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Beat the Devil: Part 1
In between last series and this the Champions have expanded their roster, and at this moment they are split into 3 teams to handle 3 widespread trouble-spots. Snowguard is shepherding Bombshell, Falcon, Locust and Pinpoint in Mexico. Ironheart and Wasp are with Patriot and Power Man in Japan. And the rest of the main team (Brawn, Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man and Viv Vision) are in the Champions Mobile Bunker piloted by the depowered Sam Alexander over Dubai.Locust leads the charge through a hole blasted by Bombshell into a dilapidated remote building where young girls are being held before being sold on. Falcon and Snowguard fly in behind them. While Pinpoint opens a portal to let the girls escape, the others take down the sex traffickers.The 2nd team are in Japan to rescue victims of a storm. Patriot and Power Man are riding in a flying platform built by Riri Williams. Ironheart detects 9 life-signs to be rescued, but there isn't enough room in the platform. Wasp has an idea about that. Power Man uses the chi he siphons from ambient cultural energy to help IH shift very large chunks of broken building. Nadia Van Dyne shrinks to get to 6 trapped people. Then she uses a Pym Pod to shrink *them* (and contain them?). When she gets them back to the platform Ironheart and Power Man have retrieved the other 3 full-size people. Patriot has been keeping the platform steady.Meanwhile the 4 still-powered original members of the Champions leap out of the Bunker in midair to tackle the electrical being Zzzax who is destroying a power plant. But after they land something bad seems to happen to them ...... but we skip to the end where defeated Zzzax is (presumably) trapped in Amadeus Cho's Battery Containment Field device. Viv says her father Vision will know how to imprison it more permanently.Back in the Bunker Pinpoint brings back the successful Mexico team, and then heads off and retrieves the other team from Japan.Sam Alexander tries to congratulate Miles Morales on good work in Dubai but Spidey snubs him and even locks him out of their shared bunk room. Amadeus tells Sam that Miles needs some alone time but won't say why. And Brawn gets angry when Sam won't let it go. (Is this something to do with what happened in Dubai?)Ms Marvel calls everybody together for a celebratory party. But before it starts she gives a morale-boosting congratulatory speech. She doesn't seem to notice that everybody is chatting rather than listening. Especially synthezoid Viv who wants to talk with Riri about when she kissed her (in the last issue of the previous series). Viv stopped when Riri asked her to and can't understand why Ironheart is now uncomfortable around her. Riri says Viv can't just kiss people without asking. So Viv now asks if she *can* kiss her, and angry Riri walks away.Meanwhile Kamala Khan has continued her speech and now calls her old friends (dating back to their Avengers days) Spider-Man and Nova to take a bow. But leaves in hurried confusion when she realises they aren't there to support her. She finds Sam still locked out of his room. When Miles doesn't answer her loud knock she uses her elastic power to shrink under the door. But Spidey refuses to tell her what's wrong and insists that she leave him alone. She leaves convinced that her leadership is at fault.But we see Miles visited by Mephisto who asks hasn't he got what he wanted?


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Break and enter
Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) quit the Champions last issue. Now Viv Vision flies her home (without the aid of a plane). As they land at MsM's house in Jersey City Viv comments that previously MsM had kept her civilian identity secret, but Kamala correctly guesses synthezoid Viv had already worked out who she was and where she lived. She says she's worn down by the effort of leading the team, and the Disir showing her last issue her death (in the alternate reality that Miles Morales and Amadeus Cho bargained with Mephisto to avoid in #2) has knocked her back. She doesn't know when she'll be back, and Viv offers to lead the team in her absence.As Viv flies away she reflects that she's the only founding Champion left. (Teen Cyclops quit in #18 of the previous series. Nova (Sam Alexander) lost his powers in Infinity Countdown: Champions #2, and left to get them back in #4 of the current series. Spider-Man (MM) quit in that issue too, and Brawn (AC) left immediately after that to join the New Agents Of Atlas during War Of The Realms.) Her 2.0 personality pops up to suggest that Viv drove the others away by suppressing her human emotions. (Viv and Viv 2.0 merged in the above-mentioned #18, and Viv switched off her emotions (again) in #22.)Now we switch to the focus of this issue - Sam's quest for the Black Nova helmet that gives him his powers. He's currently sharing a 1-person spacecraft with the alien female Kaldera who wants to kill him. In Nova (2019) #8-9 she was sent to assassinate him by Proxima Midnight. Her failure resulted in imprisonment and torture. She escaped in our #3 and intended to restore her honour by completing her task. But in #4 she discovered Sam was now powerless and killing him in that state would not suffice. So *she* wants to help him get his powers back so she can kill him properly. For that reason they are approaching the HQ of the Nova Corps who confiscated his helmet.Kaldera matches orbit with the space station Spirit Of Xandar (aka the Rock) in her stealthed spaceship. She forces all the air out of Sam's lungs to avoid rupture in the vacuum and opens the cockpit. She leaps with him to the surface of the Rock and applies a cannister which blows a hole in the wall. Once inside she employs another cannister which seals the hole, and Sam is left gasping for breath. She disrupts the station comms and then hides to await an investigation.4 minutes later Sam is still recovering when 2 alien Nova Corpsmen turn up. Kaldera drops on them and knocks them out. Sam stops her from killing them by swearing not to put on the Helmet if she does. They put on the non-power Nova helmets and take their guns. Sam scans the database and 'accidentally' comes across the file of his presumed-dead father, the Black Nova Jesse Alexander. Then he follows a map and deliberately(?) takes them to the barracks.Human Nova Commander (and former SHIELD Agent) Scott Adsit gets a garbled alert and rushes to the barracks to investigate. There he finds that Kaldera has defeated (but not killed) all his men in there. Sam Alexander apologises for all this. Kaldera takes Adsit hostage to get them past any other Corpsmen and forces him to take them to the armoury to get the Black Helmet. Scott whispers to Sam that he knows Kaldera is making him do this.They reach the armoury which holds, as well as weapons, several real powered Helmets. Adsit explains that they only use them when necessary because there are not many left. The Black Helmet is in special storage. Scott says it's still active but they can't get it to power up. But then they open the case to find that the Helmet has gone. Adsit studies security footage and they see a thief breaking in to steal the item.Throughout the issue Kaldera has been her usual irascible superior self, but now she's getting annoyed. She demands that Adsit locates the Helmet. Luckily Scott's equipment can track its unique signature. When he's started the trace Kaldera thanks him and prepares to shoot him humanely. But Sam points *his* gun at *her*. However she was expecting that and kicks him away. He recovers and tries to shoot her but discovers that the gun she gave him was unloaded. And then she shoots Adsit.Then the trace finishes and tells them the Helmet is back on Earth in Muscatine, Iowa.


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In the Outlawed 1-shot the Champions were involved in a disaster at the Coles School in which Viv Vision was apparently atomised and Kamala Khan (not in her Ms Marvel costume) was hospitalised while saving a VIP. In response Kamala's Law made underage superheroing illegal.In our 1st issue Ms Marvel, still in hospital, secretly organised a meeting of other teen heroes but someone tipped of CRADLE, enforcers of the Law, and they raided the gathering and made a few arrests before the rest escaped. And Viv Vision watched the raid.Now we see Locust (Fernanda Rodriguez) and Snowguard (Amka Aliyak) who were arrested in Outlawed and Bombshell (Lana Baumgartner) arrested last issue plus Starling (Tiana Toomes) who must have been caught later because she was still free at the end of last issue. They are in a classroom in a Re-education Centre with other presumably-powered teens with cuffs also-presumably to neutralise their powers. A teacher is trying to indoctrinate them to become 'safe' citizens.She mentions CRADLE Lieutenant Vance Astrovik (Justice) and mutant Kevin Ford (Wither) who killed their own fathers with their powers. She claims that it wasn't their fault. It was society that didn't do enough to protect them from using their powers. She tries to get everyone to chant a mantra "Safety is everyone's responsibility" but gets no response. Teacher tells them that their next assignment will be an essay on the subject "Most teen super-heroes unintentionally murder their loved ones. What I can personally learn from this is ...". But 1st she wants them to recite the mantra individually. But Starling responds with an insult and Locust laughs.The teacher tells them they'll never be let out until they learn respect. Inuit Snowguard says her people know about places like this called Residential Schools. Lana Baumgartner says her great-grandmother was murdered in a Re-education And Rehabilitation Camp (I guess we're talking Nazi Concentration Camp). Amka breaks her bonds and manifests her wings so the teacher calls in help. Timeslip arrives with some CRADLE troops. Teach asks for Butterfly Protocol for Level 10 Adjustment for Bombshell and Snowguard. Suddenly the pair are gone. Locust asks what happened to them. Timeslip explains that she went back in time to before Amka went super and removed them both. Teacher says they're all here until they learn how not to be dangerous and resistant.In Downtown Chicago there's a protest against what *they* call Patrick's Law (after Senator Patrick who masterminded the new Law). 1 protester tells a reporter that the Law is being used as an excuse for a crackdown on teens that as usual is aimed disproportionately at minorities. A spokesperon takes up the same theme and says she fears oppressive authority more than superheroes. But then rival protesters supporting Kamala's Law butt in. Their speaker is against the romanticising of vigilantism and the creation of child soldiers. He introduces Jamilah (from last issue) who has come from New York to tell the crowd that she witnessed the Coles disaster too close for comfort. The gathering degenerates into a scuffle and the police try to break it up. Carolina Washington arrives with CRADLE troops to arrest the anti-Law ringleaders for inciting vigilante violence.Ms Marvel (obviously now out of hospital), Nova (Sam Alexander) and Spider-Man (Miles Morales) are watching from a rooftop. MsM brought them here to watch for trouble like this. Nova thinks they should go down and stop them arresting people. Spidey  doesn't know what they can do which won't make things worse. Kamala rings Chicago's teen heroine Ironheart on the secure Champions phone but gets no answer. Sam can't wait. He rockets down and the other 2 reluctantly follow him to keep him out of trouble. Nova tells everyone to vacate the area but a pro-Law protester throws a can at him. CRADLE move in to arrest the Champs.Ironheart's Champs phone is in her deserted and cleaned out lab. Riri Williams herself is at home eating cereal and ignoring the news about the riot. Her mother Ronnie is about to leave for work but tries to get her daughter to go to the lab. The Law may stop her being Ironheart but it can't stop her being a scientist. Riri says there's no point, but we notice she can't stop tinkering with household gadgets. A bit later her friend Xavier King comes to the house to ask her out to a free movie in the park but she turns him down.Then the doorbell rings again and it's the 3 Champions on the run from CRADLE. Riri tries to get them to leave but they tell her that the meeting she sent her AI NATALIE to was raided. Someone ratted on them and MsM suspects Riri, who responds that she's figured out that MsM is Kamala. And she also blames her for not being there to make the leadership decisions when Riri had to organise the operation which killed her friend Viv. Kamala apologises.Sam says they still need to do something, but Riri says her own public identity means that she can't risk getting her mom into trouble. Also being Champions has already got Bombshell, Locust, Snowguard and Wasp taken who knows where. Sam reminds Riri that she could be exempt from the Law if she had an approved mentor, ie Iron Man. So he figures she just doesn't *want* to be Ironheart and a Champion. After all she can just be Riri Williams, girl genius. But she still asks them to leave. However her tablet beeps a warning that CRADLE are here and she activates something on her wrist that armours her up, putting the lie to Nova's idea that she given up being Ironheart. Miles suggests they surrender ...... and miles away Viv Vision in a holographic disguise remotely urges them to follow his advice and be safe. But she sees the 4 of them come out fighting. Then she gets back on a bus to somewhere else. She's made friends with a woman and child on the journey, and the woman hopes she's running *to* something rather than away from things because otherwise the running never stops.


