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Boredom in Hydroponics

Work, work, work. It was always work with Hank who could not stop for just a minute to take his mind off his lab creatures. Some boyfriend he was. Janet rolled her eyes for the umpteen time in the apartment they shared and flew out of the door, her wings taking her aimlessly through the ship.

She managed to stumble into Hydroponics, again. The quiet surroundings may have calmed her mind but she was now very bored. "Argh, I'm so bored!" Janet exclaimed as she grew back to her normal size, swiping a flower along the way to look at the petals, hoping that the floral detail would catch her eye.

((OOC: Jan shrinks to about 10cm (4") in her wasp form and is 163cm (5'4") when she's in her normal human size.)

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"Jan, could you hold this vial for me? Jan?" Hank looked up from his microscope to see that Janet had left. He sighed and put down his equipment. "Not again..." Hank left his place to go look for his girlfriend. There were only a few places he thought Janet might be, and it wasn't long before he was in Hydroponics.

"Janet, are you here?" Hank called out. "She could be anywhere, and she might not want to see me. I need to build a device that lets me find her."

Jan was tempted to shrink down and fly away but she sighed and called out to him. "I'm here, Hank..."

"Oh, Janet, I was worried." Hank said as he approached her, gently pushing some plants out of the way. "Please don't leave so suddenly like that. Are you alright?"

"Worried? You are so self absorbed with your work that you're always turning down my request to do something together! We've barely been on a date since the amusement park world!" Janet huffed and crushed the flower in her hands, throwing it to the ground.

Hank looked down at the poor little flower and frowned sadly. "Jan, it's not like I don't want to be with you, I just, I have to know things or it drives me crazy..." He sighs and runs his fingers through his hair.

"I wish you were as interested as I was in science. Maybe I can take a break from it for a while, for you."

"There is a time for work, there is also a time for socializing, resting and other things." Jan crossed her arms and looked at him.

"You're already extremely knowledgeable, Hank. You don't need to know everything in the universe. I understand science terms too but it's just not my thing, Hank. You have to understand that."

"I know, I know. I can't make you enjoy it the way I do." Hank rubbed the back of his head as he thought of what to say to her. "Alright, how about this. I'll make a schedule and stick to it. I'll set time aside for work, and have time set aside for spending time with you." Hank approached Janet and placed his hands on her shoulders.

"I love you Janet. I'll do whatever it takes so you'll be happy. Does that work?"

Janet's featured softened slightly. "Do you promise to stick to it? I promise to leave you alone when you're working."

"You have my word." Hank replied with a smile and a kiss on Janet's cheek. "I wouldn't mind of you helped me from time to time though, but you don't have to." He hugged Janet close and nuzzled her hair. "I love you, even more than I love science."

"More than science? Sure about that?" Jan raised an eyebrow and chuckled.

She embraced him back and rested her head on his shoulder. "I love you too."

"Mmm hmm, absolutely." Hank said and kissed her ear. "So, while we're here, is there anything you want to do? Like a little impromptu date?"

"Oh no, you'll get distracted in here. I was thinking maybe we should go to this tavern place in the city. I read that it's a pretty nice place."

Jan pulled away and gave him a sweet kiss on his lips.

Hank blushes a bit and nods as he follows her. "I've never been inside a tavern before to be honest. I'm sure it will be quite interesting."

"There's always something new to experience and learn." Janet replied as they held hands to walk to the city for another date.

"Hey there!"

Morgan offered a smile and a wave as he approached, having only just noticed her as she popped back to actual human size. He'd been on his way back from checking out Applejack's trees, but he certainly didn't mind stopping to say hello.

Jan looked over and gave back a small smile. "Oh hey, Morgan. What brings you to Hydroponics?"

"I'm up here a lot," he said, jerking a thumb over his shoulder to indicate where he'd come from. "My friend Applejack has a barn up here and some crops, I come up to say hi, see how they're doing. And apparently cute girls show up here, so that's cool too. What brings you this way?"

"Crops? I never knew someone was growing food up here. This is interesting." Jan replied and attempted to look around to see where this farm was. She decided to shrink and begun to fly upwards to have a better view.

"Ah, so there it is." Wasp flew back down and addressed his second question. "Well, I was bored since Hank was busy with his experiments."

"Hank?" he asked, with a little of that particular "well, crap" tone of voice that comes when a girl mentions a name in that sort of fashion. Not too much, though; he'd come to understand that the ship had an undercurrent of attraction and tension that was to be expected, given the circumstances.

"He's my boyfriend from my world where he's a scientist. Hank gets super excited about knowledge and discoveries." Jan replied nonchalantly as she flew in the direction of this "Applejack" barn.

"Applejack sounds like a cowboy of some sort."

"Boyfriend? Damn," he said, a little disappointed but more amused. "Applejack's a pony, actually. Though she DOES have a cowboy hat."

Jan raised an eyebrow at his tone of voice. "You were interested in me?" She asked, a little bewildered.

"Wait what, a pony? Are you joking? Like the mini horses that are at carnivals?" This was such an awkward moment.

