Marvel: All New, All Different Chronicles/The Need for Speed

The Need for Speed is the 12th episode of the Avengers' arc in Marvel: All New, All Different Chronicles.

Featured Characters

 * Avengers
 * Black Widow / Natasha Romanoff
 * Iron Man / Tony Stark
 * Captain America / Steve Rogers
 * Captain Marvel / Carol Danvers
 * Phantom Tiger / Aamir
 * Redhawk / Kate Bishop
 * Maverick
 * Crystal
 * Lockjaw
 * Ant-Man / Scott Lang
 * Wasp / Hope Van Dyne
 * Ronin / Clint Barton
 * Thor
 * Hulk / Bruce Banner
 * Speed / Jack Thompson (first appearance; joins the New Champions)

Supporting Characters

 * New Champions
 * Lightyear / Cameron Potts Stark
 * Stature / Cassie Lang
 * Falcon / Sam Wilson
 * Star-Lord / Nathan Quill
 * White Wolf / Marcus Thompson
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy
 * Quicksilver / Pietro Maximoff (first appearance)
 * Spitfire / Jacqueline Falsworth (first appearance)

Antagonists

 * Shadow Council
 * Doctor Octopus / Otto Octavius
 * Madame Masque / Whitney Frost (mentioned only)
 * Doctor Doom / Victor Von Doom
 * Tinkerer / Phineas Mason (single appearance; dies)
 * Cyber-Goblin / Eugene "Flash" Thompson
 * Mecha-Torch / Hector "Hercules" Quill
 * Sheath (first appearance; no dialogue)

Other Characters

 * Bonnie Quill
 * Peter Parker (illusion or vision only)
 * Norman Osborn (mentioned only)
 * J. Jonah Jameson (illusion or vision only)

Plot
After a fight against Inhuman criminal Sheath, Kate Bishop / Redhawk and Crystal are enduring an ordinary day of studies at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, where they are having training with speedsters Jacqueline Falsworth / Spitfire and Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver. During which, Jacqueline receives a call from her cousin Marcus Thompson / White Wolf, who alerts her that his younger brother Jack is missing. Elsewhere, Jack is shown with an unknown Super Soldier serum having been inserted on his arm, as his new-found speed powers are manifesting.

Picking up Jack's trail, Redhawk, Quicksilver, Spitfire and White Wolf encounter the Super Soldier serum dart Jack was infused with, which is revealed to be from Oscorp. Quicksilver soon remembers that he was at Oscorp before and had a piece of his blood sample extracted by Phineas Mason, a Oscorp scientist who was fired for stealing equipment for unknown benefactors some time ago. At the same time, Tony Stark / Iron Man and Steve Rogers / Captain America are investigating details about the Oscorp employees who are conspiring against Norman Osborn for Hydra following the Jackal's unmasking. They are soon informed by a S.H.I.EL.D. spy that Mason (having gone under the alias of the "Tinkerer") is working for Doctor Doom, who (still in possession of Oscorp's scientific resources ) plans to create a new army of Super Soldiers for Latveria's home guard, which he started by kidnapping former Midtown High jocks Flash Thompson and Nathan Quill's brother Hector "Hercules" and turning them into his first subjects. They also overhear that Doom also seeks to brainwash the "metahuman speedster with Mason's formula", prompting the Avengers (followed by Cameron Potts Stark / Lightyear and Sam Wilson / Falcon) to confront Doom in his mansion, and Spitfire and White Wolf to act quickly and find Jack as fast as they can, even though they are advised that Doctor Octopus is also planning the same on Madame Masque's behalf.