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Killer app part 3
Ms. Marvel in her civilian Kamala Khan identity was rendered comatose during a Champions operation. When she awoke days later in hospital she found that a law had been passed in her name to ban teen superheroes. The Champs revealed that Roxxon Corp were behind it and the law is now suspended under review. Roxxon switched tactics by launching a Roxx On app aimed at teens. The suspicious Champs went undercover at Roxxon to find out what they were doing. Kamala couldn't face it so Miles Morales (Spider-Man) and Sam Alexander (Nova) applied to be interns. Miles got in but Sam was deemed too boring. To get himself a place Sam said he could get Kamala Khan to join.The team are having a meeting at Viv Vision's home. Her dad Vision keeps interrupting with pizza. Sparky the synthezoid dog is there too. Kamala is angry at Sam for volunteering her after she specifically said no, and (correctly) thinks Sam did it to avoid the boring charge. Sam tries to counter by pointing out that *she* volunteered him and Miles, and they *all* need to do what's best for the team. Viv acts as arbiter:- Kamala *asked* Miles and Sam to become interns but Sam volunteered her without asking, even though he knew working with the Corp that used her name for that hateful Law would be painful for her, so Sam should apologise. But on the other hand he's right that they need to do whatever they can to bring Roxxon down. Miles agrees and asks Kamala to come up with a plan. Riri Williams (Ironheart) has been keeping quiet and eating pizza.On Monday Kamala enters Roxxon HQ with Sam, pretending not to know Miles. PR head Miriam Blakemoore is delighted to see her (after calling her parents to assure them it's all above board).On Tuesday Blakemoore gives the interns a spiel about using the Roxx On app and an upcoming Roxx concert to sell teens on the Roxx On lifestyle, buy their products and use their mental health services. They see her meeting a General and taking him to R&D.On Wednesday Miles pretends to spill iced coffee on Blakemoore's Roxxon ID card, and while cleaning it allows Riri to remotely clone it. (Later Kamala asks Miriam why they all drink expensive iced coffee. She replies that it's all part of the Roxx On image - they can afford it and they need it because their lives are so busy.)On Thursday Blakemoore tells them their main job is to be vloggers, showing how much fun being a Roxx On intern is. She kicks it off with a selfie hugging Kamala with the other 2 in front. Kamala hides her face behind Sam's head and then runs out crying. Another intern André Sims sees her and is totally unsympathetic. He says *his* job in R&D is way more important than theirs.At the weekend Kamala is ignoring all Sam's calls, but also not replying to the others' messages of support. At dinner with her parents she blurts out an apology for messing up the apprenticeship. *They* apologise for encouraging her into it because it showed she could forgive Roxxon and give them a chance to prove they'd changed. But if her gut feeling is that they *haven't* changed then she shouldn't go back to them on Monday. Kamala says she thinks they haven't changed but maybe *she* can change *them*. Her father says that's too big a job for just 1 person.The other 4 are continuing their plan without Ms Marvel. But Sam has also taken it into his head to try to contact teen hero Speedball who had been working with CRADLE who enforced Kamala's Law. He figures Robbie Baldwin is bound to know stuff about Roxxon, but Robbie won't answer his calls. The others think it was a weak idea anyway, but he was desperate now that Kamala seems to have backed out because that means he'll be kicked out of Roxx On and Miles will be their only inside man. The others see this as him blaming Kamala and they insist that she has the right to make her own choices and they'll have to work around it.So while Sam has been off on his wild Robbie chase the other 3 have come up with a new idea using the copy of Blakemoore' ID. They'd originally intended to ask Kamala to shape-shift into Miriam but she probably wouldn't have wanted to do that. So now Viv will sneak in and use the ID but the others have to keep Miriam and her aide Paige Graeme busy.Miles corners Paige to discuss the concert and plans for giveaways. Sam butters Miriam up and asks her for advice on ways to convince Kamala to come back. Riri monitors Viv's progress and looks out for trouble. Viv uses the fake ID to get in the building and then stops the security cameras seeing her. But the synthezoid can't phase through walls because there are sensors embedded in them so she just has to follow corridors like a human being. Eventually her pass gets her into the room we saw in #6 with André's giant robot in it. She starts downloading all the info from the computer system in the room.Meanwhile she views the last file Blakemoore accessed which is a video of the meeting with the General. It seems that Roxx On usage has a strong effect of making people disinterested in Kamala's Law so they won't care when it doesn't get repealed. Then the Chaperone Models (ie copies of the big robot) will be released with an AI that can track/predict teen superhero activity.Miles and Sam report that they've delayed their targets as long as they can, and Blakemoore is heading to R&D. Riri urges Viv to leave, but her download isn't complete. And the issue ends with Miriam entering the room Viv is in.


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Teenage superheroic activity has been outlawed by the so-called Kamala's Law. Ironheart, Ms Marvel, Nova and Spider-Man of the Champions are still free but others have been sent to re-education centres. Our 4 took a break last issue with the X-Men's Marauders but then headed back into the fray. Meanwhile Viv Vision has been informing on them for their own good, but last issue was persuaded to help her friends instead.We begin with Snowguard, Starling and Wasp in their bunks in 1 of the camps under constant surveillance. But Viv and Brawn break in to rescue them. They evade security until they get to the control centre where they discover the place is run by Roxxon (who's attack on a young climate activist at Coles High School sparked off the Underage Superhuman Welfare Act in the 1st place in the Outlawed 1-shot). They shut off the power-dampening restraints that all the 'prisoners' have and start a mass break-out.In Ironheart's home in Chicago Riri's mother Ronnie Williams and her friend Xavier King have been keeping each other company while they wait for news of Riri. Then the 4 tumble out of a closet (presumably teleported there by the Krakoan system). Riri hurriedly apologises to her mom for being out superheroing, but her friends needed her. Ms Marvel takes full responsibility as the leader of the Champs. But Mrs W says she fully supports what they and her daughter are doing. In fact she's thinking of starting a Parents Of Teen Heroes Support Group.Later at Riri's lab which used to be Ironheart HQ the 4 prepare a social media broadcast. But they're interrupted by a loud banging on the door which they assume is CRADLE troops come for them. The door is smashed in but it's Brawn who only meant to knock loudly, and he has the others with him. Miles Morales still worries that CRADLE will find them but Viv assures them they won't. The synthezoid admits that *she* has been tracking them and passing the info on to CRADLE. She blamed herself for the Coles disaster and wanted to keep them out of more danger. But now she realises she should have trusted their own decisions.Amadeus Cho now reveals that he and Viv downloaded loads of surveillance footage from the re-education camp, which they now put out on the Net. Nova thinks that the whole Outlawed event has been orchestrated by Roxxon but Wasp thinks they just took advantage of a situation that was at least partly the Champions' fault. Snowguard supports her but some of the others aren't so ready to forgive, especially Bombshell after the brainwashing they put her through. Amadeus breaks it up by inviting everyone back into the restored Champions Mobile Bunker.Senator Patrick was the instigator of Kamala's Law, but it turns out his motives were pure and he didn't know what Roxxon was doing in the camps. Loads of people are protesting outside his office and he wants to talk to the leaders. But a couple of Roxxon 'representatives' barge into his office to tell him not to do that. However the Champs (including Red Locust) turn up too, and the 'reps' send for Roxxon troops. (That office is getting awfully crowded.) The crowd follow them in. And then the Senator orders Roxxon to stand down, and they reluctantly leave.Later the Champions give a press conference. Senator Patrick has terminated Roxxon's contract and closed the camps. The Law is still in force but will be re-evaluated, and CRADLE will be toned down. But the Champions will continue fighting for what's right.Later still Mrs Blakemore welcomes 2 new Roxxon interns to a social media job. And those 2 interns are Miles Morales (Spider-Man) and Sam Alexander (Nova).


