Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- The Grapplers
- Black Widow Ops Program
- Ying Liu (Leaves)
- Unnamed henchmen
Other Characters:
- Mrs. Aggarwal
- The Grappler's boss (Mentioned)
- Priya's friends
- UCWF (Mentioned)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Young Avengers (Mentioned)
- NYPD (Mentioned)
- Giant rat (Mentioned)
- Giant raccoon (Mentioned)
- Alexis Miranda (Mentioned)
- Taina Miranda (Mentioned)
- Shay Smith (Mentioned)
- M.O.D.O.K. (George Tarleton) (Mentioned)
- Henry Pym (Mentioned)
- Jan Van Dyne (Mentioned)
- Mother (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Midtown
- Times Square
- NYC Gift
- Healthy Bar (First appearance)
- Times Square
- Chinatown
- Manhattan Criminal Court
- New York County District Attorney's Office
- Manhattan Criminal Court
- Midtown
- Hudson River
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Boston, Massachusetts (Mentioned)
- Boston Harbor (Mentioned)
- New Jersey
- Cresskill
- Pym Residence
- Cresskill
- New York
- Red Room Academy, Moscow, Russia (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Heavens (Invoked)
- Sun (Mentioned)
Items:
- Wasp's Suit and Bio-Synthetic Wings
- Daredevil's Suit (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Pym Particles
Synopsis for 1st story
As Marian "Poundcakes" Pouncy demands extortion money or else, Priya's schoolmates film the situation on their phones for views while Nadia promises to help Priya's mother. Attempting to defuse the situation, Nadia asks Pouncy about herself and garnering understanding until they find a character connection. Outside, Jarvis returns after buying tea at a nearby shop, his complaints about the price heard by Hellen "Letha" Feliciano outside the shop, whom he starts to recognize. Inside, Pouncy explains the protection racket to Nadia, but Jarvis runs in warning Nadia as Feliciano warns Pouncy, who realizes Nadia is related to the Avengers and grabs hold of her feeling played.
Nadia suits up as the Wasp, but is attacked by Pouncy and bleeds from a busted lip. Angry that she went from peaceful talking to bloody fists, Nadia resorts to subduing both Pouncy and Feliciano with Krav Maga and size shifting her helmet as a weapon. Finished, Nadia asks Jarvis to call NYPD to pick the criminals up while Priya is impressed by Nadia's saving her mom that she accepts her earlier invitation.
Glad to have Priya join G.I.R.L., she further impresses her by shrinking the cell phones of her schoolmates who stood by to record the event for online views. Riding home, Nadia ponders on how she could have pacified Pouncy and Feliciano without violence and Ying's actions. Jarvis gives her his sage wisdom on not being able to save everyone, citing the heroes who were the best at something who went through the worst days of their lives. However, he finds she fell asleep and lets her rest after the day she's had.
The next morning, Nadia wakes up Jarvis to head to their appointment with Matt Murdock, where Nadia learns he is blind like Lady Justice and sees it as a good sign. However, as Nadia was born in secret under the Red Room's control and there is no legal record of her birth, she will proof in a DNA test but Hank's death prevents that. Thankfully, another recourse would be to provide Nadia with asylum should she testify about the Red Room, and that Matt will assure her protection.
Leaving his office, Nadia voices her concerns to Jarvis before racing to a cry for help, really a trap by Ying, who paralyses Nadia with an item. As her old handlers will put her in a special holding cell, Jarvis steps in explaining Nadia's want to rescue Ying, even if it meant returning to the Red Room as Nadia loves human interaction. Brought to tears, Ying frees Nadia who still wants to save Ying after hearing everything. However, Ying brings up how she is on a time table, and if she does not deliver Nadia back in the next 36 hours, a bomb planted into her head will explode to kill her.
Solicit Synopsis
• The Grapplers Attack! It’s Nadia and Jarvis versus Poundcakes and Letha as The Unstoppable Wasp stumbles upon a shakedown in Times Square!
• Meanwhile, Nadia’s recruiting drive for G.I.R.L. continues as she tries to bring aboard an ambitious young biologist. But it may all be for nothing as the Red Room makes a play to take Nadia out of the picture for good!
• Guest-starring totally ordinary lawyer Matt Murdock.