Clint
Barton and Bobbi Morse are part of a crowd leaving a theater, Clint complaining
how he doesn’t like violent movies. At an intersection, three gunmen in a
speeding car open fire on a crowd. Shocked at the carnage, Clint and Bobbi change
into Hawkeye and Mockingbird and they mount the summoned Sky-Cycle and pursue
the gunmen. Catching up, Hawkeye fires a flare arrow to blind them but they
respond with gunfire, grazing Mockingbird’s arm. Hawkeye responds with an
incendiary arrow into the car’s trunk, causing the hoods to flee before the car
explodes. They capture three of the hoods but one gets away, swearing revenge….
Later,
Clint can’t stop thinking about the drive-by shooting, which left six dead, six
more in critical condition plus many more injuries. He is determined to
understand it. The next day, as Hawkeye, he questions one of the hoods, a gang
member called Prince Charming, but is frustrated by how casually the punk
treats the matter, calling the Avengers just another gang. Detective Zamora
tells Hawkeye how difficult it is for the police to deal with gangs and advises
him to take care for himself….
The
punk who got away reports to the big boss, crime lord Lotus Newmark, who
rebukes him for bringing attention to the gang and then orders the Stone Perfs
to kill Hawkeye….
That
night, the corpse of a member of the gang that was targeted the previous night
is dumped on the doorstep of the Avengers Compound with a threat from the Stone
Perfs. The archer, angered, flies off to meet the challenge. In downtown L.A.,
Hawkeye questions everyone as to where he can find the gang but no one is
willing to help him for fear of reprisal. He spots a gang member and pursues
him into an alley between two buildings; Stone Perfs appear on the roofs and
fire down on him until he collapses. As the gang flees, a kid named Luis calls
911….
At
the hospital emergency room, the West Coast Avengers await word on Hawkeye’s
condition. Mockingbird is upset, calling him a jerk for endangering his life.
The doctor comes out to say that Hawkeye is alive, the bullets having missed
his heart and brain but he has lost a great deal of blood. The doctor also
mentions that if the boy hadn’t immediately called 911, Hawkeye would be dead….
Clint
soon comes out of his coma and Bobbi is torn between anger and relief; he asks
to see Tony Stark. A few weeks later when he is in better health, Clint meets
with Tony and goes over a design for armor. Clint tells Bobbi that he wants to
put the Stone Perfs out of business; she is upset as there are many other gangs
out there in the city and feels he is being stubborn and dumb….
A
few more weeks later, the punk who led Hawkeye into the ambush is standing on a
street corner at night when he is knocked unconscious and awakens to find
himself on the Sky-Cycle zooming by itself through the air and Hawkeye on the
radio demanding an address for the Stone Perfs’ hangout. The panicked punk tells
him the address and then Hawkeye turns him over to the police. He heads to the locale
and fires an explosive arrow into the place followed by a tear gas arrow; then
a net arrow flies to entangle the gang members. He shows off his new armored
outfit and tells them they will now be held accountable for their crimes….