Recaps

Scott fought Yellowjacket in the laboratory training area, using Ye Mo’s guidance and evasive maneuvers to survive the attacks and land a counterstrike. Yellowjacket escalated to a charged energy attack as Scott retreated deeper into the training area, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Ye Mo guided Scott through Yellowjacket’s opening attacks, and Scott survived five seconds by dodging with zigzag movements and size-changing jumps.
• Ye Mo diverted Yellowjacket’s particle chain with a Pym Particles interference point, allowing Scott to reach cover and complete the initial five-second objective.
• Yellowjacket attacked from beneath the floor and struck Scott, who recovered as Ye Mo identified the blow as a blunt-force contusion.
• Scott dodged Yellowjacket’s next lunge by shrinking beneath his arm, then enlarged into a counterattack that cracked Yellowjacket’s armor and improved Scott’s neural synchronization.
• Yellowjacket formed an energy sphere while Scott moved backward into the training area, and Ye Mo prepared to trigger another interference point.

Ye Mo used a force field to protect the laboratory’s core equipment while Scott distracted Yellowjacket and prevented him from attacking continuously. The shield held as the core cooled, but Ye Mo and Scott remained under pressure as Yellowjacket prepared another attack.

• Yellowjacket’s blast damaged the laboratory and triggered a 90-second core meltdown countdown, so Ye Mo activated a force-field shield around the core equipment.
• Ye Mo told Scott to draw Yellowjacket away from the shield, and Scott dodged attacks while Ye Mo used interference to misdirect Yellowjacket’s strikes.
• Yellowjacket targeted the shield’s weak southeast corner with a sonic cannon, but Ye Mo reinforced the shield and the core’s temperature began to fall.
• Scott disrupted Yellowjacket’s attacks by changing size and exploiting his cooling periods while Ye Mo endured the shield’s growing mental backlash.
• Yellowjacket struck the southeast corner again, but Ye Mo’s shield held, the countdown stopped at 51 seconds, and Scott continued circling as Yellowjacket recalculated his next attack.

Emma Frost arrived at the laboratory and held Yellowjacket off while Scott infiltrated his armor and planted an interference chip. With Yellowjacket’s strongest attacks disabled, Emma Frost subdued him, leaving Scott an opening to continue the infiltration.

• Emma Frost broke through the glass wall, took over the shield’s defense, and confronted Yellowjacket while Ye Mo collapsed from exhaustion.
• Ye Mo told Scott that Yellowjacket’s cooling vents left a brief opening after each charge, and Scott prepared to exploit it.
• Emma Frost absorbed Yellowjacket’s sonic blast and kept fighting to buy Scott time as he shrank and slipped inside the armor.
• Scott reached the control node and installed an interference chip, disrupting Yellowjacket’s movement and preventing him from charging his strongest attacks.
• Emma Frost continued attacking Yellowjacket but reduced her force when Ye Mo told her to leave him alive, while Scott moved toward the rear passage to continue the infiltration.

Scott reached Yellowjacket’s neck and used an EMP to destroy the armor’s core, but Yellowjacket activated a self-destructive overload and prepared one final energy strike. Emma Frost, Scott, and Ye Mo braced for the decisive blow.

• Emma Frost signaled Scott to move while she kept Yellowjacket occupied, and Scott shrank down to reach the back of his neck.
• Scott cut through the armor’s protective layers, attached Ye Mo’s EMP module to the exposed core, and escaped as it detonated.
• Emma Frost battered the disabled Yellowjacket while Scott warned that he could still move and Ye Mo spotted the armor’s rising temperature.
• Ye Mo warned Emma Frost that Yellowjacket was building up heat, but Yellowjacket triggered an overload and launched himself back into the fight.
• Yellowjacket gathered his remaining energy into a golden light in his palm as Emma Frost, Scott, and Ye Mo prepared for his next strike.

Ye Mo, Emma Frost, and Scott tried to stop Yellowjacket as his armor overheated toward destruction. Scott slipped inside the armor to trigger a short circuit, while Emma remained exposed to the heat and Yellowjacket began glowing red throughout.

