Ant-Man (Book 11)

Chapter 23✔️

Emoji Chapter:➕ Added Scenes/➖Short Chapter

Same Night: Pym's House
Inside: Kitchen ⌨️🕊

Hope, AJ, Scott, Hank and Amy all in the kitchen, tense as Cross was in the house a little bit earlier and had a talk to Hank as they other four hid in the kitchen, Hope questioning if Cross saw her or not when her phone rings, she took it out to see that it's Cross calling her.

Hope glances at everyone in the room before she steps away and answers the phone with one hand on her hip, "Darren, hi."

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Inside: Darren's Car

Cross driving as he's on speaker phone with Hope, "Hope, where are you right now?"

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Pym's House: Kitchen ⌨️🕊

Hope steps past Scott before turning around as she paces, she lies to Cross with a fake smile to sound normal and calm, "I'm at home. Why?"

Darren's voice tells Hope, "I just saw Hank." Hank looking at Hope while she's on the phone, he glances to Amy and they share a look before they look back at Hope, "I still get nothing but contempt from him."

Hope tells Cross like she would of before, "Don't let him rile you up. He's just-he's just a senile old man." Hank was looking away with a straight smile but looks back to Hope after hearing what she said offended with a frown. Scott looks across to Hank and presses his lips together to form a upside smile/pout and shakes his head at Hank to assure him that it's not true.

Darren's voice tells Hope as Hank sees Scott then looks away with a silent sigh, "We need to start everyone working around the clock." Amy watches as Hope closes her eyes and runs her forehead in frustration while she leans down and rests her elbows on the island counter at what she's hearing, "Get the assembly line up and running." AJ and Scott share a look before looking back at Hope, "And I'm tripling security."

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Inside: Darren's Car

Darren driving, he's telling Hope on speaker phone, looking rattled and a bit crazy, "Full sensors at all entrances and exterior air vents fitted with steel micro mesh."

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Pym's House: Kitchen ⌨️🕊

Hope leaning her elbow and forearm on the center-island as she tells Darren, "Great. Good idea."

Darren's voice tells Hope a bit sincerely, "Thank you, Hope. I'm so lucky to have you on my team." They both hang up.

Hope stands straight and shakes her head as she walks forward and puts her phone back in her inner blazer left pocket, telling them lowly, "He's tripling security. He's lost his mind,-" Her voice gets a bit louder as she looks to Hank, "-and he's on to you." She stands in front of the table across from Hank and leans her hands on it, looking at him.

AJ stands straight as she tells Hope who turns to face her and sees AJ pointing at her, "But he is not on to you."

Hope looks around to everyone as she says, "He's adding full body scanners to all entrances and closing exterior vents." She looks to Hank and gestures to Scott as she asks, "How are we gonna get Scott inside?" Hank with his glasses off, looks down as he doesn't answer.

Amy looking down thinking as she answers, "The water main." Everyone looks at her, "You can't add security to a water main."

Scott nods in agreement and tells everyone, Hank looks down as he cleans his glasses, "The pressure is too strong, but if we can decrease it, that's how I get in."

Hope tells Scott as she paces with her hands on her hips and looking down, "Somebody would have to reach the building's control center to change the water pressure." She stops walking and looks to Scott, "I mean, Hank, Amy and I will be beside Cross. How are we supposed to do that?"