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Avengers: The Initiative disassembled part 3
In Stamford outside Camp Hammond Justice is giving a press conference. Among the reporters is Sally Floyd of Front Line. He is telekinetically towing a preservation container with a body in it. He explains that Michael Van Patrick was killed in a training accident and the Initiative have covered it up. Meanwhile he was cloned without any consent. And the last Scarlet Spider unmasks to show that he is 1 such clone. The other New Warriors (Debrii, Night Thrasher, Rage and Slapstick) stand in support.Drill Sergeant Gauntlet, who knew about the death but not the cloning (until last issue), is unable to answer questions. He claims he's got to concentrate on the damage (by Ragnarok last issue again) to Stamford and its people. Sally turns instead to Ultragirl who's been in the Initiative and a member with Justice of the New Warriors. Suzi Sherman hesitates but then confirms it.Norman Osborn is watching the news with his assistant Victoria Hand. This is the opportunity he's been looking for.In Madripoor the Shadow Initiative team (Bengal, Constrictor, Komodo, Taskmaster and Typhoid Mary) are confronted by Hydra Agents led by Hardball and Scorpion. They've come to 'arrest' traitor Hardball. His ex-girlfriend Komodo suggests that Scorpion is mind-controlling him, but Scorpion suggests a more intimate connection. This angers Melati Kusuma to attack, but Roger Brokeridge shoots her with a SPIN dart which removes her powers. (Hardball stole SPIN Tech for Hydra in #4).Without her lizard/regeneration powers Melati reverts to a human with no legs. Bengal catches her falling body and Taskmaster orders a retreat. Typhoid erects a flame barrier to cover their escape. Hydra chase after them as they decide to drop into the sewer system. Bengal is hit and drops Melati, but Constrictor's coils drag him down the manhole leaving Komodo to Hydra.The Warriors leave Stamford with MVP's body. Ultragirl elects to go with them, and she throws her old Ms Marvel costume (which must have folded up very tightly in a pocket) to the lawyer who Osborn sent to claim it (#21).The Stamford residents are understandably angry. 1 version of New Warriors blew up a large chunk of their town, triggering the Civil War. They've protested ever since about the Initiative training base Camp Hammond built next door because it would attract problems like Ragnarok.Tigra has no ready answer and turns instead on Gauntlet asking him if he knew about MVP. Annex, Doc Samson, Gargoyle, Geiger, Hellcat, Prodigy, Red 9, Stingray and Sunstreak would like to know too. Sgt Green admits that he knew about MVP's death but not the cloning. Cloud 9 and Trauma admit that they knew about that too (but Cloud 9 doesn't say she also learned about the cloning in #9).Doc Samson blames the current disaster on another secret - keeping the (inactive) Ragnarok clone on the base. Green blames that on Henry Gyrich, the Skrull-Henry Pym and Baron Blitzschlag. The Baron claims that the US military knew all about it too - they wanted the cyborg clone back working as a weapon.Trauma tries to take the blame for MVP because it was his fault he died. But Gauntlet says it's on him because he was in charge of the training session. And he should have come clean about it despite his orders.Diamondback makes her 1st appearance since #21 as she announces the arrival of a SHIELD craft without the SHIELD insignia. (And we also get to see Batwing and Gorilla Girl in the following scene.) Osborn and Hand step out, along with armoured guards also without SHIELD markings. Norman addresses the reporters and announces sweeping changes.The 50 State Initiative was a good idea and its teams performed well during the Secret Invasion despite being infiltrated by Skrulls. They will be reviewed and any changes necessary will be made. The immoral cloning experiments will be investigated. All Initiative facilities will be moved away from major population centres - and so Camp Hammond will be closed.He also declares that SHIELD has been dissolved, and will be replaced by a new organisation he will announce later. He ignores questions about a 'hammer' logo and rumours of a new Avengers. He tells Sgt Green to take his staff and vacate the place. As his jet leaves the Stamford citizens start demolishing the Camp, including tearing down the statue of Jim Hammond - the android Human Torch.Back in Madripoor Taskmaster wants the team to head for the SHIELD extraction point with the info about Hydra and SPIN Tech. It doesn't matter that they've failed their mission to capture Hardball, and only Bengal wants to 'waste time' going back for Komodo. But then Typhoid sees the news that SHIELD has been disbanded, so their ride home won't be there.And 2 figures are lurking behind them - Bloodscream and Roughhouse.


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Bug hunt
The issue begins on a flight back to Camp Hammond from Washington DC where the Campers ended last issue being commended for saving the President from Hydra. We see Cloud 9, Gargoyle, (the fake) Hulkling, Justice, Wonder Man and a silhouette who is probably Thor Girl flying under their own power. Meanwhile inside a plane Hardball is seated next to Komodo.Hardball worries that Justice suspects the trainees know what happened to MVP (and were ordered to keep quiet about in #1). But when he turns back to his sleeping companion he finds she's transformed to an ordinary-looking girl. His surprise awakens her. She reverts immediately to her lizard form, angry that he's seen her human version.Gauntlet and Yellowjacket interrupt the spat. Komodo complains that Hardball has seen her secret identity. But HB assures her she's nobody he recognises.Meanwhile in Camp Hammond Subbasement 9 Henry Gyrich has introduced Trauma to the guest that Beast has brought to train him in controlling his power. She is ex-mutant Dani Moonstar, who like him used to manifest people's fears. She believes she can teach him how to use his power productively.But Trauma only wants to learn control so he can stop his power from activating at all. Beast wants him to see his power as a gift, but Terrance reacts by showing Henry McCoy the human he used to be and asks the furry X-Man if he really wouldn't give up his mutant gift to return to that form.Moonstar tries to intercede, but Trauma reacts by transforming into her nemesis the Demon Bear. But Dani overcame this fear long ago, and she leaps onto the Bear's back and gets it in a choke hold until Trauma returns to human. And he agrees to take her as his personal mentor. (He seems to stop training with the others.)Sometime later drill-sergeant Gauntlet downplays his trainees' success against Hydra, and insists they've still got a lot to learn. (We see Rage and Slapstick alongside our focus group Cloud 9, Hardball and Komodo.)What follows is a montage of individual training sessions probably spread over several days. We see Hellcat teaching Komodo resuscitation techniques, Black Widow teaching Cloud 9 to shoot and Stingray showing Hardball how to save someone from drowning.Then Justice introduces the class to Thing as an example of a Class 100 opponent. The whole mob gets to try to defeat him. Bengal, Scorpion (Carmilla Black) and Triathlon are included in the mix. But Ben Grimm is basically just an immovable object who wears them all down.Yellowjacket is watching the proceedings with Dr Curt Connors. Henry Pym has called Connors here to discuss Komodo. She (Melati Kusuma) was a student of Curt's who stole his lizard-transformation formula and improved it. As such she is in control of her lizard form, which Connors never was. Hank says he's going to send Komodo on an active mission, but won't tell Curt what it is.After the Thing session Justice gives the students the night off. Hardball tries to persuade Cloud 9 and Komodo to come into town with him. But Cloud 9 has a counselling session scheduled. And YJ tells Komodo to report for a briefing with War Machine.WM and YJ tell Komodo that her performance against Hydra last week was impressive, so they've got a job for her. YJ reminds her of the inhibitor collars that are used when capturing unregistered superpeople. The collars use neural feedback to prevent the person using their superpower. Now Pym tells her of a development that she must keep secret. He and SHIELD have upgraded this tech to Super-Power-Inhibiting Nanobots - SPIN tech. Fired in adamantium darts this removes superpowers completely.YJ also says they've had their 1st live test successfully against She-Hulk. She used to be an Initiative instructor, but Pym says she's now turned against them. Komodo is unfazed by this, and wants to know who her target will be.Cut to black-suited Spider-Man in Manhattan foiling an auction house robbery by Boomerang, Hydro-Man and Shocker. Spidey jokes that this will be too easy without the rest of the Sinister Syndicate. But the battle is observed by an invisible figure refering to himself as Red Team 1, and reporting to War Machine who flies there accompanied by Komodo on a 1-person skysled.(We learn that the SPIN bullets are DNA-locked to their intended target, so Komodo shouldn't worry if she accidentally shoots herself or the wrong person. But don't waste them because they cost half a million dollars each.)Meanwhile Hardball (sporting his eyemask as per regulations) goes into a bar in Stamford expecting impressed locals to buy him drinks. But 1st they mistake him for Speedball, and even after that's cleared up they still hate all superheroes for what the New Warriors did to their town before Civil War.But a mysterious stranger who followed HB in defuses the situation and offers to but him 1 drink before he leaves. He orders a soft drink for our hero because he knows HB's not quite 21 yet. He also knows HB's name Roger Brokeridge and how he got his powers And he expects this to be enough to convince HB to bring him info about SPIN tech.Back in New York War Machine targets the burglars while Komodo goes after the unlicensed Spider-Man. Who uses a web line to pull her skycraft into a collison with WM. The bad guys use the opportunity to escape, but James Rhodes just orders Red Team to pursue them.Rhodey and Komodo concentrate on Spidey, who complains about them prioritising capturing him over real criminals. But WM tells him that their weapons are designed to take his powers away. But don't worry, the world won't be without a Spider-Man.The 3 robbers think they've got away. But Red Team switch off their stealth mode to reveal 3 people in the red Iron Spider armour that Tony Stark gave Peter Parker before Civil War. They're known as the Scarlet Spiders, and they get the job done off panel.Meanwhile the real Spidey is holding his own against Komodo and War Machine, using his spider-sense to doge bullets and his web-stuff to gum up WM's works. But Komodo gets him pinned down and is about to stick him with a SPIN injector. SM holds her off while he brags about the much tougher villains he's triumphed over - and how the Initiative will punish her failure by taking her own power away.This shocks Komodo so much that Spidey is able to escape. The distraught girl begs Rhodey not to take her power. Without it she's a nobody.


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Green Zone
The Initiative is a group of young superheroes being equipped by the Avengers to serve in various parts of the United States; their trainer is Jim “War machine” Rhodes. As the story opens, one of the recruits, Hardball has been pressured by an outside agent to steal a piece of Stark’s new S.P.I.N. technology. Hours later, the Hulk’s ultimatum is broadcast to the world and the Initiative is dispatched to support the Avengers in Manhattan, restricted to crowd control and stopping looters. Stark’s new S.P.I.N. technology is used to try to weaken the Hulk, but it fails, and only Hardball knows that it is because of the missing part which he stole. When Iron Man is defeated, one Initiative member, Rage, talks some of this teammates, Hardball, Cloud Nine, Komodo, Thor Girl, Ultra Girl, and Slapstick, into joining the battle against the invaders. They rush downtown, turn a corner, and find themselves face-to-face with Hulk and the Warbound, standing over the bodies of the defeated Avengers.


