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In #9 the Super-Skrull kidnapped Hulkling (Teddy Altman), claiming that he was the heir to the Skrull throne. (Teddy is a shape-shifter like the Skrulls. He just assumes a Hulk-like appearance as a default super-identity. However Hulkling also has super-strength, which the normal Skrulls don't.)In #10 the other Young Avengers, including the reluctant Patriot (Eli Bradley), picked up the new Vision from Avengers Tower. He consulted the Avengers Fail-Safe database that had led to them in the initial issues of this title, and found another candidate, a speedster Tommy Shepherd. They recruited Tommy, defeated Super-Skrull and rescued Hulkling. Only to be attacked by Kree soldiers, claiming Teddy is a Kree.The Kree repeat the story that Teddy was born to Skrull Princess Anelle after the Kree-Skrull War. But now is added the claim that the father was Kree Captain Marvel. The conception was while Anelle helped Mar-Vell escape from Skrull captivity during the war. Straight afterwards Mar-Vell sacrificed himself (sort of) to save Rick Jones' life. (Last issue we also learned that Teddy was smuggled to Earth to protect him from Anelle's father's wrath. And Anelle died when Galactus ate her planet.)The Kree want to induct Hulkling into the military. But he obviously doesn't want to go. The rest of the team fight off the Kree as Hulkling rescues the injured Super-Skrull. After defeating the Kree, Vision finds out how to fly their spacecraft.Vision intends to fly it to Avengers Tower. Tommy doesn't like that idea, because the YA have just broken him out of a juvenile detention centre where the government were experimenting on him. But he also suggests that the Avengers will turn Teddy over to the aliens to avoid involving Earth in another Kree-Skrull War.Patriot and Kate Bishop as usual bicker over what to do. Tommy is the 2nd person (after Stature (Cassie Lang) in #7) to take this as a sign they are an item. Kate denies it again, which pleases Tommy 'cos he fancies her.Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) is trying a spell to heal Super-Skrull. Kl'rt now claims that he came here to protect Hulkling from the Kree, who want to control him or kill him. He claims that he found Anelle and Mar-Vell escaping, and helped them by pretending to be Mar-Vell still in captivity. His motives seem to have been a mixture of love for Anelle and dislike of her father, who had exiled him due to fear he'd become a rival. Throw in some respect for Captain Marvel and doubts about the war between their races.Super-Skrull also drops the bombshell that Billy and Tommy, who look alike, are the twin sons of the Scarlet Witch.Vision consults the files he inherited from his predecessor, and tells the assembled crowd that Scarlet Witch did magically conceive twin sons called Thomas and William. They were 'lost souls' who Mephisto later reclaimed. But their time with Wanda changed them so much that Mephisto couldn't reabsorb them, and they ceased to exist. They also vanished from Wanda's memory, until the reawakened memory drove her mad, leading to Avengers Disassembled.Billy is convinced that they are the twins reincarnated. Tommy is skeptical. Vision discovers that the magical father of the twins was the earlier version of himself.At that point their Kree ship is attacked by a Skrull ship. Injured Kl'rt wants to fly out to get them to stop. But Hulkling insists on going instead. And his boyfriend Wiccan flies after him. But meanwhile the Skrulls are attacked by more Kree, and it turns into a battle between troops of flying soldiers. Until Hulkling announces his presence and orders them all to cease fire.Just then the New Avengers turn up. Iron Man, Sentry and Spider-Woman in the air, Captain America, Luke Cage, Spider-Man and Wolverine on the ground.The 2 alien forces stake their claims on Hulkling, both claiming to have space forces ready to attack Earth if they don't get their way. Wolverine thinks they're bluffing. Teddy doesn't want to go, and the YA don't want to let him.Cap tells them all that Hulking is under Avengers protection. A Kree tries to shoot Cap, but Patriot takes the blast. And all hell breaks loose.


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Secret identities part two
The Young Avengers are fighting Mr Hyde at the illegal Mutant Growth Hormone lab he's running. Wiccan has found Eli Bradley injecting himself with MGH, a drug which gives super powers to ordinary people. And Billy realises that Eli doesn't have any powers. His Patriot abilities are all due to MGH.Hulkling, Kate Bishop and Stature are left to fight the villain, who injects himself with his own drug and becomes even more of a Hulk. Teddy and Cassie are both down, leaving Kate to try to choke Hyde with her bow. But he snaps it, and holds her as a human shield against the police who have surrounded the place.Captain America is visiting Faith Bradley, who explains how she and Isaiah (the black WWII Captain America) took their grandson in after their daughter Gail remarried and took the other children with her. Steve explains that he met Eli at Avengers Mansion (in #3), where he demonstrated his grandfather's Super-Soldier powers.Faith is confused. It turns out that Eli's story (#3 again) about gaining the powers from a transfusion of Isaiah's blood is a total lie. (And he didn't just inherit them either.)Meanwhile Jessica Jones is chatting to Cassie Lang's mother Peggy. Peggy has already guessed that Cassie is Stature. Jessica explains (from #3 again) that Cassie had often stolen doses of the size-changing Pym particles that made her father Scott Ant-Man. And now she can change size without them.Peggy is extra-worried because of the heart condition that Cassie had an operation for when very young. She asks Jessica to persuade Cassie to give up super-heroing. And not to tell stepfather Blake Burdick, who is a cop who hates superheroes.Back at Hyde's warehouse, Wiccan magics Kate out of Hyde's grasp, and tries to hold him off. Then Eli, suited-up as Patriot, takes on the huge villain. MGH has made Eli almost as big. During the fight, Patriot takes another needle of MGH and appears to be about to give himself another dose. Hyde stops him, mentioning in passing that another dose might kill Eli. But instead Patriot injects the villain. And Hyde collapses, breathing but unconscious.Now the battles over, Cap, Iron Man, Jessica, Luke Cage and Spider-Man turn up. Pumped-up Eli wants his team to walk out on the Avengers. But his friends want the Avengers to help him. Angry Patriot stalks out on his own, but Wiccan renders him unconscious with a spell.When Eli wakes up he's in Avengers Tower and he's been purged of MGH. He's being looked after by the new Vision, who says he has the memories and emotions of Iron Lad.Vision takes Patriot to join the other YAers with Cap and Jessica. Eli tells them that when Iron Lad came to the Bradley house he was looking for Eli's uncle Josiah, who had inherited the Super-Soldier powers. But Josiah disappeared a year before. So Eli pretended to have the powers, and then sought out MGH to give him some.Since then he's been busting MGH dealers, as he did in #2. But he's been confiscating their product for his own use.Now he quits the whole thing. (But he'll be back next issue.)


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Sidekicks (part 3 of 6)
Last issue Iron Lad, the leader of what the press are calling the Young Avengers, told Captain America, Iron Man and Jessica Jones his origin as the 30th Century teen who will grow up to be Kang The Conqueror but who has come to the 21st Century to avoid that fate. He finished by explaining how he found the remains of the Vision at Stark Industries. Now, here in the ruins of Avengers Mansion, he projects a hologram of the synthezoid and says he downloaded Vizh's OS and data files into his armour.They hear a very loud thump outside which Iron Lad fears is Kang coming for him. But they rush out to see a giant-sized Cassie Lang lying unconscious. She's surrounded by the other 3 Young Avengers (Asgardian, Hulkling and Patriot) and a female in a bridesmaid dress. They explain that Cassie got angry because the YA wouldn't let her into the Mansion to get the things belonging to her dead father Scott Lang/Ant-Man. And then she grew and passed out. Cassie wakes up confused. She doesn't know how she grew but the bridesmaid calms her down and gets her to think small ... which works.The Avengers usher everyone inside the Mansion. Iron Man takes Cassie up to her dad's room while Cap and Jess quiz the others. Iron Lad introduces Asgardian, Hulkling and Patriot as his team, and the girl as the young woman who saved their lives at the cathedral (#1). She says it seems the YA don't allow supergirls in. IL protests that Cassie Lang was missed out because she wasn't part of the Avengers Failsafe Program. Cap's never heard of this so Iron Lad has to do some more explaining.Apparently Vision created it as a source of young replacements if the Avengers were taken off the board. IL displays a list of names and a map of the US with places marked. He thinks they all have some tie to an Avenger or Avengers history, though Hulkling says they don't know what the connections *are*.Asgardian proposes revealing their real names and maybe Captain America can help unravel the mystery. Patriot doesn't want to divulge his secret identity, and puts up the weak argument that the non-Avenger bridesmaid shouldn't have this knowledge. This triggers a continuation of the argument between the 2 of them because Patriot won't admit that she was actually the hero(ine) of the cathedral affair. But Cap interrupts to say it's all over the news how Kate Bishop disarmed 1 of the gunmen. Satisfied she leaves the room.Asgardian says he's Billy Kaplan and describes his family situation. Jessica asks if his power is to generate electricity. He creates some with his hand, but gives her a vague answer. Hulkling is 16-yr old Teddy Altman and his power is super-strength (but we'll find out in later issues that it's more than that). He says that they don't know where their powers come from, but Patriot knows the source of *his*.The other YAer is still reluctant to come clean if as he suspects Cap is going to shut the group down. Cap can't deny it, but asks why he's wearing a uniform like Bucky's. Patriot says it's to respect the *1st* Captain America, the *black* Captain America, his grandfather Isaiah Bradley (see the Truth: Red, White & Black mini-series). And he takes off his mask to reveal an African-American teen.So at that point we switch to Cassie Lang and Iron Man. Cassie has donned an Ant-Man outfit. She admits that she's been sneaking doses of the size-changing Pym particles from her dad for years, but they've never had any effect until now. She searches for his Ant-Man helmet but Tony Stark takes off *his* helmet and says he's taken that and other Ant-Man tech for safe-keeping. He tells her she can't have it to become Ant-Girl. It's too dangerous.And he also confesses that he blames himself for Scott's death. *He* founded the Avengers but it got too big and out of control. There were clashes within the team over the years (eg Stark's Armour Wars) which culminated in Scarlet Witch losing control and killing Vision, Hawkeye and Ant-Man. Which was why he chose to disband the Avengers. Tony now begs Cassie to give up the dream. He's already lost Scott, he doesn't want to lose her too.Back in the other room Steve Rogers says he knows the story of Isaiah Bradley. How the super-soldier serum that gave Cap his powers was tried on a platoon of black soldiers, and Isaiah was the only survivor. But he also knows that Isaiah's daughter Sarah Gail was born before he underwent the treatment, so his grandson couldn't have inherited the powers. Patriot says he once needed a large blood transfusion, and his grandfather's blood type matched.They are now interrupted by another loud thump, but Iron Man enters with Cassie to say it wasn't her this time.. The real culprit smashes through a wall. Some of them recognise it as a huge Growing Man from various documented adventures demanding to see the master. Hulkling leaps up and punches it in the face just as Cap warns him that will make it grow even larger. But instead the android starts to shrink ... and turns into a horde of knee-high versions still calling for their master.Young Kang finally realises these are like the Stimuloid he invented at school (see last issue). He tells Asgardian to use his *other* powers to hold them back. Billy Kaplan produces a force which pushes the little Men back in a circle. Iron Lad takes to the sky and removes his helmet to announce "I am Kang. I am your master." But as he suspected this causes them all to send a beam into the sky which he says is a signal to the real Kang. They'd better prepare for his coming.Iron Man says they'll start training the youths, including Cassie. 1st he wants them to show him what they can do in the training room without their special equipment (eg Iron Lad's armour, Asgardians staff). But then they discover they've been locked in and the Avengers are going to call their parents (good luck on that with Iron Lad). While Cap, IM and Jess justify their actions to each other the real Kang *does* arrive.


