In the wake of Sin’s release of the
Serpent, the Asgardian God of Fear, there is a mass breakout at the Raft. Steve Rogers
contacts Giant-Man to inform him that the Avengers are rushing to the
sites where several hammers have fallen from the sky; Steve wants Hank’s team
to reinforce the Thunderbolts in dealing with the Raft. In spite of both their
fears, Hank declares the students of Avengers Academy ready to help out, in
civilian rescue. Hank gathers Tigra, Quicksilver, Justice, and Jocasta but
teammate Speedball can’t be found. Hank asks Tigra to stay with the students;
at first, she is angry, assuming Hank is being protective of her but he assures
her that, with her powers looking the least useful in this sort of combat, she
is given the most important role of protecting the students. She agrees. So
Jocasta opens a door to Long Island, and the team assembles to capture the
deadly fugitives….
The students (Mettle, Finesse,
Reptil, Veil, Striker, Hazmat) are in the training room when Tigra brings word
that Washington D.C. is under attack. She tells them that the enemy is led by
Sin, bearing a magic hammer; there are Avengers on the ground so the students
will be evacuating civilians only. Tigra impresses on them the urgency of this
mission and so they step through the door Jocasta opens…
…and walk into a nightmare. Jocasta
contacts Giant-Man to tell him that the students have been deployed; he wants
to head to the scene but he is busy with the Raft fugitives. Tigra rescues a
young police officer who reminds her of her husband who died in the line of duty
and hustles him through a teleportation door to a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio,
so that the emergency facilities in Washington and New York are not
overwhelmed. Tigra returns to where the kids are fighting Nazi war machines;
she must convince Striker to not panic as he has been “killed” before in battle
with Korvac; he manages to set up a defensive shield before joining Hazmat
against an enemy. Mettle hurls a lamppost which kills the driver of a Nazi
machine and he is stunned at having killed someone; Tigra has to give him a
talk about how this is necessary to save lives and the difference between him
and the man he killed is that Mettle cares before sending him back into the
fray….
Giant-Man and his team return to
New York and Hank desires to go to Washington immediately but Jocasta assures
him the students are doing well but he is needed elsewhere: Absorbing Man,
possessed by Greithoth, Breaker of Wills, and
Titania by Skirn, Breaker of Men, are terrorizing Dubai. Maria Hill
tells him he is the only one available to respond; he has beaten Absorbing
Man in the past—but now the villain is powered up by the alien hammer. So Hank
steps through the doorway to the Middle East. Back in Washington, the students
are enduring their baptism of fire while Hank comes face-to-face with a giant
Absorbing Man….