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Changing of the guard
The previously page confirms that Dragon Lord (#8) and Trauma (#9) were killed in the Killed In Action story as well as 1 of the Scarlet Spiders (#10). Now we get the fallout from that tale.In #9 his gauntlet woke Gauntlet's body from a coma to fight against KIA and the Tactigon. Now we find that Joe Green is awake and back in control of his body. He, Cloud 9, Hardball and Komodo are preparing for Trauma's funeral. But Henry Peter Gyrich, War Machine and Yellowjacket are getting ready for an inquest into recent events.Iron Man represents SHIELD and is chairing the inquest board, with Ms Marvel representing the Avengers, Valerie Cooper from O*N*E and Senator Woodman of the Superhuman Armed Forces Committee.Before the meeting we learn that YJ survived KIA's attack by shrinking to subatomic size (again). Val asks WM how his (secret) 'condition' is, and Jim Rhodes replies that it's better than when he was working for O*N*E. And Woodman expresses his support for Gyrich.The 1st thing IM wants answers about is the hushed-up death of MVP (#1). Gyrich claims not to remember what happened. So Tony Stark asks if Gyrich's memory is equally vague about the deaths in the KIA story, including 8 SHIELD agents.Trainer Taskmaster and trainer-in-training Triathlon take Dragon Lord's ashes to his family, along with his co-new-recruits Ant-Man, Diamondback, Geiger, Melee, Proton and Red 9. DL's son swears to take up his father's role. Taskmaster can't help being sarcastic.Gauntlet and the 3 students go to view Trauma's body. They find Thor Girl already there, recovered from her injuries defending Terrance (#9). But then *he* had defended *her* to lose his life, so she stands over him now as his shield maiden until a Valkyrie comes to take him to Valhalla. Cloud 9 tells them not to expect Terrance's family at the funeral - he was estranged from them.Suddenly and traumatically Terry sits up in his coffin. Komodo can't believe it because he was embalomed. Trauma can't explain it but he's alive.Back at the hearing Gyrich claims not to know exactly how many trainees were injured. Yellowjacket assures them that they're being treated by a new specialist in superhuman medicine named Physique. And War Machine adds that Nighthawk is presenting them with medals at that moment.So we segue to the infirmary where Nighthawk meets Physique and is taken aback by her transparent skin. She is studying Crusader's hand which has been reattached after KIA severed it in #9. Constrictor has had *his* shredded forearms replaced by bionic versions which also extrude his trademark coils.Physique is astounded that Crusader's operation worked so well - the hand had already turned green. This was actually because he's secretly a Skrull, but he puts the success down to his being a shapeshifter. However she wants to do a body scan to make sure everything's OK. Crusader doesn't want to be exposed as a Skrull, even though he's a friendly 1, so he gets his Freedom Ring to temporarily change him into a human. Physique is *now* astounded at how perfect a specimen the scan reveals him to be.Baron Von Blitzschlag is also recovering in a wheelchair hooked up to devices devised to drain(?)/resupply(?) his electrical energy. The ex-Nazi isn't surprised that the US government isn't going to give *him* a medal. But the Red Skull never appreciated him either.Back to the hearing once more as Woodman throws Gyrich a bone. He asks about the ex-New Warriors who have gone AWOL (last issue). Gyrich can truthfully say he wasn't there when *that* happened. And Woodman now asks Iron Man about the same thing - because he *was* there. It transpires that IM let Justice and friends go free after their help against KIA.But War Machine calls in Ultragirl, 1 of those ex-NWers, to give evidence - apparently she opted to stay with the Initiative. She relates the story:-Justice declared that he and his allies couldn't stay in the Initiative because of all the secrets and lies which led to KIA and the subsequent deaths. They intend to be a separate group he calls Counter Force. They are all registered and trained heroes, and he will make sure that they stay within the law. But they will be keeping an eye on the Initiative, to make sure *it* does the same.Debrii, Rage and Slapstick are in. So are the 2 remaining Scarlet Spider clones and the clone that has become Michael Van Patrick. Michael's dad will help them to hide.But Suzy Sherman still believes in the Initiative idea, so she elected to stay even though it meant separation from her lover Justice.Ms Marvel congratulates Ultragirl on her bravery. Tony Stark, who knows about his friend Rhodey's current problem, offers to call a break for him - but WM declines.Iron Man now turns to the matter of the clones. It's a sore point with him after the problem they had with the Thor clone during Civil War. YJ in particular should have known better. But Henry Pym protests that this was just the cloning of a *normal* human - albeit MVP was a perfect specimen of such. And it had been OK'd by Woodman's committee.A sarky remark by HPG is the last straw for Stark. But Gyrich counters his anger by demanding the return of the Tactigon, which it appears the Avengers took away. Tony gets his own back by claiming not to remember what happened to it. Gyrich shouts that Stark is responsible for the death of Captain America. Stark swears to get him fired. HPG says he has connections.But the next scene sees Gyrich giving a press conference where he resigns from the Initiative to 'spend more time with his family'. Sally Floyd of Front Line points out that he doesn't *have* a family. HPG slinks off.Then Iron Man presides over a graduation ceremony for Cloud 9, Hardball, Komodo, Thor Girl, Trauma, Triathlon and Ultragirl. They have new costumes. Triathlon has the costume and name of 3-D Man. Ultragirl has been given Ms Marvel's original threads.Trauma is staying at the training base to become a counsellor. The others are going to various State teams. Hardball and Komodo are being split to Nevada and Arizona. Cloud 9 has Montana and 3-D Man is pleased to get Hawaii. Thor Girl and Ultragirl are both heading for Georgia.An epilogue 1 week later shows us Cloud 9 as part of Montana's Freedom Force led by Challenger, with Equinox, Spinner and Think Tank as they save people from a burning building.


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Avengers: The Initiative disassembled part 4
On the outskirts of Camp Hammond Sgt Green and his family are packing up and leaving their military house because Norman Osborn closed the base down last issue. Bengal's wife comes rushing over to ask for help finding her husband. SHIELD took the covert ops Shadow Initiative on a mission. But now SHIELD is disbanded and Osborn's replacement HAMMER denies all knowledge. Who's going to bring hubby home now? Gauntlet promises to do something about it.The Shadow team (Bengal, Constrictor, Taskmaster and Typhoid Mary) are in Madripoor. They went there to take Initiative traitor Hardball from Hydra, with Hardball's ex-girlfriend Komodo to help them. But that mission failed and they lost Komodo. Now they're under attack by Bloodscream and Roughhouse.Constrictor and Taskmaster face strongman Roughhouse. Brute force fails so Constrictor uses his coils to strangle their foe. Bengal and Typhoid are faring badly against the vampiric Bloodscream. Mary and the villain engage in a swordfight until he disarms her. But she telekinetically retrieves the sword and chops his head off. But he just puts it back on and grabs her bare arm - starting to drain her lifeforce. Panicked Mary bursts into flame, setting Bloodscream alight too.Taskmaster pulls Typhoid away and calms her down. She douses her flames but says she needs her Zero Room to recover in. But that's half a world away in Camp Hammond. Taskmaster also tells Constrictor to let Roughhouse go. He (correctly) assumes they work for Hydra. He explains that SHIELD have abandoned them, so he says they want to join Hydra.Gauntlet goes to see Norman Osborn, now Director of the Initiative and HAMMER, but he's stuck arguing with Deputy Director Victoria Hand until Osborn comes out to see what all the noise is about. Joe Green explains the situation and Norman assures him that HAMMER is on top of it. But when Gauntlet has left it turns out he didn't know anything about it, and delegates Hand to deal with it.The Shadow team have been taken to the local Hydra leaders Hardball and Scorpion (Carmilla Black). They are suspicious and order our guys disarmed and put in cells. Bengal is worried about Komodo but Hardball won't answer his questions. Schizophrenic Mary is beginning to fall apart. Hydra goons take them to the armoury to hand in their weapons ...... and that's when Taskmaster reveals his plan. They defeat their guards and grab extra weapons. Constrictor uses Hydra comms to send a message to HAMMER, hoping they are still monitoring SHIELD's frequencies. Taskmaster tries to get Mary to snap out of her fug, but it's too late as more Hydra attack.They immediately fire SPIN darts to depower Typhoid. But she stops them with her TK and roasts all the Hydra Agents with flames. 1 of her 4 personalities is back in control. But it's not Typhoid, it's the more vicious Bloody Mary who has no loyalty to the team so leaves them to make her own escape.Last issue Komodo lost her powers to SPIN, and is now the legless human Melati Kusuma. Hardball has had her transferred from her cell to his quarters and now he and Scorpion explain that Hydra scientists are going to extract regeneration serum from her blood and then they'll let her go. But she doesn't trust the boyfriend who betrayed her. She hits out at him verbally, claiming that Hydra hasn't cured his brother as they promised. The sound of battle interrupts them and the pair leave Melati to investigate.The 3 remaining Shadow Initiative plan to take the SPIN Tech Hydra stole from the Initiative, but the Hydra duo turn up with Bloodscream and Roughhouse. Carmilla persuades Roger Brokeridge to leave the fight to B & R, and takes him away.She tells him she knows that he always intended to let Melati go, and only wanted to fuel her hate and make sure she had no love left for him. She knows he's only with Hydra because he can't go back to the Initiative. And she confesses that she's not really with Hydra either. She's working for someone else to bring them down. But she refuses to say who.Back at the fight Taskmaster tells Bengal to grab a SPIN gun. Maybe that will stop their 2 foes. But Hardball arrives and fires off electromagnetic 'hardballs' that destroy the nanotech in all the SPIN darts except his personal stash. But then he finds his pocket is empty and realises Scorpion stole them from him.Roughhouse and Bloodscream seem as indestructible as ever when the big guy collapses and the vampire is shredded apart as Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) expands to full size from within him. He explains that he defeated Roughhouse by zapping his inner ear. Osborn sent him along with a horde of HAMMER Agents.Hardball runs away and Constrictor chases after him. But Brokeridge stops when he reaches a certain door, and surrenders. He just wanted to make sure they found Melati who's inside the room. Constrictor is confused, but Roger reminds Frank Schlichting that he has a daughter who he allows to think him dead for her own sake. He says that he feels the same way about Melati, but Frank mustn't tell her that. And he lets HAMMER take him prisoner.Later the team are in Avengers Tower with Victoria Hand. Melati is back as Komodo. Ant-Man leaves for his current job which he can't tell them about (it's Osborn's new Thunderbolts). Norman himself enters with Bengal's wife, and tells Komodo that Hardball has been sent to the Project 42 prison in the Negative Zone. And he offers Taskmaster the job of running the Initiative.


