Recaps

Arataki Itto tried to rescue Frank from Klaus at the Pym Group, but their confrontation drew in the FBI, who arrested them both. Lin Ze arranged for Itto to leave with the agents, while a trainee officer joked that Itto was a “locked-up heartthrob.”

• Itto found Frank in the restroom and warned him that Klaus planned to kill him, but Frank refused to believe him.
• Itto carried Frank out, and Klaus entered the restroom; when Frank tried to ask Klaus for help, Itto knocked the handgun from Klaus’s hand.
• Klaus’s security team surrounded Itto, but FBI agents arrived and arrested him after receiving a tip about the Arataki Gang.
• Frank claimed Itto had tried to do something indecent to him and went with the FBI, allowing them both to leave the Pym Group building.
• Lin Ze told Itto to cooperate with the officers, while a white-haired trainee officer drove the police car and called Itto a “locked-up heartthrob.”

Cyno helped arrange for Arataki Itto to be brought to the police station so he could meet a future teammate connected to a planned burglary. After explaining the plan, Cyno left Itto in the interrogation room, where Itto insisted he was innocent and demanded a lawyer.

• Cyno's pun made Arataki Itto laugh, while Lin Ze and Paimon listened over the communications link.
• Itto invited Cyno to join the Arataki Gang, irritating the lead officer, while Cyno secretly enjoyed Itto's reaction.
• At the police station, Cyno used a Signal Jammer to tell Itto that the Traveler had arranged his transfer and that a burglary suspect would soon be placed near him.
• Cyno explained that Itto would have to follow normal legal proceedings to clear his charges and meet the suspected gentleman thief.
• Half an hour later, Itto protested his innocence in the interrogation room and demanded a lawyer.

Yanfei defended Deadpool in court and secured his immediate release by disproving the charges with witness testimony and evidence. After Deadpool rushed off to find Aether, Cyno gave Yanfei a desperate note from Arataki Itto asking her to get him out of jail.

• Cyno entered the courtroom and watched Yanfei argue that Deadpool acted to protect the children at the Mutants Rehabilitation Center.
• The children testified that Deadpool saved them from abusive security guards, and Yanfei presented evidence linking Juggernaut to the fire.
• The judge dismissed the arson and assault charges against Deadpool and ordered his immediate release.
• Deadpool learned that Aether had commissioned Yanfei to defend him and hurried off to find Aether to repay him.
• Cyno handed Yanfei a note in which Arataki Itto begged her to rescue him from jail.

Yanfei outlined a defense that could get Arataki Itto released, while Lin Ze told her to leave Scott Lang in custody so he could become Ant-Man. Scott was arrested after returning the shrinking suit, and Cyno discovered Itto had broken into Scott’s cell and unleashed a bull, prompting him to call Yanfei about working overtime.

• Yanfei explained how she could challenge the FBI’s claims about Itto by arguing that his gang’s identity and online criminal records could not be verified.
• Lin Ze told Yanfei to leave Scott in custody until he and Itto finished their exchange, then arrange to meet Scott elsewhere.
• Yanfei warned Lin Ze not to fabricate online identities again, and he promised to stop before accidentally calling her Teacher Zhang.
• Police arrested Scott outside an apartment building after he tried to return the shrinking suit and admitted he had stolen it.
• Paxton mocked Scott, who punched the wall and disturbed Itto in the neighboring cell.
• Cyno entered the holding cells and found Itto watching a bull chase Scott through a hole in the partition, so he called Yanfei about overtime.

Arataki Itto befriended Scott Lang in their cell, heard why Scott had returned to stealing, and promised to get his friend to help him. Before the friend arrived, a swarm of ants threw the cell into chaos.

• Itto introduced himself and Ushi to Scott after Cyno left to call Yanfei.
• Scott told Itto he had gone back to stealing because he missed his daughter.
• Itto comforted Scott, urged him to stop stealing, and offered him a place in the Arataki Gang.
• Itto admitted he did not know why he had been arrested and promised his legal-expert friend would help Scott get out.
• A swarm of ants appeared and disrupted everything before Scott could meet Itto's friend.

