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Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Tigra return from the Land Within along with Firebird and Thing. The Cat People's spell has sent them back to the Daemond Mansion that they left in #6.Tigra reminds them that her people are going to remove her cat persona, but she claims they have to do a little research 1st. Firebird and Hawkeye are both suspicious about this story. Tigra hasn't told them that the King of the Cat People will only remove 1 of her souls if she 1st kills Master Pandemonium. She tries to justify this to herself because MP is a bad guy the team is going after anyway.As they fly back to West Coast Avengers Compound on skycycles the free-flying Firebird suddenly has a vision from a previous century in California of a woman named Carlotta riding with a troop of soldiers led by Captain Diego. They are attacked by Indians and Carlotta proves a good shot, saving Diego's life. But then someone shoots her from behind. When Bonita Juarez recovers she tells the team that there was a traitor behind her in her vision, but she couldn't see who. This has Tigra worried.When they reach base they are met by Wonder Man who fills them in on what happened (last issue) while they were away. He destroyed Ultron, confirming his new self-confidence after confessing his guilt (#4) over the long-ago embezzlement (Avengers #9). But Henry Pym had accepted Ultron Mk 12 as his son, and Iron Man (back from treatment for the wounds he received in #5) is consoling him - the pair wander off out of the rest of this issue.(We don't see all of Simon Williams' tale so presumably he made more sense of this by saying it was Ultron Mk 11 that he killed, and Mk 12 died saving them.) Hawkeye wants to crow about it to the East Coast team. (But of course he should realise that Ultron will be back as always, but not until Daredevil #275 during Acts Of Vengeance.)Hawkeye tries again to get Thing to join the team - unsuccessfully as usual. Firebird wanders off too. Mockingbird takes her husband aside and tells him off again - this time about not spotting that Bonita wants to join. The duo spar with arrows, battlestaves and gymnastics as they argue. Clint Barton puts up various lame excuses until they reach a compromise - he'll asks Thing 1 more time, and if he still refuses he'll ask Firebird to be a team-member.Meanwhile Bonita agonises over her sensitivity to evil. It allows her to recognise it, but she may also be attracted to it. She's also resigned to not being asked to become a Whacko, as Ben Grimm calls them. And she comes to a decision.Wonder Man has flown away with his belt jets. He sees a robbery in progress and descends to stop it. He ignores a hail of bullets, and is only lightly affected by a bazooka. The lightest of taps knocks all the villains out. (We learn that Henry Pym and Iron Man have left also.)Later Thing and Tigra are sunbathing by the pool when Firebird approaches to tell them something. But she hasn't got time before her fellow Rangers drop in:- Ghost Rider and horse, Red Wolf and Lobo, Shooting Star and Texas Twister.Hawkeye and Mockingbird join them all. Clint recognises Red Wolf from Avengers #80-81, as does Tigra from her issues of Marvel Chillers. Bobbi Barton recognises Texas Twister as an ex-SHIELD Super-Agent from Captain America #217-218 and #228-231. Hawkeye also thinks Ghost Rider looks like Night Rider who he met in the Old West in Av#142-143 - Red Wolf suggests he is the ghost of that character. No-one but Firebird has met Shooting Star before.It turns out that the Rangers are here because Firebird called for them. She realises she's never going to be asked to join the WCA so she's leaving the Compound and wants the Rangers to become a regular team. Hawkeye is lost for words, so it's up to Mocky to ask her to stay, but Bonita has made her mind up.But then Star touches Firebird's back where Carlotta was shot, and Bonita gets an overwhelming feeling of evil. She blurts out that the female is possessed. Hawkeye doesn't believe her until Red Wolf attacks Firebird. Then it's team against team as Clint shoves Bonita out of the way.Red Wolf turns on his friend Tigra, and he causes Lobo to grow into a giant wolf to attack Firebird. Hawkeye tries the unusual tactic of crawling under the wolf to tickle its belly, but Shooting Star tries to shoot him until Mockingbird knocks the gun out of her hand with a stave. The Ghost Rider attacks the duo, which resolves into H vs GR and MB vs SS, while Texas Twister takes on Thing.Twister's whirlwind dumps Thing in the pool, but Ben throws water into it which gets sucked up and starts to drown TT in mid-air. While the other battles continue Firebird decides that Shooting Star is still the major enemy. So she swaps opponents with Mocky and blazes into fiery bird mode. Unfortunately this dazzles everybody except SS.Bonita now realises that Star is actually a demon who is possessing the others. She forces SS to surrender by threatening to incinerate her soul, and the other Rangers regain their senses. The demon reveals its true form, but claims it has always been Shooting Star - there never was a true human SS. It says it made sure that the Rangers never became a team after their 1st meeting in Hulk#265 exactly because it feared exposure by Firebird. Bonita was immune to its control because of what she is (whatever that is).The demon refuses to explain its mission, but is frightened when they mention Master Pandemonium. So the WCA intend to make it tell them how to find MP. And Tigra fears that she'll soon have to kill him for the Cat People and her soul.


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Hot pursuit
We open with the figure of Shooting Star on the the run in the back streets of Los Angeles from the West Coast Avengers and allies. She meets up with Master Pandemonium who invites her into a nearby building. He sheds the 2 demons that form his arms and leaves them to guard the door while he interrogates his guest. She begins the explanation of what happened when Firebird called her to the WCA Compound (see last issue). But we leave the scene as she surreptitiously triggers a signal device ...... which is picked up by the WCA (Hawkeye, Iron Man, Tigra and Wonder Man) plus Firebird and Thing flying overhead on skycycles or under their own power. As team leader Clint Barton remembers what happened after the and of last issue ...... Shooting Star had just been exposed as a demon by Firebird, and had stopped possessing the rest of the Rangers. Only Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Tigra of the WCA were present, alongside Thing. The demon had admitted a connection to Master Pandemonium, who the WCA and Firebird had their own reasons for pursuing.Hawkeye didn't want the Rangers' help. Texas Twister and Red Wolf didn't want to be part of the Rangers anyway, but wanted to help their Avenger friends. The enigmatic Ghost Rider said nothing. It was Firebird who called them here hoping to properly form the team they had just once been briefly part of, but now she sees their reaction she decides to stick with the WCA.Mockingbird is happy about that, although husband Clint still won't offer Bonita Juarez team membership (because he's still holding out for Thing to become the 6th member). But Bobbi Barton has a plan - the former SHIELD Agent will go undercover disguised as Shooting Star. Hawkeye reluctantly agrees.At this point Iron Man returns from consoling his old friend Henry Pym over the death of Hank's 'son' Ultron-12. Wonder Man also returns from his mini-adventure last issue. While these 2 are updated with what's going on the don't-want-to-be-Rangers leave. Thing chooses to go with the WCA. (And Hawkeye thinks his ready agreement means that Ben Grimm has at last given in to the idea of joining the team.)Bobbi dresses as Star, and that brings us to where we came in ...... now our heroes descend on Master Pandemonium's lair, but his watch-demons warn him. He reabsorbs as his arms and then vanishes with Shooting Star/Mockingbird as Wonder Man busts in. And the homing beacon she wore is left on the floor. No-one, not even Firebird, can tell where they've gone. But Tigra summons Balkatar, the Cat-People's representative from #6-7.Meanwhile MP has taken Bobbi to what looks like a medieval dungeon where he begins the usual villain rant. His name Pandemonium means 'abode of all' demons (and we saw in #4 that he can spew hordes of them from his chest). He controls them but at the same time claims to hate all their kind. He flourishes something called the Amulet of Azmodeus which he says was the only obstacle to his will. Then he begins his origin story ...... He was a big Hollywood star named Martin Preston. 1 night he was drink-driving along a twisting road on the side of a steep hill when he went over the edge into a canyon. He survived but lost an arm, and wound up hanging upside-down from his seatbelt.Then Mephisto appeared. Preston offered his soul for his arm. The devil instead replaced the missing arm with a demon. And then said "Why stop with 1?". (And we saw in #4 that all 4 limbs are now detachable demons.)Now MP mentions the 5. He was looking for them in #4 where he thought Firebird might be 1 of them. (He claims to detect demonic traces on her.) Now he wonders if the Shooting Star demon is 1 of them instead. But we see Balkatar in the background.The Cat-Demon transports himself back to the WCA and describes where he found his prey. Tigra recognises it as the abandoned Anvil Pictures studios, which Hawkeye remembers as churning out B-movie horror films (which explains the apparent torture dungeon above).When they enter the building the floor gives way and a giant fan blows them helplessly down 2 separate chutes. Firebird, Hawkeye and Tigra end up in 1 room, with Iron Man, Thing and Wonder Man in another. None of them can get out - the rooms seem specially designed to resist their powers.Pandemonium appears on viewscreens threatening them. But Mockingbird hits him with the whirling Amulet, banking on what he said about it being the only thing that could stop him. She's right and he's knocked out. It turns out that it was his magic that made the cells impregnable, and now Firebird burns her way out of 1 cell while the strong guys tear down a wall of theirs.But the teams are now faced with MP's demon army. The strong guy 3 make short work of their foes, but the weaker group find it slower going until Hawkeye brings the roof down with a blast arrow. But as those 3 escape down a dark corridor Balkatar appears again to show Tigra a quicker way to Master Pandemonium.MP has recovered and is fighting MB. But while she has the Amulet of Azmodeus he seems unable to send demons against her, or transport himself to safety. So she's able to more than hold her own with the martial skills she learned from SHIELD and from Ka-Zar (in Astonishing Tales). She has him defeated when Tigra lands feet-1st on her head and knocks her out.Tigra of course has promised to kill Pandemonium for the Cat-People, so that their king will settle the war between the human and cat souls within her by removing whichever she wants (see #6). But the villain grabs the dropped Amulet and vanishes in a puff of smoke.Bobbi Barton awakes and assumes she was attacked by a demon. Tigra says nothing to correct her. The others finally get there. And Thing at last agrees to be a Whacko (as he calls the WCA). Only Mockingbird sees Firebird's disappointment.