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Teenage superheroes have been outlawed after a disaster at Kamala Khan's school. Many have been taken by CRADLE and are now in re-education camps. Champions Ironheart (Riri Williams), Ms Marvel (Kamala), Nova (Sam Alexander) and Spider-Man (Miles Morales) are on the run. And Viv Vision, who they think is dead, betrayed them for their own good and is now travelling across America by bus.Bombshell (Lana Baumgartner) rebelled at the reform school and was taken away for special treatment last issue. Now we see her making a video with a tearful confession of how wrong she was but now she's seen the light. Speedball commends her for her bravery. It is aired on a TV show to be discussed by Jake Oh of CRADLE and inactive superheroine Silhouette who take predictably opposite positions.The video is also shown in the camp's canteen. Locust (Fernanda Rodriguez) and Starling (Tiana Toomes) can't believe what they're hearing. Fernanda refuses to eat her lunch because they're probably putting something in it. Snowguard (Amka Aliyak) was also taken away last issue but is here with them. She doesn't appear to have been brainwashed like Lana, but does try to get Fernanda to eat. And Lana echoes her as she joins them. She doesn't understand when her friends say she's acting like a zombie. But she panics when the 'waitress' accuses them all of being disruptive and calls for help.Fernanda kicks off and guards rush in to subdue her. She says she's descended from a long line of Locusts who've protected the innocent for hundreds of years, and she's not going to sit back and take it now. Lana begs the guards not to hurt her friend. Tiana wades in wielding a serving trolley. Amka and Wasp (Nadia Van Dyne) reluctantly join in, Nadia saying she prefers to calculate the odds before rushing into a fight. But now the SWAT version of the guards arrive and the rebellious 4 are carted off.On the bus Viv Vision, with her robot features disguised, reaches her destination in the middle of nowhere in Kansas (seemingly inspired by Dorothy from Wizard Of Oz). Her acute senses immediately detect someone crying and she flies to help. An old lady tells her that a storm has broken her power and phone lines. Viv zooms up the utility pole and fixes things with her solar eye-beams. Cora invites her in for soup (the gas was still on). She thinks Viv is running away from a bad family situation, as hers was when she was young. It twisted her for a long time until she learned to trust again. But Viv can stay here for as long as she needs.Our 4 main characters have been on the run for 4 days, and CRADLE always seems to know how to find them. They haven't been able to contact the Avengers, and CRADLE were waiting for them when they tried to see Brawn (Amadeus Cho). They are chased out of their current hidey-hole by a team led by Dum Dum Dugan and Jake Oh.Later we see them in a tree-house where a young fan Jesse is hiding them. Kamala takes 1st watch that night but Sam wakes from a nightmare of Viv disintegrating. Leader Kamala is still beating herself up over Viv's death, but Sam tries to boost her ego.But then CRADLE troops led by Carolina Washington surround the tree. Jesse tries to order them off his family's property but Washington threatens him with an aiding and abetting charge. Ironheart and Nova are ready to fight, but Spidey thinks it may be time to give in, and MsM thinks that might be a way to find the missing teens. Riri and Sam take the decision out of her hands by attacking, and Kamala and Miles can't let them do it alone.But then help turns up in the shape of Cyclops and Dust of the X-Men who offer them asylum on Krakoa. And Cyke suggests CRADLE not interfere unless they want to start a war with the mutant nation.


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Killer app finale
Last issue the Champions exposed Roxxon's latest plan and got Kamala's Law repealed. But they aren't quite home and dry yet because disgruntled Roxxon employee André Sims has sent his Chaperone robots against them.Ironheart, Ms. Marvel, Nova, Spider-Man and Viv Vision are flying round New York celebrating when they see the 3 robots launching from the Roxxon HQ. The Chaperones say they're going to save the teen heroes from the danger they put themselves in. And they fire a foam which hardens around Nova and Spidey until Ironheart frees them. Then they use other non-lethal, but still dangerous, weapons against our gang. They also use the foam to stop teen bystanders from 'dangerously' running away. So the Champs go proactive to try to take the robots down.Meanwhile Roxxon boss Miriam Blakemoore uses her authority to get in to André's control room without the armed guards who want to accompany her. Sims is wearing a helmet which allows him to control the Chaperones, and he reminds Ms Blakemoore that it would be risky to remove it from him by force. She's just going to have to watch as he proves how good his invention is. He says that he's got round the failsafe that was supposed to stop the Chaperones attacking heroes directly because the robots think that's the best way to stop the teens getting into even more dangerous situations. And their algorithm is making their attacks very effective. But Blakemoore reminds him that some teens are less predictable than others, and the system seems to pick out Ironheart and Viv as such.The Champs are helping civilians escape when Viv notices that the Chaperones keep missing her and Riri with their shots. She reminds them that the robots were trained by studying teen behaviour via the Roxx On app. Kamala, Sam and Miles all used the app while they went undercover as Roxxon interns, but Riri and Viv have never used it. The robots don't know the others' secret IDs but they have learned to deal with teens who act similarly to ones they've seen. Which doesn't include the synthezoid and the armoured girl. So Spidey attracts the robots' attention by spouting loads of teen idioms while the others finish the evacuation. And then the team go on the attack.Sims tells Blakemoore that his personal control would compensate for the algorithm's problem if only she'd shut up and let him get on with it. He rants that he hates teenagers as much as she does. Miriam replies that it was nothing personal, just business. The anti-teen-hero campaign was a way to influence people, just as she set up the current situation by deliberately not revoking his security clearance before firing him last issue. So that she can save the day and Roxxon's public image by now stopping his rampage by electrocuting him with a power cable.Outside the Chaperones freeze. And a TV News reporter runs up to ask Ms Marvel about the Champs working with Ms Blakemoore to shut down the robots. Kamala doesn't know how to answer, so Viv says "No comment" and they fly off. Miriam is on the News saying she takes full responsibility for having hired Sims to rehabilitate him (after his activities in the Ironheart 2020 mini-series).The Champs hear about that at Viv's house where they're helping her groom her synthezoid dog Sparky. MsM can't understand how they did everything right and still Roxxon comes up smelling of roses. Nova's response is basically 'that's life'. Roxxon have been doing bad stuff for years and the Avengers have never been able to take them down. Meanwhile Sparky has been racing around causing mayhem, and Viv thinks they're all overstimulating him. So they agree to all head home. But before they go Kamala takes a celebratory selfie of them all.The issue ends with an epilogue with Miriam visiting André in prison. It seems they've made a deal. He goes along with their story and Roxxon doesn't dismantle his Chaperones, and he remains their remote controller. And we see that half of the control helmet is now bonded to his face.


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After discovering what Roxxon had been doing in the teen re-education camps, Senator Patrick stopped the heavy-handed implementation of Kamala's Law for a rethink. But the Law banning teen super-heroes is still in force, so the Champions have to be careful.A team are breaking into a bank in New York. They include Fizzle (the leader), Naut, Py-Rite, Sneko and an unnamed swordsman. But the Champions (Ironheart, Ms. Marvel, Nova (Sam Alexander), Spider-Man (Miles Morales) and Viv Vision) interrupt them. The heroes beat them fairly easily, apart from when Py-Rite takes over Ironheart's armour and she doesn't like being saved by Viv. Then the Champs scarper before the police arrive.However they watch from a rooftop and see the bank manager turn up to explain that he'd hired the 'gang' to test the bank's security, and he'd contacted the local precinct to warn any super-heroes off (like that's what they do!). But the Champions are not currently a legitimate team so they didn't get the message.Our team aren't happy but Riri Williams is angry. She's angry with Kamala Khan about 'her' law that stops them acting openly. She's angry that they have to rely on synthezoid Viv for intel, but really she's still angry with Viv for 'betraying' them to the authorities in earlier issues. She stopped being Ironheart when the Law was passed but she rejoined the team to deal with Roxxon. Now she quits again.Miles leaves to follow her and calm her down. Sam leaves to finish his homework. Kamala and Viv stay to console each other. Leader Ms Marvel as usual blames herself. She expected that exposing Roxxon and CRADLE would solve everything but the Law still hangs over them. Viv still thinks *she*'s at fault, but also worries that even if the Law was repealed it wouldn't heal the harm she did to the team.Meanwhile Roxxon is taking a new tack. Miriam Blakemoore, head of Publicity and Marketing, announces Roxx On a new social media and self-care app for teens. However Snowguard leads a teen protest against it. An old-style male Roxxon assistant Jacobson wants to set the armed security troops on them but Mrs Blakemoore stops him - at least while the TV cameras are there. Instead she apologises for their previous mistaken attempt to shield teens from the dangers of super-heroing (and, she doesn't say, activism) but claims the new app provides free helplines for teen problems. And anyone who joins tonight will get a month's free access to everything else.We see some of the crowd taking the bait. But privately Blakemoore orders a media campaign in Roxx On against Snowguard. If a Roxx On user suffered such abuse then the company would be liable. But their Terms Of Service specifically exclude responsibility for none account holders. And she also tells Jacobson to find someone who can win difficult teens over.Spider-Man catches up with Ironheart. Riri assures him she hasn't really quit the team, but she's conflicted. They discuss another reason for her anger. When she was out of the team in the early issues they assumed it was *she* who was alerting CRADLE to their moves, until Viv 'fessed up. And she still finds it difficult to forgive them. They agree that Riri will continue to keep them on the right lines by pointing our where they're going wrong.Kamala Khan and her friend Bruno Carelli go to a Roxx On pop-up store in Jersey City Mall. (Presumably they don't have the app so don't get in free.) It's full of Roxx On branded stuff for teens, and Kamala has to stop Bruno buying some sneakers. They see an announcement that Jacobson has hired André Sims as Youth Outreach Coordinator. He apologises to the public for the mistakes he made as a Stark Unlimited intern (in the Ironheart 2020 mini-series) and is grateful for the 2nd chance.But at Roxx On HQ Blakemoore isn't happy with Jacobson and fires him because twenty-something science genius Sims is *not* her idea of someone who can connect with teens. She promotes Paige Graeme, the youngest member of her team, to replace him and find a better spokesperson. She also fires Sims but he says she can't. After a scathing list of all the reasons why he's useless she finally listens to him say he's got an R&D project she'll be interested in.At the next Champions meeting Riri and her suit's NATALIE AI are also incensed that Roxx On have hired Sims. In IH 2020 he corrupted AI's programming, including NATALIE's. They don't know what Roxxon are doing with him or the app but it's bound to be evil and something to do with keeping Kamala's Law going. Riri and Viv do know that the app has *no* security on its users' data. Ms Marvel proposes to fight dirty.The issue ends with Sims showing Blakemoore a giant robot. (Not something which I think would impress her.)