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Triple threat
Avengers Tower was destroyed in World War Hulk. Now Dr Von Blitzschlag takes Senator Woodman there to emphasise the importance of his Scientific Advisory for Gamma Emergencies (SAGE). They are with a bunch of gamma scientists and some top secret documents, protected by SHIELD Capekillers, en route to a secure bunker for a meeting.Woodman pretends to be worried about the risks to the scientists and documents out here in the open, but Blitzschlag says he's arranged extra security. This causes the Senator to signal 'abort' to 3 circling fliers. But the Vulturions are already committed to the attack.1 of them grabs Blitzschlag's briefcase. The Capekillers fail to shoot the villains down. Blitzschlag tries to fire an electric blast from his hand, but it fizzles out. His extra security is the 3 cloaked Scarlet Spiders. But they are more concerned with the well-being of their 'father', until he sends them after the thieves. Woodman objects that the Spiders aren't supposed to be seen in public, but Blitzschlag ignores him.Back in Initiative HQ and training base Camp Hammond, Justice, with Cloud 9 in tow, has demanded a meeting with War Machine and Yellowjacket. He wants to know if MVP is really dead, and if so why is there a Michael Van Patrick at home in Kentucky (as they discovered in #4)? This is news to James Rhodes, but Henry Pym hides behind 'national security'. WM may be director of the base but he works for the international SHIELD agency, while the Initiative is a US military program.The 'discussion' is interrupted by an emergency that needs Henry and Jim in the War Room. Justice is unhappy, and tells Cloud 9 they should take matters into their own hands.Henry Gyrich's emergency is the public appearance of his stealth agents the Scarlet Spiders - part of his special forces team. This is something else Rhodes wasn't aware of.Meanwhile Peter Parker is (literally) hanging around outside May Morgan's hospital room - his Aunt May registered under a false name because she's in danger from Spider-Man's enemies since Tony Stark convinced him to reveal his identity during Civil War. In fact that's why she was shot and is now dying. And Peter can't visit her because he's a fugitive.Just then he sees the Vulturions flying past - and realises they can't be quite the ones he's fought before because 1 of these is a female. And when the Scarlet Spiders swing past in pursuit, wearing the Iron Spider costumes Stark designed for Peter, Parker finally has someone he can take his anger out on.We now cut to the HQ of the Kentucky Initiative Team Action Pack (Frog-Man, Prima Donna and Vox). Every Initiative site, including the training camp, has a portal to the Negative Zone prison. Justice and Cloud 9 make an unauthorised entry through the portal and out through a new hole in the wall. Action Pack report this to the Stamford HQ, but they're too busy with the Scarlet Spider problem.But when Justice and Cloud 9 get to the Van Patrick farm they find it deserted. Vance Astrovik sends Cloud 9 back to base, but he's not coming with her. He persuaded Michael to join the Initiative (in #1), and now he sees it as his responsibility to uncover the truth about what happened to him.The Spiders are firing at the fleeing Vulturions when PP in civvies lands on top of 1 of them. 1 of the other Spiders turns back to help his teammate. But that leaves the 3rd Spider to get ganged up on by the Vulturions. The battle is televised and watched by Tony Stark, and by J Jonah Jameson with Betty Brant.The 2 Scarlets persuade Parker to help them fight the villains. Next thing we know a guy in a standard Spidey costume attacks the Vulturions while they're beating up the 3rd Scarlet. The V's scatter, and the female 1 runs into someone in a black Spidey suit. The 1 named Honcho with the briefcase gets web-zapped by Peter Parker.It turns out that the Spidey 'costumes' are an illusion generated by the Scarlet Spider suits. The 3 Spider-people reconvene with their captives around the injured Scarlet. Peter hands over the briefcase and the 3 Scarlets do him a favour.They use their suits' mimetic properties to all adopt Parker's civilian outfit, in front of the TV camera. They say that he is 1 of their government-sponsored team with special suits that can imitate Spider-Man and his powers - but due to his recent actions he's now going to be dropped from the roster. This sows doubt in the public's mind as to whether Peter was really Spider-Man when he unmasked in Civil War. (And Betty Brant reminds Jonah that Peter once pretended to be Spidey, way back in Amazing SM #11.)The Capekillers take the Vulturions into custody. The Scarlet Spiders return to Blitzschlag's lab where he has the body of MVP on ice. When they unmask we learn that they are clones of MVP, who Blitzschlag has named Michael, Van and Patrick.


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Happy accidents
A US army convoy in Iraq is attacked by a bomb-laden Hydra truck. A Sgt who goes by the codename The Gauntlet, with a huge gauntlet on his right arm that spits energy, deals with it. It turns out he and Henry Peter Gyrich are being escorted to base because Gyrich wants him back in America.Gyrich claims that mutants were a worldwide phenomenon while the US has most of the non-mutant superbeings. When M-Day decimated the mutant ranks it left the US winning the superpower arms race. I don't really see how this is directly connected with the Initiative project, and Gauntlet being asked to train a superhero army.In Illinois Abigail Boylen is using her power to fly on a cloud of gas. War Machine arrests her as an unregistered superhuman. He insists she tell him her super-identity, and strangely enough she has 1, Cloud 9, despite not being or wanting to be a super hero (or villain).In Kentucky Justice recruits Michael Van Patrick. He lost his sports scholarship when it was revealed that he was the great-grandson of Dr Abraham Erskine who invented Captain America's super-soldier serum. This despite the fact that Michael tests drug-free.In San Francisco some of the Mighty Avengers (Ares, Ms Marvel, Wasp and Wonder Man) are fighting Ultimo when the robot is taken down by a girl calling herself Armory. She too has an energy-spewing gauntlet, but on her left arm, and she wants to join the team.The Initiative have set up their training ground Camp Hammond at Stamford Connecticut which was the town blown up by Nitro fighting the New Warriors, leading to the Superhero Registration Act and the Civil War. There are protestors outside the base as a busfull of new recruits arrives.The earlier paragraphs were flashbacks because Gauntlet and Michael calling himself MVP are already there. But Armory and Cloud 9 arrive in the bus along with Bengal, Hardball, Komodo, Rage, Slapstick, Thor Girl, Trauma and Ultra Girl.They are greeted by Yellowjacket who tells them they are going to be trained as responsible heroes (not like the New Warriors). If they make the grade they'll be assigned to the Avengers team of a State, as part of the 50-State Initiative. He ignores Abby's question about what happens if they fail.Off the bus they are met by Gauntlet and She-Hulk. Gauntlet goes all drill-sergeant on them. He compares them now to the 'worthless' New Warriors and promises to turn them into Avengers. In the background are Ms Marvel and Stature, possibly Prodigy and Texas Twister, and unidentifiable others.YJ joins Justice and War Machine in the observation deck. Vance Astrovik is unhappy about the regular slagging off of his old team New Warriors. James Rhodes doesn't think Cloud 9 will make the grade. Hank Pym is more worried about Komodo's attitude - his associate Dr Curt Connors sent her after she stole his lizard formula.Justice is happier about MVP who is demonstrating his skill and endurance on an assault course supervised by She-Hulk. Among those watching are Constrictor, Debrii, Doc Samson, Hellcat, Network, Nighthawk, Red Wolf, Scorpion (Carmilla Black) and Stingray.Meanwhile Gauntlet leads the new recruits to the supply depot where they are issued with their new uniforms - fatigues including a mask and a vest with a symbol representing their power. They mist not use their superpowers off-base without the mask. They must only use their super-identities, even on-base. No-one should know their real identities except Tony Stark.When Cloud 9 follows the other girls into their changing room she's embarrassed comparing her body to their model-like versions. So she backs through a door to change in private. Unfortunately she's gone through a utility door into the men's shower room, where she bumps into MVP.She exits quickly, but MVP is interested. When he has got dressed he asks Triathlon where the new recruits are now. Gauntlet has them in the combat simulator room. MVP goes there and catches Cloud 9 waiting with some others for her turn. He tells her he is MVP, and Abby almost gives her real name before remembering the rules.Henry Gyrich is watching alongside Gauntlet and a scientist Wernher Von Blitzschlag as Armory uses her Tactigon glove to defeat 3 Combat-Bots. The Tactigon automatically reshapes itself to the right weapon for any job.Gauntlet calls Trauma in next, but his power doesn't work against robots or when he's alone, so Armory is told to stay with him but not to do anything. A Bot approaches and Armory starts to get worried. This enables Trauma to feel her worst fear - spiders. And he automatically transforms into a giant spider.Armory panics and the Tactigon turns into a large gun which blasts energy. The energy bolts head towards the waiting recruits, and Komodo gets an arm sliced off. But she immediately regrows it. Hardball generates a hard-energy ball around 1 hand to deflect another bolt. Another 1 just misses Cloud 9 who's frozen in shock. MVP dives to push her out of the way but a bolt gets him through the skull.Gauntlet leaps down into the arena and uses his own gauntlet to restrain Armory. Trauma has reverted to human. HPG takes control and orders them all to 'forget' what happened here. They're not allowed to tell anyone about it.Armory has the Tactigon surgically removed and is thrown off the program. Most of the other recruits don't know why. Von Blitzschlag does an autopsy on MVP and discovers something interesting.


