ngmastersofevil:

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." - Sun Tzu

Hadelinde wasn't one to rush headfirst into things. She liked to know as much as she could about an opponent before she made her move. The Avengers were well known, but the Young Avengers were not. Sure she had files on them and she knew what abilities they had, but she didn't know how they functioned as a team. A person could toss together a team of the most powerful individuals on the planet and it didn't mean they would always win. Teamwork was important, the Avengers had proved this many times, but Hadelinde had no idea how the Young Avengers worked as a team. She had to know how they worked if she was going to defeat them.

Perhaps it was time to test the waters and see what the young hero-wannabes were capable of.

She called on the triplets, Enforcer and Frenzy for this job, using only a portion of her forces. She wasn't going to show her entire hand to the Avengers. Not yet anyway.

Once the plan was in place, she had Jeremy teleport them to right outside of the Avengers' Mansion.

staturity:

Bad news always came when you were finally getting some time to relax, experience told Cassie this was true.

"Dad slow down you're not making any sense. What hap-" She paused and pulled on her hair with her free hand. "What? Where were you?" She was now pacing up and down the hall, intently listening to her father over the cell phone. "O.K. you were obviously set up. Do you know who might-" Another pause and she had to fight the urge to bang her head against the wall. "O.K., O.K., it's some sort of shape shifter, maybe a skrull or..." God there were so many shape shifting villains out there. Or people who could manipulate the recording themselves. "I'll find out I promise... Yes, I'll be careful... yes of course... Alright, I love you too." And end phone call. Cue wanting to scream very very loudly.