In the midtown high school, Peter, Sam, Luke, and Ava was exiting the classroom and walked in the hallway heading for the principal's office.
Ava spoke, "So is anyone going to talk about how Nick left us in the dark for the past two days?
Luke Answered, "I just figured didn't need us."
Danny agreed, "Indeed, Fury calls upon us, when he needs us most."
Peter interjected, "I don't know why you guys are complaining, these two days have been the best days of my life!"
Everyone stopped and glared at him.
"That's because you always skip training!" Ava shouted.
Peter chuckled nervously and made their way to the office and took their seats. Then Coulson came in, "Big news from Fury, meet him at the briefing room."
They all looked at each other; then agent Coulson pushed a button which sent them to the court. Now in their costumes, Nova said "Big news from the boss huh, coincidence?
"When is it ever? "Peter replied.
Minutes later, on board the helicarrier, the team was in the briefing room along with Director Fury. The group of teenagers took their seats, took off their masks and waited for Nick to begin.
"We have a new a team member joining."
The team was taken entirely by surprise.
Powerman asked, "Who is this newbie?"
Fury displayed a picture of Claus in his costume one with his mask, one without.
Nova groaned "Another cat!? We already have one of those!" Ava growled at Nova. "Relax, Tiger, I was joking."
"Yeah, Nova has a point, somehow, the Cat thing is kind of played out." Spiderman joked.
"Shut it!" Nick fury commanded, the team complied. "His name is Claus Atreus, he comes from a family of thieves and allegedly, his family comes from the Atreus legend."
"What, as in the old Greek myth?" Ava questioned.
The rest of the team looked at her, questioningly.
"Ugh, the Atreus myth was when three Thieves tried to prove themselves to the gods of Olympus, in order to get their blessings. They all died except for one, the first "Basileus of the Atreus Lions." He proved himself by escorting Trojans refugees to Italy. And the Gods gave him and his descendants, the powers of the Lion." White tiger explained annoyed.
"So he is supposed to be a descendant of that guy, huh what a bunch of bogus," Powerman said.
"Yet, beings from other mythologies, like Thor, have been proven to be real. You should keep a more open mind." Iron Fist argued.
"Who cares, what I want to know is what this dude can bring to the table," Nova asked with enthusiasm.
"We're not entirely sure what his powers are, but here is what we do know, he has some form of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, Specifically, in his childhood and early adolescence." Fury explained.
Err, what's that mean" Nova asked dumbfounded.
"It means he ages slower, dunce." White tiger explained. "How old is he, Fury?"
"He said he was forty-six, but he seems to be Seventeen, acts like one too. Anyway we know he is capable of doing mass crimes, he is responsible for 28 Robberies, 13 assaults on pursuing officers, disruption of power grids, and one attempted robbery, which is where we caught him in action."
The entire team was shocked;
Spiderman spoke "Then why isn't he in jail?! He should go to prison for his crimes!"
Powerman agreed, "There is no way I'm working with a criminal!"
"Truly, no one with that amount of crimes can be used for good," Danny said in agreement.
The entire team was in disarray.
"Sit down and SHUT UP!" Fury shouted the team obeyed. "His crimes were not targeted at innocent civilians; he only targets criminal activities and the rest was collateral damage. He brought down two major crime bosses, Viper head of a criminal organization named the serpent society. And Slug head of a crime ring, he singlehandedly disrupted their operations, stole most of their financial resources, then exposed them."
The team looked at each other.
"As I was saying, we caught him at Stark Tech Laboratories, and after some "Persuasion," he agreed to join."
"What kind of Persuasion?" White Tiger asked suspiciously.
Fury ignored the question, "Here is the footage we pulled from the security cameras.
Holograms popped up in front of them, displaying the time when Claus fought ten agents and came out on top. Then the team commented, during the video.
Spiderman commented, "Look at the way dodges the stun lasers, he would need some Serious reflexes to pull that off."
Iron fist joined in "And look how he disarms the agent, he would need a fair amount of knowledge of martial arts to do so."
"He just shot nine agents in A few seconds! I can't even aim that fast!" Nova said with admiration.
"Then, he chokes a fully armored agent with his stun gun; I don't have to tell you he has super strength." Powerman
"Not to mention he can think light on his feet, he only had 4 seconds to think of a plan, during which he was avoiding stun blasts." White Tiger finally commented.
The Hologram ended.
"Don't get me wrong Claus has some skill to be sure, but what else can he do, from what we could tell, he is basically White Tiger, just you know," he then mumbled "just a little better.." White Tiger snarled angrily at Spiderman.
"He also has a medical education so he will be the team medic."
" When can we meet him?" Asked Powerman.
"You were supposed to meet him thirty minutes ago; he is running late. Agent Coulson is picking him up now.