Joined in the search by Star-Lord, Redhawk, Spitfire and White Wolf manage to seek and find Jack, who has managed to control his speed abilities and (wanting to be a hero like Marcus and the rest of the Champions) adopted the identity of Speed. While concerned over Jack's safety, Marcus and Jacqueline agree to let him undergo heroics (as long as he is still under heroes' care), and Kate gives Jack an upgrade: a nanosuit projector which adapts to Jack's speed powers. The three monitor Jack, who demonstrates how good he had become at heroics, especially by partnering with Cassie Lang / Stature, who has been his friend for a long time. Tracked down through the serum container, the young heroes are attacked by the brainwashed, roboticized jocks (Flash having been mutated into a goblin-like monster called "Cyber-Goblin", and Hector having been mutated into a Pyrokinetic Super Soldier on the name of "Mecha-Torch"), who were sent by Doom and Tinkerer to take Jack in. The issuing fight attracts Doctor Octopus, who comes by with his Shadow Robots. Displeased with Doctor Octopus' presence (which he views as Madame Masque's declaration of war), Doom has Tinkerer attack both him and the heroes with his prototype Spider-Slayer mech suit. During the Avengers' fight against Doom, Crystal destroys the mind-control collar in his armor to free the jocks from his brainwashing, although the progress causes Flash and Hector to further go berserk and attack both heroes and villains, whom they visually mistake for J. Jonah Jameson.

Redhawk, Star-Lord, Spitfire, and White Wolf hold the two jocks off while Jack and Cassie escort the citizens to safety so they will not be killed. Back in Latveria, Doom is defeated by the Avengers, although he boasts that Flash and Hector cannot be cured of their Super-Soldier conditions and will remain out of control "until a sacrifice is done by their hands". Meanwhile, Tinkerer subdues Doctor Octopus and forces him to retreat, but lets his guard down when Redhawk shoots two arrows at the Spider-Slayer's optics, damaging its targeting system and forcing Tinkerer to dehelmet. The berserk jocks soon spot Tinkerer and (envisioning him as both Jameson and Peter Parker) begin to viciously attack him, inadvertently triggering a self-destruct system in the Spider-Slayer which threatens to destroy the neighborhood. Jack, Spitfire and Quicksilver soon combine their speed and create a whirlwind to focus the impending explosion to the sky, saving the city, although Tinkerer is eventually killed by Flash and Hector. The two get back to their senses, but realize in horror what they committed when citizens express themselves horrified with the monsters they became, and surrender to the authorities. As his alter-ego of Speed is hailed for his heroic efforts, Jack is congratulated for his performance and earns membership in the New Champions, while Nathan and Marcus vow not to be like their estranged brothers and stick with the families they have left, much to Jacqueline's satisfaction. The Avengers watch as Jack and Quicksilver wage a friendly race across the city.

Voice Cast

 * Mick Wingert as Iron Man / Tony Stark
 * Ali Hillis as Redhawk / Kate Bishop
 * Kari Wahlgren as Crystal
 * Roger Craig Smith as Captain America / Steve Rogers, Quicksilver / Pietro Maximoff
 * Jennifer Hale as Captain Marvel / Carol Danvers, Spitfire / Jacqueline Falsworth
 * Tara Strong as Speed / Jack Thompson
 * Katie Leigh as Stature / Cassie Lang, Bonnie Quill
 * Scott Menville as Star-Lord / Nathan Quill
 * Laura Bailey as Black Widow / Natasha Romanoff
 * Eric Bauza as Phantom Tiger / Aamir
 * Josh Keaton as Ant-Man / Scott Lang
 * Colleen Villard aa Wasp / Hope Van Dyne
 * Troy Baker as Ronin / Clint Barton
 * Travis Willingham as Thor
 * George Newbern as Hulk / Bruce Banner
 * Robbie Daymond as Lightyear / Luke Potts Stark
 * Bumper Robinson as Falcon / Sam Wilson
 * C. Thomas Howell as Doctor Octopus / Otto Octavius
 * Maurice LaMarche as Doctor Doom / Victor Von Doom
 * Robin Atkin Downes as Tinkerer / Phineas Mason
 * James Arnold Taylor as Hector "Hercules" Quill
 * Will Friedle as Flash Thompson

Trivia

 * The title is a reference to the lines "I feel the need! The need for speed" from the 1986 film Top Gun, and the video game franchise Need for Speed.