11th Street Kids

*"Well, we've all had each other's back today, right?*" "*Yeah. It's like a real team out there.*" "*Yeah. The 11th Street Kids... ...we roll like that."*
―Peacemaker and Leota Adebayo[src]
The **11th Street Kids** were an offshoot of the Task Force X program spearheaded by Amanda Waller. The team was led by Emilia Harcourt, previously having been led by Clemson Murn until his death, and was predominantly composed of people who had wronged Waller in the past, and believed their mission, Project Butterfly, to be their punishment.

Since the team did not legally exist, Waller kept their existence a secret from her superiors and secretly funded it under the radar. The team was disbanded after the completion of Project Butterfly.

## 11th Street Kids

### Leader

Emilia Harcourt
Clemson Murn/Ik Nobe Llok †

### Members

John Economos
Peacemaker
Leota Adebayo
Vigilante

### Affiliation

A.R.G.U.S.
Task Force X

Disbanded

## History

### Project Butterfly

In January 2021, Waller wanted to destroy the Butterflies but was aware that any official attempt to investigate the subject would be shut down by her superiors. She schemed to setup an unofficial iteration of Task Force X to conduct "Project Butterfly", which she covertly funded by diverging resources from her other operations. Because of this, the team would have to work with very few resources and had to conduct the mission under the radar. Due to Bloodsport's previous blackmailing, the Peacemaker was the only member of Task Force X left that Waller still had access to, so she hired mercenary Clemson Murn to lead the team and assigned John Economos and Emilia Harcourt to participate as payback for their rebellion against her. Finally, Waller had her own daughter Leota Adebayo join the team as her secret supervisor to ensure that Waller could also pursue her own secret agenda within the mission, forcing Leota to keep her status as Waller's daughter a secret. The Peacemaker's friend Vigilante became involved with the team and later joined them after helping them assassinate Royland Goff, with Murn agreeing that they needed any additional allies they could get. The same night team also obtained a new enemy in the form of Judomaster, a martial artist and supporter of the Butterflies who aimed to stop them from killing the Butterflies. Judomaster was held captive at the 11th Street Kids' base but he would frequently escape and pick fights with them.

Harcourt would give the team their name after a successful mission to raid the Glan Tai Bottling Company.

Adebayo accidentally learned that Murn was actually a Butterfly, only to be informed that Economos and Harcourt already knew about it. Murn assured them that he had turned against the Butterflies and was loyal to the team, he also informed them that the Butterflies held a Cow that was the source of their food which they needed to kill to stop the Butterflies. Economos located the Cow but before the team had the chance to, the queen of the Butterflies took over the entire Evergreen Police Station and used the fake evidence that Waller instructed Adebayo to plant on Peacemaker's house to frame him, causing tension on the team.

The Peacemaker, Vigilante, and Economos left on their own to go kill the Cow but were ambushed by the Aryan Empire, concluding with the Peacemaker killing his own father once and for all. Meanwhile, Adebayo, Murn, and Harcourt were attacked by the Butterfly-possessed Evergreen Police forcing Murn to sacrifice himself to protect Adebayo and Harcourt. With Murn dead, Harcourt took leadership of the team and encouraged everyone to complete the mission.

The 11th Street Kids made it to Ranch Coverdale where they plotted to sneak the Peacemaker's Sonic Boom helmet into the ranch and remotely activate it to detonate enough sonic blasts to destroy the ranch and badly damage the equipment. However, the Cow was still intact after the helmet ran out of charge, forcing the Peacemaker, Harcourt, and Vigilante to face the Butterflies head-on. The Peacemaker and Adebayo made it to the basement where the Cow was held but Harcourt was left in critical condition while Vigilante and Economos were gravely injured.

Eek Stack Ik Ik tried to reason with the Peacemaker that while Butterflies indeed were invading Earth, their goal was to prevent mankind from destroying their own planet like the Butterflies did before. Smith considered agreeing with the Butterfly queen for a moment but ultimately opted against it and killed the cow with Adebayo's help using the Human Torpedo helmet and killed Sophie Song's body.

Badly injured, the 11th Street Kids slowly walked away from the ranch when the Justice League appeared to help, only for the Peacemaker to chastise and humiliate them for arriving too late as the crisis had already been solved. The team was then taken into a hospital for urgent medical attention.

With Project Butterfly completed, the 11th Street kids were dissolved with their members returning to their normal lives. Adebayo then held a press conference, where she publicly leaked Task Force X's dirty secrets, as well as Amanda Waller's involvement with Project Butterfly and also provided enough evidence to prove Peacemaker's innocence from the crimes Waller had framed him for. This allowed Smith to be fully released from Task Force X and Amanda Waller's control.

## Members

Emilia Harcourt (leader)Clemson Murn/Ik Nobe Llok (former leaders: both deceased)John Economos (mission coordinator)PeacemakerLeota AdebayoVigilante
## Relationships

	+ Amanda Waller - superior
* Amber Calcaterra
* Evan Calcaterra
* Eagly
* Hurwitz
	+ Eek Stack Ik Ik
* Annie Sturphausen †
* Evergreen Police Department
	+ Caspar Locke † - former ally
	+ Miele
	+ Sophie Song †
	+ Larry Fitzgibbon †
	+ Peggy Sacks †
	+ Johnson †
* Royland Goff †
* Royland Goff's wife †
* Royland Goff's son †
* Royland Goff's daughter †
* Royland Goff's bodyguard †
* Judomaster
* Aryan Empire
	+ Auggie Smith/White Dragon †
* Charlie †
* Cow †

## Behind the Scenes

* The 11th Street Kids are named after the Hanoi Rocks song of the same name. Hanoi Rocks is James Gunn's favorite band.
* Relative to the comics, the 11th Street Kids are a very loose allusion to the group known as **Checkmate**, an offshoot spy agency headed by Amanda Waller that conspired with metahuman or vigilante operatives in dealing with covert situations. They're best known for having a tenuous relationship with Peacemaker, who participates in their operations often.