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Last issue the new team that reporter Kat Farrell dubbed the Young Avengers made a bit of a mess dealing with 5 gunmen holding a large wedding party hostage in St Patrick's Cathedral. Now rich father-of-the-bride Derek Bishop is trying to bully a hospital nurse into looking at his other daughter Kate who 'helped' the YA, with 1 of Patriot's throwing stars, and who some consider the real hero of the hour. Kate is actually feeling fine so she leaves him to it and goes outside ...... where she's accosted by another teen Cassie Lang, daughter of Ant-Man (Scott Lang) who was killed during Avengers Disassembled. Cassie wants to know where the YA went. Kate Bishop indicates a general direction which Cassie figures includes the ruined Avengers Mansion (see Avengers Disassembled again). Kate asks if *she* is a Young Avenger, but Cassie says not yet. And Kate decides to tag along with her when she heads off.At the end of last issue Captain America, Iron Man and Jessica Jones found YAer Iron Lad in the abandoned Mansion. And he unmasked as a youth from the 30th Century named Kang. Now he claims to be the person who is supposed to grow up to be Kang The Conqueror. And to prove it he causes his neuro-kinetic armour to switch from Iron Man-ish to Kang-like. But he also claims not to *want* to become the Conqueror, and he tells them his origin ...... where he's being beaten up by a gang of other boys from his school led by Morgan. Their 'reason' this time is the 'doll' that he has, which he calls a Stimuloid. (Long-time readers will remember Stimuloids used by the Conqueror, otherwise known as Growing Men - androids that grew larger as they were attacked.) This 1 our boy triggers to give Morgan an electric shock. Our 'Kang' grabs his Stimuloid and runs, but the gang is on him again.But then they freeze, complaining that they can't move, as the actual Kang The Conqueror arrives. He offers to punish Morgan for years of abuse, and then reveals himself as the grown-up version of our lad. He lends the boy his helmet to show him the future that lies between them:-The youth will find the plans for an old time-machine (Fantastic Four #19).He will go back to Ancient Egypt and become a Pharaoh (FF#19 again).The return journey will go wrong, leaving him in a barbaric 40th Century. But he will become Kang The Conqueror and rule them (Avengers #8).The boy also sees many battles against the Avengers. Kang always loses, but he always comes back. (We see Av#8 again, Av Annual #21 (end of the Citizen Kang Annuals event) and Avengers (1998) #54 (end of the Kang Dynasty arc).)Kang tells him that Morgan will now slit his throat, putting him in hospital for a year. But instead the boy can use the helmet to kill Morgan - it will respond to his thoughts. But instead the lad uses it to attack Kang and then flee through time to find the Avengers for help.But when he arrived the Avengers had disbanded. He couldn't get near Tony Stark or the others. But he used Kang's helmet to break into Stark Industries where he found the remains of the Vision (ripped apart by She-Hulk during Avengers Disassembled).And there we have to leave the origin story for this issue ...... and join Asgardian and Hulkling who obviously are *not* going home to get some sleep ready for school tomorrow, as they claimed last issue. Asgardian is getting the hang of using his power to carry heavy Hulkling while flying, and Hulkling is happy about that. They don't think they're ready to face Kang The Conqueror, and Asgardian worries about Patriot quitting. Hulkling thinks surely Patriot wouldn't go solo ...... and then they see him attacking a car containing 2 gunmen. Patriot gets shot in the chest but he can take it. Asgardian zaps the car and then Hulkling picks it up and shakes the villains out. Patriot threatens the man who shot him while the other 1 slashes Hulkling's arm with a knife. The Hulk-guy bleeds but then heals immediately.The 2 villains are now unconscious. Patriot explains they were dealing Mutant Growth Hormone in Central Park. MGH is a drug which gives people temporary superpowers. They don't know what to do with the dealers now they've caught them. They can't take them to the cops because they themselves are wanted for damaging the cathedral last issue. So they just leave them tied up. And surly Patriot is not the type to thank his comrades for their help.Meanwhile Cassie and Kate have reached the gate of Avengers Mansion. Cassie hopes to get them in because she knows the security code from when she used to live here 1 weekend a month with her dad before her mom got sole custody. But that doesn't work, so Kate (still in her bridesmaid dress) climbs over the gate and helps Cassie over. They pass the blast hole where the exploding Jack Of Hearts killed her father. It affects Cassie but she's still determined to go in and get her dad's Ant-Man stuff.But before they can proceed they are confronted by Asgardian, Hulkling and Patriot. Patriot tells the 2 'trespassing kids' to leave. Kate bridles at 'kids' and says Cassie is Ant-Man's daughter so *she* has a right to be here. Kate and Patriot pick up their feud where they left off.But then Kate says she and 'Ant-Girl' want to join the 'Young Avengers'. Hulkling says they haven't decided on a team name yet. Asgardian asks if they have powers. Cassie says she will when she gets her dad's gear. But she has to admit to not quite being 15. Patriot tries to block her way until she judo-flips him. (Her mom let her learn self-defence because being Ant-Man's daughter made her vulnerable.) Then she gets very angry ...... and grows to giant-size.


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Family matters - part 2
Last issue the disbanded Young Avengers were thinking about reforming when Super-Skrull interrupted them to kidnap Hulkling who he claimed was a Skrull. He lent credence to his claim when he killed Teddy Altman's mother who reverted to her Skrull form.In #6 Iron Lad left behind his neuro-kinetic armour containing the OS from the Vision (who's synthezoid body had been destroyed by She-Hulk in Avengers Disassembled). Now this new 'Vision', with the armour still in Iron Lad form, is playing chess with Edwin Jarvis in Avengers Mansion. The butler accuses him of letting him win many games. But Vision wants to know when the Avengers will trust him enough to let him be an active member. He suspects that they worry that he can be controlled by Kang The Conqueror (as Iron Lad's armour was in #4). But he reminds Edwin of how the original Vision tried to take over the World's computer systems (culminating in Avengers #253-254). And he claims to have installed fail-safes to prevent both from recurring. And he checkmates his opponent.But then there's a knock on the window and they see the remaining 4 YAers (Kate Bishop, Patriot (Eli Bradley), Stature (Cassie Lang) and Wiccan (Billy Kaplan)) now suited-up and hovering on a force-disc magicked-up by Wiccan. After they're let in they explain what just happened, and they've come to the Avengers for help. But Jarvis tells that the team are on a mission. Edwin tries to calm them down and leaves Vision to watch them while he goes to try to contact Tony Stark.But when he's gone Vision says he wants to help them by recruiting more Young Avengers. He calls up the earlier Vision's secret files on super-powered teens. He suggests 16-yr old Tommy Shepherd, a speedster who can also accelerate atomic matter to make it explode. Wiccan thinks they should go get him, but Vision doesn't want them to disobey Edwin's orders. But Cassie points out that Jarvis only told *him* to keep an eye on them, and if he comes with them he can *do* that. Obviously nothing would please the android more.But before they go with the others Cassie has a private word with Vizh. She asks him if he has Iron Lad's brain patterns and memories. (She and IL had, rather quickly, fallen in at least attraction.) He answers yes, but he's *not* Iron Lad. And he alters the neuro-kinetic armour to look like the Vision rather than a futuristic Iron Man. Cassie thanks him for that.What Vision has neglected to mention is that Tommy is currently in juvenile detention for vaporising his school (accidentally according to his defence). Patriot isn't happy, he wanted a Young Avenger not a Young Master Of Evil. But Vision just changes shape to mimic the form of 1 of 2 unconscious guards (the wisps of blue light about them suggest Wiccan's doing), and Wiccan magically mimics the other. Stature shrinks to hide on Billy's shoulder and they head inside the prison, leaving the 2 non-powered members behind. Eli asks what *they* should do, and Billy suggests Kate could think about a codename. Eli suggests Hawkingbird again (since her current weapons are based on Hawkeye's bow and Mockingbird's battle staves).Vision leads them to Tommy's cell and suggests that there's a power dampener to stop the youth using his powers to escape. He phases his hand into the security lock and overrides its settings ... and the door explodes and a white-haired boy walks out of the cell. Cassie comments that Tommy and Billy could be twins. But the  exchange of pleasantries is interrupted by attacking guards. Tommy blasts a way through a wall. Outside they are faced with more guards plus Mandroids. The speedster races round disarming the guards. He says he's been experimented on to turn him into a living weapon. And now he turns himself on the flying Mandroids, crippling their suits. Wiccan has to stop them crashing to the ground. And now Tommy chases away the doctors who worked on him.Kate knocks him down before he can kill them, and they have a bit of a meet cute. Patriot welcomes him to the team. Wiccan explains about Vision's Avengers Fail-Safe Program. Patriot stresses that they need a hero, not a super-terrorist and asks Tommy which he is.Super-Skrull has Hulkling in restraints in a remote house, and Kl'rt transmits a message to all Skrull worlds saying he has found Dorrek VIII, the dead Emperor's true heir. Teddy still denies being a Skrull, so his captor tells him his true origin.During the (really *a*) Kree-Skrull War, SS captured Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and the Kree Captain Mar-Vell and brought them to Dorrek VII, hoping to win his favour and marriage to his daughter Anelle (Avengers #94). But the Emperor feared his warrior's ambition and imprisoned him. While incarcerated he heard that Anelle had given birth to a male who Dorrek condemned to death because of who his father was. But the prince's nurse smuggled him away to Earth where his father was living.Teddy still doesn't want to believe it, but can't resist asking who his father was. But it's interruption time again as Tommy Shepherd repeats his blasting through a wall trick. Teddy at 1st mistakes him for his boyfriend Billy (despite the white hair). As the others follow him overconfident Tommy takes on Super-Skrull alone and gets a bloody nose for his pains. The new Vision uses the old Vision's hand phased into the opponent's chest shtick to render him unconscious.Billy hugs Teddy and tells him he used a locator spell to find him. The Skrull isn't *that* unconscious and pleads with Hulkling to accompany him for his family's sake. He has to admit that Teddy's mother Anelle died when Galactus ate the Skrull throneworld. He's just about to tell him who his father was when he's shot by a ray-gun. And Kree soldiers arrive to claim Hulkling for their side.


