind him. Black Ant is doing his best to shake off the spiders swing around him.

"Get off me!" Black Ant is feeling annoyed.

Giant-Man then gets up to see Black Ant distracted by the spiders who are swinging weblines around his legs, he then gets the idea of what they're planning, he then tackles hard at Black Ant and pushed him down towards the ground, unable to stand due to the webbing tied around his legs. Wasp who is still flying around felt herself colliding with her surroundings due to the fight happening outside.

"Ah, damnit Hank! Are you trying to kill me?!" Wasp felt a bit annoyed.

"Sorry." Giant-Man apologizes to Wasp.

"Okay, I see the circuits. I'm going in, keep him busy just a bit longer." Wasp heads towards the circuits.

"No problem!" Giant-Man comply with her request.

Wasp is flying towards the chips and circuits as she finds the one for the shrinking. Black Ant is still moving as Giant-Man grabs his wrists and pins him down to the ground, buying Wasp all the time she needs to do her job. Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are helping out as they're strapping webbings all around Black Ant's body, but Giant-Man is having trouble staying awake as he's feeling the side effects to being too big for too long.

"Hurry up, I'm getting a lightheaded!" Giant-Man is feeling sleepy.

Wasp is still inside Black Ant's suit as she found the circuits for the shrinking controls, she then uses her electrical blasts on the circuits to hotwire the suit's functions. Black Ant then noticed something wrong with the suit's systems as it's ready to shrink him down to normal size.

"What is happening?!" Black Ant is very confused.

"It's working, now get out of there!" Giant-Man tells Wasp to get out.

Wasp then make a fast retreat as the suit is preparing to shrink everything around him, including her who is still inside. Wasp is flying very fast avoiding any obstacles in her way, she then spotted an opening up ahead. Black Ant's suit then shrinks back down to normal size including the wearer, Giant-Man along with the spiders now sees Black Ant back to normal size, but they're more worried about Wasp who was inside the suit.

"Wasp? Wasp, where are you?! Janet?!" Giant-Man yells out for Wasp.

"I'm over her, look in front of you!" Wasp tells Giant-Man.

Giant-Man looks in front to see Wasp still small and hovering in the air, she waves to Giant-Man telling him that she's alright, she made it out just in time before the shrinkage.

"Janet, I'm so glad that you're alright." Giant-Man sounded sleepy.

"Ah, maybe you should, you know." Wasp told Giant-Man.

"Yeah, hang on!" Giant-Man still awake.

Giant-Man then shrinks himself back to normal size as Wasp flies in closer and enlarged herself to normal size, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider both held onto Ant-Man who is tired out from being too big for too long.

"How are you feeling?" Spider-Man asking Ant-Man.

"Great, how did I do?" Ant-Man asking about his performance.

"You did great out there." Ghost-Spider told Ant-Man.

"Nice work, Giant-Man." Spider-Man called him Giant-Man.

"Giant-Man, I like it." Ant-Man likes the name.

They all then turns their attention towards Black Ant still on the ground nearby and defeated. The supervillain looks up to see the four heroes around him looking down.

"I'm too sleepy to fight, need to rest!" Black Ant passed out from exhaustion.

"Finally, he's feeling it." Wasp told the group.

"Yeah, I'm starting to feel it too, need to lie down for a bit." Ant-Man is also exhausted.

Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, and Wasp all chuckled and laughed at Ant-Man's need for sleep.


Back in Queens at the Watson Residence, the front door is knocking as Mary Jane is walking down the stairs and she opens the door, she sees Flash Thompson here at this time of night.

"Flash? What are you doing here?" Mary Jane is surprised by his presences.

"I'm sorry that it's late, but we need to talk." Flash says to Mary Jane.

"Sure, come in. My aunt isn't home yet." Mary Jane invites Flash inside.

Flash came into the house as he seriously need to talk to Mary Jane about events that has happened with his family.

"MJ, did you tell Gwen's dad about my dad's abusive behavior?" Flash wants to know if Mary Jane talked.

Mary Jane sighed. "Yes."

"Why did you do that?" Flash is shocked.

