fandomhigh | Supervillainy and You! Friday, Period 1

"Well, you've learned how to be at least a moderately successful supervillain these past few weeks. Congratulations," Fred said. "But here's a little something that you have to consider. What if a situation was presented where you could be a superhero? As I've mentioned, it happened to me a couple times. First time sucked. Second time, I was a Thunderbolt. Still have the logo and everything." And he did. It was the belt buckle on his costume, even though he didn't really even have a belt.

"I was in jail. The Thunderbolts were a program looking to reform supervillains by letting them be superheroes. One group based out of a supervillain prison called The Raft was working out pretty well, so they put together a B-team. I figured I'd get in some good behavior and volunteered, passed a few tests and a psych check, and boom. Card carrying superhero. I helped stop a prison break from the Raft, fought some modern Nazis, went back in time and fought original Nazis, ended up in the future and fought future dystopian Nazis, and ended up back in the present to help stop that dystopia from ever happening. It was a pretty good time."

"And guess what. Today, you're officially Thunderbolts, too." Fred held out circular badges with a little lightning bolt on it. He had no authority to do this, but if it ever somehow got back to Luke Cage, it would annoy the crap out of him. That was enough. "Look deep inside your hearts and somehow find the strength to rescue a baby from that burning building."

Suddenly the Danger Shop program changed. There was a burning building right over there and a baby was crying. Get to work!

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Like a big damn hero.

Isabela

Peridot

Yes, Boomerang is talking about that time he saved the world yet again. BUT WHOAH BURNING BUILDING.

Go save the baby, Thunderbolts! The fire is throughout the two-story building, but you can follow the baby's cries to a bedroom on the second floor once you break down the front door or gain access in some other way. If you move quickly, you can get back down the stairs. If not, the stairs will collapse and you'll have to make it out a window on the second floor. There's a tree with sturdy-looking branches within jumping distance if you want to give that a shot.

Peridot didn't much care one way or another about the baby, no. Organic life still seemed kind of icky to her. But she was holding her arm up and spinning her fingers around helicopter style so that she could get up to a second floor window for a better look inside. Mostly out of curiosity.

"The larval human isn't on fire yet," she reported. That was helpful, right?

Who is essentially the leader of a new team of T'bolts.

Thunderbolts Team Power Rankings.

1. Original team posing as heroes led by Zemo / becoming heroes defying Zemo.
2. Hawkeye-led team looking for redemption as written by Busiek.
3. Dark Reign team that served as Norman Osborn's black ops hit team, filled with glorious second stringers.
4. The whole Jeff Parker era team in the Heroic Age, including the Timebolts.
5. The Warren Ellis A-list villain team.
6. Thunderbolt Ross's anti-hero team.
7. The Fabe written team from the original volume, including the split between Hawkeye on Earth and Zemo on Counter-Earth.
8. New Thunderbolts (including the Thunderbolts Army).
9. Fightbolts.

I'm not ranking the current Bucky-led team, but I'm liking it so far. Hate the art. Love the story.

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