Inside an old SHIELD facility, everything was silent, with the exception of Scott screaming at the top of his lungs. He and Hope were clinging to Ava's shoulders as she stormed through the facility.

"Why did I agree to this?!" Scott screamed.

"Because you don't want Ava to be torn apart atom by atom, and to cure her we need to find old paper files SHIELD has on her condition!" Hope replied.

"I still don't get why Janet's healing powers aren't enough, though!" Scott said, helmet hiding his sickened face. Ava, eager to be cured, ran like an Olympian athlete. Scott was about to throw up if she didn't stop soon.

"That was a temporary fix. Not even Hank, Janet, and Bill know how to cure me for good." Ava said, before coming to a stop, much to Scott's relief. "We're here." She announced, sticking her head through the wall to investigate. "Guards, in SHIELD gear. Lots of them. Guess this place isn't as abandoned as we thought." She scowled, pulling her head out of the wall.

"But SHIELD collapsed years ago." Scott said.

"A former agent must have seen Ava a few days ago, and got together with some of their friends from work. They must want to capture her again, and whatever it's for is definitely not a good thing." Hope said.

"There's too many for us to fight, and they'll notice two tiny people floating midair if I try invisibility. You two need to sneak in without being noticed, and I need to get out of here." Ava said.

"Right." Scott said. He had kept a winged carpenter ant sitting on Ava's head, and now it flew to his side. He leaped onto it, and flew up to and through an air vent beside Hope. They flew through the vent side by side, and Scott was staring at Hope the whole time.

"What's the matter, Scott?" Hope asked.

"Nothing. I just love doing this kind of stuff with you. Love doing anything with you, to be honest." Scott said. Hope chuckled.

"Thanks. I love being with you, too." Hope said. She didn't express it, but she was so happy to be with him again, because she didn't just love being with him again, she loved him. But he had been disoriented and confused when she had kissed him at the pier...

"Scott, do you remember what happened immediately after you retrieved the lab?" Hope asked.

"Not really. I remember falling into the ocean, and then I was back on land with you.

"I see..." She said quietly. They popped out the air vent, right above the files, which were messily kept together in a manila folder.

"I'll get one end, you get the other." Hope said. They lifted up the folder together. When they were sure the guards weren't looking, they both made their way to the center of the folder, with Scott still sitting on the carpenter ant. Together, with Hope using her wings and Scott riding on his ant, they both flew up and away with the folder, when suddenly a guard whipped his head around and saw the seemingly levitating folder.

"It's Starr!" The guard said.

"Shit!" Scott muttered.

"You got disks?" Hope asked him.

Scott nodded frantically, surprised neither of them had thought of that before. He fumbled around in his pockets, pulling out a red shrinking disk. Hurling it at the folder, he caught it as it shrunk down to the size of a dust speck.

"Since when can she do that?" A guard gasped, running over to the desk.

"Get under Ant-ony Hopkins!" Scott said, diving under the ant. Hope dove under it as well, sitting hunched over beside him.

"Ant-ony Hopkins? Really?" Scott said.

"Yeah. Apparently the real Hopkins was seen breaking all the animals out of a petting zoo in Norway, but he was also in Miami at the same time. Weird, huh?" Scott whispered.

"I heard about that. Yeah, it is weird." Hope chuckled softly. The guard scrutinized the desk, but saw no sign of the folder or of Scott and Hope.

"Ugh, we gotta call an exterminator. These damn ants are getting all the way onto the desk." The guard said, sending his hand plummeting down to crush the innocent Ant-ony Hopkins. Scott and Hope rolled out of the way just in time, and Hope grabbed Scott by his hand, flying them both into the vent.

"Do you still have the folder?" Hope asked.

"Yeah!" Scott said, holding out the dust speck-sized folder.

"Good." Hope said. They dashed through the vent, but made a wrong turn somewhere. They arrived outside the facility.

"Where's Ava?" Scott asked as he and Hope grew to normal size, retracting their helmets.

"Right here." Ava said, reappearing in front of them. Scott used a blue growth disk to return the folder to normal size, handing it to Ava.

"Phew... that was more of a hassle than I expected." Hope said.

"It was exhilarating, though! I kind of want to do that again!" Scott said.

"You're absurd, Scott. We would have died if we got caught." Hope said.

"But we didn't! And it was fun." Scott said. Hope rolled her eyes.

"What? You still scared of having a little fun?" Scott said.

"Absolutely not. I love to have safe and normal fun." Hope said.

"Are you two going to kiss or what? Anyone with a brain can see you two like each other." Ava said. Scott and Hope stared at her in surprise.

"What? We don't... we don't... not after..." Hope trailed off.

"Are you sure?" Ava said.

"Well..." Scott said. "I know I definitely still like you, Hope. But I do understand if you don't like me back, after the Germany incident."

"Scott, you're absolutely blind." Hope said, wrapping her arms around him. Scott's eyes widened in surprise, and he chuckled to himself as Hope leaned in and kissed him with passion. With both of them lost in each other, neither noticed Ava recording it with her phone, snickering about how much wagered money Luis now owed her.