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Fear Itself: Wolverine, conclusion
New York City, while part of the city is in flames due to riots, another part of the city is being shadowed by the Helicarrier called Prometheus, looming above. Reporter Melita Garner looks up, she knows she is getting awful close to the United Nations, and the Prometheus now, so if she can’t reach Logan from here, she is not going to be able to do it from anywhere. Suddenly, there is a mighty explosion, ‘What in the hell?’ Melita gaps as civilians around her start running in panic. ‘Oh no…’ Melita utters as she looks back and sees the direction of the explosion. ‘Avengers Tower just got leveled!’ someone shouts, while Melita hopes that Logan has things under control up in the Prometheus.
There, inside the HAMMER Helicarrier, Wolverine a.k.a. Logan is chained to a nuclear warhead. Three agents of STRIKE stand before him, as the blond man, Croydon, admits that he is curious to see how Wolverine’s rapid healing ability deals with this one. The blue-skinned Brom announces that this doesn’t make sense, and asks what they are doing here. ‘We’re getting rich, that’s what we’re doing’ Croydon replies, adding that Brom is a fighter, not a thinker, so he shouldn’t give himself a headache. ‘Rich? When did we start doing this for the money?’ Brom asks Croydon. ‘We’re threatening to drop a nuke on US soil for God’s sake! The United States of America, our allies!’ he exclaims. The woman reminds Brom that he was raised in a lab and trained to kill on command, so asks him where his sudden outbreak of morality has come from.
‘I’m a soldier, and I’ve done bad things in my day, but I’m not a terrorist, and I’m not a bloody mass murderer!’ Brom retorts. Croydon tells him that he is starting to sound like a bloody coward, but before things can escalate between them, the woman comes between them and suggests to Croydon that he talk a walk and cool off, while she and Brom watches the runt. ‘Sounds like there’s some discontent brewing, kids’ Wolverine remarks. ‘Shut yer gob, Wolverine’ the woman tells him, before asking Brom if she can have a word. They walk down away from Wolverine, past some large warheads, and the woman quietly tells Brom that she talked to Bexley, and he thinks that Sutton has flipped, that he has been monitoring communications and said nothing has come in - that Sutton hasn’t been getting orders from anywhere, that STRIKE hasn’t sent him anything. Brom calls the woman Harrow, and asks if this is just some mad plan that Sutton came up with on his own. Harrow replies that Bexley is with him now, trying to see if he can get him to tip his hand.
Up on the command deck, Bexley suggests to Sutton that they have a chat. The bald Sutton replies that he was thinking the very same thing. Bexley nervously rubs his head, and replies ‘Oh, well… okay then. Good’ and adds that they can’t really be meaning to drop this warhead. ‘I mean, it’s a bluff… isn’t it?’ he asks. Sutton turns to him, arms extended. Grinning, he asks ‘Come now. Do you really think I’m going to incinerate nineteen million people? Bexley my dear lad, relax’. He then puts an arm around Bexley’s shoulders and quietly tells him ‘I know you told Harrow about the communications’. Bexley looks scared, while Sutton suggests to him that he really should have kept quiet about that, and shoves an energy-knife into Bexley’s stomach. Bexley keels over, while Sutton announces that he does plan to launch the warhead, and that this is about destiny, which is bigger than either of them, or any of those nineteen million ants scurrying around below.
Sutton claims that he is sorry it had to end this way, and tells Bexley that he was a good lad and they have seen some things together, but that this was fated to be. Clutching his stomach, Bexley lands on the floor, while Sutton goes over to a door that opens, and Croydon appears. ‘Sir, I -’ Croydon begins, before seeing Bexley’s motionless body on the floor. Sutton walks towards Croydon and asks if they can keep this between them. Croydon reminds Sutton that he is a telepath. ‘I can read your mind. You’ve no intention of letting my waltz out of this room alive’ Croydon declares. ‘So, that’s a “no”?’ Sutton asks. Croydon enquires as to wether the others know, and Sutton reveals that he thinks they are beginning to suspect, that it was only a matter of time. ‘I had hoped that you would all understand, and accept your part in this’ he remarks.
Croydon asks how long they have been operating without orders, when they stopped being STRIKE and started being this. Sutton doesn’t respond, he just smirks. ‘Oh… oh God. All this time? We’ve been…’ Croydon realizes. ‘This then, should come as no surprise’ Sutton declares as he raises a gun, and fires at Croydon.
Melita Garner arrives at the United Nations building, and sits outside by a security entrance. She has her laptop with her, and is trying to get information to Logan, and then realizes she better do her job and get word out to the media - not exactly the ideal circumstances to try and write a story though, she feels. ‘All right, here goes. If I can’t reach his communicator from here, I’m out of luck’ Melita realizes. She taps some keys on the keyboard, and manages to open a line, but the signal strength is low. ‘Okay, that’s better than nothing’ Melita decides, while turning the webcam to her, she starts recording, and tells Logan that she hopes he can hear her, and that hse hopes he can put this information to good use.
Sutton has placed the bodies of Bexley and Croydon in chairs on  command deck, and watching media reports, he speaks to them as if they are alive. He tells them that his genuinely sorry it went down this way, for in a perfect world, they would all have been able to take part in this together, as a team, right to the end. ‘But I just couldn’t risk you two interrupting my plans’ he explains. In Sutton’s mind, the men have large snakes slithering over their bodies, and they speak to him, as Bexley replies ‘Hey, no problem, Sir. We understand. Can’t make an omelet and all that, right?’, before he suggests that Sutton might like to seriously consider taking the ship up to a safer altitude if he is going to drop that nuke. Croydon, blood tricking down his face from the gunshot wound to his head, declares that he is not going to bother with that, that Commander Sutton has no intention of making it out of this alive, that he never did - it is a good old-fashioned suicide mission.
‘Yes, this is it, I’m afraid, old friends. Like I sad before, I wish you could have seen this through to the end. It’s going to be glorious’ he boasts, while listening to a reporter, who announces to viewers that the ship in the sky over New York appears to have ties to a former British military agency, and according to a story just now hitting the web, the hijacked ship is manned by rogue operatives from a British military organization long thought disbanded. Sutton “sees” Bexley point at the screen as an image of Sutton appears, as the reporter explains that one of the operatives was apparently the subject of intense psychological torture, according to the story written by former San Francisco Post reporter, Melita Garner. He continues, stating that the former soldier-turned-mercenary may be suffering from severe psychosis.
‘Psychosis? Is that what they think?’ Sutton scoffs, as he starts to fire at the monitors, destroying them. He waves his gun around and boasts that history will show the righteousness of his actions, and New York will become a shrine to the Serpent himself!
In the weapons bay, Harrow and Brom stand under Wolverine, who asks them if they are starting to have some doubts about their boss. ‘Shut up’ Brom tells him. ‘I mean, I know STRIKE, and you guys ain’t it’ Logan remarks. ‘I said shut yer gob, little man’ Brom declares, but Wolverine continues, stating that the STRIKE he knows broke up years back. ‘What are you guys, some kind of splinter cell? Been underground so long you don’t know you’re unemployed?’ he asks. Harrow just tells Wolverine that he doesn’t know what he is talking about. ‘Are you kidding me? That’s it, isn’t it?’ Wolverine replies, telling them that they really don’t know, that they are like those Japanese soldiers they found in the jungle, still fighting a war that had been over for thirty years. ‘I said shut up!’ Brom shouts, drawing his energy sword, and holding it towards Wolverine. Wolverine suggests to them that they ask where their fearless leader is getting his orders from, because from where he is sitting, they look like dime-store thugs at best, and lunatic terrorists at worst.
‘RRAGH!’ Brom growls, ready to strike Logan with his sword, when a voice orders him to stand down. They turn and see Sutton standing in the doorway. ‘Perhaps I do owe you and Harrow some answers’ he concedes. Harrow asks where Bexley is, to which Sutton tells her that he is back on the bridge with Croydon. Brom asks Sutton what Wolverine is talking about, and why he is under the impression that STRIKE has disbanded. Sutton moves closer to his officers and explains that, technically, he is correct, that the STRIKE that created the two of them did close up shop a few years back. Sutton points out that they had a good thing going, and he found a new employer who was willing to keep them busy, and, since no one was using the name, he figured, why change it. ‘Let’s be honest, we’re soldiers, and it’s not as if we were gonna put down our guns and get office jobs!’ he remarks.
‘Who the bloody hell are we working for?’ Harrow demands, but Sutton suggests that it is best they table that discussion and deal with their friend Wolverine. ’You lunatic… you smashed the comms room, didn’t you? Damn it, Sutton, this wasn’t your call to make! They’ll hunt us to the ends of the Earth after this!’ Sutton smiles, and tells Brom that if he angry now, he is going to be right pissed when he finds out what he did with the prisoners. ’You mad bastard!’ Harrow shouts as she leaps towards Sutton, energy cracking around her wristbands. ’Ah, there’s the spirit!’ Sutton smiles as he knocks Harrow aside.  Wolverine tells Brom to cut him down, as they can still stop Sutton. ‘No! We haven’t got all damn day!’ Logan snarls, while Brom holds his energy sword up, then uses it to shatter the chains holding Wolverine to the warhead.