"Because I can see it in your eyes, I can tell that you're suffering. I tried to keep it to myself, but George noticed I was hiding something so serious. I'm sorry Flash, I didn't mean for this to bring problems to your family." Mary Jane confessed to Flash.

Flash sighed. "Don't be, I guess deep down I knew that this was bound to come to light eventually."

"How did your dad respond? Be honest?" Mary Jane is curious.

"He didn't take it too well, it almost ended up in a conflict but Mom stepped in and stood up for me. I thought things were going to get ugly, but he just stopped and walked away." Flash told Mary Jane what happened.

"I'm glad that no one got hurt." Mary Jane is relieved that nothing too serious has happened.

"Tell me the truth, MJ. Why did you speak to George about my family problems?" Flash wants to know the reason.

"My dad was also a drinker, just like yours. The stress of pursuing his dream as a writer and providing for his family took a toll on him, he started turning to the bottle. In time his behavior had gotten worse, until one day he slapped my mother hard on the face, right in front of me." Mary Jane tells Flash about her past.

"Jesus, I'm so sorry MJ." Flash is shocked by what he's hearing.

"My mom couldn't take it anymore, so she took me and left him, she realized that enough was enough, that we can't continue living like this." Mary Jane told Flash.

"Yeah, you're right, enough is enough. My family can't live like this either, I guess this needed to happen in order for it to end, even if it breaks my family." Flash agrees with Mary Jane.

"Are you going to be alright?" Mary Jane is worried for Flash.

"Yeah, I'll get through this, I always do. But now I need to be there for my family, be the man of the house." Flash told Mary Jane.

"Hey... do you need a hug?" Mary Jane offers Flash a hug.

Flash nodded his head. "Yeah, I'd like that."

Mary Jane and Flash hugged each other for comfort, Flash let out some tears of sadness as he needed this to relieve himself of all the pain he's carried caused by his father. Mary Jane understands Flash more than anyone, she also let out some tears as talking about this brought out some feelings that she kept to herself.


Back at the S.H.I.E.L.D. research facility that is now damaged, Coulson is there to oversee Mitch Carson being arrested for going rogue behind S.H.I.E.L.D.'s back, agents are taking him into custody as he has a lot to answer for. Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, Ant-Man, and Wasp are watching the man being taken into the quinjet as Coulson walks up to them.

"Dr. Pym, on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D., I like to offer my sincerest apologies, we had no idea about Carson's operations. You have my word that Dr. Carson has a lot to answer for back at the Triskelion." Phil Coulson apologizes to Ant-Man.

"I hope so." Ant-Man prays that Carson pays for his crimes.

Phil Coulson turns to Spider-Man. "I appreciate you handling an internal S.H.I.E.L.D. problem, Spider-Man. But please give us a call next time."

"Sure thing." Spider-Man told Phil Coulson.

Coulson walks away towards the quinjet, the group are left alone to talk.

"Gotta say, we sure do make one hell of a team." Ant-Man told the spiders.

"Spider and Wasp working together, who knew?" Wasp told the spiders.

"Thanks, you guys were great out there." Ghost-Spider complemented their efforts.

"This world could use heroes like you two. If you guys shown up earlier last year, you both could've become Avengers." Spider-Man told them.

"Flattered, but that's not the case for us. You seen what my technology is capable of in the wrong hands." Ant-Man told Spider-Man.

"True, but I've seen how much good it did in the right hands like yours. Maybe you two are destined to use this to become heroes." Spider-Man told them.

"Ant-Man and Wasp, we do make quite the duo." Wasp like the idea of being a hero.

"I'll think about it. Thank you both for everything you've done, it's been a honor fighting beside you." Ant-Man extend his hand for a handshake.

Spider-Man took it and shakes hands with Ant-Man. "Right back at you."

The heroes then sees Eric O'Grady already stripped out of his Black Ant suit and wearing a straitjacket being escorted by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, he doesn't look too well mentally.

"What's going to happen to him?" Wasp is curious about the guy.

"He'll be taken to New York, from there he'll be transferred to Ravencroft to receive treatment." Spider-Man told the group.

