The Avengers Academy faces Fear Itself! The future looks bleak for the Academy when a battle with Dr. Octopus and his Sinister Six leaves two students hospitalized, and an encounter with another of Norman Osborn's former protégés leads the troubled teens to question the objectives of their superhero studies. Then, with morale at an all-time low, the students are put to the ultimate test when they're deployed amid the terror and chaos of war with the Serpent's army and divinely possessed, hammer-wielding versions of Titania and the Absorbing Man!