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Killer app part 2
The Champions have got Kamala's Law temporarily paused, but they are still officially illegal. Roxxon is no longer running the brainwashing Camps for super-teens but our gang are convinced they are up to *something* fishy with their new Roxx On app aimed at teens.Ironheart, Ms. Marvel, Nova, Spider-Man and Viv Vision have got together to play Monster Island Attack on their phones/tablets. Their avatars (with very different powers from their own) are currently facing Fin Fang Foom. But Snowguard turns up in no mood to play. She attacks Nova because Sam Alexander posted about applying to become a Roxxon intern, after what she went through in the Camp and now Roxxon's hate campaign against her because she's been speaking out about them. Spidey says *he*'s going for an internship too, and Ms Marvel steps in to explain what are doing - which we see as a flashback.Some days ago (possibly continuing directly from the end of last issue) MsM explains her cunning plan to infiltrate Roxxon. Riri Williams is skeptical (partly because she still hasn't forgiven MsM and the others for thinking she was a traitor). Kamala Khan thinks having secret ids would make them natural secret agents. Viv has discovered that Roxxon are looking for social media interns and she thinks she can design their applications to be the winners. Teens aren't given the level of security screening that adults are. And she's reluctantly let Kamala persuade her to 'doctor' other people's CVs. Riri points out it can't be her because she's publicly known as Ironheart. She suggests that Kamala is the obvious choice - Roxxon would love to get the girl that Kamala's Law is named after. But she can't take it - Roxxon already gets too much publicity from *her*. It obviously can't be synthezoid Viv. So that leaves Miles Morales and Sam.Later (presumably after the opening Snowguard scene) at Roxxon Miriam Blakemoore reveals to her assistant Paige Graeme that Kamala Khan *is* the person she'd really like to front Roxx On, but all her attempts at contact have been rebuffed. And the batch of intern applicants they've seen have been mostly pathetic and strangely at odds with the demographics of the users of their app (I'm not sure how Viv wangled all that). There are only 2 selected for a 2nd round of interviews (guess who?). But before we get that confirmed Miriam has a private word with André Sims who's doing something with the demographics extracted from the app - something to do with a predictive algorithm. (And I don't know what it's got to do with the giant robot he unveiled last issue.)The 2 candidates who've been asked to wait *are* Miles and Sam. Miles is dressed casually but Sam's mom made him dress up for the interview. Both have got earpieces so Kamala can keep in touch with them. Miles gets called in to see Miriam ...... and the next thing we know Miles is in and Sam is out. Then Nova overhears Miriam telling Paige he came across as boring and not cool like Miles. Kamala tries to reassure Sam but she's distracted when her mother enters her bedroom, and then Sam's not answering. So she checks in with Riri and Viv in Viv's bedroom where Vision keeps popping in to see if they want anything. They've been investigating the large security holes in Roxx On. It turns out they basically allow Roxxon to extract *all* the info from their users' accounts, but the duo can't tell where it's going yet.After Kamala's gone they return to investigating a large number of bots infesting the app. But they take time out for Riri to tell Viv to stop apologising for everything, especially about having been the real traitor in the team (she thought it was for their own good). Riri still hasn't forgiven her but it will take time. (But it doesn't stop her from patting Viv's synthezoid dog Sparky.) Viv analysed what topics the bots were heavily promoting and found it didn't match up with the public list of most popular hashtags. So they ask Kamala to ask Miles to get hold of the real leaderboard.Miles is being given a guided tour by Paige and he just happens to be walking past such a list which he snaps with his phone. (It does look to be different, with links to other things.) He also sees Miriam with an agent of CRADLE (the enforcement arm of Kamala's Law which has supposedly been stood down). Tour over, Spider-Man uses his Spider-Camouflage to overhear them discussing a protest meeting where a few CRADLE Agents will be seen to be valiantly trying to keep the mob in order. And Kamala tells him that Viv has traced the bots as stirring up the protest. And Snowguard and some of their other friends are there.SG and Falcon (Joaquin Torres) have invited Bombshell to speak to the crowd. Lana Baumgartner talks about how she's still undergoing therapy to recover from what Roxxon put her through in the Camp. Then the active Champs arrive to warn them that Roxxon and CRADLE are about to attack and they should evacuate. But then some hooded figures start throwing bricks and Molotov Cocktails. CRADLE Agents break cover for 'crowd control'. Ms Marvel stretches to form a shield for the crowd. CRADLE shoot at her but Spidey stops the bullets with a web while Ironheart blasts open a fire hydrant to drench them. Viv controls local CCTV to show the peaceful crowd being menaced.The CRADLE leader calls in more troops. Falcon airlifts Bombshell away. Nova tells Snowguard that Roxxon bots created this protest meeting, and then he tackles 1 of the hoodies to reveal Fizzle from #6. He also rescues a trapped girl Kenya Wilson and gives her a pep talk. The Champs round up the CRADLE Agents and disperse the crowd before the extra CRADLE troops get there.Later Sam Alexander doorsteps Miriam Blakemoore. He's again in contact with Kamala in a coffeeshop. He tries to impress Ms Blakemoore enough to get him back in the internship program (where he can watch Miles' back). Miriam says the only way he's in is if he can get Roxxon a celebrity endorsement. On the spur of the moment Sam says he can get Kamala Khan. And Kamala chokes on her coffee.


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In the Outlawed 1-shot there was a battle at Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel)'s school between the Champions and a dragon and some mercenaries (probably both working for Roxxon Energy Corp). There was an accidental explosion which wrecked the school and appeared to destroy synthezoid Viv Vision as well as KOing the dragon. Kamala, in civilian guise, was seriously injured protecting a visiting young environmental activist. In the fallout the Underage Superhuman Welfare Act, aka Kamala's Law, was passed banning all teenage super-heroics. CRADLE (Child Hero Reconnaissance And Disruption Law Enforcement) was set up to police it.As Miles Morales (Spider-Man) heads to Brooklyn Visions Academy he sees all the other teens reading about and discussing it. He's greeted by his friend Ganke Lee and a girl Jamilah (who I don't believe we've met before) who tells them that the Champions are about to make an official statement (which is news to Spider-Man). A teacher tells another student off for wearing a hoodie with the Champions' C-logo.Miles and Ganke slip into a room where a student is using her phone to display the Champs broadcast on a big screen. (And we see lots of other teens elsewhere watching on their own phones.) The message is from Ms Marvel who sums up the situation but says the Champions will continue to fight the good fight - to stand up for the underdogs and for the environment, doing stuff that the adult heroes are too busy fighting each other to bother with. Miles tells Ganke, who knows about his secret id, that she didn't consult the rest of the team on this.Jamilah bursts in and denounces the Champs as liars. She saw what they did to the Coles school when Viv Vision exploded and wrecked the place. And she's starting a local Chapter of the CRADLE Junior League here. A fight starts between her and a Champs supporter Kaylee and they both get suspended for a day (which apparently is enough to ruin their College chances). But Jamilah's club is a success.That evening Spider-Miles is out web-slinging when he sees a purse-snatching in progress. He webs up the culprit and returns the purse, but it turns out to be a police sting operation. They try to arrest him but he web-slings away. As he leaves he hears them complaining that if they don't arrest enough teen vigilantes then CRADLE will take over. Miles contemplates retiring from the super-scene.But for the moment he has a meeting of Champions and other teens to attend in a disused warehouse. Access security at the warehouse is provided by NATALIE, the AI of Ironheart/Riri Williams (although Riri herself can't be there). Inside he finds the main topic of conversation is how to clean your costume.I see Bombshell, Brawn, Dust, Nova (Sam Alexander), Patriot (Shaun Lucas), Pinpoint, Power Man (Victor Alvarez) and Wasp (Nadia Van Dyne) of the Champions. There's also Cloud 9, Moon Girl, Squirrel Girl and Starling plus Energizer and Mass Master of Power Pack.Riri has also provided a projection drone which allows Ms Marvel to join them remotely. We see her in her mask and the scarf of her costume sitting up in her hospital bed. They only see her head. (Not everyone there knows her civilian id.) Brawn and Moon Girl complain about MsM issuing her communiqué without consulting them. Pinpoint points out that they have no base since CRADLE impounded the Champions Mobile Bunker (and arrested Red Locust and Snowguard) (in Outlawed). Starling also blames the missing Viv Vision, but Dust blames their leader MsM for the debacle. Patriot asks how they're supposed to fund their activities? Cloud 9 reminds them they can each still be heroes if they find an approved mentor. Bombshell adds that Falcon (Joaquin Torres) has already signed up with Falcon (Sam Wilson).Then Starling takes over the meeting. She says the mentor program won't work for most of them. Ms Marvel is right, they should ignore the law. But the Champions are a lost cause. They haven't even rescued Locust and Snowguard. Nova takes exception to this and Miles has to split up a fight. Kamala tries to regain control by saying that adults don't know what's best for teens. But now Spidey disagrees with her. He's seen that lots of youngsters don't trust the Champs either, and they have to deal with that.Then CRADLE troops break in and break up the meeting to arrest them all. Starling fights back but Justice of CRADLE freezes her in midair with his telekinesis. He tells them he's here to stop them making a mistake like he did (killing his own father). Miles tells Pinpoint to teleport them all out, but Qureshi Gupta freezes because his portal was a partial cause of the explosion that 'killed' Viv. However NATALIE contacts Spidey to point out a vulnerable crack in a wall, and tells him there's a subway access tunnel on the other side. Miles gets Bombshell to blast a big hole and they start herding teens through it.Kamala cuts off her transmission so she can't be traced, devastated that someone must have sold the team out. Bombshell, Nova, Spider-Man and Wasp have lagged behind to hold off the troops while everyone else escapes. CRADLE grab Bombshell and trap Wasp in a jar. The girls urge the boys to flee while they can. They won't do it but Pinpoint drags them through a portal. Apparently CRADLE got some more too, but we see that Cloud 9, Dust, Energizer, Moon Girl, Patriot, Power Man, Squirrel Girl and Starling got out.Outside the troops comment that they were alerted to the meeting by an untraceable message whose syntax indicated the source was a synthezoid. They assume it was Vision whose daughter Viv died. But we see Viv Vision watching the proceedings.