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The teen who will be Kang The Conqueror came from the 30th Century seeking help from the Avengers to avoid his destiny. He found the Avengers disassembled but also a secret list left by the dead Vision of teens who might form the next Avengers. Adopting armour as Iron Lad he recruited Asgardian, Hulkling and Patriot as the Young Avengers. They have now been joined by Cassie Lang daughter of the deceased Ant-Man. Captain America and Iron Man pretended to offer to train them but then locked them in the training room in the ruined Avengers Mansion, intending to contact their parents. But then adult Kang turned up determined to bring his young self into line. Now he gets the duo's attention by zapping them and threatening their companion the pregnant Jessica Jones.Meanwhile 4 of the Young Avengers still believe they're going to be trained by the Avengers, but Patriot (Eli Bradley) is suspicious. He thinks Cap will call their parents, or possibly turn them in to the police about the mess they made of the hostage rescue in St Patrick's Cathedral (#1). He fails to break the locked door with his super-strength, so Hulkling (Teddy Altman) doesn't bother trying that route. Asgardian (Billy Kaplan) is equally unsuccessful with his electric blasts.Eli suggests Billy try his other powers, as he did against the Growing Men (last issue) - like teleporting them out or making the door vanish. Billy is reluctant to explain to Cassie what his other powers actually are. Eli adds that Teddy has other powers too. It turns out that they've only been pretending to have powers related to Cap, Thor and Hulk (alongside Iron Lad/Man) to get the old team's attention. IL points out that Vision's program specifically recommended they 3 become Young Avengers.Cassie is disappointed that Vision didn't mention *her*. But IL points out again that nobody, including herself, knew she had size-changing powers until #2. But since she's now on the team he thinks maybe she can shrink small enough to get under the door. She responds that she still couldn't free the others because she doesn't know what security code Iron Man used to lock it.But then the door opens and Kate Bishop walks in, saying that *she* noticed what keys he pushed. Iron Lad thanks her for saving them *again*. (The 1st time was in the Cathedral.) Then Kate tells them that the Avengers are talking to Kang.The 2 heroes are still incapacitated but refusing to say where 'the boy' is. Kang is still threatening the vulnerable pregnant woman ... when that woman (who also has superpowers) kicks him in the side and grabs his big gun.Kang changes tack. He says if he doesn't return young Kang to his proper place then reality will change. The Avengers aren't unhappy with the Conqueror never coming into existence. But he points out that this would change *their* past and thus their present. And he invites them to look around where the Mansion they were in is gone and they see a ruined New York.Meanwhile the YA have retrieved the weaponry, including Iron Lad's armour, that the Avengers confiscated before putting them in the training room. They intend to go fight Kang, including young Kang who says his future self won't recognise Iron Lad as *him*. And Kate joins them with a mask and a selection of weapons she's 'borrowed'. They include Mockingbird's mask and battle staves, Hawkeye's bow and arrows and Swordsman's sword. Patriot dubs her Hawkingbird. But she has something she found for him - a replica of Cap's original triangular shield.Back outside Cap and IM have now discovered that their uniform and armour have changed. And Jessica Jones is back in her old Jewel costume, which fits because she's no longer pregnant. Kang claims the only way to get their reality back is to give him his young self. And the YA hear Cap agree to the deal.The teens retreat into the basement levels which are still intact. They are shocked at what Cap just did. Iron Lad is conflicted as to what he should do. Cassie insists he can't surrender but Kate thinks maybe he should, if only for Jessica's baby. Teddy sides with her because even if he goes back to the 30th Century the boy doesn't *have* to become Kang. Billy dithers but Eli is adamant that the team should stick together and support IL. Kate can't help asking Patriot if that means *she*'s on the team.Iron Lad has been consulting the copy of Vision's software downloaded into his armour, and leads them to a trapdoor ... which takes to the surface right at their foe's feet.Cap says Iron Lad must go with Kang, but the teen jets off into the air. Iron Man tries to follow him but Hulkling leaps and grabs a leg. IM repulsor blasts him and Teddy falls to the ground. The others all rush over to him and see the boy is now partly (distorted) Hulkling and partly human. Iron Man catches up to Iron Lad but the youth fires stronger blasts and it's the Golden Avenger's turn to fall.Compassionate Iron Lad brings unconscious Iron Man back to the others for help. But Kang takes over his armour (which may look Iron Man-ish but is actually morphing Kang armour he stole from his future self - see #2) and uses it to blast the others unconscious. Then Kang prepares to take his younger self away.


