Atom and Bumblebee

What if Disney owned DC and made Atom 2 (2019)

Ryan Choi is under house arrest after siding with Batman during a major superhero conflict, spending his days bonding with his daughter Rhonda Choi through elaborate cardboard-and-science adventures while carefully avoiding violations monitored by FBI agent Cameron Chase. Ryan suddenly begins experiencing vivid quantum visions of Jean Loring, long presumed dead after being lost in the Quantum Realm decades earlier. Realizing she may still be alive, his mentor Ray Palmer and scientist-hero Karen Beecher abduct Ryan and reveal they have secretly constructed a Quantum Tunnel to mount a rescue mission. Karen fully embraces her identity as Bumblebee in a dazzling kitchen fight sequence, fluidly shrinking and enlarging objects mid-combat while dismantling armed criminals with precision, sharply contrasting Ryan’s more improvisational and chaotic Atom style. Their mission is disrupted by Emilia LaSalle, Warp, who phases unpredictably due to quantum instability caused by a childhood accident involving her father; she is aided by Ray’s estranged scientific colleague Atom Shamser and believes Jean’s accumulated quantum energy can permanently stabilize her condition, leading to multiple inventive chases and confrontations, including a spectacular sequence in which Palmer’s portable shrinking laboratory is stolen and passed between factions like a briefcase as it changes size mid-pursuit. Complicating matters further is black-market crime lord Bruno Mannheim, who seeks to weaponize Palmer’s size-altering technology for Intergang and deploys heavily armed operatives to seize it. Meanwhile, Ryan’s loyal civilian friends Luis, Dave, and Kurt—running their small security company—are pulled into the escalating chaos, with Luis providing comedic rapid-fire retellings of increasingly absurd events. As the Quantum Tunnel nears activation, Ray ventures alone into the Quantum Realm in a visually surreal journey through shifting cosmic landscapes and temporal vortices, ultimately discovering Jean alive but transformed by decades of quantum exposure, now possessing heightened perception and near-mystical control over subatomic energy. Upon returning, Jean compassionately channels quantum power into Warp, temporarily stabilizing her condition and proving she is not the threat many feared. The climax erupts into a chaotic citywide chase in San Francisco, where shrinking cars, novelty toys, and everyday objects become oversized hazards as Ryan pushes himself to grow to near–Atom Smasher proportions despite exhaustion, staggering heroically through downtown streets in both a comedic and awe-inspiring display. Karen rescues Ray and Jean from Mannheim’s yacht headquarters in a high-stakes infiltration, while Warp ultimately escapes with reluctant assistance from her foster father, Atom Smasher, who struggles between loyalty and morality. Ryan narrowly returns home in time to avoid breaching his sentence, fooling Cameron Chase with an elaborate size-shifting decoy gag, and the story seemingly ends with the Choi family reunited and hopeful. However, in the epilogue, Ryan reenters the Quantum Realm to harvest healing particles for Warp while Ray, Jean, and Karen monitor him from the lab, only for them to suddenly disintegrate in the wake of Darkseid’s universe-shattering campaign, leaving Ryan stranded alone in the Quantum Realm as the screen cuts to silence, setting up a far larger cosmic crisis within the DC Universe.

Story added by dippy2 on November 25, 2022