Synopsis
America (2017 series) #7 synopsis by
Rob Johnson
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Last issue America Chavez and her Young Avengers friend Kate Bishop (Hawkeye) saved an old friend of America's from Arcade and some Mindless Ones (1 of which wasn't so mindless) working for the Midas Corporation. They were helped by the mysterious Madrimar who revealed she was America's grandmother and offered to take her home.
America remembers how when she was very young she fled from her home the Utopian Parallel to try to find her mothers. Everyone said they'd died to save the Parallel, and if she left she'd never be able to return. But she didn't want to believe them.
Now Madrimar takes her by star portal to the Ancestral Plane which holds the history of M's people. As M relates the story AC sees it played out in visions in the sky. M tells how the galaxies were created by spirits, and her people were born of 2 such, Berraca and Sanar. Sanar created universes but Berraca was a daydreamer who created the 1st star portal. They saw each other through the portal and fell in love, turning Sanar's latest planet into M's home Fuertona.
On that planet Madrimar gave birth to America's mother Amalia, who AC sees as a baby playing with M. America wants to travel back in time to meet the girl, or to the Utopian Parallel to see both moms together again. But M tells her it's impossible because when her mothers sacrificed themselves to save the Parallel they sealed it off and deleted(?) themselves for all time(?). But they now exist in every particle in the multiverse(?).
At A's request M moves on in her story to how Amalia met A's other mom Elena. The Fuertonas fled their planet when it was invaded by La Legion, monsters who inhaled and annihilated the lifeforce of the planet. Sanar and Berraca created an ice age to put the planet in preservation mode. Madrimar created a star portal and took pre-teen Amalia through it, asking it for a safe, beautiful place. What she got was the Utopian Parallel, a planet of women created by the Demiurge, William Kaplan (as explained in Young Avengers vol 2). S & B promised to let them know when it was time to return. They see Amalia meeting Elena as young teens and falling in love.
Madrimar tosses some little rocks to America which float around her. She explains that the Ancestral Plane is part of AC and her portals. M can create portals too, but most Fuertonas like Amalia can't. The 1s who can are called Starlings. She also says she's been watching AC grow up, and that when she left the UP at age 6 her star portal ability was better than any Fuertona twice her age.
America is angry that her grandmother could see what her newly-orphaned granddaughter was going through and didn't help her. The sky shows M watching through a portal as A was looked after by a community on Earth (Puerto Ricans in the Bronx as seen in #3). The ground cracks open between them as A relates some of the things that happened to her while she grew up on Earth. Being hunted by the Serpent Society (never seen that before). Getting papaya flu (possibly in Colombia - #3 again). Seeing a kitten get run over. She also adds that her moms never told her about her abuela.
Madrimar says she was called away when America was born. Sanar and Berraca appeared to her in a dream to say that planet Fuertona was healed so the Fuertonas can come home. La Legion is no more but their creators have vowed revenge. The spirits are still too weak for now so they need the Starlings like her to protect the planet. But she must also protect *the* Starling (America). She tells the moms that the spirits want her to go back to Fuertona, but Amalia is about to give birth. The baby girl is named America (after Billy Kaplan's birthplace) Chavez (Elena's mother's surname). But after the birth M portals away saying she's going to prepare Fuertona for her.
M claims that she couldn't return because La Legion's makers were looking for them and she'd be safe in the Utopian Parallel. She also claims that Fuertona needs AC. But America's still to upset and portals her way back to interdimensional Sotomayor University. M leaves us with a prophecy "When the Starlings collide the spirits shall be reborn".
But we take a look at 1 last scene. Exterminatrix (Oubliette Midas), who we saw at the end of last issue, has techs scanning for America Chavez and is definitely unhappy to be told that she's not in any known dimension. She decides to draw her out by threatening her friends at Sotomayor, Prodigy and X'Andria.
CharactersGood (or All)Plus: Madrimar, Prodigy (
David Alleyne), X'Andria.
Enemies
Exterminatrix.