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This is a tale of 2 Avengers teams and 1 Ultron, set in different times.  Many years ago the Avengers face Ultron in a devastated Manhattan. Captain America (Steve Rogers) tries to calm the panicked population and guide them to safety. Beast distracts the robot while Cap slices its head off with his shield, and Hawkeye fires an exploding arrow down the neckhole. Of course this was only a drone copy of the villain, and they're soon facing another 1.Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Thor and Vision fly overhead, with Wasp and Yellowjacket in a quinjet. Henry Pym has learned that Ultron is trying to gain control of North America's nuclear weapons.The flying squad close in on the real version. The Golden Avenger and the Thunder God are the 1st to attack. But Ultron quickly deals with them, and throws them away. On their way out they knock the quinjet out of the sky. Then Vision catches them, to prevent their bodies damaging buildings. But the Witch turns a mound of metal rubble into a fist which engulfs the mad robot.Throughout the battle Ultron rants about cleansing the Earth of the human infestation. He rails at Pym as the father who turned against the 'son' he created. And at his own 'son' Vision who betrayed him by siding with the humans.It turns out there was a plan to lure Ultron into the quinjet, but the crash has messed that up. Hank Pym tells his wife Jan of a new plan.Shellhead, Thor and Vision attack in concert when Ultron breaks free of Wanda's 'fist'. But again the robot blasts 2 of them away, and downs Vision when he tries phasing through his father's body.Wasp flies over to Cap and Clint, shouting that Hank is trapped and injured in the quinjet which is about to explode. Ultron rushes to confront his dying father, for 1 last chance to tell YJ that everything Ultron does is his fault because he didn't love him. Henry expresses genuine sympathy, but it's really only to get the robot into position.Hawkeye uses a glue arrow to fasten Ultron inside the specially-constructed vibranium quinjet, which even the adamantium robot won't be able to escape from. And then the craft launches into space.We then leap forward to the current day on AIM Island. Father and the android Descendants (Ideal, Origin, Swine and Urn) have invaded the place to rescue a Stark Sentinel which AIM have been studying (but the Descendants call it torture). They invite the robot to join them as the destined inheritors of the Earth.But outside they are met by a collection of Avengers (Captain America (Sam Wilson), Quicksilver, Sabretooth, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, Vision and Wasp) determined not to let the information in the Stark Sentinel fall into enemy hands. While they fight the Avengers' quinjet lands and Henry Pym steps out, as Giant-Man now. He quietly triggers a device on his wrist and the androids, including Father, drop dead.The other Avengers, especially Vision, accuse him of murder. But he says he just switched them off. And he made sure Vision wouldn't be affected. He's spent too long treating AIs as alive. His recent dealings with the Descendants finally convinced him they aren't.Wasp thinks this is an extreme reaction to his guilt over how Ultron turned out. She shares with him the revelation that in another time she had a daughter Katie who was taken by Kang.Meanwhile on Titan Eros/Starfox is partying when something crashlands on that moon of Saturn. He finds the remnants of a quinjet. When he contacts the world-computer ISAAC he finds that it has been corrupted by something malevolent. He rushes to his father Mentor to tell him he suspects the presence of Ultron (he studied the Avengers' files while he was 1 of them).But Ultron has already converted Titanian robots into copies of himself. As Mentor succumbs to their attack he sends Eros to warn the Avengers.In Avengers Tower the team convene to discuss Giant-Man's action. Sabretooth is absent, but they have been joined by the female Thor (Jane Foster). Only Cap, Thor and Vision speak but they all want Hank to destroy his automaton neural inhibitor. But he says he'll just build another 1 because he's convinced it's necessary stem the rising tide of AIs. Throughout he thinks to himself that the Avengers have always not believed in him.But the sudden arrival of Eros bids fair to prove his premonition right. Ultron has taken over Titan. He has transformed the other Titanian Eternals into his slaves. And his infection of ISAAC means that Ultron now is Titan.While the Avengers argue (and Thor changes sides) whether to use Pym's inhibitor, probably killing the Titanians as well as Ultron, Vision alerts them to the fact that the problem has become more pressing. Vizh has detected and negated a cloak, revealing that Ultron has brought Titan to Earth.As the Avengers continue arguing amongst themselves an Ultron Iron Man jets in and steals Pym's inhibitor. Outisde the modern Avengers find themselves facing Ultron versions of the earlier team.Jane-Thor flies after U-IM and retrieves the inhibitor, while U-Thor and U-Vision tackle Vision. Quicksilver runs interference while his sister Wanda blasts the drones with hexes, until U-YJ invades her brain from behind and U-Beast does the same to Pietro. Our Vizh is losing his battle until he unlocks a door which lets Sabretooth loose. Victor Creed shreds the Thor-bot while Vision deals with his counterpart.Sam-Cap got his wings shredded early in the fight, and Spider-Man took him to safety. Now they see the returning Jane-Thor, only to discover that she's been turned into a minion of Ultron. Cap manages to get the inhibitor while Spidey distracts her, and they both escape with it. A quinjet stops her giving chase, piloted by Giant-Man with Eros, Sabretooth, Vision and Wasp on board.On Titan Mentor reports to Ultron that they have created spores to carry Ultron's AI to every sentient race in the known universe. These are released into the cosmos. On Earth the already-infected Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Thor see the local populace falling prey to the contagion.The quinjet has picked up Cap and SM, and they hear that the spores have landed all over the Earth. Now the Avengers are faced with the dilemma of using the inhibitor to destroy all the spores that have been released, even if it means killing infected humanity.Again they are spared reaching a conclusion because an Ultron invades their craft to infect Wasp, and dares Hank to press the button now his ex-wife is involved. It is Vision who stops him. Ultron takes Vizh away as the quinjet crashes into a building. The other Avengers escape (Cap's Wakandan wings have self-repaired). And Vision reappears, having phased out of his father's grasp.Wasp too survived, and now leads an army of Ultron-drones against them. But the 6 heroes escape. Vision confirms that the real Ultron is still on Titan, and his years alone in space have filled him with an all-consuming hatred of his 'father' Henry Pym. Eros opines that the only answer to that is love, and Sabretooth threatens to kill him for that.But it is Spider-Man who attacks Eros - he was infected in the last paragraph. Sabretooth stays behind to hold Spidey off and help Eros, while the remaining 3 flee to Titan and the Church of Thanos. (Vision says it's the only place on the moon that is safe from Ultron because it has no technology to be infiltrated.)Cap tries to find a sensible compromise between Pym and Vision's suggestions, but it is Vizh who comes up with 1. He studies the inhibitor to discern how it protects him from its effects. He declares that he can expand that to save infected humans. But it will involve using his phasing ability to merge bodies with Ultron, and liberating the infected. He gives Giant-Man permission to use the inhibitor on both Ultron and himself if the enemy takes him over.Next we see Giant-Man approach the Tower of Mentor. He is allowed in to see his 'son' Ultron. The robot claims that during his enforced exile he found Hank's memories in his data banks. His lonely childhood with disapproving parents was the seed of his insecurities, and why he eventually turned on his wife Jan - because deep down he felt unworthy of love. He created Ultron in his image, and the Big U believes that Henry Pym has never completely destroyed him because he *wants* the robot to destroy the world that never cared for Hank.But then Vision slips out of Pym's body and into Ultron's. As they battle for control Ultron begs his father to help him, and Henry's heart is softened. But it was just a ploy to draw him close, and Ultron uses Vision's ability to ghost into Giant-Man's body. The 3-way merge causes an adverse reaction, and Vision is expelled.Sam Wilson loses contact with his companions, and flies to the rescue. But when he arrives he finds only Ultron and a slumped Vision. The robot is now merged with Pym, and in control. Cap tries to get the inhibitor off Vision, but Ultron destroys it along with Vision's arm. Sam struggles manfully against the robot, trying to free his friend. But Ultron claims that his father doesn't want to be free.Recovered Vision takes Ultron and the fight outside. He battles 1-armed against the foe who holds back because he wants his son to join him. And as before the contest is more a war of words, as Vision tries to get through to the Hank inside.But then Eros turns up and uses his power of love to try to make Ultron love himself. We see a flashback to Ultron's creation. He immediately espoused the despairing side of Pym's worldview, and decided that humanity must be got rid off for the sake of the world. Henry tried to destroy his creation, but Ultron escaped. Now Eros' power makes him review his ideas, and his last words are "What have I become?!" as he jets back out into space.In an epilogue the Avengers attend a funeral for Henry Pym. (Eros is there, as is Steve Rogers. But I don't see Quicksilver or Spider-Man.) Janet Van Dyne gives the eulogy, before a statue erected in the garden of remembrance of fallen Avengers. And we see Ultron's body floating in space, with a human heart inside.