Logan pops his claws and declares that it is time to go to work. He drops to the ground, and a quiet message comes over his communicator, while Sutton fires a gun at Harrow, striking her in the stomach. She falls backwards, and Brom goes over to her. Wolverine checks the tiny communications monitor on his glove, and sees the report from Melita, although parts of it are missing, he hears the words “Project Blackbox” and “subjected to torture”. Logan strides towards Sutton, who is now aiming his gun at Brom, who is helping Harrow to her feet. Logan tells Brom to get out of here, and informs him that there are shuttles on level three, so if he leaves right now, he might be able to save her. ‘But what about -’ Brom begins, but Logan interrupts, ‘I got him’ he announces.
Brom rushes out of the room with Harrow, while Sutton just grins and tells Wolverine ‘You don’t really think they’re gonna get very far, do you?’ to which Logan replies ‘Farther than you, meatball’. Sutton holds up a detonator and supposes that this is where Wolverine tries and talks him out of dropping the warhead, or failing that, beats him to a pulp. ‘Yeah, both of those thoughts did occur to me’ Wolverine admits. ‘Easy or hard. Your choice’ he tells Sutton. ‘And if I surrender? If I turn the ship and the nuke over to you? I can expect some, what, some…leniency from your government?’ Sutton asks. ‘Something like that’ Logan mutters. Sutton just grins and declares that it is too late for that, and activates the detonator. The floor beneath the warheads opens and Logan asks Sutton if he is going to blame this on Project Blackbox, and tell everyone that they made him into a monster?
‘What would you know of Blackbox? You have no idea what they did to me’ Sutton tells Wolverine. Logan edges closer to the madman and replies ‘I understand better than you think, and I know that in the end, you can choose what kind of man you want to be’. Logan continues, telling Sutton that whatever they did, it doesn’t make this okay, that those people down below didn’t have anything to do with it. ‘I’m doing those people down there a favor! They’re going to a part of something greater than themselves!’ he exclaims, adding that it is their fault - the men who ran Blackbox, that he can’t feel anything anymore. ‘I close me eyes and I see the atrocities I’ve committed and…I just don’t care!’ he shouts as he pushes the detonator again.
‘No!’ Logan shouts, lunging forward, claws outstretched, he slices off Sutton’s hand, but too slow, as the computer announces ‘Deploying payload’, and the warhead starts to fall out the opening in the Helicarrier. ‘Ah, hell’ Logan mutters as he drops out the hatch, and lands on the warhead. He holds on by his claws, and thinks that it has been a while, so he hopes he can still remember how to do this. He opens a panel, knows he has to stop the timer, disable the conventional explosive device, and remove the neutron trigger. He does so, but suffers some injuries in the process, as the warhead plummets further down towards the ground below, ‘Better hope this works, old man, or else -’ Logan thinks to himself, and an instant later, the warhead slams into the concrete covered ground. The ground is broken up around it, but there is no explosion, just a cloud of dust from the impact. ‘Just like riding a bike…’ Logan mutters as he emerges from the rubble.
Later: ‘How the hell did you know how to disarm it?’ a police officer asks Wolverine. ‘Wikipedia’ Logan dead-pans, while Melita rushes over to him. They embrace. ‘Hey yourself, lady’ Logan replies. ‘You’re a mess and you smell t terrible, but I don’t think I’ve ever been happier to see you’ Melita exclaims. ‘Thanks, I guess’ Wolverine replies, before asking Melita if she got her story. ‘Yeah. You get the bad guys?’ Melita asks, as they smile at each other. ‘Most of ‘em’ Wolverine replies.
Nearby, Sutton is strapped to a high-tech gurney and loaded into a transport vehicle, when a woman with blonde hair approaches the officers. Holding up a badge, she tells them that she will take it from here. The woman enters the transport and tells Sutton not to worry, that she won’t leave him to rot. There is a oddly familiar symbol on her shirt collar, and she explains that her superiors at Black Air have invested a lot of time and money in this operation - and they are not finished with Sutton yet.
Outside, Melita asks ‘So what now?’ and Wolverine replies ‘Now? A shower, maybe, if there’s time’, adding that then it is back to work, as the world still needs saving, and he has to join back up with the Avengers. . ‘Yeah, I figured. Still work for me to do too’ Melita replies. ‘Melita, when this is over…’ Logan’s voice trails off. ‘Yeah?’ Melita asks. ‘Let’s take some time off. Just the two of us’ Wolverine suggests. Melita tells Logan that she would like that, before pointing out that should see about that shower first….


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Youth in Revolt, part one
Flashback images, narrated in the present by Prodigy III:'I was really making something of myself. All-State Division II. Scholarship. Set college records. Popular. Cute. Wanted by every girl on campus' Ritchie Gilmore thinks to himself, recalling his college wrestling career. He remembers leading the super team called the Stingers. As Prodigy, he worked alongside Riccochet, Hornet and Dusk, and this time helped him understand himself, helped him to grow as a person. He made real strides. But then, the self-deceit, the drinking, the belief that he would never be punished or defeated or belittled or wrong. Then came the Superhuman Registration Act, and the Civil War that it sparked. He fought Iron Man, and he was imprisoned. Then forced conscription and prison again. He remembers being put away twice for railing against the system, and twice he was exonerated, but put away all the same. Now that it's over, where has he wound up...
Present:A government job. Ritchie is working in the Department of Justice, in room 42-D, a paper file archive, with a note on the door that says “SHRA files only – so get lost!” Ritchie reminds himself that he always saw desk work as a kind of hell, but the truth is, this isn't so bad. The mindless paperwork is boring and there are all kinds of things he would rather be doing – but there is comfort in the routine, in these pages.
He taps away at his keyboard, before flicking through a file, then stamping it OFFICIAL. The file is labelled “Superhuman Registration Act – Fifty State Initiative: Camp Hammond Controlled Demolition.”
Sometimes Ritchie just sits and stares at a memo that decommissions some part of the SHRA, and he thinks that maybe his suffering was worth it. Pen held between his lips as he concentrates on his computer screen, Ritchie wonders if his actions really, truly made a difference in the outcome. He knows that these aren't the glory days, but it is something. 'And something is easily better than -' he begins, when suddenly, someone approaches him from behind: 'Are you Ritchie Gilmore?' the new arrival asks. 'Man, did you not read the sign? This is my corner of the world and I do not need any -' Ritchie starts to respond, before turning around, and seeing a military official standing behind him.
Ritchie looks shocked as the official introduces himself as Lt General Charlie Stokes, and explains that he has come here to personally deliver an urgent communique from Commander Steve Rogers. 'If you are done beating your chest, I would like to play it for you now' Stokes remarks.
He places a small disc on Ritchie's desk, and a hologram of Commander Steve Rogers appears. He informs Ritchie that moments ago, several meteors of unknown origin made simultaneous landfall across the globe. He adds that news footage of one causing the Raft to break apart in New York can already be seen in the news. Commander Rogers states that he doesn't need to tell Ritchie that they are were already on the precipice of chaos, that virtually everyone is worried over the state of the world, and no one feels safe. He adds that this event will tip things over the edge, and the riots of recent days will be nothing compared with the mass panic on the horizon. Commander Rogers reports that he has dispatched the Avengers to targeted hot spots, and the National Guard is on high alert, but that will not be enough. 'I know that you were no fan of the SHRA or the Initiative, Prodigy, and that's why I'm asking for your help in particular' Commander Rogers adds.
'What's he -' Ritchie starts to ask, but Stokes tells him to listen, as Steve declares that they need heroes – as many as they can get – to help keep the peace, but that they have to be volunteers, no forced conscription or registration this time, and he needs someone to coordinate their efforts. 'In short, Prodigy – I want you to lead a new Initiative' Commander Rogers announces, and Ritchie looks shocked.
Meanwhile, in Atlanta, a pick-up truck has crashed into the front of a store called Al's Gun and Ammo Emporium, and the driver has crouched beside his vehicle, most of his face covered by a bandana, he holds a rifle and exclaims that it is getting wrong out there in the world, and he needs protection. As the store keeper reaches for a gun of his own, the intruder shouts that it is all falling apart. 'Don't you see it? The end times are here for real – and I got a right to protect my family, dammit!' 'Not with my guns you don't!' the store keeper responds. 'Think you're the only one with people they care about? Now, you just drop that measly 12 gauge or else your family might not have anyone to protect them, got it?' he suggests.
Suddenly, a godly voice cries 'Yon proprietor has made a sound suggestion, sir', and the surprised thief turns around, to find four super heroes standing behind him. Red Nine a.k.a. Wallace Jackson, Suzy “Ultra Girl” Sherman, Tarene a.k.a. Thor Girl and George Smith a.k.a. Stunt-Master. None of them look very impressed, and Thor Girl tells the intruder that to challenge the living forest armed with but a leaf is to engage in act of either suicide or stupidity. 'You knucklehead' she adds.
Stunt-Master smiles as he leads away the intruder, whose rifle has been wrapped around his body and arms to restrain him, while the store keeper tells Red Nine that he didn't know if it would be the cops coming or them Cavalry people. 'Dude, the cops have their hands tied just keeping rioters from killing each other' Red Nine explains, while Ultra Girl and Thor Girl walk away from the ammunition shop.
