The three members are disenfranchised youths with little direction in life until they are approached by a man named Charley Huckle.

However, Feeva lost the favor of her friends when she tricked them into a mission intended to gain her acceptance into the Pegasus Institute.

Huckle explains he wants to organize them into a local superteam (in his own efforts to make desperately needed money).

He was Huckle's first foray into creating a superhero, but things didn't go well and now Doc Dark has a bounty on his head.

Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four are marooned on the New Jersey Turnpike after Mize sabotaged their ship and the Human Torch had left on a date.

Mister Fantastic explains to Ben and Sue that the "juice" he gave Jughandle actually rearranged his molecular structure to stop the destructive nature of his timestream powers.