To get away from the Avengers, Hawkeye has moved to the
Canadian Rockies near the Arctic Circle. He comes upon three hunters chasing a
caribou from snowmobiles; he fires a few well-placed arrows to disable the
snowmobiles, forcing the men to walk the thirty miles back to the road with his
warning ringing in their ears. Hawkeye then pursues the wounded caribou to put
it out of its misery but he finds the beast dead, killed by an animal that fed
on it. Clint does not recognize the animal that killed it and he pursues his unseen
quarry through the woods until he stumbles upon a secret installation. When the
sun rises he recognizes the building’s guards as Secret Empire. That night, as
he plans to sneak into the place, the alarms go off and the searchlights come
up: there is a big hunt for an escaping creature that Hawkeye cannot make out
in the dark. The searchers are headed by Trick Shot and Javelynn; the former
spots Hawkeye watching from the hills and fires an explosive arrow which Hawk
manages to shoot out of the air. But that was only a distraction for Javelynn
to attack him up close. Hawk escapes her and pursues the helicopter firing on
the mysterious quarry; he finds the wounded creature is some sort of dog-man
and he shoots down the copter with a shot into its motor. Clint takes the
wounded creature to the nearest town of Dunroman….
Back at the installation, Trick Shot and Javelynn report to
the Council of Ten where they are roundly chewed out by the leader, Viper….