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Family matters - part 1
At the end of #6 Iron Lad went back to the future and Captain America and Iron Man told the Young Avengers to disband. But Kate Bishop set them up with a base and new uniforms and weapons and persuaded them to disobey. They resurfaced in #7 but Patriot quit in #8 after it was revealed that his powers came from the Mutant Growth Hormone drug which he was confiscating off drug dealers. During those issues Cap also told Eli Bradley's family about him being Patriot, and Jessica Jones told Cassie Lang's mother about her being Stature.Now we see in the news that Cap and IM 'support' the team's decision to disband again. Eli promises grandma Faith Bradley that he'll be working at the reference desk of the New York Public Library after school. Peggy Rae Burdick (remarried) takes daughter Cassie to Stuyvesant High School and says she'll pick her up afterwards. On the way they hear about a man threatening to jump off the Flatiron Building. and mom has to stop Cassie from going to help. Billy Kaplan is cycling on the way to *his* school and diverts to the Flatiron but too late to stop the jumper. He starts chanting a mantra spell "I want to catch him" but Ms Marvel swoops in to save the guy. So Wiccan intones an "I want to get to school on time" spell. And in the Hawthorne Academy a fencing instructor catches Kate Bishop off guard reading about the Young Avengers disbandment but she still manages to disarm him.Later after school Teddy Altman sees a thief steal a purse and extends an arm to stop him. Then to cover his superpower use he shapeshifts his face to that of Reed Richards. Then he joins 3 YAers on the steps of the Library to wait for Eli, apologising for his gaffe. But Billy and Cassie both admit they tried to save that morning's jumper. Kate says they all can't stop playing heroes. Teddy wonders if they should just 'fess up to their folks, but Cassie knows *that* won't work well.They've all been trying to contact Eli but he's ignoring them, so now they confront him here as he heads for his afterschool 'job'. Eli says he doesn't deserve to be on the team because he lied about having powers, it was the drug. Kate protests that the drug only made him stronger, *he* was the hero who fought Kang (#4-6) and Mr Hyde (#7-8). And she adds that they want him to lead the team. Eli reminds them again that he doesn't have any powers, but Cassie points out that neither does Kate.Eli still doesn't want the job. But as he starts to walk away an extremely flexible arm grabs Teddy, who thinks it's Mr Fantastic come to complain about the impersonation. But it's the Super-Skrull who claims to want to take him home to the Skrull Empire. Teddy of course denies being a Skrull as he shifts to his green Hulkling body with added spikes (to break SS's grip) and wings (to escape).But the Skrull with the powers of the Fantastic Four traps him in a forcefield bubble and fires flames at the other teens. Stature grows giant-size (she was wearing her expandable uniform under her clothes) and grabs him, but he burns her hands even as he lets Hulkling go. Patriot suggests they run away to avoid another flame blast. Kate unwraps her bow and counter-suggests Eli take injured Cassie and target Teddy to safety while she and Asgardian distract the foe.But then Super-Skrull uses his extra power to hypnotise Billy under his command. Teddy immediately offers to go with the Skrull if he lets his boyfriend go and SS takes him up on it. But then Hulkling forms a Thing-fist to match Super-Skrull's and punches him into the middle of next week (sorry, the next building). As the team flee into the Subway the Skrull contacts his superiors to report that the rumours of the target's super-strength are true, and so may be the rumours of his father's identity. The gang board a train but Eli backs out of the door repeating that he no longer belongs with them. And as he leaves the station the invisible Super-Skrull is watching.The other 4 go to Billy's home. Teddy wanted to go to *his* place in case Super-Skrull goes there and attacks his mom. The others talked him out of it but now she's not answering her phone. He can't believe that *she* might be a Skrull, and we learn that his dad died of cancer before Teddy was born. Kate opines that they should call the Avengers. Then they enter the Kaplan apartment and find Mrs Altman there and Mrs Kaplan serving tea. Worried Mrs A tells Teddy she has something to tell him ...... but Super-Skrull smashes through the wall carrying Eli, threatening to kill him unless Hulkling accompanies him to "restore the Skrull Empire to its former glory". Mrs K doesn't understand what's happening, and Billy chooses this moment to tell her he's a superhero. Eli of course tells Teddy not to do it but Teddy equally of course says he will, and means it this time. Mrs A tries to stop him but he says SS will release him when he discovers he's *not* a Skrull. The foe launches a device into the air which he claims will prove his story. A ray bathes Teddy and his mother ... and *she* reverts to a Skrull form.SS declares that Mrs A isn't his real mother and she's a traitor to the Skrull race. Mrs A responds that the Empress ordered her to protect Billy, and she pulls out an alien gun and shoots the foe. SS replies by incinerating her. Billy mantra-chants "I want her to be okay" but to no avail and she dies. 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The boy who will be Kang fled here from the 30th Century for help from the Avengers to prevent his fate. He found the team Disassembled but also found the Vision's operating system and a file listing potential young replacements. Morphing his Kang armour into an Iron Man look he took the ID Iron Lad and recruited 3 of them as Asgardian (Billy Kaplan), Hulkling (Teddy Altman) and Patriot (Eli Bradley), forming a team the press dubbed the Young Avengers. They have since been joined by Cassie Lang, daughter of the deceased latest Ant-Man, and Kate Bishop, who helped them during a hostage situation in #1. But Captain America, Iron Man and Jessica Jones tried to shut them down. However adult Kang turned up to claim his precursor, and the timeline changed to a ruined Manhattan (and Jessica 'lost' her pregnancy). Kang claimed the timeline would correct itself if IL came with him. IL refused and Kang took over his (Kang) armour and used it to blast all the others.Kang now says that everyone will be OK if IL comes with him, and the young hero agrees even though it means he'll forget all about his friends. Kang opens a time portal. But then Cassie, who shrank possibly microscopically to avoid the blast, expands to human size and pushes Kang into the portal. Her momentum almost carries her through as well but Iron Lad pulls her back and the portal closes. They cling to each other and Cassie kisses him (through his maybe-flexible mask). She apologises, but then kisses him again 'for luck'.They wake up the other Young Avengers, including Kate who 'borrowed' Hawkeye's bow and arrows, Mockingbird's battle staves and Swordsman's sword. IL explains that Kang will keep coming back. Eli asks if they should wake the Avengers but Cassie reminds them they were going to force their friend to go with the villain. Iron Lad says he's going anyway in order to put everything back the way it should be. Teddy worries that means they won't have become Young Avengers. Billy worries more specifically that they won't know each other (he and Teddy have become close). And Cassie definitely doesn't want him to go.IL says there's nowhere they can hide because Kang can track his armour, so Kate suggest he take it off. Patriot agrees with her, and then tries to retract it because of the hostility between the pair since she saved his life in the hostage affair (#1) and dented his pride. Iron Lad removes his armour and they plan to go to the Upper West Side home of Billy's family.But then Kang does return and threatens the still-unconscious Cap, IM and Jess. The others tell IL to run to Billy's house while they keep the villain busy. Patriot suggests Teddy uses his shapeshifting and Billy tries his spell-casting. That last bit's news to Kate, and Asgardian says he's not very good at it. They attack (double-page spread). Kang shoots at them. Eli pushes Kate out of the way of a blast. He says that evens the score over when she saved *him* - but it's more like banter this time. As the other 3 fight Kang, Eli suggests activating the Vision software to use Iron Lad's 30th Century armour against Kang, but Kate reminds him that Kang can control that armour, so he drops it. But we see it's 'uni-beam' chest circle start to glow.Patriot next says he (with his replica triangular Captain America shield) and Cassie will distract the foe while Asgardian works up a spell. Teddy talks Billy through how they practised making his magic work. Asgardian chooses a desired result, in this case disabling Kang's forcefield. Then he chants it as a repeated mantra "I want to disable Kang's forcefield" while imagining it happening. Kate asks if they learned this from a Wiccan manual, Teddy says no, a self-help book. Billy launches himself towards Kang while chanting ... and it works with a large explosion.But Kang is still shooting at them, and the villain's 'trans-temporal' armour enables him access weapons from all over time. So Kate fires a couple of arrows which hit the armour, knackering its tech. She says she learned archery at a music summer camp where she played cello, and offers to teach Eli if he wants. Patriot goes to take Kang down, assuming him now powerless. But he's still strong, and the armour's still armour. Kate rushes to his aid with her sword drawn but he defeats her too and threatens her with her own sword, demanding again that Iron Lad be given to him ...... and then the boy in question shows up and surrenders. Kang says they'll need the Iron Lad armour to get home. IL agrees to get it if Kang lets Kate go. He kneels to check she's OK and whispers "I'm not exactly Iron Lad". Then Teddy Altman shapeshifts from Iron Lad to Hulkling and gives Kang a right hook. Giant-size Cassie grabs at the foe but he cuts her palm with the sword. He uses it to bat away Patriot's throwing stars and slash Hulkling's thigh. Asgardian tries chanting "I want to stop Kang", but before he can have any effect the villain is blasted from behind by the Iron Lad armour operated by the Vision software.Kang turns to face him and sees that 'Vision' has morphed the armour to look like the synthezoid complete with solar jewel on his forehead. Vizh demonstrates that he has his powers too:- He reduces his density to float in the air, goes intangible to avoid Kang's sword, fires another eye-blast and goes heavier to smash the sword out the villain's hand. He then grabs Kang by the throat and tells him to go back to the 30th Century. Kang responds by pinching Vision's neck, activating a switch that turns Vision off and restores function to his own armour (advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic).Kang once again menaces the teens and asks where Iron Lad is. But now Captain America (with a different costume in the altered timeline) has recovered and charges to the attack while Iron Man sees to Jessica Jones (not pregnant in this reality and in her old Jewel costume). But Kang magics up a weapon to put them down again. (And next issue will say that he's killed them.)But then the real Iron Lad returns, still sans armour, and stabs his future self through the back with the sword.


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Sidekicks (part 1 of 6)
J. Jonah Jameson is not happy. The front page of the Daily Bugle carries a piece by Kat Farrell about a new group of 4 young superheroes she calls the Young Avengers who appeared the previous night and rescued people from a fire. According to her story the 1 she calls Thor Junior threw lightning, Iron Kid had better armour than Iron Man and Teen-Hulk helped people politely while Lieutenant America ordered them around.He has Kat in his office with Jessica Jones, the PI who works for the paper. He wants them to find out who these kids are and why they call themselves the Young Avengers. Kat reminds him that *she* made that name up because they dress like junior versions of the big stars. Jessica points out that 'Lieutenant America' is dressed more like Bucky, and Jonah has to agree. But they've lost Kat because she doesn't know who Bucky *is*. JJJ has to explain that when he was very young in WWII he wanted to *be* Bucky, Captain America's sidekick, until Cap got Bucky killed. Kat jumps to the conclusion that these are the Avengers' sidekicks. Jessica points out that the Avengers have disbanded. Jonah proposes a conspiracy theory that the Avengers have continued in secret.Jess thinks the 'Young Avengers' are just fanboys. Kat mentions Jessica's teenage super-id Jewel, and to Jess's surprise shows her that she's got a lot of fan-sites online. The other 2 gang up on her saying that a fan favourite is just the person to track down superhero fans. She reluctantly agrees, but refuses to wear the Jewel costume.The women take the lift down to the ground. Jess thinks it's best she talks to her super-id friends alone. She says she wanted to be Spider-Man when she was young. Kat admits that she wanted to be Jewel. Jess says she'll start working her contacts ...... but when they get outside 2 of her contacts contact *her*. Cap and Iron Man show up and want to talk to her in private. Her boyfriend Luke Cage told them where she was. So Iron Man takes Cap and her away to a rooftop.The Avengers deny having anything to do with the youths. Cap in particular doesn't want any other teens dying like Bucky. They want to persuade them to stop. IM adds that if they're mutants they'll refer them to the X-School. Jess thinks that if she was a wannabe Avenger she'd go to the abandoned Avengers Mansion, but they assure her it's secure. So they'll just have to wait for the kids to make another move. Before leaving the duo tell her to keep in touch via Luke.Our next scene is St Patrick's Cathedral where 5 gunmen have interrupted a wedding and robbed 200 guests. They are using the attendees as hostages to secure an escape route. Jessica and Kat are both outside even though this has nothing to do with the Young Avengers so far.Inside a young woman we will come to know as Kate Bishop, sister of the bride, is trying to foment an uprising, but 1 of the gunmen overhears her. He threatens her but just then the YA burst in through the stained-glass rose window, against the Iron character's advice. The Iron-guy enters under his own steam and the Thor-guy seems to travel by magic staff. The green guy who we learn goes by the name Hulkling jumped through the window carrying the 4th member called Patriot. Iron-guy magnetise some of the guns, Patriot hurls throwing stars, Thor-guy's staff emits lightning bolts and Hulking just shouts at the bad guys *very* loud. Thor-guy warns him about a man with a knife behind him. Iron-guy puts out a fire started by stray lightning. 1 baddie punches Thor-guy into Hulkling, and 2 others start beating up Patriot.Kate decides to take a hand. She reaches for a discarded gun and throwing star. But 1 of the villains gets the gun and fires it into the air to draw attention to the fact that he now has her as a bargaining chip. Patriot wants to keep fighting but Iron-guy talks him down and says they've got to let the 5 go. But then Kate turns the tables. She *did* pick up the throwing star which she now digs into her captor's thigh. In the ensuing confusion the YA finally put down the robbers, with Kate capturing her own guy with his own gun.Patriot is definitely not happy being upstaged by a girl. The 2 continue arguing as the police try to arrest the team for damaging the cathedral and endangering the lives of the hostages. And Kat Farrell tries to interview them and learns their super-ids, including Asgardian and Iron Lad. Before the team make their escape they meet Jessica Jones, who Asgardian and Hulking recognise as Jewel. She gives Hulkling her card. And then she contacts Luke Cage.When they reach their destination we see that it is indeed Avengers Mansion. Patriot continues to be angry, this time at being carried by Iron Lad. But it's really that he doesn't like IL telling them what to do. Iron Lad replies that he's got to turn them into a fighting team before the real enemy shows up - Kang the Conqueror. Patriot doesn't really believe this story, and anyway what chance do *they* have if it's true?He leaves because he's got to get home before his Grandma misses him. Hulking gives Iron Lad Jessica's card, and then he and Asgardian leave as well because they have school in the morning. (These 2 are buddying up while the other 2 bicker.)Iron Lad enters the ruined Mansion. But someone else is there so he fires off an ion blast which hits Captain America's shield. Iron Man is there too, as well as Jessica Jones who IL surprises by recognising her as Knightress as well as Jewel. They want to know who he is, and Iron Man wants to know where the advanced armour comes from. When Cap tries to grab his shoulder it sprouts spikes. IL apologises because the neuro-kinetic armour reacts faster than his thoughts.Then he removes his helmet to reveal a youthful face. 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Family matters part four
The Young Avengers (Hulkling, Kate Bishop, Patriot, Stature, Tommy Shepherd, Vision and Wiccan) and the New Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Sentry, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman and Wolverine) are holding off Kree and Skrull troops. Both sets of aliens want to take Hulkling, who is the son of Skrull Princess Anelle and Kree Captain Marvel. Patriot was injured last issue taking a blast intended for Captain America.Cap sends Sentry to take Patriot to hospital, while the rest of the 2 groups deal with the attackers. But then a Kree and a Skrull battleship appear above them. Cap calls to Sentry's acute hearing for help, but he won't return from his mission before the end of the battle.Cap tries to get the YA to leave. But Hulkling points out that the aliens will follow him. And the rest of the YA won't leave without him. So the assembled heroes fight a new horde of alien soldiers.Wolverine assures Tommy it's OK to 'kill' Skrulls, as they heal eventually like he does. This encourages Tommy to demonstrate his ability beyond super-speed - he can speed-up molecular motions causing things, or Skrulls, to explode.Wiccan takes time out to tell Cap that he and Tommy are twins, and may be Scarlet Witch's long-lost sons (as claimed by Super-Skrull last issue).The new Vision also tells Iron Man that he's chosen to join the YA.Hulkling is captured by a group of Kree, and a bunch of Skrulls attempt to shoot them down. They'd rather see him dead than in enemy hands. Super-Skrull (injured in #10) intervenes to save their rightful emperor.Super-Skrull advises Hulkling that the only way to get the alien war off-Earth is to go with the Skrulls to take his rightful place as emperor. But Hulkling hatches a plan.Skip to a ceasefire. Hulkling has surrendered, and both alien sides have come to an agreement. He will spend half an Earth-year with each alien race, and at the end of that time he will decide who he wants to be with. Meanwhile he will be allowed regularly-scheduled visits to Earth.After the aliens have gone, leaving Super-Skrull behind, SS reveals himself to be Hulkling. The real SS has gone in his place. Wolverine could tell. And the YA knew by Super-Skrull's formal speech patterns.The YA and Cap rush to the hospital, where Jessica Jones is waiting. Cap intends to give Patriot a blood transfusion. But Eli's grandfather Isaiah got there 1st.Cap tries once again to dissuade the YA from super-heroics. But once again they refuse to back down.Later the YA are repairing the statues of dead Avengers in the grounds of Avengers Mansion, still in a bad state since Avengers Disassembled. Cassie Lang laments that there is no statue for her father Ant-Man, who died in Disassembled. Wiccan magics one up for her.Patriot joins them with the broken statue of Mockingbird. Now he really does have his grandfather's Super-Soldier powers. Actually obtained by blood transfusion, as he had falsely claimed from the beginning.Jessica Jones is there too. She gives Kate Bishop the bow and arrows belonging to the dead Hawkeye (another casualty of Disassembled). She also says that Kate can use the name Hawkeye too.Hulkling scatters the ashes of his dead Skrull foster mother (killed in #8).Wiccan tries to persuade the others that their next task should be finding his mother Scarlet Witch. Stature isn't in favour because Wanda killed her father in Disassembled.But the discussion is interrupted by the arrival of Tommy, in a costume as Speed. he leads them off to fight Zodiac, who are attacking the UN building.