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Avengers: The Initiative disassembled part 2
Last issue the clone/cyborg Thor called Ragnarok (who thinks he's the real thing) was awoken as a delayed-action Skrull revenge, and he's been rampaging through the Initiative training base Camp Hammond. The New Warriors (Debrii, Justice, Night Thrasher, Rage, Slapstick and the 2 remaining Scarlet Spiders) have just arrived to save the day, but the fight spills out into the town of Stamford.Meanwhile Suzi Sherman is chatting to Cloud 9. She's changed from her Ms Marvel costume back into her original Ultragirl version, because Norman Osborn has sent a lawyer to claim the MsM suit for his new Avengers team. She like many others is thinking of quitting the Initiative now Osborn's in charge. They hear the commotion outside. Cloud 9 heads off to help evacuate civilians while Ultragirl sees her NW ex-team in action, including her boyfriend Vance Astrovik/Justice.They're not doing too well and Ragnarok's hammer has just smited Rage. Slapstick whips his huge mallet out of his Infinite Pocket, but he just gets smote too. The rest of the team pile on the villain (Debrii and Justice telekinetically), but he beats them all off. So Suzi joins in to save Vance.Gauntlet is helping Cloud 9 and Tigra with evacuation, but he decides it's better to attack the problem at source. He blasts Ragnarok with his alien gauntlet and then calls on all heavy hitters to join him. But even more heroes answer his call. (We see Annex, Batwing, Cloud 9, Doc Samson, Gargoyle, Geiger, Hellcat, Prodigy, Red 9, Stingray, Sunstreak, Thor Girl and Tigra joining Ultragirl and the New Warriors.) But a near miss makes Tigra reconsider for the sake of her unborn baby as the cyborg blasts them all.Time for an interlude with the Shadow Initiative in Madripoor:- Bengal, Constrictor, Komodo, Taskmaster and Mutant Zero who's changed to her Typhoid Mary costume now she's been outed (last issue). She's been on a scouting mission and reports on the current state of the island (since the 2007 Iron Man Annual). IM deposed Madame Hydra and replaced her as ruler with Tyger Tiger. But Hydra is still here in hidden bases preparing to strike back.The team are here to bring in Initiative traitor Hardball, Komodo's ex-boyfriend. But their target comes to them, accompanied by Hydra goons led by the female Scorpion.Some of the strongest heroes are still fighting Ragnarok. Justice suggests they separate the clone from his hammer. Gauntlet sends Doc Samson, Geiger and Ultragirl to do the job, and Annex makes a grab for the dropped weapon. But the cyborg controls it mentally and sends it out of reach. Scarlet Spider/Michael tries to disable its circuitry but the fake Thor shrugs his attackers off and blasts him, killing him.As Ragnarok turns his attention on some of the weaker heroes Baron Blitzschlag approaches the last Spider (Patrick) and proposes a plan. Blitzschlag taunts the cyborg who thought he'd killed him last issue. The clone fires an electrical blast from his hammer. But that's what the Baron wanted because electricity empowers him and he strikes back.But that was only a distraction as Patrick-Spider activates a hologram of the real Thor. Blitzschlag tells Ragnarok (again) that he's only a cyborg clone created by the Baron. Patrick offers supporting evidence by unmasking himself and the dead Spider and showing them as clone copies (not of Thor). They also tell 'Thor' that Asgard is now floating above Oklahoma rather than in its own dimension beyond the Rainbow Bridge. Ragnorak replies that if this Thor has led the Asgardians to such disgrace then he is unworthy of the name. And Ragnarok will come to claim it. And he flies off.Thor Girl sees to Trauma who was injured last issue when he imitated Thor to confuse the villain. She says she's impressed by his bravery, and Trauma thinks she'll develop a crush on him like her Skrull replacement did when he did the same impersonation in #5 against Korg. But this Thor Girl just says that of course he obviously wasn't the real Thor. And she leaves to warn Asgard about Ragnarok.The Baron and Patrick grieve over the fallen Michael. But Patrick says he won't stay with his 'father' Blitzschlag - he's going away again with the New Warriors. However Gauntlet is compelled to try to arrest the fugitive Warriors, promising them a fair hearing. But Justice and Patrick are here for another reason. They locate Blitzschlag's lab in the rubble of the base and retrieve the body of MVP, from whom all the Scarlet Spider's were cloned. Gauntlet doesn't know what they're talking about as Justice prepares to fly the body home.


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The Shadow Initiative: Secret Weapons
The report that the Initiative team members have been captured by the Hulk and are being held prisoner at Madison Square Garden leads Henry Peter Gyrich to order his own black ops superhero team to mount a rescue mission. The team—Bengal, Constrictor, Mutant Zero, the Scarlet Spiders and their secret weapon, Trauma, who can become what his opponent fears most—sets out. They enter the Garden and battle robots, coming to the cells where the Initiative members are held. They are surprised by Korg and Elloe, and Trauma defeats the former by becoming Thor, and Elloe is suffocated by Cloud 9. As they are heading out of the building, Hulk appears. Trauma orders the others to get the ex-prisoners to safety while he fights Hulk, trying to become what Hulk most fears, first the Abomination, then Juggernaut, then Brian Banner, then Bruce himself. Suddenly he loses the ability to change and Hulk knocks him down with a light blow. Hulk leaves him with a message: “I’m not afraid of anything.” Later Trauma recovers slowly in the hospital.


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Don't shoot 'til you see the green of their eyes
The Skrull Kill Krew are travelling around the US visiting the Initiative team of each State and killing the Skrull infiltrator in each 1. Along the way original members Riot and Ryder have picked up Initiative members Gravity, Hardball, Jocasta, Komodo, Nonstop and 3-D Man.They are currently in Montana with Freedom Force, and they've exposed Equinox as a Skrull. Hardball, Riot and Ryder are encased in ice while Jocasta and Komodo are burning. Fellow member Spinner is confused, Challenger is unconscious and the globe around Think Tank's brain is broken. Gravity flies him to hospital while Delroy Garrett gets Spinner to concentrate and asks what her power is today - she cycles through a set of possibilities each day, and today's power is speed.Spinner attacks her 'team-mate' with a flurry of blows and Nonstop joins in, but the Skrull shrugs them off. Robot Jocasta shrugs off the flames and frees the 3 in ice, but Equinox seems to be winning. But then a gun pokes out of a cloud and shoots him in the head. It's the other Freedom Force member Cloud 9, who's much hardened since her trainee days. Ryder immediately co-opts her into the Krew.They are using Initiative member Devil-Slayer's cloak as transport to teleport them and their vehicles to each new destination. But they've obviously used him to visit many sites already, and 'porting so much so frequently is taking a toll on both cloak and man.Skrull-Dum Dum Dugan demands that his underlings at Camp Hammond, the new Skrull Central Command, find a way to predict where the Krew will strike next. This is difficult because DS's cloak is magic, and all the Skrull sorcerers are busy in England (Captain Britain & MI13 #1-4). But they've been analysing the energy signature in order to recognise it before the Krew reach their target. 1 more example should give them enough data. Dugan puts a strike force on alert.Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) overhears this and prepares to hitch a ride with that force. He has information that he wants to pass on to active heroes.Dugan also initiates another move against the Krew. He broadcasts a message to all the Initiative teams telling the Skrull sleeper agents to reveal themselves. If nothing else this will sow distrust amongst the teams, especially Tony Stark's hand-picked Order in California which actually has no Skrull agent. We see them as well as Georgia's Cavalry and Kentucky's Action Pack.The next attack is in Philadelphia but Dugan holds the strike force back because this time is still to late. The Krew attack Revolutionary, leader of the Pennsylvania's Liberteens. He's already attacked his own team, and the only 2 still standing are Hope and Whiz Kid. Gravity kills him by dropping Hope's diamond-hard form onto him with greatly-increased mass. The Krew take Whiz Kid with them, leaving Hope to tend to the wounded.Elsewhere in his safehouse under Manhattan Nick Fury and his team have heard the message too. Initiative trainee Prodigy is suspicious of the Young Avengers' half-Skrull Hulkling. Stature, Initiative trainee and ex-YAer, leaps to Teddy's defence. And his boyfriend Wiccan recalls that Prodigy was anti-Registration during Civil War, and now he's 'changed his mind' and joined the government's supergroup.Initiative trainee Crusader points out that this is how the Skrulls have conquered 100's of planets. (He knows because he's secretly a Skrull himself, but on our side.) But he says they've all been in battle together in Times Square (Secret Invasion #3-4) so they know they can trust each other. Fury commends his speech and takes them (and others) back into battle again.The next stop for the SKK is Georgia, but Dugan's Skrulls detect their teleportation and the strike force are on their way. The Skrull here has struck too. The Krew find Stunt-Master in the rubble of the Cavalry's HQ caused by a fight between Thor Girl and Ultragirl. But SM doesn't know which is a Skrull, and they're now too high in the sky for the limited range of 3-D Man's goggles to work.The Skrull strike force arrives. Ant-Man hangs back with the rationalisation that it's no use getting killed before he can deliver his info.Cloud 9 tells the others to defend against the Skrulls while she sorts out the 2 supergirls. She thinks back to what she knows about them from her time with them as trainees. But she can't find a definite clue. So she shoots them both with a big gun, hoping that the real human will survive. They crash to Earth and Thor Girl Skrulls out. 3-D Man grabs her dropped hammer and hits her with it as Gravity makes it super-heavy. Exit Skrull-Thor Girl.The Krew prepare to 'port out, but recovered Ultragirl elects to remain to protect Atlanta. Ant-Man hitches another ride and they land on top of Washington's head on Mount Rushmore. Komodo spots him but 3-D Man verifies he's not a Skrull.Eric's news is that the Skrulls have a backup plan for if they lose the war. The Initiative team bases all have portals to the Negative Zone which they could use (when Starktech was working) to travel to Camp Hammond or other teams' sites. But Skrull-Henry Pym arranged for devices to be attached to these portals. It would only take 3 of these to be triggered to send the US into the Zone. And the loss of mass would also alter Earth's orbit.They need to finish off the remaining Initiative teams as quickly as possible. There are only 6 left (and the Order isn't 1 of them next issue, so they must already know there are no Skrulls there), but they only have 3 people capable of detecting the Skrull infiltrators. (Surely this isn't a problem if the sleepers have all been awoken?)Then Ryder reveals a secret. The 3 other original SKK members aren't actually dead. The original Krew are all dying from the Skrull infection that gives them their powers. The disease progressed faster in Catwalk, Dice and Moonstomp, but their heads are in cryo-stasis in the Krew truck.Ryder brings out the heads-in-bottles and wakes them up. This mission will likely kill them.. He mixes up a Skrull meat smoothie to feed them. (The Krew could detect ordinary shape-shifted Skrulls. But the new breed have been made super-undetectable. The Krew have to eat meat from this new type in order to detect them. So the heads need this.) There are now 6 Skrull-detectors to go on separate missions to the last 6 sites.Ryder turns to the 3 speedsters Nonstop, Spinner and Whiz-Kid. (Spinner obviously still has the power-of-the-day and she must have joined them at some point.) He wants them to race around the country blowing up the devices in the Initiative sites that they've already de-Skrulled. Because they could still be used by other Skrulls.Ryder splits the group up and Devil-Slayer sends them all on their ways. Then he coughs blood and collapses.


