Hooligans One Shot Vol 1 1

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### Writer(s)

Morpheus
Tony
NeoFantasy

 Man, we went to **Nuketown** right? We were having fun, relaxing, enjoying the fact that it was real. And **everything was cool**, man. It was **cool**. Until motherfuckers started acting like dicks.
—Hulk
## Appearing in "Nuketown!!!"

**Featured Characters:**

* Hooligans
	+ Tarantula (Shay Daniels)
	+ Voodoo (Ren Carter)
	+ The Alchemist (Alexis May) (First appearance as The Alchemist)
	+ Jane Harper
	+ Hulk (Bernard Smith)
	+ Tyler Price
	+ Mustang (Ford Easton) (First appearance) (Joins)

**Supporting Characters:**

* SHIELD
	+ Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Appears on screen)
	+ Montage (Miranda Joel) (Appears on screen)
* Dawn FM
	+ Hendrix Shays
	+ Quasimoto (Joins)
	+ Revenant (Selena Carter) (First appearance) (Joins) (Impersonates as Jessica St. Lauren)

**Antagonists:**

* Hydra
	+ Madame Hydra (Earth-30) (First appearance)
* Double-Dutch (First appearance)

**Races and Species:**

* Humans
* Human Mutates
* Mutants
* Werewolves

**Locations:**

* Earth
	+ United States of America
		- Las Vegas, Nevada
			* Northern Las Vegas
				+ Dawn Studios
			* The Strip
				+ Blossom (First appearance)
		- SHIELD Helicarrier
		- Nuketown (First appearance)

**Items:**

* Epitaph
* Tarantula Habit
* Web-Shooters

**Vehicles:**

* Ford's Mustang (First appearance)

## Synopsis for "Nuketown!!!"

It was a sunny day with a cool breeze in Las Vegas and a relatively normal afternoon for everybody but Shay Daniels and Ren Carter. On The Strip, two people dressed as acrobats named "Double-Dutch," were robbing the Chinese restaurant Blossom, and when the duo arrived at the scene, Shay joked that the circus wasn't in town, but Ren continued by saying that she didn't know that Circus Circus employees had new work clothes. Shay was about to continue, but that was when Shay got kicked in the face, which didn't do anything. Still, the duo was having fun with these two completely unimportant robbers, so Shay exaggerated his reaction and shouted goodness gracious, he had been bamboozled. Here, Alexis May spoke on their comms that the fun was over and that they needed to take down the bad guys, and Hendrix Shays came on the comms, telling Ren that there is a time for jokes and a time for working. Ren rolled her eyes and defeated both of them while Shay hyped her up in the background, making Alexis and Hendrix chuckle on the comms.

Just as Shay webbed up the acrobats for the police and Ren was getting free Chinese food for their work which she tried to reject, Shay's spider-sense went off. He turned his head to The Strip as everything slowed down, and he stared at a highlighted green man watching the duo. The man adjusted his sunglasses and casually saluted them, then when a bus passed, the man vanished. Keeping that in his back pocket, Shay and Ren returned to Dawn Studios to check in with Alexis and Hendrix. Back in Dawn Studios, Hendrix introduced their newest Dawn FM worker, Quasimoto. At first, Shay, Tyler, and Alexis freaked out, but when Quasi wrote "J Dilla" on his mini-whiteboard, Shay immediately dabbed him up and was cool with him. Just then, Bernard, Jane, and Jordan showed up at Dawn Studios, asking if the rest of the group did the chemistry homework, and Alexis didn't say a word but handed them her completed assignment. Shay asked when she had the time to do that, and she said in-between quarterbacking for Ren and him on The Strip and Bernard in Paradise.

As the group erupted in conversation, Shay leaned against The Alchemist Computer and quietly asked her if she could access video footage from his mask. She expressed that she did and stated that she was already searching for the mysterious man who was watching them. Just then, all computer screens blared red with a warning that said **PROPERTY OF SHIELD** and Shay jumped up when the noises rang out. The entire room fell silent as Alexis attempted to halt the process, but that's when she discovered they were being hacked by someone with the username "caribou." That was when a web window showed the face of Tony Stark, Director of SHIELD. While talking to the group, he read through the data he had just stolen and complemented Alexis on how hard her encryption was to crack, but she told him it was hard for a reason. Tony ignored her comment and stated that he was assigning them a mission, and Bernard asked if he was still Director of SHIELD, and Tony was shocked by this as SHIELD hadn't gone public yet but stated that he was. Shay told him thanks but no thanks, explaining that they were pretty anti-government and Tony chuckled, noting that they don't get to say no. Jane stated today they did and ended the call. Hendrix chuckled, commenting that he never would've thought these kids would have stood up to Tony Stark in a million years.

