The bad guys Absorbing Man,
possessed by Greithoth, Breaker of Wills, and
Titania by Skirn, Breaker of Men, invade
Infinite Avengers Mansion, cut off from the rest of the world, to destroy the
Academy’s students. Mettle, Hazmat, and Veil are fleeing, Mettle reminding them
that they beat Korvac, until they run into Titania. A hammer blow sends Mettle
crashing away, Veil tries to wrap the villain in her coils and she picks up
Titania’s horrifying thoughts and faints. Hazmat runs and Titania laughs….
Reptil, as a huge dinosaur, battles
the Absorbing Man but Creel just uses his hammer to smash a hole in Reptil and
the young hero is down. Finesse and Striker watch on a viewscreen, she
anticipates Reptil’s recovery (60% chance of survival) and he grows annoyed at
Finesse’s unemotional reactions., They discover Mettle floating out in the
emptiness that surrounds the mansion. Hazmat arrives and Striker, noting that
they were chosen for the Academy because they were in danger of becoming
villains, decides to use that as their strength. Hazmat approaches Creel and
Titania to express her hostility toward the Avengers over their failure to help
her, asking to join the villains against the good guys. But this was a
distraction so that Finesse and Striker could carry off the unconscious Reptil
and Veil. Hazmat then blasts them with her radiation and escapes the mansion to
lead the robots to rescue Mettle. The two villains come after Striker and
Hazmat, who run down different corridors. Each villain follows a kid and then
they come face-to-face with Giant-Man and hurl their hammers, knocking each
other out as the Giant-Mans were holograms….
With the villains subdued for now,
Finesse explains that, with the dimensional portals gone their only chance to
escape Underspace is to grow their way out. She has harnessed Pym Particles to
that end…but Creel and Titania have recovered and Creel has absorbed the
Particles’ energy and is causing the entire mansion to grow where it will soon
crush and entire city. And the students don’t know what to do and don’t have
the time to figure it out….