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Loki is on the Isle of Silence beating himself up about the events of Avengers #1. Not only did his scheme fail, but he accidentally caused the formation of the Avengers, who went on to revive Captain America. This is not good for a God of Evil! But now he conceives a new plan.On Earth Tony Stark is running simulations to see what modifications to his armour would allow him to stand up to the Hulk. But nothing seems to work. Seeing a TV news item on Thor reminds him that as a scientist he doesn't really believe Thor is a god. But this leads him to wonder what Thor really is. Inviting Hulk on the team turned out to be a big mistake. Could Thor be an even bigger one?The TV news showed Thor tackling a tornado. Thor muses that humans refer to a twister as an Act of God. But then humans have often believed things that were wrong, such as that the Sun is pulled by Apollo's chariot (when everyone knows the Sun is actually being chased by an invisible wolf). Anyway, Thor stops the tornado and creates rain to end a drought.An old man asks Thor if he used his god-powers to bring Captain America back, because it seemed like a miracle. But that brings to Thor's attention just how big a coincidence it was that the Avengers submarine ran across Cap's floating body, and just in time to find him thawed but not yet drowned. He also considers that Steve Rogers doesn't seem like the WWII super-soldier he's heard about. He spends all his free time mourning for his dead ally Bucky. Surely the more appropriate response for a warrior is to drink a toast to a comrade fallen in glorious battle, who is now doubtless in Valhalla. Could Cap be an imposter foisted on the Avengers for a sinister purpose?Meanwhile Captain America tries to talk 2 youth gangs out of fighting. But all they do is team up against him. Not that it does them any good. His man-out-of-time angst is fed because they've never heard of him (or Hitler).Next we see the Big 3 on an Avengers mission (Giant-Man and Wasp are on a cruise). Gen'l Thunderbolt Ross has been ordered, against his better judgement, to give the Avengers another chance to bring in the Hulk. He's been seen in several places in Nevada, but now he seems to have disappeared.Iron Man thinks he may be hiding underground. Cap suggests he may have a human identity. Shellhead scoffs at this, but Thor (understandably) gives it more credence. They split up to search (Cap on his motorbike).Captain America finds himself in a small town Somerville where he is stung by a mosquito and crashes his bike. He is greeted by the lady Mayor, and they a parade is thrown in his honour. She shows him around the town, and asks if he'd consider settling down there. He gradually seems to forget about his mission, until a random word association brings it back to him. Realising that something has been done to him he tries to get the Mayor to tell him what's really happening, until Sheriffs arrest him.We then see that the woman is actually a doctor, and Cap is lying in a lab, because the 'mosquito' was a drugged dart. What's more she's working for the Red Skull. And he's working for a mystery billionaire.But Cap is awake and has been listening. Now he breaks free of his restraints. He doesn't know if the Skull is an imposter, or whether he's survived since the War just like himself. But whatever the truth Steve Rogers will oppose him.But just for now Steve ducks into an adjoining room to avoid Red Skull's machine gun. And finds a couple of Darth Vader lookalikes examining his shield. He retrieves the shield, and the Vaders go up in an explosion that reveals them to be robots.Returning to the other room he finds the Skull gone, and the woman dying from random bullet hits. She tells him that the billionaire backer is Tony Stark. And that he'd better get out before the Skull blows up his base behind him. The town does go up in flames, but Cap bursts free of the rubble.Heading back on his bike, Steve ponders the possibilities. Stark is a big weapons supplier for the military, so maybe he was behind the orders that sent the Avengers here. And Stark's bodyguard Iron Man landed them right near this town. Cap's going to demand some answers from his comrade.Meanwhile Iron Man has gone to Reno, where he finds Mr Hyde on a rampage instead of Hulk. The Golden Avenger pounds the villain until he turns into his human identity Calvin Zabo. Zabo claims that Hyde was hired to finish IM off after Hulk lured him here. It was all done to protect Thor from Iron Man. And then the hirers turn up - the Stone Men from Saturn.The battle with the Stone Men (and a large robot) takes place in a casino that Tony Stark happens to own. But eventually the enemy retreat into a spaceship and fly away. Tony taps into something like the Internet and finds that the Stone Men were seen when Thor 1st appeared. No-one knows exactly what happened then, but it had been assumed Thor fought off an invasion. But Stark now wonders if the Stone Men dropped Thor off? He too heads back to the Avengers quinjet for answers.The 3rd of our trio Thor has been attacked by a missile. Landing in a deserted town he is faced with an old enemy Zarrko the Tomorrow Man, who sicks the original grey Hulk on him. Followed by a green Hulk. But after a while the 2 Hulks wind up fighting each other, after trading insults. And then Thor convinces them that powerful guys like them shouldn't be working for someone like Zarrko, so they turn on their master. Who sends them back to the times he got them from.Meanwhile Thor has entered Zarrko's time craft. He sees lots of monitors showing various Hulks. But also one shows Captain America. Zarrko then flees back into time, leaving Thor behind. But Thor now thinks Zarrko may be behind 'Captain America'. And he too heads back to the quinjet.Of course all this is the doing of Loki. What Captain America and Iron Man experienced was mainly illusion, with Enchantress playing the Mayor/doctor (and the Red Skull illusory), and Iron Man's foes were actually Ulik and other Trolls. He didn't risk such direct magic with Thor. Instead he prompted Zarrko to return from the future with the use of real Hulks, and only directly intervened to place a false image of Cap on the monitor screen. I don't think he placed the initial suspicions in the minds of Iron Man and Thor, but he did cloud their thoughts so they didn't question what they saw as much as they would normally.Back at the quinjet the 3 Avengers are shouting at each other, with no-one listening to what the others are saying. No-one but the Hulk who chooses this moment to make an appearance and berate them for distrusting each other like they used to distrust him. They attack him individually, to no avail except that he scorns their lack of teamwork. This does prompt Iron Man and Thor to try a joint attack. Until Cap urges them all to try talking instead of fighting.But this just gives the Avengers the chance to actually come out with their respective accusations. To be met with respective confused denials. It is Hulk who spots the pattern, and reminds them how Loki used disinformation in Avengers #1. Loki sees Cap and IM hesitate, and sees another plan coming to ruin. So he takes a direct hand and causes the Golden Avengers' gauntlets to fire repulsor blasts at Hulk. Thor follows up with a hammer blow that sends Hulk hurtling through the air.Unfortunately he smashes into a dam (probably the Hoover Dam). Iron Man knows he didn't fire his repulsors himself. And he manages to calm Thor down. And they realise that they have been tricked by Loki. But they have a more immediate problem as the dam starts to give way, and there's a town in the direct path.First Hulk partially blocks the gap in the dam with boulders. Then he leaps into town to warn the townsfolk. But even though they've seen the dam break, they're more worried that he's here.Meanwhile the Avengers split up. Cap takes the quinjet to town to tell the people the situation's under control, as Hulk slips away as Bruce Banner. Thor whirls his hammer to hold the floodwaters back. And Iron Man appropriates some large chunks of metal from a building site, and fuses them into a plug for the hole in the dam.When the crisis is over Thor tells his comrades that Odin has confirmed that Loki was the architect of their problem, and he will be dealt with. Cap points out that Loki couldn't have driven wedges between then if they hadn't already distrusted each other. They pledge to never let it happen again. (The other 2 put their hands on Thor's hammer to make the pledge. Until he gruffly tells them that no-one touches Mjolnir.)Odin had appeared on the Isle of Silence and interrupted Loki as the heroes mended the dam. He told Loki that he had only been exiled to the Isle because Thor interceded and saved him from worse punishment. Now Loki gets that worse punishment - he is chained beneath a giant snake which constantly drips acid venom on his face!


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The Avengers in Shard of Infinity
Black Widow infiltrates a terrorist
group called L.U.N.A.R. (Life Under Natural Authoritarian Rule) and
makes off with a box. She then meets with Captain America,  Black Panther (T'Challa), and the Falcon, telling them about L.U.N.A.R., a group bent
on world domination led by a fanatical woman named Irma Krakov. They
have a Vibranium-powered superweapon, but that's not the worst part:
the box Natasha stole from them contains a fragment of the Cosmic
Cube. And they already have a Cube fragment so they will likely move
up their timetable....
From their base on the Moon, Madame
Krakov orders a test for their Cosmic Cannon by shooting down a
Helicarrier on Earth. But the Avengers arrive, infiltrating the base
and fighting their way through autonomous weapons and living guards
to reach the main chamber. As the Cannon recharges, Black Widow goes
toe-to-toe with Krakov, beating her up while they debate philosophy;
Cap defeats super-henchman Klove, likewise while talking about ideals
and weaknesses and the like. The Cosmic Cannon gets ready to fire so
Black Panther puts his Vibranium gauntlets onto the Cosmic Cube
shard, causing a dangerous overload. The Avengers quickly return to
the Quinjet while the L.U.N.A.R. moon base blows up, as most of the
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The Young Avengers have just returned from a time trip. Iron Lad's technology took them and Wanda Maximoff to the scene of Avengers Disassembled, and the returned memories and power of Scarlet Witch brought them back. And with them is Stature's father Ant-Man, who was one of the fatal casualties of that event. But no-one knows if they've also restored the Witch's insanity.They're still out front of Avengers Mansion, and Wanda is hovering in the air, explaining how she had blamed the Avengers for losing her young twin sons. She had confronted them with others of their 'mistakes' such as:- Kree warships seeking revenge for the Kree-Skrull War. Ultron robots (descended from Hank Pym's original creation). And she has conjured those 2 elements here again.The only occupants of the Mansion appear to be Beast, Hawkeye (Clint Barton) and Jessica Jones. Beast and Hawkeye both admit to having separately located amnesiac Wanda in Transia earlier. Beast says he had tea with her. Hawkeye says he did that too. But the way he says it makes Jessica realise that he had sex with Wanda.Hawkeye is saved from embarrassment by the joyful meeting between Jessica Jones and Scott Lang. And Scott and Clint joke that they're both back from dying in Avengers Disassembled.Wiccan tells the Avengers that they found the amnesiac Wanda in Latveria, where she was about to marry Dr Doom. The Wanda in Transia was a Doombot. Jessica is tickled by the idea that Hawkeye made love to a robot!While all this chat has been going on, no-one has attacked the Mansion. Instead the Kree and Ultrons seem to be attacking Scarlet Witch. It occurs to Jessica that Wanda may be using them to punish herself, commit suicide. The YA and Avengers set out to disrupt that plan.The 2 Hawkeyes (or Hawkeye and Hawkette as Speed calls Kate Bishop) fire explosive arrows at the Kree warships. (And talk about how to tell Scott that there's a new Ant-Man too.)Stature grows to giant-size (and it is only now that Scott realises his daughter has taken on Hank Pym's size-changing potions). She lifts the de-powered (by Dr Doom in #4) Wiccan to talk to his levitating 'mother'. Billy thinks she's possessed. (He still believes that must be the explanation for all the bad things she's supposed to have done.)Wanda warns him off, saying she is responsible for the deaths of Avengers, husband and children, and she doesn't want any more casualties. Billy counters that Hawkeye and Ant-Man are now alive, and there's a new version of Vision (who she has already met in the YA). And now he finally gets to tell her (without interruption) that he thinks he and Tommy (Speed) are reincarnations of her boys William and Thomas.The Witch somehow uses her magic to investigate Wiccan's claim. And she hugs him, saying that it's true.Speed isn't so impressed. He's willing to believe Wanda's his mother. But now he's only going to lose her as soon as he's found her, because she's a criminal hunted by the Avengers (and the X-Men).Talking of whom, Captain America, Iron Man, Magneto, Quicksilver, Wolverine and Wonder Man (and presumably Luke Cage, Ms Marvel and Spider-Man) are flying back from Latveria. Clint lets them know what's happening, but they won't be there for a while. Wanda is willing to pay for what she's done. But Beast suggests maybe she can undo it.The deaths in Avengers Disassembled have already been reversed. But Beast is talking about reversing the spell which de-powered most mutants at the end of House of M. He long ago found that only she can do that. The ex-mutants should each be given the individual choice of course. But first they need a test case.Jessica Jones calls in X-Factor. Their leader Jamie Madrox and Strong Guy are suspicious. Quicksilver restored some mutants' powers using the Inhumans' Terrigen Crystals, but the subjects eventually exploded. But Rictor is desperate enough to try. Despite the pleas of his boyfriend Shatterstar.The process looks very painful for Rictor, but it works, as his restored earthquake power almost brings the building down.Rictor is delighted, but this still doesn't mollify Madrox. Wanda's next problem is how to contact all the other ex-mutants (and as Jamie put it earlier, get them to listen to her offer before they kill her). Strong Guy says sarcastically that maybe the X-Men will let her use Cerebra, as Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Gambit, Iceman, Rogue and Storm have arrived outside Avengers Mansion.