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The 30th Century boy who will grow up to be Kang the Conqueror fled to the 21st Century to avoid his fate. He hoped to get the Avengers to help him but found Avengers Mansion in ruins from the Avengers Disassembled event and the team itself disbanded. The synthezoid Vision was destroyed in that event but had left behind a list of super-powered teens who could replace the main team if necessary. The boy morphed his Kang armour into Iron Man shape and took the name Iron Lad. He recruited Billy Kaplan, Teddy Altman and Eli Bradley off the list and they became Asgardian, Hulkling and Patriot. The 4 young versions of Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Captain America became the Young Avengers. (But Billy is really a magic-user and Teddy is a shapeshifter who just chooses to imitate Hulk.) They were joined by size-changing Cassie Lang, daughter of Ant-Man who also died in Disassembled, and Kate Bishop who has borrowed Hawkeye's bow and arrows, Mockingbird's battle staves and Swordsman's sword from the Mansion.Cap, IM and Jessica Jones tried to stop the YA taking on this dangerous life. But Kang came back to get his younger self, and the timeline started going haywire. After much too-ing and fro-ing Kang killed the older 3 and young Kang killed old Kang last issue.Iron Lad (armourless due to recent events) says now Kang the Conqueror will never exist and the timesteam will re-adjust. Dead Cap, IM and Jess disappear (but then they were changed versions of the amended reality). But ruined Avengers Mansion is now whole. And with horror they find gravestones for most Avengers. The team are stunned and don't know what to do. But Eli Bradley says Iron Lad *has* to go back to the 30th Century and *has* to become Kang in order to restore the 'real' timeline.However Cassie Lang has been studying the graves and can't find 1 for her father. So in this reality he might be alive. But Billy Kaplan points out that on the other hand Scott Lang might not have met her mother and so *she* might not exist. She might fade from the timestream as it soldifies in its new form. Also the teens on Vision's list all supposedly had some Avengers connection, so they could all vanish. Cassie begs for 1 hour to find Scott and IL supports her (probably because they shared 2 kisses last issue). But Patriot says they can't afford it.Eli has Iron Lad's armour which has reverted to its Kang form, and they know it could take him back home. IL refuses to go *yet*. Patriot says he'll reactivate the Vision program in the armour and Vizh will *send* him back. Billy will cast a spell to make IL forget all about this time trip. And hopefully the 'real' timeline will return, the Avengers will be alive and Jessica Jones will return to being pregnant.Billy starts to mantra-chant "I want Iron Lad to forget". Young Kang hits him to stop him, and he fades away. Enraged Teddy becomes even more Hulk-y and demands IL bring him back. Eli gets between them and says it's the timestream doing this. And Hulkling fades away too. But  IL *does* blame himself. Weeping Cassie comforts him but says he *has* to go back, and he finally agrees.He gives the armour to Eli. This whole thing started when Kang meddled in his own past and gave young Kang the armour. If he's to grow into Kang properly he can't take it back with him. And he *will* forget what happened here (even without Asgardian's spell). He invokes the Vision program in the armour, which takes the Iron Lad form again, and tells him to open the necessary time portal. He also tells him to look after the others.Before going he apologises for causing this mess by coming to this time. But Eli thanks him for creating the Young Avengers, and says Billy and Teddy will be back when he's gone. Iron Lad also apologises in advance for his future self forgetting them. But Cassie promises to remind him, and they share a last kiss. Then with a last farewell he's gone.But when the portal fades the 3 YA'ers still have their costumes, including damage incurred. However the Mansion is back to the correct level of ruin, and the Avengers' graves have gone. Then Asgardian and Hulkling reappear, and Cap, IM and Jess are their old selves. The world has been reinstated to the point before old Kang turned up, but other things that happened since young Kang arrived still happened. However they all still remember what happened post-old Kang, presumably because they were at the centre of the reality-changes (an excuse that's been used before).Steve Rogers still wants them to give up being the Young Avengers. Asgardian *could* cast a spell to make the Avengers forget about them, but instead they sit down to talk. Cap says they've proved their merit tonight, but he and Iron Man still forbid them from donning the uniforms again. IM says they *could* train them, but only with their parents' consent. The various teens know that wouldn't fly.So the YA agree to disband. Cap tells them to leave their borrowed weapons behind (bow, arrows, battle staves, sword and Cap's triangular shield). He also confiscates Patriot's throwing stars.As they leave Kate tries to persuade them to train *themselves* in secret. But Hulkling doesn't want to cross Captain America, and they all know what would happen if their parents found out. Billy gives the others a ride home on a platform of light he conjures up, except Eli who opts to take the subway. But before they part Kate gives him the throwing star she picked up in the Cathedral in #1.Weeks later Kate Bishop and Cassie Lang call the 3 boys together and repeat the idea of getting the team back together. The girls says they have a surprise for them. On the way Cassie reveals she's adopted the codename Stature. Kate persuades Billy to drop the Asgardian name and use Wiccan to reflect his magic powers. Teddy retains Hulkling as a combination of Hulk and changeling (because he can change into other forms). No one mentions rebranding Patriot. But Kate herself turns down all suggestions of a name for herself:- Hawkeye, Weapon-Woman, Taskmistress and Hawkingbird (Eli's idea from #4).Their destination is an abandoned Bishop Publishing warehouse. Kate says they can use some of her dad's money to do it up as a lair (he's got so much he'll never notice). Cap made them promise never to wear the uniforms again, so she's used her fashion connections to get them new ones. They put them on and the team is reborn.Kate and Patriot have replacement weapons. Wiccan basically loses the Thor-wings on his headband. Stature gains a domino-mask, and Patriot has 1 in place of his complete head-covering. And Kate actually now *has* a costume.