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The West Coast Avengers and Vision & Scarlet Witch have just defeated Grim Reaper & Ultron and their minions under the Rocky Mountains (#1-2 and V&SW#1-2), rescuing Wonder Man and Henry Pym. WM and Vizh have bonded as 'brothers', both being in their own ways Simon Williams. V&SW turn down an offer to join the team and choose to make their own way back to New Jersey and their own limited series.As the WCA fly their quinjet home and congratulate themselves on a good job Tigra exclaims that she didn't perform well. We get to see how Ultron escaped, which was only mentioned in V&SW#2. Tigra leapt on the robot and knocked him into a computer breaking it open. Ultron grabbed some loose cables to power himself up and get away.This has exacerbated her feelings of inadequacy, and she claims that the cat side of her personality is overtaking the human side and affecting her judgement. Iron Man tries to talk her down but she flares up at him, accusing him of being a part-time hero who can get others to take his place (ie James Rhodes). And she leaps out of the plane to land on a rooftop in Los Angeles. Hank Pym suggests it's best they leave her to sort  herself out - it worked for him.Tigra muses that she doesn't want to be a full human anymore, but she doesn't want to lose Greer Nelson completely. But her soul-searching is interrupted by a burglary at the African American Art Gallery. She's handling the thieves OK when their boss joins in - Kraven the Hunter.The 2 have history. They met in Marvel Chillers #4, and he reminds her that he caught her in Marvel Team-Up #67 and gave her a slave-collar that made her fight Spider-Man. Tigra claims that only Spidey stopped her from killing him then, but nothing will stop her now. But Kraven ends a brief fight with a tusk (rhino horn?) tipped with a drug that knocks her out.While the cat-woman kips we'll follow the rest of the team to WCA HQ. They've brought Goliath back with them, the only villain they managed to hold on to. They return him to the cell the others rescued him from in #1. Hank asks if he can stay to study Erik Josten to try to remove his Pym particle growing power. He also proposes that he could earn his keep looking after their machinery.Tony Stark thinks this is beneath the dignity of a founding Avenger. (But he's also uneasy about hanging around with a man who's ex-wife (Wasp) he dated soon after their divorce.) Henry replies that he doesn't want to be a superhero anymore but he is a scientist - and he misses being part of the Avengers. Hawkeye agrees, but wonders to Tony how Jan (still Wasp in the East Coast team) will react.Simon Williams has retired to his own bungalow and listens to a message from his theatrical agent. All his recent stunt man work has got him a spot on the Johnny Carson Show. Wondie rings back to accept, but muses that he has something special to say (which we'll find out about next issue).Husband and wife Hawkeye and Mockingbird take some time for themselves on the beach. But Clint Barton says he's thinking about Tigra. Bobbi understands and they head out to find her on their sky-cycle.And Henry Pym answers a telephone call which has only a mechanical noise. (More foreshadowing).Meanwhile Tigra has recovered and is tracking Kraven through the streets. A guy in a sports car offers her a lift. She declines but impulsively kisses him and tells him to ring the WCA compound some time. (As far as we know he never does.) And the trail leads her to Griffith Park.But Kraven is ready for her. Punji sticks shoot out of the ground, but Tigra leaps away. Kraven jumps on her from a tree, but she rips off his belt of poisoned horns. However he doesn't need weapons, and a nerve punch makes 1 leg go dead. But the cat still draws 1st blood.Just then Tigra spies the Bartons flying overhead and throws Kraven into a wood so their fight can continue hidden from view. Kraven still has some weapons as he throws darts at her - but only to drive her into a net trap which she shreds.Kraven is beginning to fear that Tigra is too strong for him. He throws another concealed weapon, a gourd full of a potion that will overwhelm her sense of smell. He then leaps through the trees expecting she won't be able to track him. But she is fast enough to keep him in sight, so he turns and fights. And Tigra realises that she fights better when she lets her cat instincts rule - thinking about it slows her down.In a watching crowd a man turns away. He was going to shoot Kraven but he can't be sure of not hitting Tigra. Justice will be served another day.Meanwhile the Hunter tags the cat-woman with another nerve punch and her whole body freezes. He breaks off a branch and makes to stab her in the throat with it.But the end of the fight was in the open, and Clint and Bobbi have spotted them. A rope arrow ties Kraven up and Mockingbird leaps from the sky-cycle to attack with her battlestaves. Kraven manages to dodge several blows but then 1 connects and it's all over.Tigra regains control of her body but she's not appreciative of the save. If she can't win her own battles then she deserves to die - and doesn't deserve to be an Avenger. But Mocky gives her the line that they all slip up sometime, and the team is their to cover each other's backs.Later at the Compound (when Tigra has washed off Kraven's smelly potion) they're sitting round the pool thinking about advertising for someone to make their number up to 6. Henry Pym (who doesn't count) goes to answer the doorbell and returns with the Thing. 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U, robot
A flashback shows what happened to the deactivated Ultron head Thing brought back from the Beyonder's Secret Wars Battleworld in Fantastic Four #277. Apparently he dropped it when Alicia Masters' apartment building collapsed. Now we see that a Red Cross worker found it and took it back to join her other souvenirs in *her*apt. There it merged with her TV and took control of her.In the present West Coast Avengers Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Tigra along with allies Firebird and Thing are with the Cat-People in the Land Within. Last issue the CP king agreed to help Tigra lose 1 of her conflicting personalities, human Greer Nelson and were-woman Tigra. He would prefer she kept Tigra but she wants to be Greer. He agreed she could keep whichever she wants. But what he and Tigra didn't tell her friends was that it would come at a price - she must kill the CP's enemy Master Pandemonium.Now the Cat-People throw a celebratory party, which Thing comments is almost as good as a bash Black Panther gave them in Wakanda (back after FF#53). Hawkeye has a nagging feeling something's wrong, and Firebird agrees because she senses the people are evil. She just wants to leave as soon as possible to continue *her* search for Master P. Hawkeye continues to try and persuade Ben Grimm to fill the 6th-place vacancy on their team, not noticing that Bonita Juarez is dying to be asked. Thing mentions about losing Ultron's head after Secret Wars, and Hawkeye says they've battled Ultron since then (#1-2 and Vision & Scarlet Witch #1-2).That's all we'll see of those folks this issue. Instead we follow Henry Pym, retired from superheroing but acting as the manager for the WCA Compound, as he meets with Ultron Mark Twelve again. He agrees to trust that Mark is sincere about wanting to put the evil Ultron behind him and become a 'son' to his creator Hank. They hug and Ultron takes him to see his secret lab in Silicon Valley.Back in flashbackland a computer geek teen male named Dave in Sunnyvale, California got a large box in the mail from the New York Red Cross Worker. Inside was the combo of TV and Ultron's head which made him drive to Ultimatum Inc which was where apparently the Beyonder grabbed him from for Secret Wars. Inside were many experimental Ultron bodies and the geek was forced to transplant the Ultron head to 1 of the bodies.Now Pym and Ultron-12 arrive at the same place by sky-cycle. The pair find that their lives are not dissimilar, including both being retired from being a superhero or supervillain, and Hank assures Mark that the robot had nothing to do with his divorce from Jan. Mark comments that non-powered Pym acted heroically against Grim Reaper (during the WCA/V&SW crossover when this Ultron was still a villain), but HP is still adamant about never donning a costume again.They enter the building and Mark goes off to switch the lights on. Hank sees all the Ultron parts lying around before Ultron suddenly attacks him. Pym fights back with a blaster in 1 of the Ultron arms, but he's no match for the robot ...... but then another Ultron attacks the 1st 1. It turns out that the evil 1 is Ultron-11 who we've seen journeying from Battleworld to here. Ultron 12 tells his 'father' to get away while he holds #11 back. #11 is appalled at the behaviour of his successor and rips his head off.  Then he drags Pym off to torture him. But #12's head is still functioning and calls its body to rejoin with it.Iron Man is still away recovering from werewolf injuries (#5) and the only other active WCAer not in the Land Within is Wonder Man. Simon Williams is acting in the film Arkon IV as the villain opposite Arnold Schwarzburger. He gets thrown into a pool of real crocodiles which Wonder Man of course survives. After the shoot Ultron-12 shows up with his head on backwards. It takes a while to convince Simon that he's now a good guy and he needs help to rescue Henry Pym from the bad guy Ultron-11. He plays on the fact that Simon recently admitted to having done bad stuff in the past.#11 has Hank trapped in a machine which is going to tear him apart when Wonder Man smashes through the wall. U-11 reminds WM that he was almost paralysed with fear when they clashed in Avengers #162 (when Ultron was U-8). But WM has overcome his self-doubt and can control his fear now (since his public confession) and he takes all that the robot can throw at him and literally throws it back. Then he breaks apart the adamantium skull to crush the 'brain' within.The weakened U-12 staggers into the room and collapses. Simon frees Hank who rushes to the side of his 'son' Mark. Mark says that his head was badly-connected to his body and the faulty connections have short-circuited, draining his power and fusing bits of his innards. He says there's nothing his father can do as he 'dies' in his arms. Simon suggests Henry Pym could rebuild the robot, but Hank says he couldn't even get Ultron-1 right and he'd most likely create another monster.As they fly home Hank talks about his relationship with Tigra. Simon knows he can't tell him that *he* has a relationship with her too, at least not while he's suffering from the loss of his son. They believe that at least there won't be any more Ultrons.But in an epilogue we see the computer geek Dave tinkering with an Ultron head.