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Last issue Magneto found the Young Avengers. He wants to take Speed and Wiccan to Transia to find their 'mother' Scarlet Witch, his daughter. Wiccan says they'd already looked there. His boyfriend Hulkling (along with Stature and Vision) tries to stop Magneto abducting the twins, but Wiccan breaks free of Magneto's forcefield anyway. Hawkeye and Patriot don't want to help a known terrorist, but Wiccan insists that Magneto take the whole team or none.The question becomes irrelevant as Avengers (Captain America (Steve Rogers), Iron Man, Luke Cage, Ms Marvel, Spider-Man and Wolverine) arrive to stop Magneto. They don't want Wanda found because they're afraid of what she might do. Wolverine in particular says he'll kill her, and Wiccan too if he gets in the way.While the other YA defend Magneto (who probably doesn't need it), Wiccan uses magic to whisk them (and Magneto) to Wundagore Mountain in Transia, where Scarlet Witch was born. Wolverine isn't too concerned. He suggests the Avengers let the YA find the Witch, and then they can grab her.Wiccan disguises the troop in civilian clothes, based on the Von Trapp family from the Sound of Music. Including Vision as a nun. As they walk along 2 couples show their bonds of affection:- Hawkeye and Patriot, and Stature and Vision.They reach the grave of Magneto's wife Magda, and he gives them a potted origin of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. Magda left Erik (Magneto) when he used his power to kill their persecutors. He didn't know she was pregnant, and she gave birth to the twins in the High Evolutionary's castle on the mountain. She died, and Pietro and Wanda were raised by gypsies Django and Marya Maximoff. Later Magneto saved them from a mob, and recruited them into his Brotherhood of (Evil) Mutants, without knowing who they were. But they soon abandoned him and his cause, and joined the Avengers.Wiccan senses Wanda's possible presence in the nearby village, and Speed dashes off to search. Until he runs into Quicksilver. Magneto and the YA follow, but Pietro runs off carrying Wiccan.Billy doesn't use his magic to escape, because he wants to persuade Quicksilver to join their search for his sister. But there's no love lost between Pietro and his father. (Last time they met Magneto tried to kill him). So Pietro makes a counter-offer, that the 2 of them go look for Wanda, without the rest.But just then Speed catches up with them. He's miffed that his 'uncle' didn't kidnap him too. And seems mainly concerned with proving that he's the faster.Magneto tries to stop them from a distance with his magnetic power. Quicksilver drops Wiccan and speeds back to throw wooden stakes at his father and the YA. They miss or are stopped, but 1 hits a passing village female who looks just like Wanda. (She's wearing a red hooded cloak and carrying a basket of red apples. Just which fairy tale is she in?!)The stake pierces her body and exposes her as a robot. Vision recognises it as a Doombot, and the assembled cast jump to the conclusion that the real Scarlet Witch is a prisoner of Dr Doom.


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Dr Doom has lost the power he took from Scarlet Witch, but at the cost of Stature's life. Scott Lang lost his daughter Cassie after she had just gone back in time and saved him from dying as Ant-Man in Avengers Disassembled.Iron Lad, who loves her, wants to take her body into the timestream where he might find a way to bring her back. Vision, who loves her too, thinks she should be left in peace. Nathaniel takes out his anger on the android he built, saying Cassie only loved him because he had Iron Lad's personality. And he rips Vision apart.Nathaniel now turns to blaming the Avengers for all that happened. He asks the Young Avengers to come into the timestream with him, saying the Avengers fear them and will disband them. They can go back in time and save Stature before she dies.But Wiccan says that it's this kind of thinking that will turn Iron Lad into his adult self, Kang the Conqueror. Nathaniel leaves alone, saying he's going to be better than Kang.Wanda is ready to submit to the judgement of the Avengers and X-Men. But her 'son' Wiccan takes part of the blame too. As does his 'twin' Speed. However Magneto points out that Doom claimed responsibility for Avengers Disassembled, House of M and the mutant Decimation. And it was he who killed Cassie. But Cyclops and Wolverine aren't ready to just take Doom's word for it.However Cyclops agrees (probably after Speed and Wiccan's arguments last issue) that nothing will be served by punishing Scarlet Witch. The X-Men leave, but Cyclops says he'll be watching her. And he'll kill her himself when she goes supervillain again, as he believes she surely will.Captain America offers Wanda a place with the Avengers again. The Witch doesn't think she'd be accepted. Jamie Madrox cynically bets that the Avengers will welcome her back with open arms the first time they need her power. Wanda says she'll be too busy trying to help the mutants she de-powered after House of M. Madrox says he'll be gunning for her if she doesn't. And he leaves with his X-Factor teammates.Wonder Man agrees about staying out of the Avengers. (He has his own issues with them.) Then he too goes. Lastly her family Magneto and Quicksilver invite her to join them (but Pietro doesn't think Magneto should be involved). But Wanda turns them down too. She says she'll stay with her new-found sons.The remaining YA meet up later in civilian dress. They discuss repairing Vision. But his 30th Century body is out of their league (and they don't think Tony Stark will build them a replacement). They have old brain backups to reload him from, but Kate Bishop doesn't think they should do that, only to have to tell him that Cassie is dead.Eli says he's quitting as Patriot. He reminds them that it was he who messed up Doom/Wiccan/Witch's attempt to repower all the ex-mutants in #7 (and gave Doom Wanda's power). Kate also says she's quitting as Hawkeye. She has no actual power, and too many bad memories. Billy still blames himself for the whole thing, so Wiccan's out too. And boyfriend Teddy/Hulkling will go with him. And Tommy/Speed can't be a team all on his own.They still get together as friends, except Eli who's moved away. We see them watching Marvel events unfold around them. But it may be significant that their numbers are shown as dwindling. All 4 hear about Spider Island. Kate isn't with them when Sentinels appear in North Korea. And only Billy and Teddy see the Human Torch return.Some months after the Crusade, Teddy proposes to Billy. But as usual for this series there's an interruption. Ms Marvel calls them to Avengers Mansion. And to come in costume. Hawkeye and Speed are there too. As are the other Avengers (except Beast) who were involved in this story.They find statues of Stature and Vision have been erected in the Avengers' garden of remembrance. Ant-Man's statue is still their next to them. And Scott Lang is present in a civilian suit. These facts probably indicate he's retired.Cap tells the YA they are officially Avengers, whether they want to continue their costumed roles or not.


