Spider-Cave.
Looking at the monitor, he saw all the information they had taken from Hank.
Seeing the structure and shape of the Pym Particles, he was impressed, but not so much.
In one of the files, there was an explanation of the formula made by Hank, so he had taken a large part of the night to study and understand it.
Thanks to his incredible resistance, he could go a week without sleeping.
He only needed sustenance for his body and nothing more.
But what truly impressed him was the machine that had given Ava Starr, also known as Ghost, her powers.
Apparently, Hank had planned to go and rescue his wife, but had most likely abandoned the idea because he knew nothing about the quantum realm and did not know if he would make it out alive.
And if he did not, he would leave Hope alone.
That should have been motivation enough to abandon the project. But it seemed this project would be revisited because of Scott's trip to and return from the quantum realm.
For Hank, it must have been a stroke of luck or a glimmer of hope to be able to find and rescue his wife, who had not suffered much harm, which was also surprising.
But unlike Hank, he did not want to go to the quantum world or even want Ghost's powers. He wanted this machine for something else, a project that needed one last key piece to start, a piece that he would get as soon as possible.
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Time Skip. Spider-Cave. 2:34 PM.
Having finished studying and analyzing the particles, he had a solid foundation to recreate them and modify them slightly so they would not damage his brain or body due to the constant use of the suit and the particles.
He had modified the new formula a few hours ago. It just needed a couple more minutes to stabilize and be ready and less dangerous.
Currently, he was creating the suit where the particles would be installed.
"Well, this would be the Mighty Spider-Suits MK2, Code Name: Spider-Pym, suit designed for the use of the Pym Particles," he said while looking at the suit on the mannequin. "Damn. If I keep going like this I will turn into the dwarf, although I would not complain too much."
"Peter, the Pym Particles are ready," Cortana said as she materialized next to him.
"Perfect. Let us try this baby," he said as he started trying on the suit, then took a bottle with a purple liquid and put it in the suit's slot. "All ready."
"Everything is ready. You can use it, there are no issues."
"Okay. Here we go," he said, then moved some fingers to the palms of his left hand in a specific way and began to shrink.
The feeling was strange, like something was compressing him. Since this was his first time using the suit, he started falling from a great height, but he was not worried because shrinking himself exponentially amplified all his physical capabilities.
While falling from a great height, he positioned himself and began to descend with greater speed. When he was at a safe distance from the ground, he did a somersault and landed in the typical hero pose. By doing this, he significantly cracked the ground, but without suffering any injury or wound.
"Wow!" Cortana and he said in amazement as they looked at everything from this perspective. But he realized something.
Looking up, he saw everything as if it were skyscrapers. He realized that the person who wears this suit must need to have a magnificent will and mind, because anyone would start to panic or could develop some trauma because of this. Not to mention that anything they see will be twice as terrifying compared to their normal form.
For example, if an arachnophobic person were wearing this suit and saw a spider of this size, they would most likely suffer an attack and die, or their trauma would be twice as dangerous as before.
For a few hours, he began to get used to the suit and its capabilities. He would have to be twice as careful when using this suit. If someone like Scott hits someone at this size, he is capable of killing them. What he could do at this size would be a massacre.
After a few minutes, he left the suit and approached a computer and a holographic table that displayed all of New York.
"Now that we have the suit, what are we going to do with it? You never told me, and I am dying of curiosity," Cortana said as she materialized and pouted.
"What I have in mind is something extremely large, something that many people will see. And if I do not want them to see it, I cannot dig a gigantic hole here, so we will use the Pym Particles to do what I want. We will create a miniaturized place where we can create what I want, and once we have it, we will enlarge it to its natural state, or rather, to the size I want." He explained while what he wanted to create appeared on the table. "I present to you....The Project Watchtower."
Cortana looked impressed at the project and its capabilities, uses, and other things as they began to appear one by one on the display.
"This will be our headquarters, a place without eyes watching us, a place where we can use our powers in a controlled environment, a place to train, live, or protect ourselves," he said while Cortana looked at him with an impressed face.
"But to create it we will have to use a lot of energy. That is why I want to create the other project. Tell me, have you already achieved it?"
"It was surprisingly difficult. The security there is impressive, but what was most annoying was the number of people protecting the place. Just before I left, someone launched a missile at me, but I managed to move in time to avoid it. What you want is in the Mechanics Room, along with the waste."
"Thanks. It was most likely Fury or Maria. I would love to see their faces when one of their Quinjets was stolen.
The funniest thing is that they improved their security after Stark hacked into their systems, but those improvements were not strong enough for my beautiful blue angel," he said as he turned around and headed to the Mechanics Room, ignoring the blue blush on Cortana's face when she heard his compliment and the way he said it.
The Mechanics Room was a place used for the repair or creation of mobile or aerial movement devices.
Entering the room, he saw a completely black Quinjet and next to it what could have been the Fantastic Car, but all disassembled and with some things assembled.
"I still cannot believe Richards thought that was ready to be used. It shows how big his ego is by not checking the Ex-Knight car. The first time I saw it, I thought I could use it, but after scanning it, it had an impressive number of errors. And as soon as that thing gets out of the air, it is going to explode like fireworks on the Fourth of July."
Looking at the Quinjet, he was impressed by its design, but he quickly went inside and uninstalled and destroyed anything that could allow SHIELD to find him or even detect a small location of where the Quinjet was.
"Cortana, I want you to analyze the Quinjet and write a report on its capabilities. Also, give me a list of people with the characteristics I asked you to find while you were on the SHIELD computers.
They will be necessary even to update these two little beauties. Rename the Quinjet to Web-Jet and the failed project Spider-Jet."
From that day on, he had taken the time to disassemble and upgrade the Web-Jet along with the Spider-Jet.
The former would be used to transport people or equipment he was looking for, while the latter was for personal use. Both would be extremely well-equipped to be the most dangerous and beautiful things in his arsenal.
Also, while doing this, he gave Cortana the order to search for the last missing object to begin creating the project that would be needed for the Watchtower.
Unlike Richards, he did not lock himself away in the Spider-Cave.
He also went out with the girls and they spent quality time together, helping Susan with her paperwork or vice versa, giving Yuri advice on a more efficient fighting style.
He taught Missy a little bit of everything, learned new recipes from May, or helped her at FEAST.
He also trained with the Cogman-Wick, along with taking the time to read all of Hank's research.
He had also shown the Pym suit to each of them and had them use it, which fascinated them, but when they saw its capabilities they refused to use it further due to the fear of getting trapped or making a mistake in the suit.
The only one with guts had been Yuri.
He still remembered how Yuri almost had a heart attack when she saw how gigantic and terrifying Itsy looked from her perspective, which he did not understand the reason for, because from his perspective Itsy looked extremely cute and not horrifying at all.
In one of his uses with the suit, he and Itsy had fun using her as his faithful steed and him a magnificent rider.
But that information would not be shown to anyone.
The only ones who would know about it were Itsy, Cortana, and him.
After using Itsy as a steed, he had thought about creating a flying spider like the flying ants Scott used, but he dismissed the idea and decided to create some thrusters or something for her instead. However, the idea was not completely discarded, only temporarily put on hold until he decided to use it.
Once night fell, he would ask Cortana to find the people with the most criminal records, and those people were used to help him train with the Pym suit. He did not have to worry about anyone seeing him because each of them ended up the same way by the end of the night: dead.