“Knucklehead?” Ultra Girl quotes her friend. Thor Girl explains that she is trying to include more colloquialisms in her lexicon. 'Does this mean you're thinking of remaining here on Earth instead of taking off to Asgard?' Suzy enquires. Tarene tells her friend that it is most troubling, for even though not a true Asgardian, she chose to emulate them because they are a great people, and now they have abruptly abandoned man in this time of need, and she is told Odin has even put Thor to shackles. 'I feel I am... lost' Tarene reveals. Suzy smiles and tells Tarene that as long as she has known her, she has always done the honorable thing, for that is her compass. 'Whatever you decide, I've got your back'. 'You are a good friend' Tarene tells Suzy, who suggests Tarene never say “knucklehead” ever again. 'So it shall be' Tarene smiles.
Red Nine walks over to the girls and tells them that they will never guess who left him a voice mail. 'Prodigy. And wait 'til you hear what he wants'.
'The Initiative?' Greg Willis a.k.a. Gravity remarks as he flies between the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan. 'Eesh, never thought I'd have to think about that outfit again' he adds. Angelica “Firestar” Jones flies alongside her crime-fighting buddy from the Young Allies and asks if the government is reenacting the Super Human Registration Act. 'Because I quit being Firestar over that garbage, so -' she begins, but Gravity tells her that, according to Prodigy, there is no more registration nonsense, although he would need to go to the orientation to know for sure. Gravity tells Firestar that he shouldn't go. 'I mean, look at the state of things around here. Everyone's been holding their collective breath for so long that a pindrop would've set them off, but instead we got a bunch of mystery meteors of certain death falling from the sky'. Gravity adds that it is like the world is slipping deeper and deeper into a waking nightmare. 'Good guys were finally the good guys again. I thought things were gonna be different. Then the Bastards of Evil murder a bunch of people in cold blood, Spider-Girl loses her dad... and poor Nomad...' his voice trails off, and his eyes close behind his goggles.
Firestar looks concerned for Gravity, and puts a hand on his shoulder and suggests to him that perhaps he should go, as seeing his old friends might be good for him. 'Eh, I dunno... they are good people, except for my old Heavy Hitters teammate, Hardball... but I'm not a team guy. Like you keep saying, you led the New Warriors and you were an Avenger, but now you just don't see yourself in that sort of role and -' Gravity begins, before Angelica interrupts him, and offers to go if he goes. 'What? Why would you do that?' Gravity responds, confused. 'Because you're my friend. And you need this' Firestar tells him, before she motions to the destruction below them, as emergency personnel survey the damage, Firestar suggests that catch up witrh Big Wheel first before he hurts anyone else. 'Deal?' she asks.
'Nuh-uh. No way' Abby Boylen a.k.a. Cloud 9 declares as she sits on a swing in her backyard in Illinois. 'Abby, I haven't even told you -' Melati Kusuma a.k.a. Komodo begins, but Abby asks 'What's there to tell? You want me to suit up again, right? Well... I don't' Abby declares. She reminds Melati that she has a job now, she is going to school and is done with the hero stuff. 'And the Initiative? Really?' she adds.
Komodo tells Abby that she knows how it sounds, and reminds her that Prodigy went to jail over the Registration Act, so he is one of them. 'Do you honestly think they won't up and decide to extend our tours of duty without consent and turn us into government lapdogs again?' Abby asks. Komodo tells her that she doesn't see how they could, before asking Abby if she doesn't want to see all the old faces again. 'Sure, if we were all at a mixer or something, but... this feels more like a wake somehow'. With that, Abby gets off the swing and walks away, waving her hand at the surprised Komodo.
'The Initiative – what it represented at various states from its inception to its end – can bring some unpleasant memories to the surface. As a former member and team leader, I know that all too well' Prodigy declares as he stands on a podium in Washington, DC. The American flag is displayed nearby, as Prodigy continues, reporting that he fought against forced registration and later fought against Norman Osborn's corrupt regime. 'So when I tell you I'm in charge, that means the mistakes of the past will not come to bear this time around'. He adds that it means they don't have to stay. 'I hope you do, but if you want to do your own thing, I respect that and wish you well'. He announces that they should know first that this iteration of the Initiative which is fully backed by Steve Rogers, requires no registration whatsoever. Prodigy continues: 'Look outside any window, turn on any TV right this second and it's crystal clear that people need our help. They need someone to be strong, to help them feel safe. To help them be safe'.
Prodigy states that while the Avengers and others are focused on the bigger picture – these hammers that crash-landed all over creation – someone else needs to be out there to help out with the rest. 'That someone else? That's where the Initiative comes in. For it to work, we need as large a group as possible making a concerted effort to keep the peace and maintain civility in this time of need'. Prodigy declares that they need sound teams with strong leaders. 'We need you!' he exclaims to the several dozen super beings gathered before him, flanked by reporters and camera crews.
Firestar and Gravity stand at the front of the group, and behind them are Komodo, and the three members of Arizona's Desert Stars – Two-Gun Kid, Johnny Cool and Supermax. Members of the Californian team the Order – Anthem, Arallune, Supernaut, Calamity and Veda. Slapstick, Rage and the Scarlet Spider of the New Warriors are present, as is Melee. Batwing and Butterball from the unnamed North Carolina team are among the gathered heroes, along with Think-Tank and Spinner of Montana's Freedom Force. The Liberteens – Ms America, Iceberg, 2-D and Blue Eagle – from Pennsylvania are present, as are Hardball, Nonstop and Telemetry, collectively known as the Heavy Hitters, formerly Nevada's sanctioned team. Frog-Man, Prima Donna and Vox – the Action Pack from Kentucky are among the group, and Star Sign and Paydirt from Hawaai's Point Men. Jennifer Kale from Florida's the Command team can be seen among the group, as can Geiger from New Mexico's Mavericks. The Cavalry members are present, too.
When Prodigy finishes his speech, Ultra Girl, a former member of the New Warriors, goes over to her fellow former New Warrior, Firestar, and exclaims 'Firestar! You weren't with the Initiative, were you?' Firestar explains that she is here with Gravity. 'Not like, you know, with him, like you and Vance, but -' Firestar stammers. Thor Girl smiles: 'Ah! You are the former betrothed of Ultra Girl’s present lover, are you not?' 'Uh...' Firestar stutters, her complexion reddening with embarrassment.
'How've you been?' Marina Zane a.k.a. Telemetry calls out to her former teammate, but Gravity rubs his neck and replies 'Not that great. It's been, I dunno...' when suddenly, Roger “Hardball” Brockeridge smirks and exclaims 'Oh, hey, look who it is. The mater of indecision, poor planning and on-the-nose aliases'. Gravity turns to Hardball and asks 'Shouldn't you be filling a jail cell with your massive ego, Hardball? I mean, you did betray your team for Hydra'. Slapstick and the Scarlet Spider look on, as Gravity and Hardball move closer to each other, and Hardball declares 'I guess you haven't heard – I run the Heavy Hitters now'. 'Run 'em where? Into the ground?' Gravity replies, before Telemetry comes between them both and pushes them away from each other. 'Hey. Whoa. Same team, guys. Same team' she reminds them as Madeleine Michaels a.k.a. Nonstop stands nearby.
The odd Think-Tank stands before Thor Girl and asks 'So, what about these hammers? Are they Asgardian, or...?' Thor Girl replies that she knows not, but she does know they are of ill portent. 'Oh' Think-Tank mutters. 'You know, ever since our little “reunion” last week, I've been... hungry' Hardball smiles as he embraces Komodo from behind. 'Whoa, ease up on the PDA there, blondie' Komodo retorts pushing Hardball aside, which is seen by Iceberg and Ms America. 'Oh, right. Of course' Hardball replies. 'Wouldn't want anyone to think you're back with the traitorous scumbag' Hardball calls out as he walks away from Komodo, who starts to reply 'We may have made up, Roger, but that doesn't mean we're -' Hardball just tells her that it is cool, as all this sneaking around makes it kinda hot, anyway, as he walks past Red Nine, Frog-Man and Star Sign.
Prodigy walks over to Firestar and Gravity, and asks Gravity how he would feel about heading up a team. 'Ah, you know... I don't...' Gravity starts to reply, to which Firestar informs Prodigy that she and Gravity can co-lead, if that is okay with him. Prodigy doesn't respond, he just thinks to himself 'Making the big decisions. Being looked to for permission. Diving straight into the depths without hesitation. So much for stability'.
It starts fast and it starts crazy. Hardball is in a casino where patrons have gone crazy, attacking each other. Firestar, Gravity and Frog-Man work together to being some children to safety in another city. There are dozens and dozens of cities, all with regular sitreps and needs and fears of their own. Komodo is working with her old teammates the Desert Stars as they confront thieves who have robbed a National Bank. There are thousands of people either scared out of their minds or taking advantage of the situation. Prodigy monitors the various teams on screens, and notes that it is a chaotic night, but gives him something new to organize, to make sense of – something to help keep his own head on straight. Anthem, Calamity and Aralune stand before a Norse temple which has been violated, while Abby Boylen looks around in shock as the grocery store she is in is being looted – and people are attacking each other. Talk of armageddon and godly retribution and monsters fuel the fires so quickly that hotspots of panic and hostility threaten to become a raging wildfire. Prodigy takes to the streets himself, praying he can dissuade some Georgetown students from attacking riot police because they fear that otherwise the police will fire first. Suddenly, the commotion stops, and everyone turns skyward – because they hear it. The thunder.