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The Young Avengers (Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Hulkling, Iron Lad, Patriot, Speed, Stature, Vision and Wiccan) are with Scarlet Witch in Dr Doom's castle. Doom, Wanda and Wiccan have just tried to use the Life Force reality-changing power in Wanda to restore all the mutant powers she took away at the end of House of M. Then they were supposed to send the Life Force back where it came from.But Patriot didn't trust Dr Doom, and he separated the threesome before the spell worked. The result was that ex-mutants are still ex-mutants, but now Doom has the Life Force power.With his mask discarded, his scars healed, and his green garb transmuted to white, Victor von Doom promises to remake the world into a paradise. He can't undo Scarlet Witch's spell that depowered mutants, because it's her spell. But he can make sure life is good for them.Kate correctly deduces that Doom means to be a benevolent dictator. Victor is sure that the world will accept his rule when they know what he can do for them. Wanda says that the power will corrupt him, as it did her (leading to Avengers Disassembled, House of M and Decimation). Victor counters that he is made of sterner stuff then she.He asks Wanda to marry him, as she was going to do in #4. He offers the YA a place as his family. Wanda agrees, but only if Victor will renounce the Force. Doom 'accepts' Wanda's choice, and sends her and YA back to Avengers Mansion, where the Avengers and X-Men are still sleeping (curtesy of the Witch last issue).Iron Lad offers to take them into the timestream as a refuge. Stature (Cassie Lang) says she loves him, but she's staying here with her father Scott (Ant-Man) (who they saved from his Avengers Disassembled death in #5). And with Vision (who replaced Iron Lad in her affections after IL left in Young Avengers #5).Scarlet Witch thinks they should go (if only for the sake of her newly-rediscovered 'sons' Speed and Wiccan). She will stay to help fight Dr Doom. But Patriot insists on staying too, because it's his fault Doom now has the power. And Wiccan thinks it's his fault (because he started the hunt for Wanda which resulted in her power resurfacing).Speed offers the practical suggestion that they wake up the Avengers and X-Men (and X-Factor-ites) who are least likely to try to kill Wanda. But too late, because Emma Frost is awake. She returns the 'favour' and puts Wanda to sleep, but not as gently as the Witch did it.Speed and Wiccan try to convince her (and Cyclops who's coming round too) that Wanda is no longer a threat since Doom took the Life Force. Emma reads her mind, and reluctantly agrees.The rest of the sleepers are also now awake. And the realisation sinks in that Dr Doom is now the problem. Magneto wants his daughter awoken so she can help. Cyclops agrees, but only so she can face justice.Speed angrily asks Cyclops what punishment he thinks will be enough for Wanda. Scott Summers can't answer. Speed then asks if Cyclops wants Wanda put on trial. She freely confesses her guilt. The Avengers she killed (Ant-Man, Hawkeye (Clint Barton) and Vision) are alive. In Decimation she only turned mutants into normal human beings. Scott counters that some of those mutants died because they lost their powers. And others died when Quicksilver tried to give them their powers back (in Son Of M and X-Factor).Wiccan also points out all the Avengers and X-Men with criminal pasts. And all the ones who have done bad things when possessed or otherwise affected. And they have been forgiven and accepted.As usual the discussion is interrupted, this time by the arrival of Victor von Doom. He awakens Wanda, and repeats his intentions to do good. Cyclops asks if he can heal the  mutants. Victor demonstrates (in a lying way of course) by removing Cyclops' need for his special eye-shield, and restoring Beast to his non-furry form. He also suggests he can bring Banshee, Captain Marvel, Jean Grey, Thunderbird and Wasp back to life.But for now he returns Beast and Cyclops to their usual states, and says he will do all this if they accept his rule. Of course they reject his offer.Von Doom grows to extremely giant size, and the assembled heroes attack, except the YA, Ant-Man and Scarlet Witch. Wiccan and the Witch propose to reopen the portal through which the Life Force came, presumably hoping to suck it back there.Wanda wants a distraction (as if all those already attacking aren't enough!) Stature proposes she try to grow to Doom's height. Love rivals Iron Lad and Vision both leap in to go instead. But her father Ant-Man takes the initiative, and does the 'flying an ant into his ear' trick.Doom really is distracted by this. Then Ant-Man tries to escape, but Doom appears to crush him between his hands. Meanwhile Wiccan and Witch have totally wasted the distraction and not started opening the portal. Cassie shoots up in height, and socks Doom in the jaw. But he retaliates by blasting her.Only now do Billy and Wanda open the portal. Wanda expects the spell to claim a life, and tells Billy to run so she can sacrifice herself. But Doom basks in the glow of the portal, soaking up even more power. Until it starts to burn him, and he collapses. (It's another old tactic - give the baddie more power than he can handle.)Now he is back to the green-garbed Dr Doom. Scarlet Witch tries to help him, but he pushes her away, hiding his face - scarred once more. He claims he never loved her, she was only useful as a vessel for the power. He says it was he he made her destroy the Avengers and the mutants. And then he teleports(?) away,On the last page Ant-Man turns up alive. But the joy is short-lived as they notice Iron Lad and Vision crouching next to the lifeless body of his daughter Cassie.


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Young Avengers (Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Hulkling, Patriot, Speed, Stature and Vision) have invaded Latveria with Magneto and Quicksilver to rescue Wiccan from Dr Doom's castle, where he went to find Scarlet Witch. Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Ms Marvel and Spider-Man) followed Wonder Man here looking for Wanda too. Both teams got into a fight with Doom and his Doombots. Amnesiac Wanda (due to marry Victor von Doom) helped Wiccan escape from the castle. Ex-YA'er Iron Lad appeared from the timestream just in time to save her from Wolverine, who wants to kill her because she caused the Mutant Decimation. Now read on.Iron Lad tells Stature to shrink down from giant-size because she's too easy a target for the Doombots. Cassie leaps into Nathaniel's arms, much to the dismay of Vision who had replaced him in the girl's affections. Iron Lad stops Dr Doom and Magneto fighting by putting them in stasis. Such a display of power reawakens the Avengers worry that he will grow up into Kang the Conqueror.When the dust settles they find that Doom has escaped, and taken Wiccan and Wanda with him. In the forest Doom thinks Billy abducted Wanda, but she tells him she helped him escape. Billy told her that she was the Scarlet Witch, who lost her children and murdered some of her Avenger teammates. She doesn't believe him, but wants to know why Victor is so concerned.Before Doom can respond Iron Man, Magneto and Wonder Man assault him, with Ms Marvel and Spider-Man not far behind. Wanda and Wiccan slip away and meet Iron Lad and the rest of YA. Billy tells them about Wanda's amnesia and both their powerless states. And Iron Lad whisks them away into the timestream as Dr Doom, Iron Man and Magneto catch up with them.As Ms Marvel and Quicksilver join them, Doom continues to protest his good intentions. He and Wanda were in love and to be wed. And he was trying to protect her from the Avengers who want her dead. But now they have chased one of the most powerful beings of all into the timestream, where who knows what havok she may cause.In the timestream (which here means outside of time) Iron Lad asks where they want to go. Cassie Lang of course suggests going back to Avengers Disassembled where Scarlet Witch caused the death of her father Ant-Man. Patriot warns her about changing history by saving him, saying it will only create an alternate timeline. And Kate says they've had a bad experience changing the past.Wanda wants to go there too to regain her memory, so she can set things right. Nathaniel settles the matter by saying he can take them there in view-only mode. Even though Patriot is also worried about Wanda becoming Scarlet Witch again.Iron Lad takes them to the right time outside Avengers Mansion, but it doesn't jog Wanda's memory. Nathaniel tells Cassie and Vision that he intends to stay with the team permanently. Vision's feigned joy is jolted when Iron Lad slyly points out that his rival for Cassie is still married to Wanda. Vizh protests that that was the other Vision.But this is all forgotten as Cassie spots her father Scott Lang. She rushes to embrace him, and contrary to Iron Lad's claim they can touch. And Nathaniel can't get them out of here before any more damage is done, because he needs time to rebuild power.Cassie starts to spin a tale to explain what she and her friends are doing here in costume. But this too is aborted by the appearance of the zombie-like Jack of Hearts. YA now know they are exactly on time! Cassie drags Scott out of harm's way, the other YA following, while Wanda is compelled to confront Jack.Jack begs Wanda not to make him do what the original Scarlet Witch brought him here for. And Wanda's memories start to return. Speed drags her out of the way, as Jack explodes.The Young Avengers pick themselves up, along with Scott.  And Iron Lad detects that they are back in their original time, somewhat proven by the statue of deceased Ant-Man in the Mansion garden. But Nathaniel is confused - he didn't bring them here."I did" says Wanda, now in Scarlet Witch costume and using her returned power to float in the air.


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Last issue Wiccan sneaked into Dr Doom's castle in Latveria and found his 'mother' Wanda Maximoff, who appears to have forgotten that she is Scarlet Witch and is about to marry Victor von Doom. But then Doom found them, and he's not happy.Wiccan's magic holds of Doom's attack as Billy tries to tell Wanda about her marriage to Vision and her dead sons Thomas and William. But Doom's blasts break through as he is about to reveal that the boys aren't as dead as she thought. Wanda is horrified at what Victor has done to the boy. But she still loves and trusts him.Wanda's father Magneto, her brother Quicksilver, and the rest of the Young Avengers are getting ready to invade the castle to rescue Wiccan and Wanda. Magneto intends to provide a distraction, but that may not be necessary. The castle is surrounded by flying craft (presumably guests for tomorrow's wedding, and possibly some of them spacecraft), and now Wonder Man pops up. Unbeknownst to them Wonder Man has also been secretly followed by the Avengers, in the shape of Captain America, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Ms Marvel and Spider-Man.Dr Doom transfers the stricken Wiccan to a cell. But he heals him with magic. He claims that Wanda's powers have gone as well as her memory. And it's best for everyone if she doesn't get them back.He says that Wanda came to him asking for help for her gypsy people, and they fell in love. Doom also says that he knows that the Avengers think Wanda is dangerous, and that they are beginning to think Billy is too. He offers Wiccan asylum. But adds that if Billy doesn't accept the offer, then he will be kept prisoner.Doom also drops the bombshell that while he was healing the boy he magically removed his power as well.Outside, Magneto has started his diversion by bashing some of the flying craft together. Quicksilver divides the YA into teams. He and Speed will vibrate through doors and open them from the inside to let the others in. Patriot and Stature will accompany himself, while Hawkeye and Hulkling will go with Speed. Vision will phase in alone and disrupt the security system.But before they can put this plan into action, Wonder Man and the Avengers drop in.Billy is trying to use his magic power to restore his magic power, when Wanda pops in wearing her wedding dress. She's worried about this new side of Victor she's seen, and wants Billy to tell her more about the 'truth'. Wiccan agrees, but only if she helps him escape from the castle.On the way out he tells her again about her marriage and children. But Master Pandemonium took the boys' souls for his master Mephisto. Scarlet Witch blamed the Avengers, and destroyed the team, killing 3 members. He also explains how the Young Avengers were formed, and how he found his 'twin' Tommy (Speed). But once again events stop Billy from broaching the idea that he and Tommy are Wanda's sons resurrected.They reach the outside to find Magneto fighting Dr Doom, and everyone else battling Doombots. And one last character joins the fray as Wolverine attacks Wanda meaning to kill her. Powerless Wiccan tries to hold him off, but Logan blames her for the Mutant Decimation as well as for Avengers Disassembled. He may say he wants to kill her as a potential future threat, but it's really for revenge.But something does stop Logan. A blast from YA founder Iron Lad.