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Last issue the remaining free Champions (Ironheart, Ms Marvel, Nova and Spider-Man) were cornered by CRADLE troops who wanted to arrest them for breaking Kamala's Law forbidding teenage super-vigilantism. But X-Men Cyclops and Dust, both former Champions, came to their rescue extending the protection of the X-nation Krakoa.Now Carolina Washington tells her troops to stand down to avoid a diplomatic incident. And X-person Pixie arrives by magical teleportation to take the heroes away ...... but not to the island of Krakoa. Instead they all end up in Ironheart's much-depleted lab where they can have some much-needed showers (after many days on the run) and grab some food and other supplies. Scott Summers has the unenviable task of letting the Champs know that CRADLE's success in tracking them is because their comrade Viv Vision has been informing on them, following them via satellite images. But the teleportation should throw her off the trail for a while.Then he has to also inform them that he can't actually take them to Krakoa. He lied to CRADLE about the X-nation's backing, and non-mutants are still forbidden on the island. But he has another plan.In Washington DC Senator Patrick is receiving an update on the teen heroes situation. Virtually all are either in CRADLE's education program or being mentored (we see an image of Falcon and Falcon). Others have just gone inactive. But there are a few who are on the run or continuing their activity. In the general population the under-40's are split over the Law and there are continuing protests. Carolina Washington and CRADLE Agent Jake Oh suggest a crackdown, but they also have to tell him about Krakoa sheltering the Champions. The Senator is incensed because he sees taking the Champs in for 're-education' is key to winning hearts and minds.We now see what Cyclops' Krakoan protection actually is. Pixie has taken the whole group to the X-nation's 'pirate' ship Marauder, captained by Kate Pryde (currently the Red Queen of the Hellfire Trading Company) with Bishop (the Red Bishop), Iceman, Pyro and Storm. Then Pixie takes Cyke and Dust back to Krakoa.After a good night's sleep 3 of the Champs tuck in to breakfast. But Sam Alexander goes to find Kamala Khan who it turns out spent all night obsessively seeing what the Internet is saying about them. He persuades her to stop and concentrate on doing what she believes in.On deck they find the Marauder answering a distress call from a scientific vessel under attack by Attuma. The Champions go to aid the crew while the Marauders deal with the bad guy. Iceman and Storm restrain him but then listen to his side. The X-Men then remonstrate with the head scientist over the noise pollution (especially seismic surveys) and other disturbances to undersea life that their investigation is causing. He promises to do better. Attuma swims away and another ship arrives to pick up the scientists.The Champions are unsure whose side was in the right there. The Marauders say that it's often like that but they try to intervene fairly and live with the consequences. Ms Marvel is inspired and declares that the team should return home and stand up for what's right. But after breakfast.But we go to Kansas where synthezoid Viv Vision is masquerading as a human girl Vivian, and being temporarily cared for by Cora, an old woman whose power and telephone lines she fixed last issue. Viv explains her conflicted situation with the Champs (without mentioning them by name) - her friends are breaking the law and putting themselves in danger. Cora shows her an old picture of herself and some friends being punished for breaking racial segregation rules. And then she reveals that she figured out who Viv and the Champions are, and advises her to rejoin them. And it seems like Viv is going to do just that.


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Killer app part 4
The Champions are suspicious of Roxxon Corp's supposed new leaf so Miles Morales, Sam Alexander and reluctant Kamala Khan enrolled as interns on the Roxx On! social media app for teens. Using a stolen ID badge they sent Viv Vision in look inside Roxxon's R&D area and she discovered that they were going to use big Chaperone robots to enforce Kamala's Law that bans underage vigilante superheroes. At the end of last issue Miriam Blakemoore was about to discover the intruder and remote coordinator Riri Williams has warned them all.Riri suits up as Ironheart to fly to the rescue while Miles and Sam run through the Roxxon corridors. But Kamala beats them all and distracts Miriam by buttering her up, apologising for quitting (last issue) and agreeing to publicly endorse Roxx On at their rock concert at the weekend. Viv manages to sneak out while Miriam's back's turned.Later the team have a conference via their private comms network (Viv is walking Sparky the robot dog at the time). Kamala explains to the others that Blakemoore has given her a prepared speech, and implied that if she messes up this time she'll see to it that Kamala will have difficulty getting in to any college. But they, especially Kamala, really don't want to endorse Roxxon. Sam and Miles will be at the event filming it for Roxxon so they may not be able to function as Nova and Spider-Man, and Kamala on-stage can't become Ms Marvel. So they're going to use Plan B.That weekend Ms Blakemoore introduces Kamala to the audience and then tells their secret youth superteam led by Fizzle to get ready to cause a disturbance. Then CRADLE forces will swoop in to 'rescue' Kamala. Kamala reminds the crowd how she was severely injured (in civvies) during a super-battle that went wrong, and how her coma state made her the poster-girl for Kamala's Law which Roxxon supported. But now Kamala goes off-script. She tells them Roxxon wants her to say that they've changed (after their extreme interpretation of the Law was revealed by the Champs). But she says that's a lie. And Miriam finds that the control system won't cut her off. And of course Miles and Sam keep streaming what they're recording to the Internet.Ironheart and Viv have pinpointed Fizzle's gang spread through the crowd. They get taken down by Champions affiliates Wasp (Nadia Van Dyne), NATALIE (Riri's AI), Pinpoint, Brawn and discrete webshot from Miles. Riri and Viv make the Champs network public and announce a new ChampsCharge social media app which the crowd start switching to. And Kamala makes it plain that she doesn't support the Law with her name and rips apart her Roxx On t-shirt to reveal another which says "I'm not your law!"Miriam panics and sends CRADLE in to take Kamala away. But a line of teenagers stand between them and her. She says she doesn't want anyone hurt in her name, but they say they're standing up for *themselves*. Miriam cuts her losses and calls CRADLE off.An unknown time later the Champs are waiting to hear the result of the Senate vote on repealing Kamala's Law (it was only suspended in #5) and wondering whether what they did at the Roxx On concert will have helped or hindered. The result is a complete repeal. We see CRADLE staff being fired and Miriam Blakemoore displeased. We see widespread joy amongst teen heroes, including previous members Brawn, Patriot (Rayshaun Lucas), Power Man (Victor Alvarez), Dust, Snowguard, Bombshell, Wasp, Falcon (Joaquin Torres), Locust and Pinpoint in the Champions Mobile Bunker. Viv mends fence with Riri with a cupcake. Sam and Kamala make up too.Miriam Blakemoore tells André Sims that Roxxon is scrapping his Chaperone robots. But André dons a control helmet and launches 4 of them to prove that they can do the job they were built for.


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This issue stars the most recent team addition Snowguard.Amka Aliyak remembers getting Inuk tattoos on her face and hands to mark her ascension to (teen) adulthood. Most of the rest of her people don't seem to bother with this, but her family seem more traditional. Amka was disappointed at the time that the ceremony didn't make her feel any different, and felt she was slipping away from her tribal beliefs. But then in #20 she was given powers by the Inuit goddess Sila and became Snowguard.Now the 16-yr old is returning home for the 1st time since joining the Champions (#21).  She gets there in her winged human form to be greeted by her wheelchair-bound mother and 2 much younger male cousins. She's going to do a presentation at the school, and the boys want her to turn into a bear while she's there. But she notes that they aren't speaking Inuktitut, and mom says none of the kids their age do now.The extended family have a feast to welcome her home. 1 of her teen relatives Pilip is impressed that she's joined Canada's Alpha Flight, but she has to put him right that she's a Champion instead. Even though she used to be an Alpha Flight fan and super-named herself after a combination of Snowbird and Guardian. But an older teen Tonraq thinks she's abandoned her people to join an American team.The chat is interrupted by another teen Nanauq who bursts in to say his grandma's gone missing. (He speaks in Inuktitut but doesn't have tattoos.) Amka turns into a white wolf and picks up granny's scent from his clothes. She turns down Pilip's offer to accompany her and runs off alone. Tonraq taunts Pilip to give up his crush on Amka - she's out of his league now.The wolf tracks the missing woman as Amka worries worries whether Tonraq is right about her walking out on her old life. She turns human when she finds her, and uses her super-strength to carry the old woman home. They converse in Inuktitut on the way but it appears senility has made the woman forget who she is, even when she's reunited with her grandson.Even though it stays light nearly all night in the Nunavut summer Amka falls asleep exhausted. But Sila wakes her and warns her of danger. Changing to a human-sized white bird she sees a mythical Inupasugjuk giant smashing the town up. She easily distracts him into chasing her, but his blows are too much for her. So she switches to her large antlered humanoid wolf form to attack him directly. But it turns out the giant only thought he was playing a game. He says he's all alone because all the others have left now that the land is 'smaller'. Amka leads him somewhere he can play more safely.Next day she goes to the school to give her presentation, but she finds the kids all sitting in a trance. They have been taken over by the Taqriaqsuit shadow people and have lost their memories like Nanauq's grandma. Snowguard tries to fight them and wake the children, but the foe overwhelm her and knock her out.She wakes as the memory of getting her tattoos is taken from her mind. The Taqriaqsuit are stealing memories. They tell her that fewer and fewer of the Inuk remember them as the tribe loses its Inuit identity. So they are taking the memories to preserve them. Amka says there's a better way and she persuades them to give the memories back.Then in her lecture she tells the students how she gains her power from the Silap Inua. And she tells them all the Inuit myths her grandfather once told her.Later she says goodbye to family and friends, promising to return more often. Tonraq's attitude has softened but he still thinks she ought to stay here as *their* protector. She says she's going to try to protect Nunavut *and* the world. As he hugs her goodbye he whispers that when she left it broke Pilip's heart. This is news to Amka as she gives Pilip a hug too.As she flies up to the Champions Mobile Bunker Sila congratulates her on a job well done, and notes the 'enchanted token' she has as a present from the Taqriaqsuit.Later that evening Snowguard makes an Inuit feast for the rest of the team. (Sam Alexander isn't with them. Ms. Marvel retains her mask as she's still the only 1 who keeps her identity secret from the rest of the team.) And she's going to tell *them* about Inuit myths.


