Ant-Man
(Hank Pym) is pursued through a garden by his wife the Wasp, mutated into a
killer wasp creature. Suddenly she convulses and he seizes the opportunity to
use a popsicle stick as a springboard, leaping into a tree…
…where he
finds himself face-to-face with a vicious rat. Hank prepares for a violent
battle—and then Jan stings the rat from behind. Hank fights her off then swings
through the shrubs and comes upon his missing helmet…and then he is stung by
Jan. He is able to snatch up his helmet and summon soldier ants to fight Wasp
while he escapes. She defeats the ants and pursues him to the point of a tiny
promontory where he is trapped….
Elsewhere,
Hank’s assistant Bill Foster confronts Jan’s lawyer Blackburn and chauffeur
Charles Matthews who is secretly Dave “Whirlwind” Cannon. Bill accuses them of
being mixed up in the recent deaths of Hank and Janet, hoping to get their
hands on her fortune. They blow him off, with “Matthews” acting smug….
Bill meets
with Iron Man at the burned-out lab site. Shellhead informs him that the
Avengers have closed the file, determining that Hank and Janet are dead. But
just in case…Iron Man uses the electro-scanner created by Hank Pym and finds no
traces of them in the wreckage, which he interprets as proof they were consumed
in the fire. Bill prefers to see it as their having escaped somehow….
Cornered by
the killer Wasp, Ant-Man turns the power on Jan to see what happens—and she
returns to normal. After recapping the problem, Jan fears she will go killer
wasp again but Hank comforts her. They head for a house trailer nearby only to
be attacked by a cat. Jan mutates into a version of the monster wasp again and
fights the cat. Hank summons ants to swarm over the cat while he tends to the
injured Jan. Then the trailer’s occupant steps out and retrieves his cat—and
Hank and Jan. Hank is startled to see the man dressed in supervillain garb and
calling himself Doctor Nemesis and he says he has plans for them….