A live video feed from the Capitol Mall in Washington, where flying tank-like armor controlled from the inside, start firing at the ground below. A reporter can hardly describe what they are seeing, before the report switches to a security camera overlooking the Capitol Building – which is suddenly struck by a powerful surge of energy. Rom the chaos, emerges Skadi a.k.a. Sin, the daughter of the Red Skull, her power fuelled by the large hammer which she carries, as she walks amongst the rubble of the Capitol Building.
Atlanta, where a small hammer is tossed through a store window. A civilian takes a television from the store, before Red Nine grabs him. Rioters and civilians have taken to the streets, Stunt-Master leaps onto a car, 'HEY!' he shouts in an attempt to get everyone's attention. 'People, please! Calm down! Panicking like this will only make things worse!' he points out. 'Madness! They cannot be reasoned with!' Thor Girl exclaims as she and Ultra Girl drop down from the air. Ultra Girl points out that they have to clear a path so they don't trample themselves to death, and Thor Girl agrees. 'As I pitch the vehicles skyward to you, hurl them safely aside!' Thor Girl tells Ultra Girl, who announces that she is on it. But suddenly, a voice booms 'Good God! It's one of them!' and everyone turns to Thor Girl. 'Hm?' she asks, confused, as police officers point their guns at her. 'She's got a hammer!' someone declares. 'Can't wait for backup. I'm taking the shot!' an officer reports. 'Stop! Do not -' Thor Girl begins, but too late, as the officer fires several bullets – and they just bounce right off of her – one of them riccochets right back and strikes the officer in his shoulder. A women in the crowd of onlookers screams, and more panic errupts. '- hammer like on TV -' someone calls out. '- shooting – she's shooting -' another exclaims. ' -crushing me!' someone utters as the crowd starts to flee.
Thor Girl calls after them, 'Please do not run! I did not ire! I only wish to help you!' she declares, looking bewildered. 'I – I -' Thor Girl utters, while Stun-Master is stuck amongst the fleeing civilians. 'Help me...' he utters. Thor Girl seems stuck in place as she watches the civilians. By the time Prodigy is back at his post, the news is everywhere – not just of the terror and tragedy in the Capital... but in Atlanta, as well. Watching as dozens of people unknowingly crush each other to death, Prodigy shares Thor Girl's helplessness. He thinks about how, just a short while ago, he was hidden away in his own little corner of the world, safe and content. He think about the impossible, inevitable task ahead of him. He fears for himself, for his future. And suddenly, riot squad officers arrive, 'PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON!' one of the officers booms at Thor Girl. Without turning around, Tarene starts to reply 'I am only attempting -', but the officer isn't interested in listening: 'NOW!' he shouts. Wide-eyed, Thor Girl turns around, and finds herself surrounded by police officers, and Prodigy begins to fear for them all. For everyone...


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In Thor-Girl's memory:She used to live a peaceful life on a peaceful world, protected from anguish and terror – until a powerhungry madman by the name of Thanos slaughtered her entire people. That day she learned the true nature of evil. But she also learned that of good, as Thor took on the cosmic madman. Thor did not know her. She was called Tarene. Yet the Thunder God risked his own life to save hers. His valor and inner strength made her want to be like him, and when she learned that the power the madman sought was within her, Tarene became Thor Girl! What followed was an awakening. To find that she never needed her family's coddling allowed her to forge a path of her own choosing, and to discover her true self. When the opportunity came to repay Thor his generosity, she gave no second thought to placing her life before his, and while she did not have to make that sacrifice against Surtur, much of her power was spent in the act. She was a shade of her former self... and like her fight against the Grey Gargoyle, she was vulnerable.
Present:Those days of peace and protection – of coddling – now Tarene finds she longs for their return. 'Tarene – it's not your fault!' Suzy Sherman a.k.a. Ultra Girl calls out to her good friend as she speeds through the air after her. But Tarene does not answer. 'With all that's happening, people are just losing it right now. If it wasn't seeing you with your hammer, it would've been -' Suzy begins, to which Tarene interrupts and points out that it was that – ut was her presence that caused the panic to escalate, and now innocents are dead and their teammates have been taken to hospital. Ultra Girl reminds Tarene that Red Nine wasn't even in the crowd, he got cold-cocked by a looter. 'Nevertheless. Prodigy has requested my compliance, and so it will be granted' Thor Girl replies as she and Ultra Girl arrive in Virginia, and drop down to where Prodigy a.k.a. Ritchie Gilmore is conducting a press conference. 'Wow. Someone tipped off the press, apparently' Ultra Girl points out. 'Yeah. I did' Prodigy replies. Annoyed, Suzy asks him why he did that. 'What, you're gonna hang her out to dry?' she snaps. Prodigy tells Ultra Girl to just bear with him.
As camera crews aim their cameras at Prodigy, he puts an arm on Thor Girl's shoulder and quietly tells her to follow his lead, and keep herself in check. 'This is going out live, and any kind of outburst would just cause more trouble, agreed?' he remarks. 'What are you -?' Thor Girl starts to ask, to which Prodigy assures her that this wasn't his idea, and that he has issues with it, but it makes sense. 'Trust me, you'll be helping' he assures Thor Girl.
Prodigy turns to the reporters and tells them that he would like to make a statement. Thor Girl stands at his side, while Ultra Girl stands near her friend, and several government agents in black suits surround them. 'As you can clearly see, Thor Girl is not a threat' Prodigy begins. He explains that she is not one of the hammer-wielders they have all been seeing the horrific reports about. 'She has always been – and remains – a hero' Prodigy declares. Prodigy states that he does understand that in a time of such uncertainty, words provide only so much comfort, which is why, after the unfortunate loss of life in Atlanta, Thor Girl has come of her own volition to turn herself in. Thor Girl's eyes suddenly widen slightly.
Meanwhile, in Illinois, Abby Boylen a.k.a. Cloud 9 watches her television and is shocked to see Thor Girl led away by government agents. She picks her mobile phone up and calls Melati Kusuma a.k.a. Komodo. 'Ugh, this is making me sick, Melati. Physically sick!' Abby exclaims. She rises up on some cloud in her living room and reminds Melati that she told her the Initiative would pull something like this. 'But so soon and so blatant, it's -' Abby begins, when suddenly, she hears shots fired outside. 'Holy -!' Abby gasps. Outside, two men are fighting. A vehicle loaded with groceries seems to be the cause of the trouble. 'No! Get your own stuff!' the man who owns the vehicle shouts, firing his gun again. 'I just wanted something to help my family, and you pull a gun?' the other man asks, while his family stand nearby. 'I've got my own family to -' the first man begins, before the second man punches him, causing him to drop the gun. The second man picks the gun up and aims it at the first. 'All you had to do was share. Now I'm taking your car and the keys to your cabin and you and yours can go straight to -' he begins, before he finds himself interrupted as a cloud moves across his face.
'The hell? Can't see a -' the man begins, before someone kicks the back of his leg, and punches him in the face. He drops the gun and his attacker – Cloud 9 – picks it up. 'Executing a neighbor in front of your family...not to mention firing into a whole bunch of gas cans. You're really something' Cloud 9 tells him as she removes the cartridge from the gun. She turns to the first man: 'And you. Offer them space at your cabin, for crying out loud!' Scowling, Abby tells them that they are human beings, and when things turn to crap, they don't go around hoarding and looting and killing. 'We're supposed to lend a hand!'
New Jersey, 'We need your help! Gravity!' someone shouts to the young hero also known as Greg Willis. Gravity turns to his crime-fighting partner Angelica “Firestar” Jones and informs her as they hover in the air that he heard someone say that Captain America was murdered. 'That can't be true...can it?' he asks. As civilians run in panic beneath them, Firestar tells Gravity that it doesn't matter, not now, anyway, before reminding him that he is supposed to be in charge of this team. 'We both are, technically...' Gravity begins, but Firestar flies towards a burning building and tells Gravity to get his head on straight, as they need him. To assist the panic-stricken civilians, Frog Man a.k.a. Eugene Patillio points them in a safe direction, while inside the building, the Scarlet Spider called Patrick fires some webbing which breaks open a window, and tells the civilians trapped nearby to stay down and breathe shallow. 'I'll get you out!' he assures them. Gravity finds his way inside, and comes across Geiger a.k.a. Delilah Dearborn who is carrying some unconscious civilians down some stairs. 'Hey! What can I do?' Gravity asks her. 'You're asking me?' Geiger responds.
'Sir? Sir, how badly are you hurt?' Firestar calls out as she bursts into a room, where she finds a man slumped against a wall, clutching his bleeding arm. 'He – he -' the man utters. 'Is that – is that a bullet wound?' Firestar asks. At the same time back outside, Frog-Man leaps towards a SWAT officer. 'You're not a fire truck! What's going on?' Frog-Man asks. The SWAT officer explains that they are chasing a Raft fugitive across town who keeps using innocents as shields. 'Punk killed three of my men!' he adds. 'What?' Frog-Man asks. 'Kid, you got a deadly felon in there!' the officer announces, motioning to the burning building. Back inside, Gravity enters a room where a woman runs past him, 'Shooter! Shooter!' she screams. 'Say what...?' Gravity calls out. 'You deaf? She said “Shooter”!' a voice declares, and Gravity turns – as he is shot in the chest by Crossbones. 'Heh. Heroes' Crossbones mutters as he stands over Gravity's body.
