At the battle in Washington, D.C.,
the students of Avengers Academy (Mettle, Finesse, Reptil, Veil, Striker,
Hazmat) have learned to work together to take down a Nazi war machine. They
each employ their special power to damage the machine with Veil entering in gas
form to attack the operators directly; as Striker levitates the machine into the
air to drop it, Veil refuses to grant the Nazis any mercy. Once on the ground,
though, she reveals that she used knockout gas instead of poison. The Falcon
lands to tell them that the battle is over and they acquitted themselves well.
The students ask about the rumor that something has happened to Captain
America. Falcon starts to give a general answer, then decides they are adult
enough for the truth, telling them that Captain America is dead. Tigra arrives,
saying she is proud of them for accomplishing the mission without a single
casualty…though Veil and Mettle glance at the row of dead bodies lined up….
Back at Infinite Avengers Mansion,
Jennifer (Hazmat) and Ken (Mettle) are hanging out in her room, amazed that
they have now done real superhero stuff but killing the Nazi is still weighing
on Ken’s mind. She doesn’t think she killed anyone that day and repeats Tigra’s
assurance that Ken acted the hero, saving lives. Ken goes to the workout room….
Hazmat goes to Maddy’s (Veil’s)
room to ask her to talk to Ken as Jenny doesn’t know what Ken is going through
but Maddy does. Uncertain of this, Maddy heads to the workout room where she
talks to Ken, revealing that she killed someone too. She mentions having
written an essay about the strongest predictor of whether soldiers will
experience PTSD is whether they had killed someone. Ken doesn’t want to talk
about it but neither does Maddy so they talk about surfing, a sport Ken engaged
in but the Middle-American Maddy never has….
In Underspace, Absorbing Man,
possessed by Greithoth, Breaker of Wills, and
Titania by Skirn, Breaker of Men, smash their way into the
Infinite Mansion….
Jeanne (Finesse) and Humberto
(Reptil) are relaxing after the battle, Humberto in dinosaur form, figuring
he’d heal faster. He asks her if she had ever seen anyone dead before and she
says yes but not so many and she doesn’t know how she feels. Brandon (Striker)
enters, and he is asked how he feels about killing. Citing the Korvac incident,
he says they should never have been placed in that situation but today? Killing
Nazis doesn’t bother him. And then Crusher Creel’s hammer smashes through the
wall. Reptil turns into a Tyrannosaurus Rex to stall Creel while the other kids
run. Then Creel tries to smash the T-Rex, it vanishes, Reptil having turned
into a dragonfly. Finesse and Striker try to escape through the door to
Avengers HQ but there is nothing outside. The villains corner all of the kids,
Titania raises her hammer and there is a terrific explosion….