Scott put on the motorcycle suit and flew away as Dr. Pym monitored the ants, while Aether and Paimon visited Pym and revealed their knowledge of his future research. Pym learned that his Quantum Tunnel would succeed and Janet would return, then agreed to hear Aether’s request for help.

• Scott caught Itto as he collapsed after being electrocuted by ants, then followed their countdown and put on the motorcycle suit before Ant 247 carried him away.
• Hope brought Frank, Aether, and Paimon to Dr. Pym after Frank explained that Klaus wanted to kill him.
• Aether revealed that he and Paimon came from another world and knew about the future, including Pym’s Quantum Tunnel research.
• Aether told Pym that the Quantum Tunnel would succeed and Janet would return, prompting Pym to faint from joy.
• After Aether and the others revived Pym, Aether asked for his help, and Pym invited him to explain what he needed.

Dr. Pym told Hope that her mother had worked with him as the Wasp during a 1987 mission in Kursk. Meanwhile, Lin Ze and the others dealt with Scott’s fainting and Itto’s painful ant stings, ending with Lin Ze pulling Itto forward by the arm.

• Dr. Pym revealed to Hope that her mother had been the Wasp and recalled the 1987 missile-silo crisis in Kursk.
• Paimon watched Scott sleep, and Lin Ze explained that Scott had passed out because he feared heights.
• Hope explained that the ants were their partners and apologized for the electric shocks and bites inflicted on Arataki Itto.
• Itto complained about his swollen, painful butt, then accepted Hope’s offer to fetch medicinal liquor.
• Lin Ze asked Itto to hold out his arm, then pulled him forward with a powerful force.

Lin Ze treated Itto’s ant bites while Cyno’s joke left Scott hiding his presence, and Dr. Pym then recruited Scott to steal something from the Pym Group. Lin Ze and Hope planned to put Scott through hell training to prepare him for the mission.

• Lin Ze carried Itto inside, where Hope gave him medicine for his ant bites before leaving with Yanfei and Paimon.
• Cyno posed a fire-ant riddle, then left after revealing its answer was a lyric pun, leaving Lin Ze to force Itto to let him apply the medicine.
• Scott, who had been pretending to sleep, got medicine spilled on his head while Lin Ze treated Itto.
• Dr. Pym told Scott that he wanted him to break into the Pym Group and steal something, promising to help him reunite with his daughter.
• Yanfei, Cyno, and Paimon went to the kitchen, while Lin Ze and Hope told Scott they would put him through hell training.

Scott trained with Hope and Dr. Pym to use his suit, repeatedly getting hurt and struggling to master its techniques. The chapter ended with Pym and Paimon happily sharing chicken legs while hungry Scott watched.

• Dr. Pym coached Scott on shrinking to pass through a keyhole, but Scott repeatedly crashed into the door and missed breakfast.
• Hope explained how shrinking concentrated Scott's strength, then dodged his punch and hit him in the face.
• Scott asked Lin Ze for a long list of dishes in exchange for enduring training, but Lin Ze stopped him before he requested more.
• Dr. Pym warned Scott not to touch the suit's Regulator because it could send him into the Quantum Realm.
• Paimon came down from hiding to watch Scott's lesson, and Dr. Pym wiped her mouth and accepted the chicken leg she offered him.
• Pym and Paimon ate their chicken legs together while Scott watched hungrily.

Cyno patiently tried to teach Scott Genius Invokation TCG while Dr. Pym brought Scott to Arataki Itto for special training in controlling ants. Itto demonstrated his skill, but his ant portrait of Paimon enraged her and sent him running.

• Cyno played cards with Scott and agreed to explain the rules again, while Lin Ze and Dr. Pym watched them get along.
• Dr. Pym said Scott would train with Arataki Itto, who had a talent for controlling ants.
• Arataki Itto made two ants climb onto his hand and stop on the stone table, then demonstrated how he could direct a swarm.
• Itto arranged ants into a portrait that he said depicted Paimon, prompting her to kick him as he fled.

Dr. Pym explained how the electromagnetic wave device let people direct ants, then taught Scott that successful control required clear concentration. Scott struggled to guide the ants, so Dr. Pym assigned Itto to train him in ant fighting.