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Tigra, Tigra, burning bright
Tigra is sparring with Hawkeye to prove that Greer Nelson can resist her cat persona and still use her cat abilities. After dodging many arrows she disproves the 2nd part by landing heavily. And then the 1st bit by attacking Clint Barton with unrestrained anger. Mockingbird tells her to stop and gets batted aside for her pains. It takes Iron Man and Wonder Man to drag her off. And Henry Pym to talk her down.Greer is dismayed at how easily her Tigra side resurfaced. Tony Stark hopes she's not going the same way as Quicksilver in the Annual they've just been through. Greer determines to prevent that. She activates her amulet to revert to her human form (or at least to look like that). She intends never to turn into Tigra again, and so she'll resign as an Avenger.Pym runs after her to tell Greer that this is a positive thing, not a disaster. She had a life before Tigra that she can return to, and that included being superheroine Cat without Tigra's powers. He gave up being Yellowjacket (or any of his other super-identities) because he realised superheroing wasn't for him. But Greer can still choose to be an Avenger if she wants. The overjoyed woman hugs Hank and declares her love for him.And it's just then that a horde of demons materialises, led by the demoness we saw last issue. She's after Henry but his allies will have to share his fate.Meanwhile Master Pandemonium broods in his hideaway about his failure to find the 'five' he seeks. His bird familiar Azmodeus emerges from the amulet of the same name MP wears on a necklace. and informs him of the demon invasion. Hoping 1 of the 5 might be among them he orders the bird to transport them there.Pandemonium recognises the leader as messenger demon Allatou but is confused as to why they are fighting his enemies the West Coast Avengers. Hank Pym can only assume the demons are after him because he was inquiring for MP last issue. The WCA assume they are working for MP and so aren't surprised when they see the villain in the air. But Allatou sees this as confirmation that HP is working for MP (who we learnt last issue she is hiding from).Hawkeye organises his forces. Wonder Man takes to the sky to face Master Panda-Bear, and Mockingbird connects her battlestaves to form a telescoping pole with which she vaults to join him. Hank takes Greer to safety. Iron Man tackles the demons while Clint duels with Allatou. But the demoness has another idea - she grabs Henry (and Greer) and vanishes with them. Her demons go with her. Pandy is angry that the WCA have stopped him from capturing her and he and Azmodeus do their own vanishing trick.Tony thinks they should call in Dr Strange. But Clint says he knows some specialists in demon-fighting much closer. (I'd guess this is also a continuing part of his desire not to involve East Coast heroes.) The team take a quinjet from Los Angeles to San Francisco ........ where we find Daimon (former Son Of Satan and Defender) and Patsy Hellstrom (former Avenger and Defender) out for a stroll. We learn that they are now an Occult Investigation team. They get home to their brownstone to find the WCA on their steps. Patsy greets old friend Iron Man and idol Hawkeye, who introduces her to his wife Mockingbird. Barton explains about his new team and completes the intros with Wonder Man.Daimon detects that the Avengers are here for their expertise, and they get straight down to business inside. He has heard of Master Pandemonium but didn't know he got his powers from Mephisto (which Mocky learned in #9). (There is then a digression about how Satan, Satannish, Mephisto, Thog, Baphomet, Lucifer, etc are all manifestations of the same being but are at the same time independent entities. And they all rule different 'Hells'.)Daimon Hellstrom has met Allatou before (Marvel Spotlight #18-19). She was a servant of Satan who possessed people to try to kill Daimon to curry favour with her master. So he knows how to take them to her base in the relevant Hell.The couple excuse themselves for a short while and return in costumes. Patsy is still Hellcat but Daimon has a new costume and super-name - Hellstorm. They use these id's to keep their action-activities separate from their public Occult Investigation roles.Iron Man remembers being there (Av#144) when Patsy Walker found and donned the Cat super-suit that was originally worn by Greer Nelson (in the short Cat series) before she became Tigra. Patsy says that even though she 'retired' from the Avengers and Defenders and married Daimon she still wanted to be a superheroine as much as ever.Hellstorm cuts all the chat short and mystically transports them all to Allatou's realm. But Master P and Azmodeus smash through a window and follow them.Meanwhile Allatou has Greer and Hank in a magic cage. She's finally accepted that Pym doesn't work for MP, and wasn't seeking her when (last issue) he 'invaded' the occult bookshop that was her Earthly abode. But she's still going to torture and kill them anyway. Henry tries to bargain for Greer's freedom by offering to help Allatou find MP. But she actually wants to keep out of his way because he's so dangerous, and she's been desperately increasing her own power in hell in case he does find her.Allatou sends her demons to torment the pair in their cage. (In fact all they do is reach for them but never touch them.) The duo profess their love for each other, and then Greer tries to use the amulet to turn back to Tigra in order to save Henry. But it doesn't work. And she panics with the idea that Hell torments you with your worst fear - and so her worst fear must be being stuck as Greer!Then the WCA and occult helpers arrive closely followed by MP&A. While the WCA fight the demons, Daimon Hellstrom and Azmodeus recognise each other (by reputation) and take each other on. Meanwhile flying Pandy demands to know if Allatou is 1 of the 5. But he's not prepared for Hellcat's physical attack as she shoots out her claw line and swings on it to kick him in the gut. Patsy is aware that the original Cat Greer Nelson is watching her every move.Allatou rates Wonder Man as the most dangerous opponent of her demons and tries to possess him to turn him against the others. But his ionic body is unpossessable and she is repelled in agony. Master P cheers this even as Hellcat has a hold on him. But she's surprised when he sheds his arms and legs as 4 demons, and she loses her hold on his diminished body. Hawkeye saves her from a fall with an arrow line.Meanwhile it's demons vs demons as MP's crew protect Mockingbird before returning to their master. Hellstorm recognises an uneasy alliance and switches his target to Allatou. But she controls her realm and causes the ground with all the humans on to split off and plummet down a steep slope.Strangely they land on a boat on a dark river. Azmodeus follows them because MP is with them. Greer and Henry's cage fades away. But all is still not well. 1 of Allatou's demons is on the boat with them. Hellstorm sends him flying off the boat into the air, where he bursts into flame.Daimon explains that this is the River of Death that winds through the Hells. No-one can leave the boat alive and it can't be controlled. Allatou laughs as they drift away.


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We open on San Francisco''s Golden Gate Bridge as Tigra dives into the strait - and joyfully survives the usually-suicidal plunge. Henry Pym helps her onto Daimon & Patsy Hellstrom''s boat Hell''s Belle and we learn she did it to prove that her now-merged cat/human personality no longer fears water. And she survived because of her increased strength.Suddenly they see Harbour Patrol boats racing towards them, and they expect Tigra to be told off for the dive. But it transpires that they''re after someone else who speeds through the water ahead of them. Daimon turns the boat to intercept and Patsy (wearing her ability-enhancing Hellcat costume in case Tigra needed rescuing) fires a claw-line to hook the fish - who turns out to be the villainous Tiger Shark.The amphibious villain attacks Hellcat until Tigra leaps on his back and distracts his attention. Leaping away she complains about nominative determinism - she fought Leo of Zodiac in Annual #1 and then got involved with Hellcat and the Cat-People in the last 2 issues, and now Tiger Shark. His response is to break the mast she clinging to.The cat-heroines have to fight TS on their own. Hellstorm hasn''t got his trident, his spells only work against supernatural opponents, and he''s too busy controlling the tiller to fight physically. And Henry Pym is too busy stopping being thrown overboard.But the women both have the same idea and rip rents in Shark''s costume. It keeps his body soaked in water, and without that he can''t survive long in air. Then they wrap him up in HC''s claw-line and Tigra''s tail and hand him over to the harbour police.Tiger Shark taunts Hank Pym as he''s taken away that he was 1 of the group that destroyed him. HP replies that they may have ended Yellowjacket''s career but Henry Pym is still going strong. Daimon Hellstrom doesn''t know what he''s talking about so Hank gives him (and us) a potted review of his downfall.He was was making a mess of the superhero career that he now knows he wasn''t cut out for. In his frustration he struck his wife Jan/Wasp (Av#213). Trying to prove his worth to the Avengers YJ struck down not-really-evil Elfqueen from behind when she was trying to surrender (#212). The team convened a court-martial which YJ arranged to be interrupted by a robot that only he could defeat - but it all went wrong and he was dismissed from the Avengers (#213 again). And Jan divorced him in #217.Hank''s old enemy Egghead convinced Hank he''d reformed and gave him a science job. But it was all a plot to get his nemesis apparently guilty of a crime and arrested (#217 again). Then Egghead''s Masters Of Evil ''rescued'' HP from his trial in #228 making it seem like he was their partner. Egghead wanted Henry to really work for him on evil science and Hank strung him along until he could turn the tables and prove his innocence while the Avengers fought the MOE (#229). Then in #230 he relinquished all his super-ids and returned to being a scientist.Later he realised his heart was still with the Avengers even though he didn''t want to be a superhero. So he joined the West Coast Avengers in a support role.The harbour patrol seem to have hung around with Tiger Shark to listen to all this. Hank turns back to the villain and asks if he and the other Masters Of Evil have done as well. Is he still pals with Moonstone, Shocker, Whirlwind, ... ? At the mention of Whirlwind TS rants that his ''partner'' has betrayed him - he was supposed to create a diversion while Shark escaped with their loot.The Hellstroms'' de-masted boat is presumably towed back to shore. The quartet return to the Hellstrom brownstone which is also the offices of their Paranormal Investigation business. Patsy jokes about rejoining the Avengers but everyone knows Hellcat and Hellstorm are a team with their own speciality. And the duo disappear upstairs leaving Hank and Tigra alone for a while.The pair''s relationship reminds Henry Pym of himself and Jan in the past, but he''s glad he''s got a new thing going with Tigra. But she wants to talk to him about that. The bottom falls out of his world as she explains that it was Greer Nelson who fell in love with him and the cat-Tigra personality just flirted with anybody. Now both sides are integrated she''s no longer so promiscuous, but she also doesn''t want a serious relationship. She wants them to remain friends and she thinks he''s a nice man, and she doesn''t rule out a deeper relationship in time.When Tigra has left the room Hank explodes. He lost Jan''s love and gave up being a hero, and now all he''s got left is ''nice''! Greer loved him but now she''s become someone else who doesn''t. It''s the kind of thing that happens in the superhero world. He should never have come back into it to work for the West Coast Avengers!But then he forces himself to calm down. He doesn''t want another breakdown. (His actions in Av#213-217 are considered a breakdown. Also I think his schizophrenic creation of an alternate personality (the 1st Yellowjacket) in Av#59-60 counts.) He doesn''t want to go the way of Quicksilver (in Annual #1).Now we look in on the rest of the WCA in the Los Angeles Compound. They are preparing to celebrate last issue''s success with Simon Williams'' spaghetti dish rather than Clint Barton''s usual barbecue. Tony Stark is impressed with how Hank runs the HQ for them, but he still thinks it''s a shame he doesn''t want to be a superhero again. Clint suggests they go see if Firebird would like to join them - he figures she''s had enough time (since #10) to sort herself out. Bobbi Barton always wanted her in the team, so they all agree to seek her out when Hank and Tigra get back from their SanFran break.But rather than heading home Henry Pym suggests to Tigra and his hosts that they track down Whirlwind. He was Hank''s major recurring foe in the Giant-Man days and Pym figures he knows all his moves and weaknesses. He proposes they lure WW into the enclosed space of the financial district where he can''t get up to speed, and then Hellcat and Tigra can catch him. Daimon contacts police friends to learn what the villains were after and get their cooperation.That night Whirlwind watches the police guarding a device called a psycho-circuit as it is transferred to a lorry. He ducked into hiding earlier when Tiger Shark was being chased, and now he can have the psycho-circuit all to himself. He grabs it and whirls out of the cops'' grasps. But he finds his escape cut off by roadblocks on every road. This is all part of Pym''s plan.He runs into the 2 cat-heroines but easily whirls them off. But they made him drop the device, and now Hellcat takes it out of his reach while Tigra cuts the buzzsaws off his wrists. But then she has to dodge more spinning blades that he throws at her.But now Davey Cannon escapes by running up the side of a building, coincidentally the 1 with HP on top where he''s been directing the battle. The ladies start climbing the walls to reach him. Whirlwind taunts Pym about giving up his superhero career, and letting others use his hero-names and size-changing powers. He''s ashamed to have Henry as his main opponent. Hank loses it and dives at the villain - who sidesteps letting Pym plummet off the edge of the roof.Hellcat swings from another building on her claw-line to catch him. While Tigra grabs Whirlwind and threatens to disembowel him if he moves. But what Cannon said still stings Pym.Next morning Greer and Hank prepare to return to the WCA. They take a last look at the Golden Gate Bridge. Tigra can''t imagine why anyone would want to commit suicide by jumping off it. She doesn''t see Henry''s anguished face as he comments that they must have nothing left to live for.


