Synopsis
America (2017 series) #2 synopsis by
Rob Johnson
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Last issue America Chavez (with Ultimates help) save the planet Maltixa, especially young Imani, in the Utopian Parallel from an attack by an Entity. Then she broke up with her girlfriend Lisa Halloran and enrolled in the other-dimensional Sotomayor University. There she met up with another ex-Young Avenger Prodigy and combined his experimental time machine with her dimension-hopping ability to try to travel back to the Parallel's past so she could see her 2 dead mothers again. But instead she wound up in an alternate WWII Germany where she met a Captain America and punched a Hitler.
Now on Maltixa Imani and her friend Zulai have become fan-girls and are tracking America's every move on BeamChat.
In Germany Nazi soldiers take the Fuhrer away with Cap giving chase. Chavez is accosted by Commander Peggy Carter of the French Resistance who accuses her of messing up a 6 month operation. It'll take a lot more than 1 punch to defeat the Nazis. But despite protests from her subordinates Carter takes Chavez down into a secret bunker HQ. America accidentally hits a button which makes all the secret stuff fold away into the floor and walls. Peggy tells her that she was expecting her here, which totally flummoxes our heroine. But just then Nazi soldiers break in with a whirring(?) pointed battering ram. Carter pulls on a rope which takes her back to the surface. She tells Chavez to go home, and America realises it was only her own power that got her here last issue, not Prodigy's machine. So she creates a star portal to another dimension which the Nazis fall through and then thinks herself back to 'reality' (watched by the 2 Maltixan girls).
She lands on her bed in her van where she's living because she was 'scared' to get a roommate. She reminds us that she went back in time to research some ancient revolutionaries for a class assignment (and presumably chose her moms), but we don't hear any more about that. She tells whoever is following her activities and telling the world about them to stop. And she sheds a tear for her 'lost' love Lisa. Meanwhile we see Professor Canelita Douglas floating in a cross-legged yoga position in her classroom (1 side in hologram ice like last issue, the other side like a jungle). Someone called Madrimar commends her for guiding America to Peggy Carter, but chides her for using energy worship to help her get back which wasn't part of the plan. It's better if she succeeds on her own.
On another day America arrives at the college to find it's hosting Juniors from Midas High School. She has to save 2 boys from falling off the entrance arch. Lots of the other kids want to hang out with her and she turns down Prof Douglas' offer to make her their tour guide. But she's saved by X'Andria's Leelumultipass Phi Theta Betas inviting her to a lecture by Lunella Lafayette (Moon Girl along with Devil Dinosaur). She tells her audience about the interlinked systems of the universe and contrasts them with the arbitrary human rules (like why a supersmart young girl like her can't vote because she's not old enough). These rules are designed to constrain them but she's working on a project with Prof Douglas to help transcend them, to help the students be the best they can. Meanwhile America has to stop a male student taking a picture of DD with his selfie stick (or just prodding him with it). LL wants everyone to partner up with someone who will challenge them, and between them invent something great.
America teams up with X'Andria and they go to X's dorm room (via 1 of Chavez' teleportation stars) to discuss it. A reminds X that she can teleport to other realities but adds that now she can travel through time but can't control it. X agrees to make that their project and asks A if any of her family have that ability. A says she doesn't know and X says her own ancestors are her greatest resource. A has to admit that she doesn't have *any* ancestors.
But their conversation is interrupted by a dustbin thrown through the window. Outside the Midas Juniors are tearing up the campus, and they appear to be cyborgs. Chavez goes to stop them and she's joined by X'Andria and her cohort who appear to use dance-fu. America gets a call from Prodigy who says the cyborgs are stealing the code for Prof D's simulation lab in the Sotomayor intergalactic server. She prays to Selena for help and it appears to work because all the cyborgs fall asleep.
But next morning it turns out that Prof D and Lunella had found defects in the cyborgs' design which allowed them to hack in and disable them. However their victory is shortlived because they get a holographic transmission from Imani and her now multitude of Chavez fans called the Chavez Guerrillas who are angry that she's not been responding to their BeamChats, and they've kidnapped Lisa because she was making America sad. Imani says they'll let her go if America agrees to be their leader.
Chavez heads to the rescue.
CharactersGood (or All)Plus: Canela Douglas, Imani, Madrimar, Moon Girl, Prodigy (
David Alleyne), X'Andria.