Appearing in "Good Enough"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Bloodpool
- Haze (First appearance)
- Reznor (First appearance)
- Sliver (Tracie) (First appearance) (Leaves Team) (Flashback and main story)
- Whitewash (Peter Cummings) (First appearance) (Leaves Team)
- Alan Keever
Adversaries:
Other Characters:
- Dr. McLaughlin
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Synopsis for "Good Enough"
Bloodpool trainee Whitewash and his reluctant teammate Reznor stow away aboard Youngblood’s jet as the team prepares to leave for a training exercise to assess two other trainees, Haze and Sliver. Later, an energy beam strikes the jet in flight and causes it to crash in a North Carolina forest. Sentinel wakes up wounded but manages to deactivate his armor’s fusion generator before it explodes. Vogue finds herself chased by KGB operatives into a fog, fights them off, and runs into Haze. Realizing he created the fog using his powers, she briefly accuses him of working with her attackers before realizing her mistake and apologizing. At the crash site, Masada bursts from the wreckage by enlarging herself. A spirit appears and accuses her of betraying her faith by becoming a superhero, but she defends her career and worthiness. Combat finds Reznor wounded just before an Acuran woman attacks. Combat is ready to kill her, but Reznor talks him down by revealing she is only protecting her child. Having shrunken to a tiny size, Sliver hides in the jet wreckage and doubts herself, recalling humiliating incidents from her past. Then, she hears Whitewash call for help and deduces he is trapped in a storage compartment. She crawls into the wiring and opens the compartment door, freeing him. Suddenly, glowing blue beings appear before them and incinerate Whitewash. Sliver is horrified, but the beings say they only judged him as they have the whole group. They then present Youngblood and the other trainees intact and unharmed. Identifying themselves as The Elect, the beings explain that Whitewash was a rogue member of their race whom they devolved into a human in order to assess his character. They will now devolve him again for further evaluation. The Elect judged Youngblood and the trainees for comparison—the foes and challenges the team faced were illusions—and found them worthy. Finally, the Elect invite Sliver to join them, she accepts, and they vanish. With the jet restored, Youngblood, Haze, and Reznor fly home with no memory of the event.
Notes
- This issue includes a pin-up of Youngblood and the new Bloodpool trainees by Chris Sprouse and Al Gordon.