With Tony, he sighed deeply and grew frustrated with them as he remembered they were teenagers. He shouted Miranda Joel's name, who came over with a deep frown, and Tony told her that he needed to find all available agents in the area and move the Helicarrier to Clark County. Miranda handed him a tablet that showed three agents in the area, but two of them had gone off the grid, with only one left, Ford Easton. Tony chuckled and texted Ford about the situation and that he needed to get the trust of Hooligans somehow, as SHIELD was trying to build relations with the superhero community. Ford was already in front of Dawn Studios after following Shay and Ren home, then groaned loudly after reading Stark's message, and he replied with a middle finger emoticon. With no other idea, Ford decided to go inside and pretend to be a person seeking private investigators.

Unbeknownst to our fair Hooligans and Dawn FM P.I.'s, SHIELD had snuck into their city because they had gotten a tip about Hydra having infiltrated a location in the desert. The intel suggested that Hydra had a functioning base. Still, the most problematic reveal was that Hydra may have had a dirty bomb stashed away, all while being led by Madame Hydra, which is why Ford began talking to the receptionist, asking if anyone was in the Dawn F.M. offices. A few seconds later, Quasi and Shay stepped off the elevator as Shay's Spider-Sense went off again as Ford was in the lobby. Quasi looked up at Shay, whose face was focused and lightly hit his thigh, which made Shay finally speak, telling Ford that they were upstairs.

Ford stepped onto the elevator as Shay and Quasi got back on. Quasi grew confused as Shay stared at the back of Ford's head, his Spider-Sense going haywire with every passing moment. He slowly began to text on his phone to try to tell Alexis that the man was in their building and to cut the power to the elevators, but that was when Ford spun around, grabbed Shay by the hoodie, and lifted him against the wall. He rewound his arm, and just before Ford nearly punched Shay, he ducked with his arms up and slid out of his hoodie, then kicked Ford's leg. However, Ford didn't move, and Shay sighed, rolling his eyes before Quasi turned his brick into a pan and whacked Ford in the stomach, making him cuss and upset. After the fight, Ford grabbed Quasi by the ears and picked Shay up again, but this time, he slammed Shay against the elevator wall, demanding to know who he worked for. Quasi struggled, attempting to kick Ford in the stomach, but it didn't phase him as Quasi couldn't get close; however, that was when Ford noticed Shay's costume underneath his shirt and grew confused and upset by how confusing this was. Appalled, he commented on how Shay was just a kid and let them both go. Quasi threw punches and kicks at Ford's leg, but Shay picked up Quasi and pointed at Ford, then asked him who he worked for, and he said SHIELD.

Shay put Quasi on the ground, who flicked off Ford with his hand since he didn't have fingers, and Ford flicked him off right back as Quai walked off the elevator with Shay. Ford followed and apologized for attacking him, but Shay shouted Hendrix's name, who stepped out of his office. With his identity already found out, Shay webbed his hoodie back to him before the elevator closed and put it back on. Hendrix approached as Shay crossed his arms and sighed, telling him that Ford worked for SHIELD, and since it was after the phone call they had just got, it wasn't a coincidence. Hendrix rubbed his temples and brought Ford upstairs to Hooligans HQ. When they got there, Hooligans broke out into an uproar about the random guy in their base, but Shay said that SHIELD sent him, and since he already figured out his identity, they might as well hear him out. Ford was bewildered as all of the heroes he heard about in Vegas were literal teenagers, but he proceeded to explain everything he knew so far.

While Ford explained the situation, Alexis was already pinpointing locations with high-level of radiation with the help of Bernard while messaging a hacker friend of hers. Shay asked who Madame Hydra was, and Ford explained that she was a former Cold War spy turned violent revolutionary who began working with Hydra in the 2000s. That's when suddenly Bernard exclaimed that there was no way it existed which cut through the conversation. Ford asked, and Alexis stated that the likelihood of where a dirty bomb would be based on radiation signals, and it was in a place called **Nuketown** which shouldn't exist. That's when it donned Ford, who explained that it was the Hydra base, nobody would suspect Nuketown in Nevada because of the nuclear testing site, and that's when Shay chimed in, continuing his idea by explaining that the government wouldn't have noticed either because the testing site was shut down after the last test in 1992. With that, the entire room suited up, but Jane stated that Ford couldn't go due to his ties to the government, as he would protect America first and Hooligans second. However, Shay looked at Ford, and there were no words for a moment until Ford just nodded at him; Shay stated that he was coming, and so was Quasi. Jane stayed back to quarterback with Tyler and Jordan while Alexis, Ren, Shay, Bernard, Quasi, Hendrix, and Ford left for Nuketown.

An hour later, Hooligans found themselves in Nuketown with Shay and Bernard having nerdgasms. Shay was freaking out because he wanted to see if he could fit in a refrigerator with Quasi's help, and Bernard was seeing if it was based off of one of his favorite video games. Meanwhile, Alexis, Hendrix, and Ford were roaming the factious town with Geiger counters to find hotspots for radiation. Ford needed to pay more attention to where he was walking as he updated Tony about the location of the Hydra base, which led to Ford tripping over the sprinkler, which broke, and a red light flashed from it lowly. However, that's when Shay's Spider-Sense went haywire, to the point that it caused him physical pain, and he gripped his head as he fell to his knees, screaming. Ford jumped to his feet and ran to the sound of the screams, with Hendrix running after him. Just as Alexis began to run, the "Welcome to Nuketown!" sign activated, and the population numbers spun until they stopped at "100" and began to tick down slowly. Alexis' eyes went wide as she realized why Shay was screaming; it was his Spider-Sense, and as her eyes followed a cord from the sign to the middle distance, she saw the large apparatus and the **dirty bomb**.