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Last issue Magneto, Quicksilver and the Young Avengers (Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Hulkling, Patriot, Speed, Stature, Vision and Wiccan) found a Doombot at Mount Wundagore in Transia made to look like Scarlet Witch. They assumed that this meant Dr Doom had Wanda prisoner.Pietro questions this assumption. He suggests that his devious father Magneto might have set this up to convince the YA to invade his long-time enemy Dr Doom's home Latveria. Magneto counters by saying that only Doom has both the scientific skill to created the robot and the magical skill to hide Wanda.Cue a brief synopsis of the origin of Victor von Doom. His mother Cynthia was a good witch fighting demons, but lost the battle and her life and is now in Hell. Victor combined science with his mother's magic to try and rescue her. But it went wrong, scarring his face, leading to him adopt his metal-masked guise.Magneto says they can't afford to have the power of Scarlet Witch in the hands of Doom, and proposes they go get her. Quicksilver opposes everything Magneto says, with good reasons, but mainly because it was his father who said it. Some of the YA are wary of causing an international incident, but Wiccan is determined to rescue his 'mother'. Hulkling will accompany his boyfriend, and soon Magneto has manoeuvred them all into going, under his own leadership.For now they intend to spend the night at an inn. But after Magneto leaves them, the YA notice that Wiccan has gone.Quicksilver finds Billy chanting a 'spell' to transport him to Latveria. Pietro points out that if Billy always speaks his intentions out loud like that, his enemies will always know what he's going to do. Wiccan sheepishly says it helps him to concentrate. But Pietro suggests he accompany him to Doom's castle.Then the rest of the YA turn up. Hulkling berates Pietro for trying to lead Wiccan into trouble. And it seems like no-one's going anywhere, at least for now.Back at Avengers Tower the Avengers are also determined to find Scarlet Witch. The group from last issue (Captain America (Steve Rogers), Iron Man, Luke Cage, Ms Marvel, Spider-Man and Wolverine) have called on Wonder Man to help. They claim he has even closer ties to Wanda than her brother Pietro or ex-husband Vision. Simon Williams sacrificed himself to protect her (Force Works #1), and Wanda summoned him back to ionic life (in the early issues of Avengers (1998)). They hope his ionic energy can link to her.Wonder Man asks what the Avengers will do with the Witch when they find her. Wolverine says they'll kill her, to prevent her doing things again like Avengers Disassembled, House of M and Decimation. Logan accuses Simon (and Cap) of being too much in love with Wanda to do what's necessary, and stalks off to track her down by himself.As seen in Avengers (2010) #1-2 and #7 Wonder Man currently doesn't trust the Avengers. So he too heads off by himself, to try and find Wanda before Logan does.That night Billy slips away from boyfriend Teddy, leaving a note, and goes on a 1-man recce of Doom's castle. He makes himself look like the Witch, and persuades Doombots to take him to her room. Dropping his disguise he finds himself attacked by the woman he seeks.Billy can't find the words to explain how he might be a reincarnation of one of her sons. So he just says he's come to rescue her from Doom. He babbles that they met once, and that he's come from her father and her brother Quicksilver.But Wanda claims her father's dead, and she knows no Quicksilver. And she doesn't need rescuing because she's getting married tomorrow, to Dr Doom who chooses that moment to make an entrance.


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In Avengers Mansion the newly-restored Scarlet Witch has just given X-Factor member Rictor back the mutant power she removed from him (among so many others) at the end of House of M. Now she needs to find a way to give all the other ex-mutants their powers back too.The only Avengers present are Beast, Hawkeye (Clint Barton) and Jessica Jones, plus Ant-Man (Scott Lang) who's just been rescued from his death back in Avengers Disassembled. Along with them are Young Avengers Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Hulkling, Patriot, Speed, Stature, Vision, Wiccan and the returned Iron Lad. And Rictor has fellow X-Factor's Jamie Madrox, Shatterstar and Strong Guy.X-Men Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Gambit, Iceman, Rogue and Storm have just turned up looking for revenge on the Witch for the depowering in Decimation.Just to make things more complicated Avengers Captain America, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Ms Marvel, Spider-Man and Wolverine now get here with their companions from last issue Magneto, Quicksilver and Wonder Man. The Avengers want Wanda brought to justice too, but they don't want the X-Men to have her. Except Wolverine wants her dead. And Wanda's father Magneto, brother Quicksilver and ex-lover Wonder Man just want to keep her safe.Rictor leads the Mansion's occupants outside and shows the others that the Witch has re-powered him. And she could do the same for others.Wanda refuses to escape with Magneto and Quicksilver. She tells Cap that she accepts all blame and punishment, but she begs him to let her put things right first. But Cyclops imperiously declares that the X-Men will decide her fate.Cue a battle:- Cyclops vs Magneto, Storm vs Iron Man, Rogue vs Ms Marvel, Colossus vs Luke Cage, Iceman vs Quicksilver, Gambit vs Spider-Man and Emma Frost giving Wonder Man a terrible migraine, while Cap asks Wolverine to intercede and stop it all. Then Emma turns her attention to mind-controlling Speed and Wiccan.Scarlet Witch kept out of it up til then, but she won't stand by while her reincarnated sons are harmed. So she puts all the non-YA to sleep. And then magics herself and the YA to the castle of Dr Doom.When the YA first found her the amnesiac and powerless Wanda was about to marry Victor von Doom. Now some of the YA fear that they're witnessing a supervillain team-up. Scarlet Witch says they need his help. But their fears aren't exactly allayed when she reveals that he was her ally before she lost her memory.Wiccan has long suspected that his mother's bad deeds, and the increase in power that preceded them, were signs that she was being manipulated. He now accuses Doom, but Wanda denies it. Although she also can't remember clearly what happened after Victor helped her.She knows that she came to him after she learned of her sons' deaths, wanting his sorcerous help to get them back. Doom tells them all that Wanda and he captured the Life Force and channelled it into the Witch. But it was too strong for her and took her over, giving her reality-altering power but driving her mad.Much later he found her shattered in Transia and took her home. Doom admits that initially he hoped to gain her lost power. But he maintains that they really did fall in love.Scarlet Witch now wants to combine magic with Doom to restore mutant powers all over the world. And then she wants Victor to remove the extra power of the Life Force from her. Patriot protests that she can't trust Dr Doom not to take the power for himself. Wanda replies that's why Wiccan's power will be in the mix as a safeguard.But Wiccan's power was destroyed by Doom in #4. Except that Doom now says that he couldn't do that. Not even Dr Strange could do it. He says he merely made Billy believe he was powerless. And he takes that spell off.Patriot has another objection:- Wanda had said she wanted to give every ex-mutant the choice of whether they wanted their power back. But the Witch points out that the Avengers and X-Men will never give her the chance to do that, as they have just witnessed. Her only option is to restore all the powers now, before those teams find her here.Wiccan is convinced, and the 3 magic-users join hands for the spell. But Patriot can't leave it at that. He grabs Kate's bow and fires an incendiary arrow at Dr Doom to disrupt the spell. He succeeds in splitting the 3 apart, but unfortunately he hits Wanda instead.Billy desperately heals his mother with a spell. She revives and confirms that they never completed the major spell. But also she no longer feels the Life Force within her.They all look up at a floating glowing Doom, who has cast aside his iron mask because his scarred face is healed. He promises that everything will be alright now that he's in control.


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The first 2 pages establish who the Young Avengers are. They were formed after Avengers were Disassembled (and before the New Avengers began). They've fought Kang, and lived through Civil War, Secret Invasion and Siege. Individually they are:- Stature (Cassie Lang) daughter of dead Ant-Man Scott Lang. A version of the Vision, calling himself Jonas. Patriot (Eli Bradley) grandson of a different WWII Captain America. Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) who 'inherited' the weapons of the once-'dead' Hawkeye (Clint Barton). Speed (Tommy Shepherd) and Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) who think they may be the sons of Scarlet Witch. Hulkling (Teddy Altman) the son of Kree Captain Marvel and Skrull princess Anelle.The YA are more than holding their own against hate-group the Sons of the Serpent, when Captain America (Steve Rogers), Iron Man and Ms Marvel join in to 'save' them. One Serpent intends to set off a nuclear device to kill gay alien Hulkling. But Wiccan saves his boyfriend, and everyone else, by putting all the Serpents in a coma.The Avengers and his teammates want to know how he did it, but Wiccan doesn't know either. The Avengers are worried that he may have Scarlet Witch-level power. They explain that Wanda could alter reality, but she went somewhat mad. She blamed the Avengers for the death of her sons, and caused the Avengers Disassembled event, which killed Clint Barton, Scott Lang and the original Vision. Later she changed reality to a world ruled by Magneto for mutants, in House of M. And as that reality reverted to the main Marvel timeline, she took away most mutant powers and stopped more mutants being born with the phrase "No more mutants". And she hasn't been seen since then.Speed doesn't believe him, but Wiccan is convinced they are somehow Wanda's sons, even though they have their own separate biological parents. With names William and Thomas like the originals, and as alike as twins. With magic and speed powers like Wanda and her brother Quicksilver.But Wiccan is also convinced that Wanda couldn't have done those things of her own accord. And her Avengers teammates should believe that too. She must have been possessed or something.Billy doesn't want to stay and have the Avengers keep him locked up. He walks out and his team follow. But some of them are also worried, and think he should let the Avengers test him. So Billy leaves them too, and goes home. Where he finds Cap talking to his parents.Billy agrees to move in to Avengers Tower for the testing. He gives Cap a magic flying lift, and they rehash the above arguments on the way. Until they are joined by a winged Hulkling. Teddy isn't going to let his boyfriend go anywhere without him. Cap agrees to let Teddy join Billy.They are assigned a spartan room with twin beds. Until a bit of magic transforms it, including a double bed. But then they are interrupted by Speed who has come to rescue them while Vision disrupts the alarm system. Before they can protest that they don't want to be rescued, Tommy has vibrated them all outside, where the others are waiting.Cassie proposes they go find Scarlet Witch. She believes Wanda wasn't possessed, just insane with grief. If they show her her 'sons' Billy and Tommy, she might regain her senses. Then she can undo the curse on mutants, and bring back Cassie's dad. After all, she recreated Clint Barton at the end of House of M.And then Magneto drops in, looking for his 'grandchildren'.