• Emma Frost forced Yellowjacket to fire early, but the heat wave cracked her Diamond Form and hurled her to the floor.
• Scott attached his last EMP disruptor to Yellowjacket's cooling vent, but the heat burned it out.
• Ye Mo used the laboratory's remaining cooling reserve to create a mist barrier and signaled Scott to short-circuit a crack in Yellowjacket's armor.
• Emma Frost distracted Yellowjacket with a psychic blast, allowing Scott to shrink and slip through the crack in his armor.
• Yellowjacket recovered and made his armor glow bright red as the laboratory heated like a furnace.

Ye Mo used a lightning gene ability to redirect Yellowjacket’s overloaded armor explosion, leaving Yellowjacket immobilized and the laboratory mostly intact. As police sirens approached, Ye Mo, Emma Frost, and Scott waited in the wreckage, battered but alive.

• Ye Mo injected guided low-frequency lightning into Yellowjacket’s armor, shifting the detonation from its chest to a rear cooling channel.
• The redirected blast hurled Yellowjacket into a wall, damaging his armor while Ye Mo, Scott, and Emma Frost survived the explosion.
• Ye Mo told Scott to freeze Yellowjacket’s joints if he moved, and Scott used his last charge of freezing spray to lock the joints in place.
• Emma Frost created a psychic illusion to distract Yellowjacket while Scott froze him, and Ye Mo released cold gas to help the three retreat.
• Yellowjacket convulsed and fell motionless as his armor’s power dwindled, while Ye Mo, Emma Frost, and Scott waited for the approaching police.

Ye Mo, Scott, and Emma Frost survived the fight as police took the incapacitated Darren Cross into custody. The laboratory was shut down, but Ye Mo suspected the danger remained because Darren had insisted he needed the core algorithm.

• Darren Cross made one last attempt to rise, then exhausted his power and his Yellowjacket armor shut down.
• SWAT officers entered the laboratory, confirmed Darren was alive, and prepared to take him into custody.
• Darren briefly regained consciousness and told Ye Mo that he had to get the core algorithm before being stunned and restrained.
• Police transported Darren away while Ye Mo, Scott, and Emma Frost remained in the damaged laboratory.
• Ye Mo sealed the data and shut down the laboratory systems as morning arrived.
• Ye Mo reflected that Darren's words suggested someone was still acting behind the scenes.

After the battle, footage of Scott’s fight at the laboratory went viral, making him known as Ant-Man. As reporters and fans gathered, Ye Mo and Emma Frost left quietly while Scott embraced his new public identity and headed toward the street.

• Scott, Ye Mo, and Emma Frost recovered among the laboratory wreckage, and Scott joked with Ye Mo about replacing his damaged suit.
• The three discovered that a bystander’s video of Scott escaping the laboratory had gone viral and identified him as Ant-Man.
• Fans and reporters arrived at the laboratory, and Ye Mo urged Scott and Emma Frost to leave before the crowd searched for other heroes.
• Scott told Ye Mo he had only wanted to save someone, then signed a child’s printout with a drawing of an ant and the words “Keep it up.”
• Ye Mo and Emma Frost slipped away through a back passage while Scott put on his helmet and walked toward the street as a drone livestreamed him.

Ye Mo and Emma Frost left the laboratory as Scott chose to face the public as Ant-Man and explain himself on his own terms. Scott walked into the spotlight while Ye Mo continued toward his hidden base, content to remain unknown.

• Ye Mo told Emma Frost he wanted peace and privacy rather than fame, and he switched off his phone to avoid the flood of news about Mr. X.
• Scott stood before the reporters and crowd outside the laboratory, refusing at first to answer their questions.
• Scott said he was an ordinary man who had acted out of fear and luck, but would keep coming back when people needed him.
• Scott walked toward the street as cameras followed, while Ye Mo and Emma Frost watched briefly from the mountain path.
• Ye Mo said he would help repair Scott's suit but did not want public recognition, then continued with Emma toward his hidden base.

Scott Lang visited Ye Mo to thank him for guiding and protecting him during the fight with Yellowjacket. After discussing Ye Mo’s choice to work behind the scenes, Scott left with a deeper understanding of heroism, and Ye Mo recorded his combat feedback.

