YJA Campaign Phase Two - A Synopsis

The world is without its greatest heroes, killed in the aftermath of the Watchtower incident. As the world comes to grips with this solemn fact, The Avengers are forced to come up with a plan in order to handle this emergency.

Team Gamma immediately was forced to become Team Alpha. This group was composed of Kentauride, Mary the new Captain Marvel, Melinoe, and Loki the god of mischief and thunder.

The new Team Gamma was composed of Queen Shuri the new Black Panther, Ghost-Spider, Patriot, Squirrel-Girl, and Ironheart. They were recruited from various groups in Hammond High.

Cable, Deadpool, and Domino were released from custody to become the new Team Omega.

Melinoe started a social group in the magical community known as the Order of the Beer-Tree. Members included John Constantine, Odin, the Wizard Shazam, Stephen Strange, Swamp Thing, Wolverine, and Wong. This group became an unofficial Avengers magical group.

She-Hulk and Mercury left the Avengers to work to protect Europe along with former rogues Captain Cold, Golden Glider, and Pied Piper.

Secretary-General of the United Nations Lex Luthor spared little time in replacing the Justice League. He announced the creation of Stormwatch, a worldwide network of heroes that will protect the planet. Their most powerful membership formed the Squadron Supreme.

Some highlighted adventures:

• The group rescued a young group of metahumans from containment from Trask Industries. One of those members, Panacea, turned out to be a shapeshifted Unicorn. Panacea was then hunted by Sergei Kravinoff hired by John Constantine. John needed the horn to cure a case of magically resistant lung cancer.

• They discovered that Stormwatch was behind the attack on the Watchtower, reversing an antimatter warhead from the remains of Brainiac's Headship. In their escape, they encountered Hyperion and Nighthawk, who revealed there are part of the Squadron Supreme under duress.
  
• Helping the magical anthropomorphic tiger Tawny, Team Alpha helped recover the stolen Chronicle of Hidden Paths from the ninjas of The Hand. The Chronicle would reveal to Kentauride the existence of an untouched hidden land known as Outland, and showed Captain Marvel that Billy Batson might be alive.
   
• The group traveled to Monster Island and discovered that the Rip Hunter had been behind the scenes for many plots. Blaming himself for the current problems, he systematically eliminated all sources of time travel technology, using the last of it to send a dimensional shifting device to teleport the League Watchtower out of harm’s way.

The end of Phase Two was a pivotal moment:

Using technology provided by Rip Hunter, Team Alpha was able to travel to a dimensional fragment where Hunter had sent the League Watchtower. There they found the Avengers, Justice League, and other individuals believed to have been killed.

Threatened by the magical might of Thulsa Doom, Team Alpha had to assault his Temple of Set. Destroying the Altar within, they were able to distract the sorcerer-king long enough to allow the survivors to reach the portal and make it back to Earth-Prime.

When the arrived in the main timeline they were met with dozens of golden-clad soldiers bearing the mark of Checkmate. Henry Peter Gyrich had convinced the President of the United States to revoke the authority of the Office of National Emergency and allow Checkmate to absorb it.

Using the threat of extradimensional contamination, the survivors are held in quarantine until further notice. Nightcrawler has been able to teleport Team Alpha out of the Baxter Building and to a secure location, but without a clear path on what to do.

With Lex Luthor in charge of United Nations law enforcement and Henry Gyrich in power in the United States, the free members of the Avengers once again are the world’s only heroes

Thus begins Phase Three: Dark Reign.