The Amazing Avengers Issue 13

“Titans Intertwined” is the 13th issue and chapter of The Amazing Avengers.

Featured Characters

 * Avengers
 * Captain America / Peter Parker
 * Redwing
 * Captain Marvel / Mary Jane Watson
 * Jocasta
 * Black Panther / Felicia Parker-Reilly
 * Black Widow / Teresa Parker
 * Winter Soldier / Jack Parker
 * Mecha-Hulk / Amadeus Cho
 * Quasar / Gayle Watson / Phyla-Vell Neramani
 * Hulkling / Theodore "Teddy" Altman / Dorrek VIII
 * Star-Lord / Kevin Quill
 * Groot
 * Mantis
 * Queen Tigress / Ava Ayala (first appearance as Queen Tigress; joins S.H.I.E.L.D.)

Supporting Characters

 * Avengers Academy
 * Ms. Marvel / Kamala Khan
 * American Son / Gabriel Stacy (first appearance; joins team)
 * Spider-Boy / Miles Morales
 * Spider-Girl / Gwen Stacy
 * Inferno / Dante Pertuz
 * Sandboy / Finn Marko
 * Wasp / Cassie Lang-Van Dyne
 * Reptil / Humberto Lopez
 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Tony Stark
 * Maria Hill
 * Henry "Hank" Pym
 * Commissioner George Stacy
 * Jefferson Davis
 * Dora Skirth
 * MAC / America Chavez

Villains

 * A.I.M.
 * M.O.D.O.K. (single appearance; death)
 * Scientist Supreme / Andrew Forson (first appearance)
 * Ulysses Klaw (first appearance)
 * Kraven the Hunter (first appearance)
 * Crimson Spider / Flash Thompson (flashback and main story)
 * Electro / Max "Soulpower" Dillon (first appearance) (flashback and main story)
 * Ronan the Accuser (flashback and main story)

Other Characters

 * Sally Stark
 * Liz Allan
 * Julie Allan-Stark
 * Katie Allan-Stark

Premise
During a battle against Crimson Spider and the new villain Electro, Mecha-Hulk spends more time with his girlfriend Ava Ayala, who was turned into a hulking humanoid tigress calling herself Queen Tigress. As she helps Mecha-Hulk and the Avengers stop an animal smuggling led by Ulysses Klaw and Kraven the Hunter in Wakanda, Ava progressively shares more of Amadeus' experience as Mecha-Hulk and comes to the acceptance that she is not truly far away from her human self.

Plot
Ava Ayala is spying on the work of Ulysses Klaw, a ruthless smuggler who spent years searching for Vibranium mines in Wakanda. Klaw is currently overseeing the work of A.I.M. agents, who are creating a new Super Soldier formula composed of Gamma Radiation energy and tiger DNA. Just as she is about to report to the Avengers about it, the A.I.M. agents are caught up in a fight between Crimson Spider and Max Dillon (a formerly popular Heavy Metal rock star also known as "Soulpower" who was turned into a powerful, electrical creature while performing near a power line during a fight between Crimson Spider and Ronan the Accuser, electrocuting him and causing him to fall into a tank full of genetically-engineered electric eels, then taking the alias of "Electro"). The chaotic fight between the two causes great havoc in the facility and the experiments' chemical gas to spread around. Ayala is consequently exposed to the gas before Amadeus Cho / Mecha Hulk arrives to neutralize Crimson Spider and Electro retrieve Ayala. The A.I.M. agents are also subdued, though Klaw escapes.

Cho takes Ayala to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, where Ayala is given check-up while the Avengers continuously assure Cho and Black Panther that she will be fine. Suddenly, the Headquarters is broken through by A.I.M. agents led by Scientist Supreme and super android M.O.D.O.K. (Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing). The Avengers fight back against the invaders before Ayala's Gamma mutation manifests on her and transforms her into a ferocious humanoid tigress with the same strength and size as Mecha Hulk, but still regaining her human mind and consciousness. M.O.D.O.K. attempts to alter Ayala's mind to render her berserk, but Ayala (immune to his mind control powers) fights back and decimates M.O.D.O.K., forcing the other A.I.M. agents (against Scientist Supreme's orders) to surrender. As Captain America and Captain Marvel discuss with Director Stark about Scientist Supreme's plans, Mecha Hulk makes comfort compliments with Ayala over how frightened she is of her transformation. As the two go for a walk in New York, the citizens (including Sally Stark and Liz Allan) begin to admire Ayala without fear or hatred of her new appearance. On her way around, she also discovers some more superhuman attributes within her, including Hypnosis and communication with tigers of all kinds. Inspired by the Avengers' heroism, Ayala dubs herself the Queen Tigress and goes for a crime-fighting spree of her own.

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