• Scott Lang arrived at Ye Mo’s home to thank him for helping him survive the fight with Yellowjacket.
• Ye Mo showed Scott a battle review and pointed out where Scott had made a good judgment, gotten lucky, and relied on Ye Mo’s intervention.
• Scott asked why Ye Mo chose to stay hidden, and Ye Mo explained that he was better suited to supporting heroes from behind the scenes.
• Scott said he would remember Ye Mo’s lessons and left for an interview, telling Ye Mo he was the least hero-like hero he had ever met.
• Ye Mo returned to his workbench and wrote a field combat feedback log about Scott’s first independent engagement.

Ye Mo deflected Scott Lang’s questions about his abilities by joking that a mysterious system guided him, while Scott accepted that Ye Mo was not ready to explain himself. After Scott left, Ye Mo recorded feedback from their engagement and began planning faster training responses for future threats.

• Scott Lang returned to Ye Mo’s workspace and asked whether Ye Mo had prepared the debrief diagram in advance.
• Ye Mo claimed that a system in his mind supplied alerts and instructions, joking that it told him to play dumb and blame the system.
• Scott stopped pressing Ye Mo for an explanation, said Ye Mo was the least hero-like hero he had met, and left for an interview.
• Scott came back briefly to ask whether Ye Mo’s system could add friends, and Ye Mo joked that Scott should ask himself.
• Ye Mo logged Scott’s field feedback and sketched a response flowchart, deciding that their reaction chain should be compressed for faster threats.

Hank reviewed Scott's combat footage and judged his independent decisions and performance before granting him administrator privileges and access to new suit systems. Scott accepted the authority with a promise to make Hank wait no longer, and stood more confidently as the chapter ended.

• Hank arrived with Scott and asked Ye Mo to play the complete recording of Scott's fight.
• Hank questioned Scott about how he had discovered the armor's cooling period, then asked whether he followed instructions or trusted his own judgment.
• Hank activated administrator privileges for Scott and unlocked the dynamic mass compensation module and short-range phase jump protocol.
• Hank opened Scott's suit storage bay and told him not to make him regret his decision.
• Scott promised he would not make Hank wait another seven years, and Ye Mo reassured him that his promise had mattered.

Scott completed independent registration for the Avengers Reserve Team and received the A-7 designation, with his first evaluation test due within 24 hours. He and Ye Mo entered a tactical debriefing room as Ant-Man’s first live combat record prepared to play.

• Scott entered his information and revised his motivation for service to state that he would shoulder responsibility equal to his power.
• The registration system implanted Scott’s identity chip, assigned him reserve designation A-7, and began his evaluation cycle.
• Ye Mo warned Scott that staying on the reserve team would depend on his judgment and trustworthiness, not merely his ability to shrink.
• Scott recalled ignoring a system warning and trusting his own judgment while using Wall Phasing.
• Scott and Ye Mo entered the tactical debriefing room, where a playback of Ant-Man’s first live combat record was ready to begin.

Ye Mo, Scott, and Emma Frost reviewed their battle and designed a shared communication system and combat protocols to improve their teamwork. They completed Hive Breach Protocol V1.0, which remained pending validation as they continued refining their plans.

• Ye Mo explained that his remembered observations had interfered with the footage and pointed out Scott’s precise timing against Yellowjacket.
• Emma Frost identified a two-second support gap and the team agreed to use telepathic pulses, physical signals, and blinks to communicate in battle.
• Ye Mo drafted Hive Breach Protocol V1.0, assigning Scott to forward infiltration, Emma Frost to monitoring, and himself to midfield support.
• Emma Frost proposed response tiers and a combination library for situations where the main plan failed.
• Scott suggested using suit vibrations to signal danger, while Emma Frost added an automatic alert for abnormal heartbeats or severe mental fluctuations.
• The three finished entering Hive Breach Protocol V1.0 and left it marked pending validation.

After finishing the Hive Breach Protocol, Ye Mo, Scott, and Emma Frost relaxed with jokes and headed for hot chocolate. They left the conference room behind and walked together toward the base’s living area.

• Ye Mo saved the Hive Breach Protocol and shut down the projection interface, declaring the work phase over.
• Scott and Emma Frost teased Ye Mo about the plan’s name and his reliance on the system, and the three laughed together.
• Scott suggested celebrating with coffee, but Ye Mo recommended hot chocolate based on a system notification.
• Ye Mo gave Scott two shoulder pats while saying the obstacle was cleared, recalling their newly established signals.
• Emma Frost confirmed the level-one code and closed the conference-room door, then walked with Ye Mo and Scott toward the living area.