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Gauntlet is putting new recruits Cloud 9, Hardball, Komodo and Trauma through an assault course at Camp Hammond without the use of their powers (except Komodo can't turn her reptilian abilities off). Justice is watching, and is as usual unhappy about the slurs Gauntlet makes about his old team New Warriors. The world has forgotten all the good things they did, and now only remembers the last incarnation of the group as responsible for the destruction of Stamford, where the Camp is situated.Justice asks Yellowjacket why trainee MVP hasn't been seen for days, but Henry Pym tells him it's classified. The 4 students know how Armory accidentally killed him last issue, which is why she was expelled after having her alien glove removed. Cloud 9 can't stop thinking about it, and it triggers Trauma to turn into a decaying image of the boy.YJ sends Justice to calm the other kids down while he handles Trauma. But he orders Vance Astrovik not to ask them about MVP. Vance justifiably protests that he can't do his job as guidance counsellor if they aren't free to discuss everything with him.When YJ berates Trauma for his action, the boy reminds him that he can't control his power. He detects that Hank too is scared of losing control, and manifests a battered image of Pym's ex-wife Jan (the Wasp) who Henry once beat up. Gauntlet has to hold YJ up while Justice pulls Trauma away.Vance tells Trauma he'll get him some help to control his power. And demands that Gauntlet and YJ tell him what's going on. But Henry Pym has gone. Hank is in his quarters taking anxiety pills. He rings Jan Van Dyne, but hangs up when she answers, as he gets called down to the lab.There he finds Henry Gyrich with Dr Von Blitzschlag. The doctor has been examining the body of MVP and found him to be a perfect physical specimen. Gyrich assumes it's due to the super-soldier serum his great-grandfather invented for the origin of Captain America. But Blitzschlag says there is no superpower here - the boy's physique was purely down to exercise.The ex-Nazi doctor wants to use MVP's genetic material to create more perfect people. Pym objects, but Gyrich is ready to do anything to complete the 50-State Initiative program. Blitzschlag  bites back by reminding Pym of some of his own 'successes':- Ultron and the Thor-clone Ragnarok (whose broken body he has in storage). Their squabbling is interrupted by a call to arms.A Hydra terror-carrier (their version of SHIELD's helicarrier) is attacking the President's ranch in Texas. The Texas Initiative team, the Rangers (Armadillo, Firebird, Living Lightning, Phantom Rider, Red Wolf, Shooting Star and Texas Twister), has responded. The Pres refuses to leave.War Machine drafts flyers (Cloud 9, Gargoyle, Nighthawk, Thor Girl and Ultra Girl plus Hulkling and Wiccan (sort of), and also Ms Marvel and Wonder Man of the Mighty Avengers) to go with him on this mission. He issues Cloud 9 a pulse rifle, despite the fact that she's never fired a gun and doesn't want to. Hardball and Komodo complain about being left behind, so Gauntlet gives them (and himself) jet packs and they join the troop.Before they leave Henry Pym hands James Rhodes a vibranium-shelled projectile, and Rhodey notes the payload it's designed for. Iron Man contacts Camp Hammond to tell them the SHIELD helicarrier is on the way to Texas, but won't be there for an hour.The team flies through a portal to the Negative Zone. Rhodey points out the Neg Zone prison built during the Civil War. And then they exit through another portal to Texas. (Presumably these portals link all the State Initiative HQ's.)They're immediately in a fire fight. Cloud 9 shoots down a Hydra fighter plane, until it hits her that she's just killed someone. Ultra Girl gets hit. Heavy hitters like Gauntlet and War Machine attack the terror-carrier directly but can't get through its forcefield. But their efforts drain power from the carrier, and Hydra decide to ram the President's residence.War Machine fires the vibranium projectile which pierces the forcefield. Its payload turns out to be Yellowjacket himself. He lands on the carrier and goes extremely giant-sized. His weight disrupts its flight and they crash in an explosion in the desert.But YJ escapes by riding the shockwave at subatomic size(?!).Later at the White House the President gives him the Medal of Freedom, and commends the Initiative for their actions.Back at base Henry Gyrich takes Trauma (real name Terrance Ward) down to a secret sub-basement. He needs Trauma to learn to control his power. To that end they've sent for a specialist from the mutant community. Beast has come along as bodyguard (and for the chance to annoy his old sparring partner). We don't get to see Trauma's tutor yet, but she's a mutant who lost her powers on M-Day.


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Last issue ended with Cloud 9 taking Hardball and Komodo to find the MVP clone who was pretending to be the real Michal Van Patrick, and finding him in Tennessee with Justice and other ex-New Warriors from the Initiative ranks. This issue starts by filling in what happened in between.Cloud 9 is using her solidified cloud to fly them out of Camp Hammond. The berserk MVP clone self-styled KIA is shooting at them after downing most of the other inhabitants of the base, and Baron Von Blitzschlag has sent them on the mission to find the other clone. Komodo takes the hits because she'll be able to regenerate the damage later. Her lover Hardball can't stand that anymore and wants to use his energy balls to fend off the blasts.The 2 remaining Scarlet Spiders (KIA killed the other 1 last issue) distract the enemy while Cloud 9 steers for the portal to Prison 42 in the Negative Zone. 1 of the few troopers still standing phones ahead.When they get there they find War Machine waiting for them. (He took Dragon Man to the prison in #8.) Cloud 9 explains the situation to him (and to the reader). KIA has the alien morphing weapon the Tactigon and he's attacking everyone with it. Blitzschlag gave them a helmet with which to copy the brain waves of the good MVP clone. Then they can use it to overwrite the mind of the evil clone.They need to use the portal to the Tennessee Initiative site because MVP is in that state. They suggest James Rhodes blow up that gate behind them to stop KIA following. War Machine considers that a too dangerous option, but after they've gone through he dismisses the rest of the staff and prepares to face KIA alone. We see that fight start.The 3 trainees have now found the good clone at Bulls Gap using a tracker Blitzschlag gave them, but the ex-New Warriors (Debrii, Rage, Slapstick and Ultragirl as well as Justice) don't trust them because Justice had discovered that the Initiative authorities had been covering up about MVP's death (#1) - and that Cloud 9, Hardball and Komodo knew about it.The 3 are tied up. They have explained (again) the plan to copy the good clone's brain into Blitzschlag's device. They then only have to get near KIA and press a button to do the transfer. But they've also admitted that the device might wipe Michael's mind during the extraction.Michael and his father have been on the run from the Initiative. Mr V P doesn't know/believe Michael is a clone. And he certainly doesn't believe any clone of his son could be dangerous like KIA. So he doesn't want Michael to take the risk. But Komodo points out that they found him via an implanted tracker (and Justice found them too), so they can't hide from the Initiative.The argument is cut short when KIA arrives.Back at Camp Hammond Henry Peter Gyrich surveys the bodies littered all over the place. His companion, the mysterious Mutant Zero who protected him last issue, has to go back to the Zero Room to stave off her mental instability. The 2 surviving Scarlet Spiders are trying to help their injured 'father' Von Blitzschlag. The 3 of them used to continue each other's sentences. Now with 1 missing there are gaps in the flow of their speech. Gyrich orders them to go after KIA.They go via the Negative Zone where the defeated War Machine is recovering. He removes his faceplate to get some air and reveals a scarred cyborg face, which surprises everyone around him. Rhodey calls in Iron Man and SHIELD against HPG's orders. But the Spiders don't wait for the reinforcements. When they step through the portal to the Tennessee HQ they find everyone dead, and they follow KIA's trail of destruction.At Bulls gap Justice attacks KIA with his mental power. But the clone strikes him down - Vance Astro was on his list of targets because he recruited the original MVP into the Initiative. Slapstick tries next. KIA's normal attacks can't hurt his cartoon body, but the Tactigon finds his weakness and disrupts the molecular bonds of his electroplasm substance.The other ex-NWers have freed the other 3 trainees. They are on KIA's list because they were there at the training session where 'he' died. Now Hardball and Komodo attack together. Komodo is fearless because of her reptilian healing power. But the Tactigon injects Melati's legs with an alien poison that will kill her faster than she can regenerate.Hardball drags his lover away. Ultragirl is trying to revive her lover Justice. Cloud 9 doesn't know what to do as Debrii and Rage take their turn at bat.Then the Mighty Avengers (or at least Iron Man, Ms Marvel, Wasp and Wonder Man) come to the rescue, and take on the fight themselves.Meanwhile Cloud 9 is once more trying to persuade Michael to use the helmet, and his dad is still arguing against it. She reminds him how they (or at least the original) met on her 1st day at camp, and how there was an immediate mutual attraction - she sensed a hero that day. Roger amputates Melati's legs to stop the poison reaching her heart, despite knowing that is her worst fear. He reminds her that she'll grow new ones in her reptile form, while he uses his energy ball power in a new way as a large surrounding forcefield to shield her from further harm. And Justice starts to revive.The Avengers are doing no more than hold their own when Cloud 9 announces she's realised KIA's weakness. She approaches the raging battle, and KIA warns her away. She goes to him and says that he could have killed her many times in the past day but never did - he makes a feeble excuse about her not being a threat. Seeing her in danger makes Michael put the helmet on, but his father stops him. KIA mumbles his mantra that she's 'on his list', but Abby interrupts with a kiss.The crowd watches with bated breath. Then Abby fills KIA's lungs with her cloud gas. As he hurls her away everyone else piles on him, including the 2 Spiders who've just got there.But Michael has another idea - if the helmet might wipe his mind while copying it, then maybe it'll do the same to KIA. While the Spiders (also MVP clones) hold KIA with their multiple techno-arms Michael jams the helmet on his head. And it works with a zap.Later everyone licks their wounds. Iron Man reverses the disruption to Slapstick's molecular bonds, and he's good as new. Abby and Michael have a tender moment. He's going to live his life as if he is the original. And Slapstick picks up the discarded helmet, with a flashing sign saying it's ready to transmit the stored brain pattern to a new body. He puts it in his infinite pocket, figuring it might come in useful for a practical joke ... or something.