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Did Someone Say…the Stranger?
The Champions
(Hercules, Black Widow, Iceman, Angel, Ghost Rider) and Darkstar return to Los
Angles via sky-car to find Black Goliath battling Stilt-Man atop their
skyscraper headquarters. The Champs join in the fight and the villain holds
them off until Ghost Rider melts the street beneath him with Hellfire. Stilt-Man
simply detaches the lowest parts of his hydraulic legs and walks off at a pace
too quick for them to follow but Black G pursues him anyway. The team head up
to their offices where they meet Reggie Clayborne, the target of Stilt-Man’s
attack. She is carrying a box her boyfriend Jerry stole from Stark
International to sell for drug money; he vanished and when the box began to glow,
she came to the Champions for help. The cosmic being called the Stranger enters
through the wall, claiming the box is the Null-Life Bomb he created, and he
wants it back lest it destroy the solar system. Reaching for it terrifies
Reggie so Darkstar goes to her aid by blasting the Stranger with Darkforce—and
he strikes back. This leads all the heroes to take on the Stranger while the
television shows a battle downtown between Black Goliath and Stilt-Man. As the
Champs fight the Stranger, the device inside the box begins to grow, soon
absorbing Reggie. Angered, the Stranger reveals that he brought the Bomb to destroy
Earth but the Silver Surfer persuaded him not to and the bomb was disarmed;
aware that the bomb had recently been reactivated, he sought to retrieve it
before it began to expand through the universe and when it had engulfed the
solar system it would contract, destroying everything—but the Champions have
delayed him and now the bomb is expanding. The Stranger is engulfed but before
he vanishes inside it, he sends the Champions to find the one device that can
stop the Null-Life Bomb…
…and the Champions
find themselves in the realm of the blind immortal Kamo-Tharn; KT recognizes
Hercules’ voice and orders his ape creatures to attack….


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Whom the Gods Would Join…
The band of
disparate heroes (Hercules, Black Widow, Ghost Rider, Iceman, Angel) plus the
goddess Venus stand amazed at Pluto’s announcement that Venus must wed Ares and
Hercules marry Hippolyta or the universe dies. Herc refuses and goes to assault
Pluto only to be beaten by Ares. Herc hurls Ares into Hippolyta and attacks
Pluto only to be overcome by the Lord of the Underworld. Black Widow devises a
plot to rescue the unconscious Hercules. Ghost Rider and Angel attack Pluto and
he blasts them; Venus and Natasha take advantage of the distraction to drag
Herc away while Iceman seals up the portal with a mountain of ice. They all
(minus Ghost Rider who is scouting out the area) escape via ice bridge….
Pluto and company
find they cannot pursue with the ice mountain blocking the portal. Pluto
transports himself, Ares, and Hippolyta to Olympus where they confront Zeus. Pluto
reminds Zeus (and enlightens the reader) that he, Pluto, has formed a league
with gods of the dead from other pantheons and Zeus, fearing an attack, was
forced to conclude a peace treaty with them; to seal the treaty the two
marriages were arranged. Angry at having been placed in Pluto’s power, Zeus
nevertheless agrees to make Venus and Herc abide by these commitments. Once
Zeus leaves, Pluto reveals the secret reason: as the law forbids a spouse to
oppose spouse, Herc and Venus will be prevented from defending Olympus against
attack by Pluto’s forces….
The heroes gather
in a safe spot and Ghost Rider joins them to report that the portals and
invaders are all gone. Then the Huntsman arrives on a bridge of fire, with
orders from Zeus to fetch Hercules and to show he is serious, he hurls a bolt
of fire which paralyzes the heroes—all except Ghost Rider, protected by his
Satanic power. He fights back, blasting the Huntsman with hellfire, who
vanishes before he hits the ground. Herc and Venus are unconscious as the
Huntsman’s attacks are more effective against Olympians. Because he can
withstand the Huntsman’s firebolts, Ghost Rider is chosen to guard them while
Black Widow, Angel, and Iceman pursue the villain. Huntsman conjures up a
Titan, Menoetius, killed by one of Zeus’ lightning bolts, transforming his body
into living energy, and orders him to attack the thee heroes. The speedy Iceman
attacks the Titan from all sides with ice while Black Widow hooks a metal cord
to a steel flagpole and ropes the Titan, who, standing in melted ice, is
electrocuted. Huntsman is also knocked down and Angel steals his staff—but the
Olympian has greater powers….
Ghost Rider is
protecting Hercules and Venus when he sees Pluto, Ares, and Hippolyta rushing
toward him so he reacts by blasting them with hellfire—and then he discovers
they are his three friends, magically disguised by the Huntsman, who overpowers
Ghost Rider and carries his two quarries off to Olympus. There are some
recriminations against Johnny Blaze and, since none of them know how they can
go to Olympus to rescue Herc and Venus, the group splits up in despair….


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The Doom That Went On Forever!
In Los Angeles,
Black Goliath watches helplessly, along with the entire city, as the Null-Life
Bomb expands through the Champions’ headquarters to engulf the world. BG climbs
the building to investigate but when he touches the bomb, he is pulled in….
Meanwhile, the
Champions (Hercules, Black Widow, Iceman, Angel, Ghost Rider) and Darkstar have
been teleported by the Stranger to the ancient city homeworld of the blind
wizard Kamo-Tharn who recognizes Hercules’ voice. Herc realizes that the device
the Stranger sent them for is likely Kamo-Tharn’s Runestaff—which Herc had
brought back to Earth on his previous visit. The wizard orders his beast-men to
attack the heroes. The Champs fight back against the hordes of enemies and
Darkstar spots a sliver of the Stranger’s portal still open; she widens it and
leaps through. Iceman, mistakenly believing she has been captured (and
attracted to her) leaps through after her…and finds himself in deep space….
Black Goliath is
trapped inside the Null-Life Bomb with the Stranger and Reggie Clayborne who
explains the dire situation while the Stranger exerts his power to slow the
bomb’s expansion. BG tries just smashing the bomb but it is programmed to
protect itself and generates a band of metal androids to beat BG senseless….
Bobby sees that
Laynia has enclosed herself in a sphere of Darkforce; suffering, he quickly
creates a sphere of ice around himself and follows her….
Kamo-Tharn transports
the remaining Champs to a desolate hellscape where they are attacked by winged
demons and a titan made of molten lava. Herc and Ghost Rider take on the
flaming giant while Black Widow tries to aid Angel, being attacked by the
demon. She ropes it with her cord but is slammed into a rock and knocked out.
Enraged, GR leaps on the demon pulling it into the flames as the titan engulfs
Herc, leaving only Angel….
Darkstar emerges
through the portal into the bomb, dragging Bobby after her, saddened that she
pays him no attention, despite his attempted sacrifice for her. The bomb,
sensing it no longer has a need for self-defense, recalls the androids. The
Stranger realizes the Runestaff was on Earth all the time, which he would have
known had he not been concerned with the bomb. Darkstar reaches through a
portal and snatches the staff from its resting place in a closet in a Manhattan
hospital. She and Stranger pool their powers….
Angel concentrates
and, along with the others, realizes that everything they have experienced in
this world was an illusion created by a gloating Kamo-Tharn. So, Angel leaps on
him and punches his lights out….
With the power of
the Runestaff, Laynia forces the bomb to keep expanding, breaking its
programming so that it will never stop growing through the galaxies and thus
never reach the point where it must contract. Everybody wakes up in the Champions’
office, Stranger praises human courage, everybody hugs, and Hercules feels left
out….


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Death Drone!
A massive swarm of
bees is filling the city and directly attacking the Champions in their
skyscraper headquarters, flying in through the broken window and via the air
vents. Hercules smashes them with the computer, Iceman seals the broken window
with a sheet of ice, Darkstar employs the Darkforce to plug the vents. Swarm,
the villain composed of bees, smashes his way through the ice shield, demanding
the INTERPOL agent’s briefcase. The giant mechanical bees stun Darkstar and
Iceman, scoop them up and carry them off. Swarm snatches the briefcase from
Black Widow and heads for the lab, the bees creating a hive wall throughout the
building. While Herc tries to smash the huge honeycomb, Ghost Rider and Angel
head outside to protect the city from the deadly swarms. They contact Bill
Foster and Hank Pym about creating an antidote to bee strings….
Bobby and Laynia
awaken in the villain’s lair; Swarm reveals his origin: he was a Nazi scientist
working with bees. He discovered a swarm whose intelligence had been raised by
exposure to a radioactive meteor; he shot them with a controller but they
fought back, stinging him while his seizing of the queen created a symbiotic
human-bee creature. And then the INTERPOL man stole the queen, encasing her in
amber, and fled, with Swarm in pursuit. And now Swarm, having recovered the
queen must find a way to free her. Darkstar steps in, for the queen’s sake and
uses the Darkforce to crack open the insect’s prison. The barrier is broken,
Her and Nat reunited with Laynia and Bobby, and Swarm present the queen bee,
grown to giant size; she attacks Hercules so Herc rips open the wall and hurls
the queen out to sea. The bees comprising Swarm’s body break apart and fly
after her, leaving only a human skeleton to fall to the floor….
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The Creature Called…Swarm!
At the Champions
headquarters, Hercules is suddenly attacked by the defense machinery with the
computer calling him an intruder; he fights back as only Hercules can. In
another room, Bobby Drake, concerned with not being taken seriously by the rest
of the team, is trying on a new costume he has devised. A chunk of machinery
crashes by and through a window, plummeting toward pedestrians below; as
Iceman, Bobby coats the falling machine with ice, creating a pylon that arrests
its descent. He then investigates and discovers Herc battling steel tentacles….
At the docks in
Santa Monica Bay, Ivan Petrovich is departing for Russia to reconnect with his
son, the new Crimson Dynamo. Black Widow, Darkstar, and Johnny Blaze are there
to see him off with varying levels of sentiment. (We are also informed that
Ivan’s real reason for leaving involves Nick Fury—and once on the ship he is
confronted by a man with a gun.) Meanwhile, a terrified man clutching a
briefcase disembarks from the ship and runs along the pier, pursued by a
purple-caped figure. Packing crates burst open, freeing giant mechanical bees
on the man; Johnny turns into Ghost Rider from the sense of danger and the
Champions swing into action and battle the bees….
Back at
headquarters, Herc and Iceman are battling the building itself; when they have
destroyed one piece of equipment, another one activates to attack them. Iceman
hurries to the control room to shut down the system but he is attacked by the
bodiless Rampage armor while Herc is confronted with a bulky android….
At the docks, the
Champs are fighting the bees and the frightened man is confronted by Swarm, a
purple-cloaked man who is composed of bees; he sics the bees on the man who is
swiftly stung to death. Then the bees, live and mechanical, depart. Natasha,
Laynia, and GR find the man’s body and learn from his ID that he was an INTERPOL
agent. Natasha contacts headquarters for Iceman to bring the sky-car but there
is no answer…
…as Iceman is
fighting for his life against the Rampage armor; he tricks the armor into
punching the generator controls, destroying the armor and shutting off the
electricity to the offices. The huge android attacking Hercules falls over as
the rooms are turned dark. Some investigation leads Bobby to conclude it was
due to faulty building materials. Natasha, Johnny, and Laynia arrive and Nat is
angry that Bobby and Herc missed an urgent call. The Angel crashes through the
window and tells his teammates to look at the skies: they are blackened with a
massive swarm of bees….
Characters:
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Murder at Malibu!
Black Widow and
Hercules walk along a California beach, talking over their last adventure in
Olympus. Suddenly, they are attacked by a madman who is strong enough to
overcome Hercules and fight Nat until Herc recovers and beats up their foe. The
bad guy turns out to be an elderly (and frightened) man who calls himself
Billy. Then six armed men appear from the sea to capture Billy; Herc stands up
to them and is shot with their guns….
Hercules and Black
Widow recover and find themselves prisoners in a rundown psychiatric hospital
in San Marine. Their captor is Dr. Edward Lansing and he plans to keep Herc
under control with a collar that delivers a shock to Nat when he misbehaves. Lansing
is trying to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum, using the hospital’s inmates as
guinea pigs. For now, the treatment turns the subjects either simple or
vicious. And now he has two new subjects….
At Warren
Worthington’s beachfront cabin, Ivan Petrovich is worried about Natasha’s
absence but Angel and Iceman aren’t so concerned. Then Hercules smashes through
the wall, followed by Black Widow and several super-strong inmates. Lansing
manipulates the two heroes with a control box and having them kill their friends
will complete their conditioning. But then Ghost Rider arrives and takes on
Hercules with the help of Iceman and Angel. Black Widow fights Ivan but seeing
her friend at her mercy causes her to snap out of her conditioning. She attacks
Lansing, dodges his gunfire, knocks the control box out of his hands and
smashes it. He runs for safety to his mutated inmates but the control box was
for them too and they kill him….
Later, Herc
bemoans the inmates, innocent victims of a villain; Angel admits there is evil
but it is up to them to help the helpless as the Champions!


