WHO ARE THE YOUNG AVENGERS?

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Teen Heroes Draw Praise and Criticism
By Daily Bugle reporter Kat Farrell
New York    Over the past several weeks, New Yorkers have reported seeing a team of teenaged vigilantes, with costumes reminiscent of various Avengers.  But their resemblance to Avengers do not seem limited to their costumes, but also extend to their powers.  From the armored

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[billy_be_a_hero]

Streamers? Check.

Stereo? Check.

Lights and a disco ball? Check.

Punch, not spiked? Check.

A gigantic magic'd banner praising the "Young Avengers?" Check.

The front page of the Daily Bugle magically blown up and pasted on a wall? Check.

This will be the greatest teen-superhero party in the history of teen-superhero parties.

Bring your own costume.

[tommyshepherd]

Young Avengers Warehouse?

Is that what they're gonna call this place?

Coz, wow. Lame.

Tommy runs a hand through his silky white-blonde hair before throwing open the doors and walking in.

He sort of hopes that Kate Bishop's gonna be there.

[billy_be_a_hero]

Billy just stops in his tracks for a minute.

It's not that he doesn't like Tommy. For a potential criminal, he's pretty cool.

It's just that he's like a mirror with highlights. White-blondish-highlights.

It doesn't last too long, though, before he's all smiles and celebrations again.

"Speed! You made it! Awesome!"

[tommyshepherd]

Tommy comes to a screeching halt at the sound of his codename.

For a split second, he thought Billy meant the drug. Not that Tommy did drugs, but yeah. He'd had some friends who dabbled in it for awhile.

He looks Billy up and down. It's eerie. The guy could be a mirror image of Tommy's. You know, with darker hair and a better haircut?

"Hey," Tommy says, nodding at Billy. "I like what you've done with the place. It's very Studio 54 meets Mile High Comics." He's only a little sarcastic.

[billy_be_a_hero]

"Don't worry, I like what I've done with the place too."

Someone once told Billy that he had two facial expressions: bitchy grin and emo as Hell. Totally going for that grin right about now.

Or maybe it's a smirk.

Smirking sounds a little bit better, even if a tad more pretentious.

[tommyshepherd]

Tommy catches that grin. It's eerily familiar. It's very much like the smug, know-it-all smirk he shoots off to...everyone.

"And the warlock can stand up for himself," Tommy said, shooting that very grin back. "There's a surprise."

[billy_be_a_hero]

"At the risk of sounding like a total queen, have you tried dying your hair with something that's NOT Clorox?"

He's entirely joking, of course.

Mostly.

About halfway-there, maybe.

It is a /really/ bad bleach job, though.

[tommyshepherd]

The disco ball above their heads vaporizes. Tommy stares daggers at Billy for a moment. "Dude. Don't. Insult. The. Hair." He looks Billy up and down again and says, "Henh. You're a bitch. I like that."

[billy_be_a_hero]

"Only for the right guy. Sadly for you, he should be here shortly.

"You'll like him. Both got a thing for green, I see."

Billy smirks again, before his hands let off a blue light. It isn't long before the disco ball has re-constructed itself and been hung back up.

"You're a prick. I think we'll get along fine."

[tommyshepherd]

"Okay, so, TMI. Let's have a truce, yeah? You don't tell me about your bedroom fun, and...well, you'll get to hear about mine anyway." He smirks again. He can't help it. There's something about Billy that makes Tommy just want to poke his ribs and bug him all day.

"Oh, we definitely will. Just, FYI - the hair color? It's natural." Yeah, that's still bugging him.

[billy_be_a_hero]

"And the warlock? He does enough standing up for everybody."

Billy smiles, before extending a hand out to Tommy.

"Truce it is. Just be warned that bedroom fun or no, you and the rest of the team are going to see, hear, and just generally experience gushing. It won't be pretty."

[tommyshepherd]

Tommy takes the hand and shakes it, laughing. "I could care less. PDA's are awesomely cool by me." A somewhat naughty grin crosses his face. "Especially coz I have my eye on somewhere here too."

[billy_be_a_hero]

"You'll have to fight with Eli over that one. Unless you're talking about Cassie. In which case, dude, fourteen. Also seems to have a thing for Ka--Iron Lad.

"Unless you're talking about Eli or Iron Lad. In which case you'll have to fight Kate or Cassie.

"God, but we're a sordid bunch of people."

[tommyshepherd]

"Nah, it's not Cassie," Tommy grins. A tad too overconfident, he says, "It's Kate. And I'm not worried, fruitfly. Eli's got nothing on me. Trust me."

Yeah, they're sordid. But Tommy kind of likes that. Better than all the prudes he's lived among.

[kate_bishop]

She doesn't do entrances. That'd be the rest of her family. But her pride does walk throug the door with her, hiding somewhere in that smirk on her face.

[billy_be_a_hero]

"Awesome, you made it!"

Billy grins at Tommy for a minute before walking over to pull Kate further in.

"What do you think?"