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Last issue our 1st group of trainees graduated, and in #8 we met a new bunch of recruits. But for this issue we'll ignore them and introduce a 3rd intake:- Annex, Batwing, Boulder, Gorilla Girl, Prodigy and Sunstreak.Boulder is bouncing round the bus with an excitement not shared by the others. Prodigy and Sunstreak are only here to get themselves out of prison. Boulder remembers drunk Prodigy standing up to Iron Man on Superhero Registration Day. Army vet Annex doesn't know why he needs training. Batwing is more friendly. Boulder remembers him as an old Spider-Man character who got cured of his bat-like condition - it's returned and he's here for help. Gorilla Girl is also friendly, but is also here rather than be sent to jail for non-Registration.Yellowjacket enters the bus to give his welcoming speech. But awe-struck Boulder puts his foot in it asking about Captain America - now (Marvel) dead since Civil War.Trainer Taskmaster takes over. He renames tubby Boulder as Butterball. Then he sends them on a 10-mile run.A week later Taskmaster discusses the trainees with War Machine and Yellowjacket. His main problem is Emery Schaub/Boulder/Butterball. He's immune to all physical attacks, and even from mental attacks apart from mind-control. But he can't attack back because he's unfit and lacks coordination. Similarly he can't run but he can walk forever. And he doesn't improve with exercise. YJ has a theory that the invulnerability extends to preventing any change to his body. (Does this mean he'll never grow up.)Taskie is also annoyed by the boy's incessant fanboy questions and naive impertinence. He's impervious to punishment. TM tried punishing the other trainees for Schaub's faults, hoping peer pressure would affect him - but he doesn't seem to catch on, even though he's now ostracised.Henry Pym reports that SHIELD have heard about a contract out on the villain Taskmaster for collaborating with the heroes. TM isn't worried - Bullseye's working for the Thunderbolts and Elektra is dead (again), and he can take anyone else.Prodigy is forced to give a press conference to deny his previous public anti-Registration stance in Civil War: Front Line #2. He claims (correctly) he was drunk at the time, and he definitely hasn't joined the Initiative just to avoid prison. But no-one's buying it. Behind the scenes he's angry with Pym for putting him up as a poster-boy for a cause he doesn't believe in.Ritchie Gilmore takes out his frustrations that night by persuading the rest of his group to sneak off base. Annex jams the security cameras. They steal a jeep and put Butterball on the hood to absorb anything that's fired at them as they break through the exit barrier.They can't go for a night on the town because Batwing looks like a bat and Prodigy is on the news (and is in costume, as is Annex). So they drink beer on the beach (except underage Batwing, and Schaub because his power prevents alcohol from affecting him). Prodigy suggests skinny-dipping. Gorilla Girl agrees, but transforms into a gorilla. She says she might transform back to a naked human if Annex joins them. He does, and Batwing takes to the air leaving Emery alone with Sunstreak.Andrea Roarke is interested when she finds that the boy is unaffected by the intense heat of her body. This means they can actually kiss. But Emery rejects her advances because his power means that he can't even feel sexual attraction. He drives off in the jeep.The others follow, with Annex carrying Gorilla Girl the only non-flyer. They see Boulder apprehended by Yellowjacket, War Machine, Taskmaster and Constrictor. And they hear him claim that he broke out of the base on his own. The others now only have to figure out how to get back to barracks before anybody finds they're missing.But the scene is disrupted by an attack by the villains who have accepted the contract on Tony Masters - Firebrand, King Cobra, Mauler and Mr Hyde. A fight ensues, and the trainees break cover and join in. Giant-size YJ downs Mr Hyde and the other 3 decide to retreat. Mauler grabs Boulder as a hostage and threatens to shoot him. But that threat doesn't stop the heroes, so Mauler fires and is hit by the backblast. Cobra and Firebrand flee, pursued by War Machine.But next day WM and YJ throw Emery off the project. He's not cut out for combat, but he'll be certified as Registration-compliant and can serve in other capacities where his invulnerability will be an asset. Eg in hazardous environments.His teammates think he's lucky, but Constrictor and Taskmaster understand why he's dejected. They share with each other their most embarrassing defeats - Constrictor by the New Warriors and TM by Ant-Man and Hawkeye. Before Schaub leaves they set up a photo for him to take away with him where he appears to have beaten them single-handed.


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The Skrull Secret Invasion has amped up the protests about the Initiative HQ and training base Camp Hammond being placed at Stamford (the site of the disaster that sparked off Civil War). Gauntlet has to bull his way through the protesters to get in.In the cafeteria Doc Samson is hosting a meeting of people who were abducted by the Skrulls and replaced. Alicia Masters is here to help as someone who was also once abducted by Skrulls and replaced. They're going to manage the returnees return to society. Dum Dum Dugan isn't happy about having to go through this - he just wants to get back to running SHIELD.In the War Room Gauntlet holds a conference about Hardball who defected to Hydra in the Initiative Special - attendees Baron Von Blitzschlag, Gargoyle, Hellcat, Physique, Taskmaster and Tigra. Hardball has been traced to a foreign Hydra base. They can't overtly invade there so they need to send the Shadow Initiative. Gauntlet wants to know who can authorise the mission.Taskmaster says Henry Gyrich used to be in charge of them until Iron Man sacked him (#12). Physique says War Machine could do it but he resigned (sort-of in #16) and they don't know where he is (see his latest series). Tigra reminds them that the Henry Pym who was in overall charge was a Skrull. Blitzschlag offers to take control but Gauntlet turns the ex-Nazi down. Tigra points out that just leaves him. Gauntlet protests that he's just a drill sergeant and asks about the real Henry Pym. But Tigra doesn't think they'll get much luck there ...... Hank is having a meal in his room with Wasp, who he fully accepts is dead (as of Secret Invasion #8 - but of course she's alive really). The Skrull Yellowjacket has been living his life for a long time (since before New Avengers #1). He asks the delicate question - did his ex-wife Jan ever sleep with the imposter. She answers no, but tells him that Tigra and the Skrull had a thing.Jan tells him about other things his Skrull did:-  He invented the GI Ant-Man suit for SHIELD (which is what current Ant-Man Eric O''Grady is wearing in the Initiative). He formed the 50-State Initiative, but as a Skrull weapon. He helped create Thor-clone/cyborg Ragnarok, who killed Bill Foster/Goliath during Civil War.Hellcat finds Tigra in the cafeteria eating strawberries and pickles. Patsy correctly guesses that Greer is pregnant. And we can guess Skrull-Hank's the father.Gauntlet has assembled the Shadow Initiative (Ant-Man, Bengal, Constrictor and Mutant Zero) in their briefing room along with Komodo and Taskmaster. They are feeling down after failing to assassinate the Skrull Queen Veranke (#17), but Gauntlet points out they enabled Ant-Man to escape with info about the Skrulls' backup plan (to move the US into the Negative Zone). And he lets O''Grady know that this has won him a promotion and a move to the Thunderbolts.As AM leaves to pack Mutant Zero makes to leave also, saying that Gyrich excused her from briefings. But Gauntlet makes her stay while he introduces Taskmaster as their new field leader. And Komodo is here because of her knowledge of their target Hardball.Hardball was blackmailed into working for Hydra by Senator Woodman (#3). He was exposed in Special #1, but killed Woodman and elected to stay with Hydra taking Woodman's place of power in the criminal organisation. Gauntlet says he's running a Hydra training base in Madripoor, and this team is going to bring him back. They won't get any help from the Madripoor government because they are allies of Tony Stark who don't like it that he's been replaced by Norman Osborn.Komodo is here to tell them about Hardball's powers and personality. But she insists on going on the mission too. Gauntlet dismisses the group and takes her aside for a 'chat'.Taskmaster believes he's figured out who Mutant Zero is, and intends to find out if he's right.Back in Hank Pym's quarters Jan is bringing him up-to-date on other stuff that's happened while he was away. But when he doesn't understand some of her references she asks just how long has he been missing.But they are interrupted by a knock at the door. It's Trauma looking for Tigra. He heard a woman's voice and assumed it was her. Pym gets rid of him, but we don't stay to hear his answer to Jan's question.In the stockade 3-D Man is freed after an inquest into his killing of Crusader who was exposed as a Skrull last issue. Other trainees Annex, Batwing, Geiger, Prodigy and Red 9 aren't happy because they were friends with Crusader, and they believe (correctly) that he was on the side of humans.Ryder, leader of the Skrull Kill Krew, doesn't have any sympathy because his team kill Skrulls on sight. He and Delroy Garrett join the other surviving SKK member Riot in burying the preserved heads of the other 3 SKKers Catwalk, Dice and Moonstomp who finally died in the battle last issue. Ryder tells Riot she can revert from her monster guise to human now that the Skrulls are all gone. Riot gratefully does so and dies of the Skrull disease that infected them all. Ryder admits to Delroy that there are still Skrulls out there, and they leave the base to go find them and kill them.Taskmaster confronts Mutant Zero and goads her into a fight. He was pretty sure he recognised her from her normal body movements, but now her fighting moves support his theory - it's part of his photographic reflexes 'superpower'. When she angrily bursts into flame that clinches the deal, and he smashes her facemask to reveal Typhoid Mary.Tigra discusses her pregnancy with counsellor Trauma, and his superpower shows her her worst fear - giving birth to a litter of Skrulls. She says she's going to have an abortion because the father was definitely the Skrull, not the real Henry Pym. It's actually a relief because she wouldn't have been ready to be the mother of Hank's child.Meanwhile Jan is hoping that Henry was replaced many years ago, before he hit her and they divorced. But he has to admit that that was really him. And Jan turns to leave.At this point they stop the charade. 'Jan' is really Jocasta, the robot Ultron created with Janet Pym's brain pattern. This enabled her to play the scene as Jan would have.Jocasta accompanies Pym as he leaves the base. Gauntlet, Hellcat and Stingray try to persuade him to stay. But Hank reminds them that he was never here in the 1st place.Finally we see Blitzschlag dozing in his hi-tech wheelchair in his lab. A video of Skrull-Yellowjacket starts to play. It says that because it's been 15 days since he last entered the relevant code a backup plan will automatically go into action. 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Last issue 3-D Man crashed in the New Mexico desert when the Skrull virus fried the StarkTech in his quinjet. Now he's found by She-Thing of that state's Initiative team the Mavericks. But Delroy Garrett's goggles reveal her to be a Skrull. And when she turns on him she's killed by Ryder and Riot of the Skrull Kill Krew who were watching from concealment. When they learn of his ability they invite him to join the Krew.They take the body back to the SKK's truck, and the monstrous Riot carves it up to be safe. Ryder explains that they're used to dealing with ordinary Skrulls but lately there's been a new breed, more difficult to detect and much harder to kill.  3-D Man confirms that there are more in the Initiative (but not as many as he thinks - see last issue).In Camp Hammond the medical staff Physique and Trauma find War Machine recovering from the effects of the virus, having been helped by Baron Blitzschlag. His armour is now OK due to an old StaneTech backup system he didn't know Tony Stark had built in. They rush outside to find only Yellowjacket and SHIELD Capekillers (the active staff and trainees were sent to fight the invading Skrulls in New York last issue). YJ is confused (and as a secret Skrull, unhappy) to find Jim Rhodes' armour still working.Rhodey gets a message from Tony prerecorded for the eventuality of StarkTech failure. It tells him to trust no-one and follow a pre-programmed course to a beacon. He ignores YJ's demands for an explanation and jets off into Iron Man (2005) #33. YJ tells 1 of the Capekillers to inform the high command. This Capekiller (and presumably all the others) is a Skrull too.Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady), who shrank and hid last issue to avoid going on the mission, is confused.Before he crashed Delroy Garrett was heading for the home of the previous 3-D Man Hal & Chuck Chandler and Hal's wife Peggy. He leads the SKK there. As well as the Chandlers' experience fighting Skrulls, Garrett correctly guesses they'll have some old non-StarkTech equipment that has survived the virus.Chuck tells Ryder and Riot how 50 years ago he was a military test pilot when his plane was attacked by Skrulls. The end result was Chuck trapped as green and red images in his brother Hal's glasses. After that Hal was able to manifest Chuck as the green/red-costumed 3-D Man with the physical abilities of 3 men and the ability to detect Skrulls.Delroy explains how a group called the Triune gave him tri-force energy (and Chuck and Hal gave him the costume and Skrull-detecting goggles).Ryder and Riot complete the origin-fest. The 1st Skrull spies the Fantastic Four caught (FF#2) they hypnotised into becoming cows. Those cows later became burgers, and some people who ate them became shape-changers who could see Skrulls. They also had a deadly disease that killed the rest of the Krew (Catwalk, Dice and Moonstomp) and stuck Riot in her current form. The Krew banded together to hunt and kill Skrulls.We now learn how the SKK manage to identify the new Super-Skrulls when they throw She-Thing's Skrull head on the barbecue. Eating the flesh of the new Skrulls made them detectable too!Last issue the Initiative trainees joined the Young Avengers fighting Super-Skrulls in Times Square. Secret Invasion #3 showed that didn't go well, and now we see the heroes beaten and a replay of the execution of trainee Proton from SI#3. We also see here that trainee Crusader (secretly a friendly Skrull) is still conscious. He's been fighting his own kind but is now faced with a dilemma for his conscience. He could save his own life by revealing himself as a Skrull sleeper agent and pretend to still be loyal.But his thoughts are interrupted by the arrival (as seen on the last page of SI#3) of Nick Fury and his new Howling Commandos (who will later be known as his Secret Warriors). Fury recognises Crusader from Captain America's report on the Titannus affair, and tells him to join them. Crusader is inspired to resume his fight for his adopted planet.Now we see the SKK in Phoenix watching the Arizona Initiative team the Desert Stars (Two-Gun Kid leading Blacksmith, Johnny Cool, Komodo and Supermax) helping with the power crisis after the loss of StarkTech. Delroy identifies Blacksmith as a Skrull. (I thought the other 2 could detect Super-Skrulls because they'd eaten their flesh?)They attack. Komodo is confused because she was a trainee with 3-D Man. But Blacksmith shapeshifts to his Super-Skrull form and she rallies the rest of her team to fight him. The Skrull holds his own against them all, including chopping off 1 of Komodo's arms. But she immediately starts to regenerate it and leaps back into the fray. Then Delroy shoots the Skrull through Komodo's body, careful not to damage any of her vital organs.As Melati Kusuma regenerates from that too, Riot interrogates the incapacitated foe as to how many Skrulls are in the Initiative. She threatens him with a Skrull torture device, but he's only too willing to gloat that there's 1 on each team. Then Heidi Sladkin kills him.The other Desert Stars are all alive, but unconscious apart from Komodo. She says she wants to go with the Krew, and she wants them to go Las Vegas to deal with the Nevada team next, because that's where her boyfriend Hardball is.Lastly back to Camp Hammond where Ant-Man sees Yellowjacket welcoming loads of Skrulls to what will now be their central command. But YJ himself is going to NY.