Thor Girl has been placed in a cell. She paces back and forth, arms folded, then scowls. While outside walking down a corridor, Prodigy assures Ultra Girl that he knows what it is like to be imprisoned, and that he wouldn't do this if he didn't have to. 'It's for appearances. It has to look legit for the staff and the security cameras. I'll let her out... just as soon as this mess blows over. I swear' Prodigy declares. 'And when will that be?' Suzy asks. 'You know how many crises I've got on my place right now? It was already crazy when the hammers fell...but now that the Capital's been attacked and Captain America's been killed -' Prodigy begins, before they enter a monitor room, 'Here. Better just to show you' he tells Suzy, who goes wide-eyed as she looks at the scenes of horror playing out before her. 'It's...everywhere' Prodigy points out. Motioning to the monitors, he explains to Suzy that these are just the incidents that ffall under his purview. 'It's worldwide. Virtually inescapable. Godlike monsters are tearing the world apart, and the masses are losing it. As far as they're concerned, these are the end times' Prodigy declares.
Still in shock, Ultra Girl tells Prodigy that she will go back to Atlanta, but Prodigy tells her that she alone won't cut it, and it is better if she fits in with one of the other groups. Suddenly, an announcement over the intercom reports that there is an urgent update from New Jersey. 'Put it up' Prodigy responds. A monitor displays an announcer who is reporting on terror in New Brunswick, where the escaped criminal Crossbones has been laying waste across the area, leaving a stack of bodies in his wake, and that rumors from fleeing victims suggest Crossbones may have taken the lives of one of more heroes. Ultra Girl asks Prodigy who is in New Jersey, to which Prodigy tells her Gravity and Firestar's team. 'Firestar?' Ultra Girl asks. 'How fast can you fly?' Prodigy enquires.
Back in her cell, Thor Girl sits slumped on a bench. She recalls that according to Prodigy, this cell is designed to temporarily detain super-powered beings. She knows that with her former powers, she could break free. Maybe even without them if she really tried. 'But I supposedly need not resort to that, as I am to be released as soon as -' Tarene thinks to herself, scowling, when suddenly, a voice from outside the cell calls out to her: 'Good day, Tarene. Or do you prefer Thor Gir? Either way, we'd like to ask you some questions' two government officials, obscured by the frosted window on the cell door, remarks. 'In regards to what, exactly?' Thor Girl exclaims, leaping to her feet. One of the officials warns Tarene that becoming defensive will not help her current situation. 'Which is...?' Tarene replies. One of them states that detailed imagery of the terrorists presently attacking here and abroad indicates that their battle armor and weaponry bear markings that are distinctly Asgardian in nature. 'Considering your special relationship with Asgard, we would appreciate it if you'd enlighten us as to these terrorists' ideology. Maybe their plans. Any targets?' the other official inquiries.
'I would not know. As you are aware, I was in Atlanta when first -' Thor Girl starts to reply. 'That's where you murdered the police officer?' one of the agents interrupts. 'I did nothing of the sort. I was fired upon -' Thor Girl explains, to which one of the agents asks if they are to understand that she does not wish to cooperate. 'You -! I AM! I -!' Thor Girl shouts, reminding the agents that she is not under arrest, and that they have no right to told her here nor question her thus. 'You will free me now, cowardly vermin, so that I may have words with -' Thor Girl begins, before she is struck by a powerful surge of energy, that that topples her over.
Back in New Jersey, 'Murderer!' Frog-Man declares as he leaps towards Crossbones, who responds by kicking Frog-Man in the stomach, knocking him back. 'Been working to get my groove back ever since being locked up, and I gotta say...you kids make for a fun warm up!' Crossbones declares as Geiger rushes towards him and he slams her into a desk. Firestar appears and blasts Crossbones with a surge of microwave energy. 'Swift one, ain't ya, Red?' Crossbones remarks as he dodges the attack. 'You're gonna be the next one to go...after your goggled pal' Crossbones adds, before tossing two knives towards Firestar who looks on, shocked. 'Not gonna happen, Bone Dome!' Scarlet Spider calls out as he covers Crossbones in webbing. Crossbones starts cutting himself free, and looks up: 'Oh, just a fourth-rate Spider-Man. For a sec, there... I thought I might have to break a sweat' Crossbones exclaims as he bursts free and punches Scarlet Spider in the face.
Firestar surrounds Crossbones in flames and tells him that this ends now. 'Yeah...what she said' Gravity declares, surrounded by a force field, he holds Crossbones bullets that were fired at him and lets them drop to the floor. Geiger and Frog-Man stand at his side. 'Heh. Tough little bugger...tougher than a grenade?' Crossbones asks as he tosses one towards Gravity. 'GRAVITY! I'e got -' Geiger exclaims as she leaps forward and grabs the grenade, holding it against her as it explodes.
Outside, a fire crew has gathered and commenced putting out the flames. 'Sorry I didn't make it here sooner... but at least you're alive' Ultra Girl remarks to Firestar as she walks over to her former teammate. 'Yeah. Barely' Firestar tells her, while the Scarlet Spider puts an ice-pack to his head. Gravity and Frog-Man watch as Geiger is put on a strecher and loaded into an ambulance, while paramedics tend to her. 'Geez, dude, I didn't know you could stop bullets...I mean, mostly stop, I guess' Frog-Man remarks to Gravity, who asks to be left alone. Firestar rushes over to him, as Gravity declares that he is no kind of team leader, and Crossbones wiped the floor with them and he almost got Geiger killed. 'That's not -' Firestar begins, but Gravity takes to the air and flies away, calling out 'No. That's it. I – I don't have the nerve for this anymore. I'm done'. Firestar, Ultra Girl, Frog-Man and Scarlet Spider all watch him leave, and they are all speechless.
Meantime, in Las Vegas. 'What are you doing?' Roger Brokeridge a.k.a. Hardball asks his former Heavy Hitters teammate, Komodo, as she taps away at her phone. 'Abby won't answer. Something happened at her place and I haven't been able to reach her since' Komodo replies. 'We've got bigger problems to deal with, Melati' Roger points out. 'Tell me about it. Two-Gun Kid is freaked. They've got major riots down in Phoenix and I should be there' She tells Roger that she should not have let him talk her into coming here with him given everything that is going on. 'Hey! That's my -' Komodo exclaims as Hardball takes her phone. 'All mass transit's shut down, so you're not going anywhere. We could use the extra manpower' he declares. 'For what? You and LVPD have all but declared martial law. There's virtually nothing happening here' Komodo points out as they stand in an deserted Las Vegas street. 'Like that's a bad thing?' Hardball asks. Komodo asks Hardball to give her phone back. 'No' Hardball replies. 'Why the hell not?' Melati snaps. 'You can't be calling out anymore' Hardball declares.
'What? Blondie, hand me my phone or so help me -' Komodo threatens, but she is interrupted when the Heavy Hitter called Telemtry a.k.a. Marina Zane flies over to them, informing Hardball that she has Prodigy on the line for him. 'Good. Bring him up' Hardball responds. Telemetry extends her hand and from it, a projection of Prodigy is displayed. 'Great job so far, Hardball. I'm glad to see you have a strong stomach for crisis situations' Prodigy congratulates Hardball, who replies 'I've had my share'.
'Noted' Prodigy remarks, adding that he would like to pick Hardball's brain on that subject, before reporting that right now there is something more urgent he needs to prepare for. Prodigy reveals that Homeland has been tracking one of the hammer-wielders who has been heading Westward from the East Coast, and who has just made a course correction and is now headed to Las Vegas. Prodigy reports that virtually every town the hammer-wielder has come across has been levelled. 'He can't be stopped, but your team will have to try, or else Vegas is history'. Hardball and Komodo go wide-eyed as Prodigy informs them they have to stop the Juggernaut.
Back in Thor Girl's cell, Tarene is still being struck by the energy. She tells herself that she suspected Prodigy was capable of some level of guile, but for him to be duplicitous on such a scale defies belief. Tarene decides that it is she who must take blame, for allowing herself to know fear has brought her here, trapped and without allies. 'Is that enough for you, Tarene? We do have higher settings' one of the government officials calls out from outside. 'You... may rot...' comes Tarene's response as she falls to the floor. One of the officials tells Tarene 'That's an unfortunate response. If you have no interest in helping humanity, then we may have no recourse but to -'. The agent stops speaking, and gas starts to filter into the cell. Thor Girl returns to her feet, and fists clenched, declares 'Gas? If you believe your poison will have any effect upon me, you are sorely mistaken!' Suddenly, Thor Girl looks surprised, as a voice calls out 'That's the Thor Girl I know, all right. Never backing down...but, for the record, I'm not a poison. I'm a friend!' A familiar figure glides into the room, as the government officials can be seen collapsed in a heap. 'Cloud 9!' Thor Girl exclaims. Cloud 9 smiles and declares 'I'm busting you outta here, girlfriend. We've got work to do!'


