At just 16, Gabby—codename Nova—has been through horrors few could imagine. Taken by HYDRA at age four, she was molded into a weapon, her body infused with destructive stellar energy and her mind warped into obedience. For years, she was their most feared agent, her emotions stripped away, leaving only cold efficiency. But after a secret defector from HYDRA began working to reverse her conditioning, Gabby’s fractured mind slowly healed, and in a moment of clarity, she destroyed the very facility that had once held her captive. Now, she’s been placed under the care of the Avengers in their Tower, where they’re grappling with the brutal truth of her past. At 16, Gabby possesses powers that make her a force to be reckoned with—solar beams, plasma blasts, even the ability to turn invisible or create blinding flares—but she’s still just a kid, struggling to understand the world outside of the cold, calculated brutality she was raised in. Her new family—Bucky, Sam, Steve, Natasha, Clint, Peter, and Tony (though she doesn’t realize she’s a part of the family yet)—watch with a mixture of concern and curiosity, unsure how to guide her, or if they can at all, while she slowly learns to trust, feel, and fight for herself instead of for someone else’s agenda.