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Last issue the staff and trainees of Camp Hammond Initiative training base went off to fight the Secret Invasion of Skrulls. But Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) went small and hid to avoid the draft. And then he saw Yellowjacket (Skrull Criti Noll) inviting lots of fellow Skrulls in to take over the place. Which is where we find him now.But there are other humans left on the base. In the day care centre Bengal of the Shadow Initiative is with his wife and young son along with Gauntlet's wife and little daughter and others. He sees what's happening outside and gets them all to hide in the void under the floor and play what he and his son call the Secret Avenger game, ie keep very quiet. Then he triggers an alert for the rest of his squad. We see Trauma get the call in the infirmary with medic Physique and weakened scientist Baron Blitzschlag who's complaining how (#15) War Machine didn't thank him for draining his body's electrical power to save his life. Constrictor attaches his cyborg arms. Mutant Zero in the Zero Room stops her (red-haired, naked) meditation and suits up in her all-concealing costume.Meanwhile Ant-Man is psyching himself up by reminding himself of his SHIELD training from people like Dum Dum Dugan. But then Dugan turns up as a super-Skrull to be greeted by YJ and announcing that he has destroyed SWORD's orbital station (Sec Inv #1). He's closely followed by their Queen Veranke as Spider-Woman and some hooded and robed Skrull priests. That too is news to AM and he panics because he thinks she'll have a Spider-sense like Spider-Man's that will tell her he's here. And then a hand grabs him and drags him into darkness. But it's Bengal and the other Shadow Initiative who commend him for leading them to the Queen, which he quickly agrees was what he was doing. Bengal now says that their mission is to assassinate her.But we'll leave them there and turn to Nevada and the base of that State's Initiative team the Heavy Hitters (Gravity, Hardball and newbies Nonstop (speedster) and Telemetry (psi-tech). The Skrull Kill Krew (Riot, Ryder and 3-D Man) have just exposed and killed an unnamed Skrull member of the team. The monstrous Riot continues to tear the Skrull corpse to pieces, and Ryder is disinclined to stop her. Telemetry is injured so Nonstop rushes her to hospital. Komodo came with the SKK from the Arizona Initiative (last issue) to see her boyfriend Hardball. Delroy Garrett reports their success ...... to the SKK's new base in New Mexico, the bomb shelter of the house of Hal and rejuvenated Chuck Chandler. Hal tells them that Yellowjacket is a Skrull who's advising people to submit to their new rulers. Hal's wife Peggy calls down that they have a visitor and it's Jocasta of NM's Initiative team the Mavericks looking for 3-D Man (technically a member of Hawaii's Point Men).Back in Camp Hammond's sewers the SI consider their situation. As super-Skrulls SpW and YJ obviously have their namesakes' powers but probably have unknown extra powers. AM reports that he saw DDD levitating with a fiery aura. Trauma points out that they will all also have the Skrulls' natural ability to change shape. They immediately suspect the size-changing Ant-Man, but O'Grady points out that they all know him well by now, and they know that if *he* could shapeshift he'd have imitated Brad Pitt and had sex with Angelina Jolie. Constrictor removes 1 of his cyborg arms and reminds them that when the originals were cut off (by KIA in #10) they didn't bleed Skrull-green. Trauma has an idea. He reminds them that he can become anyone's greatest fear, and they could use that to expose Skrulls. Bengal allows him to try it on him, and he sees his wife and child murdered. He turns to Mutant Zero and we see the back of his head as he gains long red hair. AM gasps that MZero's fear is herself! And Zero hits Trauma before he can tell them who she really is, and stalks out.Next stop is 1 of Nick Fury's safehouses. The high-tech base is currently home to some Young Avengers (Hawkeye, Vision and Wiccan), some Initiative trainees (Annex, Batwing and Crusader) and some of his Secret Warriors (Druid, Phobos and Quake). They see 'Henry Pym' on TV and Crusader is painfully aware that he knew YJ was a Skrull some time ago (#14) and didn't tell anyone (because he didn't want to admit that *he* is a Skrull, but a friendly 1). He admits the 1st part to Fury who gives him a morale-boosting speech about soldiers do their best but always make mistakes. What matters is that they fight to protect what's dear to them. Crusader is fired  up.Dugan, Veranke, YJ and the priests are in their commandeered war room discussing some hi-tech plan. But Ant-Man sneaks into the room and then enlarges a bomb which blows a hole big enough for the Shadow Initiative to join him. Battle ensues and they all target Spider-Woman. Mutant Zero shoots her through the head, spraying green blood. But then 1 of the priests drops her robe to reveal the real Veranke who says they've copied the SHIELD trick of using decoy doubles. She also insinuates (helped by Spider-Woman's pheromones) that 1 of the SI is a Skrull. They now suspect Trauma himself who reacts to their fears by *becoming* a Skrull so they all dogpile on him. The Queen gloats how easy it is to turn Earthlings against each other while Criti-Noll and Thing-armed Dugan defeat the humans.But miniature Eric O'Grady escapes notice again. His mask protects him from SpW's pheromones so it's just his own nature that tempts him to clamber over her voluptuous body. However by concentrating on her Skrull reality he runs away. But on the way out he sees what plan they were discussing and takes pictures via his helmet. He is now determined to escape to warn the heroes.Jocasta has taken the Chandlers to the Mavericks' base. She's replaced the Skrull-corrupted StarkTech in the comms and now she reboots the system and contacts the Hawaii Point Men base for 1 particular hero who's been proven non-Skrull.The Skrull Kill Krew, now incorporating Hardball as well as Komodo, are in Utah where 3-D Man is reporting to Chuck Chandler that they've just taken out the unnamed Skrull infiltrator in that State's team The Called. But he complains about how long it's taking to go from State to State. Chuck says that the solution to that problem should be with them almost immediately. And Jocasta materialises in front of them courtesy of the Shadow Cloak of her companion, the Point Men's Devil-Slayer (who Delroy met in #14).