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The splash page this issue mentions 7 separate times connected to it:- Mockingbird is in the 1876 Old West chasing Phantom Rider. The rest of the West Coast Avengers are trapped in 2940 BC Egypt. In the present Henry Pym and Espirita have teamed up with Moon Knight and the Fantastic Four to rescue them. Various actors have just left 2940 BC:- The FF return to FF#19. Rama-Tut meets Dr Doom in FF Annual #2. Dr Strange returns to DrS(1974)#53. The 7th slot is filled by the Egyptian god Khonshu who exists in ''cosmic no-time''.In the present HP (now going by the non-superhero codename Dr Pym), Espirita and Moon Knight have flown from Los Angeles to New York even though Mr Fantastic told them last issue that the FF''s time machine has just been trashed by Dominus and his minions. MK had alerted Bonita Juarez/Espirita/ex-Firebird to the message Hawkeye had left in 1776 in her family Bible - saying that the WCA are trapped in the past but they hope to meet the FF in Rama-Tut''s Egypt. (Marc Spector doesn''t explain that Khonshu told him this after meeting Hawkeye back in 2940 BC.)Thing greets Hank and Bonita who he knows from when he was toying with the idea of joining the WCA. They bring him up-to-date with what''s happened since he left in #10:- Bonita has changed from Firebird to Espirita, but neither she nor anyone else has joined since then (despite what it said about Dr Pym and Moon Knight on the cover of #21).Reed Richards and Henry Pym join forces to fix the time machine while young Franklin Richards pets Pym''s new semi-sentient flying car Rover (which Espirita helped him build after restoring his faith in his robotics skills). Thing brings them some very large machinery, which he drops when he trips over some of the debris from Dominus'' attack. Before Sue Richards can raise her forcefield Hank whips out a miniaturised brace and expands it to hold the device up - demonstrating his other new idea.Back in 2940 BC the WCA are battling Egyptian warriors again. The locals aren''t happy that Rama-Tut has gone - he was a dictator but he made them powerful with his weapons from the future (which seem to have been destroyed along with all his other tech). Hawkeye doesn''t really want to fight the natives so he orders a retreat to Khonshu''s temple. Wonder Man wants to stay and fight. Iron Man''s irritation boils over with Simon Williams'' movie-star ego, but Tigra steps between them.The priests of Khonshu let them in and then bar the door against the soldiers. Hawkeye apologises for not fulfilling his promise to get rid of RT - it was the FF he ran from. But the blind head priest doesn''t agree. His view (via Khonshu) of last issue is that the WCA fighting Tut''s robots gave Dr Strange time to escape in his astral body before they sealed his physical body in a sarcophagus. Then he (in DrS#53) caused Thing to revert to Ben Grimm so he could slip out of his chains and free his teammates. Which is why Rama ran.Clint Barton decides to make some weapons for Khonshu''s supporters, out of ivory supplied by the priests. He can''t teach them archery quickly, but he can provide them with boomerangs, darts and throwing irons. Khonshu''s statue looks on.In the present while the scientists work Marc Spector reviews his origin. He was a mercenary who ended up fatally wounded in the Egyptian desert and being taken in by priests of Khonshu. He died but was resurrected by Khonshu to become his agent of vengeance. As well as becoming Moon Knight he invented other identities Jake Lockley and Steven Grant to move in different levels of society. (All this is described in MK v1 #1) But the multiple identities drove him insane, so he gave it all up (MK v1 #38).However something drew him back to the temple of Khonshu again where he was brought to a secret inner sanctum called the House of Eternity. The priests told him he was the long-destined warrior of Khonshu and he took up the role again. They gave him ancient weapons - ivory boomerangs, darts and throwing irons. (MK v2 #1)Now we turn to 1876 where Mockingbird has gone to the Indian''s sacred peak which figured in the origin of (the original - Lincoln Slade''s brother Carter) Phantom Rider, because that''s where she knows he will have run to. She''s out for revenge for what he did to her:- Kidnapped her from husband Clint as the WCA left by 1-way time machine. Drugged her so she forgot about Clint and fell in love with Lincoln. And between the Comics Code-approved lines raped her while she was under the influence.PR tries his spook tricks on her, in this case appearing to float in the air beyond the edge of a cliff. But she knows his methods - the floating body is only a projection, and she strikes with her battlestave-pole at where she sense he really is. As they struggle Slade continues with the fiction that he''s really a ghost - Bobbi Barton must be his, and if she won''t love him in life she can join him as a ghost.But the fight ends with him slipping off the cliff and clinging to the edge, pleading with Barbara to pull him up. And when she just stands there he orders her to do it. But MB continues to watch as he loses his grip and plunges to his death.In the present Ben Grimm chats with Bonita Juarez. He learns that the deeply religious girl has decided that her powers are a gift from God, and her new identity Espirita reflects that. Also she won''t be staying with the WCA long.In turn Thing updates her with what''s happened to him since he left the WCA because of mutating:- Mole Man stopped the mutation in FF#296 (in fact he seems to have reversed it) and Ben rejoined his old team. He admits to still being uncomfortable around the couple of Johnny Storm and Thing''s old flame Alicia Masters.Henry and Reed have repaired the time platform. The FF offer to go rescue the WCA, but Pym insists that it''s up to him and Espirita as WCA associates. However Moon Knight insists on going too - his identity gives him a stake in this. (The writer makes) the FF agree, and the platform rises to transport them back in time.In 2940 BC Hawkeye has created the prototype weapons. The priests thank him - they won''t actually use them but they have a prophesy of someone who will.Just then the time platform appears and sinks to reveal the 3 travellers. There is much jubilation as friends are reunited. But MK is astonished to see the same priests as he met in the temple of Khonsu thousands of years in the future. They welcome him to the House of Eternity. They explain how Khonshu ensured Hawkeye''s message got to Bonita. And in return Hawkeye has created the weapons that MK uses as the Fist of Khonshu.But now the team have to go rescue Hawkeye''s wife.In 1876 Comanches and their medicine man Flaming Star take Phantom Rider''s body for cremation, but FS prophesies that he will return. This worries Bobbi a bit because the Ghost Rider in #8 claimed to be Lincoln''s ghost.But her fears vanish when Hawkeye and the rest ride up alongside Rawhide Kid and Two-Gun Kid. The lovers reunite, and then Clint demands to know where Phantom Rider is. Bobbi tells her husband he committed suicide.And then they all return to the present, to deal with Dominus who started all this in #17.


