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"Jane!" shouted Maddie "Jane, where are you?"

Jane appeared round the corner and ran up to Maddie "What's up?" asked Jane, noting Maddie's terrified expression "What's wrong?"

"There's a group of bad people chasing me," she said "I need to disappear, is there any way you can help me?"

"Being unnoticed is our speciality," said Jane "Come on."

Maddie followed Jane off the streets and towards a small forest on the edge of town.

"When many of us were made homeless," said Jane, as she led Maddie through the trees "We were forced into shelters, but the shelters could not feed us all, so those of us that were strong left the shelters and set up a camp in the forest, hunting for our food."

"So, you're like a modern day Robin Hood?" asked Maddie, not quite understanding.

"I wish everyone saw it the way you do," said Jane "But ever since one of our own was attacked in the forest, and we dealt with the perpetrators, there's been mistrust from the people in the camp of outsiders and the outsiders' mistrust of us."

"Having a mutate or mutant or whatever they call us these days with you will only make your lives harder," said Maddie "Maybe I shouldn't have come."

"Another thing you should know about us," said Jane "We're all outcasts, you will not get prosecuted here, no matter how much they might distrust you at first."

"Thanks, Jane," said Maddie, as the pair of them entered the forest.

Jane lead Maddie in a complex zig zag through the trees until Maddie had lost all bearings of where she was. Eventually, they reached the camp.

Avengers Mansion

Tony Stark stood in the basement control room, just as one of the computers started up.

"Avengers Assemble," said Tony

The rest of the Avengers came into the control room.

"Reaper's been spotted at a local school in Florida," said Tony "No AIM presence in the area as far as I can see, but I might be wrong, if I'm not, we need to bring Reaper in."

"I've been monitoring that area for a while," said Hank Pym "There's been a lot of superhuman activity there lately, perhaps AIM is involved."

"We won't know until we get there," said Tony "Wasp, get the Quinjet started up, the rest of you, suit up and get ready to go."

The Avengers suited up, grabbing their weapons and entering the Quinjet.

The Quinjet took off, heading for Florida.

Florida (Maddie's school)

As the Quinjet touched down, Reaper was waiting for them, his blade at his side.

The Avengers all ran out of the jet, ready for battle. Reaper stood there, not even lifting his blade. "Maddie is gone, Avengers," said Reaper "You will never find her now, soon, AIM will have a weapon even more powerful than all of you combined."

Without warning, Reaper charged, his blade up. Iron Man sidestepped him and hit him on the back of the head, knocking him to the ground where Hulk pounded him, knocking him out and probably breaking a few of his bones in the process.

"He was a distraction," said Captain America "We need to search the area for this Maddie he spoke of, we'll need to split up, Wasp, Ant Man, you two split up and search the forest, Iron Man, check her house, find out the last time anyone saw her, Panther, Hulk, search the general area, when Iron Man finds out places she frequents, check there, I'll go check with the school, see if they can give me any leads to her whereabouts, Thor, you're aerial support, you see anything that might indicate an AIM presence here, you tell us, Black Widow, Hawkeye, go around the area and see what you can find out that'll help us."

The Avengers split up to search the area for Maddie, but none of them realised that there was someone else watching all of them from afar, laughing as they moved about looking for Maddie. The battle had not even begun, and the Avengers had already lost.