• Dr. Pym demonstrated how the device stimulated ants' olfactory nerve centers and let him communicate instructions to them.
• Paimon used the device to send ants to the kitchen for her ice cream, and Lin Ze rescued an ant from the refrigerator on their return.
• Scott tried to summon scattered ants back to the table, but his distracted instructions sent them into confusion.
• Lin Ze suggested concentration was the key, and Dr. Pym confirmed that precise, focused thoughts helped ants follow commands.
• Dr. Pym gave Scott a controller and told him to practice controlling one ant by fighting Itto's ants.
• Itto accepted a controller and challenged Scott to a duel as the Arataki Invincible Ant Gladiator.

After losing repeatedly to Itto in bug fighting, Scott struggled to control ants until a photograph of his daughter Cassie helped him focus. He successfully used the ants to turn over the photograph, then Itto dragged him outside for another match.

• Scott lost his hundred and twenty-eighth bug fight against Itto and admitted he could not concentrate on controlling ants.
• Itto brought Scott back into the house, where Lin Ze served dinner and Hope revealed Scott had not won a single round.
• Itto gave Scott a photograph of his daughter Cassie, which Lin Ze had obtained from a friend who sold toys.
• At Itto's suggestion, Scott focused on Cassie's smile and directed ants to flip the photograph over.
• Scott thanked Itto and Lin Ze, kept the photograph, and was pulled outside by Itto for another bug-fighting match.

Scott completed the final stage of his training with Dr. Pym, while Lin Ze revealed that Hope’s plan to retrieve the Wasp Suit had nearly failed in the future. The team learned that the Signal Disguiser they needed had been made by Dr. Pym and somehow ended up with Paimon.

• Dr. Pym taught Scott to build rapport with ants, and Scott successfully used them without alerting anyone.
• A tiny Scott secretly left Yanfei a four-leaf clover while riding an ant through the house.
• Scott’s ant disrupted Cyno and the Traveler’s meal and briefly brought Paimon and Cowherd’s battling ants together.
• Hope explained the plan to retrieve the Wasp Suit from Future Lab, and Lin Ze warned that it had nearly failed.
• Lin Ze showed the team a Signal Disguiser that Dr. Pym recognized as his old prototype, and Paimon admitted Tony had given it to her.

Hope discovered Klaus had entered the house and learned he planned to install extensive security measures. Lin Ze and Paimon called Vision to take control of the security network, while Lin Ze still intended for Scott to crawl through the sewers as part of a deception.

• Hope sensed Klaus entering the house, and Dr. Pym went to meet him with Scott hidden in his coat while Hope stayed behind.
• Klaus called Hope and told her he was adding sensors, micro-mesh filters, and body scanners throughout the building.
• Lin Ze revealed that Paimon had contacted Vision, who could control Klaus's networked security systems.
• Lin Ze explained that Scott would still use the sewers to make Klaus believe his security trap had worked.
• Paimon said Tony had warned them to keep their distance from people like Scott, and Scott wondered whether Lin Ze and Paimon were Tony Stark's illegitimate children.

Vision headed to find Lin Ze and Paimon while the Avengers debated a draft of the Sokovia Accords, and Tony Stark and Steve Rogers clashed over whether the team should submit to oversight. The meeting ended without a decision, as Lin Ze turned his attention to gathering help for Scott's infiltration operation.

• Vision left the Avengers meeting to find Lin Ze and Paimon after Tony told him to contact him if he needed help.
• Thor learned Jane had reappeared and flew off to find her.
• Tony presented the draft Sokovia Accords, and Steve rejected its demands while Tony argued that the Avengers had to obey rules.
• Tony and Steve argued about family and Bucky, and Tony threw the draft agreements out the window.
• Natasha proposed consulting Professor X about the Accords, while Lin Ze asked Scott to bring his friends to help with the infiltration.

Lin Ze and the others prepared Luis, Dave, and Kurt for the operation at the Pym Building, while Vision assessed the three thieves and Cyno considered keeping them under surveillance. Scott demonstrated the Ant-Man Suit, terrifying Luis and the others, and the chapter ended with them fleeing in panic.

