The Uncanny New Avengers

Chapter 1: New Beginnings

By

The Uncanny R-Man

Disclaimer- I don't own anything, the Avengers belong to Marvel while Mayhem belongs to Agent-G.

Avenger's Mansion-

Hawkeye was waiting in the meeting room. Captain America had called him there. Apparently there was some urgent news that needed seeing to. Hawkeye just hoped that it was something involving the Wrecking Crew; he had been itching for a rematch ever since the incident with the new Captain Britain.

'Sorry to keep you waiting, Clint.' Cap said as he sat down opposite the archer. 'I just needed to see to a few things.'

'No worries, Cap.' Hawkeye shrugged. 'It's cool that you chose to call me in here, just as long as it isn't about Jen's underwear. I still ain't got no idea how they got under my pillow!'

Cap just chuckled to himself.

'I called you here for something completely different.' Cap said. 'Tony and I were talking and we want you to reform the West Coast Avengers.'

Hawkeye blinked a few times as he thought Cap's words over.

'Riiiight… You been sniffing your shield polish again?'

'No really, we want you to reform the West Coast Avengers. Tony and I have already assembled a team, all they need now is a worthy leader.'

'Nobody's ever called me worthy before.' Hawkeye said. 'You got yourself a deal! Now, who we got on this team? Not a loada second-stringers, right?'

Cap cleared his throat nervously and pushed a button that revealed the rest of Hawkeye's team.

'Gee, nice to know a gal's wanted.' Greer Grant, aka Tigra sniffed.

'Don't pay him any attention, Tigra.' Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver replied. 'He's as ignorant as the first day we met.'

'Pleasure to meet you too, Pie.' Hawkeye muttered.

'Have these guys always been like this?' Vance Astrovik, aka Justice asked.

'I don't know why you're asking me, sweetie.' Angelica Jones, aka Firestar replied. 'It's not like I was there.'

'I think Quicksilver was being over-protective of his sister, the Scarlet Witch.' Melissa Gold, aka Songbird added.

'Man, you really did your homework, huh?' Vance snickered.

'Meh, you gotta learn your stuff if you're going to be an Avenger.' Melissa replied.

'So, when we gonna see this new HQ of ours?' Tigra asked, fidgeting a little. 'I'm itching for a good fight against Hydra, A.I.M. or some kinda loser team like them.'

'Didn't you used to be a cop?' Hawkeye asked.

'I quit.' Tigra replied with a shrug. 'Being an Avenger's waaay more fun anyway.'

'Well, it looks like to did a top-notch job, Cap.' Hawkeye said. 'I guess it's off to our new HQ.'

'Just one moment, Clint.' Cap replied. 'You still need to recruit two more members.'

'Aww nuts, I knew there was a catch.' Hawkeye groaned. 'Okay, how do have to get?'

'A young Canadian mutant called Mayhem and Namorita.' Cap replied.

'I hope Subby knows that we're recruiting his cousin.' Hawkeye replied. 'He ain't gonna be pleased. Then again, since when is he ever pleased about anything?'

'Less talking, more recruiting.' Tigra replied as she ushered Hawkeye out of the room. 'Avengers assemble and all that.'

Later-

The Avengers were now in the Quinjet flying across to their new headquarters. Their destination had already been programmed into the Quinjet's computer. Much to Hawkeye's surprise, the new headquarters for the West Coast Avengers was in Malibu, California! As far as he was concerned that only meant one thing, scantily clad chicks!

'I don't know why I'm even in this jet.' Pietro groused. 'I could run to Malibu and back a hundred time in the time it would take us to get there in this thing.'

'Hey chill out, Pie!' Tigra said as she leant over her seat and patted the grey-haired mutant on the shoulder. 'Cap gave us our orders.'

'I'm glad that somebody's exuberance hasn't dissipated.' Pietro sniffed.

'Yup, the same old Tigra.' The weretiger replied. 'Only without the non-stop flirting. Which makes me different to the old me…'

Pietro ignored Tigra's babbling and continued to stare out the window, wishing he was anywhere but here.

Melissa meanwhile, was getting to know her new teammates, well Vance and Angelica.

