Everyone is talking about the new
Avengers lineup and it's all negative. As average citizens are being
interviewed in Manhattan to express disappointment over the new
heroes, foot-tall copies of the Awesome Android rain from the sky.
The figures are alive and reproducing. The Mad Thinker takes control
of the airwaves to demand one billion dollars of Vibranium or the
rapidly multiplying Androids will soon overrun the city. Captain
America and Scarlet Witch confront the Mad Thinker in his lair and
with their newly enhanced powers Wanda destroys the villain's
equipment and Cap punches out the full-size Android. Elsewhere in the
city, Daredevil “sees” Quicksilver rounding up the little
monsters at superspeed. Spider-Man watches Hawkeye fire several
arrows that spread nets, trapping the things and making cleanup much
easier....
Suddenly the Avengers are popular all
over the city and they owe it all to new member Cressida whose
special power increases the abilities of anyone around her (last
issue). Hero names of X-Factor or Avenger X are suggested for her. But elsewhere in the city, a sinister event has taken place:
all of the elderly residents of a nearby nursing home have
died—simultaneously and at the time the Avengers were fighting the
Thinker.…
The group begins to enjoy their sudden
stardom but later, Cressida approaches Steve alone in the gym and
asks if he can be sure Hawkeye is still not a criminal at heart and
whether he can be trusted.... Later she suggests to Wanda that Pietro
is trying to keep her dependent on him.... Then she suggests to
Pietro that sudden fame may be seducing Wanda away from him. In a fit
of anger, Quicksilver heads out to do some heroing. Cressida keeps
track of him via a television screen, watching as he encounters the
Enforcers beating a man who owes money to the Kingpin. When
Quicksilver intervenes, Cressida reaches through the TV screen and
boosts Ox's strength with a touch of her finger. (And elsewhere,
hospital patients are suddenly dying.) As she watches, Ox beats
Quicksilver and breaks his leg. Cressida says, “One down, three to
go.”