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Killed in action part 3: Confirmed kills
In a flashback to an otherwise unrecorded Badoon invasion of New York the New Warriors (Firestar, Justice, Namorita, Night Thrasher, Rage and Speedball) celebrated victory by inviting Slapstick and Ultragirl to become official members. They readily accepted - UG because she had a crush on Justice and SS because why not, but he made a comedic play for Namorita anyway. And they were given triangular Warriors communicators.3 days ago Debrii, Rage, Slapstick and Ultragirl in the Camp Hammond Initiative Trainees Barracks were discussing how all ex-New Warriors are under suspicion. SS tries to lighten the mood by pulling a super-soaker gun he calls Shirley out of his Infinite Pockets. Debrii reminds them how Justice went on a mission with Cloud 9 in #7 and she came back alone, and now the rumour is that he's gone rogue. Rage says it's his fault because they think he beat up Gauntlet in #6 and they're going throw him off the Initiative and take his powers away. Slapstick tries to confess that he did it but Rage says he'll kill whoever it was. UG reminds them that Ms Marvel put her in charge of the Junior Guardsmen Program (#7) so things are good.SS tries to confess again but something beeps in his Infinite Pockets. He pulls out a load of diverse objects until eventually he finds his Warriors communicator. And Justice is on the line saying he knew that the Infinite Pockets would bypass the Camp's security but he can't talk long or they'll trace his signal. He tells them there's something suspect about MVP and he wants them to sneak out and meet him in Tennessee.Now Cloud 9 flies a cloud to the Barracks to roust some troops. She finds the male dorm empty and when she goes to the female dorm she find only Komodo there having sex with male Hardball. They angrily call her a sneak but she says there's something bad and loud going on the in the subbasement labs.We see the newest MVP clone with the Tactigon weapon calling himself KIA (Killed In Action) and smashing through walls calling out for Gauntlet. But the Tactigon tells him there's someone else on his kill list nearby. We also see Gauntlet staggering around with his Gauntlet weapon and a large blade, but speaking in an alien tongue.In the War Room Henry Peter Gyrich is haranguing the SHIELD Agents because all their monitor screens just show the letters KIA. Then they change of their own accord to show KIA's face declaring he's coming for Gyrich. And then he smashes his way into the Room. Gyrich urgently contacts his personal guard the Shadow Initiative. We see Bengal, Constrictor, Mutant Zero and the 3 Scarlet Spiders rushing to the scene.Meanwhile we look in on the Combat Simulator room, a scene of last issue's KIA carnage. Crusader has lost a hand. Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) crawls out from under the unconscious body of Geiger (a situation that in other circumstances he would enjoy). Taskmaster is getting Gyrich's emergency call but he and AM decide to sit it out here.In the War Room KIA kills all the Agents and closes in on HPG. But the Shadow Initiative arrive in time and Constrictor wraps his electric whip coils around KIA. However the Tactigon multi-weapon converts to razor wire which rips Frank Schlichting's arms off. The Scarlet Spiders unmask as other MVP clones and try to talk him down. KIA is initially taken aback that he's not the only clone of dead Michael Van Patrick, but then he decapitates 1 of the Spiders. Meanwhile Mutant Zero grabs Gyrich and telepathically makes them both undetectable by KIA.Then KIA is distracted because Gauntlet has drawn near. They meet and KIA sees the blade Gauntlet is wielding and the Tactigon morphs to match it. He realises that the Gauntlet has taken control of Sgt Green, so he intends to chop it off. The warriors meet in a clash of swords but the Tactigon changes again to push Green through a wall. Meanwhile in Yellowjacket's lab Baron Von Blitzschlag recovers consciousness and sees other MVP clones lying murdered around him. He summons his old electricity power and sets about saving the Initiative.Next we see that Gauntlet has been forced outside and KIA follows him out. He sees more of his targets Cloud 9, Hardball and Komodo. But they're backed up by more trainees Stature and Triathlon plus Camp staff Gargoyle, Hellcat, Nighthawk and Stingray. Hardball and Komodo are shocked to recognise him as the supposedly dead MVP, but Cloud 9's blasé about seeing MVPs by now (she met 1 at Michael Van Patrick's home in #4). Some of them fire pulse rifles and KIA replies by turning the Tactigon into a 'gatling gun' wounding Cloud 9, Gargoyle and Nighthawk.Outside the Camp protesters against it run away. Inside Gauntlet has recovered and attacks KIA. KIA comes out on top but he says it's Joseph Green he wants to kill not the alien weapon controlling him. So he generates a small blade to pierce Joe's shoulder, shocking him into awareness. Green's devastated to see the injured especially his students Cloud 9 and Komodo. But KIA attacks him again claiming that everything is *his* fault, including his own existence. But as he's about to strike a killing blow the remaining 2 Scarlet Spiders intervene.Cloud 9 limps away from the battle, astounded to see that those 2 still unmasked are also MVPs. Then Blitzschlag finds her. And Hardball notices and carries bleeding Komodo to them, who's already regenerating. The Baron gives Abby Boylen a device to make a copy of an MVP's mind to then download into KIA to cure him of his insane anger. The Spiders won't do because they are part-Blitzschlag. Abby realise he means the MVP on his father's farm, but she has to report that he and his dad have gone (as of #7). However the Baron says that MVP has an implanted tracker chip and gives them a locating device. Hardball points out that the Camp's Negative Zone jump gate is the only way to get there in time. Abby uses a cloud to transport the 3 trainees there.'Michael Van Patrick' and his dad are driving up with supplies for them and their guests to a cabin outside Bulls Gap, Tennessee. When they get out of the truck the 3 trainees arrive. Cloud 9 apologises that they haven't time to explain and places the device on MVP's head as Komodo holds him while Hardball holds Brian Van Patrick off. But then the guests turn out to be Debrii, Justice, Rage, Slapstick and Ultra Girl. 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We have met the enemy and they are us
Now that the cat's out of the bag (see Mighty Avengers #15 and New Avengers #42) this issue's flashbacks can show us the Skrull Criti Noll in action as Yellowjacket at the Camp Hammond Initiative training centre in previous issues.1st we have an fb to the end of #2 where giant-size YJ diverts a Hydra terror-carrier from ramming the White House. He saves himself from the ensuing explosive crash by using Vision's power to go diamond-hard. But he claims afterwards it was by using Henry Pym's power to shrink to subatomic size.At the end of #1 he is appalled by Henry Gyrich's intent to surgically remove the Tactigon from Armory's arm. Similarly he thinks Baron Blitzschlag's idea to clone the dead MVP is insane. And later that the plan of both of them to put the Tactigon on 1 of the clones is very risky (and he was proved right in the KIA arc). Meanwhile as architect of the 50-state Initiative he has complete control over who goes to which state's team, which can enable Skrulls to infiltrate them all. The last fb is 2 weeks ago at the start of #9 where the MVP clone calling himself KIA blasts YJ with the Tactigon. This time the Skrull uses Black Panther's reflexes and Quicksilver's speed to escape.Now he explains to Tigra at the Camp Hammond cafeteria counter that he used the subatomic trick again. She's impressed because he didn't use to find that easy, causing him to worry that she suspects something. But she just puts it down to practice, which leads to banter about seeing each other tonight. (They are secretly sleeping together.)Crusader joins them at the counter. He is also secretly a Skrull (Z'Reg but using the name Aubrey Thompson) but not part of the Secret Invasion. He misses Skrullian t'manja berries but mixes strawberries with pickles to get a similar taste. Then he sees that YJ has chosen the same meal, but rather than worrying that the boss is a Skrull he panics that Pym might realise that *he*'s 1, so he quickly uses the power of his Freedom Ring to convert his food to grapefruit.Meanwhile Triathlon (Delroy Garrett Jr) has graduated from the training program. Brothers Chuck and Hal Chandler who were the original 1950's 3-D Man attended his graduation. (Delroy gained their powers as Triathlon, and for a while they shared them.) Chuck joked about joining the Initiative himself. He might be old but nothing beats 'old school'. They agreed to Delroy changing his super-id to 3-D Man, and gave him a boxed-up graduation present. Now he's being sent to Hawaii as leader of the local Initiative team the Point Men. On the plane he opens the box to find the 3-D Man costume. However he doesn't want to switch, but as a gesture of appreciation he swaps his own goggles for their 3-D visor.On landing he's greeted by team members Paydirt and Star Sign (a big believer in astrology). He's a bit reluctant to hand over his bags to scruffy Paydirt until Star Sign assures him that his total control of dirt particles means that the bags will cleaner than new afterwards. They travel by SHIELD hydroplane to Lookout Point artificial island (supposedly modelled on Hydrobase but it doesn't look anything like it to me).They claim that they're here to defend against invasion by Atlanteans, Fin Fang Foom or giant monsters from Japan. As such they introduce him to monster hunter Devil-Slayer who tells them he senses doom today (as usual). Garrett assures them that Nighthawk vouches for him as an ex-Defender. They leave Eric Payne and move inside and make a video call to the gym where the other team member Magnitude is honing his magnetic powers. Star Sign says they're highly motivated here because there's a long list of people just dying to replace them. She's just grateful that being a local got her on the team. She also mentions that Stingray has applied to do oceanic studies here.Then Magnitude joins them and 3-D Man immediately sees him as a Skrull. The other 2 don't know what he's talking about, but Magnitude blasts Paydirt and asks Garrett how he detected him. As the foe turns Skrull for real Delroy realises it must be the Chandlers' visor because they could see Skrulls in the 50's.Now we have an interlude back at Camp Hammond where Crusader is waiting to have a therapy session with counsellor Trauma. He's psyching himself up to tell him that he thinks there's a Skrull on the base, and he suspects that person because he himself is 1. Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) comes out having giving Trauma nightmares by describing a repressed memory involving a Naked Santa. But then his next patient begs off because he remembers he's due at a physical therapy session for his hand (chopped off by KIA and reattached by doctor Physique). Which leaves Trauma wondering what *he*'s afraid of.Back in Hawaii Magnitude is still attacking 3-D Man who realises he's facing a Super-Skrull with the powers of Banshee, Havok, Polaris and Sunfire. Star Sign fires off a light blast while trying to send a distress call but the Skrull uses his magnetic power to fry all their tech and KO the girl. Enter Devil-Slayer through a window and hitting the foe with a metal ball on a pole. He advises Garrett to reach into his Shadow Cloak and pull out some other weapons. He does so and gets 2 glowing swords. The Skrull uses magnetism to get rid of DS's metal weapon and starts pounding him. But then there's an explosion of light and when it clears Eric Payne claims that the Skrull has fled. But Garrett stabs him through the chest with 1 of the swords because he can tell he's really the Skrull. The foe can't understand because the improved Skrull shapeshifting is proof against all Earth's current science and magic. 3-D Man stabs him through the head with the other sword just to make sure, and says that nothing beats 'old school'.The real Devil-Slayer returns from wherever he went and declares that his 2 comrades are barely alive, but he puts them in the dimensional folds of his cloak where slow time will keep them alive until he can get them to a hospital. Delroy has checked that all comms are down and also the access to the Negative Zone Jump Gate doesn't work, but he needs to warn Camp Hammond about the Skrull infiltration. But DS sends him there through his cloak and Garrett promises to get help back to him.3-D Man suddenly materialises in the Camp where Crusader is wondering why he couldn't detect that YJ was a Skrull (his Freedom Ring prevents other Skrulls or humans detecting *him*), and how many other undetectable others are there here. Then the new arrival starts spouting about infiltrating Skrulls and how he can see them, and Z'Reg remembers that the original 3-D Man could also see Skrulls. He panics. He knows he should have revealed his Skrullness long ago but now they'll never believe he's a good guy. So he uses the Ring to change Garrett's visor so that he sees *everyone* as a Skrull to discredit him.