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Youth in Revolt, part three
Hardball recalls the circumstances that led to him gaining his powers, his time with the Initiative, and his relationship with Komodo. But right now, he stands in the Nevada desert alongside Komodo, Nonstop, Telemetry, Rage and Debrii, awaiting the Juggernaut who is on a collision course with Las Vegas. Nonstop is the first to engage the Juggernaut. Darting about him, she leaps over a large crevice, which the Juggernaut topples down into. But it doesn't hold him for long, as he bursts from the ground and sets his sights back on the young heroes. Hardball and his team do their best against the powerful Juggernaut, but they barely slow him down. Juggernaut then leaps away from them, closing in on Las Vegas. Thor Girl and Cloud-9 come to a stop in Philadelphia after taking down Quicksand. Thor Girl knows that Prodigy will be mad at her for leaving her cell, and is soon confronted by Ms America and the rest of the Liberteens. Ms America tells both Cloud-9 and Thor Girl that they are wanted for questioning. Cloud-9 is angry with her for wasting time with them instead of helping innocent people. Thor Girl knocks Ms America over, and she and Cloud-9 proceed to escape. Ms America tells her team not to pursue them, and instead to get back to helping stop the monsters who killed Captain America. Below Las Vegas, a reporter and a camera man move close to some tunnels under the road, where Hardball and the others are now battling the Juggernaut, while some innocent civilians are down in the tunnels, too. Some of the heroes start to evacuate what civilians they can, and Nonstop gets annoyed when the reporter starts to try and interview her. The rest of the civilians refuse to leave, though – they are homeless and claim that this is the only place that keeps them safe. Hardball announces that everyone has to get clear, as he increases his energy, preparing to let it loose against the Juggernaut. The heroes have to leave the civilians inside the tunnel as Hardball releases his power – all recorded by the cameraman and streamed live on televisions around the country. Firestar, Ultra Girl and Frog-Man see this happen, until their television goes blank. The Liberteens watch the scene unfold in awe, while Thor Girl and Cloud-9 are in shock. In the Nevada desert, the Juggernaut emerges from the ground, clear of Las Vegas, he turns and runs, leaving a city in ruins, and a hand sticking out of the rubble.
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, Gravity receives a phone call from Prodigy, who requests that he return to active duty. Gravity tells Prodigy that he can't go back out there. Problems increase for Prodigy as the two federal agents who came to speak to the imprisoned Thor Girl have woken in Thor Girl's cell after she vanished. Prodigy demands to know why they are here, but they refuse to talk to him, and warn him to let them free – but he leaves them in the cell.


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Title: Youth in Revolt, part four
In Gravity's memory:
Growing up, there was no greater inspiration to Greg Willis than Spider-Man. Spidey and those first Marvels, they were ideal heroes, they saved lives daily, even when it meant risking theirs. And they never killed. He watches Spider-Man on the television, saving lives, and when Greg found himself with powers of his own, he moved to Manhattan with the goal of doing his best to live up to those ideals, and found himself tangling with the Rhino. How quickly things went off the rails, for first Greg died, and then he was reborn and became the cynical leader of a team of government-mandated “heroes” in Nevada, the Desert Stars, and together, they took on Warhead. But now, with every life lost on his watch, he feels a growing rage – not just with himself, but with the cold and unfair nature of it all. Now, as heroes kill and villains kill more than ever, those simple ideals he once worshipped are becoming a whisper, a forgotten memory.
Present:
Now, Greg “Gravity” Willis decides that he can't take it anymore, he has to do something. And putting on his ruined costume, he flies out of his bedroom, from state to state – Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, he swiftly moves across the United States with a very determined look on his face.
Las Vegas, meanwhile, inside the UNLV Technology Building for Geoscience and Nuclear Medicine, some seismic monitors pick up several anomalous fault activities, and identifies them as being a very high hazard-risk.
Outside the city, at a ruined bridge, Melati Kusuma a.k.a. Komodo watches as Roger “Hardball” Brokeridge emerges from the rubble and shouts at him 'Do you know what you've done? Babe, you – those people, you – why'd you have to do that?' she asks, still in shock. Hardball points out that no one else was gonna do it – it had to be done. 'People died just now! Innocent people! How could that be the right thing?' Komodo asks, wide-eyed. 'We gave those people the opportunity to run. They chose to stay' Hardball reminds her through gritted teeth.
Komodo turns from Hardball, 'You know, I can't – I just can't deal with your cold, self-centered – I've gotta go help or – or something' she utters, while nearby, Madeleine Michaels a.k.a. Nonstop, Elvin Haliday a.k.a. Rage and Deborah Fields a.k.a. Debrii find themselves confronted by Two-Gun Kid, Johnny Dee and Supermax of the Desert Stars, and Veda, Supernaut, Calamity, Anthem and Aralune of the Order. Anthem announces that Prodigy called them in, and asks how they can help. 'Wish I had an answer for you' Debrii replies. 'But when your chosen decision-maker takes out a whole buncha homless folk...' Debrii remarks, her voice trailing off.
'Hey, it sucks what happened to those people, Debrii, but if Hardball hadn't acted to get Juggernaut out of town, who knows how many more -' Nonstop begins, to which an annoyed Debrii turns to her, 'Uh-huh. So killing innocents is acceptable?' she snaps. 'Wow. Interrupting me and putting words in my mouth. I hard that so much' Nonstop exclaims. 'Tell you what I'm about to do to your heart, Nonstop -' Debrii threatens as they young women stare each other down. 'Hey!' Hardball shouts. Everyone turns to him, as he points out that Juggernaut's rampage did major damage to the strip, so they need to get over there now. 'Let's just press pause on all this and -' he suggests, before something strikes him, blasting him into the top of a nearby building. 'MURDERING IDIOT!' Gravity shouts as he strikes a punch, sending Hardball careening back towards another building, but Hardball uses his energy to steady himself, and re-gaining his balance, moves to clash with Gravity who continues to surge towards him.
Hardball strikes first, knocking Gravity through a large glass roof of a nearby building, Hardball drops down after him, landing inches from the surprised Gravity, who quickly gets to his feet, and levitates a lot of rubble, warning Hardball that he is going to pay for those innocent lives. 'Wrong time to pick a fight. But that's you in a nutshell, isn't it, Gravity?' Hardball responds as they punch each other. 'Bad timing, bad ideas, bad decisions...' Hardball tells Gravity, who shouts 'SHUT UP!' as he smacks his head into Hardball's and pushes Hardball back, when suddenly, there is a loud rumbling.
Outside, Telemetry a.k.a. Marina Zane has rescued several civilians and has them on a psionic platform as she helps to evacuate the city. 'Holy...that tremor came from Hardball and Gravity!' she remarks. 'Don't they know the city's too fragile for all that raw power?' she asks, while Johnny Dee and Two-Gun Kid are nearby, guiding civilians to safety. Johnny Dee tells Telemetry that she is welcome to try and talk sense to them, but he puts better odds on them successfully evacuating everyone. 'Hey, d'you feel that?' Rage asks Debrii as he lifts up some rubble, and she uses her power to move smaller rubble beneath it. 'Yeah, Rage. It's called an alpha male super-powered slugfest!' Debrii replies. 'Not the one before – just now' Rage explains. He looks around and adds that it was a new quake that came from the southwest. 'They're north, so -' he starts to say, before Debrii announces that there are survivors down here. 'Keep a path open!' she tells Rage.
In Virginia, Ritchie Gilmore a.k.a. Prodigy stands before several monitors that display footage of the trouble in Las Vegas, specifically Hardball and Gravity's battle. 'Unacceptable. This is unacceptable' Prodigy declares, before a voice over the communication system announces that they have massive riots growing nationwide from the reports of Captain America's death and the Paris massacre. 'Please advise' the voice adds.
'I -' Ritchie begins, hanging his head. 'Sir!' a soldier calls out as he enters the room where Ritchie stands solemnly. 'You've left your post, soldier, and I'm busy' Ritchie replies. The soldier informs Prodigy that those federal agents who are locked up keep demanding that they be released. They say they have jurisdiction over you and -' the soldier begins. Ritchie grits his teeth and closes his eyes, frustrated he instructs the soldier not to talk to them and leave them alone. 'But, Sir – if I might speak freely -' the soldier starts to say, but Prodigy spins around and furiously shouts 'You will do what I damn well tell you and that is all you will do!' Before the voice over the communicator speaks again, 'Sir? Please advise -', to which Prodigy starts to walk out of the room, 'Give me half a second to think, would you?', while the soldier looks at him in shock.
Ritchie slams the door open to the restroom, and washes his face with some water. 'Six months. Keep it together, Ritchie. Keep it -' he tells himself, going wide-eyed as one of his hands starts to shake. He uses the other hand to steady himself then looks in the mirror: 'You're in control. You're in control' he declares.
Back in Nevada, Komodo struggles to lift a large chunk of rubble when her friend Cloud-9 a.k.a Abby Boylen appears above. 'What are you doing? You're never gonna lift that' Abby declares. 'I have... to... try' Komodo calls back. Abby asks her if she even knows if anyone is down there, to which Komodo replies 'No, but – wait. Why are you wearing that, Abby? What are you doing here?' Komodo asks, confused at seeing her friend in costume. 'Right this second? Stopping you from ripping your arms out of their sockets, even if they do grow back' Abby replies. She drops to the ground and tells Komodo that she saw what happened, and that she can't let her feelings for Hardball make her feel guilty about any of this. 'The only thing you can do right now is help us stop them' Abby declares, as Komodo gives up on trying to lift the large piece of rubble. Suddenly, there is a rumbling, and Komodo asks 'Stop who? What's happening?' to which Abby asks her 'You mean you don't know?'