"His mind has suffered the corruption the Pym Particles inflicted upon him, there's no telling if he'll ever recover or if it's reversible." Ant-Man told them about the side effects Eric O'Grady is suffering from.

"Are you sure that's wise? He knows too much about the Pym Particles." Wasp is uneasy about this arraignment.

"From the way he is now, I'd doubt that anyone is dumb enough to believe him anyway." Ghost-Spider assures of Eric O'Grady's insanity.


The next morning in New York City, Eric O'Grady is at central booking awaiting to be transferred to Ravencroft Institute, he waits in the cell as the corrections officer brought in another criminal awaiting transfer to prison.

"In you go, Lang. Be nice."

Scott Lang is the convict who is temporarily sharing a cell with Eric O'Grady still in a straitjacket and looked looney.

"Hi, I'm Scott." Scott Lang introduced himself.

"Oh hey, I'm Eric O'Grady, the Black Ant." Eric O'Grady introduced him.

"Black Ant?" Scott Lang is confused.

"Yeah, I had this rad tech that can make me very small or very big, it's amazing." Eric O'Grady told him about Pym technology.

"Yeah, okay." Scott Lang is unconvinced.

"You don't believe me? It's power by something called the Pym Particles, this guy Hank Pym is the creator." Eric O'Grady told Scott about Hank Pym.

"Hank Pym? The owner of Pym Laboratories?" Scott Lang heard of Hank Pym.

"Yeah, that's the guy!" Eric O'Grady smiled as he confirms it.

Scott Lang isn't sure if this guy is telling the truth due to Eric suffering insanity from the Pym Particles, but this seems too good to ignore.

"Tell me more." Scott Lang wants to hear this story.


Later in the city, Harrison Thompson has arrived at Alcoholics Anonymous to see everyone attending a meeting sharing and talking about themselves and their experiences. He still felt uneasy being here but its part of his suspension. Someone noticed a new guy here they've never seen before.

"Are you here to share with the group?"

Harrison Thompson remained quiet until he spoke. "Yeah."

"Alright, take a seat."

Harrison Thompson took a seat as he is surrounded by alcoholics like him.

"Care to tell us your name?"

Harrison Thompson sighed. "My name is Harrison Thompson, and I'm an alcoholic."

Harrison took the first step in retaking his life back from years of alcoholism, its still hard for him being here but it has to be done for himself and his family. He then began to share his experiences with the group.


Back at Jersey City at the penthouse of Hank Pym, the man himself is typing his laptop working on his new secret project codename Yellowjacket, it's basically a hybrid version of the Ant-Man and Wasp suit put together, he kept on working until he heard the doorbell rang, he stopped his work as someone is here to see him.

"Coming!" Hank Pym walking over to the door.

Hank opens the door and surprised to see Tony Stark here in person.

"Tony?" Hank Pym is surprised.

"Hey Hank, long time." Tony says to Hank Pym.

Tony enters the penthouse to see how far his old friend has come.

"What brings you here, Tony?" Hank Pym is curious about Tony's visit.

"Sorry I didn't make time to visit, I've been busy." Tony told Hank Pym.

"Of course, being Iron Man must be a very stressful job than being a CEO." Hank Pym knows that Tony is Iron Man.

"What are you…" Tony tries to deny it.

"Cut the BS, I know you Tony, you never let anyone fly around in your tech." Hank Pym told Tony.

"Okay, you got me, Ant-Man." Tony know Hank Pym is Ant-Man.

"Spider-Man told you, why am I not surprised? I see the Avengers still stay in touch. Is this why you're here? To ask me to join your boy band? Then the answer is no." Hank Pym refused to join the Avengers.

"I figured you wouldn't, but that's not the real reason for this visit." Tony confessed that's not the only reason.

"What is it you want?" Hank Pym is curious to want Tony wants.

"I need your help in a project I'm working on off the books, something I don't want my fellow Avengers to know." Tony ask Hank Pym for his help.

"What kind of project?" Hank Pym is curious.

"I need you to help me create Ultron." Tony told Hank of the project he's working on.

Coming Soon... Age of Ultron

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