Synopsis
Things have been complicated.
The New Avengers AKA Sunspot's AIM (Avengers Idea Mechanics) split up in #10 over Roberto Da Costa's decision to rescue Rick Jones from SHIELD custody during Avengers: Standoff. Hulkling, Squirrel Girl and Wiccan are now the NAv. Songbird revealed herself to be a SHIELD spy and took Hawkeye, who was openly a SHIELD liaison, back to SHIELD. Meanwhile Pod, Power Man, Sunspot, White Tiger and the rest of AIM have relocated from Avengers Island to the secret Avenger Two base in the Savage Land, linking up with Cannonball.
Then in #11 Hawkeye joined the NAv and we learned that Songbird was Sunspot's spy only pretending to be a SHIELD spy pretending to work for AIM.
Then Civil War II began. But in #12, while the NAv and Songbird helped fight the Celestial Destructor (as in CWII#1), Maria Hill delegated Agent John Garrett to go after AIM. He in turn reprogrammed the Dum Dum Dugan LMD and gained an army of them. And Maker readied his New Revengers team (recruited in #7).
In #13 during Hawkeye's trial for the murder of Bruce Banner a prediction by Ulysses blew Songbird's cover, and Garrett and the Dugans arrested her and demanded to know where AIM's secret base is while she's connected to a lie detector. Sunspot sent Cannonball, Dr Positron and Power Man to save her. And Maker attacked the Savage Land base with his New Revengers.
Now read on ...
Roberto has lost contact with the Engineering Bay (where Maker and Skar attacked Dr Toni Ho and Pod last issue). But he also loses contact with everywhere else when OMNITRONICUS takes over the computer system and threatens him with the base's defence system lasers. But Bobby just treats it like a Danger Room scenario from his days at Prof X's school for mutants.
Elsewhere Paibok the Power Skrull and Vermin's rats take on AIM troopers while Asti the All-Seeing attacks the 2 Zebra Kids, and Angar the Screamer invades the Theoretical Physics Department. And in the base's dojo Ava Ayala the depowered White Tiger faces Angela Del Toro the White Tiger with the power of two Tiger Amulets.
In the Engineering Section Pod has been crippled by a blast from Skar but Dr Ho defended herself with a forcefield. And now she escapes through a secret entrance that Maker didn't know about. And this worries him because he's had the base infested with nano-cameras.
When Maker asks OMNITRONICUS how this was missed Sunspot replies. He tells the Reed Richards from the Ultimate Universe that he knows Maker used the viral nano-cameras to spy on them in Paris (#1-2) and Tokyo (#5), and that they were infected in Tokyo. But he asks Maker why they weren't infected in Paris. the genius immediately realises that they were infected there, but that Pod detected the infection and countered it. And since Tokyo Da Costa has only been allowing him to see what they wanted him to see.
And Toni Ho comes back through the secret door wearing Pepper Potts' Rescue armour.
Cannonball has also lost contact with the base. He's rocketing through the air towing 2 anti-grav, frictionless, radar-invisible passenger pods containing Max Brashear and Vic Alvarez. They're closing in on the SHIELD helicarrier Bellerophon where Songbird is held. And Sam Guthrie ignites the engines in the pods and sends them smashing through the helicarrier wall.
Alvarez powers up from the history permeating the carrier and deals with the SHIELD Agents who come to investigate. Dr Positron locates the cell holding Melissa Gold and when Cannonball catches up with them they break in.
Songbird says SHIELD took the tech that makes her powers work these days and tells her team-mates about the lie-detector (and the gun to her head). She also wants to tell them about Ulysses prediction of Roberto's funeral. But Power Man is more interested in what info she gave SHIELD. Before Melissa can explain the Dugan LMDs enter and say she told them the location of AIM's secret base.
And Garrett launches a missile at that site.
Sunspot is still dodging lasers aimed by OMNITRONICUS until he's hit by 1 of the coughing fits he's been having lately, and then by 1 of the lasers. But the lasers are only set to stun. And Da Costa has only been playing for time until his secret weapon arrives - Warlock of the New Mutants.