'I hope you don't think that I'm prying but, weren't you guys undercover with the Triune Understanding?'

'Man, is everything covered in our Avengers files?' Vance thought out loud.

Angelica just ignored her fiancé's comments.

'Well, the Triunes pretty much fell apart after Tremont disappeared during the Kang thing so we weren't really needed there.'

'Good job too.' Vance added. 'Those guys gave me the creeps, they were all cult-y and… urgh!'

'Oh yeah, real eloquent Vance.' Angelica snickered. 'Honestly Melissa, there's really no need to buff up on our back stories, I'm sure that Vance'll be perfectly happy to tell you what's what, seeing that he used to be such a fanboy when we first joined the Avengers.'

'Excuse me, sweetie!' Vance said with a hurt expression. 'Who had an integral part in defeating Ultron that time? Who found the stockpile of Antarctic Vibranium?'

'It was you dear.' Angelica sighed. 'Here's a tip, don't ever mention the Ultron thing when he's around, he never stops going on about it.'

'I'll keep that in mind.' Melissa replied.

Malibu, California-

The Quinjet had landedand the team stood outside their new headquarters. To the casual observer, the building looked just like any normal Malibu beach house, but slightly bigger. It was situated on a cliff overlooking the sea. There was a space to park the Quinjet too.

'This is our new HQ?' Tigra asked, pretty disappointed. 'It's just a damn beach house!'

'Oh ye of little faith.' Hawkeye replied as he walked up to the door and placed his hand on the palm reader. The doors swished open in front of him and he walked inside. 'C'mon the guys, you coming in or what?'

Tigra and the others followed him through and gazed at the décor. It was quite impressive, the walls were blinding white and had pictures dotted around. Some of them were even of the old West Coast Avengers.

'Man, I can't believe I used to wear that tiny bikini.' Tigra said as she saw a picture of herself making bunny ears behind the Thing's head.

'You still wear that tiny bikini.' Vance replied. 'You're wearing it right now.'

'Must you embarrass me so?' Tigra sniffed as she followed Hawkeye to a nearby elevator and walked inside.

The elevator was made of the same blinding white material as the walls of the outside corridor.

'Perhaps I should've brought my sunglasses.' Angelica said as she squinted a bit.

Hawkeye then pressed a button and the elevator door closed and the started to move downwards.

'This place isn't just a beach house, y'know.' Hawkeye said as he looked at his team-mate's expressions.

'Don't tell em we got our own Danger Room down here.' Tigra said.

'Cap prefers to call it the Play Room.' Hawkeye replied. 'And we've got a meeting room down here, as well as a heated swimming pool, a gym and an armoury. Not forgetting the extra parking spaces.'

'Whoa, Stark really knows how to outfit a place.' Vance said as he whistled in appreciation.

Hawkeye then went on to give them a quick tour.

Later-

After the tour, the team retired back to the lounge. The room had quite a view, the room was overlooking the edge of the cliff and through the huge set of patio doors they could see the row of steps that lead down to the private beach at the bottom. One of the main features of the room was a colossal plasma screen suspended from the ceiling. Surrounding the TV were several large black leather sofas.

'Forget the East Coast Avengers.' Tigra said as she flopped down onto one of the sofas. 'The mansion's nothing compared to this place.'

'Tell me about it.' Melissa replied. 'Even when we didn't even have it this good when the Thunderbolts were staying in Four Freedom's Plaza.'

'The New Warriors HQ was pretty cool.' Vance added. 'We had a microwave and everything.'

'Nice to see you've set your priorities right, sweetie.' Angelica snickered.

'Where's Pie, anyway?' Tigra asked. 'Isn't he gonna toast our new digs?'

'He's' brooding in his quarters.' Hawkeye replied. 'Pie's never been one for social gatherings.'

'Oh well, his loss.' Tigra shrugged as she held her beer bottle aloft. 'Here's to the New West Coast Avengers!'

The others raised their glasses in reply.

'Avengers Assemble!' They all cheered.

TBC…

Next: Recruitment Drive

The New West Coast Avengers travel to Toronto to recruit their last two members. Unfortunately, they bump into the Hulk. Talk about a baptism of fire, huh?