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Ins and outs
Hawkeye calls a team meeting to tell Wonder Man off for ruining the team's image by confessing to embezzlement on TV last issue. Tigra bites back that Hawkeye himself was originally a crook. As his original foe Iron Man protests that he was just misled by Black Widow, who was then a Russian spy. Mockingbird sides with Clint Barton, but she later says it was only because he's her husband.Firebird, Henry Pym and Thing are excluded from the meeting but can hear every shouted word. Bonita Juarez has recovered from her fight with Master Pandemonium last issue and is just waiting to thank the team for their hospitality before leaving. Hank comments on her being the 1st Hispanic superhero, and she says she takes being a role model seriously.The press besiege the West Coast Avengers Compound until the team come out to give a statement. Hawkeye says they stand behind Simon Williams' courageous confession, and hope that the people will take into account his later good deeds and forgive his 'youthful mistake'. WM says he's willing to take whatever punishment he's given.Tigra follows him down to the beach where he tells her Hawkeye was right to criticise him for not consulting the team before his action. But the cat-woman is more interested in having the romantic encounter they missed out on last night.In private Bobbi Barton tells Clint he was wrong. This triggers off a marital spat where Mocky thinks it was a mistake to become her husband's teammate, and Hawkeye agrees with her.Firebird and Thing say they're leaving. She's going to hunt for Master Pandemonium. Thing is going back to his wrestling gig. He gives her a lift in his (repaired since last issue) 3-seater motorbike. On the way Ben Grimm explains that if he was to join any team it would be the WCA, but don't tell 'Cockeye' that. And Juanita wishes they'd ask her.Bobbi is on the beach fuming when Tigra rushes up agitated. She says the cat side of her personality just made her sexually attack Simon. She reminds Mockingbird that she promised to help solve the problem. Bobbi says she'll go search the Avengers' database now.Tony Stark finally gets round to apologising to Hank Pym about dating Jan Van Dyne soon after their divorce and while Henry was in prison. This has been eating at him since Av#224. But Pym just brushes it off.But then Henry gets another threatening phone call from Ultron Mark 12 which he takes in private. And tells his 'son' where to get off.And then Tigra rushes in and is all over him. She made up to him in #1 but since then he's backed off because she seemed interested in Simon. But she says Simon's all brawn and she prefers brains. They make out on a couch while oblivious and happy Wonder Man walks past the window.Hawkeye consults with Iron Man, the only person who seems to think he was right about Simon. It's a basic Avengers rule that the members are all entitled to their private lives, but they should consider the group as well. Stark checks up on news reports, which indicate that public opinion is swinging in Simon's favour.Bobbi joins them with news for Tigra who she can't find in her bungalow. She and 'Hawkypoo' kiss and make up. Tigra arrives holding hands with Hank, but lets go when Simon appears too.Mocky summarises her research (for us really). Tigra wants to get rid of the cat side of her personality. Greer Grant Nelson was turned into Tigra (Giant-Size Creatures #1) by the Cat People to save her life after a battle with Hydra which later involved a werewolf. Hydra are difficult to find but the ex-Spider-Woman Jessica Drew met a werewolf named Jack Russell (in SW#6), and his address in Los Angeles is on file. Maybe he'll have some useful info. (Iron Man correctly wonders if it's the same werewolf he fought (in Werewolf By Night #42-43).)Tigra licks her fur and strangely says she's not that interested really. She whispers to Bobbi not to tell anyone about her and Simon. The team head off leaving Henry in charge of the base.Thing drops Firebird off at a mystic bookshop lit by candles. As she enters Juanita draws all the flames to her, and the proprietor finds he can't relight them. Then she manifests her bird energy form and asks the frightened man what he knows about Master Pandemonium. He denies all knowledge but says if she wants to know about demons she should consult the Darkhold. He doesn't have a copy of such a rare book but he's heard that Jack Russell does. (An editorial comment says that Dr Strange now has it since DS#62.)When the WCA knock on Russell's apartment door it's answered by Michael Morbius. Hawkeye reacts by nocking a silver arrow. But Morbius says he's been cured, and anyway he was never a supernatural vampire so silver wouldn't have worked on him - he had a disease which made him act like a vampire.Now Jack Russell is consulting him about his werewolf problem, but he hasn't been able to find a scientific cure. Most nights Jack can transform to a wolf at will and remain in control. But on the nights around the full moon, like tonight, he loses control. So he is currently shut behind the heavy door which Tigra is sniffing at ...... and which is suddenly shattered as the wolf bursts through and grabs her, carrying her though a window. Morbius is confused because the wolf allegedly liked Tigra when he met her (in GSCr#1). He says the wolf is worse than he's ever seen, and more vicious than the recent fight with Moon Knight he's heard about (MK#29-30).Iron Man and Wonder Man carry the other 3 down to the pavement where Tigra is doing quite well against her foe (who is more amorous than angry). IM gets some repulsor blasts in, but then the werewolf gets his claws through his eye and mouth slits. The slits auto-close on the fingers which makes the wolf howl with pain ...... and leap away spoiling Hawkeye's aim with his only silver arrow. The werewolf still reacts by leaping at the archer so Mockingbird interposes herself and gets in some telling blows with her battlestaves. And Wondie knocks him down.Iron Man is out of the fight as he flies away to check on the damage to his face where the crowd can't see when he takes his helmet off. Hawkeye fires a fire arrow and the beast runs off aflame. WM tackles him and hits him again. And sympathetic Tigra urges him to run away - saying she doesn't love him.But then Firebird appears in the sky and rings the wolf with fire. Simon Williams hits the wolf down for the count. And the crowd cheer him. But Tigra's not so happy. And IM returns to say he'll needs some stitches but he should be OK.When Juanita and the WCA compare notes they discover that they were after the same person, and FB is amazed to find that he's a werewolf. But when Morbius hears that the Avengers are after info on the Cat People he reveals that he's met them before. And he says that Jack Russell doesn't remember anything of his encounter with them because he was in full wolf mode at the time. So next issue they'll be using Morbius' help to contact the Cats.Meanwhile Henry Pym gets another phone call from Ultron-12 who says he's realised that his anger against his maker was immature, and now he wants to have a real father-son relationship.


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Our characters are now split across 3 different times. Hawkeye, Iron Man, Tigra and Wonder Man are travelling by time machine from 1876 to 1776. Just as they were leaving, Phantom Rider KO'd Mockingbird and took her from the time platform. And in the present La Espirita has persuaded Henry Pym not to commit suicide.The WCA are travelling back in time via Dr Doom's time platform which is damaged so that it can only travel backwards. Their eventual target is ancient Egypt where they hope the time-travelling Rama-Tut will be able to get them back to the present. But Simon Williams moved them back 100 years to test that he could make it work accurately.But of course Clint Barton is now desperate to go back and rescue his wife. However their only option is to continue with their plan. Tigra reassures him that Rawhide Kid and Two-Gun Kid will be looking for Bobbi. Wonder Man's response is to offer to take over as leader to ease the strain on Hawkeye, but Clint turns him down. And Tony Stark sees this as another example of Simon's enlarged ego.Tigra wonders how they can check what year it is. They discovered last issue that the platform travels in time to the same place. (It used to be able to travel in space too, but this is another aspect of it being broken.) But there's only desert around them because nearby Tombstone hasn't been built yet.A clue that they may be in the right time ballpark is that they are now accosted by Spanish-speaking soldiers on horseback who want to know what the strangely-dressed English-speakers are doing in their territory.In his secret cave hideout in 1876 Phantom Rider feeds the unconscious Mockingbird who he calls a goddess an Indian herbal potion. While he waits for her to wake he recalls his origin.A Comanche medicine man saw a shooting star and took it as a sign to rename himself Flaming Star. But a voice spoke to him and told him to gather dust from the meteor and keep it until he found a champion.Later another Comanche found Carter Slade dying in the desert and took him to Flaming Star to heal his wounds. When Slade recovered against the odds FS took this as another sign. He gave CS the sacred dust and the white stallion Banshee and told him he owed it to the spirits to become the Ghost/Night/Phantom Rider.Carter created a white costume and cape coated with the reflective dust, but left the inside of the cloak uncoated. The costume and cloak would be invisible where there was no light, and the dark inside of the cloak could be used to hide inside. Thus he could appear and disappear at will - fostering the illusion that he was a ghost. He also affected a sepulchral voice to strike fear in the bad guys.His exploits were described in Ghost Rider #1-7 and Western Gunfighters #1-7 with Avengers #142-143 thrown in. In WG#6 he came to help his brother Marshal Lincoln Slade but got buried in a collapsing mine. In WG#7 Lincoln dug GR out and found him dying. GR revealed his identity and died, and his brother took up the role. But then no more adventures were published.Now Lincoln says that the spirits of the night have consumed his life so that he fears the man he was no longer exists. But when he saw Mockingbird he knew that she was the 1 to bring back the man. As she stirs he kneels and says "I love you". The potion he gave her has taken effect. Bobbi Barton has lost her memory, but replies "I love you too".In our 3rd strand Bonita Juarez tells Henry Pym he needs a purpose in life based on his unique scientific talents, and his discovery the size-changing Pym-particles. He protests that his superhero life as Ant-Man or Goliath is over - changing size would kill him. Bonita is glad to see he's no longer suicidal, and asks him to tell her about the particles.He explains that he ingested them as a gas or liquid and they gave his body a special property that he could mentally control. To shrink they siphoned part of his mass to another dimension. To grow they brought extra mass from that dimension. As it happened he retained his normal strength when he shrank but gained strength when he grew. Over the years his body retained enough particles that he no longer needed to take more. But eventually the strain became too much.La Espirita asks what the Pym particles can do for an ant she has found. Hank takes a growth serum he recreated while studying the criminal Goliath who had also gained the size-changing ability (#1 on) and pours some on the ant which grows to more than human size. He quickly administers a shrinking serum returning it to normal, except it dies. Bonita wonders how else to use the serums.Back in 1776 the WCA make short but humane work of the soldiers. But when overconfident Wonder Man grabs their powder horns and crushes them the resulting explosion badly burns Hawkeye's face and arm. Iron Man assumes charge and flies away with Clint and Tigra, telling Simon to follow with the time machine. Competitive WM isn't happy.They fly a long way so that soldiers won't find them, until they come across a large cave. Simon has an idea - use the time machine to go back an hour and fly away before the soldiers arrive. Tony Stark doesn't point out that this makes no sense (Clint will still be injured). Instead he goes into a spiel about minimising possible changes to the timestream. (He seems to believe that things that happen by accident are things that (may?) already exist in their past, but if they make a deliberate change then that won't be true.)Then another 'accident' happens as a woman enters the cave.In 1876 Lincoln and Barbara are chatting. She can't remember how she hurt her jaw. But then Slade sees that Rawhide Kid has tracked him to the cave and is here with Two-Gun Kid. They comment that they've never known anything about the man who pretends to be a ghost, and so they've never been able to trust him completely - but he has helped them in the past (including Av#142-143 but that was Carter Slade - they presumably don't know about 2 different PRs).Phantom Rider comes out to warn them off but they just ask for MB back. PR says he can't do that and starts to fight them with his ghost-tricks - including making his head seem to disappear and dodging it aside when TGK tries to hit where it should be. But the 2 cowboy heroes manage to grab him - but then Mockingbird comes to the rescue (and she's not forgotten how to use her battlestaves). The confused heroes are now easily beaten.And Lincoln suggests they leave the discovered cave and hide in his civilian identity of Marshall Slade.In 1776 the woman announces herself as Carlotta Valdez (in English her Aunt made her study). She saw the fight from a distant ridge and followed them here on her horse. She has cream for sunburn which might help the burned man. And the reason she is helping them is that she craves excitement which is why she is riding her horse Escarlata without her chaperone. And as if to prove her boldness she rips off part of her petticoat as a bandage and sling for the burned arm.Hawkeye picks up on the name Escarlata which he remembers from Firebird's vision in #6. As a crosscheck he asks if she can fire a pistol and if she is going to San Luis Obispo. Yes to both, and the 2nd 1 next month. And Clint knows the vision says she will be shot in the back on the way.On an hunch he asks Carlotta if she ever dreams about being someone else. She says yes, but 2 different people. She draws pictures in the sand. 1 is the Firebird costume. The other is the angelic raiment of La Espirita which these WCA have never seen before.Hawkeye has a wild idea for which he needs a small square of the petticoat. He takes the head of an inkjet(?) arrow and uses the contents to write a message on it:- "Bonita. We are lost in time. Contact FF. Tell them we're trying for RamaTut's Egypt. Hawkeye." He asks Carlotta to pass this message on to future generations until someone claims it. Put it somewhere safe, like the family Bible.As she leaves Clint makes a small attempt to save her life - he suggests she doesn't have to go to Obispo. But she says it will be exciting with her uncle there. As a last stab he warns her to watch her back.Tigra is angry that he didn't tell her what would happen, but Hawkeye agrees with Iron Man's earlier advice that they mustn't deliberately change the past.So they prepare to fly to Egypt so the time platform can take back to the right place as well as the right time.In 1876 Lincoln and Bobbi are in PR's cave packing up his things on Banshee. And Mockingbird finds something which looks strangely familiar. Something makes her keep it.  We see it's the empty inkjet arrowhead Clint discarded in the cave in 1776, which is coincidentally the same 1.And in the present Bonita and Hank prepare to share a meal. Bonita mentions in passing the family Bible she brought with her which we see on a table. With the petticoat message sticking out of it.