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Vision
This issue focuses on the new Vision but equally concerns Stature.Stature (Cassie Lang) is apart from the other Young Avengers because she chose to Register during the Civil War and is now in the Initiative training in Camp Hammond. Though apparently she's also keeping herself apart here. We see invisible Vision watching her through a chainlink fence. Then Tony Stark arrives at the Camp for a surprise inspection and 'happens' to choose to talk to her. She reminds him they met (in a YA Special flashback set just before YA#1). He gives a quick glimpse of his real Vision-face and then takes her (in civvies) off-campus for a meal.Cassie is worried and conflicted. She should turn Vision in but she doesn't. She asks why he's here. He says the him that was created in the YA series would have replied with the exact chain of logic that led him here, but he's evolved and his answer now is that he thought she'd be pleased to see him. She says she is a bit but still can't get past the fact that he chose the wrong side in the Civil War. But she thinks he was influenced by the other YAers, and if he hands himself in and Registers then he can join the Initiative and everything will be fine.But in the meantime she's freaked out by being on a date with 'Tony Stark', so he changes to the face of Iron Lad. (He has the the original Vision's operating system and Iron Lad's brain patterns while his 'body' was IL's neurokinetic armour.) This is hardly an improvement because Cassie fell in love with Nathaniel Richards before he had to go back to the future to become Kang The Conqueror. She's been resisting the idea that in some way Vision *is* IL.Vision says he's travelled the world, using his mimicry to blend in. He's been an aid worker in Darfur, a groundskeeper for a Shinto temple in Kyoto and a female bartender in New Zealand. He also visited Wundagore where the original Vision's wife Wanda Maximoff was born to see if he had inherited feelings for her, and the answer was no. But all these experiences have allowed him to realise who he is. He wasn't 'influenced' to be Anti-Registration he *chose* it. His Vision and Iron Lad components would have taking opposite sides, *he* made his own choice.He says he's not here to join the Initiative, he's here to check an intuition he has about her. She hasn't had him arrested. And he saw her in the Camp so alone. Cassie jumps to the conclusion that this is all to get her to defect, and goes into a rant. His side are so sure they're right, and those who've fallen for the Registration line are stupid or evil. His side are the romantic rebels and any collateral damage is worth the cause. Besides Tony Stark will pay for it all when he realises he's been wrong. But the Anti-Reg leader Captain America tried to stop the YA from being amateur vigilantes, and they proved him right by breaking Speed out of jail. She wants to become a hero the way her dad Ant-Man did by working with Stark and the Avengers. And in the end of Civil War Cap realised that the fight wasn't worth the cost and surrendered. But the YA wanted to keep on being romantic rebels (and she somehow suggests that it was that kind of thing that led Scarlet Witch to destroy the Avengers and rewrite reality in House Of M). Vision protests that she's misunderstood him ...... which is when AIM, who've been monitoring them, break into the diner and shoot Vision through the chest. They also shoot at everyone else in the place. Cassie and Vision each asks them not to hurt the other. Then Vision reaches out to her and accidentally phases his arm right through Cassie's chest as she starts to grow. There's and energy discharge and they both discover they've lost their powers. Cassie is now slightly taller than Vision but can't change size from that, and he can't remove his arm from her body.The AIM troopers say they're only here for the Vision, whose powers their weapon was meant to disrupt. The girl can accompany them or they'll kill her and cut his arm free form her corpse. Vision says he can't allow that. He's rerouted some of his internal system and has got his solar beam back, which he uses to destroy their guns. But that drains his power and the AIMers close in for hand-to-hand combat. Stature kicks 1 in the face and then they each tackle 1 other. She can't help commenting how he's learned to use contractions like "let's", he says it's to help pass as human. And then she uses Vision's fist to hit the last of the AIM. All 4 gather themselves together and retreat by teleportation.Cassie says the Cape-Killers from the Camp will be here soon. Vision asks her to call him Jonas, because it's a cool name. He also asks if she wants to turn him in, and she says not and tells him to turn invisible. Later she tells the Cape-Killers that Tony Stark was a fake and lured her here so AIM could attack. Then she heads for her car trying not to walk like she's got somebody attached to her body. Then she realises that she can't drive like this so they'll catch a bus. Cassie feels she has her size-changing back but Jonas still can't go intangible to remove his arm. He has a plan and suggests they go find a large remote area.Later they get of the bus near a farm. Stature grows extremely large, with visible Vision hanging from her back. Then he pulls his arm free, which they figure will only leave a small wound she can stick a band-aid on. Cassie shrinks and Jonas tends to the hole in her back. Meanwhile she asks him what his intuition was. He says he has come to believe that the person he is is someone she has feelings for, and he's here to tell her that her feelings for Iron Lad are reciprocated by him. And his intuition is that she will respond when he kisses her. And he does and she does. She's still conflicted but she asks him for time to think about things. He of course agrees.


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This issue features Hulkling with support from Wiccan and the other Young Avengers (except Speed and Stature).Teddy Altman's father, the supposedly long-dead original Captain Marvel, has recently been seen flying around. On the splash page as the YA spring into action we 'hear' Hulkling rehearsing what he would say to him if he met him.Now we jump forward to an actual meeting on a New York rooftop, with the Avengers/Stark Tower in the background topped with Sentry's Watchtower. Now human-looking Teddy introduces himself as Teddy Altman and witters on about how he saw the Captain leaving the Tower and called to him and now he doesn't know what to say. Marvel urges him to get to the point and Teddy blurts out that he's his son. This is startling news to CM but when Teddy mentions Anelle it gains some credibility, and then Teddy says Super-Skrull told him all about it which confuses Mar-Vell again. So he asks Teddy to explain things from the beginning.Teddy chooses to start a few days ago where he and Billy Kaplan saw a Times Square billboard showing CM and the Mighty Avengers fighting a giant-robot (CM(2008)#1). Teddy shapeshifted to a Hulkling with wings and flew off to find out whether this CM was a fake. Billy magicked up his Wiccan costume and followed, flying by magic. Both risk being apprehended by the Registration police. En route Billy talked Teddy down and asked him to think about what he was going to do because you can't just walk up to someone and say "You're my dad". But Teddy hasn't come up with a better idea since then.Mar-Vell latches on to Teddy being a shape-shifter, and Teddy demonstrates. He says that's his Skrull heritage, and his super-strength probably comes from his father. CM says he's got to take time to digest this, and he flies off to do what he was on the way to do before Teddy stopped him. But he promises to come back to talk to him some more.We now move forward to the YA stopping a gang of cyborgs robbing the Empire City Bank. Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Patriot (Eli Bradley) and Vision (Jonas) are very supportive of Hulkling's attempt to connect with his father. Kate wants as little to do with *her* father as possible, Vision thinks he should have tried an official channel like Tony Stark. Eli thinks Teddy should give the man some space. The police arrive so it's time for the YA to disappear. Wiccan magics up a portal for them but Hulkling is still taking his frustration out on the cyborgs, including smashing a police car with 1 of them. He flies off to be alone.That night Captain Marvel finds him on a rooftop. He wants to know how sure Billy is that Super-Skrull told him the truth. But he has to admit that he did sleep with Anelle. And Billy says the 'mother' who raised him on Earth did turn out to be a Skrull. She always told him his father died before he was born, and he always missed not knowing that made-up man. In turn Mar-Vell says Anelle was a good, strong woman who might have been a leader to end the continual war between the Skrulls and Kree, except she died when Galactus ate her world. But he and Anelle never saw each other again after what must have been Teddy's conception.Mar-Vell tells Teddy how Kree sons are all raised to be soldiers. But he is prouder of Teddy because he *chose* to become a warrior, and prouder still that he is an Avenger. Teddy has to mention that the actual Avengers don't approve of the YA. Teddy finally thinks to ask how come Mar-Vell is here in the present. CM says it was accidental time-travel. Teddy throws in that he used to know the time-travelling Kang The Conqueror (actually the younger version Iron Lad).CM says that he intends to find a way back to his own time. Teddy wants him to stay but Mar-Vell says he must return to fulfil his destiny. Teddy has to admit he knows what happens when you mess with history, but he's the only parent he has a chance to know. But then they hug and he accepts the inevitable. Captain Marvel says he still has stuff to do, but says he hopes to see his son again before he returns to his own time.But a future Teddy in voiceover says he never saw him again alive.


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This last issue features Hawkeye with Patriot, Speed and Wiccan and cameos from the rest of the Young Avengers.Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) and Patriot (Eli Bradley) are at last on a date, being driven in the evening through Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage. But Kate has realised this is a big mistake and suggests to Eli that maybe they shouldn't date, just remain friends and colleagues. Eli of course has to agree but the situation is now awkward. Kate tries to reassure him that it was OK for him to ask her out and arrange the carriage and of course he's a really nice person. Eli misreads the signal and tries to kiss her. And now it's even more awkward.Then the driver stops the carriage, removes his coachman's uniform and reveals the costume of Ronin of the now-underground New Avengers. He spares Patriot continued embarrassment by KOing him with a kick and starts to spar with Hawkeye, without drawing his swords. Kate realises she's being tested. Then as Eli starts to come round Ronin hands her a card with an address on and tells to bring her bow there tomorrow - he wants to see how she shoots. She's not to tell anyone. Kate is rightly suspicious but Ronin says if he wanted to kill her he could have done it here. And then he exits sharply.When Eli revives Kate fobs his questions off by insisting that it was just a strange mugging. He's more concerned about the disaster of the not-date. Warning her not to say anything more about them remaining friends, he staggers off into the night.Next day Kate enters an Upper West Side brownstone after casing it for hours for suspicious characters. Inside she finds Luke Cage and Spider-Man playing a computer game and a woman reading a book. More astoundingly the man welcoming her to the temporary HQ of the Avengers is Clint Barton, the supposedly-dead original Hawkeye. Clint admits that he was dead (Avengers Disassembled) but got better (c/o House Of M and Scarlet Witch). However he's not Hawkeye now but Ronin. But he wants to see how the new owner of his old name handles his old bow (both of which Jessica Jones gave her in YA#12).In the next scene the pair are in their current costumes shooting arrows at a target. Kate's using Hawkeye's special bow and Clint has an ordinary weapon. 1 of the arrows is in the bull and Clint says he's going to do the Robin Hood shot (splitting that arrow). Kate says *no-one* can do that. Clint bets her 20 bucks he can. Kate replies that she's rich so he'd have to raise the stakes a *lot*. So he says that if he makes the shot she'll give him his bow back. Kate protests that the bow's hers now because Captain America said she could have it (only I slight misreading of YA#12 because I figure Jessica did it with Cap's approval). Clint points out that was when he was dead. He insists on the stakes but adds that if he fails she can keep his bow and name forever, and the Avengers will never interfere with the YA again.While he's lining up for the shot he gives Kate some advice - take every opportunity life offers you and give it your best shot. (I guess he's referring to the date with Eli.) Then he splits the arrow and leaves, reminding her to leave the bow.Then we learn that Wiccan has accompanied her as invisible backup. Billy Kaplan turns visible and asks what she's going to do. Kate figures she'll have to drop the Hawkeye name as well. She wonders if Hawkingbird is still available. (She still also carries Mockingbird-style battlestaves (but has abandoned her sword).)Back at the YA's base the grapevine swings into action. Billy tells his boyfriend Teddy Altman (Hulkling). Teddy asks Kate's bestie Cassie Lang (Stature) to have a word with Kate, but Cassie consults *her* boyfriend Vision. Eli senses there's something the others aren't telling him and he asks the android Vision what's happening. And Eli can't resist getting revenge for his recent embarrassment by going on about it, until Kate loses her temper and stalks off.The other YAer Speed catches up with her taking out her anger on a punchbag. Tommy Shepherd is the only 1 who doesn't know what she's done. He says she doesn't have to tell him what it was, and asks her out for a drink at a bar he knows that is very lax about checking id. Seeing Eli and the others enter the gym she pointedly accepts Tommy's request for a date.In the bar Kate sticks to small talk but then Tommy does ask her what went on. She hesitates but then senses that *he*'s about to try and kiss her. So she takes the conversation outside and tells him the whole story. She's surprised when the bit he picks up on is that she knows where her bow is. And then he suggests they go take her stuff back. Soon he's (literally) swept Kate off her feet and zoomed her to the Avengers' building and into the lift. And on the way up he does kiss her, and Kate responds.But then they're in the empty apartment. (The Avengers are out Avenging.) Speed speeds around and quickly finds the bow. Meanwhile Kate looks at a picture of 'Cap's kooky quartet'. Then Tommy asks if Kate wants to continue their date. But she just wants to go home with her prize.However they hear the lift coming up again. Kate tells Tommy to go and he rushes off. She herself hides out on a balcony. Ronin and Luke Cage enter the room and Clint is bending Luke's ear about the Young Avengers. He sees a bright future for them and thinks the Avengers should help them out - give them guidance. Luke agrees that Cap would have wanted that. (Steve Rogers is of course 'dead' after the end of Civil War.) Then Clint notices Kate's perfume in the air, and the picture she moved. He raises his voice to continue his theme, saying that the world definitely needs the YA, and he definitely thinks they can make it. Kate takes the hint before somehow escaping. (Clint probably ushered Luke out of the way so she could just walk out.)Later Kate is practising with Hawkeye's bow trying unsuccessfully to duplicate the Robin Hood shot. Ronin walks in and advises her next time she tries a heist she shouldn't wear perfume or stop to eavesdrop. He assures her he doesn't want the bow back. Instead he gives her the picture she admired, because the YA remind him of his early days. He advises her to keep taking the shots. Then he leaves as silently as he arrived.Lastly Kate looks in on Eli who's playing the same computer game that Luke and Spidey were (it involves Hulk and a chainsaw). She follows Clint's advice and kisses Eli. But then says they should give things time. Eli can handle that.