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Avengers: The Initiative disassembled conclusion
The New Warriors bring Michael Van Patrick's body to his father Brian's Mississippi farm. They retrieved it from Camp Hammond in #23 where it was kept since he died in an Initiative training session in #1 - and his body was cloned to produce the 3 Scarlet Spiders and the MVP who took his place at home (Annual #1). Patrick is now the only surviving Spider since #22.Brian had come to terms with his son Michael's death, and accepted the identical clone MVP as a replacement. But modified Patrick reminds him of the fact that his son's body was experimented on. And the Warriors remind him of the whole affair. So he asks them all to leave.The Warriors welcome Patrick into *their* fugitive family. And Night Thrasher says that as Donyell Taylor he can use Taylor Foundation money to fund the next stage of their mission to keep tabs on Norman Osborn and his version of the Initiative.(The other Warriors are Debrii, Justice, Rage, Slapstick plus Ultragirl who joined them from the Initiative in #23.)Meanwhile Osborn takes Taskmaster to see Penance in the San Francisco Burke Wellness Center. NO has been recruiting villains as his new Initiative members, and TM's task is to train them to appear to be heroes while surreptitiously continuing their criminal careers. But he needs some actual heroes to make it seem legit.Penance (Robbie Baldwin) is still in his self-punishing outfit trying to atone for his part, as Speedball in a previous New Warriors, in the disaster that killed so many people in Stamford - and sparked off the superhero Civil War. Since Osborn terminated his employment as a Thunderbolt in their #126 he's been heavily drugged and thrown into this psychiatric facility. Now Norman has a use for him again.He reminds Robbie how he helped the 'Bolts save Washington in Secret Invasion. But he also reminds Baldwin of Stamford. But he promises Penance another chance to make up for that. He must do whatever Taskmaster tells him - and Robbie Baldwin is pathetically grateful.Later Gauntlet and Tigra are ordered to come see Osborn in his Avengers Tower HQ. Sgt Green is ready to accept whatever punishment NO dishes out - he feels guilty for helping cover up the original MVP's death. But he's not sure he can stomach working for the man. Tigra also hates Osborn but is willing to continue in the Arkansas Initiative team, doing whatever good she can.Tigra is called in to be interviewed. She finds Osborn flanked by Ares and the Dark Avengers' Ms. Marvel (Moonstone). Karla Sofen demands to know if Greer Grant knows where Carol Danvers (the real Ms. Marvel) is. (She's presumably (and correctly) not certain that Danvers really did die in MsM#37. But that won't stop her from taking over MsM's mag for the next few issues.) But NO seems more concerned that Tigra went AWOL recently. She explains it was to help a friend (James Rhodes in War Machine v2 #8-10 - but Norman should know all about that because he was involved as Iron Patriot).But what NO is really interested in is that Greer is pregnant with a half-Skrull baby after sleeping with the Skrull replacement for Henry Pym leading up to Secret Invasion. The confidential file he read says she intends to have an abortion. But he wants the hybrid foetus for scientific experiments. Although he's not too bothered whether he gets it by abortion now or waits for her to deliver it alive.Ares stops her from attacking Osborn, who responds by offering her the carrot of being a paid government superhero but allowed to operate totally independently. And then adds the stick in the form of the Hood, the Initiative's new Chief Operating Officer, who with his gang terrorised her in New Avengers #35 and Annual #2. Hood says he can do it again if she doesn't go along with the plan.Osborn sends Tigra home to think about it, and Ms. Marvel to stay with her while she does.Then he calls in Joseph Green who accepts his dismissal as instructor for the Initiative cadets. He's also happy to be sent back to his old unit in the Middle East. But Norman wants him to leave behind his alien Gauntlet - something else to be scientifically dissected. Green points out that it won't come off, it's bonded to his arm. Osborn offers the services of Ares and his axe.Outside Karla Sofen is bitching about the revealing old Ms. Marvel costume she's forced to wear, which as usual is attracting the paparazzi. Then they see Ares plummet from the top of the Tower. Tigra suggests Moonstone go help him, but Sofen's not leaving her side. So the werecat slashes the front of her costume and escapes while the press surround Karla to photograph her bare breasts.Gauntlet too escapes by jumping out of the window he threw Ares through. NO tells Hood to send some men after the pair - some of his supervillains who are now official Initiative members. Parker Robbins contacts Griffin, Living Laser, Razor-Fist and Scorcher. He sends them some items with their quarry's scent for Griffin to track. They are to bring back Tigra alive, but they only need Gauntlet's arm.Meanwhile Osborn and Hood continue with their interviews. Next up is Diamondback. Hood briefly reviews her mixed career as both villain and heroine. But he thinks she's always just been looking out for Number One. And she fulfils his expectations by agreeing to work for them.Trauma arrives with his resignation as Initiative counsellor. Many of the new intake have personality disorders, especially Penance who was improving under Doc Samson's care at the Thunderbolts HQ before Osborn took him away. And Norman wants Trauma to just make them obedient, not cure them.But Hood seems to threaten his family and Terrence Ward responds by trying to use his power to show the villain his greatest fear. But it doesn't work. Hood claims Trauma's power is magic-based and the source of his own power has a non-aggression pact with the source of Terry's. Ward doesn't understand what he's talking about.Hood says Terry's real father is Nightmare. And his mother isn't in a psychiatric ward because of something Terry did, as he's always thought, but because of her liaison with the demon. However Hood's 'sponsor' may be able to cure his mom if Trauma will do what they say. Terry gives in.Next day Osborn flies Prodigy to Las Vegas. Ritchie Gilmore is ready to work for Norman because he always felt the previous Initiative administration held it against him that he opposed the Registration Act and Iron Man in Civil War. NO says any enemy of Tony Stark is a friend of his, and promises that Prodigy will be free to be as heroic as he wants as long as he also obeys whatever orders Norman gives him. And then he of course adds a threat - Gilmore can always go back to prison.Osborn introduces Prodigy to the rest of the Nevada Initiative:- Gravity, Nonstop and Telemetry. Then he drops a bombshell. Prodigy will take over from Gravity as the Heavy Hitters' leader. And Greg Willis is moved to lead the team in his home state Wisconsin - the Great Lakes Initiative (Big Bertha, Doorman, Flatman, Mr Immortal and Squirrel Girl), usually considered a joke rather than a super-team.Back in New York Gauntlet and Tigra are together and still on the run - in the sewers. Hood's 4 villains track them down and attack. But they're saved by a cave-in that spares the heroes because it's controlled by Justice. The duo accept an offer to join the New Warriors, but Tigra insists on renaming them all the Avengers Resistance.Later Osborn welcomes his Initiative to their new Camp HAMMER HQ in the New Mexico desert. As well as Hood and the 4 gang members mentioned earlier we see the Brothers Grimm, Cutthroat and the U-Foes (Ironclad, Vapor, Vector, X-Ray). And as well as Diamondback, Penance and Taskmaster we see Komodo.