Ye Mo, Hank Pym, Emma Frost, and Scott planned a professional training facility to improve the Avengers Reserve Team’s combat readiness. They finalized the plan and headed to the construction site as work began.

• Hank Pym proposed converting an abandoned storage area into a three-level training facility after the team’s close call in battle.
• Ye Mo, Emma Frost, and Scott added requirements for variable gravity, telepathy isolation, unpredictable simulations, air resistance, and extensive safety systems.
• Ye Mo assigned Hank technical implementation and procurement, Emma and himself the training syllabus and safety protocols, and Scott to serve as an example of what not to do.
• Emma began mapping load-bearing walls while Hank prepared to contact suppliers for variable-gravity modules.
• Ye Mo archived the highest-priority plan, and the team headed to inspect the construction site.

Ye Mo, Hank Pym, Emma Frost, and Scott planned a professional training facility for their team. During a later training session, Ye Mo detected a growing Pym Particle-like anomaly beneath the base and led Emma and Scott underground to investigate.

• Ye Mo, Hank Pym, Emma Frost, and Scott designed a three-level training facility with specialized equipment, safety systems, and unpredictable combat simulations.
• Ye Mo assigned Hank to oversee implementation, Emma and himself to develop the syllabus and safety protocols, and Scott to provide examples of what not to do.
• During a later training session, Ye Mo sensed an unexplained energy fluctuation and traced it to the base's lowest level.
• Emma Frost scanned the base and confirmed the signal was underground, while Ye Mo identified its resemblance to unstable Pym Particle resonance.
• Ye Mo, Emma Frost, and shrunken Scott descended to the abandoned underground area and entered its dark passage as the anomaly grew stronger.

Ye Mo, Emma Frost, and Scott entered a failing underground laboratory where leaking Pym Particles were disintegrating matter and threatening the base. Scott shrank and crossed the dangerous passage toward the emergency isolation switch with Emma guiding him mentally and Ye Mo monitoring his progress, leaving them close to the control panel.

• Ye Mo forced open the blast door and found a ruptured Pym Particle tank disintegrating the laboratory around it.
• Emma Frost and Scott identified the leak’s danger, and Ye Mo discovered that someone had to reach the isolation switch manually.
• Emma established a mental link while Ye Mo mapped a safe route and monitored Scott’s vital signs.
• Scott shrank and cautiously glided through the blue particle currents as Emma and Ye Mo guided him.
• Scott reached the area near the flashing control panel while Ye Mo and Emma prepared for the final step.

Ye Mo, Scott, and Emma Frost stopped the Pym Particles leak, then discovered that the battle in Sokovia had triggered widespread hostility toward superpowered people. Ye Mo ordered Scott to investigate who was shaping public opinion and prepared the base for the coming conflict.

• Ye Mo shut off the Pym Particles leak, ending the laboratory crisis and returning Scott to normal size.
• Scott accessed surveillance and public broadcasts, revealing footage of Sokovia devastated by a battle between superpowered individuals.
• Emma Frost sensed that fear, anger, and blame were spreading among the public and turning against people with special abilities.
• Ye Mo suspected that an organized force was manipulating public opinion and ordered Scott to investigate news, social media, political commentary, and government briefings.
• Ye Mo declined to intervene immediately, raised the base's security level, and said they needed to prepare for the coming storm.

Ye Mo uncovered signs that organized groups and offshore funding were stoking anti-superhuman outrage as the United Nations revealed the Superhuman Registration Act. Tony Stark publicly supported registration as a path to order, leaving Ye Mo convinced that conflict was inevitable.

• Ye Mo used the Gene Spiral Tower to search public networks for organized activity and traced coordinated hashtags and funding to offshore companies backing radical organizations.
• Ye Mo discovered that a confidential United Nations draft called for mandatory superhuman registration, ability documentation, and restrictions on activities, while rallies gathered in major cities.
• The United Nations announced the Superhuman Registration Act, and Tony Stark told reporters that the law represented maturity rather than the end of superheroes.
• Tony argued that superhumans had to accept legal constraints to protect the innocent, and Ye Mo sensed that Tony was trying to impose order and earn society's trust.
• Ye Mo recorded Tony's remarks and concluded that his support for the act would either help create a new order or intensify the coming conflict.

