Superhuman government agents Freedom Force interrupt a baseball game between the East and West Coast Avengers to arrest the heroes. The Avengers refuse to surrender to the reformed villains, but are overpowered and are brought before a government panel for preliminary hearings in advance of a treason trial. After learning that a fellow Avenger has accused them, the heroes are imprisoned in a new federal penitentiary called the Vault, but Freedom Force member Spider-Woman has a change of heart and infi ltrates the Vault, sabotages the prison and allows the Avengers to escape. The heroes regroup and resolve to learn their betrayer’s identity.
Vision takes over the world’s computers (Av #253, ’85). The Avengers and Daredevil battle Grey Gargoyle (Av #191, ’80).
Story concludes in WCA Ann #1, ’86. This issue shows the first “annual” baseball game between the East and West Coast Avengers, an idea of Hawkeye’s; the second such game (noted as a softball game) is depicted in WCA Ann #2, ’87. The Guardsmen’s armor was designed by Tony Stark; it is identical to the armor introduced in IM #43, ’71, and used by Kevin O’Brien, the Guardsman. The government learned how to duplicate it after repairing O’Brien’s armor following it being damaged in Av #236, ’83. The Vault is introduced in this issue and the Avengers are its first prisoners; the cells include a spinning spherical cell for Captain America, an Adamantium-lined cell for Hercules, a cell with no small openings for Wasp, a cell with tranquilizing gas for Captain Marvel, a cell with an electrical power-sapping grid for Iron Man, a cell with a stasis field for Wonder Man, and regular cells for the others. 2014-05-19 Edit: Updated Issue link
