When The Avengers are fallen, a group of teen superheroes assembled as Young Avengers and goes up against an enemy from future.
In absence of original team of
Avengers, a new group of young superheroes caught attention to press when they pulled off a few civilian recues recently. J. Jonah Jameson of Daily Bugle sends
Jessica Jones to investigate these four "
Young Avengers", who are going by the names of
Iron Kid,
Lieutenant America,
Teen-Hulk and
Thor Junior.
Soon as she went outside,
Captain America and
Iron Man arrives at her office to talk to her in private. They intend to shut these kids down before they hurt themselves but asks for Jessica to help find them. That evening, these youths showed up once again to rescue a wedding party kept hostage by five gunmen at Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
Taking out those bad guys, they argued with each other about how to tackle this situation and even had help from bridesmaid. As they were leaving, Jessica hands out her card to
Hulkling, who recognized her as former costumed hero Jewel. Regrouped at former Avengers Mansion,
Patriot stormed off after a brief debate with
Iron Lad.
Promising to meet again next day, they all depart and
Iron Lad steps inside the destroyed Mansion only to find
Captain America,
Iron Man and
Jessica Jones waiting to talk with him. It is then revealed that he came in from thirtieth century and assembled these young heroes in an attempt to stop his future self;
Kang the Conqueror.
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Brave bridesmaid of Saint Patrick's Cathedral wedding from earlier, Kate Bishop waits outside of Metro-General Hospital while her father was throwing tantrum at staffs for not admitting her immediately. She is asked about her encounter with
Young Avengers by a girl who introduces herself as Cassie Lang, daughter of second
Ant-Man.
Cassie is apparently looking for them to join team and Kate leaves hospital premise with her as well. Meanwhile, young Nathaniel Richards explains that he escaped from future so he doesn't become
Kang. Arriving here on 21st century, he learns that
The Avengers were disbanded already and all he could do was finding remains of
Vision.
Asgardian and
Hulkling bumped into
Patriot on their way as they were heading to former Avengers Mansion. They come across Cassie and Kate there, who wants to go inside to get her father's
Ant-Man costume and gears. As
Patriot refuses to allow her in doing so, an argument ensues between them and caused Cassie to grow into giant-size.
Richards explains that he downloaded all programming and data files found within the android
Avenger into his armor. Their conversation is interrupted and they go outside to see an enormous Cassie Lang lying unconscious on ground. Cap and Kate helped her shrink back to normal size as
Iron Land introduces his friends in
Young Avengers.
Richards states that he found a failsafe program in
Vision's protocols that lead him to next wave of
Avengers. Moving Kate aside, Cap talks to them about their secret identity and is now interrupted by arrival of Growing Man. Instead of growing, it splits into small-sized replicas when attacked and Nathaniel recognizes those as stimuloids.
In their response to where their master is, he tells them he is their master and they sends out a signal to thirtieth century
Kang of his location. Tricking them into Mansion's training facility, Cap and
Iron Man locks them up to call their parents. Conversing whether Richards's story is true,
Kang the Conqueror showed up from his future.
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Young Avengers Vol 01 – Sidekicks
During hiatus of mainline
Avengers series following "
Avengers Disassembled" event,
Marvel Comics launched a spin-off monthly ongoing titled
Young Avengers in 2005. "
Sidekicks" marks its first storyline collecting first six issues conceived by writer
Allan Heinberg (
Avengers – The Children's Crusade,
Young Avengers – Family Matters).
Heinberg was aided by artist
Jim Cheung (
Astonishing X-Men – Life of X,
Avengers & X-Men – Axis) for illustration. Bunch of new characters that has some ties to members of
Avengers team are introduced with more to reveal in future. For their first real-adventure, they took on one of
The Avengers' deadliest foes,
Kang the Conqueror.
There is a slight continuity error about Eli Bradley claiming his grandfather Isaiah Bradley being first
Captain America, which was never pointed out throughout the story. By end of this story, Asgardian changes his code name to
Wiccan as Kate Bishop suggested, Cassie adopts her new alias as
Stature with exception of
Hulkling and
Patriot.
Proving themselves worthy of being called
Young Avengers, these young heroes finds a new base of operation and decides to continue operating in spite of Cap's disapproval. Next up, these kids take on an ever bigger threat in "
Family Matters" storyline as they become target of two alien races, Kree and Skrulls over one of their ancestry.
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