"Is that surprising?" He raised an eyebrow, an amused half-smile on his face. "You're cute and you seem interesting, why shouldn't I have been? But I'm not a poacher, so you're safe now," he added with a wink.

"And yes, Applejack is that kind of pony, but sentient and articulate. I forget she's one half the time. She's good people."

Jan laughed nervously. "Well, if things go wrong with Hank, at least I know where to look to next." She joked with a hand behind her head.

"I've met elves and fairies. I guess a talking pony isn't much of a stretch."

She flew towards the barn and saw what looked like apple trees surrounding it. "Interesting. Are they edible?"

"Sure, put me on the waiting list," he said with a laugh, as he followed her, hands behind his back. He envied the casual ease with which she flew; that looked like fun.

"The apples? Oh yes. We're going to make cider out of them, as soon as I can finagle a cider press out of one of my friends. Or SOME sort of juicer anyway."

"Isn't there a tavern in town? They may have the equipment for juicing."

Jan flew straight up to an apple, admiring her reflection on its surface. "May I pick a couple?"

"They seem just a little more focused on alcoholic drinks. So if I was trying to distill something, maybe..."

Was she using an apple as a mirror? That was kind of cool, and cutely vain, all at the same time. "I don't think AJ would mind, so long as you keep it to a couple."

"Maybe you could take some equipment to Engineering to ask them to modify it into a juicer?"

Jan then used her stingers to cut two apples from the tree. Before it touched the ground, she flew down quickly and returned to her normal human form, catching both apples in her hands. "Perfect. I think Hank would appreciate it."

Despite being annoyed with her boyfriend, she always thought about him.

Aww, that was kind of cute. Not that he was going to feel guilty for a damn second, mind. "Applejack knows what we need, and my friend Stephen can almost certainly build it. We just have to find time to get them all on the same page."

Huh. Now a thought occurred to him. "So if you shrink while holding those apples, will they shrink with you or not?"

She shook her head. "No, they'll just fall on top of me. Shrinking just works only for me."

Janet casually tossed an apple in the air, catching it with her hand repeatedly, thinking about the most frequently used quote about apples and doctors.

"I guess that makes sense... inasamuch as things like that ever make sense," he admitted with a shrug and a grin. "Out of curiosity, can you do all that stuff naturally, or is there a key to it?"

Janet furrowed her eyebrows. Good question, how was she going to answer it without compromising Hank's work? "Yes, they are natural. My boyfriend discovered how I could do so and now he can shrink too. It's quite cool."

"Stingers too, huh? That is pretty cool." Privately he wondered if her boyfriend was some equivalent to a Son of Ether or the like. "I guess he found a way to make the uniform an exception to the not-shrinking-objects rule, hmm?"

"Yes, he did. He practically experiments on all sorts of stuff." Janet replied, now missing his lab just a bit. How strange when a moment ago, she was all ready to get out of the dreary lab and now, she wanted to return to it.

"I think Hank might be feeling a little peckish now, I'll bring these apples back for our snack. Thanks for showing me around the barn!"

"My pleasure. Any time! I'll see if I can shortlist you two for some cider!" he said.

There was a boy there, sitting on a branch in a pose that would be uncomfortable for anyone who didn't have superhuman agility, snapping photos of the various flora and fauna. He hadn't quite noticed Janet's presence yet.

Jan flew by and heard a click of a camera. Who would be taking pictures of her? She looked around and saw a boy on a branch in a tree with a camera in hand.

She flew up to confront him. "Hey, why are you taking pictures of me?"

"WAUGH!" Peter slipped off the branch, toppled, fell and...

...hit the ground on all fours, lowering his body upon impact to prevent injury

"Don't DO that!"

Jan's jaw dropped open and she immediately flew down to check on the kid. "I'm sorry! Are you alright?"

"What? Yeah, I'm fine. I leap off of buildings on a regular basis. I just don't appreciate being surprised into doing it." He said, dusting himself off and making sure the camera hadn't be harmed.

"And I wasn't taking pictures of you, by the way. I was taking pictures of-" Peter started to gesture to a spot where a family group of deer-analogues had been, but they were conspicuously absent. "Great, we spooked 'em off."

"What?! You leap off buildings regularly? Are you suicidal?!" Janet exclaimed as she flew in front of his face to look at him weirdly.

She looked around for any signs of animals. "Can I help you find them? I ought to make it up to you for scaring them."

"While that would explain why I attack supervillains and then proceed to make matter worse for myself by calling them names...nah. Peter Parker, otherwise known as your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. One of my powers is super-jumping."

"And they'll probably be skittish for a while. I don't wanna freak them out anymore than we have already."

"Spider-Man eh? You're a superhero too? That's so cool! My superhero name is Wasp." Janet replied as she extended her hand out for a handshake.

((OOC: I know they're both from the Marvel universe but I don't think she may have heard of him yet... =P))

"Always happy to meet another arthropod-powered hero." Peter said, shaking her hand.

"My boyfriend is known as Ant Man. He shrinks just like me." Janet looked around to help keep an eye out for the elusive animals he had been taking pictures of.

"These animals you were watching, do they like fruit?"

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