Ye Mo and Emma Frost attended Steve Rogers's rally against the Superhuman Registration Act, where Ye Mo refused to declare his position when challenged. He defended his neutrality to Emma afterward, saying he would act when the conflict neared its breaking point.

• Ye Mo and Emma Frost watched Steve Rogers speak against the Superhuman Registration Act in Central Park.
• Ye Mo sensed unusually calm people among the cheering crowd, and Emma Frost identified Humanity First signs nearby.
• A young man asked Ye Mo whether he supported Tony or the Captain, but Ye Mo stayed silent and left the crowd guessing.
• Emma Frost challenged Ye Mo's silence in their car, arguing that neutrality would cost them allies.
• Ye Mo told Emma Frost he would wait for the moment before events spiraled out of control, then arrived with her at an underground garage as a new storm brewed.

Ye Mo abandoned his attempt at neutrality as escalating clashes between supporters and opponents of the Superhuman Registration Act made him a target to both sides. After meeting Natasha Romanoff, he agreed to exchange intelligence and build an early warning network, leaving as an active participant in the conflict.

• Ye Mo showed Emma Frost data indicating that fear and radical rhetoric were driving street clashes, and concluded that neutrality had become dangerous.
• Ye Mo received a meeting request from Natasha Romanoff and went with Emma Frost to an abandoned Brooklyn warehouse.
• Natasha gave Ye Mo records tracing funds to a Cayman Islands shell company that supported radical organizations and described plans to inflame violence.
• Ye Mo agreed to trade Natasha a list of influential public figures and proposed monitoring them to identify and head off flashpoints.
• Ye Mo set up warning markers for potential conflict hotspots and left with Emma Frost, accepting that his neutrality was over.

Ye Mo confronted his fear of choosing a side in the Superhuman Registration Act conflict and spent the night trying to decide what he believed. When Natasha arrived with intelligence about the person manipulating events, she demanded that he reveal his allegiance before she shared the name.

• Emma Frost challenged Ye Mo’s neutrality, arguing that his silence made him responsible for the harm being done to superhumans and civilians.
• Ye Mo admitted he feared choosing wrongly and doubted he was qualified to be a hero, while Emma encouraged him to make a choice and take responsibility for it.
• Ye Mo switched off and stowed his phone, then spent the night reflecting until his anxiety gave way to a firm resolve to face the conflict.
• Natasha Romanoff arrived with new intelligence about the hidden person behind the crisis and asked Ye Mo which side he intended to support before revealing the name.

Natasha revealed that Horizon Media, Deep Blue Capital, and Wings of Freedom were coordinating to advance the Superhuman Registration Act and pursue supernatural power. Ye Mo chose to investigate in secret as Mr. X and prepared for Tony Stark’s imminent visit.

• Natasha showed Ye Mo evidence connecting Horizon Media, Deep Blue Capital, and Wings of Freedom to the campaign for the Superhuman Registration Act.
• Ye Mo used his heightened perception to conclude that Natasha was telling the truth and identified the organizations’ coordinated roles.
• Natasha told Ye Mo that the group was buying vibranium samples and contacting mutants, while its deeper goals remained unknown.
• Ye Mo decided to stay out of the Avengers’ public dispute and investigate the key figures under his Mr. X identity.
• Natasha left Ye Mo an address and numbers, and Ye Mo prepared for Tony Stark’s visit by sketching weaknesses in Tony’s armor.

Tony Stark visited Ye Mo to recruit him to support the Superhuman Registration Act, but Ye Mo concealed his abilities and avoided taking a position. After Tony left, Ye Mo realized Tony might suspect him and resolved to hide himself more carefully.

• Ye Mo answered Tony Stark’s confident entrance and challenged him for bypassing the security system and entering without permission.
• Tony confronted Ye Mo about his battlefield skills in San Francisco and his connection to Emma Frost, then urged him to support the Superhuman Registration Act.
• Ye Mo saw a system warning advising him to remain neutral and pretended that stress and memory problems left him unable to decide.
• Tony accepted Ye Mo’s delay but warned that silence was also a choice, then left.
• Ye Mo added a question mark beside his armor sketch and drew the curtains, wary that Tony had noticed something unusual about him.