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Madame Masque is celebrating with (at least some of) her gang trapping the West Coast Avengers in an abandoned funfair. (We confirmed Eel and Satana last issue but we now learn that MODOK (who was masquerading as BRODOK in the 1st story arc) is in the gang too.) She says that the aim of the exercise is *not* to kill them (which would bring revenge from other superheroes) but to break their spirits so they give up. It appears that the other villains are actually auditioning for places in her gang by the creativity of their methods. And apparently there are others including Lady Bullseye looking for the missing WCAer Hawkeye (Kate Bishop). The team minus Kate but plus Ramone Watts (sister of Fuse (Johnny Watts) and girlfriend of America Chavez) are suspended in wooden cages above a pool with sharks in.Kate herself was rescued by her mother Eleanor Bishop. But Kate is suspicious because her mother died years ago, so she surreptitiously plants a tracker on her 'mom'. She detects someone following them through tunnels beneath the fair. She fires off an arrow and gets some shuriken in reply, 1 of which slices her shoulder. But a flash arrow blinds her foe and exposes her as Lady Bullseye. And then an explosive arrow knocks her out. Kate takes a quiver of arrows from the unconscious Bullseye, and also some earplugs she notices in her ears.Eleanor leads her daughter up to the surface outside the funfair, but then says she has to return before the rest of the villain gang get suspicious. But Kate says she's going back in to rescue her teammates. Mom tries to dissuade her but Hawkeye is adamant. On the way in she notices the return of a headache she had inside (as did many of the other WCAers). She puts the earplugs in and the headache disappears.Back inside Gwenpool and Kid Omega have been dumped in the pool. A shark approaches but Gwen Poole punches it in the nose while Quentin Quire tries to think of a more permanent solution. Then Satana opens the trapdoor under Ramone to add her to the mix. Brother Johnny normally needs to be touching something in order to be able to transform into its substance, but now he concentrates hard and turns to water so he can drain out of his cage and reform himself in the pool. There are now 4 of them in the pool with the sharks but Quire has worked out a plan. Warning Gwen to catch him when he passes out Kid Omega concentrates his (diminished) mental abilities and expels all the water and the sharks from the pool.A tender moment between Gwen and Quentin is cut short by the arrival of more sharks - the 4-legged land sharks from #1. But Hawkeye (Clint Barton) has been busy constructing a slingshot out of strips of his costume, and taking bolts from the metal bars of his cage to use as projectiles. Now he fires 1 straight through the head of the 1st land shark. America, the only other person left in a cage, asks for some bolts she can throw. She may not have as good an aim but when she connects the sharks will certainly feel it.We break off for a little interlude with Kate who gets soaked by a sudden flash flood down the tunnel she's in. (Well the water from the pool had to go somewhere. Luckily for her it doesn't contain any sharks.) But then the mystery figure from the cover shows up and kicks her in the head.Back in the control room Satana is tired of watching the land sharks chase our folks around. We get confirmation that they belong to MODOK (and therefore they *were* part of BRODOK's army in #1). Then Lady Bullseye staggers in to complain that Kate Bishop beat her up. Madame Masque says that another male member of their gang will take care of *her*.And Kate wakes up, gathers her weapons and then finds herself facing her ex-boyfriend Noh-Varr/Marvel Boy.


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We begin with a Reality TV interview that actually isn't a flashforward or flashback. Quentin Quire is waiting for Gwen Poole who is doing something with Ramone Watts. Gwen's pet baby land shark Jeff jumps on his lap. And all this waiting around is happening while they're supposed to be going to the aid of the rest of the team in the Temple Of The Shifting Sun.In the Temple the suspected Skrulls have turned out to be vampires. They've thrown Fuse (Johnny Watts) and the Kree Noh-Varr into a pit. Noh makes use of his cockroach DNA stick-to-walls ability to climb the side of the pit, but he falls back down when he reaches the electrified top.The Hawkeye's (Clint Barton and Kate Bishop) are chained to a wall upside down by their ankles alongside other victims. Kate was captured with boyfriend Johnny and ex-boyfriend Noh-Varr when they tried to infiltrate the Cult Of The Shifting Sun as prospective members. Clint explains that his image-inducer cover as Wonder Man was blown when the real deal appeared on live TV elsewhere.Kate says she has some bomb-y pins (little bombs that look like bobby pins) in her boot. As they formulate an escape plan the team's strongest member America Chavez is brought in. She's out of it and gets chained (the right way up by the wrists) to the Cult's altar.Meanwhile Gwenpool has gone to see Ramone in her surf shop, and is surprised to see her holding a spear. Ramone says she's coming with Gwen and Quentin on the mission to rescue her brother Johnny and her girlfriend America. She tells Gwen that her mother Zobae was 1 of the Dora Milaje, female Wakandan warriors dedicated to protect their King. But she left in undisclosed circumstances and came with the spear to California and bore her 2 children. She died some years later but left them some vibranium rings. I don't know that the vibranium gave Johnny his power to change into any substance he touches, but the rings he wears allow him to use that ability to become vibranium whenever he wants to.But when Ramone touched a ring it started to painfully turn her to vibranium against her will. She dropped the ring and returned to flesh apart from a small patch on her chest. Now she intends to let the ring transform her completely, because whatever could capture people like America, Clint, Kate and Noh-Varr means they're going to need all the help they can get to beat them.Before she puts the ring on she gets Gwen to promise to kill her if it goes badly. Then the ring transforms her into seemingly herself in white body armour. But the ring has gone so she won't be able to change back. They go to join Quentin (and Jeff) who is impressed with the transformation.An hour later Kate's mom Eleanor Bishop is leading them through an underground tunnel to the Cult's HQ. She knows the way because she was liaison between the Cult and Madame Masque's gang. Our friends still think the villains are Skrulls, and are mighty shocked when Eleanor tells them they're vampires. She explains that they are awaiting a prophesied being whose blood will allow them to become Daywalkers, vamps who can survive in sunlight - hence the Shifting Sun.In the pit Fuse has an idea. He transforms himself to vibranium, and super-strong Noh hurls him up to the ceiling where he causes the electrical trap to explode. Outside the pit he starts to look for a rope to lower down to Noh. But then Kid Omega and friends arrive, and Quentin uses his TK to float Noh-Varr up to the surface. Johnny is unhappy about what his sister has done, but Ramone says it doesn't hurt - much. Eleanor Bishop leads them to the sound of fighting ahead ...... where the Hawkeye's are punching vampires. (They have their bows but have run out of arrows.) The new arrivals join in the punching, and Kid Omega does TK stuff while Gwenpool uses her swords and Jeff adds his bite. Mrs Bishop goes to unchain America. But as Kate moves to help her she sees her mother reveal fangs and sink them into America's neck.