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Assault on Olympus
In the wake of
their defeat by the Huntsman (last issue), Black Widow, Angel, and Iceman have
taken refuge at a beachfront cabin. Bobby is really broken up about it,
brooding over his failures with the X-Men as well as the recent adventure.
Johnny Blaze rides up with good news: he knows how to get to Olympus. The
others scoff but Johnny points out that the ice mountain Iceman made to block a
portal is still there—and the portal to Olympus beneath….
Meanwhile in
Olympus, Zeus is angry over being tricked by Pluto into marrying his son
Hercules to Hippolyta; Dionysius tries (and fails) to comfort him. Nearby,
Pluto takes delight in his scheme to invade Olympus; Ares and Hippolyta laugh
along.
Hercules goes to
confront his father but the mutates mock Herc, reminding him that the wedding
is his father’s decree; Herc curses his dad for a coward and leaves. Elsewhere,
the Huntsman, bored with wedding talk, discovers the ice mountain just as the
heroes break through, the ice weakened by Ghost Rider’s hellfire. The heroes
beat up the mutates….
As the principals
gather in the throne room and Hercules and Venus await their fates, Huntsman
enters with news of the arrival of the Champions. Angel follows, seizes hold of
one end of Huntsman’s staff and flips him into a wall, knocking him cold. Pluto
demands the interlopers be tossed out, Hercules punches Ares’ lights out, Venus
uses her love power to turn Hippolyta’s sword into a plowshare and then bops
her over the head with it. Pluto stops the Champions in tehri tracks, being
much more powerful than any of them—but Ghost Rider knows someone more
powerful: he tells Zeus that Pluto has been lying to him, intending to destroy
Olympus with his new dead gods association. Zeus banishes Pluto from Olympus. Zeus
asks Herc and Venus what punishment should be bestowed on the bad guys and
Venus asks forgiveness, arguing their own evil is punishment enough. Herc and
his dad make up and Dad lets him joins his friends as they return to Earth.


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The Battle of Los Angeles!
At the inaugural
event for the new superhero team, the Champions, the only team members present,
Hercules and Angel, are attacked by Titanium Man, Griffin, and Crimson Dynamo.
Security hustles Governor Jerry Brown to safety while Richard Fenster discovers
he is no good at fighting villains. Ghost Rider returns from taking Rampage to
the hospital to be attacked by Griffin and the scene is too crowded for him to
use his Hellfire attack. Herc bounces his mace off of Crimson Dynamo toward GR
who catches it and is pulled into the air so he can blast Griffin; he then
bounces the mace off Griffin toward Herc who catches it and batters CD. Angel
knocks Titanium Man out of the sky and he lands on Hercules, distracting the
other two heroes long enough for their enemies to strike the blows that knock
them out….
Elsewhere, Iceman
and Ivan Petrovich have tracked the black pearl to the captive Alexei Bruskin whom Black Widow is being held with.
Iceman creates an ice tunnel to cross the gap between the buildings but the three
villain arrive with the three captive Champions. Bobby is blasted by the Dynamo
and Ivan dashes through the tunnel to the hideout…
…where Natasha has
pulled off a ruse to distract and defeat Darkstar. But Darkstar recovers
quickly and there is a battle between the two women which is a stalemate until
Ivan crashes through the skylight firing tranquilizer bullets. They subdue
Darkstar but the other three villains enter with their prisoners and recapture
Natasha and company. Crimson Dynamo unmasks to reveal he is Yuri Petrovich
a/k/a the Outcast, the son Ivan thought was dead and who is now seeking revenge
against his father….


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One Man’s Son is Another Man’s Poison!
The male Champions
(Hercules, Angel, Iceman, Ghost Rider) are trapped in a metal vault by
Darkstar’s Darkfield, with Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo for backup. The
heroes awaken and fight back and Darkstar becomes too tired to hold up the
field any longer so the three baddies teleport away. Herc tears open one of the
metal walls to reveal earth—they are underground. But Herc’s actions trigger an
earth tremor. The villains appear on a visual scan informing them that they
have been buried in the San Andreas Fault; any violent action on their part
could trigger an earthquake. Herc throws himself at the screen, causing another
tremor. They try to explain the danger to the entire state to Herc but he
doesn’t get it; Ghost Rider blasts him with Hellfire to stop him but Herc sees
this as GR revealing he is an enemy….
The baddies return
to their plane, piloted by Griffin, with Black Widow, Ivan Petrovich, and
Alexei Bruskin in chains. Yuri Petrivich confronts his father, reminding him of
his crimes in an extended flashback. Scientist Ivan was bribed to defect to the
West but he refused. Their car was ambushed, Ivan’s wife was killed, and his
son Yuri kidnapped. The boy was raised by the Americans as a secret agent while
they tried to brainwash him to hate his home country. Yuri was able to contact
the Soviets who rescued him and he learned his father had defected, making him
a traitor. But Alexei Bruskin tells Yuri the truth: his captors were Russian
agents posing as Americans to instill a hatred of the West and his father—and
Bruskin was in charge of the operation. Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man were outside
the plane fighting Air Force jets and didn’t hear this last bit. Yuri won’t
listen and hits Natasha; Darkstar tries to force him to listen and he blasts
her. Darkstar then sends a bolt of dark energy to free the Champions imprisoned
in the fault. Natasha fights the Dynamo and then disables the plane’s controls;
Griffin brings them down offshore, near a waiting Soviet sub. The male
Champions arrive in a jet borrowed from an Air Force base and they battle the
baddies on the sub’s deck. To atone for his past crimes, Bruskin, shot by a
Russian sailor, drops a grenade in the conning tower and dies. Herc clobbers
Titanium Man, Darkstar turns against Yuri, Iceman and Ghost Rider pool their
attacks to take down Griffin. Darkstar asks Ivan what to do with Yuri but he no
longer cares about his son so she lets him go free. Darkstar takes them all
home, including the captive Griffin and T-Man. But Ivan won’t explain why he
let the Dynamo go free, leading Ghost Rider to wonder if they can make it as a
team, keeping secrets from one another….


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The Shadow from the Stars
The Champions,
test-driving their new sky-car, are in danger when the controls suddenly freeze
up in Black Widow’s hands and the car heads for a rooftop where Bill Foster is
standing. Bill suddenly transforms into Black Goliath and catches the ship, its
momentum pushing him toward the edge. Angel flies Iceman overhead where he is
able to construct a platform of ice to support Black G. Introductions are made,
with Bill dropping the name of Tony Stark, and Darkstar arrives, the Russian
defector having been permitted to remain in the USA though the intervention of
Nick Fury….
In Arizona, Johnny
Blaze is riding his motorcycle through a canyon when imminent danger causes him
to transform into Ghost Rider. He is then run down by a herd of stampeding
cattle, destroying his bike. He creates a new cycle out of hellfire and rides
away as explosive arrows seal the canyon on either side. He is captured by a
sheriff and a group of ranchers but Hawkeye, accompanied by the Two-Gun Kid,
arrives to vouch for him. Hawkeye tells GR they are investigating some strange
phenomena in the area—and then they all discover a flying saucer over the Mesa
of Lost Souls….
As Hercules holds
up the sky-car, Black Goliath (who designed the ship) discovers that the craft
was constructed from inferior metal which caused it to malfunction. It was
built by a team led by the group’s lawyer Emerson Bale and Angel promises to
look into the matter. Then they see a TV news report of the incident in Arizona
and head out there in the newly repaired sky-car, joined by Darkstar with Black
Goliath remaining behind….
Hawkeye, Ghost
Rider, Two-Gun Kid, and the ranchers discover a race of shadow people led by
Kaa who are able to control men’s minds by possessing their shadows,
preparatory to invading Earth. The possessed ranchers attack the heroes just as
the rest of the Champions arrive. Darkstar uses her darkfield to trap the shadows
but they can easily move through darkness and try to capture her shadow. Iceman
creates an ice cover to put them in the shade. Hercules tries to bash the
shadows with a rock but they take over his mind and send him to kill Black
Widow. In a few tense moments, Natasha is able to talk Herc though the
possession and he is able to snap out of it with his divine power. Angel is
possessed by Kaa himself and he fights back, flying upward until his shadow on
the ground becomes so small that Kaa is killed. Hawkeye fires an explosive
arrow into the alien ship and the blast of light kills all of the other shadow
people….
As the heroes are
saying their goodbyes, Black Goliath contacts them about a woman with the box
stolen from Bill Foster’s lab and she is being pursued by…and then Stilt-Man
crashes into the lab…and the box belongs to the Stranger….