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This issues features Stature with a lot of help from Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Patriot and Wiccan.We see Cassie Lang curled up in a foetal position looking catatonic while we hear Kate tell Eli Bradley and Billy Kaplan that Cassie called her this morning crying. She rushed round and found her in this state and shrinking, and we now see she's shrunk so much that they need a microscope to see her and is still getting smaller. Eli suggests contacting Henry Pym (discoverer of the Pym Particles which enable he and Cassie to grow and shrink) but Kate thinks they'll get arrested as Non-Registered superheroes and blamed for injuring an Initiative recruit.Wiccan says he could magically shrink 1 of them down to talk to Cassie and find out what's going on. Eli suggests Kate for the job as her best friend, but she says Cassie wouldn't respond to her earlier. So she counter-proposes Eli do it because they have something in common - both bearing the burden of a legacy (from Cassie's father Scott Lang/Ant-Man and from Eli's grandfather Isaiah Bradley, the black Captain America). Eli's unhappy but reluctantly agrees.Wiccan casts 1 of his mantra spells and Eli shrinks. Kate picks him up and puts him on the microscope platform. But Eli keeps shrinking so Wiccan casts a spell to stop him, but he's smaller than Cassie's head. Eli tries pretending to be the girl's conscience but that doesn't work so he tries bribing her with a '24' marathon on Netflix. And Cassie speaks to him to say she thinks she killed someone.Cue a flashback to that morning. It's the anniversary of her parents' wedding but they split up because of Scott's early life of petty crime. Afterwards he turned over a new leaf and became a superhero but was killed (in Avengers Disassembled). And Cassie loved him all the way along. Now Peggy Lang has remarried to beat cop Blake Burdick, and Cassie resists his every attempt to be her new father. This morning Cassie had enough and grew large when he tried to order her about.The other 3 Young Avengers are listening to Cassie recounting all this and fear she's going to reveal she killed her stepdad. But she says she didn't, even though she wanted to. Eli compares her problem to his, living in the shadow of her father Scott even as he has to measure up to his grandfather's legend. He says they have to do their own thing, but Cassie thinks her 'thing' is to fail. And she shrinks down to his size before continuing her narration.That morning she left the house to clear her head. She remembered when Scott turned his life around and became Ant-Man and joined the Avengers. She lived with him for a while and even shared adventures. But her memories were interrupted by cars being flung about by a Growing Man stimuloid. She remembered the 1 Kang sent after the YA (in YA#3) and she grew to match its height and punched it, expecting it to shatter into multiple small versions. But instead it reacted in the way that earned the stimuloids their name - it grew even bigger. Avoiding hitting it again she spotted some sort of port on its back. Ripping up a street light she jammed the live cables into the GM's back and it fell ... towards a woman who Officer Burdick pushed out of the way and got the whole of the giant on top of him.The cop was taken to Columbia University Medical Centre and Cassie and her mom waited anxiously there for news. They already knew he was in a bad way and might never walk again if he lived. 2 other cops joined them and expressed their anger at 1 of Tony Stark's Initiative trainees getting a good cop injured. They consoled Peggy who feared she's going to lose another husband. And Cassie left in tears.In the present Cassie continues to blame herself for what happened. Eli says it wasn't her fault, it was an accident, and she has to move on. But she doesn't believe that's what Captain America or Eli's grandfather would do. She thinks this is the kind of thing Blake and her mom wanted to spare her from. And she shrinks even smaller on the microscope stand.Billy and Kate think they *have* to ask Hank Pym for help now even if it does get them arrested. But Eli decides to try tough love. He says it's true - Cassie messed up because she isn't cut out to be a hero. He adds that his granddad fought for the US in WWII but they put him in jail with his mind ruined by the process that they'd used to make him a superhero. Patriot says compared to him they've had it easy, and he remembers something Bucky told him (after the end of our #1) about the original WWII Patriot, Jeff Mace. Apparently Mace quoted the beginning of Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" to indicate we've got to trust our own judgement - we may fail but we've got to deal with it, like Cap, Isaiah, Jeff and Cassie's dad dealt with stuff. If she's a real hero she'll go comfort her mother in her time of need.Cassie suddenly grows to normal size and picks little Eli off the microscope, telling him she's through apologising for who she is. Eli hurriedly agrees with her and gets Wiccan to magic him back to his real size too. She phones her mom at Blake's bedside and does apologise for being difficult to live with lately. She says she'll try to do better, but she won't apologise for taking up her father's legacy as Stature. She says she'll come back to the hospital and she might bring some friends, her other family (looking at the other Young Avengers).


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High school student Elijah Bradley reads his report on the Tuskegee Experiment to his history class; he is mocked by his classmates for what is perceived as his anti-American attitude. He ends up fighting with one of his critics and is suspended. He heads home to see a white man leaving the Bradley home and zipping off on a motorcycle. Elijah thinks he recognized him and hurries inside where his grandmom tells him that the visitor came to talk to his grandfather, Isaiah Bradley, the first Captain America (see the epic miniseries THE TRUTH: RED, WHITE, AND BLACK). His grandfather is evasive about the vistor as well and Elijah muses on what it means to be a hero called The Patriot. He recalls what the famous Cap told him about patriotism: it is not blindly supporting your government but standing up for your country’s ideals and holding accountable when it fails….
That night, Patriot joins Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) and they stop by the home of Wiccan who open a magic portal for them to find Bucky Barnes. They step through into a dark building downtown where the Winter Soldier is engaged in violent combat with a M.O.D.O.C. Squad. The two Young Avengers join in and vanquish the enemy. Bucky tells them he is on the trail of the Red Skull and warns them to stay out of it before heading off. But Kate put a tracker on his bike so Patriot follows the trail, finding Bucky waiting for him at Steve Rogers’ apartment. Elijah opens up about his concerns, that since Captain America was killed, he doesn’t know the meaning of patriotism anymore. Bucky explains that Steve was committed to the American Dream and now Elijah has to live up to that legacy. Elijah asks to know more about the original Patriot, Jeff Mace….


