"How could you just side with them, Hope?" Scott said in disbelief. They were standing together in the Avengers' base of operations, an old Stark Industries storage facility that T'Challa had bought and renovated. The many threats to the world simply didn't stop coming, both from beyond the world and within it, so the Avengers stayed together to deal with those threats. But the collateral damage from their actions was starting to add up, and so the United Nations had come to them with a proposition: either sign papers called the Accords, requiring them to seek permission from the United Nations before missions, or they would be forced to retire. Scott would gladly retire, but for now, he felt as though Hope had betrayed him. Hope, Sharon, Pietro, and T'Challa had immediately signed the Accords. Scott, Shuri, Wanda, and Stephen had refused.

"Is there something so wrong with wanting to avoid collateral damage?" Hope said.

"No! I want to, too! But you're conveniently forgetting what happened the last time we worked for a government body. SHIELD used us to get the Tesseract, so they could use it to make weapons of mass destruction!" Scott said.

"This isn't SHIELD, Scott. This is 117 countries, that don't want us breaking their laws and borders when we feel like it." Hope said.

"It's all the same..." Scott grumbled.

"How can you be so paranoid?" Hope said, shaking her head in disbelief.

"The government has been after me for years, Hope. I stole to survive, and I had to live on the run because of it. Then you came to me on behalf of the government, offering to clean my slate, let me back into society, and I find out it's because you and SHIELD were lying to me and manipulating me. Now they want to control me." Scott said.

"I didn't know what SHIELD was doing! And the UN doesn't want to control you, they want to put you in place. Frankly, you deserve it. For someone whose whole thing is about being small, your ego's become awfully big." Hope said.

"And you've become a pushover." Scott said.

"Do not call me a pushover. I will not let anyone control me. But if we want to stay together as a group at all, we have to compromise where we can." Hope replied, coldly. Tears were starting to well up in her eyes. She and Scott had finally confessed their feelings together months ago, when they had stopped Ultron. They had thought the world was doomed and that they were going to die... then, they would rather be together in death than separate in life. They couldn't let something like this tear them apart.

"Hope? Are you okay?" Scott asked when he saw her tears. He wrapped his arms around her, and she looked up into his beautiful tawny eyes.

"I love you, Scott. So much. But I can't support what you're doing." Hope said.

"I love you too, Hope. More than anything in the entire world. But I have to do what I think is right." Scott said.

"I know that, Scott. It's why I love you. But I don't know what will happen to us if you keep this up." Hope murmured. Scott nodded.

"It feels wrong for us to break up. We're Ant-Man and the Wasp. We're partners!" Scott said.

"We are. And we both have good points about the Accords. We need to find a way to compromise." Hope said. Scott hesitated, then nodded again.

"You're right. You always are, and I love it. I'll try and compromise, for you." Scott said, leaning forward to kiss her tenderly. Even if the Avengers fell apart, Ant-Man and the Wasp would not.