Chapter Summaries

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.

Scott and Arataki Itto teamed up against Klaus, with Cassie watching and cheering them on. Klaus returned to normal size after Scott accidentally shrank Ushi, and Itto knocked him out with his club in a rage over his bull.

• Scott chased Klaus into a swarm of ants, and the ants forced Klaus out of the toy train tunnel to fight.
• Scott punched Klaus off a train car, but Klaus activated the Wasp Suit and attacked Scott from the air.
• Cassie begged Arataki Itto to help her father, and Itto joined the fight with his greatsword.
• Scott threw a Particle Disc at Klaus as Itto hurled Ushi, but the disc struck the bull and made him vanish.
• Klaus returned to normal size and taunted Scott, but Itto struck him on the head, furious that Klaus had stepped on Ushi.

Arataki Itto defeated Klaus, and Lin Ze stopped him from waking again with a Geo attack. After the danger passed, Scott and Paxton reconciled, while Paxton arranged for Hu Tao to handle Klaus’s body.

• Arataki Itto knocked Klaus down and reunited with Ushi after Scott used flying ants to find the miniature bull.
• Lin Ze struck Klaus with Starfell when Klaus began to stir, and Paimon concluded he was finished.
• Scott took Cassie and Paimon outside, where he reconciled with Paxton, who forgave his prison disappearance and praised him for protecting Cassie.
• Lin Ze gave Scott Klaus’s Wasp Suit to return to Dr. Pym and left Klaus’s body for Paxton to handle.
• Paxton called Hu Tao’s funeral parlor for on-site body collection, and Lin Ze slipped away.

Lin Ze secured Dr. Pym’s Quantum Tunnel research and invited Scott to join the Avengers, though Scott’s membership remained undecided. On the way home, Lin Ze decided to separate Itto and Cyno after their antics disrupted Yanfei’s studying.

• Dr. Pym approved Scott helping Lin Ze and gave Lin Ze the Quantum Tunnel research, but declined to accompany him to meet Tony Stark.
• Lin Ze told Scott he would discuss Avengers membership with the others, and Scott backed off after Paimon suggested he demonstrate his skills against Hulk.
• Itto refused to return to the Serenitea Pot and told a joke that Paimon and Lin Ze found unimpressive.
• Lin Ze learned Itto and Cyno’s loud antics had driven Yanfei to Hope’s place to study and resolved to separate the two.

Lin Ze told Tony he wanted Ant-Man to join the Avengers and asked to arrange a meeting to reveal more, while Tony invited them to Yun Jin’s opera. Peter and Ned hurried from school to catch a bus to the performance, and Peter concealed his unusual speed and strength from Ned.

• Lin Ze told Tony that Ant-Man needed to join the Avengers and that he had another important matter to discuss with the team.
• Tony said Thor had taken Jane Foster home to meet his parents and gave Lin Ze and Paimon tickets to Yun-Han Opera Troupe’s performance.
• Peter watched the clock in class and rushed out with Ned after the dismissal bell to catch the 7:10 bus.
• Peter caught MJ before she fell as he hurried past her in the school aisle.
• Peter carried the exhausted Ned onto the bus at remarkable speed, then covered up his abilities when Ned questioned him.
• Peter stopped Ned from opening his schoolbag and quietly pushed it farther under his seat.

The Yun-Han Opera Troupe’s debut performance drew a large crowd, and Yun Jin’s show was a success. After Peter left to stop thieves, Lin Ze realized the Thor: The Dark World plot might already be underway and prepared to act on the Reality Stone, ending with a lucky system pull.

• Hu Tao joined Xiangling, Chongyun, Xingqiu, Zhongli, and the others at the opera, where Yun Jin had reserved VIP seats for them.
• The guests gathered with Klee, Kaeya, Diluc, Barbara, Tony, and others as Lin Ze welcomed Aether, Paimon, Peter, and Ned.
• Yun Jin and the invited performers put on a successful show, and Lin Ze urged the exhausted Yun Jin to rest after congratulating her.
• Peter spotted thieves in the departing crowd, changed into his homemade suit, and swung away while Lin Ze found his backpack and witnessed him leave.
• Lin Ze connected Peter’s appearance and the Avengers’ strained atmosphere to the possible start of the Thor: The Dark World plot and decided he needed to pursue the Reality Stone.
• Lin Ze considered reaching Thor through his friend in Asgard, then used the system and unexpectedly got a lucky result.