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This issue features the twins Speed and Wiccan with support from Wiccan's boyfriend Hulkling.Billy Kaplan explains to Teddy Altman that he has a regular dream where he's having his 8th year birthday party and his 'mother' Scarlet Witch is there talking to other Avengers, in particular in last night's dream the Wasp. Wanda Maximoff as usual comments that he has his father's eyes and we see Mephisto behind them. And he wakes up filled with dread. He adds that the effect has been getting worse since the Civil War.Billy says he needs to find the Scarlet Witch (who's been missing since the House Of M event) and learn the truth about his heritage. If he can find her he can help her recover from her insanity (that led to Avengers Disassembled and House Of M). Teddy wants to accompany him on his quest but Billy says Tommy should go with him because Wanda's his 'mom' too. At which point Tommy Shepherd enters through the window. Besides, Billy needs shape-shifting Hulkling to pretend to be him so his 'real' mother Rebecca Kaplan doesn't get suspicious. At which point she calls him for dinner. Tommy zooms off, Teddy wishes Billy well and assumes his boyfriend's form, and Billy leaves.Speed had said he was heading for the island of Genosha, the last place Wanda was seen alive. So Wiccan magics himself there (Billy's way of doing magic is still to chant what he wants to happen until it does) but his superfast brother still beats him to it. And Tommy's still kidding Billy about his burgeoning relationship with 'the Skrull'. Billy looks around at the deserted city of Hammer Bay but Tommy says he already searched the place while he was waiting and the Witch isn't here. And he declares he's off to Wundagore and Wiccan has to follow him again.Wundagore Mountain is the place where Wanda and her brother Pietro/Quicksilver were born. Again Speed has checked every dwelling and says he's drawn a blank once more. He claims to have learned by experience (with Wiccan and others) to tell when someone's magical. Wiccan double-checks with his magical senses and has to agree. Unless she's deep undercover with her magic powers completely suppressed.Billy then says they're going to the place *he* wanted to try 1st, that they could have reached by bus (an option which Speed can't take seriously). And he magics them both to Cresskill, New Jersey where Wanda and the Vision set up home when they were married. The house looks deserted and going to seed but then they see someone in a window. Billy warns Tommy to be careful but Speed races to open the door. And as he touches the doorknob a bolt of magic lightning sends him to Hell.Wiccan uses a protection spell to get himself inside the house. And inside he finds Master Pandemonium hiding, who he recognises from Avengers files. The villain sends the demons that are his arms to attack the boy who responds by conjuring up his magic staff to hold them off. More demons trickle out of the star-shaped hole in Pandemonium's chest which Wiccan fails to dismiss. It's a standoff and Billy asks where his brother is, to be told the answer is Hell. But MP says he recognises Wiccan's magic as the Scarlet Witch type, and guesses that his brother is his twin and that they are Wanda's kids Billy and Tommy. He magics them both to Hell and then brings them back with Tommy.Pandemonium then tells them things concerning their origin (confirming and expanding what they learned in #11 of the Young Avengers series). They were Scarlet Witch's twin babies born by magic but really they came from Mephisto, who made a pact with the movie actor MP once was but then supposedly took 5 parts of his soul, 2 of which became Tommy and Billy. Master P searched the world for them only to find at the end that he'd been tricked into recovering 5 missing pieces of Mephisto himself. (MP doesn't actually describe all this very clearly.) He says that after the MP/Mephisto/SW(/West Coast Avengers) affair was over the children were erased from Wanda's memory, which led to her madness mentioned above.Since then he says he's been in hiding (not completely true), lately in this house. Billy says he and Tommy came here looking for their mother and their history. MP advises them that their past is shrouded in 'darkness and chaos' and they should let it be and embrace their present. When they've left we see him watching presumably 1 of his old films.The duo go home to New York by bus, much to Speed's disgust. Billy still believes his mother isn't dead but thinks she doesn't want to be found. (And we see that Wanda *is* in a house in Wundagore.) Billy goes home to *his* present which significantly includes is his boyfriend Teddy. And he has to admit that his brother Tommy isn't as obnoxious as he seems.


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The bulk of this issue is flashbacks to the Young Avengers' lives before they became superheroes.At the Daily Bugle's Pulse office reporter Kat Farrell tries to persuade their private investigator Jessica Jones to get her an interview with the YA. She waves a newspaper article (headed "Young Justice?", a sly reference to DC's earlier teen team?) about their battle 3 days ago with Mr Hyde (#7-8) where it says Patriot was on drugs, attacked Captain America (not exactly), and had to be restrained by the rest of the team. Jess tries to deny knowing anything about it, but Kat points out she's there in the photo. She wants to know if the Avengers have made the team disband, and threatens to go for answers to 14-yr old Cassie Lang, who is obviously following in her father Scott Lang's footsteps as the size-changing Ant-Girl. Jessica reluctantly says she'll see what she can do.1st-off pregnant Jessica goes to warn Cassie over fries and colas that Kat threatens to expose her secret identity. 1st she tries to reassure the teen that people may not believe her claim, but she reminds her what happened after a paper outed Matt Murdock as Daredevil (DD(1998)#32, and now the FBI is after him). Jess suggests she could always stop being Giant-Girl, and Cassie corrects her that it's Stature (I guess she's fed up with no-one remembering her super-id). Cassie says she can't do that.Cue the 1st flashback. Cassie is at Stark Industries trying to get to see Tony Stark (as it seems she has done for several days). She's told he's not there but says she'll wait. Her mother Peggy arrives to drag her off to school, saying Mr Stark obviously doesn't want to see her (it seems he's ignored lots of calls and e-mails too). Cassie wants to know exactly how her father died (presumably the details of Avengers Disassembled have been hushed up, although in #2 of the main title she knew he'd been killed by Jack Of Hearts and where it happened).They are joined by Peggy's new husband Blake Burdick who is a policeman. The receptionist chooses this moment to say that Mr Stark is coming to see her, but her step-father insists that she go to school instead. During a heated exchange Blake says Scott was a convicted felon, Cassie retorts that he became a hero, Blake says cops are heroes and Cassie tells him to go catch criminals then. Her mother slaps her and the girl storms out. But 3 other cops are waiting outside to escort her to school.That night Cassie packs her things intending to run away from home. But on the way out she catches a glimpse of a TV report on the Young Avengers adventure in #1 and instead heads over there where she meets them in #2, discovers she has her father's size-changing ability and joins the team. End of flashback.Jessica asks Cassie what she would have done if she did run away. Cassie says she would have gone to Los Angeles to join a group of kids who rebelled against their supervillan parents (the Runaways, currently in their 2nd volume). She's not sure if the Young Avengers still exist, since Iron Lad went back to the future (#6) and Eli Bradley gave up being Patriot after he was exposed as getting his powers from the MGH drug (#8). But no matter what *she* will continue the fight. Jess asks if she's really doesn't want a normal life, and Cassie counter-asks if Jessica did (when she was the teen heroine Jewel).Next Jess asks the same question of Teddy Altman and Billy Kaplan in Central Park. Teddy says there's no such thing as normal, but until the Young Avengers he desperately wanted to be such. And he narrates his flashback ...... In High School he knew he had the power to shapeshift and used it to make himself a jock and became best friends with the class president Greg Norris. Eventually he trusted him with his secret and surprisingly Greg was happy about it. His friend got him to imitate Johnny Storm to attract girls for them, to become the Hulk just for laughs, and to pose as Tony Stark to get them into exclusive nightclubs.Then they hear about the Avengers disbanding (Avengers Disassembled) and use the Tony Stark disguise to get into the ruined Avengers Mansion. Teddy uses his superstrength to get past some debris. The Avengers fan marvels at all the mementos on display inside but Greg wants to steal some and sell them. Teddy won't let him and Greg threatens to tell the police he's a Skrull (which he actually is but doesn't know it). Teddy manifests some very large claws and Greg backs off, their friendship ruined.Teddy is left alone with the Avengers' stuff. Which is where Iron Lad finds him and invites him to join his team as Hulkling. And we also see the team in action against Shocker between #6 and #7, which is the event Captain America, Spider-Man and Luke Cage were watching a TV report on at the start of #7.Billy Kaplan then narrates *his* flashback where he's sitting moping outside Avengers Mansion when Wanda Maximoff finds him, his favourite Avenger Scarlet Witch. His face is bleeding and he confesses that a school bully John Kessler keeps beating him up for being different, though he's not a mutant like her (but possibly he already knows he's gay). She encourages him to stand up to the bully next time.But instead he concentrates on keeping out of Kessler's way, and he's so successful that Kessler starts bullying another kid. But this makes Billy angry enough to intervene, and something happens within him which causes him to strike Kessler with lightning from his hands. This disturbs him so much that he runs to Avengers Mansion again, which by now is in ruins. And there Iron Lad finds him and inducts him as Asgardian (now Wiccan since #6).In the present the 2 boys agree to meet with Kat Farrell. They even intend to confirm the rumours that they are a gay couple.Jessica's next stop is the Rockefeller Centre ice rink where she meets Kate Bishop. Kate is worried about her father finding out what she's doing (including using his money to finance the team and using 1 of his disused warehouses as their base), but reveals that her mother is dead. She also reveals another reason why she's become a Young Avenger, in her flashback.Kate and her sister are trying on their bridesmaid and bridal dresses for Susan's wedding (that will get interrupted in #1). Kate tries to persuade Susan to drastically cut down the cost of the wedding and give Dad's money instead to the charities Mom used to work for before she died. Susan won't do that, but confides that if Kate wants to devote her life to good works then she'll back her against their father.Schoolgirl Kate is walking at night through Central Park when she's attacked and raped. She sees a therapist about it, but also learns self-defence and the use of various weapons. So she's well-prepared when she thrusts herself into the YA.Now Jessica empathises with her because something similar happened to her (with Purple Man when she was Jewel) which made *her* *quit* being a superhero. But she's *not* telling Kate to quit. She has to admit that if her (as yet unborn) daughter inherits powers she'll tell *her* not to enter the super-business, but she expects the girl will do it anyway. And hopefully she'll be as good as Kate.Jess' last stop is meeting Eli Bradley in front of the Manhattan Public Library. He says he's left the team but she says Kat will still want to know why, and about his using Mutant Growth Hormone to give himself powers. She suggests he tells her the truth to deter other kids from using MGH to become superheroes. But he protests that's not why he did it, and we're into the last flashback.Eli is walking home from the store with his grandpa when they are confronted by a youth gang taunting them as Captain America and Bucky. (They've obviously heard the story that Isaiah Bradley was the black Cap in WWII, but the Super-Soldier process eventually dulled his mind.) Isaiah takes the insults and a thrown bottle without fighting back. Eli stands up to them but they knock him down and then leave. Eli makes to follow them with the broken bottle, but 2 drug dealers offer him something better - MGH.Later at home he reviews the Internet claims that the black Cap is a myth. He asks his grandma Faith whether grandpa really *was* the black Cap. She says it's true but he asks how she *knows* it is. She replies that his fighting for his country in WWII means he's a hero, whether or *not* he was a super-soldier.Later still he and Isaiah are playing ball out back when the gang appear again and start beating Eli up. Grandpa finally reacts and takes them all. Eli is ashamed that he doubted the man, and he becomes Patriot to make up for it by continuing his legacy.But now he doubts himself. Jessica tells him that making mistakes is OK as long as you learn from them. And the topic of the future of her unborn child crops up again. Eli finally says he'll talk to Kat Farrell sometime, but now he has schoolwork to catch up on.Jess returns to Kat with Hulkling, Kate (still with no super-name), Stature and Wiccan for the interview. Her partner Luke Cage is with her and comments that she obviously didn't talk the kids out of super-heroing as Cap wanted her to. She replies that they weren't going to stop, and in truth she didn't want them to.And we see Iron Lad in his Kang armour watching from somewhen.