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At least this time it wasn’t an abandoned warehouse that the Bug-Eyed Bandit had made her lair. Instead, it would seem that Brie Larvan was sticking to her bug theme, due to Raz having located her to Ivy University’s old abandoned botanical gardens. Personally Ant-Man was just happy to finally get some originality from his villains for once. Sure this place also ticked the “Abandoned” box on every super-villain realtor’s list of possible venues, but at least it wasn’t another warehouse! Scott was sick of those places. Just once he wanted to go against a guy with an island volcano lair! 

From what the Justice League’s scanners had detected, the Bug-Eyed Bandit had set up a similar system within the garden’s interior similar to that of his father’s headquarters. However they detected that the security had greatly improved this time around. There would be no chance of Scott heading in through the ceiling like last time. 

Instead, Ant-Man sent his ants into action. 

He led them towards the grand glass building ant-sized, riding atop the back of one of his Carpenters. The swarm of ants stuck close to the ground in a bid to not appear noticeable as they circled the gardens, Scott peering intently around the facility as he did so. For a place such as a botanical garden, the place really did have a lot of cameras. Even while trying to keep his distance Scott could easily tell that the things had only been recently installed. Hovering gently near a broken pane gave him a chance to peer inside properly. Unfortunately there wasn’t much to see from this spot, given the mass of plant life within, however between the leaves he could make out what appeared to be a set of recently installed generators.

It was the cloud of metallic grey floating around the top of the garden’s glass dome ceiling that caught Scott’s attention though. The Bandit’s robotic insects jittered about loudly amongst themselves. There was certainly a lot more than there had been at the warehouse.

He let out a resounding groan to no one in particular.

“[color=crimson]Shit…[/color]” 

“[color=a36209]You know, you could always get the Atom to help.[/color]” 

Raz’s comment caused Scott to stop right in his tracks, where he paused momentarily, before letting out a short laugh. 

“[color=crimson]Get real Raz![/color]” Scott replied coolly, as he began to steer his ride away from the building and back towards his armada of ants. “[color=crimson]Palmer’s a total arse![/color]”

At once, Scott waved his arm to beckon his ants to follow him before darting forward. As he moved, the miniature hero began pointing with his arms towards the glass dome, particularly towards the primary metal framework between the glass panes. Simultaneously to his pointing, a swarm of red began to rise from the ground onto the structure. As the crazy ants scurried up the botanical garden’s framework, Scott’s ear was met with Raz’s voice once more.

“[color=a36209]Sounds like someone is jealous![/color]” He teased, emitting a short laugh of his own.

“[color=crimson]Jealous?[/color]” Underneath his helmet Scott scrunched up his face in frustration. “[color=crimson]Why would I be jealous of that idiot?[/color]”

“[color=a36209]Maybe because that idiot is actually smarter than you? Better looking too actually, now that I think about it. And probably richer.[/color]”

As the technician spoke, Scott had managed to do a full loop around the gardens, his crazy ants having covered the majority of the facility’s framework, leaving patches of red everywhere. Happy with their positioning, Scott came to a stop, not before rising into the air slightly to get a better look at his workers. 

“[color=crimson]That may be, but the guy’s got a villain named the Bug-Eyed Bandit![/color]” Scott argued, gesturing towards the building. 

“[color=a36209]Isn’t she technically your villain too now?[/color]” Raz argued, only for Scott to cut him off instantly.

“[color=crimson]Whatever the case, I don’t need his help. I’m the Ant-Man, and I’m going to take the Bug-Eyed Bandit down, indeped[b]ANT[/b]ly![/color]” He chuckled at his own thrilling joke for a second, before raising a small detonator up into the air with his right hand. 

“[color=crimson]Let’s do this thing![/color]” He cried, slamming his finger on the trigger.