The Amazing Avengers Issue 14

“Of Gods and Monsters” is the 14th 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
 * Silver Owl / Marina Morbius (first appearance; joins Avengers Academy)

Supporting Characters

 * Avengers Academy
 * Ms. Marvel / Kamala Khan
 * American Son / Gabriel Stacy
 * 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
 * Marla Maddison
 * Queen Tigress / Ava Ayala
 * Michael Morbius (first appearance)
 * Olympians
 * Athena (first appearance)
 * Hercules (first appearance)

Villains

 * Lernaean Hydra (single appearance; dies)
 * Hydra (defunct)
 * Arnim Zola (dies)
 * Viper / Madame Hydra (dies)
 * Attuma (first appearance; joins and leaves)
 * Living Brain / Luxias Crown (first appearance) (flashback and main story)
 * Crimson Spider / Flash Thompson (flashback only)

Other Characters

 * Ben Parker-Watson
 * Phillip Parker-Watson
 * May Parker-Watson
 * Anna Parker-Watson
 * Felicity Parker-Altman
 * Luke Parker-Watson
 * Lyla Parker-Watson
 * Richard Parker-Quill

Premise
As S.H.I.E.L.D. armies grow closer to the final destruction of Hydra, Arnim Zola and Madame Hydra attempt to reestablish order by awakening the ancient Lernaean Hydra, leading Olympian champion Hercules, who is unable to handle this situation alone, to reluctantly enlist the Avengers' assistance. Meanwhile, the Avengers Academy trainees befriend young demigoddess Marina Morbius the Silver Owl, who is out to stop a new threat which was unwillingly unleashed by Crimson Spider.

Plot
A squadron of S.H.I.E.L.D. Airfighters was sent to assault and destroy a super weapon of Hydra which is threatening to destroy Greece. All the sudden, a mysterious amazonian girl with unknown metahuman abilities arrives in the battle and obliterates the weapon as the S.H.I.E.L.D. pilots capture and imprison the survivors of the explosion. As Tony Stark is pleased to know that Hydra is meeting its final demise, Viper and Arnim Zola decide to make plans for the 'Ultimatum'.

Peter Parker, Mary Jane and their family are spending their summer holidays in Greece, where they are having fieldtrips around the city of Athens and enjoying beaches like the Petani Beach in Kefalonia. Their moments of peace are short-lived when a horde of monsters led by the Chimera attack Athens, forcing the Avengers to take action. Just as they defeat all monsters, the heroes watch as the Chimera is defeated and killed by Olympus' demigod champion Hercules, who had been hunting the Chimera for months ago. As Hercules decides to celebrate his victory with a party in Athens, on which he invites the Avengers to come along. The heroes speechlessly accept, although Captain America is certain that the real threat in Greece has not been dealt with yet. Elsewhere, Viper and Zola are raiding Hades' forbidden chamber to find the key for their ultimate weapon. Just as they claim their prize, however, they end up awakening something else... something beyond their control, which kills the two.

Meanwhile, the Avengers Academy students are enjoying their summer holidays in the beach of Coney Island, New York. There, Gwen Stacy and Kamala Khan encounter and befriend Marina Morbius, a young girl who had moved with her father Michael to New York from Athens, Creece. Just then, the beach is invaded by barbarian Atlanteans led by Attuma. Just as the young heroes suit up to battle the villain, they are soon joined in by Marina, who unexpectedly reveals her metahuman nature as the Silver Owl, an amazonian demigoddess from Mount Olympus and daughter of the Wisdom goddess Athena. The young heroes defeat Attuma as Silver Owl decides to turn him over to the sea god Poseidon. Silver Owl also reveals that she is in New York to stop her father's former colleague Luxias Crown, a engineer who was once considered a mad scientist in New York nine years ago until he was presumably killed by Crimson Spider. Flashback reveals, however, that Crown (who had clashed with his lattest invention: a brain-draining machine) had been turned into a super-android nicknamed the "Living Brain". The young heroes chase Crown, who overhears of Hydra's lattest schemes happening at Greece.

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