Hello again, True Believers! I know you weren't expecting anything yet, but nevertheless the announcement of "chapter 24" in your emails will have excited you. Taste the bitter disappointment, as I bring you not a chapter, but an introduction to the characters in it. It's time you met the Secret Avengers!
When the real chapter 24 is ready, I'll take this down and add it to the bottom of it. I just thought you regular readers may like a sneak peek.
Top Secret Avengers File: The Secret Avengers
Formed and led by Toby Stark – the Golden Avenger, the Invincible Iron Man – the Secret Avengers are a clandestine team formed when the majority of the New Avengers were turned evil. Hastily thrown together to fight a battle even the futurist Stark family couldn't imagine, these Avengers are made up mostly of the sons and daughters of X-Men... and Deadpool.
The following information is taken directly from the database of Toby Stark.
Members
Iron Man
Alias: Toby Stark
Power Set: Suit of bulletproof, flying, highly-weaponised nanobot armour with stealth capability
Additional Notes: Leader of the original team, extremely skilful in every way known to man, and a hit with the ladies
Hotshot
Alias: Nathan Fury
Power Set: Superhuman senses, instincts, strength, mental processing. Limited telepathy, can anger enemies and control two specific pistols with his mind. Owns two pistols with specialised bullets: ice, smoke grenades and explosive.
Notes: Powers gifted as a result of genetic experimentation. Past experience shows this to be unreliable. Has difficulty trusting fellow teammates. Otherwise shows great promise. Extremely skilled, but still needs to learn to use his abilities to full effect.
Recruitment Prospects: Very likely.
X-23
Alias: Laura Kinney
Power Set: Regenerative healing factor, adamantium skeleton, two retractable claws on each fist, one retractable claw on each foot.
Notes: Cloned from the Wolverine and trained alongside Hotshot from the age of eleven. Stubborn to a fault, but an excellent and extremely durable fighter. Doesn't play well with others, but what else is new with this line-up? Bloodthirstiness could prove a problem.
Recruitment Prospects: Only in an emergency
Deadpool
Alias: Eleanor Wilson
Power Set: Regenerative healing factor, teleport device her father stole from Cable.
Notes: Ugh. What is there to say about Deadpool? She's insane, volatile, and murderous – all traits passed down from her father with her abilities. Whatever poor sap helped Wade Wilson bring this creature unto the world is believed to have killed herself – I wonder why? Also seems convinced that we all exist as characters in a "shitty fanfic" and are the products of one boy's strange, lonely mind. Cites "You're all American, yet pronounce colour with a U" as evidence.
Recruitment Prospects: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Moon Knight
Alias: Matt Spector
Power Set: No powers, but is an excellent martial artist and carries a variety of gadgets.
Notes: Why do we keep finding the crazies? Claims that when his father died, an Egyptian God named Khonshu came to him and made him his 'aspect'. Whatever. Guy's a hell of a fighter. Reminds me of this Batman guy I read about in a comic book once.
Recruitment Prospects: Likely
Well, what do you think? This is all I've done toward the next chapter so far, so if you can get in any suggestions for more characters you'd like to see before the end of tomorrow, I may just be able to write them in.
See you next time, true believers!