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Avengers: The Initiative disassembled part 1
After Henry Pym declined to take up the role of his Skrull imposter last issue that leaves Gauntlet/Sgt Joe Green in charge of the Initiative, but he's still trying to persuade someone else to take the job. Hellcat says she's got to get back to Alaska where she's the only team member. Tigra has to return to the Arkansas team to train up the real Razorback, who we saw last issue as 1 of the returned abductees who had been replaced by Skrulls during Secret Invasion. Stingray was only a trainee but he used to run Hydrobase - but he's now been appointed leader of Hawaii's Point Men after the loss of Devil-Slayer, Magnitude and 3-D Man in the last few issues. Gargoyle is an old man (he fought in WWI) and he's retiring. And no-one wants the job now they'll have to answer to Norman Osborn ...... except maybe Baron Von Blitzschlag, but Gauntlet's not giving the job to an ex-Nazi. Who at this moment wakes from a nap in his lab to see that Ragnarok the cyborg/clone of Thor has woken up.SHIELD is flying the Shadow Initiative (Bengal, Constrictor, and Mutant Zero) and their new leader Taskmaster and temporary add-on Komodo on their covert mission to Madripoor. Taskmaster is worried about MZ's loyalty since he worked out her identity last issue. He promises not to tell anyone, but she just takes her mask off and announces her name Typhoid Mary. The rest of her team found out during SI (in #17), so only Komodo is unaware that she the person who did crazy things like sleeping with Daredevil as well as fighting him. Komodo says the target of their mission is her ex-boyfriend terrorist Hardball, so she's in no position to criticise Mary.TMaster asks TMary why she joined the Initiative instead of Hood's villain gang. She says she was granted a pardon, and they promised to help integrate her 4 personalities. Which she says has not been too successful so far.Back at the Camp Hammond HQ the latest batch of graduating Initiative trainees get their assignments. Red 9 is going to join the Georgia team. Annex and Geiger are destined for New Mexico. Batwing will be in the Shadow Initiative. Melee will stay behind as a martial arts instructor. Gorilla Girl has been allowed to go on reserve status - she's just thankful she's survived this long and doesn't expect her luck to continue. Ex-cons Prodigy and Sunstreak are kept back on probation. Prodigy complains to Diamondback (a fellow trainee who seems to have joined the Camp staff) that he's not a real criminal like Sunstreak, just an anti-Registration protester.In his basement lab Blitzschlag wants to know how Ragnarok recovered from his damage. But the cyborg ignores that and just demands his hammer. The Baron says it's locked in a vault but he only has 1 of the 2 keys needed to open it. However the Thor clone just rips the door off and grabs his mallet. The scientist tries to use command codes to control the errant machine but they have no effect (presumably all part of Skrull-Yellowjacket's revenge-from-the -grave plot as seen last issue). The clone seems to believe it is the real Thor, and when Blitzschlag tells him he's an android Ragnarok smites him with a lightning bolt from the hammer.Meanwhile Ultragirl has been called to the Admin Building where a lawyer tells her she must hand over her costume, an old Ms Marvel thing that Carol Danvers gave her as a graduation present in #12. Apparently Carol had signed over the rights to the name and costume to the Avengers for charitable purposes. Now Norman Osborn has inherited those rights and he wants the costume back. The lawyer reminds Suzy Sherman that she used to be a New Warrior, and the current members are deserters from the Initiative and are now wanted fugitives. Suzy protests that Iron Man agreed to their unofficial role (#12 again), but the lawyer replies that Osborn is reversing a lot of Tony Stark's decisions.In the counsellor's office SI abductee Thor Girl has come to see Trauma. But she doesn't seem to have any psychological problems he can help her with. Actually she just wants to know what bad things her Skrull replacement did, and she heard that Terry Ward knew her well. Terry tells her that it would be inappropriate for him to be her counsellor because that Thor Girl had a crush on him. But Tarene doesn't really hear him because she reacts to the sound of Ragnarok's attack.They rush outside to see the clone blasting the place with repeated thunderbolts. Thor Girl immediately attacks, and both Thor people accuse the other of being an imposter. Tarene starts to lose the battle because her power is much less than the clone's since she gave most of her power to Odin to defeat Surtur in Thor (1998) #40. Ragnarok is about to (possibly) kill her when other heroes take a hand.Sgt Green blasts the cyborg with his gauntlet. He tells gamma-powered Doc Samson to stay with him to fight, and sends others to evacuate civilians. But Trauma says he'll take on this battle alone. He becomes the clone's greatest fear - the real Thor. Doubt assails Ragnarok as the 1st mighty hammer blow decks him. But then he realises that 'Thor' isn't throwing his magic hammer or using it to hurl lightning - he's an imposter. And a mighty blow KO's his opponent who reverts to Terry Ward.Gorilla Girl was leaving in a taxi when she saw and heard Ragnarok's thunderbolts. She stopped the car and headed back to the Camp. She's had to struggle through fleeing citizens who as usual were protesting outside the gates. Now she grabs Ragnarok to stop him killing Trauma.But the cyborg easily throws her off, and Fahnbullah Eddy figures her luck's finally run out as the easily-distracted Thor-clone turns to kill her. 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V-S Day
Skrulls led by the fake Dum Dum Dugan of SHIELD have taken over the Initiative's Camp Hammond base as their Central Command. They have a doomsday weapon ready in case they lose the war against humans. Iron Man entrusted (Skrull) Dugan with it during World War Hulk (in IM: Director Of SHIELD #20) to send Hulk and Manhattan Island into the Negative Zone as a last resort. While the Skrull Yellowjacket Criti Noll was running the Initiative they planted the tech in the base of every State's Initiative team, and they can use it to send the USA into the NZ, destroying the Earth in the process.But some of the Initiative have rumbled this and they are systematically destroying all the bases. However Skrull-Dugan knows that they only need 3 bases to do the job, and at the moment they have 6 still standing. But the enemy is attacking all those 6 at once. However Dugan doesn't send his troops to defend all of them but orders them concentrated wherever 3-D Man is because only *he* can detect Skrulls.We see Cloud 9 (from Montana's Freedom Force) and Ryder of the Skrull Kill Krew helping Tigra of Arkansas' Battalion defeat their Skrull infiltrator impersonating Razorback. In Kentucky Action Pack's Prima Donna and Vox face the Skrull 'Frog Man' with help from the Nevada Heayy Hitters' Hardball carrying the head-in-a-jar of the SKK's Moonstomp. Wisconsin's Great Lakes Initiative (Big Bertha, Doorman, Flatman, Mr Immortal and Squirrel Girl) find that the latest occupant of the Grasshopper armour is a Skrull, but Gravity (another Heavy Hitter) and Catwalk (another SKK head-in-a-jar) help out. In Florida Jennifer Kale and Wundarr of the Command fight a Devil Dinosaur Skrull (who seems to have been masquerading as Conquistador) with the Arizona Desert Stars' Komodo and the SKK's Riot. Jocasta (from the New Mexico Mavericks) and the 3rd SKK jar-head Dice are in Washington State where they've exposed Skyhawk of Earth Force as a Skrull. But they are caught between supporters of the Skrulls as well as anti-Skrull demonstrators which allows that Skrull to detonate his base's doomsday tech.Finally we go to Texas where the Rangers (Firebird, Living Lightning, Phantom Rider, Red Wolf, Shooting Star and Texas Twister) have been joined by Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) and 3-D Man (Delroy Garrett) who has exposed RW's wolf Lobo as the Skrull. SS shoots him dead but a crowd of anti-Skrull protesters are incited by many Skrulls among them to attack the heroes because they're probably *all* Skrulls. A thrown brick smashes 3-D Man's Skrull-detecting goggles and he can no longer tell who's Skrull in the crowd.Meanwhile Whiz Kid of Philadelphia's Liberteens has been racing round the States blowing up 'spires' housing the Skrull doomsday tech. It's always on an Initiative Team's base, usually an obvious pylon or transmission tower. She's now returned to the Liberteens' base where it's not obvious so she's blown up the whole HQ building. She's joined by Spinner of Freedom Force who gets a different superpower each day, and currently it's also superspeed so they've shared the task. She's returned from Illinois where the Spaceknights are fighting a Skrull Fleet in Chicago. She now heads for Hawaii and they'll meet up at Camp Hammond.Back in Texas Delroy has contacted the previous 3-D Men, Chuck and Hal Chandler, in the Maverick's HQ where another speedster, the Heavy Hitters' Nonstop, has arrived to blow *that* up. He wants advice on how to tell Skrulls without his goggles. Chuck tells him that the goggles were only a focussing aid. The Tri-Force energy within him can do it without them. He concentrates hard and his eyes turn separately red and green. He dives into the crowd and starts shooting. The people think he's gone made until his dead targets revert to Skrulls. The Chandlers drive away from the New Mexico base as Nonstop sets off her explosives. Chuck tells Delroy he can't send Devil-Slayer to teleport them elsewhere because he's lost contact with him. (We saw DS collapse at the end of last issue after 'porting all the above teams to their destinations.) Jocasta's also gone off-air after the Skrull tech was activated in Washington. Garrett remembers that the Skrull 'spires' use Negative Zone energy, which gives him an idea.Meanwhile Crusader (the secret Skrull who's on Earth's side) has been fighting in the mass battle in Central Park (Secret Invasion #7-8) and our side has won and the Skrull-replaced heroes have been freed. The victory has been dampened because it (appeared to) cost the life of the Wasp. Then Crusader sees that the Skrull Yellowjacket is alive and using his Super-Skrull speed to escape. Z'Reg uses his Freedom Ring to give himself superspeed so he can give chase.Spinner reaches the Hawaiian base, the Lookout Point, by running across the ocean. It's Skrull infiltrator was already killed (#14) but she still needs to destroy it's 'spire'. But she spots some regular Skrulls there and prepares to attack them when her power time runs out and she crashes on the base. She'll get another power in a few seconds but meanwhile she's helplessly surrounded. So she sets her explosive to go off in a few seconds and hopes for something like invulnerability. But she gets flight and the bomb goes off before she can escape. She and all the Skrulls are killed, but 1 of them lasts long enough to activate the spire.Dugan is informed that 2 spires are active, and he says that Camp Hammond can be the necessary 3rd if the doomsday option is required. Then he learns that it is as YJ arrives to inform him that Queen Veranke is dead, the Armada has fallen and the biological weapon (Wasp) failed. It is time to activate the base's spire and the doomsday weapon. Criti Noll declares that if they can't have Earth then no-one shall.At which point Crusader gets there and punches YJ in the jaw. They continue to fight but now that they are in close range Z'Reg can use his Ring to stop the Skrull using any superpowers, and he gives the foe a beating. Firing up the 3rd spire has been forgotten about as Dugan, now gone Skrull, and the others prepare to shoot Crusader ...... when the cavalry arrives in the form of some of the Initiative members and Skrull Kill Krew led by 3-D Man with the rallying cry "Avengers assemble". Delroy Garrett helpfully explains that the Negative Zone energy generated by the 2 spires enabled them to use the Initiative's Neg Zone jump gates to get here. But Dugan has an ace up his sleeve, the only sample of an experimental gas they've invented that is lethal to humans but not Skrulls. He releases it and some of the heroes immediately start to feel the effect. If Texas Twister were here he could create a whirlwind to take the gas away but he's not got through the jump gates yet ...... but then Whiz Kid arrives by running and successfully does the same job. However in the process she absorbs too much of the gas and dies in 3-D Man's arms. His 2nd rallying cry is "Kill Krew kill" and he personally takes on Skrull-Dugan.Meanwhile Crusader and Skrull-Yellowjacket are still battling it out. YJ is trying to get to the controls to activate the last spire but the hero is determined to stop him. But now YJ gets in some licks and manages to pull away from him. The  increased distance allows him to regain his powers and he grows giant-size and stomps on his foe. Then he aims another container of the gas at him, expecting it to kill him. But Crusader charges through it unharmed which make YJ realise he must be another Skrull. But the hero lands the killing blow.Meanwhile (again) 3-D Man is still beating on Dugan and their fight smashes the doomsday controls. And Garrett appears to rip the Skrull's heart out. The other Skrulls surrender but Ryder of the Kill Krew kills 1 anyway. Gravity and others congratulate Crusader on saving the day (and the planet). He has 1 moment to bask in the glory before Delroy shoots him because he's a Skrull.As he lies dying he wishes it could have ended better. And his Freedom Ring activates and his body disappears.


