DENVER, COLORADO, MARVEL-EARTH, FALL 2000//Scott (Ant Man) Lang and his second wife, Julia Carpenter-Lang (ex-Spiderwoman II) are on their honeymoon when they get a call from her brother Hubert (the on-parole metahuman henchman known to police as the Walrus). Their daughters-from-each of their first marriages, Rachel and Cassie, have been abducted by Julia's old enemies: Therak, Arthro, and Trap-door (collectively known as Deathweb). Whereupon, Scott receives a call on his Avengers communicard; it's from Machinesmith.
"If you want to see the kids again, you'll do my employer a little favor." With little choice, Scott reluctantly agrees.
A week later, Jade Dragon and the Venomized Earth Lord are attacking the U.N. building in Manhattan! The Wasp sends Thor and Quasar to deal with the two menaces. Whereupon, the Silver Samurai, Mandrill, Darkstar, and Spider-Queen, teleported into Avengers Mansion and made off with Zatanna (albeit after an intense-but-brief struggle that the Wasp, the Living Lightning, and Triathlon lose). Shortly afterward, Scott Lang was contacted by Machinesmith. The latter said: "Very good, Mr. Lang. We have we want, and you'll get what's coming to you once we've ascertained the Controller Disc on Miss Zatanna's neck is working properly."
Scott knew he couldn't trust the word of a Red Skull flunkie, and he was right. At that moment, the Red Skull told Crossbones (his chief enforcer): "Once the rest of us are gone, kill the brats." Crossbones nodded. But, the moment he tried to enact his orders, he was thwarted by the timely intervention of...
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