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….