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Sentinels Hunt Again!
Hercules and
Black Widow are sitting in the office at Champions headquarters when villains Blob,
Unus the Untouchable, and Lorelei rush in pleading for help—moments later three
Sentinels crash through the walls, tracking them down. The powers of the three
mutants are cancelled by the Sentinels but Herc and Natasha strike back. A
blast hurls Nat to the control panel, as she intended, and she activates the
call for help lighting up the entire building….
Miles away the
signal is spotted by Angel who decides to assume it is real and not a systems
malfunction and heads to a local theater where Johnny Blaze is taking part in a
motorcycle stunt show. In the audience are Bobby Drake and Laynia Petrovna.
When they spot Angel overhead, Bobby turns into Iceman and the surrounding
crowd is incensed to see a mutant; Laynia unleashes her Darkstar side and a
riot breaks out. Johnny Blaze turns on his Ghost Rider and the three Champions
depart with Bobby and GR getting into a big argument. Angel interrupts and they
storm the building, assaulting the Sentinels with their various powers. After
an elaborate skirmish, the three Sentinels are defeated and they ask the trio
of baddies for an explanation. They assert how they were all changed into
babies along with Magneto when they were defeated by the Defenders. When Eric
the Red restored Mags to adulthood, they were inadvertently restored as well.
They were pursued by Sentinels so they came to Angel and Iceman, ex-X-Men for
help. But the Champs do not believe them and rightly so as their leader,
Vanisher, steps out of hiding and stuns the heroes with a ray gun. We then get
the real story: Vanisher awoke on Steven Lang’s orbital platform sometime after
all the Sentinels had been destroyed, discovered a few that were missed because
they were still under construction, completed them and sent them out to find
allies against the X-Men, hence Blob, Unus and Lorelei. But the Champions
weren’t duped into leading the baddies to the X-Men so here’s plan B: let word
of the Champions’ deaths bring the X-Men running. But the barely conscious
Darkstar unleashes some of her power and reanimates a shattered Sentinel to
give the baddies a good whupping. Vanisher tries to shoot her but Iceman has
awoken and freezes his ray gun. The villain tries to escape into another place but
the Darkforce stops him halfway out and possibly killing him. The others wonder
at Laynia’s powers….


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Divide and Conquer!
The Champions
(Hercules, Angel, Iceman, Ghost Rider) with Ivan Petrovich, Richard Fenster,
and Emerson Bale are in their headquarters when the villain Rampage delivers a
set of photographs showing Black Widow a prisoner of the bad guys, along with
her Soviet trainer Alexei Bruskin. Herc challenges Rampage who holds them off
with threats, especially Ivan, telling him the mastermind behind the scheme is
one he knows as the Outcast. Ivan reacts badly, slugging the baddie; Rampage
presses a button on his armor to convey a message for this employer—but a bomb
detonates instead. Darkstar and Griffin were waiting outside; the latter finds
this latest development amusing but Darkstar regrets unnecessary deaths. Iceman
creates a small blizzard to put out the fire and they discover Rampage is still
alive; Ivan questions him but he has nothing more to say before passing out. Ghost
Rider scoops him up to rush him to the hospital. Fenster reminds them that they
are holding a public event inaugurating the new super-team and things don’t
look good. They are all at a loss for what to do so the angry Ivan dashes out
to handle things himself. The others clean up the damaged office….
At the baddies’
hideout, Black Widow awakens and faces Darkstar and Titanium Man. The baddies
tell her that she is wanted “home,” back in the USSR. Griffin is impatient,
eager to fight the Champions and Yuri Petrovich reveals himself as the new
Crimson Dynamo (number 4) and seeking revenge against Ivan Petrovich, his
father….
Ivan has created a
tracking device than can follow the frequency of a black pearl and uses it to
find the whereabouts of Alexei Bruskin whom Natasha is being held with. Iceman
creates an ice slide through the city, following the trail….
Meanwhile, Ghost
Rider is on his flaming cycle, rushing Rampage to the hospital. He drops him
off and forestalls any questions with his sinister visage and threats….
Back at the
office, the dedication ceremony is about to begin with only Hercules and Angel
out of the group to greet the media and the public. With Governor Jerry Brown
present, Angel launches into his welcoming speech, when suddenly Titanium Man,
Griffin, and Crimson Dynamo arrive—and attack….


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A World Lost!
Story continued
from SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP #14.
Doctor Doom has released his Neuro-Gas
into the air making everyone in the world his unwitting servant in his plan for
global domination. Magneto and the Beast try to enlist the Champions (Hercules, Black Widow, Iceman, Angel, Ghost Rider, Darkstar) as allies in stopping Doom's plot, but the hero
team isn't buying it and they battle the Beast and Magneto. When Magneto
realizes he's wasting too much time trying to recruit help, he and Beast depart
for Washington with the Champions in pursuit via an energy sphere created by
Darkstar….
In the capital, Doom has taken
control of President Jimmy Carter and the White House but is quickly disgusted
by their continual fawning over him. When Magneto and the Beast arrive, Doom
brings in the Hulk to fight for him. When the Champions arrive, Doom orders
them to fight against Magneto. Ghost Rider, immune to the Neuro-Gas, joins
Magneto and the Beast against Doom and the assembled heroes. The battle ends
when Ghost Rider sets fire to Doom's mask, forcing the villain to remove it.
Breathing his own gas causes everyone else to come out from under his
influence. Hulk, bored with all the talk, leaps away, and Magneto, having
defeated Doom, departs as well, leaving several confused heroes surrounding a
raving mad Doctor Doom.


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The Economy is So Bad That…
Warren “Angel”
Worthington meets with his family lawyer Emerson Bale and discovers that he has
inherited a fortune from his late parents. Elsewhere, tech firm founder Stuart
Clarke is learning from his attorney Amos Crawley that he is in serious debt
and must declare bankruptcy; Clarke blames Crawley for his plight and fires the
man before running off and vowing vengeance….
At UCLA, Black Widow is mulling over Angel’s plan to form a regular team of Champions;
Ivan Petrovich warns her that team-ups have always resulted in her being hurt.
Natasha thinks the Champions are different, being a team-up of loners. On the
nearby football field, some players are trying to explain the game to Hercules.
They challenge him to carry the ball across the goal line while they try to
stop him. Herc just plows through them and still doesn’t see the point of the
game. Richard Fenster, the college’s lecture agent, has just learned he’s been
fired and must break the same news to Herc and Natasha. Suddenly Angel and
Iceman arrive to (literally) sweep him off his feet and offer him the job of
the Champions’ business manager….
Stuart Clarke
visits his shuttered lab and dons an exo-skeleton uniform designed for the
police but Clarke lost the contract to Stark. After a brief debate with his
conscience, Clarke, soon to be dubbed “Rampage” by the media, decides to rob
FDIC-insured banks, that way the only loser will be the government he blames
for his economic woes….
Warren meets with
Hercules, Black Widow, and Ivan at a classy restaurant to outline his plans for
a permanent team of Champions. Meanwhile, Bobby “Iceman” Drake is on his way to
the meeting and he is debating whether he wants to be a superhero at all, planning
to leave the Champions at the earliest opportunity. Walking past a bank, he
spots Rampage inside, ripping the vault door off its hinges. Changing into
Iceman, he slips in and Rampage punches him through the window and into the
street. The villain means to follow up but the other Champions, alerted by the
nation’s only instantaneous news report, arrive on the scene. Rampage holds his
own versus Hercules and can quickly shatter a giant ice cube Bobby forms around
him. The melee continues until Rampage seizes the unconscious Angel and
threatens to ram his fist through the hero’s skull….


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Mad Dogs and Businessmen
Hercules,
Black Widow, and Iceman (plus Ivan Petrovich) of the Champions are being held at bay
by the villain Rampage, threatening to kill the unconscious Angel with an
armored blow to the head. Herc wants to leap forward but Iceman blasts him in
the back to discourage rash action. The team chooses to walk away to protect
their teammate—but Iceman whirls around and freezes Rampage in a larger cube
than before and they rescue Angel before the baddie can smash his way out.
Rampage retaliates and he blasts Ivan who pushes Natasha out of harm’s way.
Fearing he may have killed Ivan, Rampage hurls a car at Herc which explodes
when the Greek demigod punches it and Rampage leaps unseen to a rooftop in the
confusion. As Stuart Clarke, he hides the costume in a crate and walks out,
pretending to be a workman….
As the emergency
personnel attend to Ivan and give Natasha an optimistic prognosis, she vows
revenge. Angel persuades her that the Champions are not about vengeance and
proposes that the team needs a leader and suggests she be the one, Herc agrees
and so does Iceman who is secretly planning to leave the team soon anyway;
Bobby also believes he speaks for the absent Ghost Rider. They head to the
hospital….
At his home,
Stuart Clarke’s ex-lawyer Amos Crawley is watching TV news coverage of the
incident and recognizes Rampage’s costume as an invention of Clarke’s. Smarting
about being fired, he calls the police and tells them who Rampage is. Shortly,
the police surround Clarke’s lab and demand his surrender. Fearing prison and
with boot jets too damaged to fly, he dons an experimental jet pack and crashes
through the door, unaware there was an officer standing near it. Worried that
he has committed a second murder, he panics and just wants to escape. Result: there
is a running battle with the police down Hollywood Boulevard. The Champions,
having heard the news on the radio, arrive at the scene and take the bad guy on.
Natasha informs him that both Ivan and the injured officer will recover and
demands his surrender. Surrounding him, they take turns hitting him; deciding
to die rather than be captured, Rampage slams his jet pack to the ground,
causing it to explode. Iceman hastily surrounded the pack with an ice shield,
protecting his teammates but the blast was too close to the villain and he is
seriously injured. The Champions head home as Amos Crawley, assuming Stuart
Clarke hadn’t changed Crawley’s power of attorney, makes plans to sell off all
of Clarke’s company assets and keep the money….