Avengers #13 - "Hit Back II" (2024)

What If #9

March 1978

Sam Wilson, Black Panther and Scarlet Witch are standing on the pile of destroyed Stark Sentinels when they hear a distress call from Impossible City. They figured out that someone is Orchis is smart enough to come up with a dirty trick by sending the Stark Sentinels to attack Impossible City the temporary shelter for mutant refugees, instead of attacking the Avengers. Iron Man gets a distress call from a girl called Yuna Yang who tells him that Impossible City is under the attack. Yuna Yang is the girl who obtained the Nega-Bands which allows her to swap places with Carol Danvers by clanging the bands together like the previous wearers used to do on other Captains Marvels (e.g. Rick Jones used the bands to swap places with Mar-Vell a long time ago) and Yuna is from the recent Alyssa Wong's Captain Marvel series.

Anyways, the other Avengers - Iron Man, Thor, Vision and Scarlet Witch go out to destroy the Stark Sentinels in space. Yuna Yang clangs her Nega-Bands to let Carol take her place so that she could join her teammates. Meanwhile, the other two Avengers - Black Panther and Sam Wilson go to Orchis space station to confront Delroy Garrett Jr, a.k.a. 3-D Man the former Avenger. 3-D Man had joined Orchis because he believed that the Avengers were ungrateful for his actions with the Skrull invasion (actually 3-D Man killed Crusader the good Skrull who helped the heroes and this pissed a lot of heroes off), even claiming they threw him out of the Initiative instead of him actually leaving on his own. Sam Wilson and Black Panther fight 3-D Man until the latter (Black Panther) utters his Old Wakandan language to seemingly deprogram him from brainwashing. Black Panther manages to get into 3-D Man's mind and tells him that he's needed to help in shutting down the Stark Sentinels. It turns out that 3-D Man is an undercover agent and the hypnosis was planted into him to keep M.O.D.O.K from probing his mind and getting suspicious. Once 3-D Man regains himself, he manages to shut down the Stark Sentinels.

Delroy Garrett Jr. is a Black former Olympic athlete, disgraced by a steroid abuse scandal; he became the (kinda stereotypical?) hero Triathlon, after a brush w/ religion (via the Triune Understanding) amplified his physical abilities threefold; though, after falling out w/ the church, he became the new 3-D Man, maintaining his ties to the Avengers & gaining new membership w/ the Agents of Atlas!