Over the last couple weeks, Maddie had begun to realize how much she missed these people, and missed the idea that someday she might end up getting to be an Avenger. Amazing how before that, she'd wanted nothing more to do with it, and now she was depowered and not sure how anything was going to go anymore ( Read more... )

With the Jeremy situation taken care of, and things in the big battles he'd been denouncing ending, Maddie had gone back with the rest of her classmates to the West Coast Avengers' headquarters, where she had a room that she was currently ignoring in favor of hanging out in Brandon's bathroom while he checked his healing scars out in the mirror.

( and then there was the best football game ever )

Believe it or not, a group of teenage superheres didn't take too well to hearing that they were being forcibly depowered, and had started the fighting with some of Jeremy's lab assistants-turned-superpowered villains. That had ended in part of the lab caving in, trapping Lightspeed, Reptil, White Tiger, Finesse and X-23 down underneath the rubble ( Read more... )

Maddie had been depowered for just over a week now, and she considered the fact that it hadn't somehow backfired or failed to be the best seventeenth birthday present she could ever have. And today was the day she got to show- and maybe share this with- the others.

( it started out fine )