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Last issue ended with the West Coast Avengers facing a very giant Tigra, trying to stop her wading ashore in Santa Monica and likely causing much property damage.The 2 Hawkeye's are currently shooting putty arrows at her from a Ferris wheel gondola. Gwenpool fires a grappling hook line at her wrist. Kid Omega mentally saves some falling onlookers. America Chavez flies in to deliver an uppercut which knocks the werewoman back into the sea. Fuse, currently made of bricks, falls off Tigra's shoulder and has to be rescued by America.BRODOK, the oversize-headed humanoid robot who turned up to 'help' last issue, and who everybody figures is really MODOK with a makeover (except for Fuse who doesn't know who *MODOK* is), has so far just stood around. Now he uses foot-jets to fly over to Tigra, who the walks off into the ocean. Kid Omega reports that BRODOK has a mental shield just like to the 1 that stopped him from mentally attacking Tigra. Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) invites him back to their HQ in a 'keep your enemies closer' move. As in last issue a reality TV team is filming interviews with team members. We get a shot of Kate admitting this wasn't a good idea.The team return to their Venice Beach office which is still being remodelled (financed by the reality TV money). As the Hawkeye's apply sticking plasters to minor wounds, BRODOK asks for some wine but all they can offer him is water which he declares is a fine vintage. A recording of Fuse shows him looking up MODOK and finding the villainous head-on-legs we all know and love.BRODOK tells his story. He came to Los Angeles to set up a new psychiatry/self-help company Advanced Image Mechanics (coincidentally with the same initials as MODOK's criminal organisation Advanced Idea Mechanics). Being in LA meant he got lots of custom, but meanwhile he was looking for love (his supposed dates appear to be either patients or random females he approaches). But then he saw the WCA and decided to become a superhero. Gwenpool thinks it's cute. Kate confides that she finds BRODOK sad. Quentin Quire is recorded as saying he's now upped his opinion of Gwen Poole from ridiculous to insane, though he also thinks it may be cunning pose.Hawkeye (Clint Barton) suggests they raid AIM to find out what BRODOK did to Tigra. Kate says they'll split into 2 teams, the others will stay to keep an eye on their guest. Everybody but Gwen wants to go on the mission, but over their objections Kate leaves America, Fuse and Quentin with her too. She confides to her best friend America that she needs her to guard BRODOK with the other 'heavy-hitters', and also to keep Gwen and Quentin from killing each other. The Hawkeye's leave, claiming to go for pizza, and the others settle down to watch a movie - BRODOK picks Weekend At Bernie's II.The Hawkeye's enter the AIM building via an open skylight. When Clint wonders if they're *sure* MODOK is behind Tigra's condition, Kate reminds him that the villain has history of experimenting on women:- Carol Danvers (mind-controlling her in Ms Marvel (1977) #7) and Betty Ross (turning her into Harpy in Hulk #168). (The heroes may not know that the current MODOK is a clone of the 1 who did those things.) Clint tries to bolster her confidence as team leader. They find a mad-scientist room with restraint tables and large menacing machinery. The filing cabinets are locked but Clint opens 1 with a small blast arrow. They can't understand the files but when an alarm goes off Clint takes some with him. (Kate can't take any because there's no room in her tight costume.)Back at HQ the film's over and Gwenpool and Kid Omega are arguing as usual. Gwen wants to watch Weekend At Bernie's I to clear up some questions of motivation. Quentin just thinks she's mad (again). BRODOK thinks their aggression may mask their real feelings for each other. And he's proven right when they kiss.The Hawkeye's return and Kate invites BRODOK to stay overnight in 1 of the spare rooms (keeping enemies close again). They arrange a rota to watch him. But when Quentin falls asleep BRODOK searches the place and finds the files Clint brought back. (A film section has Barton blaming the TV people for the fact that there are no working locks in the place yet.) BRODOK gets angry at the betrayal, especially by his 'lady-love' Kate. He mentally summons a troop of giants led by Tigra.


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This issue we unusually begin with 1 of the Reality TV interviews, but this 1 probably does happen before the action starts. Kate Bishop has reluctantly taken the call from Captain America she was putting off. He's not happy that she formed a new team using the name West Coast Avengers without consulting him. He's particularly not happy about the Reality TV angle because the last time someone (New Warriors) tried that it ended in a disaster (their deaths in Stamford sparking off the Superhuman Registration Act and Civil War (I)). Cap has to end the call because Namor is causing trouble (in current Avengers issues). Kate is relieved it's over but now she's back on tenterhooks because he's going to continue the discussion later.The (minor) action starts when the team face new villain Gridlock who has assembled a giant 'robot' out of vehicles on the 405 Freeway, with the occupants still inside. After all the commuters have been saved, including vibranium-skinned Fuse (Johnny Watts) ripping doors open, Hawkeye (Kate) and Hawkeye (Clint Barton) fire blunt arrows to knock the villain's control helmet off and then fishnet arrows to tangle him up. America Chavez lowers some of the cars to the ground while Kid Omega (Quentin Quire) mentally handles the rest. But Gwenpool spots a kitten inside 1 of them and dives through a window to save it. Fearing for his girlfriend's safety Quentin uses his TK to dismantle the car around her.(Quire's t-shirt this issue says "Bring Cyclops back".)When the team return to their still-under-construction HQ Gwen Poole still has the cat which she names Jeff, and takes it to meet their dog Lucky. America nips off, refusing to tell Kate where she's going. And in an RTV interview she tells the camera team not to follow her off-duty. They protest that the contract says they can, but quickly back down. Johnny brings a bottle of water to *his* girlfriend Kate, but Clint says the Mayor (of Los Angeles ) just phoned to ask them to investigate suspicious activity at an old closed theme park.With America Chavez and her portals (or just her ability to carry them all) gone they have to find another way of getting there. Kate calls up Brigitte, the woman who elected to remain a dragon last issue, to fly them there. Quentin chooses to fly under his own power rather than ride a filthy dragon, who responds that she's very clean and doesn't leave wet towels lying around. This refers to an incident in #1, which Gwen tells everyone about, and prompts another RTV interview where Quire claims he was leaving them for the maid. He's shocked when the TV crew tell him there *is* no maid. (I don't know when this interview is but it's outside this issue because he's wearing a different t-shirt saying "Dark Quire saga".)The team arrive at the arcade (and presumably Brigitte flies away). Clint says the Mayor said she'd meet them here to show them around. But then they are confronted by a giant hologram of a golden mask. And Kate asks Clint if the Mayor maybe sounded like Madame Masque. They could just leave but Kate wants them to stay because Masque may be responsible for her mother's death and possible 'resurrection'. (I'm not sure that was a conclusion she reached during the 2017 Hawkeye series where *we* learned that Eleanor Bishop was alive and working with Masque.)She sends an 822 text to America asking her to join them. Chavez is at another funfair on Santa Monica Pier with her girlfriend Ramone Watts (Johnny's sister). America has won her a large big-head She-Hulk doll when she gets the call. She zips there via star-portal with Ramone and doll in tow. Kate is unhappy that America would bring her date on a mission in response to a 911 message, not realising her typo. Chavez tries to send Ramone back but something blocks her exit portal. Kid Omega tries to fly out but bounces off an invisible dome. (An RTV interview has Gwenpool exulting in being trapped in the Thunderdome.)Quire whispers to Chavez that they need to protect everyone else because they're the only ones with real superpowers, but America has more confidence in her teammates. Quentin says he has a headache. Clint and America agree they should all stick together, no splitting up like in horror movies. But then fiery whirlwinds whisk them away in 3 groups.Kid Omega and Gwenpool are together. After typical banter where she insults him Gwen finds a lever and pulls it. Lights come on and they see they are in the Tunnel Of Love with a swan boat on the water. And again typically a moment where Gwen almost lets her guard down leads instead to more insults from her. Quentin admits he's got more than a headache - his powers are suppressed like America's teleportation.Gwen tells him again that she doesn't have any powers, which he doesn't believe because he's seen her do stuff. So she tries to explain her situation. She used to have powers but she thinks she's been rebooted for this comic. She used to be able to do things like escaping out of the panel and re-entering the comic on another page. Quire doesn't know what to make of this.They've been trying to get the swan boat to float but now someone electrocutes them via the water they are standing in. And they wind up unconscious cuddled together in the boat.America Chavez and Clint-Hawkeye are in the Hall Of Mirrors. They agree to not take their situation as a metaphor and not delve into their psyches. Instead they review the overall situation. America says the confining dome felt like tech but Clint suggests the fiery teleportation was magic. They list the people who can control hellfire but agree that none of them also use tech. So this means they face more than 1 foe.Then the succubus Satana projects out of 2 mirrors and kisses them both. They fall to the ground with their eyes rolled up and marks on their faces.Kate, Johnny and Ramone are together for a bit of family drama. Johnny complains that Ramone didn't tell him she's dating America. Ramone counters that *he* didn't tell her when he started dating Kate. Johnny says it's different because Ramone might be put in danger, like now, and she doesn't have his vibranium skin.Proof of his fears appears immediately as they suffer a barrage of throwing stars. Johnny shields his sister but then says that he feels his vibranium-ness slipping away. Kate-Hawkeye thinks she recognises the weapons and is worried. She spots their assailant in the shadows and fires off an arrow. But the response is more throwing stars, with glowing centres which signify to Kate that they are explosive. She warns the other 2 and they all dive away but are caught in the explosion.And as Kate recovers she sees her mother Eleanor Bishop reaching out a helping hand.