Shay gripped the dirt as Ford got over there faster than Hendrix and asked what was happening as Bernard looked around. Shay tried to tell Ford, but Bernard explained that whenever danger is everywhere, Shay can sense it, but if there is too much danger, Shay physically gets hurt. Ford - being a doctor - asks what it means if it cripples Shay, and Bernard looks at Ford with a worried look, and Ford inhales, trying to help Shay to his feet. However, Shay let go of Ford as his Spider-Sense wore off, and he clocked a couple of guys climbing out of a utility hole, to which Shay narrowed his lenses and questioned if they were Nazis. Then Ford, Shay, Bernard, and Hendrix said in unison that they hated Nazis. The four launched an attack against the Hydra agents as Alexis hopped the fence and ran to the apparatus. Because it was technology-based, Alexis attempted to deactivate it remotely but failed to breach the firewall, but that was when a cigarette landed in front of Alexis. When Alexis looked up, Selena Carter was there, and Alexis sighed in relief, begging her for help, and Selena chuckled, pulling out her tablet.

Back with The Four, Bernard had transformed into the Hulk and threw a man through a building while Ford shouted that they needed to find Madame Hydra. However, she was already there and revealed to the group that she knew people were at the base, but when Ford tripped over the sprinkler, she knew it was heroes, so she activated the detonation sequence. Enraged that Madame Hydra would nuke Las Vegas out of enjoyment, Ford transformed into his lycanthrope form and attacked Madame Hydra. Freaked out but still fighting, Shay backed Ford up, and Bernard leaped over to Alexis and Selena. He didn't bother to ask who Selena was but asked if they needed help as the timer was still going. Selena instructed Bernard to stop the bomb from entering the shaft. Just as Bernard did that, the bomb dropped as the timer ran out, and he caught it gently, holding it in place with all of his strength to stop it from blowing.

Meanwhile, Hendrix cleared Nuketown of Hydra agents, but that was when the entire group was hit by a flashbang grenade which blew off part of Shay's mask, forced Ford to revert to his human form, and short-circuited Hendrix's cybernetics. When their respective vision returned and Shay recovered, Madame Hydra was attached to a ladder carried away by a helicopter. Forced to chase after Madame Hydra or help Bernard, the group went to the apparatus. Shay webbed the bomb to the apparatus while Ford helped Bernard keep it from entering the shaft, and Hendrix lent his cybernetics to Selena and Alexis. At the final moment, Selena and Alexis broke through and deactivated the bomb, and the group exhaled, sitting down on the desert sand as Shay webbed the bomb fully while Ford called SHIELD to report the bomb. As they all sat there, Shay started to laugh, Bernard caught on and laughed, and Alexis, Selena, Ren, and Hendrix followed suit. Ford looked at them all confused, and Shay told him they were laughing because they fought acrobats, Nazis and stopped a nuclear holocaust all in one day. Ford thought about it, then chuckled, calling them dumb.

That night, Hooligans returned to Dawn Studios, where they sat, drank beer, and talked. That night, Ford realized what made Hooligans; it wasn't because they worked for each other or the government but because they were friends. At the same time, Hendrix offered Selena a job at Dawn FM, telling her they would need a hacker on their team. After listing down all of the reasons why it was a bad idea, she immediately agreed. Just then, Ford got a call from Tony, and when he went to answer, his phone was suddenly webbed out of his hand by Shay. Just before Ford got angry, Shay raised his hand and asked him to join. Ford said no without thinking, just wanting his phone back. That's when Shay told him he could think he was doing good for the world with SHIELD or be doing some real good with Hooligans. Now thinking, Ford agrees, and Shay hands Ford his phone back, and for a moment, Ford stares at the caller ID and smiles, clicking decline.

## Notes

* Ironically, there were numerous pitches for the first Hooligans storyline. Pitches such as werewolf invasion, aliens, zombies, and even at one point, evil death lasers. However, the idea of Nuketown was chosen after Morpheus rewatched Indiana Jones 4.
* Hooligans One Shot Vol 1 1, and by extension, Donuts exist outside of mainstream Marvel Universe continuity. Themselves, their stories, and other characters are unrelated and not connected to the Marvel Multiverse and exist within solely within The Donuts Multiverse.

## Trivia

* Selena Carter shows up here and while this is her first appearance, she is impersonating Jessica St. Lauren. It wouldn't be revealed that she is Ren's sister until Hooligans (Vol. 4) #1. However, Shay Daniels learned from Valerie St. Lauren in Donuts Team-Up #1 but was sworn to secrecy by his then aforementioned girlfriend.
* It is never revealed how Hendrix Shays came across Quasimoto.

## See Also

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