Nearby, Thor Girl flies towards Gravity and Hardball, who are still fighting, their battle caught on a cell phone by a man who watches from a few feet away. 'You must stop at once lest you place more innocents in danger! Please -' Thor Girl calls out, before she is knocked back through the air by their exploding energies. 'HOLY ####!' the man with the cell phone gasps as Thor Girl careens past him. Anthem is using his powers to clear some rubble, and announces 'Soon as everyone's evac'd, we need to formulate a plan to separate those two! Gang up on them if we have to, or – THOR GIRL!' he gasps as she lands several feet away from him, breaking up the ground upon impact.
Gravity holds Hardball down, 'You're gonna pay for everything you've done, Hardball! The betrayals, the murders...!' Gravity warns him. 'You... are such a damn... boy scout!' Hardball retorts as he knocks Gravity back with a surge of energy. Hardball spins around and punches Gravity, 'It's all white hats and black hats to you! No room for grey!' he exclaims as he strikes a blow at Gravity's jaw. 'You make me sick!' Hardball adds as he slams Gravity backwards, causing the other hero to land against a car.
Telemetry is supervising the rescued civilians, when the loudest rumbling yet is heard. She touches her communicator and declares 'Prodigy! Finally! I had to patch through nine network hubs to – what? I'm not blaming you, I'm just -' she begins, before saying 'Listen, Hardball and Gravity -', but Prodigy interrupts her with something, so she tells him that they have been too busy getting civilians out of the way to deal with them, but that they have had massive shockwaves from their fight, so she logged into a seismic monitoring system. 'Yes, that's exactly right! They have to be stopped now!' Telemetry declares, taking flight.
Hardball punches Gravity again, then stands over him, 'That it? Think maybe I can get back to helping people now?' Hardball asks. 'Helping people?' Gravity retorts as he leaps up and kicks Hardball in the face, followed by a punch, then another, blasting Hardball backwards. 'HELPING PEOPLE?!' Gravity shouts. 'You don't help people. You help yourself. Always yourself. It doesn't matter who you hurt who you kill...!' Gravity declares as he moves closer to Hardball, grabs his throat and raises a fist, charged with energy. He asks Hardball what he doesn't get about being a hero. 'We're supposed to hold ourselves to a higher ideal!' he exclaims, adding that it is not reality, but something worth striving for.
'I make you sick? I've seen so many people die, and you – to you it's, what, some kinda math problem? Some joke? What?' Gravity asks, as he grows more and more enraged. 'You're a disgrace. You dishonor every hero living or dead that came before you!' he tells Hardball, adding that innocent people, good people, they die, and a cold-hearted monster like Hardball just keeps on living. Gravity starts to cry, 'Cap's dad. Nomad...' his voice trails off, before readying himself to unleash the power around his fist, he exclaims 'You don't deserve to breathe the air they breathed'. Gravity continues, 'You deserve -' he begins, when suddenly, a voice calls out'NO!', and distracted, Gravity fires his pent-up energy in the direction of the voice – striking Komodo and knocking her back.
Gravity suddenly stops. 'No. Oh, no' he utters when he realizes what he has done. 'KOMODO!' Gravity shouts as he rushes over to her, but she doesn't move. 'Sorry. I'm so sorry I didn't mean -' he begins, and Komodo stirs. 'I swear I wasn't I didn't mean to og please Komodo be okay be okay' Gravity exclaims. He doesn't notice as Hardball has stood up and starts to move towards him. Gravity thinks back now about that wide-eyed kid that he was taking the bus to New York for the fisrt time, and cringes. 'Hardball, don't! You'll -' Telemetry calls out, but he doesn't listen to her, he moves closer to Gravity, who thinks to himself 'I don't cringe because he was so naive... but because I'd hate for him to see me now. I'd hate for him to see that he'll one day become a -' Gravity's thoughts are cut off, as he turns around and throws up a force field as Hardball's super-charged fist slams into him, followed by a mighty KA-THOOOOOM!
The seismic moniyot detects sustained activity, and civilians looks scared as there is another rumbling. Nonstop, Debrii and Rage are knocked about by the rumbling, while Hardball and Gravity both lie motionless on the ground. 'No, please...' Cloud-9 utters as she hovers above. 'No!' she gasps as buildings all around the city start to collapse....


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Youth in Revolt, part five
In Cloud-9's memories:
Is it so terrible to aspire to have a normal life?' Abby Boylen a.k.a. Cloud-9 wondered. Ever since she came into contact with an alien gas that lets her control it in all kinds of ways – like to fly, most awesomely – she just thought of it as a cool little life perk. But no. Apparently, she was supposed to become some sort of super hero and was required to register as a soldier in this whole big way against crime and villainy or whatever. She found herself under the instruction of Gauntlet, alongside other young heroes like Hardball, Trauma, Armory, Komodo, MVP and Slapstick. But she had to do things she never thought she'd have to – made choices a person with a normal life should never have to make. As soon as she was able, she hot out of the Initiative – she just wanted her normal life back. She tore her Initiative ID card up in front of Steve Rogers, and wondered if that sounded lazy, wanting to have her normal life back. But she never asked for any of that stuff – why should she endure it if she doesn't have to?
Present:
Las Vegas, where Cloud-9 flies through the air on a cloud, amongst buildings that collapse around her, and shouts 'TARENE!' as she calls out to Thor-Girl, who speeds ahead of her. 'You okay? That blast you took from Hardball and Gravity -' Abby begins, but Tarene tells her friend gto forget her well-being, as she must help her bring the people below to safety. A hotel is among the buildings to shake and tremble in the quakes, as Thor-Girl and Cloud-9 come to a stop at the hotel, Cloud-9 replies 'Safety? Right now, I don't think anywhere is safe!'
Nearby: 'Nnn... blondie...' Melati Kusuma a.k.a. Komodo utters, while Marina Zane a.k.a. Telemetry checks on her and tells her to take it wasy. 'You seem to have healed, but your head isn't quite -' Telemetry begins, before a voice above calls out 'What's the status here? Are Gravity and Hardball alive?' Telemetry turns, 'Prodigy!' she gasps as she sees Ritchie “Prodigy” Gilmore, accompanied by Angelica “Firestar” Jones, flying towards her. 'I asked a question, Telemetry!' Prodigy declares, as Roger Brokeridge a.k.a. Hardball and Greg Willis a.k.a. Gravity lie motionless in the rubble that covers across the ground. 'Firestar – do what you can to revive those idiots' Prodigy instructs Angelica, who goes over to her friend Gravity first, and creates a microwave pulse over his chest. 'I don't understand! How did you -' Telemetry begins, as Prodigy points at her and explains that he called in a favor and teleported in some back up. He adds that whether or not coming here was worth it will depend on her. 'On me?' Telemetry asks, surprised.
'Not cool! Not cool!' shouts Johnny Dee as something explodes behind him. 'We came here to you rescue civilians, man – not to watch you burn to a crisp!' Frog-Man exclaims as he leaps towards Johnny Dee and pulls him to safety. Madeleine Michaels a.k.a. Nonstop is trapped under a large pillar. 'Don't! Don't! It hurts!' she screams as Suzy Sherman a.k.a. Ultra Girl starts to pull the pillar off of her, 'If I don't get you out from under there, you'll die!' Ultra Girl exclaims. 'I always wanted to go to Vegas...' Butterball remarks as he surveys the damage, while Batwing is knocked backwards through the air as Debrii uses her power to shift rubble into the air. 'Watch it!' Batwing calls out. 'Quake ain't stopping! Heck we supposed to do?' Debrii exclaims, while a panicked Supermax asks 'Two-Gun! Where's Two-Gun! Is he dead!?'
Back at the collapsing hotel, Thor Girl flies a man and a woman into the air to safety, while remarking that the hotel's structure will not hold for long. 'We must make haste!' she exclaims. 'Okay!' Cloud-9 calls out as she flies back into the hotel. Down a lift shaft, she searches about, 'Whoever's next, outta the vault! Let's go! There's isn't much -' she begins, as several people in the vault are in a state of panic. 'Whoa, whoa! I can't take you all! I can't -' Abby calls out, before realizing they are looking at something behind them. 'What are you all looking -' she begins to ask, before she realizes the wall at the back of the vault is collapsing. 'Go! Everybody go! We've gotta get outta here now!' she orders them, ushering the last of them out of the vault. 'No now now now! The Ceiling's -' Cloud-9 exclaims as she looks behind herself as she leaves the vault. 'Abby!' Thor Girl declares as she lands near the civilians. 'Tarene! Tarene, it's too -' Cloud-9 shouts back, when suddenly, the massive hotel collapses into itself in spectacular display.
'That was my home' Hardball remarks as he and Gravity look at the hotel as it collapses. We – we should do something -' Gravity begins but Prodigy and Firestar appear overhead, and Prodigy tells them not to even think about it. He informs them that they are heading down with Firestar and Telemetry to fix this mess. Firestar is blasting at the ground to create an opening, while Telemtry taps at her psionic computer, and creates a psionic platform. She tells Gravity and Hardball to hop on, for even though they can both fly, they will need everything they have got if there is any hope of stopping this quake. The platform is lowered into the open ground, as Hardball and Gravity look downwards, while Prodigy flies up into the sky after Batwing, 'You get back here! People need us!' he shouts at the fleeing Batwing.