• Luis, Dave, and Kurt joined Lin Ze and the others, and Vision calculated their criminal success rates before recommending that Cyno monitor them closely.
• Dave awkwardly admitted he visited Lincoln Avenue to learn foreign languages, and Itto mistakenly explained the phrase he used as meaning youthful passion.
• Lin Ze redirected everyone to planning the next day's operation, and Hope spread out the Pym Building's floor plans and guard deployment maps.
• Scott put on the Ant-Man Suit and shrank himself to demonstrate its abilities to Luis, Dave, and Kurt.
• Scott climbed onto Luis's shoulder, but Luis screamed and flung him onto Paimon, startling her and sending Luis, Dave, and Kurt running from the house.

Lin Ze and the others prepared to rest before the battle ahead while Scott secretly visited Cassie. After reassuring his daughter that he was a hero and promising not to lose his way again, Scott left, and Cassie told her mother she had dreamed something wonderful.

• Hope gave Luis, Kurt, and Dave Jialeding to calm them and put them to sleep.
• Lin Ze planned to take Itto near the Pym Building as backup, while Vision found Scott heading to see Cassie.
• Scott kissed Cassie goodnight, but she woke and told him she believed he was a good guy and a superhero.
• Scott promised Cassie he would never lose his way again, then tucked her in and said goodnight before her mother entered.
• Cassie told her mother that she had not had a nightmare and that she had dreamed something wonderful.

Lin Ze’s team coordinated Scott’s infiltration of the Pym Technologies building while Arataki Itto distracted Cassie and her friends with a contest. Yanfei entered as Carlson’s lawyer, planning to exploit Klaus’s contract to get Carlson the Wasp Suit, but warned that her fieldwork would cost extra.

• Scott put on the Ant-Man Suit and entered a sewer passage beneath the Pym Building as Lin Ze coordinated with Itto, who was stationed nearby.
• Itto tried to win the children’s snacks through a contest, and Cassie chose a race to recite the multiplication table up to nine times nine.
• Dave began overriding the street’s water controls to lower the water level and help Scott travel through the pipes.
• Lin Ze told Paimon that Yanfei had entered the Pym Building as Carlson’s accompanying guest.
• Yanfei advised Carlson that Klaus’s contract could be challenged so Carlson might obtain the Wasp Suit without paying, then told him her fieldwork would cost extra.

Luis lowered the water so Scott could infiltrate the building through the drain, while Yanfei joined Carlson and Klaus at the meeting to protect Pym’s operation. The group entered Klaus’s heavily secured venue, where the planned theft of the Wasp Suit was about to unfold.

• Luis knocked out the security chief and opened a water valve, lowering the level in the drainpipe.
• Lin Ze guided Scott as the ants carried him through the pipe and up into a restroom sink.
• Yanfei distracted a woman in the restroom while Scott and the ants escaped into the ventilation duct.
• Yanfei joined Carlson and Klaus, and Klaus led Dr. Pym and the attendees through an iris scanner into the meeting venue.
• Pym exchanged a discreet glance with Yanfei and recalled her promise to use legal reasoning when possible and martial arts when it failed.

Lin Ze and Scott sabotaged the Pym Group’s Wasp Suit data while Klaus revealed his betrayal to Pym, and the others kept police away from their van with a staged funeral. The Laser Grid went down, but Scott’s fate remained uncertain as Dave and Kurt feared he had already jumped.

• Scott used heat-emitting ants to destroy the equipment storing the Wasp Suit data, and Lin Ze confirmed that the backups were erased.
• Klaus told Pym he was working with Hydra and taunted him about revealing his technology, prompting Pym to punch him.
• Paxton and Officer Nelly stopped beside the van, but Dave, Kurt, and Lin Ze disguised themselves as funeral workers and convinced Nelly to let them go.
• Paimon revealed that Lin Ze had arranged for Cyno to change the duty roster so Nelly would be there and Paxton would not search the van.
• Dave saw that the Laser Grid was down, and he and Kurt worried that Scott might have jumped without knowing it was safe.

