The other two were drawn to his laughter. Bruce coughed twice and said, "I think I know why Baron Zemo was so panicked."
"You don't mean..."
"He might have thought Ant-Man was inside this jar."
The Punisher walked over and took the jar from his hand, but it was nothing more than an ordinary empty jar. Material analysis identified it as plain glass.
"Baron Zemo's men went to capture Ant-Man on his orders, but obviously failed. Not wanting to face their boss's wrath, they lied and claimed they had caught him."
"It should have been a very clumsy lie, but Ant-Man was different from every other superhero. His most unusual ability was changing his size at will, even shrinking until he was invisible to the naked eye. So anyone could bring over an empty jar and claim Ant-Man was inside. As for why he wouldn't show himself, naturally it was because he didn't want to cooperate."
"It was a lie no one could expose, because Pym Particles were Ant-Man's exclusive technology. No one in the world could replicate them or even begin to figure them out. So unless Ant-Man appeared somewhere else, no one could prove he wasn't in there."
The Punisher looked utterly speechless. "Zemo actually believed that? Didn't he know an ordinary jar couldn't hold Ant-Man?"
"Not everyone has gone to school," Bruce said. "You can't expect someone who barely had any education to understand what molecules are. He might prefer to explain the principles behind Ant-Man's transformation with theories about magic."
"Now this is interesting," The Punisher said. "Iron Man traced it back to him. A simple 'there's no evidence' won't get him out of this, especially with an even less reasonable Doctor Strange involved..."
Just as he said that, Schiller suddenly turned toward the window. As