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This issue is largely flashbacks, including to some individual interview recordings made yesterday. So prepare to be slightly confused.Yesterday in Kate Bishop's Hawkeye Investigations office in Venice Beach the other (original) Hawkeye (Clint Barton) is giving his interview which starts by bringing up that very point of 2 Hawkeye's and asks if Kate is a bit young to be the leader of the new team. Clint hotly defends his 'protégé' (as her boyfriend Johnny Watts (see the 2017 Hawkeye series) ambles past in the background and exits hastily when he realises he's in shot). He refers them in particular to the recent invasion of Santa Monica by land sharks.This happened 4 weeks ago. Kate-Hawkeye is riding 1 of the land sharks and firing expanding foam(?) arrows at the snouts of others, which causes them to fall over. The sharks are running through town on bird-style legs and they have small arms. Kate rings Clint-Hawkeye to ask for help from the Avengers or somebody. And she sends Ms. America (America Chavez) to bring him to the scene via 1 of her star-shaped portals. They arrive in midair and America drops Hawkeye onto Hawkeye's shark before zooming off to start punching others.(Yesterday America also gives an interview in support of Kate. But she echoes Clint in saying that Kate has risked her life many times, which the interviewer says is hardly a leadership quality.)Back to the land sharks where Clint seems to be firing the same type of arrow. Kate believes they are riding the leader of the pack and she's guiding it back to the sea hoping the others will follow. They get there and the others do. Clint uses weighted net arrows. America is throwing sharks back into the water. Johnny, now going by the codename Fuse, has turned himself into some hard substance and is punching stuff.(Yesterday Fuse does *his* interview. The nervous rookie says he's qualified to be on the team because he's Kate's boyfriend.)The lead shark still isn't going into the water so Kate tries a new tack. She fires an arrow line into a fin (where supposedly there are no nerves so no pain), then leaps and swings to get the line through the shark's mouth and herself back in the saddle. The shark now seems to be leading his gang along a beach front road, knocking into buildings and bringing the walls down. Clint drops off and joins Fuse dealing with the falling rubble.Kate now successfully guides her shark into the ocean and his minions follow. America then flies out to rescue her from the shark-infested waters.Later the 4 of them eat pizza at Hawkeye Investigations. Clint persuades Kate that the land sharks were created by some mad scientist and they'll be back. The West Coast needs a superhero team, but he declines to form 1 because he doesn't live on this coast these days. Kate complains that she tried to call in everyone she knows locally to fight the sharks but "They were all busy or off-planet or 'dead'". America asks if she called her ex-boyfriend Noh-Varr, and Kate says she's not going to do *that*.So Kate caves in and agrees to advertise for members. But she doesn't know how she'll pay them.A week later she's conducting interviews with a bunch of no-hopers:- Bread Boy whose only qualification is a catch-phrase "I'll butter your bread". Dee-Va who only wants to meet the male Hawkeye until Kate lies and tells her he's gay. Spider-King who's covered in spiders. Surf Doctor - a surfer with a stethoscope. The Broken Watch who's right twice a day. The Dark Paladin who does a Shadow impression. Quinn, Ramone and Mikka - friends and co-workers of Kate and Johnny. The Scorp in a scorpion costume. Doctor Mole who thought it was an audition for the Mole Men Of Los Angeles TV show. Silver Snowboarder whose powers only work in snow. The Dutch Oven huddled in a duvet. Wolver-Mean with cheap cutlery for claws.Then Gwenpool drops in to see if Kate wants to go out for tacos and our heroine persuades her to join the team - but Gwen is confused as to whether they're heroes or villains (her more usual teams). So that makes 5, or maybe 4 because Clint says he only wants to be part-time.We now skip forward to last week, and Kate is still having trouble finding someone to fund them. Enter Quentin Quire/Kid Omega, bad boy of the X-Men, with a film crew. He offers them his omega-level powers and comes with built-in funding.Now we're back to yesterday and it's Kate's turn to be interviewed for the camera, but she's asking all the questions. It turns out the film crew wanted to film a superhero team and Quire said he was on 1. When they complained that all they got was him playing video games he finally brought them here. Kate weighs her options and decides the money is worth putting up with Quire and the obtrusive filming. Especially as the deal includes the Hawkeye Investigations offices being transformed into a team HQ.It also transpires that the crew are themselves only hired for the job, and don't know whether what they film is intended for a documentary or a movie or what. (I smell a supervillain rat.) Kate hopes the result won't show them in a bad light. And then realises that Gwenpool and Kid Omega are having a literally explosive argument in shot behind her.And at last it's today. Construction is still ongoing but the team are all living here amidst the mess. Kate wonders if she's doing the right thing, and boyfriend Johnny gives her a pep talk. But they agree that actually living in the same place is not where their relationship should be yet.Then Gwen and Quentin have another argument. Gwen has just filled his room with lots of wet towels to teach him not to leave such things on the bathroom floor. Luckily there's something happening for them to investigate in Santa Monica again. America ports them there (including Clint-Hawkeye) and they find themselves staring at an extremely giant-size Tigra standing in the water. (She was never that big in the old West Coast Avengers.)Kate vetoes Quentin's suggestion that he mentally shuts her brain down. Instead she sends Ms America to fly Clint up to talk to his old teammate, and Quentin should go with them to protect them with his telekinesis. Meanwhile Kate, Fuse and Gwenpool will clear civilians away. Tigra's only response to Clint is to growl. But when Quire offers to brainwipe her again she obviously senses who's the threat here and punches him out of sight.Flashforward to Quentin getting interviewed later where he makes the excuse that Tigra got a lucky blow in because he was too worried about powerless Hawkeye. The X-Men wouldn't let such people on a team. But when they ask him why *he* isn't with the X-men he terminates the interview.Back to today and Gwenpool's idea of ushering civilians to safety is to threaten them with a big gun. Then she sees Quire incoming. She switches her gun from Very Extremely Lethal to its other setting Creampuff. And fires a pink ball which expands to give him a soft landing.In *her* interview she explains that she used to work for the villain MODOK, but she's trying the other side now. But working with Kid Omega is making her regret the decision.And today Tigra picks up a small boat and bats America with it making her drop Clint. Tigra grabs him as he falls and America punches her in the cheek. Tigra throws the boat inland but America star-ports herself ahead of it and then punches it to harmless(?) pieces. Clint is still trying to get through to Tigra but she throws him away. Kate fires an arrow which gives *him* a soft landing.Kate's about to sanction Quentin as a last resort when another voice is heard from. The newcomer sweeps Kate off her feet and kisses her. Then he announces himself as BRODOK - Bio-Robotic Organism Designed Overwhelmingly for Kissing. And he's here to save the day.


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Some of the West Coast Avengers are relaxing at the beach. Gwen Poole is playing with her new pet Jeff the baby land shark. (In an interview with her the Reality TV crew (who are paying for everything) suggest that the HQ's insurance doesn't cover pets. Gwenpool retorts that Jeff is a team member not a pet. And he'll bite them to prove it.) America Chavez and her girlfriend Ramone Watts are resting on surfboards watching the antics. They figure the only reason Jeff isn't attacking people is that he's been well fed an hour ago. America is currently not best pleased with team leader Hawkeye (Kate Bishop). Kate's friend Ramone asks her to cut Kate some slack. (In her interview America finally admits to dating Ramone, but won't talk about it.)Not so relaxing are Kate and Noh-Varr in the building site that is the HQ. Kate's still exhausted after the dangerous deserted funfair affair (#5-7), so she falls asleep while Marvel Boy is trying to demonstrate his convoluted theory (complete with board with papers and pins and string connecting everything up) that a cult called the Temple Of The Shifting Sun is a front for alien Skrulls, and the world is in danger.To try to satisfy him she calls a team meeting and he goes through it all again. Kate suggests he may have something but it may not be Skrulls. (Noh *would* think it's Skrulls 'cos he's a Kree, and they are sworn enemies.) So he asks who else would be abducting people? This is news to everyone else and they're in for investigating the abductions.Ramone takes Fuse, her brother Johnny, aside and tells him she doesn't want him to go on the mission. Her recent experience getting caught up in the superpowers battle in the funfair has made her actually realise how dangerous his job is. He tries to reassure her that the rest of the team will have his back. "Even Noh-Varr?" she asks (Noh is Kate's ex-boyfriend and Johnny is her current-). He has to give her that 1.Kate splits them into 2 teams. Kate, Clint Barton (the other Hawkeye), America, Fuse and Noh-Varr will infiltrate the Cult. Quentin Quire (Kid Omega) will take Gwen to investigate Madame Masque's operation. (Marvel Boy had uncovered a connection between Masque and the Cult, which was why he was on hand when Masque's gang trapped the WCA in the funfair.) Quire is incensed on being relegated to the B-team until Gwenpool points out that Kate has made him a team leader.The others will go to the cult posing as potential new recruits. Clint will have a special role going in as a celebrity recruit. However Kate doesn't think he's enough of a celeb so she gives him an image inducer to pretend to be Wonder Man.'Wonder Man' gets fêted with a champagne reception while the others are shown around and then sign contracts before being given drab 'uniforms' and taken to the inner sanctum. They note that all the cultists seem young and attractive as they are led down into a basement which they are told pre-dates Los Angeles. There they see people in hooded red robes and are told that they've been recognised as Avengers. And they're going to be a blood sacrifice.Outside Madame Masque's house Gwen and Quentin waylay 2 masked guards and steal their uniforms. They walk in but are immediately challenged as strangers (partly because they both have partially pink hair). Gwen correctly guesses the password is 'eight' but it still doesn't work because they are surprised about it (and because they keep bickering). So they resort to Plan B. Kid Omega zaps their interrogator (but then gets knocked out) and Gwenpool deals with the rest with a bravura display of acrobatics and katana-wielding.But when she's finished Quentin recovers and says he's had a mental call for help from Kate at the temple. Suddenly they're surrounded by more guards. However 1 of them removes her mask and says she's Kate's mother Eleanor Bishop, and she can get them into the temple by a back way to rescue her daughter. Kid Omega agrees, and mentally sends the other guards to sleep.Meanwhile the other team are fighting the red-robed cultists. America offers to teleport them to freedom, but Kate points out that would leave Clint behind. Marvel Boy produces a hi-tech collapsible bow that fires energy arrows, which he he kept as a memento of their time in the Young Avengers, and tosses it to Kate. Even that doesn't seem to help stop the cultists, who just keep getting up after being knocked down. Then they reveal themselves as not Skrulls but vampires. And 1 of them sinks his fangs into America's neck.