Klaus confronted Dr. Pym after capturing Scott and arranged to sell the Wasp Suit to Carlson, while Yanfei exposed Carlson’s plan to take it without paying. Klaus turned his gun on Carlson, and an explosion engulfed the room.

• Scott passed the Laser Grid, but Klaus trapped him inside a glass display case when the Wasp Suit platform retracted.
• Klaus revealed that Scott was the new Ant-Man and mocked him while handing the Wasp Suit to Carlson.
• Pym urged Klaus to abandon the sale, but Klaus refused and threatened Pym at gunpoint.
• Yanfei accused Klaus and the Hydra men of breaking the law, then revealed Carlson intended to take the suit without paying.
• Klaus turned his gun toward Carlson as glass shattered and blasts erupted across the room.

Yanfei and Scott overwhelmed the Hydra agents and security personnel during their rescue of Pym and Hope, while Carlson and Klaus escaped. Scott pursued them, and Lin Ze explained that Cyno was waiting by Carlson’s private aircraft on the roof.

• Scott escaped the display case and joined Yanfei in defeating the Hydra agents, while Carlson fled with the case and Klaus fought Scott.
• Security personnel arrived and opened fire, but Yanfei knocked down their leader with a fiery seal and led Hope and Dr. Pym out of the room.
• Lin Ze, Paimon, and Tartaglia arrived; Lin Ze sent Tartaglia to help extinguish the fires, though his Hydro attacks caused the injured men more pain.
• Lin Ze told Dr. Pym that Scott was pursuing Carlson and Klaus, and revealed that Cyno was waiting on the roof by Carlson’s private aircraft.

Cyno confronted Carlson on the rooftop, destroyed the Wasp Suit, and captured him, then stopped Scott from being ambushed. The chapter ended with Klaus revealing that he had a second Wasp Suit and had secretly prepared for Pym’s betrayal.

• Carlson tried to escape by helicopter, but Cyno appeared in the dark cockpit and overpowered him with a giant golden claw.
• Cyno took Carlson’s case and crushed the Wasp Suit, explaining that he would not let such a dangerous device survive.
• Cyno answered his riddle about New York cops and bars by saying bars were full of people under the influence.
• Scott arrived and asked whether Cyno had seen Klaus, who had gone ahead to chase Carlson.
• Cyno struck at Scott, revealing that Klaus was disguised in a second Wasp Suit and had kept it as an ace up his sleeve.

Scott and Cyno searched for Klaus while Lin Ze and the others learned that Itto was protecting Cassie. Scott reunited with his unharmed daughter, who credited her new underling, Arataki Itto, with stopping the attacker.

• Scott and Klaus fought until Cyno’s spear strike sent lightning across the ground, but Klaus disappeared.
• Cyno and Scott searched for Klaus, then Scott left to check on Cassie while Cyno stayed behind with Carlson.
• Lin Ze, Paimon, Hope, and Dr. Pym arrived and learned that Klaus might have targeted Cassie, who was under Itto’s protection.
• Cyno told Carlson a string of jokes, and the others left rather than stop him.
• Scott reunited with Cassie, who said Arataki Itto had stopped the bad guy after she won him over with a multiplication table.
• Itto raised his glowing club inside the bedroom and declared that it was finally his time to shine.

Arataki Itto fought Klaus after catching him sneaking into Cassie's room, while Ushi repeatedly exposed Klaus's hiding places and disrupted his attacks. Klaus shrank beside a toy train to escape, and Scott arrived as Itto and Ushi searched for him.

• Klaus tried to kidnap Cassie, but Arataki Itto surprised him and attacked with his greatsword.
• Klaus shrank to hide and ambush Itto, but Ushi sensed his position and knocked him back with a charge.
• Klaus returned to normal size and attacked with mechanical limbs that fired blue beams, accidentally scorching Itto's hair.
• Furious over his damaged hairstyle, Itto relentlessly attacked Klaus while Ushi interfered with his beams.
• Klaus shrank and hid beside a toy train, and Scott stopped Itto from throwing Ushi before shrinking himself to search for Klaus.