Beneath the collapsed hotel, there is darkness amongst the rubble and debris. 'I need...' a voice calls out. 'Need light. Can't see...' another utters. Cloud-9 switches on her mobile phone, and the light illuminates the area around her. 'God. Oh God' she utters amongst the concrete beams that surround her. 'I gotta get out! Let me out!' Cloud-9 screams in fear. She removes her goggles, 'No, no. not like this. Please not like this' Suddenly, 'Abby' a voice calls out to her. It's Thor Girl who is straining to lift some rubble from the area, while some civilians lay wounded nearby. 'We mustn't – mustn't give in... to fear...' Thor Girl exclaims.
In the tunnel that is being built swiftly, Firestar pours the microwave energy forward, 'Stay on target, Firestar!' Telemetry calls out as she fllies behind her, the psionic platform carrying Hardball and Gravity bringing up the rear. 'I'm trying my best!' Firestar responds. 'I know' Telemetry tells her, pointing out that they only get one shot – they have to reach just the right place in the Earth's crust. 'We can't be off the mark!' she declares. Gravity complains that they are moving too fast, and drops to his knees, announcing that he is going to be sick. 'Stay frosty up there! This hole isn't exactly stable!' Telemetry shouts back up the tunnel. 'Copy that!' Hardball replies, as he uses his power to destroy chunks of the tunnel that start to collapse towards them. 'Let this part be over. Let it be over...' Gravity utters.
Suddenly, Firestar bursts into a cavern, and Telemetry reports that this is the best spot she could map out near the root of the Valley's fault matrix. She instructs everyone to be careful, as nothing here is stable, and they are likely to be crushed to death as a fall through a fissure into the mantle. She taps at some computer screens that materialize before her, and informs Gravity and Hardball that she needs to generate a sustained electro-gravitational field, and it needs to be exremeely precise. 'So -' she begins, before stopping mid sentence. 'What is it?' Firestar asks as she hovers alongside Telemetry, who announces that she lost all signals – GPS, everything. 'Should've anticipated that' she realizes. Firestar asks Telemetry if they can still do this, to which Telemetry replies that they can, partially blind, so it will take some trial and error. She adds that the real problem is that they will have no way of knowing the safest route back to the surface.
'Oh, yeah, well... guess we can worry about that if we're actually able to -' Firestar begins, when suddenly, there is a rumbling. Firestar turns and shouts 'GRAVITY!' She then flies through the cavern towards her friend, 'Look out!' Firestar cries out as rubble falls towards Gravity. Suddenly, Hardball leaps towards the rubble and punches it with a surge of energy, shattering the large chunks of rubble. 'I – I -' Gravity begins as he and Firestar look at Hardball in shock. 'Think we can get this started already?' Hardball mutters. Telemetry taps away at her computers still and explains that she wiill need to monitor, and asks Firestar to be on the lookout. 'For any more rocks of death, uh-huh' Firestar adds, before Telemetry turns to Hardball and Gravity, who are still on the psionic platform, and instructs them to face each other and hold hands. 'We do what now?' Gravity asks. 'Is that really necessary?' Hardball adds. Telemetry frowns at them and reminds them that lives are at stake. Hardball turns to Gravity and through gritted teeth warns him that they can't mess this up. 'They we won't' Gravity replies calmly. They take each other's hand, and start to release their respective energies. Both men appear in some degree of pain as their energies increase and expand around them.
Back in the collapsed hotel: 'Help meeee! Someone help meee!' a woman screams, her legs trapped in the rubble. 'Shut up! Will you shut up!' Cloud-9 yells at her, before putting her head in her hands, then, teary-eyed, apologizes to the woman, explaining that she is not doing so well in here, in this small space, and the screams are just making it worse. 'I just, I just want it to stop. I want it all to stop' Cloud-9 utters. Thor Girl continues to struggle to hold the massive amount of debris from falling in on herself, Cloud-9 and the others. 'My dear friend...I do not wish to say to, but your whimpers serve no greater function than anyone else's' Thor Girl remarks. Abby looks over at Tarene and asks her if she is supposed to be a god or something. 'I was, once. It was my destiny to guide sentient life, but that means nothing now' Tarene replies. Dirty and covered in sweat, Tarene reveals that in truth, she grows ever more weary, and soon she will not have enough strength to keep this encumbrance at bay. 'The moment to come, not even I will survive. I, who was meant for such grand designs, will perish with the rest. That...this is the finality which we now face' Tarene woefully declares, while Cloud-9 continues to cry.
Back on the street level, 'Where are you – Scarlet Spider! What're you doing?' Prodigy calls out as he flies after the Scarlet Spider. 'Whatever I can in all this freaking chaos!' Scarlet Spider shouts back as he swings about amongst the destruction. Veda, Aralune, Anthem and Supernaut of the Order are with Prodigy as he exclaims 'Don't you see? We have to stay organized! It's the only way we'll -' he begins, but the Order take flight, and Prodigy tells them that they need to work together. 'There's enough trouble hwere we can find without baby-sitting!' Anthem replies. 'This is my command! It's – you can't!' he shouts, but it is no use. 'Can't take this. It's all falling away from me. It's all falling away. I need to keep it. Need to – to -' Prodigy utters, clutching his head, he then looks up and sees a liquor store.
'You always hear that, when the end comes, everything slows down and your past flickers through your head like some home movie'. Cloud-9 thinks to herself. She is slumped over amongst the rubble still, 'Sorry, but that's a bunch of crap. You don't see your past. You don't. You do see your life, though' Cloud-9 realizes. Up above, An tanker drops from a ruined bridge – plummeting straight towards Rage, until Ultra Girl swoops towards him and pushes him to safety. 'You see right now: all the different things you could be up to other than running out of air in a concrete-and-steel tomb' Cloud-9 tells herself, while in the liquor store, Prodigy picks up at bottle of Demon Whiskey. 'You see all your futures: ones you hoped for: ones you might have wanted to avoid but would have easily taken over no future at all. And when it's over...when every last never-was and never-will-be plays itself out and bids you farewell...' Cloud-9 thinks, as Firestar blasts some rubble in the tunnel, and Gravity and Hardball are both pushing their powers to their absolute extremes as Telemetry watches. '...that's when you finally remember you've stared down evil aliens and mass murderers and that not having a normal life has granted you the never to say to fate:' Cloud-9 thinks to herself as she declares 'Oh, #### this'.
Cloud-9 puts her goggles back on, and calls out to Tarene, asking her if she forgot that she is still a mega-powerful alien girl who aspires to the ideals of the most noble of the Asgardians? 'Do not... taunt me...' Thor Girl replies. 'No, my point is, you didn't let passive ideas like fate govern your life. You forge your own path, Tarene. You make your own destiny' Abby tells her, as Tarene continues to hold the massive structure above her. 'You can save these people. You can save me. Wanna know why? 'Cause you darn well can!' Cloud-9 exclaims. 'So come on!' she shouts, and Thor Girl's eyes glow, her feet gain traction on the ground, and in spectacular display, Thor Girl roars as she pushes upwards, breaking free from the crushing weight she has been holding up. 'Yes! Yes!' Cloud-9 shouts.
'No' Prodigy declares as he empties the bottle of whiskey. 'There has to be another way. Some kind of -' he remarks to himself as he walks outside, and contacts Telemetry, pointing out thast the quake has stopped. 'I take it that means you were successful down there?' he asks – but gets no response. 'Telemetry? Hello, do you read me? Are you there?' Prodigy asks while surveying the damage around him. Nearby, Debrii, Scarlet Spider and Frog-Man gather, 'Yes! It's over! Thank Shuma-Gorath, it's over!' 'ABBY!' Komodo exclaims as she pulls some rubble back and finds Cloud-9. They hug, 'I didn't know what happened to you -' Cloud-9 begins, while the trapped civilians emerge from the rubble, Komodo tells Cloud-9 that she is okay. 'What about you?' she asks. 'Physically, I'm, you know, whatever, but...' her voice trails off, and Komodo tells her that she understands. Abbby asks Komodo where Hardball is, and if he is okay, but Komodo avoids the subject and asks Abby if she needs any help.
Cloud-9 motions into the mess of the hotel remains and informs Komodo that Tarene is clearing a path so they can bring out the wounded. 'I just needed a minute to see the sky' she adds, before remarking that Tarene really pulled through. 'I've never seen anything quite like it -' Abby begins, when suddenly, Prodigy drops down from above. 'Are there any survivors in there? What's the word?' he asks. 'Prodigy?' Abby asks, before Thor Girl appears and starts to tell Abby that the path is sound, but that she is concerned about moving some of the wounded until they have been properly checked over. 'You' Tarene gasps when she lays eyes on Prodigy. 'Tarene, no, just forget about it for now -' Abby calls out, but Thor Girl strides towards Prodigy, 'But what mental deficiency would you have me imprisoned, then tortured, then hunted like a criminal?' Thor Girl demands. 'Hang on, now, that was -' Prodigy begins, putting his hands up. 'And then to stand here as we tend to those who need us most?' Thor Girl points out. 'I'm not -' Prodigy starts to say, before Thor Girl asks him who he thinks he is.
'I'm the reason things aren't any worse' Prodigy retorts, announcing that he has been the only source of order inside all this chaos. 'And you've got no idea what I've been through to make it this far' he adds. Thor Girl raises her hammer, 'You speak to me of WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH?' she shouts. 'I'm sorry I'm not some faux Asgardian poseur who believes their own ordeals are the only ones that matter!' Angrily, Thor Girl tells Prodigy that there are no words left, no words save these three, and as she smashes her hammer into Prodigy, knocking him back, she roars 'HAVE AT THEE!'