Avengers: The Initiative #14

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We Have Met the Enemy, and They are Us!

It begins with a flashback to several months ago; Yellowjacket was on the top of the HYDRA Terrorcarrier as it crashed in Texas. As his team-mates leave him to his fate, he reveals himself as a Skrull. He survives the crash using the powers of the Vision, then tells everyone that he shrunk to subatomic size to escape the blast. He is amazed that everyone believes him. Despite his position as a spy, he is amazed at the lengths and depths to which Baron von Blitzschlag and HP Gyrich were willing to go to staff the Initiative. And when their efforts backfired, he used the powers of Black Panther and Quicksilver to escape death once again. He tells everyone that he shrank to subatomic size to escape the blast. However, his meal-time choice of strawberries and pickles, to create the taste of Skrullian t'manja berries, leads Crusader, a rogue Skrull, to find him out, due to his fondness for the same mix.

On his way to the base of the Hawaiian Initiative team, 3-D Man thinks about a package he got at his graduation from the two men who wore the mask before him. It contains the suit one of them was wearing when he first got his powers. Lamenting that he cannot wear the black jumpsuit, 3-D Man opts instead to wear the suit's golden goggles instead of his suits eyewear. Meeting his new team, 3-D Man is introduced to local hero **Star Sign**, earth elemental **Paydirt**, the monster hunting **Devil-Slayer** and the ferrokinetic **Magnitude**. However, his goggles reveal Magnitude as a Skrull. Reacting, Magnitude attacks his team-mates using the powers of Sunfire, Havok and Banshee. However, thanks to the goggles, 3-D Man kills him; as he dies, Magnitude cannot understand how 3-D Man can see him, saying, "We improved... We can't be detected by Earth magic, powers or science." With their base now trashed by the fight, Devil-Slayer teleports 3-D Man back to Camp Hammond to warn everyone of the impending threat.

In Camp Hammond, Crusader decides to tell Trauma that Yellowjacket and he are both Skrulls. But he leaves at the last minute, causing Trauma to wonder what he's hiding. As Crusader walks away, 3-D Man appears in the courtyard, babbling that he can see Skrulls. Panicking, Crusader uses his Freedom Ring to hide himself, breaking the goggles. As 3-D Man recovers, the scene that greets him is horrific - the goggles read every member of the Initiative as a Skrull!

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Initiative) ** Staff *** Yellowjacket (Citri Noll/"Hank Pym")_(Earth-616)) (flashback) *** Trauma (Terry Ward)) ** Trainees *** Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady)) *** Crusader (Aubrey Thompson)) ** Point Men) *** 3-D Man (Delroy Garrett)) *** Star Sign) *** Paydirt) *** Devil-Slayer (Eric Payne)) **Supporting Characters:** * Initiative) ** Staff *** Tigra (Greer Nelson)) *** Constrictor (Frank Schlichting)) *** Gauntlet (Sgt. Joseph Green)) (flashback) *** Hellcat (Patsy Walker)) *** Stingray (Walter Newell)) (flashback) *** Taskmaster (Tony Masters)) *** Henry Gyrich) *** Baron von Blitzschlag) *** Nighthawk) ** Trainees *** Batwing (jimmy Santini)) *** Sunstreak (Andrea Roarke)) *** Stature (Cassie Lang)) *** Red 9 (Wallace Jackson)) *** Geiger (Dee Dee Deerborn)) *** Gargoyle (Isaac Christians)) (flashback) *** Prodigy (Ritchie Gilmore)) *** Diamondback (Rachel Leighton)) *** Proton (Geldoff)_(Earth-616)) *** Bengal (Duc No Tranh)) *** Hardball (Roger Brokeridge)) *** Komodo (Melati Kusuma)) *** Ultragirl (Suzy Sherman)) ** Liberteens) *** Revolutionary_(Earth-616)) * Chuck Chandler) * Hal Chandler) **Antagonists:** * Magnitude) Leaves the Point Men) * Hydra) **Other Characters:** * Debrii (Deborah Fields)) * S.H.I.E.L.D.) ** Cape-Killers) * President W. Bush) * KIA_(Earth-616)) * Avengers) * MVP) * Black Panther) * Quicksilver) * "He" (Kly'bn)) * Sl'gur't) * Air Force) * Invading undersea armies) * Fin Fang Foom) * Defenders) * X-Men) ** Polaris) ** Havok) ** Sunfire) ** Banshee)

**Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth (flashback) ** United States of America (flashback) *** Texas) **** Crawford *** Washington, D.C. **** White House *** Connecticut) **** Stamford ***** Camp Hammond *** Hawaii) **** Oahu ***** Lookout Point) ****** Negative Zone Jump Gate ** Over the Pacific Ocean ** Hydrobase ** Japan * Throneworld **Items:** * Avengers Issue Jet-Packs * Gauntlet's gauntlet * Cosmic Ring * Constrictor's Bionic Arms * Original 3-D Man Googles * Shadow Cloak * Tactigon * Skrullian T'Manja Berries **Vehicles:** * Terror-Carrier

| Solicit = SECRET INVASION TIE-IN "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us!" During the INFILTRATION, a Skrull at the heart of the Camp Hammond said these words: "It won't be long until we have a Skrull in every state! "Now that Skrull stands revealed and the fate of The Initiative, the United States, and Planet Earth hang in the balance. Plus: Former Avenger, Delroy Garret, assumes the mantle and arsenal of Earth's greatest Skrull-Hunter, THE 3-D MAN. He's here to chew bubblegum and kick some Skrull-@$$. And he's all out of bubblegum.

| Notes = * "Yellowjacket"_(Earth-616)) survived the Hydra) attack on George W. Bush)'s ranch in Avengers: The Initiative Vol 1 2 and KIA in Avengers: The Initiative Vol 1 9. * "Yellowjacket" communicated with Skrull Initiative member Revolutionary_(Earth-616)) in Avengers: The Initiative Annual Vol 1 1. * "Yellowjacket" was first revealed to be a Skrull in Secret Invasion Vol 1 1. * How the real Hank Pym) was replaced is detailed in Mighty Avengers Vol 1 15. * This issue takes place prior to Secret Invasion Vol 1 1. * Debrii) quit the Initiative) along fellow New Warriors) to form the Counter Force), and her presence here is unexplained. * The Skrull language can be deciphered with the translations seen in Secret Invasion Vol 1 5. It seems that as Criti Noll was burning up in the flashback, he says, "Slott big blows monkeys!" | Trivia = | Recommended = | Links = * http://marvel.com/comic_books/issue/21366/avengers_the_initiative_2007_14

Creative credits

Writers: Dan Slott, Christos N. Gage

Interior art: Stefano Caselli

Color: Daniele Rudoni

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