Avengers Academy

In the wake of Dark Reign, it was discovered that Norman Osborn had manipulated several young super-powered people for his own purposes. Six of these teens are now placed in a program called the Avengers Academy, headed by Henry Pym, with Tigra, Justice, Speedball, and Quicksilver as teachers. They say the purpose is to teach these youths how to become heroes. However, the students soon discover that they were selected because their profiles indicate they are the ones most likely to become villains. After finding out the truth, Finesse blackmails Quicksilver to teach her everything he was taught in theBrotherhood of Mutants threatening to expose the fact that he stole the Terrigen Crystals and not the Skrull imposter that he claimed to have committed the crime.

Pym takes the students to The Raft, the supervillain prison as a part of a scared straight tour. During the tour, Hazmat uses an EMP to shut down the prison. Hazmat, Mettle, and Veil locate Norman Osborn's cell in order to exact their revenge. Osborn however manipulates their emotions about the secrets Pym is keeping from them and convinces them that he can someday cure them of their individual maladies.

The students gain notoriety after they defeat Whirlwind. However it is revealed to Striker that his mother paid Whirlwind to stage the attack in order to get him some publicity. Reptil is voted to be student leader but after a confrontation with Mentallo he loses control and nearly kills him. His teachers suggest he seek counciling but he refuses to talk to the faculty. They then set up a meeting Jessica Jones, who had similar issues and Reptil finally opens about many of the things that have been troubling him, but keeps his concerns about his fellow students and the academy private.

Hank Pym finds a way to bring his late wife the Wasp back to life. But after some convincing and a battle with Absorbing Man, he decides against it because the risks are too great. He adopts his old Giant-Man persona as a way of letting go and moving on.

After video of the Hood assaulting Tigra goes viral, Finesse, Hazmat, Veil and Striker track down Hood, now depowered, and torture him. Veil records the incident and the students upload the video in the same manner as Tigra's assault. When the students show Tigra the video she becomes furious and expels all those involved.

Quicksilver helps Finesse seeks out Taskmaster believing him to be her long-lost father but is called backed early to attend a faculty meeting to determine if Tigra's decision to expel Finesse, Hazmat, Veil, and Striker was just. The teachers overturn the decision and instead place the students involved on probation.

After the expelled students are readmitted, Speedball takes them all on a field trip to Stamford, Connecticut to visit the memorial of the incident that started theCivil War. At the memorial, the group is attacked by the Cobalt Men which Speedball easily defeats using his Penance powers. Veil later sneaks into Henry Pym's lab in order to find a way to help him bring Wasp back.

Veil soon finds that what seemed to be Wasp was in fact Carina: Wife of Korvac. Korvac follows Carina back and the Avengers are summoned to fight him. With the Avengers soon defeated, Carina uses her powers to transform the students into their adult bodies.^[15]

Carina tells the students that she has placed their consciousness in their adult bodies from possible futures. After Korvac is defeated the students revert back to their normal bodies with the exception of Reptil, who remains in his the body of his adult self from a possible future.

On prom night at the Avengers Academy with members of the Young Allies and past members of the Initiative in attendance, Reptil still in his adult body dances with Komodo. When Hardball accuses Reptil of hitting on "his girl", a fight breaks out but is soon broken up by Henry Pym and Speedball. After the fight Reptil speaks with Spider-Girl, who tells him that she liked him the way he was, and reverts back to his teenage body.

While the adult Avengers are dealing with the eruption of Mount Etna, Tigra and the students learn that Electro has broken into a French Lab. Once on the scene the students discover the Electro is accompanied by the rest of the Sinister Six (consisting of Doctor Octopus, Chameleon, Mysterio, Rhino, and Sandman). The Sinister Six overpower the students and Doctor Octopus steals a device containing self-sustaining power. The team barely escapes before an explosion takes out the lab. Back at the academy, Henry Pym then tells the students that he has failed to prepare them for such a fight and they will train harder as a result.

The Avengers Academy students fight Ruby Thursday until she is defeated by Henry Pym who then leaves to help the other Avengers round up the escaped criminals. It turns out that there was another young super-powered person that was overlooked by the Avengers Academy staff named Jeremy Briggs. Ever since Norman Osborn was defeated, he managed to become a billionaire. He shows then several others teens tortured by Osborn, some of which decided to use their powers to help people directly (one girl helping Haitians by healing wounds), and later he shows then a kid with ice powers who decided to combat crime, and was slaughtered by a Wendigo. After trying to convince them to join him in helping the world in other ways (even suggesting Hazmat become a waste-free nuclear energy source, and Mettle becoming a policeman), Finesse reveals that he was telling lies, for instance that the girl in haiti was his girlfriend and that he unsuccessfully tried to hide his feelings for her, and that the Wendigo that killed the other kid was brought from Canada by his company. They attacked him, but he overpowered them with his alchemy power, but ultimately let them be taken out of his building by security stating that he could kill them if he wishes.

During the Fear Itself storyline, Henry Pym, Quicksilver, Jocasta, and Justice head out to round up the escaped criminals while Tigra stays with the students. At the Raft, Henry Pym and the others fightDragonfly, Flying Tiger, Gorilla-Man II, and Quicksand as they try to escape.