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Persons of interest
In Camp Hammond Gauntlet is berating trainees Cloud 9, Hardball, Rage, Slapstick, Thor Girl and Ultragirl for disobeying orders and going to attack Hulk and his Warbound during World War Hulk. (Other trainees like Debrii and Komodo are spared his wrath.) As usual he compares them to the New Warriors whose disastrous actions in Stamford triggered the Civil War, as he puts them through extra training sessions.At home Joe Green plays with his daughter and obeys his wife, before leaving for another day on the training ground. But he never makes it because someone beats him senseless. Lovers Tigra and Yellowjacket are out for a run when they find Gauntlet''s body, with NW scrawled on his chest in his own blood.Ex-New Warriors Debrii, Rage, Slapstick and Ultragirl are jailed on suspicion. Even staff member Justice is thrown in with them.Later Henry Peter Gyrich gives a press conference about the Initiative''s successful evacuation of Manhattan during WWH. Reporter Sally Floyd comments on the young trainees being used then, and during the Hydra attack on the President in #2. She asks why this is different from the New Warriors in Stamford. Gyrich replies that the trainees are supervised. Floyd counters by asking why no superheroes have left the base in the last 2 days. HPG terminates the meeting.SHIELD Capekiller agents have been sent to investigate the attack on Gauntlet, who''s in a coma. When they ask Mrs Green if any of the trainees hate him, she answers that they''re supposed to hate him - that''s his job as Sergeant.The agents take Debrii from the jail cell for questioning. Rage loses his temper with him fellow inmates, before they take him to an interrogation room. They ask him about a confontation with Gauntlet when he told him to stop bad-mouthing the New Warriors. Elvin says that Joe Green took him aside to tell him he''s going to be dropped from the Initiative, because he''s too immature. They''ll remove his powers, and maybe return them when he''s 18. But Rage denies the attack on the Sergeant. The agents leave him to stew for a while.Dr Von Blitzschlag informs them that Gauntlet wasn''t beaten with superhuman fists. He was hit with a large blunt weapon.Cloud 9 is unhappy being confined to base. She tells Hardball and Komodo she''s got to get out to see MVP. The other 2 don''t understand - they all saw MVP die in #1. But Cloud 9 insists she saw him (when she and Justice went to visit his family in #4). Hardball almost reveals that he saw MVP''s body in Dr Pym and Von Blitzschlag''s lab when he burgled it in #4. But Yellowjacket expands from ant-size in their midst to stop their conversation. They were ordered never to talk about MVP''s death.In the brig Slapstick is asleep, and we learn about an affair between Justice and Ultragirl. Then SHIELD take Justice for a ''chat''. They ask him about an argument he had with Gauntlet, but Vance Astrovik says the matter is classified. Actually Justice was also confused about MVP being both dead and alive. And he was unhappy about the order never to enquire about the circumstances of his death. He accused Gauntlet of having trained the boy to death. The students had to hold the 2 apart.Justice admits to threatening to kill Gauntlet in the heat of the moment. He sarcastically tells the agents how he might have done it. He could have used his telekinesis to drop a large object on Joe, then used the same TK to throw the object away. He suggests they ask Henry Pym how far he could have thrown such a thing, and then search that area.The Capekillers take him seriously. Their search doesn''t find such an object. But it does uncover a Capekiller armour that an inventory had revealed was missing. There''s no DNA evidence because it''s been wiped clean electromagnetically. Hardball overhears this - it''s the suit he used in #4 to steal a SPIN sample.Hardball contacts the guy who blackmailed him into doing the robbery, who advises he lay a false trail to divert the investigators.  They find the same EM signature on the lock of the locker HB stole the armour from. And inside they find a subtle clue - a note made out of cut out letters telling them to check Dr Pym''s lab.They also find the EM signature on the keypad to the lab (which HB broke into). (Roger Brokeridge is obviously hoping the preserved body of MVP will interest the agents.) Dr Blitzschlag is desperate to keep his and Pym''s secrets, and phones Gyrich to get him to stop SHIELD''s forced entry.Mrs Green storms up and drags the Capekillers away, because Gyrich has ordered Pym to wake Gauntlet with a stimulant - a very risky move. The agents rush to the hospital bed - they don''t want to risk losing Gauntlet''s testimony.But the Sergeant wakes up OK. And he tells the SHIELD agents that he was attacked by Iron Man''s foe the Ghost. So the Capekillers leave the base.But we see in Slapstick''s memory that it was actually he who avenged the memory of his New Warriors pals, hitting him with the cartoon weapons he can pull out of his dimensional storage pocket.


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Killed in action part 1 of 4: Snafu
This issue starts and ends with short bits of a current episode, separated by a series of flashbacks.It starts with ant-sized Yellowjacket staggering through the ruins of Camp Hammond's Subbasement 9, past the body of an unidentified student, fearing it's the end of the Initiative.Several months ago YJ is with Iron Man and Mr Fantastic (with Captain America, Goliath (Bill Foster), Iceman and Thing) helping sort through the ruins of Stamford after the New Warriors incident that sparked off the Civil War. IM, MF and YJ pledge to stop things like this happening again.Some days later the 3 of them are in the Baxter Building, the Fantastic Four's HQ, making plans. They currently have 40 ideas that will change the world, but none that will take immediate effect. Henry Pym provides idea #41, the 50 State Initiative.They wonder how to get enough trainees. They consider modifying their SPIN Tech idea to create nanite-based obedience collars for supervillains. Soma Tech to induce powers in ordinary humans. Cloning. Imitating powers with technology. On that score Tony Stark suggests the Guardsman armour he invented, or the Iron Spider suit he created for Spider-Man. And YJ shows them the plans for a suit that uses Pym particles to make the wearers small or large. SHIELD call it GI Ant-Man.Then they move on to idea #42, expanding Reed Richards' Negative Zone prison. Which will be called Project 42.Weeks later, after Civil War, they announce the start of building Camp Hammond in Stamford. They promise the townsfolk that the presence of so many superheroes will mean they never have to fear supervillains again. Ares, Black Widow, Gargoyle, Invisible Woman, Justice, Ms Marvel, Nighthawk, Sentry, Thing, Wasp and Wonder Man show up to prove the point.Now we jump to the week before 'now', as protesters protest about a new busload of recruits. Yellowjacket goes to give them his welcoming speech, leaving War Machine to handle the crowd. But when Jim Rhodes points to the subdued Dragon Man android being brought in on a truck with a bunch of the existing trainees (Cloud 9, Hardball, Komodo and Thor Girl led by Triathlon), this only fuels the anger and fear.Inside the compound they're met by Bengal, Constrictor, Gargoyle, Nighthawk, Stature, Stingray and the 3 Scarlet Spiders. When Cloud 9 tells everyone that they were able to capture Dragon Man because he had a crush on Komodo, Constrictor treats it as a big joke. Komodo responds by revealing her relationship with Hardball, which angers DM who goes on a rampage. A Spider saves Cloud 9, who finds him strangely familiar. And War Machine KO's the Dragon.Henry Peter Gyrich is none too pleased about the bad press this is going to get, as Rhodey takes the android off to the Negative Zone prison. He then goes to introduce the new recruits to with their new instructor Taskmaster. Henry Pym is none too pleased about that, but Gyrich reminds him about the villain's obedience collar.Stature (Cassie Lang) comes over to talk to 'uncle' Hank Pym about her dead father Scott (Ant-Man) Lang. She asks him about how he survived an explosion (in #2) by shrinking to subatomic size. She wonders if her dad might have survived the explosion which killed him in the same way. Maybe they should go into the microverse to look for him. But Henry says he checked the site of Scott's death, and there was no trace of the use of Pym particles.Taskmaster lines up the new recruits:- Ant-Man, Crusader, Melee, Geldoff, Dragon Lord, Geiger, Red 9 and Diamondback. We learn that Melee is a mistress of all martial arts, and Dragon Lord can summon and control dragons but needs to prepare a potion 1st.Then Taskmaster does a double-take when he realises he's got an Ant-Man on the team, and accuses him of wrecking his circus scam. That was a long time ago and was Scott Lang. This AM is the irredeemable Eric O'Grady in a stolen GI Ant-Man suit who correctly denies being that guy, but goes on to blacken Scott's name by crediting him with some of his own misdeeds.Cassie overhears this slander, turns giant and tries to stamp on O'Grady. But he grows to giant-size too and they start to fight. Ant-Man wins by telling Stature she's stepped on Stingray and then whacking her with the bus while she's distracted. So giant-size Yellowjacket wades in instead.Henry Gyrich orders Taskmaster to intervene. TM uses it as a class demonstration. He uses his spinning shield to hit all their Achilles' tendons, and the 3 giants topple on top of each other. YJ is still conscious because he lands on top. So TM KO's him with a blow to the nerves in his oversize neck.Later HPG and YJ review the Dragon Man mission with Triathlon (recently completed his training as an instructor) and the trainee team. Triathlon thinks it went well, and particularly commends Komodo for this and other jobs. Gyrich ignores all that and instead blasts the trainees for their poor performance against the Zodiac when they had to be rescued by the latest New Warriors (in NW#4, back between our #2 and #3). In particular he's angry that 1 of the young New Warriors died then in public view.Hardball reacts by anrily reminding his superiors that they know that 1 of their own trainees killed another (Armory killed MVP in #1). Triathlon and Thor Girl don't know what he's talking about, nor that HPG and YJ had forbidden the other 3 to mention it.Komodo drags Hardball into a storage room - she's turned on by his aggressive insubordination. Roger asks her if she could change back to human while they kiss, but Melati is ashamed of her original body. Roger admits that he knows her secret since he saw her human form in #3, so she transforms while he holds her up.Meanwhile we follow the 2 Henry's to YJ's lab in Subbasement 9. There we see the 3 MVP clones (the Scarlet Spiders) in stasis. HPG wishes they had more of them instead of bolshie trainees. Dr Von Blitzschlag offers to make more.The issue ends back in the now where we find that the cause of the mayhem is an MVP clone with Armory's Tactigon on his arm and the letters KIA incised into his chest.