War Machine shows up in answer to Hawkeye’s summons for
help. The two are bitter about their time in the Avengers and their
conversation guarded; Hawkeye shows him Rover as the third member of the team.
Rhodey takes Clint to the barn/lab of his tech guy Mack Mendelson who agrees to
make Hawkeye a new bow and arrows….
Aboard the Secret Empire ship, Viper outlines her plans to
recreate the experiment to Trick Shot and Javelynn while threatening the former
if he should betray her for his old student Hawkeye….
Hawkeye’s new costume and gear are finished as well as a new
sky-cycle. Mendelson has also pinpointed the Secret Empire’s new location, an
island near Baja. Hawkeye, Rover, and War Machine assault the place, battle a
bunch of guards, learn from transmission data that the real Secret Empire base
is in the Amazon jungle, and get out seconds before the place self-destructs.
Rhodey offers to join him for the next step but Clint has to go it alone and
the two heroes part….
At the Amazonian lair, Viper is shown the latest successful
project: an animal-man much larger and scarier than Rover….