Fortunately, in the Marvel world, Dane's way of doing things differed from his time in DC. He did not care about exposure, nor did he intend to become a superhero or supervillain.
Nick's disgusting little tricks were nothing more than an itch to him.
Once everything was ready, Dane began his first Pym Particle human experiment.
He placed the calculated amount of Pym Particles and the spare particles into the dedicated slots on his belt. For control, he chose to let Cortana's suit-mounted sub-instance handle it programmatically, rather than installing a mechanical button at the base of his thumb like Ant-Man.
"Begin, Cortana."
"Understood, Dane."
At Dane's command, Cortana immediately activated the suit's shrinking program. Dane felt his body sway and briefly lost his sense of balance. When he came to himself again, he found that everything around him had become incomparably huge.
He had successfully shrunk to the size of an ant, and he did not feel any discomfort.
But just in case, he had the suit perform a comprehensive examination on him to ensure that there truly were no problems.
"Next is the nanoscale. Cortana, continue."
"Yes."
Dane's body shrank again.
The method for entering the microscopic realm was simple: shrink again from an already reduced state.
After shrinking a second time, Dane successfully entered the nanoscale. This level was fundamentally different from his previous ant-sized state.
The macroscopic objects in his surroundings had completely vanished from Dane's sight. He was surrounded by a mass of bizarre, multicolored substances, and his body was in a state of weightlessness.
"Cortana, scan the surrounding matter."
"According to data comparisons, these substances are highly likely to be biological organelles or mycoplasma from bacteria and microorganisms..."
Dane had Cortana collect data on those substances. Humanity possessed highly precise microscopes, but had never